[Burnett:] New tonight, President-elect Donald Trump pushing back against reports that he thought he lose the election, Trump tweeting, "Various media outlets and pundits say that I thought I was going to lose the election. Wrong. It all came together in the last week and I thought and felt I would win big, easily over the fabled 270 when they cancelled fireworks, they knew and so did I." Trump continued on Twitter, stating, "When they cancelled fireworks, they knew, and so did I." Of course, this comes after Trump spent days calling out President Obama for saying he would have beaten Trump. So much for a calm transition. Michelle Kosinski is
[Outfront. Michelle Kosinski, Cnn Correspondent:] President Obama with only days remaining in office looking to preserve his legacy in any way possible taking to YES Twitter while on vacation and out of sight to defend his work on job creation, healthcare and energy. This week he'll head to Capitol Hill to meet with democrats trying to protect at least parts of Obamacare.
[Barrack Obama, President Of The United States:] Another busy day.
[Kosinski:] At virtually the same time Vice President-elect Mike Pence will be meeting with republicans on repealing it. It was only weeks ago that first face-to-face meeting show a good will
[Obama:] Well, I just had the opportunity to have an excellent conversation with President-elect Trump.
[Trump:] I very much look forward to dealing with the president in the future.
[Kosinski:] It didn't take long for the winds of politics carrying plenty of thorns to blow straight from the campaign trail into this transition.
[Obama:] Ronald Reagan would roll over in his grave.
[Kosinski:] Just in the last few days president Obama saying he thinks he would have beaten Donald Trump in the election. Trump responding by tweet, he thinks he would have against me, he should say that but I say no way. And another one, doing my best to disregard the many inflammatory president O statements and road blocks. I thought it was going to be a smooth transition, not-
[Michelle Obama, First Lady:] Because he thought-
[Kosinski:] We heard from the first lady.
[Obama:] We're feeling what not having hope feels like.
[Kosinski:] We've seen top democrats blast the head of the FBI over the e-mail investigation. Obama administration standing by its expressions of deep concern and believe that Donald Trump is unqualified hitting his campaign picks, excoriating the Trump team for denials and doubts that Russia hacked democratic websites trying to influence the election.
[Josh Earnest, White House Press Secretary:] The Republican nominee for president was encouraging Russia to hack his opponent, because he believed that would help his campaign.
[Trump:] Make America great again.
[Kosinski:] Despite this very public clashes Trump speaks of a, quote, good relationship with the outgoing president whose legacy is already under fierce attack. The two spoke again by phone Friday.
[Trump:] I'm getting along very well other than a couple of statements that I responded to and we talked about it and smiled about it.
[Kosinski:] So, yes. This is a white house winding down. But it's very clear they're trying to get in as much as possible. I mean, in a short amount of time, we have seen President Obama sanction Russia, take various executive action, ban some offshore drilling, transfer prisoners from Guantanamo and commute many hundreds of drug sentences with likely more of this action to come. Also we're going to hear him talk in his own words about his own legacy when he gives the farewell speech in Chicago, Erin.
[Burnett:] Right, right. All right. Thank you very much, Michelle. And OUTFRONT now, the host Ben Ferguson show, Ben Ferguson and former Clinton White House aide, Keith Boykin, he's a regular on the show and as of tonight, a new CNN political commentator. Welcome to the family, Keith. We appreciate it. So let me start with you. President Obama going to head to Capitol Hill this week on Wednesday to meet with democrats and the whole goal here is how they can stop this repeal of Obamacare, right? How they can block it. That is the goal. This is an aggressive play to block his successor from carrying out a core campaign promise. Is Barack Obama going too far?
[Keith Boykin, Cnn Political Commentator:] No. I don't think he is going too far. I think this is a standard move for any president in a situation where you are being followed by a successor who has threatened not only to repeal your signature piece of legislation but has threatened to upend the basic norms of decency in government. And I think President Obama is wise to take these measures. I think that we are going to see a great deal of resistance on the part of a lot of democrats in the next four years or longer if necessary to fight against any sort of encroachment to the constitution in violation of law that might be coming as a result of the Trump administration. So, I think this is an appropriate first step for the president as he goes out of office and moves into his transition as a private citizen.
[Burnett:] Appropriate and wise then?
[Ben Ferguson, Cnn Political Commentator:] I don't think it is appropriate. I also don't think that it's wise either. There are many parts of Obamacare that have been failures and that's one reason why Hillary Clinton lost this election. This was a major issue for many Americans who've forced into exchanges and they have seen not only their doctors disappear but they've also seen premiums sky rocket, they've seen their choices even for coverage disappear. We only had one choice for my family this year. It was a bronze plan. There wasn't a silver plan, there wasn't a gold plan and our family would be up $13300 before any insurance would kick in. And that was the only option on the Obama plan on their website. So, for him to somehow come in and say I got to save this now is just tone deaf. There are people that like certain things about Obamacare. I am in favor and many republicans are in favor of saving parts of it. One of it is those would be those preexisting conditions. But what President Obama is doing is he's putting his own name and legacy about this bill in front of what actually the American people need. It needs to be overhauled, it doesn't need to be saved and it's lost- people have lost faith in the system.
[Burnett:] Now, one small part of this-you talk about Obamacare, right? This country is incredibly split on it. People who think it needs to go farther towards that universal care and trying sort of what people who think that it goes too far. But those people who like Obamacare or think it needs to go farther are people who are scared of Donald Trump. Then Bruce Springsteen is one of them. He performed obviously at President Obama's inauguration. Campaigned for him and Hillary Clinton. He is speaking out today and of course he's got that best-selling book. A lot of people are listening of what he's having to say, he was on a podcast with the comedian Marc Maron. Here is what he said.
[Bruce Springsteen, American Singer-songwriter:] I felt disgusted before but never the kind of fear you feel now. It's as simple as the fear of, is someone simply competent enough to do this particular job. Forget about-where they are ideologically. Do they simply have the pure competence to be put in the position of such responsibility?
[Burnett:] And you're talking about disgust and fear regarding Donald Trump but questioning the issue of pure competence. Does he have a point?
[Ferguson:] I'll take Bruce Springsteen and ask him to throw his resume on the table next to Donald Trump let's compare degrees and see who has a higher level of education. And then whoever doesn't have a bigger set of degrees gets to shut up and eat their own words. I mean, this is nothing but-
[Boykin:] OK. Ben, if you're going to go by that logic, then you should shut up because I have a bigger-higher degree than you do. That's just-that's just foolish.
[Ferguson:] No, my point is for him to say-for him to-no, for him to say-
[Boykin:] You know-
[Ferguson:] -let me finish, let me finish, let me finish.
[Boykin:] Your point-your point is to dismiss what he just said.
[Ferguson:] Let me finish. You have-no, Bruce Springsteen is a guy that's really good at music. Stick to it. And when you don't get your way, respect the will of the American people. This is what the left does, they say, be tolerant of my ideas but they're completely intolerant to them losing. And when they lose they act like crybabies and think everybody else is stupid and they are smart.
[Burnett:] Go ahead, Keith.
[Boykin:] OK, Ben. Ben, you know what, this is the President-elect of the United States here we are talking about. He is not competent. He was a reality television star before he was elected. He has no experience in government. He's appointed people who have no experience in government, he is not going to intelligence briefings. He is showing no interest in the basic workings of government. He thinks he knows more than the generals. He is a guy who has the potential to disrupt the norms of political discourse in the-in the country and disrupt the political establishment in the country in a negative way. Even Mitt Romney said just a few months ago that Donald Trump is a-is a conman, a phony and a fraud. I think the American people will start to see that after January 20th because he doesn't have the
[Ferguson:] He won-he won the election.
[Burnett:] Did Bruce Springsteen go too far, you know, using words like disgust and fear?
[Boykin:] No, no. No. There are a lot of people who are fearful about Donald Trump and a lot of people who are disgusted and Bruce Springsteen is a private citizen, he has a right to say whatever he wants. But the reality is that Donald Trump is behaving like a child. He is behaving like a mentally unstable child right now. And I think that that's a very dangerous situation for our country.
[Ferguson:] And Bruce-and Bruce Springsteen is acting like an adult?
[Burnett:] So Ben-so Ben, let me just ask you this point-on this point-
[Boykin:] Donald Trump is the President-elect of the United States and he's posting tweets about North Korea threatening a nuclear war.
[Burnett:] So, hold on. I want to ask to this point about the tweets. Different tweet, we are talking about that later in the show. But Ben, Trump over the New Year, Happy New Year to all including to many enemies and those who have fought me and lost so badly, they don't know what to do. Love. Exclamation point. One could laugh at that, one could also say, really? Even on New Year, you couldn't just say Happy New Years, everybody? Is that petty?
[Ferguson:] Because when you have-when you have people that are coming after you in this way, Bruce Springsteen or every other liberal that lost this election that has no respect for the fact that the American people chose someone that they didn't like. It doesn't mean that everyone that voted for Donald Trump is ignorant or stupid or a racist or a bigot or a dumb or incompetent. And that's what-that's the reason democrats really need to look at this. Walk away from this for a moment and look at why you lost. It's because you basically looked at half the American people and said you guys are idiots if you don't do what I tell you to do. So when Donald Trump tweets that I'm fine with it right now.
[Boykin:] Let me just say this.
[Burnett:] All right. I will leave it there-I will leave it there tonight. Thank you both. You'll be back tomorrow.
[Ferguson:] Thank you.
[Burnett:] And tonight, Fareed Zakaria is talking with President Obama about triumphs and struggles during his time in the White House. That's our CNN special report. The legacy of Barack Obama tonight at 10:00. And next, Donald Trump calling out the Mayor of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel obviously of Obama thing over Chicago's epidemic of gun murders. Will Trump send in the feds? And breaking news, Trump caught on tape at his New Year's party. We got that tape tonight.
[Trump:] I want to thank my members. I don't really care too much about their guests because the ones I really care about members. I don't give a [bleep] about their guests.