we'll talk about it with phil rucker of the wash torch post and carlos pascual, a former ambassador to mexico. >> the mexican people and the mexican government have been deeply offended by the way this is proceeded. during the campaign, candidate trump at that point in time characterized mexicans as criminals and in some cases rapists. therefore there was a necessity to have a wall to separate mexico and the united states. and when you put it this in that context you can understand why it was so difficult for mexicans to say that this was show, that they were show going to pay for this wall am and so when president trump essentially said to president neato that the only way we will have that is for mexico to pay for the wall it was impossible for him to go forward. what both sides have done is drawn a line in the sand. a bad move to make between two countries that are physical clea

phil rucker. talk to me about what is going on in the west wing.s there mounting anger on reince priebus's side about losing control and losing influence to president trump? >> you know, i think mounting anger is a bit overstated. but what is happening is you have a lot of people who are now running the government without experience running the government. they are trying to get a lot done very fast. it's sort of a slap dash pace here at the white house. we saw that over the weekend with this executive order. and they are not sort of checking all the boxes that you ordinarily would in a thorough process. congressional leaders on capitol hill were telling us yesterday that they were not aware until the media reports that this was even happening. they felt totally cut out of the loop. we were hearing that some of the cabinet connects were grumbling to their associates over the weekend they too were cut out of the loop. inside the white house you have a lot of people with power, their own power, their own access to the president who are competing in t

charlie: joining me now, phil rucker of the washington post. and jonathan karl of abc news.ust for the record, jonathan, where did this story begin? take me to the beginning of the story to what we saw today. these allegations had been out there for a long time pushed by political opponents of donald trump but cnn broke the story -- that these allegations had been part of what was presented to donald trump. charlie: the allegations were put together by political opponents in the primary process? >> precisely. did they rely on the intelligence operative from britain? >> they did. --eral news organizations the allegations were not readily confirmable. some were readily disapproval ball. there was a lot of junk -- some were readily disprovable. it was included in an appendix to that intelligence report on the russian hacking. but as i understand it, it was not directly briefed to president-elect donald trump. oral presentation. it was a two-page summary. quite sanitized. without salacious details. the summary of essentially said that there are unconfirmed allegations that the r

and our friend from the washington post, the great, one and all, phil rucker. dent obama on his far tour. i want to start with dan, phil and then liz. what is the best thing that has happened to the democratic party since donald trump's election? >> the best thing that has happened to democrats, and the best thing for republicans too, which is it is going to force all of us to think long and hard what we stand for. donald trump ran against both parties. the inaugural speech you heard today was almost a decoration of action and a warning against both parties. with the leadership of both parties standing with him. the challenges for each party and how they are going to react are obviously different, but they are both going to have to think seriously about what they stand for and why. donald trump is going to challenge a lot of conventions. president obama leaving warrick is the things with democrats? >> the problems they are beginning to confront. his big victories has overshadowed a deadline for the democratic party for the house level and the gudbranson no toler

. >> rose: joining me now is phil rucker of "the washington post," mckay coppins of the atlantic and jonathan karl of the abc news. for the record, where did this story begin. take me to the beginning of this story to what we saw today. >> these allegations have been out there for a long time pushed by political opponents of donald trump. but cnn broke the story that these allegations had been part of what was presented to donald trump. >> rose: allegations were put together by political opponents in the primary process. >> precisely. >> rose: did they rely on the so-called intelligence operative from britain. >> they did. and several news organizations, talked to several people had look into this for a while. i was not directly. but the allegations they weren't readily confirmable. some were readily disprovable. so there was a lot of junk in this report. then of course buzzfeed put out the 35 pages of raw reports quite salacious kind of stuff we can't talk about here on the charlie rose show. it was included as an appendix to the intelligence report on the russian hacking. as i unde

joining me phil rucker, damian paletta, margaret brennan and jonathan karl. >> this has been an interestingng down the briefing room, there has been a buzz of activity at the white house for the first full weekday for president trump. the white house poll you mentioned, we've been brought in and the pool has gone in to more than a half dozen events here at the white house. almost everything the president has done, they have been running and calling sometimes at the last minute, bring the cameras in. the meeting is with-- it's been something else. >> rose: we continue with bob gates, fompler defense secretary for both barack obama and george bush. and talking about now the national security profile of the trump administration. >> i told him the same thing that i said in the senate hearing in

joining me phil rucker, damian paletta, margaret brennan and jonathan karl. >> this has been an interesting day, for all the talk of shutting down the briefing room, there has been a buzz of activity at the white house for the first full weekday for president trump. the white house poll you mentioned, we've been brought in and the pool has gone in to more than a half dozen events here at the white house. almost everything the president has done, they have been running and calling sometimes at the last minute, bring the cameras in. the meeting is with-- it's been something else. >> rose: we continue with bob gates, fompler defense secretary for both barack obama and george bush. and talking about now the national security profile of the trump administration. >> i told him the same thing that i said in the senate hearing in reducing rex tillerson for his nomination hearing. i said your administration is going to have to thread the needle, and figure out how on the one hand to push back against putin's aggressiveness and meddling and interventionism. and at the same time stop a continuing down

we'll talk about it with phil rucker of the wash torch post and carlos pascual, a former ambassador toico. >> the mexican people and the mexican government have been deeply offended by the way this is proceeded. during the campaign, candidate trump at that point in time characterized mexicans as criminals and in some cases rapists. therefore there was a necessity to have a wall to separate mexico and the united states. and when you put it this in that context you can understand why it was so difficult for mexicans to say that this was show, that they were show going to pay for this wall am and so when president trump essentially

phil rucker. >> reporter: you talked about some of the agencies and the contingency plan. can you address the national security council in the white house? only a couple of people i believe have been appointed so far. are there going to be more appointments before tomorrow or over the weekend or what are you doing to make sure that's -- >> i'm not sure that that's true. we have a great group of folks that's been in constant contact with the homeland security council and national security council. you have tom bossert on homeland security front. several individuals within the homeland security council and national security council are being held over in critical positions and they're working with it. there's a lot of individuals who are detailed and are going to be staying on board. the contact and level of support back and forth in the national security council alone has been tremendous. we've had reams of briefings and people that have come over and met with the incoming national security council. that is one area where frankly they have been very, very aggressive and rob

joining me now, phil rucker, one of the journalists who worked on the article. is impeccable. you wrote in your article today about shawn spicer and how donald trump reacted to shawn spicer on saturday. you said but in trump's mind spicer ace tack on the news media was not forceful you have in. the president was also bothered the spokesman red at times haltingly from a printed statement. obviously, his performance if you will has improved since that saturday news conference where he came out and basically yelled at the press for a few minutes. talk to he moo. what's going on behind the scenes in the trump white house? are we expecting to see shakeups potentially soon? >> you know, i don't know there will be actual shakeups. but what you have is a president who is settling into the white house is obsessively paying attention to how he is being covered in the media, on television, in newspapers, o soeshld media, even, on fwirt. this was how he was on the campaign. how he has been at trump tower for years. before he was in politics. you no he is president of the un

written by phil rucker in the "washington post". what do you make of that?> i think it's business as usual for the democratic party. they're going to try to really hurt the president-elect through death of a thousand cuts. always zinging and nipping and poking and prodding and trying to push the agenda and narrative with the mainstream media 80 to 85% in their back pocket to allow him to basically dwarf his message and important he continue to use twitter, social media, hold the rallies and go right to the people to undercut that effort. >> bill: senator, thank you for your time. eric holder was hired by the state of california, too. in case there are any legal battles. we'll pick that up next time. scott brown with us today. >> martha: we're waiting nancy pelosi and chuck schumer. they will respond to all that we have been watching unfold this morning and no doubt they will speak up for obamacare. we heard yesterday from the senate minority leader schumer talking about the trump tweeting presidency and that it wasn't going to work. we'll get you more on tha