"special report" ." fair, balanced, and unafraid. don't forget, we have a special this weekend. set the dvr. thanks from naples, florida. >> eric: i'm eric bolling and for bill o'reilly. we're going to get right into our top story. the ongoing feud between president-elect donald trump and the intelligence commun this mog and the fallout follow-up frome dubious report about donald trump's tie to russia. he lashed out on twitter. days!" "it now turns out that the phony allegations against me were put together by my political opponents and a failed spy afraid of being sued." "totally made up facts by sleazebag political operatives, both democrats and republicans -

fake news! russia says nothing exists. probably released by 'intelligence' even knowing there is no proof, and never will be. my people will have a full report on hacking within 90 days!" >> the crown jewel of american security is our intelligence. everything we do, we rely upon those 16 different agencies. to dismiss them, it really plays into russia's hand. >> eric: , anthony, first of all congratulations. talk to me a little bit about what's going back-and-forth with the intelligence community. i sit on this very show i think it's been publicized. the intelligence community has been politicized. it does donald trump think this is all the politics? >> i would probably say the

aspects or slices of it may be politically charged or some people who are doing things that are politically motivated. i think the president-elect has an enormous amount amount of respect for the intelligence community. he is getting a plethora of information when he finds very useful in terms of diagramming out what our national security policies will be, what our diplomatic policies will be and so forth, but i do think there are issues here that we need to look at as americans. if we are going to politicize the justice system that we know that jeff sessions will never do that, we know the president-elect will not do tha that. i'm just here to say to you that we're looking forward to the new administration, we're looking forward to working with all of those people, you and i played a lot of sports teams, we are team oriented, we need to pass the ball, open ourselves up to each other, and do what's right for the american people. >> eric: let's talk a little

bit about james comey. "the wall street journal" suggested that he should resign. if he doesn't resign, incoming jeff sessions should ask for his resignation. if he won't, mr. trump should fire him. it's been a political football going back and forth. the democrats are saying get rid of him, all all of a sudden ine briefing room, he said we have full confidence in james comey. where is donald trump and the fbi with combing? >> i do think he's a man of integrity. i think it relates to the situation. i think the president-elect is going to look at a very carefully. i think they've interacted a few times. one of the things we both know that president donald day trump he could take measure of a person pretty quickly. what also love about him, he's going to make his own decision. he's not going to let "the wall street journal" make the decision or the partisan politics and watching to make that decision. he's going to make measures himself and going to come to a conclusion on that. here's something james, and i'm

pretty confident of. if someday would ask him to resign, he would do it because he is a great american. should it come to pass. my guess is, i honestly don't know. this is up to the president-elect to make a decision and to do that analysis. >> eric: another figurehead, james clapper, he's making the news lately. does president-elect trump have confidence in him to be a director of the dni? >> i would say to you that he probably has confidence in him. let's put it this way, a new administration is going to be in town. you know and i know when you get new leadership, good things can really happen if you set the culture right. i had a phenomenal experience in trump tower and the last 60 or 70 days or so. this man is a phenomenal leader, and even people that are not operating at full efficiency when they have a phenomenal leader, they kick it up a notch. we both know that from the businesses of a run.

so i'm hopeful that with the new administration you're going to see and uplift and a lot of facets from the government. >> eric: one question that people have right now is mr. trump's relationship with the media going forward. there's been some contention going back and forth over the last couple of days. buzzfeed publishing that 35 page unconfirmed, not fact-checked, never double sourced dossier as they called it. what will that relationship look like with the media quest mark >> i think some of these news organizations have a hard time grabbing eyeballs. they're not "the o'reilly factor" or bill o'reilly, what they say is nonsense in order to get some attention. i love that the president-elect is going to call them out on it and he's also willing to go directly to the american people rate over the top of the main screen media and let the american people know what's going on. he lost patience with his aspect of the news. i think they've grown tired with people better speaking and falsehoods. i really admire him for doing

that. it's important for him as a part of his brand to be that honest and effective. >> eric: ben smith, the editor-in-chief of buzzfeed literally wrote a note to his memo and staff saying these are unsubstantiated allegations. then he went ahead and publish them anyway. is there a lawsuit coming? >> i don't know. i would have to leave that up to the president-elect to decide. i can tell you my personal experience with ben has not been favorable. there's been a level of dishonesty but the buzzfeed process. they seem to think that they're more important than the facts and the objective standards of journalism. for buzzfeed, there is no lot of that. >> eric: there are $400 million investment. should nbc apologize and clarify the relationship? >> i can't believe that they're not embarrassed by that investment at this time. you and i have traded markets for 30 plus years, i'm hoping

fake news has had a low at very high volume, eric, and hopefully we start to see it clear up in the coming months. it is not really fair to the president of the united states and is not fair to the american people. it's going to fake news, let's talk about that paired how do you put that down? how does the trumpet ministries and put down the fake news? obviously it's exploded in the last few months. speak a lot of reliable news organizations, yourself included. we have to do is get our message out. we have terrific communication with sean spicer who i know you know very well. the president-elect is the tweeter in chief, the communicator in chief, he is the commander-in-chief and he will get our message out there in a way in in and away the american people enjoy. he knows how to unbundle things, eric, and explain things to the common person. i find it sometimes, all of us, myself included, we get into that washington speak which

makes people's eyes glaze over. i've never seen that from the president-elect. it's going before i lose you, we'll have about a minute or so. your new title, advisor, director, throw it out here. it was turned on this morning, valerie jarrett. >> i said this morning i have an overstated relationship. there are many people close to the president-elect and i'm one of them. he's been phenomenal with me and i've had a great relationship with him i said it this morning and i'll say to his viewers, i want the american people to see the president-elect and the way i see him in the way the staff sees him. he's a kindhearted, generous guy, someone who really has the interest of the megan people at heart, and i hope we can delivr that message. it's going all right, we're going to liberate there. anthony, thank you very much.

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>> eric: and the impact segment tonight, the reaction to our interview with anthony and president-elect's gmac joining us now from washington, congressman sherman, a democrat. i want to get your reaction to the previous segment. yet of very important meeting with james comey. here's one of your colleagues described it. >> i can report that my confidence in the fbi director's ability to lead this agency has been shaken. >> was at a heated exchange at any point? >> there was some heat. there was some heat.

a lot of unanswered questions. going up so congressman sherman, can you tell us what happened at that meeting? >> there were two contentions around james comey. one was 11 days before the election, his statements about hilary's email. if that had an important impact, whether he handled that correctly or not, most democrats do not believe he handled it correctly. the second issue was through what steps did he inform the democratic national committee that they had been subject to a major hack? debbie watson was there that nobody called her personally. perhaps they did a little more than call the 800 number or even a volunteer. we are going to debbie wasserman schultz who is going to had a briefing. >> eric: congressman, i'll just read a couple of quotes from some of your colleagues in

the democratic side who are at that briefing. "i no longer have confidence in him" meeting james comey. "i'm extremely concerned." "i'll just say i'm very angry" " literally, is everyone this angry about the way the dnc was notified about the information, but the emails and this is really what's making everyone this crazy, losing confidence in the director of the fbi over this email notification of the dnc? >> comey has a 10-year term anything that many democrats would prefer him. as to whether the fbi made a serious effort to inform the top executives at the dnc, comey has promised a detailed briefing. he has admitted that they never called the number one person who was debbie wasserman schultz.

whether they contacted other counselors will have to see. that's an issue, obviously his statement 11 days before inauguration is controversial. i have some level of faith and james comey and more faith and general glenn who has been appointed by the president. >> eric: are your colleagues suggesting that there's some efficacy and the hand of the fbi? >> they're there concerned aboe decisions that comey made and that at least diminished the democrats confidence in him. in my case, i have some level of confidence in the director. it is going okay. did you hear anything in that meeting that would give you concern or pause about the incoming trump administration? >> what needs to be investigated and we have no idea where it will lead is whether there was any american who was involved in

supporting or coordinating this russian hacking. i'm old enough to remember watergate. that was a matter of burglarizing the files of the democratic national community. back then, files, or in metal cabinets in manila folders. now, i see another burglary. files are in cabinets, their on email servers. if any american was involved in that, it's important. the fact that the intern committee would give some credence to this 35 page dossier is reason enough to say let's run to ground all of the charges, let's take it seriously, that doesn't mean it should have been leaked. scott congressman, before i lose you, about 30 seconds, one of your colleagues claimed that the donald trump presidency is not legitimate. what say you? >> donald trump was elected

president, those not my choice. there are many issues and how that race was won. i've seen other issues in other campaigns as well, and we accepted the legitimacy of george w. bush, notwithstanding the fact that they didn't do a full recount. i think that donald trump is going to be president. was going to congressman, thank you very much for joining us. next up on the rundown, paul ryan tells an undocumented mom not to worry about deportation forces coming after her. but also said sanction cities will not be tolerated. what to do about the immigration max, moments away

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>> eric: and the unresolved problem segment tonight, immigration chaos during a town hall event last night. a speaker of the house, paul ryan made clear how he'll

handle sanctuary cities. >> they are a violation of the law and they are not tolerated. we agree with that 100%. >> eric: speaker ryan also appeared to take a selfish stance on a policy that was put forth by president obama. >> if this gets repealed, my daughter will lose her mother. i'm sorry. she will lose her mother and i want you to know that dr. has helped me. do you think i should be deported and many families in my situation should be? >> no. if you are worried about some deportation forces coming knocking on your door this year, don't worry about that. >> eric: joining us now from washington, katrina pearson and

from fort worth, texas, immigration attorney francisco hernandez. paul ryan seems to be all over the place on this one. he said sanctuary cities, if you don't abide by federal law, we are going cut federal funding, but then he said the deportation law, don't worry about that one. >> this is interesting, because one has to raise their eyebrows, eric, when the sitting house speaker makes a policy promise to a noncitizen residing in this country. particularly one that is in direct contradiction to the election results. not only in the country, but in his home state. more importantly, unless this is the speaker's way wanting introduce legislation to codify this part of his legacy. president-elect trump is the only one who will have authority over that executive order.

>> eric: on the one hand, he says don't worry, you can stay, but on the other we're going to be tough on it sanctuary to city spirit how do you handle that one? >> if donald trump revokes a comment means was a valid order. that's a whole different myth. i repeat to you, we've had this argument before, there's no such thing as a sanctuary city. >> eric: if you're in a city and you are a mayor who tells your police department to not turn over illegals, that is a sanctuary city. >> the point of the matter is, the police officers have national necessary training to make those decisions. if we are going to pass a law that says they all have to abide by immigration law, then we're going to have to fund it. that's an unfounded mandate.

there is no such thing as a sanctuary city. it's >> eric: it we're so down e rabbit hole right now, francisco. go ahead. there are some cities that say don't turn nobler illegal. >> it francisco, why do you need a lot to tell law enforcement to enforce a law? that the purpose of this discussion. there are sanctuary cities. the legislation is titled sanctuary cities. we have laws that need to be enforced. it will be left out of this discussion is marian marion me, the mother who spoke to paul ryan. there is no promise to her that they were going to make sure that this doesn't happen to a family here in the united states. we should be making the promises to those people. >> that has nothing to do a sanctuary cities because immigration could have picked them up in l.a. or san francisc

san francisco. going to francis >> eric: kate steinle is dead. ask those families what they think. >> they let them get transferred to san francisco. they gave themselves what eight hours to go pick them up. >> here's where we disagree. >> eric: if they don't cooperate as paul ryan pointed out, it points to federal funding. >> there will be consequences. there absolutely should be consequences. francisco, you're wrong. it sanctuary cities are part of the problem because that is a huge magnet. the only reason they come back is because they know they are safe and those cities and that's when americans get hurt. >> are we saying that there will be congressional action on immigration reform ready? >> eric: i think i need to figure it out.

either you're okay with it or you're not. gotta leave it right there, guys, i'm sorry. coming up, democrats and desperation mode trying to cast new doubts on the legitimacy of donald trump's victory. we are going to take a very hard look at that one right after this. z28cnz zwtz y28cny ywty

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this is hillary clinton's former press secretary. >> every day there are new developments, new shoe droppings so to speak. they question the legitimacy of his win. >> eric: are comments like that a strategy to undermine his win? >> it looks as if the democrats on their way out the door, are trying to leave behind as many land the mac landmines as they can to at least cast doubts on the legitimacy of the trumpet victory. all of a sudden as we have seen it, they've got interested in russian cyber warfare which the administration seemed to be nonchalant about until they lost the election. >> eric: now joining us from washington, boston herald columnist. first it was james comey, then

it was the voting booths, then it was russian again. honestly can't they just get over a? she lost. >> it's a funny thing, eric we have donald trump complaining about his legitimacy that hecht got his hope political standing as a birther. it's a bit rich, okay? >> eric: that's where he got his political standing from that moment? >> i'm saying he got traction early on. i'm not talking about the campaign, i'm talking about five or six years ago at the lead birther. >> eric: there were people talking in the '80s there were saying he was going to run. all she had to do was win either florida, ohio, pennsylvania, thrown wisconsin as well. she lost all of those. >> the reason she lost was because she was a flawed candidate. this isn't about russian hacking. this is about the cloud that hung over head with the fbi

investigation. she mishandled classified information, she let men and gods he died that never had die died. she didn't run a good campaign in the battleground states which needed to be. she should only be blaming herself. i think the democrats are an embarrassment right now that they want except that donald trump administration and victory. they should be building bridges, not trying to delegitimize him. >> eric: is donald trump a legitimate president now? >> there are two things he you could do to prove his legitimac legitimacy. number one is to have an independent factfinder. incidentally, next time he says he has this great victory. >> eric: you guys always do this. >> he needs to put someone under

oath and say didn't you deal with the russians during the campaign or not? because when donald trump called on putin to steal data from the dnc and from hillary clinton and then 100 times he referenced the very data. >> eric: richard, you are spending in the no spin zone. it was a joke. maybe you can find those 55,0000 emails of a frequent and delet. remember that? it was a joke! >> wiki elites dropped all those emails and our. >> eric: is on us will the chair you're on right now? adriana, bring us up to speed now. i get it brian fallon was part of the campaign. blame anything. as far as the other democrats blaming these fake news stories. >> can you imagine if

hillary clinton one and the republicans were trying to delegitimize her win? there be a hack like there no tomorrow. it's incredible double standards. hillary clinton had a failing message. her only message on the campaign trail was basically to attack trump. she didn't have her own inspiring message. so any democrats jumped over to trump camp and voted for him. she wasn't able to capture even the female vote. a lot of women were voting for donald trump. she really has to stop blaming others and take responsibility. this gun i don't hear her doing it, i hear all her staffers doing it. i have to leave right there. thank you very much. it directly ahead, president oba came and he hasn't a single major scandal and his white house. seriously? will be back with that in a minute ♪ ♪

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spillman thinks were staying with us. i am eric bolling for bill o'reilly and the second unresolved problem tonight. scandals and the obama presidency. in an upcoming interview with 6, president obama makes a stunning claim. >> didn't change washington? >> i changed most things that were in my direct control. look, i'm proud of the fact that with two weeks to go, we are probably the first demonstration in modern history that hasn't had a major scandal in the white house. there were big stretches while governing where even though we were doing the right thing, we weren't able to mobilize public opinion firmly enough behind us to weaken the resolve of the republicans to stop opposing us or to cooperate with us. there were times during my presidency where i lost the p.r. battle. >> eric: so no major scandals during his presidency? it was oldest p.r. problems westmark seriously? a few people may disagree.

julio saw from washington, fox news attribute or. a fowler, it's a p.r. problem. it was a p.r. problem when he called isis the gdp. homegrown terror, san bernardino, orlando, those are just p.r. problems. >> i think with the president is saying there as he has never been involved in a scandal. how he defined a scandal is an impeachment like bill clinton or reagan or the vice president chief of staff going to jail for releasing the identity of a cia covert operative like what george bush did. >> eric: or a dealing that gets exposed. not people buying americans. >> i think americans are rightfully pleased that they

don't have a party leader that has a personal scandal because we've had too many clintons video democratic party. but from a policy scandal, from a government scandal, from a miss management scandal, there are plenty. let me just read you some that i wrote down in the green room just in a manner of seconds. obamacare, irs tax targeting, and ghazi lies, hillary's personal server, cylinder, sanctuary cities, management scandals of the president. >> miss management scandals? you're just making words up. i gotta tell you, none of those are scandals. >> eric: hang on one second. you don't think benghazi is a scandal or americans being killed? >> eric, i would argue that benghazi was a mishap, it was awful, but i wouldn't argue that

it was a scandal. >> eric: one more. cops being killed. it >> you're going to blame the president? >> let me jump in here for a second. what i think is a scandal is when there are massive failures and the leader cannot admit that and then we have multiple news cycles where the facts rollout in the leader still cannot admit that. that is a scandal. everything i listed are scandals. >> that's like saying that george bush, since 9/11 happened on george bush's watch is a scandal. that's not a scandal. >> there are failures that he doesn't admit. >> rich, come on.

george bush could have been better at protecting america, but we didn't call them scandal scandals. >> there are no facts that prove that. >> eric: listen to me. homegrown terror, could i be considered a scandal? >> no. >> eric: why not? americans were dying. it's not happening here. how is that not scandalous? >> how was the genocide and syria a scandal? do we call the genocide in a scandal under george w. bush? >> so many mismanagement problems. bingo george bush did not react to sedan. don't deflect, is the same thing. how is it different?

>> what about targeting conservatives and the irs? >> what about george w. bush being audited four times? is that on a scandal? >> eric: it's a good debate, thank you very much. when we come back, a wild press conference, and a salacious but dubious report on donald trump and russia. we'll have all that in a minute. retirement squirrel from voya. i represent the money you save for the future. who's he? he's the green money you can spend now. what's up? gonna pay some bills, maybe buy a new tennis racket. he's got a killer backhand. when it's time to get organized for retirement, it's time to get voya. from my sweet dreams? thanks to tena, not tonight! only tena overnight underwear ...with its secure barrier system gives you.... ...triple protection from leaks, odor and moisture. tena lets you be you

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a press conference for the ages where trump got to take down one of his favorite targets. >> mr. president-elect. >> go ahead. no, not you. your organization is terrible. >> can you give us a chance to ask the question, sir? >> quiet. she is asking a question, don't be rude. >> can you give us a question? >> i'm not going to give you a question. you are fake news. >> eric: instructor this week's incredible series of events, are they coming out ahead? editor of the hill newspaper. kelly, your thoughts. that was must-see tv. who wins in that exchange? >> i think donald trump ultimately wins. that is why. he built his campaigns and a lot of his methods it was him versus the establishment.

what buzzfeed did this week was it printed tabloid trash that confirmed the suspicions that most americans have, that the mainstream media is out to get donald trump. on wednesday, during donald trump's presser, was able to go after them and he had legitimate reasons to go after them. this whole notion of printing just the salacious garbage was unfair, unjust, and donald trump stood up for himself and in the process, stood up for his supporters and the market people. >> eric: how do you see this? >> donald trump showed at the press conference that he was in control. he is going to show that he's going to be fighting with the media. he thrives on it, he gets the edge on them, and without a doubt, what buzzfeed did was horrible. >> eric: by the way, i think of i'm not mistaken, congress has a low approval rating and i think the only one below that is or are the media.

he's got a very, very big live target to aim at. let me play a shot of something i kind of blew my mind when i heard it. take a listen to cedric richman. >> to have a sinister, a house member, and a living civil rights legend testified the end of all of this is the equivalent of being made to go to the back of the bus. >> eric: i'm going to start with you, bob. that was representative richman at the confirmation hearing for jeff sessions. let me let you weigh in. >> there was a lot of testimony there. one from a former worker, employee of jeff sessions who praised him. they were talking about the civil rights struggles which clearly, there were some major struggles back then. they were tying it to sessions, but they don't have specific instances of him being at fault. obviously, he has said

controversial things in the pas past. interesting thing is, if you talk to democratic senators and i have, who have known sergeant for a long time, have worked with them for decades, they all like him and they respect him. they are getting pressured, though, from liberal groups to vote no. i still think there will be some democrats along with all the republicans, who will vote yes. >> eric: kelly, the nominees, how are they doing so far? i want to point out a lot of people on the left are saying look at these nominees. they're not necessarily collecting where donald trump was during the campaign, but then again, is that a good thing? is that refreshing to know that he is willing to appoint or nominate people who didn't necessarily stand up to people with a exacting voice as he has? >> donald trump deftly rock the vote, right? but his cabinet appointees this week have proven that they are the ones that are calming the waters. jeff sessions came off with a

profound knowledge of the law and opposing law and you want to try to influence the law. jeff sessions was very clear and said no, i will uphold the laws and the constitution. there was a very refreshing thing to say. even in rex tillerson's hearing which was one of the more heated ones this week with marco rubio attacking him, about not calling russian president letterman put in a war criminal, i think the majority of people so that exchange and saw marco rubio grandstanding and basically the winner of that exchange was rex tillerson. the obama administration hasn't gone that far. why would the secretary of state do that? there needs to be a broad range of opinions going into this

white house. donald trump likes that. he said today at trump tower, he wants all of his nominees to go out there and show congress what they were about and show them their personalities. and work through their differences at the white house. going we're going to leave right there but bob and kelly are going to stay with us. we're going to take a quick break but when we come back, donald trump's inauguration is just one week away. what to expect for the big moment when we come back.

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>> eric: in the segment tonight, it is just one week until inauguration. the next seven days are undoubtably going to be huge. kelly riddell, take a look, going forward. what are we looking forward to? let's start with you, bob. >> busy day one. he's going to be signing a slew of executive orders. for example, he will be killing the tpt trade deal.

regulations, especially on obamacare action. this trumpet team wants to get off on a lot of momentum. they are going to be very busy on day one, going into the weekend and then one thing, eri eric, washington is bracing for this donald trump. they are actually fearing donald trump. he is going to take up this tow town. >> eric: what you say, kelly, same type of assessment? >> definitely. we know that obamacare, the first step in repealing that law and it will be a lot of questions around how would the replacing it. they did the easy part, now comes the hard part. they are going to try to strip obamacare, the reconciliation process only requires 51 votes. it will be interesting to see how donald trump cajoles the

g.o.p. senators as well as eight or ten democratic senators that he needs in order to get this major bill through. >> eric: bob, many leftist groups are talking about protesting, not showing up at the inauguration. take a listen to representative john lewis, this will be on "meet the press" coming up. listen to what he had to say. see if this helps matter. >> i believe in forgiveness, working with people. this is going to be hard, it will be very difficult. i don't see this president-elect as a legitimate president. >> eric: your thoughts, bob. >> he is a civil war hero, civil rights hero. democrats are still in denial. they are struggling but president-elect trump will be

sworn in. i just think it looks bad for democrats not to show up at the inauguration. many democrats are going to show up. there is a small few that are deciding not to show up. >> eric: what's the point, why are they not showing up? i don't member republicans not showing up. i could be wrong. >> it is despicable behavior. we've seen this slow walk that the democrats have done up to this point. he doesn't think that donald trump, he thinks he is disqualified for office. this is something that a lot of democrats have wanted to say for a long time. it seems like an orchestrated move. they are absolutely lifting their minds over donald trump's win. they had a candidate that was one of the worst candidates in hillary clinton. she lost an unbelievable election. she was the worst candidates, they can't come to grips with reality. i wish everybody could come together. donald trump is our president, he is going to be the president

of the united states. just like republicans wished barack obama well, and one of his presidency to be successful, democrats should want the same. >> eric: you two are both in d.c., that place is going to be crazy for the weekend. going forward, our people ready for the trump group? the administration? >> no, i don't think they are ready for trump and there are some on the left that think it's going to be the end of the world a week from today. i think the republic will continue. people are really just getting a little bit too worked up over this. it's a challenge to be united over. >> eric: i agree with you, bob. there'll be some some republican scratching their heads. you know what they say, drain the swamp. we got to leave it right there. bob, kelly, thank you very much. that's it for tonight, i am eric bolling filling in for bill o'reilly. please member, the spin stops

here. because we are looking out for you. >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." the inspector general's office has issued or has started an investigation into the department of justice. specifically, its fbi director, jim comey's conduct prior to the election. this is reopening something that is already been closed, we are joined appropriately by james rosen. what is this, james? >> many trump supporters, conservatives and legal experts are questioning the timing and particularly the scope of this investigation into the conduct