trump: yes. levin: why has it just connected with you the way it--the way it has because you are intensely a sports guy. trump: i've always loved playing sports and i've always loved maybe the competition of sports. but it's been good for me. it's been really good for me, i think, in a lot of different ways, but sports to me is very important. man: batter up. batter up. [crowd cheering] levin: has it helped you with discipline and kind of just getting things done? trump: yeah, probably so. i mean, who really knows? i don't think of it in that way. i do it because i enjoy it, whether it's tennis or golf or whatever you may play. you know, as you get older, you sort of--your choices are more limited. you can't put together, like, 18 people on a baseball field. but i've just always loved being a sportsman or playing sports. ♪ for it's 1, 2, 3 strikes you're out at the old ball game ♪ levin: you admire athletes. trump: well, i respect athletes. i respect winners. i respect great athletes, and some--

trump: believe me! e with -- and intense. >> thank you so much. >> believe me. >>> his campaign was unlike any other. ♪ >> when mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. they're bringing drugs. they're bringing crime. they're rapists. >> and he was written off as soon as he began. >> the republican party is not going to nominate donald trump. >> i think this is a stunt for attention. >> yet, overlooked americans were getting on board. >> i hope he can save my job. >> we need someone to take a sledgeham tore this [ bleep ]. >> and in the end donald trump beat the odds. >> this election year's not about ideology. it is about insurgency. >> but the opposition isn't going away. how will it all play out? >> when you're in the white house, you are drinking from a fire hose 24 hours a day. >> we can work together and unify our great country. >> fox news reporting, the trump revolution. and now, brett baier. >> donald trump, president. a political earthquake. a lot of people still can't believe i

because donald trump is donald trump is donald trump. mean, you can give the man a teleprompter and maybe half of the time he'll use it. but donald trump is always going to be, at least to some degree, unscripted. he's always going to go off on these tan gents about polling, about having won the primary in this state or that. it was unbelievable today in indiana at this carrier presentation when donald trump was supposed to be stressing the jobs that he was saving for the country, he went off about how he won the primary in indiana, and this is, you know, now ancient history now that he's won the general election and is the president-elect. so i think we'll see a lot more of that style from him at these rallies. but one question i have about his style at these thank you rallies, will be whether he takes that harsh tone he took at some of these rallies, especially early on. this was something that was very divisive, very polarizing. and this is a time now where he's hoping at least he has said to unify americans, so i wonder if he'll try

trump. the dow up over 1200 points since he won the white house. this surge coming even as trump is taking on big business. today the president elect doubling down on his threats to cancel boeing's air force one contract. >> we're going to get the prices down. and if we don't get the prices down we're not going order them. >> trump did not stop with boeing today. also slamming some of america's most powerful companies. the drug makers, telling time magazine here i'm quoting trump, i'm going to bring down drug prices. i don't like what's happened with drug price. he also said he's going after companies individual whose ship jobs overseas. trump reportedly said to his chief of staff, i can call themselves myself, five minutes apiece. they won't be leaving. sara murray is outside of trump tower tonight. the president elect sending a very clear message to american companies, big companies today. >> reporter: that's right. and while in the past --. it is clear donald trump is ready to be a differ

why does trump trump? why can't he stop doing this? >> well, because to donald other people are simply items, and objects. they're not human beings. donald is entirely transactional. whatever gets donald what he wants, he will do. there's no more coral to donald trump. not paying bills, attacking somebody as terrible whom you said just recently was wonderful he's done this all his life. you can be his friend today, his enemy next week. it all depends on the moment. >> he thought nothing well of barack obama until barack obama was nice to him then he thought barack obama was great. inside of trump world, there's the rumors that there are two camps, there's bannon world, which still shocks me someone like bannon could be near the white house, but he is. and pence world. do either of those camps feel concerned about donald trump's inability to control himself? >> for now the relationship between the bannon camp and the previous camp, the populists and the mainstream, seems to be functional based on my reporting. they're contributing to di

senator coons tells trump he hopes he will attend. >>> and out of the trump tower.im brown said he voted for hillary clinton but, quote, fell in love with trump. came away from the meeting with a heartwarming sense of positivity. and admires the president-elect for his resiliency. >>> and then there was this moment. kanye west also getting an audience with the president-elect. we're told that the meeting was requested by the rap artist who just recently was hospitalized for exhaustion. afterwards, kanye west let donald trump do most of the talking. >> just friends. just friends. it's a good man. we've been friends for a long time. life we discussed. >> hi, no comment why you're meeting the president-elect? anything you want to say? >> i just want to take a picture right now. >> he did have nothing to say there. in case you're wondering kanye will not be performed at the inauguration. that has been confirmed. >>> two cabinet level announcements donald trump pushing into next year in the press conference, then he sits in front of the cameras with kanye west. what a da

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former vice president al gore was here at trump tower to specifically be meeting with trump's daughter, eye vie can trump, holding a meeting on climate change. after that meeting, he took some time with the vice president elect. seemed like an impromptu meeting, that was the lengthier meeting of the two. afterwards, gore said it was productive, the two are looking for ways to find common ground. and that, of course, being one of the most intriguing parts. these two have not seen eye to eye on climate change. donald trump himself has called climate change a hoax. after that meeting, it seemed gore seemed to be intrigued himself by having a continuation of this conversation. it was an interesting conversation, to be continued. >> thank you very much. >>> let's bring in mark preston. cnn political analyst, kirstin powers. our chief national security correspondent jim sciutto, and david gergen. i want to get your take on ben carson, trump's pick for housing and urban development. here's what he said about his formal rival during the campaign. this is during the battle. listen to this. >> h

donald trump won in the landslide, because donald trump said he won in a landslide. we have never been here before in our politics. never. tonight donald trump said he's going to bring our manufacturing jobs back from foreign countries. and his audience believed him. no one at the rally yelled out a question about when he's going to bring back those necktie making jobs from china, the place where donald trump has his gaudy line of neckties made, because he does not even want to pay the minimum wage to american workers to make those neckties. even though the united states of america has dozens of necktie factories. donald trump did make news tonight at his rally when he confirmed something already reported in the washington post. >> i will not tell you that one of our great, great generals -- don't let it outside, right? and of course the press is very honest. they'll never let this go. even though it's all live, they've got about seven stations live. we are going to appoint mad dog mattis as our secretary of defense. but we're not announcing it till monday, so don't

to be president or did not want trump to be president, is worried about trump.his finding of interior motives of assigning particular strtrane why anelevant reasons outpost of the press might actually be criticizing g donald trump is an effort, it seems to me, to undermine the credibility of the press, to cause the public to doubt what they are reading. and donald trump, remember, lives in a fact-free universe. this is someone who even after the election has said that, for won by a landslide. in fact come hillary clinton came out with a list 3 million more popular votes than donald trump. he says there was massive voter fraud. there's no evidence of mass or -- massive voter fraud. he says the homicide rate is up 45%. we know the homicide rate is down 50%. in a fact free universe, and ofs we have a media capable correcting the record, t then we have a president who can say almost anything to justify whatever you wants to do. that, , again, is a very dangers situation in a democracy. amy: you said that jeffrey b says, the publisher of "the washington post" the fou

trump call this a victory? >> it is a win. a lot of conservatives are going to look at this. this is capitalism and this is government picking winners and losers and historical. this is tangible and he says he's going to save these jobs and he saved the jobs. it is going to bang a good deal of goodwill with his base of the industrial west. trust me, this is the headline that is going resonate among his base. it is a win and maybe a symbolic win but in politics, that's what counts. this story is getting a lot of attention. is the left down playing an impact that donald trump here, president elect being able to claim the savior of 1,000 manufacturing jobs in indiana. >> here is a problem with symbolic win. first of all, i am a governor, how did you get a $7 million tax break as a governor. this is a subsidy or a violate wto standards. i cannot talk about nafta which trump does not care much about anyway. this is an unbelievable bad precedent. it does pay corporations to keep their jobs in mexico, we are going to

trump: thank you. >> trump! trump! trump! [cheers and applause] mr.rump: so, the weather was really bad, really bad, and they said, you know, these are great people in north carolina, they won't mind. [cheering] mr. trump: they said they won't mind if you cancel and make it another time. and i said, what? and they said, we have a big crowd, but they won't mind, just because the weather was so terrible. i said, you've got to be kidding. so we have been driving for 2.5 hours. but there was no way that we were not showing up tonight, that i can tell you. [cheers and applause] mr. trump: we could not land at your local airport. we landed a long ways away. the drive was about three times longer than the flight. but we made it. that's all that matters, right? [cheers and applause] mr. trump: and i'm here today for one main reason, to thank you, the people of north carolina, for being so incredible. we want to thank you. you went out and pounded the pavement, you organize your fellow citizens, and propelled to victory a grassroots movement, the likes of whic

the filing lists donald trump jr. and eric trump as directors.ing day brochure advertising a party the day after at inaugurationing in washington, d.c. offered bald eagle, that's what they called them bald eagle donors who contributed $1 million or more "a private reception and photo opportunity for 16 guests with donald trump and a multiday hunting and or fishing excursion for four guests with donald trump jr. and or eric trump and team. exposure of that offer by "the wall street journal," and politico forced the trump transition team to release this statement. the details that have been reported are merely initial concepts not approved or pursued by the trump family, donald trump jr. and eric trump are not involved in any capacity. this is afternoon, the opening day brochure was rewritten. to offer big donors a private reception and photo opportunity for 16 guest guests with vips and celebrities associated with the event and a multidate outdoor excursion for four guests. not a word about hanging with the trump boys. joining us now, one of the p

so then you have trump. if you don't like the health care, you like trump. i just don't understand the trump part. >> you know, hillary's message was this, "i'm with her." trump's message was, "i'm with you." i'm with you. that kind of stuck with us. >> trump has not necessarily been the friendliest to american workers. he's stiffed contractors. i mean, help me understand how you round that corner even if you want jobs. >> there was the other side of the coin as well. you know, hillary, we couldn't trust her. anybody who deletes, as i understand it, 30,000 e-mails 2 days after she was subpoenaed then she takes her server and acid washes it and clears it, that, to me, is admitting guilt and people in this area kind of really looked at that. >> you know, when the tape came out, you had the "p" word, talking about assaulting women, you know, that was just him and it wasn't just the foul language. it was also foul deeds. i mean, he's saying he can grab people and that type of stuff. again, if integrity is the th

and in trump world, that is surrender. donald trump surrendered trump style. he stopped tweeting about chuck jones and the workers at carrier. not another word. chuck jones shut him up, because donald trump and his handlers realized, no one can do more damage to donald trump's claim to be the champion of american workers than chuck jones. at a trump rally tonight in iowa, donald trump did the same old song. that he's been doing about how he's going to threaten american companies to keep jobs in the united states. >> remember years ago we used to proudly display "made in the usa." you go get a car right. we don't, have you ever seen it? we're doing a lot of talking to a lot of companies who are thinking about leaving, and i tell you, i don't think they're going to be leaving so fast anymore. >> and you will never see "made in the usa" on any product sold by anyone in the trump family. tonight donald trump barely mentioned his big triumph, saving those carrier jobs, because chuck jones has ruined that whole story for donald trump. here's donald trump's only refe

in 1983, trump opened up the flagship building on 5th avenue, trump tower.1987, he published his best seller "the art of the deal." trump had become a national figure. you never knew where he would show up next. way back then, mike dunbar, the gop activist of new hampshire, saw political promise in the billionaire. dunbar liked the idea of businessman who could get things done. >> and so, that's why i started a draft trump campaign. >> and so, in october 1987, at a restaurant in ports mouth, new hampshire, as people waved trump for president signs, donald trump made his first campaign speech. speaking without notes, he hit on some of the same economic themes that propelled him to the white house. >> the message in 1987 didn't change. just the players. back then japan and saudi arabia. today it's china and mexico. still getting the lunch eaten by our trading partners and the people who are hurting are people like me. people who work for a living. we tier ones feeling it. so, trump appeals to us. >> after the speech they left the restaurant and moved trump to

>> donald trump. >> do you think trump rigid the election? >> everything that happens now is happening now. >> what happened then? >> just now. >> he really needs to do what he said about the immigrants. >> people coming into this country are bringing nothing but chaos, crime, and murder. >> who cupito to see trump appoint into his cabinet? >> um. >> do you know what a cabinet is. >> not exactly. [ laughter ] >> in some parts of the universe it's considered cool to know what's going on in the world. >> i would like to see a more liberal cabinet. >> maybe trump can appoint bernie sanders into the cabinet. >> i would love that i think he would make a great secretary of defense. >> are you high right now? >> no. >> a little bit. >> what are you people? on dope? >> leonard doe decaprio. >> you listen to me and listen to mow well. >> do you think he should appoint elizabeth warren to the cabinet? >> not a bad idea. >> what would she be secretary of indian affairs. >> who do you want to see trump appoint to his cabinet? >> no one. >> oh, hostility.

there is no two donald trump. there is one donald trump. which is the campaign donald trump.e this from the cabinet picks he's chosen. >> so payback is okay. >> it is more about being part of the resistance and being part of saying to the american people have your back. because like elizabeth warren said 2.3 million more votes than -- >> -- [inaudible]. >> people just want to own up to the hypocrisy that is okay. but democrat have been talking about this non stop the last eight years. that this was a strategy. so i think that it is actually a good strategy and that is what democrats saw. because what happens is the president is the one who wins if there is bipartisanship. if democrats start working with trump people say oh washington is functioning and that is good for the president. it is tremendously electoral, not good for the country. >> the question is what is the agenda the president is pushing. barack obama's agenda was basically largely taken from a republican plan in ma. his infrastructure plan had huge number of tax cut which is republicans liked and the republicans

he's selling trump wine, trump water, trump steaks. and he's doing two things. this is the point where mitt romney had been his nastiest, suggesting trump was not a real businessman, even though he was worth 50 times as much as me. we are not going there this week. the second thing he was doing is testing the networks. hillary starts to speak -- i've never seen this before in american history. hillary starts to speak and not a single network covers her because they understand in the age of the clicker, everyone will leave because they want to see what else trump is bringing out. are you going to get a camel? who knows what he's going to do next. one of my great plays of the campaign, i challenged him to ride an elephant into the campaign. he would not do it. he knew there were certain limits. he had an instinct for totally dominating the media. the only other president who has the totality trump has is abraham lincoln. there are several great books on abraham lincoln and his ability to deal with the media. and how well he understood it what the again? you get a

trump did not provide further details but two trump staffers said today that trump is simply planning to follow through on his vow to hand his businesses over to his kids, a step he has long promised to take. >> i would put it in a blind trust. i don't know if it's a blind trust if don e eric and ivanka run it. is that a blind trust? i would have my children run it and i would never be involved because i wouldn't care about anything but ow country. anything. >> it's not a blind trust. as the office of government ethics noted, the only way for trump to resolve these interests is to divest, to sell off his assets and put the revenue in a true blind trust that neither trump for crucially his family, his children, his loved ones that he presumably will be talking to every day knows what he owns. trump seems to think that despite taking that undeniably necessary step to protect the country, he's doing america a huge favor. >> according to the law, see i figured there's something where you put something in this massive trust and there's also -- nothing is written. in other words, in theory,

in 1983, trump opened up his flagship building on fifth avenue, trump tower.87, he published his bestseller, "the art of the deal." trump had become a national figure. you never knew where he would show up next. way back then, mike dunbar, a gop activist from new hampshire, saw political promise in the billionaire. dunbar liked the idea of a businessman who could get things done. >> so that's why i started a draft trump campaign. >> so in october 1987 at a restaurant in portsmouth, new hampshire as people waved trump for president signs, donald trump made his first campaign speech. speaking without notes, he hit on some of the same economic themes that propelled him to the white house. >> the message in 1987 didn't change, just the players. back then it was japan and saudi arabia. today it's china and mexico. we are still getting our lunch eaten by our trading partners and the people who are hurting are people like me, people who work for a living. we are the ones who are feeling it. so trump appeals to us. >> after the speech they left the restaurant and move

he can say donald trump lied. then trump attacked him. now this man is getting death threats on the phone, via e-mail, there have been reports of death threats at him. i think it's horrible, it's irresponsible for the president-elect but that is unfortunately who he is and how he's going to behave going forward. >> by the way, ron, mr. trump did not dispute mr. jones' numbers. mr. jones was on "new day" this morning and had this to say. >> maybe the choice of words weren't the best, but the ultimate message was the same. he didn't tell the truth. he inflated the numbers and i called him out on it. he overreacted, president-elect trump did, and i would expect if he was going to tweet something he should have come out and tried to justify his numbers. >> so ron, i mean, in the great grand picture of life, where does this go? >> this is -- i agree, this is very significant. the president-elect of the united states attacking an individual citizen by name because that citizen criticized him. after we have seen him also criticize other sources

john roberts outside trump tower. john, thank you. >>> the obama administration is trying to reinforce its scientific or ideological firewall around the finding that global warming exists and is man made. the president's outgoing interior secretary today had one last call to arms to the true believers and concern about the president-elect's administration coming in. we have the story tonight from the white house. >> reporter: speak up, that's the word from interior secretary sally jewell, imploring sciences to confront climate change deniers, especially if president-elect donald trump tries to sideline climate research. >> make your voices heard and make them relevant to the people that you're talking to. we have a president-elect who likes to win. we cannot win without good science. >> reporter: jewell, the top steward for public lands said the warning was in response to the president-elect himself who has since tempered his skepticism but on a number of occasions called climate change a hoax. >> i think it's a big s

partners, although trump spokesperson hope hicks recently claimed trump has sold off his shares in the company. this comes as north dakota governor jack dalrymple continues to back away from attempts to force water protectors to leave the main resistance camp, now saying authorities will not stop and fine people carrying supplies to the site. the governor says his recent executive order declaring the land an evacuation area sought only to warn people about the cold. in response, the standing rock sioux said -- "the governor of north dakota and sheriff of morton county are relative newcomers here. it is understandable they wod be concerned about severe winter weather." the first of a group of as many as 2000 veterans have begun to arrive at standing rock in north dakota, where they say they'll serve to form a human shield around the water protectors to protect them from the increasingly violent police crackdown. meanwhile, protesters gathered in dozens of cities across the world thursday in opposition to the dakota access pipeline, including in tokyo, london, vancouver, calgary, and cit

donald jr., ivanka and eric trump. we're learning the white house office for the first lady will become the office of the first family under donald trump. so just how involved will the trump children be? is this camelot 2.0? i'll ask robert f. kennedy jr. >>> meanwhile the president-elect tells the tech titans this today. >> we have no formal chain of command around here. >> no formal chain of command, what will that mean once donald trump takes the oath after office in just 37 days? let's get right to cnn's phil mattingly live for us outside of trump tower where he will be stationed for a while now. and has been. phil, good evening to you. titans of tech were at trump tower today. what else can you tell us? >> reporter: well, what's interesting, don, is this aren't natural allies. if you look over the course of the last 15 months on a number of different policy issues, the tech community and tech campaign split rather sharply and frankly on the support, itself. they also did. if you look at some of the individuals who

trump: for whatever reason, people in uniform like trump. don't know, i've never figured -- i have to figure that out. these are great people. we are going to take care of our veterans, and we are working right now on somebody to run the veterans administration who will be terrific, believe me, terrific, and i will be watching, too. i will be watching. on child care, i am asking congress to pass legislation to support the american family and make affordable childcare accessible to all. it is so important. our agenda will fight to increase pay and opportunities for women in the workforce. support women entrepreneurs. who is a woman entrepreneur here? who are the women? a lot of them. i hate to tell you, men, generally speaking they are better than you are. [cheers and applause] [booing] mr. trump: if i said it the other way around, i would be in big trouble. don't you agree? we are going to make sure that no one is penalized for the decision to have a family. right now, they are penalized. on crime, the murder rate has experienced its largest

empire including trump golf, international realty, trump winery and trump hotels. law does not require a president to divest himself from business interests but potential conflicts abound. people could try to influence the president by staying in his hotels, for example, and the most difficult hurdle could be the emoluments clause of the u.s. constitution which specifically prevents elected officials from accepting any present or money from foreign governments or leaders. >> there are a whole lot of problems that i think president trump could deal with by selling off his business interests or giving them over to a trustee, in a blind trust, so the trustee can figure out how to dispose of these properties and he could focus on being president. >> reporter: a press conference intended to detail how trump will sort all this out was scheduled for two weeks ago, but that was delayed until january to give them more time. an attorney for the trump organization tells cnn it is continuing to re-evaluate various transactions they are involved in to take measures to comply wi

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trump its person of the year. 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 wa

the trump tower is not the trump tower or the trump hotel is not the trump hotel. and you can't say that the kids, who run it, aren't his children. >> what is your response to that? >> like most of what newt gingrich has said for decades, phony baloney. no one is saying to strip the names off the build or to disown the kids, ari. we're saying, do what every president has done for the past four decades in the name of law and decency. get an independent trustee. not a family member. turn your interests, your ownership, and your operation interests over to the trustee. let the trustee deal with it. all donald trump needs to do is sign a piece of paper to lift this cloud from his head. the trustee will worry about all of that stuff. newt gingrich is just covering up for mr. trump's apparent resistance to advice. the papers are reporting, when people try to tell him he has to do this stuff, that he doesn't want to listen to them. he throws them out of the room. they used to call me mr. no when i was in the white house. donald trump needs a mr. no and he needs it badly.

trump. trump aides insisted the president-elect would not be involved but, of course, he then was. after it was over, gore spoke glowingly of donald trump, a man he once said, actually very recently said would lead the world to catastrophe. >> the bulk of the time was with president-elect donald trump. i found it an extremely interesting conversation and to be continued. >> this comes as cnn has learned that ivanka and husband, jared kushner, are moving to washington even though she says she will not have an official role in the trump administrat n administration, she's going to be working for the trump organization soliciting deals throughout the world. sunlen serfaty, very surprising meeting between donald trump and al gore. >> reporter: that's right, erin. certainly an intriguing meeting and notable that al gore was first only scheduled to sit down with trump's daughter, ivanka twru trump to talk about climate change. then this meeting with donald trump, himself, got added in at the last

trump, you, president-elect trump, were wrong on international trade, what did you do? you tweeted that boeing should have an order cancelled. you called it a 4 billion order. that meant boeing's own share prices plummeted. so in other words, what you, mr. trump, what you would like is more no one, not a ceo, nobody on television, no journalist, nobody, to criticize you. you take offense at that. well, you are going to be president very shortly. you are going to have at your command not just twitter but also the cia, the irs, the fbi. if you have this kind of thin-skinned vindictiveness attitude toward anybody who criticizes you, we are in very deep trouble, and, sir, so are you. >> jeffrey lord, the notion that he is thin skinned and that this is vindictive, you say what? >> well, first of all, i think this is being vastly overblown. i was looking at a letter that president harry truman wrote to a critic of his daughter's singing. someday i hope to meet you. when that happens, you'll need a new nose, a lot of beefsteak for black eyes and support a supporter below. i ca

there are people inside the trump operation that are wary of how little the trump operation, or the president-elect wants to separate himself from that business. so there are questions still and until those questions are answered, we will not find out how he plans on separating himself from the business. right now, anderson, the president-elect saying he's going to wait until january to make that announcement. what that actual date will be, still unclear. >> and we don't really know, i mean, there's -- that's the bottom line, we don't really know exactly what he means. he talked about removing himself from operational control but not ownership of the businesses, themselves. >> reporter: yeah, that's exactly right. trump officials that i've spoken to have said that he wants to leave the operational stake but maintain an ownership stake and obviously wants to still have his children heavily involved in running the business. that just presents inherent conflicts of interest. no matter how far he steps away from the daily operations of the business, so long as he holds the stake in the business and has

president-elect donald trump. i found it an extremely interesting conversation, and to be continued. and i'm just going to leave it at that. >> reporter: tonight, trump's cabinet is coming into clearer view, tapping dr. ben carson as secretary of housing and urban development. >> we're excited to have dr. ben carson as our nominee. >> reporter: before trump takes another victory lap, holding rallies in north carolina, iowa, and michigan, he spent the day inside trump tower, assembling his team. he's widening his search for secretary of state. advisers say he's no closer to making a decision, and no longer has the choice narrowed down to four finalists. >> an issue he's brought in, and the secretary of state is an incredibly important position for any president to feel. >> reporter: trump is still not ruling out mitt romney, but he's also not yet leaning towards him, despite their dinner last week in new york. a new list of prospects includes former u.n. ambassador john bolton. exxonmobil ceo rex tillerson and jon

trump. also today, the union representing carrier workers revealed that donald trump's deal last week to keep jobs there from moving to mexico saved only 730, not the 1100 jobs that donald trump publicly claimed to save last week. >> united technologies and carrier stepped it up, and now they' ar're keeping, actually, number's over 1100 people, which is so great. >> that, of course, was a lie. and of course the stunning absurdity of that story is that in donald trump's deal with carrier, carrier still plans to send many more jobs to mexico than it is keeping in indiana. that's the deal that the great deal-maker made. sent 1300 jobs to mexico but kept 700 more. today he attacked a company much bigger than carrier, and today was a bad day for boeing. thanks to donald trump, the first president-elect to attack america's only aircraft manufacturer. imagine you're sitting in your office in airbus headquarters in france and read this tweet from donald trump. boeing is building a brand new air forc

trump doing. when you see the investor from japan saying they're going to put $50 billion into this country, or donald trump calling executives of corporations, keeping those corporations here to create american jobs, keeping those families here, and it has an affect here in the homeland. down to the dinner table, those kids are going to know their parents are working. that's the effect i see with donald trump. i heard you in the beginning of this about donald trump is destabilize america. i disagree, and i know it wasn't you saying that, but it was recorded. america was destabilize. it was split up because of policies. i'm not just going to blame president obama. we could go back to the beginning of the terrorist attack on 9/11. and so we have to have strong policy, but we're only going to get peace through strength, and that's what i see starting to emerge with the trump administration. >> i didn't say donald trump destabilize america, it was "time" magazine who named him person of the year. >>

donald trump says, no way. that fight is ahead, along with what president obama is promising to do once donald trump takes office. >>> plus, trump gearing up for some major fights with congress over some of his cabinet picks. which nominees could face the toughest confirmation battles. >>> and a top trump ally apologizes for saying some really offensive things about president obama and the first lady. carl paladino says he's not a racist, he's just wired up. >>> finally, the "hardball" roundtable will be here with three things you might not know heading into 2017. this is "hardball," the place for politics. carrie fisher with, who played carrie fisher just indispensable to that. >> absolutely. and they were the bookends of her career. she got her star in "shampoo," the warren beatty movie as a teenager, but everybody knew her and loved her as princess leia in the 1977 original. she reprized the character last year in "star wars: the force awakens." and she's set to appear in episode 8 of "star wars," which is c

donald trump won in the landslide, because donald trump said he won in a landslide. we have never been here before in our politics. never. tonight donald trump said he's going to bring our manufacturing jobs back from foreign countries. and his audience believed him. no one at the rally yelled out a question about when he's going to bring back those necktie making jobs from china, the place where donald trump has his gaudy line of neckties made, because he does not even want to pay the minimum wage to american workers to make those neckties. even though the united states of america has dozens of necktie factories. donald trump did make news tonight at his rally when he confirmed something already reported in the washington post. >> i will not tell you that one of our great, great generals -- don't let it outside, right? and of course the press is very honest. they'll never let this go. even though it's all live, they've got about seven stations live. we are going to appoint mad dog mattis as our secretary of defense. but we're not announcing it till monday, so don't

trump made this happen. this is going to be an indication of exactly the kind of presidency we're going to have, and i think a lot of conservatives are going to have to decide whether they're going to suck this up and, okay, this is the new age, this is no matter the party of reagan, this is the party of trump, and this is what's going to happen. he's going to shake down these companies and we'll have to live with it. >> nicolle, watching the news today, there were two drinking games. my favorite was maybe this will be the thank you tour where he pivots this 70-year-old man with all these traits baked in who got elected a certain way and was going to change. my second drinking game today was all the folks who came on with consternation, happy for the american workers with american jobs, of course, at the holidays, which we all are, but also harumphing at the precedent this sets. >> charlie is absolutely correct in his analysis, but as i heard him mention the wall street journal editorial page, i could hear t

should the trump kids be vetting candidates for the cabinet who will then have deals with the trump kids later on representing the president? and there's financial. all this talk about a blind trust. donald trump has used the expression blind trust. blind trust mean just that. >> well, i don't think we can separate them because they arguably are the same thing. donald trump and his family and his businesses are all one. the kids going into cheese cabinet meetings, transition meetings, it can be problematic because once donald trump takes the office who is he going to be making governmental deals with? is don jr. or eric or ivanka trump or whomever going to say hey, listen i really like so and so with this company, that i've done great deals with this in the past. dad, you should give them that government contract, that is a problem. secondly, donald trump's businesses even if he does give it over to his kids, he is still going to be able to visibly see them. his name is on buildings overseas. it's not blind if he doesn't divest. this is something he is going to be just innately aware of

trump is winging it. does trump know what he's doing? >> this may be the most calm i've ever been on your show. one this is not winging it. two, i think it was simply a phone call. and three, i think this can be used for leverage when you are dealing with china when it comes to trade deals. this is well-thought out by trump and the people around him. the other thing is this is not going to start a war. this is a simple phone call. there are many people who say trump was winging it. this is well thought out by him and i think his team. and the other mistake here is let's not over react to this. i think a lot of people appreciate the fact that we know about this early on before he's even been sworn? >> what do you think about that david? interesting point. defense saying it is a simple phone call. no president has made such a simple phone call to taiwan's leader in 37 years. but is trump right to throw protocol out. keeping protocol and one china has not stopped china in going against the united states in the military build up, in south ch

of trump tower.was posted late wednesday in "vanity fair." on the filet mignon it reads, the steak slumped to the side over the potatoes like a dead body inside a t-boned minivan. and in describing the short rib burger, the reviewer wrote, it was molded into a sad little meat thing sitting in the center of a massive rapidly staling brioche bun, hiding its shame under a slice of melted orange cheese, along with it, woody batons called fries. seemingly in response, trump turned to his keyboard wheeling insults at graydon carter. the two men have done this dance for decades. carter has covered trump for 40 years. date back to when he was the editor of the satirical magazine, "spy," which often mocked trump. it was 1988 when carter first described trump as a short-fingered vulgarian on the pages of "spy" magazine. >> look at those hands. are they small hands? >> reporter: listen to what trump told "the washington post" following that debate where marco rubio mocked trump's hands. >> nobody other than, yo