. >>> republican james langford is standing by, along with our correspondents and analysts, as we bring you full coverage of the day's top stories. first, let's go to sarah murray, who is in columbus, ohio. tell us more about the president-elect's visit there and his remarks just moments ago, sarah. >> reporter: wolf, donald trump just wrapped up a relatively brief visit here in columbus, ohio. he met privately with first responders and victims of this attack here, and he spoke briefly to the pool of reporters afterwards, expressing his feelings about the bravery of not only the first responders but the victims and the heroics of the families that have come through. all of this is happening against the backdrop of donald trump building out his white house team, and this afternoon, the trump team made it official, putting out a press release saying andy puzner will be his pick to be labor secretary. just because donald trump is president-elect doesn't mean he's shying away from his twitter takedown of after touting his deal with carrier to keep jobs in the u.s. just a week ago. >> now th

the democrats so much as, you know, the old faithful, lindsey graham, john mccain, new senator james langford joining in on that. how much trouble do you think they will be and what can you do about it? >> rex tillerson is an inspired and amazing pick. much like the boss he will be working for, president trump he is unconventional. don't you want somebody who already has these relationships, who has been in these countries, 50 countries, russia, china, yemen, the middle east, developing nations. don't you want somebody, lou, who already has been out there fighting for u.s. interests? and frankly, as secretary of state, we have a great relationship, the faith and the confidence of the president of the united states, which is important. lou, can you think of anywhere that is more swamp like than foggy bottom where the state department is? long before hillary clinton got there and used the state department as a concierge or foreign governments to bring their money for her foundation it has been swamp like. it is arrive with bureaucracy and murkiness and too many crocodiles in the water. >> they

the democrats so much as, youknow, the old faithful, lindsey graham, john mccain, new senator james langford joining in on that. how much trouble do you think they will be and what can you do about it? >> rex tillerson is an inspired and amazing pick. much like the boss he will be working for, president trump he is unconventional. don't you want somebody who already has these relationships, who has been in these countries, 50 countries, russia, china, yemen, the middle east, developing nations. don't you want somebody, lou, who already has been out there fighting for u.s. interests? and frankly, as secretary of state, we have a great relationship, the faith and the confidence of the president of the united states, which is important. lou, can you think of anywhere that is more swamp like than foggy bottom where the state department is? long before hillary clinton got there and used the state department as a concierge or foreign governments to bring their money for her foundation it has been swamp like. it is arrive with bureaucracy and murkiness and too many crocodiles in the water. >> they

james langford joining in on that.ow much trouble do you think they will be and what can you do about it? >> rex tillerson is an inspired and amazing pick and much like the boss he will be working for, he's unconventional in terms of secretary of state. don't you want somebody who already has a relationship, who has already been in these countries, over 50 of these countries, russia, china, yemen and the middle east, the developing nations? don't you want somebody who already has been out there fighting for u.s. interests? and frankly as secretary of state we have a great relationship and faith and confidence of the president of the united states which is important. can you think of anywhere that's more swamp like than foggy bottom where the state department is? long before hillary clinton got there and used the state department as a concerning for foreign nations to bring their money, it' it's full of controv. people are going the push back. they are trying to conflate many different things. but this is a strong inspi

the democrats so much as, you know, the old faithful, lindsey graham, john mccain, new senator james langfording in on that. how much trouble do you think they will be and what can you do about it? >> rex tillerson is an inspired and amazing pick. much like the boss he will be working for, president trump he is unconventional. don't you want somebody who already has these relationships, who has been in these countries, 50 countries, russia, china, yemen, the middle east, developing nations. don't you want somebody, lou, who already has been out there fighting for u.s. interests? and frankly, as secretary of state, we have a great relationship, the faith and the confidence of the president of the united states, which is important. lou, can you think of anywhere that is more swamp like than foggy bottom where the state department is? long before hillary clinton got there and used the state department as a concierge or foreign governments to bring their money for her foundation it has been swamp like. it is arrive with bureaucracy and murkiness and too many crocodiles in the water. >> they are l

republicans including lindsey graham, john mccain and even a conservative senat senat senator james langford. if he does not win over those skeptical republican senators. first he will have to win approval from the senate foreign relations committee. republicans will hold a one seat advantage. so what does that mean? one republican defection could be enough to derail the nomination if democrats stay united and already marco rubio sits on that panel has been sharply critical of tillerson's ties to vladimir putin. >> manu raju, thank you very much. >>> joining us is former new york city mayor and senior advisor rudy giuliani. >> how are you? >> always a pleasure. rex tillerson, donald trump had said i'm going to drain the swamp, i'm not going to bring in the big pocket guys. i owe them nothing. russia has its head in our election. the intel community is always concerned. now comes rex till lerson, big rich guy, exxonmobile. friend of vladimir putin. >> you're just looking at one aspect of his career. i mean, he's been head of one of the largest companies in the world. he has relationships all

senator james langford of the intention committee says he, too, has questions about the exxonmobil's ceo's ties to russia. sunlen serfaty is "outfront." >> largest american oil company, we're very global. >> reporter: rex tillerson, career oilman on track to become the nation's chief diplomat. >> as someone who has spent his entire career in the energy industry. >> reporter: tillerson, a 64-year-old conservative texan has no government or foreign policy experience. he has only held one job in his adult life, working for the last 40 years at exxon. first hired as a civil engineer out of college, working his way up the corporate ladder through the international division and then rising to ceo in 2006. >> the belief in the promise of international engagement and in the potential for global approaches to meeting this nation's challenges. >> reporter: at the helm of exxonmobil, tillerson operated at a high level internationally, negotiating on behalf of exxon's interests with deep relationship in the gulf and middle east, asia and russia. >> he's much more than a business executive. he's

here is a brand-new senator i came here and was sworn in with john glenn >> now oklahoma senator james langford talks about a recent report on government spending from today's "washington journal" this is about 35 minutes. >> sumac we are back at this smyrna here to talk about wasteful spending in washington the federal deficit by the way for 2016, 587,000,000,000, 587 billion, the federal debtebo more than 19 trillion. that equals about $165,000 perto america household according to the report, 247,000,000,000 in wasteful spending as inefficient regulations. joining us from capitol hill is joining us fromm capitol hill is the author offo: that report, the federal fumble, senator langford of oklahoma, republican., republican. thank you for being here. let's talk about, is the wasteful spending this year that you outline, any worse than other years, is it getting worse or better? spee-02 i don't think it's getting worse or better think were trying to identify ways to eliminate debt but it's kind of whack a mole when youin have this much of federal spending. what we try to identifies 100 examples,

coming up thursday morning, oklahoma republican senator, james langford will join us to discuss unnecessary or excessive federal spending. california democratic mark desonia, examining president-elect trump financial interests. and house democrats agenda in the next congress. be sure to watch c-span "washington journal" beginning thursday morning. join the discussion. >>> all day saturday, american history tv on c-span three is features programs about this week's 75th anniversary pearl harbor. national archives, christopher carter, reads from deck logs, describing events on ships under attack in pearl harbor, followed by the casualty burial at the arlington scemetery. his remains were recently identified 75 years after the attack. then at 9:00, tour pearl harbor attack sites on the eye land of awahaa. december 8, 1941 speech to congress, asking for a declaration of war. followed by the pearl harbor 75th anniversary ceremony. co-hosted by the national park service and the u.s. navy. from 11:00 to 1:00, we're taking your calls and tweets. war at sea in the pacific, 1941-42, discussing the pac