. >> ryan priebus. >> thanks for having me, chuck. >> i want to start with timing on the executive order and the sense of urgency in trying to implement it immediately. was there any thought given of creating a 72-hour grace period, a one-week grace period in order to allow order patrol agents to understand what the rules are, allow agencies and the federal government to understand what the rules are. it seems that a lot of chaos yesterday could have been avoided if you included a grace period. >> i don't think you want to have a grace period, chuck, because then people who want to do bad things will move up their travel date two days in order to get into the country before the grace period is over. i think it is one of those things and if you ask a lot of people at the customs and border patrol, they will tell you you have to rip off the band-aidtm and move forward. it wasn't chaos. the fact of the matter is 325,000 people from foreign countries came into the united states yesterday, and 109 people were detained for further questioning. most of those people were moved out. we've got a c

what do you make of ryan priebus's remarks as well as john brennan. >> conflicts with john brennan arehing new for republicans. many of them have distrusted brennan for quite a while. they view the cia and the larger intelligence community as not having been completely straight with them on issues like benghazi and the central command and the intelligence about isis, on issues about the bin laden papers. there are a lot of sore points between republicans and john brennan over the time. apparently he returned the sentiments from his side it's clear, i think in his remarks today, or the remarks he apparently approved, that he hasn't liked donald trump for a long time. so i don't expect that to change. arthel: getting back to president trump. as you pointed out, he made his first official visit to the cia headquarters there an attempt to start repair work. but should the repair work and grievances be taken off line? in asking you about a public spat, how that affects americans and not to mention what it signals around the globe. >> i think trump wanted to make a large public gesture becau

of homeland security, as well as you heard the statements from the white house chief of staff ryan priebus, there is a question as to they could be held and scrutinized. what is your understanding of this stay and what the executive order is saying? >> what's not gray are the facts on the ground. legal permanent residents, green cardholders, are being detained throughout the country. there has had to be additional papers filed in washington, d.c. here at los angeles, in san francisco. we know that green cardholders with long, significant ties to the united states continue to be held. these are individuals who are elderly, who need medical attention. >> right. >> and who have deep, deep ties to this country. >> what would be the next step then? what would you do in these situations? what is your legal step? >> here we are trying to work with various community groups, with senators to ensure that these individuals are, in fact, released. outside of -- outside of dulles airport, these individuals can't even get attorneys to come in and talk to them, which really speaks to the difficulty that

chuck's guests will include president-elect's chief of staff ryan priebus and diane feinstein all aheadn "meet the press." >>> after 146 years, the ringling brothers circus will have its final curtain call in may. the decision comes after a dramatic decline in ticket sales, especially since elephants were fazed out early last year over constant battles with animal rights groups. their final show will be on april 1st on long island. >>> a woman who was stolen from a jacksonville hospital when she was born 18 years ago was reunited on saturday for the first time. it took place in the town's police department where the woman who raised kamiya, gloria williams, is currently in custody. the 41-year-old is waiting to face extradition charges. >>> they will remember a sheriff's deputy who died in pursuit of a murder suspect this week. thousands gather to remember another brave member of law enforcement who died that day, orlando police officer debra clayton. she was shot and killed by that same suspect when she confronted him outside a walmart. the suspect is still at large. >>> some new satel

chuck's guests will include president-elect's chief of staff ryan priebus and all ahead on "meet theress." >>> after 146 years, the ringling brothers circus will have its final curtain call in may. the decision comes after a dramatic decline in ticket sales, especially since elephants were fazed out early last year over constant battles with animal rights groups. their final show will be on april 1st on long island. >>> a woman who was stolen from a jacksonville hospital >>> good morning. that cold rain from yesterday is long gone. we are ying out, although pavement may still be a little damp far north and west of us, where temperatures are a little below freezing. may be some icy spots. immediate metro area, we're in the upper 30s. reagan national now at 38. 40s. for dr. king day tomorrow, a little sun in the morning. cloudy in the afternoon. low 40s. some rain on tuesday. then by the end of the week, maybe on inauguration day in the afternoon. >>> so now we know exactly why we call it a stationary front. icing is still there and you're talking blt chiabout the chiefs. yeah, had to

paul ryan called reince priebus and said we have some people who want to modify and trump center tweetwas shut down. >> it's a piece of technology, it's how you use it and what you say in it. if you go and about it beauty queen, probably no. but it's also very important that one of the things the press rate presents as it does go around him. one of the things in the feud with the press is not to punish the press but to give it out more broadly when you're giving it out to everyone and not just a select group. >> and not to pick on certain individuals. not to comment on arnold schwarzenegger's job. >> but i know he did that on my night tv. >> that's it for this weeks show. thanks to all of you for watching. we hope to see you right here next week. that won't cause bloating, gas, or inner turmoil. try pronourish. a delicious nutritional drink that makes a great mini meal or snack that has protein and fiber. and pronourish has no gluten or high fructose corn syrup. and is low in fodmap ingredients that can trigger digestive sensitivities. the search is over. pronourish. nutrition you can

paul ryan and reince priebus are both from wisconsin. trump to see other faces from wisconsin, mine. the face of resistance. the person who represents the worst place in america for black children to live, the worst place in the country where there's the most incarcerated african-american men, where we have eastern european in my district who are terrified of trump, president-elect trump's relationship with putin and also women who are -- want to defy his anti-woman sentiment. i'm representing the opposition, and i want to be there to be a witness to his inauguration. >> i want to read james clyburn's statement about attending he will also attend. he said we all have roles to play. i'm the assistant democratic leader. so there's someone representative moore who believes because of his leadership position he has a different decision or a more limited range of decisions on this. can you tell us about conversations you have had with other members who have decided to boycott, others who have made the decision to go, to attend? >> well, we al

ryan puerto ri reince priebus and trying to enough president trump past this subject.es o something, it's hard for his advisors to get him to let it go. >> we're talking about the republican leadership here. now they're dealing with a lot as they meet in philadelphia. they're waiting for the president to arrive and speak to him. they've been asking questions today about what the president has said on various issues, including baiting the president of mexico, including reinstituting enhanced interrogation techniques. what's going on behind closed doors among republicans? >> i've spoken to a couple of since the weekend, who say look, at least for the time being they are going to simply have to kind of roll with this, right, and not necessarily rebuke or affirm everything the president says, but to try to kind of talk past it. i don't know, and they don't know, how long that's sustainable. when it comes to an issue like voter fraud where the president, it's not really clear he's going to be taking intensive policy actions based on his conspiracy theories, it's one thing f

we know paul ryan communicates with reince priebus, who will be pruz tremp's chief of staff. look that the the tweet he sent out. i think it was probably overstating it to say that donald trump's series of treats on the independent ethics office was the reason why you saw house republicans sort of switch their perspective on that. but i do think that he lent his voice to the outcry and that had an impact with some members. >> halle, thank you. we'll come back to you later. ron naehring, thank you so much, and chris cofienas. i want to bring in representative jim hines. he is a congressman from connecticut joining us now. he is not a republican. lo at the look on his race face when i said republican. he is a democrat, in fact. any thoughts of changing parties of a that speech you just heard from paul ryan? >> i don't think so. they are going through here today with their, you know, opening day gambit to gut at the timics committee. i think i'll stay on my side of the aisle. >> what do you make of that? i think the issue has passed us by, but the concept that something almost h

ryan and gary cohen. the meeting included reince priebus and stephen bannon who clashed with the speaker while leading breitbartews. ryan is going to walk trump's aides through the plan for tax reform. while there's an agreement on tax cuts and simplifying the code, there are disagreements on economic priorities like trade and entitlements reform. those could pose a challenge to a budget agreement. on sunday reince priebus said trump is committed to keeping his promises. >> i don't think president-elect trump wants to meddle with medicare or social security. he made a promise in the campaign that that was something he didn't want to do. >>> well, with questions over ethics disclosures continue, the senate republican leadership delayed the hearing of one of president-elect trump's nominees. education secretary betsy devos was scheduled to go in front of the hearing tomorrow, but that has been delayed to accommodate the senate's schedule. the boss, a billionaire, is one of trump's several nominees who has not filed her ethics disclosures. according to "the new york times" editorial board, people who have senior f

and a clak of incoming white house officials including alt-right steve bannon and reince priebus met with paul ryan and house republicans to discuss the tax plan. news of kushner's involvement come as concerns over his role in the trump administration. nbc news was told trump's son-in-law won't take a salary and he'll resign all of his positions with kushner companies and the new york observer. but ethics experts have raised questions about whether kushner will run up against a federal anti-nepotism law. and how he'll separate himself from his real estate holdings, including the fate of the deal kushner was pursuing after the election with the chinese firm and bank to redevelop his building at 666 fifth avenue. kushner declined to address those concerns tonight when asked by nbc's kelly o'donnell. >> reporter: mr. kushner, will you fully divest of your family business in order to serve in the white house? any concerns about the nepotism laws, sir, in serving in your father-in-law's administration? will you comment at all, sir, on what you're going to do as far as the family business? >> we're not g

ryan says, we are in think. he is meeting with reince priebus and other transition team members. tions of words like "simultaneous," you get a clinton--esque definition from ryan. the president-elect says, within two weeks. they are wrestling with what terminology to use and what it means, and that is a camel's nose in the tent that there are broader problems over there, with dovetailing and what they are doing. mark: another big questionable, republicanss by the , are they interested in getting democratic votes for what they do, or do they say, this is going to be a republican only process? as far as repealing goes, they don't need a democratic vote. by doing at the reconciliation, they have announced votes to get a repealed. the question is, if they go through a repeal and replace and they need to get democrats onboard, they say, we would like to talk about it, but democrats are saying, we need to see what you have. we will not help you if you blow up the health-care law and come to us for help. it is a question of, what are republicans going to do? when are they going to replac

paul ryan hosting a group of trump team members. reince priebus, jared kushner and gary cohen.bannon. that is a who's who of the power players in d.c. that is where the decisions get made. the group focused on taxes and infrastructure and obamacare. no word on which they will push through congress. this is the first step in merging two plans. the tax plan on the campaign trail and the republican plan called a better way. there are differences. from business tax rates to deductions and credits. i'm telling you right now, that is the most important thing today for corporate america. they are watching what that group of people with paul ryan and the committee is doing with the border adjustment tax to change how imports and exports are taxed. trump threatened tariffs which protecting u.s. manufactures. paul ryan and others think it could be a better way to disincentivize companies from putting jobs overseas and not raise prices on consumers. that over italian food last night. the key players. >> tax reform may be something they find more common ground on. maybe easier for them to

ryan's bet way policy agenda. taking part in the meeting, we understand are reince priebus, steve bannon, jare kushner. after mr. trump sat down with mitch mcconnell talking about what will be a very busy week on capitol hill. >> president-elect and i had a good meeting about the senate agendthat, which including approving a cabinet appointment. everyone will be properly vette vetted. i am hopeful it will get to 6 or 7, particularly national security team in place on day one. lou: mr. trump's incoming counselor weighed in on concerns about the upcoming confirmation hearings, and the process. >> looks like the democrats are going full on with obstructtion and trying to embarrass some of the nominees, people should be reminded, what is the purpose of the confirmation hearings, to play got you, that swift sound bite? it is politics, we need them confirmed, rex tillerson is brilliant, he will do error welvery well as well as senator sessions. lou: on wednesday it is rex tillerson elaine chao. hearing for mattis, and carter and ross take place thursday. we're coming back with anticipation of that and much more. lou:

ryan to go over tax reform. he'll be joined by incoming reince priebus and new chief strategist, steve bannon, among other aides -- >> did you say 7:00 tonight he's meeting with the speaker of the house? >> that's correct. >> that's big news. >> it's very big news. you have kushner now operating not only as a confidante to father-in-law, adviser on foreign policy. we know he was involved with the statement regarding israel and the united nations resolution. now he has his hands in domestic policy. tax reform starts tonight here at the capitol. ryan wants to walk through the trump team and kushner's in that room. >> so, would you -- is he akin to a valerie jarrett role we see right now with president obama or is this a creation we haven't seen before? >> it's part valerie jarrett in terms of his rapport with his father-in-law. he has that trust level that jarrett has with president obama, but there's also a political side, a liaison side, that jarrett wasn't. kushner is working a variety of fronts for the president-elect. >> matt, to go back to cabinet level selections and all the confirmation hearings, which do

stuart: this was paul ryan, speaker ryan representing his plan with the top level trump meeting together. >> and reince priebusgood friends with paul ryan and everyone is cohesive. stuart: after that meeting are we going to get something about tax cuts included in the president-elect trump's speech when, after his inauguration and he becomes the president on that day january 20th? >> no one will say for sure, but i think it's a very real possibilities if the details are ironed out. stuart: that may be the result of last night's meeting. what will the trump team get into the ryan plan. i'm pushing hard here. the media is apoplectic about mr. trump's win and he hasn't taken office yet. i'm going to show you headlines from the media, washington post, how to remove trump from office. wait a minute, there's more. and this tweeted from the new york timditorial board. trump is lost wandering in a labyrinth of lieand trying to drag the country in with him. now, that's pretty strong enough. it's not going to change, is it? >> no, unfortunately, it's going to be there i think his entire time. the liberal elites and glob

. >> one of the first things that happened to paul ryan is he had to get with his good buddy reince priebus from wisconsin and get trump to either moderate or to put out these tweets, knocking down this insurreks by his own committees that -- >> and the republicans except the senate was donald trump in the final weeks dragged over the line republican candidates in pennsylvania and north carolina and kept their senate majority on donald trump's coattails. they are aware of that. >> the biggest risk for republicans with trump being unpredictable is they don't know when he's going to weigh in. he could weigh in at the beginning or the end and totally up end the apple cart. or in the middle. this is a serious issue when it comes to health care. there's a sense nobody really knows what the white house wants on this and maybe donald trump will weigh in but maybe he'll do it right when they are getting to the finish line and have to start over. >> it may not seem like an important point to people watching at home who don't get into the sausage making in washington. speaker ryan and leader mcconnel

ryan presiding. mike pence the vice president will come. there will be certain administration officials. the chief of staff, reince priebus jared kushner. they have a retreat in philadelphia for the republicans. they're going to get tired of each other the next couple days. >> neil: we knew it would be topsy-turvy with the new president coming in. a silence from some republicans, like john mccain when it comes to scratching trade deals. what are we looking at? >> you have to remember that politics make strange bed fellows. you have democrats and some up for re-election in a swing state siding with president trump when it comes to trade issues. they'll wanto see what the particular are. a couple of members of congress that i've talked to the past few days that said let's see if there's a metric we can apply to this. let's look at the trade deficit. if that makes a difference, then we're getting somewhere on trade. the folks that don't see eye to eye on the president with the healthcare will use the same metric. they'll say if we're insurancing people, if numbers have decreased, we'll get somewhere. if it's not trading out

country we would assume that reince priebus, his chief of staff is pretty interested, but i've encountered a widespread assumption that mike pence, mitch mcconnell and paul ryan are going to be running the parts of the country that involve legislation but i think there's a lot we don't know and there's a tremendous amount of appointments that have not been made and so we don't know who those people are going to be. >> and we're seeing we had this executive order on the affordable care act which i think if you were watching was a little confusing, we were digesting an executive order in realtime which always makes amazing television. >> it was great. >> thank you very much, thank you. they're still chewing through what that means. i'm watching health policy wonks work this out in realtime. here's what i think is an interesting idea, right? you have populist nationalism on this roster up there today, on the dais. that was full bannon. it sounds different than ryanism and pencism. the question is do you get that rhetoric and get basically the paul ryan/mike pence agenda? >> that's what i'm afraid of. people has said he's going to block it, he promised not to tou

country we would assume that reince priebus, his chief of staff is pretty interested, but a i've encountered a widespread assumption that mike pence, mitch mcconnell and paul ryan are going to be running the parts of the country that involve legislation but i think there's a lot we don't know and there's a tremendous amount of appointments that have not been made and so we don't know who those people are going to be. >> and we're seeing we had this executive order on the affordable care act which i think if you were watching was a little confusing, we were digesting an executive order in realtime which always makes amazing television. >> it was great. >> thank you very much, thank you. they're still chewing through what that means. i'm watching health policy wonks work this out in realtime. here's what i think is an interesting idea, right? you have populist nationalism on this rostrum up there today, on the dais. that was full bannon. it sounds different than ryanism and pencism. the question is do you get that rhetoric and get basically the paul ryan/mike pence agenda? >> that's what i'm afraid of. people has said he's going to block it, he promised not to to

mitch mcconnell, paul ryan, are working very closely and working very well with president-elect trump and his team. just this week you had vice president pence and reince priebusing with republican leaders. and there is a lot of excitement amongst republicans about everything that we can do in the coming months. doesn't mean we're going to get everything done in the first week. i mean, legislating does take time. some of this will take time to get done. but there is general agreement on things like overhauling the corporate tax code, repealing and replacing obamacare, there's a lot that republicans can do. and they're excited to get started on it. and the trump administration will be signing a lot of legislation this year, i can guarantee that. >> you know what's interesting, i actually think that the guys are going to have a good 18 to 20 months. there is a lot of excitement. there's a lot of agreement. and so you also have an economy that's on a good footing and similar to what bill clinton took over from george h. bush, the economy was moving, he got the credit. the economy continues to move and if you look at the deregulation and some of the things that tr

ryan, what tax issues will be discussed with the trump transition? >> all of them. andy? >> to follow up on the budget, just the last few days, part of the supplemental package, military supplemental coming, reince priebusweekend he doesn't want to meddle in medicare and social securi security. president-elect trump is going to repeal the -- >> so what's the question? >> my question is, why should we form the conclusion that the budget is taking a backseat -- >> i don't think that at all flt one of the things is getting people back to work, economic growth. you have to get the economy growing. that's what tax relief and reform is about. obamacare is a budget buster. it wrecks health inflation and makes promises that will not be kept. so we're going to fix these problems. all of these solutions we're bringing through this year help the bottom line. help the fiscal hemt and the al economic health of americans. what the budget looks like, we don't even have a trump administration yet for a budget directory that will send us a budget that we'll work on. it is get ag head ting ahead of ourselves. >> last question. >> you said you want to bring it all together to currently repeal and replace. how much of the

mike pence, in addition to reince priebus and also the staff around mike pence, the people that have worked for mike pence, they know the people who work for paul ryantion both directly between the principals and among their staff which is really important. two, more broadly there is a lot of confidence in the people that donald trump has selected for his national security team. and i think that is a step that has reassured a lot of people on capitol hill. they really like mattis. they really like general kelly, rex tillerson is a little bit on thinner ice but still in a good place. >> they respect him. >> exactly. >> exactl >> you're right about mike pence. mike pence actually is that person. >> mike pence is that person. >> and reince as well. >> they have a massive domestic policy that they are trying to get through. for example, today, mnuchin is going to be grilled about the fact that he has said there is going to be no net tax for the wealthy which is in direct contradiction of trump's stated tax poll and also ryan's tax policy. >> nikki haley yesterday -- >> with we need to talk about that. yesterday, nasa revealed that last year was the hott