seems to dismiss it. yeah. i can assure you there s more evidence even than the evidence that s been out there. i m sure there s a lot of stuff that the administration has not wanted to release but will do so in private briefings. so i mean he will have to look at all of this. and how could he reverse it? well, let s say the russians come back and ask for 35-ask for those 35 people to come back to their posts. i suppose he can issue an order that they should be. i have a feeling he is not going to do that. so i think this is he s probably going to let this one stand. but, you know, he s he prides himself on doing the unexpected, so we ll have to see. we will have to see. former ambassador christopher hill. thank you so much for your insights and your time today. thank you. joining us to talk more about the sanctions against russia and the presidential transition is betsy wood rough, politics reporter for the daily beast, and larry sab toe is
director of politics at the university of virginia. thanks for joining us. good to have you guys with us. let s start first with the sanctions and donald trump s response to the sanctions if we could take it here full. he says, quote, it is time for our country to move on to bigger and better things. nevertheless, in the interest of our country and its great people i will meet with the leaders of the intelligence community next week in order to be updated on the facts of this situation. larry, this first question to you. so despite the fact that the u.s. intelligence agencies, these many agencies with confidence came together with this very specific finding, donald trump still has doubts. what s the play here? well, it is an extraordinary statement by the president-elect. it is odd in lots of different ways because donald trump is in disagreement not just with the intelligence community, not just with the obama administration, but also with republicans and the leadership of the gop
i m back now with my guests. ann coulter s with me, jeffrey toobin, leslie sanchez and larry sab toe is back with me as well. not too long ago, everyone was touting the death of the tea party, that the tea party had run its course. caller: well, it pea well have. the tea party didn t have much to do with this election. the tea party express is in favor of amnesty. they re just shysters and conmen now. i don t think this is anti-establishment at all. this is 100% about amnesty. somebody was talking about the tea party in texas and ted cruz is the winner here. well, ted cruz is from washington. whatever his and i love him, but that is technically part of the establishment. what was his speech at the texas tea party about? it was a fiery speech denouncing amnesty.
most republicans view cantor as the most conservative member in the house leadership in the lineup, and yet, he was ousted. i think this goes to a specific issue, which is there s always been questions about his a authenticity. and i think there s questions about that. if you compare his position in the conference to boehner, you would not consider to be necessarily as conservative. boehner is a guy who s a backslapper. he has a lot of close friends in the conference, and i think that probably translates into loyalty among his constituents. whereas eric cantor has never been that type of politician. he s always been seen as somewhat calculating. can you see it in talking about immigration in the latter stages of his campaign. he totally changed his tone if not his position just in the last few days, and i think it probably spoke to a larger disenchantment that voters had with him that larry said
probably developed over a number of years. larry, should we expect a radical change in the gop leadership because of this? well, there s going to be a different speaker after john boehner, that s for sure. i think, you know, there s a lot of politicking going on in washington as far as that s concerned. but look, you know, so many of the things that have been said are accurate, but they re only part of the picture. it was partly immigration. it was partly the disconnect that cantor had developed with his own district. it was, it was partly the fact that he was identified and kred when i as a moderate. i think jeff mentioned that he s considered very conservative by any normal measure. but there was another factor i was trying to point out. no one knows about this, but there was a major outreach to democrats in that district, 43% of that district is democratic. you have brat on rattives going to democratic party committees,