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I think when the president elect whos also the held of your party now, joe, tells you before hes even inaugurated he doesnt wish to pursue these charges it sends a strong message, tone and content to the members, and i think Hillary Clinton still has to face the that cant at majority of americans dont find her to be honest or trustworthy. If donald trump can help her heal, perhaps thats a good thing. I look, i think hes thinking of many Different Things as he prepares to become the president of the United States, and things that sound like the campaign arent among them. Cnns Jessica Snyder at trump tower for us. Jessica, tell us about this source of confusion this morning. Donald trump has been talking to the media, tried to reset things yesterday. Meeting with a number of anchors and executives. Today it was a meeting with the New York Times, and at one point he was going, wasnt going, was going. Give us the latest. Reporter you got it, brianna. Despite a tweet storm targeting the New York Times, donald trump announced finally hell have a 12 30 meet with the publication. He will meet with reporters and executives at the publication, even tweeting out he is looking forward to it. But it was much different donald trump on twitter just about six hours ago when he alerted his 15. 7 million followers that he was cancelling that muchanticipated meeting with the New York Times. He said he was cancel it because of changed terms and conditions at the last minute. No word exactly what that means, and then went further and said, he tweeted New York Times had given him unfair and biased coverage, covering him in what he thought was a nasty tone. And came out and said to a pool of reporters inside trump to you are we are going to the New York Times. Donald trump took to twitter again confirming that 12 30 meeting with the in the. Part of it off the record, part of it on the record. Expecting donald trump to leave trump tower at some point to head that way for that anticipated meeting with the New York Times. Brianna . And jessica, tell us about donald trump putting out this message today about his first 100 days. Reporter right. We still havent seen a press conference from donald trump yet, despite being elected two weeks ago. Last night he put out a 2. 5 minute social media framing it as putting america first. Talked about a multitude of topics in a short time. Talking about trade, national security, ethics reform. Heres a little what he had to say. I am going to issue our notification of intent to withdraw from the transpacific partnership, a potential disaster for our country. Instead, we will negotiate fair, bilateral trade deals that bring jobs and industry back on to american shores. So donald trump touching on a multitude of topics there, but not touching on some of his big campaign promises. Like building that wall on the border of mexico, or repealing obama care, or deporting illegal immigrants. He did touch on immigration, though, saying he would direct the department of labor to investigate visas he said was undercutting the American Public and also, brianna, today, looking at the possibility of donald trump adding and announcing to more of his economic team. We understand that hes narrowing down some of the picks for treasury secretary as well as commerce secretary. Multiple sources telling us that the two names at the forefront for treasury secretary are steve mnuchin, former investor at Goldman Sachs as well as jonathan gray, head of Global Real Estate at Blackstone Group and also the leading contender, we understand, for commerce secretary, the billionaire investor wilbur ross. Back to you. Jessica snyder. Thank you so much. Bringing in my panel now. Eric bradder, reporter for cnn politics and a National Reporter for the boston globe. Interesting what we hear from Kellyanne Conway. That there is going to be for all of those chants of lock her up theres not going to be an investigation into Hillary Clinton. Its striking. That was the mantra of his campaign in the final couple of weeks. Sort of more than, one of the more memorable moments of his convention, you know that chant. Over and over. The debate moment of him pledging youd be in jail, he said. The special prosecutor to look at this. His supporters are so attached to him, i dont know what it does to his supporters, but you know it is striking, him sort of giving up this main pledge of his campaign. Maybe they thought it would just be hyperbole. Lets listen to it. We have it from october. This is donald trump. She gets a subpoena. She gets a subpoena, and after, not before, that would be bad, but after getting the subpoena to give over your emails and lots of other things, she deleted the emails. She has to go to jail. [ cheers ] now, he may have had a point up to that point where he said, she has to go to jail, because the issue here, eric, whether hes saying she has to go to jail or saying theres not going to be an investigation. Its not supposed to be up to the president. Right . This is supposed to be a decision for the justice department. The fbi director, the attorney general, detached from the white house and political influence. Trump saying both before and after the election, or his campaign manager, and now adviser saying after the election what he would direct his top Law Enforcement officials to do. So its sort of remarkably detached from the way things are supposed to work. On the other hand, winning makes this sort of thing easier. Right . Its easier to forget and sort of move on. Trump supporters are overjoyed by his victory and so now Hillary Clinton is just sort of the past. Right . There doesnt seem to be any anger boiling up from trump world, from frump istrump psupp live that with the campaign and not follow through with the promise. And looking at checks and balances and having concerns. Donald trump talking about his first 100 days, put out a video. And what is really stunning is that hes not talking about there being a wall. Hes not talking about an obama care repeal. No muslim ban. Maybe thats not much of a surprise, but what is he talking about, and what does this tell us . He talks about sort of withdrawing from tpp. The trade deal. You know, some of the talks about scaling back some regulations. Sort of easier things to talk about. You know, but also struck sort of in the days after he started talking about building a fence, in some cases. Not a wall. You do have a sense of him backing down from some of his Main Campaign pledges, which, again, could eventually become a problem with his supporters. For now its sort of bridging the divide, being seen that way, at least. I want to talk about not hearing from donald trump. We have a video. Hes obviously been tweeting up a storm. Hes taken a few shouted questions, but its been now two weeks and he hasnt had a press conference. Look what normally happens. I feel like sometimes when youre talking about donald trump, that maybe that isnt the best that you you cant always compare him pap graphic we have for president obama, three days before there was a press conference. Same with george w. Bush. Clinton going the longest with nine day, but donald trump now here with 14 days and all you have is Kellyanne Conway saying its going to be soon. What do you think about this . And to many people who certainly, i think, are critical of the media, why is this important . This matters, because well, first of all, because trump is on twitter sort of taking shots that reveal where his head is at. At least when waking up in the morning. Right . Hes ranting about the cast of hamilton and the New York Times. A lot of people are wondering what is actually on his mind right now . What hes thinking about as he prepares to enter the oval office. What his priorities are. What hes going to carry over from the campaign, what hes going to leave behind. People are also interested in insight into what his cabinet is going to look like. Right now there are three more people named mike in this administration than women or people are color, and so there are a lot of Unanswered Questions at this point. The expectation is that he would do a News Conference to sort of address these sorts of things. As you pointed out, this is donald trump. He doesnt do things the normal way, but he does typically address issues. Whether at a rally where he sort of goes into a bombastic kind of rant about them or on twitter, or in some forum, and that just isnt happening right now. You have Kellyanne Conway speaking for him, and thats about it. We want to hear from the president elect. Matt, eric, thank you so much. Thank you. Were learning new details surrounding a Deadly School bus crash in tennessee. Chattanooga Police Arrested and charged the bus driver, johnthony walker, at least five children gone in an instant when police say walker careened into a tree yesterday afternoon splitting the bus in half. Our Martin Savidge is live in chattanoo chattanooga. What are you learning, martin . Reporter reporter brianna were outside the hospital. There continues to be an outpouring the concern for those in Critical Condition not to mention the loss of the children you already spoke of. Releasing some of the radio transmissions that came out from this tragedy of yesterday afternoon. Take a listen. I have ambc with a school bus, bus flipped over occupied with children. Its going to be an mbc, occupied with children. They believe ejections. That, i can see an arm moving but i dont know if anybody can get to it. That just gives you an idea of what it was that the authorities rolled up on. They already knew that mass casualty report thats coming in, but when you see a little arm waving out of a bus and someone saying im not sure how youre going to get to it. They knew it would be a horrific crash which is was. The affidavit they have now released reflecting some of the information early on against the driver of the school bus suggested the bus was going at rate of speed that was far greater than the posted speed of 30 miles per hour. A very narrow, winding kind of roadway. So that would definitely be problematic. Some of the children onboard the bus say he may have hit a garbage bag or swerved to avoid a garbage bag. Authorities say, though in that affidavit, appears the bus went off the side of the road to the right, may have struck a driveway or elevated portion of a driveway, and then overcorrected left. When it flipped on its side again, moving so quickly, that even racing across the ground on its side, it slams into a tree and is nearly split in half. Authorities say that the driver is cooperating but the tragedy is staggering in this community. Brianna . Horrifying. We know youll continue to follow this looking to see how the children are doing in chattanooga. Martin, thank you so much. Talking about politics. A question we heard on the trail. Is trump too tangled up in his business to avoid conflicts of interest as president . We are digging into his connections overseas. Plus, a call of support for trump, for the president elect, and then a nazi salute. Next, the shocking jo ining vid white supremacist rally and how the president select team is responding. That he isnt able to do, and makeawish stepped in. We had to climb up the mountain to get the injured hiker. He fell from, like, a rock. Hes been the one that has been rescued so many times. 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Trumps Transition Team responded through a statement saying, president elect trump has continued to denounce racism of any kind, and he was elected because he will be a leader for every american. To think otherwise is a complete misrepresentation of the movement that united americans from all backgrounds. I want to bring in now warren siegal, director of the Antidefamation League center on extremism and steve cordes, trumps former campaign adviser, i should say for donald trump. He also led the National Hispanic Advisory Council for the president elects campaign. I want to ask you first, steve, why is donald trump himself directly on twitter attacking the cast of hamilton and yet leaving the criticism of White Supremacists to his Transition Team in a statement that certainly wouldnt be as strong as something that would come from him directly . Well, brianna, my answer first of all i would like to say and not speaking on ball of transition but a supporter of trump, those views and actions by that group in that room in washington, theyre reprehensible in every sense. Weve denounced as a campaign, denounced those views countless times. The candidate himself did and the president elect did. Its not quite fair to say he didnt speak to this. He did in his 60 minutes interview looked directly in the camera, anyone who thinks they should be in anyway acting in a bigoted manner in my name, he said, stop it. That is not part of who we are as a movement i thinkmy movement big nudenough, we are a movemenf tens of millions of people, youre bound to disdisreputable people true on the left and right. We dont in any way endorse this group. Quite the opposite. We condemn them, and those folks, left the room, gone a few blocks gone to the world war ii memorial they would have seen what a dear price america opposed for what they are sadly mimicki mimicking. We made that very clear. There a supporters of donald trump saying i should not be lumped in with these people. These are 200 people in a room. What do you say to that . Thats fair. Not all trump supporter, not all people who voted for him are in any way the types of bigots we saw in display in d. C. We need to be clear and remember that. That said, i think the American People no matter who they voted for know that you need to consistently speak out against the type of hatred that we saw. This is not just something that exists in a vacuum in d. C. This country is experiencing hate incidents that target jews, that target minorities of all kinds. At the same time when people are logging online, whether on their phone or back of their computer, theyre also experiencing the type of hate that is referencing this past president s campaign. Its not about one event in d. C. Its about a bigger issue were seeing throughout the country on all platforms, and consistency and specific condemnation of the types of people that are engaged in this is important. Generalitiy wont do. And i think you make a great point there. Donald trump is on his way to the New York Times