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Brian seltzer is with me and brian globe. first, i want to play trumps acceptance speech on the early morning hours wednesday after he was elected president. heres what he did. >> a very special person who, believe me -- and you know, id read reports that i wasnt getting along with him -- i never had a bad second with him --. hes an unbelievable star. he is -- thats right! how did you possibly guess? so, let me tell you about reince. and ive said this. i said, reince -- and i know it, i know it....

Correspondent, dana bash. >> reporter: on election night, the person donald trump praised more than anyone else was republican national committee chairman, reince priebus. >> tell you, rines is really a star. and he is the hardest working guy. and in a serve wcertain way, i this -- get over here, reince. boy, oh, boy, oh, boy. its about the time you did this, reince. >> reporter: even surrendering his victory speech microphone to priebus. >> amazing guy. our partnership with the rnc is so import...

Planning a role previously held by new jersey governor chris christie. as trump hunkered down, it was running wild. >> ill tell you, reince is really a star. hes the hardest working guy. >> reporter: among the candidates for chief of staff, reince priebus. drawn to capitol hill. and booed trumps successful bid with a gop ground operation. >> ladies and gentlemen, the next president of the united states, donald trump. >> reporter: but filling the role is already sparking friction among the team. ...

Obamacare like a provision that prevents insurers of denying coverage because of pre-existing conditions and allowing children on policies until they are 26. now the president-elect tells the wall street journal, he wants to move quickly on it and either it will be amended or repealed and replaced. the latest look at trumps pr r priorities come as he turns to his vp, mike pence. a role previously held by new jersey governor, chris christie. intrigue in washington running wild. >> i tell you, rei...

Why should this never-trumper get my job? so it was getting complicated. >> jim acosta, thanks. perhaps the person who can make the most impact in a trump presidency, other than trump himself, is the chief of staff. the two men who are said to be leading contenders are reince priebus and steve bannon, who ran breitbart.com. >> reporter: on election night, the person trump praised more than anyone else was reince priebus. >> ill tell you, reince is really a star. and he is the hardest working guy...

>> no that is not the case. we dont -- im not involved in that. nobody is talking about those things. and so our focus right now is just making sure were wrapping up the committee work and then, you know, making sure that the transition goes smoothly and so that he can be well equipped come january. and he will be. >> donald trump does give you a lot of credit for his win. at that moment when the world was watching him give his victory speech. he talked about you. here is what he said. >> ill te...

Insurers from denying coverage because of preexisting conditions. and the provision that allows children to remain on their parents health insurance policies until theyre 26. now the president-elect tells the "wall street journal" he wants to move quickly on health care once he takes office. and either obamacare will be amended or repealed and replaced. the latest look at trumps priorities comes as he turns to his vp mike pence to take the lead on transition planning a role previously held by ne...

Out there. again, we dont take anything for granted. we want people to participate. we have to win first. if we do, we have to speak to those concerns. >> if you and hillary clinton win tomorrow, what is director james comeys fate? >> you know, thats something that we havent even spent time thinking about. weve been so focused on this issue of winning. we are at least happy that after the letter came out two fridays ago and we said, look, if youre going to raise a question, please answer it. giv...

Inadequacy is rising up in him as hes reading, and he has to move to that. >> do you think -- i mean, donald trump -- initially ran as a populist figure against free trade agreements, for the working guy, for the common man and then he sort of adopted all these policies, this sort of, you know, its blue blood policies, all about tax cuts for the super wealthy. could be george w. bushs platform. does he find that ironic? >> i dont think he knows irony, nuance, subtlety and what i do think is if y...

Two things in the poll we found out with nbc and esquire. they are upset about the reduced status of the americans in the world. we are not the great power in the world they looked up to. the dream seems dead. put them together and you could go left or right on that one. >> you absolutely can. its the people seeing the middle class carved out and the wealthy doing well. to some, what they are seeing is people coming across the border and the jobs are being taken by corporate america and mexico o...