a businessman a long time, and has had a lot of success. this election became a show, his friend says. maybe with trump coming to power that s going to change, people s attitudes will become more serious. the relationship between the u.s. and russia may continue to be difficult. but for now, many here are celebrating. the kremlin is being a little more tempered in their response officially. that, carol, is because trump is still a wild card, and there are a lot of thorny issues between u.s. and russia that still need to be resolved. carol? all right. clarissa ward reporting live for us this morning. thank you. so, what would a trump relationship with russia look like? let s talk about that. i m joined by jill dougherty, global fellow at the woodrow wilson center and former cnn moscow bureau chief and william courtney, former ambassador to georgia and kazakhstan.
let s work to the. so what do you think will happen? it s interesting to me that rudy giuliani in that interview suggested if there s no there there that they could poe lengsty drop this. because this was a campaign promise from donald trump. this wasn t just, you know, if the evidence is there, we ll pursue it. he said at his rallies there will be a special prosecutor if i am president. now he is going to be president, so there might be some political repercussions for him if he weren t going to pursue that. his passionate supporters, this was a big deal for them. that s why they chanted lock her up at his rallies. although, i will say, in speaking to trump supporters, even they say you know, sometimes donald trump says things that he doesn t mean them literally. he just says them to get things going to show that he s tough. so, maybe he didn t mean that. so, two things, carol, one is that you know there s been a lot of talk in the last 48 hours about this idea that you couldn t
campaign season. it will be an important signal about what direction trump will choose. whether to push some of those more divisive proposals thad meat him a hero among his base or try to work with democrats on an infrastructure, even bernie sanders suggesting he could be open if donald trump were to pursue such an approach. but, donald trump may also push talk about pushing the repeal of obamacare. and that could enrage the left, while it unites the republican party and while that repeal may have a chance of passing congress, passing a replacement bill will be much, much harder because of senate procedures requiring 60 votes to get anything enacted. carol? okay. we re in for quite a ride. manu raju reporting live for us this morning. thank you. still to come in the newsroom obamacare on life support now that donald trump s heading to the white house. but what does that mean for the millions of americans who are enrolled in obamacare? and will the president-elect talk about tha
we ll know in just a couple of minutes alison kosik reporting live from the new york stock exchange. thank you. repealing obamacare, building a wall on the southern border with mexico, defeating isis, just some of the items on donald trump s agenda as president. he ll now have a republican house and senate behind him. so, will trump be able to push it all through? cnn s senior political reporter manu raju joins me now with that. good morning. good morning, carol. he will indeed have a republican congress but that doesn t mean he will get everything he wants. already senate majority leader mitch mcconnell throwing cold water on the idea of imposing term limits on members of congress. he s a six-term republican flatly saying that is not going to happen. and other measures, too, causing some consternation within republican ranks including that border wall with mexico that trump championed on the campaign trail but many republicans in congress are nervous about such a provocative move.
fact that very early on, first priority she made clear is that we need to as americans honor the time honored tradition of a peaceful transfer of power. but carol, no matter how much you know, there s limits to leadership messaging at this point. because people are so angry. and you know, this is now from a democratic point of view, the second major election that we have had where a republican has taken over, even though a democrat has won the popular vote. so you are now going to see that rage at the institution that we have seen and the republican side channeled, i think, through a grassroots democratic upraising potentially. i am seeing people already this morning pushing back on the whole notion of the electoral college system. because now we have had two elections like this, and i think there s a lot of questioning about the system that you re now going to see on the left. right. i think, though, the salient point is that these two men have to try to figure out a way to