night. do you think more people would pay attention to the price of the eggs if you gave the good economic news in an ugly christmas sweater? possibly. i just i was remarking i don t know where that sentence was going to end. i have never seen hris hayes with an over the shoulder monitor that says tiz the season. and the holiday cheer people want to see you in the santa hat. i m going to be in an ugly christmas sweater doing this throw before the holiday season is out. whatever it takes to get people to pay attention to good news. america, you are owed that. thank you, my friend. thank you to you at home for joining us this hour. we are beginning with some breaking news this evening. the israeli government has voted to accept a deal that would free 50 hostages currently being held by the terrorist group, hamas. that is according to the office of the prime minister benjamin netanyahu. what we do know is that the 50 hostageerize all women and children, and they
any part of your analysis in the response to that. i get why he wouldn t like it and i get why you would say maybe it was not the right venue, but the president-elect s response was to undermine the legitimate see of the intelligence community and shelter russia from responsibility to the attacks and conflight the reporting of cnn and buzzfeed and call us fake news. where does that factor into your analysis about the president-elect? well, first of all, i mean, they they did say that russia was behind the hacking, and trump has agreed. that s the key issue he paused when he said it. he said, i now think it was russia, and as you know, he thought that conclusion a long time, and he said he had information well, this is the whole problem of reading exactly what
story because this is news, this two-page summary of this dossier that is full of all of these unconfirmed allegations. i have read those 35 pages, and the quality is not good, and it is the sort of document they tainted the good report they had on russian hacking by including this, and they shouldn t have done that. the intel community. they should have found a channel to make sure trump got it maybe through the white house counsel. fair criticism, but in terms of the cnn reporting, what did you make of our story? i thought it was exactly right, and it did not go into the unsubstantiated detail, but it said that the intelligence chiefs presented this to trump, and that clearly is news, and i