work together until trump's swearing in 70 days from now. but there are some signs of campaign trump coming back. so, our coverage begins with cnn's jason carroll live at trump tower here in new york city. good morning, jason. >> good morning to you. in front of trump tower where we've seen a number of protesters showing up over the past few nights. you know, there was talk, as you know, alisyn, that during the last part of the campaign, trump's advisors were trying to encourage him not to tweet so much. very clear that this is a man who likes twitter, likes to tweet. he tweeted about the protests. first blaming it on the media. this morning, trying to strike a different tone. this morning, president-elect donald trump tweeting, love the fact that the small group of protesters last night have passion for our great country. we will all come together and be proud. after calling the protests against his victory unfair, tweeting overnight that they are professional protesters incited by the media.

this as largely peaceful protesters across the country take to the streets for the second night in a row. the anger boiling over in portland. police classifying it as a riot. a stark contrast to the pageantry at the white house earlier in the day. trump speaking with president obama for an hour and a half inside the oval office. >> we talked about foreign policy. we talked about domestic policy. and, as i said last night, my number one priority in the coming two months is to try to facilitate a transition that ensures our president-elect is successful. >> reporter: the pair striking a conciliatory tone. >> we discussed a lot of different situations. some wonderful and some difficulties. i very much look forward to dealing with the president in the future, including council.

mr. president, it was a great honor being with you and i look forward to being with you many, many more times. >> reporter: kind words shared after years of and vowing to rip apart obama's legacy while out on the campaign trail. >> immediately repealing and replacing obama care. >> reporter: obama rebuking trump's run. >> he is temperamentally unfit to be commander in chief. >> reporter: but thursday it was all about respect. first lady michelle obama meeting over tea with melania trump in private. the president-elect ending his world wind tour meeting house speaker paul ryan and mitch mcconnell at the capitol. >> we had a fantastic, productive meeting about getting the work and going to work for the american people. donald trump had one of the most impressive victories we've ever seen.

>> i think we're going to do some absolutely spectacular things for the american people. we can't get started fast enough. and we're going to lower taxes, as you know. fix health care and make it more affordable and better. we're going to do a real job for the public and that's what we want to do and that's why we're excited. >> reporter: pausing to take in the view from where he will be sworn in 70 days from now. so, going forward, a source telling cnn that over the weekend trump will meet with his advisors and the focus will be in part transition planning and trying to focus in on those 800 or so positions that require security clearance. as for those protests, chris, more planned for this weekend. >> all right, jas, thank you very much. let's bring in republican congressman chris collins of new york. first member of congress to endorse donald trump. just had a big victory of his own. let's talk about the new normal. congressman, thank you for being on "new day."

two different tweets. >> thank you, chris. >> two different tweets and i was a little surprised that the president-elect was tweeting at all, to be honest with you. i thought that maybe that would end. but the pirs twefirst tweet bot with the protests. one, had a successful presidential election and now media are protesting, very unfair. another one. maybe donald trump is watching the shows this morning. love the fact that small groups of protesters last night have passion for our small country. we will all come together and be proud. which one of these two men will be our president, congressman? >> oh, again, i'll say one thing i believe america wants is we still want to see the real human being of donald trump. i don't have any problem if he tweets out. in fact, freedom of speech and peacefully demonstrating is something that's protected by the constitution. and then if it goes over the line and becomes, you know, what

we can see violent, well then there's another situation. so, you know, donald trump's expressing some opinions and you could look at this in a couple different lights from freedom of speech to if it goes violent, then people are breaking the law. it is, you know, disappointing that america, even these few numbers are not accepting that the results of this election because the tenor certainly in washington between the president, the first lady and the trumps. as well as other people reaching out from nancy pelosi. the tenor has been extraordinarily positive. it is just, frankly, unfortunate with these demonstrations. >> why isn't the unfortunate part, congressman, the first tweet? you know, it's not donald trump. it's the president-elect of the united states is saying these things now. i mean, right, it's very different. i am sure even you think what am i going to say as chris collins when i'm in one context versus

when i'm congressman chris collins. the president-elect didn't say, look, when protests go too far and they're riots, he didn't say that. he said these protests are professional. we have no proof of that. i was out in the ones in new york the other night and there were a bunch of kids out there and basically people who were angry about this. which is not unusual. donald trump, as you might remember in 2012 called for the exact same thing. a protest. a march on washington to protest the travesty of mitt romney losing and then he blames the media saying, we're inciting this. is that what we need from the president-elect, in your opinion? >> i'm not really going to express an opinion here, chris, because i don't know the circumstances. but, you know, i'll go back to the first amendment and gives thus right to gather in peaceful protests actually do send the message. violent protests, otherwise. >> yeah, i agree with you.

i agree with you. violent, violent demonstrations are not a protest. they're crimes. and they should be dealt with that. no opinion on donald trump saying the media is making this happen and this is all wrong. these are professionals. this isn't a protest. you have no opinion on that at all. >> no. i don't really feel i should be commenting on that. >> okay. so much for the fresh start. let's talk about something else you may want to comment on, which is, chief of staff. who he puts around him is very important. you said that a couple days on the show. steve bannon or reince prieus. what is the plus, minus on those candidates? >> reince priebus he has run an extraordinarily large organization in the rnc. he has to have a very good repore and had president-elect's back from the beginning. he knows how congress works and

all the members and so forth. he walks in with a lot of credibility with the members of congress and the senate. and, you know, good professional. on the other hand, steve bannon has pretty much, you know, decades of experience with mr. trump. mr. trump has to have someone in that position that he trusts implicitly. certainly a longer tenure relationship. i think the trust factor would certainly be higher. you know, i think the third person to throw in there is his son-in-law, jared kushner. he has all the traits. but, clearly a position that should be filled this weekend and like everything else, chris, there are pluses and minuses to each person and we know that all these people will have roles within the administration. chief of staff as we then start filling the other cabinet positions is as key as it gets. >> do you think it gets done this weekend? we'll wait and see.

in terms of not who, but what the president-elect goes for out of the box. do you believe that repealing and replacing obama care should be the first move of president trump? >> well, we can move things simultaneously. i think the first move is going to be signing and repealing or undoing many of the executive orders. that could be done extraordinarily quickly. repealing obama care, i believe, will be done in the first 100 days. you can repeal sections of it, not using reconciliation. i don't think the democrats are going to allow us, if you will, to just repeal it. they would filibuster that. but through reconciliation, the type of repeal we put on obama's desk last year that he veet eto. the replacing piece. we have replacement ideas and we have to make sure that we run that through the administration. that's going to take longer and, let's face it. it will be a transition. you don't cut it off on a tuesday and on wednesday say, here's the new plan.

insurance companies have to put out their plans for 2018. in many cases by april. so, we do have a timeline that we have to adhere to. and i think everyone realizes for the year of 2017, we're not going to be pulling the rug out from anyone. it doesn't mean that we can't repeal the 40-hour workweek issue. 30 hours versus 40. >> so, pieces, pieceses the whole. you think that is a possibility. because there is a question as to how you give people good, quality care at a low price without pre-existing conditions being a factor if you don't have a mandate, which means you don't have that insistence that the healthy and the young get into the pool, as well. so, you see it being piece meal, not wholesale change? >> well, it will be like the repeal we put on his desk. medical device tax, health insurance tax, employer mandate, 40-hour workweek.

we can do that through reconciliation. i believe the plans that people are now signing up for will be their insurance plans for 2017. there's nothing we can do today that would impact that. now, pre-existing conditions, we have talked in the republican conference about having, if you want to call it a high-risk pool that protects insurance companies and the other race payers from some very large increase because of the unknown surrounding pre-existing conditions. we recognize. we've got to deal with that. but i think the way to deal it and it's not set in concrete would be something like a high-risk pool and there would be some government subsidy going into that pool to protect the other rate payers from, frankly, the unknown. we'll keep the 25 and younger on the family plan so people don't need to worry about that. a lot of details to work out, but the main thing is, they'll keep their insurance plans for this next year, 2017. we may be able to, for instance,

let the insurance companies put forth some new plans through the year for small business that would have a different set of benefits because no question we'll eliminate that minimum set of benefits and design the plan you need for your insurance companies for your employees. you can always ease that in through the year, but there's no question, again, people don't need to worry that some time in march or april they're going to lose their insurance plan. >> right. so, you have to protect those who need the help most. coverage and costs will be the issues. devil's in the details. we'll cover them when you give them to us. >> you got that right. >> congressman collins, thank you very much for joining us. appreciate you, as always. >> good to be with you, chris. later this hour we'll hear from billionaire warren buffett. donald trump is calling for unity, but there are reports of several disturbing incidents already against minorities. this is just in the last two days. so, we will look at the fears

among minority groups in a trump presidency. that's next.

protests continue in the wake of donald trump's election. many demonstrators say that they're worried about trump's policies and that they'll have a dangerous effect on the minority community and they'll somehow fuel racial tensions. joining us now is aman a journalist at "slate magazine" and christina an advocacy group for immigrants. great tahave both o have both o this morning. >> thank you. aman the election did not go as you had hoped. how have you processed the last several days? >> i have not processed it. the news came suddenly and when it did i immediately got all these messages from friends and relatives saying, be careful. we've been here before and we know how to deal with it and keep an eye and don't be vulnerable? >> what were they trying to warn

you about? >> after 9/11 in new york city attacks against minorities, not even just muslims, people who might be considered to look muslim. that is a real threat right now when we have someone in the white house now. >> have you seen more -- have people said more aggressive things to you or do you see it or just fear it? >> as soon as the news broke out i went out to trump tower to talk to these people and confront them and try to understand their point of view. immediately people were saying things like, we need to peacefully separate ourselves from minority communities. we need our own country. one person told me that why can't we have our own country. why can't america just be white. we need our own borders and that is painful for someone who was born just a few miles away in new jersey. >> painful for all of us to hear that kind of sentiment. christina, how are you processing? >> united we dream is a network

of undocumented families and refugees all across the country. we're in 26 states. while we have seen in the last two days is fear. a deep sense of fear about what would happen with undocumented youth that are protected by a program that donald trump committed to end if he became president and it protects young people from deportation and people like my own parents who are immigrants of this country and who are undocumented. what we're also hearing is kids in school who look latino or who are immigrants that are getting bullied by their peers. >> we have a couple of examples of this. there's just some cell phone video that has come out. this, the first one is york, pennsylvania. this is vocational tech school. it's a high school. kids there carrying a trump sign and i don't know if you can hear the audio, they're chanting white power.

white power. here's another one, this is a middle school, a cafeteria it looks like. this is outside of detroit. and you can see here the kids start chanting build the wall. build the wall. build the wall. ayamann you say you have begun acting differently in public and on public transportation. what are you doing? >> i'm just trying to be very visible, to be honest. we can't afford to become an invisible minority right now. muslims need to be present and be vocal about their concerns and try to communicate with other people and explain what makes a muslim. the biggest weapon that donald trump has right now is misinformation. we saw him stand on platform and describe what he saw as thousands of muslims cheering on september 11th. and we need people to understand that muslims are american and muslims were affected by

terrorists. >> are you trying to be more conscious of your surroundings? are you feeling like you need to look around you more? >> yes, absolutely. for example, some things that i'm doing is i'm not wearing headphones any more in public. i like hip-hop a lot and i like music but i can't afford to make myself vulnerable. >> christina, there was a feeling, there was one way this could go and it could still go and that is the people who were angry in this country, who voted for donald trump. who felt disenfranchised and felt as though they hadn't been heard that they might feel empowered. it might have been healing on some level for them. but i know that your fear is that, no, they will feel emboldened. do you have evidence of that or is that just what you fear is going to happen? >> we have evidence of that. you know, there is a conversation right now about whether donald trump would actually implement some of the policies and some of the things he said on the campaign trail. and whether that will be true or not, right, like we can't predict right now.

but i think it is true that he normalized hate against muslims, against immigrants and against latinos in this country. what we're seeing right after it became clear that he was elected president. you know, i was getting more hate mail in my e-mail. my twitter it off the roof with comments saying pack your bags, go home, you don't belong here. >> you know what he would say. he wasn't saying that about latinos, he was saying that about undocumented people whom he calls illegal immigrants because he thinks that they should go home. >> well, what he was saying is he questioned mexicing a judge he had mexican heritage. i think the vision of this country that he has shared is a country hat is racially divided. he has normalized hate and i think what we need right now is for communities like ours,

muslims, immigrants, latinos and also whites to work together towards the vision of the country that it's different from what donald trump has called for. >> that is your plan to have more unity among these communities. we thank you for coming in and sharing your thoughts with us. obviously, we'll check back in with you throughout the coming days. let's get over to chris. >> thanks, a lisyn. president-elect changing his tone after tweeting professional protesters are being incited by the media and he also ditched the press pool. what are these signals we're getting for how president-elect wants to lead. we discuss next. for retirement. then we asked some older people when they actually did start saving. this gap between when we should start saving and when we actually do is one of the reasons why too many of us aren't prepared for retirement. just start as early as you can. it's going to pay off in the future. if we all start saving a little more today,

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mixed messages from the president-elect who has decided to take to twitter, once again. praising protesters and then saying that this is a bad thing, blaming the media. here to discuss cnn political analyst david gregory. we were waiting to see how trump would behave as president-elect.

he started off well and now these two inconsistent tweets. let's put it up about the protests saying these are professional protesters. this is the second tweet. the first one he said they're professional. there it is. had a great meeting, now professional protesters incited by the media are protesting. very unfair. also unfair because untrue. no proof that they're professional. no proof and it is odd, at the least, to say the media incited. then another one, love the fact that small groups have passion for our great country. we will all come together and be proud. analysis. >> mixed messages are the norm. i don't know what to expect from president-elect trump. what i do rely on, what got him to this position, he understood throughout this presidential campaign process that he has a way to directly reach those who support him. and that he can grow that base of support.

that he can influence opinion by reaching directly to them. so, grace notes. a professional demeanor meeting with the president of the united states. but then work in his crowd and say, look, when you turn on television and you see split screens with my advisors talking about the tranition asition and the media monitoring protests in the street, he wants to blame the media. blame the schism of two americas. i don't think that is going to stop. he continues to do it and has done it to a great effect. a divisiveness that works for him and also inconsistent with him trying to work the political class and work some consensus. >> reince priebus had a different entity to blame for the protests. let me play this for you. >> it is very clear at least in the e-mails that were released that we had the dnc, the hillary clinton campaign or someone in

between going to donald trump rallies and inciting violence. so, that happened. and, so, there are such things as professional protests. >> so, in other words, it's either the dnc's fault or the media's fault. why is it hard for them to accept that no, 50%, half of the country is not happy with the outcome of what happened on tuesday. >> well, right. there's not happy and then people who are deciding to protest in the streets. and those are two different levels of unhappiness. so, this is happening. right, this is a response. it should not be seen as a response to delegitimize the new president-elect because we have a process, we have a democracy and this is the result. but, you know, i think reince priebus can talk about professional protesters and the clinton campaign and stories from what happened during the campaign. do i think would they be better

doing what kellyanne conway talked about, having people to have an open mind. that's what hillary clinton asked her supporters to do. we see what's happening out there. >> when he puts out that first tweet you have to hold him to what he says and also give him a chance and see what he does. but, journalists will not yield. it doesn't matter what you do is popular or not, you're going to keep doing your job. so, what is the calculation for president-elect trump in terms of how he deals with the media. yesterday he didn't allow the press pool to go with him. do you think that is what he does? he eliminates tradition and sets his own standard and takes the war to the media every day? >> i hope he doesn't. but i want to add a little bit of context on this. every president, president obama did it, president bush did it. they try to find a way to get beyond the media filter and go directly to the people. and as technology has changed and social media allows to push

that filter aside, every president, republican and democrat, will do that. i think we ought to be careful not to make this kind of a trump phenomenon that he wants to go over the media. look y was a white house correspondent. i believe very strongly that you need access to the president of the united states. to be able to question the president. to be able to watch the president. to be there in case this goes back to president kennedy, in case the president, anybody tried to harm the president. that's why you have what's called a protective pool. so, i believe in that transparency very deeply as a member of the press corps. but i also understand that white house is going to try to get beyond that filter. i fully expect that this president and, again, not that much different than other presidents and democrats, too, will find a way to marginalize the media, blame the media and create a situation where the media is considered part of the rebellious left in this country. that is part of speaking to the people who support donald trump.

we are in a position in the media right now where we have to take a look at ourselves and, yes, hold him to account, but also take a look at our own arrogance and our own short sidedness that we didn't see all the energy out there that would create this result. >> what did you think as a white house correspondent what did you think of that meeting between president-elect trump and president obama yesterday? >> it was striking. if you study our history. you think about donald trump who rise on the back of a racist lie that our president may not have been born in this country and that could have led to a duel back in the days of alexander ham hamilton. we have a president who invited him in as president-elect to the oval office because the peaceful passage of power makes our democracy great and our institutions great and the presidency is something to be

revered. you saw two men that had never met before. the president in a position to influence donald trump and say, look, here are my positions and here are our programs. you shouldn't repeal this and you shouldn't repeal that and you saw, i think, president-elect also sounding like this is somebody he may rely on. we'll see what happens. >> i had a friend of donald trump stop me yesterday and say i know donald trump knows how to be the biggest man in the room. he knows how to rise above. don't judge him just by the campaign. we will wait and see. >> david, thank you. great to talk to you. president-elect trump to begin learning the nation's secrets through deeper, classified intelligence briefings. will that change his views on the conflict? we'll talk to military and intelligence experts next. healthy, free, the world before me, the long brown path before me leading wherever i choose. the east and the west are mine.

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as president-elect, donald trump is now going to get a presidential daily briefing. it's an in-depth look at the classified problems the country faces. let's talk about how that may affect him and what is going on going forward with the relationship between the president-elect and the military. got major general james "spider" marks, a cnn military analyst who is retired from the army. he's on the advisory board of academy securities. and mr. bob baer a former cia operative and author of "the perfect kill 21 laws for assassins." my 10-year-old loves that book, bob. let me tell you something. this report from "daily beast" that the transition team for the

president-elect is having trouble staffing within the intel community because of resistance to donald trump. do you believe that? >> oh, i believe it. but we also have to realize that this is an insurgency. i think washington, d.c., has got to brace itself the national security security establishment. very serious about this and they've got a list of people they want to get rid of. new policy. and very well briefed on places like iraq, syria, middle east, china. these people are not inexperienced and they know who they're going after. >> general, thank you for your service. thank you for the service of those in your family. we appreciate it. and we need it. thank you on this veterans day. i want to play you two pieces of sound that i keep hearing about from the men and women in your

community. here is the first one about him talking about what he would do. >> i know more about isis than the generals do. believe me. i would bomb the [ bleep ] out of them. i would just bomb those suckers. and, that's right, i'd blow up the pipes. i'd blow up every single inch. there would be nothing left. >> just political talk or is this something that you think is going to need to be reconciled right away? >> well, i think it's been stated that, you know, if you take him seriously, that's one thing. if you take him literally, that's something else. clearly, the electorate took him seriously, not literally. i doubt that somebody who is now the president-elect is going to come in and in a serious way have a communications, have a discussion that reflects what he just said for an entirely different audience. and, also, you know what bob just described is really the transition that takes place in this town as a matter of

routine. the lopping off of heads is not to be unexpected. however, to bob's point, you don't want to lop off too many heads at too many levels because that expertise and that incredibly deep, very precise granular detail of what's taking place in different areas and along different verticals, you can't afford to lose. so, there really is a path that we walked before. >> does the community rise above the intel community, bob, and just do their job not because of, but despite the political influences around them? >> oh, absolutely. there will be no push back from the cia and they'll fall in line. he'll get the full briefing, compartmental intelligence that he's never seen before and they'll have people who will explain this stuff to him. a steep, steep learning curve because your view of the world

change s drastically when you'r getting the presidential daily briefing. it just changed. stuff is incredible in this thing and you will change your views. >> give me another beat on that, bob. this notion that the moment the office can change the man in this case. how so? >> well, he's got to do a lot of reading. this stuff, you don't see it in "the new york times" you don't see it on cnn. these are intercepts of different communications and conversations and, you know, bombing the islamic state into oobl oblivion is not going to go over well with saudi arabia and turkey and you have a refugee problem which he's starting to deal with by now. if mosul goes very, very bad and you have a million refugees that will go into turkey, he's been briefed on this and he knows it is a problem. he's not going to do carpet bombing, i think his opinions are going to change on this. he's going to modify them.

he'll pick up the speed, but not like he's promised. >> second piece of sound, general, then, please, make your point in the context of what you're going to hear. >> sure. >> whatever happened to the element of surprise? why are they saying this? and then three months go and then two months and i hear in two months now it's one month and, finally, about a week, two weeks ago i heard, next week at about 3:15 we're going to start the attack. these people are stupid. they're stupid people. >> general, now, you well know there are very good reasons that certain messaging is put out and what is expected and what is understood. that is not as simple as what comes across in the media sometimes. certainly what we heard there from candidate donald trump. do you believe he will, as bob suggested, change once he gets the real deal from the real men and women in uniform? >> i don't know that he's fundamentally going to change his core, but what we see,

again, to bob's point and what we see and how we will interact with this new president will be through a filter of advisors that are absolutely essential. the sound bite, chris, that you just had is a classic example. multiple levels of surprise and there are levels of predictability. what you need in a commander in chief is a very pleasumeasured response and certainty in terms of what he, in this case, want to achieve strategically and above strategy at the policy level. that's what has to drive his messaging. at the tactical level, of course, we're not going to announce that at 15:30 on the 15th of march this will occur. that doesn't happen. what he is doing, he will begin to separate those two in very short order once he starts to immerse himself in this level of detail and the magnitude of what he is going to receive. i think bob made it absolutely guy. i was the guy early in the

morning that had to prept it to my bosses at different levels. it is oowners and intellectual . potentially the luxury of saying, you guys handle it. the commander in chief must be involved in the consequences, therefore, the decisions, therefore the details. >> and a candidate exaggerates the status quo to advantage. the president is going to have to own it and that's why you see a lot more modulation relacease. thank you very much. appreciate it. >> thanks, chris. >> okay, chris. up next, excuse me. the oracle of omaha weighs in on this presidential race. our poppy harlow spoke with warren buffett and brings us what he said about mr. trump's plans. also this sunday we have special cnn unknowns for you. tony bourdain will follow a shamed chef to his childhood home in japan and how he

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billionaire warren buffett came out strong for hillary clinton, donating his time and money to her campaign. >> so, how's he feeling about donald trump's stunning victory, and the post-election surge on wall street? cnn's anchor poppy harlow landed an exclusive interview with the oracle of omaha. wasn't too oracle-ish when it came to picking. >> right. i was just saying good morning to you guys. good morning, everyone. he was stunned. the oracle of omaha did not see this coming just like pretty much everyone else. i asked him a few things, especially you know the important question of even though he was one of the first big names to come out and support hillary clinton, does he support donald trump as president? he said absolutely. it's very important that every american does support the president. i also said, you know, president obama called you a lot for economic advice, if president trump were to call you on the economy would you help him?

he said no question, i would do that for any president. then he dug into specifics on the economy and what donald trump said he would do as president and he said things like 4% gdp growth year-on-year. it's not realistic. here's more. you are the eternal optimist. i mean you're the one who wrote the opinion piece in the middle of the great recession saying bet on america. >> absolutely. >> do you feel optimistic about america right now? a divided america? >> 100%. >> why? >> i mean, this is a fantastic country. in my lifetime, i was born in 1930, the real gdp per person has gone up six. here we were just about the most advanced country in the world when i was born and one person's lifetime, six for one. we have 57,000 of gdp per capita. family of four $228,000. they don't get it. but this system will produce

more and more stuff, and better and better stuff. >> the system works regardless of who -- >> the market system works. but it doesn't work for everybody. >> it doesn't -- >> it works in aggregate. >> let's talk about the market. long-term. the market reaction to all of this. to president-elect trump. what do you expect it to be long-term given the policy proposals that he's laid out if he carries carries through with them. >> you talking about storm? >> i'm talking about the stock market. >> stock market will be in 10, 20, 30 years from now, it would have been with hillary and it will be with trump. >> so all of these predictions that the market was going to tank under a president trump? >> they're silly. >> silly. let's dig into some of the proposals that donald trump has put out there, the economic proposals and your take on them. he has suggested, and proepd instituting a 35% tariff on goods imported from mexico and china to this country. a lot of business leaders say

that would cause a trade war. that would cause a recession. what do you say? >> well, i think it's a bad idea. a very bad idea. but i'm not going to say it will cause a recession. any time you start playing around with retaliatory type trade things it's very likely the other side is going to play, too, that's been the history. the problem for trade, and this is why you need what i would call an instructor in chief, as president, because, you cannot blame anybody that lost their job because their industry moved abroad because there was comparative advantage with some other country, you can't expect any of them to say, i'm for free trade because it helps the society as a whole. it does help the society as a whole. but the benefits are very diffuse. you know, i may buy the stocks i have, the underwear i have a few cents cheaper because of the

comparative advantage of some other country in producing it. but i don't get down every time i go to walmart and buy them i don't say oh, thank god for free trade. >> does it worry you then to hear donald trump say he will scrap nafta which he'll have the power to do as president? >> well we'll see what happens. it is true there will be with the republicans in control of the senate and the house -- >> you don't think he'll do it? >> well you know he has to get the house and senate -- he has to get support on it. there will be a lot of -- and this is not exclusive to donald trump, there are a lot of things in a campaign that don't happen after the election. >> donald trump ran on the platform of being a billionaire businessman arguing that that gives him the unique ability to help all of the americans, the millions of people who are struggling in this country who cannot get by on one job, who cannot support their family and they believe he is their answer. do you think that donald trump is a good businessman? because you certainly went after him on his business record during the campaign.

>> yeah. no he had -- he had some major failures, and he was very good at licensing. and he was very good at things that involved promotion of his name. actual operation of the businesses, in 1980s, 1990s, you know, left him essentially bankrupting companies. but he -- he understands business. but his record has been better at licensing, and -- >> than operations? >> than putting out his own capital. >> publicly fitted trump casino empire, no major u.s. company filed for chapt eleven bankruptcy more. are you concerned about his ability to operate big businesses? >> well, i don't have to worry about business at all. he's the one that has to -- you know, that's, that's, that doesn't really, in my judgment, determine whether somebody makes a great president. harry truman went broke in a haberdashery store near kansas city or in kansas city. he wasn't much of a business

manager. >> fascinating to hear from him. so what does the oracle say about the u.s. economy and the future? >> right. he is always bullish, the eternal optimist. but he did say to me alisyn that he believes the u.s. economy right now is, quote, slower than people think. and when he talks markets move. he doesn't think this will have material impact on the market. what he's saying is i just don't see in the 70 conditions that i own 2.9% growth last quarter. he said i think when they revise third quarter growth gdp it will be less than that. he said look at the railroads that i own. look at what we're shipping. it just seems a little bit slower. he did not say a recession is -- is imminent or anything like that. but he did say it's a little bit slower. >> buffett is buy and hold as strategy. >> yep. >> he has often used the expression you buy on fear. what is his take on trump and temperament and its effect on the markets? >> so right out of the gate we talked about temperament, and, and the president and i asked

him why he was such a big supporter of clinton and he said the single most important job of the president is to quote minimize the chances of weapons of mass destruction being used. he made the calculus of two choices he believed that clinton was the better option on that. and i said does that mean you think trump has bad temperament. he did not go that far, and i pressed him a lot on that. he said i think clinton led on temperament. it is why i was such a big supporter of her. he talked about the importance of the 3:00 a.m. phone call and what will happen. but this is our president now and he is supporting trump. >> poppy, thanks so much for sharing all those -- >> we wanted to see more of poppy's interview and she said no. an exclusive. one-on-one. and you have to see it on my show. so that's what we'll all due, "cnn newsroom" tomorrow afternoon starting at 3:00 p.m. eastern. there is a lot of news to get to. the president-elect is tweeting once again. what did he say? let's get to it. >> once again? >> i have been very encouraged

by president-elect trump -- >> just going to get to know each other. >> he is ready and working. this is really, really exciting. >> he's a hard guy not to like. >> i've got to demand that trump keep the promises that he made. >> it is important for all of us to now come together. >> i very much look forward to dealing with the president in the future. >> this is "new day" with chris cuomo, and alisyn camerota. >> good morning, everyone. welcome to your "new day." it is friday, november 11th, veterans day. we do thank all of our veterans today. 8:00 in the east. post election anger erupting again overnight a second night of protests in cities across the country. things taking a violent turn in portland, where a peaceful demonstration turned into a riot. donald trump responding last night on twitter with a mixed message. >> hmm. the men and women who were

celebrating today as vet advance, secure right to protest not to be criminals and riot. this in stark contrast to the unity we saw with president obama and president-elect trump in this white house meeting where they pledged to work together toward a smooth and peaceful transfer of power. it comes in 70 days from now. let's get to cnn's jason carroll live at trump tower. that's the place to be. what do you see? >> good morning to you, chris. trump tower where we've seen a number of protests outside here on 57th and fifth avenue. but not as you said in washington, d.c. where things were calm, where the president and the president-elect had their first meeting. trump saying the two men had good chemistry, going as far as to say that the president is a good man. this morning, president-elect donald trump tweeting, loved the fact that the small group of protesters last night had passion for our great country. we will all come together and be proud. after calling their protests against his victory