team fox coverage continues with peter doocy live in palm beach florida. president-elect trump has been skeptical about russian hacking. >> i it is changing, is in morning on a conference call transition officials told reporters if somebody had evidence, direct evidence, that linked moscow to interference in the u.s. eelection, they should let it be public. but until the president-elect would be skeptical. the evidence has been made public and we wait to hear if the president-elect has changed his mind. last night he popped out to talk to reporters some he said he doesn't understand why people are still talking about the hacking. >> i think we ought to get on with our lives. the computers are my caked. the whole -- complicated. nobody knows exactly what is going on. we have a lot of other things but i'm not sure we have the security we need. >> mr. truthful was asked what he -- mr. trump was asked what he thinks about lindsey graham's pitch to put sanctions p.m.ly against vladimir putin. mr. trump said he doesn't know what gray ham is doing. he -- graham b

john hutty has the strong reaction from netanyahu, peter doocy has more. and we begin with rich edison with a message the secretary of state is trying to sends. >> reporter: the state department billed this as an opportunity for the obama administration to outline its plan for palestinians and israelis to find peace and secretary of state john kerry delivered that and in a strong condemnation of israeli policy. >> some seem to believe that the u.s. friendship means the u.s. must accept any policy, regardless of our own interests, our own position, our own words, our own principles. even after urging again and again that the policy must change. friends need to tell each other the hard truths. and friendships require mutual respect. >> reporter: israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu, his government and allies criticized the obama administration this past week after the united states allowed the united nations security council resolution pass that condemned israel over its settlement bulling. the prime minister continued his rebuke of u.s. policy greeting

peter doocy with donald trump's reaction. but we begin with kevin cork on the steps the obama administration is taking to punish russia. good evening. >> reporter: good evening to you. the kremlin all but guaranteeing president obama's parting shot at vladimir putin will not be the final shot in this brewing cyber showdown. 72 hours, that's how long nearly three dozen russian diplomats have to leave the country. after the united states expels them in response to the alleged russian cyber hacking activity leading up to the 2016 election in november. president obama saying in a statement, quote -- the white house has not been shy about accusing vladimir putin of orchestrating the hacks which were revealed by wikileaks and exposed allegations of democratic party in fighting and a concerted effort by party officials to boost the candidacy of eventual party nominee hillary clinton. >> our bottom line is what russia has been engaged in in the last few months and years is unacceptable. it's outside the norms of diplomatic behavior.

peter doocy is live from palm beach, florida. peter, how quickly does it president-elect believe he can repair the u.s. relationship with israel? >> reporter: he's getting started 3 1/2 weeks from now. all we need to do have one of the supreme court justice swear him in as the next president. apparently, according to mr. trump, things are going to change a lot, if you look at the words he's using to describe how the current administration is treating our ally in the middle east, israel. mr. trump tweeted this: we cannot continue to let israel be treated with such total disdain and disrespect. they used to have a great friend in the u.s. but no more. stay strong, israel, january 20th is fast approaching. prime minister netanyahu likes the sound of that, we know so because he tweeted back this: president-elect trump, thank you for your warm friendship and clear-cut support for israel. his account had previously posted a few days ago a plea to the u.s. to veto that anti-israeli resolution but the u.s. didn't do it. now it appears is

but first to peter doocy live in des moines where the crowd was energetic to say the least tonight, peter>> reporter: they were, sandra. and on his way here, the president-elect donald trump stopped at ohio state university to meet with some of the victims and first responders involved with that mass stabbing a few weeks ago. and just now a few minutes ago he said that attack in columbus, ohio has profved that immigratin security is national security. he also did take credit for the stop market surge. he said the dow jones would not be up if he was not on his way to the white house and he addressed questions coming up from people on the left about why he's putting so many billionaires on his cabinet. he wants people who made a fortune in the business world to be representing the united states and making people for the money who voted for him and for people who did not. that's all on purpose. as for the crowd, mr. trump did have many events during the campaign in rooms like this one. and it seemed like it took the crowd that was very happy a little bit longer than at a campaign event to ge

peter doocy home christmas videos.you. what do you do? >> well, you know, i'm going to have a photo of me getting a little superman thing for christmas as a kid. i don't know, i was like 7. you got to stay tuned for that. >> that's a tease. >> okay. >> that is a tease. >> i wasn't screaming over a hockey thing or whatever. look, when you're a kid and you want an air hockey table and then you don't know how santa got it around a very tight corner into the basement. >> well, your dad's pretty crafty -- i mean santa's really crafty. >> what? >> santa's really crafty. we have other headlines. >> we have other headlines to get to starting with a fox news alert, and police making three new arrests linked to the berlin christmas market terrorist attack. tunisia's interior ministry says anis nephew and two others taken into custody suspected of being a part of the same extremist network. suspected of driving a truck into a large crowd at a christmas market in berlin on monday killing 12 people injuring dozens more. investigato

peter doocy is live in palm beach, florida. peter we don't know what the president-elect plans to do with these sanctions opposite he is sworn into service, right. >> we don't know yet. he could keep the sanctions, could get rid of them after being sworn in but the incoming white house chief of staff wants to make one 'opoint clear. the next president has no interest in treating somebody who may have enter feared with the american election with kid gloves. >> i would also say this and the president-elect agrees. we agree that foreign governments shouldn't be hacking american institutions, period. so it's not like we condone the hacking of the institutions and entities and businesses in america0. of course not. >> the president-elect thinks it's time to move on and start talking boot stiff -- about other stuff. he put out a between sentence at that time said it's time for the country move on but i will immediate with leaders of the intelligence community next week in order to be updated on the facts of the situation. so, we know

peter doocy is in florida. we begin with james rosen and where the voting stands right now. >> reporter: good evening. two faceless electors cast votes against donald trump. it was the lone star state that put the president-elect over the top. around 200 protesters in harrisburg braved freezing temperatures and tall odds in their quest to deprive president-elect trump of the votes he needed. >> i'm here today because i feel like it's last chance we have to really save this country. >> reporter: inside, amid jeer, pennsylvania's 20 electors cast their ballots for the republican who last month flipped their usually blue state to red. >> the vote for president of the united states was 20 votes for donald trump and the vote for vice-president, 20 votes for pence. >> reporter: so it was around the country with small protests in each of the 50 capitals doing little to slow the trump juggernaut. the first ten states he won that participated in the electoral college balloting, none witnessed any defections. the first s

peter doocy. nomiki konst joining me now, rachel duffy is a fox news contributor. rachel, i want to start with you first. because you are very in touch. you are part of a women's group or lead a women's group of latino women. what are you hearing? are they giving him a thumbs-up? >> i think they're opening their mind to it. we had a community organizer president for eight years. we just elected a businessman as president of the united states. hispanics start businesses at three times the rate of the average american. a lot of people don't know that. and latinos are leading that. these are entrepreneurial people having trouble with the regulations and having trouble getting access to the capital. all things that newly elected soon to be president trump is promising to fix for them. you talked about in the last segment, all of the optimism. >> not even four cabinet women for cabinet ranked positions and possibly one more, not even that silencing his critics. >> it's not just about having women -- >> extremely qualified women. >> they're qualified. no doubt about it.

jon: peter doocy in florida where it looks a lot warmer than it is here in new york. r, thank you. jenna: joining us now, bret baier, anchor of "special report." if we could only all be in florida to cover this news. [laughter] >> i know. jenna: any other day of course we would mention the electoral college, but it would probably not be leading the show as it is right now. what's your sense of this story and the possible outcome? >> well, i don't think the outcome's in jeopardy here. you had the associated press interview 330 plus of the 538 electors. they found one republican elector who said he was going to switch his vote, and that's clearly not 37. which is what they would need to get under the number of 270. and, you know, it's just not real. it is something we talk about, and these electors are clearly getting inundate canned we e-mails and called, some said death threats, letters. one guy had a shot of 600 letters he received. but they are, most of them saying they're doing exactly what they're supposed to do, their constitutional duty to vote as their state vot

from more on that, peter doocy who was at the resort tonight, hi peter. >> reporter: hi shannon, theext president was very quick to use a couple of words that the current white house has been hesitant to utter after similar attacks for the last eight years, those words are, islamic terrorism. in a paper statement about the truck attack in germany, the president-elect said in part, this, isis and other islamist terrorists continue, continuingly slaughter christians in their communities and places of worship as part of their global jihad. these terrorists must be eradicated from the face of the earth. and this morning, a senior official from the transition team said that using strong and specific language like that to describe the people planning or carrying out attacks is one way the next administration plans to address terror. >> we've got to be able to call it what it is and root it out by the bottom. we cannot be politically correct. we've got to understand the threat that we face. and attack it straight on. >> reporter: the president-elect also tweeted, he thinks the civilized wor

trump clearly does not think that this is the right answer to these questions. >> all right, peter doocy with the president-elect in west palm beach, florida. thank you. let's bring in our political panel now. capri is a democratic member of the ohio state senate. christian tate a contributorty hill newspaper and author after book "government gone wild." government gone willed at the united nations. this vote on article. >> not going to mean much in 30 days or so, trump is a friend to netanyahu, and neither trump or netanyahu think much of the u.n. the u.n. is a weak body and there's going to be a reset on peace in the middle east when trump gets in into office. >> are you constant optimistic a reset will happen? >> every knows that trump is a friend to israel. i mean, look, obama's only in office for 30 more days, and half of those days he is going to be on vacation. so, obama's pretty much becoming irrelevant. trump this de facto president and people care more about what trump thinks and says than obama, so we'll see a lot of changes as soon as trump comes into office. >> for those who

. >> find our man at mar-a-lago peter doocy live outside what you might call tonight the southern whiteouse. good to see you, peter. >> yeah, it is the southern white house. good to see you too, ed. three weeks from tonight, donald trump will become the most powerful man in the world. but, tonight he is also a media critic tweeting about the recent coverage today and last night of his response to the obama administration punishing russia. he wrote this: russians are playing cnn and nbc news for such fools. funny to watch. they don't have a clue. fox news totally gets it. that post about the russians playing american reporters was the seconds thing mr. trump tweeted about russia. both of them seemed favorable enough. and that's just one day after he announce he would listen to high ranking intelligence officials who have expressed tremendous confidence that russia was responsible for interference with the american election. mr. trump today had 10 meetings and there seemed to be as big a focus on finding the next agriculture secretary as any other day during the transition. one of the fou

with all of that we turn to peter doocy. busy day around there. >> reporter: very busy and productive up on the 26th floor because the president-elect came downstairs from his office to the lobby for the second time today a few minutes ago, unprecedented during the transition to announce this massive job creating deal with the japanese ceo of sofbank standing next to him. the deal was first announced on twitter as many things are with a pair of tweets. one of them said, masa said he would never do this had we not won the election. mr. trump said this. >> ladies and gentlemen, this is masa of softbank from japan and he's just agreed to invest $50 billion in the united states- >> the ceo stuck around to say 50,000 jobs would be in american based start ups and if this works out, this is $50,000 jobs and 1,000 jobs saved at the carrier plant last week. >> what more do you know about the rex tillerson, is he up for secretary of state? anything for sure? >> he is being considered according to transition officials for the secretary

peter doocy is in des moines. >> reporter: it was a few minutes ago that the president-elect left the campus of ohio state university. he headed for john glenn international airport there in columbus on his way here to iowa. he did meet for about 40 minutes with victims of the recent stabbing spree on campus and the first responders who stepped in to save them. >> we just saw the victims and the families. we were really -- these were really brave people, amazing people. the police and first responders were incredible, the job done in particular by one young gentleman was incredible. >> reporter: the president-elect hosted a pair of potential secretary of state contenders in manhattan. he used to be a big critic of mr. trump. >> i think he does not seem to have a grasp of the issues that are facing the nation. >> reporter: after emerging from trump tower's elevators, he sounded like an admirer. >> i found it to be a very interesting and a very informed conversation. >> reporter: the other invitation is intriguing. he was at boeing, singled out as spending too much on the next generatio

peter doocy is live in palm beach, florida, hi peter. >> reporter: hi elizabeth. this is the first time that we have seen or heard from the president-elect about the terrorist attack in germany previously until just a few minutes ago, we had just seen a paper statement from the transition office where the president-elect was credited with saying that he blames islamic terrorists for what happened before driving that truck into the christmas market. now we have a lot more insight from the president-elect, listen to this. [ inaudible question ] >> you know my plan. all along. i'm looking to be right, 100% correct is what's happening. >> have you talked to president obama at all, sir? >> i have not. >> your comments about the truck attack in berlin being against christians, do you think that this might -- >> say again, what? >> the attack in berlin being against an attack against christians. >> who said that? >> i think -- i believe you said it in a press release. >> did i? >> how this might affect relations -- >> attack on humanity, that's what it is. it's an attack

peter doocy. nomiki konst joining me now, rachel duffy is a fox news contributor.hel, i want to start with you first. because you are very in touch. you are part of a women's group or lead a women's group of latino women. what are you hearing? are they giving him a thumbs-up? >> i think they're opening their mind to it. we had a community organizer president for eight years. we just elected a businessman as president of the united states. hispanics start businesses at three times the rate of the average american. a lot of people don't know that. and latinos are leading that. these are entrepreneurial people having trouble with the regulations and having trouble getting access to the capital. all things that newly elected soon to be president trump is promising to fix for them. you talked about in the last segment, all of the optimism. >> not even four cabinet women for cabinet ranked positions and possibly one more, not even that silencing his critics. >> it's not just about having women -- >> extremely qualified women. >> they're qualified. no doubt about it. they

peter doocy is in florida. we begin with kefb kevin cork i honolulu with a reaction to the crackdown on russia. >> reporter: you are right. yesterday was the kremlin and the white house going back and forth about those accusations of cyber intrusions, trying to influence the u.s. election. today it was the russians pulling punches. it was a scene that unfolded from coast to coast. from washington to san francisco. nearly three dozen russian operatives working to leave the united states ahead of a deadline imposed by president obama in retaliation for what the white house called russian cyber intrusion during the runup to the 2016 election. >> it's all together 11 people, including three kids. they have to pack and leave within hours. >> reporter: even as the administration closed russian facilities in new york and maryland, russian president vladimir putin fired off what could best be described as his own when they go low, we go high statement. saying although we have the right to retaliate, we will not resort

c correspondent peter doocy is outsiou outside trump tower. >> reporter: good evening. that's right, the president-elect has another general in mind for a key cabinet post. he is telling us as well that the secretary of state sweepstakes is almost over. president-elect trump asked john kelly to run the department of homeland security. that according to the retired general. kelly said this afternoon he would consider it an honor. oklahoma attorney general scott pru it, who says he is not sold on the science of global warming, is the pick to run the epa. linda mcmahon is trump's choice to top the business administration and terry branstad is the nominee for u.s. ambassador to china. this as the list of secretary of state possibilities is shrinking. >> i think i have in my own mind. i don't want to say which ones, but i think i have in my own mind. >> reporter: "time" named trump person of the year because he identified the central issue motivating the electorate and convinced them he was the best person to bring change. a lot has changed since last year when mr. trump was

peter doocy is live in west palm beach, florida, where the president-elect is spending the holidays. peter, what's the latest from this? >> reporter: gregg, as you know, there's been a lot of pressure from democrats and liberal groups for the president-elect to untangle the financial obligations he has with charity work and his business dealings. now, the transition team continues to insist that at some point in january, before the inauguration, the president-elect is going to have a formal press conference where he lays out the plan for withdrawing himself from the trump organization, from all of his real estate holdings and any other investments that he has. so that's still upcoming, but now he is doing kind of a slow process of withdrawing from some of these charity organizations and something that is notable about his statement about his own charity, he points out all the good work that he thinks they do which is the same kind of thing that he said about his son, eric trump, on friday when eric trump announced that he was going to also step aside from fund-raising work from the er

for the answer to that question we go to peter doocy who is on fifth avenue as always outside trump towerpeter? >> tucker, every morning the transition team will give us a list of the people president-elect is going to meet with us here during the weekday. a list of who we need to be on the look outfor for miami. somebody not on the list who somebody came out of the elevator that people take up to see the president-elect. it was governor chris christie who has been according to reports on the inside of the france session team been pushed to the outside and back inside again. today he was literally inside trump tower. his visit, of course, very surprising but maybe not even the most interesting look at the elevator today. because senator heidi heitkamp the north carolina was ride up. and she was joined by new york city street performance naked cowboy. the senator i had camp secretary of defense i goat wrote him being generous with his time. i look forward to working with all my colleagues in congress both republicans and democrats to reach results for knot dakota and the country. the part

peter. santa is coming. he came last night. as you can see, plenty of stuff. the huckabees have chinese food for santa. the doocyss it and the reindeer. >> you opened up my present for you. unwrapped it. >> very nice, peter. very nice. >> speaking of opening presents. >> you were nice and sent us the best christmas home videos we've seen. we've been playing it on repeat ever since. peter doocy looking at his gifts for the first time. we can play some of that now. >> the mastermind behind the videos is doocy. you filmed this every year. >> i did. you know, when i was growing up, we lived in a bunch of -- the unique thing about having -- for 20 years, we've lived in the same house. so as a reporter, i figured okay, early on in our marriage to mrs. happy, i thought, okay, what is one image that i could do every year for the next 25 years? watch the kids running by. the interesting thing is, if you notice, in some of those -- special gift. in a lot of the images it's dark because, just like in the fox newschannel, we actually all worked. we worked every christmas eve, every christmas day and every new year's day and

peter doocy is live in palm beach florida with more on this bizarre incident involving the future firstamily. what are we learning now. >> reporter: even though ivanka trump was sitting with her children and the holidays are here, this agitated air travels laid into her because he was upset that he had to share the coach cabin of an airliner with her. some of the lines that this man directed at ms. trump included quote, your father is ruining the country. why is she on our flight she should be flying private. but given the chance to share his frustrations with the world, that flyer froze up. >> can i just give you a chance to tell your side of the story, man? can i just can you, man, an hour before takeoff were you planning on harassing her? >> tmz also reports the passenger who couldn't keep it together was holding a small child of his own but still didn't sensor himself. didn't think that was a spur of the moment emotionalç outbirs before boarding the man's husband geeted ivanka and jared at jfk flying commercial. that twitter account describing the disrupter's demeanor as calm has b

peter doocy outside trump tower. hear it's beautiful this time of year. >> reporter: it is beautiful. and there's a big christmas tree up a few blocks from here. i think we can smell it. carrier has been convinced to keep 1,000 factory workers' jobs in indianapolis instead of sending them to monterey, mexico. maybe trump's first big political win since the election. but he also thinks it's a big win for carrier, this is what he said, quote, look forward to going to indiana tomorrow in order to be with the great workers of carrier. they will sell many air conditioners. late last night, the company did lift the curtain on negotiations with the transition team that have apparently unfolded over the last several weeks since the election. they said this in part, that the announcement is possible because the incoming trump/pence administration has emphasized to us its commitment to support the business community and create an improved, more competitive u.s. business climate. the incentives offered by the state were an impo

peter doocy is live tonight with our top story. >> reporter: good evening. the president-elect promised to pressure american companies that tried to ship american jobs overseas. he delivered on that in indiana. a political victory for him and a personal relief for carrier employees that were about to be out of work. >> i would like to tell him thank you for going out of your way and taking your holiday away from your family and working on the carrier and employees deal and sticking to your word. >> reporter: carrier's parent company does 10% of its business with the federal government and now gets to maintain a good relationship with the next administration. keeping 1,000 jobs that were mexico bound in indiana in exchange for tax breaks, according to a report from "the wall street journal." >> exactly what he said was going to happen is happening. he said he was going to fight to keep those jobs here. he picked up the phone. they worked a deal. they got it done. >> reporter: now that he is the president-elect, mr. trump said he is stepping aside as president

peter doocy is in florida. we begin with kefb kevin cork i honolulu with a reaction to the crackdown on russia. >> reporter: you are right. yesterday was the kremlin and the white house going back and forth about those accusations of cyber intrusions, trying to influence the u.s. election. today it was the russians pulling punches. it was a scene that unfolded from coast to coast. from washington to san francisco. nearly three dozen russian operatives working to leave the united states ahead of a deadline imposed by president obama in retaliation for what the white house called russian cyber intrusion during the runup to the 2016 election. >> it's all together 11 people, including three kids. they have to pack and leave within hours. >> reporter: even as the administration closed russian facilities in new york and maryland, russian president vladimir putin fired off what could best be described as his own when they go low, we go high statement. saying although we have the right to retaliate, we will not resort

peter doocy is in des moines. >> reporter: it was a few minutes ago that the president-elect left the campus of ohio state university. he headed for john glenn international airport there in columbus on his way here to iowa. he did meet for about 40 minutes with victims of the recent stabbing spree on campus and the first responders who stepped in to save them. >> we just saw the victims and the families. we were really -- these were really brave people, amazing people. the police and first responders were incredible, the job done in particular by one young gentleman was incredible. >> reporter: the president-elect hosted a pair of potential secretary of state contenders in manhattan. he used to be a big critic of mr. trump. >> i think he does not seem to have a grasp of the issues that are facing the nation. >> reporter: after emerging from trump tower's elevators, he sounded like an admirer. >> i found it to be a very interesting and a very informed conversation. >> reporter: the other invitation is intriguing. he was at boeing, singled out as spending too much on the next generatio

peter doocy is with the president-elect in palm beach, florida, tonight. good evening. >> reporter: good evening. the president-elect is saying he thinks the u.n. made it harder to negotiate mideast piece. elaborating with a tweet that says -- the 44th president is making life hard for the 45th president on purpose. >> the president has deliberately tied the hands of his successor. it's going to make it harder for president trump to bring about peace. >> reporter: s as the foreign policy team sees this, his domestic team is looking at courts across the country where there are more than 100 zu dish vacancies, double what president obama got to fill. dozens of the open benches are referred to as judicial emergencies because they've been open at least a year. the administration has a big opportunity to defend its upcoming initiatives on immigration, gun control and abortion from democratic challenges before they ever have a chance to rise to the supreme court. where there is also an opening for the next president to fill. part of a tweet posted by counselor t

peter doocy live in palm beach, florida. e know, peter, how often trump and president obama are actually in contact? >> reporter: apparently, despite everything that you just read off there, the two are still talking pretty often. that is, of course, even though the current president obama has been putting new focus on a hypothetical and impossible election victory over mr. trump for a third term. and mr. trump has been calling president obama out for failing to excite voters in swing states for his preferred successor, hillary clinton. but transition officials say, mr. trump knows there's only one president at a time, that the current one is allowed to do whatever he wants for the next three weeks and change. the president-elect has had a pretty full schedule here in florida today, though. his first day back in the swing since christmas. sitting down about the open secretary job, meeting with a group of executives from some of america's best hospital groups including johns hopkins, the mayo clinic and the cleveland clinic. d

peter doocy is the with the president-elect live in florida. so peter, what's been going on?> reporter: gregg, as you know and everybody out there watching knows, 2016 was a really good year for the trump family. and now the president-elect has a special holiday message for anybody that tried to slow him down on his way to the white house. he tweeted this today. "happy new year to all, including to my many enemies and those who have fought me and lost so badly they just don't know what to do. love!" this morning, some of mr. trump's allies in congress were coming to his defense, explaining that just because the president-elect posted on social media that he thinks vladimir putin is a smart person for waiting to respond to u.s. sanctions until president obama leaves office doesn't mean his foreign policy is going to favor putin for no reason. republican congressman sean duffy says, president-elect trump has a plan. >> what we understand from mr. trump, he puts, whether it's his business or his campaign or now america first. so when you have the left saying, oh, my gosh, this r

peter doocy is in des moines. >> reporter: it was a few minutes ago that the president-elect left the campus of ohio state university. he headed for john glenn international airport there in columbus on his way here to iowa. he did meet for about 40 minutes with victims of the recent stabbing spree on campus and the first responders who stepped in to save them. >> we just saw the victims and the families. we were really -- these were really brave people, amazing people. the police and first responders were incredible, the job done in particular by one young gentleman was incredible. >> reporter: the president-elect hosted a pair of potential secretary of state contenders in manhattan. he used to be a big critic of mr. trump. >> i think he does not seem to have a grasp of the issues that are facing the nation. >> reporter: after emerging from trump tower's elevators, he sounded like an admirer. >> i found it to be a very interesting and a very informed conversation. >> reporter: the other invitation is intriguing. he was at boeing, singled out as spending too much on the next generatio

he will be trying to fill up arenas while trying to fill out his cabinet. >> peter doocy live outside ted trump tower. >>> we are learning about the circumstances that preceded president-elect trump conversation with taiwan's president. jennifer griffin reports from the pentagon, it turns out the call was not a spur of the moment decision. >> reporter: for the first time, china sent two bombers capable of launching nuclear weapons to circle taiwan fox news has learned, the november 26 foray was a test for u.s. allies in the pacific. japan scrambled eight fighter jets to intercept the bombers. president-elect trump's controversial call with the president of taiwan insaysed chinese leaders. jim jones, president obama's first national security adviser, offered his perspective. >> that didn't bother me. i think the purists are flapping their wings and saying all kinds of things, why they can't have a five-minute conversation or whatever it was to say congratulations is -- doesn't make a lot of sense to me. i didn't -- it didn't bother me. >> reporter: a view echoed by one of trump's possi

>> peter doocy in palm beach. peter, thank you. >>> north carolina state lawmakers are expected to hold a special session tomorrow. a deal between them and the incoming democratic governor would facilitate the repeal of the state's controversial law requiring transgender people to use the bathroom corresponding with the sex on their birth certificate. yesterday charlotte's city council repealed its anti-discrimination law as part of that deal. >>> families of three of the victims of last summer's orlando nightclub massacre are suing facebook, google and twitter, claiming the killer was radicalized through propaganda found on social media. the complaint says the company should do more to stop isis from using their platforms. 49 people were killed during the rampage at that nightclub back in june. shooter omar mateen pledged allegiance to isis. a similar lawsuit against twitter was dismissed in august. >>> the dow once again flirted with 20,000 today. it came up short, but it did achieve another record close. the in

peter doocy in west palm beach tonight. thank you, peter. >>> president-elect trump's cabinet may be almost full with only the secretaries of agriculture and veterans affairs remaining to be nominated. as well as the cabinet-level position of u.s. trade representative. nominations are only half the battle. the senate still gets to have its say through the confirmation process. chief political correspondent carl cameron tells us what to expect. >> reporter: while democrats plan to grill and oppose most of the president-elect's cabinet nominees, republicans control the majority and have few complaints. >> all in all, trump is going to get virtually everyone that he nominates. it's possible that he'll have to withdraw one or two because of problems that emerge. >> reporter: mr. trump has tapped five members of congress for his cabinet. first up for confirmation, alabama senator jeff sessions for attorney general who with the expressed support of senate democrat joe manchin of west virginia appears poised to kick off the confir

>> peter doocy, live outside trump tower. thanks a lot. it's time for twitter storm, our nightly forecast of social media's most powerful weather patterns. tonight an icy cold front of truth involving some of the nation's newspapers. from the second annual #love my newspaper day. i bet you didn't know that existed did but it does. intended to heap praise upon print journalists that many in twitter using the #very differently. i do not love my newspaper because the "new york times" and "the washington post are owned by globalists neocon nut jobs. errant enemies of america and americans. nicole wrote this i would love my newspaper if they were outlet for truth not a clean up crew propaganda crew for the elite. and then this only right wing people love my newspaper because it's tailored to the news they want to hear. everyone has their source of fake news these days. john martin tweeted quote i love my newspaper because it's great for starting a fire in the fireplace or the fire mitt pit. that is true by the way. mike wrote i love my paper be

peter doocy is live in des moines. >> reporter: just a few hours from now at hy-vee hall.e expect to see the president-elect saying thank you and the governor saying, goodbye, because branstad, whose shawn was the trump iowa state director is set to be nominated at the next u.s. ambassador to china, and if things keep going that's a really busy job because the next president was very tough on china during the campaign, has already been knocking the current si manipulators and has spoken on the phone with taiwan president. once branstad takes the job, which he is expected to if congress confirms enemy. to the lieutenant governor in iowa will be elevated to the top spot and be the state's first female governor. >> regarding the branstad nothing affection, have we hear anything from the chinese government? >> reporter: officials in china are working on plans to build a farm in china that looks exactly like a corn and soybean farm that the president xi saw when hi was in iowa in a trip overred the last several years, according to a record in today's warm warm -- "wall street j

>> peter doocy inside. by the way new york city mayor rudy giuliani will be on with bill right after this on "the o'reilly factor." i'm going to be watching that trump has supported most republicans in this country. not everyone is impressed. not all the republicans especially in washington. reuben in washington writes opinion piece for "the washington post. the latest one trump swamp will deepen. she joins us now with her assessment of the president-elect. thank you for joining us tonight. >> thank you for having me. >> everyone is trying to figure out how this happened. the democratic party is going through the process on whether they are trying to figure out whether to take them seriously. dismiss them as bigots or acknowledge legitimate concerns. you are a republican writing a column on the right for "the washington post. i wonder where you are now. i want to read you your assessment. since i read it and from washington. you wrote this in october of this year. as the old white males who made up trump's