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Stories. we will start with the trump transition. the president-elect makes a couple key appointments. there is a feud over one of the biggest cabinet posts. what are you learning, ryan? >> well, as you mentioned the trump team announcing two key appointments to his staff. they say that will be it for the weekend, leaving many key cabinet posts vacant in a fierce debate over one key post. tonight, the biggest debate surrounds who donald trump will name as his secretary of state. >> the president...

Cabinet posts or personnel positions. however we are learning that a short list has emerged for director of national intelligence. the name on that list include senior indiana senator done coates as well as former homeland security adviser fran townsend, as well as admiral mike rogers. and another name that is surfacing, sarah palin. sources telling us that she has thrown her name out there for secretary of veterans affairs, telling donald trump that she would like to work with his administratio...

Definitively. i know donald trump trusts his vice president-elect mike pence and we know mike pence has a list. hes bringing it in, of people he considers potential choices for cabinet posts and i think theyll go over it. there are lots of things that matter to donald trump first among them is loyalty and one of the reasons youre seeing rudy giulianis name being tossed around for such a high level job and whether he gets it or not, and jeff sessions for a.g., is because they have loyal to donald...

Presidency. i dont think democrats would be able to stop him but they could use him as a way to get an early attack in. then theres rudy giuliani and chris christie. at one point it seemed that these two loyal tenants during the campaign of donald trump were going to get cabinet posts. rudy giuliani wanted secretary of state. that appears less certain. were waiting to see where giuliani and chris christie fit. >> what about robert johnson? >> thats an interesting one. and i think its symptomatic...

Welcome to our viewers here in the u.s. im george howell. >> im natalie allen. "cnn newsroom" starts right now. thank you for being with us. the enormous task of staffing the new trump administration is going full speed this weekend at trumps resort in bedminster, new jersey. the president-elect held marathon meetings saturday as he and vice president-elect pence interviewed numerous potential candidates for important cabinet posts. >> no new announcements came saturday. trump says he is very ...

The presidents executive action on immigration and regulations. he also says that he wants to withdraw from things like the nuclear, the iran nuclear deal, the transpacific partnership trade deal and the paris climate accord. weve also gotten indications from congress already that tpp, that trade deal is dead. a lot that could change under a trump presidency. after trump meads with president obama here today, he and vice president elect pence head over to meet with house speaker paul ryan. chris...

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So much a cabinet position or any type of government position. but to really help america move in the right direction. >> have you been in touch with the trump campaign about treasury secretary? >> the short answer is no so youre always flattered to see your name on such a list. they spelled my name right, it made my 84-year-old mother happy but i dont expect the call. >> nbcs katy tur has our own reporting about who may be part of the trump administration and appears also the jockeying behind t...

>> shes been vetted. we had a four-way republican primary that was a heated primary between a tuj, lieutenant governor, congress and and she -- so shes been vetted and she had a reelection as well and she was at one time talked about as a vice president vp candidate. when you talk about secretary of state having no foreign policy experience will be difficult. clearly shes met with leaders. we had a boom in business from foreign count preez bringing their businesses in here -- not countries but i...