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Take a listen to this. jared did a fantastic zwrjob wi the campaign and president elect trump respects him very much. >> jared kushner is married to ivanka trump and is trumps son-in-law. do you think he had too much power in this transition? >> i dont think anybody have much power than donald trump. jared is a smart guy and clearly of his loyalty to his father-in-law. >> let me interrupt a second, mitch mcconnell is speaking about the trumps team. lets take a listen. >> we have to wrap it up an...

Country doesnt like hillary clinton, maybe its sexism, maybe these scandals are overblown, whatever it is, its a fact shes widely disliked and had unfavorables higher than anybody but donald trump so people just kind of clumped them together as two unlikable people. this idea of making donald trump just too toxic to elect was enough of a strategy. their positive message never broke to. i heard complaints externally and internally through the campaign impossible to get a positive message to stick...

Happen, especially given the # children are meant to be running the president elects business affairs? >> well, i think at this stage, he makes a request, once the inauguration, hes the president, he can decide on his own if he wants to do this, the question is whether its prudent or not, and i think on that issue, first of all, it is normally restricted. there are one or two members of the white house staff who mostly are on the domestic side who get clearances, the chief of staff, the council ...

Republican party. and now that hes the president elect, its quite enough when he will be the president of the country that is a major play er. that is why contrary to my colleagues in europe, did i not rush to repeat some of the criticism that many of us have made. such as the united states which is very difficult. fear that this may happen. what we should be doing is build bridges not walls.

>> okay, but having said that, youve covered transitions before, you know, we all have, this is what happens. people feel that theyve earned the right to plum positions and they fight for it. so i think a lot of that is pretty typical. what is not typical is that -- i think its very fair to say that most people in the trump team starting with the president elect himself didnt actually think a week after election day he would be the president-elect. he would be going back on his merry way to run ...

Nationalist has been named chief strategist for the trump administration. in a move that could further fuel concerns, alex jones, operator of the info wars website, says trump called to offer his gratitude. >> he said, listen, alex, i just talked to the kings and queens of the world, world leaders, you name, but it doesnt matter, i wanted to talk to you to thank your audience and ill be on in the next few weeks to thank them. >> jones site is known for pushing various conspiracy theories, includ...

President-elect and transition team to lay out our ambition path for 2017. that team led by vice president elect mike pence and includes several of our own members. so were working hand in glove from the start. make sure we hit the ground running in january to deliver on the new presidents agenda. a better way, better days lie ahead for our country. >> a lot of new faces here. what a difference one week makes and in doing so, as the speaker talked about, we will be working closely with president...

Believe she was prepared to stand up and fight for them. >> yep. >> check, please. >> can i ask? >> no, joe, you cant. no, let me help you. let me save you from yourself. >> i am going to ask. >> no, you may not. dont do it. >> why didnt the democrats elect bernie sanders? >> because he rigg-- they riggee cy system. >> it would have been a real fight. i dont know if he would have beat trump, but it would have been a real fight. >> michael, in states like wisconsin, michigan, those would have bee...

The alt-right is, the breitbart website describes this guy with the trendy haircut as the, quote, center of alt-right thought. this is a man named richard spencer who weve also covered a number of times on this show. richard spencer and other leading alt-right movement held their own press conference in washington, d.c., to clarify for everybody what the alt-right is and what they stand for. steve bannon at breitbart.com had given the alt-right all of this new pub list slicity, all attention tha...

Apple campai campaign will take the words because they praised president obama saying hes helping with the smooth transition here. will that stern warning, do you think, cause them to say otherwise? >> i cannot predict how this campaign now, this transition team or president elect donald trump is going to react to the president today or whether he will react to the president today. but what i can say is that they will argue if they are confronting this that what happened in this country was a re...