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you are the scene and newsroom. it has been almost four years since president trump walked out of the white house and we now know the next wednesday morning he will return and walk right back in. today the biden administration says the two presidents will be in the oval office four days from now and it will be a precursor to what should be a peaceful transition of power but the road to the inauguration may have a few bumps. cnn learns the former president has not signed the ethics agreement required by law for this transition. cnn's elena joins us live from florida with more. we also learned of former administration officials who will not be part of this next administration. tell us more. >> that's right . if this is any preview i'm sure you

remember , that saturday night news messages post on social media, we are back, and i think it is a good preview of what to expect when donald trump is sworn into office. he announced tonight not new hires but two people he said that will not be joining his second administration. that includes nikki haley and mike pompeo. i'm going to read for you a little bit of what he posted. i will not be inviting former ambassador nikki haley or former secretary of state mike pompeo to join the trump administration, which is currently in formation. i very much enjoyed and appreciated working with them previously and would like to thank them for their service to our country. now, some background information on where this is coming from, i have been talking with several of his top advisers. over the last week repeatedly and how in the process of them working on this transition stuff, and when it came to pompeo, i was told that

many people in trump's inner circle and his orbit believe that he did a really good job as trumps secretary of state and he deserved a seat at the table this time around. however, his relationship with donald trump is not what it once was. pompeo distanced himself from the former president after he had left office in 2021. donald trump has questioned whether or not pompeo would actually be loyal to him or if he could trust him . obviously, that is something that trump values above all else, and so many people were skeptical of whether or not he was actually going to be put up for top-tier job. now, one job that he had been floated for i'm told him and some people put his name into consideration for was the secretary of defense, but clearly that is not going to happen now. as for haley, donald trump has told people who he is close to that he appreciated that she got on stage at the republican national convention in july and

called for unity and ultimately supported him, but he still harbors a lot of animosity toward her for the attacks that she lobbed at him during the republican primary. it was a very bitter primary between the two of them, but then also that she had hung on so long during that primary and didn't drop out sooner. that is something that donald trump believes wasn't appropriate. that is where some of this is coming from. >> thanks for bringing us the context around this decision coming from donald trump tonight about who will not be in his administration this time around. 10 weeks left as resident biden runs the clock out on his term. from the incoming trump administration, we are being told that is what is happening behind the scenes. cnn has more on this. the trumpeting is already preparing these executive orders on energy and climate . what is the white house doing now the biden white

house doing to protect the measures it is enacted? >> sources have said that president elect trump plans to have these executive orders, populations willing to energy and environment like withdrawing from the purse climate agreement or trying to shrink the size of national monuments to open up more drilling on public lands. the biden administration is well aware that they can't protect everything that will be out of their control. trump and try to take them back. what they are trying to do is shore up their existing initiatives, try to get more climate grants and awards out the door , also, they worked really hard to finalize rules and regulations much earlier in the year so that they wouldn't be, congress couldn't question them, closer in those final weeks if they had rolled them out after the election. just on wednesday they actually announced that they were going to limit the amount of drilling up in alaska in the arctic wildlife refuge. this is a very pristine area where there are

many endangered animals, so that is something they want to protect from drilling. what you are seeing the biden administration across the energy, epa, climate initiatives , really trying to shore up and protect where they can , even though they are well aware that energy and climate is going to be one of those top targets for the trump administration. >> i want to talk about vice president kamala harris because we are getting a first clintonite of her. tell us about this. >> her and her niece posted a photo on instagram that shows vice president kamala harris playing with her grand nieces. you can see them there on the floor. she is wearing her howard bison sweatshirt from where she went to college and they are playing connect four. it's unclear exactly when this photo was taken, but i think it does show the connection she has with her family, which has been there with her throughout this entire process. we haven't seen vice president harris since she gave that speech at howard university the

day after she had lost this election. we will see whether we see her in the coming week at all at the white house, but this is really one of those first moments we have seen from her site so far. >> her niece talked about how this is where it all began because back in july, harris told the interviewer in july that she was apparently playing with her nieces and making pancakes. and so now she is resuming that. >> thank you so much. it's not just policy that is in for a major overhaul, the 2024 election also brings a reckoning for both political parties for democrats, questions about messaging and major disconnects between the party and its once reliable democratic voters. for republicans, the future is now, but the majority that voted for donald trump has high expectations . i want to bring in president -- brinkley. great to see you. the first hundred

days are critical for any president . what you think trumps first 100 days will look like? what are you watching for? >> i think one thing i'm looking at is what is going on with the ukraine and russia on wednesday , president biden is going to meet with donald trump and i am positive he is going to try to comment -- convinced trump to stay the course with zelensky to double down with ukraine, at least give them six more months, meanwhile biden is trying to arm them with missile systems as quickly as possible. the other thing , since the deportation of undocumented workers , i think for donald trump that is first and foremost on his mind . with hyperbole on the campaign trail, trump talked about 11 million undocumented workers being rounded up and deported. you are not going to get 11 million but there will be millions and that has to be project one for trump along with securing the border and then donald trump will sign every executive order he can possibly come up with, not all

will stick, but a lot will and that will get him rolling on those first 100 days. >> republicans now have the white house . to have control of the senate. the house is still up for grabs but the gop could win that too. what does history tells about parties that control both congress and the white house? >> abraham lincoln's favorite saying was , this too shall pass. the republicans don't want to get too ahead of their --. yes they want to do this crunch 100 days but time changes. these happen. midterms are two years away, congress from if republicans maintain, it's going to be by just a few representatives, so everybody has to stay the course, not panic. it's essentially a two-party system and with a question i would have is, who is the resistance to donald trump and the democratic party? we don't know what kamala

harris is going to do as the next vice president joe biden is at the end of his line. barack obama may try to play another statesman role. i think you will see governor gavin newsom being that television talking resistance leader for about six months, particularly when it comes to public lands and climate and then you will see the democratic national committee to a big rethink and start looking for who could be leadership in two years who can connect with the american public . there has got to be some humility on the democratic side. they lost badly. >> yeah, lots of lessons to learn from this past election, and you talk about how they lost badly. look at the working-class voters leaving in drones. especially white working-class voters leaving the party. how do they win them back? >> it's tricky. one of the reasons why elon musk left california and moved to texas is because of tax structure , yes, but also anti-labor union. in fact joe biden, when he was

promoting ev's , invited all of the electric vehicles and leaders to the white house and left musk out because biden wanted to be seen as prolabor, so musk is going to play an outsized role . he is talking about cutting federal government by a third. that is trillions of dollars. those are jobs. there will be repercussions. where are those cuts coming? department of education is a target , epa, perhaps agriculture and interior. anything that feels good democratic , whether president trump and the republicans , how they deal with the affordable care act will be interesting. trump might be happy putting it as trump care and reforming it a little bit and trying to get a win with that in the history sweepstakes, but nancy pelosi spoke out today and basically blamed joe biden for not getting out early, and not

along the field of democrats to rise. there is a civil war within the democratic party between pelosi and obama and the biden folks and also bernie sanders and aoc on a more progressive front. >> a lot of finger-pointing, but also the larger question, could any democrat have beaten trump in the climate right now? trump still hasn't signed an ethics agreement required for presidential transition. it includes a pledge bound to avoid conflicts of interest once sworn into office. but note, trump himself assigned this until lot in march of 2020. what is your reaction to that? does it have significance to you? >> it's typical trump gall. he has never believed in what is good for the goose is good for the gander. that is not a maxim he uses. i doubt he would sign that. i think he is going to want to assert a new kind of power of the presidency .

executive orders are really a more recent phenomena . we call it sometimes lincoln's emancipation proclamation executive order number one. but they weren't that much in the 19th century, but by the time you get different lindy roosevelt, you are getting 3700 and trump sees the power of executive power with the supreme court , which gives him immunity . basically the supreme court went with richard nixon and everett frost of the president does must be legal. trump is going to try to wait in an presidential power in a way we haven't seen . what is hopeful for the democrats , let's flip back to 1980 and see how ronald reagan took them up over. you know what reagan wanted to do? draw the public lands and extract and they put james watt as head of interior. he was gone shortly later because the public wouldn't tolerate the mauling of our natural resources in such a fashion and reagan had put in somebody like alexander haig as

secretary of state , this ultra hawk , only to fire him and replace them with a more moderating george schultz. things -- the doors of politics swing , but this is not good news for employees in maryland and delaware, and the district of columbia. there is going to be a big downsizing of the regulatory state. that is the goal of trumpism , get the federal government out of your life and as for those blue-collar workers, there has been bitterness over nafta, which was passed or embraced by bill clinton and george herbert walker bush, ross perot ran and got 19 percent in 1992 . jobs going to mexico, meeting the gutting of cities like milwaukee or akron and so trump means his tariffs but it's not going to be anywhere near as high a mexico or china. there was a lot of hyperbole by

donald trump on the campaign trail. that is going to get shrunk down to size . it doesn't mean it's not going to be ardent. >> there's always a question of what a candidate says on the trail and what will turn into policy once in office. we will be watching that closely. thank you so much . stomach still had on the saturday night, state and federal agencies are looking into racist texts sent to mostly black americans including children after the election. a suspect is in custody after a stabbing , what we know about the nine victims here in the cnn newsroom.

tonight federal and state agencies are investigating and trying to find the source of a slew of racist hate filled text messages. those were sent to mostly black americans right after the election. when mass text messaging service tells cnn it is artificial intelligence flagged and stopped when user from sending similar messages. cnn's rafael romo joins us. what more do we know about these messages? >> the messages appear to have been sent using free phone service and mobile data providers. one of these providers known as text now told cnn the company believes this is a widespread coordinated attack , the hate filled text messages have been reported in more than 20 states as you mentioned from new york to california and district of columbia. students from at

least three historically black knowledges and universities have reported receiving messages and according to nevada's attorney general office, the text appear to be robo text messages . one of the biggest questions here is, how is it possible to do something like this anonymously? louisiana attorney general told cnn that whether this is a single person or a group, they are using software to obscure their location, which makes it very difficult to track them. as you can imagine, this is causing great concern for those receiving the messages as well as parents and loved ones. >> this is truly disgusting and whoever is sending it is vile that no one should ever think to send that message or receive that message. it made me sick to my stomach. >> we do talk about politics. it's not something i hide from him because he is going to be a black man in america. i make sure that he understands what

the landscape of his adulthood could look like. the fact that it happened the day after election day, it really speaks to what i think is going on here. >> the naacp denounced the messages saying that they represented an alarming increase in violent abhorrent rhetoric from racist groups across the country who now feel emboldened to spread hate and still the frames -- flames of fear after tuesday's election results. we heard from president-elect donald trump's campaign and spokeswoman caroline leavitt who told cnn that trumps presidential campaign has absolutely nothing to do wiwith these text message . cnn has also learned another text messaging service called text spot was apparently able to stop a new user from sending racist text messages. text spot says it was thanks to artificial intelligence that

you really flagged the message and prevented it from being sent until they were able to conduct an internal review. the company says they then blocked the message and banned the user from their platform and this is very important, share the information with a local law enforcement and the fbi. >> rafael, thank you so much. stomach drums return to the white house can be credited in part to his inquiries from lack men cast their ballots for trump. omar gimenez looks at some of what motivated the change. >> have you actually noticed a shift among black men? >> definitely. >> what you mean? >> people used to say that the republicans were for businesses and democrats were for the regular working class. i don't think that is the same right now. i think maybe the roles

have flipped a little bit. >> lynwood holland is a republican board leader in philadelphia. this election he says he has more republican voters in his community than he is used to. >> i have been in some places were guys that i like what he is doing. and they might talk >>, too. it doesn't bother them when he is saying that. they like his macho image, i guess or whatever he is doing and they want to be part of something different. >> to be clear, the overwhelming majority of black men in pennsylvania supported vice president kamala harris for president and supported president joe biden in 2020. in 2020, based on cnn exit poll, 10% of black men in pennsylvania's supported donald trump. the selection, that number jumped to 26% in the state. the biggest increase of any of the swing states. nationally the shift was much smaller, going from 19% of black men in 2020 to 21% in 2024. >> have you noticed a shift within the black community just

in conversations you have had over the last four days -- years? >> from 2016 , there was quiet support , but it was groundbreaking to vote another way. in 2020 , it became more of a reality that there is an option here. in the next cycle, if that doesn't work, we do something else. but we can be permanently buried in the morass of voting one way for the rest of our lives. >> calvin tucker is a trump ally and chair of the philadelphia black republican counsel. he believes economic reasons ranked above anything the former president has said. >> you may misinterpret something someone says or you may -- i'm not voting for your attitude. i worked with people who have not been as favorable

to my -- to me as an individual. but at the end of the day, i can feed my family. >> we do know the economy was a top concern for a lot of voters in this election. those two voices in their profiles are necessarily representative of the majority of black voters here in pennsylvania or in philadelphia or of black women. more than 95% of them put supported vice president , harris and president joe biden. their answers do give a little insight to some of what we have seen from black men this election cycle, even if not the majority. cnn, philadelphia. >> still had for you, iran is denying the u.s. justice department's claims that it plotted to kill donald trump before the election. what we know about the plot and the men charged. you are in the cnn newsroom.

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welcome back . iran is not it had anything to do with the plot to kill donald trump ahead of the presidential election. the country's foreign minister called the allegations a malicious conspiracy and on friday , the justice department announced federal charges against three people including two u.s. citizens. one person is still at large in iran. former cia officer bob joins us now. he is also the author of the perfect kill , 21 laws for assassins. great to see you, bob. i want to get your reaction on this . how alarming is it, especially since it's not the first alleged attempt by the iranian regime? >> first of all the iranians

have 45 year history of carrying out assassinations and terrorist attacks and are all approved at the top. i don't know. i can't cite one word it was a rogue operation. i don't believe them. we have a wonderful intelligence on what the iranians have done over the years. i doubt this is a rogue attack. also, i think the iranians feel they are backed into a corner between israel and united states and they are looking at this as an existential conflict, which could bring down the regime and they are going to find ways to asymmetrically strike back at the united states , and of course the first primary target would be president trump. >> so the u.s. government has repeatedly warned on that note that iran may try to retaliate for a 2020 u.s. drone strike that killed top iranian general . how committed do you think

iran is to seeking that revenge , and you think these plots will continue? >> he was not a foot soldier. he was very important in iranian politics . probably equally as important as the supreme leader , so assassinating him in 2020 was a redline for the iranians. i wouldn't be surprised if they try to retaliate. pamela, what worries me is that we are drifting into a wider conflict in the middle east. it is already a regional conflict but it could get a lot worse , and if it turns out that we find out that he tried to assassinate trump, how can you go into the white house and pretend it didn't happen? i don't see it happening. >> there is still a lot to learn, but do you think the fact that trump will now be

backing -- back in office will change the threat at all? >> no, i think it is worse now. i think it is much worse. forget, these people work -- they were not the a-team. answer to iran in this country that know what they are doing. they have assassinated leaders and very effectively, and it is very difficult for the fbi to roll up all of these guys. there has been bits and pieces . we picked up certain amount of people and it has been in the newspapers, but i don't think people outside the government understand the full threat. >> you think it is worse now that he has been re-elected, tell us more about the why and how you see it. >> i think , for instance, if there is a decision made that the iranian regime is redeemable , there is going to be an but as for israel and the

united states to take out their nuclear facilities. right now, they could be six months to a year for a nuclear bomb. israel and the u.s. won't stand for it. the user really is alone cannot take out those facilities. there is a certain ground element . you have to put troops on the ground to get down into those bunkers, a very brief incursion by the way, but nonetheless, that is the risky part of it, it is not like going to war in gaza or southern lebanon. it is a real country with real deterrence. >> all right, thank you as always for israel spite against has a lot lebanon says 20 people were killed today after israeli airstrikes. more than a dozen people were also wounded . as for israel's war against hamas, it is suspending its role as a mediator in peace talks over a lack of willingness to reach an agreement. a diplomat familiar with this decision tells cnn has also decided to close the

hamas office. today, the idf said it dealt a severe blow to hamas after claiming forces killed 1000 fighters and captured 1000 more in northern gaza over the past three weeks. cnn chief global affairs correspondent matthew has more. >> the head of the israeli military says about 1000 hamas militants have been killed in northern gaza in the past three weeks. another 1000 captured visiting troops in the refugee camp area on friday. the chief of the general staff of the idf described those figures as quote, a significant achievement for israel and a severe blow for hamas. israeli military circle jabalya a month ago and launched a new ground operation forcing residents to flee amid heavy fighting. the operation was necessary because

it sees signs of hamas rebuilding in the area, despite your of heavy bombardment and two previous ground operations. meanwhile the un's children agency unicef says , at least 64 attacks have taken place against schools in the gaza strip in the last month. that is almost two a day. an estimated 128 people were killed in the strikes according to the unicef reports , many of them children. israel's military says civilians, including those in schools , are often used by hamas as human shields. united nations is also issuing a new and detailed report on casualties in gaza in the first six months of the conflict there, saying close to 70% were women and children. u.n. human rights chief said the reports showed that civilian casualties were a direct consequence of a failure to comply with fundamental principles of international

humanitarian law . the israeli military has yet to comment on the report. matthew chance , cnn jerusalem. >> still had the police arrest them and after nine people are stabbed over two days in seattle . what we are learning about the seemingly random attacks you are in the cnn newsroom.

some positive news today

from the front lines of the battle against california's mountain fire improving weather conditions are helping firefighters to contain the blaze. strong winds have died down and humanity levels have risen. the bad news, the winds that fueled the fire could return next week. the fire has destroyed more than 100 properties while burning more than 20,000 acres of land and the cause of this fire, it remains unknown. seattle authorities have arrested a man that they believe is linked to a 38 hour stabbing spree in the city's chinatown international district . police say the attacks were completely random and injured nine victims. national correspondent has more. >> police say that witnesses were able to give a description of the suspect and then verified the suspect after the arrest . authorities also saying they found a weapon in the area where the suspect was arrested , and they also were able to recover a knife that was still in one of the big

rooms. they will be able to test this and use it to verify their theories. this all happened within 38 hours in the chinatown international district , and we know at least nine maybe 10 people were stabbed. on friday, five people were stabbed and of those, one was treated at the scene and then released. the other four were taken to harborview medical center in critical condition. the hospital was able to stay on friday night that two of these victims had been upgraded in terms of their conditions to -- two others were in critical condition. unfortunately, four, maybe five other people were also stabbed on thursday , and again please believe the same person is responsible. take a listen to what authorities are saying. >> there is a similar description, the randomness of this . this is a horrific tragedy, a mass casualty event. officers located a suspect matching the description given

by witnesses . officers detained that individual , witnesses were brought by who look at that suspect and confirmed that was the correct person. >> you heard authorities saying they believe that most of these stabbings were random, but there is one stabbing that happened on thursday were police say a 60-year-old man was in his car and someone tried to forcibly open the door to steal his cell phone. i tried to stab him in the chest. he was able to block the attack and was cut in his hand , so again what they are trying to do is verify whether or not this stabbing is also related to the nine others , regardless, this has been extremely concerning for the people of this community, the people that live there and work there or even have to walk through this area. this is a horrific attack. >> certainly, thank you, camilla. mcdonald trumps a loyal base, how white man laid

the foundation for trump's win. you are in the cnn newsroom.

jumps victory this week wouldn't have been possible without one group in particular, young white men . that group has become a cornerstone of his base, even as republicans continue to lose support among women voters. joining us now to better understand how and why they have propelled trump to a second term is editor of gawker

and contributing opinion columnist at the new york times, elizabeth. thank you for coming on. you make the case in your recent opinion piece in the new york times quotes, on the long road to election day , no group of voters was more loyal to donald trump than young g white men. mr. trump offered an aggressive idea of masculinity which power over women is a birth right. how so in your view? >> trump is basically a walking avatar of an idea of masculinity that not only young white men buy into but is also dominant in our culture. it says that the good masculinity is masculinity that represents strict physical toughness mental toughness , resistance to adversity , and a lot of these things seem like they are good qualities but it also represents things like aggression or anything that might be construed as non-feminine. if you look at

the way that trump talks about himself, he he talks about himself as a strong man and tends to cast his opponents as being weak and he feminize as them, even tim walz who encapsulates ideals, he referred to him as tampon tim. for younger white men, who are seeking that kind of validation, the time of the hierarchy where they rest is appropriate and that is where they should be. donald trump reinforces all of this for him. >> in your article, you are trying to make the argument that , look, donald trump appealed to men who may not be where they want to be in life by saying it's not really your fault. it is because of the -- it's because of woman ndi programs and that kind of thing. but then you look at susie wiles to be his chief of staff, the first female chief of staff . very powerful position. what you make of that? >> i think it's not representative of what he has done generally. he certainly has an elevated -- has not

elevated women in his policymaking. one of the things you have to consider when you think about what are dominant masculinity is, it's not just men that buy into it. white women voted in huge amounts for trump and partly because they consider themselves adjacent in the power structure to white men. there are a lot of nonwhite men who voted for trump on the same basis because they have an idea of what a leader should look like and it is someone who should embody all of these qualities . trump can occasionally hire a woman in a position of prominence or a nonwhite person or maybe gay person or any other person who has an identity that he spent most of that campaign denigrating and it doesn't really change the fact that his rhetoric heavily elevated white men and told white men that you belong at the top of the hierarchy. this is the natural order of things and that is what makes it morally correct and good. >> this election cycle podcast

has been more important than in the past. both campaigns use them to generate headlines and they were targeting the podcast based on the audiences but republicans seem to be a step ahead and using them to reach voters. what you think about the advantage they had in that space? >> they are a step ahead. the frustration many people like me have your i have a nine-year-old son and he is online to some extent and i look at what people online or telling men . the popularity of these podcasters who particularly from a lot of what they talk about around language and self-improvement, which is healthy , but then their definitions of what healthy , strong person is is skewed heavily towards these very regressive mescaline ideals. you don't have to go very far from somebody like joe rogan who is very midstream to get to somebody like andrew tate, who is more directly misogynistic

podcaster who is very popular with younger men. what these people are promising younger men is a way to live a life where they are successful , successful with women in particular, and they can make themselves into figures like donald trump who are wealthy and at the top of the power hierarchy. >> you mentioned joe rogan , trump sat with him for an interview. harris was in talks with rogan but eventually declined his invitation. was it a mistake? >> here is the thing, she agreed to do that but it was very late in the campaign and he said, she has to come to me and she needs to give me a minimum of three hours and he has not made those demands of other people. >> trump went to him. she diverted her plan to go on snl. that would be the counter argument. >> in that case, snl also

offered trump a spot with rogan he had already done that interview with trump on some of trump's terms and he had done it earlier. it seems like the ask to harris was last minute. but also, he could have made that work and he chose not to. i think partly because he knows that his core audience is heavily composed of people who like donald trump because he embodies these ideas of masculinity and i doubt he wanted to alienate them. joe rogan is still a businessman , so it's not just a matter of him, he is not a generalist trying to get to the truth. he is running his own show in the way he would run it personally. >> all right, elizabeth, thank you for coming on to share your opinion. we appreciate it. >> thank you for having me. president-elect donald trump is a to visit the white house next week . what we know about the meeting with president biden in the oval office. you are in the cnn newsroom.