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that we seize it. my presidency is entering the fourth quarter. interesting stuff happens in the fourth quarter. and i m looking forward to it. going into the fourth quarter, you usually get a time-out. i m now looking forward to a quiet time-out. christmas with my family. i want to wish everybody a measure wrimerry christmas, a happy hanukkah, a happy new year. i hope that all of you get time to spend with your families as well because one thing that we share is that we re away too much from them. and now, josh has given me the who s been naughty and who s been nice list and i m going to take some questions. reporter: thank you, mr. president. starting with north korea since that seems to be the biggest topic today, what does a proportional response look like to the sony hack? and did sony make the right decision in pulling the movie or does that set a dangerous precedent? let me address the second question first. sony is a corporation. it suffered significant damage. the ....
president-elect donald trump came to power front business rather than politics. bolter to reporters yesterday that he can quote be the president of the united states and run my business a hundred percent. we learned his children will directly run list international business a. hold willing state craft by holding talks with russian supporters. foreign heads of state. it feels like america entered a new system of government in the last two weeks. if you are looking for global comparisons look no further than silvio berlusconi. he said quote there are some obvious similarities. he made his first fortunate as real estate developer. his critics disagree with him and saw him as unfit to lead the first of all, as we see it all over the place, the conflict of interest, the fact that they are not only businessmen but they want to continue with their transactional way of doing business, even when they are in office, trump and berlusconi alike continue doing businesses even after elected ....
we need to slow down and get it right. like mom used to say, you rush and you make mistakes. democrats are going to continue in their head-long rush to pass a government takeover of health care. from where i stand and frankly many republican senators stand who are troubled by the pace is of concern. we should have had more time to digest it. i guess history has a funny way of repeating itself. what a difference eight years doesn t make. republicans today sounding a lot like republicans back in 2009 on health care reform. only this time, they are battling themselves. can president trump and house speaker paul ryan bring their own party on board? this as one new report says at least 15 million people, joe, will lose their health care coverage under the new gop plan. this morning, we are going to speak live with the u.s. secretary of health and human services dr. tom price. plus, the man responsible for whipping votes in the house, republican congressman steve scalise a ....
himself for possible investigation. he was saying he survived this, but we did see gop lawmakers say that jeff sessions should recuse himself. let me ask you this. how much of a wedge will this drive between the white house and the gop? do you see that down the road? it has potential to. this is scandal after scandal. russia, we need a full independent investigation as to what degree russia was involved in influencing or attempting to influence our elections here in the united states. they are doing it in france and around the world and have been doing it for a long time. it s shocking that republicans would be refusing to investigate that. i don t care if it s a democrat or republican. when a foreign power is attempting to influence our elections. i want you to to follow-up on shawn a point. jeff sessions made a mistake and owned up to it. nothing to see here. it is not a mistake. this is a man who has been live and breathing and speaking the language of law since he gr ....
the dni and the rest of the national security establishment? a question a lot of people are asking this hour. we re going to take you through the much balihooed memo release, what it means for the russia investigation and discuss potential resignations or firings of senior d.o.j. or fbi leadership. let s get right to it with our experts. jeremy bash, former chief of staff at both the cia and pentagon. now an msnbc national security analyst. matt miller, former chief spokesman for the justice department in the obama administration, now an msnbc justice and security analyst. chuck rosenberg, a former u.s. attorney who has worked on the staffs of both robert mueller and james comey at the fbi and is now an msnbc contributor. and with us on-set, nbc s ken delanian and republican strategist steve schmidt. jeremy bash, let me start with you on this idea that carter page, who we know was first surveilled in 2013, at least two to three years before he ended up in the trump orbit and y ....