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and i'm jessica dean in atlanta. >> any moment now president joe biden is set to meet with chinese president xi on the sidelines of the apec summit in peru. he just arrived at the hotel where that discussion is set to take place, and the meeting is coming at a critical time for the future of the relationship between beijing and washington. as donald trump's imminent return to the white house looms over the summit of pacific leaders. delegates are discussing and strategizing for a future that remains uncertain and unpredictable, and we have a team of correspondents with us to look at this from all angles. our marc stewart is in beijing, steve contorno is in west palm beach. we're going to start first, though, with kayla tausche, who is traveling with the president in lima, peru and kayla, what are u.s. officials hoping to achieve in this meeting, given that it's at this late hour of the biden presidency well jessica, u.s. >> officials have been managing

the expectations for this meeting, saying that there are not expected to be any specific deliverables or outcomes, that it's a meeting more for reflection and taking stock of the relationship and how it's progressed over the last four years, where president joe biden had a very clear goal, where he wanted to keep the competition between these two global superpowers from spilling over into conflict. certainly, there have been many areas of contention, notably on cyber espionage and china's in ukraine. that has been growing in the last couple of years. but there have also been some areas of cooperation, like on climate change and on curbing the trafficking of illicit fentanyl. and recently they have also established military level communication so that the two countries can de-conflict in the south china sea and the taiwan strait, where there had been concerns of a potential accidental conflict in that region given

china's operations there. so we expect them to highlight some of those issues, jess. but certainly the incoming administration is going to cast a shadow over what they're able to discuss there is real consternation among the chinese delegation about what exactly awaits them when president elect donald trump returns to washington for his second term, he has already assembled a team of hard line china hawks who are going to be setting to work executing an agenda that has been clearly telegraphed by trump on the campaign trail. that would include steep tariffs that are expected early in his term. they're trying to figure out what to expect. they're not expecting those answers from president biden. but we do expect this to be a capstone meeting of sorts, as president biden prepares to turn the page on his own presidency. jess. all right. >> kayla tausche for us, traveling with the president in lima, peru. thank you so much for that reporting. i want to go now to mark stewart who is joining us from beijing. and mark president biden, of course, facing a barrage of questions from china and other foreign leaders about the

incoming president former president donald trump. what is the view from china's capital well, jessica, if you talk to china observers, the point of this meeting is for xi jinping to perhaps send the signal to the incoming administration that it values stability and it values communication because it wasn't that long ago, under the first trump administration, that diplomats here in beijing spent many sleepless nights wondering what was next. >> by nature, the us-china relationship is a complicated one. at one point in the first, trump presidency, these two leaders or trump and xi jinping, had had a very amicable relationship. you may remember they they shared chocolate cake together at mar-a-lago but then things turned sour when bigger issues about trade disputes and china's handling of covid really caused a thorn in this relationship. the biden

administration has also had rough spots with china. in fact, after that balloon was shot down in early 2023, there was pretty much a diplomatic freeze. but eventually things did evolve and china and the u.s. now have regular diplomatic conversations. we have seen secretary of state antony blinken treasury secretary janet yellen here, as well as national security advisor jake sullivan. it's that kind of dialog that beijing certainly would like to continue. and it's hoped that this final meeting from an optics perspective, will send that message to the incoming trump white house. >> yeah. and mark diplomatic worries aside, could a new administration could this new trump administration empower china to show its strength on a on a broader level perhaps yeah, there's no question, jessica opportunity to really set itself apart from the united states to say it, too, is a

strong world power and perhaps may be a stable alternative to the united states. >> in fact before aipac even began, xi jinping went to peru and unveiled this massive under deep water port beijing contributed $1.3 billion. china of course, is the world's second largest economy and so it will be looking for opportunities if these years ahead in this new administration prove to be a little bit bumpy, to say to the rest of the world china is also a formidable partner to do business with. >> all right. mark stewart, for us in beijing, thank you so much. we really appreciate that. and let's head now to the current center of the political universe. and right now that's not washington, d.c. it's west palm beach florida. cnn's steve contorno near mar-a-lago, where president-elect trump is considering more cabinet selections two of his cabinet picks, in the meantime, are

under some very heavy scrutiny as past allegations have surfaced. steve, how is trump's transition team dealing with all of this and the fact that they were caught off guard by a sexual assault allegation against pete hegseth? trump's choice for secretary of defense yeah jessica, that one in particular shows just how quickly trump has made some of these decisions and has taken a left turn that caught some of his own closest advisers and allies off guard. >> donald trump had been considering a long list of names. very traditional sort of orthodox names for defense secretary and attorney general two very critical roles in his administration. but he was not satisfied with any of those choices. and he made somewhat abruptly the decision to go with pete hegseth as as the excuse me national security adviser. no, that was sorry, defense secretary. and then attorney general. he picked matt gaetz. now, both those individuals bring a considerable amount of baggage and some of that was known.

matt gaetz obviously has for a while been the under investigation for sexual misconduct, alleged sexual misconduct involving a minor, as well as drug use by both the department of justice and the house ethics committee. however, the pete hegseth accusations that we just learned about were caught. his team off guard, and they are now trying to figure out just how deep this might cause problems for his nomination. there were already concerns about several of trump's nominees. not only hegseth and and matt gaetz, but also rfk jr., who has detractors on both the left and the right for positions he has taken over the years gabbard, who will be in charge of the office of national intelligence, as someone who's been quite critical of our national intelligence gathering agencies over the years, so they are marching ahead at this time with all four of these picks, and they trump is standing by them both publicly

and privately. however it just shows you how much trump intends to challenge this narrow majority they have in the senate, where they just have four votes that can go either way, that could potentially sink any one of these picks. >> and steve while you're talking right now, an email just coming in from the the transition team saying that president donald trump is thrilled to announce chris wright will be joining his administration as both the secretary of energy and a member of what they're calling a newly formed council of national energy that will consist of all departments and agencies involved in the permitting, production generation, distribution regulation, transportation and all forms of american energy. again, the news coming just right now that chris wright will be nominated to be the secretary of energy. and then, of course, talking about this newly formed council of national energy steve, and this just underscores how fluid all of this is right now decisions being made, obviously in real

time, right there where you are yeah, it's fluid and very fast. >> just think about where this process was eight years ago, where donald trump had camped out in trump tower in manhattan. he was putting on this sort of public auditioning of all these roles, having people march in front of cameras that had been waiting to see who was going in and out of trump tower and who might be ahead or behind. there was no formal transition plan. well that is certainly not the case. this go around. trump is announcing all of these picks in a relatively fast clip from the moment he was elected all the way through to today as you just said, another name coming through. this is a much faster process than it was last go around. just shows how orderly and disciplined the people he has put in charge of his operation are. this time, and as well as this is a person who understands government and the inner workings of his of the u.s. government and his own administration, far better than he did eight years ago when he was still a political fresh

face and someone who was walking into a white house and a washington, d.c., that he didn't quite fully understand and didn't wasn't sure who could be a friend and who was a potential adversary. well, now he knows who his friends are. he knows who is loyal to him, and he is putting those people in positions of power. >> all right. steve contorno for us in west palm beach with this breaking news that trump has announced, chris wright as his nominee for energy secretary. steve contorno, thank you so much. we'll be checking in with you a little bit later of course, trump's cabinet picks are going to have to make it through senate confirmation, but he's hoping to circumvent the typical process. ahead, what trump's push for recess appointments actually means in the senate and what it means for its new republican leadership. plus, what the future of health in america could look like if robert f kennedy jr. becomes the head of health and human services. and a little later, why ukraine's president says the war with russia will end more quickly. with trump in office and what that could

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of course, uncertainty with its most important ally, the united states. but during an interview, zelenskyy said one thing is certain as president elect trump prepares to return to the white house war will end and it will not end in the abstract but there is no exact date however, the war will end faster with the policy of this team that will now lead the white house. this is their approach, their promise to their society, and it is also very important to them and joining us now cnn national security analyst and former deputy director of national intelligence beth sanner. >> beth, nice to have you here. thanks for being here. >> thanks jessica. >> i first just want to know what you make of that comment i just played from from president zelenskyy right. >> and i think i couldn't really hear at the end but the last sentence that i read he said was that. and it's up to ukraine to make sure that this war ends in the next year um,

and with you know, a politically negotiated ending, something to that effect. and so i think that zelenskyy and the ukrainians in general are just, you know they have the ultimate in realists if you are a country that is, you know, weaker, you have to figure out how you are going to make it and in ukraine's case, this is about survival. so i think he understands that ukraine, um is, you know, at risk of being a pawn in this. and his statement to me is absolutely about making sure that president trump knows that he is going to be part of the solution and not the problem that ukraine is willing to go to the negotiating table. >> okay. and to that end zelenskyy met with both vice president kamala harris and donald trump when he visited earlier this summer. and there's another clip i want to play from this meeting between trump and zelenskyy. here's this we have a very good

relationship and i also have a very good relationship. as you know with president putin. and i think if we win, i think we're going to get it resolved very quickly, very worried i really think we're going to get it. >> i hope we have it more good relations with oh i see. >> yeah. do you think ukraine, you know, it takes two to tango and i know you were listening, but when you watch that video, kind of the look on zelenskyy's face and he looks at him and goes, i think we have a good relationship. you say you know, you're you're kind of categorization of where ukraine finds itself right now as they try to prepare to be in as good of a position as possible. what do you think are kind of the best and worst case scenarios for them? if trump does indeed go forward with trying to negotiate a deal with putin to end this war. >> well, i think that, you know, in some ways a lot of people around zelenskyy you know, they do not have a great relationship with um, the u.s. administration right now. it's it's not all, uh, you know, rainbows and sunshine. and so

in some ways, i think that there are certainly parts of ukrainian society and leadership who welcomes the trump administration and their kind they're hoping that what happens in the end here is that trump will realize that russia actually is not willing to compromise. and that he is going to have to support them and force russia to make compromises. i think the worst case is, is probably not the least, is not the most likely. i do not think that president trump wants to go down as the greater greatest appeaser of russia in history. um, you know, like looking like a chamberlain i don't think he wants to do that. i think he wants to end this war but, um, and i think that he believes that it is on fair terms. i think that fairness is in the eyes of the beholder. and so that that that measurement stick is really going to be

about how each side sees this, and it's going to be a little harder than it looks at first glance. >> i also want to ask you about one of trump's picks, former congresswoman tulsi gabbard. he selected her to be the director of national intelligence you worked as the former deputy director of national intelligence and i'm just wondering if you can explain to our viewers kind of why critics are so alarmed at the selection of tulsi gabbard and what what the dnc's role is when it comes to our intelligence yeah. >> so so the dni has these kind of big kind of titular responsibilities under the statute of overseeing the 18 agencies that make up the intelligence community but the power of that person is, you know kind of as much or as little in some ways as what they want to put into the job. um things just don't happen automatically. each agency has

a lot of power, but where the dni has a lot of power is in controlling what message gets to the president and what is published as intelligence community analytic products and what isn't. um, as well as decisions about programs and personnel. so this idea of like schedule f, you know where you would have kind of political appointee type things that would all go through the dni. so there is quite a bit of power there in in, in subtle ways, even though agencies have a lot of individual power as well. and the cia also technically works for her. >> right, right. and i just quickly want to play a clip from former from former secretary of state hillary clinton in 2019. she went so far as to say she thought russians were grooming tulsi gabbard. let's listen to what she said i'm not making any predictions, but i think they've got their eye on somebody who's currently in the

democratic primary and are grooming her to be the third party candidate. >> she's the favorite of the russians. they have a other ways of supporting her. so far and that's assuming jill stein will give it up, which she might not, because she's also a russian asset. >> and clinton's spokesperson later confirmed she was talking about gabbard there. and she's not the only one who's made these accusations of her being essentially a russian asset. do you share that assessment i really think that people should be careful about going defining someone as an asset. >> i mean, that is that is a very that's like being a traitor. so i think that you know, you have to have an investigation, you have to have a background investigation. and i don't think those things should be skipped when it comes to the heads of u.s. intelligence. but that said you know, clearly she is repeating the propaganda of places like

rt and she is, you know, mimicking these things. but you will find those ideas all over the u.s. internet. >> um and circulating in these different, um, chat rooms and things. and so i don't know if that really tells us, um where she gets these you know, to be the head of intelligence, you're supposed to protect it and and, you know she's done some things and said some things that suggest that maybe she doesn't see the same way as an intelligence professional. like i do. >> all right. beth as always, thank you so much for your thoughts. there we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> coming up, president trump wants to use an old political trick. the recess appointment to skip past the usual senate approval process. is that efficient? and powerful, or would it cheat the american people and the senate of the right to be the check

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from the horse and buggy part of, you know time in u.s. history when the senate and the house would be out of session for a long time. it took a long time for people to get to washington. the president at that time needed to make appointments when lawmakers weren't here. that's not really the way it's supposed to work, because in the constitution, the senate is supposed to give advice and consent to all of the people or the top people that work in the administration. so trump would want to use these in order to essentially get worry about confirmation hearings and making sure he could get 50 votes because he's picked some very controversial nominees. people like matt gaetz, who might not even be able to get a majority among republicans. so this would be a way for him to get the cabinet that he wants without the worrying, you know, having in the senate but it's not really the way it's supposed

to work at all. >> right. and the courts have weighed in on recess appointments before. what did they say? yeah. >> well, there was a about things were flipped. it was republicans suing the obama administration over three recess appointments. barack obama national labor relations board function. it went all the way to the supreme court and the supreme court essentially said that the senate must be out of session for enough recess in order to make a recess appointment. and you see where this is going. in the years since then, the senate just essentially stopped taking recesses. they haven't recessed long enough to make a recess appointment since 2016. so in order to do this, republicans in the senate would literally have to stop business, take a ten day break that they probably can't afford to so that trump could get around having to having to get 50 votes. and by the way, they have a majority. >> right, right. and when they do these things called pro

forma sessions, where one senator has to go in there and essentially it's not full recess because they're presiding over the senate, but they don't really do anything in that moment what does history tell us about how likely trump's picks are to make it through the senate? >> every recent president has had at least one failed nominee and before there's a vote. there hasn't been a negative vote for a cabinet official in decades. since the 80s. and the guy, john tower, he was you know, a former senator actually, and that's kind of what brought him down because all the senators knew he had a drinking problem. and that was something the fbi ended up investigating he was nominated to be the defense secretary. trump had some failed nominees, but nobody usually gets to the point of actually having a vote because it's so embarrassing. you know, bill clinton famously had his attorney general pick withdrew after it became clear she had hired undocumented and

undocumented immigrants. president trump, his commerce secretary in his first term, pulled back. so it's actual vote. really rare. i mean, john tower one was the first 1 in 50 years. so it almost never happens that they get out there and actually have a negative vote. >> right. and so bottom line, as people try to kind of metabolize this, this information, you know, we know that the former president is not concerned or motivated by the norms. i guess in washington, if he decides to push forward with these recess appointments and the senate republicans want to support that, is there anything stopping him from doing that? >> uh pretty much. i mean, it would be senate republicans. you saw john thune there he didn't really sound excited by the idea of recess appointments, because it would be abdicating the responsibility that he just gained as the senate majority leader and, you know, while we always think of republicans and democrats as the forces fighting each other you know, the senate is supposed to be a check on the white house. and i don't think republicans in the

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trump's appointment of robert f. >> kennedy jr. as hhs secretary is sparking a lot of concern among health experts and others who are sounding the alarm over mr. kennedy's extensive history of promoting junk science and anti-vaccine conspiracy theories, including claims that covid 19 was, quote, ethnically targeted and that chemicals in the environment are impacting the sexuality of children. here's some more of what he said tiny, infinitesimal amounts of mercury at parts per billion will cause profound neurological injury in children it's coming from our own vaccines. >> covid 19 is targeted to attack caucasians and and and black people. the people who are most immune are ashkenazi jews and and chinese. the capacity for these chemicals that we are just raining down on our children right now to induce these very profound

sexual changes in them is something we need to be thinking about as a society. even in hitler's germany, you could you could cross the alps into switzerland. you can hide in an attic like anne frank did. today, the mechanisms are being put in place that will make it so none of us can run, and none of us can hide. they're putting in 5g to harvest our data and control our behavior joining us now is doctor peter salk, the son of the scientist who developed the polio vaccine. >> he's also an expert on infectious diseases. doctor. thanks so much for being here with us. >> you are welcome. >> before we get to rfk jr., i first want to talk about the impact your father's polio vaccine had on the world, had on americans i think a lot of people might not realize just how much it and other vaccines, vaccines really changed the world absolutely.

>> polio was causing epidemics that were increasing and elsewhere in the world. in 1952, there were 58,000 children who were affected by polio, which is a crippling disease can leave you unable to walk, use your limb or your arms. you may have to be in an iron lung for a prolonged period of time. this was very, very frightening. the father and his team at the university of pittsburgh developed the very first effective polio vaccine, which was introduced for use in 1955, and there was just a huge wave of relief on the part of parents. and i have to say that that research was funded by the march of dimes. this was not government funding, it was donations from the people in people's victory over a disease because about their children. it was very, very frightening yeah. >> and thanks to that vaccine, we don't really see that in

this country anymore. and and and yet rfk jr.'s support does seem to be linked in part to this larger decline in public trust and health institutions expertise, science what do you think is driving that, and how do you think that the trust can be rebuilt? >> yeah, first of all, i think that one thing for people in this country is that the success of vaccines has meant that people are no longer as concerned about the diseases of childhood and so on, that we've been confronted with, of course, the covid pandemic brought things to the forefront in that respect having continued trust in vaccines is really important. if there are issues that need to be dealt with and there always are with anything that one introduces, one has to be very careful. i

am completely in agreement with that i think that most people are that we as long as we approach things appropriately, we need to end up in a position where the immunity against these diseases that were so prevalent in the past continues to be solid and that we're in a position of protecting against new disease threats that can emerge. one other thing that's characterized this last period of time is the great division of thinking and feeling in this country so my own personal preference at the moment is to try and look upon this next period as an opportunity to heal those divides. >> if we can create a public and dialog around issues where there's there's great are great differences of points of view and even rfk jr. himself has made these these points that at times he has said he's

not against vaccines he doesn't want to take people's vaccines away from them. but he's concerned about what these other issues are. if we can reach a point where we are creating and and if through his leadership he could provide this opportunity appropriate forums to explore all of the pros and the cons and the ins and outs, so that at the other side of this, everyone in this country can feel comfortable that they've participated that their points of view have been heard and that we can work together as a united nation in approaching the kinds of problems that are confronting us. >> and so are you hopeful in what you're describing? there about how you would hope we could get back to to trust in all of this and kind of building that, bridging that divide are you hopeful that that can happen if confirmed under robert f. kennedy jr.. s

leadership you know, my feeling is that we have to take whatever happens in the most positive light we can and and whatever takes place, we want. from my vantage point, we want to move from here, from where we've been to a future where there's more harmony. >> all right doctor peter salk, thank you so much for your thoughts on that. we really appreciate it. >> you are very welcome thank you. >> and when we come back how two hispanic families with mixed legal status view trump's return to the white house as he lays the groundwork to carry out his promised mass deportations and detentions. you're in the cnn newsroom health, mary janet hey, eddie. no. fraser. frank. frank fred. how are you? fred. support up to seven brain health indicators including memory. when you need to remember. remember. let's review. we're not going to talk about traffic or whether if anyone brings up

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at 8:00 on cnn as president elect donald trump prepares to take office, trump's allies are discussing their strategies for deporting people. many in trump's circle see tackling immigration as a de one priority. cnn's rosa flores

sits down with two families whose lives could change to see how they view his immigration promises. >> how many of you are u.s. citizens? >> how many of you support donald trump? >> you're undocumented and you support donald trump. >> i support donald trump for the economy. >> two hispanic families with mixed legal status in houston, with two different takes on president elect donald trump's return to the white house. >> this is the espinoza's first gathering since trump's win. how many of you fear that deportation could impact your family? cesar espinoza, a husband and father, was a daca recipient until this summer when he got a green card. his sister and brother in law are daca recipients. his sister in law is a green card holder and the rest of his family here are u.s. citizens, some who are not present are undocumented. you're a green card holder. your wife is a u.s. citizen. >> why are you afraid of deportation? >> i just became a green card

holder after 33 years of being in this country. i don't think people understand the fear. it's a constant shadow hanging over our heads. >> what was your reaction to donald trump winning? >> i cried a lot. >> it was it was emotional half my family like, if they're going to be here or they're not going to be here and how do you tell all of our kids, like my nephews, they're also our kids, to tell people that doesn't live in kids and children's minds and teenagers and young adults. >> life is a lie palacio velasquez is an worked in houston for 25 years. oh two u.s. citizen children, ages donald trump. so you support donald trump because of the economy, for the economy yes.

>> but you don't support the anti-immigrant rhetoric. >> i'm not supporting the immigrant >> do you support his mass deportations? >> no. it's not human. >> are you afraid that you could be deported and this mass deportation? >> i'm not afraid. i'm not afraid espinoza runs a migrant advocacy group and says many people are afraid and have called him in tears. i think there's a heightened sense of fear. >> explain why latino men are going to trump democrats forget the promise when these guys are in the office in washington. >> the latinos want a better nation. >> espinoza believes some of the latino support for trump was a vote against the prospect of the first black female president. >> there's still a lot of machismo. there's still a that we need to say aloud is there's a lot of anti-blackness. >> velasquez says he hopes trump finds compassion for immigrant fathers like him, who

are not criminals. >> if you get deported, would you regret your support to donald trump? >> no. mary poe. >> he's saying that he wouldn't regret supporting donald trump. so you're really not thinking about yourself. you're thinking about your children and the future of your children. >> yes i want the better for my children. >> cesar says he feels guilty for bringing so much uncertainty to his family. what's it like for you to see your wife go through this? and the emotions that she's going through? >> i apologize to her a lot. but we fell in love right away, and we got married almost right away because when you know, you know. >> we asked velasquez and espinoza the have a plan in case you get deported? >> i respect the decision. i leave the country. i'm not coming back there is a plan. >> we've talked about it openly with our family. >> turns out these two hispanic families with two different takes on trump's win have the

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