doesn t end with the united states. it s not only the united states, i need not tell you, that has been targeted. europe has seen the same type of attacks in the past. with many countries in europe slated to hold elections this year, we should expect further attempts by russia to meddle in the democratic process. it will occur again, i promise you. this after russia s foreign minister says the interference in the u.s. election was the your mean union s fault, calling out their support for hillary clinton and said the european union, quote, demonized donald trump. let s bring in jill dougherty and john defteriosdefterios. welcome to both of you. russia is blaming the european union for the hacking that occurred in the united states during the election? reporter: actually not for the hacking so much as
have to tell you. i think they are very frustrated by the whole attack on them. they really want to criticize obama as he goes out the door, and i think really kind of close the door on obama by making these counter charges and opening the door to better relations with donald trump. it s kind of good riddance to president obama and let s try to work together with president trump. so the obama administration is getting its digs in, right? because joe biden spoke out at davos. what else did he say, john? reporter: well, it s interesting. i think he didn t want to pull any punches speaking before the business leaders and policymakers here in davos. he s suggesting it s a challenge to the community of democracies, really the transatlantic alliance is what we re talking about here between the united states and europe. i thought it was fascinating he was making reference to the
he s surgeon. orthopedic surgeon. he used to be a member of the republican leadership. he is president-elect trump s nominee to be secretary of the department of headlight and human services. john, i think it s fair to say, whatever rope cepublican would won, tom price was a likely hhs secretary nominee. absolutely. the interesting factor now, tom price, to his credit, congressman price came forward with specific ideas. now, they re more conservative ideas, more market-based ideas, there s less washington control, some incentives to use the tax code to help people pay for insurance. but now to replace they ll eventually have to get democrats on board. first they have to settle the civil war amongst themselves over what to do because there s such a wide variety of opinions. tom price s plan is well to the right, more conservative, than
just as it began. will he stay or will he go? that s the big issue in the birth place of democracy as the greek prime minister, george papandreou and his government faces a crucial confidence vote in parliament later today. the outcome of the vote may have seemed a bit predictable just 24 hours ago. now it seems it s far from certain. after mr. papandreou backed away from a referendum on a debt deal he announced days earlier. all of this comes as leaders of the g20 are gathered. it s sure to be dominated with talk about gross s future and the escalating crisis that s gripping the euro zone. relief surrounding that possible aboutturn on the greek referendum is moving stocks but also the bond markets, because ten-year greek bonds are down just a little bit today, still yielding around 2 %. let s go live to athens where we can join jim bolden. the day is young over there in the greek capital. let s have a quick look at what we could see coming out of greece and this confidence v