ivanka trump remains close with her father, and she is expected to continue to advise him on a range of issues behind the scenes. but unlike the last time around, one source tells me that if she chooses to weigh in and use her influence, it's never going to be something that people are going to see publicly. now, one reason her decision may come as a surprise is that she was signaling a more aggressive posture, aligned with her father in the final days of his first term, and sources at the time told us that donald trump viewed ivanka as heir apparent to his political success. but friends describe a gradual shift away after she moved to miami with her young family. and we've seen her tap into new hobbies, from jujitsu to surfing. she's also focused her influence in the nonprofit space, including disaster relief and addressing food insecurity. meanwhile, we've seen her brothers don jr. and eric trump and sister in law lara trump, in part filling that vacuum on the political stage, fully embracingfather's ivanka trump, for now, is seeking some privacy, mu. all r still to come, the u.s.

it's notable jared and ivanka have a role. payback can be different.this case the payback to the kushners is pretty clear. >> don, it is not just a cushy role for ivanka's father-in-law and the kushners, they have also named tiffany trump's father-in-law for an advisory role. why does trump want to keep these in the family? >> because you keep money in the family. these are opportunities, obviously jared and ivanka staying out, but when you have to have the right people in, controlling the levers of the enterprise that will allow for regulations to be opened up, contracting opportunities to be opened up, you have to have an ysd man on the actual inside. that's what this trump administration will look like, even far more so than e first four years in which they increased their net value by billions, in ways americans see and don't see every day, in ways as simple as, all the moneys paid to trump properties for secret service, all the moneys lost from, you know, we're going to do that this time around on a global scale times 1,000. there's, frankly, no l

his daughter ivanka and her husband, jared kushner, served as senior advisers in his first term. so i wonder, and just as there were, you know, questions of conflicts, of interest, nepotism, all that was being challenged with them, how do you see that being, i guess, elevated those concerns this go round with these in-laws who have been brought into the fold. >> yeah. i mean, look, i think, i think there are obviously conflict of interest. you know issues for either of them. i think the larger issue is what this tells us about donald trump's mindset as he enters the government. you know, jared kushner's father was a convicted felon that trump pardoned. he's now naming him as ambassador to france kash patel was someone that bill barr essentially you know, laid down in front of the tracks as attorney general to avoid his appointment to the fbi in trump's first term. and now you know, trump is basically daring the republican senate to say no. i think all of these reflect the same, you know, really twin beliefs. one, as i said, is that he views the entirety of the federal government

. >> trump's daughter ivanka trump and jared kushner were in the first administration, charles jared kushner will be ambassador to francis scott key bridge. >> brian: and tiffany's, too. as enavoid. fascinating. i remember asking eric, i don't know if on camera or not. the way you are clued in, do you want to go in? i don't think so. don jr., i think he wants to do this for a career, no. and ivanka and jared, they are all out this time. >> lawrence: it is my understanding from the president-elect, he wanted the boys to go run the business and have a big voice in the transition because they are so close to the grassroots movement. essentially eyes on maga. lara is different. she did a great job at rnc. ronald was pushed out because of management there. a lot of people like her. question is what does ron desantis want to do. >> ainsley: personalities, too, lara andic are eric are fighters. the government will come after us, we will fight it. they are tough as nails. i think lara enjoys it, is good at it. she had that position starting in march and she ended up winning. she was co-chair

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el embajador en francia ser el padre del esposo de ivanka trump.ntos del medio oriente, una posiciÓn muy complicada, mucha guerra activa en esa zona. ella es seleccionada por el gobernador de la florida. mucha presiÓn en ron desantis por parte de donald trump para que la nombre. ella ha dicho que lo aceptarÍa. el gobernador dijo que darÁ a conocer su decisiÓn a principios de enero. jorge: gracias por este reporte. ademÁs de las huellas dactilares y las balas, hay otra importante evidencia en contra de luigi mangione. se trata de un cuaderno que segÚn la policÍa, tiene una perturbadora lista de tareas pendientes, y lo mÁs importante, su posible motivo. reportera: luigi mangione, acusado de asesinar al director ejecutivo de united healthcare, llevaba un cuaderno donde detallaba los planes del crimen cuando fue detenido. el joven de 26 aÑos permanece recluido bajo mÁxima seguridad en pensilvania, a 28 millas de la estaciÓn de autobuses donde estuvimos hoy. llegÓ a esta estaciÓn el pasado viernes o sÁbado, segÚn el conductor que lo trajo desde pittsbur

y tambiÉn ivanka dice que va a dejar la polÍtica sin planes de regresar.da mÁs privada y aunque no serÁ asesora de su padre durante el segundo mandato, allegados aseguran que siguen haciendo algunos aportes discretos en ciertas Áreas de interÉs. y con la entrada en vigor de la propuesta 36 en california, miles de dueÑos negocios esperan que disminuyan los crÍmenes, especialmente asaltos masivos a las tiendas. puente castillo tiene las reacciones de la vigencia de esta novela y aprobada por la mayorÍa de los votantes. reportera: imÁgenes como estas de robo relÁmpagos donde bandas criminales irrumpen en las tiendas y se llevan lo que pueden, se convirtieron en noticias de casi todos los dÍas en california devastando a cientos de comercios, pero se espera que eso cambie con la entrada en vigor de la proposiciÓn 36 que los electores votan con una enorme mayorÍa en noviembre que busca dar un golpe certero a esta ola de criminalidad a muy dando las penas para los delincuentes reincidentes que durante aÑos han actuado con impunidad. >> ya no es la persona arresta

otros incluyen al designado para secretario del comercio y el suegro de ivanka trump, donaron casi $13,000,000mp para elegir un buen gabinete. mientras los otros muestran confianza. a pesar de ser nominados por trump, podrÍan enfrentar difÍciles batallas de confirmaciÓn en el senado. las donaciones de los elegidos por trump son mÁs altas que las de su primer mandato, cinco miembros del gabinete original habÍan donado casi $5,000,000. esta cifra se multiplicÓ. presentador: seguimos con los nombramientos del presidente electo. el sÁbado dijo que designara al actual director general de sus plataformas sociales para dirigir un panel asesor de inteligencia. abc news llegÓ a un acuerdo para resolver una demanda realizada por donald trump por difamaciÓn. aceptÓ emitir una disculpa al prÓximo mandatario. trump demando a la cadena y al presentador por una entrevista, este Último dijo que trump habÍa violado a la escritora, que demando al presidente por abuso sexual. un jurado declarÓ culpable a trump, pero la agresiÓn no cumple con la definiciÓn de violaciÓn. la cumbre por el 20 aniversario del bloque

, but rather, the daughter of the model that trump cheated on ivanka's mom, ivana with, before dumping that wife for melania. seemingly snubbed at the rnc when she went in for a kiss in a moment that went viral. tiffany might not be daddy's favorite, but she seems to be doing well for herself. she married michael blose, the son of a lebanese reported billionaire in 2018, which i am sure please dear, old dad, who really, really likes billionaires. there is tiffany with michael and donald the day before her mar-a-lago wedding in 2022. but, now, we are learning that there is more and in some ways, less to the story. the new york times reports that tiffany trump's father-in-law asad blose isn't a billionaire, after all. he just allowed people to say he was a billionaire when he really wasn't. he also happens to be trump's incoming middle east adviser, and led trump's campaign outreach to arab-americans, especially in michigan. trump loves the guy, even called him a dealmaker. but, his public profile doesn't match the actual records. he is described as a billionaire businessman with a law d

workforce development is a tremendous and a very important initiative of the administration and ivanka trump is leading the effort when it comes to workforce and workforce training. and so on the opportunity and revitalization counsel there's 14 federal agencies and three state and regional partners. we have different pillars inside of the council from entrepreneurship economic development to safe neighborhood and to labor and education, workforce training. that is a tremendous and a big priority to make sure people are trained for the 21st century workforce. because these a look at the young people to date in the high schools in the middle schools and even those in colleges and universities, that's a generation of leaders and workforce that's coming so we have to do our job, our best job. the administrator, myself and you and others to make sure they're ready to take that baton of leadership and trained up and write with education is very important. ellison, we've had a deal in our country where we are encouraging a people as a you have to go to a four-year college. all people are not

charles kushner, ivanka trump's father-in-law, as ambassador to france.nd massad boulos, tiffany trump's father-in-law, as senior adviser on arab and middle eastern affairs. but it is his pick to lead the fbi that is drawing some sharp scrutiny. cbs's weijia jiang is in west palm beach with details. weijia. >> reporter: good evening, jericka. kash patel possesses a top quality that president-elect trump values, fierce loyalty. but that could harm his chances of getting confirmed by the senate because the fbi is supposed to operate independently of the president. kash patel has stood by president-elect trump since his first term, when he served in multiple roles including chief of staff at the pentagon. >> kash patel is here, one of our real warriors. >> reporter: in his announcement picking patel to lead the fbi trump says he played a pivotal role in uncovering the russia, russia, russia hoax, referring to the doj's investigation of moscow meddling in the 2016 election. >> and we are on a mission to annihilate the deep state. >> reporter: patel has vowed

like ivanka trump, kelly is smart, accomplished and a savvy businesswoman. and like our president, kelly is ready to take on the status quo, the politically correct, and special interests. she knows that washington is fundamentally broken. she knows that we need to drain the swamp. she knows that as our soon-to-be senior senator david perdue said, the road to socialism will not run through georgia. [applause] kelly loeffler will stand with the president. senator perdue and allies in the house and senate to keep america great. she will end this impeachment circus in washington and get congress back to working for the people of our country. she is a woman of faith and conviction who believes without a doubt that life begins with inception. she will champion the pro-life cause in washington, and stop the radical laughs abortion on demand agenda. kelly once you strengthen our immigration laws and finish the border wall so we can stop mexican drug cartels from flooding r street writer in georgia with the drugs, weapons, violence and fear. like senator isakson, ke

trump has turned to ivanka trump's father-in-law, charles kushner, to be america's ambassador to france, america's oldest ally. trump has turned to tiffany's father-in-law to be his middle east adviser. trump has turned to donald junior's fiance, kimberly guilfoyle, to be our ambassador to greece, and unless we forget, we owe j.d. vance's selection as president to don jr. as well. extending invitations to authoritarians like president xi jinping of china and president orban of hungry is another tell that trump views his inauguration as a coronation. in 1859, in response to a letter from a supporter urging him to run for president, abraham lincoln poured cold water on the idea gaining steam all around him. he wrote, "i must, in candor, say i do not think myself it for the presidency." if we take lincoln at face value, in that one, self- effacing remark, he showed humility about his own abilities and reverence for an office, whose duties require thinking of something other than, bigger than and beyond one's self. so, by that yardstick, what trump is doing is not lincoln- esque, it is more

primer campanazo en la bolsa de valores, acompaÑado, entre otros, por su esposa melania, su hija ivanka para bien o para mal. y esta es la segunda vez que trump se lleva esa distinciÓn que tambiÉn le fue otorgada en 2016, despuÉs de haber ganado la presidencia porr prera vez en materia migratoria, tom homan, el llamado zar de la frontera del presidente electo trump, puso hoy como ejemplo al alcalde de nueva york, eric adams, quien lo invitÓ a visitar la ciudad para hablar sobre el plan de deportaciones masivas en nueva york, una ciudad santuario. sin embargo, afuera de la alcaldÍa, decenas de inmigrantes expresaron su descontento. karla amezola tiene el informe we share that same belief. >> compartimos la misma creencia de proteger a la ciudadanÍa, dijo el alcalde de nueva york tras una controversial reuniÓn con el zar de la frontera, tom holman, quien ha prometido cumplir con las deportaciones masivas del presidente electo donald trump y retener fondos de ciudades santuario. si no colaboran santuarios como la gran manzana, we are not going to be a safe haven for those who commit repeat

the first, charles kushner, ivanka trump's father-in-law, as ambassador to france. nw kushner is a convicted felon who pleaded guilty to tax evasion and illegal campaign donations. he was pardoned by president trump. the second, massad boulous, tiffany trump's father-in-law and a billionaire businessman from lebanon, was named senior adviser on arab and middle eastern affairs. >>> in the middle east the family of one of the american israeli hostages is pleading for help to bring their son home. it comes after hamas released a propaganda video, a first proof of life of new jersey native edan alexander. speaking under duress, alexander referred to being held for 420 days. his mother met with the president of israel saying he's going through hell, but the video gives her strength. there is a new cease-fire and hostage release proposal on the table. hamas officials are in cairo for the negotiations. >>> and unwra, the agency for palestinian agencies, says it's halting aid deliveries through the gaza crossing due to armed gangs looting convoys. the israeli military body

workforce development is a tremendous and a very important initiative of the administration and ivanka trump is leading the effort when it comes to workforce and workforce training. and so on the opportunity and revitalization counsel there's 14 federal agencies and three state and regional partners. we have different pillars inside of the council from entrepreneurship economic development to safe neighborhood and to labor and education, workforce training. that is a tremendous and a big priority to make sure people are trained for the 21st century workforce. because these a look at the young people to date in the high schools in the middle schools and even those in colleges and universities, that's a generation of leaders and workforce that's coming so we have to do our job, our best job. the administrator, myself and you and others to make sure they're ready to take that baton of leadership and trained up and write with education is very important. ellison, we've had a deal in our country where we are encouraging a people as a you have to go to a four-year college. all people are not

kushner's son, jared, is married to ivanka trump and he was pardoned by mr. trump in 2020 for tax evasion and retaliating against a witness. the president-elect also said he'll nominate veteran hillsborough county florida sheriff chad chronister to lead the drug enforcement administration. both posts require senate confirmation. and mr. trump said his senior advisor on middle east and arab affairs will be massad bolous, a wealthy lebanese-american businessman and the father of tiffany trump's husband. the family of an israeli-american hostage met with the president of israel today, after hamas released a video that shows him. in the video, edan alexander said he'd been held for 420 days and referred to president-elect trump. today alexander's family said the 20-year-old spoke under duress when he accused prime minister benjamin netanyahu of neglecting the hostages. meanwhile in gaza, where dozens of hostages are still believed to be held, an israeli airstrike killed at least six people in a tent camp. the strike hit near muwasi, along the coast, once thought

kushner is the father in law of ivanka trump and a real estate developer. and on truth social, trump called kushner a tremendous business partner and said he will be a strong advocate to represent america. back in 2005, kushner was sentenced to two years in prison for tax evasion. witness tampering and making illegal campaign donations, and mr. trump later pardoned kushner in 2020. if you have to get mail to someone in canada, listen to this. two weeks ago, about 55,000 postal workers started striking against canada post. that is the main postal service in canada. workers are asking for better wages and better working conditions. and now the united states postal service says it's temporarily suspending all mail to canada. all mail. usps says it's because canada post is unable to process or deliver mail right now. no mail to canada. wow. well, thieves are hitting the supply chain in order to make off with stolen goods. why? the losses might be coming out of our wallets. plus, after spending a record amount on black friday, see how the bay area went small for

is that ivanka standing there as well? which is a little unusual. jd vance there. he's got a lot of people very close to him. i say tiffany trump there as well. this is obviously something very important to the president elect. i can count on one hand the number of times that melania has been with him the last several months, being named time person of the year, obviously, something that he considers a very, very special honor. and probably being at the new york stock exchange as well as a one time resident, a longtime resident of new york city, he is no longer the stock exchange, i'm sure, holds a very, very special place in his heart. any word? stephen, we have about 30s before they will ring the bell itself, how he feels about being here today. >> look, this is something that has preoccupied his mind for a long time. you mentioned the covers that he held or posted in his club before he was even time man of the year. he has repeatedly posted on social media commentating on the winners, saying that because it wasn't him, it wasn't valid. so this is clearly a big m

what we've seen donald trump do in his first administration when he brought both jared kushner and ivanka into his administration, into the white house, to be senior advisers to him. but the thing as well is that this is raising questions of whether there are conflict of interest. we know in the past that bringing family into some of these roles has been looked down upon there's raised questions of whether they could benefit financially after they leave the white house or after donald trump in this case, would leave the white house. we know that republicans have spent the last several years looking into whether hunter biden, joe biden's son, had benefited financially from the time when biden was vice president and so a lot of questions over some of these decisions. but trump keeping kind of with choosing family members to serve in key roles that he's kind of leaning on. and in this case, for foreign policy matters fred. >> all right. alayna treene, thank you so much. all right tomorrow, california lawmakers will gather for a special legislative session. governor gavin newsom is convening

no solo tuvo un mensaje grabado del presidente electo trump celebrando el futbol, sino que su hija ivankallave abrieron el trofeo inspirado en las astronomia y en la quimica. >> el mundial de clubes sera la antesala del mundial de 2026 es el maximo campeonato que usted podra ver aqui por telemundo. >> y bueno, algunos dicen que no hay navidad sin flor de no nochebuena. >> el nombre puede puede cambiar, pero su color rojo es indiscutible y en el estado de mexico saben que las mejores plantas tienen que estar listas para estas fiestas de diciembre. >> ana mendez visito sus v viveros. >> las hojas que forman estrellas representan forman regalo que mexico le hizo a la navidad. >> una navidad sin noche obviamente, no es navidad. >> cada diciembre carmen llega a san lorenzo, tlacotepec, en el estado de mexico, el epicentro de la nochebuena, una region en donde se producen 700 mil plantas para a nivel naciol. >> t enner una noche buena en casa, pues, ¿que significa? >> amor, paz, felicidad y y y armonia. >> desde hace 15 anos, irma se encarga de crecer la planta, que entre sus petalos esconde be

office in his first term, president trump pardoned a member of his family by marriage, daughter ivanka's father-in-law, charles kushner, who is now selected to be the next ambassador to france. lester? >> kelly o'donnell, thank you. >>> growing fallout tonight about president-elect trump's picks for two top jobs, pete hegseth as defense secretary, and kash patel as fbi director. garrett haake has more from capitol hill where their confirmation futures are uncertain. >> reporter: tonight, donald trump's embattled selection for secretary of defense pete hegseth on capitol hill following shocking new reports about his personal conduct. hegseth ignoring questions as he met with republican senators. >> i appreciate the opportunity to talk to senators today. great process. >> reporter: a new article from "the new yorker" revealing the contents of a previously undisclosed 2015 report written by former employees of a veterans organization hegseth ran alleging he was repeatedly intoxicated, quote, to the point of needing to be carried out of the organization's events. "the new yorker" reporting h

yesterday, the president-elect tapped his daughter ivanka's father-in-law, convicted felon charles kushner as u.s. ambassador to france. the most shock waves this weekend is staffer kash patel for fbi director. the law enforcement community has come down hard on the selection, rightfully, questioning whether an unexperienced lackey should have the fbi at his disposal to make it happen. joining me now is jasmine crockett. we start with trump's pick for fbi director, kash patel, who trump floated for the job during his first administration. that idea quickly shot down by then attorney general bill barr, who objected to patel's complete lack of experience to run the bureau. he also -- he is also a deep state conspiracy theorist. he is like the rest of trump's nominees. is this pick more retribution against the rule of law from trump? >> absolutely. listen, it is interesting because trump spent so much time trying to separate himself from project 2025. what we see playing out before our eyes is literally project 2025. one of the main things that was espoused in that document is that he must ha

jared kushner, married to ivanka.worked in trump's white house the first time around. in 2004, charles kushner pleaded guilty to multiple counts of tax evasion and retaliating against a witness. trump pardoned kushner at the end of his first term in 2020. yesterday, trump announced that massad boulos will serve on arab and middle eastern affairs. boulos is a lebanese businessman, also the father of michael boulos who is married to trump's youngest daughter, tiffany. joining us now, congressional reporter for the hill, michael, good to see you this morning. so once again, trump making some unconventional choices for his picks. the qualifications here seem to be relation, at least by marriage. so talk to us about the republican reaction you're getting to sort of those selections, but also last night's breaking news about president biden issuing a pardon for his son, hunter. >> the nomination or the selection rather of charles kushner and tiffany trump's husband fall under the radar because of the amount of news we saw o

his son jared is married to ivanka trump, and so he got a pardon. charles kushner served two years in federal prison, but then i'm sure just on the merits of the case he got a full pardon from donald trump in trump's first term, and now this weekend -- this weekend trump named him that same guy, that ex-con, he just announced he will name him ambassador to france. and he did that announcement right after he announced the father of the guy married to his other daughter, tiffany, he will be trump's senior advisor on the middle east. and so, yeah, cue all the hang wringing and gnashing of teeth today about a president using his power, his pardon power, his powers of president to do something for a family member. i mean, trump pardoned a family member and then named him ambassador to france. a man who has no qualifications whatsoever to be america's ambassador to france. trump pardoned the owner of the 49ers football team and has now nominated his son-in-law to be the head of the dea. the guy is a local sheriff. he has no apparent qualifications to lead

announced he will assign massoud boulos, father-in-law of tiffany for middle eastern affairs while ivanka'sssador to france. you may remember that at the end of his administration trump pardoned kushner who pleaded guilty in 2004 to tax evasion and making illegal -- and kushner admitted to hiring a prostitute to seduce his brother-in-law and sent a videotape of the encounter to his own sister as revenge. joining me is the columnist for "the daily beast." it just gets weirder and your thoughts on two nepotistic nominees. >> kushner has nepotism, he's got criminality and completely incompetent for the job and as you've seen by talking about hegseth and by talking about kash patel, what trump values is loyalty. >> yeah. >> he doesn't care about national security. he doesn't care about america's standing in the world. he doesn't even seem to care that much about getting good advice. he's not creating a cabinet. he's creating a royal court full of couriers and royal family members and an aristocracy. boulos is one of, i think, seven, eight, nine billionaires in this group. there's a bunch of cen

vance, rfk jr., even melania and ivanka were there. >> brought some of our compatriots along with us that we'll do a beautiful job for you for the next four years. it's really been something very special and i have to say "time" magazine getting this honour for the second time, i think i like it better this time actually. we did a good job and we had a great first term despite a lot of turmoil caused unnecessarily. the media has tamed down a little bit. they're liking it much better now i think. if they don't we will have to take them on again and we don't want to do that. >> jesse: they had trump ring the opening bell. [applause] >> jesse: the last president to ring the bell was ronald reagan. that was when he told everybody it was time to turn the bowls loose. trump's coming in with the same vision. >> what you have to say to the american investors of this country. >> the organ season very good days ahead. a lot of incentives are good to be given. we have to conclude a couple of bad wars that are going on. a lot of bad things are going on but we will get them done. >> do you think

that last name might sound familiar because he is the father of jared kushner, who is the husband of ivanka trump, who is the president starter. as of today, charles kushner is trump's nominee to be the united states ambassador to france. i mean, reaction? >> a cushy, sweet deal and not what clemency is meant to be for, of course. what should be is what congresswoman presley stated, that clemency is a crucial criminal justice tool in order to assure that people who can, who do take responsibility for their crimes, who serve their time, have an opportunity to rebuild their lives again and that is crucial. in this case, i don't think charles kushner, at least for me, is not the first person who springs to mind as someone who has accepted responsibility for wrongdoing, is meant to set out a fresh course. i see this as being a reward to a friend and that is the exact thing joe biden is wary of. >> this episode, which is ongoing, would underscore the absurdity of republicans objecting to joe biden granting his son commutation because this guy is far removed family from trump, and he is trump's f

he was pardoned by trump, the father in law of ivanka trump. he has no interest in diplomacy.l estate guy convicted of tax fraud and had a very unseemly family background because there was a long history established in the trial of having gotten a prostitute to implicate his brother in law, his sister's husband, part of a scheme he was involved in. >> reporter: i think what republicans will say about the charles kushner episode, he was tried and convicted, just like hunter biden, but was sentenced and completed his sentence before he was pardoned. he was pardoned for a specific thing. folks in the trump camp are frustrated hunter biden was pardoned broadly from x date to y date. their argument is we don't even know what the president is pardoning him for and we are investigating the same type of behavior. you are saying there may be more there than just the crimes he was convicted of. that will further every conspiracy theory and a lot of frustration on the right that i think is understandable. >> ali, when it comes to hunter, he is such a special case. his brother, beau, and

or ivanka's father-in-law, charles kushner.d trump pardon him, he named him ambassador to france. [ laughter ] and i have to say i don't remember any republicans, i don't recall anyone on fox news or newsmax or anyone express a single negative thought about those pardons. but i am hearing anchors on cnn and msnbc and i'm reading pieces in "the new york times," "the washington post," "the atlantic," lambasting joe biden for pardoning hunter. isn't that curious? i mean, how can it be that the biased, liberal media is asking people like chuck schumer questions like this? >> questions, yes. >> do you agree with some of your democrat caucus that president biden pardoning hunter biden was wrong, unwise, puts personal interest ahead of duty? >> i've got nothing for you on that. >> are you concerned about the lack of transparency, lack of honesty? >> as i said, i got nothing for you on that. >> that too? >> nope. >> pardoning on the way out of office family members sets a poor precedent? >> thank you, i've got nothing on that. >> we ta

"ivanka," "thing 1," and "thing 2." [ laughter ] he always forgets thing one's name. yeah. that this year, christmas and the start of hanukkah are on the same day. [ cheers ] at mar-a-lago, they have a name for when this happens. they call it christmas. [ laughter ] they laughed. >> steve: there you go. come on. >> jimmy: speaking of, today at mar-a-lago, trump met with netflix co-ceo ted sarandos. yep, things got off to a rough start when trump bit his arm to see if it was cake. [ laughter ] trump's been very busy. by tomorrow, he'll have met with executives from meta, apple, google, and amazon. when he heard that, nicolas cage was like, "meta, apple, google, amazon. the clues were there all along!" [ laughter ] "no! i saw it." switching gears, according to a new report this year, the most downloaded free app in america was temu. so don't be surprised when your holiday gift is a handbag from dolce & banana. [ laughter ] some more business news. walmart announced that some of their employees are now wearing body cameras. yeah, it's a fun way to remind customers, hey, a lot

on saturday he named charles kushner, his eldest daughter ivanka's father-in-law, as his pick for thesunday he also tapped his youngest daughter, tiffany's father-in-law as middle east advisor. for i want to bring in mark mackinnon, former advisor to george w. bush and john mccain, and journalist john avlon, who i had been asking to come on the show forever. he's finally here. he wrote the book lincoln and the fight for peace. mark come let's start with you. what is your reaction to these latest pics, charlie kushner and tiffany's father-in-law? >> i'm reminded of john mccain. his motto was comfrey over party. the new motto is family over country. it's clear that donald trump is not only going to find the most loyal people he can, but he's going to make it -- blood is thicker than water so he's going to get the blood is absolutely loyal as he can by appointing these people who are family members, and john can tell you a little bit about the chris christie prosecution of charles kushner. which is too crude for me to even say on television. it's just incredible. chris christie was prose

kushner is the father inin law of trump's daughter ivanka. he is a real estate developer on social media. trump called kushner a tremendous business partner and said he will be a strong advocate to represent america. back in 2005, kushner was sentenced to two years in prison for tax evasion. witness tampering and making illegal campaign donations. trump later pardoned kushner in 2020. the san jose state women's volleyball team season has come to a close, and as you likely know, we've been reporting it's been a difficult season because of controversy surrounding a member of their team. yesterday, the spartans lost their final match in the mountain west conference tournament, and it's an ace for colorado state. the rams rewriting their legacy. the spartans battled the colorado state rams in the championship slot, advancing after boise state forfeited its semifinal game. rather than play a team with an alleged transgender athlete. ncaa rules allow transgender athletes to compete under certain conditions. in the beginning of november, a group of

person of the year for the second time, and joining him today was wife melania, daughters daughters ivanka and tiffany, along with vice president elect jd vance. mr. trump called it a tremendous honor. >> time magazine is owned by marc benioff, the founder of san francisco based salesforce. >> mr. trump is also getting support from meta founder mark zuckerberg, who donated $1 million to president elect trump's inauguration fund. this is kind of a shifting of sorts for silicon valley. >> abc seven news reporter monica madden is here with a closer look at the change. monica. hi there karina. >> in his first term, trump regularly clashed with big tech, accusing the social media giants of manipulating coverage of him. but now founders and ceos are looking to improve those relationships, with many now publicly embracing the incoming president. >> salesforce ceo marc benioff applauded the time person of the year selection, writing on x, quote, we look forward to working together to advance american success and prosperity for everyone. >> benioff was once a trump critic and in 2016 supported hill

in addition to patel, trump nominated charles kushner, the father in law of his daughter ivanka, as u.sssador to france during the final days of his presidency. trump pardoned kushner, who was sentenced to two years in prison after being convicted of illegal campaign contributions, tax evasion and witness tampering. the president elect also announcing massad boulos, father in law of his daughter tiffany, as senior adviser on arab and middle eastern affairs in the final stretch of the campaign, boulos helped trump create inroads with the arab american community. christiane cordero, abc news, washington. >> and over the weekend, trump announced he would nominate sheriff chad chronister to serve as the administrator for the drug enforcement agency. chronister is the top law enforcement officer in hillsborough county, florida, overseeing the area of tampa. he has worked closely with trump's choice for attorney general, pam bondi. >> new details about the fiery crash that killed thre college students in piedmont. officials released their names over the weekend, and they're now sharing memori

ivanka trump's father-in-law was pardoned by trump in december of 2020. a day later, donald trump announced that he was also adding tiffany trump's father-in-law to his administration to serve as his senior advisor for arab and middle eastern affairs. he joined trump in meetings with the arab american community in dearborn, michigan. at the time of the announcement, the "wall street journal" described him this way, quote, lebanese-born billionaire and father-in-law to his daughter tiffany. but as "the new york times" reports, only two of those descriptions are true. the times report, quote, there is no indication in corporate documents that mr. boulos is a man of significant wealth eas a result of his businesses. the truck dealership is valued at about $865,000 at its current share price. mr. boulos' stake, according to securities findings is $1.53. the company that's been called his family business, someone there said it is owned by a different family. the confusion over his background and his failure for years to clear up misunderstandings until questio

roger stone, paul manafort, a ivanka trump's father-in-law.e that those are all tied to specific cases and specific allegations of crimes. does the sweeping nature of this pardon by president biden, does that offer mr. trump broader political powers for the future? kyle: no, he had that authority to begin with. the difference is that biden has blazed a trail, an unprecedented pardon. the exception is richard nixon. even richard nixon's pardon only covered his term in office. the hunter biden pardon goes far beyond that, 11 years of any conduct that may have been criminal. stuff that may not have even been unearthed at this point. that's really the crux of this. not that trump doesn't have the authority. just that that authority has never been used that way, with the one exception of richard nixon. that creates a permission structure that i think trump could take advantage of. at least a political argument that if biden did this, why can't donald trump do this? amna: it's with -- worth noting there are still hundreds, over 500, january 6 cases

well let's bring in invest founder chief investment officer, ivanka delevska. and nvidia and all of a sudden the news yesterday with the qualcomm, this will low chip, talk to us about this. i mean, i know it's going to take some time but it feels like this is happening faster than we thought just like the gpu thing happened a lot faster than people thought. >> charles you're spot-on here. thanks for having me. so basically the important thing to highlight here is that for each step you need the prior generation of technology in order to advance it. so, right now -- charles: it builds on top of that? >> exactly so right now what's happening in quantum computing is this technology was hitting bottlenecks because there were a lot of errors generated and basically the problem is that if you run any sort of problem and you can't figure out if it's wrong or not it's basically useless information. so, you would need to wait like forever for you to be able to figure out if your model is working or not or if the answer is correct or not, so right now, what's happening i

joining him today was his wife melania, daughters ivanka and tiffany, along with vice president electvance and others. trump calling it a tremendous honor. and time magazine is owned by san francisco's own marc benioff, the founder of san francisco based salesforce. the president elect is also getting support from meta founder mark zuckerberg, who donated $1 million to trump's inauguration fund. it's a shift of sorts for silicon valley, and abc seven news reporter monica madden is here with a closer look at this change. monica. >> well, dan, in his first term, trump regularly clashed with big tech, accusing social media giants of manipulating coverage of him. but now founders and ceos are looking to improve those relationships, with many now publicly embracing the incoming president. >> salesforce ceo marc benioff applauded the time person of the year selection, writing on x quote, we look forward to working together to advance american success and prosperity for everyone. >> benioff was once a trump critic and in 2016 supported hillary clinton. >> okay, we see which way the wind is b

>> dana: melania trump is there, jd vance as well, eye ivanka trump and pam bondi and tiffany trump. >> bill: i was going over notes earlier today. this is what we found. that he joins 13 other presidents who received the recognition but i think we can safely say he is the only one who has gotten it twice, right? >> dana: i think that's true. >> bill: going back to 1893 twice. and when the previous recognition went about a year ago, they went to the new york stock exchange as well. >> dana: also "time" magazine for the couple of years had gone way off the rails in terms of its nominees for person of the year. their choice. this is a great choice, amazing political comeback and he also made some history winning -- recent history winning the popular vote and winning the seven battleground states and the wind at his back right now. the excitement in the country is over 60% that are op at the mystic about the future and so he also gets to hear his favorite song by lee greenwood right there at the stock exchange. >> bill: don't know if it's live or recorded. >> dana: i think it's recorded

kushner is the father in law of ivanka trump and a real estate developer on truth social. trump called kushner a tremendous business partner, said he will be a strong advocate to represent america. back in 2005, kushner was sentenced to two years in prison for tax evasion, witness tampering and making illegal campaign donations. mr. trump pardoned kushner back in 2020. well, the holiday decorations are up across san francisco, and that includes at chase center and thrive city officially kicked off its winter wonderland celebrations tonight. nbc bay area's alyssa goard was there as revelers got into the spirit of the season with a mix of warrior spirit and classic holiday charm. the folks at chase center tell us there were more than 2000 people here at thrive for city the holiday winter tree lighting, and those attendees were treated to a couple of different surprises. first of all, a countdown to that tree lighting from the one d only montell jordan. also, some artificial snow. yes, snow right here in san francisco. it was great. all the snow got in my mouth though, and i

he was joined by his wife melania, vice president elect jd vance and his daughters ivanka and tiffany. >> and for those that are running the big companies, those great, big, beautiful companies, nobody's going to be leaving us. you're going to be coming back. you're going to be bringing them back to the united states. we are incentivizing everybody to come back to the united states. we want you back here. car manufacturers. everybody. >> mr. trump was invited to ring the bell after he was named time magazine's person of the year for the second time. the magazine's editor said, quote, for better or for worse, he had the most influence on the news. in 2020, four days after the election, president elect trump returned to the white house for a meeting with president biden. president biden revived a long standing tradition to invite the president elect to the oval, something that did not happen four years ago when trump was voted out of office. the two said they promised to put their differences aside and ensure a peaceful transfer of power forward to having a, like we said, a smooth trans

and the president-elect scored a legal ivanka abc agreeing to pa to a museum. he sued the network and george stephanopoulos for defamation after saying he was found liable for rape, when he was found liable for sexual assault. jacqueline from "the washington post," and victoria soto, from the university of arkansas and matthew dowd, chief strategist and a senior political analyst. so vaughn, the president-elect said last week that investments of a billion dollars or more would be fast tracked into the united states. as soft bank, is that the first company reacting to that? >> right. this is notable because this is the first donald trump hosted event that he has held since his election victory more than a month ago. in this is a billionaire japanese investor who years ago in 2016, during donald trump's transition held a similar type of event at trump tower announcing $50 billion investment in technology. and this go around he's making the commitment to invest $100 billion toward a.i. specific and other technology investments and it is not clear where the investm

you know, the best idea that was never acted on in the trump administration was ivanka trump's idea about paid maternity leave and i have three children. number four is on the way next month. and thank you. and i'm doing pretty well. and our family also struggles to figure out how we're going to balance the budget for child care and for everything else we have to pay for the cost of child care in this country is prohibitive. it actually discourages people from having children, people who would like to have more children and i think that we do need to take a hard look at paid maternity leave and understand also that there's a way to do it that isn't coercive or socialist. there's a way to do it that will result in returns to the federal budget in the sense that if you allow parents to work more because you help them with childcare, they're going to be making more income. you can tax that income and it comes back into the federal fiscus. we can make this a policy that pays for itself and then some. i just think we need to take it seriously because the cost is so astronomically high and it's

this is the father in law of his daughter ivanka. he also, by the way, trump also this weekend nominated him to a prime ambassador post so if i'm joe biden sitting there watching the republicans, i say, give me a break. yeah, that's probably one reason why he did it. >> now, jeff is absolutely right, though. this is a stain on his legacy. i mean, what bill clinton did in giving a pardon to marc rich, of course, the donor to the clintons right in the eye as he was leaving office, that's also a stain on his legacy what you mentioned there for for donald trump, uh, also undoubtedly a stain going forward. the bigger problem for biden is just they were dishonest. he was dishonest with the american public about whether he would give a pardon they said pretty flatly, right before the election when he was interviewed, when he was still in the race a couple of months out, that he would not give a pardon. he said that repeatedly. he said that karine jean-pierre said it repeatedly to the to the american public. so that is also not only giving i