You are attacking our News Organization which can you give us a chance to ask a question . Mister president elect can you give us a can you give us a question . Im not going to give you can you state you are take news. Trish the reporter later appeared on cnn complaining he had never been treated this way. During that News Conference sean spicer said to me that if i were to continue to persist and ask a question i would be thrown out of the News Conference. I covered four president ial campaigns which i covered president obama at the white house, i never had a press secretary threatened to throw me out of a News Conference with that is the first. Trish joining me now republican strategist and Communications Director for democracy, with their thoughts on this. It was a little rude, wasnt it . Just a little rude. There is a certain decorum. I know as a journalist you present to the president elect or president ial News Conference you try not to interrupt so aggressively, try to move on at this point. A reporter and communications operative. I side with donald trump, the only people with worst trump derangement are cnn to a great extent. And trump wins every single day and twice on sunday. I know jim acosta very well. He should not have tried to shout down the president elect. Had the shoe been on the other foot and had this been obama or clinton, he would never have made the task to try to talk over the president elect and the dossier had never seen the light of day for both feed or been reported on by cnn. On mac you make some good points and i want to address all of these. Lets start with just the decorum. He makes a valid point, jim acosta might not have been as aggressive with obama or clinton, seem to lose all sense of decorum and attacked the president elect in that way. In part because the president lost decorum at the beginning of this press conference. He said the tone for this press conference when he went not just after the veracity of what cnn and both feed were reporting but after them as individuals and organizations. This isnt a locker room after a basketball game or something where you can go after whatever reporter you want to. The president elect should act like a president ial candidate who is going to be president in tween 9 days. That is not how a president acts, attacking a reporter personally, laughing at a senator of his own party. Police president ial press conference on mac setting a low bar and the reporter is justified in being extremely aggressive in a way you dont normally act towards a president elect or a president of the United States. Lets talk about Donald Trumps reasons for being so upset with cnn. Cnn went out and published a few pages of this dossier which was basically a whole bunch of gossip. Both feed punished it, cnn did not. Cnn reported on the existence of it. Trish you understand the distinction. We do verify everything we put on the air. As i said yesterday we can all have an opinion, we can debate, we can discuss, we can have an angle, but the essence of the information is true and we have verified it. This dossier was out there, Many Organizations saw that, nobody actually made it public until both feed had the audacity to do so which is a bad statement for journalism overall and cnn piled on by linking to that with a couple pages of that. You shouldnt even so much as say it. Several News Organizations had the dossier for several weeks. It is the worst kept secret in washington dc. Heres my problem with the edits reported, not that they might have published a snippet of it but what they did is they did it fast and loose with the rules of journalistic integrity by saying the Intel Community told trump about the dossier in their meeting which is not the central element of their meeting. It with a step aside, basically cnn wanted to make this another trump news eruption and donald trump had enough and here is the other thing. What the media doesnt understand the average person cannot follow these news interruptions with every detail because they dont have time. When they do this and play fast and loose with the is what happens is trump gets sympathy from his supporters and everyone else. Not everyone. The majority of people think he is a Vladimir Putin puppet. The majority of people trish one at a time. Since trump has got the nomination of the three networks, abc, nbc and cbs, 90 of the stories about trump have been negative. I dont know if Charles Manson got covered like that. Trish ford is making a fair point. They have been primarily negative, you know the media doesnt like him. You got to admit most of the media feels like you. Here is the thing. Donald trump rose to prominence politically by trafficking in the worst kind of provably untrue lies about president obama. What is good for the goose should be good for the gander. The reality of this memo is far more true than ever questions. Trish i will button this up by saying as a journalist you got to verify absolutely everything, got to be very cautious especially in the environment we are living in with socalled fake news. Donald trump is the king of fake news. Trish i will see you shortly. The ceo of at t trying to make nice with the president elect stopping by trump tower hoping to get approval for the at t merger with time warner, time warner being the Parent Company of cnn but donald trump is a fierce critic arguing it hurts American Consumers was given that cnn published this unverified salacious report to the president elect, what does that mean about what trump is thinking about empowering an already massive organization, making it that much bigger . Connell mcshane standing by at trump tower. Has cnn angered the president elect . Might be more reluctant to see the company grow through this murder at at t . That we dont know. The official line out of the trump transition team, the meeting tween executive to the president elect is not about creating jobs and the incoming press secretary told us the meetings mister trump has with ceos is the traffic but a merger of this caliber of acquisition, 85 million could fall within the category of creating jobs so it could be talked about easily, when you have it, that could have been the topic they talked about. Randall stephenson with the of other executives from at t didnt talk to reporters if he came out of the elevator behind me, some had a conversation with the press pool and members shouted questions and didnt answer any of them. They talk about the trump effect on cnn whether it is the tweet earlier today and jim acosta, the News Conference yesterday so the question comes up, some perspective, back to october, donald trump, the candidate said this. At t is buying time warner and cnn, a deal we will not approve in my administration because it is too much concentration of power in the hands of too you. The point, cnn is mentioned by name but so are legitimate antitrust concerns, nothing to do with cnn, too much concentration of power in the hands of too few. A lot of this will fall to the justice department, jeff sessions, the senator with his confirmation hearing going on yesterday talked about it saying, quote, he had no hesitation to entrust it, and fourth antitrust law, no hesitation to say certain mergers should not occur. That was yesterday on the topic. That is why Randall Stephenson is there. Joining us is research director, good to see you. This is an enormous, very powerful Media Organization and cnn which is fairly powerful will get bigger. What happens, what is the danger when any company get too big and specifically a Media Company . The danger is they crowd out competition. They begin to own the neighborhood. We cant find a way to get around them. Somebody like cnn and time warner is involved in entertainment, fox news, a lot of television programming, all kinds of ways they can get in and influence Public Opinion if it becomes a company that is very large. The bigger issue with time warner is the cable asset. The cable access, millions of people, there is an interest in making sure it is not too big to choke off other peoples competition. This monopoly over Public Opinion. There is concern among many viewers, the Mainstream Media is big enough as it is and Mainstream Media has a particular bias, sympathetic of president obama and Hillary Clinton. Cnn publishing, defending as well, fake news and it is fake because they were not able to verify it, no one is able to verify the stuff which to me is a journalist you dont put it out there because you are just trafficking isnt it a little dangerous to think they could be that big, that important and be trafficking in fake stuff . It is absolutely very disturbing, i listened to earlier conversations. Buzz feed published a 35 page document that cnn was referring to an onair in their breaking News Coverage earlier that day. They broke the dam on this story, not fit to publish hours earlier, trying to create a rationale to get it published. They didnt publish it themselves but they help to grease the skids for it to be published so if you feel that kind of have that kind of license to go after a president on the verge of inauguration, that is a company that doesnt fear much. Trish it is not journalism. That is the reality of all of this. The team looks at this merger, access to the internet, access to cable, and one Single Player controlling too much content and there is a danger in that. Do you think it will go through . I dont know but to add to the equation you have other dividers that might compete trying to traffic on time warners cable access, becomes something where they perhaps choke off competition using their cable pipes. Trish thank you so much. Donald trump blasting the Intelligence Community for leaking a salacious story about him to the media that we keep talking about. The uns by chief says it wasnt us. If it is not them, not our own Intel Community, who could this be and is this potentially payback for trumps criticism of our intelligence agencies . Do stunts like this put our National Security at risk . We are all about this . James will become a former head of the cia joins us next. I think it is a disgrace that information would be let out. It is all fake news. It is phony stuff. It didnt happen. I think it is pretty sad when Intelligence Reports get leaks out to the press. Pretty sad. First of all it is illegal lose these are classified and certified meetings and reports. Trish donald trump think it is a disgrace that intel was the to the press. He went on to say James Clapper called me yesterday to denounce the fictitious reports circulated, made up, phony facts, too bad, clapper denies it was leaked by the Intel Community so if our Intel Community to leak it who did . Is this potentially payback . The criticisms trump has thrown their way, the former head of the cia, ambassador james lee, good to have you here. Help me understand how this information makes its way to a reporters website . It may well not be the Intelligence Community but someone who obtained access to the policy positions or political positions and there has been a good deal of hostility toward donald trump by some folks in the government in those capacities, they were almost unanimously in support of Hillary Clinton and i think a lot of them were very surprised, like a lot of the rest of the population was. Hard to say. Trish this was actually us, somewhere in the Intel Community sound is breaking up. Trish hopefully you can hear me. They work to correct that, was it good about someone here in the us, sounds like what you were telling me and who knows. He had a lot of friends in the community. Did not have a lot of friends with the statement he made. Maybe. My experience when i was director, professional members of the community, they were very good americans, sometimes they would know people who would. I am more, frankly, concerned about the political thoughts around the Intelligence Community then i would be about professionals themselves. Trish this could have been unintentional but somebody who had bad intentions got a hold of this information via a friend or acquaintance. What does it say about us overall. It is one thing from russia to try to interfere, that is something we should be concerned about and it needs to be investigated. Another thing for our own Intel Community to be conspiring away against the president elect. I dont think they are conspiring against the president elect. It would be a very different thing but it is not the first place i would turn in trying to ascertain who leaked something. It would be people they know or someone they slipped up and said something to and took it much further and embellished it, or very senior political person near the Intelligence Community. Trish do you have any idea, there has been talk about who prepared this, and Intelligence Officer out of Great Britain may have prepared this document. How do these documents get prepared in the first place . Would that have been prepared for Us Intelligence or was it prepared potentially for Political Opposition Research . How did this come to be in the first place . I dont know. The us and britain Work Together on things all the time. I dont see this as something likely that a british Civil Servant or somebody part of an eye 6 now, someone who is retired and has grants on the inside, i dont know. It is possible. There are a number of possibilities between the Intelligence Community in both countries and people in the political realm. Frankly i am more suspicious of the political folks than the career. Trish i hear you. The political folks, Something Big at stake. Thank you so much. Good to have you here today. The office of the first lady, the office of the first family of the Trump Administration telling fox news that is the plan and it hints that ivana trump will taking a big role in her fathers administration, next. Here . Hey nicole, this is my new alert system for whenever anything happens in the market. Kids a natural. But thinkorswim already lets you create custom alerts for all the things that are important to you. Shhh. Alerts on anything at all . Not only that, you can act on that opportunity with just one tap right from the alert. Wow, i guess we dont need the kid anymore. Custom alerts on thinkorswim. Only at td ameritrade. Trish all right. With just over a week until the inauguration, theres a whole lot of uncertainty tonight about the incoming first lady, melania trump. Be Doug Mckelway joins me now, and, doug, just like her husband, mrs. Trump defying tradition, shes defying convention potentially, per your sources . Reporter well, we dont really know yet. Shes been pretty quiet, very quiet ever since that stumble on, you know, the stage at the Republican National convention where it was found that some of her speech had been plagiarized. But theres also a little bit of coordination here between melania and ivanka, who will play the most prominent role at the white house. In the Trump Administration, the office of the first lady is reportedly going to be changed to the office of the first family. It may signal the emergence of dual Administration Roles for the two most important women in trumps life, daughter ivanka and his wife, soon to be first lady melania. Shes a high fashion icon, shes a businesswoman, shes involved with philanthropic and charitable endeavors. Reporter the second first lady born outside the u. S. , the first born in a formerly communist country. Shes fluent in five languages, her native slovenian, serbian, german, french and english, the first to have been a supermodel and without a doubt to the first to pose nude. Her decision to stay in new york is based on her 10yearold son barron who will finish the school year there. A second factor may be her discomfort in the political sphere. That your word is your bond. Ended with findings of plagiarism. She largely retreated from campaign speaking after that but denied it was because of the speech. My priority is our son, and i want to be a mother first. Reporter maineen land yas partial withdrawal melanias partial withdrawal coincided with ivankas rise. Her intention is to help level the Playing Field for female entrepreneurs and job creators, whomever occupies the office of first family will find a powerful new bully pulpit. Because it is a podium with a very, very loud voice, and any first lady when they arrive, i dont think they have any idea about how loud that voice can be. Reporter melania promises not to shy away from it no matter how intense the incoming fire. You know, im very strong, im very confident, and i could handle everything. Reporter and both trump women have expressed a desire to protect the interests of children ivanka even telephoning members of congress to build support for taxfree childcare accounts. I suspect that both will be very, very active in this administration. Trish pretty interesting. Doug, thank you so much. Weve got a lot more coming up, everyone. The process to get rid of obamacare is officially underway right now on capitol hill with the Senate Passing a budget measure overnight clearing the way for a simple majority vote on repealing the legislation. However, some republicans are concerned about getting rid of obamacare without having a replacement plan ready to go. President elect donald trump had this to say about that. Watch. Itll be repealed and replaced, it will be essentially simultaneously. It will be various segments, you understand, but will most likely be on the same day or the same week, but probably the same day. Could be the same hour. So as soon as our secretary is approved and gets into the office, well be filing a plan. Trish thats good, right . You want to replace it simultaneously if you can. Meanwhile, House Speaker paul ryan today responding to what trump said. Listen. Were working together on this, actually. Ive spoken with president elect trump probably two times in the last three days on this. Mike pence was in my Office Yesterday to discuss this. So we are in complete sync, and we agree, we want to make sure that we move these things con currently. Trish all right, get ready. The bill moves to the house for a vote tomorrow. Hard core liberal Elizabeth Warren taking the opportunity to bash the president elect during todays dr. Ben carson nomination hearing, suggesting that donald trump plans to use that hud money the organization that ben carson would run to line his own pockets. Thats next. Even when i travel. For leisure. So i go national, where i can choose any available upgrade in the aisle without starting any conversations or paying any upcharges. What can i say . Control suits me. Go national. Go like a pro. Trish all right. Hard core liberal Elizabeth Warren today taking some aim at the president elect9 and doing it perhaps even more is so than shes done it before, because now shes going so far as to insinuate that this is all about lining his own pockets. He wants to line his pockets with hud money, you know, stealing. This is all during her questioning of hud nominee ben carson. Listen here. You just assure us can you just assure us that not one dollar will go to benefit either the president elect or his family . It will not be my intention to do anything i to benefit any american. I understand that. Its for all americans, everything that we do. But do i take that to mean that you may manage programs that will significantly benefit the president elect . You can take it to mean that i will manage things in a way that benefits the American People. The problem is that you cant assure us that hud money, not of 10 varieties, but of multimillion dollar varieties, will not end up in the president elects pockets. And the reason you cant assure us of that is because the president elect is hiding his familys business interests from you, from me, from the rest of america. Trish okay, here we go again, you know . You cant have a billionaire president for some reason if the left has anything to do with this. Mr. Trump said yesterday hes going to cut all his ties with his businesses. What more does senator warren want, exactly . Neil, im going to start with you. Tell me what you want, what is it that you want, what is it that the left wants right now . Should he just sell his business altogether . He should do what almost every other person thats entered into Public Service at this level, and thats enter his vast fortune into a blind trust to insure that he cant make money off of the policies that hes going to put forward. Trish the only problem with that, and i hate to break it to you, hes not like any other person that has gone into the oval office, and he doesnt have an investment portfolio like anyone else. I mean, if you own a lot of stocks, right . You sell em. Those things are liquid. But if you happen to be in the reality business and youve got buildings here, there and everywhere, you cant just sell em off. I mean, it would take years to unwind it all. What is it that you want him to do . Well, trish, i agree with you. He is unlike anyone weve ever seen before. He is someone whos made billions of dollars off the backs of working people over and over again, hes gone into business deal after business deal to enrich himself at the expense of regular people, so its not surprising that trish back to your talking points. Its true i. [laughter] trish i hear this from so many people on the left right now is that somehow its bad to be successful. You know its not wad to be successful, its bad to use your Government Office toen rich neil hang on, neil. Ford oconnell, what are folks like neil and Elizabeth Warren, what kind of message are they sending to anyone else whos been successful in life and might decide to run for Public Office . Well, theyre saying stay away from Public Office because you might actually be a success. [laughter] look, the idea that a multibillionaire is going to steal money from hud is one of the biggest whoppers thus far of 2017. Understand whats going on here. Elizabeth warren cannot go after ben carson in a way that she wants to go after him because hes an africanamerican, and that would look bad no, hes a person that has no experience hold on. Neil, what shes trying to do here is appease, you know, knock up some fundraising, make herself the gal whos going to stop trump because this is all about 2018 and 2020. And thats all Elizabeth Warrens trying to do here no [inaudible conversations] Elizabeth Warren is exposing exactly whats going on in this administration. This mark my words trish by the way, the administration hasnt even started, lets put that out there, so she cant really be exposing anything just yet. Yeah, these people we are unable to vet these people because theyre not releasing their tax returns. Donald trump isnt releasing his tax returns. Trish okay [inaudible conversations] hang on. Lets [inaudible conversations] lets not all talk at once, right . Neil . Ford . What i was going to say is thanks to harry reid, we only need a simple majority to pass these cabinet nominees, okay . And, therefore, you have absolutely no avenue to block them. All you want to do is gum up the works and try to slime donald trump. This is about extracting trish i want to know whats going to happen, neil, to you, to Elizabeth Warren, to everyone else if, in fact, we see gdp skyrocket . Well, well see. You know what . When trish will you be happy . A little happy . Oh, you know what . If the American People do well, im good with that. Listen, at the end of the day, vetting people is not about tearing them down, its about insuring theyre going to do the business of the American People and not selfdeal for themselves. Trish okay. I just want to make sure, because i think everybody should have the same common goal which is that we need prosperity, and we need security. And, you know, he might actually have a shot at doing it like the 70plus months of job growth under barack obama. I agree, we want that kind of prosperity. Trish thank you. Im going to leave it there. Rex tillerson expecting harsh, good questioning from democrats in his bid to be secretary of state. It turns out his harshest critic was actually a republican, a former rival of president elect donald trump, the guy he nicknamed little marco. Thats next. And the urinary symptoms of bph. Tell your doctor about your medicines, and ask if your heart is healthy enough for sex. 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I asked about the killing in the philippines, about saudi arabiaing with a human rights saudi arabia being a human rights violater. And its not because i was trying to get you involved in International Name calling, but for the sake of it. But because in order to have moral clarity, we need clarity. For those 1400 people in jail in china, those dissidents in cuba, the girls that want to drive and go to school, they look to the United States. They look to us. And often to the secretary of state. Trish all right. You know, it actually got even worse. He went on to say, basically, would you use force against china to defend japan . He went on to say, you know, why is it that you will not label cuba a terrorist country . He went on about the philippines. It was a trip right around the world and back again, very point, very directed in a way that, you know, frankly the secretary of state position is about diplomacy. Rex tillerson couldnt have even possibly tried to answer the questions. There was one, for example, about putin, whether or not he would be willing to label him as someone who had committed war crimes. What was that all about . Is he still smarting from not winning . [laughter] joining me right now, Michael Barone from the washington examiner. Look, i think its fair to ask a lot of these questions, but lets not forget how public a forum that is, and they were questions, michael, that arent going to get him anywhere. I mean, obviously, Rex Tillerson cannot go out there and say im going to label Vladimir Putin as someone whos committed war crimes. I mean, not unless you want to get yourself into a whole bunch of trouble. Well, not unless he books a speech date in nuremberg. [laughter] no, seriously, trish, you know, i think marco rubio was asking questions that are directed against, in support of something thats been basically a part to a greater or lesser extent of American Foreign policy and diplomacy over the years which is the promotion of human rights. Now, as your comment suggests, we cant do everything wed like about human rights, we cant impose the bill of rights on other countries feasibly, particularly when theyre not particularly friendly. We have other considerations in Foreign Policy which might lead you not to trish but these are questions, michael, that cant be answered simply in a hearing like that. Well, i think trish im going to use force against china to defend japan, the next thing you know were going to be in a big, bad situation with china. Well, i think trish this requires diplomacy. Well, it requires diplomacy, and diplomacy can include and under many administrations has included to a varying extent advancing human rights to the extent the United States prudently can. And you can argue exactly where i think marco rubio was just trying, perhaps, to make a point of saying youre going to, there are going to be people here i you in the human rights direction, and thats something, mr. Secretary nominee trish so you dont think there was any malintent, you know, lets just get it on the radar screen, these are issues. Do you think that well, its trish hold on for one second, because youve got a Republican Party that in many ways is very different than the Republican Party of the last several decades right now. With trumps election, its become increasingly populist, theres this focus on the middle class which, frankly, should have been there all along but really has sprung up into action in a bigger way, and theres also a little bit of an approach, i dont want to call it isolationists, michael, but in other words, you know, we dont need to go sticking our nose in all these things that basically get us nowhere, we upset everything as we did in iraq only to find out, you know, we made it worse. We dont well, donald trump trish equip our people to get the job done and make sure its okay. Hes sort of saying, look, if youre going to go in, go in. And marco rubio [inaudible conversations] donald trump has been less interested from, judging from his comments so far and during the campaign, in the human rights promotion aspect of American Foreign policy than probably any president since richard nixon. Thats you could make arguments in favor of that position. But i think that, you know, the Republican Party also has people and rubio is one of them that want human rights to be a larger factor in our Foreign Policy, and hes trying to exert some pressure in that direction. I take mr. Tillersons comments to indicate, number one, he does not want to have issues and problems with labeling people war criminals, and as your response suggests, that would be probably a very imprudent thing to do at a hearing. [laughter] trish yeah. But also that hes listening and hes not responding in a way trish yeah. I mean, i think that senator rubio is trivial or stupid trish right [inaudible conversations] not going to go as far as youre going to go. Trish michael, weve got breaking news well, youve got to break. Trish at t is saying it ceo, Randall Stevenson, had a, quote, very good meeting with president elect donald trump today. The company also stating that the p pending time warner merger was, quote, not a topic of discussion at that meeting. Of course, we were talking earlier about the need for Randall Stevenson perhaps to, you know, patch things over a little bit in the event of what we saw out of cnn and trumps frustration with cnn. Cnn, of course, is owned by time warner. Now, during the Campaign Trump opposed the planned acquisition, so you can imagine some of these ceos want to talk to him right now to see if they can get him onboard for this. It still remains up in the air. Were going to take a quick break, and ill be right back. Polidents unique micro clean formula works in just 3 minutes, killing 99. 99 of odor causing bacteria. For a cleaner, fresher, brighter denture every day. 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We live in america. This is a free country. Maria isnt it i thought. Trish kind of makes a good point, right . Joining me right now, steve cortez, from Donald TrumpsHispanic Advisory Committee and someone from the finance community himself. Steve, whats happened . If you with express support for donald trump, people want to boycott you . They want to boycott your company . Trish, i think this is liberal intolerance at its worse. The left always claims to be about diversity, but you know what . It loves diversity of appearance, it hates diversity of thought. And i think this is emblematic of that larger trend. We see it on college campuses, on some of these boycotts. This trend of boycotting and making, instituting a commercial penalty for having a conservative world view, it first reared its ugly head a couple years ago when the ceo of mozilla was forced to resign because he dared to personally nothing to do with the business he dared to support a traditional marriage advocacy group. Now we see this same kind of thing in here. L. L. Bean, theyre not publishing by the way, i would be fine with if consumers said l. L. Bean as a company is somehow protrump, theyre making make America Great again boots, of course, vote with your wallet. This is someone affiliated with the company, on the board who is making a personal political contribution which i believe is part of free speech and the law says it is, and were going to penalize them commercially . For having a view i dont agree with . Trish free speech itself is very much under fire. You look at college campuses, if they had a trump sign on the college campus, there were kids that were screaming they needed a safe space, and they had to be taken down, and universities complying with that, taking down signs and saying you cant put em up because its hate speech. My goodness, the guy is running for president of the United States. By the way, he won right. [laughter] trish, listen, i hope people purchase l. L. Bean items almost just to defy these kind of and by the way, this is liberal fascism. This is intolerance at its worst. Thats the irony, is that those who claim to be so tolerant, again, they want diversity of appearance trish wow, yeah. Somehow doesnt work both ways with them. Good to see you. Were going to take a quick break, and well be right back. Trish eight days a way. Week and a day until donald trump takes the oath of office as the 45th president of the United States of america. Guess what . Were going to be there. We have a special edition of the Intelligence Report in prime time, 8 00 p. M. Eastern at the inaugural ball for the new president. Exciting stuff. I hope youre there to watch. Liz claman, over to you. Liz trish, you know what im watching right this second . The senate floor. Well show that to you. The senate is slated and voting at this very moment to grant defense secretary nominee james mattis the waiver to serve as the pentagon chief. If confirmed, mattis has not been in civilian lifelong enough to meet the legal statute after leaving active duty. So he needs that waiver to be passed. Adoption needs 60 votes. It is happening right now. Again this is not confirmation but it is to vote for the waiver. Now, look to the right part of your screen. See the screen . See the markets