points, close race in a district that voted republican for 40 years. joining us from the ossoff campaign office in sandy springs office, good day to you alex. does this feel like this race has the potential to shake up the national political scene? reporter: i think voters are definitely exciting here. early voting showed big turnout, 140,000 voting, more than 36,000 more than voted in the first round of this election in april. and they ve been getting a lot of knocks on their toorz, the os sf campaign knocked on 80,000 doors and $40 million spent on the race so far. p of that on tv. people are excited and ready to return to their normal life. but that interest is definitely because of the national inpacmp of this race. ossoff got in talked about wanting to make trump furious. he s eased off of that and ran a
troubling. very out of the ordinary. thank you for having me. a lot of expleive. that s how the white house aide describe conversation with the president this week. we are hearing inside from the white house about trump furious. you re live we ll be right back.
gleaned from government officials, often it seems from the intelligence sector, providing salacious and anonymous information to reporters. this has made trump furious. he s now ordering the justice department, he says, to look into leaks. capitol hill also reviewing how to combat the issues that have come up, house oversight committee chair jason chaffetz saying this afternoon his committee, the house intelligence committee will take the lead on issues surrounding russia s involvement with the trump campaign and that his oversight committee will also look at leaks. the question right now with all of these leaks, with the stories they have produced, are we seeing valuable information rightfully being brought at from behind the closed walls of the fbi or cia, or are we seeing intelligence committee launching an improper political war against the president? joining me now to discuss eli lake, national security columnist for bloomberg view. andteve clemens, washington editor at large for
this. two source at the top of the trump transition people confirm they spoke with the president-elect and that donald trump was furious at kellyanne conway s on sunday. kellyanne went rogue. trump s top aides said they were baffled by conway s comments and suggested 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 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. we have a response from
secretary for george w. bush, ari fleischer is back at the table. were you the guy that when j george w. bush was thinking about selecting colin powell that you went out in the press and said he was betraying voters by considering colin powell? that was me. this was someone going rogue according to top three people in the trump organization. trump furious. have you ever seen anything like this before? are people trying to box donald trump into a corner? there s a value and there s a privilege to being in the inner circle. when you re in it, you fight like the dickens inside it. you tell the boss you re right or wrong and clash with anybody you need to clash with but you don t go public with it. that s a cardinal violation of what every staffer has to do. especially a communication director. isn t it even a worse sin for somebody who was supposed to promote the president-elect s