and jeremy bash, former chief of staff to the director of the cia and the secretary of defense in the obama administration. he is also now a national security analyst for msnbc. linda, starting with you, and it's tough to know where to begin, let's go south and start along this wall. 1200 miles give or take to construct it along the places where there's not yet a wall. what was said or done today that differed from what was campaign-promised along the way? >> you mean other than the fact we were told we would not pay for the wall, now we're told we will be footing the bill? >> you caught that in the speaker's remarks? >> i did. what's scary to me, brian, all the campaign rhetoric we heard along the trail, and people assured us it was just to gain votes, were policy prescriptive. this is really scary. the voter fraud tells me he's going to roll back the voting rights act, more keeping communities of color and poor people away from the polls. it will hurt our democracy. >> megan, to the politics of this, where they intersect with journalism. we haven't had you on in the era of trump. wh

let's bring in jeremy bash whose background is in national security. ll, he remains with us, as do nicole wallace and ed rollins. jeremy, how unsettling, again, to career men and women at the pentagon in langley, is mr. bannon's presence in that room at that table? >> i think that times editorial is overstated, brian. let me breakdown for you what is of concern. inside the national security council be there are multiple layers of meetings that occur. the most important one is called the principles committee or the pc in government parlance. that's all of the cabinet secretaries and the national security advisor, and they tee up the big decisions for the president. and when the president walks in the room, it converts into a nsc, national security council meeting. what the trump administration did was they said with regard to this pc, the principles committee, at the director of national intelligence and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff have to get a particular invitation to attend the meeting. but that the chief strategist, mr. bannon, is autom

let's bring in jeremy bash whose background is in national security, after all. he remains with us as do nicolle wallace and ed rollins. jeremy, how unsettling, again, to career men and women, at the pentagon, in langley, is mr. bannon's presence in that room at that table? >> i think that "times" editorial is overstated, brian, but let me break down for you what is of concern. inside the national security council, there are multiple layers of meetings that occur. the most important one is called the principals' committee or p.c. in government parlance. all of the cabinet secretaries and national security adviser and tee up the big decisions for the president and when the president walks into the room, it confirms into a nsc, national security council meeting. what the trump administration did, they said with regard to this p.c., the principals' committee, that the director of national intelligence and chairman of joint chiefs of staff have to get a particular invitation to attend the meeting, but that the chief strategist, mr. bannon, is automatically entitled to

let's bring in jeremy bash whose background is in national security, after all. with us as do nicolle wallace and ed rollins. jeremy, how unsettling, again, to career men and women, at the pentagon, in langley, is mr. bannon's presence in that room at that table? >> i think that "times" editorial is overstated, brian, but let me break down for you what is of concern. inside the national security council, there are multiple layers of meetings that occur. the most important one is called the principals' committee or p.c. in government parlance. all of the cabinet secretaries and national security adviser and tee up the big decisions for the president and when the president walks into the room, it confirms into a nsc, national security council meeting. what the trump administration did, they said with regard to this p.c., the principals' committee, that the director of national intelligence and chairman of joint chiefs of staff have to get a particular invitation to attend the meeting, but that the chief strategist, mr. bannon, is automatically entitled to be there

. >>> i'm joined by jeremy bash and shane harris. let's talk about how whacky this is.ecause, fact, whatever the feelings everybody here has, and everybody else in the country has back and forth about trump being president, it's gonna happen. he'll need the minute he gets that oath of office, walks off that platform, has lunch with the members of congress, he'll need to know what's going on. his only source of information besides the news we have is the cia. so how does he have this relationship develop here? how does it work? >> and he can get angry at director brennan, but even when director pompeo comes in on friday, the very first day, it's the same intelligence professionals providing the same assessment, that russia tried to interfere with our election. his intelligence officials will be watching to see what al qaeda does, what china does, what isis does. >> if there's a troop movement somewhere, mobilization by the russians -- [ all speak at once ] >> perhaps the baltics, god hope that never happens because that's nato. >> what brennan told me in the interview ye

joining us is the executive director and cofounder of -- and also joining us jeremy bash, former chieff staff leon panetta, cia and defense department. jeremy bash,s your view of this administration especially as it effects state department, defense department, cia and all of the unfilled appointments there? >> three big challenges i see fothis transition, forhis handoff, lawrence. first, of course has been the feud with the intelligence agencies. donald trump is going to need those intelligence officers to defend the country, to assess the threat and fashion their responses. second is it's not so much about the people in the positions, it's more that we have to understand how the national security council will proceed with orderly presidential decision making. the nsc's adviser's job is to bring the players to the table to give the president the best advice. to have orderly process in presidential decision making. right now we basically see a president elect who seems to like chaos, keep people off balance. will say things outside of the normal process and it's not clear how the staff

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jeremy bash, i want to read director brennan's full statement.t he said after donald trump's speech. former cia director brennan, this was put out by his spokesman, is deeply saddened and donald trump's display of self aggrandizement in front of the wall of agency heroes. trump should be ashamed of himself. the thing that was striking to me, jeremy, about that is his cia audience there seemed to love every bit of it. they laughed in every moment where he wanted them to laugh, and they applauded in every moment where he wanted them to applaud. >> well, there is a certain amount of respect for the office, but i think unfortunately the appearance there, though, i think it was well intended. i think it did veer off course in two respects. first he said, we created isis and we should get another chance to take their oil. and i think that was really bad analysis, incorrect facts, and it really endangers our operatives who have to go out into the field and recruit people to spy on our behalf. they're going to say, why should we spy for you? your preside

. >> i'm joined by jeremy bash, and -- let's talk about how whacky this is. the minute he gets that oath of office, he needs to know what's going on. his only source of information besides the news we have, is the cia. so how does he have this relationship develop here? >> it's the same intelligence professionals that provided the same -- his intelligence professionals are going to watching to see what china does, iraq does, he is going to need them. >> perhaps -- what i'm not sure what you're talking about. >> what brennan told me is we need a president who understan this is credible intelligence, how is he supposed to go forward and make a strategy. what do the allies think if openly -- how do we recruit people to spy for us. that does not inspire -- >> let me ask you a question. do you think trump doesn't know what objective truth is? >> i don't know. >> you're laughing, if someone called said tokyo is -- is questioning obvious information. >> he has been questioning on the sellable facts on what russia has been trying to do. every meeting starts with the

joining us, jeremy bash, former chief of staff to leon panetta when he was director of the cia and defense department secretary. also with us, rick stengel back with us. jeremy, i want to read director brennan's full statement. this is what he said after donald trump's speech. former cia director brennan, this was put out by his spokesman, is deeply saddened and angered at donald trump's despicable display of self aggrandizement in front of cia's memorial wall of agency heroes. brennan says that trump should be ashamed of himself. the thing that was striking to me about that is his cia audience there seemed to love every bit of it. they laughed in every moment where he wanted them to laugh and they applauded in every moment where he wanted them to applaud. >> well, there is a certain amount of respect for the office. but i think unfortunately, the appearance there though i think it was well intended, i think it did veer off course in two respects. first, he said we created isis and we should get another chance to take their oil. i think that was really bad analysis, incorrect facts and it

let's talk about this appearance today with jeremy bash. he's the former chief of staff to the cia director and the former chief of staff to the head of the pentagon. and ken delaney who covers intelligence and national security for us. jeremy, he chose this appearance to relitigate the crowd side yesterday, to attack the press. how is that going to go over? >> well, it was a nice gesture for the president to show up there. but i think it did veer off course for two reasons. number one, he said we invented isis, and we're going to go back and take their oil again. and that's really dangerous. because we have intelligence officers who are going out trying to recruit assets, trying to work with people in the middle east. and they're just going to say in return, hey, you guys invented isis, so your president said, you're going to come back and take our oil, it's going to make our job a lot harder. second, as you noted, this is hallowed ground. and i think back to the time when i was at the agency on december 30th, 2009, when we lost darren and

joining mnow is jeremy bash, formerly under leon panetta . thank you very much. we've been talking all morning about the possibility that donald trump could pivot, could show how adept he is at changing the conversation, could say after this briefing i get it, it's unanimous, there is evidence here. now he's prebutting it by calling the "new york times" and saying it's a witch hunt and saying china is worse, china went after the office of personnel management, why aren't we talking about china? it's because of my political enemies talking about russia. >> i think you're right, andrea, it's an opportunity and big moment, probably the first big moment of his presidency, even though he hasn't been sworn in yet and won't be sworn in for two more weeks but this is sort of the first national security situation, maybe even kripsis where his intelligence leadership the nonpartisan intelligence professionals are coming to him and saying mr. president, we have a situation not only of something that happened by russia but as james clapper said yesterday is ongoing. it conti

tangible danger our service members face, we'll talk about that with msnbc national security analyst jeremy bash who served as chief of staff at both the cia and department. jeremy, the president talking about senior intelligence officials in the last 24 hours who told him torture works. the cia carried out the or the -- torture in the first place. >> i don't know which intelligence professionals he's spoken to and the reality is within the leadership there's unanimity which is we don't need to go back to the tactics that were ended in the mid-2000s. we've been able to keep our country very safe, safe from international terrorism over the last decade bout them. it's totally unnecessary and to order our intelligence professionals to go out and violate the law, to subject themselves to criminal prosecution and do things that would actually assist the enmip in its recruitment efforts would not only endanger our people but it would endanger our national security. >> i want to follow up on that on criminal prosecution. there is a case some make that the lack of criminal prosecution for what were clea

let's talk about this appearance today with jeremy bash, the former chief of staff to the cia director and the former chief of staff to the head of the pentagon. and ken delaney who covers intelligence and national security for us. jeremy, he chose this appearance to relitigate the crowd size yesterday, to attack the press. how is that going to go over? >> well, it was a nice gesture for the president to show up there, but it did veer off course for two reasons. number one, he said we invented isis and we're going to go back and take their oil again. and that's really dangerous because we have intelligence officers who are going out trying to recruit assets, trying to work with people in the middle east. and they're going to say in return, you guys invented isis, or so your president said and you're going to come back and take our oil. that's going to make our job harder. second, this is hallowed ground. and i think back to the time i was at the agency on december 30th, 2009, when we lost darryn and harold and jennifer and liz and scott and dane and an officer named jeremy. seven offic

i'm joined by jeremy bash who served as chief of staff at pentagon and cia. let me begin with you responding to the advice that the admiral would give, which is let's, at this point, you have a relationshipetween the intel community and the incoming president that appears to be in a really bad place. is the only option to essentially clean house? >> well staff has got it basically right. we have to have a restart. we're going to have one, chuck, as you noted, we have a new director of national intelligence nominee, senator dan coates. we have a new cia nominee. his hearing is tomorrow. mike povrp poe. okay, that leads a career officer who i think his tenure is coming up soon. we're going to have that. the trust between the new president and the career professional intelligence at this these agencies. that is what i think needs to be repaired. putin's ex-kgb, he loves nothing more than tension between the cia and the president. this plays right into his playbook. i have to defend the intelligence community for a second. people are con flating a lot of things,

joining me now, jeremy bash former chief of staff for leon panetta. and defense secretary.panetta said cyber security was going to be one of his major focuses. all these years later we are told by the spy chiefs and by their critics on the hill that we still do not have american defenses adequate to counter-act china when they go after our more than 20 million job applicant and people who have gone through security here in the united states skpa tax from north korea. >> secretary panetta actually started warning the public about this in a very public way in 2012 when iran launched those denial of service attacks against american banks in a response to our international sanctions on iran's nuclear program. and so we saw iranian attacks against wall street. we saw that attack by north korea against sony. we saw china attack the office of personaling management. we have seen russian now try to hack into our election processes. >> russia also taking the state department, and the white house. state computers were taken down for a month in 2015 skmoo and trying to infiltrate pent

>> we don't know. >> jeremy bash, he keeps suggesting this. supporters keep suggesting the whole purpose of this is simply that the democrats want to undermine the legitimacy of his winning the election. that's why the intelligence community is doing this. he is not going to play along with that. >> the intelligence community, the cia, the nsa are nonpartisan professional agencies. these are people who are risking their lives, in some cases losing their lives in tricky situations. they're part of the defenses of our country. when he is worn in as the 45 td president in two fridays, wolf, he is going to rely on those intelligence professionals. he is going to rely on those troops. when they come to him and say, mr. president kim jong un is stacking a missile on a lawmaker pad in north korea aimed at us and then if we're hit, that is a major, major scandal in our country. >> this is not -- this is still going on. it's not just meddling in the election. it's the propaganda that's been on our door. there are important elections in europe this year

. >> jeremy bash, if anyone could get to the bottom of it, wouldn't it be the cia? >> yeah, but they're not going to look at that question. >> why not? >> i think this is the point, which is, i think the flynn stuff is interesting, but i think fundamentally what's going on here, the president-elect is sensitive. he's really sensitive. he believes that people are trying to question the legitimacy of his election. >> right. >> that's not what the intelligence community is doing. i think someone needs to crack through to him and say mr. president, we get it that you want to explain the legitimacy of your election. you can do that. that is an entirely separate question. it's not a question intelligence officers are trying to answer. we should totally separate it from this question about whether russia tried to influence our election. let's value the intelligence community as professionals who are going to help defend the country. once he makes that mental break, a lot of these problems are going to go away. right now, his own conflation is driving a lot of this. the pre

for more, i want to bring in jeremy bash, former chief of staff at the cia and at the department of defense. jeremy, nice to see you again. >> hi kate. >> earlier today in an interview, kellyanne conway indicated that donald trump might consider rolling back some of his sanctions that were imposed by barack obama after all of this came out about russia being behind the hacking. what do you make of that? >> the first thing the trump team has to do is take a comprehensive intelligence briefing. larger about what russia's aims are to figure out what they're doing in syria, what they're doing in ukraine. what they're doing in the baltic -- >> friday wasn't enough? >> friday was just about the election hacking. and this is a broader issue about russia's aims. they've got to be very tough on russia because vooush going to be very tough on us and try to press us and try to test the new team. >> and your reaction to what we just reported about russia's reaction to the intelligence report saying that it's baseless, saying it's just partisan politics. >> i trust our intelligence professionals who una

robert costas, msnbc contributor, and jeremy bash, msnbc's national security analysis and former chief of staff to leon panetta. let me be positive, trump went over there because despite all the bs and phony feuding. with the intelligence people, he knows right now he needs them. >> and the people on capitol hill know that as well. this is the an ally trying to keep those relationships alive. understanding they can't have a war with the intelligence community even though they just had one a few weeks ago. he's president now. >> why does he keep holding up the press like stooges? like they also have to have a bourgeois business guy they have to hold up? he clearly loves it. >> every hero needs an anti-hero. when he was standing there with the cia, he was looking across the lobby with the agency motto, from john chapter 8. and you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free. >> what about that line? some of the people on the left that i talked to today, not only left, but critics of trump saying wait a minute, didn't he run against the iraq war and is he running a new one? was

joining me tonight, jeremy bash, former chief of staff to the director of the cia and the secretary of defense in the obama administration. robert costa, national political reporter for "the washington post." and michael crowley, senior foreign affairs correspondent for politico. thank you all for being with me. i want to start with you, jeremy. i pulled you into late-night duty a second night in a row because you kept me up last night worrying and general hayden did it again tonight. i want to ask you about what he said. that he posited one of the motives of donald trump trash talking was to intimidate the intelligence community. do you agree with that? >> who knows? but i don't think it's going to work. they're used to talking to presidents and people at all levels of the government. this is what they train for. so i don't think it's going to be successful. i actually think tomorrow is a huge opportunity for the trump team to put a lot of this to rest and put it behind them. i think frankly all they've got to do tomorrow is come out sort of with a short statement that says, russia tr

campaign veteran and former white house communications director for bush 43, and jeremy bash is with us tonight. former chief of staff for the the department of defense and the cia. and jeremy, that is precisely why we begin with you on the president-elect on the topic of russia. what do you think happens now, especially to satisfy all of those with lingering questions about why the carve out for putin. why putin and russia have so e sid ewe white housely avoided any criticism thus far? >> good evening, brian. it's interesting the administration will come into office on friday with not one, but two federal investigations now looming overhead. the first one was announced on fri by the senate intelligence committee, richard brewer of north carolina announced a pretty wide ranging investigation that will also probe not just russian hacking, but in fact contacts between the presidential campaign and the russians. and now potentially if this report is correct, there's a second counterintelligence investigation led by the bureau, led by the fbi with other intelligence agencies participating

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. >> and joining me now, jeremy bash, who served as chief of staff to leon panetta when he was treasury secretaryor of the cia from 2009 and 2011 and when panetta was secretary of defense from 2011 to 2013. there's often a difference between any organization between the leadership and the rank and file. how do you process the reception that the president received on saturday and really his standing within the cia from those that you know intimately you've been able to talk with? >> i've been talking to cia veterans and intelligence officers since saturday and here's what i think i'm picking up. first, they're very encominged by the selection of mink pompeo. think-the-think he'll be a very good leader, a strong leader and stick up for them and help them advance their -- still, there's a lot of president bub -- i was at the cate on december 30th, 2009 when we sent a dozen of our st officer and on that day we lost darren, harold, jennifer, liz, scott, deign and an officer named jeremy. seven officers killed, memorialized on that wall and many of them anonymously. for the president to stand

bush's presidency and jeremy bash, who served as chief of staff to the cia director and the defense secretary leon panetta. jeremy, you believe trump's behavior slamming the intelligence community's conclusion again and again, that russia hacked the u.s. election means the u.s. is headed for a pretty big national security crisis. >> i do, and i served alongside cia officers at langley. all have dedicated their lives to collecting intelligence. many have risked their lives, and some have lost their lives to go into harm's way to collect intelligence and to bring the fight to our adversaries. and this is not the thanks that they should be getting. they should be listened to. their analysis can be challenged behind closed doors. i think that's entirely appropriate. but they should not be slammed publicly. and i think it really does set up a big crisis because if the president-elect is going to raise his right hand and become the number-one cyber target in the world two fridays from now, if he doesn't listen to the intelligence community, he's going to be targeted by china, by north korea, by ira

jeremy bash, another old friend and colleague from the cia and the pentagon will be on the panel. jeremy is managing of global -- beacon global strategies and was in excellent shape as that -- julie smith will also participate in the panel. she worked at the pentagon for vice president biden. she now works with jeremy at the center for new american security. if she is also one of the smartest people in town on europe and russia. finally, when i started studying detente wasnion, top focus. we then went to peering into putin's eyes, to reset to today. who knows what phrase we will come up with to describe the put.in-trump relationship. a line from an old "buffalo makes it clearg" -- sums it up for the moment for me. "there's something happening here, what it is ain't exactly clear." rep. schiff: thank you it is a , pleasure to join you today a special appreciation for american progress for the fabulous for the center does an invitation to come and speak with you today. there is a much -- there is a lot to talk about. i thought i would focus on the convergence of two trends in the wor

jeremy bash, another old friend and colleague from the cia, in the pentagon will be on the panel. jeremy is managing director and was an excellent chief of staff for leon panetta, one of the best persons i've ever worked for at the cia and dod and is also a very good guy. julie smith will also participate on the pant. she was a colleague as well. she worked at the pentagon and for vice president biden. she now works with jeremy at the center and at works with jeremy and at the center for new american security. she's also one of the smartest people in town on europe and russia. finally, when i started studying the soviet union, detaunt was the focus. over time it moved from detaunt to parish and then we then went with the bill to boris era to peering into putin's eyes to reset to today. and who knows what phrase we will come up to describe the putin and trump relationship. but a line from an old buffalo springfield song sums it for me. there's something happening here, what it is ain't exactly clear. representative shift, maybe you can help us get some clarity. thank you very much.

. >>> let's bring many jeremy bash. he served as chief of staff at the department of defense and cia. good morning to you. >> good morning, matt. >> i want to ask you about "the wall street journal" report in a second. i want to ask for the benefit of your inside knowledge, give me a sense of what the mood of the intelligence officials is right now and the rank and file, about being questioned, even cahastisd by the president-elect. >> i think they're horrified. and there's a lot of jaws that have fallen to the floor in the last couple of days. every intelligence discussion i've been in, at the cia, the pentagon and the white house, always begins with a briefing, an assessment. what are the facts on the ground? and that's what you need to defend the country from terrorist attacks, from missile launches, from iran restarting its nuclear weapons program. and if you don't trust the intelligence professionals, you will let your guard down and we may be hit. we may be defenseless. and that's a horrifying scenario for anybody

let's bring in jeremy bash, the founder and managing director of beacon global strategies.nk you for being with us. i want to talk to you about these hearings coming up and what it means. that's probably the most substantive part of this interview that we'll have. i do want to ask you, since we have you this morning to react, if i will, to the news that we've heard about these intelligence briefings, and how you, at least, think about thos those. >> we have to drive under a caution flag. we can't race ahead of the facts, we don't know all the facts. but we know the russians had a clear preference for trump. they liked to use information to gain leverage and tried to gain leverage in our american political system. so we know that. that's a fact. that's what was pit out in the intelligence report declassified and publicized last friday. we think we know that intelligence officials briefed trump about this, briefed obama and senior congressional leaders, because they're worried that russia will try to use leverage over the united states. i think this is important, not to see t

. >> let's turn to jeremy bash who served as chief of staff at the cia and department of defense. good morning to you. >> good morning, matt. >> you've heard what reince priebus said, called it total garbage. agrees with mr. trump's assessment that it is fake news. this goes to the voracity of a source and information, credibility of information. what are your sources telling you? >> well, i do think it makes sense this morning to drive under a caution flag and not race ahead of the facts. here's what we know. here's what we think. here's what we don't know. we know the russian government uses information to try to compromise people and influence our election process. that is what the declassified intelligence report that was published last friday said. it said the russian government was trying to meddle, trying to influence our policies, our political systems. he's wh here's what we think. we think intelligence officials thought the information was important enough to pass on to the president, the president-elect and congressional leaders. they're in a catch 22, matt. if they don

and they are a dangerous actor and a threat to our country. >> jeremy bash. jeremy, we appreciate your perspective this morning. >> thank you, matt. >>> also in washington, the fight over obamacare is intensifying, from the president and vice president-elect mike pence. hallie jackson is at the white house this morning. >> reporter: good morning to you. the battle is back on again. donald trump, tweeting just moments ago, slamming senate minority leader, chuck schumer, as a clown. and accusing democrats of playing the blame game in this fight over health care. don't expect this heated talk to go anywhere for a while. not in this health care fight, with the coverage of 20 million americans at stake. today, obamacare on life support. with the gop promising to repeal and replace it fast. >> the republican plan to cut health care wouldn't make america great again. it would make america sick again. >> reporter: democrats, debuting a new catchphrase, after a simultaneous showdown on capitol hill. vice president-elect mike pence rallying republicans. president obama

jeremy bash, another old friend and colleague from the cia and the pentagon will be on the panel. jeremy is managing of global strategies and was in excellent shape as that for the gun fanatic, one of the best person that worked for the cia and dod. julie smith will participate. a college as well. she worked at the pentagon for vice president biden. she now works as jeremy at the center for new american security. she's also one of the smartest people in town on europe and russia. finally, when i started studying the soviet union, the top with focus that over time we then went from the bill to peer into putin's eyes, to reset to today. and who knows what price will come up with to describe the non-trump relationship. a line from old apollo spring sun sums it up for the moment for me. there's something happening here, what it is ain't exactly clear, the representative schiff, maybe you can help us get clearance. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you it is a pleasure to join you today a special appreciation for american progress for the fabulous for the center does an invitatio

we want to bring in jeremy bash, chief of staff at the cia and the defense department. >> good morningssume that a new president will be tested early in his administration. this is what donald trump said last week. in an interview with "the new york post," i don't think we're going to be tested. i'm not a game player. they understand me. what do you make of that statement? >> i think it is a time of worry in national security circles. it's a time of worry because of what our adversaries might try. it's a time of worry of whether the new commander in chief will listen to the facts and advice that his intelligence officers will give him. >> there's reports that the team might not be up to speed, might not be read in. they are missing and some of the engagement they have with the outgoing national security team of the obama administration, has not occurred. does it worry you? >> they got a little of a late start. i think they will have a chance to get the team back together. and they will be ready, i think, in the next days and weeks. but tomorrow, when he goes out to the cia, if he does

. >> jeremy bash, nicolle wallace, thank you very much. i appreciate that. >> let's head over to mr. roker for our very first check of the weather. >> nice stretch. >> we are looking for a little bit of a clipper coming off the mid-atlantic coast bringing some snow into parts of new jersey. this next one comes in, we will look at that coming up in the next half hour. plenty of sunshine from the southwest into southern california. we're going to get to your local forecast coming up in the >>> good morning. i'm meteorologist chuck bell. first wave of snow moving out, still a little burst of snowshowers and snow flurries, that'soi to come up the i-95 corridor over the next hour or so, not expecting a lot of additional accumulations with that, but snow continuing to fall on top of snow already down on the ground. temperatures at or below freezing in most neighborhoods, everything is stick to go untreated surfaces, the main roads are fine. afternoon temperatures will be trouble should be confined early this morning and that will be it. >>> and

. >> if mike pompeo is not confirmed tonight, it's my understanding and talking to jeremy bash who isnt, getting a hug. >> that is his son. already looking like a civilian. no tie. probably couldn't wait to get rid of that. >> i wrote into washington with bill and hillary clinton and tipper and al gore when they came to take their place. we road in an rv. it was a little unsettling. i got off at memorial bridge. members of the family now. >> macking their way to the luncheon after the signing ceremony. >> anyhow. i got off the rv and memorial bridge and realized the president of the united states and the vice president of the united states are younger than i am. >> they are on the left. >> chief of staffs. >> very, very -- it took president a while to find that chief of staff that is basically him. >> but he bonded with them. >> they really did. this is dennis mcdonough could channel president obama in ways no other could. he has good relations with his chief of staff and don't get me wrong but dennis had a connection with him. >> he was a football player. >> a vikings fan. >> it's im