of party infrastructure. he created his own organization, obama for america, and guess what he did? after he won election, he housed that inside the dnc. if you talk to dnc members they will tell you that they are very frustrated at barack obama for basically not funding the party, gutting state parties and taking all the power for himself. so he can be critical of hillary clinton there, but he s got to look inward himself and say to himself, you know what? this is partly any responsibility. you want a grande skim latte or venti skim latte? correct, my drink is espresso. venti or grande? grande. i m regular americania. more on breaking news, president obama taking on vladimir putin on russian hacking. did the president manage to avoid taking on donald trump? stay with us. you re in the situation room.
listen, if you ve got the goods, show it to us. yeah. i think the comment from peter king is actually the important comment here. what you re having is a campaign of leaks. the nbc report that peter and martha just discussed, that s a serious allegation that vladimir putin himself directed the hacking to interfere with the u.s. election. it s sourced to two senior u.s. intelligence officials. if they have that information, it is incumbent upon them to provide it to the american people, to provide it to the oversight committees in congress. and i would argue to do it in an open session. if i were chairman devin nuñes and seeking more information, i would insist these hearings take place in an open session so that the american people can see the evidence we ve accumlated and evaluate it on its merits rather than relying on leaks from a cia that, i have to say, has been rather political throughout the obama administration. bill: these electors want to see this evidence before they vote
day that the president-elect was scheduled to hold his first news conference since winning the election. on monday he said it was going to be postponed because he was too busy with cabinet-level appointments. the president, nevertheless, has tweeted president-elect, i should say, has tweeted four times today not just on the subject of alleged russian hacking, but a number of other items. among them, he tweeted, and i quote: the media tries so hard to make my move to the white house as it pertains to my business so complex when, actually, it isn t. now, the focus of that postponed news conference was supposed to be how mr. trump was going to sever ties with his best interests. he has since said his children and executives will be in charge, adding that they will not be make any new deals. now, about those other tweets, the president-elect said in one that it s a great honor to be named the person of the year by the financial times as well as time magazine, and he also slammed vanit
this whole issue and whether or not there was a hacking effort that was specifically guided to help donald trump win the election. reporter: right. he was, putin was reportedly the one looking at all the hacked files and telling russian operate9ives what to do operatives what to do with them. if that is, indeed, the way things were going, then the way the white house has been explaining its point of view, putin would have actually have been taking orders from then-candidate donald trump. republican nominee himself calling on russia to hack his opponent. it might be an indication that he was, obviously, aware and concluded based on whatever facts or sources he was, he had available to him that russia was involved. reporter: and this morning top trump ad visor kellyanne conway called that comment extremely disappointing.
bill: nicely done. morning, everybody. a showdown between the intelligence committee and congress, the chairman requesting a briefing on that alleged russian interference in the election. that request was denied. the meeting has not happened. how come? i m bill hemmer, good morning. it is now thursday, how you doing? maria: you pose an interesting question, one to which we shall dig in bill: yes, we shall. maria: the committee wanted to hear from fbi director james comey and also the cia director, james brennan, because they ve been giving different stories on who s behind this alleged hacking, but they said, no, we don t have time to speak to the