Destruction. This is threatening a feud between the top agencies and the President Elect white house. Were getting phew reaction from moscow. Well get to that in a moment. Lets bring in eugene scott and tom lobianco. Good morning. The strategy behind this statement. Just three sentences. Unsigned. What what is the the calculation here from the trump folks . Its a continuation of Donald Trumps message during the campaign that he believes he knows more than the Intelligence Community. Thats a hard sell to make at this point, given that we know he only is getting about once a week president Daily Briefs Gnat would give him more information about National Security globally. That statement is inaccurate. These are not the same people that were heading the departments when the Bush Administration was in place. This is new information and new revelations about what is happening abroad. Tom, i talk t about the
possibility that this would cause a feud between the Intelligence Community and the
we did not expect that, you know, there would be shootings directly at what would be the press, right? that s not what we were expecting. that s not what we had heard had been the case. but what we have seen in the last few days have been that numerous journalists have been shot while driving around in their cars labeled press. it seems like this is happening deliberately, right? this was something i couldn t grasp in the beginning. my colleague and i seemed to be the first ones deliberately shot at. glad to hear they re doing okay. journalists are facing a crackdown and they re looking to control the narrative. jill doherty took this photo before she left the cnn moscow bureau. she tells us why it s such a troubling time for independent journalists. when i took that selfie i took it because i really wanted like a symbol for me of perhaps
that plays great before the election. now, we don t care. he s talking about that so-called war on christmas and claims that people have stopped saying merry christmas. watch this. and merry christmas, everybody. merry christmas. right? merry christmas. [ cheers and applause ] that s right. they reminded me. we re going to start saying merry christmas again. [ cheers and applause ] how about all those department stores? they have the bells and they have the red walls and they have the snow. but they don t have merry christmas. i think they re going to start putting up merry christmas, merry christmas. all right. let s talk about this. let s bring in cnn politics reporter eugene scott and
taking the u.s. by storm. great writing there. has nearly 10 million people throughout the west brace frd a winter storm. there are warnings and watches going into next week. cnn meteorologist alison chinchar. i came back from a place where i had packed my jackets. i came back in shorts and received a rude awakening. that would not work for you today. mother nature has not gotten the memo that winter starts next week. she s a week early. we start in the west. the system makes its way toward the east. we have millions under some type of winter watch or advisory from today to wednesday. the system begins to shift later today or tonight. earlier this week, in states like michigan, ohio,
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