involvement in this hacking, that comparing it to the judgment made about weapons of mass destruction in the iraq situation is totally a red herring, totally wrong? i yes, i agree with that. my fingerprints were on that national intelligence estimate. i was in the community then. that was 13 years ago. we have done many, many things to improve our processes, particularly with respect to national intelligence estimates, in order to prevent that from happening again. whatever else you want to say about the intelligence community, it is a learning organization. and we do try to learn lessons. it s a very difficult business. and getting harder all the time. there will be mistakes. but what we do try to do, as we
ask your doctor about xarelto®. insurance changes? xarelto® has you covered. the cia, fbi, and department of homeland security say they strongly believe and have evidence that indicates that russia hacked american computers during the election. trump maintains not only does he say he doesn t buy their story about russian hacking, when he goes to the grocery store, he won t buy russian dressing. the obama s are packing up their stuff and leading. the first lady is saying her final good-byes to her vegetable
vice president-elect mike pence with republicans trying to tear it apart. the party stakes initial steps to dismantle it. whiplash on the first day of the new congress, hours after voting to strip the independents of the independent congressional watchdog. they reversed it. what made them do it. that was a crazy first day for the 115th congress. right. it wasn t as if we didn t see it coming. welcome back to early start. i m john berman. i m christine romans. what is happens or all in happening what president-elect trump promised about alleged russian hacking claiming what only he knew. the president-elect is likely to sit down towards the end of the week. trump explained postponing his planned remarks this way in a tweet. the intelligence briefing on so-called russian hacking, also
so-called russian hacking, that s also in quotes, was delayed until friday. perhaps more time needed to build a case. very strange. in another tweet he sided with the founder of wikileaks writing this. julian assange said a 14-year-old could have hacked podesta. why was dnc so careless? also said the russians did not give him the info. phil, these tweets, what s the impact they re having on career professionals over, for example, in the cia where you used to work and the fbi where you also worked? boy, this is pain it will, wolf. i think the president-elect is right. he has the right in pointing out there have been some mistakes over the years that had profound implications for american security including iraq, wmd, assessing the rise of isis, looking at the arab spring after
choice than they traditionally would have. and charles schumer is part of the reason that they are doing that. and he should be, jesse is absolutely right, he should be finding common ground. he was not only opposed to the u.n. vote, he was also opposed to the i run deal. and then this obama administration chastised him for that. he may be right, but you are still outnumbered. as we go to break, jesse numbers. the president-elect having his announcing his first formal news conference since being elected, did he wait too long quest mark and will members of the media come out swinging? and the president-elect also taking a swipe at intelligence officials over the briefing on russian hacking, or what he calls so-called hacking. after the show, join our outnumbered overtime, or go to facebook.com, or you can always tweak us, we look at them during the show, @outnumberedfnc. we will see you there. it s the phillips lady!