ivanka's husband jared kushner steve bannon, newt gingrich, r-n-c chairman reince priebus and former new york city mayor rudy giuliani. the president-elect also drawing fire for an interview with 60 minutes - where -in a reversal--trump now suggests parts of obamacare will rem (cbs "60 minutes") sot - stahl: "are you going to make sure that people with pre-conditions are still covered? trump: "yes, because it happens to be one of the strongest assets." stahl: "you're going to keep it?" trump: "also, with the children living with their parents for an extended gloria riviera, abc news, washington. and here at home -- las vegas police -- are preparing for dueling protests tonight. more than 15- hundred police are monitoring social media posts saying -- trump supporters are also planning countr protests -- in the exact same spot. a 13 action news update this afternoon... the clark county coroner -- is identifying the would-be robber -- shot and killed -- during an attempted hold-up at a local convenience store. he's 24-year-old rashad ryan. this all happened on thursday -- at a 7-11 -- n

including ivanka's husband, trump's son-in-law, jared kushner. steve bannon, the former breitbart head under fierce back lash from critics. trump's top aide, kellyanne conway, telling matt and savannah this morning -- >> i promise you he is not as scary and he is as brilliant a tactician and our campaign general, frankly on the field, as everyone is also saying. >> reporter: the next administration starting to take shape. now increasingly looking like rudy giuliani is being considered for secretary of state. laura ingram, the leading contender for press secretary according to sources familiar with the decision-making. >> i am honored to be considered for that job and other jobs. we'll see what happens. >> reporter: mcdacross the aisl. keith ellison, the first muslim congressman announcing his bid to run the dnc. as president obama seeming to rebuke parts of hillary clinton campaign, calls on democrats to build their grass-roots support. >> we have to compete everywhere. we have to show up everywhere. >> reporter: the president, in greece, sure to face questio

jared kushner, steve bannon, to a lesser degree reince priebus. he just got in there. will take a while to figure it out. they talk to donald trump. that's what it is. they've known they were going to get these christie people out for a while. that's just the way it goes. i want to talk about leaking. i heard barack obama's name. you told a story off the air yesterday. you may not want to give all of the names on the air but talk about what happened after barack obama was elected when rahm emanuel heard people speculating in the press that they might have a job. >> rahm emanuel was appointed chief of staff within three days of barack obama's victory in 2008. love him or hate him, rahm is a very strong personality, a very strong individual. he let it be known that, you know, any leaks about potential cabinet nominees, that was it. you were gone. you were out. joe, the problem right now has less to do with leaks, i would think, and has to do with the four people that you mentioned. look, they won. donald trump is the president-elect of the united states. four people you

donald trump's son-in-law jared kushner gaining power with steve bannon. >> there has been a cool of sorts. kristi had the transition, a lot of the christie people are being purged. >> a very organized process between donald trump. he says i am the only one who knows the finalists. >> i am confident on day one everything will be in good hands peer. >> it would be really dumb to accelerate and stop making mistakes in order to make the press happy. >> there is coverage of rudy giuliani's possible conflict as he angles for secretary of pushing the keystone pipeline. that requires state department approval. giuliani says he did no work for the pipeline. senate democrats issued a warning. >> on issues where we disagree you can expect a strong and tough fight. >> but democrats say they will not automatically opposed to abdominal trump nominees peer. >> a test will come quickly. trump plans as soon as possible to send a conservative antiabortion rights supreme court nominee appear to the senate. for the latest on the . transition to the white house, stay with 7 news. we are on air and you c

steve bannon, who is a chief strategist is -- he said -- i mean, he gave them a platform, he said, at breitbart. how does jared kushner reconcile all of that that steve bannon represented? >> now jared hasn't commented on that. i'll start with that. but he has defended his father-in-law saying that he knows him to be a very tolerant, accepting individual. he has also defended steve bannon. i think the jewish community in my reporting is having a hard time figuring out how jared can stand by this, but many people i spoke to look at this as a practical decision, to support the trump administration because they want him to support israel. and i think that jared kushner from my reporting may fall in line with that where it's let's stick by him. let's not speak up against this because we're going to need him down the line to stand up for israel. >> do you think that jared kushner will press donald trump to denounce more forcefully the alt right movement? >> i think donald trump is his own man and i think donald trump will do what donald trump wants to do, but i also think from everything i've learned in my reporting, that

i would say, in terms of the picks, jared kushner, some amorphous white house job, i'm not sure how important that is compared to steve bannong that website and the things he said. if jared kushner was chief of staff or national security adviser, i would feel differently. but i want to focus on steve bannon and chris cobeck, the comments he's made -- >> we'll get to that in a minute. >> let me talk about that. do you think there's any chance he'll be like jonah and the whale. all this pressure from people, including the words you just spoke there, is going to be too much? he's going to have to upchuck steve backup. we can't handle this guy. >> i don't think that at all. i think he'll keep bannon, absolutely. >> with all the hatred? >> all the more defiantly for as long as he possibly can. he'll keep bannon for as long as he possibly can. >> he bawants to be known as th change president. >> bannon is the kind of change trump is perfectly fine with. he's going to stick with him as long as he can. and this highlights a big job for the democrats. bannon, kushner, all these guys. if hillary clinton had done similar things as pres

steve bannon, highly abnormal. cory lewandowski, abnormal. jared kushner. bannon comes from the fever swamps of anti-semitism who had a checkered personal history. lewandowski, somebody who laid hands on a female reporter in a moment of anger. those are abnormal figures. son-in-law with common financial interests, chief of staff, that's abnormal. the limits, that's what i have in mind. >> going back to policy and for example, trade deals where donald trump would stand and even now, "the wall street journal" talks about the china currency trade war and donald trump talked about china having been a currency manipulator and willing to go where the prior administration did not and making this point. will we see this action in the first 100 days, do you think? >> i don't know in the first 100 days but the united states is about to move of being in predictability to a source of disruption and unpredictability in world affairs and that has to worry a lot of people. >> david frum, thank you. >>> here's a look at arlington national cemetery, waiting for president oba

jared kushner, the president-elect's son-in-law, has been the center of power for a very long time. through the campaign and now especially in the transition. while kellyanne conway had campaign manager title, steve bannon had the ceo title, it's the tilelessless jared kushner who has been the power base, trusted business hi father-in-law, obviously trusted by his wife ivanka and flying under the radar for quite a bit of time now. that a figure like mike rodgers, widely respected, former fbi agent, former head of the house intel committee, someone respected but doesn't have chris christie ties. he was, in fact, hired by chris christie for the transition to run national security but they don't have a personal history. and yet based on my reporting rodgers indicating that he was told that based on his association with chris christie he was being pushed out and that goes back to the very personal conflict between jared kushner and governor christie over the prosecution of kushner's father charles ten years ago. chris? >> is chris christie, with all his problems with the bridge and not being president, not being president now typhoid mary? anybody who's ever contacted him is now dead? >> this this transitio

. >> so advising the president i would suspect that me, steve bannon, jared kushner, obviously his son-in-law very involved in decision-making. that's the kind of president donald trump will be. >> so reince priebus, bannon, kushner. joining us is melber. walk us through it. set the table. we know jared kushner, donald trump's son-in-law cannot have a formal, official role in the west wing and the white house, right? >> that's right. i don't know if you're a fan of sly and the family stone, hallie. it's a family affair. it's not going to be a family affair as soon as january 20 hits. family or relative is defined broadly under federal law. a relative for a public official's appointment is anyone basically in the family. father, mother, son, brother, sister, uncle, first cousin, neph nephew, niece, all the in-laws and step family. that means jared kushner is seen as an important adviser and family member played a big part in the campaign, a winning campaign. he cannot hold an official government office, period, end of story. >> nothing prohibit it is kitchen cabinet discussion. they are sittin

talking about what is happening right now inside so-called white house north, trump tower, steve bannon, jared kushner, reince priebus all dealing with the transition, but in katy's reporting, the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing. we've been seeing that play out inside the transition team. we know inside trump tower today the president-elect is doing a series of what you could call interviews, members of his potential future administration. you can take a look here. we know henry kissinger will be there, more in a counselor role. j jeb, nikki haley. the president-elect has been taking phone calls from foreign leaders. i think the count is up to more than 30 so far. that has raised some questions, kristen welker, about the security of these conversations, the security of these talks and the protocol, the diplomatic protocol. what can you tell us about what folks in the intelligence community are saying is? >> reporter: in terms of the phone conversations he had today, he spoke to the leader of netherlands and poland. you're right, there were some questions about whether these phone c

the campaign, all of the different leaders from corey lewandowski, to paul manafort, to steve bannon. jared kushner has been a thread throughout, one of the things holding the campaign together and i think we can expect that to continue as this campaign moves from campaign mode into the white house. >> can we see him as part of the daily briefing as you said if he takes on a voluntary role? >> we're seeing that in the transition now potentially, but when it gets to the white house t gets to be a little bit murkier, because if you're in an informal, unsalaried position, this raises questions of conflicts of interest and there's this dynamic where the adult children, ivanka, donaand eric. >> it's not really a blind trust. >> it's not really, no that's something we've been talking about, like is this actually going to prevent conflicts of interest, while it's the set up they have planned so far. but jared kushner married to ivanka trump that really starts to tear down this wall of separation even further, raises more questions of conflicts of interest. >> did you want to get in on this? >> no, but i t

list of possible appointees includes: trump's son-in-law jared kushner - his campaign ceo - and the former head of breitbart news -steve bannon and- rnc chairman reince priebus - who on gma avoided addressing whether he's being consie updates for you on transition." meanwhile- trump is - also focused on how to turn his campaign promises into reality-while working to build unity in our country- and with foreign allies. sot martha raddatz: "mexico's president says he's eager to work with president-elect trump but no way they will pay for a wall but i think the world is waiting to see exactly what mr. trump's foreign policies will be." marci gonzalez standup close: trump also announced other members of his executive transition team today- including three of his children: ivanka, donald junior some questioning whether their involvement - while they run trump's businesses- creates a conflict of interest. mg abc news ny n-f-l commissioner roger goodell says president-elect donald trump's has made his job harder the commissioner says trump's past comments about women could make the n-f- l's attempts to curb domestic violence more di

>> trump's sitting there in trump tower tonight, and he's got steve bannon at his side, son-in-law jared kushner, but it's the bannon relationship that's key. you look at breitbart and how they engage with political theater and how they go after their opponents. this is something that trump is not walking away from. he has -- he wants to be full i immersed, not just on the policy, but in the culture. not in the traditional pat buchanan culture sense. this is someone who wants to use the divisiveness in the culture to his advantage. >> here's what mike pence said yesterday on fox. >> my daughter and i and her cousins really enjoyed the show. "hamilton" is just an incredible production. when we arrived, we heard a few boos and we heard some cheers. and i nudged my kids and reminded them, that's what freedom sounds like. and -- but at the end, i did hear what was said from the stage, and i can tell you, i wasn't offended by what was said. i'll leave to others whether that was the appropriate venue to say it. >> do you think, carrine, this is all a setup to get him to be president. that's what a pre

list of possible appointees includes: trump's son-in-law jared kushner - his campaign ceo - and the former head of breitbart news -steve bannon and- rnc chairman reince priebus - who on gma avoided addressing whether he's being considered. sot priebus: "i don't have any updates for you on transition." meanwhile- trump is - also focused on how to turn his campaign promises into reality-while working to build foreign allies. sot martha raddatz: "mexico's president says he's eager to work with president-elect trump but no way they will pay for a wall but i think the world is waiting to see exactly what mr. trump's foreign policies will be." marci gonzalez standup close: trump also announced other members of his executive transition team today- including three of his children: ivanka, donald junior and eric. some questioning whether their involvement - while they run trump's businesses- creates a conflict of interest. mg abc news ny after the republicans took the white house.. and retained control of the house and senate. a number of democrats are now looking to take over as the chair of the democratic national committee. bernie

the list of possible appointees includes trump's son-in-law jared kushner his campaign ceo and the former head of breitbart news steve bannon and rnc chairman reince priebus who on gma avoided addressing whether he's being considered. ,>> i don't have any updates for you on transition. meanwhile trump is also focused , on how to turn his campaign promises into reality, while working to build unity in our eager to work with president-elect trump but no way they will pay for a wall but i think the world is waiting to see exactly what mr. trump's foreign policies will be. >> trump also announced other members of his executive transition team today including three of his children, ivanka, donald junior and eric. some questioning whether their involvement while they run trump's businesses creates a conflict of interest. joyce: meantime abc's political , director says it is likely milwaukee county sheriff david clarke will end up in donald trump's administration. >> no one has been more loyal no l than the milwaukee county sheriff david clarke. is his name being talked a bout -- about as someone who could play a role with a new t

this goes, and -- >> yeah. >> -- the last thing is with the arrangement here of steve bannon, reince priebus and jared kushner, if that's what it turns out to be, this is very much like ronald regan's famous troika of jim baker, ed mease and michael defaver who was lik a son to the reagans. so i see a lot of similarities there. that worked extremely well for ronald regan and i think this could work well for donald trump. >> and could i just push back on carl's idea that barack obama is a big influence here. i'm a great believer that campaign promises are made to be kept and i think president trump is going to keep his campaign promises. i think we're going to see millions of deportations. i think we are going to see obamacare overturned. we are going to see a massive tax cut. i mean, this is, you know, why he ran for president. i'm sure he was affected by his meeting with president obama, but, you know, he is -- he was elected to do certain things and he's going to do them. >> i don't disagree with you. i think, indeed, his general themes, but i think obama had an effect on him about the importance of the ins

one the more establishment wing helmed by jared kushner and another by steve bannon. do you think the first round of picks are representative of either man having more of a say? >> i don't think so. i mean, the only winning right now that matters is the whim of donald trump. i don't see this as a wing administration so much, as much around whatever it is that donald trump decides his yum pul -- impulse is leading him that day. two months before the administration begins is fascinating. who knows how this is all going to work. >> what do you think the reaction in the senate is going to be to these appointments? >> that is the key question because they are the ones who have oversight. i imagine the daemocrats stickig together and against a lot of these people except joe manchin of west virginia and north dakota and more centrist. will others try to assert power on their own. >> do you think any chance the senate gives away to the filibuster to clear the road for donald trump's appointments? >> absolutely. i think recent criticism for whoever in the party is charge in te

trump's son-in-law, jared kushner, gaining power with hard-right ideologue steve bannon. >> there's been a coup of sorts. christie has a transition. lot of the christie people are being purged. >> reporter: a very organized process. tweeted trump "i am the only one who knows who the finalists are." reassurance from vice president joe biden as he hosted v.p.-elect mike pence. >> i'm confident on day accelerate and start making mistakes in order to make the press happy. >> reporter: there's coverage of rudy giuliani's possible conflicts as he angles for secretary of state. he worked for a company pushing the keystone pipeline that requires state department approval. giuliani says he did no work for the pipeline. senate democrats issued a warning. >> on issues where we disagree, you can expect a strong and tough fight. >> reporter: but democrats say oppose trump nominees. the test could come quickly. donald trump vows as soon as he can to send a conservative antiabortion rights supreme court nominee up here to the senate. from capitol hill, steve handelsman, news 4. jim? >> thanks, steve. >

names include rnc chairman reince priebus, campaign ceo steve bannon, and trump's own son-in-law, jared kushner, who's married to ivanka. donald trump may also be considering a policy shift. patrick, this one has to do with the affordable care act, or as some call it obamacare. patrick: repealing and replacing president obama's signature health care law. now in an interview with 60 minutes he indicated that , he's open to keeping key parts of it. >> are you going to make sure people with preconditions are still covered? >> yes. because it happens to be one of the strongest assets. also, the children living with their parents for an extended period, very much try to keep that. it has cost but it's something , very much we'll try and keep. patrick: trump also says repealing and replacing the law will be done at the same time, making sure there's no gap between the two. joyce: a muslim woman is making national headlines for making her support of donald trump public. christina palladino caught up with her in milwaukee and reports on the extreme reaction she's getting online from all over the world.

chris christie is out, trump's son-in-law, jared kushner, gaining power with hard-right ideologue steve bannon. >> christie had the transition, a lot of the christie people are being purged. >> reporter: a very organized process, tweeted trump, "i am the only one who knows who the finalists are." reassurance from vice president joe biden as he hosted >> i'm confident on day one everything will be in good hands. >> you'd be really dumb to accelerate and start making mistakes in order to make the press happy. >> reporter: there's coverage of rudy giuliani's possible conflicts as he angles for secretary of state. he worked for a company pushing the keystone pipeline that requires state department approval. giuliani says he did no work for the pipeline. senate democrats issued a warning. >> on issues where we disagree, you can expect a strong and >> reporter: but democrats say they will not automatically oppose trump nominees. a test could come quickly, trump plans as soon as possible to name a conservative antiabortion rights supreme court nominee and send that name up here to the senate. pat, co

you have steve bannon and jared kushner with a senior advisory role and a lot of chiefs and not many indians, in terms of making those key policy decisions. so people inside the campaign talking about that as a real problem right now. >> you'd imagine that for at least some of trump's supporters, they would have little patience in him picking any kind of establishment type. it certainly kind of runs counter to the whole idea of change and draining the swamp. >> no question. and it's pretty interesting to watch, just how quickly you've had a pullback, not only on those appointments, but also, you know, some of these positions. you have donald trump saying, maybe there are parts of obamacare that he might keep. you have obama saying today in his press conference that when he spoke to donald trump, that donald trump said he would remain committed to the nato alliance. of course, during the campaign, we heard him say many times, you know, question the importance of this alliance. anderson. because you have in senior positions, already, people from both camps, and that's like putting two

so in advising the president i would suspect that me, steve bannon, i think jared kushner, obviously, his son-in-law will be very involved in decision-making. >> our chief political correspondent dana bash is joining us live from new york. trump's inner circle is meeting right now i'm toldness trump tower in new york city. do we know which positions are being discussed and when they might be discussed? >> reporter: not specifically. i was told after he fast-tracked the chief of staff role, he did, making that announcement along with his senior counselor steve bannon that happened yesterday, that the next thing on the agenda would be the top five cabinet positions. that they are going it try to figure out. the most -- of those, the most important obviously, secretary of state, secretary of defense, attorney general and so on. so that is likely going to be next on the agenda, but you know, look, the bottom line is that he has a lot, a lot on his plate, as he realized when he went to meet with president obama, somebody who's ever been in public life, in public service, in government, of

. >> reporter: a list includes trump's son-in-law jared kushner, the former head of breitbart news steve bannon and rnc chairman who on "gma" said he's not talking about whether he's being transitioned. and trump trying to turn his campaign promises into reality while working to build unity in our country and with foreign allies. >> mexico's president says that he's eager to work with president-elect trump but no way they will pay for a wall, but i think the world is waiting to see exactly what mr. trump's foreign policy positions will be. >> reporter: trump also announced other members of his executive transition team which include three of his children. some are questioning whether their involvement while they run trump's businesses could be a conflict of interest. marci gonzalez, abc news, new york. >> you think he would make it this far, honestly, had no political experience? >> i would be lying if i said that i gave him 100% chance to make it into the white house, no. i mean, i think we were all very surprised early on actually by the number of people that got behind him. >> reporter: pres

jared kushner. kushner cannot serve in the white house due to nepotism rules. steve bannon, hard conservative and trump's campaign ceo, is under consideration for chief of staff. that appointment, should he get it, would send a distinctly anti-establishment signal to all of washington, something that could not be said of the other person vying for the chief of staff position, rnc chairman reince priebus. >>> nancy cordes now with the president-elect's meeting with the gop's congressional leadership. >> let me just say how excited we are about these opportunities for the country. >> reporter: a pragmatic house trump a tour of where he'll be inaugurated and even employing mr. trump's campaign motto. >> we're now talking about how we're going to hit the ground running to make sure we're going to get this country turned around and make america great again. >> reporter: mr. trump said he would be doing "spectacular things" with rd >> whether it's health care or immigration. so many different things. >> reporter: during the race both ryan and mcconnell routinely condemned their o

steve bannon and jared kushner, the son-in-law, very much involved. on the political side, mike pence is going to play a big role here because he was a member of congress, a governor. he knows the political world and making suggestions. jeff sessions. senator for alabama early on the trump campaign is also making suggestions. chris christie is in there but there's some political concern about him giving his thing in new jersey. i think there's a jockeying for power within trump world to decide who gets to make some of the calls and i think it's pence and sessions and the campaign people. paul manafort is out. he was banished from the campaign but don't forget that paul manafort was a protege of jim baker and the legendary character inside the foreign policy and defense establishment. jim baker is not in the ball game much anymore but kept his mouth shut during the campaign if you noticed and i wouldn't be surprised if there's some kind of laying on of hands by old foreign policy people. once barack obama himself gets a fix on donald trump here and in

jared kushner. kushner cannot serve in the white house due to nepotism rules. scott, we have learned that steve bannon, hard conservative and trump's campaign ceo, is under consideration for chief of staff. that appointment, should he get it, would send a distinctly anti-establishment signal to all of washington, something that could not be said of the other person vying for the chi o staff position, rnc chairman reince priebus. >> major garrett in the white house briefing room tonight. major, thank you. >>> the president-elect's next stop was at the other end of pennsylvania avenue, to meet the republican leadership. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell and house speaker paul ryan. here's nancy cordes. >> let me just say how excited we are about these opportunities for the country. >> reporter: a pragmatic house speaker tabled months of animosity today, giving mr. inaugurated and even employing mr. trump's campaign motto. >> we are now talking about how we're going to hit the ground running to make sure that we can get this country turned around and make america great again. >> reporter: mr. trump

steve bannon. >> who has more than steve bannon. chris christie has less baggage than steve bannon. >> the bridgegate convictions are a significant new development. the fact of the matter he put away jared kushner's father was serious tension that i don't want to diminish. it is personal, family and known months ago. to ditch at this stage, the person that has been running your transition and that is unusual behavior that doesn't indicate stability in the transition. >> rudy giuliani, john bolton is controversial. i'm being honest here. rudy giuliani has not been shy about campaigning with the top dog for the trump administration. he was at the "wall street journal" forum this evening and had this to say about his rival. >> john would be a good choice. >> is there anybody better? >> maybe me. i don't know. >> so he is talking about secretary of state and john bolton. not so subtle. >> no, but -- >> subtle is not necessarily rudy's signature move. here's what i think folks may not appreciate in rudy. i worked for rudy giuliani for speech writer and worked on policy. so i know him well. in a different stage of my career and we disagreed about this election pretty intensely. but i think what people

he has counsel that he trusts in his inner circle, not only steve bannon and reince priebus, but kellyanne conway, his san in lowe, jared kushner, his daughter, ivanka trump. and i think you're seeing that core team from the campaign making its way to the white house. i think absolutely that steve bannon becomes sort of the karl rove or david axelrod of this incoming administration and this is going to be the person that donald trump turns to for political advice, perhaps when he's thinking about taking on a more aggressive tone on a certain subject. and reince priebus will be sort of the guy that tries to cool things down, tries to calm things down. you know, poppy, he was credited in the last stretch of the campaign, along with kellyanne conway, in persuading donald trump, listen, you've got to get off twitter. listen, you've got to stay on script. >> right. >> we can't have you going off the handle at your rallies at the very end of this campaign. and you saw donald trump sort of tone things down and cool things down. and so, he is sort of going to have -- and forgive the analogy here -- sort of the good angel on one shoulde

steve bannon who is the chief strategi strategist. the division of power with those two and jared kushner is unclear. in jim acosta for the latest. >> reporter: john and christine, later on today, vice president-elect mike pence will meet with officials to begin the process of narrowing down the names filling the cabinet positions in the trump administration. among the names rudy giuliani for secretary of state and alabama senator jeff sessions for attorney general. top officials are defending the selection of steve bannon. kellyanne conway says bannon will make an excellent chief strategist. >> i work closely with mr. bannon. he has been the general of the campaign. people need to look at the full resume. he has a harvard business degree. naval officer. success in entertainment. he certainly was a goldman sachs managing partner. >> reporter: the opposition to bannon is building. a number of house democrats have begun circulating a letter using trump's words against

have to chief of staff, party insiders reince priebus versus fringe right leader steve bannon plus son-in-law jared kushner, ivanka's husband. then there is this, this is just into us here. a source familiar with the trump transition says that close trump confidante rudy giuliani, former new york mayor, may not be a lock for the position of secretary of state because of some of his past business ties. so elise labott has that. she's our global affairs correspondent, also joining me, cnn politics reporter sara murray. elise, to you first, we know that mayor giuliani has been lobbying for this spot. what's the curveball? >> well, that's right, brooke, this morning we were told that rudy giuliani has a lock on the position and with the "wall street journal" he was in some ways laying out what kind of foreign policy he envisioned as part of a trump situation but now these people have to be vetted. clearly there's nobody on the list that we've been talking about for america's top diplomat that is closer to donald trump than rudy giuliani, a real visible face throughout the campaign, but he comes with a lot of b

traveling the people who sort of -- the closest trusted advisors, whether it's steve bannon or his son-in-law jared kushnerr reince priebus and they try to make sure he doesn't go off script. one of the ways they do that, these and other people, is by literally trying to -- telling him to get it out before he gets on stage. if you have anger issues and you're frustrated do it now before you do it on the the age. >> that is funny. by the way we were talking about heidi cruz, we remember the tweets and poking fun of appearances. now what a difference a couple of months makes, finally ted cruz endorsed donald trump after words were exchanged about liars and sniveling fools now senator ted cruz has spoken to the media as he's been on the stump for trump today. >> i'm here campaigning for donald trump for mike pence. i recognize some of you guys are wanting to write stories suggesting divisions among republicans. i'll make a point. i'm getting on gigantic airplane that has donald trump's name painted on the side. on monday of this week i voted for donald trump. i voted for mike pence and we're just a a few days

group, governor christie, jeff sessions, the alabama senator, steve bannon, the former head of breitbart, his family, son-in-law jared kushner and you do have the broader republican party, speaker ryan, leader mcconnell coming to trump making phone call, the bushes making phone calls but still around trump a small group. to your other question what we're seeing is a populous uprising among white working class voters. it was hard to see unless you were on the ground in states and even when i traveled to places like wisconsin and pennsylvania and saw this intensity in rural and suburban areas among white voters it was hard to write that in a story because you didn't want to oversell it but it was out there even if it wasn't showing up in polls. >> robert, last night i kept saying it's about the lawn signs, the lawn signs all of us saw in actual america, not midtown manhattan, not the mall in washington, d.c., quickly, are you hearing of any movement, reportable movement inside trump world. >> i am. i hear governor pence is playing an important role in being liaison to the republican party, the republican party that sees an opp

people who come out of the conservative movement, people from breitbart news and steve bannon, his son-in-law, jared kushnere white house. >> you have in your piece a quote from newt gingrich that says does trump want to recruit people to manage the federal government or change the federal government. how does newt gingrich change the federal government? we have seen that guy for decades. >> he has been around for a long time. he's something who was part of the revolution in 1994. the question facing trump is in part he's a moderate republican. he's also a hard-line republican on things like immigration policy, so he has to figure out not only what kind of president he wants to be but what kind of republican does he want to be. does he want people to come in and manage the government, or does he want people to upend some of these bureaucracies. >> if donald trump is a moderate republican, he's been a democrat before. you know this man. help me understand, where does his loyalty lie? as he looks at the transition team, and he could surround himself by many, many people, does he have tremendous loyalty to, i'

so in advising the president, i would suspect that me, steve bannon, i think jared kushner, going to be very involved in decision making. that's the kind of president donald trump is going to be. i think you are going to find that in a few months, as people see the agenda roll out in the first 28 days, the first 100 days, that he is going to be a president for all americans and he is going to make you proud. >> reince priebus, again, congratulations. >> you bet. >> talk to you soon. thank you. >>> well, what is next for the democratic party? still reeling from a stunning loss. president obama set to hold a news conference this afternoon. nbc's part of the story this morning. hi, kristen, good morning. >> hi, savannah. in addition to that press conference, president obama will also call members of the democratic national committee today as hillary clinton reaches out to house democrats to discuss next steps in what went wrong. the outreach comes on the heels of clinton placing part of the blame for her loss squarely on the shoulders of fbi director james comey. >> reporter: democrats

the confusion, lack of clarity over who's in charge between reince priebus, steve bannon and trump's son-in-law, jared kushner is buffoonery. >> as somebody who worked in the reagan administration, what ronald reagan did was appoint baker as chief of staff, i.e., reince priebus figure, who was very controversial in the day as counselor to the president. he was very conservative, very bannon like in that sense. viewed by the reagans as many people said, as a son. in other words, he had that personal relationship and was sort of in charge among others things with translating ronald and nancy reagan to the rest of the white house staff. >> you managed to make the reagan argument here, jeffrey lord, you always find a way. >> jared kushner would be michael beaver. >> i -- historian always, reagan administration, look, this is dichbt. what have we said over and over about this campaign? it's unprecedented. it's different. and i think this transition is very different and i'm hearing that not only within the group are there knife fightss going o, but there's tremendous pressure coming from outside. you have the sena