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74% energy independent and it gets very -- it doesnt get very much oil from overseas anymore. especially from middle eastern countries. the oil industry is kind of tried to the market in the price of oil. so, can you really control that as president of the united states? and doesnt that have a say in how many jobs companies keep and how many companies it jettisons? >> certainly. and i aagree with reids assessment that obviously there are things that an american president cannot directly control ...

Wolf. >> its going to be an issue. well see what he says specifically on december 15th. the dow jones really going up, another huge day for the dow jones for stock investors today. i suspect trump might regret having sold all his stock back in june. its gone up more than 1,000 points, the dow jones industrials, since he won the election a little bit more than a month ago. i guess investors are very upbeat about what he might be planning on doing for business. is that right? >> well, there are a ...

Take trump down in the republican party, mitt romney was at the forefront of it. he was the leader of the never trump movement. so is he able to bury the hatchet with donald trump? thats a big question. and if he goes there hat in hand and says, please, you know, give me a role or heres how i can help you, im not entirely sure that donald trump would be open to that given all of the back history they have. he does have a long memory. and he also likes people who are firm in their beliefs. if mit...

Make these decisions. i think hes created a team of people who do have diverse opinions and thoughts. and i think thats what america is looking for right now. im completely satisfied. >> there are calls, as you saw in jim sciuttos story, simone, to have him removed as a pick. >> rightfully so. >> do you think? >> yes, i think so. look, i think its not a surprise to anybody that i dont trust donald trumps picks for anything. i dont think hes made great decisions. and i think general flynn is just...

Donald trumps china policy will be. will he adhere to the u.s. one china policy? or will there be tensions, as we move forward into his administration? now, interestingly, henry kissinger actually talked to our farid farid fareed zakaria who said its reasonable donald trump could change stances between campaign and presidency and going on to say consistently is impractical when it comes to fluid international situations. so im sure former secretary of state henry kissinger will have a lot of wis...

Tillerson a good candidate? >> i think hes an excellent -- >> no, this is for chris. i know youre going to say excellent. i want to hear chris opinion. >> i think the ceo -- given his background, which is basically been in business and the lack of diplomatic experience, im not sure how that serves him, the president-elect very well. listen, this entire transition process is not typical because hes clearly not a typical candidate as we found out in a typical president-elect perform he has a -- i ...

August 9. hours after sundays incident, the twitter account belonging to flynns son tweeted about the pizza-gate conspiracy theory, to the point of saying, well, prove that its not true. the younger flynn by the way is his fathers chief of staff at the flynn intel group. on "morning joe" today, mike pence said the younger flynn has no involvement in the transition process. but trumps spokesman later said the younger mikel flynn was helping his father early on in the transition, but is no longer ...

Bit of a number. we want boeing to make a lot of money but not that much. >> kristen welker at trump tower. a bit of a surprise there from the president-elect this morning. you werent expecting that, were you? >> reporter: not at all. he hasnt talked to reporters since the transition process began and the news of the day. essentially in a tweet calling on boeing to cancel that order for a new fleet of air force ones and boeing stopped falling on that news by the way. why significant? the officia...

Throughout this campaign as well as during this transition process. but yes, the kushners perhaps going down to d.c. we learned that they are house hunting down there. >> with the transition announcing this meeting between ivanka trump and al gore, it also renews questions of what is ivanka trumps role within the administration, the transition, because obviously donald trump said over and over the children are going to run the business. so this does raise a lot more conversation to be had. great...

Surprising that he is going this route. but, again, niall and kelly bring up the critical point, which is how intentional this was. whether this was a mark of a real policy shift or whether it was simply she called me and i answered the phone. and i think that presents a greater challenge for this incoming administration. and also for whomever donald trump picks as secretary of state. >> real quickly, i thought it was an important note and i talked with kelly about it here and on the "today" sho...