donald trump. -- conscience, which means not voting for donald trump. -- conscience, which means not voting for donald trump. consci, which means not voting for donald trump. conscience, which means not voting for donald trump. conscience, >>> in 14 days, the 538 members of the electoral college will cast their votes for the president of the united states, the only votes that really matter. if they vote according to their state, donald trump will win. but at least one elector will not vote for donald trump. an elector from texas wrote a u.s. times op ed entitled why i will not cast my vote for donald trump. they have a legal right and duty to vote their conscience, i believe electors should unify behind a republican alternative. i pray my electors will do their job and join with me in deciding who that person should be. joining us now, a republican presidential elector from texas. how did you become an elector? >> i campaigned for it like most electors do across the country. >> and have you been an elector before? >> no, sir. this is the only time, and

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

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

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

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 trump got beat. he got beat by the union leader who was my first guest here last night. >> why can't they have people of modest means? because i want people that made a fortune! >> billionaire andrew puz nur is trump's pick for labor secretary. >> it would be the most fun you could have with your clothes on. >> machines are always polite. >> the man has created thousands and thousands of jobs. >> heading in the direction of the bosses, not the workers. >> there's new fallout after the president-elect went after a union boss on social media. >> trump has not changed his tone. he's punching down. >> he's just correcting the record. >> ha! >> yewe're not going to be the stupid people anymore. >> facebook has filed a patent to remove posts containing fake news and just after the nick of time. >> fake news can have real-world consequences. it's a danger that must be addressed and addressed quickly. >>> chuck jones beat donald trump. he shut him up. by trump's own terms of combat, chuck jones crushed donal

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

donald trump's plane is 25 years old. it was 20 years old when he bought it, because of course he can't afford a new plane. buyers like donald trump can replace their planes very easily by going to the used plane lot and buying something they can customize anyway they want. but getting a new air force one takes years, usually ten years. so the president who orders a new air force one is never the president who flies that air force one. today's was commissioned by ronald reagan who was flying a much smaller plane. george h.w. bush was the first to fly the current air force one. they have approved the funds for a new air force one, but there is still no order to manufacture them, so there is no order to cancel. if development proceeds on schedule, donald trump won't get to fly in the new air force one. maybe that's why he doesn't want it. it won't be available until about eight years from now when the current air force one is 34 years old. no one, not even donald trump believes that the president of the united states should

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

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

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

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

we are still waiting on donald trump. i want to bring in to the conversation our own blake berman who is standing by in cincinnati, ohio where there's going to be a big thank you rally in ohio tonight. we were just saying, blake, how important this is for him. it's important for him and it's important for voters and it's important to the process because it's going to put a little bit of pressure on anybody who might try and stand in the way. blake: and this is somewhat unprecedented, trish, at least for modern american politics. think about it. here we are here. it is december, november is gone. we are here in southwest ohio. i think you see the line over my shoulder there. this is about to start this thank you tour in about four hours from now. you might think it's late october or early november and the rally was going to get underway. this is a thank you tour. the president elect, mr. trump will be here tonight about four hours from now, 7:30, he will be joined by his running mate, the vice president-elect mike pence an

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

donald trump rejects the u.s. intelligence conclusion that russian cyber attacks were intended to interfere with the presidential election. a bipartisan call for investigation is growing. can trump simply dismiss the evidence. >>> intelligence test, trump spurns daily intelligence briefings saying, a smart person doesn't need to be told the same thing every day, but the briefs contain critical national security information. is the president-elect shirking one of the most important duties of the commander-in-chief? >>> russian relations. the clinton campaign now backs a call from at least ten members of the electoral college for an intelligence briefing on trump's ties to russia. now trump is believed to be favoring a ceo close to vladimir putin for secretary of state. is trump planning the biggest shift in u.s. ties to russia in decades? >>> and plan of attack. north korea's kim jong-un orders military drills and prepares for a simulated attack on the south korean leader's residents. is he using political influenc

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's lunacy, and donald trump's intemperate nature. but there will come a point where adults in the room say we're not going to give this child what he wants, especially if it's a 35% tariff which would be like a nuclear weapon going on in the wallets of middle class americans. it would raise the prices of consumer gods in a radical way. it would crash out our economy. a trade war is a doomed artifact of the trump promise, the architecture of the trump promises. but it's one that paul ryan and those guys, they recognize wha actually happens if you go to engage in a trade war with asia. it's like a land war in asia. it never works out well. >> and felix, tonight donald trump is blaming the workers for these jobs moving to mexico. and so this theory that he had, i'm going to put a 35% tariff on those companies that move to mexico, that -- the whole theory of that tariff is out the window now that he is blaming the workers. >> well, he is blaming the unions. this is him trying to carry out his republican base who love anyone bashing union

i appreciate it. >> thank you. >>> coming up, some of donald trump's voters want donald trump to keep his hands off their obamacare. and also later, a member of congress has a bill that would make it illegal for the president-elect to meddle in u.s. foreign policy. per roll more "doing chores for dad" per roll more "earning something you love" per roll bounty is more absorbent, so the roll can last 50% longer than the leading ordinary brand. so you get more "life" per roll. bounty, the quicker picker upper >>> the first bill we're going to be working on is our obamacare legislation. we'll get everyone access to affordable health care coverage. >> donald trump apparently spent some time today working on repealing and replacing obamacare. >> i have three of the greatest in the world today, cleveland clinic, mayo clinic, johns hopkins, three of the best in the world. they were amazing and have some really good ideas. we have to get it fixed. >> no word from don king on his ideas for replacing obamacare. demonstrates aren't the only ones who are concerned about the repeal of obamacare. so

steve: not fair to say that we saw donald trump coming or that people accurately predicted that donald trump would win it. donald trump himself said he didn't think he was going to win, on election night. the media got that wrong but a lot of people got that wrong, i think what they're doing now is trying to give people the sense that donald trump is not a legitimate president when he won the election. harris: what is the point of doing that by the way? steve: to damage him, to make him weaker. harris: he has problems he could solve, you take away the power to do that. why do you want to damage the person in charge of doing the job. rachel: it's i think that, you know, democrats think you get a participation trophy for these things and you don't, you lose. meghan: all the precious snowflakes, trump is our president, live with it. american cities are stepping up security following the deadly attack at a christmas market in berlin. measures we're take at home? >>> and despite berlin and recent attacks around the world, president obama is continuing efforts to empty guantanamo bay as much

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how did donald trump react? i asked his campaign manager, kellyanne conway, to take us back to the moment that many observers thought doomed trump's candidacy. >> who told donald trump about the tape, who watched it with him, what was his reaction? >> we were in debate prep and one of the members of the team came in and took some of us, a few of us out and shared it. we didn't have the tape for a long time. we only had a transcript. so -- anyway, you know the rest. donald trump decided he would like to put out a video apology and he did that night, and two days later was -- less than two days later was the second debate in st. louis, and he carried forward with that. i will tell you if you look at the polling, that incident affected donald trump's numbers much more significantly than the comey letter affected hillary clinton's numbers. that's just a fact. you can go back and look at the data. there was not early voting early under way on october 7th as opposed to what had already been banked by october 28th. a l

we heard donald trump earlier. now listen to current president barack obama talking about terror and the danger of giving terrorists too much attention. >> the terrorist threat is real and it is dangerous. but these terrorists want to cast themselves as the vanguard of a new world order. they are not. they are thugs and they are murderers and they should be treated that way. today's terrorist can kill innocent people. but they don't pose an existential threat to our nation, and we must not make the mistake of elevating them as if they do. that does their job for them. it makes them more important and helps them with recruitment. >> so, david gergen, as you understand, he's making a nuance point about the psychology of dealing with isis. contrast that with donald trump's view for me. >> they're both very good speakers but vastly different styles. a couple points. obama is cerebral. trump is primal. obama resorts to facts and logic. trump goes for emotions. i would call it the difference of logos versus pathos. it's

we're not going to see donald trump explaining himself. he doesn't believe he needs to explain himself, like vladimir putin. he thinks whatever he does is just fine. he sent a powerful message by having his children in that room. this opened up a world in which business people and government leaders now recognize if you want to curry favor with the trumps you do it through the two trump boys. if you are having a problem, they are in a position to blackmail you. and because they're not subject to disclosure laws and trump is not disclosing anything, we will have no idea what kind of deals donald trump's sons are making that are inimical. and the only way is to appoint an independent broker who has never dealt with the trump family and the broker to disclose what's happening. and i don't think we're going to see that happen, because donald trump evidently is highly dependent on the cash flow from these enterprises in order to maintain his life and that of his children. >> ron klain, the divestiture process, too, would be complicated, and it

donald trump is ready to be a different kind of president. he told time magazine he wants to see drug prices come down. of course that is on the heels of him striking up a deal with carrier not to move jobs overseas, as well as issuing this threat to boeing that he would cancel an order for new air force one jets. all of this as donald trump is building out his potential white house reading some new names in the mix today. his pick to head the epa. oklahoma attorney general scott prewitt. this could be a controversial pick. we're already seeing democrats seize on some of his past comments and call him a climate change denier. and he has questioned the impact of course on climate change in the past and he's been really in lock step with donald trump on a number of issues, particularly being critical of epa regulations that effects the coal industry. i think we could e expect to see a little billionth bit of democratic push back from him on the hill. and formerly the ceo of the wwe is trump's be pick

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

many tech ceos headed to trump tower to meet with donald trump. we are talking people like tim cook, sheryl sandberg, elon musk, jeff bezos among the many coming to trump tower today. notably one name you will not see on the list, you will not see the twitter ceo on the list. not invited to this meeting and will not attend. notably, many of the ceos coming to the meeting today were very vocal on the campaign against donald trump. we know on the agenda will be jobs. one thing also in the mix is a briefing that donald trump has now received from his incoming national security adviser, michael flynn. you may recall, carol, that it was reported that trump was only on average receiving one of these pdbs, presidential daily intelligence briefings, per week. now we know according to transition officials that michael flynn is indeed himself getting one of these each day and now he's giving president-elect donald trump one three times a week. carol? >> sunlen, i also understand there's news of donald trump jr. and his involvement in naming picks for trump'

whether it's because of donald trump we can't say. what we can say, though, this fund was set up to invest around the world in tech companies and tech startups. and would you have to say if you're looking around the world for technology startups, technology investments, you have to go to the united states. you've got silicon valley there. you've got the home of so many incredible tech companies. so it may well have been planned in that direction before that election result. >> but also as you point out, andrew, that a big portion of that money is coming from saudi arabia, and that is a nation that donald trump has been highly critical of in his many speeches. andrew stevens live for us. thank you for the reporting. >>> here at home -- fire officials in oakland say they still don't know what caused the fire that ripped through the ghost ship warehouse over the weekend, killing 36 people. investigators are said to be looking at a malfunctioning refrigerator near where the fire began as a possible source. authorities say one of the witne

. >>> donald trump got beat. he got beat by the union leader who was my first guest here last night. >> why can't they have people of modest means? because i want people that made a fortune! >> billionaire andrew puz nur is trump's pick for labor secretary. >> it would be the most fun you could have with your clothes on. >> machines are always polite. >> the man has created thousands and thousands of jobs. >> heading in the direction of the bosses, not the workers. >> there's new fallout after the president-elect went after a union boss on social media. >> trump has not changed his tone. he's punching down. >> he's just correcting the record. >> ha! >> we're not going to be the stupid people anymore. >> facebook has filed a patent to remove posts containing fake news and just after the nick of time. >> fake news can have real-world consequences. it's a danger that must be addressed and addressed quickly. >>> chuck jones beat donald trump. he shut him up. by trump's own terms of combat, chuck jones crushed donald

the major event here for donald trump. i want to begin with jim acosta who's "outfront" at that rally in cincinnati. and jim as you are getting ready for this rally here and trump approaching the stage, what more can you tell us about general mattis? this is obviously a very significant pick for defense secretary. >> absolutely erin and we do believe that donald trump is closing in on making that selection. but sources, as you said, are saying at this point this is who donald trump wants to be his defect secretary. the retired marine general james mattis. known as "mad dog". he was the chief of command. but he's going to need a waiver from congress in order to become the next defense secretary, talking to transition official, the last three weeks that over - general mattis has always been donald trump's top pick for defense secretary. and they don't think that getting that waiver from congress is going to be that big of a deal. but it a pierce the president elect is getting close to that selection but no decision yet. >> a

why would they want a strong man like donald trump in 123. >> donald trump who didn't realize when he was asked whether the russians had already gone into the ukraine, donald trump who thinks there could be some sort of accommodation with our ally bashar al assad. [ all talking at once ] >> i think we touched a nerve. i think we found a very, very hot subject. >> i can't believe the democrats are being hawkish under president obama. >> we're going to leave it with this, remember what president obama said to mitt romney at a debate? the 80s wants their foreign policies back. and he was wrong about that. >> coming up, call it a trumper can tropical. america's largest city now offering therapy for government workers stressed out over the election results and guess who's paying for it? ♪ if i can make it there i'll make it everywhere ♪ ♪ it's up to you new york new york ♪ liberty mutual stood with me when i was too busy with the kids to get a repair estimate. liberty did what? yeah, with liberty mutual all i needed to do to get an estimate was snap a photo of the damage and voila!

and chuck jones again is grateful to donald trump. he is amazed that donald trump was able to pull off saving 800 jobs. his particular point was at that announcement, the 1100 figure that was used was inaccurate and as a result there were several hundred members of his workforce who thought they would have jobs who don't. >> and it is interesting, jeff, because donald trump, i think it was a point paul already made but he's not responding to that particular factual -- to that fact or allegation. he's -- >> going after the credibility. >> he's angry at that. so he's poking at what a perceived weakness or whatever it may be. that is a little different than saying, well, actually no, mr. jones, here is what happened. it's no. you're lousy and you're partly responsible for these jobs leaving. >> well i just think that this whole thing is getting vastly overblown here. and again, donald trump is the only person who did this. the sitting president of the united states and hillary clinton had the chance do this. so this is the reaction. it i

and i was never a fan of donald trump's plans. what you said about carrier, just a few months ago, his plan was to make them pay a damn tax if they were going to move jobs overseas. i am not a fan of that as public policy. regardless of where you stand, it is 180 degrees out from the deal he cut with carrier. which is to promise that he will cut their taxes going forward. so i think sanders is right to call out that this is a perfect reversal from what his position was previously. as i said before, i am not for tariffs, but that is what he said he is going to do. he is doing the opposite. mark: there are a lot of flaws with this. i agree with critics that say that if democrats do this, it would have been heavily criticized for industrial policy. i will say this -- the notion of a president advocating for jobs, i think there is a positive there. the other thing is, people say other businesses will demand the same thing, but i do not think that is true. i think he now there will be a culture of doing the right thing, keeping jobs he

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

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

what's trump donald trump's turkey strategy? >> oh, i can't zhausz before he's the president of the united states. i know that he has discussed it and we're aware of it, but we're very respectful, eric, until he is the president of the united states and commander and chief starting on january 20th that we have a president currently. everything you just described about turkey is 100% krek and obviously the president-elect is aware of that and discussing that with leaders. he's made very clear too that as soon as he assumes office, he will be convening the leaders, secretary of state, defense, national security advisor and others. and he will be conferring about the strategies moving forward. >> can we play this up, talk about clearly vladimir putin, he's ticked off. he lost an ambassador. how has putin reached out to president-elect donald trump on this assassination yet? >> i'm not aware that he has. >> okay. let's move on to this one. now, there's some back and forth going on about a phone call that occurred on election night,

donald trump's not the president yet. and i hear the argument over press conferences and no press conferences. if he gives one, it will be one too many, and if he doesn't give any, it will be not enough. i think we have to wait for donald trump to become the president of the united states to continue to assemble his team, give him the due diligence of the time of when he is president of the united states. i mean, the armchair quarterbacks are ad nauseam after this race, with hillary losing and donald trump winning. so i would tell you that i don't -- i think if anybody in washington, including my good friend, senator lindsey graham and others think they're going to box donald trump in, that's going to be a mistake. and, i think we have to come to the realization that this is going to be the most unconventional presidency you have ever seen for the first six months in the history of the presidency. and we'll see how that works out. but right now, donald trump's backers are firm, they're still with him, they haven't left hi

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

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

she has called donald trump to say that she will not be president. >> even donald trump himself appeared surprised. >> as i've said from the beginning, ours was not a campaign but rather an incredible and great movement. >> voters certainly called for change in 2016. the test for 2017 is whether donald trump, a first-time politician and unconventional candidate and president-elect can deliver his promise to fix washington. >>> hello. thanks for joining me. merry christmas. i'm dana bash, live from washington, d.c., president obama and president-elect trump. the white house says there is one president at a time and president obama is the president of the united states. this comes as trump continues to speak out on a number of international issues contradicting the current president. cnn's tom foreman has the story. >> reporter: president-elects are expected to make headlines with their cabinet picks but donald trump is going a lot further, issuing statements on trade with china, talking about renegotiating government fighter jet contracts and calling the recent attacks in europe terrorism

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

donald trump, we know, wants to renegotiate the deal. we know his pick for defense wants to join him tonight. james mad dis, he says iran is the number one threat during the middle east. so what does this mean for the iran deal? you have five members of the security council, russia, china, european partners, too, the idea that russia and china want to renegotiate, extremely unlikely. u.s. allies in europe, you have loads of european companies who have already signed or are signing lucrative business deals in iran. do you get them on board to the same degree? it's difficult to imagine that coming together there are other ways that the u.s. can push iran. one thing that's been mentioned including by advisers to the trump transition is going after iran's missile technology. we've seen ballistic missile tests by iran, that's an area where the u.s. can apply pressure but tearing up that deal, renegotiating it with partners involved is difficult to imagine how that happens. >> clarissa, some interesting comments today from the german chancello

donald trump. so republicans are looking at this and thinking, will he use kid gloves against vladimir putin. that would be a legitimate concern. in the same way that this could present challenges, it also presents an opportunity. i think that's what donald trump is looking at here. here is someone who knows how vladimir putin operates, intimately knows how the russian government works. knows where their interests lie and oil is a big driver of their economy. he understands that. donald trump and his team are thinking here is someone whom they can really negotiate with. >> jeffrey, he spent his whole career at exxonmobil, ever since he finished college he was at exxonmobil all these years. to his credit, he worked his way up to the top. he has been there for a while. as a secretary of state, you have to do a lot of other things too. >> right. but i think -- you know, this is a guy who disagrees with the president-elect on tpp, on the big trade deal. >> which the president-elect says he has already

donald trump. kanye didn't take questions from reporters and the purpose of the meeting isn't clear. so what do you make of it? >> so, i think that black people, particularly young black people, have a love/hate thing with kanye. he seems to have devolved from the kanye who stood before us and said george bush doesn't care about black people. remember that kanye? today's kanye seems like a troubled soul and for a lot of us we were less concerned about these optics and what they don't mean and we're like, what are you doing, kanye? have a seat. get yourself together. he is just getting out of a mental institution. he is in crisis. >> he was in the hospital for issues, yeah. >> doesn't that say more about donald trump. the fact he took the meeting in the first place? we expect kanye west to behave and act out like that. he's notorious for it. president obama called him a jackass in 2009. we know kanye west is a publicity hound and pulls these antics all the time but what the hell is the president-ele

president donald trump. only sarah palin days ago had been lobbying for secretary of the veterans association and now she is attacking donald trump over the thing donald trump think is the best thing he's ever done, making a deal with carrier in return for carrier moving 1300 jobs to mexico. donald trump says he got the governor of indiana, mike pence, his future vice president to make that payment to carrier, because carrier said there were another 800 jobs that it was threatening to move to mexico that it would not move to mexico if, if carrier was paid not to move those jobs. and so the trump/pence team came up with the extortion money to save those jobs. here's what sarah palin says about that. when government steps in favoring one business over others, it sets unfair press derng dent, meanwhile, the free enterprise system gets amputated. republicans oppose this, remember? instead, we support competition on a level playing field, remember? because we know special interest cronie capitalism is one big fai

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and nothing in our stocks for the weekend with donald trump. ask you about the tweets, talking about eric trump and calling it a suspension of fund-raising operations at his charitable foundation raising money for the st. jude's children's hospital, does amazing work as well as other children's hospitals around the country. donald trump tweeted that it is terrible that this shapp iis ha. this is horrible. doesn't he have a point to some extent that now his son is not able to raise this money for these kids? >> he'll have a continuing problem, continuing issues over the line between his family's interests and the country's interest and where there might be a conflict between them. we had a poll out showing a majority of americans say donald trump has not done enough to separate his interests, his family's interests, from those are the country's interest including one out of five trump voters. something i think some concern, not the biggest concern on people's minds, one of the things that alarmed some people about president-elect trump. there ar

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

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