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intelligence and heads of the cia, fbi and national security agency will brief the president-elect on alleged russian meddling in the presidential election, certainly he has called repeatedly challenged. he said, well, maybe it s not the case, maybe even sided with julian assange tweeting even last night questioning the validity of the information he s about to receive. well, we have it all covered for you from every angle. kristen welker, what do we expect will go down here? reporter: the backdrop to this briefing is very tense, that s for sure. you have the president-elect just last night again questioning the intelligence community. he was infuriated after details leaked out about the report and actually what s in the report and intelligence officials telling us that some of the details in the report include intercepts which prove that top russian officials were celebrating president-elect trump s win. we were also learning they ve identified some of the go-betweens who deliv ....
kellyanne conway had to say about it today. that cannot be verified. that s a classified briefing. we should all be increasingly confirmed that we have, quote, intelligence officials, divulging information unsourced, unnamed to the rest of us. just to smear the president-elect of the united states we now have intelligence officials divulging information they re sworn not to divulge. we should be very concerned about that. i don t even think this is fake news. i think it s just fake. i would take the news word right out of it. reporter: so what we re seeing from donald trump and his advisers is pushback against the intelligence community but taking issue with the underlying allegations that cnn has not cooperated and have not been reporting. and reince priebus, trump s chief of staff, said he asked donald trump directly about some of these underlying allegations. donald trump apparently told him they were complete garbage but in more colorful language. you can bet this will ....
he is a heck no on trump care. i m a heck no on this. i think they ve got problems with the vote. i ve personally spoken to 29 of my conservative colleagues who are no on this as of today and we re not even counting the moderate republicans who are a no. i think they ve got a lot of arm twisting to do between now and thursday if they re going to pass this bill in the house. does he sound scared to you? because congressman massey was in the room today when donald trump came to the house of representatives to urge republicans to vote for the bill. here is how congressman massey describes tough guy donald trump. threatening and pushing around all those republicans who oppose the bill. he was very charming. there was some light-hearted jabs at his opponents in the room but it was all in good fun. light-hearted jabs. that ought to do it. that s what tough guy trump is delivering to republican opponents of his bill. thomas massey doesn t claim to be a tough guy the way donal ....
hallie jackson, thank you. right now on msnbc, tale of the tapes. lawmakers from both sides of the aisle call for president trump to turn over any recordings he may have of his krfrgconversati with ousted fbi director james comey. plus, recording history. new reports say president trump has for a long time secretly recorded phone conversations when he was in private business. the reporter who broke the story will tell us what the president s former associates say and what it could mean for staffers now. and breaking right now, cyber chaos. the largest cyber attack ever is spreading by the minute, stealing information and demanding ransom from hundreds of thousands of users across more than 150 countries. what you need to do to protect yourself. good morning, everyone. i m chris jansing in beautiful washington, d.c. this morning, democrats are ratcheting up their pressure on president trump on not one but two fronts. for starters, demanding any takes the president may have ....
the eclipse already started. reporter: yes, it did. it s about to start in the western part of the country. give me five, you guys. you were amazing. thank you so much for being with us. and craig, so many families like them, they re going to experience this together in this stadium behind me. 15,000 people have poured into carbondale, illinois, and the local businesses here are ex attic. it is estimated the private sector in carbondale will gain almost $20 million just by the influx of tourists and people all around the world who have come here to witness this astronomical event together. all right. we ll come back to you in a moment, as well. my friend and colleague, jeff rossen, is standing by, not far from where we sit here. he s in new york city, on the upper west side. new york city, by the way, expected to get an eclipse of about 70%. but here s the thing, jeff. that doesn t mean that folks should take viewing any less seriously, right? reporter: yeah, you can never l ....