>> get what you earned. visit. choose va.gov have i got news for you tonight at nine on cnn and around the world. >> you are in the cnn newsroom, and i'm jessica dean in atlanta, and we're following two big stories this hour. let's go first to peru, where president biden and china's president xi are meeting right now, likely for the final time.

we're about to get our first video of that meeting, and we have new reporting on what is that information. but first, the trump transition also moving at a rapid clip just moments ago, president-elect trump announcing he's tapping chris wright to be who is the head of a fracking company to be his secretary of energy. this comes amid growing scrutiny for many of trump's key cabinet picks rfk jr.. chosen for head of health and human services has rung some bells alarm bells in the medical community we've also learned that defense secretary nominee pete hegseth was accused of sexual assault and trump's choice for attorney general, matt gaetz, was the subject of several investigations, including alleged drug use and sex trafficking. let's head now to west palm beach for the very latest on all of this. cnn's steve contorno is near mar-a-lago, where president-elect trump is considering more cabinet selections and steve, as we've been talking, this is moving at a very fast clip. it is very fluid. what can you tell us

about trump's newly announced pick for energy secretary you're certainly right, jessica. >> we are seeming to get a new name every single day, sometimes multiple a day, as trump quickly assembles his cabinet for his second term. let me walk you through a little bit of chris wright's biography, to give you a sense of who he is. he is a ceo of liberty energy. that is a company that services oil and natural gas extraction and production companies. he is he and his wife are together. major republican donors and in fact held a fundraiser for donald trump earlier this year. he is also someone who does not believe in climate change and has said things like there is no climate crisis, which, given donald trump's position on this issue, shouldn't be surprising, but it is notable given the department that he will be leading. he will. he will be joining a newly formed council of national energy, along with doug burgum, as well

all right steve contorno for us with the latest on trump's latest pick and could be more tonight and throughout the weekend. >> again, thanks so much for that reporting, steve. meantime some members of the intelligence community are raising some national security concerns over former congresswoman tulsi gabbard, president elect trump has tapped her to be his director of national intelligence but gabbard has a history of spreading russian conspiracy theories and propaganda even cozying up to some of america's biggest adversaries, including syrian dictator bashar al assad who is accused of being responsible for killing hundreds of thousands of syrian civilians. here's what here's some of what she said do you think assad is our enemy? assad is not the enemy of the united states because the united syria does not pose a direct threat to the united states. >> here's something you are not going to hear in the mainstream media. >> what you do hear is warmongers arguing that we must

protect ukraine because it is a quote, unquote democracy. but they're lying. ukraine isn't actually a democracy joining me now is the newly elected democratic vindman. >> congressman, thanks so much for being here with us. >> thank you for having me. >> i just want to ask you first, if you agree with critics who say that gabbard would be a threat to america's national security in this role. >> well, look, i do. the bottom line is that i think she's unqualified she peddles in conspiracy theories. she kowtows and caters to our dictators and really, our adversaries and she's unfit for that position. a critical position, national security. look, there are a number of um, trump nominations that are concerning, but the ones in my mind that are most concerning and the ones that we can't

trifle with are the ones in the national security realm, because those are the ones that have to do with use of force and potentially putting american troops on the ground. and in harm's way. >> and you played a key role in the first impeachment of now president elect donald trump, raising concerns about an alleged quid pro quo call between him and ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy. and in his campaign for reelection, trump talked a lot about retribution for what he called his political enemies. are you concerned about that? do you have to have a lawyer, or is this something you've thought about uh, actually, i haven't spent a great deal of time thinking about it. >> i'm thinking about how to perform the duties that i have been elected to perform as a member of congress, as a member of congress, i have a constitutional obligation to, um, to not only represent the voters that elected me to this position, but also to be a

check and a balance on the president's power. congress is a co-equal branch of government, and i'll work with the president where i can. i worked for him for 19 months. uh in the previous administration and i will work with him where i can and then i will hold him to account where i must, um, my my interests are to improve the lives of the voters of the seventh congressional district and all americans. and so in areas of of taxes and reducing costs i'll work with the president. and in areas where i disagree with them and certainly on national security i will hold him to account and on that note, i am curious what you make of this news that elon musk joined the call between trump and zelenskyy last week look elon musk has no foreign relations. uh diplomatic training i'm, uh, it's an odd

call. um, it's certainly not something that you would typically see. >> uh elon musk has talked about his own peace plan. i'm not sure exactly what that looks like but the president has promised to end the war in ukraine. he said numerous times that he will do so within 24 hours. and so really now the pressure is on him. uh war in ukraine, uh, by just putting pressure on the ukrainians. you're going to have to put pressure on the russians. and the russians are frankly, feeling pretty good. they're feeling pretty good about the some of the progress they're making. and it's not a, you know, massive progress on the battlefield, but they're they've got initiative on the battlefield. they're also feeling pretty good about some of the nominations. he's got. um, so he's he's nominating a relative lightweight in a secretary of defense, somebody that has no strategic level experience, somebody that's never managed a large operation he's nominating folks like tulsi gabbard, who's an

apologist for the russians. uh, he's nominating people like ratcliffe. um, the former congressman from texas. and cia, who's primarily known as a partisan. and people like matt gaetz, who's not a serious um, serious candidate. i mean, just look at what the the republicans in the senate have said about him um, and, you know his his commitment to the rule of law at best is questionable so, um, i think they're feeling pretty good. and i think the president is going to have to come to grips with the fact that he will have to put pressure on the russians to come to the bargaining table and end this war. >> and so i am curious then, just to kind of circle back to where we all began with this. if he has if if tulsi gabbard for example, is indeed confirmed and is sitting in that position um, how does that impact how he's going to try to end this war and what those negotiations might look like

depending on who's around him look i think that some of these, um nominations are not a foregone conclusion. >> and i'll go back to my statement of what republicans in the senate have said about some of these nominations. and so i think he's got a long road to go before we see whether he'll have some of these people in position, like tulsi gabbard and matt gaetz and uh, mr. hegseth, who's, uh recently been uh, accused of frankly um, uh, you know, sexual assault, uh, as i understand it. and so i don't think we should count out the fact that they won't make it through the process, but if they do make it through the process somehow, um, obviously it'll be highly concerning but, um he's going to have some headwinds um, how he communicates with the russian government, uh, to bring them to the bargaining table when they feel like, um, they're better off continuing to fight and that they're uh, that they can continue to seize ukrainian

territory. i'm not sure how he does that. um, it's going to require pressure on the russians in order to bring them to the bargaining table and you mentioned pete hegseth i'd like to just play some of what he said in the past. >> here's a clip the dumbest phrase on planet earth in the military is our diversity is our strength. >> it's one thing to have die inside your corporation or inside your university. it's a whole 'nother thing to have it inside the 101st airborne. we only have one military, and if the military goes woke then it is less equipped to fight the wars it needs to fight. i'm straight up just saying we should not have women in combat roles it hasn't made us more effective hasn't made us more lethal, has made fighting more complicated uh, congressman elect, as we listen to those clips, this is these are the people that that president-elect trump has selected. >> he won this election. what do you say to the idea that the american people said to him and he was not quiet about any of this. he was very honest about what he wanted to do. and the

american people voted for him. what do you say to them? what do you say to that, in the sense that this is what america voted for well, look, i would say first of all, that the comments that mr. hegseth has made are reprehensible. >> they're an insult to so many. um women that have served in uniform. so many people from diverse backgrounds. i mean, i've had, uh, when i was jumping out of airplanes in the 82nd airborne, it didn't matter whether you were black white, um, hispanic uh, republican, independent democrat. we had a mission to do. and that's the mission focus that every soldier every every service member in uniform has. and so to to denigrate, um their backgrounds, uh it doesn't make sense to me in fact, um, in the sense that those that come with diverse backgrounds, whether they come from parts of the world where i came from, my family came from the soviet union and bring that understanding of language and

culture or where they come from. the middle east or africa those are actual positives. they provide a um a lens that very few other countries have. so you don't have many immigrants that come to, to china or russia that bring that kind of skill set and knowledge and that diversity has been our strength. so, um i disagree wholeheartedly with that. and the president did win the election but, um, he's got to get his appointments through um, through the senate and we'll see what happens there. >> all right. congressman elect eugene vindman, thank you so much for your time. we really appreciate it. >> thank you general, few trump cabinet picks have the chance to disrupt washington like the former florida congressman. >> could. the former acting deputy attorney general, ed o'callahan, joins us now in just a moment to help break that all down. you're in the cnn newsroom

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who walks in and we're being told that china's president told you address north korea. how will you discuss north korea in the meeting? >> how will the two nations address north korea kristen clarke thank you, president xi. are you prepared for president-elect trump your advice on president elect again, seeing those two together for what is likely the last time, very likely the last time that president joe biden is in the oval office, i want to go to mark stewart, who is in beijing and mark, we're getting reports that china's president told joe biden that the u. s. china relationship would remain unchanged following the election of donald trump this meeting? again, underscoring that this is likely the last time these two will meet as joe biden is president of the united states

jessica. >> it's just after 6:00 in the morning here in beijing and from what we are seeing, the reporting from chinese state media, which is the government's messenger service once again, china is trying to play this diplomatically safe and send this message through the current administration to the incoming trump administration that china craves stability and communication as it moves forward. one thing that caught my attention looking at some of the coverage here in china, a lot of the phrasing that xi jinping used to with president biden is the exact phrasing that he used when congratulating president elect trump, talking about win win cooperation, mutual respect, peaceful coexistence. china is at a pivotal time right now because for the moment it has had a diplomatic relationship

with the united states that appears to be somewhat stable. we are seeing regular diplomatic conversations. we're seeing regular diplomatic visits. and now we have an administration coming in once again bringing up this idea of additional tariffs among the many issues facing these two global leaders so it is in china's best interest to try to to try to roll out the welcome mat, if you will. uh these two leaders, president biden and president xi, have had a relationship for a decade. there have been some points of of of deep contention, but right now it's a little bit stable. >> all right. mark thank you so much. and i believe we can listen in a little bit as there is translation available let's listen for a second. >> mutually beneficial cooperation can lead to common development. >> xiao yang guoqiang is not

what a major country should pursue only openness and sharing can improve the well-being of humanity as two major countries china and the united states should bear in mind the interests of the whole and inject more certainty and positive energy into the turbulent world it is my consistent belief that as the world's most important bilateral relationship is stable china-u.s. >> relationship is critical not only to the interests of the chinese and american peoples, but also to the future and destiny of the entire humanity. the two countries should bear in mind the well-being of the two peoples and the common interests of the international community. make the wise choice to keep exploring the right way for two major countries to get along well and realize the long

term, peaceful coexistence of china and the united states on this planet may the united states has recently concluded its election china's goal of a stable healthy and sustainable china-u.s. >> relationship remains unchanged and our commitment to mutual respect peaceful coexistence, and we mean cooperation as principles for handling china-u.s. relations remains unchanged our position resolutely safeguarding china's sovereignty, security and development interests remains unchanged our desire traditional friendship between the chinese and american peoples remains unchanged. >> china is ready to work with the new u.s. >> administration to maintain communication, expand cooperation and manage differences so as to strive for

a steady transition of the china-u.s. relationship for the benefit of the two peoples. >> i look forward to an in-depth exchange of views with you on china-u.s. relations and on issues of mutual interest thank you. well, thank you very much, mr. president. it's good to see you and to see all of you again. you know, one year ago we met in the woodside summit in san francisco and i'm very proud of the progress we both made together. our military communication at multiple levels our leaders are now regularly talking to one another on a regular basis on ai, we have brought together our nation's experts together to discuss risks and safety. our counternarcotics on that issue, we resume cooperation and i want to note in my country, mr. president, overdose deaths are coming down

for the first time in five years. we have a lot to discuss, but let me close with this. >> over for over a decade, you and i have spent many hours together, both here and in china and in between and you know, we i think we spent a long time dealing with these issues. let me close with this we i think, and i once had to count up the number of hours you and i spent alone together. i remember being on the tibetan plateau with you, and i remember being in beijing. i remember all over the world and both as my first as vice president, then as president. we haven't always agreed, but our conversations have always been candid and always been frank. we have never kidded one another. we've been leveled with one another, and i think that's vital. these conversations prevent miscalculations, and they ensure the competition between our two countries will not veer

into conflict. be competition, not conflict. that's our responsibility to our people. and as you indicated to the people around the world we are the most important alliance or most important relationship in the entire world. and how we get along together is going to impact the rest of the world. and so, you know our two countries cannot let any of this competition veer into conflict and as i said, that's our responsibility. and over the last four years, i think we've proven it's possible to have this relationship. and so, mr. president, i'm anxious to get our meeting started. and discuss the issues we have remaining. thank you >> are you concerned about us-china relations under the incoming trump administration i all right. again listening to president biden and president xi, their their opening

statements of their meeting while they have been there at the apec summit, they have have a pull aside at the summit there in peru. i want to go to white house correspondent kayla tausche, who is there in lima, who has been traveling with the president and kayla before. we listened to their remarks, our own marc stewart was telling us how china was really coming at this trying to emphasize their desire for stability in their relationship with the united states. as we have president-elect trump coming into office, of course, threatening these very hefty tariffs that could that could really have quite an impact on china what is the president the current president, joe biden, and his team trying to accomplish in this final meeting with xi jinping that this final meeting is more of a capstone to tie up a relationship between these two leaders that has spanned multiple administrations rather than a meeting that is structured to deliver any

massive outcomes or agreements. >> i mean, to be sure in the words of one foreign policy expert, the upside is tiny and the downside is enormous. if you are president xi and you are bracing for an incoming trump administration 2.0, during which you expect that there's going to be the need to negotiate on trade, on defense, on a whole host of issues. so for today's meeting you their heard both leaders saying that whatever happens vital for the security of the entire world. that was a common theme that you heard from both president joe biden and president xi. and while he says that the relationship will be unchanged going forward we know from our own reporting, the top chinese communist party officials have been canvasing foreign policy experts and asking them exactly which trump policies from the campaign trail could actually become his second term agenda. how he approached the military footprint in the south china sea in the indo-pacific more

broadly, is there a grand bargain that might be possible on trade? is he serious about these tariffs? so all of those are questions that beijing is asking of people who know trump and his team. well, they're seeking intermediaries to figure out if okay, is there another crop of perhaps business executives or family members that perhaps the chinese could deal with to circumvent the hard line china hawks that trump has appointed to his cabinet? of course, all of that is a work in progress. but for now, the chinese are focused on tying up their relationship with the biden administration. biden is too. and then the day after comes next, on january 21st. jessica. all right kayla. thank you. we also have david sanger with us. and as kayla is talking about that, david, you just you can't help but notice trump looms large in all of this. and to her point, the chinese very much want to know how serious is he about all of these promises it's a great question, jessica, because while you look at these images, it looks like every other

china-us meeting you've seen. >> i'm just a few miles right now from where the woodside meeting took place a year ago and the thought was at that time that that was stabilizing the relationship in fact, on both sides it's not as stable as it looks. obviously the entry of president trump, uh brings upon the possibility not only of a tariffs but of a much broader change in other policies that the u.s. has pursued, including military to military communication including, uh, a fairly lengthy dialog on the future of the south china sea and on taiwan on which president trump's views are still not well known but the biggest difference jessica, is that when trump left power four years ago, the relationship that exists now between russia and china was

really nascent. it had not turned into much. now we have china supporting russia's invasion of ukraine, providing it with technology. and the question is going to be, is president trump going to view it as his strategy to get in the way of that superpower partnership? and we don't know it was never came up in the course of the campaign. >> it's probably the biggest single change in geopolitics since trump left office. >> it's such a great point. all right david sanger marc stewart kayla tausche thank you to all of you. we're going to continue to keep an eye on all of this, but let's take a quick break. we'll be right back >> tonight at 9:00 on cnn power of dell ai with intel. so those who receive can find the

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people who are no longer members of congress. >> i think it would open a pandora's box. i think it's a very important rule that should be maintained. if it's been broken once or twice, it should not have been because that would be a pandora's box. i think it's a very important tradition to maintain. >> for more now we're joined by ed o'callahan, a former federal prosecutor and formerly a top official in the justice department. and thanks so much for being here with us nice to be here. >> thanks for having me, jessica. >> first, i just want to get your reaction to the selection of gates. it's been a few days now. you can kind of let it settle in. what do you think um. surprised. at the same time, jessica um, it is very trump like to select someone kind of out of the box someone who people didn't expect. >> uh certainly. matt gaetz fits that fits that shoe. uh, but look, there are concerns, uh mainly, uh, not only does he

department of justice, uh, he doesn't have any prosecutorial experience and, um, you know the viewers should know, uh, because they've seen it over the course of the most recent administrations, the critical role the attorney general plays national security and law enforcement apparatus of the country. um, it's an important job, and it needs a serious person at the top of it. um, so, uh as, uh, representative lawler and others have said, there is a senate confirmation process, and i think that, uh, the senate leadership should take that, uh, that responsibility seriously um, ask critical questions and really put the president elect's candidate to the test. >> do you think that ethics investigation should be made public? should be part of that conversation well, i think that, um, whatever the senate leadership believes um, they should be able to access and

review, uh, to exercise their constitutional duties, to make an assessment of the fitness of the individual for such an important role. >> and if the senate leadership believes they should have access to it, that makes sense to me. i'm not so sure whether it's something that should be made public. you know, i am a department of justice veteran and, um, you know, the principle, uh, the main principle of the department of justice investigations that don't become public by way of an indictment um, is that the information in the grand jury investigation remains sealed? um, and so that is obviously to protect the privacy of any individuals who were investigated. um, and so i do think that there's merit to maintaining, uh those findings in private by the, by the house, but i do think the senate leadership should have a, have a review of it. >> and as somebody who has been in the doj um, you know, trump talked a lot about about going

after his political enemies about exacting revenge, really, his allies, too, have talked a lot about this. matt gaetz has talked a lot about exacting revenge on his political enemies on trump's political enemies. um, are you concerned about that? do you think that's a real thing um, look, i you have to be. >> and pay attention to, uh statements that people make publicly of course. um, but i do. i want to caution that, you know, the department of justice, um, and all of the law enforcement agencies that are part of the department of justice, 115,000 employees, um, that are critical to the national security. uh, you know, violent crime law enforcement apparatus of of the country. um, there's a lot to do. um, and so, uh, the, the cases that get covered sometimes, uh, ones that have a political tinge seem to have

overweighted attention paid to them. uh, but i think that the real, the real scrutiny should be. does he have the right experience? uh, to to play the role in the fabric of the national security apparatus of the country that the attorney general plays and so i think what's also important is to look at some of the other appointments that the that the president has indicated he's going to make. um todd blanche for deputy attorney general and emil bove for the position of paddock, which is the position i held both of them. one has really extensive, uh federal prosecutorial experience in violent crimes, which i would expect to be a primary priority of the department. and the other has deep experience in national harping on a little bit, uh, is very important for it. so it's not just the person, it's the people who that person is surrounded by. and i think the trump team is is indicating that they, they really do understand how important and critical the whole department

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being counted in california, and while the state has a history of being reliably blue, this election has shown many are choosing more conservative policies especially when it comes to crime. >> cnn's camila bernal is joining us now. camilla walk us through the voter shift to the right in california and how this might be mirroring what's going on across the country hey jess. >> so the expert that i spoke to told me it's all about perception. specifically when it comes to crime. i spoke to the restaurant owner of the place here behind me, casa vega. and what she told me is that she was driven to vote for maybe more conservative measures because of the crimes happening at her restaurant. and in this area. she says that it was really hard to get these crimes prosecuted and so when you see that when she experiences it and the people around her see that, that's when you have this perception of crime being extremely high, which then led a lot of people to vote a little bit more red in very blue california

festive lights, friendly servers, traditional mexican food and of course margaritas. >> many consider casa vega a los angeles institution. >> our little immigrant family from tijuana made such an impact on la and it's my honor to continue this legacy. >> but to continue the legacy. owner kristi vega says she's recently had to vocalize her political views as a democrat, lifelong democrat. i 100% feel the democratic party turn their back on people like me. >> among her top concerns crime and homelessness. >> you've seen it on viral videos, smash-and-grab stores being targeted vandalism. >> and it's happened at the restaurant it's why kristi decided to support california's proposition 36, the get tough on crime measure passed in blue california and will now increase penalties for repeated

crimes. >> i voted for kamala harris. i voted for adam schiff but i voted for yes on prop 36 and on nathan hochman. she's referring to the newly elected los angeles district attorney, a republican and now independent, who beat la's more liberal d.a. george gascon. >> so many people would come up to me and they would just shake their head and they'd say, what the heck is going on here in l.a. county? they were fed up with crime in san francisco current mayor, seen as being ineffectual in fighting homelessness and crime, and in oakland, the mayor and the alameda county district attorney, both recalled after similar criticism, a trend usc professor christian gross says is directly related to crime. >> the national views on crime are not that different than the state. attitudes on crime he says. >> social issues still trend

blue, and voters here still prefer liberal candidates. >> but the crime issue is the one exception where the crime issue is really becoming more conservative in the state. >> it's about perception, he says, adding that while crime may not be at historic highs, that public perception is what motivated people to vote at casa vega, it was also crimes that were not prosecuted. but christie says that the election results give her hope. >> i will definitely continue to be a democrat, but i will not just be a tribal democrat and i think that that's where the country in general has lost its way and christie told me that she really hopes this election is a wake up call. >> she said that after various incidents at her restaurant she now has to spend about $100,000 a year on private security she's hoping that after this election it means she may be able to spend more money on her restaurant. her employees instead of having to spend it on private security. she also

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