obama has a responsibility to ensure the smooth tranition.d sees this as a petty slap against putin and mr. trump. instead of reciprocating with sanctions against the united states. putin mocked president obama and the sanctions and. shows that mr. obama has no credibility left with putin or the world because of his failed foreign policy. >> respondthat, the newest peg that russia will notç retailiate. they will not create problems for u.s. diplomats or expel anyone. and what more do you say to do. we don't have the level of important people they have over here? >> what always happens, they will kick out our diplomats thappens all of the time and the fact that russia did not do this is unprecedented. instead putin said he's looking forward to working with the next president. i fully expected 35 u.s. t that did not happen. >> president-elect trump said we should move on. but he will talk about the information obtained in the cyber attacks to learn more. what should he do about the administration's move? >> i think trump is going to learn that

obama in tranition or some kind of other issue.ere's an issue here in twitter and his first impulse is to lash out on twitter. when he gets more time to reflect, he tries to be more diplomatic. a sense in which they see a certain value in kind of being unpredictable in this way. but the point of all these mixed signals may be that we're sitting here talking about mixed signals. >> the question is. you can sort of laugh it off a bit in this instance saying, tweeting that the transition is not going smooth and telling a reporter, what are you talking about? of course it's going smoothly. what if you're dealing with foreign leaders and especially adversaries, errol. that's a totally different ball game. >> that's what people have been warning about for a while. the impulsive tweeting of donald trump, certainly as a candidate. that was president-elect and perhaps as president is throwing off mixed messages, not just to world leaders, but to the very large apparatus called the united states government. where people don't get a memo ever

trumpy's picks and has the tranition team to do we are talking about a war room.blematic. >> i think you've got the secretary of state is an issue. the treasury side will be issue. there will be prep. you will see more prep than before. i think the democrats are coming for blood. this is the first chance they can come back at republicans and certainly to fight back against what they see is this anger at donald trump being elected president. and so you are going to see the negatives plastered on the front of times square billboards and ultimately, most will make it out of the battle zone because they are competent and different. and it is this difference is the trump platform. and i think they superintendent the underlying platform that trump get under. that's what i anticipate. >> we know the federal government and senate committee could be the first to uncover problems when they deal through tracks return and disclosures? >> they have to do an internal vetting and if they find problems get them out in the open and you don't want a last-minute surprise. all of the