Influence the outcome to donald trump. Welcome to early start. Im george howell. Im christine romans. It is december 13th. Breaking overnight. Donald trump is set to name his pick for secretary of state this morning. Multiple sources tell cnn he has chosen exxon mobile Ceo Rex Tillerson for the job. There are signs of trouble for the nomination and certainty over his views of Climate Change and his close relationship are Vladimir Putin raising concerns on both sides of the aisle. The latest from Phil Mattingly from trump tower. Reporter the pick is in. The president elect will announce the exxon ceo will be his selection for secretary of state. Nominating him because the two just hit it off. They found a hit with one another. They share similar world invovi and business backgrounds. It comes down to three who all recommended Rex Tillerson to the president elect. The two did not have a relationship before the process started. Now he will be the president elects top diplomat. That doesnt mean he will have clear sailing. Democrats have already raised concerns about his potential nomination. Not just democrats. Republicans have has well because of tillersons ties to russia. Exxon has done numerous deals with russia and his relationship with Vladimir Putin. That is raising concerns by john mccain and Lindsey Graham. The republicans just hold a fourseat advantage. What does this mean for the other candidates . The many candidates who have been cycled through the last couple weeks. Obviously they did not get the job. Mitt romney taking to facebook saying he was honored to have been considered for the position. He has very high hopes for the trump administration. This is a long way from when he called the president elect a phony and fake through the general election process. The two formed a Mutual Respect of one another through the process. The president elect calling mitt romney on monday night to tell him he did not get the position. He appreciated his willingness to participate at all. Obviously that is on the cabinet side of things. A big question on the conflict of interest side of things. The president elect was supposed to answer questions this week. Touting his News Conference on december 15th where he would announce he would separate himself from his business. Reality is he is focused on personnel and cabinet decisions. That has been backed up by the steady stream of individuals going in and out of the building the last couple weeks. There is this fact. This is an incredibly complicated process according to trump advisors. The Trump Organization legal team hasnt gotten their heads around want. Trump wants to remove himself from operational side, but he wants to maintain a stake and figure out a legal structure to pass this down to his children. Donald trump plans to diseven tank disentangle himself from his businesses. Even though im not required by law to do so, i women be leaving my business before january 20th. Two will be managing the team and no new deals will be done during my term in office. In the final tweet, he promised to hold the press conference in the near future. We have been expecting that press conference this week. We know his daughter and soninlaw were house hunting in georgetown. The two adult sons managing the business. So many questions about his role. We will wait longer to find out. Interesting that word. New. Not old deals, but new deals. What about financing the current deals on the books . Loans backed by foreign governments . We he don dont know yet. Phil mentioned the concerns of the pick for secretary of state and close ties to russia. Some of those concerns so great he may not get past the Committee Hearing stage. Manu raju spoke about it with democratic leader harry reid. Reid said if it makes it to the floor for a full vote, bipartisan opposition could very well kill it. I dont know if he can get 50 votes. It may be hard for him to do that. Reports you are seeing about the russian connections concern you . It is in keeping with trump. He has already stated he likes putin better than he likes obama. It is obvious he likes russia. That is concerning to the world and certainly concerning to america. If Rex Tillerson is nominated and confirmed, he would be the American Ambassador on Climate Change. He mislead new york share hol r holders. Since taking the helm in 2006, tillerson shifted the exxon mobile stance admitting Climate Change is a problem. In 2007, he said the risk of greenhouse gasses could be significant. He endorsed a carbon tax on businesses in 2009 over cap and trade policy. Exxon mobile supported the Paris Agreement. Speaking at the conference last month, tillerson said it helps World GovernmentsWork Together to solve the issue. His history could put him at odds with donald trump who ripped into the Paris Agreement on the campaign trail. Said over the weekend nobody knows if Climate Change is real. The kremlin is lastly rej t rejecting the cia assessment that the russians hacked into the u. S. Election. State media is reporting that Vladimir Putins press secretary called the claims of russian interference allegations unsupported by any evidence. Lets go to moscow and matthew chance. Matthew, the russian government is expressing interest into the investigation into the outcome of the matter. All the while saying if there is evidence, prove it. Reporter yeah. Thats what they are saying definitely. They are saying you are making serious allegations about russias involvement in these hacking allegations. Without providing any concrete proof those allegations are true. They have been saying that time and again since this emerged in october at the height of the president ial campaign. They are pointing to what trump is saying. On the issue is a number of other issues. Donald trump is saying the same tune as kremlin. When it comes to the hacking allegations, trump is saying there is no concrete proof that hacking came from russia. He is trying to play down the significance of those intelligence concerns that russia may have been implicated possibly for domestic reasons. He wants to distance himself that his election was illegitimate. Of course, he has an eye on making a deal in the future potentially with Vladimir Putin over a range of issues. Thats what he talks about in his campaign. And russia at the same time citing as you point out with president elect who has thrown the u. S. Intelligence community under the bus. Reporter yeah. He seems to, yes. We dont know. The problem is with the allegations that the u. S. Intelligence community has come out with, they are treating an allegation which is the russia gott engagete engaged in the ha fact. Without evidence, including russians and donald trump, want to see those facts. Whether those facts or evidence will come out later on as a result of this investigation or result of the public pressure remains to be seen. Nevertheless, without that concrete proof, it gives the opportunity to the russians and to trump to say look. There is no digital evidence. No digital footprint. There is no Straight Line from the hacking straight to the kremlin. You know, if we are going to put this matter to rest, we will see the evidence. No one is doubting russia had the motivation. It clearly backed trump during the campaign. It saw trump more sympathetic to the world view. It had every motivation to support trump. The extent to go to achieve that. Thats what is being, i think, disputed. It is uncertain where the different agencies would provide their methods and sources into the findings. Certainly notable saying they are confidence in the findings. Matthew chance live in moscow. Ten minutes past the hour. Clinton campaign backing electric to electr electrelec electors asking for findings relating to russia involvement in the election. John podesta calls this a grave issue. Despite the chaos, the donald trump thank you tour makes another stop in wisconsin later tonight to be joined by Vice President elect mike pence and House Speaker paul ryan. The next stop is hershey, pennsylvania. Chinese sending a warning to the president elect. Respect the one china policy on taiwan or risk severing ties. Where does this relationship go from here . Early start back in a moment. Welcome back. The chairman of the joint chiefs of staff is set to meet with the president elect here in the coming days. Joseph dunford is the military advisor to the president. He is finalizing a new classified military strategy to present to trump and discuss how u. S. Forces are deployed around the world. The republican chairman in michigan is Donald Trumps pick to become the next head of the rnc. The transition source tells cnn this announcement is expected this week. She would precede Reince Priebus. She is the niece of former gop president ial nominee mitt romney. And donald trump is making it clear he will not back down from china and he has drawn a very sharp response from officials in beijing. Saying they are seriously concerned. The president elect continuing to question whether the u. S. Should adhere to the agreement called the one china policy. Specifically that taiwan is part of china. Trump is showing he is willing to provoke chinese officials on the sensitive matter until they agree to new talks on trade and north korea. Cnns matt rivers is following the story and live in beijing. Matt, chinese officials have made it clear to the president elect that the one china policy is not for sale. Reporter thats absolutely right. As much as the president elect says he wants to use the one china policy as a point of leverage in future negotiations on trade and north korea and Chinese Military expansion in the South China Sea, the chinese have countered strongly over the last 48 hours saying this is not something they are willing to negotiate. Any bilateral cooperation that exists with the u. S. And china will have to happen under the auspices and both sides acknowledging the one china policy. We heard strong reaction in beijing yesterday. Today, we hear continued Strong Negative reaction to the president elects comments. Specifically in staterun media and statecensored newspapers. Censored by the communist party. The truth is this president elect is inexperienced in diplomatici practices. He has overestimated of dominating the world and fails to understand the limitation of u. S. Powers in the current era. It is safe to say that the communist party approve what is is printed here. The negative feeling to the president elect is continuing just one day after we heard from the first time from chinese officials how unhappy they were about Donald Trumps comments. We heard from the tabloid and officials and we also saw a show of military force over the weekend. Reporter thats exactly right. What we saw actually was december 7th and 8th. Between the call that donald trump had with the taiwanese president and the comments he made to fox news. According to officials that spoken to cnn, china flew for the first time over contested areas in the South China Sea bombers cape aable of carrying nuclear weapons. It is obvious this could be a signal to the president elect a show of force, if you will, it was not happy that the fact that donald trump took a phone call with the president of taiwan. A few days later, he is making comments about the one china policy. Interesting start to the u. S. china relationship under the incoming donald trump administration. Interesting to see the Current Administration pointing out the United States does adhere to the one china policy. Matt rivers in beijing. Thank you. Back to politics. Ballots recounted in wisconsin and the winner is donald trump. The state Elections Commission saying it cannot only recertify the president elect is the winner, but award him 131 more votes in the process. Green Party Candidate jill stein financed the recount over concerns of hacking possibilities and voting irregularity. Donald trump said the wisconsin win is in and guess what . We picked up additional 131 votes. The democrats can rest. Scam. A federal judge ruled last months Election Results will stand and trump is the winner in pennsylvania. The judge rejecting the recount bid by jill stein saying suspicion borders on the irrational. Up next, the crisis in aleppo. Thousands of civilians trying to flee the cka carnage there. Reports of mass executions by forces. What is the status of the Rebel Movement . A live report ahead. Humanitarian groups in syria pleading for help this morning as Government Forces enter the final stages of recapturing aleppo. Several groups reporting large numbers of people with ties to rebels have been executed. Cnn has not been able to verify those reports. We have Jomana Karadsheh live for us. Jomana, what do we know about the rebels caught in the cross hairs . Reporter here is what we know about the situation, christine. We are hearing from residents on the ground and activists from a monitoring group. Saying there are reports. Unverified reports at this point of mass executions that have taken place. They say it was committed by Regime Forces in areas that they captured from rebel fighters. They say people who are relatives of rebels have been rounded up and that includes women and children and they were executed publicly. The United Nations is receiving the unverified reports and expressed concern and alarm over what it says are the reports over the atrocities over the executions of women and children. They also express they cannot independently verify these reports. It is very hard to verify reports from eastern aleppo. We have been speaking to people there. They draw very grim picture. It is becoming harder to find the words to describe this situation on the ground. People, thousands have fled the neighborhoods that were captured by the regime yesterday. They moved into the small enclave of what is left of eastern aleppo under the control of the rebels. People huddled together in buildings. Crammed in the small area. They are retuunning out of spaco find shelter. The relentless and indiscriminate artillery shelling. People are describing dead people on the street and wounded with no one to help. You talk to people and you hear the fear in their voices and despai despair. They fear it is a matter of time that aleppo will fall to the regime. They dont know what their fate is going to be. They fear this is it. They could be facing death as the regime closes in on what is left. Terrifying. What is the status of the rebels if aleppo falls . If the government is able to retake aleppo, is there another stronghold or is that the last stand for the rebels . Reporter thats the big question. What we are going to see happen . It seems eastern aleppo or the enclave is on the verge of falling. Rebels are on the verge of complete defeat in eastern aleppo. What are they going to do . Will they continue fighting until the last minute or will we see sort of a deal to leave . It is looking unlikely the United States has been working in talks with the russians to try to reach a deal. All indications it is unlikely that any sort of deal will happen to create the safe passage for the rebels to move to the western part of the country to province. It remains to be seen. KaucJomana Karadsheh, thank. We are following the twitter account of a 7yearold girl in eastern aleppo. Tweeted 19 minutes ago. Im bana. Im 7 years old. This is my last moment. Dont know if i will live or die. Still ahead, donald trump is poised to pick exxon mobile Ceo Rex Tillerson as secretary of state. Before the nomination, it is a sign of trouble. Questions for democrats and republicans. That is ahead on early start. Generosity is its own form of power. You can handle being a mom for half an hour. Im in all the way. Is that understood . I dont know what shes up to, but its not good. Cant the world be my noodles and butter . Get your mind out of the gutter. Mornings are for coffee and contemplation. That was a really profound observation. You got a mean case of the detox blues. Dont start a war you know youre going to lose. Finally you can now find all of netflix in the same place as all your other entertainment. On xfinity x1. The president elects pick for secretary of state a texas oil ceo with ties to russias Vladimir Putin. Rex tillerson recommended by two former secretaries of state. Donald trump postpones his First Press Conference as president elect. Instead, tweets about turning over his business to two of his sons. Welcome back to early start. Im christine romans. Im george howell. Donald trump set to name his pick for secretary of state this morning. Multiple sources telling cnn the president elect has chosen this pan. T man. Ceo of exxon mobile Rex Tillerson. There are already signs of trouble ahead for tillersons nomination. Theres uncertainty overviews of Climate Change and questions about his close relationship with Vladimir Putin. Raising concerns on both sides of the alisle. We get more from cnns Phil Mattingly at trump tower. Re