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Of the things that happened in the campaign that will be uniting rather than dividing. >> josh bolten, former white house chief of staff under president george w. bush. thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having me. keeping complain promises. up next, president-elect trump seems to backtrack on his commitments. it seems. also, president obama scheduled to hold a news conference at the white house. im sure pretty of questions about his meeting the other way with president-elect donald trump. w...

For and i think that whenever you have got an incoming president of the other side, particularly in a bitter election like this, it takes a while for people to reconcile themselves with that new reality. hopefully its a reminder that elections matter. and voting counts. and so i dont know times we have to relearn this lesson because we ended up having 43% of the country not voting who were eligible to vote. it makes a difference. so given that president-elect trump is now trying to balance what ...

Be -- full blown restart of their nuclear weapons program. the u.s.-back syrian rebels, they may soon be on their own. and to our allies in nato who are worried whether well continue to honor our commitments, the next white house offers them a definite maybe if they pay up. malcolm nance, msnbc contributor and author of the plot to hack america. a former intelligence operative and author of "how to catch a russian spy" and charles pierce, a writer fore esquire magazine. this is what they did. le...

Going down the line he outlined in his campaign. it has been a very fast shift to suggest that he may not do some of these things, and the executive order, thats one part of this picture but we are seeing things like the famous pledge to build a wall and make mexico pay for it, and now we are seeing advisers saying that will take a while and he might talk about strengthening the border, and that could have been campaign talk. once it gets down to the level of executive order, obviously by its na...

Him on these issues. >> if one nato ally is attacked, every nato ally is attacked and they have responsibilities. >> he seemed overly friendly to most allies, certainly to the democrats, and to many of the nato allies, overly friendly to vladimir putin, the president of russia. just your perspective, im interested in how much does donald trump need to say before hes president, during this transition period, to ease the worries or fill in the blanks, answer some of the questions the world has? >>...

The united states. a subtle dig, if you will, against the outgoing president, president obama. they havent had the best relationship, particularly about human rights issues. one of the most pressing issues, that of the iran nuclear deal. donald trump campaigned on wanting to tear that nuclear day up. >> day one. >> his voters expect that. the republican party said it wasnt a good deal. the iranian government cameut with some strong words, saying to donald trump that this deal cannot be undone by...

Him at the rnc. there are some obvious advantages. they worked closely during the campaign and he would be a link to the hill and to paul ryan. >> right. as youre watch, today is the first step when president-elect trump and vice president-elect pence, this is the first opportunity hell have about enacting his vision. this is way too early for those discussions to occur. i dont believe mr. trump has asked anybody formally to join his administration. i know should he ask that, obviously, it would...

>> dan, theres a million stories now that all of us are trying to figure out. im wondering, not what you know, but what are you wondering about now, about the next couple of weeks up through january 20th. >> well, i think all of you are wondering, and that is, whos going to surround donald trump once he goes into the white house? first of all, whats that white house staff going to be like, what kind of a mix is it? is it republican insiders? is it some outsiders? what kind of flavor does that gi...

Warring for the last three months. paul ryans allies think that donald trump is going to help boost paul ryan and stave off any challenge from the inside of the house republican conference in a leadership election. so very, very interesting times inside of the house republican conference right now. >> eric cantor, whats so fascinating is that both paul ryan and mitch mcconnell are going to have much more authority because they have a president thats not coming in with a thousand aides with a tho...

Campaign trail and that a slightly different approach comes into the -- >> dana, he was very gracious last night to hillary clinton. >> he was. >> thanked her for her service over the years. says he wants to work together for all of the american people. you know, so he sounds -- at least sounded the right note last night. a lot of the note that the -- president obama, hillary clinton, they sounded the same thing. but also whats clear -- and you look to all the exit polls, the american people are...