in 1983, trump opened up the flagship building on 5th avenue, trump tower. in 1987, he published his best seller "the art of the deal." trump had become a national figure. you never knew where he would show up next. way back then, mike dunbar, the gop activist of new hampshire, saw political promise in the billionaire. dunbar liked the idea of businessman who could get things done. >> and so, that's why i started a draft trump campaign. >> and so, in october 1987, at a restaurant in ports mouth, new hampshire, as people waved trump for president signs, donald trump made his first campaign speech. speaking without notes, he hit on some of the same economic themes that propelled him to the white house. >> the message in 1987 didn't change. just the players. back then japan and saudi arabia. today it's china and mexico. still getting the lunch eaten by our trading partners and the people who are hurting are people like me. people who work for a living. we tier ones feeling it. so, trump appeals to us. >> after the speech they left the restaurant and moved trump

trump: believe me! e with -- and intense. >> thank you so much. >> believe me. >>> his campaign was unlike any other. ♪ >> when mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. they're bringing drugs. they're bringing crime. they're rapists. >> and he was written off as soon as he began. >> the republican party is not going to nominate donald trump. >> i think this is a stunt for attention. >> yet, overlooked americans were getting on board. >> i hope he can save my job. >> we need someone to take a sledgeham tore this [ bleep ]. >> and in the end donald trump beat the odds. >> this election year's not about ideology. it is about insurgency. >> but the opposition isn't going away. how will it all play out? >> when you're in the white house, you are drinking from a fire hose 24 hours a day. >> we can work together and unify our great country. >> fox news reporting, the trump revolution. and now, brett baier. >> donald trump, president. a political earthquake. a lot of people still can't believe

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 respect great atetes, and some-

trump: right? now is not the time to downsize our dreams but to set our sights higher than ever before for our country. [cheers and applause] now is the time to push for real profound change that restores the full promise of america for all of its people and those people are great , people. i got to know them, believe me, over the last 18 months. and what we have created is a movement, and it's a beautiful thing. if you take a look here, the roads are all gridlocked, all gridlocked, all locked down, all secured up, and people pour in. it's an amazing thing. now is the time to unlock the potential of millions of americans left on the sidelines. their talents and use, their dreams unrealized, -- unused, their dreams unrealized and their aspirations totally forgotten. these are people of great talent. this is the moment. this is our chance. this is our window for action. this is the hour when the great deed can be done and our highest hopes can come true. we are going to do it, folks. we are going to

right now trump is below it. >> rebecca, is this a good strategy for trump? he's got his own party against him on russia. you're going to have a report coming out from the white house just before the inauguration, you're going to have hearings, measures voting on the hill that all talk about russia's interference and penalties for it. why is that going to make it more popular? >> donald trump is not uncomfortable being the odd man out. that's where he's been for the duration of his political career now. and he did all right, he won the election. so i don't think that the republicans speaking out against him are necessarily going to be damaging. but it does become damaging if there are repercussions, consequences that the american people can see and dislike. and i think that's where he will be judged on his relations with russia and more broadly his foreign policy. are there outcomes that are good for americans or bad for americans? obviously donald trump is betting that strengthening relations with russia and to use his terms, negotiating a deal with them, wi

do you agree with donald trump? >> i think everything we do as humans impacts where we live and the environment we live in. to what extent it has -- >> it's a very important question. >> sure. to what extent it has an impact and i think we have seen in this administration in particular an overreach and that's why we have these out of control regulations and why industry and jobs have been at a standstill. we are seeing those increases because getting regulations off the backs because people overreacted to something science quite frankly has not backed up. >> you don't think science backs up climate change? >> i don't know the specifics. i'm saying overreach of the regulations is not backed up by the science. >> one of the biggest employers in arkansas is walmart. clearly a trade policy with china is very important to your state. donald trump has discussed pushing a 35% tariff on companies who ship jobs overseas when they want to bring their products back in. he's discussed a 45% tariff on chinese goods coming into t

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

you do not have to look far to understand the ways in which the trump campaign and now the trump transition team has not just been pandering to what folks are referring to as the white-alt or nationalists, they have them involved in the messaging involved in the campaign. we should understand the strategy for what it is because that's the only way for to us do two things. number one, realize white nationalism and white supremacy is a feature of the american voting demographic but then, two, how do we address those things and excavate that hate and bring it out to the fore and be able to address it in a way that resolves it. there's no path forward where white nationalism and racism is the future of american politics. >>> speaker of the house paul ryan called comments the textbook definition. take a listen to paul ryan here. >> you called donald trump a racist. >> no, i didn't. i said his comment was. >> uh-huh. i'm not sure there's a great deal of daylight between those two definitions but he definitely called you ineffective and disloyal. have you patched it up? >> yeah, we have. we're fin

here's what donald trump said. i'll be holding a major news conference in new york city with my children on december 15 to discuss the fact that i'll be leaving my great business in total in order to fully focus on running the country in order to make america great again. while i am not mandated to do this under the law, i feel it is visually important as president to in no way have a conflict of interest with my various businesses. and he says visually important. >> visually important is the key here. absolutely. i mean, he's been cabookie theatering this for three weeks and even before the campaign he said he would turn it into a blind trust for his children. of course, it won't be a blind trust if it's run by his children and now he's three weeks into this saying i'm going to turn it over and walk away. you don't walk away from a business unless you sell it and turn it into cash and then take that cash and give it to an independent trustee, not to your children, give it to an independent trustee, put it into a s

from trump university. >> last night, the trump transition team also announced the president-elect had selected his campaign finance director and former goldman sachs banker steven mnuchin to serve as treasury secretary. in advance of his thank you tour planned for tomorrow, trump said on twitter he had reached a great deal with carrier corporation to keep roughly 1,000 jobs in the state of indian indiana. "fortune" magazine is reporting in exchange the company, carrier, will get $700,000 for a period of years in state tax incentives. early this morning, the president-elect also said he would leave his business amid mounting pressure to separate the interests of the trump organization from the trump administration. in a series of tweet this is morning trump wouldn't say how he'd do it and said he wouldn't make the official announcement for another two weeks until december 15. i'm joined by jason miller trump transition communication director. jason, you're a political guy and i respect that because i used to be one. one thing you have to judge is people's word. four years ago when mr.

but it is trump's party. trump is the coequal branch that is more than coequal. my guess is that eventually paul ryan and mitch mcconnell will have to figure out how to accommodate themselves to ciara. -- to trump. i think this will go relatively smoothly, but we shall see. john: i think that may be right on those issues where there can be a lot of common ground. like you said, i think mcconnell and ryan will see it as being in the party's political interest to give trump some wins. medicare reform. this is an issue we talked about all year long. part of the reason why all right and and donald not a match made in heaven is they fundamentally believe different things about the biggest challenges the country faces on questions of domestic spending. medicare is the biggest. paul ryan has a long record of saying what he wants to do with medicare. and donald trump wants to do something different. the question is, where do we go on that? it is literally the biggest program and the federal government. mark: and it comes to a head. it is so easy to say, let's repeal the

trump stock, trump stock, trump stock. but only if it can figure out how to monetize the biggest commodity, trump himself. home builders, trump is not jumping. the bottom lien is trump like the market tends to fluctuate. consider this the cheat seat. it is better to make good deal than face wheel without a trump stock to your name. debby in my home state of pennsylvania. debby! >> caller: hi, cramer. what a great day to be on "mad money." the market is up nearly 300 points. >> go ahead. >> caller: i'm calling on aks steel. i own a few shares. i was wondering if you think it is an elevator ride up? what's the rule of sale? >> you might want to take half off the table. you probably have a double. let's just say in many ways that's the ultimate trump stock trump stock trump stock. >> brian in pennsylvania. how is it going? >> caller: good man, good. i have a question about groupon. what's your target price for the next three months? >> i think groupon is can get on $5. there's a heritage of people thinking it is a who'ser. it

trump. also today, the union representing carrier workers revealed that donald trump's deal last week to keep jobs there from moving to mexico saved only 730, not the 1100 jobs that donald trump publicly claimed to save last week. >> united technologies and carrier stepped it up, and now they're keeping, actually, the number's over 1100 people, which is so great. >> that, of course, was a lie. and of course the stunning absurdity of that story is that in donald trump's deal with carrier, carrier still plans to send many more jobs to mexico than it is keeping in indiana. that's the deal that the great deal-maker made. sent 1300 jobs to mexico but kept 700 more. today he attacked a company much bigger than carrier, and today was a bad day for boeing. thanks to donald trump, the first president-elect to attack america's only aircraft manufacturer. imagine you're sitting in your office in airbus headquarters in france and read this tweet from donald trump. boeing is building a brand new air forc

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

donald jr., ivanka and eric trump. we're learning the white house office for the first lady will become the office of the first lady 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 turn 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 are

donald trump took the bail. just after midnight he tweeted just tried watching "saturday night live." unwatchable. totally bytesed, not funny and the baldwin impersonation can't get any worse, sad. alec baldwin shot back this morning because he tweets in the daytime saying he'll stop when trump releases his tax returns. trump sent his tweet after attending a swanky costume party at the home of robert mercy, the new york city hedge fund billionaire and major republican donor, report lit single financial becker of bryant.com and his daughter rebecca ran the super pac and now is on his transition team. kellyanne conway who ron a superpac that supported ted cruz and donald trump went himself. villains and heros. >>> up next, the fbi investigate donald trump, or are they already? stay with us. for lower back pain sufferers, the search for relief often leads here. introducing drug-free aleve direct therapy. a high intensity tens device that uses technology once only in doctors' offices. for deep penetrating relief at

trump? it was split before the election. has it united now? >> it has united and we saw this in iowa. we saw donald trump as our nominee, we came together, supported donald trump through thick and thin. we know this is a strong administration bringing voice to thousands, millions of americans as they spoke out in the past election cycle. it is really exciting, republicans are encouraged, a lot of folks are encouraged, not just republicans which i heard from iowans already, a level of optimism. stuart: governor brent stead -- branstad will be ambassador to china, i will get a female governor of iowa. is that accurate? >> that is accurate. a dear friend of colleague of mine, kim reynolds is going to move into the governor's feet and she's enthusiastic, a caring and compassionate iowa and, loves her constituents, very energetic woman, knows trade quite well, knows the agricultural industry quite well, a blessing for iowa. look forward to having her as the governor. stuart: thanks for contributi

president-elect donald trump. possibly up-ending in a possibly dangerous fashion america's relationship with nuclear-armed china. now, we don't know why trump did that, but is it possible he did it because he wants to further his business interests in taiwan? who knows. we can't be sure, and we can jonnot be sure unless he divested interest in his company. joining me, former chief white house ethics counsel to president obama, along with george w. bush's former chiefs ethic counsel said the electoral college should reject trump unless he sells his business. ambassador eisen, let's start with that. you and mr. painter have both made this argument, it's a very strong one, do you really think this is -- we're headed into a constitutional crisis given the current setup for the president-elect? >> thanks, chris, and thanks for having me. i do think we're headed into a constitutional crisis. it is as if we're in a parallel reality. the president-elect is forbidden under the expressed terms of the constitution once he ta

desta trump. -- to trump. i think this will go relatively smoothly, but we shall see. be righthink that may on those issues where there can be a lot of common ground. like you said, i think mcconnell and ryan will see it as being in the party's political interest to give trump some wins. medicare reform. this is an issue we talked about all year long. we sent part of the reason why ryan and trump are not a match made in heaven was because they believe different things about the biggest challenges the country faces on questions of domestic spending. medicare is the biggest. paul ryan has a long record of what he wants to do on medicare, and donald trump wants to do something different. the question is, where do we go on that? it is literally the biggest program and the federal government. mark: kid is so easy to say, let's repeal the row affordable how tot and figure out replace it. you have to do it with medicare and medicaid, and i think republicans in congress will be reluctant to say they will get rid of the affordable care act, but not -- exactly. there are some co

trump, now of course trump's pick for attorney general. he will stand alongside trump at this stop. >>> amid rising tensions between the united states and russia, there is renewed focus on the president-elect's pick for secretary of state, exxonmobil ceo rex tillerson, who has ties to russian president vladimir putin. he will be well-positioned to push back against current sanctions against russia, which would allow his former company to move forward with billions of dollars of deals. of course he would leave exxon should he become secretary of state. joining me on the phone, someone who knows rix tillerson and the oil business extremely well, t. boone pickens. thanks for joining me from the middle of a snowstorm in texas. >> sure, thank you. >> tillerson's nomination has drawn comparisons to dwight eisenhower picking the ceo of general motors for his defense secretary. when asked about conflicts of interest, the man known as engine charlie wilson famously said, for years i thought what was good for our country was good for general motors

don jr., eric trump and ivanka trump, all sitting in on that very important meeting between donald trump and top tech ceos. donald trump's transition turning into quite the family affair. as the president-elect tops montana congressman ryan zinke to lead the interior. sources say don jr. helped interview people for the most and eric sat in on a meeting with mitt romney as donald trump evaluated his secretary of state options. with trump poised to turn his business operations over to those two sons, the opportunity for conflict of interest appears abundant. but not to transition aides. >> bottom line is he has been clear from day one of the role his family plays and the trust he has in them. >> reporter: there is no sign the family's influence is waning. once trump moves to the white house, the first lady's office is slated to become the first family's office, to help incorporate ivanka trump. but trump's focus is elsewhere today. as he convenes a meeting with tech luminaries he has lobbed insults at in the past. trump once accused amazon ceo and "washington post" owner jeff bezos of buyi

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 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 scam for

trump, you, president elect trump were wrong on international trade, what did you do? you tweeted that boeing should have an order canceled. you called it a $4 billion order. and that meant boeing's own share prices plummeted. so in other words mr. trump, what you would like is for no one, not a ceo, nobody on television, no journalist, nobody to criticize you. you take offense at that. well you are going to be president very shortly. you are going to have at your command not just twitter but also the cia, the irs, the fbi. if you have this kind of thin skinned vindictiveness attitude towards anyone who criticizes you, we are in very deep trouble. and sir, so are you. >> i want to. jeffrey lord. to the notion that he is thin skinned and this is vindictiveness like secretary reich was saying. what do you say to that. >> first of all i think this is being vastly overblown. harry truman wrote to his daughter --. someday i hope to meet you. when that happens you will need a new nose a lot of beefsteak for black eyes and perhaps a supporter below. i can only tell you donald

donald trump's noisiness is, if you had a bar chart of donald trump's noisiness relative to obama's, you'd have the same kind of relationship there. in the stock market there's an interesting thing going on there. there's a bit of a trump bump in the market. a part of a much longer term trend. but what's going on is an expectations gain. he's talking about cutting taxes significantly on high income people, deregulating financial markets. if that sounds to you like the george w. bush 2000 agenda that got us into that mess, me, too. the kind of policies he's espousing and what will help his constituents. >> he ran very much against wall street. we'll see where that goes. the other question is a little more economic, metaphysical but i want to ask you -- >> bring it. >> is there something wrong with someone with incoming power, a federal official, in this case the president, getting into this level of ad hoc casual detail about which companies are going to do what while he oversees a federal government, regulatory approval of deals? is there anything that concerns you about that? or do

when trump takes office and sent trump a christmas letter which the transition team has released. in it putin says the u.s. and russia need to work together for the sake of global security and stability and that he hopes to two powers will be collaboration on the international scene to a new level. the president-elect said the presidents thoughts are correct. what else did putin say about the relations with the u.s.? >> the overall tone of the press conference today was that he expected relations with the u.s. to improve with the new administration. mr. putin said he anticipated security and economic ties between russia and the u.s. to normalize, as he put it, and also addressed comments the president-elect trump made yesterday about america's new cleaning capabilities. >> interpreter: regarding the newly elected president trump there is nothing now. he talked about the important of strengthening the nuclear aspect and the strengthening of military assets. >> reporter: mr. putin said he would welcome an in -- invitation to visit the u.s. this would signal a significant shift in th

trump. >> he' brilliant. a master negotiator, brilliant communicator. >> they tried to portray there was a divide between you and the president-elect over the issue of mitt romney. i've heard the same thing. a lot of his big supporters don't want him for secretary of state because of the things he's said. they're very defensive of the president-elect. and the other thing is, lock her up. that hasn't been determined by anybody. isn't that going to be determined by the justice department and the new attorney general? >> sure. donald trump believes in federalism and separation of powers. all he's saying is he's not focused on that. he's hocused on health care and helping carrier keep 1100 jobs here in indiana and not over there in mexico. here they're making $23 an hour, there they would be making $3 an hour. it's a better deal for the american worker. but look, this thing about donald trump and i, you read the "the new york times" -- >> i saw the tweet. i saw you right behind him. you wouldn't be there if he we

you can see the folks in the stands wearing their trump hats, bringing their trump gear. we'll dip in for a live interview. linda and alex. we have been talking with them. you are a trump supporter be you felt the field to be here. why? >> i wanted to be heren to support trump in his post-election celebration. reporter: what do you make of him setting something up like this after the election. >> i think it's great. i'm glad he's thinking outside the box. reporter: you brought your 13-year-old grandson. what do you want to hear out of the president-elect tonight? >> i want to hear, it's pretty keel's doing the thank you tour after the election, and i kinds of want to hear how much work's been putting in on everything. reporter: as you see from these two wearing their trump hats and strum geerm. charles: it looks like you will have a lot of fun out there. grab me a hat if you can. we just heard it from him. mrs. ewing saying he thinks outside of the box. he's not afraid. this kid always future voter saying pretty cool. again, these aren't necessarily associated with presid

trump: for whatever reason, people in uniform like trump. i don't know, i've never figured -- i have to figure that out. these are great people. we are going to take care of our veterans, and we are working right now on somebody to run the veterans administration who will be terrific, believe me, terrific, and i will be watching, too. i will be watching. on child care, i am asking congress to pass legislation to support the american family and make affordable childcare accessible to all. it is so important. our agenda will fight to increase pay and opportunities for women in the workforce. support women entrepreneurs. who is a woman entrepreneur here? who are the women? a lot of them. i hate to tell you, men, generally speaking they are better than you are. [cheers and applause] [booing] mr. trump: if i said it the other way around, i would be in big trouble. don't you agree? we are going to make sure that no one is penalized for the decision to have a family. right now, they are penalized. on crime, the murder rate has experienced its large

relations based on trump's policy. trump tweeted, quote, great move on the part of putin. i always knew he was very smart. joining us now fox news contributor, former ambassador to the u.n. john bolton. thanks for joining us this evening. lots of developments since yesterday when we spoke on the show. let's get your thoughts. >> i think the putin decision not to expel american diplomats has several aspects to it. number one, it shows utter contempt for barack obama. it is saying to him, you're going to be history in three weeks and i will reserve judgment on what i'm going to do until you're gone. now, note that he hasn't said he's not going to expel american diplomats. he said he's putting it off. but let's also be clear. this was staged. remember, this is the land of the patemkin village. russian sergei lavrov goes public with a recommendation to expel american diplomats. every news station in moscow reports they will be expel. vladimir putin steps in and says, no, no, we won't expel american diplomats. what is more i'm inviting the children of american diplomats in mosc

trump up to? >> i have not spoken to him about that, but i will tell you that i am pleased to see that he is talking to people from all sides of the conversation. because your robust debate is the best way for us to inform ourselves. as i've participated in this debate -- and i was on the select committee that nancy pelosi put in place when she was speaker and looked at climate change -- i've come to the position, as have many scientists -- and i'm not a scientist -- that, you know, some of the ipc reports, they were looking at decades as opposed to centuries, and it is important that you take the long-term view. climate and climate changes are cyclical. and we know that. and it is time for us to use some common sense and apply some common sense on how we preserve our planet but also how we allow people to have productive lives. stuart: quickly, can you tell us what it's like in trump tower? i know you've come and gone several times. i know you can't tell us who you spoke to and what you spoke abo

trump? >> i don't think that's in the cards. i think what is in the cards is there are trump electors who don't want to be out there publicly but who do want this information, who do want to know who is involved and make sure to protect the integrity of the democracy, including for president-elect trump. no foreign country can do this in the future. we should have the facts. >> but here's, i guess, the question i have. let's say it's all true. you know, you have a consensus from the cia, the department of national intelligence, and the fbi that there was russian interference. so what. obviously it's bad and you want to stop it and you want to have cybersecurity, but why hold donald trump accountable for that? >> donald trump was on this show one week ago disputing that claim. he was saying the fbi disagreed with the cia. he was suggesting that this was all some -- he would not be holding the russians accountable. that's what we should not be doing. we need to be clear that the russians were

for the trump campaign. and instantly infamous caught on tape moment from a 2005 "access hollywood" appearance where the republican nominee is heard making extremely lewd comments about women. >> when you're a star, they let you do it, you can do anything. >> whatever you want. >> those words led to a string of accusations from women saying trump sexually assaulted them. with only weeks until the election, it seemed like the contest might be over. but in a stunning move, fbi director james comey broke historical precedent by taking action 11 days before the election and handed the clinton campaign their own october surprise. comey had more power than usual since attorney general loretta lynch was compromised after bill clinton boarded her plane during the investigation into hillary clinton's e-mails. comey decided not to bring charges against clinton in june. but then he sent a letter to congress a week and a half before the election, saying the fbi was looking into additional e-mails discovered on anthony e

>> it's more donald trump. it's the same kind of -- it's the same lack of intellectual curiosity, lack of trust in institutions of government. he knows more about isis than the generals. this isn't the first time he's disparaged the work of the intelligence community. the stuff didn't like using the right fork at a very proper dinner party. this stuff exists for a reason. the fact that he keeps bucking precedent is troubling. >> phil mudd, you worked with the cia, the fbi. when you hear donald trump saying i don't need these daily presidential intelligence briefings, i can do it once a week. they're just telling me the same thing every single day. you helped prepare those presidential daily briefs. what's your reaction to that? >> i can't figure that out. telling you the same thing every day? he's a migraine for the cia. if he's telling you the same thing over the past three days, we've had bombings in turkey, somalia, action with the south korean president, you look at what's happening in aleppo where the gove

election as donald trump once again dismisses the allegation. why is trump refusing to believe u.s. intelligence? >>> saturday night whine. trump brushes aside concern over his relentless use of twitter to voice his grievances including his rants about "saturday night live" which he praised when he was host. now "time" magazine names trump person of the year. will it change trump's opinion of the magazine he previously criticized? >>> i am wolf blitzer. you are in "the situation room." >>> he spoke critically of american generallies during the campaign claiming to know more about isis than they do. president-elect donald trump is now adding a third military commander to his inner circle, retired marine corps general john kelly. we're told he has asked kelly to be his security secretary. trump is once again dismissing the issue of russia interfering in the election. despite assertions by top u.s. intelligence officials. >>> a british journalist held by isis has appeared for the first time since june. jan cantlie is seen in a newly released propaganda video showing bridges damaged in

they knew trump was rich. it's not just that there's all this rich people. >> no. >> it's that they're doctrineered down the line old style -- >> plutocrats. >> puzder isn't like -- like donald trump with his position on trade, puzder because he's a chamber of commerce republican. >> exactly. >> that's the bait and switch. not that they're rich, but they're doctrineaire in their right wing plutocratic ideology. >> they typically do usher in the economic elite who come in and pillage the economy. the people he's putting in, someone like mnuchin who literally made money taking away people's homes if they missed a 29 cent payment, people who have been rapacious in their attacks on the working class. not to mention the fact that they're paired with the congress that's run by speaker of the house paul ryan who is on the record wanting to get rid of essentially -- i call it repeal the 21st century. >> they have a bill coming out in social security that would cut benefits, introduce means testing. >> this is not what

anyway, a trump spokesperson waved off any concern about trump's kids being >>> the republicans are going to get three senate seats. last time they got to run with obama. >> what's the big upset? >> i think pennsylvania. >> the opposite of synopsis. the presidential briefings going back a couple years since we're hearing donald trump doesn't like them to get repetition every day. bill clinton was a voracious reader. he read his intelligence briefings. george w. bush had people come in and gave him the understanding of what was going on, and he also had an hour with them afterwards. and now president obama read as well as takes the briefings. so we understand donald trump does not like to read much, so we are expecting it will be catered to him. >> senior sources on capitol hill, it seems like rex tillerson is going to be fine. fine doesn't mean the process is going to be pleasant or not bumpy. but he's an impressive guy. >> thank you, john braybender, april ryan. thanks for being with us. >> what's the big upset? >> i think pennsylvania. >> the opposite of synopsis. the presidential brief

trump does. normally during a transition process, the incoming president-elect has 65% or higher approval rating, as alex's paper pointed out this week. now, donald trump is mired in the 40s. president obama's about 56. >> well, alex, i want to ask you because a break with tradition on the israel vote. a lot of democrats in the house and senate sided with the trump camp on this one. how unusual is the vote and the reaction? >> what's unusual is you have democrats siding with trump over obama on the issue. one of the few domes side with obama is dianne feinstein, outgoing ranking democrat on the intelligence committee. she expressed frustration with israel and prime minister netanyahu for allowing these settlement to go forward in the west bank. she says that it's an obstacle to the two-state solution. she's not happy. but other democrats have sided with trump on this. schumer, as you mentioned, also nancy pelosi, house democratic leader. she put out a statement. while not criticizing obama, basic

will he try to get list boss, donald trump, whole be president trump i guess in 36 days. closer to their view about putin and russia and about where this country should stand in terms of being more adversarial or at left tougher. >> eugene, i'm looking at your latest column. trump is assembling an antigovernment. the intelligence community? you've spoken very passionately. they were trying to meddle with our election. that's a serious thing. it is disanent. it is odd to have an gin coming administration that seems to want to look past all of that and cozy up with russia by picking a secretary of state, one prominent american perhaps, the most prominent american, with that close personal relationship with vladimir putin. it is very odd. another odd thing is that in support of the putin nomination, donald trump today brought up condoleezza rice, robert gates, john bolton is apparently if line to be, you know, for posed architects of the iraq war. donald trump continues to say it was a historic mistake. it is all very odd. is it random? >> i would say on the iraq point, rex

mattis is trump's top contender for the job donald trump would like to see him as secretary of defense to the knowledge of anybody that i've talked to in the transition team it is still not 100% yet for a couple of considerations. trump feels like he's got a little bit of time to deliberate over his choice for secretary of defense and then there's this idea as well that because the statute stipulates that in order to take a civilian position at the department of defense you have to be out of the military for seven years, mattis would need a congressional waver from the house and senate and donald trump wants to make sure that waver is rock solid before he comes out and says that mattis is his pick because god forbid he says that and something goes wrong. donald trump is trying to figure out who will be put in those jobs, he was out saving jobs today in indianapolis. >> i want to thank all of the workers at this plant. >> reporter: still seven weeks away from taking office president elect donald trump and his running mate mad goe good o campaign promise. >> when donald trump was running

anyone other than trump. and we hoped if that happened, we as hillary electors, would then join them to elect a president who would be responsible and not a demagogue or not somebody who was indebted to a foreign power. so that didn't work. then we hoped that maybe we could get -- we could deny mr. trump 270 votes. had that worked, then it would have gone to the house of representatives. and so, of course, i'm disappointed today and somewhat troubled by the fact that we could not find 38 republicans that would join us. however, i want to thank those republicans that did have the courage to withstand the pressure that they received, and vote for an alternative to mr. trump. >> polly, during the campaign, you really can't beat something with nothing, right? do you think maybe the hamilton elector strategy suffers because it didn't have a, this is the alternative to trump, it was maybe a mistake to vote for anybody but trump. had it gone to the house of representatives, it would have gone to trump. >> we did sup

a day after donald trump tweeted his displeasure, jason miller from the trump team saying donald trump gets it done. china says it will return u.s. drone it seized and they'll say they'll return the drone and donald trump tweets keep the drone. what's going on there? >> i don't know. i can't keep up with tweets. i don't do the social media myself. who knows. >> you better start reading those donald trump tweets then. thank you very much for joining us. up next, what is vladimir putin trying to achieve with this historic hack? we'll go live to moscow. and the american diplomat whose job it is to get inside putin's head. plus, how can america respond as donald trump prepares to takeoffs? what tools does he have to counter russia? two top congressmen on the house intelligence committee debate our options. back in just two minutes. >> "this week" with george stephanopoulos brought to you by carmax. that was invigorating! you're probably wondering why i've just carved a giant wooden tiger. well, the answer is that a real one would maul me. i've crafted dr. whiskers here as a visual aid to s

trump during the campaign. as we have seen, not just yesterday but today, in the last couple weeks, he's bringing in people from industry, from government, enemies, foes, democrats, republicans, independents to bring the best ideas and best thoughts forward to make this country better. >> that's why i asked. if that's the mix, why not? >> because we are a country of 320 million people. at some point you can't fit everybody in but he's doing his best. he's held over 90 meetings with people that could potentially fill, 70 world leaders. >> here's a few things we know. we know that don jr. interviewed candidates for secretary of the interior. we know that eric trump sat in on meetings or at least a meeting with mitt romney. we know ivanka trump sat in on a meeting with the japanese prime minister. we know jared kushner handled invitations for this tech summit. is this the level of family involvement that the country should expect going forward? >> let's keep going with what else you know. which is every one of tho

[cheering] president-elect trump: donald trump is your next president of the united states. because of you. so, i want to thank, i want to thank the people of wisconsin. you are incredible people. you are incredible people. you really are. and i can tell you this, we are going to work so hard for you. we are going to work so hard. we will have the best people in the world and you see the people we are getting. if you do not mind, we will not be totally politically correct. if you don't mind. ok? is that all right? is that all right? we're going to work so hard for you and we are going to bring back your jobs and we are going to terminate obamacare and come up with a great, great health plan that paul ryan is working on right now. and we will cut your taxes and we will have strong borders and we will have the wall, the wall. we will have that wall. and we will stop the drugs from pouring into our country. and we are going to build up our military big-league and take care of those vets, take care of them. and we are going to make -- look, here's the bottom line, we are going t

a trump administration will stop the jobs from leaving america. >> president elect trump keeps a campaign promise by striking a deal with carrier to keep jobs here in the u.s. and vice president elect governor mike pence heds to capitol hill to meet with republican leaders. newt gingrich is here to react to it all. >> the president elect's assertion about voter fraud had no basis in reality. >>> and cnn takes shots at the president elect. we react to the liberal media bias. and donald trump says the somali refugee who carried out the ohio state terror attack shouldn't have been allowed in the country. all of that plus i go one on one tonight with geraldo ra via. >>> donald trump is fulfilling key campaign promises and scoring wins on behalf of you. newt gingrich will be here with reaction. first, tonight's opening monologue. last night in a major win for american workers, donald trump tweeted that heas broke an deal with air-conditioning manufacturer, carrier, to keep about 1,000 job that it was planning to send to mexico right here in america. we'll be joined by a long time carrier emplo

donald trump proved that. not surprising i would put donald trump on the top of the list. not just because he's the president-elect. but because he inspired the american people in a way he hadn't been inspired in years and years and years. he started a movement. he really created hope again this country for people who haven't had tonight decades. tom: he broke the rules. he took the rule book and tossed it out. you have donald trump on your list. >> he's number one. and number 2 is ryan and number 3 is mcconnell. now republicans control the house, the senate and white house. any time in american thrift a change agent be make change, it's next year. >> i have a feeling louis red i have a feeling lou is relaxing someplace. >> in order to govern you need the house and senate before a bill gets to the president. i think ryan will be surprisingly lock step with trump on a lot of important issues that were the issues that turned this election. healthcare, tax, immigration. there is consensus. tom: i heard mitchell mcconnell saying well we'll see about these tax cuts. and because

arnold or trump? arnold? trump? well we're going to find out if arnold is quick. because if he's not quick he's not going look good. >> just when arnold thought he was in charge donald says i'll be back. >> but i guess the point is here that he does take it personally. he doesn't want the show to suddenly look bad because trump considers the apprentice to be a part of him. >> absolutely. that is his trademark and he did a lot and worked a lot to make it it is the way it is today and of course he wants it to succeed. and this is something he enjoys doing. something that's been a hobby of his. a very lucrative hobby and he wants it to see. >> when he tweets about the show and the ratings go up does he get more money as a result of that? he likes to tweet. >> what in he tweets watch tonight's aprens. what happens then? >> could he ever appear on the show? executive producer, it could be a credit, working on the show, casting. it could be anything. >> that would be very interesting. i think that having him appear given all of the up roar over just having his name flas

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the trump team had announced that donald trump would make a major speech today about the economy and jobs. it turned out to be a one-minute statement. in which donald trump tried to take new credit today for some jobs that were already announced weeks ago. here now in its entirety, uncut is donald trump's major announcement about the american economy and jobs today. >> hello, everybody. so we just had some very good news because of what's happening and the spirit and the hope. i was just called by the head people at sprint. and they're going to be bringing 5,000 jobs back to the united states. they're taking them from other countries. they're bringing back to the united states. and masa and some other people were very much involved in that. so i want to thank them. and also one web, a new company is going to be hiring 3,000 people. so that's very exciting. we have a combination of sprint for 5,000 jobs. and that's coming from all over the world. and they're coming back into the united states, which is a nice change can. and also one web, 3,000 jobs. it's a new company. and it was don

trump can handle it all. first, i want to start, i feel like i'm always saying let me start with a donald trump tweet, but i'm going to, one that involved eric and his foundation this morning. quote, my wonderful son eric will no long be allowed to raise money for children with cancer because of a possible conflict of interest with mise presidency. isn't this a ridiculous shame? he loves these kids. he's raised millions of dollars for them and now must stop. wrong answer. this after eric's foundation had sponsored coffee with ivanka or a hunting trip with eric or don jr. in exchange for donations and maybe a photo op with the president himself the day after the inauguration. so let's break this down really quickly. it's not that eric trump is not allowed to raise money for charity anymore. that's not what the questions were about. the questions are about pay for play. giving access to the white house. >> and it's a lesson that you would have thought the trumps would have learned from the experience of the cli