carl bernstein brought up attacking the press. jim acosta was part of this. after mischaracterized cnn's rorgt, tried to ask a follow-up question. >> since you're attacking our news organization. >> not you, your organization is terrible. >> can you give us a chance to ask a question. >> she's asking a question. don't be rude. >> you're attacking us can you give us a question. >> not going to give you a question. >> can you state categorically. >> you are fake news. >> can you state categorically -- mr. president-elect that's not appropriate. >> has this ever happened to you before? >> no covered four presidents and i asked president obama once why can't we take out the bastards about the terrorism. you ask hard questions. >> i expected woman or man who followed to yield their time or say my question is jim's question. maybe the reporter wasn't thinking but i think it's time for the press to stand up for each other. i thought it would have been -- >> i don't hold anything against colleagues today. in the heat of the moment and had a lot of questions to ask. h

carl bernstein brought up attacking the press. jim acosta was party to that today after donald trump's nis characterized cnn's reporting, jim acosta tried to ask a follow-up question. let's listen to the whole exchanging. > since you are attacking our news organization. >> not you. your organization terrible. >> you are attacking our news organization. >> can you give us a chance to ask a question, sir. >> go ahead, quiet, quiet. >> plts president-elect. >> he's asking a question. >> can you give us a question. >> don't be rude. >> can you give us a question. >> don't be rude. i'm not going to give you a question. i'm not. >> can you state categorically. >> you are fake news. >> can you state categorically -- mr. president-elect, that's not appropriate. >> has this ever happened to you before. >> no, i've covered four presidential campaigns, democrats and republicans. i once asked president obama why can't we take out the bastards when referring to isis. you ask hard questions and expectancies. this is the president of the united

. >> carl bernstein, you were part of the reporting. donald trump has been calling this fake news. james clapper called me yesterday to announce a false and fictitious report that was made up, phony facts, too bad. >> it's a very selective reading of what clapper wrote and what the facts are. >> that's not exactly what happened. >> it's very clear what's happened here. what donald trump and kellyanne conway have been saying is simply not truthful about the reporting of this event. and what occurred in their briefings in the president-elect's briefings. but there's a larger question that underlies this. this information has been considered seriously enough by the fbi, by the intelligence community that they believe it needs to be run down. and that's what we're going to see. it's raw intelligence files of a sort that could be rumor, that could be factual in some parts, that could be right, wrong, but it needs to be run down. there's another component to this, and that is donald trump's lack of transparency and conflicts of interest particularly about his dealings in the part of the

carl bernstein is also on the phone and senior political analyst david gergen. e have a lot to get to this evening. so i want -- let's, carl, you're on the phone. just moments ago, the new acting attorney general, dana boente, just issued guidance on the travel ban to the department of justice and it says, and i quote here, i hereby rescind former acting attorney general sally q. yates on january 30, 2017, guidance and direct the men and women of the department of justice to do our sworn dudey and to defend the lawful orders of our president. what do you make of this? >> first of all, he's within his authority to fire her. i don't think there's any question about that, but it just contributes to the chaos that has been sewn by an order that ostensibly was made to protect the united states. but in fact, it's very obvious, was made to protect and advance his own political position, and at the expense of the national security of the united states. what we are seeing, in terms of the haste of this order, the recklessness of the way it was promulgated, the message it

right elements and getting elements from its own sources as well, as i say partly written by carl bernsteinedia some might argue and conflating that with buzz feed chucking absolutely everything out there with no filter whatsoever. donald trump talking about the good news, he made it clear that he believed that cnn was a fake news organisation because it got involved in this, yet he has profited from the news over the last year through the news over the last year through the whole campaign. as a former communications director at yourself, how would you have varied, the you think, in this completely new, incredibly difficult media world?” look at it and i think back to the days when i worked for tony blair and alistair campbell in downing street and we had our own war against the media, even though the media was more benign toward tony blairthan it is media was more benign toward tony blair than it is toward donald trump in america and it occurred to me, we would have loved to undermine the media in the wake donald trump has succeeded in undermining it. our objective was to turn and when it

jim sciutto is with us, as well and commentator carl bernstein. we have a very full house. a very full screen for the audience at home. i appreciate it. mark, i'm going to start with you. mark preston that is. first, your thoughts on paul ryan, the town hall? what was your biggest take away what the first 100 days will bring? >> well, three quick things that were extremely important. one the speaker of the house said he plans to have a repeal and replace bill for obamacare done within the first 100 days. that is a very ambitious effort on his part but something that donald trump the president-elect has said he has wanted. he also has talked about russia. he was specifically very hard on vladimir putin. he described russia as a menace but not only a menace, a global menace that does not share our interests. our interests being the united states' interests at this time. he also talked about how russia violates our neighbors. this flies in the face of what we've seen the president-elect have to say about russia and at the very end, he talked about social media and how donald t

let's bring back evan perez and cnn political analyst carl bernstein along with senior international correspondent collar ris is ward in moscow. carl and evan worked together on this report alongside jim sciutto and jake tapper. carl, let me begin with you. you heard kellyanne conway saying this was leaked by the intelligence communities classified information that shouldn't be out there. >> our sources for this information originally were not the intelligence community. in terms of the underlying documents and story, which i began working on a good while ago as did others at cnn, the intelligence community was not the original source of this information. this is part of a counter narrative that the trump campaign and the trump organization would like us to believe. look, this information may be true, may not be true. in fairness to donald trump, we have to say it's unproven allegations from foreign intelligence sources, originates with russians, over to an american former -- british former intelligence agent. it's a long trail. but there is enough in there that the chiefs of america'

with me david gergen, jim scuitto, carl bernstein. want to continue on what we were talking ability before. you wanted to weigh in what ari fleischer was saying, why the information was in there, whether it was a leak and where that leak came from? >> let's talk about why it's in there. the truth is we don't know exactly. right. the largest intelligence agencies that have access to a lot of information that we don't have access to. that's one thing. we know that the director of national intelligence clapper in a statement last night says they have not substantiated but they also haven't dismissed the content of the allegations in that dossier. we know from our own reporting, the former mi-6 operative who prepared it is a source that u.s. intelligence agencies have used before. they found his information and his source credible. again, there is conflicting information in there. we looked at it. some things don't stand up to the test. we know mike morrell, the former acting director told christiane amanpour of cnn he seen the documents

let me bring in carl bernstein.arl, when we're all working together in the story, you brought this to us, this information the underlying memos that was included as an annex to the intelligence community report, the underlying memos did not start with u.s. intelligence or with the fbi or u.s. law enforcement. where dwid they come from? >> the underlying memos were produced by a former british mi6 intelligence operator in the former soviet union. he had been hired by a research firm that does opposition research and this firm had been doing opposition research on the trump campaign, on donald trump, for both republicans and democrats opposed to the trump presidency. as this firm in washington started to look at trump's visits to russia, his business ties to russians and those of others in his family, they then took their information to this mi6 person in london, former mi6 person with whom they'd worked before, to see if he could further develop information. over the course of months he began producing reports and by

but you know, carl bernstein actually raised the earlier bigger picture point, which is this constant of denial about russia's influence and attempted influence in the u.s. i don't think is connected as much to the elections for donald trump. i think it's really connected to his relationship, his cloudy relationship with putin and russian financiers. and that's really going to be the critical thing that americans need to hear over the next couple of weeks, is what is donald trump's relationship there? >> you know, kayleigh, carl bernstein said that moments ago but there are others who said the same thing, that maybe he doesn't want to divest, maybe he is denying that russia had an influence because somehow he is entangled with russia, maybe owing russia money and so on. >> i don't think that's it. i think if you look at history you see president bush who tried to give russia a chance, calling them a strategic partner. that failed. obama praised putin in i believe it was his kitchen. that failed. trump's wanting to give him a chance as the other presidents have done and they were prove

let me bring in carl bernstein. carl, one of the things that's so fascinating about this is something has changed about this information since it was floating around washington last summer. first of all, my sources indicate to me that the fbi has looked into this individual who wrote the underlying memo upon which the synopsis was at least partly based, found him to be credible, found his sources to be credible. he has apparently a network of sources throughout europe. and also the intelligence officials now have presented this to the president and the president-elect. it's really quite a shocking turn of events. >> it certainly never happened before where you've had a president-elect and an outgoing president who had been presented with information by the chiefs of the intelligence agencies of the united states and said this is about the incoming president and there is a claim that we are looking into that we has been compromised. and they are looking to see if there is any real evidence that he has been compromised

carl bernstein, evan perez, jim sciutto, thank you so much.n burnett, back to you. >> thank you very much, jake tapper. obviously a crucial breaking news report. >>> here we are awaiting president obama. we understand he is at a local restaurant in chicago. he is now going to come where we are as we count you down to his good-bye address to the nation. his farewell speech tonight. >>> plus, michelle obama, her equally historic eight years as first lady. perhaps the biggest question is what is next for her. >>> and some memorable moments from the obama years including his emotional words after the massacre at sandy hook elementary school. >> every time i think about those kids, it gets me mad. and by the way, it happens on the streets of chicago every day. [ gears stopping ] when your pain reliever stops working, your whole day stops. try this. but just one aleve has the strength to stop pain for 12 hours. tylenol and advil can quit after 6. so live your whole day, not part... with 12 hour aleve. >>> live in chicago, president obama will be say

let's get straight to cnn's carl bernstein and jim sciutto, cnn chief national security correspondent. jim, you have some exclusive reporting for us on the nation's top intelligence officials briefing the president-elect and the current president last week about claims russian efforts tried to compromise the president-elect. >> let's walk you through what we know and how we know t multiple u.s. officials with direct knowledge of these briefings tell cnn that classified documents on russian interference in the 2016 election, presented to president obama and president-elect trump included allegations that russian on tperatives claim to e compromising information about mr. trump, based on memos by a former british intelligence operative, whose past work u.s. intelligence agencies consider to be credible. the fbi is now investigating the credibility and accuracy of these allegations which are based primarily on information from russian sources, but the fbi has not confirmed any essential details in these memos about mr. trump. they were presented by four of the senior-most u.s. intelligen

i worked on this story with evan perez and carl bernstein.een working sources for several days. i will start with my colleague and walk us through the basic outline of what we learned. >> this was a team reporting effort and multiple officials with direct knowledge of those briefings. classified documents on russian interference in the 2016 election. they were presented last week to president obama and president-elect trump and included allegations th s thas russian operatives seemed to have information about mr. trump. they were part of a synopsis based on memos whose passwords are considered credible. they are investigating the credibility and accuracy based on information from russian sources, but the fbi has not confirmed many essential details about mr. trump. the briefings last week were presented by four of the senior most u.s. intelligence chiefs, director of national intelligence and fbi's james comey. john brennan and nsa director mike rogers. the two-page synopsis included these allegations that there was a continuing exchange of i

. >>> i want to bring in alan dershowitz, fareed zakaria, carl bernstein joins us by phone. i'm so glad to have you all here, alan, i'm going to start with you. did sally yates need to go? >> well, sally yates made a very serious mistake. instead of limiting herself to saying that she thought it was unconstitutional or illegal, she used the following words, that she had the right to decide whether the policy choice is wise or just, and what is right. that's not her job. her job as attorney general is to determine whether the law is lawful, it's the job of the elected president to determine whether the policy choice is wise or just, now, this is a terrible policy, i'm completely opposed to it, but as attorney general, if she disagreed with the policy, her option was to resign. she would say, i'm not going to enforce this policy. but to disallow the entire justice department from defending a policy, at least parts of which are probably constitutional, parts of which are probably lawful, instead of giving a new answered analysis to forbid the justice department from defending i

. >> last night, and another network, carl bernstein is concerned about the new president's maturity and state of mind and using words like that, do you think we'll ever hear that bust out in the public? >> there is no question about it. what you will see and you will see the fractures start over this issue with the tariffs with mexico. the trump party and the steve bannon party and this ideology and this nationalism and populism. the republican party is the conservative party and the legislation branch party. if we move down the road and get into issues of spending and tariffs, republicans vote will not be there to pass these portions of the agenda. this is very much a coalition government. there is a agreement on some issues but there is disagreements on other issues and i have no doubt on national security issues. john mccain, lyndsey graham, ben sac and a couple of others will be clear about where their red lines are with regards of their president particularly of his capacity to destabilize alliances or create more danger in an already profoundly dangerous world. >> interesting

in addition to the many sources, jake, evan, myself and carl bernstein talked to before these most senior intelligence officials went public with this information, before that, we spoke to people who had knowledge of that conversation who told us on background because of the classified nature of the information involved they couldn't go on the record, they told us on background, we were confident of that. but now you have this second step of director of national intelligence clapper and the vice president of the united states going public in effect contradicting, correcting the record, not just that kellyanne conway laid out but frankly i'm more concerned as an american, as a journalist, with what the president laid out. he accused our network, our reporters of spreading fake news when in fact we were right. and why does that matter? it doesn't matter, you and i know, anderson and jake and jim would agree, it doesn't matter because of our feelings or whether we can sleep at night. it matters because this is a democracy, an open society, and we rely on our public officials, our leaders giv

carl bernstein. what do you make of what he is saying? >> i think there's no necessity for the press secretary to whine like that because donald trump won a great victory and the press knows it and the press has reported on it. it is one of the great upsets in american political history. and he deserves all the credit for that that he's getting. that doesn't mean, though, that the picture of america that they're drawing in the white house of this huge mandate is accurate. what it means is that he won the electoral college, he's 3 million votes behind in the popular vote. it's a divided country. it's going to be a fascinating development to watch this occur. but we don't need lying on the part of the white house to advance what they're doing. but nonetheless, the fact that the president tweets, i think it's terrific. it's like an mri of his psyche. it's really amazing. and we get to see it direct, no filter. it's telling us a lot. but let's back off from making the conduct of the press the issue here. the press has reported accurately and

i mean, all that, you know, your and jake, carl bernstein and evan perez is reporting, the cnn story, was about that the intelligence agencies presented this to them, not that the unsubstantiated allegations are true, not even what those unsubstantiated allegations even said, what they are. we've not even said any details of that. that is not part of our story. >> listen, i don't know. i've asked a lot of people this question. i've asked a lot of republicans this question. many will say to me it's a very sensitive area for the president-elect because for him it gets to the legitimacy of his victory. he thinks that people are trying to attack the legitimacy of his victory. let's be clear, the intelligence community has not made a judgment, it has not assessed, it has not attempted to assess that russian interference elected donald trump. so let's make that clear. but there's clearly a political sensitivity here. what i worry about is a broader issue, which is a hostility to facts, right? and an effort, a concerted effort by donald trump and his team to call into question the very exist

i've been working on the story with jim sciutto and evan perez and carl bernstein. we've all been working on this and they all join me now. so, let me start with my colleague jim sciutto. jim, walk us through what we've learned. >> want to be very precise here. mul multiple u.s. officials tell cnn documents on russian interference in the 2016 election presented last week to president obama and president-elect trump included allegations that russian operatives claimed to have compromising personal and financial information about mr. trump. the allegations were part of a two-page synopsis. these were based on memos compiled by former british intelligence operative whose past work u.s. intelligence officials consider credible. the fbi is now investigating the credibility and accuracy of the allegations which are based primarily on information from russian sources. but the fbi has not confirmed many essential details in the memos about mr. trump. the classified briefings last week, i should note, were presented by four of the senior-most u.s. intelligence chiefs. that i

carl bernstein, thank you very much. >> good to be here. >> next president trump speaking of he is at the pentagon, live pictures there. he is set to sign an executive order shortly to implement extreme vetting of refugees. we will take it live here on cnn. >>> all right. so, here's the split screen for you. on the right side, this was moments ago where we saw the president, the vice-president. here is hayes secretary of defense general james mattis shaking his hand as they walk up those steps into the pentagon. the left side is where we'll be seeing the president momentarily. it's significant because this is where he'll be signing that executive action, you know, limiting the flow of refugees into this country. white house official tells cnn it would impose a four-month ban on any refugees coming into the u.s. it would also block all syrian refugees indefinitely. initially there would be a 30-day ban from immigrants from seven middle eastern countries being iraq, syria, iran, sudan, libya, somalia, and yemen. so, we're going to take that live as soon as we see the president there sta

here to talk about it all, john king, gloria borger, carl bernstein, keirsten powers, carl used to work for a local competitor, though i always forget the name of it. it's a newspaper. ben jones is here, former obama senior adviser. and jeffrey lord joins us as well. so does "the daily beast's" matt lewis. keirsten, seems like one of the big headlines out of that press conference is that president obama, when he is civilian barack obama, he's not going to stay quiet when he believes what he talked about is the core values of america. >> i think that's huge, especially when you compare it to how george w. bush sort of went off into the sunset and we didn't really -- >> george w. bush said that president obama deserves his silence. >> yeah. and i think a lot of people, at least obama supporters and perhaps obama himself really appreciated that. so the difference is i think president obama is looking ahead and expecting there will be some things he'll need to speak out about, things he cares deeply about, and there is a real divide between him and donald trump. so it's interesting now he's

here to discuss, carl bernstein, curt -- resign fod brietbart and now ceo of endeavor strategies.d to have you along. talk about the president speaking to vladimir putin by phone on saturday. wouldn't you like to eavesdrop on that phone call? >> sure. we have two things going on here. pathology of lying that we're here to discuss i believe. and also enormous amount of presidential activity in the area of policy. some of it perhaps wise, some perhaps very unwise. and we need to parse through both and of course we all want to know what that conversation is going to be about and whether putin has a lot to do with his election or doesn't, we're still trying to find out what the facts of that are. >> whether it starts with thank you and you're welcome. >> we need to do a lot more reporting. agree with mr. bannon about that. >> that we need to be doing a lot more report need to shut up -- blaming the media is blood sport for politicians. >> he said something beyond the pale that the media is the opposition party. >> keep its mouth shut. >> outrageous but really the truth is the oppositi

get to carl bernstein and jim sciutto. jim you have exclusive reporting for us on the nation's top intelligence officials briefing last week about russian severities to compromise the president-elect. >> walk you through what we know and how we know it. multiple officials with knowledge of the briefings tell cnn that classified documents of russian interference in the election presented to president obama and president-elect donald trump say that russian officials claim to have compromising information about mr. trump. based on memos compiled by former british intelligence operative who is considered credible. u.s. is investigating the credibility and accuracy of the allegations, from russian sources but not confirmed many of the details. classified briefings last week, presented by four of the senior-most intelligence chiefs. director of national intelligence, fbi director, cia director and nsa director. also included allegations that there was continuing exchange of information during the campaign between trump surrogate

. >> tucker: i love the fact that carl bernstein is calling out anonymous sources.gainst that. [laughs] >> they all speak to reporters off the record. they spin and they deflect and that's what they do. why single out kellyanne conway as a propaganda minister? unless maybe you don't like her... >> tucker: they are all paid liars. but i think she's more charming than most. speak we talk about john lewis story, it was friday that msnbc said she didn't think trump was a little bit president. not a word about this attack, because i guess they met about the president is not a big deal. now after trump counterattacked and criticized john lewis -- >> tucker: wait, so they never covered it the first time? >> no. >> tucker: i thought this was the headline. not on elected officials, as a member of congress. can't you call it that? >> look, we can certainly debate whether donald trump goes too far, whether it john lewis or alec baldwin or meryl streep, when you pick up the story sort of it at round two after the guy has been attacked. that seems a little unbalanced. >> tucker:

but carl bernstein raised bigger picture point. this constant denial about russia's attempted influence in the u.s. i don't think is connected as much to the elections for donald trump but connected to his cloudy relationship with putin and russian financiers, that's really going to be the critical thing that americans need to hear, what is donald trump's relationship there. >> kayleigh, carl said that but others said the same thing, maybe doesn't want to divest, denying influence because entangled and owing russia money. so on. >> i don't think that's it, if you look at history, president bush tried to give russia a chance, called strategic partner, that failed. obama tried, that failed. trump wants to give him a chance. proven wrong. i think this has everything to do with the election -- >> but unprecedented to have so much support for vladimir putin entirely and praise russia so much. >> people forget that president obama stood in the home of vladimir putin and said i'll never forget all of the great things you did for the russi

. >> she is in moscow and we also have carl bernstein. they worked together along side cnn to break the story yesterday what's your concern about this story and what issues it raises. >> the level of confidence is that the nation's highest national security chiefs decided the underlying information prepared by former mi 6 agent is sufficient and serious enough to warrant real investigation about the president elect of the united states and his ties to russian businesses. what they represent and other allegations contained. does that mean it's all true, part true, any of it true? we don't know yet but the reporting is real and unusual to say the least. we never quite had a situation where an incoming president is going to come into office under investigation in such a situation. >> this is highly explosive stuff so we're going to exceed very cautiously. we'll report what we know. your reporting shows that there were some in congress, the gang of 8, who knew about this. and who, in fact, spoke to director comey at the fbi about this in dece

. >> carl bernstein that's who. and we have michael and tonight he is doing us all a favor.ting a cnn primetime special. and we make it through today that may be more and different in ways than you've seen in many years, true? >> i've been paying attention for three decades. close attention. it was arguably the most turomtious week of american politics i ever witnessed. in one silo it's a guy that is arguing about crowd size. it's a guy that gave an inappropriate speech at the cia. it's somebody whose activities were so bad that the mexican president cancelled on him but to poppy's trip to ken there's a different silo out there and he is doing tremendous. and the wall is getting built, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera and there's competing views of what has just transpired. >> and at the same time he is bringing in, she the one pushing the question of the legitimacy of at the election if the white house. we said we're not talking about the 2016 election. this is a bigger picture of preserving american democracy and you just heard the interview that chris did with the man that

right to carl bernstein, and jim sciutto. good evening. jim this is explosive, exclusive. some reporting for us that nation's top intelligence officials briefed president-elect and current president last week by russian efforts to compromise the president-elect. what are you learning? >> a lot of teamwork went into this. multiple officials with knowledge of the briefings tell cnn that classified documents of russi russian interference included allegations russians have compromising information about mr. trump. based on memos compiled by former british intelligence operative who is considered credible. now investigating the credibility and accuracy of the allegations against the president-elect based primarily on information from russian sources but not confirmed many essential details in the memos about mr. trump. classified briefings presented by four. senior most u.s. intelligence chiefs. james clapper. james comey, john brennan and admiral mike rogers. two page synopsis also included allegations there was continuing exchange of information during the campaign between tr

you, carl bernstein and i broke the story topo fishlz provided information to president obama and trumput this uncorroborated dossier written by an intelligence officer. they provide aid two-page synopsis of it. in the synopsis, russians claim, and this is claim, to have damaging information about the president-elect and also that there were extensive exchanges of information with the trump campaign last year. again, uncorroborated information. but the intelligence officials thought the source was credible enough to tell president obama and president-elect trump about it. just a few minutes ago, vice-president biden confirmed our story. >> that's right, jake. vice-president joe biden is confirming that he and president barack obama were briefed last week by intelligence officials on substantiated claims that russia may have compromising information on president-elect donald trump. cnn first reported that the nation's top intelligence chiefs provided both the president and president-elect with a two-page synopsis of these claims which came from a 35-page report compiled by a former briti

carl bernstein joins us by phone, and also, page pate. so glad to have all of you on this evening. what is happening here, are we in a constitutional crisis? >> i don't think we're there yet, don. sally yates decided to step aside, because she had both legal and moral problems trying to defend this executive order in court, but the trump administration moved quickly, they went ahead and appointed someone else to serve in that capacity, but i think we're seeing a pattern here that really is problematic. it seems they have some impatience in the white house that they cannot wait until they have their people confirmed and approved and into the job before they start making major policy changes that may very well have constitutional or legal problems. you needed an attorney general to review this thing before it was signed, and before it was implemented, and i think sally yates' primary problem was it wasn't done that way. nobody talked to us about it, you can't ask us to step in and defend this thing, when we don't believe in it. >> who's calling the shots at the white house? >> well,

carl bernstein, kirsten powers, kayleigh mcenany, hilary rosen and matt lewis. kaylei kayleigh, interesting, today international holocaust remembrance day. the white house it put out a memo and the last line was together we will make love and tolerance prevalent throughout the world. some people have noted the irony when you're talking about love and tolerance throughout the world the same day you're iss issuing bans on certain people entering the country. is that consistent? >> it is consistent. because what donald trump sees as he looks around the world and sees that there have been problems with the refugee program, we've seen it in germany, seen this mass flood of immigration and seen terrorist attacks waged on german soil and elsewhere, some of which were conducted by refugees. it's a small minority, yes. nevertheless one that has to be looked at and considered. i have to say this talk about christians being prioritized, i'm not certain why this is at all controversial because first of all when you look at the definition of what it mean s to be a refugee, i

legendary journalist carl bernstein joins us to offer his take on that position. >>> and moments ago, president trump's new ambassador to the united nations said to the nations of the world, if you have our backs, great, if you don't have our backs, we're taking names. the not so diplomatic message coming from one of the nations's top diplomats, next. hmmm. uh... yeah, can you find a take where it's a bit more dramatic on that last line, yeah? yeah i got it right here. someone help me!!! i have a flat tire!!! well it's good... good for me. what do you think? geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. [ park rides, music andoooh!d sounds ] when your pain reliever stops working, your whole day stops. [ sighs sadly ] try this. but just one aleve can last 12 hours. tylenol and advil can quit after 6. so live whole. not part. with aleve. and check your sunday paper for big savings. only at&t offers you all your live channels and dvr on your devices, data-free. it's entertainment. your way. with not food, become food? thankfully at panera, 100% of our fo

john king, gloria borger and carl bernstein, jim sciutto joins us, mike rogers, trump supporter jeffrey lord is here with angela rye and matt lewis, now at the daily beast. john, to the point that was just made, this is a big departure for president obama given how tough his administration has been on folks who leak. >> you see condemnation across the spectrum. you see -- chairman rogers probably had more of this than i do. but for the people in the intelligence community and military who feel let down by this, but especially with the debate about russian hacking, when these happened late in the administration, if there's a bunch of them there's always a head scratch every. i remember the last day of bill clinton's administration and pardoning marc rich. everybody was stunned. then everybody said it was washington greasing the skids, the lawyers involved, connections to the white house and off we went. you look at the criticism. these people aren't fans of president obama to begin with, john mccain, tom cotton, conservative hawkish senator, but bob menendez saying what kind of signal do

along with carl bernstein. jim sciutto, you heard kellyanne conway about the sours and the accuracy of your story. she would not say it was wrong. your response. >> i've listened to her, listened to donald trump today, a number of trump surrogates question our story. i'm not clear on what facts they are questioning. three essential facts of our story were, one, this material was included in the briefing to the president-elect and president obama. her answer in your interview there, she didn't deny that. she said they couldn't talk about it. the other two essential facts of our story is that the fbi's investigating, they haven't substantiated these claims, but they consider them serious enough that they are investigating. no mention today on that, no answer to that from kellyanne conway. third, all senators consider these allegations serious enough to merit investigation. a probe among them. senator john mccain who passed on a copy to the fbi directly. these are people who don't waste time. i know the intelligen

impeachment hearings in the house of representatives, sbr z enterprising reporting by part-time like carl bernsteinut things about this presidency had happened prior to his re-election campaign. and all of that led to the most highly scandalous presidency of the mopdern media age. and that is how a president gets on the cover of "time" magazine more than anyone else. >> lawrence, we're watching, as we talk, these incredible live pictures, all of them from various camera locations, most of them from nbc stations across the country continue this atlanta. we also our usual camera that shows the white house. it is a permanent camera location. always aimed at the white house. in it, you can see the temporary wooden walkway that goes across the north lawn of the white house in the foreground, but in the background, where usually movement of people is not visible, at the base of the washington monument, you can see, helped visually, because so many of them have signs, and there's such a migration, these waves of people. we are -- we've been reporting that the park service, a lot of folks in washington, ha

that is a statement from cnn, and i would just underline having worked on this story with carl bernstein, jim schudo here with me and many other reporters at cnn, we were very careful to not even mention one of the allegations in the uncorroborated document, and anyone who suggests we did is not telling you the truth. jim. >> if i could just add this. a lot of charges were levelled at cnn, including my brave colleague there, jim acosta. if i could say, what donald trump in that press conference and his surrogates, sean spicer, including that press conference, including in our attempts to reach out to them, have not answered are the essential facts of our story. one, that the intelligence community chose to include these allegations in briefing materials to the president-elect and to the current president of the united states, barack obama. two, that the fbi is investigating these allegations. they have not determined them to be true, but they are investigating this, and they are taking them seriously. three, that both democratic and republican lawmakers, senators, are taking these allega

i was struck by something carl bernstein said on the panel, do we know if this is true? do we know if any of it is true? no we don't but here we are talking about it anyway, throwing out innuendo, the scurrilous report which is nothing but opposition research, a number of facts we know to be wrong and this got leaked by the intelligence community. it was not classified material. it was opposition research that made its way into buzz feed which i don't think most people are aware is financed to the tune of $200 million by nbc news. neil: i never thought of that by not mentioning what is feed did. buzz feed just went ahead and printed all this stuff without getting confirmation and the like. but cnn did leave it out there, there is this report more or less teasing it, throwing it out, inviting people to do the type of thing they normally do when they hear rumors that are out there. you could argue that makes you as awfully culprit. >> exactly right and why isn't obama saying we are going to investigate who is leaking this? neil: i had no problem with cnn going about -- i k

. >> they put the sort of i am prime minister at imprime-- of carl bernstein. what mack cart think used to do, this guy is communist, we don't have any proof we're investigating it. media -- neil: what do they have? they won't report the salacious details. they say salacious charges are out there and leave it to the buzzfeed. i understand that. >> called mccarthyism. neil: but would it get in the way of a merger like this? >> your points to anthony scaramucci one of his advisors were pretty telling. donald trump has a bad temper and he, and he believes in payback. this will be an issue. it has got to be an issue. i think you could see at&t spin off cnn to make this happen. neil: really? >> i'm telling you. remember what jeff session said, you probably didn't but i'm myopically focused, antitrust laws that prevent monopolies, they're not cut and dry. you could interpret them in a lot of different ways. you could interpret at&t controlling 25% of the distribution out there between cable and satellite, having a a big content provider with hbo and big news provider

you just heard from one of them, investigative journalist carl bernstein. one is joining me right now, john dean is the former white house counsel to president richard nixon and author of "conservatives without conscience" which i highly recommend you read with trump coming into office. john, thanks for being here. always great to talk to you. >> good morning. >> before i get to the ethics challenge of donald trump, i want to get you to button up the conversation we were just having with my previous panel, because you wrote what could only be described as a pretty scathing article about media coverage of donald trump, which i 100% agreed with every word of, even though i'm in the media. what do you think that the media is missing when it comes to covering somebody as asymmetrically different an donald trump? >> one of the things that's most striking to me is they can't stay on a story very long. we watched during the campaign when issues would arise one day only to disappear from the front page the next day when the follow-up stories were often of front pag

brian: wow and meanwhile the whole thing with carl bernstein, better than steal is one of the reportersm to the briefing of vice president biden and president-elect trump about these innuendo report of russia that would compromise donald trump. so they said they had it and said should report it. bob said are you kidding me? you're talking about gossip. it's unsubstantiated. you have to make a choice. woodward or bernstein. you have to make a choice. steve: would go with wood word at this point. ainsley: what was said inside the dirty dossier. donald trump tweeted yesterday. nbc is just so sick of the news. he said the worst show on television. brian: remember when donald trump came to my cause because he thought i was being misbetrayed on snl. ainsley: i didn't know that. he tweeted about it? >> no. he came on the show and -- steve: bobby. the guy who played you? brian: right. yes. but he came and backed me. but now he's being maligned. steve: so you have this whole russia thing. the dirty dossier. and then you've got -- well, that particular information and russia in general. keep in m