listen. what was his reaction when he learned of president obama s announcement today against russia? his reaction is reflected in his statement, kate. he will receive an intelligence briefing in this coming week and in the meantime, he believes it s time to move on and i have been reading all the news reports about these retaliations, these sanctions put forward by president obama and his administration. some of them seem largely symbolic. the gru doesn t really travel here, doesn t keep its assets here. there s no indication allies, our allies, will follow suit. and we are yet to see all of the intelligence reports and the we would be the president-elect so he will have that briefing next week. in the meantime he repeated what he said to reporters here at mar-a-lago which is he believes it s time to move on to bigger and better things for the country. i want to ask about that. the statement says time to move on to bigger and better things as you just said. what does that mean?
if we couldn t laugh, well, we don t know what we d do, so the morning joe team put together some of the best moments from late night over the last year. take a look. he didn t look like hillary clinton, but one of those long answers. woo, woo, woo. all anyone wants to talk about is donald trump. donald trump? isn t he the one that s, like, you re all losers? you think he ll win the primaries? he must. i want to be the one to take him down. i will destroy him, and i will mount his hair in the oval office! i d like to stick garden gnomes in this building. i guess you would.
places in michigan, in wisconsin, in pennsylvania, was a bad luck message. and the reason that donald trump is president-elect right now, will be president on january 20th, is because he went into places in places in ohio, in youngstown. this is a ancestrally democratic place. these are not the conservatives who rallied around ronald reagan and jack kemp 30 to 40 years ago. these are people who used to be democrats. these are workers. these are laid-off workers. these are blue collar people and they re the people who rallied around donald trump. and i think one of the reflations of the campaign of the last year and a half of politics is when this campaign started, we used to look to people like george will to say, what is the pulse of the republican party and conservative movement and we found out george will doesn t have his fingers on it anymore. just real quick, who s the george will of trumpism and pop ewism? it s a hard question to answer. because the trump movement doesn t have
that s not the way that peaceful transitions of administrations work in our great democracy. conway also dismissed the impact of the sanctions, suggesting members of the russian military intelligence service do not operate within the u.s. i ve been reading all the news reports about these retaliations, these sanctions put forward by president obama and that administration. some of them seem largely symbolic. the gru doesn t really travel here, doesn t keep its assets here. that comment drew that response from president obama s former ambassador to russia, michael mcfaul. quote, this is crazy. can someone organize a deep dive presidential daily brief for the president-elect and his senior advisers on russian intelligence operations asap? it s really, i think strike ing and it became pretty clear that donald trump and republicans in congress have a divide on this very question. intelligence assessments.
i will tell you that even those who are sympathetic to president obama on most issues are saying that part of the reason he did this today was to, quote, box in president-elect trump. that would be very unfortunate if that were if politic were the motivating factor here, but we can t help but think that s true. even new york times characterized it as such this may be an attempt to box him in. that s not the way that peaceful transitions of administrations work in our great democracy. conway also dismissed the impact of the sanctions, suggesting members of the russian military intelligence service do not operate within the u.s. i ve been reading all the news reports about these retaliations, these sanctions put forward by president obama and his administration. some of them seem largely symbolic. the gru doesn t really travel here, doesn t keep its assets here. that comment drew this response from president obama s former ambassador to russia,