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it is friday, november 15. right now on cnn this morning. >> won the white house, recaptured the senate and as of today recaptured the house. >> donald trump celebrating big republican wins as he finalizes his new administration. there is no vaccine that is safe and effective. >> from vaccine skeptic to health and human services secretary. how robert f. kennedy jr.'s appointment could impact patients and their doctors. and later. >> house democrats are going to be able to evaluate where we are and where we need to go. >> how do democrats regroup after devastating losses on election day.

5:00 a.m. here on the east coast. a live look at the united states capital on this friday morning. hey, everyone. we made it to friday. i am kasie hunt. it was wonderful to have you with us. donald trump making another provocative choice. he has picked vaccine skeptic and conspiracy theorist robert f. kennedy jr. at this health and human services secretary. >> i do believe that autism does come from vaccines. covid-19 is targeted to attack caucasians and black people. the people who are most immune are ashkenazi jews and chinese. wi-fi radiation does all kinds of bad things, including causing cancer. some of the mass shootings and we are seeing in this country may be related to these new drugs,

sri's. >> kennedy ended his long shot bid for the presidency as an independent back in august and endorsed donald trump. he joined the campaign under the banner make america healthy again. trump touted his choice during an event at mar-a-lago last night. >> another great mind and a great guy and so popular. i think he's right. he wants to make people healthy. i just looked at the news report. people like you, bobby. don't get too popular, bobby. >> the president-elect naming north dakota governor doug burgum as his interior secretary. >> burgum, he's going to be announced tomorrow for a very big position. actually he is going to head the department of interior and he is going to be

fantastic. >> trump is also zeroing in on another choice in the department of justice where loyalty is clearly a metric for any top pick. trump selecting his personal criminal defense attorney todd blanche to become deputy attorney general. he represented trump during his new york hush-money trial which ended in the president-elect being found guilty of 34 felony counts. if he has his way blanche will join matt gaetz at the top of the justice department. gaetz of course resigned from congress after trump picked him to be attorney general. his resignation effectively ending a house ethics investigation into sexual misconduct allegations. some republican senators now saying they want to see that report. >> i think there should not be any limitation on the senate judiciary committee's investigation, including whatever the house ethics committee has escalated. >> i barely know gaetz. at the end of the day you have to have

the votes and you had better have the resume. that is how this process works. >> joining us now to talk about all of this, kevin fry. the tone from thom tillis, said to be one of the people at the center of this really illustrates where this may be going. these confirmation fights are going to be quite something and in some ways the hits keep on coming out with robert f. kennedy jr. >> the question is what is the next shoe to fall in terms of the next choice and how that explodes on capitol hill. notably with tillis he is facing re-election in a matter of years and representing a true battleground state because of north carolina. he does have to threat this particular needle where he has to be subservient to trump and also stake his own independent grass. it is extraordinary how this has come to shape. at the

same time trump forecasted a lot of this, especially after his own frustrations with his last cabinet where they were not necessarily willing to line up behind him all the time, particularly the ag, the defense department, providing some guardrails. >> let's talk big pictures about robert f. kennedy jr. and the department of health and human services. there have been some suggestions, honestly trump was clear that he was going to give kennedy some sort of role, but there have been a sense before the election that perhaps it would not be the secretary job. that it would be something else. now we know that is not the case. this is writes. the president-elect's decision to put r.f.k. jr. in charge of the health of 350 million americans despite his stance on vaccines is likely to ignite a new debate about the

real-world implications of the second trump term that will begin in january. it could impact the medicines americans -- americans use and the food that everyone is. if kennedy is confirmed and another pathogen emerges he will be in charge of fighting it. the implications are enormous. >> it is astounding. one of the things you have seen is some republicans as we enter into this process of how do they process the information and decide whether to vote for him if summer shifting his glasses to some of his more no controversial views be it trying to make food healthy for school students. one of the things that fits into the pattern, not only is a loyalty, in some sense a lot of his pigs seem to have a great deal of disdain for the agency they would then be tasks to running.

be at the pentagon, be it gaetz who has his own frustrations with the d lj. it fits into that pattern. >> one piece of this that r.f.k. jr. is looking at is the ingredient simple. i think jared polis was talking about vaccine mandates. full quality and the number of a gradient -- ingredients crosses party lines. r.f.k. jr. had his own commentary on donald trump's diet recently. let's watch what rfk had to say about that. >> the stuff that he eats is really bad. campaign food is always back, but the food that goes onto that airplane is just

poison. >> of course trump is famously known as love and mcdonald's and other fast food. >> i was on here on mcdonald's day a couple weeks ago when he was working the drive-through window. >> i don't think trump really likes to be criticize, but it's interesting to hear kennedy say that. >> i think there is a degree. and a nutritionist would probably not disagree on that particular mark. we know trump's diet to be very focused on fast food and he seems to lavish and enjoy them. is he going to get a pass for this? probably because it was said in jeff and he has been otherwise rather subservient ever since joining the ticket. >> since he endorsed for sure. kevin fry, thank you very much. great to have you. republicans

taking full control of washington. democratic congressman greg landsman will be here. plus, the bill is due. today is the deadline for rudy giuliani to turn over his assets. and elon musk the diplomat? his role in diffusing tensions with iran. >> i want them to be very successful, i just don't want them to have a nuclear weapon. that is the real threat.

welcome back. elon musk had a secret meeting with iran's ambassador to the u.n. earlier this week to discuss diffusing tensions between the u.s. and tehran. the new york times siding two officials say the meeting lasted more than one hour and took place at an undisclosed location in new

york. just last week musk joined president-elect trump on a call with volodomyr zelenskyy. all that raising questions domestically and around the world about the role of the world's richest man my play in trump's second term. the president-elect has already tasked the text c.e.o. with leading the department of government efficiency. >> we have a man who has a seriously high iq. i am a person who believes in high iqs and his is about as high as they get. elon, what a job he does. and he happens to be a really good guy. he lacks this place. i can't get him out of here. >> let's go live to london and bring in max foster. good

morning. it was wonderful to see you. these meetings, phone calls, this latest revelation that he met with the iranian u.n. ambassador pretty remarkable as musk clearly has designs on a global profile that really in some ways transcends his business interests to perhaps something that is more political. what does this mean? in some ways he is acting like a shadow foreign secretary? >> in recent times he's gotten very involved and makes those views very clear on twitter. you have had leaders and officials responding. one was around this horrible attack we had in north england. he got involved in that. there is a

real sense that he should not have had any say. he is not a british official and he is not an elected u.s. official. seeing him as part of the administration is concerning because he can be so punchy in his views of what is going on. i think there is a lot of performing about what exactly he will be doing. you never have someone come in from outside government to have a government role here and europe. also this role that is going to be affecting government departments which europe deals with, how will they be affected particularly? how will he change them? they are trying to work it out and working out how close he is to trump. how much he speaks for trump. a lot of humor around the fact that they've got this

government department or department of government efficiency. >> and the fact that elon musk backs does going. max foster with her this morning. always great to see you. r.f.k. jr.'s plans for health in america. >> i know that he was considering it. i think it brings a lot to the table. >> getting him confirmed will be a test of loyalty to donald trump. plus the pentagon confirming hundreds of reported ufo sightings.

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21 minutes past the hour. deadline day for rudy giuliani. the former trump attorney forced to turn over his classic car, a collection of watches and other valuable items to two georgia election workers he defamed. they are part of a $148 million judgment against the former new york mayor. a brief fight broke out at a soccer match in paris. tensions were high going into the game, coming days after anti-semitic violence in amsterdam where israeli fans were attacked. the pentagon says in just over one year they received more than 750 reports of u.f.o. sightings in the u.s. despite the reports still no evidence they say of alien activity. time now for the weather. elevated fire danger returns in the northeast just as firefighters say most of the jennings creek fire is

contained. let's get to derek van dam. good morning. >> good morning. happy friday. this is the story, the high fire danger going into the weekend just as we have started to see serious containment. now we have to deal with a elevated fire risk for much of the north we -- east. a couple of different weather systems moving through. you think this would produce the rainfall necessary to help extinguish remaining flames near the jennings creek fire, but notice the rainfall is basically evaporating just as it reaches the border of new york and new jersey. there is a storm system pulling away. nothing more than a stiff northwesterly breeze. that is also going to drive down the relative humidity. those combinations obviously lead to a high fire risk. we believe that in the outlook

from boston to the delphia and baltimore. you know what this means, anyone driving a train today you have a dry looking forecast. plan accordingly. get the coat as you head out this morning. very helpful. thank you. i had here this morning, some swing states call -- some swing state voters called the republican trifecta troubling. their concerns as donald trump takes his victory lap. bobby junior has also said chemicals in the water could be turning children gay. that is nonsense. i've got to say, jason momoa and aquaman came pretty darn close.

5:29 a.m. here on the east coast. it is to: 29 a.m. out in las vegas. that is the spear. it is totally mesmerizing and apparently very expensive to run. good morning, everyone. i am kasie hunt. this was donald trump start time is the republican nominee, but of course this election was different. for the first time he not only won the electoral college, he also won the popular vote. sources say this has given him a different mind-set compared to when he first entered office. jason

miller telling cnn last week winning the popular vote vote -- changes everything. >> we won the popular vote by records. we won the white house, we recapture the senate and as of today recapture the house. >> some swing voters participating in a focus group expressed hesitation about republicans controlling both chambers of commerce -- congress and the white house. >> i don't think we need one party to have control of everything. at that point you have a bunch of yes men and women. we need those checks and balances so that that should not get past doesn't. >> exact same. there is no balance. >> joining us now is the axios

figure and ship it or who's been working on these focus groups for the last couple of years. margaret, what did you learn from these voters about what we are in for and how they feel about it? >> i love these focus groups. they are so insightful. the panel was selected before the election. we were interested to find out how they voted. the panels have been people who voted for donald trump in 2016 indian went to joe biden in 2020. we found these 14 panelists, about a third had gone back to trump. about a third stuck with the democratic ticket, in this case kamala harris. the rest of them did third-party candidacy. they were really a divided group. what we heard uniformly is the economy as their driving concern and that is what they want the president to focus on. they do not want him on a

retribution tour. they do not want him blowing up every sector of the federal government and all the institutions that they know and that they use. most of them believe that he probably will try. these were really interesting nuances. >> for sure. the piece about balance government, i feel like i hear that a lot when i am on the campaign trail. people will have strong feelings about who they want the president to be or to not be. they will frequently say i believe in divided government. >> you even saw some people split their vote that way. you could vote for trump and vote for a democrat or vote for harris on the ticket and a republican lower down for exactly that reason. >> you also spoke to these voters about robert f. kennedy jr., who with will be chums pick for h.h.s. secretary. let's watch what they have to

say. >> he is asking a lot of intensely good questions. >> i just question if he is really going to focus on the health of the american people versus his own political ambitions. >> i just personally think a lot of his policies are rooted in gut feelings and antidotes and not science. >> a pretty wide range. what else did you hear? >> we ask about a couple of different figures, rfk was one and elon musk with the other. there was actually less knowledge about the whole idea of rfk entering the incoming administration as there was a elon musk. almost everyone on this panel was keenly aware of the very close relationship and advisory role that musk seems to be playing. among there was

not as thorough an understanding. among the five or so who thought about it one thought it was a good idea and the others thought it was a bad idea. the one who likes the idea says he actually have a lot of interesting ideas and he will be engaged in healthcare in ways other secretaries haven't. he couldn't do a worse off than others. the other three were like he definitely could. they were concerned about the fact that his own family have kept his distance. that they are concerned about conspiracy theories are some of the other elements. i think you see a mixed view. on elon there is almost universal nobody thinks it is a good idea for trump to be that close to elon musk. some think it is actually a bad idea and the other half were like we don't really know our opinion, but we don't think it was a good idea. >> did they say why?

>> they didn't elect him. some of them elected trump. some of them didn't vote for trump. that he is not elected and shouldn't be that empowered. because he is the world's richest man and a multibillionaire they really question what he is trying to get out of it. would he be making moves that would reduce regulation of industries where he stands to gain? most of them just thought what is his motive? why would he be empowered to have this role? they were really not comfortable with it. >> really fascinating. margaret, thank you for being here. donald trump takes robert f. kennedy jr. to leave the department of health and human services as we have been discussing. >> we want you to come up with ideas and things that 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.

>> just the latest of trump's picks for his next administration which will likely test and a republicans loyalty. kennedy has notably spread false information about the safety and efficacy of vaccines. here is a little bit of the conversation i had with him as he was running as an independent candidate against trump. >> i would be against mandates for any vaccine. >> if confirmed he would be in charge of overseeing the affordable care act, medicare and medicaid. joining us now director and officer of the wayne county department of health human and veteran services. dr. thank you for being here. i would like to start with helping our viewers understand what a job like this entails and the sheer size and scope that is under the

attention of the department of health and human services, including over 100 million americans who get their healthcare through medicare and medicaid. the center for medicaid and medicare services is of course under h.h.s. can you give us an idea of what kinds of decisions robert f. kennedy jr. will make if confirmed to this role? >> this is going to be the man setting the agenda from everything from what science we pursue to who gets healthcare under critical programs like medicare and medicaid. i want to give you three examples. you think about the c.d.c. and vaccine advisory. this is going to be the individual who helps to select the next city see director and the kinds of vaccines we are recommending for children. look at the n.i.h. and the grants that we give. you can imagine someone with very serious anti-vaccine views started to set our research on vaccines for diseases that we don't yet have vaccines for. think about

another agency like the sentence for medicare and medicaid services. decisions about what we are going to cover for seniors. another one is the f.d.a. think about the kinds of decisions around medications. this is someone who has a history of some really questionable views. it's not whether or not you agree, it is whether or not his views are based in science. science is the way we ask and answer questions in our society. we ask and we observe if this medication has real benefits. unfortunately this is someone's who's past statements have demonstrated cherry picking data that unfortunately will conform with his preconceived notions. >> dr., on this question -- doctor, on this question

obviously this is something where each family makes decisions. there decisions that impact the community in a very real way. if you are sending your children to school with unvaccinated children there is a risk to them. he has said he doesn't want to take vaccines away from people who want them, he just wants to get rid of the mandates. i think my question is if you start messing around with those mandates, does that start to affect whether insurance companies will cover vaccinations for children and impact and families ability to protect themselves? >> of course when you think about where insurance companies tend to take their direction it tends to come from health and human services which he has the potential to be the secretary of. to your point i really want to stress this, a vaccine is as good as the number of people in

a local community who take it. you think about measles, measles is the most infectious disease known to humankind. in order to prevent a measles outbreak in a school you need to have herd immunity at 95%. given the kind of misinformation r.f.k. in his nonprofit has been spouting for a long time we have watched as that leverage has dropped. that means you have many more potentially vulnerable people who could've gotten sick. if you are in a situation where these are not mandated and people are listening to something you are in a situation where the outbreaks get a lot bigger and a lot more potentially at risk kids can be affected. as the father of a young child kids under one cannot get vaccinated. they rely on the vaccination of everyone else. we are all in this together and it requires all of us doing the things right to protect all of us

together. >> really such an important point. i am the mom of two young children. that period where your child is not vaccinated does feel much different once you are able to do that. of course those concerns are going to be exacerbated. very grateful for your time and expertise. thank you so much for being here. democrat doing some soul-searching. congressman greg lanson jointly live to talk about where the party plans to go from here. plus bleacher report coming up.

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in the last 129 years. that is something. we swept all swing states. we won the popular vote. oh, i love that. >> president-elect donald trump taking a victory lap in his first speech since his election last week. it came after democrats convene for the first of seven postmortem listening sessions, trying to figure out how republicans receive the trifecta of government control. some pointing to their failure to address water security and crime. one congressman telling -- hakeem jeffries acknowledging his party faces a reckoning. >> as a team we will move forward with a family conversation over the next several days, the next several weeks, the next several months. we've got to do a better job of working hard to lower food

prices, to lower gas prices, to lower housing prices. that is something we are going to lean into. the american people have correctly said they want that issue addressed decisively. >> joining us now to discuss is greg landsman of ohio. thank you for being here. >> thank you for having me. >> this is the first time you all have been together this week as congress has come back to washington. do you feel like the party has reached any sort of consensus about what went wrong? there are some on the progressive left who has blamed misinformation for what happens. others like you who think while the party should be attacking much of the center that should be the lesson. where do you stand? do you

think there is a shared understanding of what went wrong? >> i think there is an emerging understanding that people are frustrated with the economy. they are frustrated with politics. with the economy it is their bank accounts. maybe unemployment is better than what it was, but our personal bank account, the balance is not what we want it to be. they want folks to fix it. to fix the economy. with politics there is this sense that politicians who get out there and talk in sound bites, it just does not resonate. people just want you to tell them the truth. they want you to explain how you are going to fix something. they want you focused on them. i think people appreciate that was for trump, you know, it omits that people

want to change and they voted for him. i think he represents the things that are broken about the economy or politics. people said this is what we want in terms of change. i don't think they want the extremism, the chaos or the cruelty that comes with his rhetoric or some of his policies. >> i want to show you a group of swing voters. many of them had voted for trump and then voted for biden and then they were going to see where they landed this year. here is what they had to say on the future of the democratic party. >> stop focusing on migrants and emigrants and grouping us into one category. there needs to be a change. >> i feel like the celebrity endorsement at its max has to go away. because everybody is laughing and is a star-studded circus. >> if the democrats want to run things again, talk to the grassroots. talk to the people.

>> bring it back to the center. >> i got off of social media and while ago. no twitter. no instagram. no twitter. we have accounts and i put stuff up there, i'm not scrolling. which means i get all my information from people. whether it is on the soccer field, or at the grocery store or at our town halls. this is exactly what i hear. do the work. the normal. be pragmatic. we liked when the centerleft and the center-right work together. that is where you are going to solve problems. the celebrity endorsement is hilarious. it is true, no one cares . we like the music. we like the music. who they are voting for not so important. >> to the celebrity endorsements make democrats

seem out of touch? >> i suspect if you're hanging out with the celebrities. it is not the life that i'm living. that feels different. >> that is interesting that voters say that. let me ask about your reaction to some of donald trump's picks. of course he does have this mandate of washington governance. the question seems to be can some of these more controversial nominees get confirmed? robert f. kennedy jr. the latest for health and human services. there was a democrat colorado governor greg polis -- jared polis who said he is excited by this news. he wrote he will help make america healthy again by shaping -- shaking up the h.h.s. and the f.d.a. do you agree? what was your reaction to the r.f.k. jr. announcement? >> i am genuinely worried. with

these appointments and all of these decisions you have to ask yourself who is benefiting and who was going to get hurt. at the moment it seems as if trump is picking people who are loyal to him so that he benefits. what about us? i've got kids in school. what happens when other kids don't have the vaccines. are we about to have a big conversation about polio and the measles and what happens if my kid is the measles or some other horrible disease? there is a lot on the line. this is what i think is true about this election and what's next, people expected change. they wanted people to get to work and to solve problems. i don't think they

wanted or expected super wealthy folks who were plugged in to get positions of power to do what they want at the expense of the rest of us. >> all right, thank you very much for that. time now for sports. the eagle soar past the commanders to extend their lead in a thursday night thriller. carolyn, i miss the game admittedly. i go to bed early. bring me up to speed. >> historically these thursday night games and not know for being blockbusters in terms of matchup. that was not the case. washington was in control but things took a turn. philly cummings storming back. let me show you the highlights. this is a contest between two teams that were basically looking to take eight wins so far in the

season. this is the signature play for the touchdown. the turning point coming with washington down two, facing a fourth and 2. the commanders going for it. jaden daniels trying to scramble and ends up getting tackled. after that the eagle started pouring on the points. saquon barkley scoring on back-to-back drives. billy winn's fixed rate. afterwards nick sirianni talked about that stop on fourth down that was the difference. >> that was huge. that is a turnover in our eyes. jaden daniels is a really good athlete, a really good football player. it was huge. we went down and made it a two score game. >> and it was fight night in north texas. mill is expected to watch mike tyson squaring

off against the 27-year-old social media implements the jake paul later tonight on netflix. iron mike as you can see slapping paul across the face during yesterday's weigh-in. the two quickly separated by security. if that does not get you height, maybe this will. >> i didn't even feel it. he is angry. mike tyson, i thought that was a cute slap but tomorrow you are getting knocked [ bleep ] out. >> the world is excited to see you one last time. can you tell us the emotions and the thoughts going through your mind? >> talk is over. >> why didn't you push him? all right, that is it.

>> tyson retired from boxing with a 50-6 wrecker back in 2005. i think the controversy was he felt like paul stepped on his foot when he got into his personal space. this is going to be something millions are excited about later tonight. i don't know that i will be awake for it. netflix has to be excited about the theater that has, i had this fight against these two. >> i am pulling for mike tyson. >> carolyn, thank you. in our next hour, could donald trump's picks be confirmed by the senate? we talk about possible headwinds. plus, with the ethics report on matt gaetz ever see the light of day? >> i think there should not be any limitation on the senate judiciary committee's investigation, including whatever the house ethics committee has generated.

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