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Have been thrown into the mix for these to be cabinet posts are all people who were with him in the campaign. steve mnuchin, who helped him raise money in the campaign is up for treasury, is what im being told. youve got wilbur ross, another fund-raiser. rudy giuliani, my understanding is he could the get whatever position he would like, but his hearts desire is to be secretary of state. youve got jeff sessions, who also was, you know, a key ally to trump during the campaign. it sounds like mayb...

Influence is much less significant than they thought it would be, that they hoped it would be, and there is a lot of concern as you look at the newspaper headlines still across europe, stephanie. >> there is a lot of concern, and were going to go back to athens any moment from now when president obama begins his speech. in the meantime, we have to take a look at the puzzle, the pieces of those puzzles are beginning to fall into place for the trump administration. im joined now by our top notch t...

Border. >> so part wall, part fence? >> yeah, could be some fencing. >> jim acosta joins us from outside trump tower. late reports tonight there have been some disagreements within trump camp regarding key cabinet positions. what do you know about it? >> reporter: anderson, i think is part of the jockeying thats expected when a new administration comes in and is filling key cabinet posts. some of my colleagues are reporting its been described as a knife fight inside the trump transition meetings...

Totally not qualified, totally not temperamentally sound for it. so explain to me why how mitt romney has reconciled himself with the notion of donald trump. i know you know mitt romney pretty well. how does he get his head around -- >> how is that any dmpb from some of the peep that are now up for cabinet posts and what they said about donald trump when he was running in the primary. mitt romney gave his speech, i believe it was march in the primary. he gave a speech because he believed that pe...

Than existed before, names his three oldest children and son in law to be part of that and making a change having vice president-elect, mike pence, take over the chairmanship, and that is putting one person in char securing and forming the government along with the esident-elect and try to fill out those important cabinet posts, and then far beyond that, fill out all the jobs in the white house and then its agencies across the government. its an enormous task. another part of the transition is t...

Most major cabinet posts who has morning. lets talk about the issues that a long history working with both are facing every candidate, sides of the aisle. facing all the voters as they are preparing to head to the people really respect biden polls. within the senate. is obamacare working? he has a very good relationship. i think by putting a pinky toe >> well, listen, its clearly done some very good things. out there of indicating who she its provided insurance to may be potentially looking for ...

Front of the large crowd in north carolina thursday and developing news this morning about precisely who hillary clinton is looking at for top cabinet posts should she win. nbcs kristen welker at the westchester county airport in white plains, new york. joe biden for secretary of state, really, kristen welker, is that a serious consideration or a move to fire up the base? >> reporter: i think its a little bit of both. theres no doubt this move might fire up the base as well. in addition to indep...

Officials confirmed finding 700 tons of sodium cyanide. at least 114 people were killed and 70 are still missing. iraqi prime minister, haider al abadi is cutting his cabinet by one-third. 11 cabinet posts are now gone. mr. al abadi promised to reform the government. meanwhile, former iraqi prime minister, nuri al maliki could face trial. a parliamentary panel wants him and other top officials prosecuted for the isis capture of iraqs second largest city, mosul, last year. as part of reform mea...

Former governor shows up oval office in 2017 not much more than victory cape and political pals. you make a great point dan we have not heard anyone up there present a thorough analysis of how he or she sees the dynamic that is going on in the world right now and what really needs to be done. >> well one person is speaking at cpac today is john bolton. im not suggesting john bolton should be president. john bolton got into this explicitly because he thinks we have to raise level of debate about ...

In these cabinet posts taking orders from people that in the white house, its very tough to convince people at the peak of their careers or the end of their careers to take these jobs if they wont be in power to do the jobs. >> watch the president get someone to take that job. the president calls, its hard to say no. lets move on to congress, congress will be back in session. remember, this is still the old congress, democrats still control the senate. republicans control the house until january...