an american or would they attack hawaii? one thought they would attack hawaii. the lesson for the policymaker oday is to keep a very open mind and not to get stuck in think. in 2001, people worried about laden, it was thought he would attack abroad, not in the united states. assumptions? check those assumptions, be critical, get intelligence as much as collect it can, those are lessons of pearl harbor and of 9/11. host: and why lessonos intelligence coordination and think or the oup danger of group think, why do we ave to keep relearning those lessons? guest: because it is very hard to predict change. know, so much easier, you to think about if you think bout events and you have fine american fine patriots in the community, fine people in the national security basing their re prediction of the future on past events. that is what we do. very hard to predict anomaly or outlier. what you need are either red team, group of people who are to act as if they are the enemy or another team going to critique the basic assumption of the intelligence community. you need peo

he met with tulsi gabbard, democratic member of congress from hawaii, who has been outspoken on this issue as well and i think, you knows, i think that it's possible that he will get pressure from a mike pence or from other people around him to do something and it's also different when it's on your watch. it's one thing if you're sitting here talking in a campaign, another thing if you are watching a genocide unfold and you're not doing anything. >> there's a lot more to talk about including the continuing role of donald trump's grown sons are taking in government business even though they're supposed to be the ones running the president-elect's business empire instead. a prime example of that tonight. when will that happen? when will they take over? we'll talk about it next. >>> also later for the first time the dnc hacking story, all of it, beat by beat, how hillary clinton's campaign manager ended up unknowingly giving russian-connected cyber thieves the keys to the kingdom. a fascinating inside look. when you have a cold, you just want powerful relief.

he was in hawaii. it was a very, very nice call. and i actually thought we covered a lot of territory. a lot of good territory. >> joining me now is charlie sykes, veteran conservative radio host and msnbc contributor, and karen, national political correspondent. thanks for being here. karen, to you out of the gates, give us a sense. now, within the last 24 hours, you've got this just remarkable exchange between john kerry, this administration, and the israeli prime minister, and donald trump involved. you've also got the dispute between -- over russia where you've got this administration and vladimir putin and donald trump weighing in on that as well. this is a real clash of administrations right now. what should we expect in the remaining 22 days and ultimately going forward? >> well, i think what is -- what i'm struck by is the degree to which the don't seem to be a volume knob on any of this thanks to donald trump's propensity to go to his twitter account on anything, whether it's a personal sleight from president obama saying t

the japanese have attacked pearl harbor, hawaii, by air. president roosevelt has just announced. >> pelley: john daly recreating his december 7, 1941, report. the original was lost to history. it was a sunday afternoon. f.d.r. was about to take the nation to war. here's david martin. >> reporter: president roosevelt was as shocked as everyone else. he was working on his stamp collection in his private white house study, preserved in this panoramic photo at the f.d.r. library in hyde park, new york. >> the phone rings at this desk, the secretary of the navy on the line, and he tells the president that the pearl harbor naval base is under attack. >> reporter: herman eberhardt is the library's curator. >> his first reaction was to shout into the phone "no" in a state of disbelief. >> reporter: within a matter of hours, roosevelt had dictated in his own hand one of the greatest presidential speeches ever, beginning with the stirring line he delivered to a joint session of congress the next day. >> december 7, 1941, a date which will live in inf

we heard from the governor of hawaii. he called the u.s.-japan military alliance, quote, the most important to keeping the peace in asia. the real question now is what happens to that alliance post january 20 when there is a new sheriff in town, so to speak. a new president of the united states, donald trump. based on the cues so far how should we anticipate that will go? >> this is one to watch. it was the president-elect trump who said to me and maggie haberman in march that he was okay if japan and south korea got their own nuclear weapons. because he may well have to pull back from asia. >> let me play what he said to chris matthews as well. they got a conversation started in march. listen. >> japan doesn't want a nuclear weapon. >> why should they? we give them free protection. >> do you want them to -- >> wait a minute. you said maybe south korea has to develop their own capability. >> i said i will keep it the way it is but they have to pay their share. >> what's the risk based on what we have heard from donald trump. >> the question

that is a strong feeling, that the way hawaii became a-- the 50th state of the nation, beginning with annexation, was illegal. so the t.m.t. and other issues like it, really spring from this unresolved and unreconciled question of self-determination. >> there's certainly an element of native rights issues, which is far bigger than astronomy. so astronomy, i think, right now, is certainly a lightning post for these bigger issues. >> reporter: andrea ghez is focused on one of the big issues in astronomy, at the very heart of the galaxy. she and her team have proven the existence of a black hole there by tracking how stars orbit around it. but in science, the answers often spark new questions. >> almost everything we see there is inconsistent with our models, so it's making us scratch our heads. but i keep reminding myself that we are only seeing the brightest things, and it would be like trying to understand the financial market, if you could only see the biggest transactions. >> reporter: in astronomy, the solution is to build bigger and better telescopes, and a mirror 30 meters in dia

the black community in hawaii is considerably smaller, but there is a black community. it is there, and it was there for him. so, i think he had it early on that he was black. i mean, that was just how he saw himself. >> woodruff: he wasn't dealing with the same pressure, daily pressure. >> no, no, no. >> woodruff: that so many african-americans do. >> no, not at all. i had to ultimately see it as a tremendous privilege and a tremendous gift actually to be away from the kind of grind and poverty, even if it's not in your house, that is actually around you. to not go to schools and wonder why your schools are terrible, to not have to deal with the fear of the violence and not really have to deal with the police. so, he was aware of it, but it wasn't personal. it wasn't within him, and literally it wasn't within his family. >> woodruff: and so did that steel him against the strain of opposition, insults and so forth that happened. >> yeah, i just think he was un- traumatized. so, it didn't bring any past memories of it, in that he took his share of racist insults during t

trump in mar-a-lago in west paem beach, florida, and president obama is in hawaii. steve patterson is traveling with the president. still morning there. any sightings of the president yet today? >> yes, there is, and i will get to that in just a second. i just want to say what a privilege it is to cover the president and be in hawaii when it seems so miserable in so much of the mainland 48. i have to apologize to my friends, family, colleagues, anybody a that's following me or friends with me on social media. because i think i've been going a little too hard. who can help it. yeah. i wanted to bring it up first. the low here is 71, the high 78. >> okay. >> reporter: so the obamas are chilling. i know, i know. stop. there's nothing major on the schedule until christmas. really they're creatures of habit when it comes to vacationing. they come to the same place, to oahu every single year for christmas. this year obviously the last year but no different. they end up at the rental home in kai lua, a slim pi town about 45 minutes away from waikiki, tourist central. they

hawaii as well. are we going to see potentially here the place that we don't think that might take up a leadership position in the dnc? >> who doesn't want to be visiting hawaii? i can certainly say there's a deal there. >> yeah. >> whoever is going to end up leading the dnc, and who should be leading the dnc, is who has their ear to the ground. the energy now is not in washington. the energy is in the states. the energy is with the real voters nap is who was energized. i'd say the organizations working throughout are medium energized. on that spectrum, elected people currently elected in washington are the least energized on that spectrum. >> uh-huh. >> and all coming from the people. the people know what they want and they need to see leadership that reflects that, absolutely. >> maybe there will be a michelle a emily brought up in the process? who knows. thank you both. correspondent for reuters and emily, campaign for the center for american progress. thank you both. have a very good saturday. >>

he was in hawaii. and it was a very, very nice call. and i actually thought we covered a lot of territory. a lot of good -- >> are you satisfied with the transition thus far? >> well, our staffs are getting along very well. and i'm getting along very well with him. other than a couple of statements. that i responded to. and we talked about it and smiled about it. and nobody's ever going to know because we're never going to be going against each other in that way. so but he was -- it was a great conversation. >> president-elect donald trump this evening, that was hours basically after tweeting that the fact, in fact, the transition was not going smoothly because of inflammatory statements and roadblocks from president obama, leaving some wondering which is it. joining us now is john harwood. what do you make of the two trumps and this effort by obama to be in his ear? >> what we've seen with donald trump is somebody who has got a very strong ego and who is very impulsive. so when he reads an account of david axelrod interviewing presiden

taking questions from reporters following an opening statement before he and his family head off to hawaii for the holidays. like lly take comments about hi reaction to russia's meddling and meanwhile, in damascus a young girl wearing an explosive belt walked into a police station and detonated it. syrian state-run television reports one person injured and the building damaged. in aleppo, conflicting reports on the urgent evacuation of thousands of refugees out of the besieged syrian city. syrian state television saying evacuations suspended because, quoting now, "terrorists breached the evacuation agreement." u.n. saying hundreds of children are trapped in east aleppo and face death if not evacuated, but russian state-run media says the evacuation of the area is complete and the only people remaining are armed militants. our senior international correspondent fred pleitgen coving all of this, now in beirut. fred, where do things stand right now in aleppo? >> reporter: you're right, wolf, it is confusing and conflicting information coming out of aleppo. you said the russians say they belie

do we know, jeremy, did they make it to hawaii? >> we don't have confirmation. i'm not sure they would have landed by now but we'll check back. >> richard quest, jeremy diamond, juana summers, thank you all. >>> up next, the syrian army declares aleppo free of armed guards. armed groups, rather. we'll take you live to the turkish syrian border as evacuations come to an end. >>> president obama is opening up about his eight years in the white house as the nation's first african-american president in this wide-ranging multipart interview with "the atlantic." the outgoing commander-in-chief gets personal about his views on race and politics. he talks about growing up as a biracial child in kansas and why people lean on stereotypes. he says "the suspicion between race, the way it can manifest itself in politics in part comes out of people's daily interactions and the fact that we're segregated by communities and schools and our churches and people's memories passed down through generation generations." he goes on "what i didn't appreciate when i first came into this

obama's now in hawaii with his family for the holidays. abe will meet with the president tomorrow. >>> 25 days from now, donald trump will be sworn into the office of president. right now, the president-elect says he plans to shut down his charitable organization, the trump foundation, to avoid possible conflicts of interest. but doing that might be a bit more complicated because of an investigation of new york's attorney general. let's bring in cnn's politics reporter eugene scott. eugene, it's not just that simple. trump can't just declare that i'm shutting it down. there are others involved here. >> that is true, martin. as you mentioned earlier, the charity is currently under investigation from the new york state attorney general's office concerning some violations in the past regarding donations and the irs. whether or not he will be able to move forward in the direction he's hoping to as soon as possible is unclear. >> so, can the new york attorney general actually demand that he not do this? in other words do, they fear that, perhap

we're live in florida and hawaii and in moscow. >>> two russian compounds here in the united states shut down, but what went on inside? new reporting on that straight ahead. >>> and incoming white house chief strategist, steve bannon, speaks out. what he's saying this hour about deplorables? all of that, that's straight ahead. >>> but we begin with that breaking news. president-elect donald trump praising russia's vladimir putin. trump tweeting, great move on delay by vladimir putin. i always knew he was very smart. now, the official twitter feed of the russian embassy in the united states also retweeted it, as you can see it, it's circled there, at the very top. trump was praising putin's response to president obama's sanctions. putin saying, quote, although we have the right to retaliate, we will not resort to irresponsible kitchen diplomacy, but will plan our further steps to restore russian/u.s. relations, based on the policies of the trump administration. now, vladimir putin essentially saying, he'll wait to deal with donald trump and let a cold relationship with president obama pla

back to you. >> kevin corke traveling with the president in hawaii. kevin, thank you. >>> obamacare is once again getting burned by a government accountability office sting. the gao says it created 12 fake identities and was able to obtain coverage for nine of them during the special enrollment period. the affordable care act requires state marketplaces to validate application information. >>> we're getting our first look tonight at the search warrant the fbi used to resurrect its investigation into the hillary clinton e-mail scandal right before the election. correspondent doug mckelway is here to tell us what we're learning tonight. >> reporter: good evening, bret, it was 11 days before the november 8th election jim comey threw a curve ball into the race with his letter to ranking members and chairmen alerting them to "the existent of e-mails that appear to be pertinent to the completed hillary clinton e-mail case. "two days later the fbi sought and received a search warrant to examine if any classified e-mails were stored in a dell laptop computer,

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thank you very much, trace gallagher in hawaii tonight. so joining me now, the exec it tiff director of care dallas. good to have you with us this evening. >> thank you for having me. >> what's your reaction to angela merkel's change of tune here? >> i think it's going against what a democraticç society wou put worth as a balanced way, a basic law that states religion should be uninfringed upon by the government. she's going against her own government and her own constitution. >> what do you think about what she said when she talked about the openness. she's been under an enormous amount of pressure. they opened the door to 300,000 refugees. they have close to a million. close to 900,000. people feel some of the refugees have made them less safe. she said we're an open community and communication is something we value and having an open face is part of that in germany, in the western world. isn't it incumbent upon people who in some cases choose to choose burqas to -- they moved it to a place that shows open communication and part that h

the people of hawaii chose me to work again in november. my goal in going there, in receiving the invitation to speak to president-elect trump was to speak specifically about the situation in syria and the consequences of escalating the regime change war that the united states is ruling along with countries like saudi arabia, qatar and turkey and escalating that view a no-fly zone or safe zone. and urging him to end the regime change war, to stop funding directly and indirectly groups working with isis and al qaeda and to stop funneling the dollars and weapons and assistance from others directly supporting the terrorist groups who are supposed to be our enemy who we are supposed to be fighting to defeat. >> you have a bill you introduced today to address loopholes. you say have allowed american taxpayer dallas to fund groups like questional qaeda and syria >> are you suggesting america is funding these terrorist groups? >> i am not only suggesting it. this is the world we live in. if you or i were to provide money, weapons or support to a g

for their sacrifice in marine corps base hawaii in oahu. nbc's brian mooar looks at how the holiday was celebrated around the globe. >> reporter: pilgrims and tourists from around the world welcomed christmas in bethlehem, the biblical birthplace of jesus. at the vatican, pope francis offered a prayer of peace. high above on the international space station, a similar viewpoint from the crew of expedition 50. >> seeing the planet as a whole, and it actually re-enforces, i think, that the fact that we should live as one people and strive for peace. >> reporter: on the ground in iraq, american troops did their best to enjoy a peaceful holiday away from home. >> it's kind of a struggle, you know, but i have a good support back home, and, you know, it isn't too bad. we have a pretty good family here. >> reporter: but some took time out to share the holiday spirit with those less fortunate at places like this shelter in indiana and this rescue mission in charlotte. >> sharing a meal like this make us really feel what christmas is all about. >> re

tammy liner is in hawaii traveling with president obama throughout the holidays. tammy, how is president obama responding to this? >> reporter: good morning. you know, the president is heavily engaged even though he is here on vacation with his family. he took multiple calls with his security team leading up to the u.n. vote, and that was what led to the u.s. abstaining from the vote. it sends a message to president-elect donald trump. the two have been at odds over this issue. trump has been urging the u.s. to veto the resolution, and the white house is saying there can only with b one president at a time, and right now that is president obama. and keep in mind, president obama has done more for israel's security than any other sitting president. and he's always opposed the settlement. let's go ahead and listen to what the u.n. ambassador samantha power had to say about the u.n.'s vote. >> the security council reaffirmed that settlements have no legal validity. the united states has been sending the message that the settlements must stop. our vote today is fully

prime minister shinzo abe and president obama visited the "uss arizona" memorial at pearl harbor in hawaii. both leaders are expected to give remarks, which we expect to hear in just minutes, and we'll bring that to you as we get it. the visit comes 75 years after japan's surprise attack. abe is the fourth japanese prime minister to visit pearl harbor but the first to visit the "uss arizona" memorial which sits above the battleship destroyed. cnn's athena jones is in honolulu covering president obama. athena, the visit is something of a return gesture of sorts to president obama. tell us about that. >> reporter: that's right, jake. president obama visited hiroshima seven months ago to this day. he became the first sitting u.s. president to do so, to pay his respects to the tens of thousands of people who died there. now prime minister abe coming here today. i should mention to you, i believe we may have pictures of the two leaders arriving not long ago on the "uss arizona" memorial where prime minister abe paid his respects, offering prayers to those who died not just on that ship but on -

athena jones is standing by in hawaii where the president is on his holiday vacation. we know, athena, that president obama is taking note that nearly 700,000 just signed up last week but the numbers of first-time enrollees are down. >> that's right. in terms of first-time enrollees the administration says people enrolling for the first time wait until the last minute to sign up so the enrollment period goes to the end of january. we know from sylviaer be well the administration plans to ramp up its outreach efforts to them starting next month. you mentioned the president saying last week today 670,000 people signed up in a single day. he called it the biggest day yet so that have been touting these numbers, the white house encouraging people to continue to sign up even though republicans are planning to repeal this bill. they don't plan for that to kick in right away. the thinking among the folks at the white house is the more people that sign up, the more people benefitting from this bill, the harder it might be for republicans to repeal it so they're touting those n

trace gallagher is live in pearl harbor, hawaii for us this evening. hey, trace. >> reporter: you're going to hear the freedom bell in the background. we're going to take you there live in a moment. but i want to give you an idea, tour around pearl harbor. some 10,000 people are expected here. this is the newest exhibit, the "uss bowfish." they call it the pearl harbor avenger because it was christened on december 7, 1942. if you look over here, there's a bit of irony in pearl harbor right now because you have the "uss stennis" aircraft carrier. on the day of the attack 75 years ago there were no aircraft carriers in the harbor. that was fortunate for america because if there had been it could have changed the war. all the way across we have the "uss missouri" where the treaty toned the war was signed. and then if you pan over just a little bit, shep, you can see the arizona memorial. which is worth a closer look. watch. of the eight ships that were attacked during the raid on pearl harbor, six of them were repaired and reused during world war ii. only

the president is in the hawaii. what are you hearing? >> reporter: it says today i have ordered a number of actions in response to the russian government of harassment of u.s. officials and cyber sop sop -- operations aimed at the u.s. election. >> it is necessary inappropriate response to harm interests in violation of established national norms or behaviors. there is that language from the white house of the president, talking about repeated warnings and saying that this is certainly a threat of american national security in order to use the sanction regime as we understand that the president had to, the white house had to put the election systems into this category of critical u.s. infrastructure so that sanction can be imposed under the authority that the president has and believe he has. again, it remains to be seen what donald trump will do to this order and every expectations that he will seek to reverse it or not implement it. a strong line of the president of the united states as we have this executive order directed as a number

. >> well, martin, 75 years ago on december 7 is japanese attacked not just hey hawaii but other british and military installations and i like the idea of at least a few survivors of pearl harbor witnessing this historic event. although i'm not fond of the word "closure" i think it dud give everybody closure and reminds everybody of the time 75 years ago when how many things have changed. he pearl harbor was the linchpin of history, would there have been a president john kennedy, would we have developed rockets into space, would we have become the world's policemen? it literally changed our lives forever. >> that's right. i think in many ways we forget from war came certain lineage we still enjoy in peace. tim, you helped the japanese government look into war crimes now we have the moment when jap japan's prime minister is visiting this memorial which is extremely moving if you've not been. anyone who has seen it can't help but be moved when you leave. it comes seven months after president obama visited hiroshima. i want to play for some you some of the president's words then. >> since t

he was in hawaii. it was a very nice call and i actually thought we covered a lot of territory. >> are you satisfied with the transition thus far. >> our staffs are getting along very well. and i'm getting along very well with him, other than a couple of statements and i responded to. and we talked about it. and smiled about it. and nobody is ever going to know because we're never going to be going against each other in that way. it was a great conversation. >> senator graham today said putting together sanctions going after putin personally. would you back that? >> i don't know what he's doing? i haven't spoken to senator graham. haven't spoken to -- as you know he ran against. >> you have to admit he shocked the world. >> senator graham ran against he. i haven't spoken against him since. >> what -- >> i think we ought to get on with our lives. i think computers have complicated our lives very greatly. the whole age of computer has made it where nobody knows exactly what is going on. and we have speed

the president again long way away in hawaii, distantly removed from the dirtiness of all this. >> as you pointed out this has been a long standing issue between barack obama and benjamin netanyahu. to concussion on john kerry's speech. it's important to listen to his words. when he says the palestinians want a one state issue as well. but when you look at people who have interest, hamas, fatah, it's not about having one state solution it's about annihilating the jewish people and destroying israel as a whole. if they can't recognize israel has the right to exist, where your supposed to go from there? that's the frustration and talking over each other comes from. also john kerry struck me today that, you know, the united states can disagree as a friend with you, and issue tough love. but this to benjamin netanyahu isn't about a disagreement. this is about a betrayal. he feels as though this should not have been brought to the skourngs it should have been dealt w-a disagreement long standing dealt with behind closed doors, in negotiations between the united states and israel. it's not

back to you. >> kevin cork traveling with the president in hawaii. thank you. >>> let's talk more about the u.n. vote and the u.s. decision. danny danone is the israeli ambassad ambassador. >> good evening. >> your reaction to the vote? >> we are disappointed. we heard president obama saying the only way to promote peace in the middle east is with negotiations and not to adopt resolution with the security council. we asked what happened today. what changed? why the u.s. abandoned israel and allowed a shameful resolution to pass at the security council. >> republican senator tom cotton out of arkansas had to this to say. he says president obama is personally responsible for this anti-israel resolution. his diplomats secretly coordinated the vote. yet he doesn't have the courage of his own convictions to vote for it. do you think the president or the ak sdaks ccusations are out that secretary kerry pushed this? >> we heard from the administration they would support constructive steps to promote peace in the middle east. there is nothing constructive ab

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. >>> president obama visiting troops on vacation in hawaii, an annual christmas tradition, and this the last one. he thanked the troops for their service and said it's been the privilege of my life to serve as your commander in chief. >>> to the box office "rogue one" still cleaning much, pulling in an estimated $120 million over the holidays weekend. in total "rogue one" has made about $327 million since the release last week, enough to make it the eighth highest-grossing film, and full disclosure, about $15 of my dollars have gone to it. i looked it, too. >>> president obama getting nostalgic about his time in office with 25 days remaining. in an exit interview with david axelrod, the president says it feels like the band is breaking up a bit. still, he sounded kind of confident when he thinking the country really does still buy into his vision of unity. >> i am confident in this vision, because i'm confident that if i -- if i had run again and articulated it, i think i could have mobilized a majority of the american people to rally behind it. >>> nbc's tammy light ner drew the sh

obama whose vacationing in hawaii with his family. also in news tonight, blowing and drifting snow closing roads for a second state day in north dakota. interstate 94 is closed across nearly the entire state. dangerous driving conditions exist with near zero visibility on slippery roads. icy road conditions exist also in south dakota. the storm also causing widespread power outages in the dakotas, nebraska and western iowa. that's a look at news. i'm kelly wright. now back to the o'reilly factor. ♪ ♪ >> "watters world" as has been widely reported about two thirds of americans believe the country is headed in the wrong direction. but why? we sent watters to west virginia to ask the folks about what's good and what's bad with america ♪ ♪ >> what's west virginia all about? >> a lot of fun, clean living. hunting. fishing. camping. good people. >> oh, boy, is this great. >> i do fit in here in west virginia? >> sure. why not? >> we produce energy. i mean, coal is our main stay. >> moan shine liquor. >> goes down easy? >> no, it don

today, memorial services throughout the country and in hawaii, about 1,000 veterans who served in japan during world war ii are attending events to honor their service and remember all those who died. some images in our slide show today. the oldest survivor of pearl harbor, there he is, 104 years young, navy veteran ray chavez. he said he prepared for this trip. it is a big trip when you're as young as he is and he prepared with the help of a personal trainer so he could make the eight-hour night from san diego to hawaii. he said he'll never forget many innocent people who were lost that day. and this is 103-year-old navy veteran jim downing. he was but 20 years old during the attack and served on board the uss west virginia where more than 100 men died. downing said he spent two hours trying to put out fires and checking name tags of his fallen crew members so co-write personal notes to their families. can you imagine? here you can see some members of the greatest generation at an event honoring them in honor who lou earlier this week. and in this aerial image, you can see the sunken b

president obama's family on vacation in hawaii. we have been talking about whether donald trump is remaking the president. with president obama certainly not in the white house, has that opened in avenue for the incoming trump administration to be more proactive? guest: i think it has, actually. the question of syria, president obama was asked about that. he always has a press conference when he leaves town and he was asked about that. he expressed anguish about what is happening over there. i think this has been for some observers the biggest failure of his presidency, that he drew a redline on syria and ignored it. we have seen what we are seeing now, which is a massive humanitarian tragedy. host: we are not sure if we are going to get a final news conference from the first lady, but she had a departing interview with oprah winfrey on cbs and was asked about the incoming administration. here's a look at that, and some of the response from donald trump. rah" the election was all about hope. do you think this administration achieve

back to you. >> kevin cork traveling with the president in hawaii. thank you. >>> let's talk more about the u.n. vote and the u.s. decision. danny danone is the israeli ambassad ambassador. >> good evening. >> your reaction to the vote? >> we are disappointed. we heard president obama saying the only way to promote peace in the middle east is with negotiations and not to adopt resolution with the security council. we asked what happened today. what changed? why the u.s. abandoned israel and allowed a shameful resolution to pass at the security council. >> republican senator tom cotton out of arkansas had to this to say. he says president obama is personally responsible for this anti-israel resolution. his diplomats secretly coordinated the vote. yet he doesn't have the courage of his own convictions to vote for it. do you think the president or the ak sdaks ccusations are out that secretary kerry pushed this? >> we heard from the administration they would support constructive steps to promote peace in the middle east. there is nothing constructive ab

he was in hawaii. and it was a very, very nice call. and i actually thought we covered a lot of territory, a lot of good territory. >> are you satisfied with the transition thus far? >> well, our staffs are getting along very well. and i'm getting along very well with him. other than a couple of statements. and i responded to. and we talked about it and smiled about it. and nobody's ever going to know because we're never going to be going against each other in that way. so but he -- it was a great conversation. >> mr. president-elect, senator graham today said that they're putting together a sanction to go after putin personally. will you back that? >> i don't know what he's doing. i haven't spoken to senator graham. as you know, he ran against me. and i haven't spoken to him. >> you have to admit he shocked the world. nothing else to say, he shocked the world. >> senator graham ran against me. i haven't spoken to him. >> what do you think about sanctions? >> i think we'll get on with our lives. the whole age of computer has made it whe

before leaving with his family for hawaii for the holidays, a mostly defensive president, but a hint of offense. >> so at a point in time where we have taken certain actions that we can divulge publicly, we will do so, and there are times the message will be directly received by the russians and not publicized. >> it was the longest press conference of his presidency. he declined at several points opportunities to criticize his successor, president-elect donald trump, and even gave him a pass by taking the phone call from the taiwanese president, saying everything should be subject to pressure eyes. >>> and joining me now, political reporter for u.s. news and world report, and senior reporter for "the hill." thank you both for being here. gabrielle, let me start with you, and could the president have done more or is it a situation where you are doomed if you do and doomed if you don't? >> i think it's a situation where he was doomed if he doesn't, and he was talking about undercover cyber business they are working on, and i think he was worried more about like he was trying to tip th

i want to go to tammy lightener, in hawaii where the president is vacationing. i know you've been getting the administration officials' take on the situation and walk us through the sanctions specifically and what the real impact is. >> reporter: sure, peter. it is unprecedented for the u.s. to retaliate against russia in this way. it's also very unusual for the u.s. to make public the names of these top russian officials who are involved. now let's go over the sanctions. as you mentioned 35 russian diplomats are being kicked out of the u.s. along with their families. they're closing two russian compounds in new york and maryland. they are sanctioning two russian leading intelligence agencies along with the three russian companies that are said to have supported these hacking efforts. they're also naming four top officials and two others. this is really interesting. they're naming two others who are suspected of having some involvement in unrelated cyber activities and also, stealing more than $100 million from u.s. institutions, univerties, government instituti

he held it this afternoon before departing for his annual family vacation to hawaii. here are excerpts from that press conference. >> once we had clarity and certainty around what, in fact, had happened, we publicly announced that, in fact, russia had hacked into the d.n.c. and, at that time, we did not attribute motives or any interpretations of why they had done so. we didn't discuss what the effects of it might be. we simply let people know the public know just as we had let members of congress know that this had happened, and as a consequence, all of you wrote a lot of stories about both what had happened and then you interpreted why that might have happened and what effect it was going to have on the election outcomes. we did not, and the reason we did not was because, in this hyperpartisan amount atmospherea time when my primary concern was making sure the election process was not in any way damaged, at a time when anything that was said by me or anybody in the white house would immediately be seen through a partisan lens, i wanted to make sure everybody underst

. >> you have people now down there searching, i mean, in hawaii? >> absolutely. and they cannot believe what they're finding. >> i still would like to see his college records. i would lake to see a couple of things. trump comes along and says birth certificate. he gave a birth certificate. whether or not whether that was a real certificate, pause a lot of people question it, i certainly question it. >> outrageous. anyway, questioning president obama's birth certificate provided trump with the foundation he built his 2016 campaign. so it's not surprising he declared his presidency by attacking an entire nationality. here he goes. >> when mexico sends their people, they're not sending their best. they're not sending you. they're not sending you. they're sending people that have lots of problems and they're wringing those problems with us. they're bringing drugs. they're bringing crime. they're rapists. and some, i assume, are good people. >> well, accusations plagued his campaign to the bitter end, of course. and for more on how trump demolished political norms whi

not just his mother being white but the fact his mother was white and living in hawaii so he was living far from the fulcrum of jim -- you can be by racial racial and born in chicago. i knew reracial people like this but he was born so far away it was like a distance experience. so he didn't have that trauma at a very very early able. that's the way i think about this. i was as a child never by a white person called the n word. that just didn't happen to me, right. the first time it actually happened to me was two or three years ago i was in paris, believe it or not i was in france. some crazy person addressed me in that way. it didn't wound me at all. i knew something bad had happened. i knew this person, it was an individual thing, do you understand. i didn't feel any sort of grand way about it. but had i been a black french person who had grown up in paris and had to deal with this on a regular base i probably would have felt a lot differently. i understood it as an offense but it didn't really shake me, didn't bother me too much. >> rose: this is from last night and not thinking abo