team trump, efforts to get the new administration up and running, apparently stalled, over fight between the top white house picks. a new reporting of the friction in the source of behind a high-profile departures from it. the president-elect just left trump tower without telling anyone anything. >> reporter: that is correct. his press pool was given a lid for the evening, which generally suggests trump isn't going anywhere. but trump apparently had other plans. he decided to go out to dinner without alerting some of his key staffers, as well as the press. and it appears to be yet another misunderstanding of a lot exactly how much gravity his new title as president-elect holds. if god forbid something were to happen to him, that's a matter of not only public record, but also a matter of national security, given that he is next in line to take the white house. but this does also, as you were pointing out, come at a time, an

interesting time for his transition team. a number of sources have noted that progress has essentially been stalled in the wake of a shake up at the top, but also with some of these different agency levels. now a high-ranking trump source insists that's not the case, that everything is organized and proceeding in proper fashion. so, we should get a better sense of that in coming days, anderson. >> and we only know where he is, because i think a reporter was in the restaurant that he actually happened to suddenly show up in, and sent out a photo, right? >> reporter: well, that's right. there are folks in this restaurant who put photos out on twitter. you know, i think this is the new normal, that no one famous can go anywhere without being spotted by someone else. and folks put out photos showing donald trump -- >> tell me about it. >> -- in this restaurant, to a standing ovation. that's how we know where donald trump is right now, but obviously not a normal situation when we're talking about dealing with a president-elect. whether the person likes it or not, you can understand, it can be a difficult thing get used to having a pool of reporters follow you everywhere.

but this is part of what being the president-elect is about. you no longer get to have the same level of privacy you did as a normal citizen, even if your life as a normal citizen was being a celebrity, anderson. >> the other big noise is jared kushner, his son-in-law, there are some reports that he's been at the center of this in-fighting over the transition team that's been taking place. is that right? because paul begala was on the last hour saying, it sounds like those reports are coming from somebody in the transition team, maybe who has an ax to grind or something. >> reporter: well, look, right, we're hearing jared kushner is at the center of a little bit of infighting in the trump transition team, but part of what we're also hearing is they're trying to figure out what they want to look like moving on to the next phase. while some are saying this was jared kushner's attempt to purge loyalists to chris christie, anyone who was part of chris christie's team, others are saying, this was just an effort to purge people who were lobbyists, people who donald trump doesn't necessarily want to be part of his administration after telling crowds of thousands that he was going to

drain the swamp. and this will be an interesting transition, anderson. because while drain the swamp is certainly a catchy campaign phrase, it's difficult to do that at the outset. you still need people who understand how government agencies work and how to run a government. and so i think we're seeing these sort of two philosophies hit heads right now, as they're trying to map out their transition team. what we do know is that mike pence was here with donald trump today. they were going over different cabinet positions, going over how to proceed. and mike pence will be in washington, d.c., tomorrow. he's actually going to be visiting their d.c. transition offices. so that could potentially give folks there a little bit more clarity on how to proceed. but in talking to people who have been working on this for months, they do say that this effort has essentially stalled amid all the shake ups. >> sarah, can you just explain the purging of -- maybe "purging" is too soviet a term, but what happened to chris christie? why was he essentially demoted from running this transition team? and why would anybody who he appointed be asked to leave as

well? is it a lack of loyalty? because win mean, he was an early -- he, he turned around to support trump. is it the bridgegate stuff or is it the relationship between him and kushner and what happened with kushner's father long ago? >> well, as always, it's who you talk to, right, who explains to you what the motivation would be for purging folks who were close to chris christie. some say it's because donald trump was not impressed with chris christie's loyalty or lack thereof, in the wake of an "access hollywood" tape or donald trump essentially bragged about grabbing women. other folks are saying, it's in the wake of the bridgegate scandal that chris christie simply was just too toxic, especially for a candidate who, you know, ran against hillary clinton, saying she was a candidate of corruption. and that he would drain the swamp. but, you know, others are saying that really, the reason for this is that jared kushner had this axe to grind with chris christie, and chris christie put his father in prison and that he didn't want any christie

loyalists around sort of shaping this transition. so there are a lot of competing narratives, and i think what this tells you is donald trump has always had these rifling power centers around him throughout this campaign. and there's no reason to expect that that would all of a sudden come to a halt, now that he's moving to the white house. he has had very strong advisers with very different views, and i think we're beginning to sort of see the ramifications of that when it comes to the transition planning. >> sara murray, a lot to talk about. thanks very much, sara. and as all that plays out, the controversy continues over the choice of steve bannon as his chief white house strategist. we were talking to glenn beck about that in the last hour. bannon served as his campaign ceo. before that, he ran breitbart.com, the far-right website and has been accused of using the site to essentially mainstream white nationalism. late this afternoon, departing senate majority leader, harry reid, took to the floor and took aim at bannon. >> if trump is serious about seeking unity, the first thing he should do is rescind his appointment of steve bannon. rescind it. don't do it.

think about this. don't do it. as long as a champion of racial division is a step away from the oval office, it will be impossible to take trump's efforts to heal the nation seriously. so i say to donald trump, take responsibility. rise to the dignity of the office of president of the united states. >> when you hear criticism of bannon and breitbart, it's usually in connection with what's become known as the alt-right. like many movements, there's no single agreed upon definition of just what that means, there's no membership card, however there are things to look for as our tom foreman tonight explains. >> we just won the lottery. we just stole america back. >> reporter: loud, assertive, often shocking, and never apologetic, the alt-right movement has been hugely energized by the election of donald trump. >> it's now time for the return of men. >> reporter: alt-right stands for alternative right, and it

refers to people who think traditional political conservatives are too timid, too tame, too accepting of the status quo, unwilling to engage uncomfortable topics, like that they call racism against white people. >> and that happens all the time to white people in black neighborhoods. they don't just get uncomfortable, they get screamed at. what the [ bleep ] are you doing in this neighborhood?! get out of here! >> the fact is, there's a demographic struggle going on. and it's real and i think we should be real about it. >> reporter: that's richard spencer, who coined the term alt-right. >> a fate worse than death. >> reporter: his website features a slick video, urging white people to defend america against multi-culturism. >> it's a country for everyone, and thus a country for no one. it's a country in which we, ourselves, have become strangers. >> the breitbart website, which has been tied to the alt-right movement, suggests alt-right adherents are mostly white, mostly male, middle american radicals, who are

unapologetically embracing a new identity politics that prioritizes the interests of their own demographic. so, when other americans protest the election results, the alt-right sees more of what they've seen all along, an ocean of enemies of white men and the movement never hesitates to attack its foes, whether they're african-american, latino, feminist -- >> is radical feminism a refuge for fat, ugly women who can't attract high-value men. the stereotype generally holds true, because they look like swamp donkeys. >> only a tiny slice of trump voters would likely call themselves alt-right, but many share the desire to disrupt washington. >> i love that voting him in is really sticking it to the establishment. >> reporter: and for the alt-right, that matters more than the man. >> this is about a movement. it's not about a demagogue. it's not about donald trump. it's about reinvigorating the

american dream. it's about ultimately saving western civilization. >> reporter: all of this is very disturbing to some folks in the rest of the political spectrum, and that's the catch. the more they are upset, the more the alt-right celebrates. anderson? >> tom foreman, thanks. back with our panel, jonathanuse the seeny is also joining the panel. over the course of this campaign, do you think donald trump has done or said anything that was a message to those in the alt-right? and i mean, glenn beck is saying the alt-right is maybe 1% of all donald trump supporters, if that. so we're talking about a tiny minority of donald trump supporters, but do you think he's done anything to encourage them? >> no, i don't think so. you know, anderson, one of the things that -- [ laughing ] >> i'm shocked that you said that. come on -- >> look, look, look, look. wait a minute. one of the things, and i'm looking around at my colleagues

here, is there anywhere here who's 25? i don't see anybody. >> i wish. >> my point is that these are people -- you know who they remind me of, at my age? they remind me of abby hockman and the yippies and hippies and people who went out of their way in the 1960s to yank their parents' chain, to deliberately, as it were, stick a digit in their face, they swore at -- they swore in rallies and marches and used the f-bomb and did all of these things, wore long hair. it was the deliberate march against the establishment. now, i am a reagan conservative. i'm not part of the alt-right. but i am beginning to look into it, there are people in there who are very serious about this. but there are people, in fact, who are doing this pull the chain routine just as my generation -- >> you're evading the question. >> hang on one sec, peter. jeffrey, they're doing more than that. you know that they're inspiring violence -- or, i think you know they're inspiring violence and serious hatred. this isn't just -- >> so did the left. >> no, no, abby hoffman and

those guy, when you think about pulling chains, that's different than people getting beaten up -- >> rioting in chicago -- >> anderson, they're not -- >> let him finish. let carlos finish. >> respectfully, jeffrey, you're conflating -- and i'm assuming you just don't know. but i would suggest you spend more time on the alt-right movement -- >> i am. >> i don't think -- >> can i -- >> one second, peter. i don't think you would compare them as easily to people just yanking chains, and that's why you have harry reid and other people even acknowledging that president-elect trump won, saying this is too dangerous, this is wrong. >> jonathan -- >> you sk asked a different question. you asked, did donald trump do anything in the campaign that would expire -- i would call them the extreme right, i think it's wrong to call them the alt-right. and donald trump promoted the birther movement -- >> which is not racist. >> it is --

i'm sorry. >> how do you get there -- >> if you think the birther movement which doubted whether president obama was born in the united states -- >> yeah? >> and that he was some, in addition, a secret muslim, is not racist, it's absolutely racist. >> so -- >> so -- >> again, whether this was said of chester allen arthur being born in canada, that was racist? >> allen arthur?! are you kidding me! is this a comedy show? >> john mccain -- let me give a second example -- >> i don't even know how to transition. i don't know -- okay, yes. >> i'll be quiet. >> the second example is, when you do -- and i'm not going to say he said "all mexicans are rapists" -- >> he mentioned illegals. >> all i'm saying, the question anderson asked, did he do anything during the campaign that inflamed people, that threw the red meat, that said, yes, i'm your candidate because i'm going to go after these people, that's a good example. >> what about a refusal to denounce david duke. we can go through this, but we

don't need to hash out all the ugliness of the campaign if we're really about what paul ryan said, moving forward, not moving backwards. let's, honestly, i say this as a republican who's deeply conflicted about the fact that now there's unified control in washington of republicans, but a man who campaigned in a way that is seriously undermined the principles and values of the party that i formally have associated with my entire life, this makes me sick to my stomach. this makes me deeply, deeply troubled about the future of the party. this is not advancement in terms of respecting every individual and every american. this is -- we are on the cusp of regression and this is not good for the country. this is, the closest thing that i can think of is what happened with the beginning of the john birch society. you had an active, fomented radically right fringe. and what the conservative movement then did, with bill buckley, as it was gaining intellectual steam was to draw

the line and say, absolutely not, you will not be part of this movement. and if trump wants to get anything done in washington. if he wants to have any credibility or any respectability -- by the way, remember, bannon told his editorial staff to destroy paul ryan. not -- more than -- >> i called for him to resign. >> he has to disassociate himself from bannon and this ugliness. >> no. >> this is -- this has been -- i wish that would happen, margaret. but let's not kid ourselves. this has been at the very core of donald trump's campaign from the very beginning. it's not like he had a well-thought-out policy agenda that was separate from -- the first day, his announcement speech was, the rapist comment, right? he followed that after san bernardino, the muslim ban. the false claim for days that muslims had celebrated 9/11. the attack on judge curiel. again and again and again. and people like jeffrey have come on again and again and again -- wait, let me finish. and tried to justify it by going to the absurdest contortions of logic, and i will say this, i

have seen a lot of republican presidential candidates. i have never, ever had the supporters of a republican presidential candidate flood my twitter feed with anti-semitism by the hundreds of tweets, like the supporters of this presidential candidate. it's getting out of control, jeffrey. >> and -- >> let me -- first of all, a, i do know steve bannon. this is a guy -- >> i was talking about trump, not bannon. >> all right, well, look. look, this whole anti-semitism thing, alan dershowitz, god bless him, who is joewish and a liberal democrat, was over there in jerusalem and gave an interview to breitbart and said, it is a big mistake for people to be pointing the anti-semitism finger, just because they disagree with somebody. steve bannon is a huge supporter of israel -- >> he could be an anti-semite and a supporter of israel. >> he partnered with andrew breitbart, who was jewish. he has one of these -- what's his name, milo yenopolis, who is

jewish and gay. he has joe pollack, the ceo of breitbart is jewish. >> i'm not saying he's an anti-semite, to be clear. i'm saying, something has been unleashed among supporters of donald trump, some of whom are connected -- >> but why? >> and there's a responsibility to try to stop this. >> but, peter, why? i would suggest to you respectfully that your party, which i've said many times, has at its core racism and has for two centuries, two-plus centuries, that you divide people by race, you divide them by ethnicity. this is what you do to fuel your agenda. and you've been doing it for all of history. and this is what you get as a result. >> anderson, this is -- >> we've had this discussion -- >> yes, yes, we have. >> do you want to respond? >> it is made-up history. respectfully, jeffrey, you literally are just making stuff up. >> carlos, we can read some books together. >> and we should probably start

with the books -- we should start with the books that margaret pointed out. that's a relevant piece of history. you were pointing out chester arthur from the 1880s. that's not relevant. that's not even -- >> as a republican -- >> that's clearly not what i'm saying -- >> you are concerned that this small group, this alt-right, if glenn beck is right, 1% or whatever it is, liberals have always attacked conservatives as it's very easy to call people racists and very easy to label people. and that's been something that conservatives have complained about for a long time. having the alt-right, though, makes it even easier. i mean, it can very easily -- >> what this also does, anderson, is it normalizes this behavior pinpoint normalizes this rhetoric, and it empowers that fringe. now they have an office in the west wing. that fringe has an office in the west wing of the united states. >> we actually just got to go, because we're so way over time. a lot more in the hour ahead, including one of the key figures who was asked to lead the transition team, mike rogers, we'll talk to him about what exactly happened and the stories about purging christie

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more breaking news tonight, for the second time in less than a week, a shake up in the trump transition team. mike rogers, who has been advising the new administration on national security matters is out, according to a source familiar with the transition, rogers got the news over the phone. he had been working for months on the pre-election transition team under chris christie. mike rogers joins me tonight. chairman rogers, there are differing accounts as to what led to your exit to the transition team. some are saying it was your choice, others are saying you were forced out. can you explain what happened? >> the timing is probably right, if they wanted to make a change, they clearly wanted to make a change in this regard, so it came down that it was time they wanted to go in a different direction. it was easy for me to hand it off to mike pence and his capable hands coming in. so i think that was kind of a combination. i think there is some confusion going on about a chain of

command coming out of new york. hopefully they'll get that settled pretty soon. i think they're going to need to do it, because as this clock ticks, all of these decisions become more important and you have to make them sooner, with a little more authority and a little more forward thinking to make sure that they don't bump into anything in the future. i think they're going to get there. i'm an optimist about that. >> when you talk about confusion coming out of new york, what do you mean? is it a difference of kind of vision? there's obviously, you know, steve bannon wing, there's reince priebus, as chief of staff. there's -- can you define the sort of, the various arms here or kind of perspectives? >> well, i mean, i'm an old school guy, aeshds. i think, you know, your chief of staff has to be the one or whatever title you want to give them, needs to be the one making decisions. they need to be held accountable for those decisions, but you need someone who can clearly make a decision. if you make those decisions via

committee, i don't care how small it is, it just adds to the difficulty. and i think they're going to get through this. remember, this is all kind of new. there's a lot of folks that don't have any experience in what this might look like. and that's no fault to theirs. as a matter of fact, in many ways, it's a plus coming into washington, d.c. but that's what the problem is. there's a little bit of a vacuum in clear chains of command. that will get fixed. i think this is just growing pains. i think people are saying it's in turmoil and collapsing. i don't believe any of that. i do believe that they just have to fix this chain of command, who's making the decisions, and make the decisions on behalf of the president-elect and nothing more than that. >> you also said that they're interested in going in a different direction. is that sort of a direction away from chris christie and people who are viewed as his supporters or people who were brought in by him as you were reported to have been? >> sometimes in politics, you know, in the palace intrigue, there are people who are in and

people who are out. and the people who have been asked to move on have some relationship with chris christie. in my case, i was hired by him. and so there's a whole series of about five of them that fit that criteria that were asked to leave in the last few days. and you know what, that's absolutely the campaign's prerogative. i hope they all stay engaged. i think the next administration is going to need all hands on deck. i think the world is a dangerous place, with lots and lots of challenges. and the right thing to do here is to make sure you have the best team available and the best advice possible, so that the president-elect can make that decision. again, growing pains, i think they're going to get through it. i'm an eternal optimist. my wife says it's a genetic defect, but i believe they're going to work this out, and they'll get the right team in place and get the right advice to the president to make a good decision. >> how important do you think it seems at this point to the inner trump team that loyalty is, or perceived loyalty? people who are there from the get-go, people who have been

through the ride with the candidate all along, versus people who are coming in, you know, in the latter days of the campaign, latter months of the campaign, or even now that east president-elect? >> you know, i think that plays into every candidate for office. sometimes your best campaign strategist doesn't make a good governance person in either your office or in this case, the presidency. and the president needs to make that determination. and that's where a good chief of staff can come in and sort of sort those things out. not just because they were there during the nastiness of the campaign, as i said, doesn't always mean, you know, they're right for position a or position b. they all have a skill set and a talent set that the president should taken advantage of, but, again, i wouldn't make a lot of it -- this is a human nature event, when you go something, through a campaign thaz so bitter and so divisive and candidly, so personally tough, i can see where the candidate says, hey, these are the five people, 10 people, 100 people i want to keep around me, because

i know how they're going to react when things get ugly. >> as someone who's seen how white houses can work or cannot work, what do you make of the setup right now, where you have reince priebus, the chief of staff, steve bannon, being said to be kind of basically on an equal basis as the chief of staff? can that actually work? >> no. i don't think so. this is one of the things i think they're going to have to figure out. >> so that's part of the issue right now, in terms of a lot of kind of confusion, you're saying? >> i think so. you know, listen, it doesn't work in a company. can you imagine having two or three ceos trying to make a decision? just the chaos that creates in an administration. it just won't work. the chief of staff's job is to implement the president's directives and take all of that massive a lot of information that gets thrown at the president every single day and make decisions. you've got to keep this machine going. and it takes somebody very decisive who can make that decision. the more complicated you make that, i think, the worse it gets. and i think you will bump into

something needlessly. doesn't mean that they can't have a role in the white house and an important role, the way that karl rove, as an example, came into the white house and provided strategic advice along the way, great. but he really wasn't engaged in the operational side of the white house. it would not have worked, had hay done that. so there is a role. i think they're just going to have to work it out. i think you're seeing a little bit of, oh, my gosh, we won, let's do this. and everybody wants to be the guy on the team. i think they can do that. i think they need to think through how they establish the command and control or the leadership guidance in the white house coming up. >> chairman rogers, thank you very much. appreciate it. >> hey, thanks, anderson. is said to be on the short list for white house press secretary. she's been a vocal critic of the news organizations and journalists. how would that play out in the press room? we'll look at that, ahead. ure and need cold medicine that works fast, the choice is simple. coricidin hbp is the only brand

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we have been talking tonight about the infighting over top appointments to the trump administration. multiple sources telling cnn that donald trump's son-in-law and close adviser, jared kushner, is at the center of much of it. now to some extent, every transition is surrounded by some

degree of intrigue and no shortage of speculation. perspective now from josh bolten, a nearly 20-year veteran of government service. >> josh, let's talk about the transition. some people have described it to cnn as a knife fight. is this just what happens in these kind of high-pressure situations. you have a lot of people competing for jobs. there's a lot of forces at work. is this the way it usually works? >> no, i don't think so. and i wouldn't read too much into stories about knife fights, even within the trump transition. that's what sounds interesting and is what people are most interested in, but, in the transitions that i've been involved in, and i'll bet in the trump transition, there's a lot of pressure and probably a fair amount of chaos, but stabbings aren't necessary or useful. >> when the transition team made the announcement of reince priebus as chief of staff and

steve bannon as chief strategist, they were described as equal parents. can that work? can you have two people at the top, equal partners? or does there need to be a clear chain of command, one person in charge? >> i think there needs to be a clear chain of command. and i was, i was disappointed to see the language in the press release that said equal parents. now, if what they mean by equal parents is that they are equally credible and important voices that the president will listen to, that's fine. it's very important for the white house to have a wide divergence of views and that they be well reflected of the president. they should have advisers that disagree with each other. >> there's a danger of having people that are all yes-men or are all in agreement? >> a huge danger. the president i served, george w. bush, he liked to have people disagreeing, and he liked to

have them disagreeing in front of him. >> a lot of people compare or talk about the george w. bush administration, comparing steve bannon's role in a way to karl rove's influence. and i'm wondering if you see any parallels or too much is being made about that sort of alleged parallel. >> i don't know bannon. i do know karl rove. and he's among the most effective and astute, both political and policy people that i've ever had the privilege of working with. i was chief of staff when carl was senior adviser. and so to go back to the point about equals, i don't think that president bush had any advisers to whom he listened more closely than karl rove. maybe more so than me, as chief of staff. and i was fine with that, because president bush empowered me to run the white house staff.

to actually be his voice to the rest of the administration. so that's the kind of relationship you want, between a chief of staff and any of the rest of the advisers. so -- >> so even if they have equal -- even if both have the president's ear, the chief of staff or like you with karl rove, the responsibilities have to be clear and delineated? >> absolutely. and if donald trump is the good business manager that many people say he is, he will recognize that and make sure that he empowers reince priebus to be the effective chief of staff that i'm pretty confident with the right backing he can be. >> there's also, just finally, people said that in his business life, donald trump liked to have sort of competing groups, competing with each other, and the idea that that would -- that competition would kind of create, you know, one would

rise, the best ideas would be formed. do you -- can the white house work like that? >> sure, it can. and i think a good leader does that, if it's competition in the sense of competition of ideas. have a good debate in front of the president. as chief of staff, i thought that was one of the most important aspects of my role was to make sure that the president heard the differences of opinion, the competing voices, even if they're not all in the white house, from around the government, from the hill. and that empowers the president to make a good decision. >> it's really fascinating. josh bolten, i appreciate you talking about your experiences and your expertise. thank you. >> thanks for having me. >> i want to focus now on a possible trump pick, who has made a reputation for being a fierce competitor in the war of ideas, some would say a take no prisoners competitor, conservative talk show host laura ingraham. she's under serious consideration to become white

house press secretary. she criticized the media at the republican national convention, she captivated the convention. more now from cnn's senior investigative correspondent, drew griffin. >> reporter: she's been a trump cheerleader from the start, echoing trump's call to deport illegal immigrants, repeating conspiracy theories about clinton e-mail cover-ups. and continuously blasting media coverage for its bias and connection to what she believes are the establishment politicians on both sides of the aisle. the day after trump became president-elect, a jubilant laura ingraham declared, "i told you so." >> absolute smashing rebuke of the establishment. >> reporter: now she is potentially poised to become part of a new establishment, the press secretary for president trump, the person who will take a front line against the press, that she has viewed with disdain. it's the media's job to demoralize and mock americans, she once tweeted.

and at the republican national convention, she chastised the media again. >> you all know why, in your heart, donald trump won the republican nomination. you know it. you know why he won it? because he dared to call out the phonies, the frauds, and the corruption that has gone unexposed and uncovered for too long! >> reporter: on the big issues, she was one of the first in conservative talk radio to agree with almost everything trump has said, including that thing about mexicans. >> yeah, they have come here to murder and rape our people. we know that. it doesn't mean everybody has, doesn't mean everybody who comes across the border is a nasty, horrible person, but they have violated our laws. >> and her media attacks have been most poignant against spanish-language network, univision and telemundo. >> these are hispanic centric networks that i think in many ways, and we've talked about this before, reviled the

american experience. >> michael harrison is editor in chief of talkers magazine. he's known inagraham for years, but trump might want her for another reason. handling the hostile press. >> the press is doing their job, there should be a degree of tension in the white house briefing room. >> reporter: what you may not know about the possible future press secretary is her much-more unusual personal life. a lifelong conservative once dated liberal journalist, steve olderman, was engaged to an anti-obama filmmaker, has never married, and instead has become a mom by adopting a girl from guatemala and two boys from russia. she survived breast cancer, and though still opposed to gay marriage, says her views on gay relationships changed dramatically watching her gay brother courageously struggle through his partner's battle with aids. she's syndicated on hundreds of

radio stations, is an accomplished author, michael harrison says if trump convinces her to leave all of that, it would be a huge deal. >> he'll be making a he can of a deal. she's worth a lot more. >> reporter: drew griffin, cnn, atlanta. >> just ahead, president-elect trump will take office with the supreme court seat to fill. during the campaign, he released the names of more than a dozen possible nominees. now we've learned there's a short list. details on that, ahead. ♪ ♪ is it a force of nature? or a sales event? the season of audi sales event is here. audi will cover your first month's lease payment on select models during the season of audi sales event. (bing)

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obviously, putting together a presidential administration is a heavy lift, no matter how smoothly your transition runs. president-elect trump and his team have more than 4,000 jobs to fill, including 15 cabinet positions. beyond that, there's an open seat in the supreme court, also waiting to be filled. pamela brown has more on that. >> reporter: a new administration, a new opportunity to shape the highest court in the land, starting with filling the seat of the late conservative giant, justice antonin scalia. on the campaign trail, candidate donald trump said scalia is the ultimate example of what he wants in a justice. >> i have pledged to appoint judges who will uphold the

constitution, to protect your religious liberty, and apply the law as written. >> reporter: cnn has learned there is a short list of potential nominees already circulating among republicans, pooled from the 21 names trump released during his campaign. including conservative judge, william pryor of alabama, who once said roe v. wade was the, quote, worst abomination in the history of constitutional law. president-elect trump in an interview with "60 minutes" signaled he may want his next nominee to overturn roe v. wade, which affirmed the right to abortion nationwide. >> if it ever were overturned, it would go back to the state. >> so some women won't be able to get an abortion. >> it will go back to the states. well, some -- >> they'll have to go to the another state. >> right now the court is evenly divided between four justices nominated by trm presidents and four by democratic presidents. but the ideological makeup of the court could shift

dramatically during trump's administration. >> if you have another appointment of another conservative like justice scalia for a seat currently held by a moderate or a liberal, i think you're going to see a lot of pressure on the supreme court to move to the right, to be more protective of religious liberty, to be more protective of, for example, executive power. to be more skeptical of particular kinds of discrimination protections in federal laws. >> reporter: three of the justices are over the age of 75. reagan appointee, and key swing vote justice, anthony kennedy is 80 years old. liberal justice stephen breyer is 78. and the leader of the liberal pack, the oldest justice, 83-year-old ruth bader ginsburg, who has been openly critical of donald trump. >> throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm, because you are not getting wet. >> reporter: ginsburg, who recently took center stage at the kennedy center last weekend, shows no sign of slowing down.

with one open seat and an aging bench, president trump has the opportunity to shape the court for generations to come. pamela brown, cnn, washington. >> joining us is npr legal affairs correspondent, nina totenberg, and jornl washington law professor turley. as far as nominating, as the process goes, i think people assume it's going to be easy for trump to get his choice confirmed. is that actually the case? >> well, remember, this is not a wide margin. even if he picks up the seat in louisiana, you'd have 52 republican senators. you can throw in on a tie vice president pence. but that is not necessarily a lead pipe cinch of a margin that you need as president, if you're going to put someone on the court, who has said that they're opposed so thoroughly to roe v. wade, that could -- you could end up losing a few moderates on

the republican side. but the dynamics are very interesting. because remember, two years of those 25 senators who will be up for re-election, most being democrats, 10 of those democrats are in states that trump carried by 55% or more. so those democrats are not necessarily guaranteed opponents to a nomination. >> nina, you know, donald trump has talked about justice scalia as being sort of his model, but finding somebody of that stature, whether you agree with him or not, his intellect and stature, that's no easy feat. >> no, and i think you would have to say that the list of 20 people that he put out during the campaign and that quelled a lot of the fear on the right, that nobody on that list is of the scholarly stature or the grand personality, in a way, that justice scalia was. and, in fact, the list is by and large people who range from very conservative to very, very

conservative. and one thing about scalia, he was very conservative. but he had a civil libertarian streak, particularly in criminal l law, that i don't think anybody on that list has. >> professor turley, you've seen that list as well, what do you make of it? >> i think that nina's correct about the absence of the libertarian element to it. justice scalia did, in fact, break from the right on critical civil liberties cases. he's also somewhat hard to replace. you can disagree with the things that he wrote, but he was a genuine article. he had a profound sense of what he believed the constitution meant. and he's one of the few people who said that he changed the court more than it changed him. but i think that's the key for this nomination. they're looking for someone who's going to be a guarantee. there's this expression of the suitor factor. i think a lot of people in the trump administration do not want to risk another david souter, who will prove more moderate or liberal, depending on your perspective, after he is confirmed. >> in fact, they don't want

somebody like john roberts, either. and john roberts is very conservative, but he committed the cardinal sin in the view of many conservatives, and that is, he voted to uphold the >> i think i would slightly disagree with nina, which i try not to. there are people on the list that i think have great potential. i wouldn't say that president obama selected intellectual leaders. i'm not saying he doesn't select good justices, but justice soto mayor, was not on the top of any list, or justice kegan. they're very qualified and i don't see the difference between president obama and president trump and there are people on that trump list, that are very substantial minds and reliable conservatives. >> there are some people who want donald trump to nominate somebody young so they will remain on the court for a long period of time. >> presidents of late like to do that.

so if you look at that list of 20 and you knock off anybody who is let's say 60 or older, and anybody who's particularly wrong and not very seasoned you'll get a list of ten or 12 people. you can call that the short list if you want. i mean we're never going to know -- people have surprised us in life and in the history of the court, you know, earl warren, who was a great liberal leader, nobody expected him to be what he turned out to be. >> right. >> so, this is -- in some sense, you can't really foresee what's going to happen, but they want as good as they can of a guarantee. >> nina, jonathan, thank you both. i appreciate it up next on what sources are telling us about trump's son-in-law and the questions ivanka trump are facing about her company. cells that penetrate deep

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