Live in wisconsin tonight, taking his victor tour to a state pretty much everybody predicted he would lose, appearing with wisconsins own speaker of the house paul ryan. Trumps plane, hes expected to walk off any moment there on the tarmac in wisconsin. History rally is outside milwaukee. And it comes as trump is facing a battle even within his own party over his new cabinet picks. Newest coming out today for secretary of the interior. A former navy seal. He was an early trump supporter. He also formally announcing his secretary of state pick, exxon mobil ceo Rex Tillerson. And marco rubio, john mccain, Lindsay Graham and. Ed. Frankly, i would never accept an award from Vladimir Putin. Because then you kind of give some credence and credibility to this butcher. This kgb agent, which is what he is. Secretary of energy today. The former Texas Governor rick perry who of course you may remember he forgot the name of the department he was picked to run. Do you expect trump to respond at all to the reaction to Rex Tillerson at that rally where you are tonight . Well, erin have talked to aides of donald trump who say yes the president elect will be talking up the man he has select forward secretary of state Rex Tillerson. Aides to the president elect are not looking back to this election that occurred on november 8th. Ol although later on tonight were going to be seeing paul ryan on stage. The aides to the president elect, they are looking forward to what could be a very pivotal battle up on capitol hill over the selection of his secretary of state. Donald trump is facing a gusher of questions over his pick of exxon ceo Rix Tillerson for secretary of state. Trump aides are already crafting their defense of tillerson. Whos forged such a close relationship with Vladimir Putin that he accepted a friendship award from russia just three years ago. I think if we want to get things done in russia we need somebody with a relationship not just with putin but other world leaders. Praise from gop heavyweights bic dick cheney. Others are all expressing doubts. Rubio said in a statement while rex tiller osama bin ladson is businessman, i have serious concerns about his nomination. It could give democrat an opening to probe further. More interested in trying to figure out what happened, how it halide. This is a fight for soul of our democracy. In the same way we agree no one should interfere with our elections. We should equally agree that donald trump won resoundedly. Hell be the next president. Reporter and tillerson as an oil man who sound the alarm over climate change. The risk posed by rising Greenhouse Gas emissions could prove to be significant. So been our view for some time it is prudent to take action. And topping rick perry to become secretary of energy. Perry recently an nrnltic contestant on dancing with the stars once famously forgot he wanted to eliminate the Energy Department in a debate. Lets see. I cant. I cant. The third one i cant im sorry. Trump says hes so business scheduling for this week. Instead the president elect tweeted two of his children, don and eric plus executives will manage them. And no new deals will be done while hes in office. I dont want to do deals. I want to focus on this. And cnn has confirmed that donald trump has tapped ryan zege to be his next interior secretary. And other auditions at trump tower in manhattan today. We understand Karina Pearson was there to pitch herself for press secretary, as well as other administration positions. Audition i guess is the right word given what were seeing in all the public discussion when you get your picture taken coming down that elevator. Could Rex Tillersons nomination be stopped . This is a crucial position, perhaps the most. Do the democrats have enough power to block tillersons nomination or not . By themselves they dont. However if enough republicans defect and vote no, they could block the nomination. And all they need is three republicans to defect on the floor of the senate and then Rex Tillerson may not be the next secretary of state. Already four republicans voicing some level of concern about tillersons ties to russia. On the Foreign Relations committee the net margin is everyone narrower. Ten republicans to nine democrats. Only one republican needs to defect. And already marco rubio who sits on that Committee Says he has very serious concerns. Were going to look after other wild cards on the committee. Rand paul of kentucky. But the democrats are so far united signaling they are probably going to object and oppose his nomination. Pretty amazing. And were going to be talking about to rand paul in a moment, and see what he says to that question. But you know this also comes as the senate Foreign RelationsCommittee Chairman bob horker who is of course also in the running to be secretary of state now says hes going to go ahead and look into whether russia. He didnt say that was his motivation. I talked to him earlier today. He planned to launch this some time ago he said. This is going to be the Third Senate Committee to go after, to dig into what happened in russia and its involvement in the elections. And earlier ahead had a chance to talk to jake tapper about why. I think any time we have a country that is attempting to discredit our democracy, it is an important issue for us to pursue. That goes to his benefit. That is what hes trying to achieve. The committee is going to work quickly in january to try to confirm tillerson assuming there is enough support to get it done by january 90, by the time that donald trump takes office. I asked bob corker. And praised him. Called him a great joyce. He also didnt know about hi views of russia. So expect that to be brought up in the proceedings. Up next. Dr. Rand paul. Thank you for being with me tonight. Senator, you have said you are going to reserve judgment on Rex Tillersons nomination. What do you need to find out about him . You know have an open mind. I want someone who agrees with what donald trump said he campaigned on. And that was that regime change hasnt worked or made us safer and the iraq war was a mistake and the i dont know about tillerson. But i think those are important because if we dont learn from the mistakes of the iraq war well continue to repeat those same mistakes. I think donald trump gets that and i want his secretary of state to also. You have been vocal in your criticism of that war. Obviously exxon mobil was able 20 go in after that war. But Rex Tillerson is going to be secretary of state and a different role. Secretary of state condaleezza rice pushed. Dick cheney praising tillerson. Does that give you any pause . These were two of the biggest defenders of the iraq war now supporting tillerson. Well have to wait and see. I definitely will ask. The one person come up for secretary i know im opposed to john bolton. Tillerson, i dont know yet. So i will ask those questions. And think for Donald Trumps sake he should want to pick with someone who actually agrees with him and has the world view. You have also been very critical of Vladimir Putin, senator. You wrote the president , russias president should be isolated for his actions. You wrote this in time. You continued to conclude with let me be clear. If i were president i wouldnt let Vladimir Putin get away with it. Rex tillerson is very close to the russian president. They did a major deal together. Marco rubio came out and tweeted being a friend of vladimir is not an tribute im hoping for from secretary of state. John mccain came out Even Stronger than that. Here he is. Anybody whos a friend of Vladimir Putin must disregard the fact that Vladimir Putin is a murderer, a thug, a kgb agent. Are they right . Is what they are saying fit with your point of view . I think we may be overstating the friendship aspect of this. He got some award called friendship award or whatever. But the thing is hes the ceo of a Major International company. And his job is to make deals. And hes been i think hes made deals with 50 different countries. I dont think that means that he accep accepts putins world view or is a supporter of any of that. I suspect that donald trump will negotiate from a position of strength in any diplomacy. But i do want a diplomat who talks. I want to diplomat whos open to negotiation. So really that is what im looking for. Not someone whos going to be easy on russia. But someone who understands the carrot and the stick approach to diplomacy. So i think you have to be determined and im going to keep an open mind on it. He you sit on the Foreign Relations committee. Today your chairman said hes going to review russias hacking of the elections. And the cias conclusion that russia hacked the election with the goal of helping him win is false. He has been categorical about that. Here he is. I think it is ridiculous. I think it is just another excuse. I dont believe it. Is senator corker right to launch the review . Or is the president elect right that this is ridiculous . I think we need to be aware that countries that can do cyberattacks do. And the majority of nations that have the capability have doing it each other as we speak. So we have to be prepared and defend for that. I do think there are a certain amount of the sour grapes in this and people trying to make excuses for Hillary Clintons loss. In kentucky, 70 of Eastern Kentucky vote forward donald trump but i dont think it had anything to do with the russians. It had do with the disagreement on the regulatory war on coal that cost us 20,000 jobs. So that kind of goes back to the point if shed have had the email on a government server maybe they couldnt have hacked in her email. I dont know. There are a lot of things that needed to be looked in too. But i think we should let the election be over and there are winners and losers and let that be. And lets try to work on some things for the betterment of the country now. You sound very gracious about donald trump. You are open to rex tirlszen. You are open to his views on the cia. But of course paul, you and donald trump clashed aggressively during the campaign. Our viewers may have forgotten some of this. But i havent. And i want to play a little bit. First of all, rand paul shouldnt even be on the stage. Hes number 11. Hes got 1 in the polls. He isnt a person for whom we should be showing respect. Hes a person for whom we should be showing disdain. Is donald trump, president elect donald trump someone senator paul that you were going to be able to work with now. Obviously campaigns are rough and tumble and we had our moments but yes i think i will be. I worked with president obama. I am who i am no matter republican or democrat president. Ive also vowed im not voting for a republican budget no matter whos for it and it never leads to balance. And that is going to happen on january 3rd when we come back here. So i am someone who represents a conservative state. Consive budgets and also someones who believes in some of the things donald trump that is talked about in Foreign Policy that we should have less intervention overseas. Thank you. Appreciate your time tonight. And outfront next the man giving trump his daily Intelligence Briefings doesnt work for the cia. He works for trump. Is he why trump is slamming americas spies. And a College Professor receiving Death Threats after calling something from trump an act of terror. 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His convictions have only grown since he was forced out of the Defense Intelligence agency in 2014 by director of National Intelligence james clapper. Flynn has also expressed his views that the Intelligence Community is too political. Especially the cia in the fight against terrorism. In 2010 while still serving as a senior officer he published an article criticizing the state of u. S. Intelligence operations in afghanistan. Intelligence officials also say the day under flynn wanted more access to documents on osama bin laden. Intelligence Officials Say everyone had full access. Cnn has learned the cia was so furious at flynn for publicly disclosing shortfalls, it complained to the pentagon which had signed off on what flynn wrote. Flynn looks at the cia because it is a civilian agencicious he looks at it a with a great deal of suspicious. The way i look at this is that the cia is not as political as general flynn thinks it is. The cia is very much in tune with a lot of the developments around the world. For its part, many in the Intelligence Community are aghast at some of flynns outside of the mainstream views he has shared with trump. Islam is a political ideology. It is a political ideology. It hides behind this notion of it being a religion. I dont see a lot of people screaming jesus christ with hatchets or machetes or rifles shooting up clubs or hatcheting or literally axing families on a train. Now general flynn has also said he knows that there are signs in arabic on americas border with mexico pointing the way for potential terrorists to enter the united states. Erin that is a claim thats never been verified. Barbara starr, thank you very much. And in fact the other day we were talking to the head of the Border Control union who supported sentiments on that issue. Worried about illegal immigration from the muslim world to the southern border but said he absolutely seen no science on that border at any point. Joining me now. Trump is getting briefings three times a week. And general is flynn is getting them every day and going to trump. That makes him incredibly influential. Yeah. For this point of the pre presidency. Obvious whi once donald trump is in the white house hell have a lot of people around him that have also be able to get his ear. But for this period of time Michael Flynn is the filter donald trump is getting a lot of intelligence information through. And a lot of this stuff is going to be new that donald trump. This is not his background. So hes going to be getting some of this information for the first time through the lens of Michael Flynn and hes not necessarily a reliable lens. Reports he used to be known for his flynn facts. It is a little unusual. Someone i know who has briefed Michael Flynn several times. One comment, on the issue of briefing. General flynn has almost no idea what hes talking about on most geopoliticals outside of the narrow scope of the counterterrorism. Everything comes through that one very narrow lens. Is that a good thing . Well probably not. I think common sense will tell you it is not. Were early in on this. As phillip mentioned. As the administration grows. And sort of starts to meld together and web together. Trump will likely broaden his point of view. One of the things that i do know about trump is that he is incredibly curious but hes also very prone to changing his mind all the time. So he might take flynns flynn right now has his trust and might take his word for what its worth at this moment. But i also think hes adaptable to learning new things from other people if he feels hes not getting the broadest amount of information he should be getting. What are you hearing . People i talked to roll their eyes when you talk about flynn. And they are very concerned. And lets remember, flynn is one of Donald Trumps first choices. And that, im told, general mattis, one of his conditions for taking the job was that he would have a direct line to donald trump. And