i asked clinton campaign manager about the moment that ended hillary clinton's bid to become the first woman president. >> john podesta came out and spoke to your supporters saying that hillary clinton was not going to have any comments that evening. a lot of people were surprised that there was going to be any closure that evening given the fact it was apparent that donald trump had won. we know that president obama called secretary clinton and say you need to concede. she did call and concede. the next morning she was going to give her concession speech and it took a couple of hours before she gave her much-celebrated speech praised by everyone. what was going on behind the scenes? >> we set the time for that speech the night before. we wanted to give our people time to show up and be there and get through security and so on. it's not as if that speech was delayed. we set that time maybe 4:00 in the morning. >> the impression a lot of us had, boy, she's having a tough time with this. certainly understandable so. >> some of these reports, i'm not to get into private conversations that

clinton and donald trump -- faith forum to hear hillary clinton and donald trump talk about their faith and her roots i think are dominant and those tax cuts mentioned we will hold him to, twice as big as the bush tax cuts. i don't think that's what working people think they will get from donald trump that will help them. that will be the highlight bar he has to clear. >> kelly arne, i want to ask you this, he went on this thank you tour and will continue it on states he won. does he have a plan? i asked you this before and you haven't really answered it to go to states and meet with voters who didn't vote for him. he is down on the populist. we are a divided country, the california vote counts as much as the pennsylvania vote. does he have plans to do that? >> he does. i answered the question many times. he started on election night in the wee hours of the night i will be the president for those who did not support me and going around to keep jobs in this country through carrier in indianapolis. he will be an actively traveled president. joel hit on something absolutely correct but was

hillary clinton also speaking out about the russian attacks. she's now suggesting that putin ordered cyber attacks against her campaign and the democratic national committee because he has a personal grudge against her. we'll guess a republican response from marcia blackburn, and our correspond ens and analysts are standing by as we bring you full coverage of today's top stories. first to our white house correspondent michelle kosinski. you were there at the president's news conference. there were a lot of questions about russian hacking. >> reporter: this was abhour and a half long news conference focused on the hacking, russian influence on the election. you could almost picture vladimir putin watching this and being very pleased with the turmoil he's been able to cause. you're right, the president said it without saying it, making it very clear, though, that he does believe that putin himself had a direct role in all of this. the president defended his administration's actions, defended the fbi, when asked if this was a free and fair electio

hillary clinton e-mails. let me ask you about star wars, trump fans are pushing for a boycott of the movie on rumored anti-trump scenes. >> a claim by one of the trump guys says he read on a tweet one of the coauthors tweeted out that he's changing the ending, indicated he's changing the ending because of trump's victory. but he says that's absolutely not true but a big dump trump move started, disney pushes back, i'm not doing that. the last movie i saw with star in it was star search. wasn't a movie. >> so this is nonsense. and by the way, the boycott, like most trump fans, they're very reasonable. there's a faction that's always pushing for a boycott, want to boy cat everything. >> one of the names, >>> big christmas special. >>> welcome to "red eye." i am tom shillue. let's check in with andy levey at the "read eye" tease deck. donald trump's thank you tour continues in hershey, pennsylvania. i bet there will be a lot of kisses. and celebrities couldn't get hillary clinton elected, but can they get donald

. >> all right, and hillary clinton? >> she's had enough money, a nice ranch, maybe. >> what would you buy? >> boy, you don't want to know what i would buy for hillary. i would buy her an outfit and i won't tell you what color. >> if you want to buy donald trump a present for christmas, what would you buy him? >> a filter. let's go right to hillary? >> like a band-aid? >> yeah. >> what would you buy trump for christmas? >> a new hairpiece. >> what are we buying hillary? >> handcuffs. >> do you want for christmas? >> love and affection. >> you want love and affection. everybody. everybody. >> say it! it's your one chance. who is she? go ahead. >> michelle wood. >> you didn't have sty her last name. >> what would you buy her? >> oh, my gosh? you know, relax a little bit. she had a rough road she just traveled. >> where would you send her? >> someplace tropical, i guess. >> i would buy him is a safety deposit box to put that phone in so he would stop tweeting. >> we would get him a bottle. >> he doesn't drink, so? so east n

>> hillary clinton's e-mail server came to light in 2015. we learned from one of the hacked e-mails published by wikileaks that john podesta sent you an e-mail saying did you have any idea the depth of the story. you answered nope, we brought up the existence in research this summer, but were told that everything was taken care of. in other e-mails, it comes out very clearly that there was a divide between the new guard, you, and some others, and the old guard. and i'm wondering if you feel that some of the actions and activities that the old guard either allowed to happen, did themselves, or enabled, whether it was giving speeches to goldman sachs or setting up the private e-mail server or the decision to become multimillionaires, did the decisions by those individuals, the old guard, make your job close to impossible? >> well, no. not at all. we came before close to winning this campaign. and as i said, you know, we won the popular vote. look, hillary said she regretted that e-mail set-up. that it was a mistake. she took responsibility for

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they tried to get hillary clinton open up as donald trump began to blow up in a good way and hillary clinton would be shrinking her circle, not wanting to do "the view" and other shows like this one. because of that they blame her. tonight there's a christmas party at the plaza, she will be there. maybe there will be a tension. showing a big party and, you know, what we're not invited. >> why do they blame her. it is hillary's decision, not huma's as to what hillary does. >> as you can see, nobody takes responsibility at the hillary clinton camp. >> now they're saying abedin is seeking to review the search warrant. she is gives that push back on the investigation into weiner. trump fans are pushing for a boycott of the movie over rumored anti-trump scenes. >> evidently the claim by one of the trump guys, citizens for trump said he read on the tweet, one of the coauthors tweeted out he has indicated he is changing the ending because of donald trump's victory. but he says it is absolutely not true, but the big dump trump movement started, started to get steam. disney pushes back and sa

we heard from hillary clinton. apparently last night according to the "new york times" talking to donors saying this was an attempt to undermine our democracy. here's a little more of what the president said when he did an interview with npr. take a listen. >> i think there is no doubt that when any foreign government tries to impact the integrity of our elections that we need to take action. and we will at a time and place of our choosing. some of it may be explicit. and publicized. some of it may not be. >> already there's been criticism about why something wasn't done sooner. there was talk about executive actions before the election. there was concern obviously within the white house that it would be seen as somehow trying to influence the outcome of the election. so now essentially the president feels that the pressure is on. he knows the questions are being asked on both sides of the aisle. we heard an escalation at the podium when josh earnest talked about this yesterday. he said clearly in an escalation aga

hillary clinton, democratic states in blue. and tree key states. pennsylvania, michigan and wisconsin. according to the founder and the u.s. constitution, the electorates slal meet in their respective states and vote by ballot for president and vice president, one of whom should not be an inhabitat. they should name the person voted for as president. and the person voted for as vice president. and should list the persons voted for as president and all persons voted for as vice-president and a number of votes for each. and they shall sign and certify by the government of the united states and directed by the senate. taking place in early january. joining us from the newsroom. politico steven shepherd. thank you for being was. >> good to be here, steve. >> put this into context. it's required by the constitution, we saw the process unfold in many state capitals. some predicted surprises. were there any? >> not really. donald trump won 306 electoral votes in that map that you just showed. and you mentioned michigan, pennsylvania, wisconsin. the though

a vast criminal enterprise run out of the state department by hillary clinton. more than half of the meetings hillary clinton took as secretary of state with people outside government were clinton foundation donors. favors and access were granted to those who wrote checks. she put the secretary of state up for sale. hillary is the one who engaged in a corrupt pay for play scheme at the state department. we're going to end government corruption. hillary clinton ran the state department like a failed leader in a third world country. she sold favors and access in exchange for cash. >> michael steele, if irony still has a meaning, that was it. it's heart to believe donald trump could say that a couple months ago and literally have these things happening -- are there any consequences for anything him? does reality exist anymore? >> i think that's going to be to the points that were already made the new reality for washington and people who track this stuff. particularly in the press. the press corps is going to have a field day writing about this stuff but how it res

hillary clinton did not visit wisconsin once. that blew not because of the berlin wall but because of hillary clinton's own campaign tactics. and i would say in fact democrats are proving donald trump's point, which is that the elites have been in charge. the elites are trying to now drive the narrative, drive the way that we consider our president. and donald trump he went to the people, he went to the rust belt, he got those votes. >> remember the criticisms you're wasting your time. >> also do you remember on november 7th we were told if donald trump lost and did not accept a peaceful transfer of power that this would be undermining democracy? well, now look who's doing it? >> adam, i want to go something charlie and i were talking about this money theme, wasting money, companies did this, ignore results or blame it on weather or whatever, there'd be hell to pay, but hillary clinton herself saying comey did it, the russian stuff did it. reed blaming comey and a whole sort of other things, i think they threw in a lunar eclipse

hillary clinton e-mails. let me ask you about star wars, trump fans are pushing for a boycott of the movie on rumored anti-trump scenes. >> a claim by one of the trump guys says he read on a tweet one of the coauthors tweeted out that he's changing the ending, indicated he's changing the ending because of trump's victory. but he says that's absolutely not true but a big dump trump move started, disney pushes back, i'm not doing that. the last movie i saw with star in it was star search. wasn't a movie. >> so this is nonsense. and by the way, the boycott, like most trump fans, they're very reasonable. there's a faction that's always pushing for a boycott, want to boy cat everything. >> one of the names, malik obama, he's also tweeting boycott. >> great to see you. brian kilmeade. we'll be right back. so, mr. harris, we have your fingerprints on the safe. a photo of you opening the safe. a post using the hashtag "#justrobbedthesafe" so, what are we supposed to think? switching to geico could save you a bunch of

hillary clinton officially has given her support. hillary is in hook, line and sinker. i almost said here, with you that's not true. can she make a comeback or is this all a big waste of time and money. let's ask the ever brilliant chris stirewalt. chris, welcome to the show. hillary clinton is lists on this legal document as an intor d onn intervenor, what does that mean? >> because jill stein raised money from people to conduct recount. then hillary clinton's lawyer says if there is going to be a recount anyway we want a seat at at table to see it's carried out in a way that we think represents our interests best. it's like you are going in on i- going in on pizza. well i'm going to toss in $5 because i want sausage. kennedy: jill stein's cam is calling manual voting the gold standard. >> the idea of of what you get from a manual recount is human beings inspect the ballots and look at them. kennedy: it sounds like it will take a lot of time. >> it will, but jill stein raised the money and it's thank. if they want to proceed, that's fine. the deal is this. they have to

then you got hillary clinton. however, that could be a little bit misleading as our buddy eric oster mire from spart politics points out. he says the population is always growing in this country. so if you're comparing the raw popular vote total of a candidate in 2016, of course it's going to be higher than any other total in history. the country is always bigger than it ever was before. one thing to think about is the percentage of the vote she actually got. and that sitting down there, again 48.15. there are a bunch of losing candidates in the past who have gotten a higher percentage of the vote. of course they are still counting them up. she could climb in this list a little bit. but she did get more popular votes than any loser before, more popular votes than a lot of candidates who have won. but when you look at the percentage, there are some candidates who have lost races who have done better than hillary clinton did. a little bit of perspective. a little bit of context as that popular vote total continues t

a box for hillary clinton and said -- and tim kaine. in politico.tory some democrats criticized hillary clinton and her supporters for not embracing an effort to stop donald trump on this day. stephen shepard: you mentioned the hamilton electors who wanted to try by choosing another candidate who may also be palatable to the republican electors try to overturn the electoral college results. they were looking for a signal from the clinton campaign that this was an acceptable and desired outcome. we did not see that. that is why you saw only a handful of democratic electors pilaf in that effort that i mentioned including colin powell. we did not see that. i think there was a clear effort. witheard that starting hillary clinton's concession speech the day after the election. an effort to move on it publicly and not mount any kind of pure is challenge. the only tangentially joined the recount that jill stein had pushed for in those three states you mentioned including michigan, pennsylvania, and wisconsin. we have seen a couple of statement

and they can exploit him and manipulate him in way that they just did hillary clinton. and every other member of congress. >> yeah. >> this is their operational policy as a nation. >> absolutely and to that point, the president today said that he hopes the russian attack will not be treated a as a partd sedan issues. but trump and his allies have done that. the trump kpaun said, we believe it was the dnc that did the hacking as a way to distract from the campaign. in the second debate, trump again blamed democrats and suggested the hacking may not have even happened at all. >> i notice anytime anything wrong happens, they like to say, the russians are -- she doesn't know if it's the russians doing the hacking. maybe there is no hacking. >> even as recently as his last television interview, which was last weekend, trump was still blaming the democrats. >> so why would the cia put out this story that the russians wanted you to -- >> well, i'm not sure they put it out. i think the democrats are putting it out, because they suffered one of the greatest defeats in the histor

what was it for hillary clinton this year? segmented for every single community but not one big recommendation. sandra: how can it look like they are taking an internal look are and serious about change dagen when they are putting the same people back in power. nancy pelosi. >> not listening to people outside of their own thought group, and as much of a math nerd as i am, it's not numbers, it's hearts and minds, and these are people who genuinely lack empathy for the people who are clinging to their guns and their bibles in between new york city and los angeles. also think something that hurt her was the fact she expected women to vote for her and told women to vote for her because she was a woman, it was time the woman ran the country. madeleine albright said there is a special place in hell for women who don't support each other and don't support hillary clinton and comes out the very early-morning hours after donald trump won that election and didn't have the guts to stand up in front of her supporters and say thank you. th

much like hillary clinton. and i think it's interesting and ironic, that a billionaire who is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, in the city, managed to somehow connect with the rust belt of this country, people who -- bear a lot more in common with hillary than donald trump. >> how did he do it? >> i really don't know. i think that maybe he -- you know, he made -- look, i think that there are a lot of people in the rust belt and in the middle of this country who are left out, and feel it, and want to be seen and heard. and somehow he managed to make them feel scene. and apparently the other party did not. so -- >> how does the democratic party -- you're a political guy. how does the democratic party get back to bobby kennedy, you have a candidate that appeals to the working class and also the african-americans and mexican americans. he was able to do that. how can you do that again? democrats can't do that any more. why not? what are they going to do to fix that problem? >> i don't know, but i think they h

the problems of the hillary clinton campaign start and end with hillary clinton herself and when you surround yourself with circle, you don't have people criticizing you the way that show should, people being real with you and huma is now added to the long list of scapegoats that the democratic has been going through. there's a new one every single week and as i mention, the biggest problems with hillary clinton is herself. she was a flawed candidate. there was self-inflicted wounds. also strategic campaign errors as well. president obama criticized hillary clinton campaign, offered not visiting more eras -- areas like he did. she didn't step foot in a state like wisconsin, a lot of that comes with the arrogance of hillary clinton of someone who really felt like this is something that she deserved, that she didn't have to work as hard for it. i think that's part of the reason she had a difficult time almost defeating bernie sanders as well. when you have the circle they are feeding the narrative of misconception. martha: jessica, you look at all the fingers being pointed in this dire

team trump shifted the spotlight back to hillary clinton. >> this would not have happened if hillary clinton did not have a secret server. >> however the hack hit the dnc and not clinton's home server, and in a speech to her campaign donors, clinton said her past criticism of putin's illegitimate election made her his target. >> he direct the covert cyber attacks against our electoral system, against our democracy, apparently because he has a personal beef against me. >> clinton blamed putin and the fbi letter about her e-mail investigation for her defeat. >> i happen to believe this, that that letter most likely made the difference in the outcome. >> preparing to leave the white house, first lady michelle obama hinted at her disappointment over the results in an interview with oprah winfrey. >> see, now we're feeling what not having hope feels like, you know? hope is necessary. it's a necessary concept, and barack did not just talk about hope because he thought it was a nice slogan to get votes, and he and i and so many believe what else do you have if you don't have hope? >> report

it's typical of hillary clinton. in hillary clinton's world, it's always somebody else's fault. >> all right. one last thing. i'm glad to see this was such an academic discussion. finally, we're going to, in a couple moments, have jill sign it on the program, the green party presidential nominee who is pushing recounts in wisconsin, gaeylvania. what do you say to her about those efforts? >> i say to herri inher, give i. even your friends in the clinton campaign have admitted that these recounts will not change any results. hillary clinton gained avote, c. i read one article that said at this pace, hillary clinton could change the election results in wisconsin in 74 1/2 years. i don't think america is going to sit around and wait for that to happen. the people have spoken. i was asked on this program and many others that will you accept the election results. the question for jill stein and hillary clinton and those still in the grief, anger, and denial stages, will you start moving over to acceptance and let this pres

they were under the assumption that hillary clinton was going to win. they just wanted to muddy it up a bit. that's the difference. but they both believe the russians interfered. >> i think it's probably true that the russians interfered, that the iranians and the chinese may have also played some different games going on in the election. this is what intelligence communities do each and every day. they try to either get secrets or try to make life miserable for their opponents and their enemies. i don't know exactly what mr. trump is thinking or talking about but i think where this whole thing is going astray because it's starting to -- the allegations now with the clinton team saying you need to brief the electors, this is starting to undermine or they're trying to undermine the election of mr. trump, and there is no evidence at all that that is even a valid approach or a valid avenue to go down. it's totally ridiculous in that move. i think what you have is you have donald trump looking at it from -- this is a guy that's worked for more than a year t

wrong with hillary clinton. she didn't have the right message and smart republicans were reloved when joe biden got out of the race. he more or likely would have been able to keep together the obama coalition and reach white voters. she's inspiring as a rainy day. >> let's step away from the politic and go to a big arer picture. there is a russian story. a former candidate for president saying that is why i lost and dismissing a certain segment of voter and the message of 2016, all things are are possible and we have new energy coming in to the white house overshadowed by the russian story and blaming of another country in a interferrance of the election process. >> there is a bigger story, which is what the russians did in america is part of an overall strategy to destabilize the united states, western europe. and ukraine and the baltic state and we have seen tragically through syria and consist of assad's forces of aleppo. bottom line we are in a war with the russian and potentially the chinese, too and i wish

of situations did not happen with hillary clinton. trump was famous for calling executive producers and nbc.ng the head of a phone callet from the donald trump complaining about something, i have not gotten those phone calls. those phone calls and this, they definitely this, but i would say , i would like to think it did not change how we approached interviewing donald trump, especially on meet the press. he has people's phone numbers and he uses his phone and he will call whoever he wants. i'm going to leave that one at that. >> one other note i was going to make. we are all still human. our ownmen, we all have events we are dealing with. four of us have either gotten engaged or married in the last year or so. i hope some of you can say something about how it is been being so busy while still having a personal and. -- personal life. we had to try on wedding dresses and he brought the crew with you. ou brought the crew with you. >> we were shooting part of our "girls on the bus" series. i had a very bizarre campaign experience, which

he softened up hillary clinton. i was at the same convention in philadelphia and the fact is, his supporters were still out there protesting her. he was in the hall being a dutiful democratic convention soldier but his supporters were not. many of his supporters on election day were upset by the way he was treated and their views were never a simulated into the clinton-kaine campaign. i assume her choice of tim kaine had to do something with virginia and something with not being overshadowed. he was not a affected pic in the end, at the beginning and certainly not the fight's presidential debate. he interrupted the female moderator about 36 times. someone -- i had worked with mike pence for over 10 years. he has been in congress for 12 years, 10 of which he is set on the foreign affairs committee. we always thought if we were going to get past that blue ball, it would be with a running mate who our himself with the concerns of the working-class voters. hillary clinton called donald trump to concede the election but

at the time hillary clinton had donald trump on the map. the race was essentially over. and it changed the direction of the race and i think eventually changed the outcome of the race. that is an appalling thing for an fbi director to do. >> sure. how do we know that the race was over? i mean, on a separate point, don't we now know for sure that the polling was off in a lot of states and some of the national polls so for you now to say the race was over and hillary clinton was going to win and this is the reason, with all due respect, that part is flawed. >> well, i don't think it is. lock, two things can be true at once. you can look to other reasons why hillary clinton lost if she had had a different message. if she had not had the email problems in the first place, can you come up with those things and say if those had gone differently she would have won. that would be true. it can also be true that she was going to win despite some of those problems. i think if you look, you know, one of the best analyses i have seen is one that nate silver reported on last week that

hillary clinton's campaign chairman has lane blame, certainly on the kremlin, on the fbi as well. and maybe not so much on the white house. >> reporter: yeah. you know the fbi has come up again and again also from the administration. from theous, they tried to be extremely careful, from the white house, how they're wording things. only referring to things that donald trump has said, and kind of letting people read between the lines what they're implying there, and on the hack itself, you know, they keep emphasizing where the impact clearly was. that it was clearly hitting democrats during the campaign. so when we asked the white house the question, are you saying that russia then rigged this election? they say, well, you know, that's a question for analysts, but some analysts do say that the fbi's announcement of additional looks into hillary clinton's e-mails may have had something to do with it. now we hear john podesta, hillary clinton's campaign chairman, lay it out there very starkly in this op-ed saying in part, comparing the fbi's massive response to the overblown e-mail sc

it is typical of hillary clinton. in hillary clinton's world pis already somebody else's fault. >> one last thing. i'm glad to see this was such an academic discussion. finally, we are going to have jill stein on the program, the green party presidential nominee who is pushing recounts in wisconsin, michigan and pennsylvania. what do you say to her about those efforts?rt >> i t say to her give it up. friends in the clinton campaign had admitted that these recounts willhi not change. hillary clinton gained o a whopping one vote and so i read one article at this pace hillary clinton could change the election results in wisconsin in 74 1/2 years. i don't think the americans will sit around and. wait for that t happen. the people have spoken. i have been asked do you accept these election results for jill stein and hillary clinton will you start moving over and let this president-elect and vice president elect getpr on with t business of government? have a peaceful transfer of power? >> i am just astonished how jill stein

. >> on the political front, hillary clinton weighs in on the hacking. she says it was part of vladimir putin's grudge against her. and russia's election interference racreated rift between the imcoming and outgoing president relations. and president-elect trump is skepticing. get more from our reporters. michelle kaczynski, and nic robertson from london and our chief national security correspondent jim sciutto is here with us in washington. michelle, president obama vows to retaliate against russia. what more do we expect to hear from the president about all of this in his news conference next hour? >> reporter: yeah. this is bound to be extremely interesting. i mean, not only is it going to be about an hour-long press conference but could well be his last press conference's this kind during his time in office. heavy on news of the day, especially since there is so much news of the day. we're going to ask about russia's hacking, people will ask about the transition. questions about syria in there. looking for more detail. he's not likely to go into a lo

hillary clinton was treated unfairly all the time by the media. there were a total different set of rules. she really believes there are a different set of rules for hillary clinton. >> nicolle, having gotten to know you and the rest of our family on television, i think we've been surprised at how much at your level the professionals know and like each other. you guys are essentially all friends, and i know you talked to jenpaulmary tonight. >> i did, and we had a version of that conversation. did you ever think she would be defeated by a man who boasted about grabbing a woman in the genitals? it's pretty base, right? we talked about hidden stuff in the end, the hidden hillary vote, the hidden trump vote. i think there is hidden sexism. it is rampant. the first woman candidate from either party was defeated by someone who bragged about being a sexual aggressor, a sexual predator. i don't want to dance around the words. and he is someone who white supremacists are excited about. those are cold, hard facts. what he said today is really important. he

trish: even if it had been hillary clinton? >> i think if it had been hillary clinton, longer and more difficult but i am absolutely convinced and this to me is the america is that we have hope in the future. i'm very disappointed to hear what the first lady said this past weekend with no hope left because whether it was hillary or her husband or donald trump or whoever it was, there's a lot of hope and the next 25 years i honest to god believe america is a place to be. trish: that was in her interview with oprah winfrey. >> the point is with the greatest nation on earth and we will always will be, okay, do we have problems, yes, we do. the excess of regulation in the last 15-20 years has been bringing us to a screeching halt and i'm very excited about president-elect trump and the people bringing around. he's bringing people around who are successful, who would do this -- i will give you a for instance. i don't know if they have announced it, i understand viola is going to be secretary of the state, guess what, he's a man who

hillary clinton behind closed doors, meanwhile, lashing out at the russian president as well, saying it was a, quote, personal beef that led to this hack. also, the president offering some tough love to his own party about how to win back the white house. >>> now, folks, there is a last time for everything. today was president obama's last scheduled press conference, a rite of passage in every white house holiday season. but there was very little holiday cheer today. the president was peppered with questions about the russian hacking. he defended his administration's response and offered a stern warning to russia that the u.s. would continue responding. the president's most emphatic moment, though, clearly came in what we saw as an implicit rebuke of donald trump's reproach to all the intelligence this week. he took the president-elect to task for impugning the cia on its russia intel and going after republicans who might not back a full non-partisan inquiry. >> what we've simply said is the facts. which are that based on uniform intelligence assessments, the russians were responsibl

hillary clinton did. john podesta did. everything that's embarrassing and damaging came to bill clinton, hillary clinton or john podesta, their campaign manager. it's not their fault it became public, and therefore it's the russians fault for making public what bad they were doing. i'm not a lawyer. it strikes me. i wouldn't want to take their case into court and try to defend their logic. >> be dismissed fwrve other side had the opportunity to present theirs. what's so fascinating. when i was listening for the excuse the president might use, he said, well 17 intelligence agencies said that russia was involved in interfering. and he says he wanted the american people to decide. it takes him five weeks or a month later to say we're going to have the intelligence agencies investigate it again. now the pressure is on donald trump to further the investigation. but isn't this nothing more than attempt to delegitimatize the victory of donald trump? >> look. i don't think anything done by outsiders changed the ultimate outcome. t

you know hillary clinton lost the election. you know president, the first lady with all respect to her, she came out and said he was not proud to be an american when he was elected -- >> she said for the first time in my adult life i'm proud of my country. >> so she wasn't proud. i'm proud of my country that we're able to take the people's vote, the majority of the country voted someone for change. >> she's living in a bubble. 13 million more americans on food stamps, 8 million more in poverty. michelle, your husband didn't get the job done. >> i want a government that really drains the swamp. >> you want to come work for me in new york. >> i want a government that defunds sanctuary cities. i want a government that really builds the wall. i want a government that has real borders. >> stay right where you are. we're coming back with both of you. we've got an important story out of california, mother of four missing. police charged her illegal imgrant husband for possible murder and now are asking for the public's help. we'll tal

we just heard from hillary clinton again. at the top of the hour, we brought you the news john glenn, former u.s. senator, former astronaut passing away at the age of 95. we talked at the top of the show with jay barbree, the astronaut, the space race, how important that was to this country. talk to us, if you would, though, about john glenn the politician. he went from being an astronaut to politics. he resonated like any politic n politician. talk about him there. >> i was a strategist and media consultant in his last senate race in ohio in 1992, which he won. i had gotten to know him pretty well. i knew him somewhat before that. actually, he wasn't a great politician. he was a great public servant. from the frontiers of space to the factory floors of ohio to the u.s. senate. the worst thing you could do in capturing john glenn was telling him he had to believe something or vote in a certain way because it was the political thing to do. you had to argue that tfts right before the merits. efls equally honest with himself, ho

in this interview about hillary clinton and he did say, maria, to your point, i think that hillary clinton performed wonderfully under really tough circumstances. he also went on to say that the problem is that -- the problem is we are not there on the ground communicating's not only policy but also that we care about these communities. when democrats are kind of doing their post-mortem still looking ahead as they kind of the year comes to an end, the president said, if you think you're winning you have a tendency just like in sports to maybe play it safer. do you think that is what happened, maria? they played it safe? >> well, i think, you know -- monday morning quarterbacking is everybody's favorite game to do, especially democrats are doing it. as we should, after this loss. and, sure, there are things that hillary clinton should have done. she should have gone to wisconsin. she should have spent more money in michigan. you know? you can say, should have, would have, could have, right? but the fact of are the matter is, that her message resonated with more voters and more americans acr

undermining hillary clinton. vladimir putin just like everyone else in the world expected hillary clinton to be elected president. and he hoped she would come into the office slightly undermined by this campaign of revelations. that's what went on here. it's not like he wanted trump. what he was doing was giving hillary clinton serving notice that this was not going to be smooth sailing. charles: it wasn't smooth sailing. charles: we have more data that shows various industries are seeing an upbeat economy in 2017. we'll discuss that next. incredible bladder protection in a pad this thin, i didn't... ...think it would work, but it does. it's called always discreet for bladder leaks, the super... ...absorbent core turns liquid to gel. i know i'm wearing it but no one else will. always discreet for bladder leaks. charles: remember when owning your own home was center piece of american dream, it feels like it was a long time ago, consider that buyer foot traffic, moved last month for first time since july 2005. that

there is another person who is not, that's hillary clinton. if you want to shut this down and love the country enough to have the peaceful transition in great democracy between the obama administration and the trump administration, there are a couple people in prominent positions, one named hillary clinton and obama, since people want to fight for her election, they can shut this down. i know people that say bill clinton believes russian hacking interfered. she blames james comey. somebody else huma. i'll make the waiver, what was the message to the forgotten man and woman? it's not a mystery how the election was won or lost. the disappointment for them is that they never entertained the possibility in a divided country, perhaps the other candidate could actually win. that's what this is about. martha: if you're outraged about something, we know they knew about this in july. if you're outraged about something, the noble moment to speak out is while it's happening, not after the outcome doesn't go the way that you wanted it to. >> can i say som

hillary clinton got 2.9 million more votes than donald trump. but donald trump is claiming the electoral college victory. tomorrow they will vote. >> you didn't answer the question. do you believe it was a free and fair election? >> well, i think it was distorted by the russian intervention. let's put it that way. >> whand does distorted mean -- and let me ask it this way -- >> a foreign adversary directly intervened into our democratic institution and tried to tilt the election to donald trump. i think that if you look back and see what happened over the course of the last few weeks, you see the way the votes broke. you know, i was highly critical of the way the fbi, particularly the fbi director managed the situation with respect to the russian engagement versus hillary clinton's e-mails. i think that all had an affect on the election. >> in the op-ed, you put more weight on what mr. comey did than anything else. >> i think that independent analysts nate silver and others -- >> which do you believe had more impact? >> what i said was baffling,

she's opposing this on behalf of hillary clinton. guarantee around the country, and -- -- >> >> there is a rule in place, and civilian control and the department of defense. that is a rare case, tenure moratorium, and he she is supporting the rule, and the military confidence, the last eight years under obama, got to think about the big picture, just about him, the entire military at large and foreign-policy as well. >> the military as you said feels beaten-down at this point. reinvigorate the reins after they -- >> the type of leader he is, referenced a lot of people who served with him speaking out, published a piece by someone who served with him saying i served with james matus, here's what i learned, the rest of the world will soon know how truly gifted he is. >> just because the president-elect, actually worked in the business and understand finance, we tried it by putting a diplomat there, put somebody in the business, everyone running everything as though it is a business, the ceo making decisions based on who is running the