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among the prospects mitt romney, rudy giuliani, james matis, chris christie, rick perry and newt gingrich. even as he focus on putting together his government he spent part of the weekend from saturday night live. you can hear the boos from the audience. >> you can hear after the show it is written by the show's creator. here is part of that. >> thank you for joining us here. we are the diverse america who are alarmed and anxious that your administration will not protect us. our children, our parents our we hope it to work on behalf of all of us. all of us. >> well, donald trump responded with a series of angry tweets. quote our wonderful future v.p. mike pence was harassed by the cast of hamilton, cameras blazing. this should not happen. the cast and producers of hamilton which i hear is high lie overrated should apologize for their behavior. >> they were very inappropriate. >> when he tweeted it was harassment. >> harassment -- conversation was not harassment. i was appreciative that vice president listened to what we had to say. there's nothing to apologize for. >> steve cortez -- let

a front-runner for defense secretary general james matis. mr. trump tweeting he was very impressive. >> reporter: he has been critical of defense cuts in advance of the u.s. detention policy and our approach to fighting radical jihadists but we may have concerns about with where he sands on the issue >> reporter: and the president- elect met with real estate developers in india. >> trump there have a real problem here. he criticized hillary clinton for her foundation getting contributions from foreign companies. in this case it would be a question of somebody trying to do business to try to get some sort of special favors from the government. new york times that the meeting with indian business partners was short and congrattory. lana zak, abc news, washington. >>> icy roads in youngstown caused a massive 40 car pile up on state route 711 southbound just before 5:00 last night. the roads were shut down for hours and several other car accidents were reported in that area, as well. >>> take a look at similar scenes across the northeast and midwest

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that's according to the wall street journal retired marine james matis considered for secretary of defense and ben carson reportedly asked to lead department of housing and urban development. during a sitdown with the new york time yesterday trump was asked about republicans who didn't campaign for him, including kelly ayotte. trump said the new hampshire senator would love a job in his administration but he said he told her no thank you. re-election bid to governor maggie hassan. after the election she was briefly rumored as candidate for secretary of defense. meanwhile the president-elect is now officially on vacation. mr. trump arrived in palm beach last night where he will spend thanksgiving at the club. transition staff says trump will not be conducting business while in florida. >> julie: this morning former house speaker sal dimasi is almost a free man and back in years. dimasi's plane bought him to logan last night and he ridership in wheelchair and was emotional as talked about plans. >> it has been a trying and difficult experience for me and i'm looking forward to just being reu

meeting with michele reed, general james matis, tom rickets, bob woodson and andy puzder. >>> many are calling on the president-elect to reconsider his appointments call it it's a lack of diversity among the states. >> when it comes to washington, d.c., it is time to drain the damn swamp. >> reporter: it was a rally crowd favorite in the last days of the campaign. president-elect donald trump's promise to get rid of washington insiders, but as he staffs his white house and top cabinet positions many of the president-elect's picks are part of the so-called political establishment, and so far, they're also all white men. and some of the choices are receiving major resistance. >> this is someone who ran a campaign on hatred and bigotry. who since he has been elected chosen some of the most dangerous people possible to staff his white house. >> reporter: the most recent pick, alabama senator jeff sessions. if confirmed sessions will serve as attorney general. in 1986, the then u.s. attorney's nomination to a federal judgeship was were defeated over claims he made racially charged remarks a

trump also held sit down was retired marine general james matis a candidate for secretary of defense education advocate and sacramento mayor kevin johnson. tapped alabama senator jeff sessions to be the attorney general. and congressman pompeo to head the cia. he also reached a 25 million dollar settlement in trio of fraud lawsuits against trump university. he tweeted the only bad thing about winning the presidency is that i didn't have the time to go through a long but winning trial on trump u. too bad. as the president-elect builds the team hundreds gathered in washington to protest the new government. cb >>> trump will hold more meetings in new jersey today with former new york mayor rudy giuliani and new jersey governor chris christie. the president-elect by the way is very active on twitter this morning. after tweets on his transition team and asking the hamilton cast to apologize he also tweeted in part "i watched parts of saturday night live last night. it is a totally one-sided biased show nothing funny at all. >>> an update on a fire that burned through a home in two people.

retired marine corps general james maties seems to be a favorite for secretary of defense. mattis was impressive. >> president-elect trump loves leaders like general mattis. >> will burr ross was being considered as commerce secretary. the new administration will have to deal with democrats in congress signaling cooperation in some areas. >> we could make a major infrastructure bill done but maybe in the first 100 days. >> first securing a cabinet. that continues today. and it continues today with former texas governor rick perry, who is said to be coming into trump tower to talk about being secretary of defense, energy or possibly veterans affairs. one of the three. obviously not all three. back to you. >> all kinds of former trump rivals being considered for cabinet positions. trissy pots, thank you very much. >>> the message to keep the raiders in oakland is going international. when raiders play in mexico city, fans will receive these plaque yards that say "stay in oakland." the goal is by showing those signs during tonight's primetime game nfl owners will be swayed to

trump held sit- down was retired marine general james matis a candidate for secretary of defense education advocate and sacramento mayor kevin johnson. mr. trump will hold more giuliani and new jersey governor christie who is demoted from chairman of the transition team. on friday the president- electtapped jeff sessions to be the attorney general. and congressman mike pompeo to head the cia he reached a 25 million dollar settlement in a trio of fraud lawsuits against trump university. today, he tweeted the only bad thing about winning the presidency is that i didn't have the time to go through a long but winning trial on as the president-elect builds the team hundreds gathered in washington to protest the new government. cbs news, new jersey. >>> vice president-elect mike pence will join john dickerson on face the nation this morning. that begins at 9:30 right here on cbs4. >>> we have an update on a fire that burned through a home in aurora. that fire has now claimed the lives of two people. 7 people were living in the wednesday morning. janel vargas died that day her 32-year-old son gab

trump has already appointed lieutenant general michael flynn to be his security advisor looking at james matiss potential secretary of state. and it could also get awkward since petraeus pled gguilty to handling classified information. during the campaign, of course, mr. trump invoked petraeus' process saying hillary clinton got off the hook in comparison. >> we are going to get a special prosecutor and we're going to look into it because you know what? people have been -- their lives have been destroyed for doing one fifth of what you have done. and it's a disgrace and honestly, you ought to be ashamed of yourself. >> wow while there may be infighting over secretary of state position there are some signs of unity among mr. trump and critics. earlier this week mr. trump retweeted an article written why, yes, national review which ran a never trump edition during the republican primaries that prompted a response by brit hume when donald trump is tweeting national review can peace on the right be denied? to answer that question our political panel is back. ian, you work at the national review. i

retired general james matis is eyed for possibly secretary of defense. let's talk more about this.th me, cnn's senior law enforcement analyst and former fbi director tom fuentes. good to see you again, tom. >> hi, fred. >> when you hear names like jeff sessions, james mattis, mike pompeo, some are describing them as hard liners. how do you classify these names of positions? >> well, i don't know if i would classify them specifically as hard liners. i think that mr. trump won the election as the president-elect add vo it kvocating a hard line he'd do with isis and wanting to have law and order. being strong on issues like that. i would have assumed that he was going to pick people who would be strong on those issues to match what he promised in the campaign. >> i want to play a portion of an interview fareed zakaria did in 2015 with general flynn on the threat of isis. >> is isis a threat to the core national interests of the united states? >> yes. i do believe that. is it existential today? probably not today. could it become an existential threat in the future? yes. i do believe t

if you stack all this up, if david petraeus wound up at the state department and general james matistalked about by donald trump himself as a strong contender for defense secretary and then you already have lieutenant general michael flynn who has been appointed national security advisor. you see matis there, you are talking about maybe a dream team of retired generals making up a very solid national security team. the problem with that picture, of course, two things. one, remember during the campaign donald trump had a tamp down this idea that he had an itchy finger on the trigger and wanted to go to war. you stack up all those generals that might send the wrong general message. petraeus had a trouble mishandling classified information. he spent all the time in the campaign crooked hillary mishandled classified information beating up on hillary clinton. he said petraeus did a lot less and got punished more it still could get kind of awkward, doug, to say the least. >> there is a new contender for the white house press secretary. tell us about that. >> monica crowley. the hill report

is going to be meeting, a former marine general james matis required, of course, also mentionedr that post. he is going to be meeting with trump this weekend as well. and tom cotton, freshman center from arkansas has also been mentioned possibly. >> that's another interesting one. >> interesting choice. >> is he a younger guy. >> sea veteran, of course, freshman senator, harvard law degrees and such. he would be interesting choice and he would be in and out thereof as we have seen too. >> dhs sect. secretary. >> david clarke. >> answered of from us here at "fox & friends." >> he had a prime time spot at the convention. he has been part of the administration -- of the campaign. as you mentioned trump honors loyalty and people who have been there with him from the beginning. that could be a choice. of course, mike mccaul chairman of the house committee and he is also mentioned as a pick. has been lauded by colleagues very well liked on capitol hill, would be interesting for that choice as well. >> and tom price has been mentioned for hhs. this is really interesting choice chairman