also joining us josh dawes i. tom, let me start with you. what do you make of this strategy by the president s legal team? the president s lawyer, john dowd is obviously pushing back on this. but the person behind the story, talk about her reporting in the last hour. i want you to listen to what she said. we ve done our reporting. we know what people inside have told us about this view of the legal strategy, which is if flynn makes accusations against senior leaders in the campaign, the white house or the president, people feel that they can dismiss that. the lawyers feel they can dismiss that as the protestations of a person who admitted lying to the fbi. on the post reports, that s not a totally shocking strategy for a defense team here. yes. hallie, i agree with that. look, this doesn t surprise me in the slightest. if bob mueller brings a case
the rocks, and i think that is very clear today, kasie. and i guess we ll see if rex tillerson closes out the year and whether or not he sticks for the rest of the year. hall hallie, see you tonight later on nightly news. thank you. joining me, david s. cohen, former deputy director of the cia and former undersecretary of the treasury for terrorism and financial intelligence all under president obama. he is currently a partner at the law firm womilmer hale. you were nodding as hallie talked about rex tillerson. start there. it doesn t seem to me the president didn t offer kind words to tillerson. hey, simply, rex is here and sarah huckabee essentially repeated that. where does tillerson stand? i don t know precisely where tillerson stands but i do think, though, if reports of right that director pompeo is going to move over to the state department and
little bit of an opening to dial this back. now, two ways that the u.s. generals have said that they could actually appease the north koreans. that is to get rid of the thad missile batteries that are located here in south korea and to cancel military exercises, joint exercises between the south korean military and the u.s. military. those are supposed to start on monday and last for ten days. now, it s no exaggeration, hallie, to say these exercises are some of the largest that are seen anywhere on earth. but they have been happening every year for 40 years and every year the north koreans condemn them and almost every year or often they will launch missiles and provocation afterward. so, unclear whether they re actually going to be going ahead with this, but, so far, the u.s. and south koreans have given no indications that they re planning on canceling these exercises. hall hallie. matt bradley, thank you very much. global director of beacon global strategies and senior
way. reporter: what goes tis the ? first, the president made cheer we ll have it out in a couple weeks. the goal is they god it jammed through the democrat-controlled, so taking the time, getting this right to achieve the goss is probably the right thing to do considering the experience we had the last time. hall hallie? reporter: at one point the caitlyn jenner could use whatever bathroom he wanted so why system a priority? i don t think it s a priority. it s not a priority. there is a case pending in the supreme court in which we have to decide whether or not to continue to issue guidance to the court. it s not it s dictated by that. the obama administration a issued joint guidance. we now have to decide whether or not this administration wants to continue that track that they were on. it s plain and simple.
it s more the cops telling us you can t move which means the president may be on his way by. the tweet the president-elect sent out calling schumer, the new democratic leader, a clown d sayihe republicans need to make sure that democrats own the negatives of this law. we do know this law is very unpopular. a lot of its provisions aren t. the ones that cover pre-existing conditions. so the challenge for republicans that donald trump clearly recognizes is, hey if you tear this down, you might end up taking some of the blame for people losing their health care. the president-elect seems to be warning them not to do that, hall hallie. casie hune kasie hunt, than. we ll be bringing that to you as soon as he gets over here. president-elect trump is in new york today for a bunch of meetings. this morning, he s intensifying his criticism of the u.s. intelligence community over russia.