there were people running ads against mitch mcconnell and israel election over that issue. -- in his reelection over that issue. mcconnell felt at that was inappropriate. >> let's go to that november 2 2006, after that election, the victory celebration, the news conference from 2006 in november. [video clip] >> i want to thank my colleagues for electing me now vice-chairman of the caucus, number three in the leadership. i want to thank harry reid in particular for the great job that he has done for us. majority leader harry reid sounds really good to us. and over the next two years, it is going to sound great to the american people when harry and his team show what we can do. let me just say our challenge has just begun. the american public has rejected the policies of george bush and they are waiting to see what we can do. and we are going to show them that we will never lose sight of them, in terms of making their lives better and creating a better america for the average person and for all americans. so i am so gratified to be part of this leadership team. i want to thank harry, pa

mitch mcconnell says we've tried to change the subject. i beg to differ. he doesn't want to address the filibusters. he doesn't want to address the rules changes. so three quarters of the speech are dedicated to obamacare. we are not changing the subject today. he is. he doesn't want to discuss the dysfunction and the way republicans have used the rules to tie this place in one big knot. if you have two sides, one who is fraction and one who is opposed, the senate rules give the opposition a head start. and republicans have abused the advantage for years now, refusing to confirm qualified judges, preventing executive agencies from having the leaders they deserve. it's a new world. people defend action. the old rules need to be modified. and that's a we have done today. we haven't ripped them up very we modified them in ways that can make things work. who in america doesn't think that a president, democrat or republican, deserves his or her picks for who should run the agency? nobody. but there is a long list, cabinet and subcabinet level positions that hav

in some sense, the relationship relationship with mitch mcconnell. with mitch mcconnell and senator schumer were the cause -- was the cause of a lot of it. i think there was a sense that they both want that relationship to be there. so they will try to make it work. >> word is that relationship looking like with mitch mcconnell? paul: the relationship between reid and schumer reached an epic level. they became each other's unit and yang -- each other's yen and yang. i don't know how chuck schumer will function in the senate without harry reid. he is so used to having harry reid there for sort of a more intuitive feel in decision-making. how does he get along with mcconnell? i think it will depend. it will depend on how partisan mcconnell is going to try to go with some of the legislation. it will depend -- a real big early flashpoint will be the supreme court nominee. we've had this vacancy now for nine or 10 months. trump is my to put up a nominee pretty quickly. and they still have the filibuster. are the democrats point to try to filibuster this n

stuart: want to talk to you about senator mitch mcconnell.f president-elect trump must be revenue neutral. i took this as a sign that the establishment republicans are pushing back against the trump folks. have i got it wrong. >> no, you don't have it wrong. establishment republicans, some of these guys are true fiscal conservatives. donald trump is a populist. i tell you, stu, the federal budget, half of it involving entitlements. another large segment is interest on the debt, another large segment is national security. a small sliver is so-called discretionary spending. if you are to get a handle on the debt and deficit you can't have a massive tax cut which what is what donald trump wants and massive infrastructure spending without blowing a hole in the debt. we need a constitutional convention. senator tom coburn is leading that, from oklahoma, and my colleague on salem is talking about this 10 years. should be convention much states, amendment to the constitution, fiscal constraint and balanced budget and hold federal spending to percent

so let's head now to capitol hill where senate majority leader mitch mcconnell will hold that news conference at the top of the next hour. manu raju has more on that. good morning. >> good morning, carol. yeah that news conference designed to talk about what mcconnell wants the house, the 114th congress, his accomplishments, the republicans achieved here. but, it will be dominated with questions about russia and russia's involvement in the elections, and what senator mcconnell knew, and his thoughts about this call for a bipartisan investigation but we do know is senator mcconnell does get top secret intelligence briefings that most members of congress don't because he's a member of the republican, and member of leadership and in september he was briefed by multiple agencies and some democrats in that briefing we are told by a source briefed on the matter wanted to take an approach at that september meeting and say that russia was involved in this hack and was trying to steer the elections one way but in that september briefing we are told by a source that mcconnell had some questions about t

mitch mcconnell had a problem and mitch mcconnell did not, i think is a perfect example or the epitomehange. and that's what we're seeing regardless. it didn't manifest itself in the election. but the country's becoming browner, the country's becoming more diverse, and this is a country that is built upon hope and you still have a lot of hopeful people in this country, a country that's diverse and a country that's open. all of those things that barack obama spoke about. but mitch mcconnell, i think he highlighted correctly, is the example of and the epitome of the opposition of that theory. >> the democrats, should they basically block trump at ever are i point, every turn? >> oh, i -- i plan on being one of those people that block donald trump on every turn. i think that the question is whether or not nancy pelosi and chuck schumer actually want to play ball or not. i think that there are many democrats, there's a lot of energy, that don't want to see this country going backwards. i think the perfect example is what happened in north carolina in the north carolina republican party ero

the role of mitch mcconnell. he said no one can believe republicans wouldn't want to get to the bottom of this. they sent them to brief a group in september and make a bipartisan statement and we would like to warn state and local officials to really secure their voting apparatus. we know they got into the database was two states. illinois was one of them. mitch mcconnell shut them down. that's another thing at issue. he is acting like the russia is not our friends. when he had a chance to do something bipartisan, he shut it down and the obama administration went along with it. >> we talked about what the mandate is that donald trump earned in the election and moral authority that is difficult to measure statistically. if we go down the road of having these investigations and it is put out there as a matter of public record that the russians did intervene and were behind these leaks and they can be conclusively demonstrated, what would that mean? would it mean anything for donald trump in terms of legitimacy and

peter, i want to play a little bit of what mitch mcconnell said. he was defending the intelligence agencies. take a listen. we'll talk after the sound bite. >> the russians aren't our friends. obviously any foreign breach of our cyber security measures is disturbing. i strongly condemn any such efforts. i agree with senator schumer, chairman mccain, burr and others. this cannot be a partisan issue. >> peter, what do you make of mitch mcconnell coming out and really putting some distance between him and the president-elect. >> the director of intelligence said they believe the russians were involved in compromising information, basically accessing illegally the e-mails, hacking them. so we know that's the basis. the question now really and mitch mcconnell expressed doubt saying i want more evidence. that's why i want an investigation. whether or not this was done deliberately with the intention of tipping the scales in this election in favor of the president-elect. nonetheless democrats like chuck schumer came out in support of this investigation fe

mitch mcconnell/-r- majority leader: "the russians to influence the u-s election? majority leader mitch mcconnell said monday he supports senate committee investigations on capitol hill to find out. sen. mitch mcconnell/-r- majority leader: obviously any foreign breach of our cyber security measures is disturbing but mcconnell did not go as far as others... like a bipartisan group of senators calling for a special select committee to review russia's role... sen. chuck schumer/-d- new york: "the goal is to find out how extensive this is, how deep it is, which countries are doing it, it won't be limited to just russia, and then to come up with conclusions how to stop it." sen. john mccain/-r- arizona: "it's cl whether they intended to interfere to the degree that they were trying to elect a certain candidate, i think that's the subject of investigation, but facts are stubborn things - they did hack into this campaign." these public positions are a clear break from the president-elect donald trump/president- elect: "personally it could be russia, i don't really think

this news conference is designed for mitch mcconnell to talk about the accomplishments in the 114th congress but expect a lot of questions about russia, especially given the facts that senator mcconnell sits on these top briefings that not other members get because he's the senate majority leader. whether or not he supports calls for a bipartisan investigation, look, he's stepping in right now. >> well, i think this has been one heck of a year. i hate to see it end. it was topped off saturday night. you see i have my global sweater on. topping off a terrific year for the things that i care about, like holding the senate and electing a president. i know the main subject you were interested in this morning and i'm going to read a statement which i typically don't do at these but i want to make sure you fully understand what i have to say on the issue that mostly undermines this morning. obviously any foreign breach of our cybersecurity measures is disturbing and i strongly condemn any such efforts. the russian government directed the recent compromises of e-mails from u.s. persons and institut

. >> mitch mcconnell said they want to repeal, start repealing obamacare, the first week, a.c.a., bring it on. they don't know what to do. they don't know how long.

they were unified on this issue and mitch mcconnell was flat out against it. i don't think of intelligence as being that partisan a thing and i especially don't think of classified intelligence that has to be done in one of those compartmentalized briefing rooms, i don't think of that as being something that engenders a partisan reaction. is that part of the reporting a surprise to you or am i just being naive? >> it's not surprising to me given the election that was at stake. you know, time and time again some of us who consider ourselves to be national security experts tried to raise this issue during the campaign and every time we were derided as, oh, that's just a partisan statement, that's because you're for hillary clinton and not donald trump. and tragically, even after the election, president-elect trump has already stated on the record that he doesn't believe this intelligence. so, you know, that is what it was, but moving forward we have to have a real conversation about national security. not divided between democrats

mitch mcconnell told reporters today that the senate intelligence panel will that conduct the inquiryit comes amid a cia couldn't delusion russia sought to influence the election in favor of donald trump. a conclusion mr. trump has dismissed as "ridiculous". the president-elect named his newest cabinet pick today tapping general john kelly as the next head of the d of homeland security. back here at home a federal judge in philadelphia has rejected a green party backed recount in pennsylvania. jill stein argued the state's voting machines had been hacked but the judge ruled there is know credible evidence to back that claim up. >> some really good news came out of camden today.

mitch mcconnell specifically said no, no, don't tell the public. and so we held the election with the leadership in congress knowing full well what russia was doing and we all went to vote while they sat on that. until now. until the "post" published that tonight. joining me now is one of the reporters that broke this just a while ago. thank you for joining us. i know this must be a busy time for you. >> yes, thanks for having me. >> the big new piece of this is both the cia's conclusion that russia was trying to decide who should be the next president of the united states, that's what this intervention was about, but also this information that was given to congress. were there multiple times when the intelligence agencies, when the cia, when this intelligence information was brought to congressional leaders? >> well, we know that the cia briefed the senate intelligence committee last week with this information, which is partly what prompted a letter, the letter we mention, in the article, from seven senators, senator wiyden of oregon, from preside

mitch mcconnell announced there will be hearings. hearings go on inside the committees of the senate. armed services and expect more also. >> didn't go whole hog what something called for a separate special committee, a la benghazi committee, gets a select committee. you are right. mitch mcconnell and chuck schumer praising him for doing it, it does need to be looked at and leaves donald trump on an island at the only person in politics generally who doesn't think it's clear russia was involved in trying to impact america's election. >> also might spell trouble for the leading candidate right now to be his secretary of state, rex tillerson. i mean, harry reid was asked about rex tillerson and harry reid's assessment when it comes to confirmation, he might have a problem finding the 50 votes to get confirmed. >> he could. we've seen grumblings right from mccain from senator graham. lindsey graham of south carolina. >> marco rubio. >> marco rubio of florida. obviously, that's three. only have 52. that would, if the three voted against

and mitch mcconnell says knowing vladimir putin is not what he thinks about when he says he knows people in russia. it is likely, brian, this is going to be a tougher battle. i can tell you that i spoke with one of his top transition officials earlier today because andrea mitchell, of course, reported over the weekend that president-elect trump intended to pick tillerson, and i said, is mr. trump wavering at all on this decision? i got a very strong, affirmative no back. the sense was this candidate was simply more qualified based on what his terms of qualification are and that he was really in a different league than the other contenders. as you pointed out, mitt romney did get a phone call earlier tonight essentially saying he is not going to be the pick for secretary of state, and there was a lot of internal dates within trump world about mitt romney because he was a very serious consideration at one point as well, but i think one of the things that was so difficult for him to overcome is the fact he's been such an early critic of then candidate trump. again, we are expecting this rep

how can anyone get mitch mcconnell to talk for an hour? because in your own book, you point out that you only speak to the press when it's to your advantage. you talk about a time when billgates came in to see you and you just sat there and people were uncomfortable waiting for one of you to speak, someone on told president george w. bush you were excited over a certain vote and he said, really? how can you tell. why so few words. >> guest: well, i'm in the afraid of talking but i learn morally listen -- more by listening so astart out listening and think about what i want to say before i do it. i think it's fair to say that i'm in the era of trump, probably very different approach to commenting on public affairs. >> host: you're not the first one i remember the late bob mow vac used to -- novak idea to day the hardest interview wait senator mike commandfield and he would ask him a question ask he way said, yep, and he thissest one was hubert humphrey. >> guest: do you don't net get in trouble for what you don't say and theirs wrong with b

and apparently, mitch mcconnell is at the center of this.orting, we know he was one of those opposed of going public after they had a briefing by the intelligence agencies, explaining that the russians were intending to upset the election, were intending to help donald trump. frankly, i don't think there should be a select committee. i think there should be an independent commission akin to the 9/11 commission, which is truly independent. but, listen, the republicans think they're going to get away with this. they think that in the temporary euphoria of having donald trump elected, they will bury this. the intelligence agencies like to operate behind closed doors. they're hoping will sort of forget about this, this will get pushed to the back burner and it will all sort of drift away. and i think john mccain is exactly right. chuck schumer's exactly right. and i think, ultimately, they're going to have to back down and put this in a forum that the american people have confidence in. otherwise, it really does look like donald trump is shillin

host: let's talk about the relationship with the outgoing harry reid and mitch mcconnell. in one of your pieces, you said he was a protege of reid but had a better relationship with mitch mcconnell. jennifer: i think a better relationship than harry reid. harry reid and mitch mcconnell had a relationship that deteriorated significantly in recent years. in some sense, the relationship with mitch mcconnell and senator schumer was the cause of a lot of it. i think that there is a sense that they both want that relationship to be there, and they will try to make it work. host: in the absence of harry reid, how do you see that relationship looking like with mitch mcconnell? paul: first of all the , relationship between reid and schumer reached an epic level. they really became each other's yin and yang. i don't know how chuck schumer will function in the senate without harry reid. that is just going to be an odd thing. he is so used to having reid there for sort of a more intuitive feel in decision-making. how does he get along with mcconnell? i think it will depend. it will de

earlier today, mitch mcconnell says he supports senate investigation into the matter. what can you tell us? >> reporter: right, you have this divide. also john mccain and lyndsey graham saying there are an investigation into this matter. they don't necessary believe the cia and intelligence agencies when they say that they believe russia is behind the hacks. and more broadly that they believe russia tried to tip the scale in this. this could over shadow or taint his victory. it is important to point out that the cia never indicated that the russian hacking did tipped the scales and provide a motive for what they believed the russian government hacked or tried to -- and he said that look, it is digging deeper to determine what's happening to make sure if there is any a requirement that it does not happen again. we'll continue to get tough questions by this if congressional increase does go under way. kristen welker, thank you very much. i am joined now by sean spicer. it is nice to see you. >> good to see you, kate. lets start with this issue over the weekend of donald

mitch mcconnell said the senate intelligence would investigate. >> i agree this simply cannot be a partisan issue. the russians are not our friends. >> unless you catch hackers in the act it is hard to determine who was doing the hacking. why was it not brought up before the election? can you imagine if the election results were the opposite. we tried to play the russian card? it would be a conspiracy theory. mike emmanuel has more. >> reporter: jon, good afternoon, it sounds like president-elect trump believes democrats are rushing the hacking issue because they don't think hillary clinton could lose the election. >> once they hack. they have no idea if it is russia or china or somebody sitting on a bench someplace. >> reporter: yet there is a push on capitol hill all issuing a statement saying democrat and republicans must work together and across the lines of the congress to examine the recent incidents and offer solutions to deter from further cyber attacks. >> the question is what was the intention? and that's why we need an investigation. but more importantly than that, we need to ser

you agree with senator mitch mcconnell? >> i think that cyber is an area that the intelligence community continues to need to focus on. whether this is the highest breach that has occurred in the last 12 to 18 months, i'm not sure whether that's warranted. this is the new battleground, wolf, but it's happening economically and militarily and i think some of those threats may be even greater than what this allegation is about what russia did in this election. >> in several interviews now and recent ones including this past sunday, the president-elect has defended russia against the intelligence community's assessment, the fbi's assessment. he said yesterday for example he thinks the perpetrator of these hacks, in his words, could have been somebody sitting in a bedroom someplace. the other day he said maybe it was somebody who weighed 400 pounds and lives in new jersey. why is he offering these excuses for russia? >> i'm not sure he's offering them for russia. i think what he's recognizing and you and i have talked about thi

he's going to have to make that case to mitch mcconnell.make exactly the argument that steve is suggesting he make which is i ran on this, i won on this and these are my priorities. he's the president of the united states. he's shuin an ability to make the case to the american people and bring people along behind him. i think he ought to do that. it would be a big mistake, steve is right on the fraud, on the entitlement question. we need to be serious about addressing the structural problems with entitlements. i would be open to sequencing in any way just as long as we have the entitlement discussion. >> amen. trish: so good to see both of you guys. steven hayes, new editor in chief at the weekly standard taking over for bill cristal, really exciting stuff. i will tell you what is exciting right now, here we are on 20k watch. 19,913, a good chance we could get there today. big fed meeting happening tomorrow. we get a preview, what can we anticipate, what is it going to mean for these markets? i will see you right back after this. trish: dow

how can anyone get mitch mcconnell to talk for an hour. in your book and you point out that you only speak to the press when it's to your advantage, you talk about a time when bill gates came in to see you in the two of you just sat there and people were uncomfortable waiting for one of you to speak and you recount that someone once told george w. bush the you are excited over a certain road and he said really, how could you tell. so why so few words? >> guest: one not afraid of talking but i found i learned a lot more by listening. so frequently i start out by listening and think about what i want to say before i do it. so i think it's her to say i'm in the era of trump, very difference then in my approach to commenting on public affairs. >> will you're not the first one, i remember the late novak used to said the hardest interview he ever had on meet the press was one saturday mike mansfield asking the question he would say yet and then you ask another one he'd say nope and then he'd run out of questions. and herbert humphrey was easy ca

do you share mitch mcconnell's reservations? >> i am so glad he's saying this.aying this is bad news, no, what mcconnell's saying is we want to get tax cuts done, and it's only going to happen if we pay for it, because we're not going to pass $5 trillion more in debt on to our children. he wants to get something done, he wants to get it done quick, even some bipartisan participation on this, so he's saying let's find a way to do it. kennedy: how do you make it revenue-neutral? that that that's what mcconnell's talking about. >> you have to be careful here because when republicans say revenue-neutral, they're also saying when you spur growth, more tax revenue going to come in -- kennedy: so their going to spend the next tax revenue. >> there's going to be some revenue feedback, but you have to reform spending and go after entitlements. there's just no other way to do it. trump did not want to talk about it on the campaign trail. i like mcconnell is pushing him in that direction, i think paul ryan's going to push him in that direction and say, look, if you're the

listen to what mitch mcconnell have to say. >> my view on tax reform is that it will revenue neutral. >> that's code word for hold back until you get the cuts in spending first. >> come on, they never look at the issue that it's government spending that's holding a lot of things up. steve's absolutely right, you got to go full bore 100% in one shot immediately. and basically if you don't do the tax cut the way that trump wants it, you're going have to people like mitch mcconnell and bernie sanders come in and say you got to have payroll taxes, that's exactly what happened with reagan to save social security. >> back in the 1980, there was a 1986 tax reform that steve talked about which the rates came down to 28%. look what happened. everybody said all members of congress said we're going to lose revenue, result of tax -- in fact revenue increased 34% when you lowered tax rates. >> i would love to see some gift that pays for itself. but cutting taxes without cutting spending is voodoo economics. >> i showed you the figures. >> there's two ways for the government to sap resources from t

those words from senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. top republican in the senate.s he now joins a chorus of our gop lawmakers who want to investigation the conclusions of the cia over russian hacking. live from the capitol, next. compared to oral-b 7000, philips sonicare flexcare platinum removes significantly more plaque. this is the sound of sonic technology cleaning deep between teeth. hear the difference? get healthier gums in just 2 weeks vs a manual toothbrush and experience an amazing feel of clean. innovation and you. philips sonicare. save now when you buy philips sonicare. >>> president-elect donald trump won't take office for another five and a half weeks but is churning of you a storm in capitol hill over russian meddling in the election he just won. the "washington post" reported this weekend the cia believes moscow worked secretly to get donald trump elected, those there's no evidence any medicine'lling affected the outcome. >> i think it's ridiculous. i think it's just another excuse. i don't believe it. personally, it could be russia. i don't -- rea

senate majority leader mitch mcconnell is in control of the senate.epublicans rule the house and the oval office and the kentucky senate and, for the first time in 91 years, flipped the state house of representatives to a republican majority. happy holidays, senator mcconnell. he is next on "one to one." mr. goodman: senator, welcome to your 14th appearance on "one to one." undoubtedly a ket record. senator mcconnell: you were listing all the wonderful things that happened from a republican point of view in 2016. my wife is going to be in the cabinet. secretary of transportation. before we get going, i want to thank you for doing a great job for lo these many years. you handled the debate in my last election. did it flawlessly and objectively. wish you well in your new gig. mr. goodman: thank you, sir. take us back just a few weeks to november 8 and a telephone call you got on the evening of the election from now speaker elect jeff hoover. can you reenact what that call meant to you and what it meant to mr. hoover? senator mcconnell: i was at the nati

we are also awaiting mitch mcconnell's announcement on the vote time.it it could be later this evening, maybe around 10:00 p.m. later in the week, the senate could turn to a defense policy bill and talks continue off the floor on short-term funding to keep the government open until april 28. current funding expires on friday. live coverage of the senate when members return here on c-span2. . the distinguished senator from vermont is recognized. mr. leahy: i thank the distinguished presiding officer, my friend from kansas. mr. president, in an editorial this morning in "the new york times" was entitled "why the lies about voting fraud"? ten years

as you noted now, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell saying yesterday, yes, he does support the president-elect's cuts to be sure, but on the other hand, mcconnell is saying only way he wants to move forward on them in the new year is if there are budget offsets so these massive tax cuts are actually paid for. watch. >> i can only speak for myself but i think this level of national debt is dangerous and unacceptable. my preference on tax reform it would be revenue neutral to the government tort. reporter: so the concern here is really republican run whole show. they will have the white house, house and senate. there are top republicans on the hill looking back on the bush years, wait a second, we did the big tax cuts. they thought that was food for the economy. yet all kinds of runaway spending, medicare prescription drug benefit for example. they didn't really pay for all that. there was a big hangover. eric: if mcconnell wants it revenue neutral and in mr. trump wants the tax cuts how will he pay for his agenda? reporter: it is interesting. his economic team was on fox business talking about re

including mitch mcconnell. you're right about that. worried about what he wants to do, i'm sorry, you are interested what he want to do on health care. you have recently written, the president-elect needs to act quickly the to replace obamacare at same time to enact repeal. if he does repeal with vague promise to replace later he will have unnecessary calamity on his hands. what did you mean by that. >> right. well, iç think if they just repeal obamacare, then they have 20 million people who don't have insurance. neil: right. >> the president-elect has said he doesn't want that. he wants a transition. what they are talking about now is to repeal at a future effective date, but i don't think that is good idea at all because it risks losing both customers, enrollment and insurance companies who are not tear -- some of them not doing terribly well in this market. you might get a meltdown in the individual insurance market. i don't think they want that to happen. it affects a lot of the people who voted for president trump. it affects wor

so if trump doesn't change his view and mitch mcconnell already seems to have blocked this information getting out and will have a family tie to the white house, who would the american people be able to turn to to do a real investigation? >> let me make a comment on that. i know senator mcconnell, he's a republican, he's the majority leader of the senate, he wants our elections to function fairly and without influence from foreign countries and strike me dead if that isn't true. it is true and i think this would be completely irrelevant. his wife elaine is wonderful, she'll be a good transportation secretary and i don't think that would be relevant at all in his mind. i really don't. i think what would be relevant to him is who did -- who would do an investigation and if i understand it up to this point he would leave it up to the intelligence committees. this is why i think it's so important that what president obama is reportedly doing in the preparation of a report gets done. after all, this broke in the summer. we've known about this for six months. and i think the facts need to be

senate majority leader mitch mcconnell says moscow's meddling cannot be a partisan issue. the hacking and invasion of crimearch on saying to nato, come together to prove moscow is try to undermine america. >> let me just speak for myself. the russians are not our friends. i think we ought to approach all of these issues on the assumption that the russians do not wish us well. >> this comes after two of donald trump's biggest republican critics, john mccain and lindsey graham, joined chuck schumer and jack reed in calling to a bipartisan investigation. senator mcconnell says it's hard to believe any republicans could in any way ever be against reviewing these russian tactics. but president-elect donald trump has called the cia's assessment ridiculous. a fact -- a statement he based on nothing. tweeting today, can you imagine if the election results were the opposite and we tried to play the russia-cia card. it would be called a conspiracy. unless you catch hacker in the act it's hard to gem who was doing the hacking. why wasn't this brought up before the election? >> it was

mitch mcconnell and house speaker paul ryan.cked the cia for concluding that russia interfered with the presidential election. the senate will open a bipartisan investigation into a matter. >> only speak for myself. the rush is speak for all of these issues but they do not wish us well. lea: criticizing reports about the finding fame it's an attempt to deny president-elect trump's win. lauren: scary moments last night after diverted to john f. kennedy international airport. because of the bomb threat they were heading to houston when the threat was called in to have orders in germany. the website just airplane was taken to a remote area of the airport for 530 passengers and crew were evacuated. the plane was searched. nothing suspicious was found in the passengers are being taken care of. >> currency crisis is gripping venezuela. nicholas maduro ordering a bill worth about three u.s. cents out of circulation. they would destroy what he claims are smuggling claims with food and gasoline in venezuela which is then resold as they m

>> i wonder mitch mcconnell did didn't care neath things were going to be said about being an obstructionist understood about the way to success was to prevent the president from doing anything and say the president isn't doing anything. that may be intellectually inconsistent, but it was political effective. the results are very obvious even today most dramatically with the widely criticized failure to hold a vote on meric garland's nomination to the supreme court, now president-elect trump gets to fill that seats for the years to come. >> is that a new normal? going forward, this was, you know, the president by the constitution has the right to make these appointments. obviously with senate approval, but, you know, why would this change i suppose is almost the question. when the democrats get the same opportunity might they do the same? >> one thing is jeffrey is, of course, 100% right is that the best politics is for chuck schumer and the democratic leader in the senate and nancy pelosi in the house to follow the exact same game plan as mitch mcconnell, because it otherwise. there's polit

that would be speaker ryan, mitch mcconnell and mike pence. >> house speaker paul ryan has spent his whole life working at jack kemp's side, the late new york congressman, thinking about supply side economics. he's starting to piece through with his new chief of staff how to roll out tax reform, working closely. also repealing obamacare with the incoming health and human secretary. mcconnell is focused on the judiciary. there are a lot of openings for the administration. mcconnell is helping the trump administration fill in those gaps and personnel across the regulatory agencies. when you look at pence, he's someone who has been a steady hand, not lecturing the president-elect or chastising him behind the scenes but trying to help the president-elect get ready for governing and to understand congress. because trump is a total outsider. >> there was a nomination, at least informally filled today. and that was v.a. secretary to what appeared to be a pretty robust reception. >> we're seeing right now trump just filling out his cabinet. there's a mix of conservatives. with the v.a., ther

also attending joe biden, mitch mcconnell, nancy pelosi, and chuck schumer will be there.he ceos of at&t and time warner testified about their proposed $85 billion merger on capitol hill. lawmakers on both sides of the aisle raised concern that is the pending deal could be too big and complicated to govern. at&t's ceo randall stevenson defended the deal saying it will lead to more choices and lower priced options. >>> president-elect trump will reportedly nominate retired marine general john kelly as his choice for homeland security secretary. kelly, who was commander of all u.s. troops south of mexico, had a 40-year career in the marines and led combat troops in western iraq. kevin, nice to see you again. a lot of news lately with you. your piece today in defense one is a deep dive on general kelly. tell us a little bit more about him for people who don't know a thing about him. >> so general kelly is pretty well known to us in the pentagon press corps. he was the senior military adviser, the sma, to defense secretary robert gates and into secretary panetta's term. he's p

senate majority leader mitch mcconnell is in control of the senate.epublicans rule the house and the oval office, and the kentucky senate and for the first time in one it one years, flipped the state house of representatives to a republican majority. happy holidays, senator mcconnell. he is next on "one to one." ♪ mr. goodman: senator, welcome to your 14th appearance on "one to one." undoubtedly a ket record. senator mcconnell: you were listing all the wonderful things that happened from a republican point of you in 2016. my wife is going to be in the cabinet. secretary of transportation. before we get going, i want to thank you for doing a great job for lo these many years. you handled the debate in my last election. did it flawlessly and objectively. wish you well in your new gig. mr. goodman: thank you, sir. take you back just a few weeks -- take us back to november 8 and a telephone call you got on the evening of the election from now speaker elect jeff gruber. can you reenact what that call meant to you and what it meant? senator mcconnell: i was

and democrats were all for it but republicans, mitch mcconnell, said no. according to the reporting from "the post." mitch mcconnell told the white house if they publicly challenged the russians on them hacking into our election, he would consider it partisan politics designed to help hillary clinton. he wouldn't sign off of it and so nobody said anything. it's a legit like mind-blowing scandal. i mentioned at the top we got a very dramatic pronouncement from the former acting director of cia, mike morell. his quote on it is this. this is the political equivalent of 9/11. that's from the man who was george w. bush's cia briefer on 9/11. he says, a foreign government messing around in our elections is i think an existential threat to our way of life. they say there should be an investigation into the russian hacking but what do you mean by an investigation? democrats are calling for an independent commission, like the one that examined the 9/11 attacks where you've got independent, unimpeachable blue ribbon panelists reported by both republicans and democra

he should have seen that stuff coming and mitch mcconnell has a lot to offer in the senate. senate is a strange place. donald trump needs a guy like mitch mcconnell there but he needs to stop talking about it because it reveals how totally out of touch he and the rest of the republicans have been for a very long time in washington. jenna: let's bring the two topics together. there is a focus on 2018. you hear mitch mcconnell take on the election and criticism of donald trump of not being diverse enough with cabinet selection. first cabinet in 30 years that there's not a hispanic representative on the cabinet. as we talked in the program about how the gop represents himself, how it reaches out to other voters, i'm wondering about that tension in the cabinet selections and also looking forward to the senate and beyond as we look at future elections? well, this is the first time that you will not have a minority or woman in top four positions. while trump is putting some women like linda and elaine, they are not the highest profile cabinet positions and i do think that going do

mitch mcconnell rankled a few republicans yesterday. about these sorts of things we felt like it was a shot across the bow of the trump parties and some guys don't get too drunk on all of this because you are not going to get everything you want because it will put you into further debt. >> i will be honest charles a rankled me because we the american people are overtaxed. we are paying more in taxes ever in the history country. we are paying over $4 trillion just this year in federal taxes and if you look at state local and municipal taxes that's over $6 trillion what have we been given in return? a national debts even with record tax receipts the government is spending in a deficit as much as $200 billion a quarter so it has to stop in to hear ranking republican come out and say he's okay with the current system, we have to change it, with a lower taxes and stimulate the economy. that's one of the things the american public wants out of president-elect donald trump. >> we are going to need a partnership between the congress and the pr

of that topic, this is in the news because of the election hacks, you have republicans, even mitch mcconnell saying they want a deeper investigation into this. it's at least going to be something he's going to be asked about. >> the secretary of state has to interact with the entire world, not just russia, what qualifications does tillerson have for that? >> that's the judgment of the preside president. he has dealing around the world. he most certainly would not have dealt with leaders of china, russia, when you're drilling for oil in these countries, you're dealing with the politics as well. does that give you the qualification to handle the sensitivity of the one china question, which donald trump has put on the table here, and others -- again that's going to be a question in the confirmation hearings, i can tell you there are diplomats i speak to, and diplomats who align themselves with the democratic party and republican party who are skeptical of that. it doesn't mean they're going to have the final word, but certainly something we expect to come up in the confirmation process. >> cnn

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. >> the top republican in the senate, mitch mcconnell, was asked to do an investigation of russia's hacking. here he is. >> obviouslily any foreign breach of our sovereign security measures is disturbing and i strongly condemn any such efforts. i agree with senator schumer, chairman mccain, burr and others. this simply can't be a partisan issue. i have the highest respect for the intelligence agencies. >> from the "washington post," greg miller who broke the story friday and an intelligence officer himself. he's the author of "the plot to hack america." senator kuntz, what do you make of trump's claim that the cia is not to be trusted? he's just going on his own wits in terms of anything, no briefing, nothing. >> it's very disturbing as someone who is the president-elect has very limited experience in intelligence matters or international affairs says we should just disregard that russia is not our friend and all of the intelligence community, not just the cia, more than a dozen different intelligence agencies across the entire u.s. government has delivered a message to congress tha