mrs. obama: given how our first christmas weekly address went, i realized that barack needed all the help he could get. [pause] >> this is our first christmas in the white house. [laughter] you have got to pull it together. [laughter] mrs. obama: celebrating the holidays in the white house over these past eight years has been a true privilege. we've been able to welcome over half a million guests. our outstanding pastry chefs have baked 200,000 holiday cookies. and barack has treated the american people to countless dad jokes. president obama: although a few got a -- frosty reception. mrs. obama: this year's white house holiday theme is "the gift of the holidays," and our decorations reflect some of our greatest gifts as a nation: from our incredible military families, to the life-changing impact of a great education. president obama: and the greatest gift that michelle and i have received over the last eight years has been the honor of serving as your president and first lady. together, we foug

>> thank you, mrs. obama.or me, what encouraged me is that if madam president can be str strong, i am a woman like her and i can be strok too. i put myself in the feet of education that i can be more than her in society. >> many girls get pregnant in our community. teenage pregnancy with peer pressure. and some of them want to go to school. how can they go to school? thank you. >> i go to school, but i have self support. i have to sell after school and market and i support myself. i take care of my parents. >> you found the value in yourself. [ applause ] >> i really want to know how it feels to be a first lady and your challenges, some of your weaknesses and your strgths and the disadvantages. i really want to know. >> excellent. i want to say how impressed i am with all of you. not just the types of stories you told, but the way you did it. with confidence and pride. that's the beginning of becoming a leader. it's just starting to do things that you don't feel comfortable doing. you push yourself to do them

mrs. obama: given how our first christmas weekly address went, i realized that barack needed all the help he could get. [chuckling] mrs. obama: this is our first christmas in the white house. [laughter] mrs. obama: you have got to pull it together. potus! [laughter] mrs. obama: celebrating the holidays in the white house over these past eight years has been a true privilege. we've been able to welcome over half a million guests. our outstanding pastry chefs have baked 200,000 holiday cookies. president obama: that is a lot of cookies. mrs. obama: and barack has treated the american people to jokes.ss bad president obama: although a few got a -- frosty reception. ha ha! mrs. obama: there is another one. this year's white house holiday theme is "the gift of the holidays," and our decorations reflect some of our greatest gifts as a nation: from our incredible military families, to the life-changing impact of a great education. president obama: and the greatest gift that michelle and i have received

mr. obamad he warned putin during this summit meeting in september that russia must not attempt to hack into any systems for counting votes. and mr. obama said there is no evidence that they did that. but in a news conference, the president said the russians did hack into the democratic national committee and the emails of hillary clinton's campaign chairman. he suggested that mr. trump and republicans aided the russian plot by embracing the embarrassing leaks that dominated the media before election day. margaret brennan is at the white house. >> not much happens in russia without vladimir putin. >> reporter: president obama left little doubt he believed vladimir putin was involved with the russian hacking, and he confronted him about it two months before the election. >> in early september, when i saw president putin in china, i felt that the most effective way to ensure that that didn't happen was to talk to him directly and tell him to cut it out. there were going to be some serious consequ

we'll be joined by mrs. obamae. ♪ >> here they are. >> how are you? i've heard so much about you. i've read about you all. >> let me start with the one you are -- and i can feel your anticipation to see her, right? i'm talking about the first lady of the united states, michelle obama, joined by meryl streep and freida pinto. you can give them a bigger, warmer applause than that. come on! [ applause ] >> thank you all. i am beyond excited to be here with all of you. and i'm so excited to be able to bring a piece of the world here to hear your stories. if there are people who come to you and say why should we educate girls. well, the health of any nation can be measured by the health of women in that society. because women bear children. they raise the children. and if you look at women who are not educated in their countries, there are higher infant mortality rates, higher rates of hiv. obviously lower wages. and all of those conditions have an impact not just on that girl, but on her family, on that society, and e

please welcome, president obama, mrs. obamaw show. -- sasha. ♪ [applause] ♪ obama: hello, everybody. happy holidays. to all of you. eva longoria, thank you for the wonderful hosting. kelly clarkson, we love everybody who is here tonight and everybody watching at home. it is now officially the time to light this tree. [applause] president obama: are you ready to count down? we start from five, are you ready? >> yes. president obama: are you sure? 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. [applause] president obama: merry christmas, everybody. ♪ [applause] >> i'm pleased to be joined by the national director of the national park service, jonathan jarvis. director jarvis, happy holidays. director jarvis: happy holidays. this year, the national parks department turned 100. we have lost initiative called find your park, designed to help americans find their nearest national park, one of 413 parks across the country, including big end and what alumina mountains national parks in your home state of texas. >> that is so great. i also understand that a lot of peo

first war had the transpacific partnership, something mr obama has worked very ha rd something mr obamaas worked very hard with shinzo abe to get in motion. then the president elect who will take office onjanuary motion. then the president elect who will take office on january 21 motion. then the president elect who will take office onjanuary 21 has said that japan should pay to have us troops on its soil. should pay to have that extra defence. he also suggested that japan should develop its own nuclear weapons to defend itself from north korea. it is worth noting that shinzo abe flew to new york, he was the first prime minister, the first leader, to visit with mr calm after he was elected. and it was a symbol then of how important this us japanese alliance is tojapan, important this us japanese alliance is to japan, who has found itself quite isolated in asia with a strengthening north korea and a strengthening north korea and a strengthening china. so the last summit with mrobama strengthening china. so the last summit with mr obama and this view that he hopes to express will be impor

mr. obama's fading power.oday he was even dissed by the british with whom we are said to have a special relationship diplomatically. now apparently not so special. british prime minister theresa may unexpectedly scolded secretary of state john kerry saying it was inappropriate to spend so many time attacking israel earlier this week. that was widely seen as a sign that even the british are done with the obama years and waiting for the trump administration to get going. major developments to chew over though tonight we will get you ready for new year's eve. several live reports and make time for other intriguing stories. maybe it's not surprising that another singer tonight is saying she will not perform the donald trump's inauguration. but you can believe that she went so far as to say it's because she could never, quote: throw roses to hitler? oh. did i mention that this flame-floor is not a hollywood liberal? she a performer for the mormon tabernacle choir. and we will also check in on lindsay lohan's latest

mr. obama's record would have prevented him from winning. roxana saberi is here. in new york with more. xana, good morning. >>> good morning, meg. president-elect trump said he could have won again. mr. trump took to twitter to disagree. this follows a series of rare public confrontations between the outgoing and incoming administrations. >> reporter: in a hypothetical presidential race, president-elect donald trump says there's no way he would lose to president obama, citing jobs, isis and obamacare as the reasons on twitter. the comment came in response to a podcast interview the president gave to a former senior adviser suggesting the contrary. >> i'm confident that if i had run again and articulated it, i think i could have mobilized the majority of the american people to rally behind it. >> reporter: mr. trump has been at odds with the sitting president in recent weeks for weighing in on foreign policy issues before officially taking office. >> abstention. >> reporter: yesterday, he blasted the united nations as, quote, a club for people to have a good time, days after the u.s. vote

mrs. obama: 6, 10, 100? [laughter] 9000? , it's 70,000ou ornaments. i was pretty shocked at that. so, we can't wait. that is a lot of ornaments. we can't wait to start welcoming people into their white house this holiday season. who createdone these stunning displays, our volunteers, the folks that help to make this happen, i want to once again say thank you, you did a phenomenal job once again in turning this house into a magical place. to all the military families, those of you here today and those of you around the world, i want to once again honor you for , your sacrifice, and your love of this nation. i's a love that my family and share along with you. it has been such a complete pleasure to support you in this time. want to wish everyone a happy, healthy holiday season. all right? and with that, we get to have some fun, ok? just talking to the kids here. [laughter] here's what you get, we will take your children from you for a moment. that's what you get. [laughter] [applause] mrs. obama: don't applaud too loudly. they are still here and can hear you. you can enjoy the cider

but mrs. obama was very clear about how much help mrs. and said the door is open for me to help -- because nobody noes what it's like until you're there particularly if you have not been fist lady of the state and that was the case for mrs. obama and certainly the case for mrs. trump so i think it's a wonderful, wonderful thing the way these women really do help each other. >> a special role. >> it is a special role. >> and it means a lot the way the family presented and i think it gives stability to the president. in terms of ivanka, it looks like she's going to play an unusual role and perhaps step in to the social aspects of some of this and policy issues, as well. kind of like a first lady in her role, as well. >> she's warns us off from time to time about that but we'll see what role. she's clearly a very important adviser to her father and someone who he relies on and wants her nearby in a role and we did have in the book elizabeth monroe, the wife of president james monroe, their daughter played the first lady role in washington be

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the visit comes six months after mr. obamaecame the first sitting american president to visit hiroshima, site of the first u.s. atomic bombing. >>> five inmates who broke out of a jail in eastern tennessee have been captured. a sixth remains on the run. david fazier had been in cust today for aggravated robbery and possession of a weapon. he is considered dangerous. the fifth broke out of jail early christmas morning by removing a toilet and going through a wall behind it. apparently, it will be leaking. >>> this year may go down as one of the worst years for drunk driving deaths. an average 28 people a day have been killed in dui accidents. kris van cleave talked to a woman who understands all too well the pain a drunk driver is cause. >> it must be a moment you think about all the time. >> constantly. >> reporter: christine alexander knows the pain a drunk driver can cause because she was one. when you got in the car that night, did you know how intoxicated you were? >> no. >> reporter: did you shouldn't drive? >> i didn't t

shows that mr. obamaredibility left with putin or the world because of his failed foreign policy. >> respondthat, the newest peg that russia will notç retailiate. they will not create problems for u.s. diplomats or expel anyone. and what more do you say to do. we don't have the level of important people they have over here? >> what always happens, they will kick out our diplomats thappens all of the time and the fact that russia did not do this is unprecedented. instead putin said he's looking forward to working with the next president. i fully expected 35 u.s. t that did not happen. >> president-elect trump said we should move on. but he will talk about the information obtained in the cyber attacks to learn more. what should he do about the administration's move? >> i think trump is going to learn that there is a russian cyber warfare against the the united states. but has to find out how to deal with that and not engage in petty policy. we know that russia was able to hack a lot of democratic e-mailç b

and so that was surprised that mrs. obamals, 70% of americans supported barack obama when he took the oath of office and were rooting for him to do well i didn't see any overt partisanship on the republican side. i didn't see any bitterness about john mccain or calling for the electoral college to be abolished or blaming the taiwanese on subverting the election. i didn't see any of that i don't know what she is basing it on. >> neither do i. remember, she came, in her husband came in with 60 democrats in the senate to 40 republicans. 255 democrats in the house to 178. the problem with that, he had too many. so he didn't think he needed to talk to the republicans. you may remember in february of 2009, the republican house members come down to offer their suggests to him about the stimulus bill. this is the famous meeting in the cabinet room where eric cantor begins to lay out the republican ideas and obama cuts him off by saying i won. end quote. i had dinner with one of the top white house. i have always been surprised we did

mrs. obama: 'twas the night before christmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. patrick: that's first lady michelle obama, helps get kids at the children's national health system in the holiday spirit. reading stories to patients at the washington hospital is a first lady tradition dating back to bess truman. mrs. obama was j radio host ryan seacrest. patrick: this should be a fun mark: the first time i have dropped my clicker. it is still working. 19 right now, 14 in watertown. we will get worse. buckle up. >>> tonight, the images coming in. deadly driving. the snow and ice. hundreds of accidents. and now, the arctic air sweeping in, wind chills 10 to 20 delow zero. >>> president-elect donald trump and the russian hackers. he says he doesn't believe it. taking on the intelligence community he will soon rely on. and on whether he needs the daily intelligence briefings. >> you know, i'm, like, a smart person. i don't have to be told the same thing in the sa

mr. obama kicking out dozens of suspected spies and imposing banking restriction with just 3 weeks left before he leaves office. >> and president-elect trump promising better relations with israel, under his watch. >> we have to -- it set us back, we'll see what happens after january 20. tom: lieutenantcolonel ralph peters said that president obama has a disastrous approach to the middle east. >> critics slamming president obama for executing another federal plan grab before he leaves office. we have the details. >> good evening, i am tom sullivan in for lou dobbs, obama administration today, announcing it is retaliating against russia over its alleged effort to interfere in our presidential elections, these sanctions just 21 days before president obama leaves office leaving many critics wondering about mr. obama's motiving as. kevin cork is traveling th the president in hawaii with our report. reporter: 72 hours, that is how long nearly 3 dozen russian diplomats have to leave the nation, after

mrs. obamaade it clear she will not be running for political office. >> no, that's one thing that i don't do. i don't make stuff up, i'm not coy. i'm very direct. i don't believe in playing games. it's not something i would do. but it also speaks to the fact that people really don't understand how hard this is. and it's not something you that cavalierly just ask a family to do again. maybe because we got it wrong or we think you got it wrong. you just go back and do it. you're the closest thing to that, so, you do it. but let me just tell america, this is hard. it's a hard job. i said it on the campaign trail. it requires a lot of sacrifice. it is waiis weighty thing. it's not something that you even look to one family to take on at that level for that long of a period of time. >> mrs. obama says she would never run for office because of the impact it would have on her family. >> the president of the front tear airlines pilots union said the airlines fell on its face. frontier hopes to return to

mrs. valerie cher it. [ clapping ] >>> good afternoon, on behalf of president obama and mrs. obama i wish to express their regrets that they couldn't be here as we celebrate the extraordinary life of muhammad ali. i first met muhammad ali 45 years ago through his friendship with my uncle gene dibble. he was so touched that his son gene is a pal bearer today. thank you lonnie. because of my family connection, the president and first lady asked me if i would read this tribute to you penned by president obama. it was 1980. an epic career was in its twilight. everybody knew it. probably including the champ himself. ali went into one of his final fights an underdog. all of the smart money was on the new champ, larry holmes. and in the end the odd makers were right. a few hours later, at 4:00am. after the loss, after the fans had gone home and the sportswriters were writing their final take. a sportswriter asked a rest room attendant if he'd bet on the fight. the man, black and getting on in years, said he'd put his money on ali. the writer asked why. why the man said. why, the man

next, president and mrs. obama host a white house reception for this years kennedy center honorees. then at a c ramani honoring harry reid. after that, arizona senator john mccain and former house speaker newt gingrich discuss foreign policy. president obama and first lady michelle obama hosted a white the 2016eption for kennedy center honorees. they included pianist martha argerich, al pacino, james theor, mavis staples, and girls rock band. this is about 25 minutes. eagles rock band. this is about 25 minutes. >> ladies and gentlemen, the 2016 kennedy center honorees. martha argerich. [applause] >> al pacino. [applause] >> mavis staples. [applause] james taylor. [applause] , don henley, walsh, andmith, joe representing her late husband glenn frey, ms. cindy fry. [applause] [applause] -- [laughter] [cheers] we love you! [laughter] ♪ >> a president of the united states and mrs. michelle obama. [applause] ♪ [applause] [cheers] thank you so much,ump everybody. thank you. thank you. good evening, everybody. >> good evening! on behalf of michelle and myself, welcome to the white house. o

mr. obaman and surf to welcome japan's prime minister to pearl harbor. chip reid is traveling with the president. >> prime minister abe did not apologize for the attack on pearl harbor. in a heartfelt speech he d victims. >> wars can end. the most bitter of adversaries can become the strongest of allies. >> with the japanese prime minister by his side, president obama looked toward a future of peace. while standing at the site of a devastating attack on the u.s. >> we cannot choose the history that we inherit. but we can choose what lessons to draw from it. and use those lessons to chart our own futures. >> reporter: during an historic visit to pearl harbor, prime minister abe did not exactly offer an apology, but instead, his sincere and ever-lasting condolences. >> translator: we must never repeat the horrors of war again. >> reporter: at the uss arizona memorial the two men honored the 1,077 sailor who perished when the ship was bombed december 7, seven months ago, president obama became the

trump is going through now, hillary went through, mrs. obama, jackie kennedy, mrs.ush, you have to think through how you raise children or a child in the white house. to live some semblance of a normal life and protect them. they didn't run for re-election. they're a kid who got you know, put in the white house, chelsea at age 12. i think one of the most amazing things that the ushers did for her, i think it was the first night they were there, she had for friends from little rock spending the night. and they did a scavenger hunt through the state floor of the white house to find the painting of someone in the red room and they were running all over, getting used to the house. i finally realized, i knew when chelsea made the house her home, her parents one night were having a dinner for people in the green room and she came down to say good night to them and the marine orchestra was playing in the background and she was a ballerina. she came down off the elevator and went down into the grand lies, dancing,p completely oblivious to the orchestra. afterwards it she ki

mr. obama called the tough measures an appropriate response , but moscow denies the allegations, saying the sanctions are unlawful and will harm the restoration of ties between the u.s. and russia. 35 russian diplomats will be expelled, all suspected of being intelligence operatives. with their families, they will have 72 hours to leave america. 2 russian compounds with the white house -- which the white house believes were used for intelligence gathering in maryland and new york will be closed. sanctions are also being levied against russia's 2 leading intelligence services. 4 top russian officers will be targeted for allegedly ordering the attacks. mr. obama also announced that the u.s. will produce evidence linking the cyberattacks to computer systems used by russian intelligence. and he warned that more unspecified actions will follow. our correspondent in washington, laura bicker, gave me the reaction to these sanctions. laura: this is the strongest action yet by america against a cyber at

. >> mr. obama says he regrets that diplomatic and political pressure failed to stop the carnage in certify i can't. the recovered economy and lowest unemployment rate in nearly a decade. and he also mentioned health insurance. >> for the first time in our history, more than 90% of americans are insured. in fact, yesterday was the biggest day ever for health care.gov. >> mr. obama is proud the nation has cut its dependence on foreign oil by more than half. president obama also promised to fight back against what he calls a russian hack against hillary clinton and the democrats during the election. scott budman joinsis now. scott, could this be a new cold war that we're entering? >> reporter: it's beginning to sound like it, jessica. but this would be a different kind of war. this one would involve computers. >> good afternoon. >> reporter: in his last scheduled news conference, president obama wasted little time before calling out russia. which both the cia and fbi now agree worked to help get donal

but the real focus of mr netanyahu's anger is president obama himself.he relationship between the two men and the israeli government and the obama administration really couldn't be worse. mr netanyahu again today suggesting that mr obama was personally manoeuvring behind the scenes to deal this blow diplomatically to israel. and therefore, waiting potentially for donald trump? well, the israelis see change coming on a very kind president—elect, donald trump, who broke with the usual protocol surrounding the behaviour of the president—elect and personally tried to moving and derail, did what he could to derail this resolution at the un and was almost successful in that. he made clear his unhappiness at all this and the israelis see him about to move into the white house in the weeks ahead, and they have no doubt at all that they are going to have a much easier diplomatic relationship with washington, at least, in the years ahead than they have had with the obama administration. alan johnston on events in israel. a powerful typhoon, nock—ten, a powerfultyp

i wrote about presidential candidates and their impact that like mr. obama because the first woman to be the nominee it is historic but it is an open question that could lead into the era of america that is good or bad with her campaign was not successful to allow trump to come into office but did she change the democratic party? that is hard to say. looking under senator sanders the cannot be told immediately they need some time to get some perspective and as of losing presidential candidate at the time with complete disasters now 50 years later we see barry goldwater transform the republican party so will take a few decades before we know exactly of of legacy. >> was barred door interest that made one to write this book quite. >> [inaudible] straight out of the alfred hitchcock with a glamorous women and all sorts of things a little corner the they are familiar well if but the book argues that "inga" was responsible for john kennedy to become president as anybody we think of him as handsome man destined to be president but he was the young officer in naval

not only is russian president vladimir putin vowing to retaliate diplomats are open mocking mr. obamaident obama expelled 35 russian dips in cold war deja vu american people will be glad to see the last of this hapless administration. they drew a picture for mr. obama a pretty picture of a lame duck. ouch. in a moment we will dig deeper on the substance of these sanctions and whether they are as tough as the white house claims. plus go live to palm beach to see what the next president donald trump has to say about all of this. he just spoke out a few minutes ago. chew over the political stakes with daniel halper. bessie woodruff politics reporter at the daily beast. daniel, start with you, the president has only 22 days in office. he dropped this stink bomb at the u.n. over israel. now. this how much of this is muddying the waters at least a little bit for president-elect trump. >> it puts president trump into a bind. he have to make immediate decision whether to continue this israel policy that president obama has put in place. we already know he has made that decision. we presume, b

netanyahu and mr. obamahe sense that president obama may be on an island even when it comes to his own party. give us a sense of the congressional fallout. >> the backlash continues from some democrats and many republicans on capitol hill. house speaker paul ryan saying the vote was shameful, and the new unified republican government would work to repair relations with israel. mr. netanyahu stated publicly he looks forward to working with the president-elect and the republican congress. mr. trump tweeted before the vote he believed it should be vetoed. after the resolution passed, mr. trump simply passila tweeted, t different after january 20th. this cover from the "new york post" says what many are feeling, a president obama has betrayed our ally israel. leland, it's not all negative reaction. the president has received some positive feedback from human rights groups saying it was a welcome change from the past. back to you. >> lauren blanchard live in d.c. as the reaction continues. merry christmas eve. we

this morning, when the vote was rescheduled, mr. obama decided not to stand in the way of the rest of the world powers, as they called for a construction halt. israeli ambassado ambassador amn argued it will make a peace deal harder. >> by voting yes in favor of this resolution, you have in fact voted no. you voted no to negotiation. >> reporter: white house officials insist that mr. obama has been a friend to israel and point to a recent $38 billion military aid package, the largest in u.s. history. elaine, as for donald trump, he tweeted after the vote that things at the u.n. will be different once he's in office. >> quijano: margaret brennan in our washington bureau. margaret, thank you. the u.s.-russian relationship also figures to be much different. the president-elect and russian president vladimir putin have alternated between complimenting each other and threatening an arms race. barry petersen has that part of the story. >> reporter: parading their military might through red square is an annual ritual for the russians, and so is

and mr. obama indicated he may take action for the hacks. he's got 35 days left in his administration. anything he does would be reckless and fool dts hearty and probably undone by mr. trump, anyway. so my guess is that he'll let the new administration take over and watch how world relations improve significantly. >> well, we know that the president said that he had a conversation with putin. if he is convinced he's going to see the link is there. does he do something tough in this last month? >> last time dnc was broken into, it was called watergate and cost an american president their job. we have a foreign leader who has broken into the dnc, stolen our service and a president-elect unwilling to acknowledge the consensus within the intelligence community that this is is russia. if anything, this elevates to a national security issue. but the first thing is that he needs to acknowledge that this is serious. >> guy, i want to bring you in here. this gets muddied up. and it's important to remind you that people do not believe in breaking in. s

mr. obama has responded to hundreds of thousands of freedom of information act request. hasn't gotten any credit. he questions how transparent president elect donald trump will be. >> given the fact that president obama has been the most transparent in american history and given the fact that he has not gotten much if any credit for that from journalists, what incentive does a guy like donald trump who has a predisposition against transparency when you consider the way he handled his tax returns, what incentive, what argument does anybody have that there is a benefit for him to be more transparent. >> the interviewer here is questioning that claim saying mr. obama has denied countless requests. >> the times refusing republicans of stealing a seat on the supreme court. saying it should have been filled by president obama. the column says in part it was stolen by top senate republicans who broke with long standing tradition and wouldn't accept a nominee. they wanted to preserve the conservative majority. >> it is 22 after the hour. they say it is the thought that counts, r

mr. obama's emission reduction program. but trump also talked with al gore and leonardo dicaprio about climate change. so what gives, reid? >> well, this is one of the things that i'm going to be watching. we're going to see a seachange here in the relationship between federal government and the states now that we've got a new administration. scott pruitt, attorneys general from state like texas and kansas, very conservative states, spent the last eight years suing the obama administration, every agency from the epa to the department of energy, the department of the interior, fish and wildlife service. now, we're going to see a reversal. if scott pruitt as the next epa administrator tries to undo a lot of the climate regulations that the obama administration has imletted if they skip even a tiny step you're going to see some democratic states, most notably california, stepping in with litigation as fast as possible. the trump administration is going to try to undo a lot of the regulations the obama administration has implem

making it look as if mr. obama is trying to take a swipe at him. t if you're asking what more informed opinion believes, then i think many people in israel recognize that this is the failure of mr. netanyahu's policy. the policy itself and the loose talk in the last few months on the part of the prime minister and some of his ministers, especially since the elections indicating now that mr. trump is coming into office, the american policy will change and israel can do what it wants. to a certain extent, i would say this is self-inflicted damage, as severe as it is for israel. >> that begs the question, what's next? we saw what the prime minister did. he was very prompt in his response to the u.n. vote. he cut off aid to some countries, he called in the u.s. ambassador for a talking to. then he said israel does not turn the other cheek. so what do you think benjamin netanyahu is prepared to do next? >> i would imagine not very much. talk is cheap. and in practice, there isn't too much israel can do here. mr. netanyahu's policy managed to unite the en

larry, mrs. obamaher greatest impact as a first lady was as a role model for african-american women. in your mind what was the biggest impact she had on the country? >> well, i think as part of a highly functioning extremely successful african-american family, this was a great image for the country, not just for african-americans, for all americans. so, i think that has got to be her accomplishment which is kind of a co-accomplishment with her husband, the first african-american president. she did loads of things. she was a very active first lady. she was involved with many public issues including the health of children and adults, promoting good food and nutrition. things that a first lady can do and can accomplish with some controversy but not nearly as much controversy as a presidential husband. >> and, michele obama took an awful lot of criticism for even her, you know, her healthy eating campaign. do you think that melania trump will take such criticism for other things? >> well, often first ladie

mr. obama decision not to block a united nations security council resolution condemning israeli settlement laid bare all the grievances the two men have nursed shortly after they took office in 2009. mr. netanyahu, it was the final betrayal by a president it was supposed to be an ally but never really was. for mr. obama, it was the inevitable result of mr. netanyahu's own stubborn defiance of international concerns with his policies. the two sides did little to hide their mutual contempt. mr. obama would not be retelling the resolution as presidents of both parties have done in the past. theiri officials watched hands of the incumbent and contacted his successor. president-elect donald trump probably put out statements calling on mr. obama to veto the resolution. we had james comic from santa fe, texas on the democratic line. good morning. caller: good morning. israel has been going back for years and years. tried tosidents have get these people to talk. israelisto me like the -- i know they wa

mr. obama sent a clear message to moscow tonight in his news conference. on the same page, cnn has learned that the fbi now agrees with other intelligence agencies about russia's role in the cyber attacks. we'll tell you what top officials in america's spy organizations are saying tonight. >>> lowering the temperature, president obama voices a sharp criticism of donald trump for his embrace of putin and refusel to accept russia's role in the hacking. will the trump team follow his lead? >>> who is to blame, hillary clinton and her campaign chief now claiming vladimir putin's grudge and the fbi played a pivotal role in their defeat. we'll talk about the political and legal implications of the election blame game. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >> obama virtually confirming russia's vladimir putin ordered hacking attacks that influenced the american election. the president stopped short of directly blaming putin citing the ongoing invest