joining me now, the reporter who broke the story, eamon javers. what's at the core here and what you are hearing from your sources? >> i talked to the former fbi official who laid out the timeline and said there was a long conversation inside the obama administration on whether or not they were going to name russia publicly as behind these hacks. it's gotten so much attention this year. pros and cons on both sides of doing that. the former fbi official said comey ea comey's position closer and closer and later in the conversation said u.s. government should not do that and his position was that way because of concerns getting too close to the u.s. election and might impact the election. that's what the official told me, the official also saying that in his view, it wasn't necessarily that comey was making a partisan decision here. but just that comey has two different approaches to the story about the e-mails and the other story about the russians and the hacking. comey has become very personally attached to this e-mail story. that's the interpret

eamon javers is on the case. what can you tell us, eamon? >> reporter: hi, tyler.hat we know of as of this evening, fbi officials carefully going through the e-mails now that they have a warrant in place to search them. they're using a software program that sorts out any e-mails that were previously turned over to the fbi as part of the investigation. and looking for anything that might not have been turned over. if they find any of that, they'll look through it and try to figure out whether or not there's any classified information in there, as part of this clinton probe. we're also learning a little bit of context here about fbi director, james comey's decision-making to release this information before the election. i'm told by a former fbi official that this is an extraordinary decision for comey to take, in particular because earlier this year, when the fbi and u.s. intelligence agencies were discussing whether or not to name russia as a state entity that was trying to mettle in u.s. elections, comey argued internally and privately, it should not be done public

eamon javers is following that part of the story for us tonight from washington. , eamon. >> yeah, hi, sue. we have heard a lot, and i mean a lot, from the political pundits so far this year. >> maybe there's another group we should be paying attention to. forget the political pundits. what are the wall street analysts saying about next week's election? goldman sachs issued a report this morning, saying, they still expect hillary clinton to win on tuesday. bulls have tightened goldman's analysts throat but clinton appears to be win more than the 270 electoral votes needed to win the white house. cohen and company make the same prediction. fbi case dominates national coverage, but the firewall holding with six days to go. those are the expectations baked into wall street ahead of election day. but think of this as being like the biggest earnings report of all-time. the election results will either hit or miss wall street's expectations. and we all know what happens when companies miss on wall street. >> i think the market is saying, with hillary clinton, we kind of

eamon javers has more. eamon. >> hi, melissa. it's 3%.t's the margin that separates these two candidates now, according to one of the latest polls out today. take a look at this "washington post" abc national poll. clinton 47, trump 44. that's heading into the final weekend of campaigning. still, though, the nbc battleground map looks favorable to hillary clinton. she has a number of different possibilities to get to the magic number of electoral college votes, which is 270, as of now. the way it lines up, it looks like clinton, 274, trump 180, with bunch of tossup states. still in there. look at ohio and florida still ranked as tossups. and look up and to the right, you see new hampshire still a toss-up here. and that's fascinating. here's a new new hampshire poll from u mass we got recently. clinton 44, trump 44 in new hampshire. clinton had been leading earlier. trump is closing the gap. that could be worrisome for the clinton campaign. going down into the stretch here. but, guys, it's all going to come down to the final decisions. if

let's get to cnbc eamon javers in washington. >> reporter: nbc news has confirmed that vice president elect mike pence is taking over the donald trump transition effort the presidency. that's job he takes from chris christie the new jersey governor. mike pence deep connections in washington, d.c., a veteran of capitol hill and somebody who has seen knowing his way around town. an asset that donald trump will desperately need in the coming days as he fills out his campaign team. the president-elect tweeting out earlier today decisions are soon to come on who will be running the trump administration. this is a sign that perhaps chris christie is being moved out of consideration for one of those top jobs. we'll have to wait and see. we're waiting on any sense who donald trump's chief of staff might be. who the secretary of state might be. secretary of treasury. secretary of defense. all those top jobs unfilled as of now. there's lists circulating, names being floated and trial balloons shot down here in washington. it's the parlor game we see every time we have a president-elect. for rig

eamon, thank you eamon javers in d.c.h the election on the way and volatility so high, how should investors protect their portfolio? no matter who wins? mike has the call to action. mike. >> so first things first. we don't have insurance on all the time on our investment portfolio. so you want to do something like this tactically. have we found an identifiable risk? i think we have. the election next tuesday, a lot of people talking about that as something they could be market moving. secondly, you can't sell your underlying stock revisions. there may be tax revisions on this. maybe you're not going to call your broker monday and say sell it all. and finally, when options prices are high, and they are high right now, we're going to have to find a trade to use and that's why we're going to use a put spread. so let's take a look here. this actually indicates how high options prices are. we can see that they're up 60%, actually, just since earlier in october. so taking a look here, what we're going to be looking to do is try

eamon javers in washington. back to nashts which in the u.s.e lower in october as global bond yields rose. oil prices gained. british pound posted another sharp decline. that performance was largely mirrored by the hedge fund industry. cnbc has learned third point was down. it's up 6% this year. greenlight capital was up 1.2% in october and up about 6% for the year. p pershing swar down 3%. >>> goldman sachs agreed to shift its technical operation to nasdaq. nasdaq will receive an undisclosed fee. the deal will help the bank save money and comes amid an industry wide crackdown by regulators. >> another busy day on wall street. pair of economic reports along with federal reserve kick off a two day meeting. october ism manufacturing index and construction spending are out at 10:00 a.m. eastern. the fed begins a two day policy meeting. nothing expected today. the decision comes out with a statement tomorrow at 2:00 p.m. eastern. as for earnings, pfizer, coach and kellogg reporting before the opening bell. after the close we'll here from gilead sci

eamon javers is in new york city. contessa brewer in arizona. jane wells in nevada. eamon javers, let's start with you and what hillary clinton and donald trump are doing now that decision day is finally here and they are voting. imagine this after thousands of miles both candidates for more than a year are going to end up here in manhattan about two miles apart. we have seen both hillary clinton and donald trump today out voting. hillary clinton we saw early this morning casting her ballot along side former presidents bill clinton. the clintons out early in the morning. we saw donald trump later in the day here in manhattan. he cast his ballot at ps 59. this is a very manhattan centric election day for us. there was a little bit of booing and disruption at the polling place this morning. there were a group of people there we are told cheering for him. a little bit of pro and conthere. we are here at the center where hillary clinton is going to be having her event later on this evening. we are told that hillary clinton is working on two versions of her speech for ton

eamon javers has the latest. >> some tightening and widening in three traditionally red states.w nbc/"wall street journal"/marist polls. georgia, trump 45, clinton 44, johnson 8% in the state of georgia. in september donald trump was up two points in the state of georgia. so that is an area where you might see some tightening and maybe hillary clinton snatching that traditionally red state away from donald trump. in arizona however, trump 45, hillary clinton 40, johnson 9, stein 3% in arizona. trump was ahead by just two points in arizona back in september. so this looks like a bit of a widening in arizona. that's a state that democrats had hoped to capture. on tuesday hillary clinton campaigned in arizona, as recently as wednesday night, they've been spending a lot of resources there, the democrats have. this indicates, though, that that spread is widening a little bit. we'll have to see where things shake out on tuesday. finally, in texas, a monster margin here for donald trump, 49% to hillary clinton 40%, johnson at 6, stein at 2%. overall, melissa, analysts all sort of are c

eamon javers is there for us. >> reporter: mike pence, his motorcade arrived.e is, of course, running the transition. he is in trump tower, presumably meeting with donald trump and the rest of the transition staff upstairs. we saw rudy giuliani come by. he has been mentioned as a possible appointment for a whole range of different cabinet offices, also possibly the new director of national intelligence. rudy giuliani was faced with a number of questions. he did come over and talk to the reporters. he didn't have much in the way of answers. here is what he said. >> i'm not going to discuss what i'm interested in or what the president-elect is thinking and mulling over. that's not fair. that's not the right way to do it. this has to be done privately. i don't mean just with regard to me but with regard to everyone else. >> reporter: and, carl, i can tell you that former new york governor eliot spitzer is nearby. he just came over to our camera position and asked if the dow was going to stay over 19,000. i told him i have no idea. we also asked him what he made of

eamon javers inside theoffette center in new york city where hillary clinton could be celebrating a win later tonight. and scott wapner at the hilton midtown where trump plans to celebrate as well. eamon, let's start with you. what's the mood inside the camp clinton? >> well, i'll tell you what. there is a crush of media here. people from all over the world covering this event here tonight. and a huge line getting in here. security very tight here at theoffette center as i'm sure it is throughout the rest of new york city. let me give you a tour here. you can see what they have planned for this evening. this is an enormous stage. we've got risers up there for folks to sit. we've got a podium set up. prompter set up. you can't quite see from this angle but the stage is shaped like the entire united states of america. so they are expecting a big gathering here at the jfette center tonight. we'll see whether it turns into a victory party or something quite different. a couple million votes probably still to go, and then still to count. and we'll see later on tonight where we end up. >> eam

eamon javers, what is happening?etting news now from the trump organization about the role of donald trump's children. reuters reporting that planning for immediate transfer of management and business portfolio to donald trump is going on now which says the new structure will comply with all applicable rules and regulations. those trump children also got another new job today as they were officially named to the trump transition effort. they will be managing donald trump's business portfolio and have a role in overseeing his presidential transition at the same time. i don't think we have seen presidential children in quite this role in a long time if maybe ever. this is going to be an interesting dynamic to watch as the trump presidency unfolds. a couple of points of news here. he has given an interview to the wall street journal. take a look at bullet points he had to say on obama care, the aca. here is what trump said. he said he would like to keep the prohibition against denying coverage because of preexisting con

eamon javers has a story on the government's efforts to combat cyber meddling in this election. steve, let's start with you. >> there has been a lot of october surprises but the jobs report wasn't one of them. 161,000 jobs created. not too much or too little to get sucked into the presidential debate. neither side appears to have tweeted. the estimate was for 173,000. august and september revised up. unemployment ticking down to 4.9%. a good number for average hourly wages up 0.4% comparing with 2.8% year over year. labor force participation down a tick. construction coming in strong with 11,000 but not manufacturing. i know you were going to talk about that manufacturing recession. leisure hospitality and government coming in. most economists said the jobs report was solid and the best measure that it has little impact. here is where the rate markets are, took the number in stride. the chance of a fed rate hike at 60%. if we had the chart it would show you it is 60%. the fed sees jobs growth as around 100,000. this is enough for the fed to hike in december. dennis lockhart call

eamon javers. dan clifton from research partners. it would appear we're seeing the winners and losers emerge today -- the expected winners and losers in a trump administration. what do you make of that in the stock market? >> i tell you, bill, it's been an incredible election season because there was a brexit premium in stocks where it looked like hillary was going to win, but you never saw that full acceleration of stocks that should have done well. last night that all ended, and today you're seeing what that is. you're seeing stocks that are biopharmaceutical for the republicans up big today, you're seeing energy, the banks. these are all things you would expect. in all election season it would be start and go, start and go, and now you're really starting to see it accelerate out. i would say from a broader macro perspective, the market was really worried about trade policy. donald trump can impose tariffs by executive order. there was some concern about that. that's sort of waning away and tax reform is taking over, and i think pe

thank you, eamon javers. back to the markets. fed gets set to kick off a two day policy meeting today joining us now is matt toms and rich steinberg. do either one of you gentlemen think that the stock market is reacting to who it thinks will win the election because it can't get out of its own way. most people think it's -- i don't know 90% think hillary clinton. why are we going up if the market wants hillary clinton. why is it going up? >> it's going to remain stuck in the mud for a while because we really have to determine who is going to be in the white house, if the democrats take the senate and what the balance of power looks like. the consensus, you know, thinks that we'll have gridlock for a while adding to your comments earlier with eamon javers, we'll be challenging confidence in the short run and we'll have to tread water until earnings starts to come through. once we get past the election and the fed meeting in december we can focus again on what drives markets which is economic growth and earnings. >> so i would thi

let's get to eamon javers live in washington with the latest. hey, eamon. >> good morning, carl.ith less than a week to go you get the sense this is a race that is tightening in its final days. take a look at this "the washington post"/abc poll that's out showing a dead heat here between hillary clinton and donald trump. this is conducted october 28th through the 31st. hillary clinton 46, donald trump 46, gary johnson at 3 and jill stein just at 2% there. so a dead heat according to that poll. but i want you guys to take a look at this note that goldman sachs put out last night because i think it's important to get a sense of what wall street's baseline expectation is. goldman sachs says, secretary clinton is still seen as twice as likely to win the white house next week as mr. trump. nbc's own battleground map shows hillary clinton with 274 electoral votes, that's more than is needed but is down from last month. they also show that donald trump has got a total of 180, that's up from 157 in mid october. so that gives you a sense that this is a tightening race. wall street's expec

eamon javers at trump tower. more insight into what is going on with the transition team, tillman fertitta is with us on set. you're not on the transition team, are you? >> no. i should be. >> you should be serving meals at the very least. michael costas, you've been meeting with some of trump's closest associates, did that earlier today. what are you hearing from them and who specifically has trump's ear the most these days? >> the answer to the latter question, you see the son-in-law jared kushner very close to the president-elect, so is stephen bannon, former head of breitbart news. the populous whisper in trump's ear. and others, rudy giuliani, kellyanne conway, but it is a tight -- >> the usual suspects. >> usual suspects. >> is this smaller than a normal team? it seems like there is six or seven close associates and that's it. >> that is it. >> if you're not in, you're out. >> trump, because he's an outsider, and he had a campaign that was small in operation, he trusts very few people. and he's keeping that

eamon javers joining us for the aforementioned trump tower.it of a carnival fare here. a lot of tours, sightseers out. they're selling the make america great hats, the naked cowboy is here. i got a selfie with him. so there is a lot of fun being had here at ground level. the serious business is happening upstairs at trump tower. a lot of the top television executives, news anchors and reporters are upstairs meeting with donald trump now. we expect them to come out at any moment now. nobody would tell us anything, but i would imagine this being a group of reporters that some of that might leak when they do come down. so we'll try to get you a read on that. we're still waiting on any significant news in terms of new cabinet appointments today, kellyanne conway came through earlier this morning, talked to reporters. getting a sense we might expect something this afternoon, but as of now, no puffs of white smoke so to speak from the top of trump tower in terms of new cabinet poims today. >> we are look for that selfie and melissa is tweeting it ou

for more on the presidential transition, let's bring in eamon javers. he latest for us from philadelphia. eamon. >> reporter: yeah, good morning, david. you're talking about this carrier fight. we saw the tweet from donald trump yesterday that you just read, but look at this tweet from congressman justin amash, a republican from michigan, politico flagged this tweet this morning. he tweeted it last night. this might give you a sense of where some republican opposition to donald trump might come from, he said not the president-elect's job. we live in a constitutional republic, not an autocracy. business specific meddling shouldn't be normalized. that's an important point because so many republicans on capitol hill have spent their entire careers opposing government interference in private business. we'll see how they deal with this donald trump move now to negotiate directly with carrier over where its factory is going to be. that's something that in the past has given republicans heart pal paations. maybe they'll come around on it, meanwhile we're watchi

let's bring in eamon javers. n. >> when you look at the twosome, you look at paul ryan who's been one of the thought leaders in republican politics nationwide. now he's very much transcended by donald trump who will be the president of the united states. so the question for paul ryan, how much of his attention dovetails what donald trump wants to do. he has said quite a bit of it. there was a real reluctance on the part of paul ryan to even campaign with donald trump toward the end. now they're mending fences and patching things up and they look like they plan on having a work relationship. i would say trump's appearance before the cameras today probably helps ryan to for stall any efforts of having him removed as speaker of the house. he's doing ryan a solid in that sense. also interesting that we're getting this sort of moving target in terms of these meetings. we were told some of it would be off campus. then we saw that they met in the capitol building. you see them walking in through the carriage entrance und

eamon javers there out of washington. a little more than half an hour to go. >>> with the dow up 31 points about the high for the session. as kelly said, other averages that have been trading lower recently are back up higher today most notably the nasdaq almost 1.25% gain. >> the dow is positive by 31 points right on the button. 18,900. don't worry. all the 19,000 are getting ready. silicon valley venture capital tim draper tells us if he is backing a renewed push for california to secede now that trump won the white house. >>> facebook ezit is taking steps to halt the spread of fake news. >>> welcome back. generally the market is higher but certainly not teva pharmaceutical after a quarterly earnings beat but did mention that revenue missed and it cut full year guidance citing launch delays for some drugs by as much as a year or so. facebook announced measures to halt the spread of what it calls fake news on its plat forms. company updating advertising policies to point out that its ban on misleading content does apply

and that brings us to tonight's cnbc report from eamon javers. cnbc reports that fbi director james comey personally insisted that the fbi wouldn't put its name on any public pronouncement that said russia was hacking into american computers and trying to influence the american election. you'll remember, october 7th, there was this extraordinary statement released that blamed russia for trying to influence the u.s. election for hacking the u.s. election. the statement was issued in the name of the director of national intelligence and department of homeland security. it did not include the fbi. and according to cnbc tonight, that's because director james comey insisted that the fbi would not take part in such a statement because, quote, fbi director james comey argued it was too close to the election day for the united states government to name russia as meddling in the u.s. election. and under longstanding department of justice rules and precedent, that too close to election day standard, that's a totally reasonable, historically well-supported

eamon javers has that report with us now. >> this one is not surprising in one sense in that we knewt eric schmidt was a big democratic supporter, close to president obama and close to hillary clinton as well. what this document tells us is the extent of eric schmidt's involvement in offering thoughts to the clinton campaign. this is an e-mail sent to cheryl mills in 2014 with a variety of advice for how to run the 2016 presidential campaign including this. he says it is important to have a large hiring pool such as chicago or new york city from which to choose enthusiastic, smart and low paid permanent employees. another piece of advice to the clinton campaign was a separate auditing function to make sure no one is profiting unfairly from the campaign and perhaps to that end look at this piece of advice he gives on which cloud service provider to use. he says the computers will be in the cloud and most likely on amazon web services not necessarily on google's platform. he gives advice on simple pieces in terms of how you use smart phones to register individual voters, how to manage

eamon javers from washington with only a few days left until voters head to the polls we want to know how the revelations will impact the election and the markets. >> joining us now is managing director and head of political analysis. thanks for being with us. >> thanks for having me. >> the market has obviously in the last couple of days become very susceptible to perceived change in what the election outcome is going to be after a while it was considering it a foregone conclusion. has anything that happened this week changed your general view of the probability for the general election? >> certainly mrs. clinton's chances have gone down but we have her as a strong favorite to win the election. the advantages for a democratic candidate are many. we have mrs. clinton generally has run a good campaign and she has a lot of advantages over mr. trump not only with perceptions among the electorate but also in what she was hammering over the last month which was presidential qualifications and temperament. we see her as very likely to win. >> that said, there is more speculation about how m

eamon javers.cal strategist former dnc senior advisor steve mcmahon and former rubio advisor alex conan, good morning to you both. >> good morning. >> alex, let's start on the optics parading these candidates back and forth in front of that front door while tweeting about "snl" and "hamilton" as eamon mentions. what does that tell us about the tone he's trying to strike? >> i think if you look at all the people he's bringing in to meet with him over the weekend and today at trump tower, he's casting a very broad net. he said he wants to bring the best and the brightest into this new administration. and i think it's encouraging for conservatives like myself to see him reaching out to people like mitt romney who obviously was a big critic of his during the campaign. and now mike pence on "face the nation" yesterday said he's actively being considered for secretary of state. it's very encouraging for conservatives like myself to see people like that under consideration for these big posts. >> yeah, st

everyone's got one and they all stink. >> let's get to eamon javers.control the white house and more than that. >> we're learning more this morning about how president obama and president-elect trump are going to interact over the next couple days. a statement from the white house saying that the president -- that is president obama -- has invited the president-elect to the white house on thursday, november 10th. we're also told that the president obama will make a statement on the election later today. white house saying ensuring a smooth transition of power is one of the top priorities of the president. they have said that all the way through. and we know that the transition-related meetings have been going on behind the scenes for awhile now. so what will that transition of power entail? what will washington look like next year? i think we got a bit of a clue in donald trump's speech last night when he talked about infrastructure spending. here's what he had to say. >> we are going to fix our inner cities and rebuild our highways, bridges, tunnels,

eamon javers first in d.c. with the details. eamon. >> yeah, hey, brian.t going to like this answer. but it's probably too early to say what specific lower taxes are coming here under a trump administration. but as you heard at the dinner last night, donald trump's broad thrust here is lower taxes overall for everybody. so what does that look like? well, break it down into two categories. one for businesses, one for individuals. for businesses, trump's plan that he advocated out on the campaign trail would lower the rate from 35% to 15%, would include repatriation of offshore revenue, which would involve a 10% tax on that revenue from companies coming back into the united states. that tax revenue could be spent on infrastructure spending and other things. also manufacturers under his plan could fully expense plant equipment so that might be a boon in the manufacturing sector. now in the individual side, the tax brackets would be cut from 7 to 3. the rates under trump's plan would be 12, 24 or 33%, depending on how much you earn. it would also eliminate the

eamon javers in washington.se as the waiting game continues for some of the key cabinet level picks including who will take charge of treasury, which will have far reaching influence on everything from bank regulatory reform, tax reform, the economic agenda at the g7 and g20 next year and potentially cracking down on china currency manipulation. joining us this morning former minnesota governor and financial services roundtable ceo governor tim pawlenty. governor, good to have you back this morning. >> good morning to you. >> it got argued on our program yesterday, this is really the pick maybe state equally is important but i just wonder what your expectations are for treasury as these names get n narrowed down? >> well, hopefully president-elect will pick somebody who both understands the issues at a level of substance and complexity but also reflects president-elect's priorities. for him he's going to have to navigate possible criticism as somebody associated with the industry or issues in the past versus act

eamon javers live in washington with the latest on the fbi. john harwood here in the house with what it all means in the final hours in the race to the white house. we begin with the markets and bob pisani. bob? >> thank you very much, tyler. let's look at the markets in the middle of the day. no fade to rally here. a lot of talk about that down here. not happening in the middle of the day. we're just off the highs for the day. 8 to 1 advancing to declining stocks. haven't seen that very much. volume on the medium side, not heavy. i call it medium. vix below 20 again. that's where people start paying attention, over 20 seconders. you saw them earlier, remarkable, you got banks and tech up, but they were market leaders. what is more remarkable is laggards like health care, and retail stocks have been lagging the market ever since here. telecom and reits still up here, but not much compared to the rest of the market. want to focus on the health care sector. you have biogen, like one of the big health care stocks that are up, as well in the biote

our eamon javers is covering all of it for us this morning. >> we are told not to expect any major cabinetks today. those will wait until at least monday, the trump team tells us. they're also saying they might have two staff level appointments today. those would be the lower level folks, not necessarily the big headline grabbers. one staff position that everyone is watching to see who's going to be behind the podium in the white house briefing room for donald trump, the speculation has centered on sean spicer from the republican national committee but donald trump is certainly capable of making a surprise pick there. we're also told that mr. trump will be meeting with paul atkins on monday. that's one to watch as we sort of manage the future of dodd/frank in the financial industry. take a look at some background on paul atkins. we know he is meeting with trump on monday. he lead a transition team on financial regulation. he's a potential pick to lead the s.e.c. himself given that he is a former s.e.c. commissioner. he's expected deep skepticism over the year of large dollar fines for corp

eamon javers at trump tower with the latest.o hair comments from me, don't worry. >> yeah, no news here so far from donald trump on any new cabinet appointments today. we saw mr. trump leave the building and go down to the "new york times" offices and we have this sort of wild, new media moment where the "new york times" reporters and editors were live tweeting their meeting with donald trump even though it was behind closed doors, the rest of us couldn't see it. we did learn a couple of new things in the course of that meeting, one of which is that donald trump has been receiving a lot of phone calls from international leaders, but also from corporate leaders. we saw donald trump commenting he received a called from tim cook of apple and also from bill gates. at this point, he's back in the building. we've seen a lot of cummings and goings through the course of the day. vie president-elect mike pence still in the building. we saw rudy giuliani come and go earlier, but we don't expect donald trump to remain here all that much lo

unfortunately, ben is wrong and eamon javers has it right. >> no chance of that being right. you're talking about one guy in steve bannon and a steech that he gave in 2014 where he talked about, you know, not enough being done to bankers after 2008. will he restrain trump on wanting to deregulate wall street? he may. i think, you know, reformers, oddly enough, could look at him as the restraining influence. but the rest of the universe around him is very pro-wall street and congress, particularly led by jeb hensarling, really wants to gut financial reform. >> no, that's not the case. jeb hensarling would love to rewrite dodd/frank, okay? but the issue there, the issue there is too big to fail. there are still loopholes in dodd/frank that suggest we might be back in the banking bailout business. that's going to be the position of the trump administration, i think. i'm not speaking for them, that's my view. that's been jeb hensarling's position. the other thing i want to say is that mr. hensarling and others, including steve bannon and this article that's been cited, they want

a mr eamon javers drew the short straw today. eamon jav ers? >> we saw barique farrar showed up here trump tower. he has been asked to stay at the trump tower. he got his start working as chief counsel for chuck schumer in the united states senate. schumer, of course, a democrat. schumer put out a statement today saying donald trump had asked for his opinion and that he endorse the but then as you say, we are still waiting on the picks for bentz. . here's what we know about his background. he was in the marines from 1972 to 2013. he retired as a commander in u.s. central command. his nicknames include mad dog mattis have the. the most likely pick appears tovsh mitt romney. he had dinner last night with president-elect trump yesterday. factor in the pain, he said. he is very, very smart. i'm afraid when it comes to foreign policy, he's very, very not smart. now i wonder remembered sfrmd. we had another discussion about affairs throughout the world, and these discussions i've had with thim have been enlightening and engaging. a big product, guys.

to eamon javers now, live in d.c., with the very latest from the trump camp over the weekend.> yeah, absolutely, scott. as you say, we're going to be hearing from the president later on this afternoon and all of the surprising things that happened last week, one of perhaps the most surprising is this emerging personal relationship between barack obama and donald trump. they spent quite a bit of time together last week. donald trump was interviewed on "60 minutes" over the weekend about that meeting and here's what he had to say about it. >> it could have gone on for four hours. it was almost hard breaking it up because we had so many things to say. and he told me the good things and the bad things. >> so donald trump there talking a little bit about what it was like meeting behind closed doors with president obama. we'll hear from the president later this afternoon, see if this sort of new era of good feelings in washington can continue. we also saw the trump camp laying out their new hires here. a couple of key staff positions including reince priebus as chief of staff and st

that gave eamon javers a chance to get back to washington. he joins us now.on. >> reporter: hi, scott. spent the day yesterday at trump tower watching the comings and goings there. the president-elect as you say is now at mar-a-lago in florida hunkered down for the thanksgiving holiday. but we learned that nikki haley will be the next pick to be u.n. ambassador. so that's an important announcement coming later today we expect. and also who else is in the mix? we see mitt romney as a possible selection here for secretary of state. those are two of the more moderate figures and importantly those are figures in the republican party who criticize donald trump during the campaign. and that seems to be of a piece with this shifting of positions we're seeing from donald trump post-election. look at some of the points he made in his interview which was wide ranging just yesterday. starting with the idea of backing off the idea of water boarding. he said he's now talked to general mattis about water boarding. he said he thinks "the new york times" will be happy with h

eamon javers, help us out. he did make some appointments today, didn't he? >> he's down in sunny mar-a-l o mar-a-lago. we got a secretary education pick today. that's going to be betsy devos. she's a long-time charter school advocate, so that might give advantage to the public schoolteachers unions. and gov nikki haley, the governor the south carolina, and a long time foe during the campaign. she was brought around. she may serve as the ambassador if she's confirmed by the u.s. senate, which appears likely. you talk about the big three. i happen to have them written down so i don't have to remember them. there are still question marks about this trump administration, but we're starting to see faces fill out cluincluding jeff sesss as the pick for attorney general, you see betsy devos there, and general michael flynn for security adviser. we'll probably take a pause through the thanksgiving holiday. donald trump expected back in action next week, and there you see palm beach, florida. that is mar-a-lago there, that tower in the distance, and we've been seeing

eamon javers looks at the fbi clearing hillary clinton again. john harwood has the latest poll numbers for us and bob pisani rounds up the biggest stock movs on this rally day. at this point is it officially over with the fbi e-mail investigation? >> it is officially over. i will give you the sentence from the letter yesterday that the market paid a lot of attention to today. here is what the fbi director said yesterday. we have not changed our conclusions that we expressed in july with respect to secretary clinton. that means that the fbi is not going to proceed with that investigation, just that investigation but that is good enough for the markets today. here is the clinton spokesman talking about this saying we were always confident nothing would cause the july decision to be revisited. director comey has confirmed it and kellyann talking about this. she heaped a little bit of scorn on the fbi director. here is what she had to say. >> why would you reopen or extend this investigation if you didn't have something big? the democrats were sayin

eamon javers has more on that. >> i want to draw your attention to some comments by steve ban n bannon. it's a 24-minute speech that steve bannon, who is now a chief strategist inside the trump white house. this is a comment he made back in 2014. this is very different thinking from what we've seen in other white houses in the past. he said wall street leaders have secularized. they no longer hold christian values and they're values have become unmoored. he also said capitalism has me t t -- metastasized and the elite forcibly took all the benefits ahead of the 2008 financial collapse. and he said, trust me, they're going to be held accountable. that's steve bannon speaking of wall street executives. the question is, what does that mean in the trump white house? obviously most presidents have advisers of all different flavors around them, and the presidency ends up being a mix of the advice he gets from all those people. but this is one perspective that will be very close to donald trump. if you draw a straight line from that to policy implications, you might think this has implication

let's get to eamon javers. >> the fbi really under political pressure here in a way we haven't seen in my adult lifetime any way. let me gring brink you a couple of headlines we've seen that give you a sense there's a lot of talking going on by someone or someones about a series of investigations or potential investigations. "new york times" reporting that investigating donald trump fbi sees no clear link to russia. wall street today reporting that there are secret recordings that fuel the fbi's feud in the clinton probe. also, sources within the fbi said that the probe within the clinton foundation could yield indictments of all things. we don't have reporting that can match that, but i want throw those headlines up there, suggest thag the mere fact those reports exist telling you a lot about what's going on inside federal law enforcement, the department of justice and other agencies now. enormous political pressure, the kind we haven't seen before. a lot of people talking who normally would not talk. that's got a lot of veteran fbi agents fuming. i talked to eric o'neill b about this

eamon javers joins us with the latest on the transition. >> we are told not to expect any more cabinetay at the earliest. donald trump is in mar-a-lago in palm beach, florida, relaxing over the weekend or as much as a president-elect can relax over the weekend. we expect that he's going to have some more meetings on monday. we're getting some intelligence now about the meetings including a confab with paul atkins scheduled for monday. he is significant because he is the transition person handling financial regulations. he is a former s.e.c. commissioner. and he's viewed as possible candidate to run the s.e.c. under donald trump. we know mary jo white will be leaving at the end of president obama's term. he's very skeptical about financial regulation, broadly, and also about the idea of finding companies large dollar amounts in punishment for their bad behavior. his argument has been that these might just benefit or hurt shareholders and not really go after the individuals who actually committed the fraud there. other interesting picks, we're waiting for some majors, waiting for treasur

our eamon javers is outside trump tower with more. >> reporter: it looks like that on again, off againork times" meeting is on again. hope hicks e-mailed the press pool and said that that meeting will in fact take place. there had been some tweets earlier from donald trump saying that it was canceled. "the new york times" said they were surprised to learn that based on those tweets. now, though, it looks as though that meeting is going to be on again. one new thing that we are learning this morning comes from kellyanne conway who was on msnbc talking to joe scarborough this morning and she said one of donald trump's priorities in the first 100 days is not necessarily going to be going after hillary clinton, despite all those chants of "lock her up" that we heard out on the campaign trail. here's what she had to say about that this morning. >> i think when the president-elect, who's also the head of your party now, joe, tells you before he's even inaugurated he doesn't wish to pursue these charges, it sends a very strong message, tone and content to the members. and i think hillary clin

eamon javers is at trump tower in new york city with more on mr. business background. >> very rainy trump tower here in manhattan. we also saw preet bharara stop by and talk to reporters. he said he has been asked to stay on as the u.s. attorney here. that's an interesting pick by the trump team. he's known as the sheriff of wall street, but also got his start going on capitol hill as the chief council to senator chuck schume, a democrat. he's known to be on the democratic side of the aisle, an interesting pick here by the trump team. mnuchin, we're learning about today, a goldman sachs figure, some background on steve mnuchin. he was a trump finance chair during the campaign, helped raise money to coordinate fund-raising events and that sort of thing. spent 17 years at goldman sachs and helped finance avatar and x-men and ran a credit fund under george soros, involved with the one west bank group as well. and hank paulson had some good things to say about mr. mnuchin. here is what hank paulson said. i think steve mnuchin would be an excellent choi

eamon it eamon javers, another hour, we are still waiting. >> reporter: you are right.lyanne conway came down to talk to members of the media. one of the questions she got is one facing this trump transition since election day, which is how is donald trump going to manage the thicket of potential ethical conflicts that come up as he continues to own the trump organization, have his family members involved and actively running it, even as he serves at president-elect of the united states and then president of the united states. she was asked if donald trump is sure that he's not going to violate any laws as he does that. here's what she had to say. >> i'm very confident he's not breaking any laws. he has many lawyers, accountants and advisers to tell him what he must do and can't do. and he's a businessman. he is also working a transransi. and he's the president-elect. we are in unprecedented times. he is very successful. >> reporter: kelly, there was a bevy of media big-wigs here. some of the nation's top television anchors from broadcast, cable and corporate executives

eamon javers joins us now. >> it is an interesting question, right, because you remember barack obamawas so interested in keeping access to his blackberry back in 2009. he had some difficulty with that. look at one stat here, which shows you just how important donald trump's twitter account is to him as a method of communication. his twitter account has 16.3 million followers, he's not even president of the united states yet. when he is president, he'll inherit the @potus account. that gives you an sense of how active and widely followed he is on twitter. whether he continues that on the white house, using the device in the mornings or the evenings is it anybody's guess. but you get a description of what the secret service allowed him to use in terms of his own phone in the white house. here is what obama told jimmy fallon in an interview this year. said that his phone, his device, doesn't take pictures, doesn't text, doesn't have a phone on it. and he can't play his music on it. he described it, he said, does your 3-year-old have one of those play phones? that's basically the phone i