halie, let me go to you. josh earnest gave a reality check of that and the impact of the agreement today, take a listen to his reaction. >> if we are talking about a thousand u.s. jobs that have been saved, we would welcome an announcement like that. but, again, it is -- it would be 804 of them to equal the number of jobs in the manufacturing sectors that were created in the united states under president obama's launch. >> there is president-elect trump and josh earnest. he's traveling into indianapolis and he will be with the vice president-elect. we saw our blake mccoy and halie jackson is in place for this evening in cincinnati. we heard from josh earnest that the bar is set so high now about the president-elect trump given the promises that he made to bring back all of these jobs and the carrier, the example is a big compromise. >> yeah, i mean, listen, it would behoove the democratic bar high in the in coming president-elect trump. we have been talking about since this deal was announced 48 hours ago as

halie, let me start with you there. how surprising is this? >> it does not seem surprising when you look at the history of what president-elect trump has said publicly about vladimir putin and what his team has said about the relationship that donald trump wants to have with donald trump once he takes office. it would have been more surprising if he comes out and tweeted the opposite of what he said about vladimir. and decided hey, maybe he would hit vladimir putin and come out and do this. this is consistent of what we have seen of donald trump. you called this of a bromance at the top of your show, giving donald trump his space and not coming out and allowing this ball to be in donald trump's court. the street was pinned to the top of donald trump's twitter page. that tweet will stay at the top regardless of what donald trump tweets. in the last couple of minutes here, the russian embassy of the united states retweeted of what the president-elect trump had to say. he's been interacting a fair amount with world leaders and remember we had tha

that's in line with the reporting that i had and halie had it the last couple of weeks. they did not had the experience to lead a bureaucracy for hud or any of the department administration which was notable at the time. this was a man who had run for president during the course of 2016 campaign. >> a lot of people say this deserves a lot of over sigh sights -- it waits to be seen. ben, let me bring you in here, we have a loyalist certainly of ben carson. i want to get you on the record of a potential of john hunts man and the value he brings of secretary of state over mitt romney. explain the rivalry between mitt romney and john huntsman and how mitt romney is not a happy man today. >> i think mitt romney would be happy of having the competition in this. >> come on, now. >> he and john huntsman have had similar background and huntsman has been an ambassador to china which qualifies him for foreign work. >> donald trump threw out many of his picks and wanted to set up a competition between people. this gives him more choices. >> do you put that much sugar on most of the

. >> halie jackson is back with us. the trump people put out a statement that it was an attack on christians. he did not know that he actually said that. >> now he's saying it is an attack on humanity. >> that was actually one of the even other headlines of that 30 seconds here. there are a couple of thing -- i know that was difficult to hear. we had a transcript of what he said. i want to highlight a couple of things. he was asked about his plan to create this temporary muslim ban. he was asked if the terror attack in berlin have cause him to rethink or reevaluate his plan. the president-elect trump responded, hey, you know my plans all along and they are proour proven it to be right 100% correct. what's happening is disgraceful. his team and members of donald trump and transition team as well tried to walk back the idea that there will be this and of the idea that it is going to be geographic cal and looking at countries of terrorism and etc. i think it is fair to say changed his tune a little bit. >> the idea offing

halie, i want to talk about the transition news. we talked about jason miller decided not to become white house communication director. when he was going to take his job. it was two days before he decided not to. how unusual is this for somebody to back out of an administration post before the administration even comes into office. >> think about it with any job. anybody would take any jobs or any fields and two days later not anymore. it is not typical, not fairly typical at least. here is the deal. thursday that the announcement came out that donald trump announced of his west wing of sean spicer and another important role is jason miller. miller is familiar to people who are watching our network and he was our communicationie adviser and he works for ted cruz and he's been involved -- the news came out that miller was going to be the communication director. miller says over the holiday, he realized that he wanted to spend more time with his family and his wife is expecting a child come january. he's making a decision to forgo the

what is the plan, halie? i was thinking back of all the candidates i have covered and president elects i have covered, i have never seen a victory tour like this? >> i don't think there is one like this. our friends steve cornacki referenced recently to me of the bill clinton bus tour he did. he went around a tour thank you tour. this is a unique event for donald trump. let me make one point about that speech. i was listening in the last hour ready to talk to you, it was remarkable to me that it feels a lot like as he makes his transition of being the president of the united states, speech that we just heard, his first remark at a podium felt a lot like some of the speech that is we heard prior to his election. he talked about going back to his primary win in indiana. talking about his victories there and his immigration, for example, and some of these things that we heard again and again during the campaign. this says the same donald trump that we saw during the campaign for 18 months and now as president-el

>> minimal, halie, can i get back to the last comment about this is all coming from the right. is not about just the right or left. you can talk about what's happening on social media of the campaigns of the protests at trump rallies were orchestrated by the left. it is getting news and information when they want it. i think one of the biggest issues we all have is where we get it from and who do we trust. i this i the default has to be the american people, that's where we come down. in terms of the campaign itself, what drove that campaign was not misinformation. it was an abundance of information where i think both candidates ended up trusting the american people to make the right call. >> halie, the misinformation come fs from the right. you cannot argue that the right bark is the source of information and under scores the trump information and trump campaign got us energy from. there is a reason why stephen bannon is sitting in the white house as a chief strategist and the reason for it is that he's been able to take on the right and permeate this misinformation campaign to

we had halie jackson read it a moment ago. the united states must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until time as the worldco comes to its senses. we have no contact. >> twitter is difficult because of 140 characters. this is a big conflict subject. whether or not we modernize this, it will be the most important decision that donald trump makes. it is a multi billion dollar project. washington and congress and people of the obama administration have not seen eye to eye on this. i think frankly it is better for him, probably to stay quiet on this and study the issue and get his cabinet iappointed and getting advise from jonah thinks and secretary tillerson if they are both confirmed and look outside the government. look at some of our people who have had extensive experience and negotiation and make a consideration. to put it in twitter, it is hard to know what he was trying to say. i think that is dangerous for him and probably effective as president obama. >> nicholas burns, it is always nice to have you wi

. >> yeah, you are right, halie, sales is a bit gang buster this season.eason why is that most of everyone is going online and shopping. a lot of people have been going, you know, not just going to their laptops and desktop computers, mobile topping had been up. cell phones to be shopping for gifts as well as ipads. it is almost a perfect sort of a lot of sales going on. everyone is out going and returning those gifts. retail me not came up with the statistic that says 30% of people are returning their gifts and you know almost 28% of those people of those gifts they got are donating it to charity. >> wow, we still talk about those, though. >> returning some of those gifts. is this typically of what we see year after year. >> i think people have seen it happen year after year, you know? >> it is almost as traditional as going out there and shopping on black friday. but, now because things have gotten and there is so much fraud associated to returning, i think retailers have gott gottegotten gotten -- you got to make sure you know what those brands are and

the bottom line, halie, i find it interesting of common man and woman message. in the background of some of these nominees, those same, white working class and voters and all the people out there, wait a minute, foreclosures? wow, bankruptcy, you knew about and safety issues when it comes to coal miners? that's a problem. >> he also said several times if he were to win, he will have to put people who have federal government in his administration because he has none. what good managers do is find their deficiencies and hire people in the back fill. he knows he's unprepared on the side of that ball. he's hiring some folks that can do that job. >> hogan, they have no experience, they have known. >> you said experience, they have zero. >> of the treasury? >> steve has none and devos has none and ross has none. >> i am not speaking of them. u.s. senators. >> okay. >> some of those folks are in place and they know where the bodies are buried and the argument donald trump was making during the campaign himself was hey, listen, i know how these loopholes worked because

. >> a transition official told halie jackson, that trump's sons were not aware that they were being listed as directors for the newly formed entities. the original brochure offered hunting trips awith the trumps and down the wild tur kkeyturke. the newly revised brochure does not have this. what kind of blow back has this been? >> this cuts right to the core of donald trump's vowed to drain the swamp as he likes to say. this is anything but. he's as somebody who ran a campaign pledging not to be influenced boo i the special interest, this under cuts the theme of his candidacy. >> this is not something that we have not seen from other politicians including democrats, and not at least of which would include the clintons. lets not forget, he ran a campaign to be the anti-clinton. >> that's ironic of this whole thing. that's what he called out the clintons for of this play for play or access or given donations. >> that's exactly right. now, he's risked looking like he's disregarding all of the campaign pledges. >> i think this is going to be something that they continue to struggle with

. >> thank you, halie jackson, you have a great afternoon. russia ambassador assassinated. nbc's bill neely is inside aleppo and more on the evacuation of the syrian girl who's the face of the city's conflict and the electoral college about to make donald trump's win official and not without a little drama. we'll have those states by states results as they come in. the protest efforts to get electors to trump trump. while a vote is a long shot. we start with the breaking news out of turkey of the ambassador shot and killed at the art exhibit in the capitol city. the attack captured in chilling video. our team is following developments here in the studio and on the ground. first to msnbc's senior editor, cal perry. he's got the disturbing footage. >> it is graphic and what you are going to see is the russian ambassador being shot from behind by what we now understand is a turkish police officer. take a look. >> you can hear the audio there. here is what the gunman says in arabic. he switched to turkish and he says do not forget aleppo and syria. you are killing people in ale

think they're going to be enough, i would like to see congress stepping up and do something broader, halie. so what he's talking about is the bipartisan, i don't want to call it full unity but the idea that even as some top republicans in congress slams the obama administration overal policy in moscow. this puts him politically and kind of a pickle, i think you can say . if he ends up reversing this, it is going to upset some of the congress party that he will be working with so there is kind of a political calculus here for the president-elect trump. vladimir putin is sitting back, hey, donald trump, the ball is in your court at this point. he has said that and his spokesperson said to us at that point there is no call scheduled between putin and the president-elect trump. they're waiting for the intelligence briefing that the president-elect trump is expected to get next week. a little more of a hawk issue stand from congress towards russia does create some political stickyness for donald trump moving forward. what do you think folks are making if anything of donald trump's previous stat

. >> thank you, halie jackson, you have a great afternoon. russia ambassador assassinated. bill neely is inside aleppo and more on the evacuation of the syrian girl who's the face of the city's conflict and the electoral college about to make donald trump's win official and not without a little drama. we'll have those states by states results as they come in. the protest efforts to get electors to trump trump. while a vote is a

. >> halie, afternoon to you. a shooting of an nfl player and road rage and out to south carolina. the faith of an officer charged in the murder death of, in the death of walter scott. could we have a hung jury in this case? we are going to go right there. we do start out with louisiana with this breaking news development where we are waiting to hear from the jefferson sheriff's office about charges of the shooting death of a former nfl running back joe mcnight. this unfolded near new orleans. witnesses say 28-year-old mcknight was standing outside his car when he was shot. this shooter stayed on the scene and turned in his gun and admitting killing and shooting mcknight. he was released over night without being charged. here is our legalnalyst, arari arari ari melber. what are we expecting to hear? >> reporter: we know that yesterday as you mentioned he stayed on the scene and handed over his weapon and questioned for hours. over night he was released and no charges, at least not yet. we expect now as they told us earlier this morning, they consulted with the district attorney's o

. >> hey, halie, we are not retiring.have a whole a lot of news and vladimir putin vowing not to real vacation those sanctions, is he buying time? hours left in 2016 and officials from coast to coast are sparing no expense to keep you safe. the measures you will see in place if you are heading out to ring in 2017. the russian sanction, today we have been watching vans appearing at those two compoun s compounds. senator john mccain announcing a full hearing next week of full cyber attack. now, our team got all the angles covered and our

. >> halie, afternoon to you. a shooting of an

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he's named to major positions -- and some of them are obviously very credible people, like governor halye that and devos, people like that, who are very big on charter schools, they're all very attractive people. he seems to like that idea. am i the only one who's noticed, this is the way he sort of casts. >> i'm not into the donald trump women cabinet rating business. but in that clip, there's "things" -- >> you'll leave me all alone on that one? >> totally leave you hanging. even though it's friday. and the second part, where he says, you know, women are magnificent. and women are the better -- i just want to say, one of the defining features -- i've had the chance to travel to a lot of developing countries, traditional societies where women are much more oppressed than here. one of the telltale signs of very -- signs that are very bad to women is that people are constantly putting them on a pedestal. oh, they're our sacred treasures -- >> yeah, look at saudi arabia, women can't drive, because we don't want them to potentially hurt their ovaries. seriously! yeah, there's all sorts of,