it would be seen as a way to quash any investigation. i appreciate you joining us. final thoughts on your message to the american people because i think if we hear more and more democrats saying that donald trump is not legitimate what s that going to mean for the american public? it means that we re simply observing what his conduct is showing every day and that there s two major questions about the legitimacy but not the legality of the election. no one is questioning he is the president, the election was legal isn t that semantics? no, i don t think it s semantics at all. i don t think it s semantics at all. we re not questioning the legali legality, we are not saying he is not the president or can act as president. we are saying that the election had real problems brought on by the russians and brought on by the fbi. congressman, i appreciate you being here. thank you. thank you. we have a lot of news to get to. thank you to our international viewers for watching.
another and how that affects relations. the 35-page memo that we did not report on by the way that was out there. that was out there already whether or not the intelligence community included a summary of it or explained it but nobody had done anything with it. the intelligence community they elevated to a point where you put this information in written form and present it. they summarized it in two pages. but i just wanted to make clear it s not that they put the full 35 pages. that s right. let me talk about another country. china. the china global times which is like many press organizations in china something of a mouthpiece for the government albeit a bit of a more sensational one took a swipe at the president elect overnight and they said trump is thinking about china it becoming increase lengthily clear they want it to make huge huge concessions to achieve that.
that the president elect although legally elect sd not legitimate for all the reasons i said. why do you not believe that the president elect is not a legitimate president because as you know the intelligence community has not said that the russian hacking in any way swayed the election. they ve said that they wouldn t look at that question. that that s beyond their purview. they actually said and they said that the intent of the russian government which hacked was to favor donald trump but they have not said that he won because of that. that s right. and they also said that it is not in her purview to look at the question of whether he won because of that. john berman asked an important question at the beginning of this show that is what does this do to benefit america? donald trump by hillary clinton and the sitting president barack obama has been called legitimate, they will both be there on friday. what does it do for the american people for members of congress includin
quote, we were simply angry initially but now we can t help but laugh. there are no plans to change the one china policy, but certainly that policy is on the table if china doesn t also come to the table and work with us on trade, work with us on the south china sea and what s happening there. meanwhile at home trump promising we re going to have insurance for everybody. in a new interview with the washington post. the president elect not revealing specifics but says he s close to finishing his plan to replace the affordable care act. and part of that plan will be to specifically target the pharmaceutical industry. over the weekend thousands joining rallies across the country led by democrats to protest repeal of the law. while trump s feud with civil rights icon congressman john lewis intensifies. i don t see this president elect as a legitimate president.
this is a little more than an insult, though. for someone to question your legitimacy, the same thing happened to obama, the same thing happened to george bush. you stand above you and you say, look, come work with me and i am above this criticism. the second issue is this, for him to attract the district the fifth district includes the cnn headquarters in atlanta. and coca-cola. for him to attract an entire district of the united states and say it s crime ridden and crumbling apart especially as that can be perceived as a racial liesed insult as a black district. did you read it that way? not only did i read it that way, local democrats read it that way, the vice president at the national civil rights museum read it that way. it s insulting, unnecessary. the president needs to be above this kind of criticism because this isn t the first or last person that is going to insult him while he is in office. questioning the legitimacy of the president that can go beyond criti