Donald trumps Transition Team, James Woolsley says he believes the russians were behind this. Unclear to what extent the government was involved and whether or not others may have been involved as well. Listen to what he had to say. It looks from all the indications that we read about from nsa and cia and so forth, if the russians were there and perhaps principally there. It doesnt mean there isnt somebody else in there. Trump is an expert at weaving around and attracting attention. It is what he did during the campaign. Are you saying he is playing us . Theres a possibility that he is a little bit. Is that something a president elect should be doing a serious issue of National Security . Why not . He is not interfering with anything. Not talking about anything classified. Reporter so james russians. The russians for their part, continuing their line saying there is absolutely no evidence linking them to all this calling the allegations absurd. John, all this playing very big, especial
Weapons. He has a terse message for north korea. Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im roimds romachristine romans. Im john berman. A new Congress Gavels in at noon set to effectively neuter the Ethics Office that oversees it. With control of congress and the white house and after president elect trump promised to drain the swamp, last night, behind closed doors, republicans voted to end the independence of the independent office of congressional ethics. They would bar the ethics off from reviewing the alleged criminal violations and refer complaints to yLaw Enforcement. The measure would allow the House Committee to stop Ethics Office investigation and bar the committee from making public statements. In english, the important things is it gives congress the right to stop investigating itself. They would not investigate anonymous tips which they do now. They will not have a press secretary. No relationship with the public. Period. Virginia republican said in a statement says this pr
The week investors dont want to be left holding the bag in case Something Else drops or happens in another part of the world. Thats why youre seeing this exaggerated return. When i get to 2. 5 is when i start to tell people lets pay attention. Sure. You just mentioned the fates book thing. I noticed over the course of the lat few days its not just facebook. Twitter shares are down, google shares, a lot of the technology shares, shares on social Media Companies that are all looking at the possibility of regulation. Is that another factor here . Yeah, anybody who claims that theyre not a media company, theyre just a utility, is now in a little bit of trouble because thats its not what americans are thinking about this. The europeans are much faster on this sort of thing. They are investigating whether these Companies Really have more responsibility, whether they should be regulated. You know, john, no industry wants to regulate wants anybody else to regulate it so these companies had a c