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Obama, somewhere between 14 and 17 press conferences to talk about their nominees. and donald trump had one. >> and combative one, and also against the backdrop of number of different storylines emerged. russian hacking issue and some of the transition picks have been met with resistance on the capitol hill. transition done as good of a job as possible trying to manage that. but one of the things that salena mentioned, his ardent supporters still with him. but bunch of folks out there just voted...

This point. >> i had a stat earlier, somewhere between 14 and 17 press conferences to talk about their cabinet picks, where trump had one. >> and it was a combative one. and a backdrop of different stories that emerged from election day, as selena mentioned, the russian hacking, and some transition picks have met opposition. one of the things that selena mentions, i think his most ar depths supporters are still with him. but there are a lot of people out there who one of the reasons they voted f...

Going to participate. its the beauty of the country. nowhere else could this happen, and could those nonparticipating politicians stay in office. so i think its great. the protests are great. i think people coming here is great. i think the debate is interesting. the man now is president of the united states. the debate is over. everybody needs to grow up. we can only be attacked by the inside, not by the outside, and its time for america to join together. and that will happen over the first 100...

Interests. i think thats going to be a core question, focal point, of tillersons confirmation hearings. and its going to be a big battle. >> katie, we were expecting donald trump to have a press conference on december 15th to talk about how he was going to firewall himself from any business dealings from within the trump organization. now we have a delay on that. hes saying some time in january or further down the road from that. theyre saying its because theyre in the middle of making all these...

>> former chairman of the democratic national committee and former governor of pennsylvania, and nbc news political analyst ed rendell at the table this morning. >> ed, how are you doing? >> doing good. hidden trump vote. called it. >> you certainly did. you certainly did. in pennsylvania, more than just about any other state, pennsylvania and florida especially, you just saw that hidden trump vote. just didnt show up in the polls. michigan, pennsylvania, or really in florida. >> and wisconsin. ...

Several. the storyline is similar. that transitions can be chaotic. its not working so smoothly. this is not an uncommon storyline. how are people viewing the trump transition as he goes through the process of picking these different candidates. >> its interesting. if you look at a timeline of transition picks. for previous administration that is have come in, the actual timing of the announcement is much quicker this time. but i think theres a lot more uncertainty precisely because trumps trans...