that's now on the front page of "the washington post." and the reason it is is because the cia didn't keep this assessment to itself. they gave this assessment to people in the u.s. government. and the question is, i think, the most disturbing part of what has just been broken here is how much of this information they gave to people in the u.s. government before the election. and that's, i think, probably the biggest part of this story here. this is totally new tonight. the "post" describes what they say was a secret briefing for congressional leaders in september. again, i'm going to vote directly here. this came out in the last hour. so i haven't written this up and given you a big explanatory thing about it. by mid-september white house officials had decided it was time to take that step and name and blame but they worried doing this before the election unilaterally without bipartisan congressional backing, that would make obama vulnerable to charges that he was using intelligence for political purposes. they would seek support. so the

on my far left is ruth marcus, the deputy editorial page editor of "the washington post." she's been writing columns for "the post" for a number of years. if i have a morning without a ruth marcus column, i'm thinking, what's wrong? we have sitting next to me jen psaki, the white house communications director who has been both a participant and an observer of the role of media in campaigns, in politics and in our political system. i want to thank you both for being here. and i would like to start with the question, in terms of the role of media, how is this election different from previous elections? and there's a little allusion there, but you don't have to catch that. >> but i did. >> and what lessons can we learn from this election for the future? kind of wide open, then we'll hone in. jen, do you want to start on this? >> oh, okay. thank you. all right. well, i think there's a lot of ways to go with that question that you alluded to with a bit of a wink. i will start with the media-specific area. i think that is one of the areas i think, is that people consumed informat

the authority is washington post reporter wesley lowery and again, "the washington post" author of this book "they can't kill us all", ferguson baltimore and a new era in america's racial justice movement. mr. lowery, where did did you get the title for this book? >> the title comes from a sign from a vigil after antonio martin. after the grand jury decision become two years ago now to not charge the officer in ferguson. one of the reasons we stuck with it, we thought it captured the ethos and feeling of so many of the people who had taken to the streets the last few years. there's been a shooting and seemed like it's happening for 's one it wasn't one of the massive nights, but i remember seeing that and just, and making a note in my notebook that day that it captured a lot of the feeling that i'd been seeing and hearing from demonstrators. >> host: what was your experience in ferguson? >> guest: so i got to ferguson two days after michael brown had been killed. at the time i was a national reporter for the post covering politics, i was covering congress. a very different beat. and i h

he's coming out on twitter and trying to trash the washington post. he's tweeting that the washington post is really compost and how long should they be allowed to do this and get away with being wrong. that's calling into question of the first amendment which many people are saying how could you have somebody who's the son of the nsa and national security divide when donald trump is going after reporters and papers for as long as he has during the campaign. it is another controversial, it is another negative headline and the question going forward is does donald trump do something about this in regards to flynn. is he potentially going to take a moth off of that role. that's very unclear and that's extraordinary speculative right now. many people are saying that they believe more would have to come out about flynn in order for trump to say it. >> he was verbally reprimanded. >> absolutely. >> from that information about the foil request of consequences and what was alleged. >> yeah. >> as we talk about the controversial for flynn and lastly is the co

the author is washington post reporter wesley lowery and again, the washington post website if people want to see the report they put together they can google or search washington post fatal force. >> guest: or police shooting database. >> we are showing it to our viewers as we speak right now. wesley lowery, thank you for coming on booktv. >> here is a look at some of the staff picks from the prairie lights bookstore in iowa city, iowa. and notes from no man's land, national book critics circle award winner examines race in america through a series of essays. that is some of the staff picks from prairie lights bookstore in iowa city, iowa. many of these authors have appeared on booktv. you can watch them on our website, booktv.org. >> i am here with a 19, author of "inga," kennedy's great love, hitler's perfect beauty. who was inga? >> miss denmark of 1931 but she was much more than that. she was an actress, ballerina, concert pianist, anthropologist, explorer, washington columnist, hollywood gossip columnist, screenwriter for mgm. mostly she was the great love of john f. kennedy's l

and now it has leaked to the washington post. and now we seeing an analysis of what russia was up to during this election that is much more detailed than anything we knew before. >> first we need to congratulate malcolm for being ahead of the curve on this. there have been lots of calls on capitol hill, but some republicans in the last few days started joining in for an a public inquiry, investigation of what's gone on. it's quite clear that the cia, fbi and nsa have been looking into this for quite some time. we just didn't know what they had found. although they did say in october that there were indications russia was behind the hacking. but there were a lot of reports that russia was just messing around to mess around and make things uncertain. i'm not sure if it's a report, it's an assessment that russia was doing this purposefully to put trump in the white house. and almost more explosive, i think this is bigger than watergate now. and just as explosive is the telling of its story, that during the campaign obama went to con

one of them i know about was the "washington post." how did that come about? mr.tt: in 1973, the washington post company had gone public in 1971, about the time of the pentagon papers. but in 1973, the nixon administration through a pal of nixon's, they were challenging the licenses of two of the florida television stations that the post owned. so the stock went from 37 down to 16. now at 16, there were about 5 outstanding, so the whole washington post company was selling for $80 and no debt to speak of. so the washington post company, intrinsically worth $400 million or $500 million was selling for $80 million in the market. we bought most of our stock at about the equivalent of $100 million in the market. it was ridiculous. you had a business that unquestionably was worth four or five times what it was selling for, and mr. nixon was not going to put them out of business. david: when you are doing these analyses, then and now, do you have computers that help you? how did you actually read all materials to read about the washington post, and how do you do it today

he says jeff bezos, the publisher of "the washington post," also from amazon, is somehow worried aboutn antitrust action and therefore, does not want trump to be president or did not want trump to be president, is worried about trump. this finding of interior motives of assigning particular strange why anelevant reasons outpost of the press might actually be criticizing donald trump is an effort, it seems to me, to undermine the credibility of the press, to cause the public to doubt what they are reading. and donald trump, remember, lives in a fact-free universe. this is someone who even after the election has said that, for won by a landslide. in fact come hillary clinton came out with a list 3 million more popular votes than donald trump. he says there was massive voter fraud. there's no evidence of mass or -- massive voter fraud. he says the homicide rate is up 45%. we know the homicide rate is down 50%. in a fact free universe, and ofs we have a media capable correcting the record, then we have a president who can say almost anything to justify whatever you wants to do. that, again

david: over the years, you bought many companies, like the "washington post."ow did that come about? mr. buffett: in 1973, the washington post company had gone public in 1971, about the time of the pentagon papers. but in 1973 the nixon administration, through a pal of nixon's, they were challenging the licenses of two of the four television stations. so the stock went from 37 down to 16. at 16, there were about 5 million shares. that was for $80 million. that included other assets and no debt to speak of. so the washington post company, intrinsically worth $400 million or $500 million was selling for $80 million. it was ridiculous. you have a business unquestionably worth five times what it was selling for, and mr. nixon was not going to put them out of business. david: when you are doing these analyses, then and now, do you have computers that help you? did you get printed materials or how did you in those days, how did you read about the washington post, and how do you do it today? mr. buffett: same way, but fewer opportunities now. i met bob woodward and he

said the "washington post" alleged this hack and said the "washington post" did not criteria any sort of evidence. we should be careful, of course, with this kind of story. because it does seem that there was one computer that was infected with this malware. so it's not necessarily the hacking of the vermont power grid. i want to read for our viewers the statement of the burlington electric department. they wrote, we detected the malware in a single burlington electric department laptop not connected, and this is important, to our organization's grid systems. we took immediate action to isolate the laptop and alerted federal officials of this finding. so it does seem like it's an isolated case. of course, russia is not known to comment to many of these hacking allegations. they have been flatley denying the allegations they have hacked the u.s. elections. we have seen very accusatory language from officials here in moscow. the foreign ministry spokeswoman trying to portray the obama administration as trying to sync relations between the two countries writing, and, quote, calling them

inspire -- that is designed to undermine the credibility in the public's mind of anything the "washington postmight publish. it is an absurd allegation. there is no reason to believe ast the "post" reporting anything with amazon or any antitrust issues, but you see by creating this kind of conspiracy theory for this kind of paranoid notion about the press and planting it in the public's mind , the public, or at least a portion of the public, is led to think that anything the "washington post" or another paper whose credibility the president-elect tries to undermine says is juststified or is true. that is terribly dangerous in a democracy. amy: or he might be threatening the reverse. by saying that, he is saying, i could go after himim on issues f antitrust. >> absolutely. he is signaling to the press he also has the power, whether it is antitrust or it is the irs or the fbi or whatever he is going to be directly or indirectly in command of, he is also signaling to the press that he has that kind of power. amy: i want to read something from politico that says -- fin kushner said the agreement w

i said, imagine if ben bradley said to you, what is the washington post company worth?would you do if you have to write this story in a month? you would go out and interview tv brokers and assign value to each asset. i said, that is what i do, i assign myself the right story. it is nothing more than that. now, there are some stories i cannot write. if you asked me to write a story about a glamorous, nonprofit business, i do not know how to write the story. but if you ask me to write a story about what is potomac electric power is worth, i can write the story. that is what i am doing every day. i assign a story. david: so you get the annual reports and read them the way some people might read novels, and you do the calculations for how things are worth in your head? or do you have computers that help you? mr. buffett: i use it to play bridge. and i use it to research, a lot. david: so there is a computer in your office? i do not have one in the office, but i do at home. david: for your smart phone, can someone get a hold of you on a smart phone or mobile telephone? mr. b

now, the story was leak into the washington post and some had it and if this is so important, why notpublic rather than using the sources? >> well, obviously it was leaked because the administration officials did not want to be big targets and the kind of criticism that james did in october when he resurfaced the investigation. >> so they were hiding behind the protect themselves from criticism? >> absolutely. >> i'm shocked about that. >> let's play the interview with donald trump that aired this morning. >> so why would the cia put out a story that the russian wanted you to -- >> i'm not sure that they put it out. i think the democrats are putting it out and that's the greatest defeats if the history of politics in the country. >> so it's a part sons. >> was it the cia or disgruntle people that did not like the election. they have to investigate what happened here and that's the national security and has to do of course with the electoral process and because it's washington and immediately it becomes partisan. >> now, they say that it's the deal and the management now and then the b

buffett: in 1973, the washington post company had gone public in 1971, right about the time of the pentagoners. but in 1973 the nixon administration was challenging the licenses of two of the four florida television stations the post owned. so the stock went from 37 down to 16. at 16, there were about 5 million shares. the whole company was selling for $80 million. that included for tv station, newsweek, no debt to speak of. so the washington post company was worth intrinsically worth $400 million or $500 million was selling for $80 million. and it was ridiculous. i mean, you had a business unquestionably worth five times what it was selling for, and mr. nixon was not going to put them out of business. david: when you are doing these analyses, then and now, do you have computers that help you? how did you actually -- do you print materials, or did you, how in those days did you read about the washington post, and how do you do it today? mr. buffet: pretty much the same way except there is fewer opportunities now. i met bob woodward, and he came up with all the president's men. all of a sudd

and beth, let's begin with the "washington post" report on the cia. how did they learn about this, and why are we hearing about it now? >> yeah. i think a lot of premasking the question. we suspect and reported throughout the final months of the campaign that there was evidence suggesting that russia was involved in the leak of the dnc emails, the leak of campaign -- hillary clinton campaign chairman john podesta's emails. that it came from wikileaks who received it from sources within russia, perhaps the government top of the level. now we're seeing this confirmed. unfortunately now it's after the election, before we might have been able to do something about it or bring the truth to light. there was evidently some -- some effort to not release it before the election, looking in a way to yet again sort of disrupt the election, the obama administration was really grappling with how to handle this. and there was some pushback among republicans including mitchell mcconnell. evidently recently to cast doubts on the intelligence. so all we know is that a

according to the washington post, a code associated with a russian hacking campaign was found at a vermont electric company. it's unclear the intention and when it was entered into the computer. they sited an official among its sources who say the actively us disrupt utility operations. lucy, has there been any reaction from russia on this? >> reporter: no reaction specifically to this allegation of the vermont hack. it's the new year's holiday here. a huge celebration. i want to add some caution. this appears to be an isolated laptop, not a hack of the entire u.s. power system, per se. i want to read a statement issued by the burlington electric department. they said that they -- i quote here -- that's what they are saying. no reaction from russia so far about that. a lot of reaction though, of course, to this spat between russia and the u.s. it has been interesting to watch the evolution of russia's response which went from name calling and finger pointing two days ago, with the russian embassy trolling obama on twitter, tweeting a photograph of a lame duck. the russian foreign ministry

my name is chris and i'm vice president of medications and events of the "washington post". thank you for being here with us tonight and thank you to those watching us on line. i can't think of a more timely conversation for last event of the year than the one tonight was secretary phone and security jeh johnson. before we begin i just want to thank our sponsors. our sponsor for the event raytheon and our sponsor for new american security. quickly i'd like to introduce rick hunt. he is the vice president for u.s. business development at raytheon. he is going to say a few words. [applause] >> good evening and welcome. thank you for joining us tonight for this evenings discussion. on global into plastic national security. two very experienced and great leaders in the defense community. raytheon is proud to be a sponsor of the securing tomorrow series. today's technology must be flexible and adaptive than how they identify and target. they protection physically and through cyber is not negotiable in securing our critical infrastructure. raytheon is committed to providing innova

they have had team to leak it to the washington post and washington post but don't have time to come to congress and house committee on intelligence that has the absolute jurisdiction over the cia and intelligence community. >> you don't believe that wab that we're too busy to help you right now because we're busy helping president obama? you don't believe that? >> no. it's their job to come. they don't have any choice. they have to come in. especially when they have created this, the week before the electoral college is meeting -- >> what are they doing? it is tough to believe they don't have time. it is a big agency. they can't have one person to go to congress who represents us for oversight purposes? why would they play this game and refuse to appear before you? >> first of all, i don't think there is any conclusion they are attempting to favor donald trump over hillary clinton. who is the cia? when they say the cia made this conclusion, who? is that brennan? who in the cia has done this? there is no finding and no assessment that we've seen. if they had, they had an obligation t

," what is it that they're telling "the washington post"? buck sexton, who used to work for the cia, was just on the program saying, trust me, if the cia had some big, red flag that russia really hacked this system, you'd actually be hearing about it, but this is just sort of distributes and drabs -- dribs and drabs, and the american people are questioning the democratic process. >> yes, that is true. i think the hacking is that russia specifically went in and manipulated the results of specific voting machines, such that donald trump got votes that he didn't deserve, that's one thing. i don't think anyone seems to be claiming that. they are claiming they hacked the e-mails of john podesta and got the information out. it would be significant if we learned the russians hacked the gps on hillary clinton's mane so is they couldn't find -- plane, so they couldn't find wisconsin. [laughter] or if state department says put in new -- instead of seventh floor -- trevor trish you know -- >> nothing to do with russia. she needs to take responsibility

you are ignoring "the washington post" report because you want to deny the rnc aspect. i understand that. >> i'm not. i am not ignoring the washington post report. >> the conclusion had to do the cia's assessment -- do you believe -- let's clear this up. do you believe -- does the president-elect believe that russia was trying to muddy up and get involved in the election in 2016? >> number one, you don't know it. i don't know it. there's been no conclusive or specific report to say otherwise. that's the first thing. the second thing i would tell you is that you don't have any proof that the outcome of the election was change and forget who did the hacking and even if someone did the hacking -- >> do you want to know? >> someone did the hacking. >> does president-elect trump want to know? does he want to know. >> what specific -- of course we want to know. >> there's going to be an investigation. >> he wants an investigation? >> i don't know what investigations he wants. but yes, we do want to know, but what i don't want to do, chuck, is to have a debate with you on unna

so it is not my role to sell that for the washington post.i think i would say that the president has done interviews with the new york times. he has done interviews with the atlantic. he has done interviews with charlie rose, george stephanopoulos, norah george stephanopoulos, nora o'donnell, i don't think any of those people, i think they would strongly defend the notion that they are not serious hard-hitting journalists. this goes back to the question of what your role is. the benefit of having so many outlets out there is that you have many more choices and many more choices as a professional who is working on behalf of the president or a senator, or elected official, or an organization. you have to determine one of the choices we make is how to reach the audience we are trying to reach. often times that is millennial's, sometimes it is senior citizens, sometimes it is middle-age latinos. it really latinos. it really depends on who you are trying to reach. and that is a lot of how we make our decision. i had hope we have been able to do a

according to the washington post, a malware code associated wihe russian hacking campaign was found in a laptop at a vermont electric company. the post cited a senior obama administration official among its sources who say the russians did not actively use the code to disrupt utility operations. c's hans nichols is at the white house withore for us today. what do you know about this and is there any reaction from the white house? >> no reaction from the white house yet. still probably asleep in hawaii. what we know is on thursday when the president announced the sanctions as well as the expulsion of those 35 diplomats, he also talked about defensive measures preventative measures that key u.s. institutions could take as a result of that, a vermont utility ran those operations and discovered it may have been compromised. russian hackers may have been probing for weakness in a vermont utility, according to an explosive report in the washington post. once alerted to the potential infiltration, burlington electric quickly scanned their system for the malicious code, the utility confirmed.

i'm joined by "washington post" reporter craig whitlock who broke this story. craig, let's start with what you discovered. >> yes, we don't need anonymous sources to tell us. we got the actual documents from the u.s. army that summarize a secret u.s. military investigation into then major general michael flynn in 2010 when he was the u.s. army -- excuse me, the nato intelligence chief in afghanistan. the investigation itself is still classified. it's classified as secret. so we don't have the investigation itself, that report, but we have a summary from the u.s. army called an advance information report about general flynn. it found, as you said, he inappropriately shared classified material with foreign military officers while he was serving in afghanistan. now, the investigation also found that he did not do so knowingly, and so he was not disciplined by the army as a result. this did put his career on ice for about a year. he was summoned back to washington. he was eventually promoted to lieutenant general. but, you know, this is a significant disclosure int

what do you make, bernie sanders publishes this op-ed in "the washington post" slamming mr. trump's efforts in indianapolis. in the meantime, workers in indianapolis couldn't be happier. >> yeah, carol, so that's a piece that actually ran in my section of "the washington post." "the post" everything section, and i think it's a strong piece by senator sanders showing essentially that he's going to be out there, as the loyal opposition to the way that president-elect trump is doing business. he makes his economic case that this is a way essentially for businesses to hold up the government for tax incentives in order to not shift their jobs overseas. on the other hand as you said, carol, right, there are 1,000 people who according to the details we have so far, are going to have jobs in indiana because of this deal and i think that the administration may be more so governor pence, or vice president-elect pence, as the sitting governor of indiana, more so than maybe president-elect trump himself should be able to take credit for negotiating with the company to stay and provide i

check out the headline from the "washington post." trump hires a third general raising concerns about military influence. they're losing their minds because he's selecting so many wealthy business people. i ask, don't we want people with a proven record of success serving in government? wouldn't you rather have a business person. someone who's built something than a two bit politician or community organizer focusing on next gig. we'll debate all of it in just a moment. i want to get out to trump tower where we find our own connell mcshane, alan mulally, that's an interesting one, add him to the list, connell. >> reporter: that's the story of the day, trish, no doubt about it. alan mulally is someone we did not know until this morning would meet with the president-elect. he did just that and a transition source he is considered as a possible secretary of state. sort of in the rex tillerson mode, the exxon ceo considered, a businessman, but from a different business running boeing and ford. he knows manufacturing. we'll see where it goe

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>> there's no doubt based on our reporting at the "washington post" that the trump family, specifically the sons, are involved with the charity, supporters of the charity, associated with the charity. the question in contention right now from the trump transition is whether they had any role in setting up this kind of charitable donation for access arrangement. there's been that denial that's been issued. but it's one of these murky territories the trump organization and ss specially the family is encountering moving from the private to the public sector. they'll probably need a lawyer with them, each and every step of the way. >> david cay johnson, them just saying that -- the only fact we have on the table is the filing for the foundation with those two trump sons' name on it so i don't understand how them saying "we didn't do it" gets them out of hot water here. >> this is a tactic you'll see throughout the trump presidency. when i saw this initially i thought oh, this is from the onion, it can't be true, even the trumps are not that crass and then i ran down the documents about it.

"the washington post" first reported that stunning conclusion this past friday night. trump's response to the news has been to impugn the intelligence agency. in a statement, he said, these are the same people who said saddam hussein had weapons of mass destruction. no, they weren't! wrong! it wasn't the intelligence professionals, it was the ideologues around dick cheney. mike morrell said they never told cheney that, that he ran with that himself. yesterday, here's donald trump. >> i think it's ridiculous. i think it's just another excuse. i don't believe it. i don't know why. and i think it's just -- you know, they talked about all sorts of things. every week, it's another excuse. if you look at the story and take a look at what they said, there's great confusion. nobody really knows. and it's very interesting. once they hack, if you don't catch them in the act, you're not gong to catch them. they have no idea if it's russia or china or somebody. it could be somebody sitting in a bed someplace. they have no idea. >> so why would the cia put out the story that the ru

. >>> which begin with politics and new reaction to the "new york times" and "washington post" reports with russia intervening in the presidential election. harry reid earlier today told my colleague that the reports believe director jim comey had the information before the election. >> i do z not believe that comey was the new j. edgar hoover. i thought that he would do the right thing for the country. comey, who is of course a republican, refused to divulge this information regarding russia and the presidential election. >> do you believe that jim comey should resign, in the reid? >> of course, yes. >>> also new reaction from the rnc communications director on whether the president-elect should have had a stronger response against russia in light of these reports. >> i am outraged. i don't think any foreign entity, any individual, any -- >> well why don't you say that and why didn't trump say that? >> i'm saying it. i just said it. stop and let me -- okay, i just said it, let me actually take yes for an answer. i said it. okay? i don't think donald trump doesn't think, no one thinks

now "the washington post" reports that that is close to being announced. to involve, yes you guessed it, yet more sanctions, possibly against individuals suspected of involvement, although there's no sign u.s. intelligence is any clearer to knowing who exactly was behind this. russia, of course, denies involvement. and along with any new announced measures, the u.s. may conduct cyber operations of its own against moscow, but those will be covert. but here's the difficult part, chris, in 23 days' time we'll have a new president who clearly has different priorities with regards to relations with russia, so president obama is also, according to the post, trying to make it hard for president trump to amend any measures or to kill them altogether, and also incidentally he wants to send out a signal to other states that might be tempted to do the same thing for china, north korea, and others. as for russia, we saw yesterday a statement from the russian foreign ministry condemning the u.s. for any proposed new sanctions and for continuing to punish moscow for its

washington post."s, the headline "aleppo's fall is obama's failure". kellyanne conway, i'm surprised to see that in "the washington post," which has been a rabid supporter of president obama and a dire critic of mr. trump. >> i'm happy t"the washington post" has been candid. you have women choosing suicide over rape and a large population underage of 12, i read, that's gone. that's been killed. and this is just one of the worst humanitarian crisis of our time and it didn't happen yesterday. we basically have sat back and watched for five years. yesterday i heard the states department spokesman john kirby on behalf of secretary of state john kerry, that the secretary is increasingly quote, frustrated and that the imaging are disconcerting. seriously? that's as strong as you can say, not let alone act. indifference is fatal. what is the obama doctrine. what are we doing about aleppo. i know they've tried cease fires and what not, we can simply not look the other way and we indeed have. stuart: russia's m

johnson is the author of "the making of donald trump," robert costa is a reporter for the "washington post" and an msnbc political analyst and michael steele is the former chairman of the republican national committee and msnbc analyst. david k. johnson, you've been writing about this for a long time. why does trump trump? why can't he stop doing this? >> well, because to donald other people are simply items, and objects. they're not human beings. donald is entirely transactional. whatever gets donald what he wants, he will do. there's no more coral to donald trump. not paying bills, attacking somebody as terrible whom you said just recently was wonderful he's done this all his life. you can be his friend today, his enemy next week. it all depends on the moment. >> he thought nothing well of barack obama until barack obama was nice to him then he thought barack obama was great. inside of trump world, there's the rumors that there are two camps, there's bannon world, which still shocks me someone like bannon could be near the white house, but he is. and pence world. do either of those camps

kimbriell kelly of the "washington post." jesse holland of the associated dress. kim real kelly, you are up first. kimbriell: since the working created this year, do you feel the focus has since changed, and what do you see as the limitations on that committee? >> well, thank you for the question. we are working hard to try to promote dialogue in communities across the country to address , in my a serious problem perception, a growing problem, in regard to violence affecting the police and people in communities. i just saw a statistic that said policethis year, fatalities are up 12% from last year over 130 police officers killed. in the line of duty. know about a number of instances around the country where individuals in communities, particularly young males, have been killed in police officers -- by police officers. sometimes, investigation shows use of force was justified. sometimes, it does not. but obviously, there is a tremendous amount of mistrust has built up. i do not believe our mission has changed. try to get is to dialogue going in communities across t

national security correspondent for the "washington post." thank you for what has been a very busy news day. >> and trump's choice for epa, why some environmentalists say he's no friend to mother earth. >> we had a big election. >> are you taking a victory lap? >> no. with some interest, i read your tweets about the election 140 years ago. was that a relative of yours? >> he was in the united states way before my ancestors were. >> you had a republican? >> my grandfather, boy, he was all the way. >>> breaking msnbc news, dran mitchell reporting rex tillerson is trump's choice for secretary of state. let's join with milwaukee. i tell you what we have news thrown in our lap. >> it's coming fast and furious, isn't it? >> give me your fist reaction to this choice. >> my first reaction to this choice how amazing it is you have one of the ceos of one of the largest multi-national corporation added to the trump cabinet of billionaires and millionaires and number two, someone this close to vladimir putin named to this position, somebody actually awar