working with very soon. absolutely. that s why i think the president should do this before he leaves office. president obama, that is. and i also think president-elect trump should reconsider his positions. i don t think it serves his interests to have ambiguity about what the russians did in 2016. he didn t orchestrate that. in my view. i don t think he had anything to do with it. nor do i believe that it s useful for us to say, well, the russians made trump president. when you say that, then, of course, he doesn t have an interest in knowing the truth. but if we set that aside, we let him become president, we say, maybe there were some fouls, maybe there were some bad calls in this match, to use a sports metaphor. but just because there were some bad calls by the referees or some interventions that swayed the outcome, it doesn t mean that we re going to declare the other side the victor. and i think that s important here. so we can set aside the politics
going to be the flying monkeys and trolls released to attack you. it s going to be very difficult for members of congress to break with the trump administration because they will be perceived to be betraying the cause. that s one reason why i think this is going to get worse. this is a good conversation. i hope we can continue it in the days and months ahead. thank you. that will do it for me. i m sheinelle jones. a young girl and her mother making a plea for help to first lady michelle obama.
you do? i know it s hard to understand intentionality from president putin. that s a very hard analytic problem. but i you know, i ve watched putin, i know what his attitudes are towards trump. he likes trump because trump supports policies he supports. and he dislikes secretary clinton, and i ve heard him talk about her directly, because he doesn t like the policies she had. there should be no confusion that the wikileaks data dump hurt secretary clinton. and therefore, helped president then candidate trump. there is no other way to understand that. that came from the russians. and i also agree that the additional factor of a cloud over our election social security another russian objective that has also been achiev achieved. michael mcfaul, thank you for your perspective this afternoon. thanks for having me. back to that breaking news from baltimore. we are following the latest on a deadly accident. joining me now on the phone is
speed the democrats pushed through obamacare christmas eve, ruling with the phone and pen. this radicalizes the tactics, and what will happen is people will sit around and say how far can we push the envelope? there will be people who will defend them saying the democrats started this. they began it. that it s moment where you say what are the rules? what are the protocols? all this talk about a constitutional system of government, is it just raw, political power plays? let s talk about that new york times op-ed piece you wrote about the backlash you received for nip or trump. one staple of every radio talk show was the bias of the mainstream media this was a target-rich environment. we learned this year we succeeded in persuading our audiences to ignore and discount any information from the mainstream media and through
shouldn t be forced to vote for hillary clinton. the presidential candidate who won their state. the electors hoped to vote for a republican alternative to donald trump. that move part of a plan to deny him the 270 electors needed to win the presidency. let s ask poly baca. thank you for talking to me this afternoon. great to be here. thank you for inviting me. the courts shut down your case in colorado and washington where a similar suit cast filed. does that effectively end the complain to stop trump? not at all. we are dedicated to make sure we follow the constitution and we as electors have the right to vote our conscience. and, you know, of course robert and i both, if if we could get 37 republican electors to support hillary clinton, that is our preference. but knowing that that is would