vulnerabili vulnerability. kellyanne, it's like you're trying to scare me off the point. >> i'm not trying to scare you off anything. >> he's making a gesture so keenly tuned. >> now you're giving oxygen to what meryl streep said. >> forget about meryl streep. >> that's why we're talking about it. >> he did that to cruz, also. >> it's all litigated. it's all talked about in the election. >> i don't waf our kids did thau imagine what we would do? >> i'm not going to bring my kids into this. >> i will. you have to listen to what the president-elect has said about that. why don't you believe him? why isn't it taken eight face value. 62% of americans according to cnn polling said hen can't tell the truth about anything. >> who was right behind her in that an sl sis? >> trump. >> given the benefit of the doubt constantly. >> when? >> you can't give him the benefit of the doubt on this and he's telling you what was in his

heart? you want to go what's come out of his mouth rather than what's in his heart. >> it's a gesture he made on video. >> chuck schumer said he will obstruct every single supreme court nominee -- >> i don't draw equations between bad acts. you judge each for its own. >> let's form a government. let's get this government formed. we need the help of the democrats to do that. we actually don't, but we'd like it. we don't want the minority leader, chuck schumer, going on another net whork saying we will stand in the way of any supreme court nominee they put up. he doesn't know who they are yet. >> i hear you. i have to cut you off because there's a timing issue and i don't want to get in trouble, but i don't want to go too long in the window. just getting started with the confirmation process. >> 70 hours so far of mock hearings, 2600 questions fielded by our nomineetion and des nants and met with democrats, would

like to meet with the rest of them. >> kellyanne, appreciate you making good on the offer on friday. best to you. i know you have a birthday coming up. you're only 34 once. even joy it. following a lot of news. let's get to it. a critical week ahead for president-elect donald trump. >> this is astounding, that we would actually have hearings and not know the fullness of people's potential conflicts of interest. >> we need to grow up here and get past that. >> i don't think there's anything wrong with trying to have a good relationship with russia. >> what is true is that russians intended to meddle and they meddled. >> the person asking to sit in the most respected in our country imitated a disabled reporter. it wasn't in a movie. it was real life. >> he just walked along, pow, pow, pow. >> an up-close look at exactly what unfolded at the ft. lauderdale airport. >> i hit the ground and she was

killed. this is "new day" with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. >> good morning. welcome to "new day." we have confirmation hearings set to begin tomorrow for the president-elect's cabinet picks as they move forward with their plan to repeal and maybe replace obamacare. >> the president-elect expected to face questions on that and russia when he holds his first press conference in months on wednesday. today president-elect the firing back at meryl streep who slammed the president-elect at the golden globes. let's begin with jason carroll live at trump tower in new york. good morning, jason. >> reporter: good morning, alisyn. clearly the president-elect has more on his plate than just dealing with meryl streep and her golden globe speech last night. this week he's going to have to answer a number of questions on policy issues that will be affecting millions of americans.

donald trump and the republican-controlled congress moving full speed ahead with an ambitious agenda. confirmation hearings begin tomorrow for some of the president-elect's key cabinet nominees. while the senate is expected to hold a series of votes this week to begin repealing obamacare. but details of replacing the outgoing president's signature law still remain unclear. >> it may take time to get all the elements of the replace in place. >> reporter: trump will also finally answer questions on wednesday when he holds his first press conference in nearly six months. the now declassified intelligence report on russian hacks expected to be a major focus, but questions remain about whether trump accepts the report's conclusions. >> he's not denying that entities in russia were behind this particular hacking campaign. >> hillary clinton was viewed by a majority of americans as

unlikable. that has nothing to do with moscow. >> reporter: over the weekend trump tweeting, having a good relationship with russia is a good thing, not a bad thing. only stupid people or fools would think that it is bad. when i am president, russia will respect us far more than they do now. and both countries will perhaps work together to solve some of the many great and pressing problems and issues of the world. for months trump has cast doubts about u.s. intelligence that russia was trying to interfere with the election. >> could be somebody else. it could be russia, it could also be china, lots of other people. it could be somebody sitting on their bed that ways 400 pounds. >> reporter: trump's skepticism dividing his own party. >> if, after having been briefed by intelligence leaders, donald trump is still unsure as to what the russians did, that would be incredibly unnerving to me because the evidence is

overwhelming. >> reporter: in a new interview, president obama said he did not down play the threat vladimir putin posed to the united states. >> i don't think i underestimated him. if we get to a point where people nlt this country feel more affinity with a leader who is an adversary and views the united states and our way of life as a threat to him, then we're going to have bigger problems than just cyber hacking. >> reporter: trump this morning going after actress meryl streep for comments she made last night during her golden globes speech, criticizing trump for appearing to mock a disabled reporter. trump saying this morning on twitter, meryl streep is one of the most overrated actresses in hollywood, doesn't know me but attacked last night at the golden globes. she's a hillary flunky who lost

big. i would never do that. i showed him graveling when he totally changed a 16-year-old story he had written in order to make me look back. just more dishonest media. the reporter in question from "the new york times" suffers from a condition which restricts the muscle movement in his arm. the video was out there of how trump responded to that. his critics say the individuals i don't is very clear. >> jason, thank you. republicans moving ahead with confirmation hearings for nine cabinet picks despite concerns. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell telling democrats to grow up. that's a quote. yn's sunlen serfaty has more. >> reporter: good morning, alisyn. this is a big week for the incoming trump administration, a whole slew of confirmation hearings scheduled and lined up.

that's exactly where the office of government ethics is sounding the alarms saying it's of great concern given the pace of the schedule, saying many of these nominees haven't handed over the proper financial forms, ethics forms that they need to saying the schedule has created undue pressure on oge staff and agency officials to rush through these important reviews. more situation any can'tly it's left some of the nominees with potentially unknown or unresolved ethics issues shortly before their scheduled hearings. trump officials are pushing back saying this is some trying to politicize this moment for them on capitol hill. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell saying he's not going to delay the hearings, the schedule will stay put and suggesting basically it's just sour grapes, all these complaints coming from the other side. >> we confirmed seven cabinet appointments the day president obama was sworn in. we didn't like most of them

either. all these little procedural complaints are related to their frustration, at having not only lost the white house, but having lost the senate. i understand that. we need to sort of grow up here and guest past that. >> reporter: confirmation hearings will kick off tomorrow with senator jeff sessions for attorney general. i spoke to him as he walked in here on capitol hill. he said he's confident and says he will be ready. certainly bracing himself potentially for the barrage of questioning he will get here tomorrow. transition officials say they are confident and believe all their nominees, chris, will get through. >> sunlen, thank you very much. joining us is tennessee republican, representative marsha blackburn, she serves as a vice chair on the president-elect's transition team. good to see you. happy new year to you. >> to you, also. thank you. >> you got the hearings coming up, mcconnell says small procedural concerns shouldn't block the way. vetting not being done by the office of government ethics

isn't a small procedure detail. doesn't it matter that you have a full chance to take a look at the financial disclosures of everybody who will be running the government? >> it's important that the oge get their work done. you know, chris, lots of times in d.c. we'll say maybe these guys need to realize they're going to have to work more than 40 hours in a week in order to get the job done and to meet a time schedule. i would encourage them to pick up the pace and to move forward so that the senate committees have the opportunity to look at those full disclosures. i hope they are going to pick that pace up. >> fair point. but they can't finish what is incomplete. they don't have all the paperwork from all the nominees yet. isn't that relevant? >> it is relevant and i know people are getting paperwork in as quickly as they possibly can. it's getting into the process. if oge were sitting there

twiddling their numbs, they would have the opportunity to make that as a point. we know they are complaining about the workload that they have. quite frankly, i think the american people feel like, you have a lot of bureaucrats in washington who work as little as is needed and don't tend to the people's business in a timely manner, and they know that many small business people work 60, 70, 80 hours a week. i have lots of weeks where i put in 80 hours a week. that is not uncommon. >> true. there's fertile ground to play on poem's perception of bureaucrats in washington not working hard. you just acknowledged they don't have all the paperwork. you're front running an insult of them not working when they couldn't finish the job, they don't have all the paperwork. >> the paperwork is coming into them as quickly as it is completed and ready for them to see. they don't have empty desks over there. that is the point. if they were working to the

point that they had completed everything, they would have the right to say that, but they don't. we know paperwork is going into them on a timely manner, and they're running a little bit behind. they're trying to do deflection and saying not everything is in on everybody. >> sounds like a lot of deflection is going on. i hope they don't say the work is finished before they get the financial disclosures. that's probably the most important thing when you have people with high net worth coming in. any indication if at this press conference we're supposed to see from the president-elect this week, he's going to deal with how he will try to remedy some of the conflicts of interest that are presented by his business and political life? >> i know that mr. trump and his team have worked tirelessly and have spent many, many hours making certain that things are in the proper order and that it will comply with federal law and with federal ethics

requirements. >> there's not much law on the issue. this is not about what you have a right to dorks but what is right to do. this is more ethical than legal. >> as i just said, that it complies with the law and with government ethics requirements. i know they have worked diligently on that. i do not know the details, and i'm certain that mr. trump is going to reveal those details when he does the press conference, but i have every confidence that he is going to be in compliance with what is required in government ethics. >> a couple of quick questions. we were told by reince priebus that the president after his classified briefing accepts the intel work, respects the work of those men and women and seeing the connection between russia and the hacks. he then came out and said russia, china and north korea are involved in these things. that is not the conclusion of the intelligence committees on this.

they say it was russia this time. why is there this persistent intentionality by the president-elect and his transition team to insulate russia from being singled out for blame here? >> you know, i have not discussed this issue with him but i do know 2014 was declared the year of the breach because of the attacks on our infrastructure, financial and health care systems. congressman peter welch and i have worked diligently on data security legislation and unfortunately it was the democrats who chose to back away from that last year. we would love to move that forward because it is russia. it is china, it is north korea. it is other bad actors, and they -- every day we have thousands of attempts to hack into our system, and whether it

is credit card information, whether it is health care information, whether it is data being held, they are seeking to get this. now, china did the opm hack. quite frankly, we were stunned that nothing was done against china. maybe the administration didn't want to go over them because they do own about $1.5 trillion of our debt. >> the intel community came to the conclusions about china the same as it did about russia. you are quick to acknowledge that it was china. you don't say china or north korea or russia did the opm thing. you say china. you know that because the intel agencies told you that. now they're telling you it was russia this time, but you include china and north korea. do you see why it seems to suggest a sheltering of russia from sole responsibility. why? >> no, i'm just saying the entire universe of hacks, when you look at the virtual space

and the hacks that are on it. now, russia carried forward on these attempts trying to have some kind of impact on public opinion and the election. so you know that, and hopefully congress will get to have a briefing this week. can you believe we still have not been able to see a report and have the briefing and our intel committees come before us and give us the information. >> you just had a hearing and the intel community says that any time you want to know, give them clearance and they'll tell you. >> that's exactly right. we are looking forward -- usually what they will do is a briefing where they pull the chambers together and give us the opportunity to have questions. we look forward to that, and i will tell you this, chris, i'm really looking forward to seeing the data security legislation we've been trying to push forward, seeing it get on the books, seeing some additional work done on cyber security. look, when you look at the virtual space, you've got cyber warfare that is taking place out

there. you have some of these nation states and these rogue entities that have cyber warfare rooms. these are things we know. it is appropriate that we respond appropriately, that we get in behind this and we do more in the data security and privacy arena. >> marsha blackburn, thank you very much. >> good to be with you, thank you. following breaking news right now. us. navy ship firing warning shots towards at least one iranian boat. an american official confirming the ship fired the shots near the straight of hormuz on sunday. we will bring you more details on this story as barbara starr, our pentagon correspondent brings them to us. trump supporters in two states telling "the new york times" that they don't think russia's cyberattacks during the u.s. election are a big deal. how common is this mindset and what is driving it next.

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russia meddling in the u.s. election. let's discuss it with washington examiner reporter celina zito who sbro viewed a bunch of trump voters and senior congressional correspondent david trucker. celina, i know you mentioned out into frigid temperatures to go to the steelers game and you encountered lots of voters there. what is their feeling about the intelligence community's conclusions about russian hacking? >> i almost brought my terrible towel to wave after doing that. i went around and talked to people walking through the city and that were tailgating, tried to look for people from different states, like ohio, pennsylvania. most people that voted for trump

and including for clinton, they look at this and say they don't think that russia had an influence on the outcome. they don't like that russia is meddling in our elections, don't get me wrong. that is -- that really gets them fired up. but in terms of how it impacted the election, they don't think so. when i talk to clinton supporters or trump supporters and say, well, did that have any influence on your vote. and the majority of them said they already made up their mind. why wasn't that showing in the polls. a lot of trump supporters say we didn't tell anybody we were going to vote for trump. >> that's interesting. we learned after the election that they misled pollsters when they called them because they were either annoyed by the pollster or didn't feel like sharing it for whatever reason. >> trust, trust is also a big

thing. they didn't struft pollsters. there's a big antitrust thing going on with voters. >> david, if they're feeling -- "the new york times" did the same piece, went out and talked to trump supporters about the russian hacking. i'll read you a couple of quotes. it's sour grapes, they're a bunch of cry babies. i don't believe it from the parts of the report i've seen, it seems silly. what are we to make of the fact that russia can attempt to subvert democracy and voters give a collective, nah. >> there's a lot of political tribalism going on. we've seen that in the past 10, 20 yearsment whatever side you're on will color your view of what russia did and the significance that it had in the campaign. i don't understand why, knowing everything that we know and understanding that vladimir putin sees donald trump as a fellow nationalist who is going

to be more friendly to his agenda. he could be wrong, but that's how he sees it, that we can't simply say that russia, as it always does, as a hostile actor of the united states, tried to mess with our campaign, tried to lower confidence in our system, and yet clinton still made enough big huge mistakes that she still could have won anyway had she not done that. if you're a democrat trying to figure this out, you can look at the things clinton made with the private e-mail server, never setting foot in the state of wisconsin. when you look at how close this was, she could have won anyway. if you're on the right, you could say to yourself, look, donald trump won the election. he won it fair and square. it was a big victory when you look at what he was able to do in the midwest even though he lost the popular vote. russia hacking our cyber systems is a big deal. president obama didn't do anything about it. so we hope trump fixes it. by the way, for trump supporters, trump is going to

own anything. the next time somebody hacks the office of personnel management, if they do, or d.o.d., guess who is responsible? you can't blame obama anymore. i think that's what trump said he's going to ask his team to put together a plan to do something about it. i don't know why he doesn't emphasize that more. it's curious to say, look, i don't think this impacted my election, it's completely unacceptab unacceptable, we'll work together to fix it. i think that would sell well both to his supporters and give democrats less to shoot out. >> celina, why doesn't he say that? >> because he's donald trump. look, here is what i think is going on. i think because there was this big wave of -- right after the election, there was the recount. there was the russian hacking, and it sort of all converged and concealed together, and it made his election seem less gentlemen jit mat, especially in his

sphere and among some conservatives. they felt that, look, you guys are just complaining like you did after george w. bush won in 2000, that his win is less legitimate because of a, b and c. and i think this is just getting inside his head, and he's not able to separate the ability to say, like david said, hey, look, we need to make russia stop and stop now. and also, i won legitimately. they're two completely different things and he needs to communicate that better. >> salina, david, thank you, we appreciate you being able to channel these thoughts with us and share with us. >> thank you. a quick programming note for everyone. chris is on his way on assignment, heading to washington, d.c. to host a special prime time town hall tonight with former democratic presidential candidate and vermont senator bernie sanders. they will focus on the major issues facing or country as well

as how democrats plan to take on the president-elect. join us tonight 9:00 eastern right here on cnn. up next, authorities took the ft. lauderdale airport gunman's gun away from him two months before this attack. so why did they give it back to him when they knew he was mentally unstable? that's next. be the you who doesn't cover your moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. be the you who shows up in that dress. who hugs a friend. who is done with treatments that don't give you clearer skin.

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the man accused of killing five people and sending dozens to the hospital at ft. lauderdale international airport will be in court today. why did police give him back his gun after he was clearly suffering from some mental illness? let's bring in our fbi experts. cnn senior law enforcement analyst and former fbi assistant director tom fuentes and former fbi special agent dr. mary ellen o'toole. great to have you experts with us. i want to start with you. there's this horrible video. it has been obtained by tmz, the surveillance video of the exact moment this gunman reached into his waistband and began in cold

blood firing at people. we're only going to show it once there. i wanted to show it to you because you're a profiler. what do you see in this man's profile and this video? >> well, from the behavior, he wasn't ar rat tick, screaming and yelling and jumping pgs up and down. it appears he was pretty much in control. he was more casual than he was erratic. he was simply pointing the gun and shooting. he was pretty predatory actually in his behavior. that suggests somebody to me who is looking at these people, the victims as non-humans, that he sees them more as objects. we literally look for that kind of behavior before an event occurs, if we're going to do a threat assessment. what i look at is what is this person's view of other human beings. that can impact whether or not they decide to carry out an act

like this. >> tom, there's so many troubling things about this case. this guy was clearly suffering from some sort of mental illness. he went himself to the fbi field office in anchorage. he went in and told them he was hearing voices. he thought in his head they were u.s. intelligence agencies telling them to watch isis videos. they were concerned enough that they called the local police who helped admit him to a psychiatric facility for three days. a month later they gave him his gun back. where do you think the crack in the system is? >> allison, it's not a crack. it's the grand canyon in the entire system. it's not on the fault of law enforcement. when they hear him come in and make all these delusional statements, they are concerned could he be isis, could he be radicalized. they investigated that. when they saw none of that, and thaul say they saw were the delusional comments, the things

he was saying, they believe he's mentally ill. they're not sigh trysts generally, other than mental health professionals like mary ellen o'toole. they make a referral to police. the police have the authority to take him to a hospital who has a psychiatric ward. once that person is brought there almost voluntarily, they can check themselves in and check themselves out. it's the psychiatrists at that hospital that determine whether adjudication needs to be made that he is mentally ill. it's not the opinion of the fbi or the opinion of the police. when the police arrived at the anchorage fbi office to pick him up and went to his car, they find he's got a gun, and his infant child is in the car. they return the infant child to the mother and they take the gun. they don't confiscate it as evidence. they take it in safe keeping, just a loaded gun isn't laying around somewhere while he's at the hospital. when he comes out of the

hospital, he's not been formally judged mentally ill. so when he goes to the police station and says, okay, can i have my gun back, they have no alternative. it's his personal property which he has a lawful right to own according to the laws at hand and also not convicted of a felony. they have no ability to hold on to that weapon. they have to give it back to him. >> dr. o'toole, what is the answer? as a profiler, if this guy walked into your field office, what is the answer to preventing something like this? >> well, right now, as tom said, this would be the way it would be handled. there are three areas, in my opinion, where we need to focus. number one would be that that mental health assessment needs to be multidisciplinary which means you bring in family's opinion, the opinion of the national guard and you have someone in law enforcement who is able to sit down with psychologists and psychiatrists

and say here is my experience with people like this, so you have this opinion that is very broad based. secondly, if there are charges pending that involve domestic violence or crimes involving a firearm, the return of the firearm should be suspended until those cases are adjudic e adjudicated. thirdly, vertical prosecution by the district attorney's office like they did in the '470s and '80s with can career criminal program. the prosecutor follows the case from arraignment to trial, so if there are any issues or concerns, that one prosecutor is so familiar with the case, they can move up and go and file a special motion with the judge to say, we have an issue here. three areas which think we can focus on. >> dr. o'toole, thank you for that focus and your expertise. tom, thank you very much. we appreciate it. >> you're welcome. more "new day" when we come right back.

one of donald trump's national security communications picks is now facing a plagiarism scandal after a cnn k file report that found conservative author and television personality monica crowley plagiarized, it appears, large sections of her 2012 book. let's discuss with the author of this report, cnn editor of k

file andrew kosinski. the book is what the bleep just happened. i worked with monica crawley for many years, a lovely person, a smart political mind. how did you appear that this book appears to have like 500 instances of plagiarism. >> 60 instances. >> where did i read -- just 60? >> 60 examples of plagiarism in the whole book. basically we're looking through this book because many people write these books. she was, as you said, a fox news contributor. a lot of these people with their position on fox can promote these books. >> it's a bestseller. >> "new york times" bestseller list for two weeks. with a lot of these books, sometimes a lot of effort is not put into them.

i previously reported on all the plagiarism in rand paul's book. with a lot of books like these, they are often -- the best care is not taken to them as if someone is writing a lengthy history. >> you mean they're rushed out? >> they're rushed out, not checked. >> let me put up some examples that you found that are eerily similar to other places. let's look at a couple of these. here is monica crowley side by side with "usa today." page 175, monica crowley writes this represented a major shift in the personal income from private wages into government programs. "usa today" wrote, the result is a major shift from private wages to government programs. a side by side of crowley and wikipedia. cia director hayden stated of about 100 prisoners, enhanced techniques were used on about

30, waterboarding on three. if you look at wiki 350ed yeah, it says virtually the exact same thing. bill, how big is a problem of this for someone coming in for a kmashl security communications post? >> you could make the argument there's no real responsibility that overlaps like it would in terms of journalism or writing a book. you could say there's a little lack of attention to detail, sloppy ins in maybe the ethics of it. usually in a case like this a person apologizes. what's interesting is the response. this is only politically motivated. when you make a mistake -- when you criticize this administration it's only on the basis of politics. here it is a fundamental of reporting and publishing. the publisher normally steps back and says, we have to correct that, go through the book, give someone credit, et cetera. instead they're saying, no, it's just more political attacks

rather than acknowledging there's an ethical problem here, you should have done something about this. >> is that what harp er collins has told you, this is a political attack from you. >> the trump transition responded saying this is a politically motivated attack. they cited this as the body of work as to why they hired her. harper collins strangely didn't even respond to an e-mail, phone calls. it put a read receipt on the e-mail, read 200, 300, 400 times. they didn't respond until sunday when they said no comment, we are looking into it. it's strange for harper collins -- >> they haven't called it a political attack. >> no, they have not. >> they haven't responded. surely they will have to. harper collins cannot let that stand. >> we will see. i have to this point been extremely surprised that harper collins has given -- to not even respond ability major plagiarism

in one of your books is something that is very strange. >> i'm looking to see if we have any response from them. bill, some of these things are -- they're not sort of opinions -- the ones i read, that's exposition of just explaining something. isn't that sort of in the public domain, just talking about how many people were water boarded, things like thatment can't she make the argument that she was putting actual information in there, that wasn't her opinion she lifted from someone? >> absolutely. she could easily footnote it and that would take care of it really, in many instances. the overwhelming number of these is sort of unusual. yes, people borrow things from speeches. this has damaged people's political careers in the past. joe biden had this issue. if he had run for president this year, you would see an attack on him based on previous plagiarism. it's a question of your ethics and do the standards still count. i think we're looking at that now across the board with a lot

of these administration appointees. are they going to be held to the same standards? this is something that could be fixed, acknowledge the mistake, saying it's going to be changed and footnote it and give people credit. i think that's what you need to do. >> bill, andrew, thank you very much. let us know if you hear back from harper collins about what their response, other than no comment is. what's your take? tweet it @newday. hollywood stars using the award shows to take on the president-elect. up next, how celebrities went after donald trump without ever saying his name. that's next. who is done with treatments that don't give you clearer skin. be the you who controls your psoriasis with stelara® just 4 doses a year after 2 starter doses. stelara® may lower your ability to fight infections and may increase your risk of infections and cancer. some serious infections require hospitalization. before treatment, get tested for tuberculosis. before starting stelara®

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award winning actress meryl streep making headlines for her acceptance speech when he got on stage to accept a lifetime achievement award last night. >> there was one performance this year that stunned me. it sank its hooks in my heart, not because it was good. there was nothing good about it but it was effective and it did its job. it made its intended audience laugh and show their tooth. it was that moment when the person asking to sit in the most respected seat in our country imitated a disabled reporter, someone he outranked in privilege, power and the capacity to fight back. >> well, mr. trump firing back

in a flurry of tweets this morning. here is one. meryl streep, one of the most overrated actresses in hollywood doesn't know me but attacked last night at the golden globes. she is a hillary flunky who lost big. for the 100th time, i never mocked a disabled reporter, would never do that, but simply showed him graveling when he totally changed a 16-year-old story he had written in order to make me look bad. just more very dishonest media. let's bring in brian stelter host of reliable sources and nischelle turner, cnn contributor and "entertainment tonight" host. nischelle, let me start with you. this seemed a little out of character, pardon the pun, for meryl streep. correct me if i'm wrong, is she known for being a political grandstander? >> well, i don't know if grandstander is the word to use. she is political. we saw her last summer at the democratic national committee and give a very passionate

speech, very poignant speech. i think meryl streep is known in hollywood for championing certain issues and living out loud by them. i don't think by any stretch of the imagination she is a shrinking violet. i don't ever remember her giving a speech like this on a stage like the golden globes. but i do think she definitely speaks her mind, definitely has a political view and is not afraid to say it. >> brian, now, of course, she is confronting a tsunami of social media response. >> oh, yes. >> i'll read you a couple of them. meghan mccain, a conservative and daughter of senator john mccain says this meryl streep speech is why she won. if people don't recognize why and how, you will help him get re-elected. sean hannity says this is exactly why hollywood is dying. what a bunch of hypocrites, sex, violence and drifl rule

hollywood. >> it's not going to change the minds of the people she was trying to communicate with. i don't think that was her intent. i don't think she was trying to change minds. this was about motivation, between 53 and 54% of the people in the united states that did vote didn't vote for trump. a lot of people didn't vote at all. among the 54% of those who didn't vote for thurump, they'l want encouragement. she was speaking to that part of the country. you can argue that's a waste of tiechlt i think for that 54%, it's very useful. >> nischelle, it's in the eye of the beholder. you can see it as motivation or see it as being out of touch and hollywood is living in its own bubble. >> i think as the political pundits always say, speaking to your base. i think that's exactly what she was doing, revving up her base. also, i think she was taking this opportunity, the platform she had, knowing she would have several minutes of all eyes on

her, being the cecil b. demille award winner and saying what she felt. i think she took this opportunity to say what she felt. to be honest, i don't think she really cares what the backlash is because i think she's smart enough to know she was going to get some of this type of response. i have to say, the president-elect he cannot like what she said one bit, and if i were him, i probably would not like what she said or did. but to call meryl streep overrated? >> he's a counter puncher and has to fight back. there's a hundred different ways to play this. trump denying he ever made fun of serge kovaleski, when trump said thousands of muslims were

cheering on 9/11. this was the root of the story. trump could reach out to serge kovaleski, and i'm not sure he's done that either. >> people can go online and watch that for himself. there were lighter moments at the awards show last night. nischelle, here is one of them. ryan reynolds, when he did not win decided to, i guess, well, embrace the man sitting next to him, andrew garfield. so this got a lot of attention including from ryan reynolds' wife there who seems to be enjoying that. what was going on here, nischelle? >> good question. bromance, i don't know. the golden globes is the show where hollywood really let's loose because there's an open bar, the drinks are flowing all night. by that point in the night, i'm sure there had been several of them. you know what? there were a couple of those light moments, people like to have a little fun. ryan reynolds said, hey, i lost, i might as well get a smooch on

the side if i'm going to be a loser tonight. ryan gosling subsequently gave one of the most beautiful speeches of the night. >> 15 seconds, brian. what was your highlight? >> seeing "la la land" rack up those awards, beat the historic record of five. it had seven to are the night. if you haven't seen "la la land," now is the time. >> i'm going to take your advice, particularly after last night. nischelle and brian, thank you very much. "newsroom" with carol costello will pick up after this very quick break. i'll see you tomorrow. you won't have to worry about replacing your car because you'll get the full value back including depreciation. and if you have more than one liberty mutual policy, you qualify for a multi-policy discount, saving you money on your car and home coverage. call for a free quote today. liberty stands with you™. liberty mutual insurance.

good morning. i'm carol costello. thanks so much for joining me. a critical week for the president-elect. in the spotlight, trump's cabinet nominees. senate confirmation hearings kicking off about 24 hours from now, but the government ethics office is already waving the red flag on some of those picks, plus trump gearing up to face the press, holding his first formal news conference in months. trump gets tangled up in another feud, this time with actress meryl streep after her scathing speech at the golden globes. >> disrespect invites disrespect. violence insights violence. when the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose. >> all of this happening