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President elect trump and adVice President elect pence. More on all of that now from our jim acosta. Reporter dont tell mike pence Vice President s dont have much power. The new chair of Donald Trumps Transition Team now has a critical mission, to end the infighting of who will snatch up the most powerful position inside the administration. Frontrunners were Jeff Sessions for attorney general, senator tom cotton for defense, Trump Campaign finance chair and former u. N. Ambassador john bolton an...

Very same man who set up that infamous meeting between donald trump jr. And a russian lawyer. The one that blew up in the face of the white house this week. The meeting laid out in black and white in emails released yesterday by the president s own son and namesake, emails showing the trump team was ready and willing to work with the russians to hurt Hillary Clinton and to help donald trump. But the president tried to tell you today, ilts nts not black white. Its fake news, a witch hunt. So if b...

Tv character: taking selfies in the kitchen does not make you a model. our top story tonight is the in fighting. sources telling us trumps son-in-law, jared kushner is the source of some of the friction. our next story is about someone who has already gotten the call to serve, steve bannon, chief strategist and senior counsel to the president. bannon was trump campaigns ceo. before that he the breitbart.com

Pushing out christie loyalists? >> you have to look at the history here. it goes deep and is very personal. trump advisers said part of the reason this has happened is because donald trump himself was not happy with the progress of the transition team. but if you look at the history between jared kuchner and chris christie, he prosecuted kuchners father, sentenced two years in prison for his father. throughout the course of this campaign, chris christie, one of the biggest early endorsements for...

Other classic republican support i think its clear absent there being some real criminal misdoing or something that looks so bad it will retard his efforts, hes going to take his chances and be unconventional. >> it is interesting how it seemed that -- how important loyalty is to donald trump. >> yes. >> weve seen this time and time again. we learned this on the campaign trail. were seeing it. rudy giuliani was an early backer of donald trump. and part of any transition is rewarding those people...

Platform and saying, im going to give the alt right a voice in this country. anderson, i would never do that. you would never do that. cnn would never do that. we would never do that ever. no responsible person would. >> donald trump has said, look, on the campaign trail, his daughter is jewish, converted to judaism when she married jared kushner, his grandchildren are jewish, the idea being he would not support somebody who has anti-semitic beliefs. >> i dont make that claim on bannon. let me g...

>> i never met jared kuchner. i hate going after family. i dont. kids are impressive. im sure the son-in-law is impressive. theyre not children but adult children who are now assuming real power and influence. i suppose that makes him a target. im not ready to cast stones at him. this is clearly coming from inside trump land. people are attacking the president-elects son-in-law. >> how common is that in a transition at this stage? >> never happened. nobody was attacking bobby kennedy when jfk wa...

Very publicly, prior to this, the shake-up of the chief of staff level that he reports directly to the president. you have jared kuchner, senior advisers who obviously could bypass anyone to get to the president. so these are big challenges with big agenda attemitems. the president dined with john kelly and two his cabinet secretaries last night here in d.c. theyre spending time together. perhaps mapping out what this new week will look like. alex. >> okay, lots to look forward to. kelly odonnel...

Latest on that. what are you learning, phil? >> reporter: this really all goes back to jared kuchner, the husband of ivanka trump, crucial component of donald trumps inner circle. if you want a sense of why or how, take a look at this. he was meeting one on one with president obama, chief of staff dennichlt s mcdonough was walking one on one with jared kushner. sources are telling cnn he has been at the center of this infighting, described as overbearing and played a key role in something jim ju...