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Confident in him than his predecessors. according to the numbers, less than half of americans are confident in trumps ability to use military force wisely. handle an international crisis or prevent a major scandal in his administration. the poll finds that at least 7 in 10 americans were confident in barack obama, george w. bush and bill clinton in these areas before they took office. americans expressed more competence in trump to work effectively with congress to handle the economy effectively...

His two predecessors obama and bush have been very careful in dealing with the chinese. yes this can work but he has to think through all the moves beforehand. >> lets trump also talking about china on social media. china has been taking out massive amounts of mey and alth from the u.s. and unsided trade wont help with north korea. nice, exclamation point. not sure what that means. but the state run newspaper later accusing trump of quote pandering to irresponsible attitudes. this incoming admin...

Years or even eight years. the impact of these supreme court justices and these federal judges, they go on for 20, 30, maybe even 40 years. >> absolutely. and just think, barack obama, in eight years got to fill about 325 judgeships. donald trump, in his first year, has 100 judgeships to fill. now, maybe he wont fill them all, but again, mitch mcconnell, by delaying or stopping all judicial confirmations, or almost all judicial confirmations in the last two years of obamas presidency, set the ta...

Exploding in the middle east. >> well, i think that youre right about thats his ideological framework, i really agree with that, but also i think he was reacting and overreacting in the opposite direction against what he perceived as the excesses of intervention of george w. bush. so he looked at what happened in iraq, for example, he looked at what happened in hamas and with pushing democracy and he said im going to do the opposite because if we withdraw from the middle east at least substantia...

Exploding in the middle east. >> well, i think that youre right about thats his ideological framework, i really agree with that, but also i think he was reacting and overreacting in the opposite direction against what he perceived as the excesses of intervention of george w. bush. so he looked at what happened in iraq, for example, he looked at what happened in hamas and with pushing democracy and he said im going to do the opposite because if we withdraw from the middle east at least substantia...

Weve heard from many first ladies who talk about how gratuitous, you know, their predecessors have been in helping them make the transition. so do you see anyone that would try to help ivanka, you know, make this kind of transition? would she be receiving advice from other first ladies or is thereomebody else who would be reaching out to her because of this role hostess. >> i know that trumps and her folks were working with melania are talking to former aides to laura bush, so they are reaching ...

Lawyer herself, as hillary clinton was, but in style and directness cut a different cloth from her predecessors. >> karine. >> we cant forget she received such criticism from the moment obama jumped into the frey of the election in 2008 all the way up to the white house, right? a lot of it was because she was so real. michelle obama is one of the most authentic political figures we will ever see in our lifetime. what she did is, while she changed the white house, she didnt let it change her. bec...

Have been fooled, the vladimir putin machine has run circles around them and the tendency we have to engage to accommodate the vladimir putin regime, i hope the incoming trump administration takes a careful look at lets they make the same stakes as its most recent democrat and republican predecessors. gregg: i know parenthetically the wall street journal advocates, the embarrassing financial details of senior russian officials at the panama papers that was suggested. >> we did with the panama pa...

Cheek and they talked about more serious things once they got on the phone because hes going to need a lot of help and he is clearly leaning on president obama for some of that. and new presidents like to consult with their predecessors so it will be interesting. mae reston, craig, shirley, thank you so much to both of you, appreciate it. >> thank you. more now on breaking news, the white house announcing punishment against russia for interfering in the presidential election including 135 russ...

>> -- extremism exists -- >> doctor were out of time. you know well have you back. but also the united states, as you know -- hamas the government of gaza -- >> we need to continue. >> we will have you back. thank you for joining us this morning. don? >> much more to talk about now including presidential politics. president-elect donald trump meets with a well-known presidential historian who is a familiar face here on cnn. what did trump want to know about his predecessors? were going to talk w...