Twitter account. After House Republicans voted to gut the ethics committee. President elect ran oon promise to drain the swamp and tweeted. Working behind the strings to hamstring democratic predecessor and its not donald trump. Lot to get to you. Start with dana bash and david and christoph, it is official that donald trump is going to hold his own press conference. What do you think hell say to the press. Notice he says having a general News Conference. Remember we were looking for initially said hold a midjanuary News Conference about topic of separating from business and clear up concerns about conflicts of interests with business interests. Im sure that will be a topic of this conference no doubt but i think donald trump is looking to have First Press Conference since july and im sure going to get a lot of questions about his views on u. S. russia relationships, relationship with putin, thoughts on the hacking, business relationships with Trump Corporation and how separating them from him and wall between him and two Adult Children running the country. Along with the first agenda. I didnt catch the general part of that myself. But thus is the problem with 140 characters. Dont have to answer back to maybe you would say at News Conference what do you mean . I think this is wonderful news. Should applaud anytime we hear that somebody who we hope to ask questions of and hasnt had a press conference in many months is going to have one. Was initially scheduled for middecember and delayed we were told because understandably he had a lot to unpack and unravel with regard to his businesses and trying to figure out where thats going to go and how its going to play out. Hopefully even if he will take questions on general topics, he will at least present to the country how he plans to separate himself from his businesses and do so in a way that makes people feel comfortable there wont be a conflict of interest or potential legal issues down the road. Im sure hes going to be asked about russia. Nicholas, hes been casting doubt on whether russia is responsible for hack the u. S. Election. Hes said he knows things that no one else knows and will be telling us what he knew today or tomorrow and short while ago, intelligence briefing on socalled russian hacking delayed until friday. Perhaps new time needing to build a case. But jim sciutto reporting if was not scheduled for today. Trump is at odds with people in the Intelligence Community. Raising questions. Why is he going to the mat for Vladimir Putin . Yeah. What you saw was plkt president elect attacking own Intelligence Committee and them firing back by leaking. When you have them feuding before he even takes office, not good for anybody. And lot of questions lot of us want to ask is about ties to russia, not just plans but does russia have leverage over him through debt or business ties . Lot of us like to press him on that. Youre saying people sitting at home, too little too late. Should have asked about that before the election theyre right. You think theyre right . I think its a fair criticism that we in the media spent way too much time following what glittered and not what was substantive, and idea that foreign country was interfering with our election, could hardly imagine anything more substantive. Not make a difference in the winning but feeling of covered the glitter rather than important stuff. Last press conference in july he said go ahead, hack into your account and give us more information. Correct david . Last time we were able to pose questions to him in that environment he invited the russians to hack Hillary Clintons emails. Its like the next News Conference picks up where the last left off. Nick has he damaged or hurt his relationships with the intelligence commute . Firing back and saying we dont know and firing back and saying wait a minute . Think he has. Not irreparable, Intelligence Community are professionals, lot of them out in the field risking their lives and some of them bewildered that the president elect has been attacking them and raising asprergss. As tonight with apparently false intelligence, saying that the briefing had been rescheduled when in fact as far as we can tell it was always scheduled for friday. I think theyre willing to give him a chance, i dont think theyre particularly political but certainly getting off to a really bad foot. Quickly dana. Most people in the Intelligence Community are not political but as someone who is very familiar with people in all of these agencies reminded me today, they know how to do things like leak if they want to. And it is dangerous for a president elect, even a president , to be in public spat with the Intelligence Community, especially when they dont have a relationship to begin with. So nick said getting off to rocky start with the Intelligence Community and congress the same thing. Passed a proposal to gut the office of congressional ethics and blew up in their faces after donald trump weighed in. Many people calling offices and this tweet didnt help. With all that congress has to work on did they have to make the weakening of the ethics watchdog their number one act and priority. Focus on tax reform and health care and other things of and then dts, drain the swamp. You have to ask yourself, what were they thinking . I have db i have no idea. Covered congress for a long time and seen a lot of what where they thinking moments. This tops them. Really does. You think was there something in the water, were they drinking something . What was happening to make them and not talking about the leadership because they made clear inside this closed door meeting this was a terrible idea, but the old bulls, heads of some of the key committees thought it was a good idea. What made them think that . Clearly had not been under a rock over the past year and a half. Do you think overplaying hands . Republican house and white house and you know what i mean . Maybe. Or its the age of trump and kind of doesnt matter. We can do what we want. Except you forget that and ask the 16 people who ran against donald trump and lost, hes unique individual in politics and he fortunately or unfortunately can do things that voters forgive him for, not regular members of congress. And before he spoke up, regular citizens were. Thought could control the message and they couldnt. Didnt want to overplay the donald trump tweet because lot of people upset. People were bombarding the offices of their representatives. Thought finally a credit to journalism. It was reported they were gutting it. Speaker ryan and others against it but vote would stand before donald trump tweeted that. Does he deserve to take the credit . He deserves some credit. Journalists calling them out late last night, constituent phone calls this morning, media mallstorm that continued and donald trump weighing in clear hi had weight. Brought up in the closed conference, made clear that the members understood was it a bonehooded idea . Of course. It simply even if theres some validity to some arguments for reforms to thethics process, this is no quway to do it, tryi to start a new congress in the dead of night as surprise, no debate or discussion, thats no way to make changes to how youre going to police yourselves to guard against corruption. Not the way to do it. Coming back, top Democrat Chuck schumers message to donald trump and mistake he said his party made in the last congress. Gs, bumper stickers. 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President elect, if theres one part of my speech that i hope you listen to and take to heart, its this one. And i mean it with the best of intentions. If you abandon change and simply embrace the shopworn hard right procorporate, proelite policies, diametically opposed to the Campaign Promises that helped you get votes and elected, your presidency will not succeed. Making America Great again requires more than 140 characters per issue. With all due respect, america cannot afford a twitter presidency. So david, honestly trump and schumer both new yorkers and known each other. Some said they believed donald trump was a democrat. What do you think of the tone . Epic battle for the next four years, opening gambit or throwing down the gauntlet or coming in every time theres new president . Think were seeing Chuck Schumer assuming the mantle of the top democrat in government and giving voice to what it is to be the opposition party. Wafg the party flag and setting boundaries for donald trump that he could understand where schumer was coming from broadly. But as you noted it, know each other and donald trump was a Chuck Schumer donor and Chuck Schumer is going to seek ways where he can to make deals with donald trump. While i have no doubt he will spend most of his time leading the democrats in opposition to what trump is doing, i dont think what you saw there was some opening salvevo to a fouryear epic battle. Think about it when how long theyve known each other and how weird for Chuck Schumer to have donald trump once a donor as opposition and president of the united states. Its a strange world and he probably knows a lot of secrets about donald trump. Known each other foy long time. Strange for schumer and trump and for trump and lot of republicans. I think the democrats and schumer will find ways to cooperate on issues like infrastructure and try like the devil to block a lot of other areas. One of the lessons one absorbed from the last eight years it Senate Obstructionism really works. Dana bash with the big scoop sat down with him today. Well listen and then discuss. Wed be derelict in responsibility to the america people if we just let lets do all of these in a week and not ask tough questions. But your hands are tied. In the last congress your Democratic Leadership, you were part of it, changed rules so you only need 51 votes to confirm a nominee, not 60. Therefore youre living by your rules. Was that a mistake . I argued against it at the time. For Supreme Court and cabinet should be 60. In such important positions should be some bipartisanship. I won on Supreme Court but lost on cabinet. Its what we have to live with now. Not greatest situation when youre minority. Wish it hadnt happened. Talking about Donald Trumps cabinet nominees. Realistically republicans have all the cards. What can democrat do to stop them . Slow the trains. Threatening to do that, use the tools they have to elongate the debate in committee and more importantly on the senate floor, especially if they dont get the Background Information that democrats want to prove nominees dont have conflicts of interest. But heard Chuck Schumer, regretful there and pretty blunt in the main tool, vote, thats most important, they dont have it. And thats because they themselves, democrats in the majority had a democrat in the white house changed rules to help themselves. Now as i said earlier, shoe meet other foot. That should be a lesson. Especially when youre talking about i would think talking about hacking into systems, whether its for election or not, when youre the party in favor, and you have the majority, you may think differently but should always think about these things as if the shoe were on the other foot. And that argument was made at the time. I remember not just republicans saying you guys are going to live to regret this but democrats, internal debate you heard Chuck Schumer discussing there. Internal debate whether or not thinking longterm. No party will be in the majority forever. And soo now they have to they made the bed, have to lie in it. And talk about when they had more power, democrats, because theres a showdown, nick kristof looming on obama care, the republicans want to repeal and replace and thousands of people will lose Health Insurance. Not so much that the republicans want to repeal and replace but seem to want to act now to repeal and then have that be effective in 2019 or 2020 and then not replace right away. Breaks down the intricate architecture that depends on all these pieces being together. 22 Million People have gained Health Insurance. Health insurance prolongs lives. If you have Health Insurance your mortality rate drops 20 to 40 . Idea of tear down the roof today and replace with unknown thing in a few years, even republican policy wonks are just horrified at this. Because what do they say, obamacare which was romney care before that which was Hillary Clinton care before that. And clearly a lot of elements of obamacare deeply unpopular and overall it is but areas that are popular. Parts that are pomular are only possible because of the unpopular parts like the mandate. Donald trump has said he likes key parts, keeping coverage for preexisting positions and keeping parents on it until 26. Has he boxed in republicans . Hes not only republican said positive things about those aspects but it is the second question. You have to get to the mandate. Because when you say you want to cover preexisting conditions how do you get Insurance Companies to agree to that if youre not also guaranteeing v Massive Customer base that individual mandate of everybody forced to get insurance . That was buyin for Insurance Companies to have reason or incentive to cover them, or allow a young person to stay on the policy until 26. It all went together. Thats tricky about cherry picking the popular items. Except not sure how far want to get into substance of it, but its true it was part of the patchwork of obamacare, the problem that republicans rightly say that the system has is that because the penalty for not getting obamacare isnt that high, a lot of Healthy People will pay the penalty and not involved in the system. Which is why democrats even Hillary Clinton wanted to fix it. Question is how do you go into between repealing and fixing it and making sure people keep their coverage. Is there political consequence at polls for republicans if lose Health Insurance . No question there is. And you can bet that this meeting that democrats are going to have led by outgoing president obama whose name is on this legislation, his legacy, going to find every way they can rhetorically because they cant do anything with votes, to make clear to americans that republicans are going to potentially hurt them with insurance by doing the repeal without as nick said immediately doing replace. But repeal, delay and eventually replace. Thats got to be the last word. Sorry. Thank you. Appreciate it. Happy new year. Incoming republican president works to obstruct democratic predecessor and surprises is not donald trump. Can tell her to drive more like this. Because youll get this. You can even set boundaries for so if she should be here, but instead goes here, here, or here. Youll know. So dont worry, mom. Because you put this, in here. Hum by verizon. The technology designed to make your car smarter, safer and more connected. Put some smarts in your car. Isjust wanna see ifa again . 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Look at mess that donald trump is in because of the russian hacking. Could have said im going to wait until sworn in as president. This is president obamas intelligence reports, ill look at them but give the president the courtesy of waiting a couple of weeks stop right the