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taiwan came calling for donald trump. >> the phone call between the leader of taiwan and the president elect broke with 40 years of diplomatic protocol. and china is sending a warning of sorts to washington. yesterday donald trump says the president of taiwan called to offer her congratulations to them. they talked about political and economic ties between the two nation. >> no president or president elect has spoken directly with the leader of taiwan since 1979. thats when america began adhe...

U.s./taiwan unofficial relations? >> youre presuming that hes not. and i dont remember any of these questions ever being asked about president obama or president-elect obama. >> hes never spoken to the president of the taiwan. so this is the first time. so it is new. thats why im asking. >> sure. sure, but as president-elect im pretty certain that president-elect obama spoke to world leaders in preparation for taking over as president of the united states and commander in chief. i cant imagine t...

Elect? >> we refer to anything like that is done you get the full benefit of the conversation to the extent both sides agreed to a ruee read out. in the meantime, beyond what is publicly disclosed, i just cannot disclose anything further than that. it would be highly inappropriate for any of us to do that. so im going to have to stick with that. i can talk about a lot of aspect t about the transition. i can talk about many aspects of the campaign manager forum last night. a number of different p...

Navy. was an investment banker for goldman sachs and he made it his mission to take down the republican party stamt. alabama senator jeff session gicis is nominated as u.s. attorney general. sessions has been accused of calling civil rights groups unamerican. and criticizing the voting rights act. >> thank you. >> and finally, the chairman of the republican national committee, reince priebus who will be the president elects chief of staff. hes a mainstream pick many republicans find encouraging,...

This is our community, this is where we live. we need to make sure that we have a beautiful place for our children to live. together, were building a better california. moments ago president elect donald trump filing a suit in michigans court of appeals to stop jill steins recount of

The current president and vice president could have done that. they just did not do that. i cant confirm particular intimate details of phone calls that are being had between the president elect and world leaders. just wont do it. >> and obviously we did a lot of reporting on that yesterday, particularly, as well as both president elect trump and vice president elect pence, their thank you to the beginning of their self described thank you tour. just finally, can you comment on the pakistan gove...

>> i understand that. but my point is -- >> i guess why doesnt that concern you? >> what im sorry? >> why doesnt that concern you? there is a state department for a reason. >> that is a good point. when richard nixon did his opening with china, he didnt talk with the state department. i believe. he even kept his own secretary of state out of it. he dealt with henry kissinger. his own private national security advisor. >> jeff, here is the problem. first of all were normalizing donald trump again...

>> reporter: we saw in the exchange kellyanne said that the president-elect reads everything. we also have reports suggesting that he actually has not been very present in some of the security briefings from national security advisers. there were reports that despite the team making security advice and knowledge available almost daily, trump has responded only at least twice. and as a result, this is not even the first time this week where donald trump has had interaction with the foreign leader...

Twitter, we just really havent seen this kind of thing from other presidents-elect. >> good point. niall, another hot topic. i want to turn to the lingering bitterness, a fair word between the clinton and trump teams. take a listen to this exchange between karen finney and kellyanne conway. >> i can tell youre angry, but wow. hash tag hes your president. how is that? i was asked 100 times on tv, theyre all here, maybe 1,000 times, will he accept the election results. will you? will you ever acce...

This is a shift in policy. >> thats right. but also taiwan is a so-called red line that china simply does not want any government to cross without bearing consequences. this is their core interest. thats why they have been very insistentoff t over the past fo decades that no official contact be maintained. an mr. trump has crossed that line. thats why many for policy experts have warned of potential consequences saying it was a risky and reckless move. but these tweets that you just read that pu...