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Nominee and we saw donald trump last night speaking from the podium, defending his nominee, without specifically mentioning rex tillersons ties to russia which of course is the main source of a lot of the consternation on capitol hill. heres donald trump last night in wisconsin. >> rex will be a fierce advocate for americas interests around the world and has the insights and talents necessary to help reverse years of foreign policy blunders and disasters. very excited about rex. and you know, re...

Im not sure. >> reporter: trump supporter nina belo is pretty sure. >> i think hell be pretty good. >> reporter: does it bother you at all that he has strong connections to russia? >> not in the way he is connected with the business. i any thats it. >> reporter: can he be a diplomat and be an honest broker with a country like russia when hes so close to russia? >> i think he can. >> reporter: because? >> because hes a smart businessman just like trump is. >> 31,000 people inside. >> reporter: an...

Talking about his victory on election night. but he also used this rally to defend some of the decisions hes made as president-elect. most specifically, rex tillerson as secretary of state. he announced that earlier today. and he talked about tillersons presence on the world stage. his contacts with world leaders. even some world leaders that he mentions the united states does not get along with. though donald trump did not mention one name in particular, and that is russian president vladimir p...

The final stages of forming his cabinet and he just tapped another former rival for a big position. he chose former texas governor rick perry to be his energy secretary. last night he defended his pick for secretary of state, exxonmobil ceo rex tillerson. >> rex is one of the greatest and most skilled global business leaders of our time. rex will be a fierce advocate for americas interests around the world and has the insights and talents necessary to help reverse years of foreign policy blunder...

>> rex will be a fierce advocate for americas interests around the world and has the insights to help, years of foreign policy blunders and disasters. >> the outline for a fight in the senate taking place with president-elect trump defending his choice for secretary of state. many democrats will oppose rex to listen and some republicans raising questions about his connections to vladimir putin in russia. senator rand paul serves in homeland security foreign relations committee, how are you doing...

Wolf from washington. >> good morning. >> lets start with rex tillerson, the top diplomat on climate change, the middle east, just about on everything. someone who has spent his career at exxonmobil working around the world, doing his own sort of, you know, foreign diplomacy, on behalf of shareholders of an energy giant. now, he will be working on behalf of american citizens. listen last night how mr. trump tried to really sell what he sees as the assets of this candidate. >> rex will be a fierc...

Be pushback here. he spoke very favorably of exxonmobil ceo rex tillerson. >> rex will will be a fierce ade for americas interests around the world and has insights and talents necessary to help reverse years of foreign policy blunders and disasters. [cheering] youre winning with health care. were winning on the border. were winning with isis. because we are going to get isis out. were going to win so much, you will go to paul ryan, you will go, mr. speaker, please, please, we cant stand winning...

Managing editor zack wolfe live this morning. lets start with talking about rex tillerson. look, there is concern among many on both sides of the aisle about his relationship with russia specifically with russian president vladimir putin but donald trump is saying, look, this is a man who has business relationships around the world. hes touting that as an asset. he talks about wisconsin. >> rex will be a fierce advocate for americas interests around the world and has the insights and talents nec...

>> rex will be a fierce advocate for americas interests around the world. and has the insights and talents necessary to help reverse years of foreign policy blunders, and disasters. very excited about rex. and you know, rex is friendly with many of the leaders in the world that we dont get along with. and some people dont like that. they dont want him to be friendly. >> now, today at trump tower, the president-elect will be convening an interesting meeting, a summit of sorts with some of the top...

He says rex tillerson is strong and tough and has a resume like youve never seen before and added hell refer to years of foreign policy blunders and disasters. a lot of this rally is like before the election. shes instigated chants against hillary clinton and chants against all the news media standing right here. >> gary, thank you very much. well be right back. this is my new alert system for whenever anything happens in the market. but thinkorswim already lets you create custom alerts for all ...