from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, alison stewart. >> stewart: good evening and thanks for joining us. president-elect donald trump has spent the weekend at his golf club in new jersey meeting potential cabinet members and white house staff. mister trump has been accompanied by his transition team chief, vice president-elect

from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, alison stewart. >> stewart: good evening, and thanks for joining us. president-elect donald trump continues to work toward filling key positions in his incoming administration. at the trump national golf club in new jersey, one of 17 he owns, mister trump and vice president-elect mike pence, met

from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, alison stewart. >> stewart: good evening, and thanks for joining us. president-elect donald trump continues to work toward filling key positions in his incoming administration. at the trump national golf club in new jersey, one of 17 he owns, mister trump and vice president-elect mike pence, met one of trump's fiercest critics during the campaign: mitt romney, the 2012 republican presidential nominee. romney is now said to be a candidate for secretary of state. >> very thorough and in-depth discussion in the time we had and i appreciate the chance to speak with the president-elect and look forward to the coming administration. >> stewart: following his agreement yesterday to pay $25 million to about 7,000 former trump university students who had sued him for fraud. mr. trump went to twitter today to explain. he wrote: the settlement came ten days before a san diego court was scheduled to hear a class action lawsuit over the curriculum that promised the secrets of real estate success. also today, mr. trump called on the cast o

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from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, alison stewart. >> stewart: good evening and thanks for joining us. with only two days left in the race for the white house, the fbi is clearing hillary clinton in its renewed probe of the private email server she used while serving as president obama's secretary of state. in a new letter sent to members of congress this afternoon, fbi director james comey says:" based on our review, we have not changed our conclusions that we expressed in july with respect to secretary clinton." it was in july that comey announced there would be no criminal charges brought against hillary clinton for handling of classified documents in emails sent or received on the private server. ten days ago, comey revealed the fbi had come across a new cache of emails on a home computer belonging to clinton aide huma abedin and her estranged husband, ex-congressman anthony weiner, who's under investigation for allegedly sexting a minor. in today's new letter, comey tells congress: "the fbi investigative team has been working around the clock to process and

from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, alison stewart. this is pbs newshour weekend. >> stewart: good evening and thanks for joining us. republican president-elect donald trump and his top advisers are lambasting hillary clinton and the democrats for participating in a recount in wisconsin and possibly two other states where the vote was close. the response followed the announcement by the clinton campaign's general counsel yesterday that although the campaign has no evidence of foul play with electronic voting machines it will have attorneys present at legal proceedings surrounding the recounts initiated by green party presidential candidate jill stein. dr. stein says she has raised more than $6 million to pay for recounts in wisconsin, michigan, and pennsylvania. from his home in west palm beach, florida, mister trump took to twitter to call the recount effort "a scam" designed to fill green party coffers and to label the democratic party" badly defeated and demoralized." he criticized democrats for not accepting the election results; a

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from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, alison stewart. thanks for joining us. as president elect donald trump prepares to assume the oax office for two months.ald trump white house chief of staff. reince priebus will get the job. according to a statement issued by the trump transition team. favorite candidate of house speaker paul ryan and senate majority speaker, mitch mcconnell. , steve banon willing be named chief strategy. trump said, i'm happy to have my very some team leading, with me, and led us to an historic victory. now i will have them both with me in the white house. earlier today transition team vice chairman newt gingrich, a potential cabinet member himself. >> they won the house, the senate, be be bl governor ships, most in history, if you look at the country there's certainly a shift towards republican government on a pretty big scale. >> trump campaign manager kellyann con way, said trump demonstrators, proposed policies, that account c, quote, this plan is our the. house speaker paul ryan said, be has not been draft evidence yet but he envisio

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angela rye and communications director for ted cruz alison stewart. what do you think about this complaint? >> i think his whole line throughout the campaign of rigged election, rigged media, rigged everything, i think it's way off the mark. and i think he needs to get away from that. i think it's led to some voter intimidation in terms of people think, well, if the system is rigged and voting is rigged, why go vote. he hasn't gotten the memo, voting is done state by state, county by county. to say all of them are figured is factually incorrect. the fact that we've had this discussion leading to this action by the dnc is unfortunate. there are certainly more important things that we could spend time on. >> i want to show you the new ad from the trump campaign that was just released. >> america's most sensitive secrets, unlawfully sent, received and exposed by hillary clinton, her staff, and anthony wiener. hillary cannot lead a nation, while crippled by a criminal investigation. hillary clinton, unfit to serve. >> brutal and devastating ad. certainly,