Had weapons of mass destruction. There are only three sentences dealing with this in that statement. This follows news cnn broke last week that the Obama Administration is under pressure from democrats to make public more intelligence about the hacking. Its now threatening to spark an early feud between americas top spy agencies and the trump white house. Lets get now to our Global Affairs correspondent, elise labott, thrive from washington. What are you learning about this now developing feud, lets call it. Well, i think, first, we need to be very clear about what were talking about, christi and victor, what were talking about and what were not talking about. I dont think anybody is charging, including the Intelligence Community, that russia actually affected the election results. When you read the statement by the transition, it says that the election ended a long time ago in one of the Biggest Electoral College victories. Thats true. I dont think anybody is charging that donald trum
Lawyer is literally having nightmares about trumps presidency. When the president does it, that means it is not illegal. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. There are now just three days until donald trump is sworn in as president and it will happen against the backdrop of deep unpopularity among the American People. A new nbc news wall street journal poll finds just 38 have a positive view of trump while 48 have a negative view, making trump the most unpopular incoming president in the history of the poll. Of course, trump doesnt buy it. After other polls showed similar findings trump tweeted the same people who did the phony election polls and were so wrong are now doing approval rate l polgs, they are rigged, just like before. The polls are not rigged but they can be wrong sometimes. We should note National Polls entering election day turned out to be pretty accurate. Hillary clinton won the National Popular vote by 2. 86 million vote, about two
Sources familiar with the matter that flynn has expressed concern about the potential legal egs poeb of his son who like his father is currently under scrutiny by special counsel Robert Mueller. Flynns concern could be a factor in decisions about how to respond to muellers Ongoing Investigation into russian meddling in the 2016 campaign as well as the business dealings of key Trump Campaign advisers. Im told as well, don, that flynns wife lori she shares his concerns about their sons possible legal exposure and that you can well imagine. And what legal questions is the special counsel focusing on regarding flynn . So this is somewhat revealing. I spoke to two witnesses interviewed by the special counsel investigators and they tell me that the questions regarding flynn focused on his and his sons business dealings, including their firms reporting of income from work overseas. There is a log. Its called the foreign agents registration act. It requires those americans acting as agents for
Jake, whats your assessment . I think theyre going to pass it but remember the government shuts down friday. So keep that in mind. I do want to say once they get if had to this pro longed negotiation between the house and senate bills, we spend a lot of time in the house. We dont know how these people are going to react to changes to their bill. Theyve been all bought in for it several weeks now and any change to it will be a learning process to say the least with many House Republicans. But what nick said is right. They do believe that despite very bad public polling on this bill and its bad, its really bad, that they have to pass something before the end of the year and were going into an Election Year but the end of the year is a false construct. They dont feed to pass anything before the end of the year and anything shorlt of that would be seen as a failure. Well go out and sell it later. I remember the democrats doing that on something else. Affordable, affordable. I dont know. Th
Going to be facing tough and important questions on this very issue. The cost of the tax bill, who really benefits and can he guarantee the middle class will not take a hit . On that the white house is warning would be a deal bracket. At the end of the day if we really believe this is a middleclass tax increase hes not going to sign it. So there you have that. A lot is going on on this. To the capitol to get the latest. Congressional correspondent Phil Mattingly there to set the stage. Lets start on the house side right now. Are they any closer to an agreement on what exactly the final product is going to be that will keep republicans together on this . Yeah. After a very riveting four days in the house ways and means mark up on tax policy, kate, i can say look were still waiting for the final changes to come on the house side of things. On the top line Everybody Knows the basic dynamics and key points of what this plan will include. Lot of problem areas theyre trying to resolve during