and in nashville, tennessee, pulitzer prize winning historian and nashville cat, jon meacham. >> one of the ways we christmas shop down here, there are willie geis geists busts at the bookstore. >> can you get those at the student hall of fame if you need one. >> by the way, i am going to rewrap a lot of jon meacham books if people give -- >> how many do you have? >> five or six. never opened them. >> well, you got him on the show. >> donald trump settled on a choice of secretary of state, and sources tell nbc news his choice will be exxon mobile's rex tillerson. and last night, mitt romney said it was an honor to be considered. i have high hopes. sources tell nbc news that trump called romney to inform him he had not been selected for the position, and romney told trump he was honored to be considered. >> i will speak for myself, i am grateful that mitt romney would put himself out there, despite all of the differences they had in the campaign and do it simply because he wanted to serve america. >> now i am just hearing tillerson is official at this moment. >> and so richard, "the n