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New york times" reports that trump and daughter, ivanka, will leave the operational responsibility to the president-elects two adult sons. "the trumps are exploring what was described by one person briefed on the discussions as a legal structure that would give mr. trump and his daughter separation from the company." whatever that means, the president-elect intends to keep a stake in his company and will resist calls to divest according to several people briefed on the matter speaking to the "ti...

President obama orders a review of russian hacking aimed at influencing the u.s. election. how will it all play out with the president-elect? and calls on a plane? new moves are under way toward allowing phone calls in flight. tonight, the feds are buckling up for the possibility that passengers will behave badly. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." ♪ >> this is cnn breaking news. >> breaking news tonight. on...

Getting to work in 2017 to put this country back on track. >> reporter: we are expecting a little more news from donald trump tonight in michigan. sources tell us hes expected to announce rona romney mcdaniel to be the next head of the republican national convention. rnc members have to vote on that, but the backing of the president-elect means a lot in that slot. >> thank you very much for that report. now to president obamas just ordered investigation of russian hacking. president-elect trump ...

>> some version of these two things. either hooees going to go off prompter to some extent or. were seeing him act every bit as donald trump the candidate did. we frequently talked about the planned pivot or the potential pivot where he was going o change his behavior. none of that has happened and that includes his tweets. his twitter behavior has been pretty familiar to what we have seen before. hes not interested in modulating or reigning in his own behavior and he clearly has something he wa...

That is going to be coming up here very soon, every single time ive spoken, as im going onto the stage hed say please mr. trump. see then he called me mr. trump. now he can call me president elect. if it wasnt for him i probably wouldnt be president elect. but he always would say, mr. trump, donald. dont say anything bad about china when nyou are in iowa. i said why. because i have so in friends there. i like them and they like me. and we do well with china. we do well with china. so when it cam...

I think everybody also needs to appreciate and am understand if gnaw assimulate youre in the service of donald trump. hell be commander in trump and i think all of his cabinet needs to understand that. what his view is on this issue or that issue and the different agencies and that, of course, includes and not begins with secretary of state. >> very quickly. i only have two seconds. will we hear an announcement next week? >> on secretary of state? >> yeah. >> its possible. it doesnt need to be p...

Contention. >> you said he was here. here in new york again. >> he was here in new york. but here is the question i keep hearing about. there are trump advisors who clearly dont want mitt romney and weve seen them very publicly push back. im also told that president elect trump is trying to understand or get comfortable with the fact that mitt romney has his own power base. this is not someone like other picks in the cabinet where they will revolve around trump. >> yeah. not mitt romney. >> exac...

If you look at the combined budget of all the intelligence agencies, youre up over $60 billion. i mean, youre talking about an incredible amount of resources, intel, manpower, as well as brave men and women overseas risking their lives to do all of this groundwork. do you think donald trump, based on this, doesnt get it? doesnt get what hes missing out on? or what do you make of this choice to skip it? >> its hard to say, because we dont have enough information yet. on the one hand, he could be ...

-- said russia is americas number one geo political foe. he was attacked at the same for saying that but clearly right now it doesnt appear that the president elect glees with him. >> yeah. this is an area of policy where obviously the two of them have had a very different tone and i certainly think that governor romney and his concern about russia, the need to be clear-eyed is very important. i do think though it is important to think about the differences in tone versus actual differences in p...

They figure that will curry favor with donald trump. and that is going the happen all the time and legally there is nothing anybody can do about it? >> correct. and the voters knew these were his businesses and accepted and perhaps all they cared about are jobs and safe streets and building a wall and getting isis. the reality is this is going to cause a problem for president elect trump because of one word, appearance. >> let me say this about donald. donald trump understands this. look at one ...