thanks to the social media networks like twitter, we can get an instant snapshot of what republican candidates are generating and which ones are generating the biggest buzz as we head into the iowa caucuses. our ali velshi is here. he s analyzing the trends for us. it s pretty impressive. bhar we see wk ali? you and are are big tweeters. we get why this really works. what we ve got is great new technology i want to share with our viewers. we can see in realtime where tweets are coming from either because the person tweeting has a device that locates them or they have their location in the twitter profile. the number of people who tweet indicates where they are tweeting from he wants somewhere upward of about 12% of all tweets. so this is realtime. in the last 15 minutes, we re going this on 15-minute increments, these are tweets from around the country which mention any of the candidates. you ll see many of them are in purple. purple is the color that rick santorum is representing he
thanks to the social media networks like twitter, we can get an instant snapshot of what republican candidates are generating and which ones are generating the biggest buzz as we head into the iowa caucuses. our ali velshi is here. he s analyzing the trends for us. it s pretty impressive. bhar we see wk ali? you and are are big tweeters. we get why this really works. what we ve got is great new technology i want to share with our viewers. we can see in realtime where tweets are coming from either because the person tweeting has a device that locates them or they have their location in the twitter profile. the number of people who tweet indicates where they are tweeting from he wants somewhere upward of about 12% of all tweets. so this is realtime. in the last 15 minutes, we re going this on 15-minute increments, these are tweets from around the country which mention any of the candidates. you ll see many of them are in purple. purple is the color that rick santorum is representing he
followed. it shows what happens when america leads from the front, the rest of the world follows. i have never seen so many nations pushing back against russia. i went to a national security conference in munich. nato is alive and well again because putin is creating havoc throughout the world. i think what president trump did, the rest of the world followed. it s going to make a difference. clearly we haven t done enough to change russia s bhar. they re still very brazen, very emboldened, what president trump did with expelling these people, i think, is going to pay dividends overtime. martha: when you look at the russian reaction, you know, they are sort of scoffing about it. representative, you know, it s no big deal. in terms of their intelligence, their ability to gather information around the world, has that been curtailed dramatically by this move? they begin to be isolated. they have the economy the size of italy. if the president could rally the world to push back against
my view is this is not a partisan issue. part of what we should be doing is to try to take it out of election season and move it in to governing season. joining me now is msnbc national correspondent peter alexander at the white house. nbc chief foreign correspondent richard engel in moscow and jeremy peters. first to you, peter. let s talk about the extraordinary situation where the president will be pressed to talk about a highly secret operation if he does have steps. he s pressed also on why politically he didn t take more public action before the election. sort of damned if he does, damned if he doesn t. you re right. he ll be pressed on whether he thinks what happened in november was a free and fair election. trump aides say this is all about delegitimizing the election. that s another topic i
children shot at. it was meant to be a cease-fire, yet still gunmen targeted them as they left the rebel-held east. their terror was clear. their mothers close. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington. president obama will hold his last news conference of the year in a few hours. he would likely be pressed to explain how he plans to retaliate against russia for trying to destabilize the election through cyber war. bhar the president s options. even more challenging what can he do in the month left in office given donald trump s proclaimed skepticism that russia was even responsible. the president was asked about it on npr. if whatever response you take isn t completed by january 20, do you have any reason to have confidence that president trump will continue it?