Congressman mike pompeo for cia director a lot going on. We have peter ducey, sorry peter, work with your dad in the morning, steve. Outside trump tower. What did the Transition Team today say about the hearings . Heather, theyre watching the confirmation hearings in washington. They want to be clear about one thing, even if a nominee for a cabinet job doesnt said something that does not precisely line up with what the president elect has said, if theyre talking about russia for example, it doesnt matter. Each nominee they think will pursue the president elects vision and the president elects agenda. They dont see a conflict there the same way they think there was a conflict with the intelligence community. Until last night, mr. Trump had taken aim at five agencies during his press conference with the world watching suggesting that somebody there leaked information they should rnlt have leading to story and confusion about thor verified document that spread all over the world. Director
Campaign is behind us and governance is in front of us. We got about a month to go to set a different tone nationally and internationally. I hope we very much do that. Former ambassador, ryan crocker, at the George Bush School of government and Public Service at texas a m. Thank you sir, and great to see you again. Thank you for joining us as part of our coverage. Thank you, brian. It is just past the 2 00 hour in the east coast. We are within 15 minutes of the scheduled posted time to hear from the president , this end of year news conference. Chris jansing can give us a preview from the white house. Chris. Reporter i have never seen the white house presser quite like this, brian, it gives you the indication of an interest in this. We can take a look and show you almost a chaotic situation here. The big question on everybodys mind is what is the president going to do about the russian hack after previewing essentially to mpr, something needed to be done. He did not go as far as the as
Islam ophobic. Firing back with the candidates suggesting on twitter that mrs. Clintons comment will hurt her in the polls. He attended yesterdays values voter summit in washington and today his running mate mike pence will be speaking. They are working to energize religious conservative bs a constituency with its doubts about trumps bona fides. Kristin, what can you tell us . Uma, both mike pence and donald trump are expressing outrage over clintons remarks. This morning trump posted on twitter, quote, wow, Hillary Clinton was so insulting to my supporters, millions of amazing hardworking people. I think it will cost her at the polls. And then his running mate mike pence said this while speaking to conservative christians here at the values voter summit. The millions of americans that are supporting my running mate were described in the most deplorable of terms. So let me just say from the bottom of my heart, hillary, they are not a basket of anything. They are americans and they dese
An extraordinary scene. Holding court for 77 minutes to say this was a wideranging performance does not even begin to scratch the surface. What did donald trump do . He defended the early weeks of his presidency. Belittled the media, criticized his predecessor. Went offafter his opponent frome election. Went offer his victory. Mangled facts. He broke all sorts of customs and traditions about how a president is supposed to conduct himself in a setting like this. In between it all, he did make news too. He made news about his decision to fire his National Security adviser, about questions involving his campaign and potential contacts with russia, about his immigration ban. That ban which, for the moment, is being blocked by the courts. Again, an extraordinary scene. Before today we had seen donald trump give a performance like this as a candidate. But we had never seen a president give a performance like this until now. The reaction as we have come to expect with donald trump, it is quit
Accounts hacked. What you need to do right now to secure your information. We start with the bombshell report, top u. S. Intelligence officials telling nbc news about russian president s role in trying to disrupt the president ial election. The officials have a, quote, high level of confidence in the intelligen intelligence. In other words, nearly incontrovertible. Were going to start with Senior Investigative correspondent Cynthia Mcfadden with the exclusive details. This morning, nbc news has learned from Senior Intelligence officials that russian president Vladimir Putin was personally involved in the campaign to undermine the u. S. Election. The officials tell us that new information derived from diplomatic sources and spies working for u. S. Allies points directly to the russian president. With one high level official saying that putins role was to direct how the hacked material from democrats was used. His objectives, multifasedded. It began, one official says, as a vendetta agai