what we see with a purging like mike rogers. one is rewarding the louyalists. they want to show people if you were not in the inner circle from the very beginning then you're not getting a top job. the other thing is they're push initialling people who are somewhat bipartisan. mike rogers when he was chairman he put out this report of the benghazi attack which according to many in the trump world wasn't sufficiently critical of hillary clinton. it was seen as too conciliatory for the democrats. that is one of the things that the transition team used to get rid of him. this is a message to all the security officials who might want to be in the trump administration, not only do you have to be loyal, you have to be partisan. >> josh, quickly, on this idea, we've had rich people run for president before. they said they are put their business interests in a mind trust. >> right. >> what is going on here -- if you have donald trump's kids taking care of his business. it wouldn't be blind. the business is right there. you can see what foreign leaders come and stay at

mike rogers, by the way, has done work with cnn. told cnn's anderson cooper that it was, quote, absolutely the campaign prerogative to let him go. >> they wanted to go in a different direction. it was easy for me to hand it off to mike pence in his capable hands coming in. i think that was kind of a combination. i think there is some confusion going on about a chain of command coming out of new york. hopefully, they'll get that settled soon. i think they need to do it because as the clock ticks all of these decisions become more important. you have to make them sooner with a little more authority and forward thinking to make sure they don't bump into anything in the future. i think they're going to get there. i'm an optimist about that. >>> the president-elect violated protocol last night after an aide told reporters trump was in for the night. he showed up at a new york city restaurant without notifying a team of reporters on standby. it's a long time history of reporters to travel with the president-elect. efforts are under way to

i have enormous respect for mike rogers. i think woe have been a great cia leader. i was flabbergasted yesterday. we live in a very dangerous world and there's an important job on oversight of our intel agencies and diane did a great job as both chair and vice chair. but now more than ever we've got to make sure that the intel oversight is kept bipartisan, one of the great things about the intel committee because it's in a secured spot more than any other committee people dictate off their democrat and republican hats and i had a good long working relationship with chairman richard burr. boy oh, boy i would have felt a lot better if the president-elect would have gone to seasoned professionals who know how dangerous the world is but also know we got to protect our civil liberties like mike rogers. >> senator mark warner, congratulations on your new post, i think. you got a lot of hard work ahead you. >> thank you so much. >> coming up will rudy giuliani's past business dealings complicate his possible appointment as secretary of state. more on that coming up. you're

i'm not so sure that mike pence knew that mike rogers was going to be let go. i got a lot of phone calls after i broke the story yesterday morning with people concerned saying mike rogers is a guy who commands real respect. this was the guy who was supposed to be setting up national security policies and setting up, you know, recommending staff. getting things, paving the way for donald trump's national security team. and national security has kind of been a weak link for donald trump. they needed someone who is going to be gunning hard at this which mike rogers was. to yank him out there all of a sudden puts the brakes on whatever they were doing now. new people have to come in. it's just -- so, people were not happy about that. just like mixed feelings in trump world about yanking somebody who is such a key player, smart guy, pulling him out of there. >> reading jen's great story the thing you would come away feeling and then talking to people in trump land is that so much of this is happening on the fly. and you've got someone, jared kushner, who is not, you

rogers, hickey hailey and jeb hensarling. she pushed back on reports that the transition is in turmoil. >> you know, you don't goerm a government overnight. these are serious issues and appointments. on track to where other administrations have been. definitely internal in terms of vetting different candidates and interviewing different people. it is not the kind of thing to rush through. >> mr. trump is pushing back on reports that he hasn't spoken to leaders of u.s. allies and he continues to speak with many world leaders. >> thank you so much. >> just the beginning. thank you so much. >> liberal mayor bill de blash

the mike rogers case was an interesting and troubling one because mike rogers is a very well known and respected person. he's a very conservative republican from michigan. he managed to run the house intelligence committee in a generally bipartisan way so it worked for the first time in a decade it was passing authorization bills and agreeing to legislation. a committee that worked. and rogers was seen in the intelligence community if you walk the halls of the cia or others say, he would be a good leader for us when rogers was pushed out over the weekend in favor of nunez, perhaps pete, another conservative republican on that committee, there was a lot of concern in the intelligence community about what this means. >> a lot of concern not only intel community but also a lot of concern a couple nights ago about john bolton who and rudy giuliani who is temperamentally and ill equipped in every other way to be secretary of state, just a pure knowledge base. i could pick 30 other jobs in the federal government he would be better at than secretary of state. but, mike, at the end of the day,

mike rogers quit today. and then putting together, putting in the white house right next to the oval office, i mean right next to the oval office, a white nationalist. those things are not normal. >> i want to talk to you about that. steve bannon, has ties to alt right a fancy term along for a neb beaux loyce ideology including anti-feminists, anti-semitics, home ophobehomop. yesterday the president teed up to take a swing for steve bannon and he didn't. today he warned against crude negativism. what are democrats really saying? what are obama folks really thinking when it comes to steve bannon and their worries about him being, as you said, right next to the oval office? >> the alt right is coming into the white house. that should be disturbing. not just to democrats, but to all americans. this is -- this is fringe we're talking about. i think democrats are still reeling, obviously. we had what was a pretty imminently winnable race, and there's no sugar coating it. we screwed it up. we lost, and i think rig

nbc news confirms as mentioned, mike rogers who's been terminated. we wait for mike pence to arrive with meetings with the president elect. they're expected to review candidates for top administration jobs. that as a member of the trump transition team tells nbc news both former new york city mayor rudy giuliani and former u.n. ambassador john bolton will definitely have top jobs. giuliani weighed in on the possibilities at a "wall street journal" dinner in washington last night. >> first of all, i won't be attorney general. >> "wall street journal" reported that the choice for secretary of satate is down to giuliani and john bolton. we don't have that here tonight so i'll ask you to ask questions. >> john would be a very good choice. >> is there anybody better? >> maybe me. i don't know. >> on the today show miranda warning, kelly ann did not confirm. >> is rudy giuliani going to be secretary of state? >> he could be. he certainly is a very close advisor of president elect trump. mayor has an enormous skill set. would be an excellent member of the c

that is mike rogers. 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 ha

>> well, carol, you had mike rogers on the record saying that wasn't the case. so this isn't a situation where you have people without attribution. and jason miller talked about how they're not going to be confined by media norms, and okay, but then the story is, what you're not doing, if you don't know what they are doing, that's that i think one of the situations. the point of the obama campaign back in '07 and '08 ands he started his administration wasn't so much that he took time as trump is doing to put his -- his administration in place, it's that there was no drama surrounding it. and that's what seems to be getting the trump administration off on a little bit of a -- of a interesting footing. it's not a matter of norms. it's a matter of do you see progress in putting together an administration. that's all people want to see. when you get stories that chris christie is out, mike rogers is out, of course you're going to report on that. >> so, but the tweeting this morning, david, because that's really how trump -- >> oh, boy. >> -- got the word out about t

mike rogers, former house intelligence committee chairman was a key transition figure. he is out. but i think the other big development today, jim, today donald trump received his first presidential daily briefing, a run-down of threats facing the country presented by the u.s. intelligence community. another sign that he is easing into the business of being president of the united states. trump and vice president-elect mike pence met at trump tower to hash out who will join the cabinet in the incoming administration. and the fight over who will land there and where inside the administration, it is definitely on. don't tell mike pence vice presidents don't have much power. the new chair of donald trump's transition team now has a critical mission, to end the infighting over who will snatch up some of the most powerful positions inside the new administration. among the frontrunners, jeff sessions for attorney general. jeff sessions. john bolton and rudy giuliani for secretary of state. >> john would be a very good choice. >> is there anybody better? >> maybe me. i don't know. >> rep

all of a sudden, mike rogers is kicked out, elliott cohen is given the bum's rush. who is it inside that's telling people, you're fired? >> based on my reporting, chris, what i have been told is that jared kushner, the president-elect's son-in-law has been the center of power for a very long time. through campaign and now especially in the transition. while kellyanne conway had the campaign manager title, steve bannon had the ceo title, it is the title less jared kushner who has been the power base. trusted by his father-in-law, obviously trusted by his wife ivanka and flying under the radar for a long time now. what my reporting tells me is that a figure like mike rogers, form he fbi agent, form he house committee, someone respected but doesn't really have chris christie ties. he was in fact hired by chris christie by the transition to run national security. but they don't have a personal history. based on my reporting, rogers indicated that he was told based on his association with chris christie, he was being pushed out. that goes back to the very personal confli

former house intelligence committee chairman and cnn contribut contributor mike rogers that served on the transition team was ousted on monday. the ouster, the second major shakeup for the transition team after new jersey governor chris christie was demoted on friday. >> i want to give a very special thanks to our former mayor, rudy giuliani who is unbelievable. >> reporter: one area of contention, secretary of state. sources say former new york mayor and trump close confident rudy giuliani is a leading candidate but others are pushing for john bolton. >> john would be a very good choice. >> is there anybody better? >> maybe me, i don't know. [ laughter ] >> giuliani is hardly keeping ambitions hidden but business ties like doing business with qatar and the venezuela oil could complicate his confirmation hearing. meanwhile, alabama senator jeff sessions is under consideration for a high profile position such as secretary of defense or attorney general. >> first of all, i won't be attorney general. >> you won't be attorney general? >> i won't have to decide that one. >> make that clear

because mike rogers is highly qualified. >> i testified in front of him. that is one tough dude, it tells me one thing, it makes me nervous. let me tell you why. whether you're running a business or governor, you need two things in your lead people. you need loyal, in this case, access to the president and knowledge of the political process in congress. but in the complex world of international relations and intelligence, you need anothe thing. that is experience and knowledge. when i see this knife fight that leaves somebody on the floor like mike rogers, who not only was a congressman and head of the intelligence committee with great capability, and also remember served as a field fbi agent, it looks to me like one of two things has fallen by the wayside. loyalty is item one, and experience has fallen down. that makes me nervous. >> what about jared cushner getting security clearances to listen to the daily presidential security brief, what is your reaction when you hear the president's son-in-law might get that kind of access? >> i think we need to sepa

sot - mike rogers / fmr. republican congressman / former member of trump transition team "i think there is some confusion going on about a chain of command coming out of new york." all eyes are now turning to this man - jared kushner, trump's son- in-law. abc news confirming, the transition team has requested national security clearance for the real-estate developer... who has no government experience. that report not helping with concerns about conflicts of interest between his family businesses and his new job. one impact on trump's brand already visible? three manhattan buildings which licensed his name - have now removed it after residents protested. maggie rulli, abc news, washington. the minnesota police officer who fatally shot a man during a traffic stop last july faces a second degree manslaughter charge. prosecutors say st. anthony police officer unreasonably when he used deadly force against philando castile. castile's fiance, who live streamed the aftermath of the shooting, says the officer shot c

. >> reporter: tonight nbc news has learned from sources with knowledge of the decision, mike rogers, former chair of the house intelligence committee is being director. rogers' office issuing a "no comment" tonight. there is a lot of work to do, team trump needs to fill 4,000 positions, 1,000 of which need senate confirmation. >> donald trump would make a mistake if he appoint too many insiders to positions. he won as an outsider. and he needs to reinforce that which delivered victory for him. >> reporter: and though senior aides to v.p.-elect mike pence hope to keep the outsider campaign an outsider to much of the same. katy tur, nbc news, new york. >> reporter: this is cynthia mcfadden in new york. tonight, nbc news can exclusively report donald trump's transition team has asked that nearly 30 people be granted the nation's highest security clearances. in a secure room inside 1717 pennsylvania avenue, they will review the most sensitive details of america's nuclear war plans, the classified details of russia election, as well as the $80 billion official intelligence budget and the

mike rogers was perceived as a chris christie guy. he was fired. he was called the day before yesterday and told, i'm sorry. and we do understand that he was one of the christie firings. there's definitely a purge going on. >> the question becomes why. the president-elect himself is tweeting to sort of assuage any fears about this. this is fine, it's going on, it's organized. it's fine. let's take a step back and see if we can thread through this different reporting and get a tapestry of truth out of it. what matters most in terms of politics in terms of having people around you? is it confidence? no, it's loyalty. that's what you need to have. that's why christie was there in the first place. an early manifestation of it. but doesn't it stand to reason that if you have your son-in-law who you have known a long time, you love very much and you trust and you respect. ok okay, he's going to be the main guy because loyalty is the main priority. everything flows from that. kushner has to be given loyalty to reinforce his loyalty. he can't have the guy

it's the word from the national security agency director, none other than mike rogers. he made the statement at a "wall street journal" conference in d.c. he did not say and will not say at least for now which government was responsible but he says he knows specifically. last month, intelligence officials accused -- i should say accused, "senior most officials in russia" of trying to interfere with the u.s. election. whether the two are connected, we don't know. the russian president vlad putin denied it. wick ke leaks released tens of thousands of e-mails which hackers apparently obtained from the democratic national committee and hillary clinton's campaign chairman. wikileaks founder julian assange denied russia was behind the attack or the hacking. our chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge has been looking into this for quite some time. she's live in washington. what are you learning? >> well, shep, the nsa director is saying what intelligence officials have told reporters privately that the evidence shows a nation state was behind the hack. >> this was

going back to the michael rogers thing, you know, mike rogers is a national security professional. he has taken positions some of us may not agree with. it was a good sign he was involved because we have had concerns that donald trump and the people around him are too close to putin. their foreign policies are wobbly, inconsistent. here at least was somebody with an independent perspective and was not part of the inside trump coatery who might be too keen on putin because he has been courting trump and now boom, he is out. i have talked to people in the trump world who say regardless of this tweet it is turning into a bit of a blood bath with different camps coming out and people accusing others of not being loyal enough to trump as they all try to get those plums that you spoke of in that great civics lesson at the start of show. >> having worked on transitions as you have, to see any bumps in the road on a transition, you can tell that's going to create a wave effect through the process that will be delay, delay, delay. even a well-run transition, as you and i know, inside a well

here with me to discuss that is adam schiff and mike rogers. also with us, bakari sellers and congresswoman diane black of tennessee. great to have you all here. is this a real deal in is mitt romney really being considered to be secretary of state? >> well, i think so. donald trump is not going to take the time to bring someone up to do that interview process. that's what we've learned over the last eight days or so if he's not at least under serious consideration and i think that's great. this is kind of that team of rivals that i think can make for really good government. he's trying to find the right people for the direction that he wants to go. i think mitt romney would be great in that role. >> you fought mitt romney bitterly. but i sense in this new world you might like mitt romney at the state department. am i wrong? >> for example, russia, romney has been very outspoken. in fact, he was ridiculed by democrats and turned out to be connect when he said that russia was our number one geopolitical foe back in 2012. to say the least, presid

hey, garrett. >> this is an interesting position for mike rogers to be in. parts of the current administration want him out. incoming administration, they are considering giving him a promotion. national security agency is overseen by the department of defense and national director of intelligence. ash carter and james clapper sent obama a letter suggesting rogers be removed from head of the nsa. sources told the paper carter is not impressed with the head of the islamic state and the lack of real progress on that front. this morning at security forum in nova scotia a reporter tried asking admiral rogers about the report and was quickly shut down. >> i'm just not going down this road. i'm not going to comment on anything in the media. i'm accountable for my actions. i certainly understand that. it is not appropriate for me. i just want to make, if anybody else want to go down there, you're fine to ask but i will give you the same -- >> as president-elect donald trump is consideringing admiral rogers at his director of national intelligence. several members o

mike rogers was there but he wasn't. now mike rogers is talking about a position within the administration. it's slightly chaotic for a reason. it's a transition. >> wait a second. if it's -- is it chaotic or not? >> i'm happy to report, there's no disarray in the transition process. i would also like to report that kellyanne conway will be on the o'reilly factor tonight. i will ask her the most important one you want to know that you haven't heard. i will ask her. >> can i be the national park service? >> i want to hear all of them. kimberly, go right ahead. >> i want to know -- i want to know. i'm excited to find out. for sure, defense secretary, secretary of state. let's start right there, right? >> you know what, i just think lots of people are interested in the internal -- what they call the knife fight. what happened to christie? what happened with carson? newt said he is not doing anything. what happened with all the -- >> they didn't want to. they wanted him to get elected. they were supporting him. maybe they ha

. >>> nsa director mike rogers finds himself in a precarious position tonight. his boss may be trying to get rid of him. but he has interviewed with the man who could be his next boss. catherine herridge tells us what's going on. >> reporter: admiral mike rogers took the helm in u.s. cyber command in april 2014. not to be confused with a former congressman mike rogers who left the transition team, the nsa director avoided reporters thursday at trump tower where he met with the president-elect to reportedly discuss leading the 16 intelligence agencies. less than 48 hours later, anonymous sources told the washington post that the current director of national intelligence and defense secretary had told the white house they wanted rogers out. carter reportedly had concerns about rogers' nsa performance. clapper supported a new structure that would divide the nsa and cyber command with rogers no longer in charge. national security experts said the public airing of this is highly unusual. >> the timing is odd. obviously, he visited with president-elect trump who has e

there is some reporting that tells me a former congressman from michigan mike rogers could be in line for a i.r.a. post. he had served in the fbi so that's some of his background. and with the change at the transition team, we are now vice presidential candidate elect mike pence has now taken over chairmanship. that is a new piece. what we expect is that because he has the job, there was a lot of sort of expectation of jockeying for position among top advisors and a lot of kind of concerned about who had the inside track. making pence in charge of this transition now, he can work without any expectation he's angling for anything. he's got the job. he's got a team in place. he's got a responsibility going forward, regardless, to build this new government. that's a change. chris christie who had previously been running this along with rudy giuliani and general flynn who have been a part of it so much, as you know. so there's a lot to do. they have internal deadlines to make big decisions including chief of staff and the top four cabinet posts within days. at this point, my reporting tel

vice president elect mike pence ordered the removal of former congressman mike rogers who resigned abruptly. that is a top national security advisory. the move removes everyone brought in by former chairman chris christie, a low level trump staff certificate gone. he requested national security clearance for the president-elect donald trump oldest childre. kellyanne conway is now

mike rogers, resigning. by mike pence. mike pence will be having lunch with vice president joe biden and his wife, jill biden, today. they spoke last thursday in the vice president's office. some of these specific policies joe biden has worked on. offering full support for mike pence for a smooth transition of power. autria: president elected donald trump itching the press pool last night. the transition team told reporters that the president was settling in for the night. then they caught a motorcade in midtown, manhattan, heading back to trump tower. reporters in the past criticized him for breaking with tradition and not informing the press of his moves. expected to be reelected to the top job today. paul ryan was unanimously chosen as the speaker of the house. democrats have postponed their leadership elections after some members asked for more time to deliberate after the general election results. autria: tonight, hillary clinton will make her first public appearance since losing the election at a fund-raising event h

ha already been given access -- rudy giuliani, chris christie, newt gingrich, and mike rogers. the new list is dominated by politicians and some and may alarm others. we asked the former commander of nato about those on the list. >> this is a very eclectic group of folks, many of whom have reasonable national security credentials. collectively they're going to come at it international affairs with bias toward hard power as opposed to soft power. >> reporter: the list includes three members or former members of congress, sessions, hunter, walker, three retired army heading up the defense transition team -- flynn, and burgess. and two prominent bush administration officials, john bolton and steven hadley, who tells nbc news he is not participating in the transition at this point. >> national security has to be job one because instantly on january 20th, he will be tested. he'll be tested by the russians in the cyberworld. we will see test after in the new year. >> reporter: as of today, president-elect trump is getting vastly more detailed intelligence briefings, and he will be as

mike rogers joins me tonight. chairman rogers, there are differing accounts as to what led to your exit to the transition team. some are saying it was your choice, others are saying you were forced out. can you explain what happened? >> the timing is probably right, if they wanted to make a change, they clearly wanted to make a change in this regard, so it came down that it was time they wanted to go in a different direction. it was easy for me to hand it off to mike pence and his capable hands coming in. so i think that was kind of a combination. i think there is some confusion going on about a chain of command coming out of new york. hopefully they'll get that settled pretty soon. i think they're going to need to do it, because as this clock ticks, all of these decisions become more important and you have to make them sooner, with a little more authority and a little more forward thinking to make sure that they don't bump into anything in the future. i think they're going to get there. i'm an optimist about that

collection of the nsa and interesting that mike rogers said that down the path, he actually agreed that they should be separated, but he would not make that call about the near term, and that the patterns were there in places. i asked him, and i said, you know, i joked about it, but i said that i hear that you were in new york thursday and how the play "hamilton" was and he knew what i was asking about, and he sidestepped that and deferred to neating with donald trump. he did say that i am responsible for my own action, and he left it there. >> and little hat-tip and a wink and nod from you steve clemons as you were interviewing him. as always, a real pleasure and thank you for coming by. >> yes, thank you, are richard. >> and we see in bedminister, rudy giuliani, the former mayor of new york to go in to meet donald trump and we have a had a full slate of individuals to come to visit with donald trump, and a little earlier we saw chris kovak who snuck in there and now it is rudy giuliani in this 25 minutes after the hour, and it and it is a very busy list of individuals, and sort of the

. >>> nsa director mike rogers finds himself in a precarious position tonight. his boss may be trying to get rid of him. but he has interviewed with the man who could be his next boss. catherine herridge tells us what's going on. >> reporter: admiral mike rogers took the helm in u.s. cyber command in april 2014. not to be confused with a former congressman mike rogers who left the transition team, the nsa director avoided reporters thursday at trump tower where he met with the president-elect to reportedly discuss leading the 16 intelligence agencies. less than 48 hours later, anonymous sources told the washington post that the current director of national intelligence and defense secretary had told the white house they wanted rogers out. carter reportedly had concerns about rogers' nsa performance. clapper supported a new structure that would divide the nsa and cyber command with rogers no longer in charge. national security experts said the public airing of this is highly unusual. >> the timing is odd. obviously, he visited with president-elect trump who has e

i'm going to ask mike rogers if he really believes that. the great mentioner is responsible for putting the names of potential cabinet picks and running mates, as they say, out there. his latest mention is this man. retired general james mattis for defense secretary. he met with donald trump over the weekend. the mentioner says he is the front-runner. if named, he would need extra congressional permission to take the job and he would be the first retired general to have the job since john marshal in 1949. joining us, mark hertling and former u.s. congressman and house intelligence chairman, mike rogers, a cnn national s commentary. i was joking about the great mentioner. donald trump in this case, the president-elect, has mentioned it more than anybody else. now, you say, general, you would normally oppose the facing of a general taking on the role of secretary to have defense, but not general mattis. >> not this time. >> what is it about him that you like so much? >> first of all, the situation, john. and secondly, the fact that general ma

mike rogers said, normal stuff. eight days in to the transition. is this all normal? >> you have a different situation here, because you have a person who has not served in elected office before, and making that transition from being a private person to a public person and trying to put the government together is, is a challenge in way it isn't for people who are elected as president after having served in the senate or having served as governor. they already have people before served in office with them they can bring in with them who are experts. >> after you get nominated in july until the election in november is where you're supposed to organize, you're supposed to assume you're going to win the presidency. in touch with administration officials and various cabinet posts, agencies, and you're getting everything ready so that if you win, on day one, you've got a transition team in place. you've got people vetted, you've got an organization. that doesn't seem it happened this time. >> well, this time, the 2015 law calls for, on august 1st, the general services admin

the ouster of mike rogers, the second major shakeup for the transition team after new jersey governor chris christie was demoted on friday. >> i want to give a very special thanks to our former mayor, rudy giuliani. unbelievable. >> reporter: one area of contention, secretary of state. sources say former new york mayor and close trump confidant rudy giuliani is a leading candidate for the job. but others are pushing for former u.n. ambassador john bolton. >> john would be a very good choice. >> is there anybody better? >> maybe me. i don't know. >> reporter: giuliani is hardly keeping his ambitions hidden but his international business ties like doing business with qatar and lobbying citgo could complicate his confirmation. jeff sessions is already under consideration for a high profile position such as secretary of defense or attorney general. >> i won't be attorney general. i won't have to decide that one, thank god. i can escape that one. >> i should ask jeff sessions that question, should i? >> wouldn't be a bad idea. >> reporter: he spent 13 years in the u.s. army reserves and wa

mike roger the former chairman of the house intelligence committee was booted from trump's transition team. rogers telling cnn h

mike rogers, former chairman of the house intel jligence committee, was booted from the transition team. he was one of several recent dismissals with ties to chris christie. jared kushner is at the center of all this in-fighting. all of this unfolding 65 days away from trump's inauguration. sunlen serfaty is outside trump tower where the president-elect is back at work at his transition headquarters. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. lot of pushback coming from trump transition officials disputing the notion that this last week for them has been a turbulent time for their transition and joining in that chorus this morning is president-elect donald trump himself, taking to twitter to tweet out this quote, very organized process and talking about the transition taking polic place, as i decide on cabinet and many other positions, i am the only one who knows who the finalists are. as the process continues today here at trump tower, the team potentially zeroing in and making final decisions on some of these top cabinet posts. eric trump, donald trump's son, just entered trump tower a

here to discuss it with me the democratic congress nan adam shiff and mike rogers. great to have all of you here. thanks for being here. is this the real deal? is mitt romney being considered to be secretary of state? >> i think so. listen donald trump is not going take the time to bring somebody up to do that interview process. that's what we've learned over the last eight days sore if he's not at least under serious consideration. that's great. this team of rivals that can make for really good government. he's trying to find the right people that fit with the direction he wants to go. i think mitt romney would being a great. >> you fought mitt romney bitterly when he ran for president. but in this new world you would like him in the state department? >> he would be a consummate diplomat. he can come up to speed on foreign policy issues. this is a head fake. donald trump is the entertainer, running a show where he wants to build suspendse. it's a nod of an appearance of bringing people together. >> congresswoman let me ask you mitt romney and donald trump have very

republican congressman mike rogers who left the national transugz team. he was there to discuss leading the intelligence agencies. but sources told the anonymous post that roger ares boss clapper and ash carter told the white house they wanted the nsa director removed. citing concern about the performance and splitting up the cyber demand leadership. in a security conference in canada, roger ares defends himself. >> i will not not comment on the media and i am accountable for my actions and i understand that. and if anybody wants to go down. fine. more and more republicans have come to the nsa director's defense and nuniz is calling on clapper and carter to testify before his committee as son as possible about p the leaks to the washington post. and mccain said any suggestion that admiral rogers is fired is unwarranted. to give context. republicans are pointing to the time of this and this is sour grapes to rogers getting that top job. >> thank you, john. >>> a year after the deadly french terrorist attacks, french police thwarted another attack. there wa

congressman mike rogers left on tuesday. house speaker paul ryan is showing a united front with the president-elect. >> this leadership team is unified. this entire house republican conference is unified. we are so eager to get to work with our new president-elect. reelected paul ryan as house speaker again. >>> hillary clinton is making her first public appearance tonight since the election. she last spoke a week ago today after her loss to president- elect donald trump. the children's defense fund in washington, d.c. will honor her tonight. she once worked there as a young staff attorney. >>> it electoral college will take away last week's victory from trump. one colorado elector is trying his best to make that happen. he is required to wrote for hillary clinton's with colorado's other electors since she won colorado. he is appealing to pick any republican except trump in december. he talked about his idea for a marine. i don't believe trump has courage and commitment. we have 34 days. i don't think the majority of the ame