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down an american movie, censor an american picture it doesn t like, wrong in not calling him first before buckling before a north korean dictator. this is obama laying it on the line in a press conference that signalled all the audacity he s packed into a week since the november election, the deal on climate change, the protective order for people who came here illegally, and including the post of an american ambassador with the communist government in cube a taking questions from all women reporters in today s press conference, where will this obama audacity take us? i m joined by david corn, and by actor, writer and director sean penn who joins me now by phone. first of all, here s the president speaking about sony s decision to pull the interview, the movie that inspired the hacking. let s watch. sony is a corporation. i would agree with the president. i think that, you know, i m not speaking as an advocate for the motion picture industry or as a critic. but we have t ....
characteristics about rex tillerson that donald trump views at positives are things that have john mccain concerned. he said he wants answers about the connection to the russian government. i have concerned over his reports of relationships with vladimir putin who is a thug and a murderer. we will have hearings on that issue and other issues concerning him. that is the time to make up your mind. what kind of questions would you ask rex tillerson? his view of vladimir putin, his role in the world, and the leader of the opposition was murdered on the orders, i believe, of vladimir putin and the shadow of the kremlin. the deal that he did in 2011 is estimated to be worth half of a trillion dollars. so you know these are enormously large deals. a reflection of that that was putin in 2012 awarded him the order of friendship, one of the highest civilian honors in russia. tillerson has also spoken out against sanctions in russia and that may be essential in understanding his te ....
destruction. this is threatening a feud between the top agencies and the president-elect white house. we re getting phew reaction from moscow. we ll get to that in a moment. let s bring in eugene scott and tom lobianco. good morning. the strategy behind this statement. just three sentences. unsigned. what what is the the calculation here from the trump folks? it s a continuation of donald trump s message during the campaign that he believes he knows more than the intelligence community. that s a hard sell to make at this point, given that we know he only is getting about once a week president daily briefs gnat would give him more information about national security globally. that statement is inaccurate. these are not the same people that were heading the departments when the bush administration was in place. this is new information and new revelations about what is happening abroad. tom, i talk t about the possibility that this would cause a feud between the intellige ....
senator lindsey graham whether or not there is an investigation ongoing into the donald trump campaign and those contacts that allegedly occurred with russian officials during the presidential election. since they have not confirmed the existence of an investigation, they have not even confirmed with senators, so in a private meeting between graham and whitehouse on march 2nd, james comey would not tell these two senators whether or not there was an investigation ongoing, even though they sit on a judiciary subcommittee investigating the issue of russia. comey according to sheldon whitehouse said he would confirm whether or not that investigation is occurring by this hearing that they re having tomorrow in this senate judiciary committee subcommittee exploring russia s meddling in the election. eastern yoeuropean elections as committee and the top democrat mark warner told me going into the briefing there s no evidence whatsoever even though he met with james comey last week. ....
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 ....