so you have mike wolf's, the national security advisor, nominated now he's an ex military guy, very much on the whole case wing of the party, marco rubio nominations his secretary of state. he's been in the senate for a long time. and one of the most prominence of whole case, isaac, to me, republican whole case was voices in the senate. both of them very hard line on china policy, but also people who being supportive to ukraine so less disruptive for the trainings than many in ukraine might fit potentially. but then they has come above a cell in the name of chelsea, gabbert. now she is an anti war veteran form a democrat who used to support bernie sanders on pretty much the far left of a democratic party. this year she directed to the trump campaign and now trump is nominated as director of national intelligence. and that's a joke is meant to quoted in between america is various intelligence organizations . so it's already sensitive jumps and absolutely massive price for her. and really quite extraordinary, given that she is somebody who the day off to of letting me uprooted and invaded

and mike wolf's is national security advisor. both see china as the historic threat to us power. so what can we expect? well, let's take a look at the 2 biggest issues, the military situation, and the prospect of a trade military fence. she, jim ping is now well into his 2nd decade in power. china is getting stronger and more aggressive. in the south china sea, it's coast guards, direst vessel from the philippines, and it's being threatening taiwan with air and navy trends. either of these flash points could start a war. the drags in the us. there is a risk and a growing risk of a use of force by china, either in the south privacy or in the taiwan strait. as we know front of the us intelligence community, that senior tech has told his military that it must have the capabilities to type type one by force in 2027. trump does not want that to happen while he's in charge . he has said time and again that he's going to prevent for us from happening and that was wouldn't happen under his watch he's. that's where he criticized joe biden . i think that resonated with the american public.

on china, he's chosen to hoops with a big jump, sundays, marco rubio for secretary of state, and mike wolf's as national security advisor. both see china as the historic threat to us power. so what can we expect? well, let's take a look at the 2 biggest issues, the military situation and the prospect of a trade military fence siege and pain is now well into his 2nd decade in power. china is getting stronger and more aggressive. in the south china sea, it's coast guards, barriers to best buy from the philippines, and it's being threatening taiwan with air and navy trends. either of these flash points could start a war. the drags in the us. there is a risk and a growing risk of a use of force by china, either in the south china sea or in the taiwan strait. we know the front of the us intelligence community that senior tech has told his military that it must have the capabilities to type type one by force in 2027. trump does not want that to happen while he's in charge. he has said time and again, he's going to prevent scores from happening and that was what happened under his watch he's. that'

mike wolfe's as the national security advisor. he's a congressman from florida yet another and he's a special forces veteran of some such he is the 1st screen very to be elected to congress. so these now join the names that have already been confirmed. these elden, this head, the, the epa, thomas homan, as head of ice along with cost with susie whiles, who was the 1st announcement as chief of stop. so the trump cabinet gradually taking place my kind of autism era, west palm beach. so the carpet $29.00, somebody sent us a bunch on the wells top development banks of promised increased climate finance to $120000000000.00 a year for developing nations by the end of the decade. as part of efforts to fund the fonts and limits global warming to $1.00 degrees celsius above pre industrial levels. un secretary general antonio gutierrez, she says those countries must not leave empty handed. as the world must be up already many t, v by the price that so sees it is crucial periods. you won't feel government must be guided by a clear truce dile

secretary, mike pompeo, mike waltz, and the chairman of the house armed services me -- committee, mike rogers. chad wolf served as acting khs chief. for tone general, senator mike lee, ken paxton. and lastly, doug burgum as energy sector, and -- secretary. we also heard earlier from president-elect trump on his truth social post about the democrats' money issues when it comes to this election. $1 billion spent from the harris campaign and apparently in debt. the president-elect tweeting or posting in part, quote: whatever we can do to help them during the difficult period, i would strongly recommend we as a party and for the sake of desperately-needed unity do. so we'll have to follow that one with. again, president-elect donald trump will be meeting president biden at the white house on wednesday at 11 a.m. recall we heard president biden say from the rose garden on thursday afternoon he wants to see a peaceful transfer the of father on january 20th. anita? anita: called for unity on both sides, very interesting. lucas tomlinson, thank you. griff: for more on this, let's are bring in former acting atto

secretary of defense, congressman mike waltz or mike rogers. chad wolf, tom homan,s no strangers to our audience. the texas a.g., matt whitaker, doug burgum. what do you make of those names and faces, morgan? >> of them ivan been on the campaign trail -- i've been on the campaign trail with. chad wolf, rick yes network agoer -- haggerty and others, chad wolf and i have been going down to the border, tom homan as well. so many of us have been campaigning to get our majority back and get donald trump back in the white house now for a good three years. so again, i think the people that are on the president's short list are not only people who are loyal to him and who have campaigned for him, but every pick -- picture that you just saw are people that are eminently qualified to be secretary of state, secretary of defense, attorney general, dhs, you name it. and that's one thing, i think, will be very different now. the president doesn't have to choose people that he doesn't know, right? he's got a lot of people that he's been working with for years and some

mike rogers. fdhs secretary, chad wolf and tom homan, and for attorney general, senator mike lee, ken paxton.astly, doug burgum as energy secretary and some think he would make a good secretary of state as well, neil. neil noel thank you, my friend, very much. lucas tomlinson following that as he always does, always on top of everything. by the way, chad wolf will be joining me mow momentarily, get his take on where this whole process of the cabinet selection and beyond is going. mike waltz,es his name comes up too. house intelligence committee, house foreign affairs committee, former green beret. you do not mess with mike. congressman, great to sea you again. see you again. are you interested? your name keeps coming up for a variety of positions. you're quite a popular congressman in your own district, nationally very popular with republicans and beyond. are you interested in asked to take a position with the trump administration? if. >> well, neil, you know, look, i'm a soldier. the president of the united states calls you to serve, then you have to take that very, very serious toly. i thin

andtom homan wolf serp acting chief of course for attorney general senator mike lee, kenna paxson and matt whitaker who we just heard from leslie dunkelberg room as energy secretary some say he might make a good secretary state as well. heard that on the panel and a special report less that we've not heard from present like donald trump today at least in person we have heard on his tisthrough social he posted earr joking after the heirs campaign spent over a billion dollars on a losing effort to elect kamala harris president president trump is willing to pay some to help out the democrats. [laughter] 's before h he was the rnc to e him some money we will ask chair of the rnc a little bit later on her newscast about that place luclucas and palm beach. mr. whatley will be here with us in a few moments to discuss the president's upcoming new term. whether or not he's going to give any money to the dems. arthel? arthel: okay eric, thank you read some elite universities are canceling classes following tuesday's election. with more on what is behind this move let's go to cb cotton print she

army veterans and the chairman of the house armed services committee mike rogers dhs secretary we have chad wolf tom holman. iwolf served as acting dhs chief or attorney general senator mike lee, ken and paxinos we just heard, matt whitaker leslie doug burger them as energy secretary but some of those candidates spoke earlier on fox. >> i am a soldier the president of the united states calls you to serve you have to take that very, very seriously. he is a reformer. he is a disruptor i would certainly be willing to serve again it would be in honor of a lifetime. >> perhaps with an eye on 2028 some democrats say they're willing to work with donald trump. >> i went our president to succeed. our job, my job is not to wake up every day get a crowbar and try to put it in the spokes of the wheel. the trump administration. >> steve wycoff former senator kelly loeffler have been named as the cochairs for donald trump inaugural committee. jon: art lucas tomlinson outside the president-elect mar-a-lago estate lucas, thanks. well, federal emergency management agency is facing a major backlash after confirmi

senator marco rubio, possibly former secretary of state mike pompeo, maybe secretary of defense, former acting homeland security secretary chad wolfppointed. >> ronny: okay, you know what, actually, not as bad as i expected. marco rubio, mike pompeo -- they're basically professional political administrators. at least they're wearing suits and ties. it could be worse. >> and then there's some, shall we say, more unusual names. steve bannon, conspiracy nut laura loomer, robert f. kennedy jr., and elon musk. >> ronny: okay, yeah, it is worse! this cabinet looks like the division of the x-men for the mutants who had too much mutation. there like, "hey,what's your mutant power?" "i just talk like this! people trust me with their health!" okay, so this is the a-team. and other names floated for his cabinet include: hannibal lecter, the menendez brothers, the polio virus, and for secretary of transportation, a cybertruck with a hitler mustache. now don jr. isn't the only one thinking about the transition. so is the guy who has spent the last two years trying to transition trump into a prison cell. >> tonight, special counsel jack smith i

congressman mike waltz, served with dick cheney. homeland security secretary chad wolfcting and tom homan could do it, he was also ice director. attorney general, paxton or somebody on the outside that took on leticia james yesterday. then department of energy name popping up is someone from energy-rich state, governor doug burgum, who is -- almost was running mate and finalist there. governor, welcome. your thoughts about being recommended for so many different positions with the trump administration? >> brian, first place to start is celebrate this historic win by president trump under biden and harris. we had drawn our country into two proxy wars, one with russia, iran and cold war with china and now only been 48 hours. president trump, world preparing for peace, we have a new sheriff in town and president trump's policies, maximum pressure on iran, whether making sure america is going to be dominant in energy, will be key to diplomacy. this is game-changing already. very exciting time and policies are going to lift up for everybody. doesn't matter if you voted for p

i am wolf blitzer in the situation room . news from mike huckabee, the to be his next ambassador. huckabee said "there's really no such thing as a palestinian. " and china and russia, closer than ever. and are they on a collision course with the u.s.? cnn live in moscow with a special report. let's go "outfront. " we begin with the breaking news. trump preparing to oust three and four- far generals. "the wall street journal" reporting trump's transition team is considering an order to give trump the power to oust three and four- star generals. according to a draft of this order, which was reviewed by the wsj, trump would appoint a so- called warrior board. and that board would have the power to fast track the removal of generals and admirals that are found to be "lacking in requisite leadership qualities. " the u.s. military is so powerful in part because decisions about generals are made and promotions by a military structure. yes, as the commander in chief the president has authority to fire any officer, but this board would circumvent the pentagon's system in place. this talk o

wolf blitzer weeknights at six on cnn. >> closed captioning is brought to you by mike an all in one home access and monitoring system my garage. >> i'd be closing while i'm hiking in wyoming. if my home just had a brain we have breaking news out of the middle east. >> syrian rebels have taken control of most of the country's second largest city of aleppo in a surprise attack. video shows rebel fighters celebrating in the city's streets. government forces now appear to be retaliating with an airstrike today. the rebel assault is reigniting a conflict that has largely been dormant for years. cnn's ben wedeman is following the developments. ben, do we know what may have triggered this offensive well, this offensive only began on wednesday, fredricka and what we do know is that over the last year and a half or so the situation on the ground in northern syria has changed. >> for one thing, preceding that, of course, the russians intervened in this syrian civil war in september of 2015, providing sort of critical air support and ground support to the syrian regime. however, as a result of the ukraine war they did reduce their prese

dissent defense secretary mike pompeo, mike also both army veterans and chairman of the house armed services committee mark rogers for dhs secretary we have chad wolfom home in port wolf served as trump's acting dhs chief ken paxton and might whitaker we just heard from. doug burgum energy secretary here is chad wolf on fox earlier. >> those folks that do not have a legal right to remain here in the united states need to be removed back to her home country but you've got to be serious about it got to dedicate resources and policy to it and that is what president trump is talking about. >> steve wycoff former senator kelly loeffler have been announced as the cochairs of the president-elect trump inauguration committee. so f for right lucas and west pm beach thank you. >> we have never seen, and modern history were hostile for an actor is offered on u.s. oil, trying to kill the former president and the nominee, now course president-elect. they were of any anti-semitic rates are in the country. we know in social media they've been trying to metal on behalf of hearers through the election for tbut they did not expect dod trump to win because they gambl

wolf. >> we'll see what that decision is. lulu garcia-navarro is house speaker, mike johnson, has come pretty strongly, i think relatively strongly to gates's defense. i want you to listen to what he said in a recent interview. listen to this. >> look matt gaetz is a colleague of mine. we've been serving together for more than eight years. he's one of the brightest minds in washington or anywhere, for that matter. and he knows everything about how the department of justice has been weaponized and and misused. and he will be a reformer. and i think that's why the establishment in washington is so shaken up about this pick what do you think this is? the playbook that we're seeing that republicans have often employed? matt gaetz is a victim. he is a victim of a weaponized doj. he is innocent. and the doj actually did not choose to prosecute or rather go after him for this. but let's be clear. the doj didn't actually go after matt gaetz for this, not because there wasn't a case and not because they thought they might not be able to win it. and so those are two different t

mike saved up and built his dream home. >> sure, it had no running water or electricity, but that's the way he liked it. living with his beloved canines that were 87% wolf>> he was just so proud of this land, and he even liked living here in the winter, which i found crazy. >> well, it's right about ten below, and it's most definitely kind of a continuing blizzard out there, but i'm going hunting. >> despite being a loner, mike made good friends with his neighbors, gloria and mark flora. >> it's not against the law to be odd or eccentric, and that's what he was. and he liked to live out by himself. and if you didn't want any trouble with mike, all you had to do was leave him alone. >> but trouble soon found mike. when john meehan and his wife moved to the neighborhood. turk road is neither public nor private. instead, landowners secure easements. a form of legal permission allowing them to use the road when it passes through another's property. >> meehan and his wife maintain that no one has a right to cross, that they own it, and they aren't opening it up to anyone. >> that's where all the trouble starts. you see, mike crites lived near the end of turk

mike johnson, democratic senator elect ruben gallego of arizona, democratic senator john fetterman of pennsylvania, that's sunday morning at 9:00 eastern, again at noon only on cnn. the room continues with wolt wolf situation

wolf. republicans have put pressure on the gop members on that committee, not to release the report, including the speaker of the house, mike johnson, who contended it should not be released because gates is now a former member of congress, even though there is ethics reports against members who had just resigned. so that leaves democrats for deciding what is next. one issue that they have now offered is to try to force a vote in the full house to compel the ethics committee to release this report. wolf, that would be required for the house to act within two legislative days. it could potentially wait until after thanksgiving, but that means republicans, at least some will have to join with democrats in order for them to be successful, wolf. >> we'll see if that happens. >> manu raju up on capitol hill, thank you very much. let's get reaction from the trump world as it tries to navigate the gaetz fallout. cnn's kristen holmes is joining us from west palm beach down in florida, not too far away from mar-a-lago. kristen, you have new reporting on gates's prospects and another very controversial trump pick heading to the hill

mike johnson, democratic senator elect ruben gallego of arizona, democratic senator john fetterman of pennsylvania, that's sunday morning at 9:00 eastern, again at noon only on cnn. the room continues with wolt wolf blitzer in "the situation room." to take on a critically important role. sources telling cnn the president elect is considering one of his fiercest allies kash patel former fbi director. this as we're tracking all the fallout from trump's other provocative picks. we'll tell you why house speaker mike johnson is pushing back on calls to release an ethics investigation into trump's choice for attorney general matt gaetz. and it's deadline day for rudy giuliani, the former trump attorney and former new york city mayor. on the clock to turn over valuable assets to election workers that he defamed or faced possible jail time. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in the situation room our coverage begins tonight with the trump transition. it's been a very busy week, full of provocative picks and it appears the president elect might be on the verge of yet another very provocative pick. let's get straight to cnn's kristen holmes. she'