david patraeus is an extraordinary individual, he's a patriot.ck, he had a lot to offer the country and compare to some of the other names that have been floated, it does not offend me. >> what about the promise on the campaign trail. so far, most of the people host named and looking at are establishment types, no? >> what strikes me is the number of ga-millionaires. donald trump seems to have a pension for wealthy cabinet members and some of them may of course, be qualified and we ha to offer. he does seem to be leading on a lot of the insider and a lot of his economic circle. how that plays out is very interesting. >> we talked about mitt romney and rudy giuliani . >> i want to play something from this morning. this is the kellyanne conway, this is from over the weekend, take a listen. >> people feel betrayed to think that governor mitt romney who went out of h is way to question the character and the intellect of donald trump. >> she says that about mitt romney on sunday morning and joe scarborough this morning on on "morning joe." trump was f

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trump also spent an hour yesterday with retired general david patraeus -- another contender -- president is getting a second look. iowa state's president has taken heat for his personal use of school planes. steven leath is being audited by the board of regents after a vacation. leath initially didn't believe the log was public record -- but later gave over the log to be reviewed. today, the public will get a chance to meet the first finalist in the running to be u-n-i's next president. neil theobald served as president of temple from 20-12 until august of this year. he'll visit campus today. there's a public forum this afternoon -- beginning at 2-30 in the old central ballroom of maucker union. there are three finalists -- each will visit campus this week. the second finalist will be announced this morning. the board of regents meets next week to pick the new president. the holiday season comes with a big gift for the university of iowa college of medicine. the roy j carver charitable trust is university in order to create a neuroscience center within the college of medicine. the univer

director david patraeus. >> with him for an hour. he basically walked us around the world. showed a great grasp of challenges out well and some of the opportunity as well. >> reporter: the challenge for patraeus he was was forced resign after having an affair with his biing on rafr. cuba relations cubans mark the death of fidel castro. trump using twitter telling cube saying if they are unlegal to make a deal he will terminate the deal. obama said the death is unlikely to have an impact. >> reporter: after a bomb is found near the u.s. embassy in the a was the sama a bomb in november. authorities think an islamist group is responsible. >> jim: syrian troops taken control of half of their rebel city. the deadly combination of air and ground strikes pounded the city a push to finish off the new orleans. sparked panic on crowd burbon street. the violence erupted on sunday morning when an argument with two men sending people running for lives. a fwif year old man was killed and nine were taken to the hospital. policer look out for two suspected gunman in the case. >> jim: when

trump also spent an hour yesterday with retired general david patraeus -- another contender -- for secretary of state. the flight log for a university president is getting a second look. heat for his personal use of school planes. steven leath is being audited by the board of regents after a hard landing of an i-s-u plane following a vacation. leath initially didn't believe the log was public record -- but later gave over the log to be reviewed. today, the public will get a chance to meet the first finalist in the running to be u-n-i's next president. neil theobald served as president of temple from 20-12 until august of this year. he'll visit campus today. afternoon -- beginning at 2-30 in the old central ballroom of maucker union. there are three finalists -- each will visit campus this week. the second finalist will be announced this morning. the board of regents meets next week to pick the new president. the holiday season comes with a big gift for the university of iowa college of medicine. the roy j carver charitable trust is giving 45-million dollars to the university in order to crea

trump also spent an hour yesterday with retired general david patraeus -- another contender -- for secretary of state. its coming up -- today, you have the chance to hfr who could lead one of our state universities, plus -- an effort to make sure the bird flu doesn't devastate iowa again. the forecast from storm track seven meteorologist eileen loan is up next. "you're watching kwwl, reported across eastern iowa -- this in other parts of the country -- the first major snowstorm of the season. this is a look at utah which received several inches yesterday -- with more on the way today. from snow out west -- to unseasonably warm weather in iowa recently -- let's find out what we can expect in the coming days. let's go to storm track seven meteorologist rachael peart now 7 weather team. see the screen for your complete weather information. here is additional forecast information from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team: behind the cold front yesterday, today will be mild in comparison. partly cloudy skies will continue through daytime hours. highs today will be above average in the mid 40s to th

answered when we see whether or not it is romney or people like david trias or senator bob corker -- david patraeusrker. him, the day with before. do we have a report on what it looks like he is heading toward? >> we do know there was a lot of pushback from romney and that suggest to me as of this weekend when that was coming back, that he was definitely in consideration. we heard his statement after the dinner, praising donald trump. what he said was sort of inclusive rhetoric, after calling him a con man and a fraud and a liar. they are certainly discussing geopolitics and had a very interesting discussion. who exactly is in the lead from moment to moment, it can be difficult to tell. david: thank you so much, then brodie -- ben brody. alix: opec reaching an agreement to cut oil production by 1.2 million barrels a day. joining us now from vienna is anne-marie horton. cut? --know about the what do we know about the cut? >> that is basically what we know, that they will cut the 1.2 million barrels. an incredible bloomberg news team here, getting information from the delegate who did not want to be