Special transportation. Its monday, december 26th. I hope you all had a wonderful holiday. Im sick of getting hankerchiefs. Also with us, former Communications Director for ted cruzs president ial campaign, rick tyler. Good christmas . Wonderful christmas. In washington, author and nbc news contributor. And also with us, White House Correspondent for the associate press julie pace. All right. Lets talk about the transition so far. Not about my fake christmas. She had a wonderful christmas across the south of france. Anyway, julie, how do we score . How are washington journalists, analysts, pundits scoring the trump transition so far . I think its been a bit of a mixed bag. On the one hand you have trump who really rolled pretty quickly through his cabinet appointments. Picked people that have support from some pretty surprising corners of the Republican Party. Rex tillerson in particular has drawn the bush world out to support him, which is something that didnt happen for trump during
President speaks with Rupert Murdoch daily. What do i have to do with that, rupert . When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. House republicans partied in the rose garden afr passing their Health Care Bill yesterday, but today brought e hangover. Republicans waking up to the news the Cook Political Report has changed its characterization of 20 house races in the wake of the vote, all reflecting enhance the opportunities for democrats. Dave wasserman writing that democrats arent so much recruiting candidates as they are overwhelmed by a deluge of eager newcomers, including doctors and veterans in traditionally red seat whos have no political record for the gop to attack, almost a mirror image of 2010 when it was democrats who put their political future in jeopardy by voting for an unpopular Health Care Bill and ultimately paid the price. Right now 23 republicans represent districts won by Hillary Clinton in 2016. 14 of them voted for the Health Care Bill
President elect trumps policies are toward russia before taking any action. This all started when president obama took the unprecedented steps of punishing russia for alleged hacking. Ordering 35 Russian Diplomats to leave the u. S. Within 72 hours. Two russian compounds have been ordered closed. Four individuals and five russian organizations now sanctioned. So far what were hearing from president elect trump, move on. Saying its time for our country to move on to bigger and better things. Our team covering the diplomatic fallout from d. C. To moscow. We begin with Cnn Senior International correspondent matthew chance. Matthew, a simple question here, what is russia up to here . Why not retaliate, thats been the long traditional history . It has. But this is an astonishing bit of political theater, classic putin. Basically we saw earlier today the Russian Foreign minister appeared very solemnly on Russian State Television saying he was recommending to the kremlin that 35 u. S. Diploma
This is a fox news alert. Er welcome to hannity on this major breaking news night. Press Secretary Sean Spicer, and white house chief of staff Reince Priebus will be joining us in exclusive interviews tonight. Also buchanan, jeanine o pirro, Ari Fleischer are here with reaction paid by john roberts, standing by the latest on the changes to the president S Communications team. Good evening tos you. This has been going on for months, coming together over the last 24 hours. No question, no secret that the president was notom really thrilled with hiS Communications team. Anthony scaramucci was supposed to be headed to paris toe become the ambassador to thee organization for economic development, but he came to see the president yesterday. The two started talking about communications. President trump said, hey, why dont you be my Communications Director . I love to come to the west wing. So the president made the decision tove have scaramucci go into the job, told Stephen Bannon, Reince Pri
Hannity starts right here,e, right now. This is a fox news alert. Welcome to hannity on on this major breaking news night. Press secretary sean spicer, and white house chief of staff Reince Priebus will be joining us in exclusive interviews tonight. Also buchanan, Ari Fleischer are here with reaction paid by john roberts, standing by the latest on the changes to the president S Communications team. Good evening to you. This has been going on for months, coming together over the last 24 hours. No question, no secret that the president was not really thrilled with hiS Communications team. Anthony scaramucci was supposed to be headed to paris to become the ambassador to the organization for economic development, but he came to see the president yesterday. The two started talking about communications. President trump said, hey, why dont you be my Communications Director . What she said, yes, i would love the job. I love to come to the west wing. So the president made the decision to have s