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Looking at, former new york mayor chris christie for secretary of state or u.n. ambassador or john bolton for secretary of state. senator jeff session at trump tower today. those are some of the names were tracking as this transition process gets under way. you had mike rogers last night on cnn saying hey look this transition team needs to sort of right itself and get going so that they are on track to have their team in place on inauguration day. >> mike rogers, in fact, talking on cnn about th...

Meetings donald trump had here at trump tower today. cruz spokeswoman put out a statement after ted cruz left here saying that ted cruz is essentially embraced what theyre calling this mandate to drain the swamp in washington. for ted cruz to use that kind of catch phrase from donald trump shows you how far that relationship has come. and i should point out theres a little bit of late breaking news. earlier today we were reporting that the transition process from the obama administration to the ...

Creating a bottleneck, the likes of which you have never seen in the transition process and im the only one who knows who is on the short list. >> it also means she not tahe i talking to advisers. its like i have the best brain. i have the best words. what does he know about agricultural department and the labor department? if he is the only one that knows the finalists thats a big problem. going back to the michael rogers thing, you know, mike rogers is a national security professional. he has ...

Obviously. but hes still the same person that you see. in public and be in my photographs. i think a lot of my photographs really show who he really is. >> pete sousa, thank you very much. >> thanks for having me. >> can i just say, when were all going to go on to berlin, theres another iconic photo thats come to be known as the sound of music photo between president obama and angela merkel. will he find another one of those photos that go viral. well find out. back to you. >> a week since donal...

The story of the trump campaign. i mean, you know, turmoil, a lot of turnover, of course, and with people leafiving the campaign, getting pushed out by various factions. it sounds shakespearean, the son-in-law being at the center of a lot of this. i think we can expect some of this in the campaign. its very much the opposite of what we saw in 2008 from obama who is famously no-drama obama, had press conferences to announce who he was appointing chlgt its also interesting about the list of people...

It is the first president-elect to tweet about how well the transition is going. saying very organized process taking place as i decide on cabinet and many other positions. i know that sounds great to trump voters but what he is saying, if its true, i am creating a bottleneck, the likes of which you have never seen in the transition process and im the only one who knows who is on the short list. >> it also means he is not talking to advisers. its like i have the best brain. i have the best words...

Patricia murphy, welcome to all of you. so much to talk about this morning. larry, mr. trump went on a sort of tweet storm this morning, pushing back against the "new york times" reporting that his transition team is in turmoil. what do you make of that? >> well, [ inaudible ]. >> okay. larry, we will go on and ask patricia that question. while larry fixes his skype, what do you think about trumps tweeting this morning? he tweeted at least four times. >> well, it feels a lot like candidate trump...

Elij elijah cummings fired off a letter to mike pence, who chairs the transition team, earlier today saying that that would be outrageous that the presidential daily briefing, wolf, should be limited to the president, the vice president and top intelligence officials. so a sign that this is a fight thats not over yet. >> clearly not over yet. jim acosta, thanks very much. one of the most mentioned names on the trump transition team is someone who has no official role in the administration, not...

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Chaos? >> none of this is normal and its holding up the transition process. there is only 63 days left and only about 4,000 political appointments to fill, but i have not mentioned it yet, but apparently there is a problem with his being too close to governor christie and also along with him and there is a general shuffle going on. >> the chief strategist is steve bannon right now. folks on capitol hill are being forced to answer questions about steve bannon the same way they were forced to answ...