hello. i'm wolf blitzer. it's 1:00 p.m. here. it's veterans day in the united states. wherever you're watching from around the world, thanks very much for joining us. as the day ticked down to inauguration, president-elect donald trump and his transition team are wrapping up efforts to form a cabinet and a government. in fact, huddling at trump tower in new york city right now. tweeting earlier today, he said this -- busy day planned in new york. will soon be making some very important decisions on the people who will be running our government. meanwhile, more anti-trump protests planned for later

today. for three nights in a row, people took to the streets in several big cities and college campuses. protestors wanted to make it clear they are very unhappy with the outcome of the u.s. election. not all of them why bay of peacefulness. in portland, oregon, quickly became violent as protestors confronted police throwing objects at police office, vandalizing local businesses and damaging cars. police arrested at least 26 protestors. cnn correspondent phil mattingly is outside trump tower on fifth avenue in new york city. phil, trump has had a busy day so far. tell us about what's been happening, who's inside right now? this transition process, obviously very intense? >> reporter: yeah. as one trump adviser told me, it's crunch time now. donald trump and his campaign apparatus realizing time to shift from campaign to governance meaning positions need to be appointed quickly. key positions like chief of staff.

top-line senior advisers in the white house should be coming soon, i'm told. who's who of the closest inside donald trump inner circle. jared kushner. son-in-law throughout the campaign. eric trump in there. jason miller, rudy giuliani seen going inside and out, considered a top prospect for a cabinet official. you talk to different trump advisers and senior republicans, wolf a question how ready this transition team was to kick everything into gear. i'm told it's a smaller transition team than what mitt romney set up in 2012, certainly smaller than what i heard hillary clinton set up but a transition team prepared for the moment. biggest holdup, the principal. donald trump has to start making decisions. something, wolf, we expect in the potential coming hours and certainly the next couple of days. >> we do anticipate that. what about security over there where you are? now that donald trump is president-elect of the united states, what's happening with

the security over at trump tower? >> reporter: it's ramped up in major way. look, one of the interesting things talking to law enforcement officials, they haven't been confronted with this before. a 57-story skyscraper in the middle of fifth avenue, one of thefares in the world. a constant presence, secret service up and down the building. new barriers placed around the building. secret service, talk to law enforcement officials are not comfortable with this. prefer he be somewhere else, at least at this point, no plans for donald trump to move out of this area. how the nypd and secret service continue to debate these security precautions going forward will be something interesting to watch, wolf. >> he also started tweeting a little more actively, donald trump. right now, laid off basically a few days and now tweeting and there seems to be some mixed messages going on. update our viewers on that.

>> reporter: exactly right. a couple people said, donald trump got his phone back. his twitter back. last night tweeting about the protestors. we've seen them all over the country, in front of trump tower the last couple of nights. a smaller presence last night bought constant presence. donald trump saying it was very unfair. thought they were paid protestors driven by the media. reversing course a little this morning saying he appreciated the passion and he was going to try and bring this country together. kind of an interesting reversal of sorts. wolf, also underscores this is a man now confronting the biggest job in the world, to kind of talk about what he's doing. not only tweeting a reversal, dealing with transition and calls with german chancellor angela merkel, and the french pra president hollande. everyone inside the future administration are starting to get their heads around that fact, wolf. >> phil, thank you. phil mattingly outside trump tower in new york city. let's discuss all this and much more with my next guest. texas republican congressman

jeff hensarling, chairman of the house services committee. thanks for joining us, mr. chairman. >> happy to do it, wolf. >> lots to discuss. i want to get your quick reaction to donald trump sort of mixed message tweets about the protests first criticizing the crowd then commending them for their passion. do you think he can stay on message right now, and what dot mixed messages say about his dee behavior in these days now that he's president-elect of the united states? >> if you would permit me to mix a message here, it is veterans day and he is an elected official, father of two teenagers, any veteran within ear shot of this show, thank you for your service and for making our nation free. with respect to your question, wolf, listen, people have the right. the first amendment, freedom of speech, the right to petition your government for the redress of grievances enshrind in our

constitution, but there's no right to riot. the president-elect acknowledged that and also acknowledged he knows he has to earn support of all americans. i think that frankly i wish more of them would listen to what president obama had to say. what secretary clinton had to say, and what incoming president trump has to say, and, again, nobody has a right to violence's they don't have a right to riot, and so, you know, president-elect sent out two tweets and i think the second one probably hit it where it need to be hit. >> let's talk about you for a moment. you know your name has been floated as a possible treasury secretary. have you spoken to the campaign about that? are they vetting you? would you accept that opportunity if officer erered? >> wolf, i have a great job and one i wanted in congress. currently my phone is not ringing at home or in the office. i would take the call.

certainly have the discussion. since in is veterans day, thinking how can you best serve oncountry? i'm excited about donald trump's economic agenda for america, fundamental tax reform, getting rid of bank bailouts and dodd/frank. having better competitive trade deals. i think i can do a lot to advance that agenda in the house. listen, for some reason our president-elect or his incoming administration wanted to talk to me about something else, i'd certainly have the conversation with them, but, again, the phone isn't ringing at the moment. >> waiting for that phone to ring. i know you're close to the vice president-elect, mike pence. he spent more than a decade in the u.s. house of representatives. have you spoken to him about what his role in the trump administration specifically is going to be? and potentially once again about your role? >> well, i'll trying to leave mike alone at the moment. so we've had -- we've had some texting back and forth. what i know about mike pence is

that donald trump chose an excellent vice presidential candidate who is now our vice president-elect and frankly has strengths where the president didn't. the president-elect. the president-elect has the vision, the passion, u.s. understanding the people. mike knows how to translate that into public policy into legislative language, help get it through the house, and yes, i've been very close to the vice president. he's a dear friend, ally when we were in the house together. that's something i think i can bring to the trump administration as well and whether i do that as chairman of the house of financial services committee or in some other capacity, listen, that's his decision. i'm happy to serve the president-elect, happy to serve my nation and my constituents any bway i can to best further free enterprise and the country. i couldn't be more excited. i'm a lot happier today than i thought i would be 72 hours ago.

>> a lot of people surprised. if the president of the united states asks you to serve as treasury secretary, maybe some place else, you would accept? >> we would have the conversation if the phone rang. like any job interview, you'd want to know what's expected of you, and how would it all work out? i just want to emphasize again i just got re-elected to be congressman for the fifth district of texas and expect i'll be chairman of the house services committee and what i've worked on can -- if the phone rang, again, i would have the conversation, be honored. it would be a challenge, but i'd be happy to have that conversation. >> i want to talk a little about the specifics of being treasury secretary, but our jim acosta is reporting that there's been some indications of in-fighting in

the trump inner circle. chris christie, the governor of new jersey, head of the transition team, wants them to be open to selecting so-called never trumpers. people, republicans who said they could not vote for donald trump, didn't vote for donald trump. what do you think? would that be a positive gesture to bring some of them into a new trump administration? >> well, i don't think that i'm going to advise the president-elect who he needs to surround himself with. i think, again, he has had a conciliatory tone. i know he knows he has to embrace all americans. i think he's off to a wonderful start and, again, i would just advise him to look at who can best help move his passion for getting government by the people back, to get the economy working for working people, and who that might be i don't know. that has to be his decision, but i hope and trust it will be

based upon who can best help him move the agenda the american people entrusted him with to get the economy working for working people and make sure we have government by we the people and not them the bureaucrats that again is, we secure our nation. we can't be a nation unless we have secure borders. my guess is he's already been conciliatory and i believe he'll be once again, as he looks for his cabinet selections. >> got one quick question. quick answer right now. if you were to become treasury secretary of the united states what would be the single most important issue, policy, you would want to see advance? >> well, i'm going to cheat and give you two. fundamental tax reform. repeal and replace of dod frank would get the economy working for working people. it will mean small businesses will thrive, consumers will once again have choices, get rid of the bank bailouts. nothing can say economic growth

quite like fundamental tax peal replaces dodd/frank. >> the chairman joining us right now. thanks so much, mr. chairman, for joining us. good luck. >> thank you. coming up, the outgoing leader of the senate democrats, harry reid. he goes off on donald trump big time. wait until you hear what he has just said. first, jane sanders joins us to talk live about her husband's future role in the democratic party. we'll speak with jane sanders, right after this. i took warfarin for over 15 years until i learned more about once-daily xarelto... a latest generation blood thinner. then i made the switch. xarelto® significantly lowers the risk of stroke in people with afib not caused by a heart valve problem. it has similar effectiveness to warfarin. warfarin interferes with vitamin k and at least six blood clotting factors.

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welcome back. with democrats out of power in the white house and the minority any both the house of representatives and the u.s. senate, the party is in search for answers and in desperate search for new leadership. former democratic presidential candidate howard dean is actually put his name in for the new chairman of the democratic committee. martin o'malley is also considering a run while others are backing minnesota congressman keith ellison including senator bernie sanders who was endorsed by ellison when running for the democratic presidential nomination. who will lead the democratic

party? joining us now discuss that and more from vermont is jane sanders. the wife of senator bernie sanders. jane, thanks for joining us. >> good to be here, wolf. >> all right. so senator sanders says he is supporting congressman ellison as leader of the dnc, the democratic national committee. because, he says, it needs to be led, i'm quoting him now, "by a progressive that understands the dire need to listen to working families." here's the question -- couldn't he be that voice, senator sanders, or at least play a leading role in the dnc? is he considering something along those lines? >> well, he's playing a leading role in the senate. and i think that everybody has a role to play, and politics has to stop being the cult of the personality. we need to bring more people into the process, not -- people all over the country into the process. but also more voices in the establishment, whether it's the political establishment or the

media establishment. keith ellison has been the co-chair of the congressional progressive caucus. he's a very influential and intelligent, articulate leader, and we think that he would be really good to lead the dnc. i think right now, wolf, we can't go backwards. we can't be looking at the moderate wing or the conservatives to try to -- we don't want to re-create the dnc of yesterday. it wasn't the right -- the right mix for this time. we need progressive leadership. not just at the top, but in the executive board and throughout the country. the dnc has about over 400 members. we need voices that understand what the reality of people's lives are. >> you don't think howard dean or martin o'malley fits that bill? >> i like them both very much. they're both very decent people, but that's not all we're looking

for any more. we're looking for people that have progressive intelligent, different kinds of solutions that recognize that we need to address the pain that people are feeling out in country. 15 states that bernie won went to trump. 90,000 people in michigan voted all the way down ticket, all the other races, but didn't say anything in the general election. in the presidential race. we'll see that all over country. people are hungry for new direction. i think that's why trump has won this election. they want change. the question is, what kind of change are they going to get? we need to, you know, we all know all over the country, all over the world, there are populist movements and some are very, very good, some are not so good and how america has judged them in the past is from a corporate perspective. my hope, my one hope with

president trump is he said he's going go there and he's going to represent the working people. we need to find common ground on issues such as trade and globalization, and jobs and infrastructure. we hope to find common ground with him on that. and then we need to fight him back on some of the other areas that he's talking about. today is veterans day. our veterans, we owe such a debt of gratitude to them. they have fought for our democracy, which means that people of all races, ethnicity, backgrounds, are equal. nobody the less than. and they're treated with dignity and they feel safe in our nation. so those the two common approaches we need to really fight for. go ahead. i'm sorry arrangements technical question then i want to move on.

senator sanders still i think is listed as an independent in the u.s. senate together with angus king of maine although they both caucus with the democratic party. does he now consider himself a full-fledged member of the democratic party? >> you have to ask my husband that. i am an independent. >> all right. i'll ask him the next time i speak with him ar that. clearly he must have influence in the democratic party. he ran for the democratic presidential nomination. >> he will. i mean he will have -- >> i'm sure -- >> he will -- yeah. >> i want to play a little clip for you, jane. in my interview with senator sanders last night i -- i had this exchange with him, and i want to play that clip for you. listen to this. >> but it never crossed your mind that you might have done better against him? you might have actually won, if you had been the democratic nominee? >> what good does it do now?

>> i pressed him a few times on that. he really didn't want to get into it. you're an honest, a very candid woman. do you think your husband would have had a better chance of beating donald trump than hillary clinton did? >> absolutely. but it doesn't matter. the election is over. what he has to do now is use his influence and work with people across this country to affect the change that they would have voted for had he been on the ticket, and they did vote for in the primary. despite all the irregularitieir. >> looking back -- >> so it's not about us. it's not about -- >> i understand. >> i'm sorry? go ahead. >> looking back with hindsight, it was a very, very close race between your husband and hillary clinton for the democratic nomination. do you believe it was free and fair that both sides had an

equal opportunity to get the delegates they need to get that nomination at the democratic convention? >> you know, wolf, that's yesterday's news. i mean, i think it's pretty clear that the dnc was on second clinton's side. we said that six months ago. so it was no surprise when it came out. when more information came out. that is not what concerns the american people. what concerns them now is whether or not they're going to get jobs. whether or not their kids are going to be able to go to college. whether they're going to be able to afford child care. whether the planet is going to be taken care of in terms of climate change. i think the next few months are going to show a lot of things to us. it will depend on what cabinet officials president-elect trump decides to put in. i mean he said he was coming down here to "drain the swamp." and he was going to not let the

corporate elite run the country anymore. our hope is that that part of his promise is true. that she not going to go and bring in all of the same old same old faces, but that he will be -- i don't know whether that's going to happen. the same with the dnc. >> quickly. >> the dnc's future -- >> very quickly, jane. >> -- balance. >> would you be open tore senator sanders runs again for the democratic presidential nomination in 2020? >> see? that's exactly the wrong question, wolf. nobody cares, except the political pundits. he is not -- he's concerned about 2017. he's concerned about our muslim population in feeling great fear right now. we're hoping that president-elect trump will give them a reason to not feel that any more. he's concerned about the fact that people are hurting, that the water systems in flint are

still not repaired. those are the things he's focusing on, and what happens in 2020 will happen in 2020. we'll talk to you in 2019. how that? >> we'll see. seems like a long way down the road. you know what? not too long -- >> no, no. we'll talk to you every day! we'll talk to you every day on the issue, wolf. every day, if you want us. >> all right. every day -- we'll continue this conversation. best regards to senator sanders as well. jane sanders, thank you. >> thank you, wolf. coming up, donald trump reportedly at odds with his family inner circle over who should be named as his chief is staff. who's he considering? what would each pick say about the next four years? stay with us. new information coming in. or fill a big order or expand your office

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the senate minority leader harry reid wrapping up a 30-year stay in the u.s. senate way stern message for washington newcomer president-elect donald trump. harry reid saying, let me quote him very, very tough words. "white nationalist vladimir putin and isis are celebrating donald trump's victory while innocent law abiding americans are wracked with fear. especially african-americans, hispanic-americans, muslim-americans, lgbt americans and asian-americans. watching while nationalists celebrate while innocent americans cry tears of fear does not feel like america. if this is going to be a time of healing we must first put the

responsibility for healing where it belongs -- at the feet of trump, a sexual predator who lost a popular vote and fueled his campaign with bigotry and hate." and bring in david gregory, and gloria borger and others. gloria, ever seen a statement like this from the leader of on opposition in the u.s. senate an the incoming president-elect of the united states? >> after a legitimate election, no. i don't think we have. i think at this moment in the country when you have protestors and everything else, you would think that a leader of congress would kind of try and put a lid on it and say, this is a transition period. we disagree. we're going to disagree in the legislature. we're going to -- we're going to, you know, do what we need to do, and then we're going to elect democrats next time around, and this is our fight.

instead, i think he's delegitimizing him to a great degree and that is exactly what democrats were complaining that republicans were trying to do before the election. >> it's in marked contrast of what we heard from the president of the united states, right behind us. in marked contrast to what we heard from hillary clinton. both of whom were very gracious in their words upon the defeat. >> i walked to one senior aide right after the statement and he said that harry reid is alarmed at it's rush to normalize donald trump which is the one reason why he's putting out this very, very aggressive statement. of course, harry reid not known for one to pull punches, visually attacks donald trump for months and months. hard for him to turn around and say that everything is okay. clearly, reid speaks to, i think, a lot of democrats that probably privately feel this way. reid, the fact he's retiring can say these things, a lot of

elected officials, chuck schumer, the president, also leaving office, and nancy pelosi not saying these things. politically, they want to look like they're going to work with the new president. >> and nancy pelosi and chuck schumer, new minority leaders in the senate. very gracious as well. >> not that they are going to look like they're work wig the president-elect. but believe in the democracy and intend to work with the president so government can be as effective as it can be. the contrast is striking. what you heard from the president and hillary clinton was a real love of our democratic institutions even after such a crude and divisive election that they could say, look, we've got to come together, we've got to van open mind. it's important. on the other side, there's no question that donald trump has to be accountable for the kind of campaign he ran, what he contributed to, to devolve and debase political discourse. he does have accountability now as the president-elect to speak to those elements of society who are afraid.

who are not just in disagreement ideologically but fear the consequences of him are. looking at exit poll data seeing people who voted for him felt he wasn't fit or qualified is something to really get your head around. he's got obligations and i think that he been trying to do that in some of the things he'd said. >> certainly in the oval office, generous to the president of the united states. you think in this public states he'll do more of that now to try to heal the country? >> certainly that's the task before him. he's being mag in a mones, showing we can come together, work together and harry reid, a famous pugilist, boxer in college, playing the bad cop. letting democrats still in office, still being elected, still need to work with donald trump say, okay, we'll extend and olive branch. harry reid saying there's a huge amount of work to do here. you've got a long way to go to convince people that you're going to be good at working with us and actually be sincere and

sending an olive branch. you've got a lot of work, buddy. >> a lot of tweeting. donald trump said great passion. turn this around. to the protestors. sore sor sorry. professional protestors. very unfair. k kellyanne conway, strikes me as the right -- >> got ahead of his wait -- aho twitter feed later. this is what we're going to try to protect and do. maybe we can work with donald trump on something like transportation and we can rebuild our bridges and our roads. but we're going to protect obama care. we're going to make sure people keep their coverage for pre-existing condition and keep their older kids on obama care, but this just kind of -- i understand why harry reid did it. he feels strongly, living in an alternate universe right now,

but there was an election, and you have to respect that. >> it wasn't a military coup. >> exactly. >> the whole notion of early appointments that the president-elect will make usually in a transition they announce who the white house chief of staff is going to be. critically important job. we're going to get an indication from donald trump about his direction once he makes that announceant. >> right. and the people under consideration will give a big indication what direction he wants to take his presidency, if he chooses a steve bannon, of course, tied to breitbart, so aggressively attacking all sorts of people, including republican leaders here in washington, if he twhaent route. it could cause a lot of problems within his own party. reince priebus, seen as a leading candidate, yes that could help with people in washington and maybe democrats, too. what about donald trump thing being an outsider, draining the swamp, the rnc, chief of staff a big question or maybe a newt gingrich. someone with a lot of reships

with republicans on the hill but polarizing among democrats. >> the people i talk to put bets on reince priebus, and might be out of their own self-interests, honestly, think they'll be able to deal with him. think back to the campaign when donald trump wanted to pick newt gingrich as his vice presidential pick. his family did an intervention say, no, no, no. should be mike pence. don't pick mike pence and they prevailed. not is not unlike what is going on now, however, i do believe the one question that donald trump has about reince priebus is, who's his loyalty to? is it to paul ryan? or is it to me? and i think that's a big question. >> he's going to have a big inside/outside game. the ultimate outsider, but i think trump wants to be careful about now appearing disorganized in starting the government. it's okay to be a little disorganized and pull it off in the campaign. here he's running the government and wants to be organized and is the ultimate change agent from

inside. >> meeting now in trump tower. we should know fairly soon. i'm guessing wirth dth day, thee house chief of staff. stay with us. turning to one of donald trump promises. repealing and replacing obama care. more than 100,000 americans signed up under the affordable care act on wednesday right after donald trump was elected president of the united states. that's the most in one day since open enrollment kicked off earlier this month. president-elect trump has said many times that among his first initiatives would be to repeal and replace the affordable care act shortly after he assumes office. our chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta joins us. how many are enrolled in obama care affordable care act and what would happen to them if. were repeopled and replaced? >> the first part of that question is easier than the second part to answer. first part, look at xristrict

number. 17 million people or so through exchanges now have health care insurance. probably a few million more young people, for example, who stayed on their parents' insurance now up to age 26. so the number 21 million valley what people attribute to the affordable care act. obviously people also have gotten insurance because of states that expanded medicaid programs. the second part of the question, wolf, is harder to answer. you could say, well, it's that number of people who would be at risk of losing their health care insurance, but it's more nuance than that. as you were talking about with your panel. people who got health care insurance and otherwise couldn't have because of a pre-existing condition. a big group of people who would be in jeopardy as well if something like this was repealed. >> and promising he's going to take steps quickly on this affordable care act, obama care. we'll watch it closely. there's lots at stake across the board. sanjay, thanks very much. coming up, after a bruising

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down, the only thing apparent was comey. the fbi director james comey. one thing too many. could not overcome it. let's discuss this and more. joined by the, by retiring democratic congressman steve israel of new york. he has often been a major player in the house democratic leadership. congressman, thanks for joining us. >> thank you, wolf. thanks for having me on. >> you think it's fair to place a lot of the blame, the last 10, 11, 12 days, on the fbi director colonely's announcement he would take another look at hillary clinton e-mail server issue? >> well, i think he bears some of the responsibility. i was in clinton headquarter as few days before the election, and we were looking at data that was very favorable. the comey announcement had kind of turned that data in a different direction. i can tell you specific congressional districts where hillary clinton was ahead of donald trump. after the comey announcement,

donald trump went ahead of hillary clinton. lots of factors and i think comey was one of them. the most important factor in my view, a serious conversation we democrats have to have with one another, is this -- how do we tap in to the historic, the acute, intense conversions of anxieties on middle class and working class voters and how do we do it constructively so that republicans don't continue do that destructively? one of several serious conversations that we have to have as democrats about our future, and about winning elections again. >> a cnn reporter, treporters talked to trump voter. why they voted the way they did. listen to two of them then we'll discuss. >> alone, just for me, look at almost 360 buck as month. >> 65 years seen a lot go on and so i just thought that there's this, maybe the first time i've seen snag we could actually change. >> got a notice the other day

saying my social security's going up $3.65. oh, boy. i can get a loaf of bread now. i worked all those year, all that money went into social security and i'm not benefiting really from it. >> you understand their concern, their anger. their frustration, and as a result, why they voted for the oirt outsider, donald trump? >> absolutely, wolf. what you just heard says it all. we are witnessing a perfect storm. convergence of anxieties i mentioned early. the economy is changing dramatically in front of their lies, local supermarkets disappearing. complete and historic breakdown in all institutions not just government but sports and religion and wall street. personal concern about people's safety, beheadings, what happens at the local movie theater and a sense that democracy has sold out the american people. you put that all together and it should be no surprise we witnessed the kind of anxieties

that played out in this election. i remind people hillary clinton still won the popular vote and we had record low turnout. so majority of americans do not agree with donald trump's agenda. he tapped into that anxiety and in a very effective and destructive way. we've got to tap into that anxiety, listen to it understand it and then we've got to have specific and proactive solutions tore the two voters that you just heard from. >> would you like to be chairman of the democratic national committee? >> would i like to be chairman of the democratic national committee? wolf, i was the chairman of the democratic congressional committee four years and grew about 4,000 new gray hairs. look, we've got a bunch of people who are jumping into this. here's what i think we need to do. we need to take a deep breath and do some deep thinking. we need to think about how we're going to resonate with those middle class and working-class americans. also we need have a conversation how we pivot back to local elections. we've got to learn how to win again in states and local

elections and do what the republicans did. they invested in local elections, seized control of state houses and goober in a tomorr gubernatorial elections, build a firewall. we have to play why in playbook and those are the conversations to have before we decide who the dnc chair is. we've got to decide what are our strategic itmperatives, we shoud be focused on that. >> are you open to being the chairman of the dnc? >> i want to focus -- look, i want to help my party. i'm retiring from congress as a democratic congressman. not retiring as democrat. i want to continue to have a voice on those issues, make my contribution. i haven't decided where or how . but i want to talk about those things i just enunciated, winning add the local level.

>> steve israel, congressman from new york, retiring. thanks so much for joining us. >> thank you, wolf. up next, president obama spending this veterans day here in the united states honoring those who served. his final message to our nation's veterans as president of the united states. [ male announcer ] at customink, you can create custom t-shirts and other great products for all of life's events. get free shipping and on-time delivery guaranteed. ♪ start today at customink.com.

president obama visiting arlington national cemetery on this veterans day here in the united states, laying a wreath at the tomb of the unknowns before delivering his final address to the nation's veterans and their families as president of the united states. >> present arms! [ "taps" playing ] >> on veterans day we acknowledge, humbly, that we can never serve our veterans in quite the same way that they served us, but we can try.

we can practice enkindness, we n pay it forward, we can volunteer, we can serve, we can respect one another. wherever the world makes you seek true humility and selflessness, look to a veteran. may god bless all who served and still do. and may god bless the united states of america. president-elect donald trump tweeting this, let me put it up there "today we express our deepest gratitude to all those who are is served in our armed forces #thankavet." to any veterans and their families watching us right now, let me add my vice, thank you for your service, thank you for your sacrifice. that's it for me, thanks

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you are watching cnn, i'm brooke baldwin here for my final day in our nation's capital. what a week it has been but on this friday, on this veterans day, i wanted to begin this hour with this. yes, we live in a divided nation and yes we have just witnessed one of the darkest presidential races of our time and even though i know so many of your emotions are still so raw in matter where you stand on the outcome, we're all americans and we're grateful to the men and women who serve and sacrificed for us so i wanted to take a moment to thank you for all