A white house official says the obama administratiohon pusep to release the unclassifiedlassd version of that report to the t general public before the president leaves office. T leavef the questionic is we know that the intelligenceellige community said they were involved. Trump tweeted out this morning about wikileaks founder julian a assange. Many criticized the president elect supporting the claims hecet did not get leakee emails from russia. Om russia. Trump responded with this. The Dishonest Media likesediaik saying im not in agreementret with julian assange. Assae. He says its for the people top make up their own minds as tods the truth. Th. The media lies to make it looke like i am against intelligenceee when im a big fan. An no doubt of course youre a big fan f of intelligence. Elnce. When people saw this tweets t this morning everybody started y talking. There layers to this story. Fox5s Tom Fitzgerald talksalks off our coverage. Covage. Where do we want to start . Do we start with the beat or the t meteorologist today. Is reporter theres a lot to unpack shawn. Lets start with thisk s hearing because this was really they t seminole event up here onere on capitol hill tonight. Now, we have heard this for hhi weeks now. The topic goes like this. Russia hacks the u. S. Electioncn to help donald trump become president. This has been repeated. Reate this has been said over and a over and over again so manyin times it has been now accepted p as fact but what exactly doesoe that mean . Well, todayl, tay senator john mccain who heads hs the Senate Arms Services committee he called in this hearing today with James Clapper. Do you know who James Clapperppr is . Hes the director of national what he had to say was fascinating because what hewhe said was there are some knownswn and unknowns about exactly what went on in this election and one of the things they do not know is whether any of any o this activity that theyvet the been talking about in regardsn d to russias cyber hacking in i any direct effect on whatt on happened on election day. Elon dy listen to what clapper saidppers when questioned today by senator john mccain. First, we cannot say they did not change they did not change any vote tallies orote tl anything of that sort. T s im just talking talking we had no we had no way of gauging the impact thatha certainly intelligenceelligenc community cant gauge the impact it had on choices theices electorate made. E. Theres no way for us to gaugeau that. Reporter all right. So, that is the unknownep rorigt now. They cannot say at this points t whether any of this stuff that russia alleged was actual impact on the election. O so, one of the things donalds da trump continually says when he talks about this is nobody kns. S. Nobody knows what computers mean, nobody knows what thenohat world is doing now. Now nobody knows. Well, clapper was asked today ty whether or not Vladimir Putinut knows, whether or not Vladimir Putin knew what was going on and he left no doubt from his viewpoint, the Us Intelligence agency, specifically the cia and the fbi about whatut what Vladimir Putin did or did not nt know about this hacking. Acki. Listen to what he had to say on that. Tha you say you think this was approved at the highest leveligv of government in russia generally speaking; is thatg; i right . Thats what we said. Okay. Hats whos the highest level ofst v government . Ment . Well, the highest is president putin. Do you think a lot happensth ink ra ussia big tha kn abobout . Not very many. Ery many. Yeah, i dont think so. Certainly none that areinly n politically sensitive ine in another country. Country. Reporter okay, so whereo wh do we go on all of this . Well, clapper revealed today that next week they are releasing a major report, thehe final report probably from thehe Obama Administration on all of this. In that report, folks, are going to be motives. E mo notice i said motives there. The theres not just one thing that James Clapper said thatai was behind this. S be he says there are several seral motives at work here and thisk t is all going to be revealed reva next week. Wee incidentally, shawn and jim, jim you know we have been makingeen so much of these tweets and a these things that have come com out in the media, you know, itni almost becomes accepted right away. Away. One of the stories that washe s getting a lot of play up hereupe in the last 24 hours is that tha there was a story going around, a report that donald trump was not going to replace a James Clapper as the director he was somehow going to leave that job entry. Ent that turned out not to beurned u true. Former end senator dan coats a well respected veteran ver intelligence voice up here on un the hill coats is going to beoai take over that job so in a way w its a word to the wise. The w pay more attention to what is i done rather than what is said. Speaking of donald trump, trp im just curious fitz we know ko this has been unprecedented,cedd his reaction to all of these tse reports about russian hacking hc and his relationship quiteuite frankly with the nationalio intelligence community. Ommunity. Did he have any response todaya on twitter after the hearings . Ei reporter well, ill telllll you what i heard in that i hearing today and at one pointin James Clapper was asked flat a out what are the men and women, the u. S. Intelligence workers who day in, day output t themselves on the line fore line this country. Oury absolutely. Reporter how are theyre t feeling about all of thesees things donald trump has saidai and clapper had a very this. G and this is what he said shawn s and jim. Dim he said there is healthy healt skepticism that any president ,st any leader has to have in dealing with intelligence thatnt comes to you because you needoub to make dececisions off that off intelligence but he says thatha there is a world of differencefc between healthy skepticism and outright denigration. Igration. Clapper said a lot of peopleid that he talked to in a his linel of work that is what theyre the seeing they would like to seey morewoul healthy skepticism than denigration. We heard from lawmakers lawma specifying that same sentiment m concerned about how it might affect morale, recruitingit within the nationalatna intelligence agency. Genc its a large group ofoup o people involved here. We talked about the tweetsd no secret. Abno this is how Donald Trumps how really has m dade hison name ann built his profile over ther t last several years. Al years when he takes office he will hei likely switch from his own personal twitter to the potus twitter account that president u obamcu so we all know the president elect likes to dotel things his own way so whats he going toec own do . Stephanie abrams joins us via skype. Skype thanks for joining us tonight. Ot thanks for having me. Having. As we mentioned donalded d trump tweets everything, doestse things his own way. Things h we have never seen this before. Fo let me ask you, because this is sort of what you guys you dod you look at the ways peoplee communicate on social media. M is this the right way for the t president elect or the president of the united statesni to be communicating these the sorts of things on twitter. Twi. Social media really hasreally changed the way of communication. Mmun its how people communicatenite now. No and donald trump has realized re that the way to get to t americans faster and get his geh own message out is to use twitter because the media is reporting what hes tweetingweet so he realizes this is the is t most effective way for him. H is the way we want the t president to be communicatingomg with justice maybe not. Justicey but i think this is whabet hes going to do it this way. W. The game has doubt about that. Doubt about stephanie were talking aboutwek going from that real donald Trump Twitter account to the t e potus twitter account inou in digital terms its a big step. The potus twitter account has only been around for about two or three years because barackau obama was tweeting under hiser s own name for awhile. Ail we really dont think hes going to change his ways by cha going from ngone twitter accounc to the other. I dont necessatorily think hes going to change his ways. The at potus twitter accountttet right now donald trump is going tonow do inherit that accu all of the tweets that were twe currently on that accountet are going to be archived and movedcd over to the at potus 44 potus account which then barack whi obama will have. Llave. And what will happen it willen i be a clean account for atntor at potus, hell keep his 14 million followers, donald, do trump will inherit those tho 14 million followers but im thinking weve heard this hasrda been said in the past couple pae of days the real donald trumpru account hes still going tooi keep that account. Ke hes probably going to be eprobatweeting from bothbl accou have you been able to talku to anyone frombeen the trump camp to handle this . Will they bee tweeting . We know right now rin the administration, the Obama Administration often sends outoo tweets when its directly from the president weit ssee his initials. Will the trump administrationrup do the same thing. A theame so, i have not talked to to anyone from the Trump Campaign c so this is only speculation. Pec. I would think that his h campaign will be involved withdt at potus account. Ccnt. However, this is donald trumphi were talkings is about. Hes unpredictable so have i toll you i dont know. Iont k i think that what will happenpp and he did say i think it was iw on his 60 minutes interviewinv he did say he was going to bes t a bit more reserved i think he said that but i think on then t real donald trump account hes going to keep tweeting fromg fr there. There. Even over the past few weeks w talking about policy hesye going to keep going. Going. Well be watching andnd watching his tweets. Et Stephanie Abrams cofounder coe and ceo of social fly thanks for joining us. Thank you. A former virginia nd aid a fe to president obama is throwing his hat in the ring for thet obh virginia governors race. Ac with elections. Ht oh, no, we have another one on a the way here. Perriello sent tweetent saying im running forng governor. I virginia will remain the firehee wall versus trump. Our values worth defending. Fox5s ronica Cleary Cleary joins us live in arlington tonight where perriello justlo j held his First Official pressres conference. Nfence. Ronica. Reporter hey, shawn and , awn jim. Actually it was private event. Vt it was a round table with educators from virginia and i a have former congressman Tom Perriello here live. Thank you for having me. Ing. The first question, many people thought the democraticugt primary was a done t deal witheh the Lieutenant Governorlieu throwing his hat in the ring having the support of theteis ht heportgovernor, having the supps of senator tim kaine. Kai tell me why you think that theht game is still in play for thisoi primary and why you think youhiy can be a force. Well, first of all i think ti most voters cant believe bel theres already anotheranoter election starting theyrehere barely over the last one. So i know fo establishment it feels veryhmen late but the reality is voterstr are just starting to turn in. Ur i think theyre looking for for new ideas. Theyre lookingea for people whl havent necessarily beenn politicians but problem pblem solvers in the world which isch something ive done in reforming federalederal bureaucracies and working onng peace deals overseas so im so m excited for the debate ahead. Ad i think people are just now really getting aware of there t fact that youve got this this virginia primary coming up. G u what is a major issue or a key issue that you want to drive home to a viewer just nowust tuning into this race that you feel may differentiates you or a a. We have to take economicsecon seriously. Ou it has been too hard for bee families in virginia to beviinit able too make it. Tooake it. My father came here on aen a scholarship to uva poor u p immigrant kid from west we virginia and was able to live the American Dream and thatsnd what most people here want. E he. They want a chance to get aceget good education. Education. I was just meeting with public p School Teachers and they wered r talking about how much anxiety a there is with kids today withayt the pressure and with theh parents who have to commute further and housing i affordable. We just need to make thatkeha economic fairness promise aromie little bit easier. Easr. Okay and again, though, tug that differentiation from f Lieutenant Governor who hasnt go got so much support from majoraj players in this state of virginia, do you think you canhu bring in support from a former, you know, person whoho worked with like president e pret obama to maybe make a big b change for you in this race. Well, i was honored to run with president obama and to support policies that helped prevent a depression and start the economic recovery. Y. We were able to bring about half a babillileon t dollars of investment into some of thent io forgotten virginia communitiesmi through broad band and smallba d business support and cleannd cln energy and trying to address ade our climate problems at theate r same time. Ob but we really wanted to focus nted tfocus as well on the fact that, yout,u know, i have a lot ofe a lo executive experience and iverid been able to manage and buildd l teams multimillion dollar dlar budgets was able to go intoto the state department that that affects many virginia workersgis and try to create more familyily friendly leave policies as well as greater efficiencies eff in how we so i think people are looking po for someone who can come inplwhi and do that and understanderst that its just back little tooeo tough. Tough. Okay so jim youve got a got question. Let me hear it. Yeah, so id like to ask to a the congressman we have Terri Mcauliffe in office one terme tm limit as it goes in virginia. Is Terri Mcauliffecafe considering hes closely tiedsey to the t clintons is he an asset or not for democrats in virginia . Okay, i think im im understanding. Rsndin jims asking basically withith the one term that Terri Mcauliffe has in office dos in you think that he will be ann asset to democrats in virginia a as you prepare for this race r when maybe thinking ahead aad past that primary, how is thatsa going to play into this races r as a whole . I do think governoroverno mcauliffe is an asset. An asset i think hes won over a lot of fans across the aisle with theie energy hes brought and thee focus on the economy and is br think its been the wonderful wa hes done in restoring votingg g rights even this week looking at some of the expansion ofxpanf exoneration opportunitiesat given virginias tiooughn hists on some of these issues. Se is. I leadership there and deserves ds a lot of credit for that. T. Congressman were out ofessm time but we did get a vieweran question in that used the 5at6 30. 6 30 we hope well get more questions and interview youviewy again. I would love to come backomec in the meantime people go to tom for virginia. Com. Thank you. Thank you. Busy year for politics in virginia. I know youll be covering thataf overin as tha well. Ell. We focused on the president ialsa race for so long. Race f hot button issues in virginia. Ronica was bundled up out there. Sue palka were talking about at snow tonight. If we were to check back bk with ronica in a few minutesut we would probably see snow inw her live shot. S were already seeing it acrosscs part of Montgomery County. Cnty. Cam rap is stuttering but the snow flurries have started up up again and this is the mainai event even though its only onl going deposit a coating tong maybe an inch of snow on many areas. But we know sometimes thats all it takes. W so lets check oualt radarl aitndu can see that not only are were w seeing that filling in as it hitting the grounds especiallygu across parts of Montgomery County iartsnto prince georgese county and up toward the gtoware baltimore area. Area. Temperatures will be at freezing and below so thatsha does mean well have stickage. The steadier light snow is beginning now. Nningow if it hasnt at your place it p will soon. Will most of the accumulationumulion between 8 oclock andtween 8 3 oclock in the morning. Ock ine that does give roa md crews a cs few hours before the morning rush to make sure all thosel the loads rhodes are in good shape h but with a coating to maybe 2inches in some of the ohe heavier spots up to our north nh and west there could stillldti abcouple of delays aroundound tomorrow morning so that iso ati your weather headline but i also want to mention to you that there is a more significant snow possibilityosli for that southern and easternd n suburbs on saturday. Ur a bigger storm is off the coast. Winter storm watch already uprm for Saint Marys County for friday night and saturday. Watt. That could be several inches ihe of snow. No so plenty to keep track of incko this very busy month of of january. Janu shawn and jim back to you. Jim is clapping. Clappin i wondered what that was. That was kind of sarcastic. Arcac great snow. Gre it was a sarcastic clap. Cla. Ive to learn the difference. Fec got lots to learn. S to learn. Well do something a littlett fun coming up here. Er how much do you know about they history of president ialof predet inaugurations. We have a little quiz for you that none of us has seen a n the answers to, none of us hasas seen the answers to. Nswers want you guys to play along and tweet us. Well be right back. All right everybody so how much do you know about the uratio rightn . Do atio shawn and i will put our p skills to the test. E sue is back. Shell host, the hostess withosw the most of the. Id like to buy a vowel please. Were already sue. Were not going to use w thest heres our first one. Irst on. Where was the first wh held . Now here are your options. E your options was it d. C. Philly new york or boston . Bost im going to go with, uh,h, philly. Philly. Okay, im going to go with gh philly on that, omg, its new york city. Rk ct what . Yes, George Washington was sworn in as the nations firstfi president on april 30th 17 at at federal haul in new york which was then the capitol of the united states. Sta didnt Pay Attention inti history class. Cla which president delivered d the longest inaugural address. Here are your options, was it jkk, was it ronald reagan,ea John Quincy Adams or william wil henry harrison. Harri i think jim knows it. Im kno im going to say itsay i William Henry harrison he gave e a long speech and died 30 days later. Late youre correct sir. You im going say thatr too. Thats right em tragicallyria delivered the longestdered inaugural address that historyry lasting one hour 45 minutes on a blistering cold march day in n washington. I dont think he had a cold on it. He didnt either. He ht tadco ald he case of pn. Died 30 days after takinging office. Shortest tenure of anyf a president. Ready for number three . So thr far so goo what was the first inauguration to be w nationaly televised. Was it Dwight Eisenhower harry truman or franklin rooseveltlt or j. F. K. Or j. F im going say j. F. K. J. F im going with eisenhower. R. We got two thumbs down onmbs this one, chris. Its [laughter]ghr] its truman. That was around the television t era. E it was truman 1947 an estimated 10 million americans a watched his 1949 inaugural according to his president ialine library. Nt so who heres the next one. E who was the first president pre actually sworn in on january 20th because it used to be thaty 20 the oath was take in march. March right. I dont know why they moved to itt k january. Janua yikes. Sweater so bad. Any way Herbert Hoover Calvin Coolidge Dwight Eisenhower or roosevelt. Hoover. Franklin roosevelt. Shawn youre burnin g it f up, kid. Roosevelt. He was both the last president li sworn in on march 4th for his fr opening term in 1933 and thend first to take office on january 20th. Ary 20th. There you have it. Youave awesome. I think you tied right. I think we tied. A dalways a dry we wont send you to a remedial American History this time. Back after this. Been trying to prepare for this day. And im still not ready. The reason im telling you this is that there will be moments in your life that. Youll never be ready for. Your little girl getting married being one of them. Did you see this . Big mistake at the express paper. It used a male symbol to didt announce the historic womensrio march. Ma it sure had people buzzing on twitter. R. Jillian wrote appears to bett unconscious bias. Zero women looked at thiskedt cover before it ran. I r thats my guess, too. Yeah. I dont think its anythingth consciously. I think its a dumb mistakeink t thats maybe a d somebody didnd pick up. T we all make them. T the express tweeted out aness t apology saying we made a mad mistake on our cover and we are very embarrassed. Arss we erroneously used a male symbol instead of the womans symbol. This is how the cover should and we will be right back. From youre fired to yourert hired omarosa has a new jobosa with her old boss old boss president elect donald trump. El the Transition Team namedectd her the new director of communication for the officersfo of publicr liaison. Liaison shell be spending a lot ofg time in washington. N sh she talked to us on good day tos this morning. Thisorni no surprise they has some s words for critics. Rds for itics. This journey was not easy. E. 18 months of people questioning why would iin support donald, why are you even though youre fldri, ends u shouldnt support him. Ldn you know, im a very loyalery lo person and hes person and i am so proud of my my friend who is now is ow going to be the 45th president of these united states. Stes. All right. There you go. Next up we were talkingalng about president obamas whitesw house legacy because as his term winds down hell bedsown hl likely be remembered as a a president who didnt shy away aa from pop culture. He embraced it. I you could say he tried to to hold up a cool factor thatsr ta resonated with some people. D wi i remember this. He slow jammed tthhe i r newsw he read the mean tweets onn twts jimmy kimmel appeared with jerry seinfeld. Nfeld. Comedians in cars gettingans coffinee. C coffee. He filled out and shared hisdis ncaa brackets. Ets. Not sure how well they did. D did you see him drop the mic mic from last years correspondents dinner. Espo he also during the administrationhe cre aated the white house twitter instagramnsr and Facebook Accounts and theokn president is on snad pchatpchat although ill say i think his wifes snapchat is more more popular than his. H. And hell probably continuebe to be more popular over thever t north koreco i think youre right. Everybody wants to know what michelle ihis going tnko by to do. To do. Thats going to be thebe fascinating thing moving foarard. Are we playing byebye. Yes, we are. Announcer today on tmz harvey so nicki minaj and meek mill have broken up. They had a big, huge fight right after her birthday. Harvey there are now clearly defined limits to ride or die. Are we all ride or die . No, death means literal death. You prefer to die than not ride with that person. There are ride or die chicks. Hillary clinton is ride or die. Soulja boy and chris brown were on a collision course to seeing these guys square off in the ring. Floyd mayweather seems to be involved in promoting this fight now. We got to get their money man. The money team. And soulja boy is using chris browns daughter in the battle. Harvey this would be a huge fight. I would definitely order it. Harvey i would rather see that than mayweather pacquaio. Duh donald trump, hes holding a
comparemela.com © 2020. All Rights Reserved.