here s what happened when he asked him about all of this. i need to ask you an additional question no, but i want to address this. i m also concerned come on, i m being fair to you but i ve got to get a word in every once in a while. i m also troubled by the idea that my president-elect he s going to be all of our president is already throwing turned bus the intelligence community with whom he s going to have to work on life-and-death matters. wasn t that a troubling thing to do at 9:34 last night in that no! in that very michael, the new york times, in their story, said that they based their conclusion on the fact that the rnc was hacked, okay? if the rnc was not hacked, then that casts doubt on their conclusions. michael smerconish joins us tonight along with cnn s senior political analyst, david gergen. michael, the fact that donald trump is pushing back so hard on this hacking story, how surprising do you think that is?
the counsel and advice from mitt romney, going forward. and it s also important to note that according to sources, mitt romney was, indeed, in the mix, in the group of finalists, until the veryen end. all of this goes to what we reported at the top of the show, that the pick will eventually be rex tillerson, the exxon ceo. but obviously, a lot of question and a lot of focus on mitt romney s willingness to even be a part of this. the president-elect s willingness to even bring mitt romney into the circus, if you will. to bring him into the number of candidates, because of how kind of diametrically opposed to one another they were during the campaign. that is now officially over. that call was made tonight. all signs pointing to rex tillerson, the exxon ceo will be the selection for the president-elect, for that secretary of state position. president-elect stressing that mitt romney s involvement in this entire process was appreciated and he was, in fact, a finalist until the very end, a
but this has devastated so many of our communities, particularly communities of color in our country, that we now see more african americans under criminal supervision in america than there were slaves in 1850, overwhelmingly for non-violent drug offenses. young whites have a little bit of a higher rate of dealing drugs than young blacks, but yet blacks are arrested for usage of drugs almost more times more than some of the whites. latinos, twice more than someone that s white. so if we want to address issues deeper than just the criminal justice system, that range from poverty, to equality under the law, equal opportunity, we ve got to start approaching our criminal justice system in a way that empowers, as opposed to something that s so destructive to our own country. i m curious, what is it about this issue, because the story of washington, d.c. has been democrats on one side, republicans on the other, and
worked out. that s going to take some time. it s not exactly working beautifully in the congress right now. so is the real question about whether it will get through this session, but it does seem like there s enough momentum that maybe this one or the next one. and in terms of what this would actually mean, you have dick durban describing this as a major sea change. practically speaking, what would the impact be? it would reduce overpopulation in the federal prison. most of the prisoners in america are in state prisons. i want to ask you too about this hacking story, involving john brennan, the cia director. apparently the secret service, the fbi both looking into this. right now it s a high school student. it s his personal e-mail account. do we know anything here for the potential of sensitive information being exposed? well, sensitive, yes. some of that s already been put onto a twitter account by one of these hackers, a spread sheet that shows names, e-mails and social sec
about, the founders of virgin galactic revealing that the ntsb likely to blame pilot error. one pilot was killed another injured when the aircraft went down in the mojave desert. branson now says his plan to make space tourism a realty has been delayed at least one year, but his engineers are working day and night to build a replacement craft. now to that hacking story. hackers shaking down cops around the country. you may not have heard about this. how are they doing it? with unprotected computers holding their information hostage and then demanding ransom. trace galler live on this one. so far at least a half dozen police departments have been