he still thinks benghazi was politicized. if it was up to him, it would still be going on, but i think it is a good pick. aggressive on an benghazi, donald trump would be disqualified. i knew he was on intelligence, but i did not know about his background. it is really impressive. it is helpful to have members of congress in the administration. one thing that has hurt our foreign policy is the failure to relationsbipartisan between the executive and legislative branch. this seems like a good pick. it is curious that he made this pick without announcing who secretary of defense and secretary of state will be. you want a team that can work together. donny: it is his management style. pick people against each other and see where that math leads. mark: i guess i don't get the logic of clustering these three today, but maybe there is no logic. donny: eric schneiderman put out a statement saying donald trump -- pay fraud drop allegation lawsuits related to his trump university real estate seminars. this was a big issue during the c

the role that he played in the congress with the benghazi committee. i am confident he will do that and rely on him to do that. the job of cia director. >> if you are a do i hard trump supporter or like cruz. you are probably thrilled with the selections. but if you are a moderate republican or democrat, you probably have problems, and big problems with all throw of those picks. >> all right, thank you very much. >> president-elect donald trump defending the decision to roach a 25 million settlement in lawsuits over trump university. he had previously vowed he would not do. he could have beaten the lawsuits accusing him of fraud but said he opted to it settle so he could focus on the needs of the country. eric snyderman and i am quoting. the settlement agreement is a reversal by donald trump and a major victory for the 6000 victims. i am pleased every victim will receive restitution. >> and president obama meet be with the peruian president as he wrapses up his last foreign trip. trade tops the agenda as he huddles with the leaders who support the tpp.

chris was a former army ranger working as a security contractor in benghazi, libya. his story was published in a book called 13 hours and a movie that was also entitled 13 hours. he gave me firsthand account of how he and others are lucky to be alive after then benghazi paris attack that took place september 11, 2012. >> where are you, were under fire, and he said use where you're going to come help us. do you stay here and watch your friends or let your friends die or do you like the right decision and it was orders in which he did any go over and help. >> he talked about desensitization toward today or. >> you see it on the news and you get desensitized about these things that happened overseas. there's guys doing what i have done and are doing it every day. >> he wasn't it extreme believer in god but he has a little more faith in god since the incident. >> it's a perfect event tonight which is talking less about benghazi and talking about god in combat. i tell people you may not believe in god but you have to believe in something. i'm not too sure that he voted fo

but benghazi, i'll pick up on that. that sort of politicized oversight gives oversight a bad name, when the public sees something that just isn't on the level. there we knew it, because the house majority leader, kevin mccarthy, suggested in a sense that the committee was created to damage secretary clinton's poll numbers as she prepared to run for president. he's not speaker today in part because he was candid about what was going on with the benghazi committee. there are other examples of partisan, as opposed to the bipartisan yoef sight that steve and andy are talking about. the partisan politicized oversight that really disgusts the public, i think. it's just gamesmanship. it is kind of burdensome to the executive branch to deal with it. it's unproductive. and we'd like to see congress get back to the tradition of bipartisan oversight that is going to benefit the people. >> but ron, one of the best defenses, if you have done something wrong, if you were an executive pranch official, one of the best strategic things

with respect to syria, in benghazi we had an international mandate, we had a u.n. security resolution, we had a coalition and we were able to carry out a support mission that achieved the initial goal of preventing benghazi from being slaughtered fairly quickly. it's no secret you know this region well that syria is a much more messy situation with proxies coming from every immediately. we have made every effort to try to bring about a political resolution to this challenge. john kerry has spent an inn if i know -- inn if i know that the amount of time to negotiate with russias and gulf states and other parties to try actions in seer that that we did in libya, the situation is off yourly different. we don't have that option easily available to us. so we're going to have to continue to try to pursue as best we can a political solution and in the interim put as much pressure as we can on the parties to arrive at the suffering that is on the ground. i recognize that has not worked and it is something that i continue to think about every day and we continue to try to f

he also was a member of the select committee that investigated the benghazi attacks. supported by the coke a lotrs, who have given of money to certain republican candidates. and i think that, if you look at c.i.a. chief, people inside the c.i.a., i think, are relieved, because he's somebody they know something about. with him on the committee. i think the best comparison may bush'ser goss, george w. c.i.a. director at one point, who was also taken from the house intelligence committee. have a very great tenure. it lasted for about two years. withhere were problems some people who worked under him, that caused him eventually to leave. you talk about the iran deal. of the pompeo is one people who has called for -- not completelybut renegotiating the iran deal. again, on the benghazi was very, very tough and outspoken against the obama administration, particularly hillary clinton. he and jim jordan, who is another republican congressman of the benghazi committee, when the committee gouty issued its report, pompeo and jordan issued kind of dissent, saying the report wasn'

troubled by here, neil, is that the pattern of corruption is not just that hillary clinton lied about benghazi and lied about her e-mails to congress and to the fbi, but now we see this pay-to-pay corruption and not just one or two events, litany of things. beyond that is this pattern of failure as secretary of state. from the russia reset to premature removal of troops in iraq to the redline in syria, this is a pattern of failure with this person and a stark contract to tuesday. >> what do you see happening now? of course the former speaker, now minority leader, is hinting that this is what republicans are going to do if human being hick eye selected. you'll just be chasing her with investigations and hearings all the way up to impeachment. and that will bedevil her

were e-mailing about transparency and making this e-mails public, why on march 4th, the same day the benghazi select committee served hillary

on the benghazi committee, he outspoken against hillary clinton. committeember of the under trey gowdy issued its issued ad pompeo dissent saying the report was not tough enough, and being very critical of hillary clinton and the obama administration overall. he graduated first in his class at west point and then went to harvard law school, intoned to kansas and went business. david, what you know about him and his views? david: karen had it exactly right. one of the things i find -- heng about his views came in in 2010 in the tea party wave. he was extremely critical of president obama for closing the black sites the cia had used to interrogate prisoners in iraq and afghanistan. he has been very critical of any move by the cia backwards on the and whatterboarding the bush administration delicately called enhanced interrogation and president obama called torture. the big question is if he tries to move the cia backward on this, if you tries to go back to where was, is he going to run into the resistance -- if he tries to go back to where it was, is

interests. >> rose: what do we know about pompeo's world view other than how he feels about benghazi and that was, you know, that had political connotations? >> you know, i don't know much. i think what he does have a reputation of being very serious member of the intelligence committee. i think many of the professionals at c.i.a. believe he took his oversight responsibility seriously, that he was, you know, a student of intelligence, that he has come to understand how the community works, and i think the response within the agency so far has been pretty positive. >> rose: is there a sense the c.i.a. needs to have a kind of -- needs to have -- needs change or needs to have new leadership? >> well, i think, interestingly, john brennan, the current director, has spent the last year, year and a half fundamentally reorganizing the c.i.a., taking it out of kind of vertical stove pipes and putting both analysts and operators together in cross functional teams. that's been controversial within the agency. some people say that matrixed approach is absolutely the right way to work in the 21s

with respect to syria, in benghazi we had an international mandate, we had a u.n. security resolution, we had a carry out a support mission that achieved the initial goal of preventing benghazi from being slaughtered fairly quickly. it's no secret you know this region well that syria is a much more messy situation with proxies coming from every could bring this to a halt immediately. we have made every effort to try to bring about a political resolution to this challenge. john kerry has spent an inn if i know -- inn if i know that the amount of time to negotiate with russias and gulf states and other parties to try conflict there. if you're asking do we have the same ability to carry out the security in benghazi we don't have that option available to us. so we are going to have to continue to try to pursue as best we can a political solution and in the interim put as much pressure as we can on the parties to arrive at cease fires that at least alleviate the suffering that's on the ground. i recognize that that has not worked and it is something that i continue to t

if he were to report that basically debunked a lot of what the republicans were saying about benghazi and the blame they were seeking to put on hillary clinton, pompeiio wrote a dissenting opinion on that, saying that hillary clinton was to blame for the americans who died and that more could have been done. it's unclear if that went into the decision to move mike rogers to the side and put somebody like mike pompeiio in his placements it's a mixed bag, intelligence officials say she extraordinarily confident. he has been around the world. he's seen these things first hand. they are happy about that point. not so happy about mick flynn as a national security adviser. he's somebody who is controversial, certainly in circles, retired leiutenant of the army and former intelligence agency director and recipient of four bronze medals. my sources in the intelligence committee who worked with him at one point or another, said she a hot head, somebody who does not like to be disagreed with, who will often remove people that don't agree with him. replace him with ticket bands shz the larger hi

submission that achieved the initial goal of preventing benghazi from being slaughter fairly quickly. it is no secret. you know this region well that syria is a much more messy situation with proxies coming from every direction. and, so i wish that i could halt immediately. we have made every effort to bring about a political resolution to this challenge, john kerry, have spent an infinite amount of time trying to negotiate are russian and other pa do we have the capacity to carry out that same kind of military action in syria than we did in libya, the situation is different. we don't have that option easily available to us. we are going to have to continue to try to pursue as best we can and a political solution and in the interim putting as much pressure to the party to arrive fire that is alleviate the suffer that's on the ground. i recognize that has not worked. and, it is something that i continue to think about everyday. we continue to find some formula that would allow us to see that suffering end. but, i think it is not surprising to you because you study this that if you hav

that achieved the initial goal of preventing benghazi from being slaughter fairly quickly. it is no secret. you know this region well that syria is a much more messy situation with proxies coming from every direction. halt immediately. we have made every effort to bring about a political resolution to this challenge, john kerry, have spent an infinite amount of time trying to negotiate are russian and othe do we have the capacity to carry out that same kind of military action in syria than we did in libya, the situation is different. we don't have that option easily available to us. we are going to have to continue to try to pursue as best we can and a political solution and in the interim putting as much pressure to the party to arrive fire that is alleviate the suffer that's on the ground. i recognize that has not worked. and, it is something that i continue to think about everyday. we continue to find some formula that would allow us to see that suffering end. but, i think surprising to you because you study this that if you have a syrian military that is committed to ki

got that and added to the benghazi committee investigating the 2012 attack. one thing, he's a lot more conservative than some of his members and on the benghazi committee did not like the direction the republican-led committee was going or the findings it came up with and issued a separate report along with congressman jim jordan laying the blame on the benghazi attacks on hillary clinton, on barack obama, and the rest of the obama administration. now, his views are much in line with donald trump on issues about immigration. he wants to expand domestic surveillance, like donald trump has called on the campaign trail, but does not necessaryly have that much of a personal relationship with donald trump. in fact, he supported marco rubio in the primaries. >> and even when he endorsed donald trump, or said he would support him, it seemed kind of indirect from a spokesman. seemed luke warm. >> he wasn't on the stump campaigning for him or anything like that. unlike the mike flynn and jeff sessions appointments, donald trump loyalists, pompeo not so much but did, t

mike rogers, you may all remember, was responsible for the intelligence committee bill on benghazi. and that got a lot of attacks from conservatives and including a prominent one, trey gowdy. and i asked him about it here on the show. >> the democrats and the white house pointing to mike rogers committee, intel chairman and saying that he essentially found different findings than you all found. are you saying that his report was not good and that people shouldn't take him seriously? >> yes. well, they can take him seriously if they want to but two of his intel committee members were our bengals committee. they didn't sign his report. they signed ours. you don't issue a final definitive report without interviewing eyewitnesses. he didn't interview the eyewitnesses. he didn't even interview the guy that we found that told us who evacuated our folks from the annex. >> shear a candidate who ran in part on the benghazi issue. you have the 13 hours guys that endorsed donald trump and you have got a guy running your national security transition that comes under fire from conservatives over

intelligence committee member has been a fierce critic of clinton's handling of the 2012 attack in benghazi. >> how come not a single person lost a single paycheck connected to the fact we had the first ambassador killed since 1979. how come no one has been held accountable to date. >> reporter: the kansas republican arguing there was a cover-up surrounding benghazi as the panel investigating get incident failed to find new evidence of wrongdoing on behalf of the obama administration or clinton. trump unveiling his picks with little pomp and circumstance. blasting out a press release with his selections this morning as he remained ensconced in trump tower. the president-elect now set to hunker down for a weekend of nonstop meetings. among those making the trek to see the president-elect, 2012 gop nominee mitt romney, former chancellor of the washington, d.c., public schools, michelle rhee and general james mattox. romney has long wanted to serve as secretary of state, but a cabinet post in a trump white house would surprise many given the tone between the two men. >> donald trump is a phony

i'm troubled by all the benghazi hearings that went on over the years. but he's been on the intelligence committee, nohe kns the agency and that's a good thing. he's clearly competent. that's a very tough job. sessions as attorney general is a little troubling given his background but again, that's the message donald trump got elected on. so it should be no surprise. >> could i ask on michael flynn, if you had just one piece of advice, just kind of how to best do the job, what would be your one piece of advice as someone who has been in that room to michael flynn as national security adviser? >> make the other members of the national security council feel that they are listened to. if they feel the president has heard their views and then overrules them, they will accept that. if they feel their views are just dismissed and thrown aside, then you will have major problems and he will be out in a year. if flynn can evolve from the person he's been to date and become more of a consensus builder is really what the national security adviser must do, then he w

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it is like when everything goes back to benghazi. let's blame everything on benghazi. this is a hideous example of public discourse and casual all too familiar indication of violence against hillary clinton who could become the next president who is a major party nominee. the fact you have numerous examples of this happening. this really is beyond unfortunate. it ought to be condemned. it is dangerous in an age when you have the violence we have to potentially direct toward political figures. for the likes of richard burr and others who have made these comments. the outrage they would express if this would have been directed to the head of their party. it raises the specter of the casual talk of violence against women on top of it. it ought to be condemned. anybody in public life ought to be condemned it. donald trump has plenty to be accountable for of what he injected in public discourse which is crude and unamerican. he has plenty to be unaccounted for. this is on senator burr. >> i think the only criticism that is fair is donald trump is not a man would misses an o

we've talked about the fast and furious investigation, about benghazi. i want to talk about one of the gripping, intensely divisive partisan controversies, the controversy of the second bank of the united states. for those of you who remember your american history or for that matter your first year of law school, you'll remember the second bank of the united states, which gives rise to mccullough versus maryland. after the supreme court up40eho it, andrew jackson vetoes the renewal of the charter but even before that takes effect, he removes all of the federal funds from the bank of the united states effectively bankrupting it. this makes a lot of people in the senate not terribly happy. in 1834, in response, they pass a resolution of disapproval. jackson, a famously irascible man, essentially responds with a lengthy protest to the senate. he essentially says, mind your own business. the only way the senate can interfere with my constitutional prerogatives is through the power of impeachment. impeach me or shut up, is what he essentially says. for people

fast and furious and benghazi occupy a lot of headlines. but a lot of good oversight is happening at a bipartisan level. >> i agree with that. that politicalized oversight gives oversight a bad name. when the public sees something that isn't on the level and there we knew it because the house majority leader kevin mccarthy suggested in a sense that the committee was created to damage secretary clinton's poll numbers as she prepared to run for president. he is not the speaker today because he was candid what happened with the benghazi committee. there were other examples of partisan as opposed to the bipartisan oversight steve and andy are talking about. partisan politicalized oversight that really disgusts the public, i think. it's just gamesmanship. it is burdensome to the executive branch to deal with it. it's unproductive. we would like to see congress get back to tradition of bipartisan oversight that is going to benefit the people. >> if you have done something wrong, one of the best strategic things you can do is turn it into a partis

with respect to syria, in benghazi we had an international mandate. we had a un security resolution and a brault based coalition and we were able to carry out a support mission that achieved the initial goal of preventing benghazi from being slaughtered. syria is a much more messy situation with proxies coming from every direction. and so i wish that i could bring this to a halt immediately. we have made every effort to try to bring about a political resolution to this challenge. john kerry has spent an infinite amount of time trying to negotiate with russians and iranians and gulf states and other parties to end the killing there. if what you are asking is do we have the capacity to carry out the same kinds of military actions in syria that we did in libya, the situation is obviously different. we don't have that option easily available to us. so we are going to have to continue to try to pursue as best we can a political skplugz in the interim put as much pressure as we can on the pears to arrive at humanitarian safe spaces and ceasefires that at le

now, mike can be very partisan, as you saw on the benghazi hearings, and he'll have to set that aside. but i'm confident that he can do that. and i think he's a very capable choice, so of the three that came out today, i think he was the most solid pick. >> donny, same question we asked a t about the first two. good pick on the merits and how controversial will he be? >> i like these. harvard law school, west point, obviously a very, very smart guy. and i like that he's relatively fresh faced. it's not the same names. a bit of a hard-nosed guy, but seems to have a great reputation. seems to have the right demeanor about him. he was very tough about benghazi, he thinks that whole thing was politicized and if it's up to him, it would still be going on. but i think it's a good pick. >> if being someone aggressive on benghazi was disqualifying, donald trump would have to put only democrats in his cabinet. i don't know much about him. i knew who he was and knew he was on intelligence, but i did not know about his background. it's really impressive. and i think it's helpful to have members

i know you have worked with congressman pompeo on the benghazi committee. mr. smith: if you could say we worked together with people on the benghazi committee. we did not exactly worked together on that committee. those people fit into the same worldview of mr. bannon and general flynn. i have the polar opposite opinion. i think the key to our success going into the rest of the 21st century is to build alliances and partnerships. we cannot go it alone and we have to continue to promote values the rest of the world is going to aspire to. if we would just assume do business with an autocrat, with a horrible human rights record like putin as we would with nato countries like europe and mr. bannon has been harshly critical of chancellor angela allowing refugees in, if we take this isolationist approach and want to work with people who are aing to be anti-islam, that's recipe for a much more dangerous world. there have been quite a few names for secretary of defense that have been thrown out there. are there any names you would suggest a shift in that worldview? and

certainly apprehension about the very vocal role in benghazi. not feeling the majority report was strong enough. he's an intelligent guy, will do his best to manage well. i have a lot of confidence. >> i've spoken with a lot of democrats who agree. well liked, intelligence, number one at west point, on to become the editor of "the hard vavard ev review." >> i'm confident he'll do a very good job and they couldn't paic. >> and donald trump's national security advisers does not need senate confirmation. what's your take? >> his views really scare me, frankly. he has difficult time differentiating between the entire faith of islam and those who pervert it like al qaeda and isis. a lot of his statements of inflammatory playing into the narrative isis has that it's the west against islam. very concerned about that and profound questions about his temperament. someone i think at d.i.a. had a reputation being hot headed. not a consensus builder. in this position you need to bring together disparate voices within the national security infrastructure to

[applause] that is the greatest criminal act in our history and government is what happened in benghazi. and there is another thing. [chanting] [chanting] one more guarantee is this. there will never be a member in a trump administration that receives money from foreign governments and puts it away somewhere. [applause] i think that we look at the past and i am not knocking him. not his fault that we have spent eight years with probably the worst repair president for the job that we have ever had. it wasn't his fault. it was our fault for not finding somebody better than he was. now, now in donald trump, let's just think for a moment. donald trump is not national. he is international. everybody in the world knows donald trump. you know isis, the people everywhere to cause problems for us, they don't want donald trump as president because they know how tough he is. [applause] and they know how dealing with him is a different situation than we have had. i am just so sold having been around him and having known him for a number of years that there is nobody that can do a better job at what

. >> reporter: as for pompeo, he's been a fierce critic of hillary clinton for the benghazi attack. >> how come a single person lost a single paycheck? how come no one has been held accountable to date? >> reporter: the kansas republican arguing there was a coverup surrounding benghazi as the panel investigating the incident failed to find new evidence of wrongdoing on behalf of the obama administration or clinton. trump unveiling his picks with little pomp and circumstance, blasting out a press release this morning, as he remained ensconced in trump tower. now set to hunker down for a weekend of not stop meetings. among those on his schedule, 2012 gop presidential nominee mitt romney. former chancellor of the washington, d.c. public schools michelle rhee, and general james mattis. a source says romney has long wanted to serve as secretary of state. but a cabinet post in a trump white house would surprise many given the tone between the two men during the campaign. >> donald trump is a phony, a fraud. >> he's a sad case. he choked. you know what a choke artist is? >> reporter: now, on

do you think that hillary clinton misled the country during benghazi? >> i think she went along with the obama administration in misleading the country, yes. >> years of investigations and hearings concluded that the state department should have taken much stronger security precautions and that intelligence warnings were ignored. investigators concluded clinton was not directly to blame, but she took responsibility in this cnn interview in 2012. >> i take responsibility. i'm in charge of the state department, 60,000 plus people all over the world, 275 posts. >> the tragedy in benghazi -- >> that wasn't good enough for patricia smith, whose son, shawn, was killed that day. >> i blame hillary clinton personally for the death of my son. that's personally. >> how do you feel when relatives of the four americans killed that might continue to blame you personally for their deaths? >> well, i feel very sorry for them. i understand the grief that they still must be experiencing and i'm, you know, very sympathetic to their feelings. there have been nine independ

petraeus testified twice in 2016 before the benghazi select committee about the events that led to the deaths of four americans. a spokeswoman for trey gowdy said he could not discuss the matter because the petraeus transcripts are still classified. the fact the documents are not public also makes it harder to independently assess the allegations. meantime the white house spokesman was asked today about a petraeus nomination for secretary of state. >> general petraeus assumes some significant responsibilities in the obama administration including not just in the military, but also when he left the military to serve for a period of time as the director of the cia. at the same time, obviously general petraeus admitted to some serious crimes. and he had to pay a price for that. both publicly and private -- and in his private life. >> the general's supporters say petraeus is an experienced professional who loves his country and provided valuable advice to presidents of both parties. fox news asked the general for comment today. we were directed to the trump transition team, bret. >> kathd

he went through benghazi. he talked about the russians and what they are doing in uniting with syria making it much more difficult to have peace there. he talked about the iranians coming in. melissa, and i said, isn't he outlining failures of his administration? there was russian reset supposed to insure our relations with russia, that we could achieve what we wanted together. there was the iriranian deal was supposed to make iran a more compliant power, at least our friend not our enemy. they're now our enemy. what he was doing outlining failures of his own administration. >> he did exactly that. president trump will inherit much more dangerous world than existed four to eight years ago. that is the fact. that will be challenge of president obama to assure our allies and puts fear in our enemies. we need a strong military to do that. we need to focus on foreign policy and allies in sync with us. these are the challenges president trump will have to have earnings brad, more than anything, more than anything w

both before benghazi and since benghazi, the republican chairman of the committee and i have put in extra money, a considerable amount of money for security of our embassies and our personnel abroad. in each case, including with the support of those who held tens of millions of dollars of hearings to say we didn't have adequate security in benghazi, they voted to cut out the money. madam president, maybe double standards make for a sound bite on the evening news, especially if it sounds good and the people putting it on haven't done the research to find out what's really going on. but it's no constellation to the men and -- consolation to the men and women at our embassies and throughout the world there to represent all of us. oftentimes in danger, as we just just within the last couple of days in the philippines. it does them no good to see us spend tens of millions of dollars to decry the lack of security, tens of millions of taxpayers' dollars to decry it and get on television for political purposes to say lack of security and then turn around and vote against the money that would brin

republican is a fierce critic of the iran nuclear deal and was a member of the house select benghazi commiee that investigated the 2012 attack on a u.s. diplomatic compound in libya. (sot: rep. mike pompeo/kansas - r)"it makes a difference in how you respond to an attack."offered the post attorney general to alabama senator jeff sessions. sessions was the first senator to endorse the president elect and was a close adviser during the campaign.before his two decades in the senate, federal judgeship but was rejected because of alleged racist comments he made during his tenure as u-s attorney in alabama.vice president elect mike pence says the transition is going smoothly. smoothly.(sot: gov. mike pence/u.s. vice president elect)"we've got a great number of men and women with great qualifications look forward to serving in this administration." (standup bridge: kenneth craig/cbs news/bedminster, nj) "the presidentw elect moving his high-profile transition meetings from trump tower in new york to the trump national golf club in new to sit down for a highly anticipated meeting with mitt r

in benghazi, we had an international mandate and coalition and we are able to carry out support submission that achieved the initial goal of preventing benghazi from being slaughter fairly quickly. >> considering his stance on immigration. and the second administration and you want to maintain the legal fund by governing detainees from gitmo and concern that the gradual transfer are unlibelly to continue to the trump administration. is this the time to protest the theory moving the detainees? president obama: they are both excellent questions. we have known as daca, who are currently benefiting benefitinge provisions, i will urge the president-elect and the incoming administration to think long and hard before they are endangering the status practical purposes are american kids. i mean these are kids who were brought here by their parents. they did nothing wrong. they have gone to school. they have pledged allegiance to the flag. some of them joined the military. they enrolled in school. by definition, if they are part of the program, they are solid, wonderful young people and it is my str

he blasted hillary clinton over the benghazi attack and believes edward snowden is a traitor. his confirmation hearing could focus on his views using harsh interrogation techniques on detainees as well. one of the surprising appointments is secretary of >> he doesn't have the temperament or personal qualities to be a great president. >> trump and romney are set to meet face to face this weekend. a source close to the president-elect says trump is considering romney for secretary of state. romney started mending fences with trump after the election. he called to congratulate trump on his victory. senator jeff sessions is up for attorney gen. plagued by racist comments he was accused of making while serving as u.s. attorney from alabama. he withdrew later from that post. he could be named attorney general. >>> a lot of fake news stories surfaced during the election. a buzz feed analysis found that fake news performed better from real 19 news outlets combined. looks the same when you see it on a facebook page or turn on your television. >> a man behind some of those fake headline

but there was a root cause of that and that was benghazi and it wasn't just what happened in benghazi but the congressional hearings that trey gowdy held in the house uncovered the fact that there was a private e-mail server. without the benghazi hearing you never would have known about it. >> and like with anything in politics where you have people who have been around for decades, the most important devastating things are things that tell us what we already sort of know about a candidate. and so at the end of the day, i guess it was about a week before the election, dave chapelle early voted, comedian, hilarious guy. but he -- i mean he unleashed a beatdown on how plastic she is. what a liar she is. how nobody likes her. when she's talking you don't believe a word she says. and at that moment it was like wow. people -- even her supporters, they don't want to vote for her. and. >> and i think i'm correct she didn't meet any of her margins. not many. but in iowa in particular. the trump campaign thought it was really close but her people didn't turn out. >> based on the exit polls tru

west point graduate, army veteran, lawyer and tea party republican who took on hillary clinton over benghazi. >> how come no one has been held account to believe date? >> they could not find a breach of duty. >> ma'am, i'm not asking what the arb did, i'm asking what you did. >> reporter: pompeo helped mike pence with the debates and said edward snowden deserves the death penalties. >> he's hardworking, he understands the agency v >> reporter: with republicans running the senate, donald trump's aides believe these nominees will get confirmed because democrats won't be able to challenge a new president so early in the administration. lester? >> andrea, thank you. >>> as we head into the weekend, millions are watching the weather. a deadly blizzard sweeping across the upper midwest, a big winter blast in the middle of fall, and there's more trouble on the way that could impact holiday travelers. we have it all covered starting with nbc's blake mccoy. conditions sweeping across large swathes of the state, wind gusts over 70 miles per hour as many are getting their first dose of winter weather.

the speakers here -- they are talking about hillary clinton in benghazi in the scandal. this has been a direct result of notice, hillary clinton has only campaigned here twice since she received the democratic nomination. if she was truly nervous about colorado, i suspect, she would be making a surprise visit here between now and election day. so far none of that has happened. it is getting loud -- they want to see the gop nominated in. i was just told he landed endeavor. i was just told that he landed endeavor. some of the speakers -- have tried to capitalize on what they believed happened in reno. we're trying to learn more exactly what happened. taking any short steps. this is part of a campaign that has been very tense. they want to be sure that everybody is safe and okay. regardless of whether you go for trump or not, you don't want anyone to get her. continue watching the live feed on our facebook page. >> that set the only rally happening in colorado tonight. we had team coverage with fox 31 macradee aegeter out at thunder ridge high school. with senator bernie sa

some connection between humans and climate change and said it is time to passed investigations of the benghazi attack christian's private e-mail server. >> reporter: president-elect trump laying out his agenda in the first 100 days in a youtube video, withdrawing from a trade partnership and imposing a five-year ban on government officials becoming lobbyist. >> that is a direct message to his voters in the midwest. it is a direct message to say, i care about your fate and we're going to bring those mastering jobs back or we're going to try. >> reporter: the president-elect still forming his administration tweeting this out about one of his potential nominees. i'm seriously considering dr. ben carson as the head of hud. he is a greatly talented person who loves people. rudy giuliani still in consideration for secretary of state commenting on a former one, hillary clinton. wo not pursue investigations into her private e-mail accounts. >> there is tradition in american politics that after you win an election, you put things behind you. >> reporter: trump's team saying the president-elect wants to

benghazi raid. huge critic of hillary clinton. be interesting if they go for trey, trey gowdy, notion that they're going to pardon hillary clinton or stop investigations into hillary clinton, you would seem counter if trey dowd he did i in there he thought she was guilty on email scandal. that is where we are now. chief of staff, two names very interesting. campaign manager steve bannon. i hear he in the poll position, the lead position. liz: a little controversial. >> a guy head of breitbart.com. controversial, he won the campaign. he is the campaign manager. he and kellyanne conway helped win the campaign. you have to give them something. i hear he is involved deeply. he might be chief of staff, reince priebus, rnc chairman in that position. if we say right now, none of this is set in stone. it could change tomorrow. but right now -- liz: what about a name like carly fiorina? they were real adversaries? >> i have not heard the name come up. keep listening. senator corker and ambassador john bolton

not satisfied with the findings of the gop investigation, laid the blame on benghazi in defeat of hillary clinton and barack obama. >> this was a failure at the most senior levels of government. one i hope we make sure this never happens again. >> reporter: he called for more sweeping terror surveillance. he wants to keep open the detention center at guantanamo bay. he was a staunch critic of fbi james comey and his investigation of clinton. >> he screwed this up from the get go by announcing july 5th he wasn't going to indict a woman who mishandled classified information. >> reporter: he issued tough statements about islam, accusing religious leaders of turning a blind eye to extremists. >> silence made them complicit in these acts. >> reporter: in 2015, agreeing with a conservative talk radio host that obama was sympathetic to terrorists. >> every policy of this administration has treated america as if we are the problem. >> reporter: he showed a willingness to take on his party, in 2014, engaging in a bitter primary to save his seat. this year, threatening to challenge kansas senator j

another report says rogers was ousted because in 2014 his committee released a report on benghazi that did not fit with the right-wing narrative about the events on that night. the weekly standard reporting that cia officers octobered to the report's claim that no cia officer on the ground in benghazi was told to stand down from a rescue attempt. a story that you encounter in conservative media quite often. "the new york times" reports that trump had removed a second senior defense and senior foreign policy official from his transition team, matthew friedman. then there's elliott cohen who encouraged those to join the trump administration. but the times report mr. cohen suggested the caveat that many foreign policy hands would enlist only if there were credible people leading national security agencies and departments. he said he received a vituperative e-mail in response. after exchange with trump transition team changed my recommendation. stay away. they're angry, arrogant screaming, you lost. will be ugly. there were reports the transition team was struggling to find qualified peopl

so he did this on benghazi. he was to the right of the chairman, trey gowdy of the benghazi committee, and on iran. what he's talking about, if he's successful, and he has to get past israeli intelligence, which supports this deal at this point, they do not believe it is in the national security interest of israel for this deal to be blown up. but if pompeo is successful in getting donald trump to roll back this deal, we will be in serious jeopardy of having a war with iran during president trump's administration. >> one thing, to jonathan's point, though, we have donald trump here who ran on changing washington, draining the swamp. and what we learned in apolitical jobs like cia and a.g., he seems to have found republican politicians to fill the role. it almost makes you wonder whether donald trump can't be relied ton to stick to his promises. tbd. in discussing michael flynn, the nsa pick, he says flynn got fired as head of dia, i asked why flynn got fired, abusive with staff, bad management,'s been and was ri