we have a vibrant dominican community who look at big poppy, david ortiz, swinging his bat for the red sox and wonder why you said "almost no one coming from the dominican republic to the united states is coming here because they have a provable skill that would benefit us." i represent a lot of latinos who worry about modern day palma raids, breaking up parents from their kids and muslims who worry about so-called patrols of muslim homes and neighborhoods, and i have heard from police chiefs who worry that you as attorney general will disrupt law enforcement priorities that they have set out and disrupt the community relations that they have worked hard over years of community engagement to achieve. time is short, but i noticed that in your prepared remarks, these are not unforeseeable concerns, and your prepared remarks did very little to alay the concerns of those people. is there anything you would like to add now in our closing minute? >> well, thank you. my comment about the naacp arose from a discussion that i had where i expressed concern about their statements that were favori

he tweets, gm sending tax-free across border, make in the usa or pay a big border tax. poppya ford plant in flat rock, michigan, tonight. you sat down with ford's ceo. so they're going to cancel this mexican plant. plans for this. why? ask. >> reporter: it's a huge cannes place. in part business driven. there has been no love lost between the president-elect and ford. they have a long history trading barbs back and forth. at one point the president-elect so even said ford was going to fire all of its workers in the united states. that is just not true. i skwd mark fields are you changing this because of trump? >> it makes sense for our business and we look at all factor including what we view as a more positive u.s. manufacturing business environment under president-elect trump and it's literally a vote of confidence around some of the pro-growth policies that he has been outlining. >> but this is a trend we've seen. the president-elect calls out carrier, gets jobs to stay here, calls out boeing, he gets a cheaper air force one. calls out lockheed martin and they say we're go

big tax. let's go to poppy. she interviewed ceo mark fields. tell me what he said, poppy. >> reporter: brooke, i don't think anything these days is not political in one way or another. this ceo of ford sitting down with us hearsre saying the busis decision was key here, donald trump has been slamming ford for a better part of a year and a half all the way of saying he was going to fire the workers, a plant in new mexico will no longer be there they're coming to michigan. why? a president elect calling a company and them changing plans at least in part and brings up questions about crony capitalism, is there a quid pro quo here? >> reporter: as you know ford has attacked ford many, many times in his rallies and on twitter, even said that you were firing all your employees, are you planning to build this plant because of the president elect? >> first, this makes sense for our business and we look at all factors including what views as a more positive manufacturing environment under president elect trump and it's literally a vote of confidence fro

if they don't want to be known for poppies, make news the big thing. >> andy: i'm saying they do. >> go on the main page of a buzzfeed right now? this might take a while. how much do you want to bet it's either a dog or -- >> andy: do it quietly. he alluded to the memo as containing evidence that russia had supportive trump. >> he said that both he and david corn headed evidently has to this dossier after it had been dug up by anti-trump people, the fact that this isn's such a document, they didn't publish it in october when they had it. >> andy: petition to ban the real housewives of isis, as tom said it's the real housewives of isis, not the real housewives of muslim. the petition says the sketch "pairs our beautiful religion with bombs and guns." it's not the sketch doing that. just lastly, this ashley judd stuff, jill, you asked why yellow means white. just so we're clear, her argument kind of hinges on the fact that she believes that yellow emojis are "code for white" ." according to the unicode standard is a purposely "generi "generic, nonrealistic tone." they use it for smiley

appear in public as this week goes forward, as he has a big list of agenda items including some executive actions perhaps tomorrow morning, and poppy, that is one of the challenges here, will donald trump be the candidate donald trump or the president donald trump, and we have seen in just two days it's a very distinct difference. poppy? >> it is indeed, jeff, and thank you so much for us at the white house tonight. when the president meets congressional leaders tomorrow he could face a skeptical audience when it comes to getting his agenda passed. let's talk about that with my panel. new york times contributor is with us, and alice stewart with us as well, a former strategist for ted cruz. josh, your take on what jeff just reported, and there are two different tones we heard from the president-elect to focus on crowd sizes and today a change in tone. what do you make of it? >> it's a roller coaster and unpredictable one at that, and one minute he is gracious and then kind and then mean -- >> we should praise him when he does good things and criticize him when he does bad things, but this whole roller coaster of unpredictable is un

poppy? >> we know that tech companies, a number of big tech companies including google have told their employees in the last 24 hours, do not travel out of the united states if there is any chance that this could affect you. so there's a lot of questions, certainly, through corporate america right now as well. ryan nobles at the white house, thank you for that. when you look at the specific travel bans, in iran, the response is, they are slapping their own ban on the united states. saying, no u.s. citizens allowed to enter iran, they say, for as long as president trump's order is in effect. our ben wedeman joining me now from istanbul, turkey, a lot to get to here. i thought it was interesting that iran and its response said that this will only embolden extremists and their supporters. >> yes, that came in a foreign ministry statement out of tehran and said among other things that this is an obvious insult to the islamic world and in particular, the great nation of iran. that according to the statement from the foreign ministry and it's not just iran that is considering these measures. we've hea

contributions while in the senate followed by big unexplained becames from defense contractors once he got out of the senate followed by the drunk thing, i mean, poppy bush did tap him to be secretary of defense and that nomination was rejected by the united states senate. the vetting process turned up unsavory stuff. the vetting process is important. not just because it's fun to air all of the dirty laundry of rich and powerful people. it's important because it sometimes turns up important stuff. i mean, rudy giuliani convinced george w. bush to nominate bernie kerik to operate the homeland security. luckily the vetting process turned that around because before long bernie kerik was reporting as a prisoner to the downtown man hat particular jail that previously had his name on the outside of it. the vetting process is important and it is complex and it is deep for a reason. cabinet nominees have to pass an fbi background check. they have to fill out that financial disclosure form, the one that ran 184 pages for penny. once they've declared their financial and business ties, they have to craft a binding plan, a binding letter that explains what they

the other thing we did is when she came to the hospital, poppy was in the nursery, and we walked mila down, and we said which one is your bigister? we sort of helped her because we didn't want to get a stranger's baby. she said that's my baby cississ and she helped push her down the hall. >> i think we're kind of evolving. you feel like in generations past, if you are of a certain age and you think about what did my parents do? >> yes. >> i don't know. >> do you think they did something? probably not. >> they just said there's your sibling. let's all go. i think that there are certain things you probably learn by someone not watching out for all your feelings all the time. you know what i mean? >> exactly. i remember when i get into arguments with my sister or my parents just crying into the air conditioner vent. >> why? >> because i wanted them to come in and say something. i would cry -- i would be like into the vebnt. >> so they could hear you throughout the house? >> i'm not sure if they could, but the point is they never came in. they jwere, like, you need to work this situation out on your own. >> you know what, there

big protest behind you, rachel. what are the details about this man who was detained and now just released? >> poppy, you're right. this protest has really grown in size over the afternoon. and those hundreds of people out here, peacefully protesting. calling for the release of those 11 detainees here at jfk. also calling on president donald trump to reverse the executive order. like i said, a very peaceful protest. we've seen children here, we've seen puppies, one little girl told me she loves refugees. that refugees are what makes america beautiful but in regards to the lawsuit that was filed today, about the two iraqi men who were detained, one of which was at least, one of which still remains detained here. we got an update at a press conference in which congressman nadler and others said they still do not have the names of ten of those detainees. calling on the department of homeland security to release their names. we also know that the two iraqi men that are involved in the lawsuit were handcuffed when they came to the united states and detained and they were interrogated for hours, poppy. >> rachel crane,

of course, poppy, keep in mind that there are leading republicans, not just democrats, leading republicans who agree with this assessment. this could be one of the big showdowns for the early days of the trump administration. >> right. republicans, you know, including lindsey graham, senator mccain, called for tougher sanctions against russia, and the trump team is asking whether these sanctions that have been laid down are proportional or not. we'll see what it leads to on capitol hill. thank you for the reporting, ryan. let's talk about this all with my panel joining me now. ryan lizza, political commentator. and ben ferguson, cnn political commentator and host of the ben ferguson show. happy new year, guys. >> happy new year, poppy. >> ben, let me begin with you. i'm sure you saw this interview of sean spicer this morning on abc in week speaking with jonathan karl about all of this. about russia. that's what the interview was about. he was asked twice, point-blank, if donald trump, the president-elect, believes it was indeed the russians behind this. he's what he said. >> what's the bottom line, a yes or no answer, does president-elect trump now