lewandowski: of course. when you walk away from what is the most historic campaign in the history of our country, there is that buyers are more's -- buyer's remorse. campaign has done a good job of making sure donald trump is on message. and my philosophy -- let trump be trump. he has bypassed the mainstream media, told his message. josh: when people go behind the curtain -- he talks a lot about will be there and will reveal itself election day. polls are what they are. how convinced are you that there is this spiral of silence? mr. lewandowski: i think there are people out there who do not want to publicly state they are supporting donald trump. we saw some of this in the primaries. we saw the dominance donald trump here had. also in south carolina and nevada. in florida. a week out in florida, there was a public poll that came out that said he won by 20. when you see polls where you just touch a button to answer, you see him do much better. here and in pennsylvania, you will see people who come out and who

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 ob

you cannot expect corey lewandowski not to be corey lewandowski. >> this is on the networks, but he makes the broadcasts better because you learn the trump point of view from lewandowski. >> it sets up a debate with corey lewandowski and donna brazile and moderate it. you'll know what they're representing but don't say they're cnn employees. >> now that you raise the subject, i'm on these panels and it's with people who say that they're always what the vague term, a democratic adviser, republican adviser. you don't know their clients. it's never announced. >> everyone is a republican or democratic strategist. >> who aufrb have consulting firms. you don't know without asking them to disclose a list. i don't -- i have never been on your show when you say, by the way, democratic adviser, who are your clients this cycle? >> it makes me think about karl rove at fox as well, who is raising millions of dollars. paul begala at cnn with a clinton super pac. after the bottom line is after the election, it's time for a reevaluation of some of these relationships. >> you want expertise, but you have

also, trump's original campaign manager who was fired, corey lewandowski. if you recall, he was accused of assaulting a female reporter. those charges were dropped. then republican national committee chairman reince priebus and campaign manager kellyanne conway. for secretary of defense, alabama senator jeff sessions appears to be on the short list. for homeland security, michael mccaul's name is mentioned. he's currently the chairman of the house homeland security committee. former house intelligence committee chairman mike rogers is apparently on the list for cia director. for the treasury secretary, extraordinary, look where we have come since the financial crisis. politico says former goldman sachs, you heard that right, goldman sachs banker mnuchin is on the list, and jeb hensarling. and jamie dimon was told he would make an excellent treasury secretary, although there have been no formal conversations between dimon and trump. also, in the hunt, ruly giuliani and chris christie, possibly for attorney general. could there be a job for ben carson? maybe.

corey lewandowski, fired from the trump campaign. someone it's reported ivanka and jared kushner don't like. >> he was let go from the campaign, and lewandowski is someone who makes the trains run on time. as we look over this list of possible appointees by donald trump, the president-elect, we should also have a broader circle that we're thinking about because trump, coming from the business community, my sources tell me he's looking at people like carl icahn, the famed invest investor, to come in in some role, the investor in california to come in. trump right now is thinking through all these different decisions, but he's aurls looking at people beyond the political world. >> what kind of guy is donald? does donald look at the people who are with him day in and day out for the last year and a half and say this is my team. i have to stick with them through and through, or could he look at that, well, that was my jv squad. now i'm up to varsity? >> a lot of people who are elected as outsiders bring in the loyalists that populate the

trump campaign manager corey lewandowski left his job at cnn adding more intrigue to the equation.host of i'll tell you what and fox news digital politics editor chris stirewalt and co-host of the circus mark mckinnon. he also searched as the chief media advisor to george w. bush. all right, chris stirewalt. your crystal ball. trump team has suggested this will be a mix of outsiders and more traditional choices. do you expect any big surprises here? >> look, i think that some of it has shock value. some of it will be worth firing up his base. letting them know he is going to keep faith with them and some of it is designed to reassure americans of all parties and the folks in washington that is he interested in an orderly fashion. i think by the way news this evening that he has reached out to mitt romney and that he has looking for detente with one of his harshest critics and somebody he obviously did not like. these are further signs that trump is trying to heal the republican party and trying to reassure people across the spectrum. >> well, there is certainly signs that he is sha

if you don't look at why you lost -- >> excuse me, i thought this was corey lewandowski.isagree with him. sandra: he's not doing his candidate a favor by saying that's why donald trump won the race, but i think we need to move on. oh, it's me! [laughter] nancy pelosi has a challenger, ohio congressman tim ryan announcing he's running against the california democrat for minority leader. here's why ryan threw his hat into the ring. >> we're not winning, and it's time for a change. i mean, we got shellacked tuesday, but we go back to 2010, we lost, 2012 we didn't win enough -- >> how many house races have you lost since barack obama was in office? >> 68 since 2010. >> you've lost 68 since 2010? >> 68 seats since 2010. we have the lowest, the small estimator since 1929 -- smallest majority since 1929 in our caucus, and we have the smallest number since reconstruction. if that's not a call for doing something differently, i don't know what is. sandra: you heard it there. congressman ryan also says democrats need a leader who can stick to the rust belt constituents that he repr

>> well, reince priebus doesn't like corey lewandowski either. there's a lot of concerns, certainly, still towards the christie people and even within the, within the transition team, within the establishment types, who have folks like jeff sessions and some of the folks who are more socially conservative, who are very happy that mike pence is taking over, but were very concerned about chris christie and even about rudy giuliani, folks who they see as more sort of chamber of commerce, northeastern republicans. those are tensions that are not unique to the campaign, rather, that are sort of inherent in the conservative movement in the republican party. >> there's been some questions if the transition team will reach out to gop experts, who oppose donald trump's candidacy. last week, eliot cohen, a former state official under george w. bush urged officials to work with trump. and this week, after exchange with trump transition team, changed my recommendation. stay away, they're angry, arrogant, skraeping, you lost. it's going to be ugly. so in othe

corey lewandowski, you were using facial expressions to comment on what bakarie was saying but i didn'txplicitly rule that the so that was sneaky and effective. however, now it is your turn. why should people trust donald trump after all of the things that he has said that have divided this country in ways we have not seen before. what is the case for donald trump's trust as president? >> look, i think when you look at donald trump, and ask yourself why did he get into this race? donald trump didn't get into this race because he's been a career politician. he didn't get into this race because of something that he thought, you know, hey i'm going to run for state senate and senate governor, donald trump had a fantastic life before he got into this race. he said we need to change the country and leave it better for our children than what's been left to us right now. we have massive debt and i'm going to change that. so he's invested tens of millions of dollars of his own money into his own campaign to put a message out, and many people know this, he doesn't care about special interests. h

reporter michelle fields worked for when she was grabbed by former trump campaign manager -- corey lewandowsky -- while trying to ask donald trump a question.she left because she felt like brietbart didn't defend her enough. enough.bannon has been criticized for being anti- semetic and racist -- and bringing those perspectives the "alt-right" movement -- which has been accused of promoting white nationalism within the republican party. bannon will be a senior advisor -- but kelly anne conway says there's more to bannon. "my responce to that is i work very closely with steve bannon he's been teh general of this campaign people should look at the full resume. he has a harvard business degree, he's a naval officer, he has success in entertainment, i don't know if you're aware of that and he was a goldman brilliant technician. late in the week -- the trump team named leutenant general michael flynn a national security advisor.that would be a big job in a trump administration -- since he's expected to lean on those advisors a lot since trump doesn't have any military experience of his own. own.but

reporter: lewandowski built a friendshit >> he's a smart man, he's got a great family. reporter: as one of trump's earliest supporters, former senator scott brown could be an assets to the administration in everything from housing to veterans affairs. senior campaign advisor could be an easy fit on the political side of white house operations, or the national party. and the new chief of staff hails from wisconsin, rinse priebus josh: and perhaps the biggest new hampshire wild card. >> if we don't stab up to them sooner and more strongly. reporter: although ayotte lost her re-election bid, the former state attorney general could provide value in areas from the department of justice through the department of defense. while ayotte has made it clear she's not lobbying for anything, those with transition team experience know, plenty of others are. >> mike pence will be invaluable, but he's got some other seasoned people around him, certainly newt gingrich and othe this process before. it just takes a while, but they're being overreturn and they need to take a deep breath and

but we had corey lewandowski who was on the payroll. he's getting remittances. >> there's a tweet out with corey lewandowski and kellyanne conway, it's like #teamwork. >> we've had stories suggesting that he was on the phone with donald trump pretty frequently giving him had viadvice. there's a dual loyalty at the very least. thes need to reconsider their relationship with political commentaries. >> what does this mean for the future? >> it means the media instead of doing high fives if trump loses, ought to do some soul searches on why there's such a stain in our business. here's the deepest part of it. here's the part that really bothers me. the degree to which most of the mainstream media hissed the anger and frustration of the millions of people who support donald trump, are drawn to donald trump, they've been arrogant and condescending to them. that's not going to go away after election day. >>> what time could we know on tuesday? d a sick day. dads don't take sick days. dads take dayquil severe: the... ...non-drowsy, coughing, ach

and that fake news went out to lewandowski's thousands of followers.ted the tweet, but seven months later, donald's son eric tweeted out the exact same fake story. eric, too, ultimately deleted it, but not before his hundreds of thousands of followers could see it and maybe take it for fact, let alone who took the link and reposted it on their own facebook feed. i'm joined now by two reporters trying to unravel this fake news situation, kate dewey and shera frankel. she's been following facebook's response to this fake news item. katelyn, i'll start with you. he makes his living doing it. explain his job. >> it's a really fascinating business model. essentially it works similar to how any media site makes money on line in that he runs display advertising, which he buys through the google ads on his program. he then hopes that many people will read his stories, and he guarantees that by making up outlandish things that people want to share and click. then when they do share and click those stories, he makes ad revenue. so paul horner is the name of the

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josh: one name we have not heard a lot is corey lewandowski. after his departure from the campaign, he remained close to trump. he said he remains ready to help the president-elect anyway he can. this will wrap up this edition of "closeup." have a great sunday. [captioning performed by the nationalti which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. got any good gift ideas? ? verizon prepaid is gonna be my gift ? ? no extra charges ? ? cash stays in your pocket ? ? it's got hd streaming others are too stingy... ? (deep voice) with verizon you look awesome. ? verizon keeps you going with that always-on data ? ? 4g lte that's a lotta speed ? ? think about it n' you'll say... ? (deep voice) "that's the deal of my dreams." with verizon you look awesome. (vo) give verizon prepaid with always-on data on the best network >> today on matter of fact. the president elect takes on the nation's challenges. as we consider the accomplishments of the obama administration. >> obama came in on a wave of magic. >> how will you remember his presidency? m

then there's trump's political team, people like the kellyanne conway and corey lewandowski. these are devoted operatives in trump world and may be recruited to work in the new administration. or advisers in his administration. we're told that both house speaker paul ryan and mitch mcconnell told trump yesterday when president-elect was in washington, that they'd like to see reince priebus, the rnc chairman, as the white house chief of staff. our third bucket is, d.c. insiders. it features people like the former bush national security adviser, stephen hadley, whose name had been floated by some as a possible sec of defense, along with bob corker of tennessee, and the formeren ambassador, john bolton. so, john heilemann, who's got the inside track on these biggest jobs right now? >> well, the one thing we know about donald j. trump that we've seen over and over again, is that loyalty really matters to him. so these folks, especially folks like chris christie, obviously it doesn't look like loyalty is ironclad. you know, he got a little bit of a demotion today, that's a signifi

corey lewandowski is from new hampshire. donald trump was there on the lst night of the campaign and twice, i believe, in the last weekend. donald trump has a history with new hampshire. that'll be one of the stories of this campaign. this one very, very close. it was closer a few minutes ago. trump has stretched that lead a little bit, but he just did it again. it is a full one-point lead at 8 78%. this is the last hope of the clinton campaign when the rest of detroit comes in. she now has to pull that off, come back from that, and then come back here as well. you see this lead is starting to stretch a little bit. we're up to 81%. we were told this would come at the bottom of the hour at 12:30 in the east. 60,000 absentee ballots in milwaukee county. when these votes come, when we go up from 87% here, we'll see if the clinton campaign's math is -- they've been telling us what's been missing is a huge swath of democratic votes. we'll see when those votes come in. the main thing you can do right now is sit back and watch thos

and steve bannon and corey lewandowski and kelli nan conway. and rudy guiliani. trump is considering to coping some provisions of the affordable care act what is that about? >> reporter: yes, he is considering keeping the provision of denying people with preexisting conditions and provision to allow adult children to be covered up to age 26. that may not be quite as a big of a deal. each of the repeal and replace have those. repealing obama care may be the easy part but replacing it much harder. >> the problem is to pass a new bill. we have house control. you need 60 votes to pass the bill. you will need eight democratic senators to join us to get a new health care package through the desk. >> it is it hardly likely they will be go for this unless trump offers something in exchange. >> protestors are taking to the streets like here in new york. [chanting] >> protestors marching up to fifth avenue to trauchl tower. among those demonstrators, film maker michael moore. in portland, more than a dozen people have been arrested since election day. police arrested four.

. >> there are several people being considered but it is christie and lewandowski. for secretary of state, contenders like new gingrich. other pics expect to include jeff sessions and rudy giuliani. donald trump building his cabinet and mending some senses -- or trying to . >> here is what i know, donald trump is a phony, fraud -- the president-elect calling mitt romney as the candidate he defeated makes her own ca she is heartbroken and blaming fbi director james comey increase into her private email cerner -- server for stopping the momentum in the final stretch . >> for the 5th night in a row, anti-donald trump protest took the streets. hundreds of protesters clashed with least throwing bottles and blocking streets. in the previous night , protest police used tear gas. police described as confrontation with gang members. multiple people were arrested. >>> demonstrators also gathered in our own sunshine state. in sarasota yesterday they were chanting, love trumps 8. >> [ video playback ] >> dozens held signs and talked about why they don't like president-elect don

the cable news network says that donald trump's former campaign in terms -- manager corey lewandowskined amidst controversy, and he may take a job in the new donald trump administration. -- pete ow is p1 or weiner. he is been thinking a lot about the republican party and he joins us from washington. you have written quite a bit over the last few months about donald trump. is there anything you have seen since he got elected that makes you more hopeful and you were when he was a candidate? think he is handled the last 48-72 hours pre-well, but this is the easy stuff. this is the kind of thing you expect. i think he is been gracious enough, i think president obama has been gracious . we'll have to see the appointment he makes. january 20.l be preliminary, he has been fine. john: when there were people who were never trump during the campaign who then changed their minds when he became the nominee, your view of them was what? the conservatives that ended up endorsing him shortly after the nomination. it depends on the individuals and how passionate they were in their reasoning. thoughte

lewandowski went on to say that announcement so close to the election gave trump the momentum he needed to beat hillary clinton dramatic video out of syria this morning... showing a young girl being hospital. yesterday, heavy airstrikes continued to pound thethe city for the third day in a row. at least 78 civilians have been killed, one person is dead this morning after a massive gas line explosion in central illinois. authorities believe a contract worker damaged a gas line the blast damaged several buildings and shattered windows several blocks away. surveillance cameras inside nearby businesses captured the explosion. "my employee was just getting ready to leave. they were talking right next to the front door where the explosion happened." several people were forced out of their homes. 11 people were taken to the hospital with injuries. six states across the southeast they are burning in georgia, alabama, kentucky, tennessee, and both carolinas. the blanket of smoke is so widespread--- it's visible from space. and despite the danger, some people are refusing to leave their homes. (l

corey lewandowski and others were shielding him from stories, only printing out stories that they wanted the candidate to see. ways was very isolated. and that becomes, as you mentioned, problematic when he moves into the oval office and is actually dealing with war and peace. looking at steve bannon in how he got to where he is by liked. agree to his viewpoint, at times bannon seemed to coach trump to soften the harder edges of his get farther with this guy. but at some point aides paid by the taxpayer have influence. >> it's gone through a lot of different phases, but one thing they all said was that you have to sort of guide donald trump where you wanted him to go. they said that you couldn't manage or handle him. get very angry, he actually felt that's how mitt romney lost, too many different voices pulling sam nunberg, he told me that every time he would present something to donald trump, it described with bannon, he would make it as though it was trump's suggestion, and that was the way maybe incorporate a talking point. materials, but that was how you could get him to incorporate

john: corey lewandowski speaking to i tv.the trump transition team today, and jennifer jacobs has been tracking all of it. one of the things i love about having you on the program is i can say, what do you know, and whatever comes out of your mouth will be interesting. what do you know? >> there are some power struggles once trump is rising to power. just a week ago, everyone thought he was going to lose. there is a lot of shifting around. the transition team is experiencing another shakeup. there is a purging of chris christie loyalists. that has something to do with an christie andtween jerod kushner. we are hearing different camps weighing in on who they would like for key posts. we have some landing teams launching in the next few days. teamshose are are interim that will go into various federal agencies and look for reform and prepare for the new administration's priorities. mark: what we know about what trump is going for? rewarding loyalty is obviously a factor. is he going for pleasing capitol hill? diversity? intelle

mentioned some of the names again, reince priebus and steve bannon who joined the campaign and corey lewandowski and kellyanne conway's name has been mentioned. is that a good idea of someone like steve bannon, he's a loyalist but does not have a whole washington experience. >> i will make the generalize experience that absolutely it is a good idea. it is not only about loyalty, it is proper to do that. the reason i say that it is vital that the president has an immediate team around him who knows how the president operates and who knows what makes the president successful and creates a white house that the president desires. loyalty is important. you should have a mix in there. it should be 75 or 80% people like that. you may want to have some old washington hands. just because it is been done that way in washington there is no reason to always do it in washington. >> if anybody that's going to be doing things differently, it maybe donald trump. >> that's right. >> on the make up of the team. let me play a little bit of a sound of congressman kingston talking about diversity, take a look. >> i

. >> that's from the lewandowski school and not the axelrod school. i am not in my new job yet.ing is there a millions of people across the country who voted for barack obama in 2008 and 2012 and voted for donald trump. >> why didn't they vote for hillary clinton? >> i don't know. particularly when you consider how aggressively president obama weighed in, when you consider he possible -- how popular is with his supporters and the republicans and independents, comparatively, given the polarized nature of our country. there clearly are people across fed up withwho are dysfunction in washington dc and as much as i believe that that dysfunction should be laid at the feet of republicans in congress who refused to do anything with barack obama even when he was trying to promote ideas that they had originated, clearly there are a lot of people across the country who lay that dysfunction at the feet of democrats too. so i think that is part of the answer. what do we do to more effectively communicate with those voters who, i think unfairly, held democrats in washington including barack

one source telling cnn that cushner was intimately involved in the decision to fire corey lewandowskit summer. said to be intensely loyal, he once pushed back against his own newspaper, which accused trump of being anti-semitic. cushner, an orthodox jew, wrote that trump embraced my family and our jewdaism. >> my son-in-law is youish, my daughter is jewish, and i love them. >> reporter: experts say that he could avoid breaking a law if he doesn't take a salary or a formal title. but he could have another conflict. >> they have to be careful that he doesn't become a conduit of information, because he's going to have information about what the administration is doing, and if he talks to his wife about what the business is doing, there is a conflating of the business and official interest. that's something i think they're trying to keep separate. >> reporter: once again tonight, jim acosta reporting that donald trump has requested security clearances for his children and jared cushner. so will jared cushner be able to avoid talking to his wife about the administration's dealings, which m

campaign about all the tumultuous turns in this campaign, all the different leaders from corey lewandowski, paul manafort, to john bannon. jared bushner has been a thread throughout, one of the things hoeding this campaign together. i think that we can expect this to continue as they move into the white house. >> can we see him as part of a daily briefing even if he takes on a voluntary role into we are seeing that in the transition now potentially. when it gets to the white house it gets murkier. because if you are in an unsalaried position there is questions of conflicts of interest. and eye can have a and the other children are going to be running the trump business as kind of a blind trust between donald trump as president. >> not really a blind trust, is it? >> that's what we have been talking about, is this going to prevent conflicts of interest? it's the setup they have planned so far. jared kushner, married to ivanka trump raises more questions of conflict of interest. >> did you want to get in on this in. >> no. i think that -- well, yes. to he moo, knowing -- i've also reported o

mark: i think you will be from the lewandowski school and not the axelrod school. mr.nest: i'm not in the new job yet. i'm sticking with mild job. one job at a time. the second thing is there are people across the country who voted for barack obama in 2008 and 2012 and then voted for donald trump. mark: why didn't those people vote for hillary clinton? mr. earnest: i don't know. considering how president obama weighed in at how popular he is across the country, not just with his longtime supporters, but with republicans and independents as well, comparatively, given the polarized nature of our country. there clearly are people across the country who are fed up with dysfunction and washington, d.c., and as much as i believe that that dysfunction should be laid at the feet of those in congress who refuse to do anything with barack obama even when he was trying to promote ideas that they had originated, clearly there were a lot of people across the country who laid that dysfunction at the feet of democrats, including the president. i think that is part of the answer too,

bakari sellers, cory ley lewandows lewandowski, margaret hoover, and hillary rosen is here, and they're laughing because he moved away, he or she. dixville notch just eight voters now. >> reporter: i have to point out that dixville notch is very remote. >> hold on. >> reporter: this is a very remote area. >> rachel, stand by. what were you saying hillary? >> i was saying this does feel like a moment that this campaign of almost two years is actually ending right now. >> reporter: here we go, don. >> so you've got the first voters in dixville knox and lady d gaga on the other side in north carolina. >> reporter: hillary clinton four votes. donald trump two votes. two votes for trump. >> johnson weld, one vote. >> reporter: johnson one vote. and a write in for mitt romney. >> there you have it. okay. so we're good. this is for governor. rachel -- all right. they want to see. stand by. repeat that, rachel? >> reporter: clinton four, trump two. >> not that. hold on. >> reporter: one for johnson. >> for representative, ann custer, four. jim lawrence, four. >> tied. wow. >> that's it for the

. >> what about corey lewandowski? what is he -- you have no problem with that, that he was getting paid by trump? >> he's a contributor and he's -- >> getting paid by trump while he was at cnn. we're going off on brazile. >> i don't think anyone working for a campaign, working for the campaign, should be paid by a news organization. unless you point arrows saying, working for the campaign, hello. the people we outlined in that full screen, none of them are that. >> can i point out one thing from thrush? at one point he sends an e-mail to jennifer palmieri. and she writes back, he did me the courtesy of sending me what he is going to say about me, seems fine. meaning that he was saying, i did an interview with you, whether it's good or bad, but giving her the courtesy because he's going to have to talk to her later on and have to have a relationship. a lot of this stuff in the e-mails is about relationships. again, the dark alley thing, i think that's a good point. it's one of the reasons press secretaries never want t

tower yesterday, transition team chairman chris christie, trump's former campaign manager corey lewandowskid trump adviser senator jeff sessions. mr. trump's election also means he now receives the same top-secret national security briefing as the commander in chief. meanwhile, across the country last night protests and demonstrations against trump's victory. thousands gathered in the streets of major cities like new york, chicago, houston, seattle, and oakland, while many of the protests were peaceful, there was some violence in oakland, where you see demonstrators here smashing in the windows of a police car. >> speaking from the rose garden yesterday, president obama put his differences with donald trump aside and called on the nation to unite behind the president-elect. the president also says he instructed his staff, some of them whom you can see emotional here during his address yesterday, to work for a smooth and successful transition. >> sometimes, you know, we move in ways that some people think is forward and others think is moving back, and that's okay. i've lost elections before

one is, when you look at corey lewandowski going over to london saying, it was comey in the last weekend that really shifted this election and gave it to donald trump, and, of course, donald trump said he doesn't know what he will do with comey and hillary clinton said she believes comey is responsible, what does the pollster think? >> the pollster doesn't agree with either of those wholesale. here is why. the polls started to tighten before the comey announcement. it was due in large part to trump being out there talking about obamacare. at that moment, people were opening up their mailboxes and they were getting obamacare premium increase notices. obamacare really is the issue in the off-year election. it won the republicans everything. they couldn't do it in 2012 because they nominated the political cover for obamacare in romneycare. but that aside, people have felt frustrated that obamacare for many americans is the most -- is the best example of how innovative -- >> you think it was obamacare? >> i think it's a combination. >> finally -- >> comey hurt. hillary said on friday night w

the cable news network says that donald trump's former campaign anager corey lewandowski has eresignedontroversy and he may take a jump in the new trump administration. with us now, pete wiener, from the ethics and public policy center. he has been thinking over the last few years about the future of the republican party and doing more now in the wake of the trump victory. you have written quite a bit over the last few months about donald trump. is there anything you have seen since he got elected that makes you more hopeful and you were when he was a candidate? pete: i think he is handled the last 48 to 72 hours pretty well, but this is the easy stuff. this is the kind of thing you expect. i think he is been gracious enough, i think president obama has been gracious. we'll have to see the appointment he makes. in the white house and his cabinet. the test will begin on january 20 and accelerate after that. i don't think we have enough to go on. what we seen so far, which is very early, very preliminary, he's been fine. john: when there were people who were never trump during the campai

john: that was former campaign manager corey lewandowski. is a lot of news coming out of the trump transition team these days. bloomberg senior national reporter jennifer jacobs has been tracking all of it. she joins us from washington, d.c. one of the things i love about having you on the program is i can say, jennifer, what do you know, and whatever comes out of your mouth will be interesting. jennifer: we know there are some power struggles going on now that trump's rising to power when no one expected him to. now that he is in power, there is a lot of shifting and the transition team is experiencing another shakeup. we have been told there is a purging going on of the chris christie loyalists. that has something to do with an old grudge between christie and trump's son-in-law jared kushner , who has become a very influential voice. differentring lots of camps weighing in for who they would like to have for key posts. lots of people going in and out of trump tower. we have got some landing teams, as they call it, that are going to be laun

. >> reporter: kushner also said to be key in ousting corey lewandowski and selecting mike pence for vice president. with kushner now likely to get a top national security clearance. sources tell cnn at least during the transition the president elect has as one of his closest advisors a member of his immediate family. >> one important distinction to make here is. that until donald trump puts his hand on that bible in january he is still the president elect, still a private citizen. has a bit more leeway do what he wants. if kushner then goes to the white house and takes a position that is something entirely different and the questions will get much louder. >>> "outfront" now. ben fersen, conservative radio host. keith boykin. david chalian and gloria berjer. gloria, let me start with you. is there a precedent for someone like kushner, 35, son-in-law, without any government experience to be so powerful? >> it is hard to think of one. first thing that comes to mind of course is jfk appointing his brother attorney general. but that was why we have nepotism rules now. and so i think it i

. >> kellyanne conwayweeted a picture of herself and corey lewandowski, is he apart of the trump's campaign>> i thought he work for a television network? >> he does not work for the campaign. >> is he campaigning or make decisions? >> he's evolved but he's not a former part of the cal pampaign. he's support i'ive. >> it is going to be a long and short four days >> thank you. >> don't you love those. that's what we all need, more numbers. stay with us. on prescriptions. we found lower co-pays... ...and a free wellness visit. new plan...same doctor. i'm happy. it's medicare open enrollment. have you compared plans yet? it's easy at medicare.gov. or you can call 1-800-medicare. medicare open enrollment. you'll never know unless you go. i did it. you can too. ♪ ii could stand in the middle of a5th avenue and shoot somebody and i wouldn't lose any voters, okay? and you can tell them to go f**á themselves. you know you could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever. you gotta see this, i don't know, i don't remember. he's going like 'i don't remember.' imy mode

i think that cnn definitely has to do some sort of investigation because well, look, they have lewandowskitheir pay roll while he's paid by trump. there's so much going on. >> they were already aware, everybody knew that. everybody knew cory was on the payroll and-- >> cnn has had sort of a strange situation going on this election. i don't really understand what they're doing over there. so, yes, they do need to do an investigation. liz: the final word. >> i think there needs to be oversight from an independent third party. you can't expect the unit to investigate themselves. liz: thank you so much. appreciate it. next up, we have another heartbreaking case of cops targeted for assassination. the suspect in two separate ambush style attacks, he killed two police officers. he's now in police custody. in a separate incident in another state, a suspect caught on tape attacking yet another police officer. trump national coalition vice chair and if you want this to stop, do not elect hillary clinton. >> it doesn't look like there was any interaction between the officers. however the coward is w

trump'stch the chaos of primary campaign unfold with campaign managers like corey lewandowski and paulanafort being fired, the guy trump settled on is steve bannon, the guy he once in his corner in the white house the same way he did in the campaign. >> there is one thing to keep in mind about trump's leadership and management style. as a candidate over the last year, he seeks advice from a lot of people. he would spend a lot of time in trump tower calling people, taking the temperature, getting their advice. that is not the way a president normally operates. he is going to bring that style to the white house. that is one of the reasons he has two very different people at top levels of authority in his west wing. >> i think the point michael made is incredibly important. breitbart, bannon public enemy number two is the clintons. public enemy number one is the establishment. it is going to be an incredible interesting conflict-ridden four years between bannon and his the republican establishment. charlie: he was chairman of the national committee. he is good friends with the speaker of

we heard that corey lewandowski resigned his -- >> cnn. >> maybe for obvious reasons. stock market up three days in a row, record highs. massive spike in the stock market. >> also, i'm going on "hannity" tonight. >> you are thanking president obama for the stock market. >> this would be a trump rally. >> yeah. i had records under obama and now trump is adding to it. let's give credit where credit is due. >> that's it for us. "special report" coming up right now. >>> this is a fox news alert. i'm bret baier in washington. the help wanted sign is definitely out tonight at trump tower, where the newly elected donald trump now president-elect is trying to decide on the first and most important of his staffing decisions. he made a big one today. replacing new jersey governor chris christie with vice-president-elect mike pence as the transition team chief. protests grow against the soon to be 45th president from people unable or unwilling to accept his victory. good evening, doug. >> reporter: evening. we are hearing a couple of surprises from the transition team today. firs

corey lewandowski spent almost a decade as a registered lobbyist in washington, d.c. made millions advocating for foreign clients. mike flynn also belongs in this group. "the daily caller" reported this week that the consulting firm founded by the former director of the defense intelligence agency is lobbying for a company with ties to turkey's government. if trump is serious about draining the swamp he will need to put in place rules about people's pasts and not just their future and ensure that people don't skirt the rules by calling themselves lawyers or consultants while engaging in lobbying. while trump has added he should think about campaign finance restrictions because it is politicians need to incessantly raise all that money that gives power to the lobbyists in the first place. finally as i've long advocated a short simple tax code would eliminate all the deductions and credits and special rules which are what congressmen sell when they ask you for money. it's a tall order because it's a huge problem. but unless trump tackles it on all fronts in the battle b

one is, when you look at corey lewandowski going over to london saying, it was comey in the last weekend that really shifted this election and gave it to donald trump, and, of course, donald trump said he doesn't know what he will do with comey and hillary clinton said she believes comey is responsible, what does the pollster think? >> the pollster doesn't agree with either of those wholesale. here is why. the polls started to tighten before the comey announcement. it was due in large part to trump being out there talking about obamacare. at that moment, people were opening up their mailboxes and they were getting obamacare premium increase notices. obamacare really is the issue in the off-year election. it won the republicans everything. they couldn't do it in 2012 because they nominated the political cover for obamacare in romneycare. but that aside, people have felt frustrated that obamacare for many americans is the most -- is the best example of how innovative -- >> you think it was obamacare? >> i think it's a combination. >> finally -- >> comey hurt. hillary said on friday night w

i think if we've seen from the history of donald trump whether it was when corey lewandowski was a campaign manager and he was in trouble donald trump stuck by him and that won't be any different with chris christie. especially with chris christie because chris christie supported and endorsed donald trump well before anybody else did and got a lot of heat from it as you know. having said that, new hampshire is a very targeted place, chris christie practically lived there during the primaries when he was running for president. >> now dubbed a battleground on our electoral map. >> exactly and there's good will for him there. having said that, i think it's more of a question of what this is going to mean for chris christie than donald trump given that already you're seeing the democrats who run the new jersey statehouse questioning whether he was truthful with them and their investigation of bridgegate so that could open up a whole other line of just not attack but legal -- going after him legally, maybe even going as far as impeachment proceedings and this is pretty clear, i just gotten a e-m

corey lewandowski should maybe go to new hampshire -- >> interesting point, i know corey will make the point. the trump children are out on the campaign trail. eric, and donald trump jr. both on the campaign trail. but hillary clinton does have the big name surrogates whether it is bernie sanders or barack obama or elizabeth warren and michelle obama. donald trump is doing a lot more rallies in a day because he doesn't have anybody else to do them for him. will that matter? >> well it is not just a matter of surrogates. look, if hillary clinton wins the obama coalition she wins. the republican party, this is a reason there was the big rethink of 2012 realized that it had a demographic problem of the national level. one of the arguments that trump has made is that he's expanding. he's actually getting some democrats to come home to him. but if he can't get republicans out to vote for him he has no chance. because the obama coalition is strong enough. with president obama was the best surrogate. by way. we haven't mentioned him. you have a man who can go out there and say the equivalent

corey lewandowski and the first woman to head a winning presidential campaign, kellyanne conway, a leading role for conway would go a long way towards recasting trump's image with women. pushing back against the anti-woman narrative is barbara ress who in an interview, she happened to be donald trump's construction chief for the past 18 years, she said trump preferred women over men in his inner circle. he totally believed women work harder and are stronger. he called them killers which she said was his highest form of compliment. back to you. >> doug, thank you. "the washington post" reporting tonight that senator kelly ayotte is being considered for defense secretary. we will see and follow as we get the names. a lot of times they are floated out there. we want to confirm them as they come from the trump team transition team. there is already some controversy swirling about who president-elect trump will put on his national security team. we go down the list. >> after 50 of the nation's most senior republican national security professionals said in august they could not support a trump p

contributor at the atlantic, corey lewandowski, former trump campaign manager, and op ed from the "newyork times" and kayleigh mcenany. i just want to you look at the screen there. we're going to put it up there. this is the electoral map. there are six true battleground states here. there's nevada, arizona, utah, ohio, north carolina, and florida. all six of those states go to trump. if all go to trump that only puts him at 264. he's campaigning in these blue states. does he have -- what's his best shot of turning any of these blue states red? >> well, the good news is he's ahead in early voting in florida and ohio. you're right he definitely has to turn a blue state. i think pennsylvania's a good bet. the latest polls show he's behind by two or three points. he wins if he wins florida, ohio, pennsylvania. i will point out the momentum is clearly going in his direction. he gained 13 points in the avc poll in one week, that's a big deal. when you do that you start to put unconventional states in play. newt gingrich has been pointing out there was a state wide election in high school st