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Actually being the story but at times team trump has put us in the spotlight. the president-elect lamb baflts the media as dishonest and disgusting. he calls reporters out by name. things got even nastier behind the scenes. cnn's political analyst john avlon knows all about that. he wrote a piece for the first ever book from cnn politics called "unprecedented," the election that changed everything. welcome, john. >> good to see you, carol. >> some of the stuff you wrote in the article we can't say on air. >> that's part of its charm. >> i mean, you want to put it that way. in fact, my favorite...

Campaign was dealing with a close associate of donald trump's. >> it was a very revealing moment, brianna. reporter tim mack doing a story, sensitive nature, having to do with his divorce and allegations around that divorce from his first wife. and a reporter called up the special counsel of the trump organization michael cohen, i know you're familiar with. and asked him questions, which made mr. cohen uncomfortable. and in response, his reaction instinctively apparently, threaten the reporter. was to threaten to bankrupt him. was to threaten to sort of destroy his reputation, go after his per...

Correspondent for the daily beast. tim, you reported on this extensively in the daily beast today, including the various processes involved in getting the security clearance. what are people telling you about someone like steve bannon going through the process to get a security clearance? >> look, steve bannon raise as lot of regular flags. and what national security experts are telling me, in particular, these experts are experts in getting security clearances is that he would have a bumpy road. he would have a very difficult time getting a top secret clearance if he was anyone else. when you...

Lawmakers, the fbi, with the office of the director of national intelligence. but he can do it. >> but as i say, will we know if he does it? is it a public process where we would know that he has done that? >> it's not a public process. it's possible that that information could get out there. but fbi investigators and people in the office of the director of national intelligence typically keep these sorts of things under wraps. but it's impossible to tell if that sort of information might leak if there are disaffected bureau agents, if there are people working intelligence who are unhappy abou...

I call upon mr. trump to rescind the appointment that he made of mr. bannon. a president of the united states should not have a racist at his side. unacceptable. >> that was senator bernie sanders saying in effect that he wants washington to operate under the old rules, where someone like steve bannon would never be allowed to visit the white house, never mind work there. 169 house democrats signed a letter to the president-elect today urging him to, quote, rescind this appointment immediately. under the old rules, steve bannon could never get a security clearance. but there could be a new rul...