condoleeza rice also on that list.mentioned some tech superstars, cap tins of industry, if you like. bill gates here as well. he spoke to the president-elect, we understand, about innovation. he did briefly stop by the sort of press pool on his way by. take a listen. >> just a quick comment. we had a good conversation about innovation, how it can help in health, education, impact of foreign aid and energy, and a wide ranging conversation about the power of innovation. thank you. >> reporter: i said bill gates earlier. secretary of defense gates, who weighed in for rex tillerson. the other name that is on the tip of everyone's tongue today, rick perry, governor rick perry from texas, could be the pick for secretary of energy. we understand that from the trump camp, but there has been no official announcement. we asked the camp about it this morning. they said to, quote, stay tuned. if history is any indication, and history being the past few weeks, the president-elect likes to make dramatic announcements in front of cro

and now he and a number of others, including condoleeza rice, others who signed that letter of other foreign policy vorz, beginning to show up to advise, to try to consult, those who are not seeking jobs, wanting to be part of the process. that says a lot from the foreign policy people i'm speaking to. they want to help. >> reporter: you're right. we saw condoleeza rice, meeting privately with vice president-elect mike pence, and saw bob gates being whisked upstairs by lieutenant general michael flynn, now national security adviser, to donald trump. you talk about his criticism, the criticism from secretary gates of donald trump. it was fierce last month. an op-ed where he basically went after trump on everything from nato, this idea about building a wall, his position towards torture, even his embracer, i guess you could say his cozy relationship with vladimir putin, secretary gates insisted all those things made donald trump, quote, beyond repair. he saidette both unqualified and unfit to be president of the united states. this morning speaking publicly, he said that, well, now i'm

gates, there is a story around that rex tillerson's name was proffered by none other than than condoleeza ricet gets a little tight in establishment terms, mike. your thoughts? >> but, lou, don't lose sight of the fact that folks like newt gingrich, rudy giuliani -- lou: neither of whom will be in cabinet or apparently counsel to the president. >> but i believe will still have his ear in inner circle. lou: i hope so. >> that is something encouraging. you used the joyous, that is the right feel, americans have a sense of optimism we haven't seen in decades in this country. lou: another thing, the survey, the confidence survey, sentiment came out, they expected it to be around 94. blew up 98. that is a huge move in the confidence index. let me turn where we're headed right now. bree, as you look what the president-elect is doing, i will tell you because you're much too young, i can tell you there has not been a president-elect, including ronald reagan, who has ever had the start to this period of his leadership before taking the office, who has had the impact. it is anç amazing performance. and

martha: to you put up on the screen, condoleeza rice, james baker, bob gates all expressed some supporttillerson. they think he is outstanding individual that deserves a good shot at this position. does their support, what does that indicate to you? >> oh, i think when you you get support from people that are of that stature certainly is helpful to him. i also, as 100 of us have to exercise our best judgment, but when he gets the friendship award from a butcher, frankly an issue that needs to be examined. again that does not mean we should prejudge mr. tillerson. martha: you know, when you look at cabinet picks so far, you look at general mattis, general kelly, and potentially rex tillerson, which would create and general michael flynn, would create sort of that circle of people who would have influence over our relationship with russia, and i know that it is very important to you that we negotiate with them from a position of strength, do you think that's a strong triumvirate? >> i think it's a strong team but the problem is that we have cut defense and cut defense, as importantly this

but standing in tillerson's corner today, former secretaries of state condoleeza rice and james baker and former defense secretary bob gates. all three work for law firms who represent exxon. back at trump tower, the president-elect refusing to tis cuss any of it. the outspoken west, tight-lipped, as well. nothing to say? >> i just want to take a picture right now. >> reporter: and as they said their good-byes -- >> you take care of yourself. i'll see you soon. >> reporter: west later tweeting that he was there to, quote, discuss multicultural issues. >> and tom llamas with us live tonight. tom, we saw president-elect trump and kanye west in the lobby today, many still waiting iffer that press conference. in november, the president-elect declaring in a tweet, quote, i will be holding a major news conference in new york city with discuss the fact i will be leaving my great business to fully focus on running the country. what's the trump team telling you now? when will that happen, this press conference, and what's their explanation for the delay? >> reporter: well, david, it was suppos

former secretary of state condoleeza rice met with mike pence in new york today.n asked how the meeting went rice said terrific. rice called for trump to withdraw after the sex tape. >> in home in east oakland is one of several financed by a bank fore closed on. >> the bank that backed the loads was led by the man donald trump just nominated to run the treasury department. steven manucian. >> it's one of many jobs the 53 yoerlt has held. >> he also financed a blockbuster movies, including "ava tar." abc news correspond cornell bernard disinto his background. >> this home has been vacant for years neglected by the same bank once chaired by donald trump's newest cab pet nick. >> former goldman sachs partner steve minuchan was at trump tower today excited for his new role as tresh secretary in the donald trump administration. >> biggest tax bill. >> we're distressed and concern about the naming o him. >> kevin stein is deputy director at the reinvestment coalition, advocates for housing -- fair housing. >> he is someone who ran a bank for many years that fore closed

. >> and condoleeza rice. >> right. i think there might be tie ups but for him to lose his secretary of state, that's that big thing. >> and republicans don't want to be the people who do it. let me ask you about the accusations. barack obama told them he is going to respond to russia some how, retaliate some how, covertly or oh vently. what do you make of this after eight years of doing nothing? >> i think graham and rubio. will we do it in a way no one can see abdomen the american people have to take it on faith that we are fighting back? at the moment they don't think we are fighting back. >> okay. as the world maces the 25th anniversary of the fall of the soviet union we'll talk to gary about putin's end game in the region and around the world and his advice for the incoming trump administration. champion the holidays should bring joy. so why are you still putting up with complicated cash back cards? some cards limit where you earn bonus cash back to places they choose... then they change those places every few mont

awarded him russian order of friendship in 2013 the president-elect's pick has the support of condoleeza rice and james baker, two former republican secretaries of defense secretary robert gates. but reblican senators john mccain and marco rubio have both expressed oncern over tillerson's close ties to russia, setting up a possible confirmation fightmister trump has also settledrick perry for energy sectary.. even though the former texas governor once vowed to eliminate the agency.he's a good manthe president-elect didn'taddress his cabinet picks during a photo op with kayne west tuesdamorning. microsoft founder bill gates also tower.we had a good conversation about innovation, how it can help in health, educationand football hall of famer jim brown and former baltimore ravens linebacker ray lewis took part in a meeting about job creation in urban communities. kenneth craig, cbs news, new york. 3 the white house is stepping into the dispute between donald trump and china over the "one china" policy. that inseparae part of china. china says accepting that policy is a requirement to have any di

but i do want to probe these things and i got to believe if gates and condoleeza rice and dick cheney and steve hadley and jim baker, all people that i respect, i got to believe if they're behind him, they know that his view of the world is similar to it theirs and you know, so there is some alignment here. i go into this -- as chairman, you know, it is going to be a neutral application of the process and, yeah, i've got some questions that i'd like to have answered. everyone else does too. my guess is he will perform well. bill: okay. last question, you will hold hearings on russia and so-called ties to our past election. do you believe moscow tipped the election in donald trump's favor? >> i have no way of knowing and that is why we're going to have these briefings and hearings, maybe even go a lot deeper. no question it appears they have hacked, bill. sophisticated countries do things to gather intelligence. i mean it used to be almost done by, always done by human beings, human intelligence, we call humint. there are other ways of gathering intelligence and countries do this aroun

those include condoleeza rice, bolton and the guy you will have on later, steven hadly. i would be curious what he has to say about whether or not john bolton would make a good addition to rex tillerson's state department. >> good question. richard engel, vladimir putin clearly enjoying the dissension he's sowed in any case as nbc news reported, the confirming reporting that, in fact, nothing happens in russia without putin. what the president will say today is likely what ben rhoads said to us yesterday. when they said october 7 this happened. it was done by russia and it was done at the highest levels of the russian government that's only one person. >> that's the presumption. that's what the intelligence community said then. that's what president obama seems to be saying now. this goes right to the top. things are seen differently from here in moscow. people in this country say that the u.s. has a long history of manipulating elections, of changing political processes. that it was american troops, after all, that rolled into iraq and removed the leader there. saddam h

dick cheney, former vice president or condoleeza rice to say this is a great guy but robert gates wasere. he of course the former secretary of defense coming out saying rex tillerson is a great name. here what is problematic, ambassador. he is extraordinarily close not just with middle eastern nations but with the gulf oil producers. he has a huge operation at exxonmobil in saudi arabia. in fact he has also got operations in many of these other stations. i begin to wonder how does that square with donald trump's stated support of israel? >> well i think it squares pretty nicely actually. first of all the gulf oil-producing states are increasingly closer with israel because of their common enemy in iran. so i think that issue is almost a non-issue at this stage. but i will tell you also, liz, i saw exxonmobil negotiate with ali naimi, the saudi petroleum issue back at time i was ambassador over what was called the natural gas initiative. those negotiations despite long history together, became extremely unpleasant and person and finally exxon walked away the from the negotiations becau

driven in large part by three people, the recommendations of roberts gates, of james baker and condoleeza ricepeople well regarded in the foreign policy. all people who recommended the president-elect should sit down and have a conversation with rex stiller son. i'm told the twoman hit it off. they had similar deal making background, and in though conversations is where the president-elect reached a level of comfort with rex tillerson he hadn't with anybody else. because of that he has now reached the point where he is going to name the ceo of the oil giant exxon to the secretary of state position tomorrow. what does it mean for the other candidates besides the fact they won't be selected in mitt romney taking to facebook this evening to say it was an honor to have been considered important the secretary of state position and saying he had very high hopes for this administration. now, his willingness to even be involved in the process in the first place, don, as we all know was a shock based on what we saw during the primary process, during the general election process. it was a shot that the

there's a lot of controversy because we know condoleeza rice and bob gates and others who have talked to mr. trump are saying, do not do john bolton as secretary of state. he's too much of a lightning rod. they battled with him in the george w. bush white house and that administration. what do we know about what's going to happen and whether rex tillerson will have the say over who's going to be his deputy? or are they going to put somebody in there to watch him or to be running the state department? >> there's a contention of donors and others who want a hawk on iran, a critic of the iran deal, in that post. remember, it's an operational post. a day-to-day management. it's confirmable as well. i think for rex tillerson it's difficult to say, if you have a deputy who is against you on these various issues or is over -- he's running his department day to day and knows it better than you do, that's problematic for tillerson. i'm sure he's trying to get some say over this appointment. some are pushing for tillerson because they want his views represented there. >> rex tillerson, it's dif

sandra: critical of key people, former holder of that post, condoleeza rice, bob gates who made the introduction to begin with. >> they know it's a brilliant choice. sandra: that is really the word, tom pritzker, billionaire chicago businessman used exact words, a brilliant choice. but how is the senate confirmation process going to go? >> a lot of people like myself have real legitimate concerns. this conversation harris and david are having is the ambiguity a lot of americans are struggling with. he has a preexisting relationship with vladmir putin. trump can make an argument that that is good thing but those are concerned what is the exact nature of that relationship? is it strictly from a business standpoint? is it more personal in nature? certainly the question become what will rex's ability to be able to separate the two and operate in new capacity? i'm not going to condemn him around that. to your point, sandra the confirmation hearings are critically important for people that want more knowledge and fact what is the relationship looks like. harris: will also give us something different i

to secretary of state nominee began last month with mike pence and former secretary of state condoleeza ricellow secretary of state james baker and former defense secretary robert gates strongly recommended tillerson for the post. after his second face to face meeting with mr. trump on saturday, tillerson emerged as the president elect's choice, beating out candidates such as mitt romney, rudy giuliani, and bob corker. >> to me, a great advantage is he knows many players and knows them well. he does massive deals in russia. >> reporter: the deals with russia may be tillerson's biggest hurdle to senate confirmation. he as grown so close to vladamir putin, he was awarded russia's order of friendship in 2013. >> certainly it should be a matter of concern. >> reporter: republican senators like john mccain have expressed concern about the tillerson pick. >> maybe the ties are strictly commercial and got to do with his business in the oil, oil business, fine. but, we'll give him a fair hearing. >> reporter: mccain's fellow senator from arizona jeff flake, tweeted that support of gop establishment

condoleeza rice supports him.i guess it become as question of the administration and whether or not they think a thaw with russia is what we need. >> but we don't need a thaw. what we need is somebody who goes in and understands where russia is right now. their geopolitical interests and puts america first and fights like heck for america and our interests and that's something that rex tillerson probably knows better than anyone else in this country right now. he has got the relationships. he has got the record, the integrity, to go in and fight and win. martha: but we have in the current administration an administration many would say talked tough about russia but has done absolutely nothing. when you talk about john mccain and look at images out of aleppo and know the role russia played in that situation, how do you look vladmir putin in the eye, we're not doing oil business anymore. we want you out of there. we want you out of crimea. we want you out of the ukraine. we want you to stop expansive empire dreams t

gates, there is a story around that rex tillerson's name was proffered by none other than than condoleeza rices, mike. your thoughts? >> but, lou, don't lose sight of the fact that folks like newt gingrich, rudy giuliani -- lou: neither of whom will be in cabinet or apparently counsel to the president. >> but i believe will still have his ear in inner circle. lou: i hope so. >> that is something encouraging. you used the joyous, that is the right feel, americans have a sense of optimism we haven't seen in decades in this country. lou: another thing, the survey, the confidence survey, sentiment came out, they expected it to be around 94. blew up 98. that is a huge move in the confidence index. let me turn where we're headed right now. bree, as you look what the president-elect is doing, i will tell you because you're much too young, i can tell you there has not been a president-elect, including ronald reagan, who has ever had the start to this period of his leadership before taking the office, who has had the impact. it is anç amazing performance. and, we, he is still being assailed by the lef

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however, when you find out that bob gates and both former secretary of state condoleeza rice recommendedim, there must be something there. >> yeah. >> apparently, he has been doing business with exxon since the yeltsin days. according to transition officials, the reason he impressed donald trump and there were a parade of people up for that job, he had made some deals across the world that were trumpian, that was their word, in nature. big deals and donald trump really likes that guy right there. >> donald trump says he's able to sail through the confirmation process. there are some critics that are in congress that say maybe not so much. we're not in support of this guy because he has ties to russia. he got an award called the honor of friendship that vladimir putin gave him. >> he did a big deal, he was able to secure the arctic drilling rights for exxon and then the russian national oil company was able to take part in some exxon concessions around the world. good for both parties. >> the problem is, maybe it's not a problem, he has done deals with countries that are not -- they are a

condoleeza rice, bob gates, jim bakker, agree on one thing, he's the right guy. he served on a think tank with henry kissinger, who seems to be smart. >>> we've got a busy wednesday morning. we pause and turn over there. heather, you have a bunch of news. >> good morning, good morning everyone. starting out with a fox news alert. a serious story. isis terrorists reportedly buying arsenals of military grade weapons and materials on what's being described as an industrial scale. an alarming new report out says that extremists are manufacturing and stocking explosives x rockets and drones in bulk. the majority of the materials coming from the same factories in turkey. isis is producing ammunition at an unprecedented rate. more on this as we go. >>> after crashing into the shallow waters off the coast of japan, the video shows the mangled pile of wreckage and debris near okinawa. this happened during a training exercise, but no word on what went wrong. all marines were airlifted to the hospital. two will be okay. but we're waiting to hear about the extent of the rest