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you feel less lonely in your grief. the news continues right here on cnn. donald trump taps a fox news host and army veteran to serve as his secretary of defense. what led to this shocking selection. and this. >> i have to be careful saying this. >> staunch defender of israel, he understand is said there's no such thing as a palestinian. now he could be trump's ambassador toys a earl. what this means for the region. and later. >> i bring to the table a leadership style that's conducive to getting results. >> leadership fight in just hours. the senate will vote on one of the most powerful roles in washington. the race to replace mitch mcconnell.

>> 5:00 a.m. on the east coast. a live look at new york city on this wednesday morning. good morning. kasie hunt. wonderful to have you with us. donald trump's latest pick to join his cabinet sending shock waves through washington. the president-elect announcing he plans to choose pete hegseth as his secretary of defense. hegseth is a fox news host who has been an outspoken defender of the returning president and a critic of current military policies. >> i'm straight up just saying we should not have women in combat roles. it hasn't made us more effective. has made fighting more complicated. we've all served with women and they're great. it just our institutions don't have to incentivize that in places where traditionally -- not traditionally. over human history men in those positions are more capable. >> republican senators responding with a mix of surprise, not necessarily coming out out wardly against

the choice. you be the judge. wow, said republican senator lisa murkowski. thom tillis saying interesting. i trust the president to make a good choice. indiana senator todd young added i just don't know much about his background and vision. hegseth's selection comes as we learn also about a new draft executive order that could lead to a purge of generals from the military ranks. the wall street journal reporting the order would establish a quote, warrior board and could fast track the removal of generals and admirals found to be lacking in requisite leadership qualities. democrats on capitol hill say the draft orders and the choice show trump's true plans for a second term. >> i'm shocked, truly. this is exactly what we worried about and warned about. he is going

to appoint unqualified loyalists to shape this government into his own personal fiefdom. >> joining us now to discuss all of this, sabrina rodriguez for the washington post. thank you for being here. >> good morning. >> this pick, not one that had been widely discussed before trump announced it yesterday. you could see there a selection of the senators that will need to confirm him and we haven't called the final race in the senate. we expect them to have a 53 seat majority in the senate which means donald trump would only be able to lose that many to confirm a cabinet post. some of the things hegseth has said about particularly women in the military potentially problematic for him. what are you hearing about how this pick came to be and what the reaction is going to be here.

>> some of the reaction, i think the wow summed it up. for a lot of people up in washington today. i think senators are going to be navigating the pressure of having donald trump in the white house again. this is just t of many challenges they're going to face. i think their measured response and reaction is sort of a lot of what we'll see. the reality is he needs the numbers for this confirmation. there's going to be an aggressive push to sell him as someone who can be defense secretary. there's already talk of him being decorated from his past and certain credentials he has. the reality is this is just one of many picks. donald trump in a matter of a week has moved quickly to flood us with the many people he's going to be nominating for secretary positions. i think senators are going to be in a position of having to navigate who is they want to push against and who are they excited and going to

be full throated supporting. >> sabrina, this seems to underscore the degree to which a personal relationship with donald trump is the thing that matters the most because there was one point where hegseth was told by fox news that he was being a little too cozy, a little bit of a warning. he told colleagues that well, i'm going to have to put my -- make sure that my relationship is not as out there publicly. he had lobbied donald trump intensively around pardoning a group of military members who had engaged in conduct for which they were reprimanded. a really difficult incident. this is someone who had spent and invested a lot of time behind the scenes in that relationship. that seems to be the central feature to many of these picks, no? >> i think that's the biggest through line is donald trump is not looking at people based off

of necessarily their credentials for each given position. it's very much off of who has shown their loyalty. i mean whether it's elon musk, kristie noem. across the board are people who are going to be loyal to him. i think as we see him head into another presidential term that is the key feature. he wants to make sure it's not someone that's going to try to measure him or tone him down but someone who is going to execute the things he promised on the campaign trail. >> sabrina, one of the other things we learned yesterday is that the trump team is going to put elon musk and vivek ramaswamy in charge of the department of government efficiency, which abbreviates to doge in case you are particularly online. elon musk

wrote this all actions will be posted online for maximum transparency. any time the public thinks we're cutting something important, just let us know. we'll have a leader board for most insanely dumb spending of your tax dollars. this will be extremely tragic and extremely entertaining. what should we expect here? >> this is the big open question, i think. among the many that we have to grapple with between now and january. ii think one of the things that has been talked about is how present elon musk has been. i mean him being at mar-a-lago. him spending time with trump. >> the granddaughter posting uncle elon. >> him being in the family photos. he's clearly being integrated into this trump inner circle. i think how long does that last is obviously an open question once trump is in office. with this position i mean there's a lot of talk around it. it's not a senate confirmed position. it's not -- the details are still murky

about exactly how this will work. but i think we have to look to this to see how unconventional a next trump term may be. >> sabrina rodriguez, thanks very much. coming up next, maga's big fight. who's going to replace mitch mcconnell. in just a few hours a secret ballot will decide as the candidates prepare their pitches. antisemitic violence in the streets of amsterdam. now police are beefing up security in other european cities. mike huckabee tapped. >> you're seeing a scrambling all over the middle east of countries trying to behave differently because they know a new sheriff has come to town.

welcome back. hick hick mike huckabee has been a staunch defender of israel throughout his career. cnn uncovering this comment from huckabee in 2008. >> basically, there really is no such thing -- be careful in saying this because people would get upset -- there's no such thing as a palestinian. there's not. >> huckabee said if a palestinian state is created it should be located in egypt, syria or jordan. >> there are certain words i refuse to use. there is no such thing as a west bank. there's no such thing as a settlement. they're communities. they're

neighborhoods. there's no such thing as an occupation. >> cnn's max foster joins us live now from london. max, good morning to you. there have been conservatives in israel likely pleased by the huckabee choice. as you can hear from his language there, he comes down on a certain side of very controversial ways of talking about the region. about palestinians. what is the reaction broadly across the region? >> the view is very clear. there is no such thing as an occupation doesn't just go against what palestinians think. it goes against what many of israel's allies think as well that these are illegal occupations of the west bank. so palestinians are facing a situation where they are, you know, this american ambassador will take the view that they

might not necessarily be allowed to stay in their homes effectively and that land will go away and they could be relocated. these are extreme views. actually a minority view for, you know, if you take the world view on what's happening there. but a very clear statement by president trump about the sort of person he thinks should be in that role. presumably reflects what will be his administration's views. they are in that region. >> max, it also seems to be a c question of pushing for a two-state solution which is obviously something that if you go back to george w. bush's presidency that was something the republican party had been pushing for. had been hoping for. seems to align with the political realities on the ground in israel where prime

minister benjamin netanyahu, we were talking to joel rubin a former state department official who was on the program yesterday basically saying the two state solution is not part of the conversation in israel right now. it's basically off the table. does this pick seem to align with the reality as rubin described it? >> you know, two-state solution is the one solution that most countries seem to agree is the only long term solution here. so much policy in the middle east has focused on that as an ultimate goal. it changes everything if that is no longer an option. if it's mike huckabee, part of this process he would have to contradict himself if he's going to start working towards a two-state solution. it's a very clear focus of intent here. so then you do start questioning what is the long term solution. what is donald trump's solution to peace in the middle east, which is something he's promising to bring in. if it's not a two-state solution then is it

allowing israel to take over that land. relocating palestinians? there are so many questions that come out of that. this is one ambassador we know what his views are. we need to hear more clearly how he intends to push them through. most importantly, whether trump is going to empower him and whether trump very much believes in those views too. >> max foster for us this morning. grateful to have you. thank you so much. still ahead on cnn this morning. antisemitic violence in amsterdam. that city grappling with unrest that began last week and putting other european cities on alert. joined by republican and kamala harris supporter jeff duncan. the key issue he thinks helped trump succeed in pennsylvania.

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all right. welcome back. police in amsterdam bracing for more antisemitic violence. the unrest started last week with attacks on israeli soccer fans. and it escalated monday night with dozens of people armed with sticks and fire crackers setting a tram on fire while shouting antisemitic slurs. melissa bell has been tracking the latest developments live from paris where security has been beefed up ahead of thursday's israel-france soccer match. melissa, last the latest? >> this was already a match that was considered likely to see tension around. that has

been made even worse those fears that expect by the events in amsterdam last week where we'd seen that tension mount from the wednesday when the tel aviv supporters had arrived chanting anti-arab slogans. the extra police put on the streets of amsterdam were not enough to prevent what we saw over the course of that night. hit and run attacks on individual israeli supporters. which left dozens injured and has led now to 71 arrests with ten of those still in custody. all of them now part of this investigation to try to figure out how those attacks could have taken place. that tension once set off has led to fears these sporting events might now become lightning rods for this kind of tension. here in europe you have not only very large muslim populations and very large

jewish communities. you also have strong pro-palestinian support. that's what we saw erupt on the sidelines of that match last week. with dutch authorities saying look, what we saw thursday night in amsterdam was crime pure and simple and antisemitic in its nature. the french are not taking any risks ahead of the thursday match. what we're going to see is 4000 policemen and women around where this israel-france match is to take place. more than a thousand sturts as well on hand to keep the peace. 20,000 tickets sold rather than the 80,000 capacity that that stadium takes. no chances as these become more and more the subject of tension as we saw last week in amsterdam. >> melissa bell for us on this tense situation. thanks very much for that report. all right. time now for weather. the area around the jennings creek fire along the border between new york and new jersey, they are getting much needed relief today. let's get

to derek van dam. good morning. >> we're not out of the threat yet. we have an elevated fire risk where you see this shading of orange, jennings creek fire located about here. the gusty northwesterly winds after a cold front passed through overnight and into the late morning hours yesterday. very dry air on going drought. i want you to see this relative humidity. this is just a sample of how much moisture is in the atmosphere. see how that shade goes from green to brown. evaporating. taking out the available moisture in the atmosphere. this is typical with the passage of a cold front but also the changes of the temperature through the course of the morning. regardless, still very dry and the winds coming from the northwest will be gusty at times. 20 to 30 miles per hour. you layer that on top of the on going drought. so that means we still have the potential for some ignition. that's why the national weather service maintained this red flag warning across parts of

massachusetts, rhode island, connecticut and into long island. fire risk there, clear over western parts of the u.s. point your attention to what's happening in the southwestern caribbean. monitoring for the potential of another late season hurricane that could develop later this week into next week. >> all right. derek van dam with that cheerful end note. thank you. i appreciate it. we'll see you next hour. still coming up here on cnn this morning, donald trump's pick to lead the defense department sending shock waves through washington. plus trump surrogates efforting a pressure campaign ahead of senate republicans leadership vote today. >> yeah. yeah. well, i mean it's up to him. if he was asking me, which he hadn't, i'd say let us handle this. you got a lot of people to hire.

5:31 a.m. here on the east coast. 2:31 a.m. out in las vegas, nevada where still lots of activity going down on the strip as there always is at this hour of the morning. or late night there. good morning. i'm kasie hunt. wonderful to have you with us. president-elect donald trump will return to the white house. he will be meeting with president joe biden in the oval office as he ramps up his transition. just a week after his reelection, he's already made a number of major picks for his next administration. including at least one choice that sources say took many by surprise. fox news host and army veteran pete hegseth for defense secretary. hegseth

served in afghanistan and iraq. he's expected to keep up his long time loyalty to trump if he's confirmed to the role. >> i mean it's one thing to have dei inside your corporation or university. it's different to have inside the 101st air borne. you can move to a different state if you want a different tax rate. we only have one military. if the military goes woke then it's less equipped to fight the wars it needs to fight. >> only time will tell if he will be confirmed by the senate. joining us now, retired air force colonel cedric layton. good morning to you. what was your reaction when you heard about this pick? >> surprise. pete hegseth has done a lot of good things for veterans in a previous life about a decade or more ago. but his experience is on the tactical side of things. it is not on the strategic side of things and it is not the type of experience that is commensurate with a role like secretary of defense. to do

that job whether you want to reform the pentagon or not, you need to have had experience within the pentagon. you need to have had experience running a large organization. pete hegseth doesn't have any of that. >> can you give us a sense of the scope? >> we were talking at least two million people that are active duty, reserves, guard that play a role in the pentagon. plus the civilian workforce that's very large. that organization, this organization has its tentacles all over the world. it's working not only with its own people but it's working across various departments, it's working with allies. there's a huge international relations component to the pentagon and of course most importantly it is our war fighting organization. >> most importantly indeed. so let's look at when donald trump appeared on fox in discussing this phrase woke military is one we've heard

hegseth use. trump also talked a little bit about it. let's watch how he described it in this interview. watch. >> there's not woke in the military. there's woke at the top. they want there to be woke. >> are you going to fire those generals? the woke generals at the top? >> yes, i would get rid of them. yeah. you can't have woke military. you said it so great. you need people that want to win. they want to win wars. that's what their purpose is. not to be woke. >> that's obviously the framing here. this news also came as the wall street journal is reporting that the trump team plans to put together a board to potentially evaluate generals and admirals, potentially remove them. how do you think these two things fit together and what does it mean? >> this could be a really big problem for the military and it could be disastrous. the military has a promotion system that basically raises people from their education level, their initial college level or

service academy up through general or flag officer. when you go through this kind of a situation where you have the accusation being made that these people don't want to win wars, that's exactly counter to the military es to. military is designed to win wars. that is one of those key elements that is being lost in this discussion. they believe that because there are elements of what in the corporate world you'd call dei that does not mean that it makes us less effective. in fact it makes us more effective. what we're doing is bringing a diverse group of people from every background in american society together and the failure to continue to do that is going to weaken our ability to defend our nation and to protect our allies, as well as ourselves. >> colonel cedric layton. thank you. let's turn to this. senate republicans are going to convene to decide who will be

their new leader. kentucky senator mitch mcconnell is stepping down from the role. he was the longest serving senate party leader in u.s. history. now republican senators will have to make a choice. their options, senator rick scott, jon thune and jon cornyn. the establishment picks while scott has the backing of many maga republicans. trump himself has not endorsed a candidate. >> do you think trump should support rick scott? >> you know what, i've told people. we're a different entity. we need to stay separate. >> he should stay out? >> yeah. it's up to him, but if he was asking me, which he hadn't, i'd say let us handle this. you got a lot of people to hire. >> so whomever wins will lay the ground work for just how much trump will be able to accomplish over the next four years. who is leading this

race? >> hard to tell. the public endorsements if you're going by the public endorsement tracker people who said they're going to vote for candidates right now it's rick scott. he has seven public endorsements. people saying they will vote for him. it's a secret ballot. people can say what they want to say publicly. there's a lot of pressure from trump allies to back rick scott. obviously the people in trump's circle want rick scott to be the senate majority leader. a secret ballot. people can say whatever they want publicly and go into that room and vote a different way. i think the inside track for this is jon thune. if we get past a first ballot, we get past a first ballot, who knows where this thing goes. >> on thune, the question of course has been the nature, the texture of his relationship to donald trump because of course he endorsed tim scott for president in the primary race. in fact, we reported at the time that thune had encouraged

tim scott to enter the contest. he pushed him to visit early voting states including iowa. it was a little bit more than just saying hey, aim on board. and the hill frames it this way. quote, the biggest wild card in the race is president-elect trump. if he were to come out against thune before the vote, he could decide the race. maga voices have painted thune and cornyn as members of a long reigning gop establishment. what impact do you think -- i've covered the senate long enough to know that none of them welcome this interference in their kind of behind the scenes. they all have their individual power. they are fiercely protective of it. is there any concern or discussion around what having someone like thune who has a history of a testy relationship with trump, that being a problem for the senate gop? >> yeah, certainly. that's the number one issue when you look

at thune's candidacy. it wasn't just that he endorsed tim scott for president, pushed him to run for president. last time thune ran for reelection trump wanted a primary challenger. he wanted his political career to end. he wanted jon thune out of the senate. now we find ourselves in this position. i think the question that conservatives need to ask themselves if you want it to be rick scott or someone who isn't thune or cornyn. yes, you want a trump loyalist. someone that might let him do recess appointments. what happens when you have to get a tax package through the senate and deal with folks like susan collins. maintain those relationships. do you trust jon thune? do you trust cornyn or rick scott? >> just the basic question, there are times when congress is not unlike high school and we may remember that the president of your high school class was probably the most popular available choice is rick scott the most popular available choice? some

questions there. stephen neukam, i appreciate it. ahead, former georgia lieutenant governor geoff duncan is here. klay tomorrow son's emotional return to the bay area. that's next.

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(gentle breeze) - [announcer] eyes forward. don't drive distracted. welcome back to cnn this morning. we're going to go to china where 35 people are dead after a driver plowed their car into a crowd at a sports center. this is the deadliest known attack in china in a decade. our mark stewart reports from beijing. >> there is much sadness in the southern chinese city after this deadly hit and run. we have some images of people dropping off flowers outside the sports center where this

happened. as people process their grief, the focus is on the driver a 62-year-old man. an initial investigation suggests he was unhappy about the outcome of a divorce settlement. they want to talk to him but as of tuesday night he was unconscious. they say he hurt himself using a knife that was found inside his vehicle and has severe neck injuries and was getting emergency treatment. violent crime as a whole in china is very rare. but we've seen some sudden episodes of violence in recent months at a time when many families are dealing with a slow growing economy. we've seen censorship of images from the scene when this happened and some of the online condolences. it took a full day for authorities to release specifics about the extent of this. police initially said a car knocked down multiple pedestrians. chinese president described this as extremely

vicious urging officials to prevent risks at the source. >> our thanks for that. it is now 46 minutes past the hour. here's your morning roundup. pentagon leaker jack teixera sentenced to 15 years in prison. admitting he leaked highly classified military documents about the war in ukraine. prosecutors called it one of the most significant and consequential violations of the espionage act in u.s. history. 11 employees injured in an explosion at a food and beverage coloring plant in louisville, kentucky. some of them rushed to the hospital for chemical decontamination. it's not clear what chemicals were involved in the blast. one worker was killed at the same site during a 2003 explosion. rfk jr. calling for the firing of 600 employees at the

national institutes of health. he wants to replace them with hand-picked staffers. as a potential health czar in the new administration, kennedy says he will only hire people who quote, are not going to embarrass end quote, president-elect donald trump. time now for sports. steph curry spoils klay thompson's emotional return to san francisco. >> good morning. last night a big night in the nba. first night of the nba cup which means all of those colorful courts were back. it was the return of klay thompson to san francisco. klay spent the first 13 years of his career with golden state winning four titles. cool moment when he arrived. hundreds of warriors employees greeted him with captain hats they gave out to honor his return. klay then also got an extended standing ovation after a tribute video was played in the arena. then

it was vintage klay in this game. he made six threes including two big ones in the fourth quarter. klay scored 22 points. but his old splash brother steph curry spoiling his return. the step back three with 27 seconds left. that was the dagger. warriors win 120-117. here is klay afterwards on his return. >> it was a really cool experience. appreciate the fans very much. captains hat ended up being a great touch. i'm such a passionate boater. i saw a lot of familiar faces in the crowd. that was a warm-hearted feeling. it was really cool to see the fans gratitude towards myself. something i will never take for granted. the heat were up two with a second left against the pistons. look what happened. they gave up an alley-oop dunk to tie the game. eric storms on to the court and calls timeout.

one problem, they didn't have any. so not only is it a technical, they lose possession. the pistons made a free throw. heat end up losing 123-121. coach said that loss was on him. >> i just made just a serious mental error, you know, there at the end. that's on me. i feel horrible about it. there's really no excuse for that. i'm 17 years in. we had talked about it in the huddle. i knew we didn't have anything. i just got emotional and reactive on that and i just made just a horrendous mistake there at the end. >> you see how bad he felt about that. huge college hoops game last night in atlanta. duke, kentucky coming down to the wire. cooper flag is expected to be the top pick in the nba draft. he scored 26 in this one, including huge buckets in the final minute.

but he did have back to back turnovers in the final 15 seconds of this game. really costly. wildcats end up pulling off the upset. winning 77-72 over duke. the second edition of the college football playoff rankings are out with undefeated oregon remaining at number one. the big ten claiming four of the top five spots. so this is what the matchups would be as of right now. it would be the ducks, texas, byu and miami getting first round byes right now because they are the four highest rated conference champions. we would have some juicy matchups. you got ole miss at penn state. alabama would go to play at indiana. boise state, they're 13. they would get in over twelfth ranked georgia because they would be the fifth highest rated conference champion. but kasie, still a whole month to go. georgia, big game against

tennessee this weekend. so they could easily get their way -- work their way into the playoffs. should be fun debate this final month. >> put that back up. can we put that graphic back up? i want to know you are my favorite oracle you're always right. what's right and wrong about what we see on the screen? >> well, you know, ohio state. their only loss is to top ranked oregon. it's a shame -- i think it's a shame the way they do that the conference champions have to get it. miami just lost to georgia tech and they fell all the way -- they're ranked ninth in the rankings but they would be getting a first round bye. so, you know, this is the first year of the twelve team playoff. i think they might end up making changes in the future. that would be my big gripe. i think a lot of people are looking at that ohio state path they would get to play boise state, then miami, all the way to the semifinals. pretty easy path there. this is all going to change over the

next few weeks. >> i mean look, i hate talking about ohio state being great, but i am with you on the general problems going on in the college football playoffs. andy, love you, thank you, appreciate it. quick roundup here. from reflex to rio. duran duran has been one of britain's most beloved musical acts. and now lead singer simon le bon has been named a member of the order of the british empire. prince william awarded him this designation for his contributions to music. le bon is an ambassador for the blue marine foundation which works to raise awareness on how people can work together to save the oceans. our congratulations to simon. fans of bridget jones are eagerly awaiting the fourth film in the franchise. we've

gotten a look at the first trailer. >> it's been four years now. >> you're effectively a nun. very naughty nun. >> i've set you up on tinder. >> what's tinder? >> renee zellweger back in the title role. she's a widowed single mother searching for love after the passing of her beloved mark darcy. got to love this. hugh grant. count me as one of those fans. i had no idea they were putting out a fourth film. news to me here on the set this morning. coming up in our next hour on cnn this morning. donald trump filling out key posts in the west wing. it's a little bit of an understatement. we'll speak with ryan zinke. pat ryan about what trump's military and defense picks reveal about his plans for his second term. plus the secretary of cost cutting. the new department headed by vivek ramaswamy and elon musk.

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it's wednesday, november 13th. right now on cnn this morning. >> it's one thing to have dei inside your corporation or inside your university. it's a whole other thing to have it inside the 101st air borne. >> fox news host and army veteran as his defense secretary. plus. >> it's time for a complete reset of our internal and international relationships. >> federal face mike huckabee tapped to be donald trump's right hand man in israel. and. >> i know what to do. i will get it done. i will make sure trump's agenda is done and that's why i'm going to win.

>> trump's man on the hill, senate republicans meet today behind closed doors to vote on who will replace mitch mcconnell as their leader. fire 75% of the federal bureaucrats. >> we're going to get the government off your back and out of your pocketbook. >> it's a dog e doge world. the president-elect naming him and vivek ramaswamy to run the department of government efficiency or the doge. all right. 6:00 a.m. here on the east coast. a live look at new york city. it's a beautiful sunrise there on this wednesday morning. kind of chilly here on the east coast. finally getting winter weather. good morning, everyone. i'm kasie hunt. wonderful to have you with us.