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Former presidential nominee and sparring partner mitt romney. romney is expected to arrive at any moment. in fact, there it is, as we speak to you right now. mitt romney outside the meeting place. a lot of expectation to whether it is fence bending on the part of donald trump. there you see the president-elect on the front steps, the vice president-elect. pictures speak a lot. clearly, these hardly indicate whatever past between them in the past is the past. they move inside. could mitt romney b...

Who are voting for trump, average voters, were that concerned about that. >> lets focus on the ones that could go the other way, because republicans have a certain vote theyre going to get no matter what. and they tend to get 100% of the ra racists vote all the time. it doesnt matter how much racist stuff the candidate actually gives off. but that voter who voted for obama four years ago in some of these manufacturing states, that went with trump this time, apparently over hillary clinton being ...

It doesnt matter how much racist stuff the candidate actually gives off. but that voter who voted for obama four years ago in some of these manufacturing states, that went with trump this time, apparently over hillary clinton being too closely associated with nafta and policies like that, that they believe hurt them. what do they need to see donald trump do? >> well, i think of it along a couple of dimensions. over the medium term, what they really need to see is some improvements. obviously, tr...

Team. >> obviously, his son-in-law is going to be involved in decision making. >> reporter: anti-nepotism laws hold back kushner from holding an official job. >> for someone to have those powers is itself a contradiction. >> reporter: no doubt donald trumps son-in-law will play a big role in the new white house. >> andrea mitchell reporting there. house republicans anonymously nominated paul ryan for another term as house speaker. hell face an election in the full house in january. he pledged ...

Times anti-semitic articles and attacks, for that matter, on paul ryan. and what donald trump is now doing by bringing this in is signaling i think to the republican party that there is going to be, you know, turbulent water ahead. ive said i thought that donald trump in some ways was an independent presidential candidate running under the republican banner. theres about half of his agenda, as we said, that overlaps the traditional republican ideas. >> do you agree with the pick? >> yes. i think...

Kids under 25 get to remain on obamacare is something that they are going to continue. so not the complete repeal and not a complete disaster as he said on the campaign, it seems like 12k3w4r7 al like. >> all right. lets talk about mike pence, he has taken over the transition team from chris christie. lets listen to how jack kingston characterized those cnns wolf blitzer last night. >> mike pence not only knows the capital and he knows the players and house and the senate, he knows how the commi...

Minutes in some important states. >> what an exciting night. i guess there are a few things. obviously, first, ten states, battleground states were all looking at. i could go through them right now. well spend the night doing that. florida, new hampshire, pennsylvania, et cetera. im interested in, first of all acres lot of anecdotal reporting about early vote, latino votes surging in places like nevada, florida, virginia, states that are really crucial for either donald trump or hillary clinton....

>> reporter: guys, its one area where we saw a crowd get more wild than weve seen over the last couple of weeks. heres what mattereds today. where hillary clinton is going. shes going in nevada, out west. obviously, nevada a luge swing state. but also going to arizona. a traditional red state that the clinton campaign says is not their effort. they really believe because of early hispanic turnout, its a true battleground state. if donald trump loses arizona, they feel like this race is completel...

And they have already added a dozen staff in recent weeks. they have 33 offices opened. 180 staff members. ernie owns this fine establishment. are people talking about the election here? what are they saying? inabsolutely. for the most part, theyre ready for it to be over, be done with it. >> but theyre all talking about it. >> theyre all talking about it. its exciting because arizona is a swing state, this election is unlike anything we have seen. yeah, its exciting, but were ready. its going t...

Clinton e-mail thing was done, too. they also felt micromanaged by this. they felt that every step they took had to be cleared by main justice and they didnt like that. so i think thats some of whats reflected in this story. >> but pete, obviously, the dpg youre talking about occurs all the time. but the concern that some have, and the trump campaign is raising is, is it possible that the motives had to do with politics, that loretta lynch or anyone else in the justice department, the deputy att...