health care reform. still with me elizabeth holtzman, susan, air ari and gloria ryan. it s their slightly veiled way of supporting him. what do you make of this? it s interesting because it s the same senators for the most part that said don t go after former senator sessions. that s when trump was talking about potentially firing him. or people around the president were talking about firing him. this is a really weird battle. now, granted, mitch mcconnell said some things in his district, and the president felt the need to respond. the president isn t 100% wrong here. you know i m not a big defender
approved. we should have known that we had a couple of votes that turned on him, and that should have been very easy to handle. president trump senate majority leader mitch mcconnell s inability to get health care reform. still with me elizabeth holtzman, susan, air ari and gloria ryan. it s their slightly veiled way of supporting him. what do you make of this? it s interesting because it s the same senators for the most part that said don t go after former senator sessions. that s when trump was talking about potentially firing him. or people around the president were talking about firing him. this is a really weird battle. now, granted, mitch mcconnell said some things in his district, and the president felt the need to respond. the president isn t 100% wrong
the president was going to back off his tweeting about the investigation, that the lawyers were going to vet this. that really doesn t seem to be the case here. he seems to be directly engaged, which would be a problem for his outside counsel. apparently no one told donald trump he was going to back off tweeting and that he doesn t know carter page. exactly. and he doesn t have anything to do with carter page because that s been the line coming out of the white house since carter page kind of surfaced and became a problem. so this really speaks to the fact that the president keeps making this worst for himself by going after comey, going after brennan, going after this investigation as a witch hunt. it s going to continue, be it what mueller is doing or be it what the senate and the house are doing. this is going to continue. and by tweeting things like this, he just makes it worse for himself. but at the end of the day, as we have seen with these reports, anything the white hous
like everybody is either all right or all wrong. john lewis isn t 100% wrong and he isn t 100% right. john lewis isn t either. a great deal of being president-elect obama could say i apologize for delegitimatizing presidency of barack obama for all those years. you apologize for delegitimizing my presidency but come to my inauguration and let s all get along but that s not going to happen. coming up, john mccain will join us. also reporting from hallie jackson. new york times reporter. friday live in washington to cover the presidential inauguration. our coverage kicks off 6:00 a.m. blocks from capitol hill. among our many guests on set will be minority leader nancy pelosi and senator rand paul.
right now, there s broad agreement at the cia and at the fbi and other agencies that the russian intelligence agencies hacked the democratic national committee and that they targeted democrats by orchestrating the release of these embarrassing e-mails. now the cia, in a briefing a couple weeks ago, did tell members of congress that it was also clear that the russians were trying to get trump elected. now the fbi isn t ready to go that far. they still are looking at a mix of motivation, but broadly they think it was about undermining our democratic system. the cia told lawmakers that they had new information from their sources. but really, even the cia deal isn t 100% definitive. a lot of this is circumstantial evidence. of course, donald trump is tweeting about all this this morning as you mentioned this morning he says why wasn t this brought up before the election? the answer, carol, is that it was brought up before the election. the president-elect would have learned a lot of this i