♪ >>> donald trump thank you tour making a stop in wisconsin. praising former adversary paul ryan, and preparing for battle in defense of his pick for secretary of state. >>> several titans of technology sitting down with the president-elect today, among them a ceo who publicly feuded with donald trump in the past. >>> a grim, grim scene in eastern aleppo. civilians reportedly being slaughtered in their homes by syrian forces. can plans for a cease-fire and mass evacuations take hold. this is a dangerous situation. good morning. welcome to "early start." i'm christine romans. >> and i'm george howell, it's wednesday, december 14th, 4:00 a.m. on the east coast. today, with donald trump, his thank you tour, the president-elect on stage with one-i am adversary, the speaker of the house, paul ryan. the rally turned into a lovefest with trump praising ryan, and ryan complimenting trump right back. the exxonmobil chief rex tillerson who may face an uphill battle for the senate confirmati confirmation. cnn's jim acosta has the latest from wisconsin. >>

voted for donald trump. he will be our president. we need to support him. >> that right there in the last answer, senator, sounded just like something former cia director jim woolscy said last night coming from people who would normally be predisposed to regard the russians the way we all used to regard the russians. why do you think there's this kind of per say normalization. all these efforts to bend over backward to give the russians suddenly the benefit of the doubt? >> well, again, i was giving rex tillerson the benefit of the doubt. you know, i think we need to be extremely weary of russia. i think the foreign policy under president obama, the reset has been a disaster. you have to approach foreign policy first from a position of strength. that starts with economic strength. you achieve peace through strength, not peace through withdraw. i'm incredibly weary of vladimir putin. i think donald trump needs to be weary. i think rex tillerson needs to be weary. my guess is they actually will. they will look at the world in a very --

but compared to trump, donald trump is way har hash harer wit press. >> we were talking about some of the stay taattacks he's had on reporters. when we was coming after me at the height of his anger after that debate, and many of his supporters were angry about that question i asked him at the debate, i did what you said. i said to my colleague on "the kelly file." you check me. i have to have an armed security guard now. i'm under threat. my kids are under threat and i don't want to go too hard on him to punish him and i don't want to go too easy on him out of a desire to get him to back off either. you need somebody to have your back >> your team came through for you. because iz was watching at that time and this could come, how is she going to react. let's see. and you did. i thought you were remarkably fair in that. as a matter of fact when you went and did the sbesh view with him in prime time, people said you were too nice to him. but that was the way you covered him. down the middle. and look, you saw what he was doing on twitter. the other day i said maybe we should have twitt

he needs donald trump. he needs a friendly administration in the united states to alleviate the sanctions on the country that have been imposed by president obama. that, to -- to look again at the annexation of crimea. to look again at nato expansion. and of course the conflict in syria. we've all been talking about this. russia along with its partner in turkey, and with others, and with the syrian government, have given syria the best chance it's had in years of ending the devastating conflict there, and that would be in the failure -- end in the favor of russia, and he wants the united states administration of donald trump to be part of that, as well. all of these issues that vladimir putin wants to do a deal with trump on and he doesn't want to, you know, kind of ambush that relationship before the administration has even begun. >> evan, to be clear, three strained, if not adversarial relationships with the current administration look quite rosy when it comes to the incoming administration within the las

but it is donald trump's party. my guess is eventually paul ryan and mitch mcconnell will have to figure out how to accommodate themselves to donald trump. it is one step at a time. the current step towards tax reform and infrastructure and the debt ceiling -- i think that will go relatively smoothly under the circumstances. we will see. john: i think that may be right on those issues where there is a lot of common ground. and whereas you said, mitch mcconnell and paul ryan will see it as in the party's interest to give donald trump some wins. on the big issues, medicare reform. we talked about it all year long. part of the reason that ryan and trump are not a match made in heaven is that they believe in fundamentally different things about the biggest challenges the country faces on questions like 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 totally different. the question is where do we go on that? it is

you're looking at live pictures of donald trump's plane in new york city. will soon leave for columbus, ohio. cnn political reporter sara murray is in new york for us. our senior political reporter manu raju is up on capitol hill. sara, tell our viewers, first of all, why the president-elect is visiting columbus, ohio. >> well, wolf, most of the stops on donald trump's agenda, as you pointed out, are part of this victory tour. they're uplifting events, ways for him to thank the people who delivered him the presidency. his stop here in columbus is going to be a different kind. it's going to be a more somber stop for hip m to meet with fir respo responders as well as victims of the attack. you're going to see a different side potentially of donald trump not just sort of the candidate we saw in the campaign trail and the president-elect we see at rallies but more essentially the comforter and chief kind of role we expect to see from our presidents, wolf. >> it's a very important role indeed. i assume over the next four years he'll be doing unfortunately a lot

donald trump is expected to land shortly. talk about this deal and details and the devil is in the details, explain it. >> absolutely, thomas, the big picture is keeping a thousand jobs here in indiana, it is something that donald trump campaigned on in many months. that was part of his speech. you need to save these jobs and he would use carrier and examples of job going into mexico. >> carrier will receive $7 million from tax incentives over the course of ten years. they're keeping those jobs here as well as invest $16 million into their operations here in indiana. not spelled out in the deal but a huge component of this is carrier was owned by a company called united technology of $5 billion of federal contract and our sources telling us there was concern with trump's rhetoric that when he took to the white house that the federal contract maybe in jeopardy if those jobs were moved to mexico. we are hearing that's a major component and keeping the jobs here. we can tell you that president-elect trump and vice president-elec

by donald trump's election. online opinions moving offline. >> he doesn't like people setting fire to the flag because they're protesting him. he doesn't mind if someone stands up and complains about someone else. he doesn't understand he's a steward of how to do things in america to keep it open and free. >> with us eric bowling. eb and kg. that's what we call you around the building. you watch that every single night. we know that cnn colluded with the clinton campaign. they were seeking out questionso ask donald trump. they were feeding questions to hillary before a town hall. >> they got caught with their pants down and it wasn't pretty. that's all i got to say. >> that's very descriptive, kg. >> really. >> it's true. >> they were exposed for the hypocrisy. . they were a cnn clinton network. they were in the bag for her. they should hash tag every time they do a tweet, i'm with her. now they're upset because their candidate didn't win and they're trying to trash tack president-elect donald trump who has over

but there is no two donald trump. there is the campaign donald trump. we see this from the cabinet picks he's chosen. >> so payback is okay. >> it is more about being part of the resistance and being part of saying to the american people have your back. because like elizabeth warren said 2.3 million more votes than -- >> -- you say it's having your back. to others -- >> people just want to own up to the hypocrisy that is okay. but democrat have been talking about this non stop the last eight years. that this was a strategy. so i think that it is actually a good strategy and that is what democrats saw. because what happens is the president is the one who wins if there is bipartisanship. if democrats start working with trump people say oh washington is functioning and that is good for the president. i guess it's good strategy. electoral strategy. not good for the country. >> i don't think it's hypocrisy. important difference. the question is what is the agenda the president is pushing. barack obama's agenda was basically largely taken from a republican pl

>> 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

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>> well, this is donald trump's style, right? he goes after anybody that -- who attacks him personally, and this deal with carrier is something that has some holes in it. and has there's still questions to be answered about it. states make these deals a lot but they don't always -- the companies with which they make the deals don't always necessarily come through. in nevada a few years ago the state gave away about a billion dollars in tax incentives to tesla to build a big factory outside of reno and there was a report just yesterday in one of the las vegas papers that showed that tesla has not hired the number of people that they said they would have hired by now. so you have to keep an eye on these deals as they go forward. because the company will still get the tax break, not necessarily having to keep all the jobs in the state. >> because you know companies are in the business of making money and we should never forget that. rebecca, mr. trump said that mr. jones was any kind of union boss he would have kept those jobs in in

to me that's an opportunity for donald trump. this has been a very nasty cycle with a lot of strong feelings on all sides, acrimony, bitterness, and yet hopeful is the number one answer from the american people. if he can capture some of that and move forward, he can maybe gain some more political capital, to your point. and the other one, 68% of americans believe donald trump will repeal obamacare, that has to be a priority. >> jobs, jobs, jobs, he said in the speech in wisconsin, steve, and today he met at trump tower with the tech community, a summit in which he said we'll do anything that you need, give me a call or give somebody in my administration a call if you have any issues. >> yeah, he said there wasn't a strict chain of command. call in and we'll take care of you. look, he's made very clear that he wants jobs to be a priority. one of the things that we've seen him do early in his pre-presidential period is the pr of jobs. and whether you're talking about carrier, whether you're talking about meetings like this, this i

when donald trump takes office as president on january 20th. you saw not just his tweet, but the brief statement yesterday. these are the public comments he made so far on russia. the decision for him now is will he reverse the sanctions or not? in doing so, will he upset members of his own party in congress who want to see not just sanctions, but tougher sanctions or does he anger vladimir putin by keeping them in place. we are in this interesting-week period of almost a dayitant or a pause between donald trump and vladimir putin with what happens with the sanctions. both are interested in maintaining or building a relationship with the other that is a policy position that raised a and outside of donald trump's inner circle. president obama played politics by coming out with the sanctions after the election and before he leaves office. the bottom line is despite maybe displeasure among donald trump's team that they do feel like they have been boxed in. they are. this is a difficult political situation for donald trump because he doesn't have a

now, what selections donald trump makes, donald trump is going to make. >> don't tell me. tell speaker gingrich. >> listen, you are asking me and i'm telling you. if i have the opportunity to speak to newt, i will speak. it's interesting, but there are -- you saw kellyanne conway, who i love, had some interesting words and then these are obviously much stronger words by the former speaker. so there are some emotions flying. but it's important that donald trump as the leader of our party and that's who he is right now, that he brings this party together and brings everyone on board. some people aren't going to be happy. at the end of the day i think the ultimate selections are going to be the right discretiodiscretioselections for our country. >> amanda, i want to get your take on what you heard from newt gingrich. tell us how you really feel, newt, because in the end, when it comes to two of the four being floated in this reality show contest, mitt romney and rudy giuliani, if they don't get picked, they are going to be publicly shamed afterward. >> well, three points. fir

it was like old times last night for donald trump. the president-elect in vintage form on the first leg of his thank you tour, delivering an america first rally. calling on the country to come together. the president-elect revelling in the moment after three weeks of meetings in a trump tower boardroom. >> this is the moment, this is our chance. this is our window for action. this is the hour when the great deeds can be done and our highest hopes can come true. we're going to do it, folks. we're going to do it. >> so much familiar rhetoric. the crowds, i mean, this cincinnati rally looked and felt just like he was on the campaign trail again. those campaign events that helped propel trump to victory, the president-elect clearly in his element. we get more from senior white house correspondent jim acosta. >> reporter: true to form, donald trump pulled no punches at this rally here in cincinnati, doing the equivalent of an election touchdown dance. he promised to repeal and replace obamacare and build a wall on the u.s./mexico border. b

he threw his support behind donald trump. he is absolutely the right man for the job according to donald trump. you heard greg say he is a square peg in a round hole. >> greg had a cheery idea. i think it will be more interesting. >> it will be interesting. i think he thinks we will get tax reform. >>> escape from the war zone in aleppo delayed. a fleet of buses sabotaged. a live report coming up. ♪ i want a hippopotamus for christmas ♪ ♪ only a hippopotamus will do at the united states postal service, we deliver more online purchases to homes than anyone else in the country. and more hippopotamuses, too. ♪ so whatever your holiday priority, our priority is you. therthere is nothing typical about making movies. i'm victoria alonso and i'm an executive producer... ...at marvel studios. we are very much hands-on producers. if my office... ...becomes a plane or an airport the surface pro's perfect. fast and portable but also light. you don't do this 14 hours a day, 7 days a week for... ...decades if you don't feel it in

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donald trump >> gets 1,000 jobs in indiana. this is the kind of message, this is the kind of action we need. cnn and most of the liberal media are really keeping fanning the flame of hatred but i believe with his action, he will unify this country. host: eric, did you support mr. trump in the election? caller: sure, i am black, african-american, and i voted for him. so i supported him 100%. that's it. host: ok. karen is calling in from youngstown, ohio, on our democratic line. karen, do you believe that donald trump can unify the country? caller: no. he's a liar. he's an evil person. you just look at his apolicies that he's making. he's showing his entire cabinet with people from wall street. it's the opposite of what he says he is. he's not a man of the people. he's a man of the ultra rich. and that's who he's going to help. and i really have a problem with the media showing this clip of him repeatedly everywhere on your local stations to your national stations. you just see this clip of him with his rhetoric. you don't see th

clinton didn't win and donald trump did. they are looking at it in a political lens. they are not believing all the information and that is presented with this next thing. i believe they should be concerned with. he doesn't want anything and saying somehow his election is illegitima illegitimate. >> they are trying to use this and that is why he lost the election. he did an article. it wasn't all it was made out to be when you look at the blue wall states and the upper rust belt. she didn't even visit once even though donald trump it gone there multiple times. believes that it was a state she had locked up even though donald trump kept going there continuously and continuously. do you think it's fair to say no, this was about russian interference and releasing the e-mails and the comey letter cast doubt with voters who would have voted for clinton. >> in an election decided by less than 1/15 of 1% of voters, you can point to all kinds of things that may or may not have changed the out come. it has to be a multicausal explana

this is donald trump's party. this is donald trump's administration. while he's somebody that we can see already is willing to delegate, especially to mike pence, mike pence has emerged as a really powerful figure, this is his administration. >> dickerson: to offer a somewhat different perspective, i think about this through the lens of the past. if you think about jimmy carter and bill clinton, here were two figures who in a lot of ways were unconventional democrats. jimmy carter ran really an opposition to the democratic party in lots of ways. he was an idiosyncratic figure. his democratic coalition was very different from the democratic coalition, and he struggled as president. he was a governor from georgia georgia who came in without the support of the crackal democratic party that. was a disaster some would say. bill clinton, a very different situation. he ran as a pop list, as a new democrat. the trouble is there were no new democrats. there were no actual craw dres. there were maybe 15, 20, 30 people. he could not actually staff his administrat

president, donald trump. so putin trying very much to sort of cast aside the obama administration in the last few weeks of its government, and to look forward, ahead, to, you know, building ties again with donald trump and the administration he believes will be much more sympathetic to russia's cause. >> following this breaking news from vladimir putin that there's not going to be a tit for tat, we have yet to hear from the white house and yet to hear from donald trump. if he has anything new to say. but after, jessica, after the announcement yesterday from barack obama, donald trump's response himself was that he wanted to move on. do you think that trump is going to say more today? do you get a sense that he will? >> reporter: it's quite possible, kate, considering in the past 24 to 48 hours donald trump has been very viocal. stood outside mar-a-lago saying american shos get on wir their lives saying americans have bigger and better things to worry about and simultaneous saying he will meet with intelligenc

yesterday it was announced that bill clinton and donald trump spoke by phone. clinton was surprised that trump acted cordial on the call like it was 15 years ago. for clinton, raw

listen, donald trump is a nuisance quite frankly. he's outside the tent and only one president. >> he's your president. so get ready for him. >> hold on ben. he's not recognizing that. >> this is christmas eve guys. >> it's a nuisance more than anything. again, this is his narcissism that is driving this narrative. it wasn't an international incident. it was -- he wasn't commenting about nukes. i'm talking about barack obama. he was not getting involved in u.n. resolutions regarding israel. this is unheard of even though he is still president-elect. he has no power. hold your horse. be patient. you can make all the changes you want to make unfortunately come january 21st but for now don't undermine the president and don't be so arrogant as to talk about and try to negotiate issues that you're not -- you don't understand first of all and secondly, you're on the outside -- >> we got to wrap this up. everybody has got to take a breath and have their turkey and hug their children and go hug their families. and sing jingle bells and do wh

we have learned that donald trump is going to be donald trump. i wish i was optimistic as you are. >> i'm looking -- >> let's leave on an optimistic note to all of you. >> the people who go -- >> ten seconds. >> say they have reasonable conversations with him and he asks thoughtful questions. he needs to tone down his supporters. that's what he needs to do. >> i think that's what he was trying to do at the rally. thanks to all of you. merry christmas. >> merry christmas. >> we'll be right back after this from our abc stations. >>> that's all for us today. thanks for sharing part of your sunday with us. we'll be off next sunday for christmas but see you back here in 2017. have a merry christmas. happy holidays and a happy new year. >> the local democrat who was invited to trump tower on "inside story" now. ♪ good morning, everyone. i'm matt o'donnell. it is sunday, december 18, 2016. thanks for watching "inside story." and our guest this morning is senator chris coons from the state of delaware, the democrat. good morning, and thanks for being o

. >> donald trump doesn't come on my show. donald trump doesn't like me. he doesn't come on this show. i have no agenda here. i'm just saying it seems that you do. >> don't put words in my mouth that you know will antagonize people and make me unsafe. >> you want the electors -- >> no, you need to make sure that you understand what you're role is here. >> you want them to switch their votes, yes or no? >> what i want to do is get the information. what i want to do is not have you mischaracterize what i say so that i get even more death threats and more insults and more online attacks than i'm already getting. part of the reason that republicans won't sign onto my letter is some of them have said to me pointblank, i don't want to get that kind of blowback. i want a hearing. i want a briefing. i want a declassification. i don't want to get the threats. >> what i'm asking you though is do you want the electors -- >> don't put words in my mouth then. >> i wish i could get any accurate words out of your mouth. >> excuse me. you have many accurate words out of m

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

donald trump, breaking news, donald trump has won georgia. donald trump has won utah. now, these were states for two months they're talking about that we're even. and in fact, in utah i had this character that nobody ever saw before, nobody ever heard of him before, i said to my wife, that's correct, that's his name, he said evan mcmuffin, do you believe this? or something like that. i never heard of this guy before. nobody did. and the polls said he's even with donald trump. my wife said, she looked at the television and she said he's not even with you. believe me, he's not even. anyway, so we win. they all love melania -- isn't melania great? she's a solid rock great person and she loves you and she's enjoying herself, i'll tell you that. it's much better to win than to lose, do we agree with that? so utah, it gets announced very early, breaking news, donald trump has won utah. we didn't just win it, we look floored it. and evan, whoever this is, this person, remember he said we think we can win the election. we said but you're only gonna win maybe utah and you know

i do know that people who have criticized donald trump in various ways in the donald trump has tweeted against them have in turn receieived threreats, inclg death threats, from some of trump's followers. we do not want to have in this country that kind of chilling effect on free speech or on satire or any form of free speech. amy: we will be back with uc berkeley professor robert reich, former labor secretary under president clinton, in a minute. ♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we are speaking to former labor secretary robert reich, who recently wrote a piece, "trump's seven techniques to control the media." i asked about donald trump's response to what happened when ice president-elect mike pence attended the broadway hit "hamilton" shortly after the election. at the end of the show, an actor who plays ehrenberg read a message for pence from the stage. ,> vice president elect pence we thank you for joining us here today. we really do. we are the diverse america who are alarmed and anxious they were new adminis

there's no more coral to donald trump. not paying bills, attacking somebody as terrible whom you said just recently was wonderful he's done this all his life. you can be his friend today, his enemy next week. it all depends on the moment. >> he thought nothing well of barack obama until barack obama was nice to him then he thought barack obama was great. inside of trump world, there's the rumors that there are two camps, there's bannon world, which still shocks me someone like bannon could be near the white house, but he is. and pence world. do either of those camps feel concerned about donald trump's inability to control himself? >> for now the relationship between the bannon camp and the previous camp, the populists and the mainstream, seems to be functional based on my reporting. they're contributing to discussions behind the scenes about cabinet picks but that dynamic will be challenged next year once trump assumes office and he has to deal with governing, not just picking personnel. >> are they worried he can't stop t

something donald trump was an expert at. >> my father, donald j. trump. ♪ >> it was a setting that may have seemed more appropriate for a vegas act than a president to be. but on june 16th, 2015, in trump tower, donald trump had something very important to say to america. >> ladies and gentlemen, i am officially running for president of the united states and we are going to make our country great again. >> the 69-year-old billionaire real estate mogul had never held office. but now, he was going for all the marbles. beyond the announcement, one section of his speech got almost all the attention. >> when mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. they're bringing drugs. they're bringing crime. they're rapists. and some, i assume, are good people. >> this was not how candidates normally spoke. pundits announced his campaign dead on arrival. >> how should republicans handle donald trump? >> ignore him. he's not going to win the republican nomination. >> i don't think it's what the republican party needs. >> but trump kept it up, bangin

that's consistent with what we see donald trump do. in the 1980s, he was about one thing, getting his brand up and running. and when you were on the hot seat, it mattered how you look as much as and this plays into the job hunting process that he is unfolding. >> does that mean that qualifications for the position are taking a back seat to esthetics? >> yes. >> i'm happy that a mustache saved america from john bolton. that's good even though it comes up for the wrong reasons. i think it shows that he is a superficial guy. he rates women on numbers and not on ideas, but of looks. he is sexist and misogynist and whatever you want to call it. rick perry looks like he should be in government because he comes from central casting and the last two secretaries of energy have been nuclear scientists. they understand the hard issues that brings us back to the other tweet in which donald trump shows he knows nothing about bipartisan policy on nuclear arms control. everything is superficial and it's about impressions, impressions, impressions. go

donald trump on social media. here is what he said. >> between facebook and twitter i have more than 40 million people. that's a modern day form of communication. i get it out much faster than a press release. i get it out much more honestly than dealing with these reporters. >> on that subject. >> donald trump himself says things that aren't true all the time and he does get to use social media 24 hrs a day and continuesay those dishonest reporters out there. what do you do? >> i think we as reporters have continued to report the facts, to continue to fact check the president-elect especially when he becomes president of the united states. presidents have always been leap frogging the white house press corps to talk directly to the american people whether skipping and going to local media or now in the age of facebook and twitter going directly to the people. that is a challenge for us in the news business. i want to go back to something steve said. he called it a multinational corporation. boeing is headquartere

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

saying that right to donald trump. the office of government ethics has never called anyone brilliant ever. these interest tweets you would expect to read if president trump was already in office and his new appointee for running the office of government ethics was tweeting these things to him. this is what we would expect to get if sarah palin was running the office of government ethics for donald trump. and this is just the tip of the iceberg. it kept going. another one, including another bravo. oge applauds the total divestiture decision. bravo, exclamation point. oge, oge was going crazy over something donald trump never never said. he never said divestiture. divestiture means selling his business, getting rid of it completely, owning none of it. and then one. we can't repeat enough how good this total divestiture will be. and then as we discussed with your council, divestiture is the way to resolve these conflicts. and then oge is delighted that you've decided to divest your businesses. right decision. and then thi

donald trump is a deal maker. he's going find places he can adjust honorably and make deals and i think he's done a good job. >> up next, agony in aleppo. reports of the children executed this their homes. our special report coming you have preponderance what's the best way to get two servings of veggies? v8 or a fancy juice store? ready, go! hi, juice universe? one large rutabaga, with eggplant... done! that's not fair. glad i had a v8. the original way to fuel your day. >>> a delicate cease fire in aleppo tonight. as families caught in the cross-fire have been desperately trying to escape. forces have shot and killed people in their homes including women and children. fred pleitgen is out front. >> reporter: syrian forces sweeping rebel held areas. their assault described this way by a u.n. spokesman. >> in these hours looks like a complete melt down of humanity in aleppo. >> the u.n. saying it has information that some 82 civilians, including women and children were executed by pro government forces during thei

donald trump, president-elect donald trump has now gone over the 270 threshold, will now be the next president of the united states. we heard democrats out whining over the weekend, everyone's fault that she lost. specifically donna brazile, you heard her right there. this is someone that leaked questions about debates and town halls to hillary clinton. does she even -- should she even have a voice going forward in the political debate? >> well, i think clearly she -- cnn believed this and they fired her. i like donna personally, i have known her for many years. we have ties going back to tulane and to new orleans. she is a wonderful human being, but she got caught up in something that really was to her disadvantage. i suspect she will not, you know, be there much longer as national committee chair. but the one that i think is far -- far more interesting is the campaign chairman who, remember, was in charge of a billion dollars, a billion dollars. had the incumbent president as his ally. had, you know, the national news media as his ally and they lost. he is looking for anybody they

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donald trump hit the nail on the head. this is an attack on humanity to upset and scare the world and the way it works. >> you cannot turn a blinds eye to radical islamic terror. you have to educate the public on the ideology that drives these folks, if you don't you won't be able to prevents that situation that occurred in germany here in america. angela merkel might have been "time's" person of the year, but this sheer she is in a lot of trouble. charles: it seems she is crest fallen by the notion that this is someone germany let into their country, open arms with the best intentions out there, and this is what happens. no good deed goes unpunished in the worst possible way in this case. >> i think that's one way of looking at it. i think she has acted irresponsibly in terms of the security of her people which knowingly admitting over a million of these folks from muslim nations, many in the middle east, with the certain knowledge that the islamic state among others has infiltrated into their midst people determined to e

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

this is donald trump's party. this is donald trump's administration. while he's somebody that we can see already is willing delegate, especially to mike pence, mike pence has emerged as a really powerful figure, this is his administration. >> dickerson: to offer a somewhat different perspective, i think about this through the lens of the past. if you think about jimmy carter and bill clinton, here were two figures who in a lot of ways were unconventional democrats. jimmy carter ran really an opposition to the democratic party in lots of ways. he was an idiosyncratic figure. his democratic coalition was very different from the struggled as president. he was a governor from georgia georgia who came in without the support of the crackal democratic party that. was a disaster some would say. bill clinton, a very different situation. he ran as a pop list, as a new democrat. the trouble is there were no new democrats. there were no actual craw dres. there were maybe 15, 20, 30 people. he could not actually staff his administration with people who represented

donald trump disagrees with that. you know, paul ryan has been a big proponent of joking for the institution of democracies across the country, across the world. he's called nato an indispensable ally and donald trump not so much, so i think that what we'll see is where there are differences the two of them will come together and they will decide what they are going to advocate together and what they will disagree on or not move forward and donald trump does not end up in a position that quite frankly barack obama ended up in where you have a republican congress that says no to everything that he wants, so they will have to give and take on both. >> and i think that's one of the consequences of having a unified government is that in a lot of ways paul ripe is much more likely to get everything he wants. i'll play a montage of what he wants and the way ryan has framed his desire to privatize medicare in particular. take a listen. >> give younger people when they become medicare eligible guaranteed coverage optionles th

that was donald trump more than six years ago. and it's been a consistent theme of his, as a businessman, as a politician and now as president-elect of the united states. this week china seems to be sending him a message. u.s. navy seizing a u.s. underwater unmanned drone in the south china sea and more flare ups like this are happening on a frequent basis. amy, what's going on here? >> well, i noticed your interview was in may of 2010, and as you mentioned donald trump -- >> you were 6. >> yes, i was a mere wee little child. and donald trump has been campaigning on china his entire life. >> he's been very consistent on that. >> i would not presume to advise the president-elect on china policy, but i would warn him that china is very willing to flex their military muscle. if you remember george bush jr. in the first month of his presidency had to face a china crisis with one of our navy jets got clipped by a chinese plane, it was grounded for ten days. for ten days seized our people -- >> happened back then. >> and even under bill

let's talk about the delicate relationship between donald trump, the president-elect, and donald trump, the billionaire businessman. the "new york times" is reporting that trump is thinking about handing the reins of his empire over to his two older sons, but here's the important part. he's also still planning, according to the "new york times" to keep a stake in the business. >> wait, there's more. we are learning daughter ivank achl might step away from the company and became an advocate for issues near and dear to her in washington. trump attorney michael cohen was asked about all this earlier. listen. >> i want to talk to you about what's going to happen with the business. >> rather not talk about it at the moment. if that's all right. i know everybody is concentrating on what he's going to do with the business. they will find out on december 15th, i believe he said he's going to make a statement. he's going to describe how business will be run in the future once he takes the white house. >> is there any truth to the "new york times" story that he may keep a stake? >> i'm not going

president elect donald trump has vowed to carry this out. listen to what he told wolf blitzer back in march. >> you recognize jerusalem as israel's capital and move the u.s. embassy from tell roos to jerusalem in. >> i'm going discuss that in an hour. but yes, i would. the factsy would like to see it moved. and i would like to see it in jerusalem. >> for more we're joined my cnn's orrin lieberman. and this is a high level endorsement, so what does it mean? >> it is a very high level endorsement from ron durumer who's the israeli ambassador to the u.s. one of the new members of a netanyahu's inner circle. what does it mean? it means they support wholeheartedly the embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem. he said israel hopes next year when the new american ambassador likes the minora to his embassy he'll light it in the same city where the mac bees lit it 2,000 years ago. one of the most sensitive issues. that's why the embassy hasn't moved yet. the u.s. has always left jerusalem open to israelis to palestinians. that is why such a move. moving to

donald trump? >> well, i think john mccain as a senior senator is focused on defense issues and i think he is a little exhausted about every question having to do with donald trump. i think he declared a moratorium today and he can get a little cranky, you saw that tonight. >> it would appear he doesn't want to talk about donald trump. phil, donald trump went there again and started the "drain the swamp" chant, specifically mentioning lobbyists. we talked about it earlier today, what was sadder, the republicans thinking the taiwan cell phone call was an errant cell phone call, but it appeared to be engineered from a great senator statesman from the republican party, bob dole. >> we're certainly not clear what happened here, certainly bob dole has said he was the person that made it happening. the trump campaign declared certain things differently at the front of the week. since donald trump won his election last month demonstrated that he is not draining the swamp that i think a lot of supporters w

election was intended to help donald trump in the election. donald trump calls that ridiculous. is that a likely scenario? >> the question i'm wrestling with at this moment, you look at the effect that this hack has had in particular, the argument that it may have been intended to help trump, it's hemming trump in politically, it's weakening his hand, he has less political capital, in one area especially, and that's building an administration that can engage with moscow. rex tillerson is going to be challenged on his ties with the kremlin. trump himself has been challenged over and over. if you're vladimir putin and looking to have a better relationship with the u.s. president, maybe you're intervening to get that to happen. what might they have been thinking during the campaign before they knew the outcome. one pobltd is, they expected hillary was going to win what they wanted to do was knock her down a few pegs. they wanted to do whatever damage they could do, and they did that during the campaign. here's another possibility. irrespective of what candidate won, they wanted to

electo donald trump, de vacaciones aquÍ en la florida. estÁ tratando de distanciarse de esta disputa diplomÁtica, que alguno analistas puede convertirse en su primer dolor de cabeza, cuando tome posesiÓn el 20 de enero. >>> eso sÍ le deja una papa caliente al presidente trump. porque va a tener la obligaciÓn de continuar con esa investigaciÓn. >>> trump, pudiera revertir las sanciones, pero de aquÍ a que tome posesiÓn, la casa blanca, podrÍa tomar mÁs medidas contra rusia. >>> en miami, angie sandoval, noticias telemundo. >>> 2016 ha sido un aÑo de noticias estremecedoras, sangrientos ataques terroristas en todo el mundo el aÑo de la recaptura del chapo guzmÁn y la muerte inesperada de juan gabriel. entre decenas y decenas de momentos. cual ha sido la noticia del 2016. rogelio mora-tagle tiene la respuesta. >>> las razones de sobra para recordar 2016 o querer olvidarlo la recaptura de joaquÍn chapo guzmÁn. >>> la caÍda del aviÓn donde iba un los jugadores brasileÑos. >>> para muchas personas el suceso que marcÓ este aÑ

donald trump has been talking this morning. we have been learning he is still not acknowledging this russian involvement, doesn't >>> we are back now with end game. donald trump has been talking this morning. we have been learning he is still not acknowledging this russian involvement, doesn't believe it. is there a danger here that they are overdenying? >> i don't think there is any problem in acknowledging that russia would like to destabilize this country and took actions to do so and to express you're rage about that. >> why isn't he doing that? >> again, because i think this story as it was presented this weekend mixed up these questions of whether or not russia was involved, but also the suggestion that somehow that made his election ill legitimate. that is what they are pushing back against. there's a benefit to them of separating it out. >> i think they will. i think they will get over this hurdle. they will make their case about -- as we saw reince do this morning. but i think at the end, they will because the tillerso

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