it, now everybody likes it. you may have to have some boots on the ground for a period of time until you get rid of the cancer. that s number one. we re going to bring in a panel to talk about this. we have brian fallon, amanda carpenter, and matt lewis. matt, to you first on that. it s just what s happened to cpac here in two years, you saw the reception he got just a moment ago. that was the reception that he got two years ago. yeah, and it s pretty amazing. i think that video from two years ago really highlights how the conservative movement and the conservative entertainment wing were complicit in helping make donald trump be successful. he had that cpac speaking gig, that really did help launch him. softball interview there with sean hannity who really gave trump a lot of access to a pretty wide audience on his show. what we saw today was a speech that was not really a conservative speech.
requests to do business with russia and speakering out against government sanctions against russia because they were bad for exxon s bottom line, but now he ll be america s man in the world. joining us now is kristen welker. i understand we ve just confirmed this news in the last few minutes. is this a done deal? caller: sounds like a done deal. president-elect donald trump has tapped rex tellerson as you just said, and the official announcement is going to come as early as tomorrow morning. and, of course for all of the reasons that you just laid out, he is a controversial pick, particularly because of his close ties to russia, to vladimir putin, he is someone who the trump transition team spent the weekend defending vigorously, the president-elect himself, defending his record, telling him a deal maker and really touting his relationship with russia, vladimir putin, as
interests in istanbul. it appears to be getting skoesed by the turkish government to try to make the united states of america do what turkey wants. that is the explosive claim, among several, actually, that newsweek is due to public tomorrow morning in this cover story that we got a sneak peek at. donald trump is postponing his long-planned announcement about what he plans to do with all of his business interests while is he president. that announcement had been schedule for thursday. it was billed as a press conference, which would have been his first press conference since i believe july, the last press conference was the one where he invited russia to please hack hillary clinton s e-mails. he hasn t given one since the summer.
in the 2012 presidential election, barack obama spent a record-breaking amount, about 1.1 billion. mitt romney spent about a billion. we ve got the final spending numbers in terms of the 2016 race. hillary clinton broke the record, raised and spent 1.2 billion. that s the combined campaign and its super pacs and supporters. we also now know that donald trump came in at almost exactly half that. in political science they tell you that money is power. in this case, it was a two to one spending. joining me is jen palmieri, clinton s communications director. i promise i ll let you go after this. i m very happy to be here. you guys did outraise and outspend trump 2 to 1.
to have been considered for secretary of state of our great country. my discussions with president-elect trump have been enjoyable and enlightening. i have very high hopes that he will lead the nation to greater strength, prosperity and peace. this brings to a close a remarkable pageant where mitt romney, who had been so strongly opposed to donald trump and had denounced him in such certain terms during the campaign, was nevertheless paraded back and forth through the lobby of trump s apartment building and propped up in front of the cameras and made to say nice things with donald trump about the expectation that if he did so, it would be with him getting secretary of state. in the end, he got an erasure of his stance against donald trump and no new job. we ll be right back. news, nbc news has just confirmed within the last few floors, doors, walls, halls he s so tough, he cleans em all mr. clean!