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should be alarmed by russia s actions. a spokesman for vladimir putin says russia will consider its own retaliation as well. the homeland security adviser to president obama is going to join me live in just a minute. also, the response from donald trump. we are all waiting for this. so far from mar-a-lago we ve got silence from trump, silence from his transition team. we did hear from him yesterday, though. he was asked about the prospect of sanctions. this is what he had to say. i think we ought to get on with our lives. i think the computers have complicated lives as it is. this is a big part of our story. 22 days from now, donald trump becomes president. will he keep these sanctions or will he lose them? that is one of the major questions hovering over all of this. also rounding out our agenda, those close to the trump transition saying the president-elect may be upsety what he sees are efforts by obama to undermine his incoming administration. how this latest ....
aware of it. i emphasized that this document is not a u.s. intelligence community product, and that i do not believe the leaks came from within the intelligence community. the intelligence community has not made any judgment on the information that in this document that it reliable, no jump that is reliable, and we did not rely upon it in any way for our conclusions. however, part of our obligation is to ensure the policymakers are provided with the fullest possible picture of any matters that might affect national security that written statement tonight from james clapper, director of national intelligence. does anyone really belief that story? i m also very much of a germophobe, by the way. believe me. the incoming president and his intelligence agencies are in open warfare. that s something that nazi germany would have done. he compared the intelligence community to nazi germany. i have great respect for the news or freedom of the press and all of that. no, ....
about to say we got a problem and she said the name of the movie she saw but it wasn t my favorite part of it was she was going to be teasing him for going so slow. right. right. so the daily news has cracked the case and the guilty party is going to be on the cover of the new york daily news tomorrow morning. here s a look. here s a peek at the guy who got it wrong. oh. he apparently was in charge of the envel lopes. we ll take it down. s too feipainful. look, it s his one moment on television on the cover of a newspaper in his life and the short of that moment is the better for him because he was the guy. he was the guy with the althoug right? forever known for his one thing. thank you, lawrence. it wasn t warren s fault. let s let history show. an sol becomeabsolved. thank you. donald trump discovered today health care policy is complicated. during the campaign he said repealing and replacing obamacare could be simple and easy and done very qui ....
screenplay about the last three weeks and say it was about a presidential administration, i doubt anyone would buy it, they d say it s just not realistic. yeah, got to work this back, workshop this a little bit, make it a little more nuanced. make it more like something that would really happen in a presidential administration, wow, it is wild. thank you very much, my friend. thanks, joy. thanks. okay. take care. thank you, rachel. i am joy reid in for lawrence o donnell. donald trump s national security adviser is accused of lying to the vice president about his conversations with russia. tonight, there s breaking news from the washington post which claims that the white house was warned about general flynn and a republican congressman thinks flynn should be fired. michael flynn s future in question. the washington post reported that flynn discussed sanctions with the russian ambassador weeks before president trump s inauguration. are you saying you r ....
time tomorrow night. early reports on the speech indicate the president will look to refocus his presidency on pocketbook issues and health care. more talk on that later. and like a lot of what this administration has been trying to do lately, just about anything is a better distraction than the constant questions and suspicion over russia and vladimir putin. that topic, russia, dominated the headlines today despite the president detailing his new budget proposal including a big bump-up in defense spending. and already there is at least one republican calling for a special prosecutor. you can not have somebody, a friend of mine, jeff sessions, who was on the campaign and who was an appointee. you re going to need to use the special prosecutor s statute in office to take not just to recuse, you can t just give it to your deputy, that s another political appointee, you do have to do that. as part of a press pool this morning, nbc s kristen welker got a chance to ask t ....