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if your uc or crohn's medication isn't working for you, ask your gastroenterologist about entyvio. entyvio. relief and remission within reach. >>> for a holiday week, we've had a lot of news, president obama announcing those sanctions against russia, the new report from fbi and dhs on why they think russia was behind it all. a lot of news for what was supposed to be a sleepy thursday before new year's. after we finish, our colleague, lawrence o'donnell will have stories on this, including nicolas kristoff from the "new york times." you may say, how many people does it take to put on a show. you see rachel, guest hosts l me come in sometimes, mostly, though, it is a fact, this show depends on a lot of people who usually go unnamed except for once a year when we roll the credits here as a way of saying "thank you." ♪ i have had the privilege of working with all of those great people. thank you for making this show and msnbc's work possible every night in 2016. and for viewers, rachel will be back on monday for the start of 2017. thats s tdoes it for our show, can always e-mail me a

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if your uc or crohn's medication isn't working for you, ask your gastroenterologist about entyvio. entyvio. relief and remission within reach. >>> general baron mccaffrey first endorsed michael flynn as donald trump's national security adviser, but n he's got and look at michael flynn's twitter account and describes what he saw in that twitter account as quote, bordering on demented. michael flynn is of course donald trump's choice for national security adviser. >> i was very strong in my endorsement of him when he was first announced for the nfc position, i said he was correctly, probably the best intelligence officer of his generation. but i must admit i'm now extremely uneasy about some of these tweets which don't sound so much as if they are political skullduggery, but instead, border on being demented. >> barry mccaffrey who is also a msnbc analyst joins us, thank you for joining us tonight. >> good to be with you, lawrence. >> so here's somebody you know is fully experienced in intelligence work, who in the twitter world seems to have a serious problem separating fact from fi

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if your uc or crohn's medication isn't working for you, ask your gastroenterologist about entyvio. entyvio. relief and remission within reach. >>> there was general political agreement, something we don't get a lot of, but agreement over the obama administration's announcement of u.s. sanctions against russia over hacking. but senior trump adviser kellyanne conway questioned the timing. >> even those who are sympathetic to president obama on most issues are saying that part of the reason he did this today was to, quote, box in president-elect trump. that would be very unfortunate if that were the -- if politics were the motivating factor here. >> let's bring in new york democrat congressman gregory meeks. he sits on the foreign affairs committee. thanks for coming in. does she have a point here? it's one president at a time and the sitting president has to deal with what's going on, but has president obama and very deliberately, sort of put the squeeze on donald trump? >> i think she has some never to say that, to be quite honest with you. when you thing about the president. the pr

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if your uc or crohn's medication isn't working for you, ask your gastroenterologist about entyvio. entyvio. relief and remission within reach. >>> welcome back to "hardball." over the weekend, donald trump took to twitter to propose a nuclear arms race, take credit for the booming economy since his election, and to remind his followers that he doesn't care about a-list celebrities coming to his inauguration. there's no secret that trump loves twitter and here's what incoming white house press secretary sean spicer has to say about it. >> he can put his thoughts out and hear what he's thinking in a way that no one's been able to do before. but you're right, he does communicate in a much bigger, way than ever before. and i think that's going to be just a really exciting part of the job. >> for trump, twitter is an effective way of circumventing the media and speaking directly to 18 million of his closest followers. for more on trump's christmas week tweet, i'm joined by our roundtable, amy choezik with "the new york times," ozzie and caitlin hughey burns with real clear politics. so

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