New US Rep. Jill Tokuda of Hawaiʻi finds “heightened urgency” surrounding issues of affordability, housing and sustainability. She says her work at the national level involves “a whole new toolbox” that provides for expanded reach. Maui Nowʻs Wendy Osher talks one-on-one with Rep. Tokuda during her visit to the Valley Isle.
we go to kent delaney, national security reporter for nbc news. ken, what s the latest on this line of reporting you and nbc news have been pursuing? chris, the latest is it turned into a political dispute between the white house and trump and we also detect that trump is pivoting a bit, even though you rightly pointed out that he wasn t accurate in his tweet this morning, he also didn t deny this time that it was russia. a top transition aide gave an interview with msnbc s brian williams last night where he seemed to acknowledge that the intelligence is pointing to russia and said, hey, we re upset about this and and taking time to decide how we re going to respond. our understanding, we presume that donald trump and/or mike flynn are being briefed on this intelligence about russia being behind the hacks. that s part of the issue, of course, this is something whether the intelligence community made the correct determination or not, it is clearly the determination they made an th
tweet this morning, he also didn t deny this time that it was russia. a top transition aide gave an interview with msnbc s brian williams last night where he seemed to acknowledge that the intelligence is pointing to russia and said, hey, we re upset about this and and taking time to decide how we re going to respond. our understanding, we presume that donald trump and/or mike flynn are being briefed on this intelligence about russia being kb behind the hacks. that s part of the issue, of course, this is something whether the intelligence community made the correct determination or not, it is clearly the determination they made an they re clearly the people that are channeling that determination presumably three times a week, day after day, to mike pence and to donald trump and to general flynn because that s the conduit for their intelligence briefings. right, so it s going it be really difficult presumably for donald trump to continue to say it wasn t russia and it s going to be
but this news adds to a growing list of trump loyalists when it comes to top jobs in the new administration. katy, i want to go to you and i want to pose a question and get your views on it. is it possible that donald trump is using people when it s convenient and then discarding them? i can certainly say that it s possible. i m not in donald trump s head. i don t know what his motivations are for deciding not to pick or use rudy giuliani but you covered this campaign. when there were things that almost no one would defend, including kellyanne conway, rudy was there defending them, as a loyalist. but we don t know what the reasons are for why rudy giuliani took his name out, if he did take his name out. i can say that this is a little confusing to me, because as of last night, i was talking to a senior transition aide who told me that rudy giuliani was the person to watch. and either that aide is just trying to mess with reporters, maybe that s the case, or that
for msnbc that they spoke to the president-elect today and that donald trump was furious at kellyanne conway s comments on sunday suggesting trump betrayed his supporters by even considering mitt romney for a position in his cabinet. kellyanne went rogue at donald trump s expense at the worst possible time. a source familiar with trump s thinking said. trump s top aide said they were baffled by conway s comments and suggests that it feeds into a growing concern inside the campaign that instead of driving donald trump s message she s pushing her own agenda. one top transition aide said it s dangerous. steve bannon and reince priebus have reportedly been growing frustrated by kellyanne conway s failure to become a team player in a transition process where the top players are forming a tight knit group around the president-elect. jeremy peters, this is extraordinarily undisciplined