earlier this morning, vatican pewed announced he will not expel u.s.lomats from his country in response to the putin expel 35 american diplomats >> russia denied any interference. short time ago donald trump tweeted this, great move on delay by v putin. i always knew he was very smart. joining to discuss this is katie national security reporter from the hill. we appreciate it. what are we to make of this tweet from donald trump where he seems to be embracing putin more and more despite everything that's going on >> you certainly have not seen the president-elect back away from his praise of vladimir putin as a strong leader that has so many democrats concerned that when he takes office he he's not going to do anything to hold russia accountable for this widespad election that the intelligence believe they've undertaken, you've seen the president-elect align himself with the president of russia over the sitting president of the united states of america >> how often have we seen that? i don't know that we ever have. because of, you know, all the tension,