john roberts, welcome. john, congratulations. we are all very excited about this. sent you an e-mail and didn't hear back so i know you're doing your job. >> reporter: kimberly, i'm sorry i missed the e-mail. thank you i saw you and eric yesterday and i really thank you very much. it's just such an honor to do this. after getting this new position, i got to spend this afternoon in a chevy cruze sitting in wisconsin in 10-degree weather waiting for donald trump. nothing but glamour in this job. >> exactly. what can we expect tonight? >> reporter: donald trump is going to be giving another edition of his thank you tour. he's going across the country and doing this across the battleground states. interesting situation here in wisconsin as well because, of course, jill stein's organization basically twisted the arms of officials here in wisconsin and was completed yesterday and the way it worked out is donald trump netted an additional 131 points, 131 votes, rather. wisconsin was a big one for trump because nobody except people in the trump campaign, paul ryan and rein

we begin with john roberts in fayetteville, north carolina, where trump will be speaking at the top of the hour. good evening, john. >> reporter: good evening to you. north carolina where donald trump won by about four points and of course the big news tonight is donald trump will be introducing to the nation his pick for secretary of defense james "mad dog" mattis. with ft. bragg down the road, fayetteville would be a good place to do that. plenty of other news being made at the trump transition headquarters. twice today donald trump made a surprise visit to the lobby of trump tower, once with japanese technology ambassador to announce the two agreed to a deal to create thousands of american jobs. >> this is masa of softbank from japan and he's just agreed to invest $50 billion in the united states and 50,000 jobs. >> reporter: while there were few details of the agreement, he

colleague, congratulations to john roberts again puts in his points, trump turning business over. no new deals done you just said. that leaves ivanka free. eric and don can take over the country. she is brilliant. this woman, i said she will run the corporation. for now she is free to serve in government. she has platforms. she has things she can do to help, especially millenials. she has great appeal and great positives and great business sense. sandra: what do you make of his plans for the business empire, meghan mccain? meghan: i don't have a problem with him postponing this. there is so much going on with the secretary of state pick and filling cabinet i understand if he wants to postpone it a little bit. he has to be crystal clear with the business dealings and there won't be any conflict of interest. no one will rent 600 rooms at trump tower take a meeting with him and look any way there is a quid pro quo happening. i don't have a problem him postponing it. sandra: some will. whether or not he is cleared of any apparent conflict of

john roberts with the message for the president-elect. >> reporter: it was a crowd that just weeks ago had been openly hostile to donald trump. jeff bezos claimed trump was eroding the democratic process. apple ceo, tim cook, who raised millions for hillary clinton. facebook coo, cheryl sandberg also backed hillary clinton, as did tesla and spacex founder elon musk. pointing out tech stocks have been doing pretty well since he won the election. >> you're doing well right now, and i'm very honored by the bounce. they're all talking about the bounce. so right now everyone has to like me at least a little bit. >> reporter: there was no comment from the ceos who refused to talk to the press on the way out. curiously absent from the summit, twitter. donald trump is getting closer to filling out his cabinet.

john roberts at the scene in fayetteville. thanks a lot, john.e to arrive at the arena and we will be right back because we think it's almost there. stay tuned. ♪ >>> the motorcade has arrived at the arena in fayetteville, donald trump is mounting the stage right now. we're going to go to live coverage. thanks for joining us tonight. ♪ [cheers and applause] [i'm proud to be an american] american. [ >> and i gladly stand up ♪ next to you and defend her still today ♪ 'cause there ain't no doubt ♪ ♪ >> hi, i'm bill o'reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. donald trump speaking inç north carolina right this second. and we're going to go to him. take it away. [cheers and applause] thank you. [cheers and applause] [chanting trump trump trump trump] [cheers and applause] >> so the weather was really bad. really bad. and they said, you know, these are great peopl

jenna: our chief white house correspondent john roberts is following the president elect, of course, we will see him at the white house. he's in -- >> you were at trump, where are you, john? why are you in wisconsin? >> we are back in the snow cold yet again. seems like it was a year ago. donald trump is going to be here, part of the thank you tour later on. all the focus in new york city, you heard leland talk about potential problems. guess how close relationship he has with russian vladimir putin? earlier today reince priebus said it's not a bad thing to have relationships an sometimes with relationships that you wouldn't normally think of right out of the box, as long as you put america first, that's fine to have those relationships around the world. he says donald trump is going to put america first and every member of his cabinet will as well. at trumper -- at trump tower with his reaction. >> we continue be more grateful that someone of rex's leadership and accomplishments is willing to step forward and serve our next secretary of state. i think represent the caliber of experie

>> john roberts live in wisconsin. john, thank you. >>> we told you at the top of the program house minority leader nancy pelosi wants an independent probe of alleged russian involvement in last month's election. but not everybody in the spy buzz sees russia's digital fingerprints on the outcome. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge sorts it all out for us tonight. >> reporter: a u.s. government source says the director of national intelligence james clapper who oversees the 17 intelligence agencies is not on the same page as cia director john brennan. the issue comes down to the hackers' intent, and whether there is strong evidence that vladimir putin's government meddled to ensure a trump victory. the white house spokesman said today mr. obama warrant obama w assessment public. >> something we'll try to do, the president does believe that we should particularly when it relates to something as central to our democracy, as the conduct of a national election. >> reporter: the timing and targets of the cyb

jon: arguing goes on, john roberts, thank you. jenna: russian president vladimir putin honoring embassador to turkey who was asas nayed this week, plus senators chuck schumer and john mccain putting aside to call investigation into allegations into russian hacking during the presidential election. what it means for the trump administration and we are going to debate it fair and balance ahead. i had frequent heartburn, but...my doctor recommended prilosec otc 7 years ago, 5 years ago, last week. just 1 pill each morning. 24 hours and zero heartburn, it's been the number 1 doctor recommended brand for 10 straight years, and it's still recommended today. use as directed jenna: this crossed our desk and we we wanted to bring it to you because it might be a story you hear more about later on today. this is from reporting by tmz, initial reports that ivanka trump, the daughter of president-elect trump was getting on a jet blue flight earlier this morning at jfk airport and apparently as she was on the plane with her husband and her three

mike emannal mass more, and first to john roberts live at trump tower in mid-town with more on the secretary of state search. john? >> reporter: good afternoon. the announce. won't come for another couple of days, but sources tell fox news donald trump settled on his pick for secretary of state and is the exxonmobil pret -- president and ceo, rex tillerson, tillerson was recommend by neatable people who used to be in government. robert gates and condoleezza rice, very big supporter's tillerson and he is friends with james baker. one thing that donald trump likes with tillerson he is a dealmaker and has crafted some very complicated deals in in of the most difficult plays in word, here's what trump said about tillerson. >> much more than a business executive. he is a world class player. and to me a great advantage is he knows many of the players. he knows them well. the does massive deals in russia, for the company. not for himself. >> reporter: but it's possible that tillerson could run into head winds in congress because even republicans are said to be very concerned about just how close hi

jon: senior national correspondent john roberts live outside of trump tower right now, john. >> jon, good morning to you, donald trump is portraying porte whole idea that russia was trying to help him become president was a sour grape politician. can you imagine if the results were different? it would be called conspiracy theory. why wasn't this an issue before the election? here is what he told chris wallace on fox house sunday. >> i think the democrats are putting it out because they suffered one of the greatest defeats of politics in this country and they are putting it out and it's ridiculous. we ought to get back to making america great again which is what we are going to do and we have already started the process. >> trump's transition team just a few minutes ago saying this is an attempt to delegitimize donald trump's legitimate victory in the election. the idea to look into whether or not russia had any kind of a role is being backed by senior republicans as the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell and senator john mccain from arizona. in a couple of days donald trump is ex

. >> john roberts was inside the arena. john, what's it like in there?> good evening to you, tucker. one of the reasons why donald trump is not backing off one iota from his campaign promises delivering much the same speech he did is because there were 13500 people in the giant arena here in hershey tonight and they want to hear donald trump reiterate what he promised them during the election campaign they want to reiterate polls republicans have not seen since 1988, donald trump won this state by 44,000 votes. that's a heck of a fete when you consider there are a million more registered democrats here in the state of pennsylvania than there are republicans. donald trump again said tonight that he was going in to this election looking at the election polls thinking he was satisfied, very happy two more events to come. he is going to be in florida tomorrow he is going to be in mobile bamma. this is the biggest crowd that we have seen here tonight. a testament to the fact that people in pennsylvania trust donald trump to bring back the economy and improve

john roberts has more on this. >> reporter: good afternoon. look like this would be an easy thing.asy. who is to bottom line for the failure to repeal the bathroom bill? depends on which side of the aisle. the republicans blame the incoming governor roy cooper. cooper says that's not true. democrats accuse republicans of planting a poison hill in now repeal. the cooling off period of a none of months during which no city or town can enact antidiscrimination bills. democrats insist that cooling off period would lead to a total ban on such antidiscrimination laws. the city of charlotte not to enact new laws the moment the bathroom bill is repealed. from the left. >> i know there were enough democratic and republican votes in the house and in the senate to fullyç repeal house bill 2 f they had just been given a chance. >> now, not only was there a split between democrats and republicans but the republican party was split right down the middle, 16 republican senators voted for repeal, 16 voted against repeal. of the ones who voted for repeal, many of them came from districts near urba

in atlanta, georgia, john roberts, fox news. temperatures remain on the cold side tonight with overnight lows the las vegas valley. we'll see a few clouds drift across the area, keeping temperatures up just a degree or two compared to last night. skies will be mostly sunny on thursday with a forecast high of 57 degrees in las vegas. another system dives into the area friday, bringing another shot of cool air along with gusty winds out of the north. high temperatures will be in the mid to low 50s with wind gusts around 30 mph. the against the officer who shot and killed keith lamont scott earlier this year. you might remember this disturbing video... according to police, scott got out of his parked s-u-v holding a gun and ignored police commands to drop it. his family has always said he did not own a gun, but police did find one at the scene. andrew murray mecklenburg co. district attorney "after a thorough review and given the totality of the circumstances and this case, it is my opinion that officer vincent acted lawfully when

. >> john roberts said that president-elect trump and the team downplays the theory that russian interference played a part in the election. >> trump tweeting are we talking about the same cyber attack that the dnc illegally gave hillary the questions. president obama was more measured in describing the discussions with trump. >> my hope is nathe president- elect is going to similarly be concerned with making sure we don't have potential foreign influence in the election process. >> hillary clinton said that putin was trying to hurt her candidacy for payback. >> putin publically blamed me for the outpouring of outrage by his own people. and that is the direct line between what he said back then and what he did in this election 23450 kelly an conway scoffed at the idea. saying clinton was the victim of an arrogant campaign that never considered the possibility she could loose. >> the trump transition insists this is an attempt to delegitimatize his presidency. there's an important milestone on monday. if that proceeds as it should it should sweep away the criticism. >>> a from was called to th

our own senior national correspondent john roberts is life in atlanta, hi john, nice to see you. >> good afternoon to you. the reason it's called the bathroom bill is because it would prohibit people from going into whichever bathroom they chose. it would stipulate that you have to use the bathroom as the gender that you're identified as on your birth certificate. it came in response to a city ordinance that the city of charlotte had back in february that said that lgbtq individuals could use whatever they want. anybody for that matter. here's where we are right now. we're just going into recess referee sesz after recess in the north carolina legitimate or it. the house republican caucus adjourned from a meeting which was described as pretty testy. the house speaker says he was going out to have some lunch. so the latest indication is they're going to come back at 45 minutes after the hour and get back into this. what will they do? not sure just yet. there's a bill that's being talked about that would repeal so the-called bathroom bill. officially called hb2 and also declare either a six

john roberts is following that story from new york. >> reporter: donald trump left new york today headed to warmer climates in florida having turned up the heat on the political battle over suspected russian hacking. trump tweeting this morning -- after white house spokesman josh earnest implicated trump in the hack of democratic organizations -- >> mr. trump obviously knew that russia was engaged in malicious cyber activity. >> reporter: trump let the press secretary have it with both barrels at a hershey, pennsylvania, rally. >> this foolish guy, josh earnest, i don't know if he is talking to president obama. you know, having the riis so im. >> reporter: at his press conference, president obama was more measured in describing his conversations with trump a few days ago about the need to investigate what russia did and didn't do. >> my hope is that the president-elect is going to similarly be concerned with making sure that we don't have potential foreign influence in our election process. >> reporter: while she didn't implicate trump, hillary clinton did tell a group of donors last nig

john roberts is there. the transition team just announced more picks. >> a couple very important importants. this president announced that lieutenant general kellogg is going to be the chief of staff. lieutenant general kellogg joins michael flynn, the national security adviser so two generals and monica crowley has been named the head of communications. the president-elect looking for the head of veterans affairs. -- one met with donald trump this morning, the third or fourth meeting he has had that he was not offered the job at that meeting. doesn't mean he won't get it but -- a couple of other conned contenders, scott brown, and congressman jeff miller, who is the head of the veterans affairs committee in at the house. there are some veterans groups who are complaining that this is going on too long in terms of naming a secretary for veterans affairs. they say that donald trump made reform of the va a central prank in his campaign but in the trump campaign saying the want to make sure they get is in one

john roberts outside trump tower. john, thank you. >>> the obama administration is trying to reinforce its scientific or ideological firewall around the finding that global warming exists and is man made. the president's outgoing interior secretary today had one last call to arms to the true believers and concern about the president-elect's administration coming in. we have the story tonight from the white house. >> reporter: speak up, that's the word from interior secretary sally jewell, imploring sciences to confront climate change deniers, especially if president-elect donald trump tries to sideline climate research. >> make your voices heard and make them relevant to the people that you're talking to. we have a president-elect who likes to win. we cannot win without good science. >> reporter: jewell, the top steward for public lands said the warning was in response to the president-elect himself who has since tempered his skepticism but on a number of occasions called climate change a hoax. >> i think it's a big sc

john roberts outside trump tower. john, thank you. >>> the obama administration is trying to reinforce its scientific or ideological firewall around the finding that global warming exists and is man made. the president's outgoing interior secretary today had one last call to arms to the true believers and concern about the president-elect's administration coming in. we have the story tonight from the white house. >> reporter: speak up, that's the word from interior secretary sally jewell, imploring sciences to confront climate change deniers, especially if president-elect donald trump tries to sideline climate research. >> make your voices heard and make them relevant to the people that you're to. we have a president-elect who likes to win. we cannot win without good science. >> reporter: jewell, the top steward for public lands said the warning was in response to the president-elect himself who has since tempered his skepticism but on a number of occasions called climate change a hoax. >> i think it's a big scam for a

fox's john roberts now with another controversy over mr.rump's choice for secretary of state. >> reporter: sources tell fox news that donald trump has his sights set on rex tillerson. the official announcement might be days away. in an exclusive interview, tillerson is an influential and impressive candidate for the job. >> he is a world class player. to me he knows many of the players and knows them well. he does massive deals in russia and for the company. >> reporter: but tillerson could face head wounds for the information. even concerned about their close business ties to russia's presidency. allegations from cia that they would try to help trump as he was tweeting could you imagine if the election results were the opposite and we would try to play to russia's cia card that it will be called a conspiracy theory. on fox news sunday, that the whole thing will be ridiculous. >> and nobody who does. that it will be very interesting that once they hack if you don't catch them in the act that you will not catch them. that you have no idea if

a fox news reporter john roberts tells us that mr. trump's allies are pushing back now against syria's criticism of tillerson's ties to russia. >> reporter: a surprise appearance by donald trump in the lobby of trump tower today after a meeting with his old friend kanye west. >> he's a good man. >> reporter: later a visit from gill beats ahead of tomorrow's big tech summit. but the headline today is outside the box pick for secretary of state. exxonmobil's ceo rex tillerson. >> as long as we couldn't be more grateful that someone of rex tillerson's proven leadership and accomplishment has been willing to step forward to serve our nation. >> reporter: while some members of congress had concerns about tillerson's deep ties to russia. but mitch mcconnell offered their full support. robert gase who served as secretary of defense both said that tillerson would bring to the position vast knowledge, experience, and support in dealing with dozens of governments and leaderships in every corner of the world. condoleezza rice added that tillerso

senior national correspondent john roberts is live tonight in wisconsin where president-elect trump'shank-you tour resumes in about two hours and more breaking news from the transition, new picks. good evening, john. >> reporter: bret, good evening to you. we learned in just the last hour that donald trump has made another decision. he intends to name montana congressman ryan zinke as secretary of the interior. one of the things that donald trump really likes about zinke is his military record. he was a member of s.e.a.l. team 6 holding the rank of commander. all in all, it was another busy day at trump tower. another surprise appearance by donald trump in the lobby of trump tower today, after a meeting with his old friend, kanye west. >> he's a good man. >> reporter: later a visit from microsoft founder bill gates ahead of tomorrow's big tech summit but the headline today was trump's outside the box pick for secretary of state, exxonmobil ceo rex tillerson. >> we just couldn't be more grateful that someone of rex tillerson's proven leadership and accomplishments is willing to step fo

senior national correspondent john roberts is live tonight in wisconsin where president-elect trump's thank-you tour resumes in about two hours and more breaking news from the transition, new picks. good evening, john. >> reporter: bret, good evening to you. we learned in just the last hour that donald trump has made another decision. he intends to name montana congressman ryan zinke as secretary of the interior. one of the things that donald trump really likes about zinke is his military record. he was a member of s.e.a.l. team 6 holding the rank of commander. all in all, it was another busy day at trump tower. another surprise appearance by donald trump in the lobby of trump tower today, after a meeting with his old friend, kanye west. >> he's a good man. >> reporter: later a visit from microsoft founder bill gates ahead of tomorrow's big tech summit but the headline today was trump's outside the box pick for secretary of state, exxonmobil ceo rex tillerson. >> we just couldn't be more grateful that someone of rex tillerson's proven leadership and accomplishments is willing to step

we will find out. >> keep us updated, john roberts. thank you. >>> our series on the first 100 days of the trump administration continues tonight with law and order. it was a big rallying point for the maverick republican candidate. now we get to see if he meant what he said. we take a look from new york. >> reporter: the thin blue line, the men and women in uniform, were a focal point of president-elect donald trump's campaign. >> to all law enforcement in america, we are with you, we support you and we will always stand with you. we love you. >> reporter: now as mr. trump prepares to move into the white house, officers across the country say law enforcement should remain a top priority. >> what i care about and i think what the administration, what the department of justice homeland security, what everybody cares about is do people feel safe, are people safe in their neighborhood, where they live? >> reporter: a key component of the action plan to make america great again is centered on policing. >> restoring community safety act red

and as john roberts reports... in tennessee -- they're still trying to get ahead on wildfires. folks in the southeast are assessing the damage following a series of heavy storms overnight, with several suspected tornadoes hitting parts of alabama, tennessee, louisiana and mississippi. first responders through damaged and destroyed buildings, while anxious residents return home. mos says "..we got in the basement, and after it all went by we came over here and the building was tore up" lindblom says: "..we've had a community member lose their residence but nobody got seriously hurt and nobody has lost any life so we got that to be thankful for." but, other communities weren't so lucky. there have been several confirmed deaths -- and, officials throughout the southeast are reporting multiple injuries. many others say they're not sure if they'll be able to recover from the damage. cantrell says "..we damages to some barns and different things, and like i say, trees and some 18-wheeler beds and things that were actually tilted over." meanwhile, further north in tennessee, crews are

. >> for more, senior national correspondent john roberts is live right now outside of trump tower. o, john, good morning. what is mr. trump saying this morning about rex tillerson? reporter: good morning to you, eric. secretary of state is probably one of the most if not the most important position in the president's cabinet, second only to who is running pentagon. you have to be the president's representative the world over. you have to represent united states interests around the globe and be prepared pretty much to work 24/7 for the next four years. sources tell fox news that president-elect donald trump settled on rex tillerson, the current ceo of exxonmobil, his choice for that esteemed position. he was recommended to the trump campaign from a number of people outside of government according to sources among them, robert gates and condoleeza rice, who you might remember recently met with the vice president-elect mike pence in washington. one of the things that donald trump really likes about tillerson he has crafted deals, some of them very, very difficult deals in some of the

chief justice john roberts' upholding obamacare is one big exception. >> they will interpret the constitution the way the founders wanted it interpreted, and i believe that's very important. >> reporter: trump promised to put conservatives on the high court, and he'll start with the unfilled vacancy left by the death of antonin scalia. should justice kennedy or either of the court's oldest liberals, ruth bader ginsburg or stephen breyer, retire, trump could change the court for a generation by creating a 6-3 conservative majority for the first time since the 1930s. to be sure, it's not clear sailing for trump's agenda. a dozen returning republican senators, roughly one in four, rejected or never endorsed trump's presidential bid, and they may push back on some of his nominees and proposals. still, it's a striking measure of what has changed that a republican who won the two biggest landslides in his party's history could change far to office by so narrow aedsed margin has the potential to change so much more. >> this is pbs newshour weekend, saturday. >> stewart: the 114th session of congress

john roberts is covering it all for us. >> another story amid growing accusation that russia tried to interfere in the election. john brennan decloined to brief p the house on this matter. critics say it is too many politics at play and point to the administration for things like this. >> we want to it reset our relationship. >> we'll do it together. >> so we'll do it together. okay. after my election i have more flexibility. governor romney i am glad you recognize al-qaeda was a threat. you were asked what was the biggest threat to america you said russia and not al-qaeda and now the 1980s are asking for the foreign policy back. the cold war has been over 24 hours. >> a piece that said russia influenced the election and obama, not trump. they are joining us via skype and the picture is great and and we appreciate the time today. looking at the sound we played for our viewers, this is what you zeroed in on in your piece. it is the sudden outrage by the administration on russia. tell us more as the story progresses. >> we'll start with a question. if the russians are to blame if presid

john roberts. it will be quite an evening.t looks like you have got a full house, about 10,000 people. is that correct? reporter: there are a lot of the people here, i would have to look up again what the capacity of his arena is. it's 2/3 full. there is still time before trump takes the stage. he will haval healthy audience tonight to hear him. and they always make lots of noise. lou: up next, trump's former national spokesperson, katrina pierson is joining me. we'll be coming right back after these messages. we'll do all the housekeeping and take a quick break. stay with us. ♪ [vo] is it a force of nature? or a sales event? the season of audi sales event is here. audi will cover your first month's lease payment on select models during the season of audi sales event. lou: joining us is donald trump's former national campaign spokesperson, katrina pierson. i want to ask you first much all, this president-elect is making good on promises early. he's moving the ball like we haven't seen a president move like this period, particu

john robert social securis is f developments. >> it all seems to be a a city people who are lbgt, whent was passed, the state legislature passed. and it prompted a huge outcry across the country. it prompted a boycott by organizations like the acc. a lot of film production set to take place in north carolina suspend suspended. papal did not bring in a new office, bruce springsteen canceled a concert there. they said tell you what, i'll ti take steps if the city council overturns the ordinance. they said they wanted nothing new to do with that. they took a vote to repeal that ordinance if the legislature did the same thing. so basically they accepted the deal. what changed in that time? with the university political science president -- they were not willing why does it look like charlotte was successful. and now, they decided to do it, the city council gives them a legislature to repeal it, and so it sort of answers our questions about how politics played into it all. >> i think it is probably safe to say when you consider rory cooper was on the phone lobbying members of the council. t

john roberts is live outside of trump tower in new york city. just named, congratulations to my friends. >> a lot of action here this afternoon. not just an anti-trust protestor almost coming to blows with the naked cowboy. joe manchon going upstairs to talk to president-elect trump. the fact that he comes from a tv coal state. there has been no official announcement on this, but rex tillerson this is maybe one of the top one or two in the cabinet. rex tillerson crafted deals. donald trump really likes that aspect of it and here is what he told chris wallace on fox news sunday. >> he is more than a business executive. he is a world class player. to me a great advantages. he does massive deals in russia. >>> however, they could run into head wins. even some republicans are concerned he might be too close to russia because of the deals he set to make in russia. donald trump has not yet named tiller s er tillerson, though he is expecting to. what can you tell us ant the golden elevators. >> what a difference winning an election makes. remember the

john roberts has more on what is an interesting and big story, john. >> reporter: hb-two is the namef the controversial bathroom law in the state of north carolina can. it was a hot button issue and it cost governor mckror his job. and this morning, charlotte city council decided to vote 10-nothing to repeal the anti- discrimination ordinance that played the ground work for the law to be passed. governor mckrory was trying to get rid of that. and that led to a boy cot by the ncaa and acc. and pay pal decided not to it move in and bruce spring sting and others cancelled the concerts and he said if you get rid of the ordinance i will get rid of hb-two. and they never did that. >> they were not repeal unless charlotte made the first move. it looks like charlotte was successful in getting the republican governor out of office. >> and it looks like the incoming governor roy cooper is clear the books. he was lobbying the city council members. but the mayor roberts said no, it is not political. this is what she said. >> we didn't have to do a thing. there is no requirement for the state to

and my colleague john roberts first reported last week that bolton is still being considered for the position of state that is secretary of state, dana roback are is also being considered. senator bob corker who conway said would have an easy confirmation, and considered for the top spot. >> let's start with rex and his close ties with vladimir putin, russian president. is that a pro or con? >> coming up the honda. the generals are in charge and in control of the agencies. the thing to know about the secretary of state job is it has changed over the past eight years and climate is a huge part of it. the focus of the pentagon and federal agencies. one of the tasks of this administration will be to assess the deals and positions they made on climate and unravel or pursue and even consider a valid question, considering a very big statement that we are not on the same page. >> criticism for donald trump going up to the election, ties with vladimir putin. pros and cons irrespective of climate change. >> to address my personal opinion i have a lot of trouble, what does it mean? russia is o

john roberts is covering all of this in west alice, wisconsin, where mr. trump will continue his thank you tour. >> it is very glamorous here and cold as well. about nine degrees. that's why you see just a small group of people lined up in front. most wisconsinites are waiting for the doors to open. let's start with rex tillerson. some concerns on capitol hill that he is just a little too close to vladimir putin for their liking. back in 2013, he received an order of friendship with putin for cutting a deal in russia, and not because he was very good friends. there is praise for him with mitch mcconnell saying he will throw his full support behind dillerson. robert gates praising tillerson's vast knowledge and kesz dealing with dozens of government leaders throughout the world. reince priebus playing down any issues with tillerson's rip with putin, here he is this morning on "fox and friends." >> having relationships with people is not a bad thing. i don't know how we got to the place where having an actual functional relationship with someone who might no

john roberts with our southeast newsroom. john? >> shep, these are pictures of the north carolina senate that made a measure to repeal the so-called bathroom bill, otherwise known as house bill or hb2. there's a provision in section two causing a controversy. it would require a six-month cooling off period and regulating public accommodations or access to restrooms, showers or changes facilities. you'll remember it was passed by the city of charlotte that started this off when charlotte said lgbt could use the bathroom of whatever bathroom they identify with. they are worried if they repeal hb2, another county across north carolina will implement the same thing, maybe even charlotte, do it again. politics is involved because the outgoing governor, pat mccrory, who was defeated by roy cooper, offered twice if the city of charlotte repealed its ordinance. twice, the may juror jennifer roberts said no and soon after roy cooper was elected, she said, well, let's revisit that deal again. that required mccrory to respond in this way. >>

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. >> trump transition team has made fox news senior national correspondent john roberts is live outsiderump tower with the latest on that. john, how are you doing? >> good evening to you, tucker. we are doing well. we heard weeks ago that donald trump is going to hold a press conference thursday the 15th at which he was going to detail how he was going to separate himself from his vast business enterprise. his vast array of businesses that he is tied with. but now we understand that he is going to delay that from this thursday until some time at the beginning of january, possibly the first week of january. the reason why? , according to a transition official that they have just got too much on their plate right now in terms of filling out the cabinet. donald trump is doing interviews from 10:00 in the morning until 7:00, 8:00 at night. there just wasn't time to wedge all of that. in they said no worry, there is no problem in delaying it. we will get it done. however, a top 2016 democratic campaign operative says that donald trump could be playing shrewd with them this saying he doesn't

first reported by the wall street journal and confirmed by john roberts. and governor of indiana mike pence. they will give $7 million in tax breaks to united technologies, the parent company of carrier, and it covered 800 workers at this stilt. they were going to move 1400 workers over to mexico, so that means they still plan to move 600 jobs to mexico and will also continue with their plans to close a second manufacturing facility in near by huntington, indiana. that has 700 jobs moving to mexico. the incoming trump administration says this is the brukt of making good on a campaign promise and negotiating on deals like this. and on top of this, and this is something that is certainly ongoing to congress right now, the parent company gets about $5 billion or $6 billion in a year in government contracts. and they want to slap penalties on those that get government contracts and then move jobs overseas. >> donald trump is arriving here in just a few moments from now, landing at least in the area. then he comes here to the carrier facility. he'll get a tour,

. >> kelly: john roberts has more from cincinnati. >> i want to thank all of the workers at this plant. >> still seven weeks away from taking office donald elect and the campaign promise today announcing a deal with carrier to keep more than a thousand jobs in indiana. >> donald trump was running for president he said if he was elected president, america would start winning again. today america one. and we have donald trump to thank. >> nearly every step of the campaign he singled out carrier for abandoning american workers. threatening if they moved their operations to mexico. >> air conditioning which is leaving for mexico. they will not be leaving for mexico. >> he says he will use incentives and threats to keep other companies from leaving. >> companies are not going to leave the united states anymore without consequences. >> at the transition office stated ?continues over to the top cabinet positions. ?now there is concern that leaking classified information could be problematic. petraeus would also need to notify his parole officer every time he travels outside the state of north

meanwhile, fox news senior national correspondent john roberts with the president-elect, with his report. >> i want to thank all of the workers at this plant. reporter: president-elect trump and his running mate, made good on a campaign promise announcing a deal with carrier to keep more than a thousand jobs in indiana. >> he said if he was elected president of the united states, america would start winning again. today america won, we have donald trump to thank. reporter: nearly every stop on presidential campaign, trump singled out carrier for abandons carrier workers threatening massive tariffs if they moved their operation to mexico. >> they are hope of air-conditioning, which is leaving to mexico, we'll are charging you a 35% tax every single day. carrier will not be leaving indiana if i am president. reporter: trump indicated as president he will use a combination of incentives and threats to keep other companies from leafing. >> companies, are not going to leave the united states any more, without consequences. reporter: at transition office, intrigue continues over two of top cab

kelly ann conway and john roberts this earlier. if you anyhow it in august, september and october when allege wouldly they did, why was not president obama talking about it? why not put that out there? judy, 100 percent or thousand percent correct about it. president obama should have done something and looked into it. it is too late now. >> more than that, to blame the media and say that the media actually is the hand maiden of the russians in this. it sounds trumpian because donald trump refused to believe and calls the charges ridiculous that wikileaks is russian in origin. but we've got to get to the woman of this and you don't do the nation favors by underminding the lejetimacy of the press that is supposed to be a check and balance. >> this is essentially the white house and we'll see what the president said in a little while. he's undermined the scomplekz result and press and blaming everybody else as well. >> he is blaming everybody else. julian assange's lawyer i met with him five hours, we don't finish he's telling the tr

. >> thank you, john roberts. >>> both outcome going and in come canning vice-president presidents in washington. mike pence met with the senate gop caucus. mike emmanuel is on capitol hill with more on that. mike, what do we expect? >> reporter: we just saw vice-president elect mike pence arrive here for lunch. bottom line vice-president elect and new administration and senate republicans are continuing their dialogue as they hope to hit the ground running. senate republicans hope it is a regular thing once mike pence becomes the vice-president of the united states. mitch mcconnell hopes that pence will attend when he is in town and the lison between the trump administration and law makers on capitol hill. similar to the role that vice vice-president cheney did in the bush years. pence is no stranger to the hill after serving 12 years in the house of representative. and they expect he will be a consistent communicator with law makers as the administration moves forward. vice-president biden left here a few minutes ago and met with house democrats as part of his farewell tour. he gene

[laughter] but i think that history will look back at the appointment of john roberts and samuel alito conclude the decisions. >> you have read different reviews of the boat and there is a lot of candor about everything in the book and you talk in a couple of cases that you know your job isn't a game of perfect but if you had to do it all over again, there's a couple things you would probably do differently. why don't you talk about in the sense -- >> i'm often asked if i have any regrets in things i would do differently. you need to appreciate how hard these jobs are and people at the highest levels are going to make mistakes as these are the most difficult decisions you could possibly imagine. it would be great to be able to change the decisions and wouldn't life be great if we had do overs. i was back and we gave recommendations about the authority and commander of chief dealing with american citizens in the war on terror and the supreme court issued decisions that said the president's authority as commander in chief doesn't extend that far. obviously we would provide different advi