why is the president easing sanctions? we re not eases sanctions. the treasury didn t, from what e substance it s a fairly competent treasurely department to see whether or not there are different carveouts for different industries or products and services that need to be going back and forth, but i would refer you back to the treasurely didn t on that one. saerngs hold ean, hold on. the website suggests you re easing sanctions and authorizes certain transactions with the federal security service. does that not suggest a shift? no, it doesn t. it s a regular course of action the treasury does quite often when there are sanctions imposed. i would refer you back to them. thank you. could i ask you to describe the call on the way in between the australian prime minister and the president and also outline the president s concerns about
also the question whaf of what e proper response. to try to start defining what a proper response to a cyber attack is. the damage of this is very, very deep n. part because it s seems that the president-elect is loathe to criticize an effort that may have helped him get in the office. there should be no jump ball when it comes to whether you re taking the advice of our own intelligence services or those of a hostile foreign power. rebecca, you have the last word. i would agree with john that this is really an unprecedented situation we find ourselves in. donald trump, it s his statement yesterday after his intel briefing, appeared to be trying to patch things up with the intel community and of course he chose former senator dan coats of indiana as his dni director of national intelligence. he s sending signals that he does want to strengthen his relationships with the intel
played lip service to palestinian terror. what e did was spend most of his speech blaming israel for the lack of peace. at a bitter war of words between u.s. and israel after washington refused to veto a u.n. resolution don chemming israeli settlements, allowing to it pass. some seem to believe the friendship means the u.s. must accept any policy regardless of our own positions, our own words. our own princes. reporter: israel says it has proof washington secretly ork traited the vote. we have it on absolutely incontestable evidence that the united states organized, advanced and brought this resolution. kerry denied the claims and framed the vote as an effort to save israel from a policy that threatened its future as a jewish state. we reject the criticism that this vote abandons israel. on the contrary, it is not this
things. that s part of the conversation. i think that look, political politically, on the one hand it s not as though they were going to run against obama already in the kentucky race. what you have going on there, especially in kentucky, you have this weird obama care split when mcconnell is like let s get rid of obama care, but i don t know that it changes the strategy very much. whatever obama does. so you look at this race now, allison grimes, democrat running. can she win still? yes, if she keeps doing what she s doing. she s a terrific candidate running against the president and washington. she s doing exact ly what e she needs to do. of course, he can be for what the president is doing. he s in a comfortable district. but grimes is running statewide. she has to criticize the president on the affordable care act.
people pretty proud. dana, always nice to see you it s long way off from 2016 but it s always fascinating to talk about it and see how it unfolds. nice to see you. exactly. thanks, greta. as if tea partying line dancing are not enough, it s sparking outrage. what is it this time? the irs planned to pay $70 million in bonuses to its employees. washington wants a powerful irs. there are new questions about the irs as the agency is getting ready to pay out $70 million in bonuses. what e were seeing is the arrogance of big government. it s another reason we need to either abolish the irs or diminish it in size to the point where it won t really resemble what it is right now. now they re going to get $70 million in bonuses at a time when government agencies are getting cuts. when chuck grassley makes a letter against the bonuses,