because donald trump is donald trump is donald trump. i mean, you can give the man a teleprompter and maybe half of the time he'll use it. but donald trump is always going to be, at least to some degree, unscripted. he's always going to go off on these tan gents about polling, about having won the primary in this state or that. it was unbelievable today in indiana at this carrier presentation when donald trump was supposed to be stressing the jobs that he was saving for the country, he went off about how he won the primary in indiana, and this is, you know, now ancient history now that he's won the general election and is the president-elect. so i think we'll see a lot more of that style from him at these rallies. but one question i have about his style at these thank you rallies, will be whether he takes that harsh tone he took at some of these rallies, especially early on. this was something that was very divisive, very polarizing. and this is a time now where he's hoping at least he has said to unify americans, so i wonder if he'll tr

trump. the dow up over 1200 points since he won the white house. this surge coming even as trump is taking on big business. today the president elect doubling down on his threats to cancel boeing's air force one contract. >> we're going to get the prices down. and if we don't get the prices down we're not going order them. >> trump did not stop with boeing today. also slamming some of america's most powerful companies. the drug makers, telling time magazine here i'm quoting trump, i'm going to bring down drug prices. i don't like what's happened with drug price. he also said he's going after companies individual whose ship jobs overseas. trump reportedly said to his chief of staff, i can call themselves myself, five minutes apiece. they won't be leaving. sara murray is outside of trump tower tonight. the president elect sending a very clear message to american companies, big companies today. >> reporter: that's right. and while in the past --. it is clear donald trump is ready to be a differ

senator coons tells trump he hopes he will attend. >>> and out of the trump tower. jim brown said he voted for hillary clinton but, quote, fell in love with trump. came away from the meeting with a heartwarming sense of positivity. and admires the president-elect for his resiliency. >>> and then there was this moment. kanye west also getting an audience with the president-elect. we're told that the meeting was requested by the rap artist who just recently was hospitalized for exhaustion. afterwards, kanye west let donald trump do most of the talking. >> just friends. just friends. it's a good man. we've been friends for a long time. life we discussed. >> hi, no comment why you're meeting the president-elect? anything you want to say? >> i just want to take a picture right now. >> he did have nothing to say there. in case you're wondering kanye will not be performed at the inauguration. that has been confirmed. >>> two cabinet level announcements donald trump pushing into next year in the press conference, then he sits in front of the cameras with kanye west. what a

donald trump won in the landslide, because donald trump said he won in a landslide. we have never been here before in our politics. never. tonight donald trump said he's going to bring our manufacturing jobs back from foreign countries. and his audience believed him. no one at the rally yelled out a question about when he's going to bring back those necktie making jobs from china, the place where donald trump has his gaudy line of neckties made, because he does not even want to pay the minimum wage to american workers to make those neckties. even though the united states of america has dozens of necktie factories. donald trump did make news tonight at his rally when he confirmed something already reported in the washington post. >> i will not tell you that one of our great, great generals -- don't let it outside, right? and of course the press is very honest. they'll never let this go. even though it's all live, they've got about seven stations live. we are going to appoint mad dog mattis as our secretary of defense. but we're not announcing it till monday, so don't

former vice president al gore was here at trump tower to specifically be meeting with trump's daughter, eye vie can trump, holding a meeting on climate change. after that meeting, he took some time with the vice president elect. seemed like an impromptu meeting, that was the lengthier meeting of the two. afterwards, gore said it was productive, the two are looking for ways to find common ground. and that, of course, being one of the most intriguing parts. these two have not seen eye to eye on climate change. donald trump himself has called climate change a hoax. after that meeting, it seemed gore seemed to be intrigued himself by having a continuation of this conversation. it was an interesting conversation, to be continued. >> thank you very much. >>> let's bring in mark preston. cnn political analyst, kirstin powers. our chief national security correspondent jim sciutto, and david gergen. i want to get your take on ben carson, trump's pick for housing and urban development. here's what he said about his formal rival during the campaign. this is during the battle. listen to this. >> h

trump call this a victory? >> it is a win. a lot of conservatives are going to look at this. this is capitalism and this is government picking winners and losers and historical. this is tangible and he says he's going to save these jobs and he saved the jobs. it is going to bang a good deal of goodwill with his base of the industrial west. trust me, this is the headline that is going resonate among his base. it is a win and maybe a symbolic win but in politics, that's what counts. this story is getting a lot of attention. is the left down playing an impact that donald trump here, president elect being able to claim the savior of 1,000 manufacturing jobs in indiana. >> here is a problem with symbolic win. first of all, i am a governor, how did you get a $7 million tax break as a governor. this is a subsidy or a violate wto standards. i cannot talk about nafta which trump does not care much about anyway. this is an unbelievable bad precedent. it does pay corporations to keep their jobs in mexico, we are going to

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

so then you have trump. help me understand how even if you don't like the health care, you like trump. i just don't understand the trump part. >> you know, hillary's message was this, "i'm with her." trump's message was, "i'm with you." i'm with you. that kind of stuck with us. >> trump has not necessarily been the friendliest to american workers. he's stiffed contractors. i mean, help me understand how you round that corner even if you want jobs. >> there was the other side of the coin as well. you know, hillary, we couldn't trust her. anybody who deletes, as i understand it, 30,000 e-mails 2 days after she was subpoenaed then she takes her server and acid washes it and clears it, that, to me, is admitting guilt and people in this area kind of really looked at that. >> you know, when the tape came out, you had the "p" word, talking about assaulting women, you know, that was just him and it wasn't just the foul language. it was also foul deeds. i mean, he's saying he can grab people and that type of stuff. a

the filing lists donald trump jr. and eric trump as directors. an opening day brochure advertising a party the day after at inaugurationing in washington, d.c. offered bald eagle, that's what they called them bald eagle donors who contributed $1 million or more "a private reception and photo opportunity for 16 guests with donald trump and a multiday hunting and or fishing excursion for four guests with donald trump jr. and or eric trump and team. exposure of that offer by "the wall street journal," and politico forced the trump transition team to release this statement. the details that have been reported are merely initial concepts not approved or pursued by the trump family, donald trump jr. and eric trump are not involved in any capacity. this is afternoon, the opening day brochure was rewritten. to offer big donors a private reception and photo opportunity for 16 guest guests with vips and celebrities associated with the event and a multidate outdoor excursion for four guests. not a word about hanging with the trump boys. joining us now, one

trump did not provide further details but two trump staffers said today that trump is simply planning to follow through on his vow to hand his businesses over to his kids, a step he has long promised to take. >> i would put it in a blind trust. i don't know if it's a blind trust if don e eric and ivanka run it. is that a blind trust? i would have my children run it and i would never be involved because i wouldn't care about anything but ow country. anything. >> it's not a blind trust. as the office of government ethics noted, the only way for trump to resolve these interests is to divest, to sell off his assets and put the revenue in a true blind trust that neither trump for crucially his family, his children, his loved ones that he presumably will be talking to every day knows what he owns. trump seems to think that despite taking that undeniably necessary step to protect the country, he's doing america a huge favor. >> according to the law, see i figured there's something where you put something in this massive trust and there's also -- nothing is written. in other words, in theory,

there is no two donald trump. there is one donald trump. which is the campaign donald trump. we see this from the cabinet picks he's chosen. >> so payback is okay. >> it is more about being part of the resistance and being part of saying to the american people have your back. because like elizabeth warren said 2.3 million more votes than -- >> -- [inaudible]. >> people just want to own up to the hypocrisy that is okay. but democrat have been talking about this non stop the last eight years. that this was a strategy. so i think that it is actually a good strategy and that is what democrats saw. because what happens is the president is the one who wins if there is bipartisanship. if democrats start working with trump people say oh washington is functioning and that is good for the president. it is tremendously electoral, not good for the country. >> the question is what is the agenda the president is pushing. barack obama's agenda was basically largely taken from a republican plan in ma. his infrastructure plan had huge number of tax cut which is republicans liked and the repub

he's selling trump wine, trump water, trump steaks. and he's doing two things. this is the point where mitt romney had been his nastiest, suggesting trump was not a real businessman, even though he was worth 50 times as much as me. we are not going there this week. the second thing he was doing is testing the networks. hillary starts to speak -- i've never seen this before in american history. hillary starts to speak and not a single network covers her because they understand in the age of the clicker, everyone will leave because they want to see what else trump is bringing out. are you going to get a camel? who knows what he's going to do next. one of my great plays of the campaign, i challenged him to ride an elephant into the campaign. he would not do it. he knew there were certain limits. he had an instinct for totally dominating the media. the only other president who has the totality trump has is abraham lincoln. there are several great books on abraham lincoln and his ability to deal with the media. and how well he understood it what the again? you get a

he can say donald trump lied. then trump attacked him. now this man is getting death threats on the phone, via e-mail, there have been reports of death threats at him. i think it's horrible, it's irresponsible for the president-elect but that is unfortunately who he is and how he's going to behave going forward. >> by the way, ron, mr. trump did not dispute mr. jones' numbers. mr. jones was on "new day" this morning and had this to say. >> maybe the choice of words weren't the best, but the ultimate message was the same. he didn't tell the truth. he inflated the numbers and i called him out on it. he overreacted, president-elect trump did, and i would expect if he was going to tweet something he should have come out and tried to justify his numbers. >> so ron, i mean, in the great grand picture of life, where does this go? >> this is -- i agree, this is very significant. the president-elect of the united states attacking an individual citizen by name because that citizen criticized him. after we have seen him also criticize other sources

partners, although trump spokesperson hope hicks recently claimed trump has sold off his shares in the company. this comes as north dakota governor jack dalrymple continues to back away from attempts to force water protectors to leave the main resistance camp, now saying authorities will not stop and fine people carrying supplies to the site. the governor says his recent executive order declaring the land an evacuation area sought only to warn people about the cold. in response, the standing rock sioux said -- "the governor of north dakota and sheriff of morton county are relative newcomers here. it is understandable they wod be concerned about severe winter weather." the first of a group of as many as 2000 veterans have begun to arrive at standing rock in north dakota, where they say they'll serve to form a human shield around the water protectors to protect them from the increasingly violent police crackdown. meanwhile, protesters gathered in dozens of cities across the world thursday in opposition to the dakota access pipeline, including in tokyo, london, vancouver, calgary, and cit

john roberts outside trump tower. john, thank you. >>> the obama administration is trying to reinforce its scientific or ideological firewall around the finding that global warming exists and is man made. the president's outgoing interior secretary today had one last call to arms to the true believers and concern about the president-elect's administration coming in. we have the story tonight from the white house. >> reporter: speak up, that's the word from interior secretary sally jewell, imploring sciences to confront climate change deniers, especially if president-elect donald trump tries to sideline climate research. >> make your voices heard and make them relevant to the people that you're talking to. we have a president-elect who likes to win. we cannot win without good science. >> reporter: jewell, the top steward for public lands said the warning was in response to the president-elect himself who has since tempered his skepticism but on a number of occasions called climate change a hoax. >> i think it's a big s

donald jr., ivanka and eric trump. we're learning the white house office for the first lady will become the office of the first family under donald trump. so just how involved will the trump children be? is this camelot 2.0? i'll ask robert f. kennedy jr. >>> meanwhile the president-elect tells the tech titans this today. >> we have no formal chain of command around here. >> no formal chain of command, what will that mean once donald trump takes the oath after office in just 37 days? let's get right to cnn's phil mattingly live for us outside of trump tower where he will be stationed for a while now. and has been. phil, good evening to you. titans of tech were at trump tower today. what else can you tell us? >> reporter: well, what's interesting, don, is this aren't natural allies. if you look over the course of the last 15 months on a number of different policy issues, the tech community and tech campaign split rather sharply and frankly on the support, itself. they also did. if you look at some of the individuals who

trump its person of the year. c correspondent peter doocy is outsiou outside trump tower. >> reporter: good evening. that's right, the president-elect has another general in mind for a key cabinet post. he is telling us as well that the secretary of state sweepstakes is almost over. president-elect trump asked john kelly to run the department of homeland security. that according to the retired general. kelly said this afternoon he would consider it an honor. oklahoma attorney general scott pru it, who says he is not sold on the science of global warming, is the pick to run the epa. linda mcmahon is trump's choice to top the business administration and terry branstad is the nominee for u.s. ambassador to china. this as the list of secretary of state possibilities is shrinking. >> i think i have in my own mind. i don't want to say which ones, but i think i have in my own mind. >> reporter: "time" named trump person of the year because he identified the central issue motivating the electorate and convinced them he wa

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there are people inside the trump operation that are wary of how little the trump operation, or the president-elect wants to separate himself from that business. so there are questions still and until those questions are answered, we will not find out how he plans on separating himself from the business. right now, anderson, the president-elect saying he's going to wait until january to make that announcement. what that actual date will be, still unclear. >> and we don't really know, i mean, there's -- that's the bottom line, we don't really know exactly what he means. he talked about removing himself from operational control but not ownership of the businesses, themselves. >> reporter: yeah, that's exactly right. trump officials that i've spoken to have said that he wants to leave the operational stake but maintain an ownership stake and obviously wants to still have his children heavily involved in running the business. that just presents inherent conflicts of interest. no matter how far he steps away from the daily operations of the business, so long as he holds the stake in the business and has

donald trump has won the state of georgia. donald trump has won the state of utah. and this guy that was put up there to fight me, he was -- hillary even beat him, ok? we won utah by 25 points. all of a sudden, they are saying, what happened?

trump made this happen. this is going to be an indication of exactly the kind of presidency we're going to have, and i think a lot of conservatives are going to have to decide whether they're going to suck this up and, okay, this is the new age, this is no matter the party of reagan, this is the party of trump, and this is what's going to happen. he's going to shake down these companies and we'll have to live with it. >> nicolle, watching the news today, there were two drinking games. my favorite was maybe this will be the thank you tour where he pivots this 70-year-old man with all these traits baked in who got elected a certain way and was going to change. my second drinking game today was all the folks who came on with consternation, happy for the american workers with american jobs, of course, at the holidays, which we all are, but also harumphing at the precedent this sets. >> charlie is absolutely correct in his analysis, but as i heard him mention the wall street journal editorial page, i could hear t

trump: yes. levin: why has it just connected with you the way it--the way it has because you are intensely a sports guy. trump: i've always loved playing sports and i've always loved maybe the competition of sports. but it's been good for me. it's been really good for me, i think, in a lot of different ways, but sports to me is very important. man: batter up. batter up. [crowd cheering] levin: has it helped you with discipline and kind of just getting things done? trump: yeah, probably so. i mean, who really knows? i don't think of it in that way. i do it because i enjoy it, whether it's tennis or golf or whatever you may play. you know, as you get older, you sort of--your choices are more limited. you can't put together, like, 18 people on a baseball field. but i've just always loved being a sportsman or playing sports. ♪ for it's 1, 2, 3 strikes you're out at the old ball game ♪ levin: you admire athletes. trump: well, i respect athletes. i respect winners. i respecthle- you know, you learn

should the trump kids be vetting candidates for the cabinet who will then have deals with the trump kids later on representing the president? and there's financial. all this talk about a blind trust. donald trump has used the expression blind trust. blind trust mean just that. >> well, i don't think we can separate them because they arguably are the same thing. donald trump and his family and his businesses are all one. the kids going into cheese cabinet meetings, transition meetings, it can be problematic because once donald trump takes the office who is he going to be making governmental deals with? is don jr. or eric or ivanka trump or whomever going to say hey, listen i really like so and so with this company, that i've done great deals with this in the past. dad, you should give them that government contract, that is a problem. secondly, donald trump's businesses even if he does give it over to his kids, he is still going to be able to visibly see them. his name is on buildings overseas. it's not blind if he doesn't divest. this is something he is going to be just innately aware of

of trump tower. the review was posted late wednesday in "vanity fair." on the filet mignon it reads, the steak slumped to the side over the potatoes like a dead body inside a t-boned minivan. and in describing the short rib burger, the reviewer wrote, it was molded into a sad little meat thing sitting in the center of a massive rapidly staling brioche bun, hiding its shame under a slice of melted orange cheese, along with it, woody batons called fries. seemingly in response, trump turned to his keyboard wheeling insults at graydon carter. the two men have done this dance for decades. carter has covered trump for 40 years. date back to when he was the editor of the satirical magazine, "spy," which often mocked trump. it was 1988 when carter first described trump as a short-fingered vulgarian on the pages of "spy" magazine. >> look at those hands. are they small hands? >> reporter: listen to what trump told "the washington post" following that debate where marco rubio mocked trump's hands. >> nobody ot

trump after the meeting. hall of fame running back jim brown is here this morning, along with the head of trump's national diversity coalition pastor darryl scott. great to have both of you gentlemen here this morning. >> thank you. >> what was this meeting like? tell us what you talked to mr. trump aboutp. >> it was a fantastic meeting. we talked about helping people and we are offering our services to do that and particularly the african-american people who are poor and, you know, uneducated to a certain degree. and he was very to the points that we made. >> what made you think he got it? >> he is very dynamic personality and he's also a very friendly committed type of individual. so when he said that he was in, that's what he meant because basically he'll say what's on his mind and he will tell you the truth. so, i felt very good because of his reception of what we brought to the table. so, someone criticized us for being with mr. trump is that he has a power of that office. when you meet him, he's a very

- >> trump orbit. maybe the kids. >> the kids and jared -- >> i don't know. i think that -- >> wow -- >> i think when donald trump needs your loyalty, he covets your loyalty, he cultivates your loyalty, he touts your loyalty, he promises he'll be loyal back to you. then when he doesn't need it anymore, he casts you aside. i think that we saw this very clearly with chris christie who went out on a ledge for him. >> yeah. >> rudy giuliani, with newt gingrich, the as well. the three men who went out there and defended him when nobody else would. and they're not major players -- >> nope -- >> at all. >> katy's spot on about the fleeting loyalty within trump's inner circle. i see it not just as one circle but multiple spheres around the president-elect. you have the family. you have steve bannon, the populist. mike flynn's in that group. you have the mainstream republicans, led of course by reince priebus, the incoming chief of staff. the most important thing i've learned covering trump is there's always a

trump followed up with another tweet. "we should tell china that we don't want the drone that they took." expected to be back in the hands of the americans on monday. "xi jinping prepare for rocky relations with the u.s. that trump's real thinking is very difficult toll fathom." and accused of adding fuel to the fire and concluding he seemed emotionally upset but no one knows what he wanted to say. trump is not behaving as a president. former governor of the state of washington, gary locke, joins me now. there are a lot of people who feel that the u.s. has been getting played and rolled by china, that china has done all kinds of things in terms of its economic relations, that it has stolen intellectual property and finally someone is going to get tough and crack down on the chinese. what is your response to that? >> first of all, lots of cases have been filed against china and the wto and we have won those and forced china to change their trade policies. we've also imposed a lot of duties and tariffs on chinese goods comi

like favoring hillary clinton over donald trump or donald trump over hillary clinton? is it partisan? >> washington post reporting tonight and what would seem to be quite apparent was that trump was the preferred candidate for the russians and their hackers. but that's not really the point. yes, in the past they've preferred left candidates. maybe now they prefer right candidates. they're looking for somebody who is more sympathetic to the position of the kremlin. and trump has made so secret of the fact that he wants to do business with putin and do business there. so i'm sure they preferred him. but the point is to undermine the confidence, ultimate point is under mine confidence in the system. to make americans and people across the west in nato countries doubt the system and despise one another. and if you can do that by undermining the system by which we choose our dually elected officials in washington, if you can undermine confidence in that, is the news fake, u if yo can sew that out there, you can hurt america. >> they're going to do the deep dive on the cyber

tonight, how russia and president-elect trump are responding. >>> then, fact checking the new trump job claims and the media's response. >>> eruption in buffalo where trump's new york co-chair is under fire for sending more racist e-mails. >> i have been hurt by his racist, bigoted, slanderous behavior. >>> and from beyonce at halftime to kaepernick taking a knee, a look back at 2016 and pop culture. when "all in" starts right now. >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. we got some big news today. just a short time ago, a response from donald trump. with just 22 days left until trump becomes president, the obama administration taking steps to punish russia for allegedly orchestrating a state-sponsored hacking campaign that both the cia and fbi say was designed in part to help trump win the election. white house announcing sanctions against russian spy agencies and three companies that allegedly supported the attack, and two suspected hackers who will face a travel ban and have their u.s. assets frozen. the ejection of what the white house calls 35 russian intelligence operativ

it's an trump's own protection. we're talking about somebody who is going to, if he doesn't sell off his properties, ends up trying to be involved in this business as president, that question of conflicts of interest will dog him every day and on every decision. that's why presidents do it. not because of the country or good behavior, for themselves, too. >> and you outlined the problems with the trump foundation diligently. you followed the money. donations that were alleged to have been made by the trump foundation and then you found out actually this charity had no record of their being a donation, later the trump foundation admitted that they had done self-dealing. they had violated irs regulations, violated the law. do you expect that things like this are going to continue to play out in the presidency? people are going to be looking at this and there's going to be a drip, drip, drip? >> of course. i think they'll be questions about foreign policy decisions, when talking about countries in which trump has a pro

"time's" person of the year, donald trump. the cover says "president of the divided states of america." it's not surprising that a newly elected president would be person of the year. remember when "time" mocked his meltdown? now just a few weeks later "time" has a painful epiphany as he continues to confound his critics. gina, i want to start with you. even whethey had the second meltdown cover. there was some legitimacy to it. you have to ask yourself, is this wishful thinking or true journalism? >> the first accurate thing i have seen the lame stream media do in this election year, maybe they decided to start competing with the fax entities. it seems as though they have no concept of what the american people tried to tell them in the last election. but there is a glimmer of hope since "time" magazine made him man of the year or person of the year. charles: it's a back-handed compliment calling him the president of the divide states of america. >> the only one dividing this nation are the news media and the far left. that's

is considering going on this. >> donald trump is going to be donald trump. he is not going to change. >> right. >> donald is about money and the glorification of donald. and the country be damned. donald throughout the campaign showed no respect for the constitution. let's remember this is a man who wasn't willing to say of course he would concede if he didn't win. a man who talks about the presidency like it's vladimir putin's job, that he is effectively a dictator. and won't even take his national security briefings every day. and to think that donald trump somehow would separate himself from that which he values so much that when they were teenagers, his children wouldn't speak to him, nah, nothing is going to change here. and if you had made this as a novel, nobody would buy it. they wouldn't believe this could happen in america. >> charlie sykes, the trump campaign has repeatedly reversed itself since it became the trump transition. and here we see something that donald trump never quite worked out, which was how is he going to deal with his businesses.

trump has 44 properties overseas. the trump band, i think they become a terrorist target. i think when the terrorists hit one, that it will change the conversation how the president reacts. i understand that it's a huge organization. probably the richest man to take the white house. i have someboympathy to the organization of trying to protect his properties. once one is there economically and financially there will be damage done to his family, to his business. you are asking what i think is going to be the major headline. i think that will be the first that will cover up the domestic agenda. we will see where the popularity lays after that. >> what happens -- we didn't get a chance to -- you have the appointment of donald trump's former bankruptcy lawyer to be our ambassador to israel. we have isis strengthened. you start to fill isis with people who are looking at the palestinian cause anew. if that triggering an attack on a trump property in retaliation, in whatever country you want to name, what happens to the trump base? some of whom said, he is the peace candidate.

he met with donald trump here at trump tower. donald trump called him out by name this morning calling him a great man. so what will transpire here, he was asked if he's merely stringing mitt romney along. donald trump says he's not out for revenge. this is about what is good for the country. donald trump also shedding some light on the fact that he has, in fact, consulted the current president, president obama, and some of his potential picks. >> i love getting his ideas and i may differ in many cases, i defer very greatly. >> but in one of the cases when you went to him with a specific person in mind for an appointment, did you go with his recommendation? >> i would say that, yes, i take his recommendations very seriously. and there are some people that i will be appointing. and in one case, have appointed, where he thought very highly of that person, yes. >> reporter: so donald trump talking about his appointments and nominations. we are expecting another announcement happening probably today or tomorrow surrounding iowa gover

and worth both as white house advisers and run trump's businesses, businesses trump clearly won't or maybe can't part with as president. it's what he's asking when he insists, despite all evidence to the contrary, including the intelligence community, that he's about to inherent that, no, russia didn't play a role in getting him elected by hacking democrats. it's what he asked when he refused and still refuses to release his tax returns. trump is almost daring to meet it, to try, try and do or report chicago that might stop him. he's waving around the threat of cutting off press briefings and he and his campaign with considerable help from vladimir putin and russia have spent a year or more undermining confidence in the traditional press and selling his supporters on the idea that the only voice they can trust is his, whether that voice is heard at a series of televised pep rallies or on twitter it's a putin-like approach that is working among trump supporters and elected members of his party. the big question -- will we let it work on us? that's "hardball" for now, thanks for being

with donald trump. he's been ceo for ten years. donald trump is a ceo now. >> you're talking about hard-nosed negotiations. rex tillerson, i would expect he is a hard-nosed negotiators because he made billions and billions of dollars for the exxon corporation. >> absolutely. >> sometimes diplomacy takes a more delicate touch. is he capable of that? >> i'm going to push back. i think the experience of a head of a multi-national energy company like exxon is actually pretty relevant here. i mean, what these guys do, typically they spend their days and nights talking to heads of problematic foreign governments. this is actually an industry, you know, you talk about long tail, oil and gas is probably the most strategic industry, the industry with the longest view. they're looking at 20, 30, 50 year time frames. they're dealing in long relationships with governments in some of the world's hot spots. so i actually think that experience is very relevant. i think that where things are going to be trickier maybe

trump. retired admiral james straf idous is said to be on the growing list for secretary of state and if chosen he would only add to concerns that trump's white house will have a heavy military influence. the president-elect has chosen three retired jeernls to serve atop his administration. can trump also coming under fire for his selection of scott pruitt to head the epa. pruitt as oklahoma's attorney general sued the epa for its regulations on the state's oil and gas industry. also trump lashes out at a union leader who criticized that deal to save jobs at the carrier plant in indiana. trump attacking the man on twitter, but not denying his claims. so, there's a lot to cover this morning. let's bring in sunlen serfaty. she's live in washington. >> good morning, carol. a slew of announcements in the last 24 hours. the president-elect here clearly making some big picks for key roles in his administration. but trump is also spending some time taking to twitter. giving in to a war of words wit

now donald trump is on the defensive. in fact, last night after all of this hoopla, he did tweet out this. he said, interesting how the u.s. sells taiwan billions of dollars of military quilt but i should not accept a congratulatory call. kellyanne conway saying this. >> i can't comment beyond what was said. i won't do that. this is the president-elect and he'll be president of the united states imminently now. he's well aware of what u.s. policy has been. >> reporter: so donald trump's transition team backing this call, defending this call. but many lawmakers, former ambassadors, a lot of people saying this bucks tradition. this bucks protocol. and this could pose a dangerous threat to the u.s. martin and christi. >> thank you very much. >>> we get more on china's reaction, steven yang joining us live from beijing. give us some context, steven, because we did hear from china overnight. and part of what came specifically from their foreign ministry spokesman there. really stuck out. i think to both of us. stuck out to bot

trump. >> we need tmake sure we are not a do-nothing congress. lou: i'm sorry, what i mean is he is giving you a way to be a do something big congress creates. >> i agree and i can tell you where having discussions almost on a daily basis on how we can work together. he's going to find a very willing partner along most of those agenda items important to the american people. in fact all the ones that are important to the american people in the first hundred days. we are going to be here to work lockstep with president-elect trump to make sure that we do all those things we promised so we can come back and hopefully change washington d.c. and give it back to its rightful owner the american people. lou: drain that swamp, congressman. >> i'm with you lou. it's time to drain the swamp. lou: we -- you are one of the good guys. we want you one high ground always. congressman mark meadows thank you for being with us and again congratulations. >> thank you lou. lou: senators and the proposed merger o

trump. when there aree, disagreements, as there have been, he feels a need to the two to himself and make his voice heard. at times, that lends to contradictions and complex pilot about. -- complexity i talk about. host: tony cook, why did donald pence?ick mike what did he bring from his time in indiana? pence hasl, governor always been or has always described himself as christian, conservative and republican, in that order. he really appeals to that based on the republican party and that christian conservative base, and i think trump probably viewed him as a very important bridge .o the group of voters governor perry also has a lot of experience on the hill. i think we have seen that in some of trump's choices for his cabinet. we can see some of mike pence's influence, i got familiar with how things work in washington and from -- and trump with no governing experience, really needed that to round out his ticket. i think those are the two main things that parents -- that mike pence brings to

it was on donald trump's twitter. but according to gallup, there's a partisan reason for the rise in economic confidence. it comes mostly from republicans who are more positive since trump's victory in the election. gallup's poll shows that democrats took a negative look during president obama's two terms in office. i was being romantic. you know what i find romantic? during president obama's two terms in office. democrats took during president obama's two terms in office. democrats took during president obama's two terms in office. i think it's over there. that way? yeah, a little further up. what year was that quarter? what year is that one? '98 that's the one. you got it! nothing stops us from doing right by our customers. ally. do it right. let's get out of that water. >>> all right. we're back with the "hardball" roundtable. phillip bump, ja meal smith of mtv. we're talking about the rocky transition, at least it seemed rocky this morning. then trump talks to obama and everything's fine. i do think that we were t

that works very well inside trump world to say that donald trump by the force of the election and his ideas could turn corporate heads around. that's an interesting thing that they will try to play out. we see it in the tweets, a series of them from early this morning. he talked about basically the headline, the united states is open for business. a bit of a warning shot to companies and foreign countries that if u.s. businesses move workers or facilities overseas, there will be consequences, even the word retribution is in there. so that's a bit more on the serious side. we find with donald trump, he can pivot from criticizing a parody about him to talking about a policy. >> it may be music to his supporters' ears because we know this is a popular and compelling kind of populist claim. the one problem others have pointed out is that it wasn't exactly tough talk that moved carrier. it was this money from the state which is a different approach. the other thing we want to ask about is, donald trump has said some things on twitter that are false. that may not surprise people who keep tr

and over to trump tower. when do you think we might hear a secretary of state announcement and if tillerson, they must be prepared for backlash here, ryan? >> reporter: yes. if they aren't, probably should be, on a transition conference call this morning, several transition officials saying we could hear this announcement sometimes in next couple of days and all signs point towards ex exxon/mobil ceo rex tillerson and already republicans voicing terns connections to russia talked about. john mccain, very concerned about ties to vladimir putin, a man he call as thug and murderer and marco rubio who sits on the foreign res relations committee. rubio tweeting in the last 24 hours any friend of vladimir putin is not someone he wants to see as secretary of state and rubio, in a powerful position on foreign relations because he could stop that confirmation before it even gets started. the fact trump is getting pushback from prominent republicans shows this could be a serious showdown for the preside president-elect

like favoring hillary clinton over donald trump or donald trump over hillary clinton? is it partisan? >> washington post reporting tonight and what would seem to be quite apparent was that trump was the preferred candidate for the russians and their hackers. but that's not really the point. yes, in the past they've preferred left candidates. maybe now they prefer right candidates. they're looking for somebody who is more sympathetic to the position of the kremlin. and trump has made so secret of the fact that he wants to do business with putin and do business there. so i'm sure they preferred him. but the point is to undermine the confidence, ultimate point is under mine confidence in the system. to make americans and people across the west in nato countries doubt the system and despise one another. and if you can do that by undermining the system by which we choose our dually elected officials in washington, if you can undermine confidence in that, is the news fake, u if yo can sew that out there, you can hurt america. >> they're going to do the deep dive on the cyber

trump is hot under the collar about a bad review of a trump tower restaurant. will he put personal beefs aside when it's time for him to run the country? we'll see. let's get right to "vanity fair's" emily jane fox, mark preston is here, and "wa

and the trump children, if they were running this operation in a sort of blind way from donald trump, as he claims that they plan, it seems like that is going to be their plan whenever they get to it, that they won't divest in anything, but the boys will run it and i won't know what they're doing. but they will be sitting at meeting the limee meeting like that tech meeting filled with high stakes tech players in the world, and even if donald trump didn't know what businesses his sons were in, they would know, and they would know which one of those tech people at the meeting said something that could benefit their businesses, and they could walk that particular executive out of the building and make a little deal on the way out the door. >> well, and let's keep in mind that the sons will be in a position to simply wink and nod to dad that they like somebody or they don't like somebody. and remember, donald trump's long history here, thousands of cases where he didn't pay his workers, he didn't pay his vendors, they could decide not to pay people. is somebody going to take them to court

can you trust donald trump? >> yes, i think he will be a strong supporter of israel and you heart the secretary of state give a speech where he blamed his real. that was a blame israel speech. >> what about donald trump gives you faith? >> that speech went on for 72 minutes. it was basically to ex-coreiate israel for why we have not had problems with israel. a peace offer was given by an israeli prime minister and that was reject and it followed a wave of terrorism against israel. i did not hear that another sweeping peace offer was given and rejected by the plirnians. >> he said there was no justification for terrorism and he was critical of terror and said they had to be two parties involved for peace to exist. >> the amount of that speech devoted to terrorism compared to that devoted to settlements. this administration for eight years cast the blame for the failure to reach peace on to israel. that happened from day one of this administration. they have said that the settlements are the reason why we don't ha

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kroger. >> i am not watching the monitor. >> and you say the trump voters can't read. >> i said the trump voters don't read. >> let me give you some. this woman deserves no empathy. she should said i am a crazy coupon person. don't let him wait 2 minutes. >> they have to expedite the system. >> i know this is not at all what you just asked me, but she went low with the trick throw. >> i think there is april epidemic and you can see the internet videos getting popular. >> i think throwing a drink is an assault. and they are shocked. >> women are cocky now. >> they think they will have a hi valerie thing. >> the worst place you can throw a drink is in the crotch area. now if you dry it off you have to look like you wet your pandz and it is degrade -- de -- degrading. >> coming up, a trip to the candy shop turned horribly, horribly wrong. thank you for dining with us. hope to see you again soon. whoa, whoa, i got this. just gotta get the check. almost there. i can't reach it. if you have alligator arms, you avoid picking up the check. what? it's what you do. i got this. thanks, dennis! if yo