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>> and topping rick perry to become secretary of energy. perry recently an nrnltic contestant on "dancing with the stars" once famously forgot he wanted to eliminate the energy department in a debate. lets see. i cant. i cant. the third one i cant im sorry. trump says hes so business scheduling for this week. instead the president elect tweeted two of his children, don and eric plus executives will manage them. and no new deals will be done while hes in office. i dont want to do deals. i want to...

The president elects, you know, strategy vis-a-vis china or taiwan? >> well it sounds like senator murphys tweet is pretty incendiary and does not signal much of a shift from what seems to be the documented democratic response to the election results. this is how wars are starting and it is a major policy shift because you get a phone call. that is pretty negative and presumptives you. >> auous. >> a this has been long-standing u.s. policy towards china not to recognize taiwan. >> right. again i...

>> do you know who its going to be? >> i just have -- i have someone in mind that i think would be really fabulous. i think were going to have one of the greatest cabinets ever put together. >> reporter: brian is outside trump tower right now. the president elect kept his options open, but senators are expressing concerns about mr. tillerson from exxonmobil. >> reporter: there are two points of contention with tillerson becoming secretary of state. one is his close ties with russia and the russi...

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That is happening. and for donald trump this gives him -- i think it helps in his mind at least to give a sense of legitimacy in terms of what he is doing particularly with all of the reports that he is not receiving intelligence briefings and he is not looking at some of the policy challenges. >> yeah, the reports that it is vice president elect who is getting the briefings and well presumably convey it to the president-elect. we know president obama has satd that, you know, along the way he wo...

Are not on the same page in terms of their assessment of russias motives. the cia believes that russia was actively trying to help trump win and the fbi so far has not been ready to make that leap. one thing theyre in agreement though is that russia was likely behind it, something the president elect continues to question. >> president obama and democrats had called for a full investigation but now some republicans are getting in on that too. do we know why? >> reporter: we do. it was two promin...

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Soon as the president elect begins to speak. in the meantime chuck jones, union leader does not apologize for calling trump a liar. president elect trump attacked jones last night on twitter. no wonder companies flee country. and if united workers 1999 was any good they would have kept those jobs in indiana. spend more time working and less time talking. were joined now, what have been people saying about president elects tweets? >> reporter: well its been a crazy remarkable 24 hours for chuck j...

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