take the view he did. you got to remember that there s personal effects on many other people as well, not just chelsea manning. all the other people who might ve been put at risk, who may be put at risk in the future. in the end, the job of the president is to weigh all of those personal impacts and not just focus on one person. i think that s the mistake he made. bret: white house press secretary talking about the g.o.p. outrage since yesterday. i m tempted to say this is an astonishing display of intellectual dishonesty from congressional republicans who endorsed a man for president who praised wikileaks, defended the integrity of julian assange. bret: now, vice president elect pence made the point that trump didn t defend julian assange but he did talk about the substance of what was in the wikileaks, tried to make that distinction. remarkable that people view
take the view he did. you got to remember that there s personal effects on many other people as well, not just chelsea manning. all the other people who might ve been put at risk, who may be put at risk in the future. in the end, the job of the president is to weigh all of those personal impacts and not just focus on one person. i think that s the mistake he made. bret: white house press secretary talking about the g.o.p. outrage since yesterday. i m tempted to say this is an astonishing display of intellectual dishonesty from congressional republicans who endorsed a man for president who praised wikileaks, defended the integrity of julian assange. bret: now, vice president elect pence made the point that trump didn t defend julian assange but he did talk about the substance of what was in the wikileaks, tried to make that distinction. remarkable that people view
time the most powerful person in the world in terms of sitting on top of the united states government and he has to recognize that his words do have impact and they can have very positive impact or they can have undercutting of our national security. chris: i want to end this part of the interview with one more question which i put to vice president elect pence, does the intelligence community have any information, i m not talking about rumors, information about contacts between the trump camp and associates of the kremlin about discussions during the campaign about hacking the democrats? the intelligence communities collects foreign intelligence of people, if we pick up information related to u.s. persons or officials, which we refer to incidental collection, we share that information with the appropriate authorities, in most instances that s the fbi and so if we did come into contact with that type of information, it would have been shared with the fbi and we would make sure that o
time the most powerful person in the world in terms of sitting on top of the united states government and he has to recognize that his words do have impact and they can have very positive impact or they can have undercutting of our national security. chris: i want to end this part of the interview with one more question which i put to vice president elect pence, does the intelligence community have any information, i m not talking about rumors, information about contacts between the trump camp and associates of the kremlin about discussions during the campaign about hacking the democrats? the intelligence communities collects foreign intelligence of people, if we pick up information related to u.s. persons or officials, which we refer to incidental collection, we share that information with the appropriate authorities, in most instances that s the fbi and so if we did come into contact with that type of information, it would have been shared with the fbi and we would make sure that o
go directly to the people whether it is through radio, tv, and now twitter through the new social media outlets. that also being said i think sometimes he should not be swiping down. you should not be worrying about meryl streep, and a lot of these other things. because he is the president. he has a responsibility and an obligation not only to the people, but more importantly to himself. why waste time? i think there are more important battles to fight? harris: i wrote that down, swiping down. you know some of these people, right? the people, barbara lee of california, right? scott: i think it is sour grapes, self-serving. i agree with vice president elect pence. it is about history, tradition, what we do as americans. sandra: obviously not for the list we have in our hands. barbara lee saying i will not be celebrating inauguration, but