the briefing dock upt uments an know it. we have multiple sources. tell them to come forward. why are you naming unnamed specifics? you are trying to distract from my questions. you can use words all you want. the fact is the media have a 16% approval rating for a reason. it s earned. james clapper came forward. he had a conversation with donald trump saying part of our obligation is to make sure our policymakers are provided with the fullest picture on matters involving national security. he is trying to explain why he gave donald trump the two-page summary. we saw clapper come out the way he did last night is we see a contentious relationship with
quote, the leaks in the press are damaging and corrosive, i m emphasize this is not a intelligence community. this did not come from the ic. the ic has not made any judgment that the information in the document is reliable and we did not rely upon it for our conclusions. however, part of our obligation is to ensure the policymakers are provided with the fullest possible picture of any matters that may affect national security. look at that last line fa carefully. it seems to suggest that the president-elect received the two-page summary of the russian compromising information which is precisely what cnn reported all along. this is subject of a certiircusa news conference. cnn s jim acosta was in the middle of it to say the least. reporter: john and christine, trump lashed out at this news
the trump administration and the media. if that is not solved, we think americans will suffer most. what we are talking about is national security. talking about national security. trump has been at war with the media and the press and national security. a lot of other pillars of institutions. i heard frank sesno talk about how he feels as this antagonism from the trump team and the scrutiny going forward. what do you think? i think trump attacked cnn throughout the campaign. i think he hopes supporters will hear him and dismiss our reporting. we have not seen and we have repeatedly asked him yesterday in person and on air and on the web site to specify what it is that is inaccurate about our reporting. they have not done so.
discredit russia and disparage russia and kind of poison the well, if you will, in terms of a future relationship between the u.s. and russia which obviously there is an expectation might warm a little with all the nice things that president putin that president-elect donald trump said. we heard from the foreign ministry talking about the latest report. they said quote, it seems obama s administration is trying to destroy everything within the u.s. and within american society. it went on to say all of this story is the obama administration s revenge against trump. what is interesting, john, people here are not talking about the fact that donald trump did finally acknowledge that he believes russia was behind the hacking. john and christine. clarissa ward, thank you. also breaking overnight. senate approved what could be the first step of repealing obamacare. the budget blueprint pass aed
the rex tillerson hearing yesterday. tillerson considers hawkish approach. he was more hawkish than president-elect donald trump. he seemed to satisfy one of the senators. marco rubio. listen. is vladimir putin a war criminal? i would not use that term. based on all this information and what is in the record about what happened in aleppo and russian military, you are still not prepared to say vladimir putin and his military slighted t violated the rules of war in aleppo? those are serious charges to make and i would like more information before reaching a conclusion. more hawkish approach except for that. except for that. that is a problem because we were not looking mainly at rex tillerson, head of exxonmobil. we were looking at rex tillerson, soon to be head of the secretary of state. the state department.