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Spending the holiday at his palm beach estate one day after nominating two women for his cabinet, one of those selections, drawing heavy criticism this morning. r but we begin with a new report thats raising eyebrows over the president-elect, "the washington post" reporting today that trump has mostly shunned the daily intelligence briefings, only twice setting about the time to learn about global developments and security concerns. cnns jason carroll is at trumps palm beach estate mar-a-lago wi...

Trump building. have we seen any white smoke indicating that the president-elect has settled on a white house chief of staff? >> this is not the white smoke were looking for just yet, jake. donald trump is closing in on making his selections for the most important staffers in his upcoming administration. were learning there was in-fighting behind the scenes inside his transition. as you said, vice president-elect mike pence is taking over the effort to build up the administration. and chris chri...

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Combination with the president-elects twitter attack on, quote, professional protesters, his unwillingness to divest himself and family from his businesses as even "the wall street journal" advises and keeping the american media at bay while having his first meeting with a foreign leader are all troublesome signs. come on, surround yourself with more balance in both perspective and experience, not to mention diversity. yes, you won. youre entitled to pick your team. but the selections you make n...

National security correspondent jim sciutto joins me with more details on the appointment of retired army lieutenant general michael flynn as trumps national security adviser. take it away. >> reporter: well, let me tell you just in the scope of these selections so far, all this talk, there had been some of sort of great moderation by donald trump as he comes into office, moving towards the center to some degree with some of these high level picks but in these early picks, we dont see that frank...

Core tenets donald trump did during his campaign. you notice, a very very hard line presence, a very attack friendly view on how to treat terrorism, how to go after problems in the middle east. there are two controversial potential picks in attorney general selection. jeff sessions, an alabama senator and also national security advisor who does not need to be confirmed by the senate, michael flynn. but of those two, very close advisors to donald trump, jeff sessions was his first senator endorse...

Advisors to donald trump, jeff sessions was his first senator endorser, and michael flynn was his closest military advisors throughout the campaign. this is a group of loyalists. this is a group of people that have been with donald trump from the beginning and hes rewarding them with very crucial positions inside the administration. >> hes also holding some very high level meetings. mit romney, whats the latest? >> thats obviously what were keeping an eye on. if the three selections we saw on th...

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