the reasons we could not stop the barrel bombs. we had so few troops in iraq. charles: all right. thank you very much. lou dobbs has a two hour for good evening, everybody. president-elect trump today demonstrating he is both mag unanimous and gracious in victory. mr. trump hosted a technology summit in new york with silicon valley industry leaders, all but one of whom funneled millions of dollars to hillary clinton and fellow democrats. the president-elect, however, was not only conciliatory but offered the technology leaders his assistance. >> i'm here to help you folks do well. and you're doing well right now. i'm very honored by the bounce.

anything we can do to help this go along, we're going to be there for you. you call my people. you call me. it makes no difference. we have no formal chain of command. >> you are. the gathering of who's who, larry page, apple's tim cook, amazon's jeff bezos. while the companies are undoubtedly happy to cut corporate taxes, many of them have taken issues with his proposals for balanced aequitabe trade, they are taking issue with immigration. i'll bring that up with ed rollins, andy evans. one of those who may well be asked to join the trump administration, 55 electors on russian interference in the election.

and, yes, 54 of those 55 electors are bitter klinger democrats holding on to their destructive dreams of subverting the will of the people denying mr. trump the office he won by bulldozing the blue wall. he gained 306 electoral votes as a result. we'll have the latest in just moments. you're not going to believe the next chapter the of this story the that's unfolding right now. trump also confirming two nominations we reported to you earlier. rick perry for the energy department and mitt romney's niece for the republican committee. the house intelligence committee has abruptly canceled a planned briefing tomorrow. it was a planned briefing about the russian cyber attacks or hacks. fox news has been told the fbi, the cia, the office of the director of national

intelligence, and the nsa have all refused to provide briefers. a highly unusual move given this is the most senior committee with jurisdiction over intelligence. and at issue we're told the conflicting reports from u.s. intelligence agencies over contested allegations that russia in some manner, in some fashion allegedly attempted to influence to an unknown degree, the outcome of last month's presidential election perhaps in favor of one candidate or another. as we reported to you here last night, there is great ambiguity and considerable conflict in these claims. the office of the director of national intelligence is not supporting, neuer is it endorsing, neuer is it agreeing with the leaked assessment that moscow meddled in the election in a bid to help donald trump. it offs no reason, no sign, no

evidence whatsoever of meddling. no suggestion of a specific alteration in any way of the outcome. in fact, what the disappointed daffodils of the left brought up is if you will, no weapons, no motivation, no evidence. but they do have a suspect born of their own severely grotesque imaginings. the true crime they lament of course is their candidate is and their party beaten badly by donald trump at every level of the electorate. losing, losing, losing. the true crime that explodes their minds that they lost not clinton's race but end the obama. donald trump crushed hillary clinton in the election and destroyed the left. trump led the entire republican party and the wave election and

sent the democratic party back in time to 1922, the last time that two-thirds of the states had republican governors. the house intelligence hearing now canceled would have absolutely ignored the massive democratic defeat and instead focused how the russians came to be the featured fear of democrats and of the entire left. and now, more than 50 democratic electors led by none other than nancy pelosi's own daughter demand that the director of national intelligence brief them on the matter that the left created from whole cloth before monday's electoral college vote and the clinton campaign continues to cling to its last bitter conviction. john podesta wrote this. electors have a solemn

responsibility under the constitution and we support sthr effor their efforts to have their questions addressed. of course podesta would be out of work altogether. our first guest says intelligence has been a little bit sized in the obama administration to a significant, very significant degree, that the agencies that make up our intelligence community are highly political. and joining me now former u.s. ambassador to the united nations american enterprise institute senior fellow, john bolton. ambassador, great to have you with us. >> thank you. >> you have said, among many other things, but you are positive it could be a false flag operation. that is, someone else claiming to be leaving signatures of russian hackers. what does your great intellect and that great gut of yours tell you? >> well, i think this is a

remarkable development you've just reported, that the agencies in the intelligence community are now refusing to brief their oversight committee on the house side rg the house intelligence committee. maybe they're ready to brief the members of the electoral congress on russia. mere members on of congress are not important for them. but i think what's going on here by inference obviously is that there is disagreement within the intelligence community over a lot of issues relating to the hacking. let me just say, i think that's fine. i think there should be disagreement within the intelligence community. this, and this is where the politisization i think it does a disservice to policymakers. if i were on the house intelligence committee i would say, bring it on on. if you want to debate in front of us, that's fine. we want to hear it. >> if i were on the house

intelligence committee i would be curious about a couple of things first. how is it that 17 agencies have banded together to make a claim in the most ambiguous and abstract of forms than an act ill defined and utterly vague took place during our elections to what purpose, to what end and in favor of whom, quote, unquote, the election hacked? what was hacked? what was the consequence? why are agencies talking about it in public instead of making their assessment going ahead, seeking the approval of the chief executive of the country, namely, president obama, about how to respond? instead of this public charade that has been perpetrated? >> remember, the charade started even before the election in early october, as i recall. >> right. >> general clapper was the first

out of the box to say the russians are trying to interfere in the election. they hacked the dnc. didn't say anything about hacking the rnc at the time. that's kind of interesting. i'm worried about what we've got is this now is going to discredit the important and legitimate work that goes on in most of these intelligence agencies. this performance has no parallel that i'm aware of. >> i have never seen is the likes of it. i have never seen the likes of the response by congress which is not to inquire first why the president of the united states has not taken action in response. remember it was he who declared that a cyber attack affecting this country and its assets, whether cyber or physical, would be treated as a physical attack upon the united states. he says the agencies that advise him say purportedly that they hacked, the russians hacked our election. and there's no response.

there is just this public discourse. people are wondering what in hell happened here and why hasn't action been taken if indeed something important did the happen. >> remember, when barack obama draws a red line, you better not cross it. i think we all know that. >> right. >> the fact is there are occasions where the retaliation for a cyber attack or some kind of cyber intrusion should be done without public disclosure. but i would argue there are also increasing grounds to describe publicly what we've done after it's over. and the reason for that is to create -- to have other conditions, our adversaries around the world, understand what we are capable of doing and begin to build structures in the cyber universe that prevents this from happening in the first place, which we have done nothing of that i can see. >> so perhaps, ambassador you are perhaps not giving fair credit to this administration

because it has done a magnificent job over eight years of withholding from public view its mighty responses to its provocations that one doesn't have the power it brings to bear when in anger. i haven't seen even one incident of that nature, have you? >> it would be nice to hear one. if we were doing it and doing it successfully, my guess is leakers from inside the administration would have told us. we haven't heard any of that. look, we have a month to go before barack obama leaves office, thank god. and what this says to me is beginning at noon on the 20th of january we need a serious reassessment of our capabilities offensively and defensively in the cyber world. we've got to get an honest debate about this i feel we are just as weak in cyber territory than we are in the traditional hard world of nuclear and conventional warfare.

>> yeah. you know, and i would hope the next president of the united states would not tolerate intelligence agencies by having public expositions and participation in political gamesmanship, which it appears all of this is. >> in a country like russia, if you sue what they call the security services behaving this way, you would wonder what would come next. >> we have a pretty good indication i think. but we'd like to have a severe consequence, i believe, for such behavior and conduct on elected officials as well as the agencies. ambassador, always good to have you with us. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> thanks so much. stay with us. the president-elect reminded america and speaker ryan that he will build that great wall on our southern border. beautiful door and all. >> we have some amazing things

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last night. ryan disagreed with trump or deannounced his comments, are you ready for this, once every week and a half during the campaign during a recent analysis. but the president-elect put the speaker on notice last night in wisconsin. listen to this. >> you know, honestly, he's like a fine wine. every day goes by i get to appreciate his genius more and more. now, if he ever goes against me, i'm not going to say that. >> joining me now former senior adviser to the newt gingrich campaign, randy evans. veteran of 10 presidential campaigns, former white house political director under ronald reagan, republican strategist ed rollins. good to have you both here, folks. let me start, randy, was the rnc hacked by russians?

>> not to my knowledge. i find it fascinating where they are willing to pronounce all of these things. we had a hammer, server with bleaching in it, e-mails admitting lies. none on of that was good enough. yet we have this rumor where we can't find one fingerprint of one russian hack orrer leaving a trail. that is enough to prompt all of this furor over the electoral college. it is isry dig louse. >> to have all of these agencies out in public. they used to have 500 economists to tell you this candidate would be a disaster. oh, wait a minute. that was donald trump and the market has gone up more than 8% since he was elected. so that's not not working. what's working here? >> i don't know what's working. that's what the president needs to figure out. billions of dollars spent on intelligence. the whole idea of homeland

security, the biggest portion was to take them all put them their one to make them work with each other. the president has to get in there. this is what i want. this is what i want you to give me every day and shake this thing up big time. >> what do you think of the devastated left in this country is playing out its last nightmare. they're complaining about a president who is the commander in chief saying he wants his damn intelligence briefing the way he wants it. randy, what in the world is wrong with that? should he be some sort of a sur vial recipient of whatever the intelligence agencies wish to pass on to him at a regular hour, of course? >> well, his intelligence briefers pull exactly the same stunt as the voters did. they didn't show up and they refused to show up. think about it for a second, though. if you are the president and there is a hacking, who is to

blame? who has ultimate responsibility to protect the integrity of the election? the very one calling for the briefing. he can only get a document that is indicting of himself, either it indicts his failure to do his job or indicts his statements that the election was somehow interfered with orri hacked. i don't know what it could possibly say. it of will have both naughty and nice on it. we know there was no hacking but there's no evidence on of hacking, but they lost. >> i don't know whether there was hacking or not. i know is the american made the right choice. the key thing for this president and this congress moving forward is to make sure in an ever-changing world in you have the story of a billion people being tapped into in the yahoo! accounts. >> three years ago. we're learning about it. >> the game is now all about sealing even's information.

and we have to protect ourselves at all times. >> this is not a news break. >> i'm not saying it is is. >> i'm saying it isn't. >> okay. >> and the fact of the matter is, the yahoo! thing happened three years ago. this administration still has not called out who hacked successfully into the defense department, into the office of personnel management but can tell you in three days it hacked into the dnc. >> i don't care about this administration. i care about the next one. he has the right to get the information he wants. >> i think we're violently agreeing. randy, make an argument. >> well, mine is the challenge that's left, what obama mass left behind. any you have briefers who refuse to appear before the congress you have a fundamental breakdown. they have a duty to report. even if their job was to only show up and say there's nothing to report. there was no hacking. they still have a responsibility

to do their job. that's i think the obama legacy will be, which is to replace the personnel that he has populated the government with -- >> what barack obama wanted done today the, denying the oversight committee the proper role ask and authority that is oversight. that's the result of one barack obama. the president of the united states, he is the guy. whether we like it or not, for the next 30 days the, a little over, he's going to be the president, and he's pulling these strings, i assure you both. i'm sorry he go ahead. >> one significant is power the congress has, they control slots. they control money. if people are not showing up to the briefing, cut the hell out of the budgets and cut the hell out of the slots. >> who scares you most, mitch mcconnell or paul ryan? who would you be afraid of? >> paul ryan. >> apparently this president isn't and he has had some experience with him. thank you both. appreciate it. up next, the president-elect working hard to be the greatest

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a few thoughts now on donald trump's meeting with those technology leaders today. to put the i.d. logical divide in that in context, they donated a measly $180,000 to the trump campaign. there you are. employees of those same companies, however, donating big to hillary clinton as you see there. donating $4.4 million to hillary

clinton. it's an understatement to suggest there's some friction between silicon valley liberals and the president-elect. a letter from more than 140 technology leaders you may remember from earlier this year, pro claimed a trump administration to be a "disaster for innovation." just yesterday, however, microsoft bill gates proclaimed the president-elect could lead through innovation. gates further flattered mr. trump with comparisons to john f. kennedy. today mr. trump talked with a number of of his detractors, leaders of apple, amazon, facebook, google. ibm until yesterday. microsoft. the president-elect vowing to help those companies do well, to help them innovate. trump has already proven his administration is focused on jobs and he wants the technology industry to do their part as well in job creation.

they employ about 600,000 people. but they employ far fewer employees than less valuable companies like walmart. but there are already signs the trump magic is beginning to work even 36 days before taking office. ibm, before today's meeting, announced plans to invest a billion dollars and hire 25,000 employees the next four years. he has pledged corporate tax cuts and repatriation which would be a boost to, for example, apple that currently holds more than $200 billion overseas. it's time for trump's detractors in technology to work with him, to create jobs to the boost our economy. because he's also making it very clear he will be be their biggest booster, or he will be the shareholder. either way, trump's the right man for the job.

our quotation of the evening from former apple ceo john skully. he said this. the future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious. the future is becoming more obvious very quickly. we're coming right back. stay with us. the president-elect chooses a man he calls a world-class player as his secretary on of state. >> we just couldn't be more grateful than someone on of rex tillerson's proven leadership and accomplishments is willing to step forward