>> reporter: russian president vladimir putin has said he is willing to talk to donald trump even before he takes office. the russians praising some of his appointments as officials who could help normalize relations with moscow. the criminal was asked about this today and the kremlin spokesman said the russians are monitoring this very closely. he also says this is not their main priority. therefore at this point in time they do not want to comment.

thank you very much. and thank you so much to all of you. a.c. 360 start now. tonight on 360 donald trump campaigned on letting him go wild on health, food and medicine, now he is giving robert f. kennedy jr. a cabinet position to do it. will republicans led him? also, matt gaetz for attorney general. where do republicans stand on him and the house ethics committee report they are asking to see. and later dr. sanjay gupta he with a preview of his preview on the drug that could promise far more than a weight loss. is ozempic right for you? that evening, everyone. we are expecting to hear shortly from the president-elect at mar-a-lago and we will bring that to you live. we begin with the three words about him, he would never and he just did, as if donald trump would never put a vaccine

skeptic in the conspiracy there is in charge of the department of health and human services. just ask the cochair of his transition team. >> okay, so he's not going to be in charge of h.h.s.? >> no. >> that was just two weeks ago. well, he just did. he picked r.f.k. jr. not for the advisory role the sum expected, but the full monty to run a department overseeing the national institute of health, the center for disease control, medicare, and more giving him the authority to do what canada trump said he would not let him do. >> i am going to let them go wild on health, the food, on medicines. >> kennedy is well known for backing the long claim childhood vaccines cause autism. he has also supported

covid conspiracy theories. >> there is an argument covid-19 is ethnically targeted. it attacks certain races disproportionately. covid-19 is targeted to attack caucasians and black people, the people who are most immune are asked a jews andchinese. >> he subsequently denied that he ever suggested it was targeted to spare jews. instead he says he was intended to say the united states was targeting bio weapons. he is also known for an is with wildlife. a decade ago picking up a bear kyle clark is intending to take it home to eat but then dumping it in central park when his day

ran long. >> the bear was in my car. i didn't want to leave the bear in my car. that would have been bad. so then i thought, you know, at that time this was a little bit of the redneck in me, there have been mysterious bicycle accidents. they had just put in the bike lanes. some people have gotten killed and badly injured. every day it was in the press and i said let's put the bear in central park and we will make you look like you got hit. >> and yes that was roseanne barr that he was talking to. any one of the items we mention might have in another point in history doomed any other nominee. but he is who donald trump wants. having delivered the senate he may have the clout to get it. and chose -- tulsi gabbard and foxnews morning host pete hegseth,

despite his lack of management experience running large organizations. even matt gaetz as attorney general who just left congress days ahead of a ethics committee report. on all that here is what one sitting republican lawmaker told cnn. i had a horrible nightmare gaetz was appointed ag and i woke up , he was appointed as ag. there is literally not enough popcorn in america for these confirmation hearings. clearly a lot to get to including remark shortly from the president-elect, katelyn collins is here to start us off. as always you are out in front of all of this. how did the president-elect come to be r.f.k. jr. and what are the chances right now? >> i think after judging by the shock of yesterday today was more like an expectation from trunk world and the sources who have been there. r.f.k. jr. have been in palm beach basically nonstop since the

election. what was really clear, especially after the interview where he very unequivocally said r.f.k. jr. would not be getting a cabinet position. that is kind of maybe what led to today. it caused a huge uproar internally in terms orbit. >> so you did this? >> i don't want to take any credit. people were so upset 10 days before the election he was bluntly saying it and they thought it was too early. r.f.k. jr. was upset. he and trumpet had discussions. trump has said that he would let him go crazy on health policy. it was pretty clear the writing was on the wall that r.f.k. jr. was likely to get something. they talked about a health czar role. but this is another instance of trump basically during the senate to say block my nominee. tell me i'm not going to do this. he has put up pick after pick that has caused a lot of skeptics to say let's wait and see how the

confirmation hearings go. they fully expect all of these picks to get confirmed. they are not putting these up as a false flag to the end put someone less controversial up. they fully believe these people should be confirmed and very male -- very well might. >> what have you learned about how trump came to pick matt gaetz and how they plan to get them through in a confirmation process, which they now know is going to be tough and maybe tougher by the minute? >> if the writing was on the wall the opposite happened with the attorney general pick. i was talking to people on monday night who said his name never came up as they were deciding who he was going to pick. i reported that night trump was essentially bringing these more conventional candidates. he interviewed a lot of them at mar-a-lago. no one checked all the boxes. obviously it is the position he cares about the most size his. he basically was unhappy and fluid matt gaetz to

washington the next morning and offered him then on the plane. it shocked people who stay back at mar-a-lago and were not a part of that contingency of people who went to washington. it speaks to how quickly he is making these decisions. sometimes a gut decision, but also that is fully the candidate he believes should be there, pursuing his agenda and fulfilling it. obviously he was a purge of career staffers and he wants retribution carried out against his political opponents. >> moravec confirmation process which does not appear to be getting easier. other pix were announced today. and he that jumped out? and i should note some of his private attorneys hitting pix for the justice department. >> i think in a different world if joe biden was president-elect and he had just picked his personal defense attorneys, want to be number two at the justice department which is what trump did today by picking todd blanche who has

defended him in many cases, but most notably the criminal hush money case in new york. in a normal world that might cause uproar. i think because of the other pix it is not really causing any from senate republicans. todd blanche my get confirmed pretty easily. he's also picked his other attorney as the principal deputy attorney general. they do a lot of the work at the dlj. and also john sauer who you will remember argued his presidential amenity argument. he is going to be picked if he is confirmed as the solicitor general. the number three job at the justice department. it is three trump attorneys now being tapped . now they have much different qualifications and they may be just fine in their confirmation hearings. but it does speak to the moment that we are in that he picks his defense attorneys and a kind of goes over and no one really says anything.

>> they do have experience as big-time prosecutors , something matt gaetz did not have. >> todd blanche worked as a federal prosecutor. >> katelyn collins, we will see at the top of the hour. thank you for being here. now to talk about this proposed nomination of robert f. kennedy jr. e -- dr. sanjay gupta. is robert kennedy qualify for this job? >> i would say no. he has no organizational management experience. h.h.s. is one of the largest domestic organizations. over 83,000 employees in over a $7 trillion budget. he has never worked directly with congress or legislative body. many of the

previous secretaries have been governors and work closely with h.h.s. h.h.s. sends more money to states and all the other domestic agencies combined. as you said at the top, john, it is responsible for leading the public health in the world. the gold standard at n.i.h. for research. about a third of americans health insurance with medicare, medicaid and the marketplace. mental health, the agency on aging, agencies on unaccompanied minors, children and families. it is a very broad and very important agency. to have someone coming into a scientific agency that is eye vaccines get it and may well undo decades of public health work i think is terrifying for the american public who rely on h.h.s. from

cradle to grave. that to me is a very frightening aspect for the american public. >> very quickly, you had encounters with robert f kennedy in the past. what were they like? >> i took some courtesy meetings with him. he went several times to the cdc and the f.d.a. suggesting their evidence was faulty and that he had evidence of his own, all of which was debunked and refuted. he insisted that i fire people and that they were lying to me and that i really was not getting the truth. that did not prove in my mind to be at all true. what i am most fretting about is he comes not with a query, not with suggesting that we should look at two different points of view. he has made a

determination with no scientific background. as far as i can determine no evidence that supports his views. he is very willing to assert them as if they are facts. that is very dangerous at an agency where people take the recommendations of the experts and try to follow them to keep themselves and their families safe and secure. >> given everything the secretary of h.h.s. overseas, one of the possible impacts of the views that we know he holds? >> it's almost too big to fathom. when you talk about cbc, f.d.a., nih and as we talked about the center for medicare and medicaid, it is just about every health decision made in this country. i think the vaccine issue gets a lot of attention and rightfully so. a lot of times we have preventative health if nothing happens that is good, but that doesn't get a lot of

attention. if you are a child born between 1994 and 2023 and you got vaccinated there were about 1 million deaths prevented because of vaccines. we are seeing a distrust. we are starting to see surges in vaccine preventable diseases again. also, you talk about i'm going to reimburse for these things in medicare or i no longer think those things should be reimbursed. people will start getting denied care. elder people, whatever it might be. there are all these ripple effects. if he gets the position, a big if i think, but if he does i think it is a huge consequence. >> what guardrails are in place if he does? >> well, i think anybody who comes into one of these major agencies relies on the expertise of the incredible talent and government officials who have made a choice that they are not going to be

painted at market value. they are dedicated to the mission of the agency they believe in. the guard rails in large part are the people who are there and the expertise they bring to the job. no secretary could ever manage even one of these agencies much less 11 simultaneously. bobby kennedy has already declared he intends to start firing people. that he intends to pack your bags if you do not carry his views on various things. it was part of his rhetoric on the campaign trail. that is a terrifying way to go into a department where you really do not know the people. you don't know the impact they are going to have. if people begin leaving those key agencies , leaving the f.d.a., which is responsible for safety and effectiveness of drugs, leaving medicare and medicaid services, leaving nih,

leaving our major public health agencies, then the guardrails are down. the secretary also has a lot of influence about who will head those agencies. he can make recommendations about secondary leaders. >> sanjay, what are you hearing? >> the medical community is not monolithic. you never hear them being lockstep on just about anything. i think with regard to this, especially when it comes to public health, the challenge is when he talks about making america healthy again people can really get behind that. we spent 4 and half trillion dollars in healthcare and we have some of the worst outcomes in the developed world. that is a problem and he is not the first person to say that, by the way. the idea that maybe he can draw more attention to it. that is something that i think has significant support. the problem with him contorting these links and these correlations into true cause and effect relationships,

vaccine and autism , whatever it might be. that is the problem and how much that extends to other decisions he makes is where the real concern comes. >> dr. sanja gooped, we will see you in a little bit. just to remind people is ozempic right for you air sunday night at 8:00 p.m. central. the president-elect speaking momentarily from mar-a-lago.

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all right. as we wait for the president-elect to speak at mar-a-lago we are talking about his recent appointments, and the potential confirmation challenges some may face. most notably matt gaetz as attorney general and robert kennelly -- robert f. kennedy jr.. with us now chris kuhlman. senator, i want to focus on matt gaetz. how important is it for the judiciary committee to see the support on gaetz and do you

have any recourse to get it? >> well, i think it is critical. every major nominee who comes before us we get a thorough background report. someone my congressman matt gaetz who has been the subject of a surging probe, we should get access to the documents and the report that was about to be released. he has just resigned from the house in order to prevent the release of the house ethics committee report. i have joined all the other democrats on the senate judiciary committee in sending a letter asking them to preserve the documents and to send the report to us. several republicans including senator cornyn of texas have also said they think we should have access. this is a critical test, john, for whether or not the senate will continue to use

its advice and consent power that is in the constitution and critical to our role as a guard rail. when president-elect trump won he gets a mandate to choose the folks he wants for his cabinet. the way that our constitution is written the senate has a role to make sure he doesn't pick any old person. that he doesn't put the my pillow guy in charge of the f.a.a., that the people who are nominated are qualified, experienced, have the right character and ethics and policy views that broadly align with what we can all agree is in the best interest of the country. >> senator blumenthal says he personally knows 5-10 that ours seriously considering voting against gaetz. does that sound accurate to you? >> i have spoken with a number of republican colleagues who were bravely concerned or alarmed about why matt gaetz

was nominated and about his qualifications. our challenge in the coming days will be the gap between feeling concerned, expressing concern and being willing to demand a confirmation hearing and to vote against one of president-elect trump's nominees. that will be the real test. >> what about the possibility of an enron maybe through recess appointments? tonight on boggs john thune said it would depend on where the democrats want to play ball or not. how do you interpret that? >> here is what i hope he means by that, there are nominees like senator marco rubio who has been nominated to be secretary of state, who i think will do very well. who has the requisite experience and qualifications. in his case he served on the foreign relations and intelligence committee for many years. he knows and understands the function of the state department. we may have

significant difficulties -- differences in policies. there is no question he could be secretary of state and i think that he would get a prompt and respectful and appropriate confirmation hearing. if what senator thune means if he will use recess appointments to jam into place nominees who cannot get 50 both in the senate, that is not good for the future and the health of the senate. i will remind you in the next senate there will likely be 53 republicans. if president trump cannot get 50 votes out of 53 republicans that should say something about who he is considering. >> we appreciate your time. thank you so much. i should note that we have seen donald trump at mar-a-lago. it's pretty dark, but he is there somewhere. he is preparing to speak to a room full of supporters very shortly and we will bring you the speech as soon as it begins. with us now

adam kinzinger, anna navarro. congressman, i want to start with you. this house ethics committee report, which is completed as far as we know. we just learned tonight the republicans and democrats are supposed to meet on friday. that meeting has now been canceled. do you think we will see it and what impact do you think it will have on the possible senate confirmation? >> i think we are going to see it. i think the pressure is going to be too great. let's be clear, if all the shoes were on the other foot republicans would be screaming about transparency. you know, if matt gaetz was just going away i think you can make the argument for he is out of the house, don't release it. but now that he is up for attorney general the number one law enforcement position in this country and he is being accused of sexual

assault and statutory . supposedly this person has testified that it happened. that is something the american people deserve to know. i think it will torpedo his nomination in a heartbeat. my concern is that the president tries to do a recess appointment. that would give 210 days and a big middle finger to the american people. to trump this is all a joke right now. >> what impact should the ethics report have on senators voting for the next attorney general? >> every single person that has been confirmed to be attorney general, people that are going into the cabinet get extensive background checks. on some basic level whether it is simply for the ethics report to be given to the senators, or rather it is going to be forcing the senate to conduct their own internal investigation at some point we are going to end up with some sort of fact-finding mission.

ultimately the president has the right to nominate who he chooses. i think you have to preserve that. i think if you're going to be fighting to preserve the filibuster, if you're going to be fighting to preserve the electoral college, institutional norms that have kept the guardrails on society from the beginning of time i think you have to continue that. he has a mandate, but there are limits. >> you may have lost her opportunity to serve in a trump cabinet coming out against the recess appointments. republican senators, how willing are they to stand up to the president and on what exactly? >> yet to be seen. how often have we heard about oh, republican senators or republicans in congress they privately x,y or z and do something different publicly? this is after trump just won this pretty sizable victory. i

think what you are seeing is a donald trump who feels empowered and feels that he has carte blanche. this idea of having the majority of the senate, the majority of the house, having won the way that he won. he has immunity from the supreme court. that tells him he doesn't have to think about whether these people can get confirmed or not. he is counting on them to get confirmed. he is counting on the republican senate being under his leash. >> tulsi gabbard, a little lost in the shuffle over the last day with the matt gaetz appointment and robert f. kennedy jr. we see donald trump getting ready to speak and we will take that momentarily. what questions do you have about tulsi gabbard running the entire intelligence apparatus of the country? >> look, tulsi is pro bashear.

she has been very critical of russia. when japan gave aid to ukraine she reminded americans that japan attacked us to start world war ii out of nowhere. it is very concerning. a lot of people have real concerns about the relationship we have with russia. putting someone like that in charge of all of america's secrets is a deep concern. if we want to play this game, if government is just a game and it's like let's put people who make the left mad in government that if the president's prerogative to do it. the american people are not going to be very happy. >> i think it was scott jennings who said a day or two after the election this is so different in 2016. trumka get anyone he wants basically who is center or right of center to serve in this cabinet. the most

qualified people with the largest experience in any subject that he wants, but he picks tulsi gabbard, matt gaetz and robert kennedy. >> i think the reality is president trump has the right to be cool he wants. i think there is a tenure of disrespect that it tends -- extent that i think would not be accepted if it were the other way around. >> let's listen. >> thank you. i want to thank you and john voigt for being here. great fight movies. sly has a lot of them. i want to thank everyone for being here. when mrs post and her husband built mar-a-lago many years ago, the roaring 20s. we are hotter right now than they ever were and we are going to be a lot hotter. we are going to keep it going. we are not going to have 1929 happen. although,

if it would have continued it might not have been too good. when they built it nobody knew what was going on. nobody knew real luxury. they didn't know anything. they learned a hard lesson in 1929. they learned a very hard lesson. we are going to turn our country around and make it so great, so strong and so powerful. i want to thank some people that have been so instrumental in doing such a great job in terms of not only policy, brooke robbins who put this on with linda mcmahon. linda has been a great friend of mine for a long time. i want to thank you very much and the america first policy institute. what a job they've done. the policy is much more important if we do it for 8 years and 4. i said let's do this. let's

get out and let's win the election. nobody knew that we were going to win the way we won. that was the big one. that was really great. how the air, i would like to congratulate you for the job you have done for argentina. your speech was beautiful. make argentina great again. he is a m.a.g.a. person. you know, he's doing that. he just happens to work with e.a. it doesn't work so well with other countries, but your numbers are working. you've done a fantastic job and it is an honor to have you here. also, speaker mike johnston wherever you may be in this very big and crowded room, thank you. yesterday i said just in case i want to tell you i'm behind this man 100% and

he got 100% of the vote from republicans. are you sure? he's doing a great job. about four weeks ago we had a majority of one. you handled it beautifully. you kept that stiff upper lip. that was a great vote you got yesterday, congratulations, mike. that is beautiful. members of congress, all of whom voted for mike. they've been my friends. we have a lot of them outside and a lot of them coming over the weekend. byron donald, where is byron? what a star. thank you, byron. ronny jackson, he has been a lot of things. he was my doctor. he was a great admiral, highly respected. now he is a very popular congressman and

won by 48 points. that's very good. when he was a dr. they asked him the question, the fake news, which is here. that is a lot. we invited them and they said can we come in? that we have nothing to hide as republicans. they asks ronnie, he was up on the podium, who was the healthiest? he was the doctor for barack hussein obama and donald trump. he was the doctor for bush also. they said who was the healthiest of the mall? is that without question it is donald trump. i said i like that guy. jason smith is here. a rate congressman. wesley heights. and mike waltz who's going to be doing a little other work for us in the near future. we just nominated him. he's going to be doing a great job in the

administration. i promised mike that i wouldn't be taking too many more before we start counting the votes. i just like the people in congress, mike. i'm sorry. don't worry about it. just relax. we have a man who has a seriously high iq. i am a person who believes in high iqs and he is is about as high as it gets. he launched a rocket three weeks ago and then he went to pennsylvania to campaign because he consider this more important, elon musk. what a job. what a job he does. and he happens to be a really good guy. he likes this place. i can get them out here. you know what, i like having him here. he's done a fantastic job. really an incredible mind. an unbelievable entrepreneur. i

asked what do you do best? we were not able to figure it out. another one who is another great mind and a great guy and so popular. i think he is right, he wants to make people healthy. it has driven them pretty wild over the last number of years. the democrats did not treat him well. he was doing fantastically well and i think they came out with some rule that you have to get 70 or 75% of the vote to qualify to be in the primary. that was a pretty tough thing to get. he was doing incredibly well. he went independent and now he's with us all the way. today i nominated him for i guess if you like health and you like people that live a long time is the most important position. r.f.k. jr.. bobby. [ applause ]

>> i just looked at the news report. people like you, bobby. don't get too popular, bobby. you've reached about the level. no. we want you to come up with things and ideas. what you've been talking about for a long time. i think you are going to do some unbelievable things. nobody is going to be able to do it like you and boy, does he fill it in his heart. congratulations to you. and a woman who was a democrat and was an independent, she went independent. lastly she says i want to be a republican because this is what i stand for. i've always admired her. she was loaded up with common sense. it is all about common sense. we are conservative in this room, but we can understand the other side. what we really are is people with common sense. i think that is why we won with the numbers that we won by.

tulsi gabbard, thank you. [ applause ] and you have vivek ramaswamy. now that name is emblazoned into their brains. wherever you may be, thank you. he's working with elon on efficiency. they are working on efficiency among other things and they are going to be saving a lot of money and making our country stronger and better. they will be coming out with individual reports. a big one toward the end. you put those two together and is going to be really great. that's going to be a great experience. you are going to learn something elon. thank you very much and great job. what you have done is fantastic. somebody that i have admired for a long time but i've really gotten to know him

in our -- in my political life and over the last year may be more than even the first three years. we had a tremendous success my first term. and then bad things happen and we had to wait. i could not wait. i would say they are not going to help us. they are not going to say this country. it really dawned on me about 10 days out. i said wait a minute, we are 10 days out. all of a sudden it's 10 days and every day seemed so long. i knew by the crowds we were getting it was going to be something. newt gingrich got up and said this is a very special thing that is happening. nobody has ever had a crowd. they just wanted whole. they wanted something. they just didn't want what they had. nobody expressed in more beautiful

than newt gingrich. thank you very much. it was really beautiful. the american people have just delivered really something very amazing, the biggest political victory in 129 years. can you believe that? they said the most consequential election. i love that word. it is a beautiful word. the most consequential election in the last 129 years. so we swept all swing states. we won the popular vote. oh, i love that. you know, in the last one or in my first term they said we won, but they always follow by he didn't win the popular vote. that's what they always say. who knows. we won the popular vote by

records. nobody can say that anymore about us. we won the popular vote. i didn't win, the great people of our country won the popular vote. this was something really special. won the white house, recaptured the senate. as of today recaptured the house. thank you very much, congressman. on track, it looks like we have it, the largest margin in the national vote in presidential years since 1928. that is interesting. that is when this house was built, 1928. that is when it was completed. something that i just read here and far from one of our friends from the news, from the media, we won 49 out of 50 states, shifted toward the g.o.p.

significantly. that is eye big number. so we won the largest share of black and hispanic votes of any republican in the history of our country, recorded history of our country. think of that. the largest share. that is so incredible. they are unbelievable people. we expect them. we admire them. they have been through a lot. they like us. it wasn't easy. if you take a look at the border of texas. the governor called me up and he said you won everything in town on the border and these towns were always blue. they were a dark, strong blue. you won every single town up and down the border in texas. we won with married women. what about

unmarried women? we won half of all ages. more than 50% of the 18-29-year-olds, the highest in many decades. the highest number. >> we are continuing to watch these remarks. he's about to get to the repair section of the speech. stay with us. much more right after this.

we are watching the president of xp at his mar-a-lago club. this is the most that we have heard from him out loud since his election night victory speech. mostly thanking supporters, mostly going over the same policy he did on the stump. we will continue to keep our eye on it. in the meantime i am joined by legendary journalist carl bernstein. one of the things he did do was point out many of the people he said that he would nominate, including robert kennedy junior. he talked about tulsi gabbard and

others. these are pigs that many people see as controversial. my question is isn't this what donald trump said that he would do to shake things up? >> absolutely. it is really important to recognize these appointments are intended to destroy the established order in this country such as we have known going back to the roosevelt years. that is what this candidate promised and that is what he is doing. the radical nature of it is something we have not seen in our time. we should pay attention to what he said in the campaign because tulsi gabbard. because matt gaetz. because bobby kennedy junior represents what he wants and what the m.a.g.a. movement is about. it is a total departure with the established norms, our

political and cultural realities in this country. a departure such as we have never seen. donald trump has pulled this off and intends to pursue exactly what he promised. that is what we are seeing. that is what those appointments are about. it is a new day that has really draconian implications for this country, particularly in the rule of law, the obeisance to the constitution of the united states. donald trump has never spent a minute considering, et cetera. >> i should know he has finished speaking. he did announce that he is going to nominate doug burgum to be secretary of interior, compared to some of the other announcement is an extraordinarily mainstream and, you know somewhat traditional type of pig. matt gaetz, you talked about in your view these

are pigs meant to destroy. talk to me about how in your mind that is meant to destroy? you have had experience with some attorney generals who were controversial. john mitchell . >> who was a crook, the law partner of the president of the united states and behind a lot of the watergate conspiracies. this is a different order. matt gaetz is someone with no legal experience, except what congress and the justice department was thinking throwing at him. he is a statement made by donald trump about trump's belief that he has been victimized by the justice department. he is going to use gaetz as an instrument of revenge. if gaetz is not confirmed there will be another attorney general intended to do the revenge work of donald trump. trump has told us everything he is going to do.

our job in the press particularly is to follow the stories in terms of what he promised and what he is doing. watch what we do and not what we say. that is what john mitchell said. in this instance we need to watch what donald trump said and follow-up in terms of what he is doing. he is doing exactly what he promised. that is to create through m.a.g.a. a new social, cultural and political order in this country. it is totally different. look at the great movement , the civil rights movement, the women's movement, the rights movement, look at what trump and these people are doing to undermine dealt. >> thank you so much for being here. voters in pennsylvania who swarmed to trump this cycle speak about why they voted for him.

this evening democrats are still assessing why they lost last week. our gary tuchman recently's been time in a county that swung more to the right than any other. their voters explained why they voted for trump and what they expect out of him now. >> marie noel is a mother of 3 and lives in pennsylvania, which got so much attention as a key election battleground state. you told me that you voted for donald trump this time around, you voted democrat four years ago. why did you switch or vote? >> i think he is the change this country needs. >> reporter: she lives in monroe county. in this election no county in the keystone state shifted more toward donald trump in 2020 then monroe leading to trump narrowly winning the county after losing by more than six point four

years ago. what do you want to see donald trump do? >> i want to see him take care of the border. too much immigrants come again. even though i am an immigrant. i am from haiti. i came in the proper way. i just feel like everyone should come in the proper way. >> how does it make you feel the way he's talked about haitians and some other immigrant groups? >> i think a shock value. i don't take it personally. i don't believe my country is like that. >> reporter: we asked other residents who switched or didn't vote in 2020 but voted for him in 2024 what they wanted to see from him? >> i have never voted. this was my first year. i have a child

and i want to see the future get better. i understand why people think he incites hatred. i feel like that is what people want you to think. >> she says education is her top issue. gregory crockett is semi retired. he too contributed to the shift by voting for trump this time around after not voting at all in 2020. >> i would like to see the economy become more stabilized. i would like to see the gouging on the prices come down. >> reporter: we learned a lot about the economy. >> i need assistance. i need help. >> why do you think he will be more helpful with helping people like you? >> i just feel like he would do better. i trust him.

>> why? >> it is just a feeling that i have. >> back at the restaurant nicole rodriguez voted for kamala harris. she also has something she wants to see from donald trump. >> 1st and foremost i would like for him to calm down the climate. bring us all back together. he is all of our president and not just one party. we found very notable that many of them told us we hope trump helps unite the country so it is a noble thought but there wasn't excessive optimism. >> it is great to have you talking to people. the news continues and the source with kaitlan collins starts right now.