jessica schneider in new york. stay with cnn for two important upcoming town halls. vermont senator, former democratic presidential candidate bernie sanders takes questions from a live audience monday with chris cuomo. and house speaker paul ryan joins jake tapper next thursday for a separate town hall. "erin burnett out front" starts right now. breaking news, president obama speaking out for the first time about the brutal torture video broadcast live on facebook, the beating of a chicago teen now being called a hate crime. republicans vow to defund planned parenthood. the president of planned parenthood, my exclusive guest tonight out front. and an adviser to donald trump on national security tonight cutting ties. it's over for the president-elect. why? my guest tonight. let's go out front.

good evening. i'm erin burnett. we begin with breaking news. a hate crime. president obama speaking out for the first time about the shocking video of four young african-american adults accused of torturing and terrorizing a mentally disabled teen in chicago, all streaming live on facebook. the president saying moments ago, "what we have seen surfacing i think are a lot of problems that have been there a long time. whether it's tensions between police and communities, hate crimes of the despicable sort that has just now recently surfaced on facebook" calling it a hate crime. tonight two men and two women are facing multiple charges including kidnapping and a hate crime. want to warn you the video you're about to see is extremely disturbing. the individuals in it are making racist comments. >> [ bleep ] donald trump. >> the four, three teenagers and a 24-year-old, appear to beat and taunt the captive teen. his mouth covered with tape, slicing his scalp with a knife,

forcing him to drink toilet water. michelle kosinski is out front live at the white house. this is horrific to even describe, this attack taking place in the president's hometown. he is speaking out tonight. >> reporter: here's how this came about. he's doing interviews today with five different tv outlet, all in chicago. the intent was supposed to be talking about the farewell speech he'll deliver next week in his home city. but because of this incident, as well as the crime that continues in chicago, they wanted to ask him about this. multiple times today he used the words despicable and heartbreaking, that he knows the people affected, some of these incidents happening a mile from his home. he wanted to talk about how much it affects him, to say he's deeply concerned, but also to point out that according to crime statistics chicago is an exception and not the rule right now in america. here's part of what he said.

>> it's been heartbreaking. you see what happens in chicago and these are communities i know and love, and there are so many good people there. and they're people who i know have been personally affected by levels of violence. >> reporter: we also heard from the white house saying this is the president and white house being asked about specifically. not that they're coming out of their own to deliver a statement on this incident. the press secretary called that video depraved today and talked about what the white house would like to see done in chicago which means trying to keep illegal guns off the streets. this argument of chicago being -- seeing this wave of violent crime recently has been one of the arguments made to not increase gun restrictions around the country because it does have strict gun laws, although they have been chipped away at in the recent past and a lot of the guns that contribute to the crime in chicago are coming from

out of state. back to you. >> truly depraved and despicable what we saw. among the charges the four young adults are facing hate crime, aggravated kidnapping sh aggravated unlawful restraint, aggravated battery with a deadly weapon. rosa flores is out front. >> reporter: the disturbing images are difficult to watch. a white special needs teenager being bound, beaten, and slashed, all while four black individuals scream racial slurs and make anti-trump comments. >> you represent trump? >> reporter: it was all streamed live on social media. at one point showing the victim's scalp being cut with a knife. blood coming out of his wound. >> we're going to put this [ bleep ] in a trunk and put a brick on -- >> reporter: the video also shows the suspects cutting the victim's shirt with knives and pounding his head. the four suspects are charged with aggravated kidnapping, hate crime, and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon. the victim was friends with one

of the suspects and was with them willingly. but roughhousing, police say, escalated to abuse. >> let me be very clear, the actions in that video are reprehensible. >> reporter: the victim met with his friend jordan hill at this mcdonald's in a northwest chicago suburb saturday. hill was in a stolen van and drove victim 30 miles to chicago where they hung out with the other suspects. >> [ bleep ]. >> reporter: this video was live streamed tuesday. the same day police found the victim injured and confused, wearing a tank top, shorts, and sandals in 20-degree weather. >> he was bloodied. he was battered. >> reporter: this woman saw the swarm of police activity that followed and then she put two and two together. there was a suspicious van driving erratically on saturday, she says, and she remembers seeing one of the suspects. >> it's scary.

it's really scary and i'm constantly telling my sister that we need to find somewhere else to live. >> reporter: paul joseph watson from the conspiracy website info wars was quick to tie the case to the black lives matter movement tweeting, "this is the black lives matter terror, the msn has legitimized." the connection, debunked by police, saying there is no evidence to show this terrible attack is linked to the black lives matter movement. suspects are expected to face a judge tomorrow afternoon in bond court. i asked the police if these four suspects showed any signs of remorse, and police say that no, they did not. erin, tonight police tell us that victim is with his parents. >> thank you very much. ben ferguson and mark lamont hill, cnn political commentator, moorehouse college professor. mark, you heard row san jose sharks police say that didn't have anything to do with the

black lives matter movement. you heard some of the horrible things they were saying assaulting this boy. when the story broke, some conservative pun difficults tried to blame black lives matter. the hashtag blm kidnapping was mentioned 480,000 times on twitter, one of the top five twitter trend across the country. okay, all because of comments like these. >> yeah. i was surprised by the -- >> donald trump [ bleep ] white people. >> stunned by the amount of tweets that came out that said this. people were hitting me saying marx, why don't you acknowledge this? people like you are activists, protesters but suddenly when black lives matter is involved you don't say anything. i was baffled as to why they were making a connection between black lives matter. this was an awful crime, a heinous act. but there was no connection to black lives matter. people are always trying to make a connection to demonize a movement that is about justice. what happened here was an injustice, it was awful, and i hope the people get justice. i think we can all agree on

that. >> ben, is it fair to say that black lives matter had anything to do with this given what we heard was said? >> here's what i know. i know that this was very clear that this was politically motivated. all throughout that 33-minute video that i watched today unedited that was consistent them talking anti-trump, saying this is for trump and blank white people. i don't see a direct connection with black lives matter but i do see a connection between the anti-trump rhetoric we've seen since he's been electricitied by many who on the left have been talking in such a negative way, saying another hashtag out there, many people in black lives matter have been retweeting, not my president. that's been tweeted out there hundreds of thousands of times by people who are saying he's not my preponderate, that he'll never be my president. when you see these individuals do this, specifically because this individual with special needs, because he was white, they stated over and over again, and this is for donald trump. we have to condemn this and

those that are on the left need to condemn it harsher than anybody else to say you don't go after people because of your political ideology or because of who was elected president. >> i don't think that this is a left or right issue. i don't think people on the left need to condemn this more. >> it was for the people committing the crime. >> we don't know the people who committed the crime were on the left. >> they said this is for donald trump. how much more clear can you be? >> if you let me answer, i'll tell you. many people on the right also don't like donald trump. my point isn't that these people are on the left or the right. that's a distraction. my point here is ultimately this is an awful act that isn't about politics. people's critiques of -- >> it was for the people who did it. >> again, let me finish, ben. people who were criticizing donald trump in general do fot go out and kidnap people at knifepoint. people said it with different presidents. it's a common political thing. whether we agree with it or not is different. we can't make a one to one connection between that and the

other any more than i could say donald trump makes fun of disabled people on tv and these kids kidnapped a disabled person. >> -- or that the political environment has enabled that they are out there saying this is for trump as they are doik these horrific things to this white teen. and the people of course committing the act happen to be black. >> i think we live in a climate that promotes violence, reckless behavior, using the internet and facebook and technologies to draw attention to oneself. i think these are people who have serious issues themselves that need to be sort of corrected. i don't think, though, that there's anything particular about left wing politics that leads to kidnapping a mentally disabled person and holding them at knifepoint. i would say the same if it were on the right. >> this is what worries me is this is where i think you and i genuinely should be able to come together and condemn and make it clear, if somebody would have done this and claimed it on behalf of this is for barack obama, i would have sat here and

immediately said that that is no place and this is vile and this is disgusting and these are criminals and it has no place in politics. i expect the same from you. >> i did that. >> when you look at this video -- no, but it's not clear that what you're saying about these individuals. their entire video throughout it is laced with this is anti-white people and this is anti-donald trump and this is for donald trump. >> but i'm not sure what i'm saying you're disagreeing with. i'm not disputing if facts of the tape and not disputing this is a heinous act -- >> but it's political. >> i'm not disputing we should condemn it. all things are political on some level, but what i don't want to say is because people on the left are criticizing donald trump that somehow that led to this. that is an absurd connection. >> if the person tortured here were black, if the roles were reversed and the perpetrators were white, there would be more outrage than there is now? >> first off, it would have been declared a hate crime

immediately and you would have had massive outrage, probably riots in the streets of chicago and other cities around the country. all i'm saying tonight is we have to make it clear that no matter which side it is, this is unacceptable behavior. there seems to be a very clear double standard here. this was racism. this was racism against a white individual who was targeted because they were white and there should be just as much outrage on that if it was the other way as well. >> thank you. next, house speaker paul ryan announcing plans to defund planned parenthood. the president of planned parenthood responds next out front. and the former cia director and trump adviser james woolsey announcing he is no longer donald trump, cutting ties. he's my guest this hour. and vice president joe biden's message to donald trump tonight. >> grow up, donald. grow up. time to be an adult. you're president.

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house speaker paul ryan says republicans will defund planned parenthood. the gop has tried for years to do this. this has been a talking point forever. it is something president-elect trump promised to do during the campaign but now it could become

reality. jeff zeleny is out front. this is incredible. we've heard this promise again and again. but now it can happen. can they follow through and end it? >> reporter: they certainly can. they tried in 2015. both houses of congress, the house and the senate, passed this, but president obama at the time vetoed it. that veto pen does not exist now in the white house or won't after the 20th of january here so this is a very real threat. paul ryan, the speaker of the house, announced this earlier today and what we're talking about here, it's part of the repeal of obamacare. it would take away about $400 million or so in federal funding. medicaid funding. and now this isn't about saving money necessarily. it's about ideology, about health care services, abortion services, other things. this is a very real threat and this is simply part of what is going to be the new normal here when republicans for the first time in ten years control the house, the senate, and the white

house. let's go to the president of the planned parenthood federation of america. thanks for being with me. the president-elect has promised to get rid of planned parenthood, going to defund it. paul ryan says he's going to make it happen. you don't have that president obama veto now. what do you say? >> millions of women in america are concerned about not only the overthrowing of the affordable care act and losing access to care but also ending access to planned parenthood. 1 in 5 women in this country have been to planned parenthood for health care and we've been hearing from them all day today, concerned that speaker ryan would be denying them access to go to the health care provider of their choice. i think what's important here is it's not about a funding line for planned parenthood. what speaker ryan is talking about doing is denying women on medicaid the ability to go to planned parenthood for birth-control and cancer screenings and family planning services. it's not popular with the american people, and i already know his phone has been jammed

up today already about calls from women, concerned. >> so what happens to planned parenthood if you lose federal funding? does it go away or not? >> no. we've been around. we celebrated our 100th anniversary. we've been here for 100 years, long before birth-control was available in this country. really the challenge here, erin, is that women who count on us for health care, for preventive health care -- because what he's talking about has nothing to do with abortion. this has to do with denying women access to family planning and cancer screenings. what it will mean is there are people who count on us for health care, including thousands in the state of wisconsin, hi own state, who will no longer be able to go to the health care provider of their choice, which has been planned parenthood for many years. >> when it comes to congress it comes down to abortion, right? political opponents say planned parenthood is an abortion provider hiding behind the guise of other medical needs that women have. so i just want to put some stats out there to understand so

people can understand the debate. we compare the number of abortions that planned parenthood performed, more than 327,000. this is the year 2013 that we could find, in the 47 states that report numbers. you provided half of those abortions. do you agree, cecile, that planned parenthood is core to abortion in america? >> we provide abortion surveillances but we provide millions of other services. we think it's important, it's a legal servicewomen need access to in this country. what speaker ryan is trying to do here and what vice president, incoming vice president pence is trying to do is end access to everything that would prevent unintended pregnancy in this country including family planning services. that's the real irony here. we have seen what's happened in states like texas where they've ended access to family planning services, to cancer screenings. we just saw in texas a doubling of a maternal mortality rate for women, particularly low-income

women, african-american women who have the least ak says to care. ironically, i think what they're trying to do will, if anything, drive up the rate of unintended pregnancy in this country and have exactly the opposite impact of what supposedly they intend. >> if the federal funding goes away you're making the point the organization has been around for 100 years, planned parenthood would still be around and you'd be able to provide these core services including abortion. so why do you need the federal funding? >> well, it's not the federal funding. it's the fact that women on medicaid and millions who come to us will no longer be able to come to us. let me give you a good example. in the state of wisconsin where the largest family planning provider. we have 22 health cents, many rural arias of wisconsin. and for many of these women we're their only family plan progress veider. if they can no longer come to planned parenthood, it's very likely in many areas they will no longer be able to get access to birth-control and to cancer screenings. that's what we're talking about,

denial of services. so planned parenthood may still exist, but it won't exist for the people who in many cases count on us as their only health care provider. >> president-elect trump, this is not just a planned parenthood issue, of course, it's the supreme court, right. he has promised and every indication he'll keep this promise very specifically to nominate a pro-life judge. do you think roe v. wade could be a thing of the past? >> it's absolutely at risk and we take the supreme court and the future nominees very seriously. look, there's the highest support for roe v. wade in this country we have ever had probably because folks are are concerned about the outcome of the election. i think it would be a huge mistake for this administration to appoint a justice who would overturn more than 40 years of a legal right of women in this country. but we'll be looking at whoever the appointees are by the president-elect and making our opinion known and making sure our 9.5 million supporters are

engained in communicating not only with the president but also with their members of congress and the senate. >> cecile richards, thank you so much. appreciate your time. next, joe biden tells donald trump to grow up, donald. my interview with the former cia director james woolsey cutting ties with donald trump. why is he no longer advising the president-elect? and republicans can't agree on how to dismantle obamacare, but some trump supporters are saying leave it alone, we want it. wait till you hear this story from sanjay gupta. hashtag "stuffy nose." hashtag "no sleep." i got it. hashtag "mouthbreather." yep. we've got a mouthbreather. well, just put on a breathe right strip and ... pow! it instantly opens your nose up to 38% more than cold medicine alone. so you can breathe ... and sleep. shut your mouth and say goodnight mouthbreathers. breathe right.

president obama taking issue

with trump's attacks on the intelligence community when it comes to russian hacking. >> my hope is that when the president-elect receives his own briefings and is able to examine the intelligence as his team is put together and they see how professional and effective these agencies are that some of those current tensions will be reduced. >> this came after the nation's top intelligence officials testified on capitol hill today saying he is more certain than ever russia is responsible for hacking the u.s. election. also a prominent adviser to trump on these issues cutting ties to the president-elect. we'll talk with the former cia chief james woolsey. he is my guest in a moment. first pamela brown is out front. trade craft that the russians have long used. >> reporter: today the nation's top spy not mincing words in his defense of the u.s. intelligence assessment that russia is to blame for the unprecedented

hacks during the 2016 election. >> i don't think that we've ever encountered a more aggressive or direct campaign to interfere in our election process than we've seen in this case. >> reporter: and insisting their confidence has only increased. >> we stand actually more resolutely on the strength of that statement that we made on the 7th of october. >> reporter: james clapper along with both democrat and republican lawmakers sending a strong message in the wake of donald trump's repeated public statements doubting the intelligence. who actually is the benefactor of someone who is about to become commander in chief trashing in intelligence community? >> i think there's a difference between skepticism and dispar e disparagement. >> putin's up to no good and he better be stopped. and mr. president-elect, when you listen to these people, you can be skeptical but understand they're the best among us and

they're trying to protect us. >> thank you so much. >> reporter: clapper revealing today that a comprehensive report into the democratic party hacks will lay out not just what the russians did but why they did it. among the motivations expected in the report set to be released monday, an effort to tip the election in trump's favor. >> there are actually more than one motive that will be described in the report. i assure you that we intend -- i intend to push the envelope as much as i can on -- particularly on the unclassified version because i think the public should know as much about this as possible. >> reporter: clapper told the committee the hacks were only one part of a broader effort by russia. >> this was a multifaceted campaign. the hacking was only one part of it, and it also entail ed classical propaganda, disinformation, fake news.

>> does that continue? >> yes. >> reporter: intelligence officials say it's clear the man behind it all is vladimir putin. >> you say this was approved at the highest level of government in russia. generally speaking, is that right? >> that's what he said. >> okay. who's the highest level of government? >> well, the highest is president putin. >> you think a lot happens in russia big that he doesn't know about? >> not vm. >> yeah, i don't think so either. >> certainly none that are politically sensitive in another country. >> reporter: we're learning tonight u.s. intelligence has identified the go-betweens the russians used to provide the stolen e-mails to wikileaks. this information was included in the classified report presented to president obama today. tomorrow, president-elect trump will receive his briefing in new york from the leaders of the loou intelligence community. we'll be covering that. out front now, former cia director under president clinton, ambassador james woolsey.

good to have you on. i have to begin with the breaking news until just a few moments ago you were advising donald trump. i was going to introduce you as an adviser to donald trump. you are a former. why? >> well, i didn't want to fly under false colors. i've been an adviser and felt like i was making a contribution, and i strongly support mr. trump for president, did since early september, and i wish him well. but i'm not really functioning as an adviser anymore. and so when i'm on the screen, everybody announces that i'm former cia director and that i'm a trump adviser and i'm really not anymore. so i just thought i should strike that from the chiron or as it comes up on the screen so nobody was under false impressions.

that's all. >> and when did you stop advising him? was there a point you stopped talking to him specifically? >> i don't think there was a particular point. i've only seen him in person a couple of times. talked with him on the phone a little bit. so i was not at the center of the advisory function. but i was pleased to be included and i am just -- don't like things that come to the point that i ought to make sure that nobody gets a false impression. i didn't want to be claiming that i'm something i'm not. >> well, when you say things have got on the point, i mean, you're the one maybing this decision, right? >> yeah. >> you decided late today. no one in trump transition. just you. >> all i mean is by that is that the selections have largely been made. my background in defense and national security and intelligence i think is probably not relevant to more decisions

that need to be made in the next couple of weeks. the world starts over again when the candidate now or president select becomes president, is sworn in on january 20th. so but for now, i don't want people to get the impression that i'm claiming to be something i'm not. that's all. >> i'm just trying to understand, you have come out on this show and others and said things that don't necessarily jive with what donald trump said, specifically on this most recent issue of russia's responsibility for hacking the u.s. election. donald trump does not admit this. james clapper today said there are many in the intelligence community that perceive this as disparnling of the community. a former chief of staff for leon panetta, former cia director, said this could lead to a national security crisis. you heard pamela brown, the u.s. intel says they know the identities of the very russians who leaked the information to julian assange at wick laegs.

donald trump does not admit to any of this. is part of your leaving because you're frustrated with him? >> no. that latter point about the in betweens, the the middlemen for the russians, is a new find i think within the last day or so. to me that's extremely important. and i think that, once they've got the identity of some of these people, i think that makes it clearer that it was more or less centrally orchestrated rather than somewhat more dishevelled as i was characterizing it up until a couple of days ago. i think the russians have been involved in one way or another, but it looks now from this most recent announcement as if it was more in a control mode than just a participation mode. >> so it time for trump to say okay, enough on this, uncle? >> when i was advising him i

didn't tell anyone what i communicated, and i've worked for four presidents, two republicans, two democrats. i've never told anyone what i said to them or they said to me and i'm not going to start now. >> so the vice president today, joe biden, was asked to weigh in on donald trump, how he's handled things. you've been on on this show and others, whether it's national security or other thing, and i would say to you, ambassador woolsey, here's what donald trump just tweeted, and you would be put into the frankly sometimes awkward position of having to explain or defend what he said. today joe biden when asked to weigh in on trump's tweets, including ones insulting chuck schumer, where he called him clown in recent days, and president obama, here's what joe biden said. >> grow up, donald. grow up. time to be an adult. you're president. you've got to do something. show us what you have. you're going to propose legislation. we're going to get to debate it. let the public decide. let them vote in congress.

let's see what happens. >> grow up, donald, he said. does trump need to grow up? do you share that feeling? >> i wouldn't put it that way, no. he has a very different demeanor when he's talking to a couple, three people. it's very reasonable and quite ordinary, smart, good questions, good answers. when he gets in front of 50,000 shouting len yamillennials he g into a rather fascinating mode and i call it his shtick. but, you know, that's not something that an adviser or eve an citizen i think ought to say, you have to behave this way, mr. trump, not that way. >> well, ambassador woolsey, i appreciate your time and thanks so much. >> good to be with you. out front next, republicans vow to repeal and replace obamacare, but it is now trump supporters who are saying no. wait till you hear this story pip told you dr. sanjay gupta is next. and donald trump meeting with

his spiritual adviser on a weekly basis. she'll be at the inauguration. has he been praying? i'll ask his pastor, the teleevangelist, paula white.

a top american senator saying obamacare won't be replaced all at once. jop cornyn saying they'll do a little here and there and

spackle it up. some trump supporters are now worried. they want republicans to think twice about doing anything at all to obamacare. you heard me right. sanjay gupta is out front. >> they wouldn't sell it to me at any price. it was not -- but i was overweight. so i was a risk. >> reporter: back in 2013, bob russko, 53 years old, was a familiar story in america. too familiar. he was more than 100 pound overweight. at risk of heart disease and diabetes. he was also self-employed and no company wanted to offer him health care insurance. he was considered too big a risk. was that tough to go uninsured? >> well, it doesn't make you warm and fuzzy. but i didn't like it, but it was the reality of the situation. >> reporter: when did you first hear about the affordable care act? >> it was all over the news. >> reporter: what did you think? >> i thought it was a good idea.

even though i'm conservative. >> reporter: so when did you first sign up for obamacare? >> when it was first available. it was october, i remember, and i wanted to be covered because it's important. >> reporter: and as a result, starting in 2014, bob was able to get insurance after subsidies. it was finally within reach and a big relief. >> september was i can't wait till october, the feeling of coming out of the rain, if you will. you know, you're out there to the breezes. you know, you can do all you can, get healthy, try to be safe, but there's a certain amount of fate that's just out there. so to have coverage was, phew. >> reporter: this which makes what happened next all the more surprising. >> repealed and replaced. >> reporter: you voted for donald trump who promised to repeal something that you're very much benefiting from. again, how do you explain that to people? >> i did what i thought was

correct for the overall good of the country. i think economic strength cures a lot of things. people working, making decent money, that's certainly -- helps out. i'd rather not need the subsidies. i'd rather be working. >> we are repealing and replacing obamacare. we can reverse the stagnation and usher in a period of true opportunity and growth. >> reporter: that repealing obamacare would be good for the economy. it's a common refrain. but the committee for a responsible federal budget suggests the opposite. they say fully repealing obamacare would cost roughly $350 billion over ten years and would also increase the number of uninsured by 23 million. if he does repeal obamacare as he's promised to do, what is that going to mean for you? >> no insurance. >> reporter: no insurance. that was a big problem for you before. >> i wasn't happy about it. >> reporter: truth is, some of the states that most benefited

from obamacare had a majority who voted for trump. like his home state of florida. in fact, florida has the highest percentage of enrollees in the nation. 1 in 10 from fl floridians unde signed on for health insurance under the affordable care act. >> oh, my gosh. >> reporter: he credits obamacare with profoundly changing hi health. and because of that, this lifelong conservative wrestled for the first time with the idea of voting democrat. >> if i'd have voted for what i thought was strictly best more me, i would have voted for her, because the health care plan gives us peace of mind. medical screening to stop something before it gets worse. look at how many things have gotten better. >> reporter: russko has no regrets voting for trump but would tell him this. >> each day we face the possibility of losing our home,

going into bankruptcy. one thing to come in. the health care act has taken that worry away. >> a powerful plea. you have to hope reps and donald trump were watch, sanjay. did he vote for trump because he thinks the president-elect will save some form of obamacare or was it a completely different reason? >> yeah, i think that was a big part of it. this idea that, look, he's saying these things, i hear him saying these things, but i don't know if that's actually going to happen. i don't know if he'll fully repeal the parts of obamacare i like. that was one point bob made. the other point is he felt he was voting for an economy president and if the economy improved a guy like bob could get to the point he wouldn't be dependent on subsidies from the affordable care act. those were his two reasons. as he said, it wasn't an easy decision. he's voted republican every single election np time it was a tough one for him. >> thank you very much. dr. sanjay gupta.

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tonight an out front exclusive, donald trump's longtime spiritual adviser paula white speaking out after coming urntd attack by a number of conservatives and christian leaders. she'll be leading the invocation at trump's inauguration. since that announcement, a romantic history, fund-raising practices once investigated by the u.s. senate thrust back into the spotlight. paula white is out front with me now. i want to give you a chance to respond to the criticism in a moment. first i wanted to say this is an incredible moment for you. you will be the first female clergy member -- >> ever. >> -- to participate at an inauguration. the first main american history. >> amazing. thank you. so good to be with you. not only the first female but when you look at what president-elect trump is doing, it really is so far beyond just being symbolic at substance.

you have six of us. every one from never ever done before by the way, e evangelical, franklin graham, hispanic, reverend sammy rodriguez, you have an african-american, bishop wayne jackson, you have the first female clergy, myself, rabbi heyer. we haven't had a rabbi since reagan. you have a cardinal dolan, which we haven't had since carter. and so i really think it speaks to the heart of mr. trump and who he is to say the first thing he does on his swearing-in prayer invoking the blessing of god, bringing unity through the men and women of god to really say to this nation as we pray over the nation, as we pray over humanity, over our president and vice president. that's a huge statement. really for the man i've known 15 years that's the heart of who this man is. >> when we spoke in august a lot has changed, obviously. trump is now the president-elect. two weeks away.

you speak with him regularly. what have you talked about since he's won? has he changed in terms of his perception of the world? >> when you go has he changed, the man that i know, i think i see so much what other people i hope are seeing, and that is the strong leader he is, again, from a spiritual perspective, the man of god, the man of strength, the man what's a great listener, the man of compassion, a tremendous leader. and you're going to see that. a man who is filling his administration in such a wise way, great players, great leaders on. and we're beginning to see that. >> has he been praying regularly about the responsibility he's taking on? >> i know i've had several opportunities to pray with him. i can't say what he does in his private time. >> he has prayed with you. >> many times, always a great privilege. >> what advice are you given him? what have you prayed about?

i know there are certain -- >> whenever i pray with himitis always inspired by the spirit of god and the word of god. if it's wisdom, if it's the piece of god, if it's -- whatever it is in that moment over his family, over him being in this position to lead our nation and the country. that's a huge responsibility and what a privilege to be able to pray as all of us should be. >> and the -- you'll be leading the invocation, right? >> yes. >> once this was announced, some of your longtime critics have come out, they have criticized you again about now you have this prominent role. in a "washington post" op-ed a couple days ago, michael horton, a theology professor, wrote, televangelist wit whyte has a lot in trump. both are in their third marriage and have endured decades of moral and financial scandal. what is your response? >> this has been amazing because not only have they said things about my personal life but the greatest one was that i denied the trinity. >> they said that. >> absolutely absurd to me.

jesus christ, god the father, got the son, god the holy spirit, i always have been -- it's my mission statement, right on everything. there is no denial of the trinity. when you look at the things they want to bring up, there's absolute absurdity to a lot of it. even if we go people say senate investigation. it was an inquiry. >> into the financial -- >> it was an inquiry. the inquiry was found to have no wrongdoing. if they say she's filed bankruptcy. i've never filed bankruptcy. i had resigned, i had no part. yes, i have been through a divorce, gone through things. i believe marriage is a sacred institution of god. we went through therapy many years, stood with god. it was one of the things if he said 20 years prior you'll go through this. i never would have wanted it or desired it but i did. these are things that happen in life. i always said, god knew everything i would go through before i went through it so walking through things, somebody

once said they labeled me muddy authenticity. i said, yes, i have, but thank god for the grace of god. not everything is perfect in my life, but i don't think everything is perfect in everybody's life. and that is why we need salvation. that is what redemption is all about, that we are saved by faith through grace. so, you know, thank god for his goodness or weed all be in trouble. i'm grateful his mercies are new every single morning. >> thank you very much. i appreciate your time. and we'll see you in washington. jeanne moos is next. with the xfinity tv app,

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the kids may be able to hide from you, but if i learned, there's no hiding from them. here's jeanne moos. >> say hi. >> hi. >> reporter: need an escape from the kids? this mom's solution went viral. >> mom desperately needed a treat to get through the rest of the night. so i'm hiding in the pantry. eating a treat. is that wrong? >> reporter: well, actually, gardner did get some mean comments, but the internet was smitten with the end. >> they don't ever go away. they want everything you have. >> reporter: when she moved her phone down to the crack of the door, that's when viewers cracked up. >> see? she's always there. >> hi. hi. >> hi. >> reporter: three his, one eye,

but she wasn't alone. how many of them are there on the other side of the pantry door? four. 2-year-olds nicknamed the quad squad. the gardners of utah struggled with infertility for eight years until ivf paid off. >> they split and so here we are quadruplets, two settles of identical twins. >> reporter: a she titled her video "sums up motherhood in 34 second." >> my video was about being in the pantry eating a treat and a lot of other moms identify with the fact of just going to the bathroom for 30 seconds in peace, which never happens. >> reporter: who wants to eat twizzlers in the bathroom? the gardners are no strangers to publicity. they blog about their family life almost every day and are even on a reality show about parenting. you did get some comments like, you know, you had them, deal with it, kind of stuff. what do you say to those people? >> they obviously don't know

what it's like to be a parntd. >> reporter: the daughter peering through the crack, by the way, is named indie. her nickname. >> indie pie. >> reporter: and because she likes to say hi, sometimes they call her indie pie hi. >> hi. >> hi. >> reporter: jeanne moos, cnn. >> hi. >> reporter: new york. >> hi. >> hi. >> thanks for joining us. anderson starts now. good evening. thanks for joining us. federal health care money that millions of women benefit from, and breaking news in the hacking story. top intelligence officials testified on capitol hill today. president obama got briefed as well. president-elect trump gets his briefing tomorrow. there is breaking news tonight on russian officials celebrating his election victory and late today we got another key piece of the puzzle on how investigators believe hacked files from the democratic national committee and clinton campaign chief john podesta got to