also, trump's original campaign manager who was fired, corey lewandowski. if you recall, he was accused of assaulting a female reporter. those charges were dropped. then republican national committee chairman reince priebus and campaign manager kellyanne conway. for secretary of defense, alabama senator jeff sessions appears to be on the short list. for homeland security, michael mccaul's name is mentioned. he's currently the chairman of the house homeland security committee. former house intelligence committee chairman mike rogers is apparently on the list for cia director. for the treasury secretary, extraordinary, look where we have come since the financial crisis. politico says former goldman sachs, you heard that right, goldman sachs banker mnuchin is on the list, and jeb hensarling. and jamie dimon was told he would make an excellent treasury secretary, although there have been no formal conversations between dimon and trump. also, in the hunt, ruly giuliani and chris christie, possibly for attorney general. could there be a job for ben carson? maybe.

you cannot expect corey lewandowski not to be corey lewandowski. >> this is on the networks, but he makes the broadcasts better because you learn the trump point of view from lewandowski. >> it sets up a debate with corey lewandowski and donna brazile and moderate it. you'll know what they're representing but don't say they're cnn employees. >> now that you raise the subject, i'm on these panels and it's with people who say that they're always what the vague term, a democratic adviser, republican adviser. you don't know their clients. it's never announced. >> everyone is a republican or democratic strategist. >> who aufrb have consulting firms. you don't know without asking them to disclose a list. i don't -- i have never been on your show when you say, by the way, democratic adviser, who are your clients this cycle? >> it makes me think about karl rove at fox as well, who is raising millions of dollars. paul begala at cnn with a clinton super pac. after the bottom line is after the election, it's time for a reevaluation of some of these relationships. >> you want expertise, but you have

josh: i am now joined by new hampshire's own corey lewandowski. former campaign manager for donald trump. still a good friend of his. i imagine he takes advice from you from time to time. how do you think it is going? mr: lewandowski: what you have is another or it now -- is an el new hampshire is such a special place. you hear about these early voting places and everyone is measuring, is it up to par, does it measure where we were four or eight years ago? new hampshire is special. it is an election day, you show up and vote. if you look at it, the momentum is with donald trump. what you have seen recently is the polls are breaking his way. most cases now. that is where you want to be. josh: is there anything left that could hurt himjosh:? he has pretty much absorbed -- a lot of it by his own doing, from videos and statements -- what more could possibly happen? he is who he is at this point. mr: lewandowski: i think the american people have to fundamentally side if they want to keep washington going the same way it has been the past 30 years, or do

if you don't look at why you lost -- >> excuse me, i thought this was corey lewandowski.isagree with him. sandra: he's not doing his candidate a favor by saying that's why donald trump won the race, but i think we need to move on. oh, it's me! [laughter] nancy pelosi has a challenger, ohio congressman tim ryan announcing he's running against the california democrat for minority leader. here's why ryan threw his hat into the ring. >> we're not winning, and it's time for a change. i mean, we got shellacked tuesday, but we go back to 2010, we lost, 2012 we didn't win enough -- >> how many house races have you lost since barack obama was in office? >> 68 since 2010. >> you've lost 68 since 2010? >> 68 seats since 2010. we have the lowest, the small estimator since 1929 -- smallest majority since 1929 in our caucus, and we have the smallest number since reconstruction. if that's not a call for doing something differently, i don't know what is. sandra: you heard it there. congressman ryan also says democrats need a leader who can stick to the rust belt constituents that he repr

corey lewandowski, fired from the trump campaign. someone it's reported ivanka and jared kushner don't like. >> he was let go from the campaign, and lewandowski is someone who makes the trains run on time. as we look over this list of possible appointees by donald trump, the president-elect, we should also have a broader circle that we're thinking about because trump, coming from the business community, my sources tell me he's looking at people like carl icahn, the famed invest investor, to come in in some role, the investor in california to come in. trump right now is thinking through all these different decisions, but he's aurls looking at people beyond the political world. >> what kind of guy is donald? does donald look at the people who are with him day in and day out for the last year and a half and say this is my team. i have to stick with them through and through, or could he look at that, well, that was my jv squad. now i'm up to varsity? >> a lot of people who are elected as outsiders bring in the loyalists that populate the

>> well, reince priebus doesn't like corey lewandowski either. there's a lot of concerns, certainly, still towards the christie people and even within the, within the transition team, within the establishment types, who have folks like jeff sessions and some of the folks who are more socially conservative, who are very happy that mike pence is taking over, but were very concerned about chris christie and even about rudy giuliani, folks who they see as more sort of chamber of commerce, northeastern republicans. those are tensions that are not unique to the campaign, rather, that are sort of inherent in the conservative movement in the republican party. >> there's been some questions if the transition team will reach out to gop experts, who oppose donald trump's candidacy. last week, eliot cohen, a former state official under george w. bush urged officials to work with trump. and this week, after exchange with trump transition team, changed my recommendation. stay away, they're angry, arrogant, skraeping, you lost. it's going to be ugly. so in othe

reporter michelle fields worked for when she was grabbed by former trump campaign manager -- corey lewandowsky -- while trying to ask donald trump a question.she left because she felt like brietbart didn't defend her enough. enough.bannon has been criticized for being anti- semetic and racist -- and bringing those perspectives the "alt-right" movement -- which has been accused of promoting white nationalism within the republican party. bannon will be a senior advisor -- but kelly anne conway says there's more to bannon. "my responce to that is i work very closely with steve bannon he's been teh general of this campaign people should look at the full resume. he has a harvard business degree, he's a naval officer, he has success in entertainment, i don't know if you're aware of that and he was a goldman brilliant technician. late in the week -- the trump team named leutenant general michael flynn a national security advisor.that would be a big job in a trump administration -- since he's expected to lean on those advisors a lot since trump doesn't have any military experience of his own. own.but

trump campaign manager corey lewandowski left his job at cnn adding more intrigue to the equation.host of i'll tell you what and fox news digital politics editor chris stirewalt and co-host of the circus mark mckinnon. he also searched as the chief media advisor to george w. bush. all right, chris stirewalt. your crystal ball. trump team has suggested this will be a mix of outsiders and more traditional choices. do you expect any big surprises here? >> look, i think that some of it has shock value. some of it will be worth firing up his base. letting them know he is going to keep faith with them and some of it is designed to reassure americans of all parties and the folks in washington that is he interested in an orderly fashion. i think by the way news this evening that he has reached out to mitt romney and that he has looking for detente with one of his harshest critics and somebody he obviously did not like. these are further signs that trump is trying to heal the republican party and trying to reassure people across the spectrum. >> well, there is certainly signs that he is sha

but we had corey lewandowski who was on the payroll. he's getting remittances. >> there's a tweet out with corey lewandowski and kellyanne conway, it's like #teamwork. >> we've had stories suggesting that he was on the phone with donald trump pretty frequently giving him had viadvice. there's a dual loyalty at the very least. thes need to reconsider their relationship with political commentaries. >> what does this mean for the future? >> it means the media instead of doing high fives if trump loses, ought to do some soul searches on why there's such a stain in our business. here's the deepest part of it. here's the part that really bothers me. the degree to which most of the mainstream media hissed the anger and frustration of the millions of people who support donald trump, are drawn to donald trump, they've been arrogant and condescending to them. that's not going to go away after election day. >>> what time could we know on tuesday? d a sick day. dads don't take sick days. dads take dayquil severe: the... ...non-drowsy, coughing, ach

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josh: one name we have not heard a lot is corey lewandowski. after his departure from the campaign, he remained close to trump. he said he remains ready to help the president-elect anyway he can. this will wrap up this edition of "closeup." have a great sunday. [captioning performed by the nationalti which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. got any good gift ideas? ? verizon prepaid is gonna be my gift ? ? no extra charges ? ? cash stays in your pocket ? ? it's got hd streaming others are too stingy... ? (deep voice) with verizon you look awesome. ? verizon keeps you going with that always-on data ? ? 4g lte that's a lotta speed ? ? think about it n' you'll say... ? (deep voice) "that's the deal of my dreams." with verizon you look awesome. (vo) give verizon prepaid with always-on data on the best network >> today on matter of fact. the president elect takes on the nation's challenges. as we consider the accomplishments of the obama administration. >> obama came in on a wave of magic. >> how will you remember his presidency? m

corey lewandowski is from new hampshire. donald trump was there on the lst night of the campaign and twice, i believe, in the last weekend. donald trump has a history with new hampshire. that'll be one of the stories of this campaign. this one very, very close. it was closer a few minutes ago. trump has stretched that lead a little bit, but he just did it again. it is a full one-point lead at 8 78%. this is the last hope of the clinton campaign when the rest of detroit comes in. she now has to pull that off, come back from that, and then come back here as well. you see this lead is starting to stretch a little bit. we're up to 81%. we were told this would come at the bottom of the hour at 12:30 in the east. 60,000 absentee ballots in milwaukee county. when these votes come, when we go up from 87% here, we'll see if the clinton campaign's math is -- they've been telling us what's been missing is a huge swath of democratic votes. we'll see when those votes come in. the main thing you can do right now is sit back and watch thos

then there's trump's political team, people like the kellyanne conway and corey lewandowski. these are devoted operatives in trump world and may be recruited to work in the new administration. or advisers in his administration. we're told that both house speaker paul ryan and mitch mcconnell told trump yesterday when president-elect was in washington, that they'd like to see reince priebus, the rnc chairman, as the white house chief of staff. our third bucket is, d.c. insiders. it features people like the former bush national security adviser, stephen hadley, whose name had been floated by some as a possible sec of defense, along with bob corker of tennessee, and the formeren ambassador, john bolton. so, john heilemann, who's got the inside track on these biggest jobs right now? >> well, the one thing we know about donald j. trump that we've seen over and over again, is that loyalty really matters to him. so these folks, especially folks like chris christie, obviously it doesn't look like loyalty is ironclad. you know, he got a little bit of a demotion today, that's a signifi

and steve bannon and corey lewandowski and kelli nan conway. and rudy guiliani. trump is considering to coping some provisions of the affordable care act what is that about? >> reporter: yes, he is considering keeping the provision of denying people with preexisting conditions and provision to allow adult children to be covered up to age 26. that may not be quite as a big of a deal. each of the repeal and replace have those. repealing obama care may be the easy part but replacing it much harder. >> the problem is to pass a new bill. we have house control. you need 60 votes to pass the bill. you will need eight democratic senators to join us to get a new health care package through the desk. >> it is it hardly likely they will be go for this unless trump offers something in exchange. >> protestors are taking to the streets like here in new york. [chanting] >> protestors marching up to fifth avenue to trauchl tower. among those demonstrators, film maker michael moore. in portland, more than a dozen people have been arrested since election day. police arrested four.

the cable news network says that donald trump's former campaign in terms -- manager corey lewandowskined amidst controversy, and he may take a job in the new donald trump administration. -- pete ow is p1 or weiner. he is been thinking a lot about the republican party and he joins us from washington. you have written quite a bit over the last few months about donald trump. is there anything you have seen since he got elected that makes you more hopeful and you were when he was a candidate? think he is handled the last 48-72 hours pre-well, but this is the easy stuff. this is the kind of thing you expect. i think he is been gracious enough, i think president obama has been gracious . we'll have to see the appointment he makes. january 20.l be preliminary, he has been fine. john: when there were people who were never trump during the campaign who then changed their minds when he became the nominee, your view of them was what? the conservatives that ended up endorsing him shortly after the nomination. it depends on the individuals and how passionate they were in their reasoning. thoughte

corey lewandowski and others were shielding him from stories, only printing out stories that they wanted the candidate to see. ways was very isolated. and that becomes, as you mentioned, problematic when he moves into the oval office and is actually dealing with war and peace. looking at steve bannon in how he got to where he is by liked. agree to his viewpoint, at times bannon seemed to coach trump to soften the harder edges of his get farther with this guy. but at some point aides paid by the taxpayer have influence. >> it's gone through a lot of different phases, but one thing they all said was that you have to sort of guide donald trump where you wanted him to go. they said that you couldn't manage or handle him. get very angry, he actually felt that's how mitt romney lost, too many different voices pulling sam nunberg, he told me that every time he would present something to donald trump, it described with bannon, he would make it as though it was trump's suggestion, and that was the way maybe incorporate a talking point. materials, but that was how you could get him to incorporate

mentioned some of the names again, reince priebus and steve bannon who joined the campaign and corey lewandowski and kellyanne conway's name has been mentioned. is that a good idea of someone like steve bannon, he's a loyalist but does not have a whole washington experience. >> i will make the generalize experience that absolutely it is a good idea. it is not only about loyalty, it is proper to do that. the reason i say that it is vital that the president has an immediate team around him who knows how the president operates and who knows what makes the president successful and creates a white house that the president desires. loyalty is important. you should have a mix in there. it should be 75 or 80% people like that. you may want to have some old washington hands. just because it is been done that way in washington there is no reason to always do it in washington. >> if anybody that's going to be doing things differently, it maybe donald trump. >> that's right. >> on the make up of the team. let me play a little bit of a sound of congressman kingston talking about diversity, take a look. >> i

john: corey lewandowski speaking to i tv.the trump transition team today, and jennifer jacobs has been tracking all of it. one of the things i love about having you on the program is i can say, what do you know, and whatever comes out of your mouth will be interesting. what do you know? >> there are some power struggles once trump is rising to power. just a week ago, everyone thought he was going to lose. there is a lot of shifting around. the transition team is experiencing another shakeup. there is a purging of chris christie loyalists. that has something to do with an christie andtween jerod kushner. we are hearing different camps weighing in on who they would like for key posts. we have some landing teams launching in the next few days. teamshose are are interim that will go into various federal agencies and look for reform and prepare for the new administration's priorities. mark: what we know about what trump is going for? rewarding loyalty is obviously a factor. is he going for pleasing capitol hill? diversity? intelle

one source telling cnn that cushner was intimately involved in the decision to fire corey lewandowskit summer. said to be intensely loyal, he once pushed back against his own newspaper, which accused trump of being anti-semitic. cushner, an orthodox jew, wrote that trump embraced my family and our jewdaism. >> my son-in-law is youish, my daughter is jewish, and i love them. >> reporter: experts say that he could avoid breaking a law if he doesn't take a salary or a formal title. but he could have another conflict. >> they have to be careful that he doesn't become a conduit of information, because he's going to have information about what the administration is doing, and if he talks to his wife about what the business is doing, there is a conflating of the business and official interest. that's something i think they're trying to keep separate. >> reporter: once again tonight, jim acosta reporting that donald trump has requested security clearances for his children and jared cushner. so will jared cushner be able to avoid talking to his wife about the administration's dealings, which m

this campaign about all the tumultuous turns in this campaign, all the different leaders from corey lewandowski, paul manafort, to john bannon. jared bushner has been a thread throughout, one of the things hoeding this campaign together. i think that we can expect this to continue as they move into the white house. >> can we see him as part of a daily briefing even if he takes on a voluntary role into we are seeing that in the transition now potentially. when it gets to the white house it gets murkier. because if you are in an unsalaried position there is questions of conflicts of interest. and eye can have a and the other children are going to be running the trump business as kind of a blind trust between donald trump as president. >> not really a blind trust, is it? >> that's what we have been talking about, is this going to prevent conflicts of interest? it's the setup they have planned so far. jared kushner, married to ivanka trump raises more questions of conflict of interest. >> did you want to get in on this in. >> no. i think that -- well, yes. to he moo, knowing -- i've also reported o

corey lewandowski should maybe go to new hampshire -- >> interesting point, i know corey will make the point. the trump children are out on the campaign trail. eric, and donald trump jr. both on the campaign trail. but hillary clinton does have the big name surrogates whether it is bernie sanders or barack obama or elizabeth warren and michelle obama. donald trump is doing a lot more rallies in a day because he doesn't have anybody else to do them for him. will that matter? >> well it is not just a matter of surrogates. look, if hillary clinton wins the obama coalition she wins. the republican party, this is a reason there was the big rethink of 2012 realized that it had a demographic problem of the national level. one of the arguments that trump has made is that he's expanding. he's actually getting some democrats to come home to him. but if he can't get republicans out to vote for him he has no chance. because the obama coalition is strong enough. with president obama was the best surrogate. by way. we haven't mentioned him. you have a man who can go out there and say the equivalent

trump tower yesterday, transition team chairman chris christie, trump's former campaign manager corey lewandowskid trump adviser senator jeff sessions. mr. trump's election also means he now receives the same top-secret national security briefing as the commander in chief. meanwhile, across the country last night protests and demonstrations against trump's victory. thousands gathered in the streets of major cities like new york, chicago, houston, seattle, and oakland, while many of the protests were peaceful, there was some violence in oakland, where you see demonstrators here smashing in the windows of a police car. >> speaking from the rose garden yesterday, president obama put his differences with donald trump aside and called on the nation to unite behind the president-elect. the president also says he instructed his staff, some of them whom you can see emotional here during his address yesterday, to work for a smooth and successful transition. >> sometimes, you know, we move in ways that some people think is forward and others think is moving back, and that's okay. i've lost elections before

one is, when you look at corey lewandowski going over to london saying, it was comey in the last weekend that really shifted this election and gave it to donald trump, and, of course, donald trump said he doesn't know what he will do with comey and hillary clinton said she believes comey is responsible, what does the pollster think? >> the pollster doesn't agree with either of those wholesale. here is why. the polls started to tighten before the comey announcement. it was due in large part to trump being out there talking about obamacare. at that moment, people were opening up their mailboxes and they were getting obamacare premium increase notices. obamacare really is the issue in the off-year election. it won the republicans everything. they couldn't do it in 2012 because they nominated the political cover for obamacare in romneycare. but that aside, people have felt frustrated that obamacare for many americans is the most -- is the best example of how innovative -- >> you think it was obamacare? >> i think it's a combination. >> finally -- >> comey hurt. hillary said on friday night w

. >> what about corey lewandowski? what is he -- you have no problem with that, that he was getting paid by trump? >> he's a contributor and he's -- >> getting paid by trump while he was at cnn. we're going off on brazile. >> i don't think anyone working for a campaign, working for the campaign, should be paid by a news organization. unless you point arrows saying, working for the campaign, hello. the people we outlined in that full screen, none of them are that. >> can i point out one thing from thrush? at one point he sends an e-mail to jennifer palmieri. and she writes back, he did me the courtesy of sending me what he is going to say about me, seems fine. meaning that he was saying, i did an interview with you, whether it's good or bad, but giving her the courtesy because he's going to have to talk to her later on and have to have a relationship. a lot of this stuff in the e-mails is about relationships. again, the dark alley thing, i think that's a good point. it's one of the reasons press secretaries never want t

john: that was former campaign manager corey lewandowski. is a lot of news coming out of the trump transition team these days. bloomberg senior national reporter jennifer jacobs has been tracking all of it. she joins us from washington, d.c. one of the things i love about having you on the program is i can say, jennifer, what do you know, and whatever comes out of your mouth will be interesting. jennifer: we know there are some power struggles going on now that trump's rising to power when no one expected him to. now that he is in power, there is a lot of shifting and the transition team is experiencing another shakeup. we have been told there is a purging going on of the chris christie loyalists. that has something to do with an old grudge between christie and trump's son-in-law jared kushner , who has become a very influential voice. differentring lots of camps weighing in for who they would like to have for key posts. lots of people going in and out of trump tower. we have got some landing teams, as they call it, that are going to be laun

. >> reporter: kushner also said to be key in ousting corey lewandowski and selecting mike pence for vice president. with kushner now likely to get a top national security clearance. sources tell cnn at least during the transition the president elect has as one of his closest advisors a member of his immediate family. >> one important distinction to make here is. that until donald trump puts his hand on that bible in january he is still the president elect, still a private citizen. has a bit more leeway do what he wants. if kushner then goes to the white house and takes a position that is something entirely different and the questions will get much louder. >>> "outfront" now. ben fersen, conservative radio host. keith boykin. david chalian and gloria berjer. gloria, let me start with you. is there a precedent for someone like kushner, 35, son-in-law, without any government experience to be so powerful? >> it is hard to think of one. first thing that comes to mind of course is jfk appointing his brother attorney general. but that was why we have nepotism rules now. and so i think it i

. >> kellyanne conwayweeted a picture of herself and corey lewandowski, is he apart of the trump's campaign>> i thought he work for a television network? >> he does not work for the campaign. >> is he campaigning or make decisions? >> he's evolved but he's not a former part of the cal pampaign. he's support i'ive. >> it is going to be a long and short four days >> thank you. >> don't you love those. that's what we all need, more numbers. stay with us. on prescriptions. we found lower co-pays... ...and a free wellness visit. new plan...same doctor. i'm happy. it's medicare open enrollment. have you compared plans yet? it's easy at medicare.gov. or you can call 1-800-medicare. medicare open enrollment. you'll never know unless you go. i did it. you can too. ♪ ii could stand in the middle of a5th avenue and shoot somebody and i wouldn't lose any voters, okay? and you can tell them to go f**á themselves. you know you could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever. you gotta see this, i don't know, i don't remember. he's going like 'i don't remember.' imy mode

>> i think she saw what somebody like a corey lewandowski, his original campaign manager what corey saw right back in the beginning, which was an energy, this sort of undefinable, unknowable sort of ephemeral feeling. we're in a age of data and athatly tathat ly t analytics. but they went on, especially early ornn, gut. they felt like they were tapping into something. the conventional wisdom is fe feelings don't matter in politics. but i think the trump campaign was convinced they were defiantly confident in the last few weeks before the election they would do better than everybody thought they would and here we are. >> mark, a lot of attention has been paid over the last 12 hours or so to polling. how do it be that so many pollsters in this country got it so wrong in so many places? we're not just talking florida, we're talking wisconsin, we're talking michigan, pennsylvania. >> pennsylvania. >> yeah, how did you guys blow it so bad? not you but -- >> almost everyone blew it, includie ining republicans in t own internal polls did not see a path to victory for trump. we were privy to so

the cable news network says that donald trump's former campaign anager corey lewandowski has eresignedontroversy and he may take a jump in the new trump administration. with us now, pete wiener, from the ethics and public policy center. he has been thinking over the last few years about the future of the republican party and doing more now in the wake of the trump victory. you have written quite a bit over the last few months about donald trump. is there anything you have seen since he got elected that makes you more hopeful and you were when he was a candidate? pete: i think he is handled the last 48 to 72 hours pretty well, but this is the easy stuff. this is the kind of thing you expect. i think he is been gracious enough, i think president obama has been gracious. we'll have to see the appointment he makes. in the white house and his cabinet. the test will begin on january 20 and accelerate after that. i don't think we have enough to go on. what we seen so far, which is very early, very preliminary, he's been fine. john: when there were people who were never trump during the campai

we heard that corey lewandowski resigned his -- >> cnn. >> maybe for obvious reasons. stock market up three days in a row, record highs. massive spike in the stock market. >> also, i'm going on "hannity" tonight. >> you are thanking president obama for the stock market. >> this would be a trump rally. >> yeah. i had records under obama and now trump is adding to it. let's give credit where credit is due. >> that's it for us. "special report" coming up right now. >>> this is a fox news alert. i'm bret baier in washington. the help wanted sign is definitely out tonight at trump tower, where the newly elected donald trump now president-elect is trying to decide on the first and most important of his staffing decisions. he made a big one today. replacing new jersey governor chris christie with vice-president-elect mike pence as the transition team chief. protests grow against the soon to be 45th president from people unable or unwilling to accept his victory. good evening, doug. >> reporter: evening. we are hearing a couple of surprises from the transition team today. firs

corey lewandowski spent almost a decade as a registered lobbyist in washington, d.c. made millions advocating for foreign clients. mike flynn also belongs in this group. "the daily caller" reported this week that the consulting firm founded by the former director of the defense intelligence agency is lobbying for a company with ties to turkey's government. if trump is serious about draining the swamp he will need to put in place rules about people's pasts and not just their future and ensure that people don't skirt the rules by calling themselves lawyers or consultants while engaging in lobbying. while trump has added he should think about campaign finance restrictions because it is politicians need to incessantly raise all that money that gives power to the lobbyists in the first place. finally as i've long advocated a short simple tax code would eliminate all the deductions and credits and special rules which are what congressmen sell when they ask you for money. it's a tall order because it's a huge problem. but unless trump tackles it on all fronts in the battle b

trump'stch the chaos of primary campaign unfold with campaign managers like corey lewandowski and paulanafort being fired, the guy trump settled on is steve bannon, the guy he once in his corner in the white house the same way he did in the campaign. >> there is one thing to keep in mind about trump's leadership and management style. as a candidate over the last year, he seeks advice from a lot of people. he would spend a lot of time in trump tower calling people, taking the temperature, getting their advice. that is not the way a president normally operates. he is going to bring that style to the white house. that is one of the reasons he has two very different people at top levels of authority in his west wing. >> i think the point michael made is incredibly important. breitbart, bannon public enemy number two is the clintons. public enemy number one is the establishment. it is going to be an incredible interesting conflict-ridden four years between bannon and his the republican establishment. charlie: he was chairman of the national committee. he is good friends with the speaker of

. >> also in the running, campaign sources point to chris christie and corey lewandowski. for secretary of state, contenders like newt gingrich or john bolton. other cabinet picks expected to include senator jeff session and former new york mayor rudy giuliani. trump building his cabinet and mending some fences or trying to. >> here's what i know. donald trump is a phony, a fraud. >> the president elect calli ii former gop nom nat mitt romney. clinton there making her own phone calls and it is notable too that president elect trump reached out to mitt romney. he was -- romney was a firm never trumper, one of the first to speak out publicly and directly against donald trump. so watching that relionship unfold will be an interesting on >> no doubt. >> and in the meantime, a lot of people waiting to hear these names as trump staffs up. any idea how long this process is going to take? >> so it is my understanding from closes source to the transition that we will hear the chief of staff pick and any day now at this point. it is possible as soon as today we could hear about the

there's corey lewandowski who is back on good terms with donald trump, certainly. as you saw, governor mike pence who is the vice president-elect, mika brzezinski of msnbc getting to go in there, what's going on there? and the now-famed elevator doors because we are hearing that goldman sachs' president and chief operate toking officer gary cohn is supposed to show up for a meeting with president-elect trump. as we wait on that, the nasdaqing is on fire right now, racing past 5400 earlier today for the first time ever. right now we're at 5392, but what do we see here? we could witness the 13th record close of the year in this hour. so you might be thinking i own some nasdaq stocks, well, adding fuel to the inferno, tech bellwether microsoft hitting a lifetime high, eyeing a record -- look at microsoft, $61. just a couple years ago it was at 30. right now it's up 1%, so we're watching microsoft, and we should also look at biotech stocks, alexion better by 5.74. and to the dow name that's juicing the blue chip index, if you own shares in unitedhealth, you're making m

campaign about all of the tumultuous turn in the campaign, all of the different leaders from corey lewandowski, to paul manafort, to steve bannon. jared kushner has been a thread throughout, one of the things holding the campaign together and i think we can expect that to continue as this campaign moves from campaign mode into the white house. >> can we see him as part of the daily briefing as you said if he takes on a voluntary role? >> we're seeing that in the transition now potentially, but when it gets to the white house t gets to be a little bit murkier, because if you're in an informal, unsalaried position, this raises questions of conflicts of interest and there's this dynamic where the adult children, ivanka, donaand eric. >> it's not really a blind trust. >> it's not really, no that's something we've been talking about, like is this actually going to prevent conflicts of interest, while it's the set up they have planned so far. but jared kushner married to ivanka trump that really starts to tear down this wall of separation even further, raises more questions of conflicts of interest.

contributor at the atlantic, corey lewandowski, former trump campaign manager, and op ed from the "newyork times" and kayleigh mcenany. i just want to you look at the screen there. we're going to put it up there. this is the electoral map. there are six true battleground states here. there's nevada, arizona, utah, ohio, north carolina, and florida. all six of those states go to trump. if all go to trump that only puts him at 264. he's campaigning in these blue states. does he have -- what's his best shot of turning any of these blue states red? >> well, the good news is he's ahead in early voting in florida and ohio. you're right he definitely has to turn a blue state. i think pennsylvania's a good bet. the latest polls show he's behind by two or three points. he wins if he wins florida, ohio, pennsylvania. i will point out the momentum is clearly going in his direction. he gained 13 points in the avc poll in one week, that's a big deal. when you do that you start to put unconventional states in play. newt gingrich has been pointing out there was a state wide election in high school st

corey lewandowski and the first woman to head a winning presidential campaign, kellyanne conway, a leading role for conway would go a long way towards recasting trump's image with women. pushing back against the anti-woman narrative is barbara ress who in an interview, she happened to be donald trump's construction chief for the past 18 years, she said trump preferred women over men in his inner circle. he totally believed women work harder and are stronger. he called them killers which she said was his highest form of compliment. back to you. >> doug, thank you. "the washington post" reporting tonight that senator kelly ayotte is being considered for defense secretary. we will see and follow as we get the names. a lot of times they are floated out there. we want to confirm them as they come from the trump team transition team. there is already some controversy swirling about who president-elect trump will put on his national security team. we go down the list. >> after 50 of the nation's most senior republican national security professionals said in august they could not support a trump p

as is former campaign manager corey lewandowski whose name had been mentioned as being in the mix for chief. but there are question mash mar where he will end up. chris christie had been angling for that position. he may find another role elsewhere. these are people who have been loyal to donald trump for a long time. people like rudy giuliani whose name came up as possible attorney general or something who might be posted to the secretary of state position. giuliani was asked about something else today, specifically relating to what happens to donald trump's business when he takes over as the -- takes over the white house, ends up in the oval office and not at trump tower. there had been talk about his kids taking over in a blind trust. this is something that trump had said on the campaign trail. giuliani was pressed about it today. listen. >> for the good of the country and the fact that you don't want a question coming up every time there's a decision made, he should basically take himself out of it and just be a passive participant in the sense that he has no decision making, no i

source telling cnn kushner was intimately involved in the decision to fire campaign manager corey lewandowskier. said to be intensely loyal, jared kushner once pushed back against his own newspaper which accused trump of being anti-semitic. kushner, an orthodox jew, wrote trump "embraced my family and our judaism since i began dating my wife." >> i have a son-in-law who's jewish, jared, a great guy. my daughter is jewish. i have grandchildren that are jewish, okay. and i love them. i love them. >> reporter: experts say jared kushner could avoid breaking a law against a president hiring a relative if he doesn't take a salary or formal title. but he could have another conflict. >> they have to be careful that he doesn't become a conduit of information because he's going to have information about what the administration is doing and if he talks to his wife about what the business is doing there is a conflating of the business and official interest and that's something i think they're trying to keep separate. >> reporter: will jared kushner be able to avoid talking to his wife about the administr

there is even rumors out there that corey lewandowski could head up an office. that is how they would want to completely change direction. of course all of this is very preliminary. and there are still a lot of work to be done, this transition had been headed up by governor chris christie. but has sort of faded into the background in recent months. now we're told that jeff sessions has taken a larger role. we'll find out what they're doing in the next three months. after all, donald trump has not been involved in the talks. you can hear the crowd behind me. they are obviously very excited for donald trump. he is to take to the change. they're chanting right now. they're watching fox news. they believe the race is over. they just want to hear it. >> katy tur, thank you, it will take years to discuss all that needs to be talked about coming out of tonight. we have a call on the missouri senate race. it's really attracted so much attention. the democrats thought they could eke out a pickup. this race as i said earlier on pure technical grounds, probably gave us the

one is, when you look at corey lewandowski going over to london saying, it was comey in the last weekend that really shifted this election and gave it to donald trump, and, of course, donald trump said he doesn't know what he will do with comey and hillary clinton said she believes comey is responsible, what does the pollster think? >> the pollster doesn't agree with either of those wholesale. here is why. the polls started to tighten before the comey announcement. it was due in large part to trump being out there talking about obamacare. at that moment, people were opening up their mailboxes and they were getting obamacare premium increase notices. obamacare really is the issue in the off-year election. it won the republicans everything. they couldn't do it in 2012 because they nominated the political cover for obamacare in romneycare. but that aside, people have felt frustrated that obamacare for many americans is the most -- is the best example of how innovative -- >> you think it was obamacare? >> i think it's a combination. >> finally -- >> comey hurt. hillary said on friday night w

i think if we've seen from the history of donald trump whether it was when corey lewandowski was a campaign manager and he was in trouble donald trump stuck by him and that won't be any different with chris christie. especially with chris christie because chris christie supported and endorsed donald trump well before anybody else did and got a lot of heat from it as you know. having said that, new hampshire is a very targeted place, chris christie practically lived there during the primaries when he was running for president. >> now dubbed a battleground on our electoral map. >> exactly and there's good will for him there. having said that, i think it's more of a question of what this is going to mean for chris christie than donald trump given that already you're seeing the democrats who run the new jersey statehouse questioning whether he was truthful with them and their investigation of bridgegate so that could open up a whole other line of just not attack but legal -- going after him legally, maybe even going as far as impeachment proceedings and this is pretty clear, i just gotten a e-m

already up on cnn.com, and i get a call and it's donald trump's campaign manager at the time, corey lewandowsking me out for the story. he goes hold on. then all of a sudden, i hear jeremy, you are very dishonest guy. >> it was donald trump? >> it was donald trump on the phone chewing me out for a story about protesters and about the crowd size at his rally. i had seen the protesters myself and the number of them and i had also checked with the fire marshal for the crowd count but it didn't matter. that was just an interesting peek into the mind of donald trump. what matters to him, the crowds that matter to him, and the way in which he tried to gain favorable coverage by sometimes bullying the reporters who covered him. >> i think that will continue. thanks so much. i can't wait to read the book. thank you. >>> unpress didn't presprecede stores december 6th. preorder your copy today at cnn.com/book. >>> still to come, cowboys quarterback dak prescott is talking trash but in a totally earth-friendly way. in everything that matters? coming in first place... introducing the all-new 2017 ford supe

. >> we should mention also corey lewandowski was mentioned as supreme court justice if donald trump.> i'm moving if that happens by the way. >> that's cool don, you have to admit. >> it is. brad, you got the president and you've got samantha bee up millennials alley. >> and yong women's alley. i've never heard a presidential candidate be told to smile more or be less shrill or you didn't look the part to be president or have the stamina. these are things that anecdotally professional women deal with this all the time. for the president to call it like he sees it is powerful. especially harvard poll has millennial women with 37 point margin over trump. >> got to run. thank. appreciate it. no yelling or fighting. supreme court corey. oh, boy. that's it for us. see you back here tomorrow. ♪ when you think of saving money, what comes to mind? your next getaway? connecting with family and friends? a big night out? or maybe your everyday shopping. whatever it is, aarp member advantages can help save you time and money along the way. so when you get there, you can enjoy it all the more. for

. >> corey lewandowski did.people are not being smart about the news they are consuming, we have a problem. >> two tracts here, kristin. one is people didn't know enough to vote for hillary because they are dumb. the president just said. but the idea that facebook or google or twitter could remove things without our knowledge, shouldn't that get us up in arms? >> absolutely. i'm a libertarian and i think we need to let the market decide what is worthwhile and what is not. the actual fake news sites, they will lose credibility and eventually their audience. >> when when will alex jones lose credibility? >> there is an audience for alex jones. we need to let everything get posted. otherwise, it's going to be up to facebook or some other institution or worse the government to decide what fake news is. the problem, tucker, is that it is a very slippery slope to define fake news. for example, is a climate change denier promoting fake news? we got to let the people decide. >> of course. >> markets work this kind of go