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I have no real reservation about it and good to mix it up a little bit. what about the stuff of state craft that says a president elect may not conduct policy for the united states, fine if you want to decide on a policy direction change for the united states but not while you are on the bench waiting to go into the game. we have a state department for that. >> well, i think thats a fair criticism to be honest with you, brian. trump gets a little bit of a break on that because hes not a traditio...

Still very sharp. he wanted this call to happen. there are a lot of other folks who thought it was as good on the foreign policy side. i have no real reservation about it and good to mix it up a little bit. what about the stuff of state craft that says a president elect may not conduct policy for the united states, fine if you want to decide on a policy direction change for the united states but not while you are on the bench waiting to go into the game. we have a state department for that. >> w...

Is does that call with taiwan signal a sift in policy or trying to send a strong message. based on my conversation, it does not signal a shift in policy yet. but, it is a warning shot that the president elect is trying to send to china and will they receive it and how, thats the big question here tonight. >> a little bit of everything on fifth avenue including turning out a horse and carriage. >> kristen welker, thank you for briefing it and professor claude and john feerery thank you for being ...

One more point that i want to make about china and follow up is does that call with taiwan signal a sift in policy or trying to send a strong message. based on my conversation, it does not signal a shift in policy yet. but, it is a warning shot that the president elect is trying to send to china and will they receive it and how, thats the big question here tonight. >> a little bit of everything on fifth avenue including turning out a horse and carriage. >> kristen welker, thank you for briefing ...

Former vice president al gore was invited by ivanka trump to talk about the environment. he ended up with a lengthy meeting with the president elect. he said afterwards it was a good meeting. >> the bulk of the time was with the president-elect trump. i found it an extremely interesting conversation. and, to be continued. i am going to leave it at that. >> as we say you never know who you are going to run into in trump tower these days. lets talk about all of it. we are joined by kristen welker ...

For your most important selection you open it up and even have people like bob gates coming in to advise you. >> wow, yeah. >> a lot of -- you know, this gap in time has allowed a lot of people to weigh in and some of the candidates or perspective candidates, after sitting back and not really mounting campaigns to get people to call and weigh in on their behalf are doing that now. a lot of data going to trump tower about who the best selection would be. and as i understand it, the president-elec...

Open mind. during the campaign, trump promised to end pay to play politics in washington. >> drain the swamp. >> now, former governor sarah palin is calling the carrier deal crony capitalism. ultimately, donald trumps success may depend on how literally his supporters take his promises. >> politicians are always saying they want to drain the swamp and get rid of lobbyists and cast their briefcases into the pa tomorrowic. they expect him to put the lobbyists in their place. >> joining me now is t...

The vice president elect and his campaign manager when asked about this over the week indicated that these were courtesy calls. it is unclear of what the strategic effort is and what the aim of this strategic effort is and it is unclear exactly what potential benefit could be experienced boo i the united states or china or taiwan. >> it remains to be seen and joining us now from trump tower and peter alexander and our halie jackson and our former rnc general counsel. it is great to see all of yo...

These are happening concurrently and these international discussions that the president elect is having and the discussions hes having at home and people leading his international outreach as well. >> secretary of state e a, remaa history. we do know one important role is whos going to be who takes over, thats ben carson -- take a listen. >> we were excited to have doctor carson of or nominee and we are looking for a productive week of the transition. intended nominee. >> so they are going to pr...

China. but of course, donald trump is defending the phone call. he says it was a call that was made to him by the leader of china and also vp-elect mike pence is defending the call as well, saying this was just a courtesy call. over the weekend, donald trump did in fact double down on his criticism of china, tweeting this. he said did china ask us if it was okay to devalue their currency, making it hard for our companies to compete, heavily tax our products going into their country, the u.s. doe...