, the first criticism or admonishment from donald trump about latimer putin. >> he suggested latimerutin would not do it while donald trump was president. charlie: i ask this of the secretary of state last night. afterre any evidence that the president met with latimer putin and said -- stop this, we know you are doing this. that there has been significant hacking since? ,> i don't think we know of any that is not to say there has not been one. more activity on wikileaks. it may have been collected earlier. >> the initial fear was about booths the actual voting . there is no evidence that that happened. at the very least, i think president obama said he deterred russia in doing that. -- donald trump said the democratic national committee was waiting to be hacked. charlie: they knew they were going to be a attacked. , if theid, look russians had obtained information about donald trump, me, they would have released a publicly during the campaign and the fact that they did not was a testament to the security apparatus that the republican party has. charlie: one argument that has this ma

politics expert, i ask what kind of relationship donald trump's america would have with latimer bruton's russia. russia.vladimir putin's >> it would be great if the two countries could get along, for sure. but we know it's not that simple because diplomacy is never simple. we know that john mccain believes that russia is dangerous. laura: as does rex tillerson, donald trump's pick for secretary of state. >> we don't imagine that he thinks that. he gave to the establishment what the establishment wants to get. it's totally different because it was a confirmation hearing. laura: it is all an act? >> of course, he was acting, for me. committee for foreign affairs of 19 people, out of those 19 people, 10 of them are republicans. that means that only one of them who would not vote for rex tillerson would make him mix -- miss his confirmation. so he's giving to the establishment what they want to get. businessman, he witho particular problem russia and all the dictators on this planet because he made great contracts with all of them. a different turn in chicago where barack obama made his last

this phone call tomorrow with latimer prudent. -- latimer prudent -- vladimir putin. mike: a similar situation to what theresa may and the president were doing today, establishing some sort of relationship. he wastrump has said very close to vladimir putin and he has also said i've never met him. we don't know the exact truth. they have to have some sort of relationship. to startbe bad form talking about sanctions immediately. if they can begin laying out some of the issues between them and promising to work on them, that would be a good start. the other interesting thing that came up today was donald trump saying general mattis -- secretary mattis will be the decider on torture. that was a walk backup donald trump's previous behavior. he said i will stay out of it and let the military decide w. vonnie: he has said that in interviews this week. guy johnson, theresa may bringing up the trade agreements she wants to see happen between the u.s. and the u.k. ,uture economic cooperation stressing there is a trillion dollars worth of investment between both countries. guy:

it's going to increase capacity at its burton latimer and corby plants, as well as create 800 newjobsnd hejoins us now. why are you doing this? we are doing it to meet the growing demand for our healthy breakfast cereals in the uk, but also to help us meet the growing demand in the markets where we export, and specifically in china, where business doubled last year. you are creating another 800 jobs, which is... i wish we were. we will be creating, our current workforces around 800. my mistake. you are creating newjobs, so this is fantastic news for theresa may, saying britain is open for business. but how have you been affected by the whole brexit story with the pound and so on? the first part your question, it is about ensuring we can keep the business successful in the northamptonshire area. with regard to brexit, we have definitely seen with the weakening of sterling having an impact our business, we importa having an impact our business, we import a lot of raw materials, and naturally what this enables us to do is to continue that export. your owners are putting you up for sale.

the white house and kremlin confirmed latimer bruton will speak by phone with president donald trumprow. putin congratulated trump on his victory shortly after the election. the kremlin says they have not spoken since then. the kremlin has applauded their efforts to amend ties with moscow. sean spicer says investigations into what president trump says was widespread voter fraud in the election will be focused on understanding where the problem exists and how deep it goes. he has singled out california and new york. s the president will sign an executive order to launch the action today. belgium has sealed an agreement with france and the netherlands to draw a passenger list and introduce passport checks on international real services. the move will tighten security on high-speed trains and help track criminals who may be using them. global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2600 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i'm taylor riggs. this is bloomberg. vonnie: thank you. let's take a look at some of the securities moving today, including the u.s. dollar. the bloo

. >> how may times as he have to flub latimer puke and vladimirc before people don't think he's goingbe tough on him. he's been offered plenty of opportunities for it, of course putin wants trump, people wants people like him, national supporting. it's a well-established pattern, of course he prefers trump over hillary. she went about 40 minutes into the press conference, there was a brief intermission. ♪ >> tom: when they were done, trump talked about a recent business opportunity. >> over the weekend, i was offered $2 billion to do a deal in dubai with a very, very, very amazing man, a great, great developer from the middle east. a friend of mine, great guy. >> tom: anyway, he took the $2 billion. i'm kidding. i turned it down. i didn't have to turn it down, because as you know, i have a "no" conflict situation because i'm president, i didn't know about that until about three months ago, but it's a nice thing to have. i don't want to take advantage of something. i have something that others don't have. >> tom: lori. you were watching this as the markets work, tell me what happened w

this all comes of course after the president had a one-on-one with russian president latimer putin yesterdaycipated call. love is the result of that? the congressional correspondent for the "washtington examiner." suzanne, we are told during the putin called by russian sanctions did not come out. moscow's interference with the presidential election did not come up either. which you have expected them to touch on matters mostly pro forma type of officials and or formal phone call? >> i think it was considered a congratulatory call it a trump administration said it was initiated by putin to congratulate the president on his election and inauguration. or moscow's perspective, they would very much like to see sanctions lifted beginning with the ones imposed by the obama administration for the interference in the pre-election campaigning. that is certainly going to eventually come out. trump is kind of ambiguous about it like maybe he would consider it at some point but it was too early to talk about it. that really puts him at odds with a lot of people on capitol hill, even republicans who don't

latimer putin is laughing that we have been completely unprotected, that he is accused the american electoral system as being somehow corruptible. when in fact, nothing happened in terms of stealing an election. but he is so -- the fact that rt, the russian television station is mentioned so much tells you everything you want to know. this is influence operation, sean. >> sean: the president even used state department funds to actually fund an effort inside of israel with his own political operatives on the ground and if israel to defeat prime minister benjamin netanyahu. for all the talk about what an outrage, our president did it. >> definitely. i've covered the obama administration since the earliest state. in the very early part of the obama administration when they were doing so-called russia reset. intelligence agencies, law enforcement agencies were prohibited from saying anything critical about russia or putin. and that went on for years and years and years. one of the things that came out in the intelligence report earlier was this has been going on for more than ten years. and nothi

came out and said this was the biggest intelligence failure since 9/11, our failure to understand latimerlutants plans and intentions. so this has been going on for a long time. we've known that russia is a very sophisticated bad actor in the cyber realm. many members of congress, not just members of the committee, have been warning obama about russia's continued cyber attacks on this country, and they did nothing. so now, as you look forward, the recent election, and then it appears that they want to change this narrative into somehow that russia was responsible for hillary clinton losing the election. i just don't buy that. >> chris: i want to make this very clear. there is no indication, despite russia's efforts, and the doesn't say this is why trump won and she lost. they try to do a campaign, and trump unfairly won the election. you say that mr. trump has to be tougher than president obama was in responding to cyber aggression, especially by the russians, but i want you to respond to this tweet, which i discussed with reince priebus. trump tweeted this on saturday. having a good rela

we talked about latimer putin said on tuesday he accused the outgoing u.s. administration of trying to undermine president-elect trump by spreading false allegations. he described it as part of an effort by president obama, he said the dossier alleging trump's sexual activities at a moscow hotel was fake and he charged as being worse than prostitution. he's talking about your administration. vladimir putin saying -- has told more lies than i can count. whether about syria, ukraine, or about his role in any engineering of our elections. i don't take anything he says as gospel truth. in this case, it's completely dishonest and counterfactual. president obama had no knowledge of, no role in this alleged and obviously, it is the consensus, high confidence of our collective 17 intelligence agencies that vladimir putin made a deliberate attempt to interfere with our elections. that's the fact. interfere with our election and make sure that donald trump was elected? susan: i don't think it's possible to say make sure. by denigrating secretary clinton -- charlie: so

. >> we will keep on this, but for the first time, russian president latimer put in is directly denyinglaims made in an unverified dossier on president-elect trunk, put is calling it total nonsense and insisting that moscow does not have anything compromising on president-elect. in prudence of the allegations are part of the obama administration's attempt to undermine the legitimacy of mr. trump's presidency. white house press secretary josh earnest firing back. >> first of all it sounds like he got his copy of the talking points. second -- >> from who? >> i don't know, it certainly sounds a lot like what the incoming administration's team is saying. but it is not the first time that the russian president has called into question the veracity of the united states government. >> congressman, there is no evidence anywhere that anything in the dossier had any shred of truth. that being said, i am not going to care ever about anything vladimir putin has to say about the united states, i think he is a murderous kgb dictator and a butcher, and i'm not really exactly sure why he is choosing to

it is time to look into the mirror and say that hillary clinton lost this election, not because of latimer putin or james comey or fake news, but because she ran a bad campaign. me to a conclusion in the report about the clear ofalation, director clapper, the scope of activities. that russia has conducted these activities in recent years, that this was a clear as collation in scope and scale. is that correct? director clapper: that is correct? senator cotton: why did they think they could get away with that escalation against u.s. interests? think thelapper: i challenge, particularly in the cyber rome, is there is kind of an insidious progression of progressiveness. i have seen this over the last six years or so where other progressively more -- as they develop more capability, they also have an attendant willingness to try to use it. we are sing this particularly with the second tier, meaning north korea and iran, who don't capability, who do not have the level of the russians are of the -- of the russians or a be chinese, but they are progressing. that to me is what is bothersome about t

we assess latimer couldn't ordered and influenced campaign in 2016 aimed at the u.s. presidential election. russia's goals were to undermine public faith, denigrate secretary clinton and harm the potential presidency. we assess putin and the russian president -- russian government a favor for president-elect trump. -- gen. kelly: with high confidence. >> on border security, i think senator mccain covered a lot of this. i want to point out that the budget that we now have annually on border security equals the atf,ned budget of fbi, dea, secret service, u.s. marshals, plus the entire your leased department budget. -- entire new york police department should. had 331,000 people apprehended at the border. almost 50% of those turned themselves in. in other words, all the border security agent in the world, all the fences in the world would not have made a difference because they said take us, we are here. we want asylum. my question to you is, do you have it on your agenda to examine the spending priorities of that $19 billion? and look at the efficacy of every place we a