Labor department. Hes against expanding overtime pay and increasing the minimum wage. States have every right to decide what the minimum wage should be. I have been opposed to minimum wage increases that killed jobs. Reporter trump saying that he will save Small Businesses from the crushing burdens of unnecessary regulations. Meantime, scrutiny is growing over trumps pick to head the epa, Oklahoma Attorney general scott pruitt. He is a Climate Science denier. Reporter trump echoing pruitts call to rule back regulation. We are going to end the epa intrusion into your lives. Reporter and doubling down on campaign promises, including immigration. Ive used the expression extreme vetting. Extreme, oh, its going to be extreme. Big, beautiful doors. Reporter trump also calling for improving u. S. Relations with china. They havent played by the rules and i know its time that theyre going to start. Reporter as he formally rolled out his pick to be u. S. Ambassador to china. Iowa Governor Terry branstad a longtime friend of the chinese president. A man who knows china and likes china. Better to like china if youre going to be over there. Do we agree . Reporter two big announcements coming next week. Potentially the president elects choice for secretary of state and a News Conference on thursday to address potentially backing away from his family business. But the incoming president is keeping his ties to Celebrity Apprentice the nbc reality show he launched nearly 15 years ago. Sources tell cnn that he will stay on as executive producer of the show and continue being paid when he is in the oval office. Raising more questions about the growing list of business conflicts and the presidency. The president elect will meet with West Virginia senator joe manchin a democrat potentially being considered for a cabinet post and then trump will spend most of the day on the road. He will be in louisiana for the state Republican Party get out of the vote rally and on to michigan tonight for another stop on his thank you tour. Thanks. Lets bring in the panel. Political anchor for Spectrum News errol louis and selena zito and david gregory. Errol louis, keeping his title of the show of a show that he created is a problem because, dot, dot, dot. People dont quite understand what it means. This is a passive income. This is something this is money he gets for not doing anything actively. Its almost the equivalent, i would think of, as being the coauthor of art of the deal. He is the coowner of the show. If the show does well. He will get a check. The same way as if the hes got a name on about a half dozen books, really. If those books sell, he gets royalty. The same is true for president obama. The same is true on books he coauthored. Im not sure there will be a problem unless people think they can influence the president by doing something with the show. Buying ads on the show or Something Like that. But that remains to be proven. David, first of all, how do i get money for doing nothing . Thats my first question. Second, i think the conflict is this is an nbc show and nbc news will be covering the president. Is that a conflict . Im going to let the good people of nbc news figure out whether they have a conflict or not and had a deal with that with the president. I think the larger issue is this. I think errol is right, this is passive income. Its really about the office of the presidency. Its about the institution of the presidency and how does it look. Donald trump does not need this money. Why not divest from it. Ronald reagan insisted upon wearing his suit jacket in the oval office. Such was his respect for the oval office and for the presidency itself. I worry that donald trump doesnt have the same respect for the institution. When he uses twitter to bully people in 140 characters. I think thats a concern. And i dont think its befitting of the office. Thats not elitist talk, thats not inside the beltway talk. Thats american talk on how we view the presidency. I just think this is another example of him not caring as much about the optics of it when perhaps he ought to think about it a little bit more. Selena, who he wants to please. What is the case that can be made that according to his support group, they know that hes the ep, they know hes rich. They know what were calling conflicts and theyre okay with it. Right. Look, hes giving us, us meaning the american electorate, exactly what we asked for. Voters said they wanted change. And they dont mind this different approach as he enters the white house. Now, if a problem arises and begins to show great conflict im sure or i would suspect he would devest of having his name on that. But, you know, this is what the American People asked for. They knew what they were getting into with this guy. They knew he was completely unconventional and for the moment theyre willing to ride it out to see what happens. But lets just be clear that what the American People this was a very close election. So, this is a great big country. And a great big electorate. I agree with selena 100 , there is a aspect of donald trump that i think actually pleases a lot of people the more he bucks convention. But i think thats a separate matter from his own, his own adjustments that he makes to really assuming the office and everything that that means. I dont know that hes really thought through all of these things and he might, he might change over time the way he views some of the choices hes making now, once hes in the job. I want to move on to some of his picks for his cabinet. So we now know for labor he has picked andy puzner. The ceo of carl jr. Burgers, hardys he is against any sort of minimum wage hike. He is for modernization in terms of replacing him with robots. But he might be best known for these commercials. Watch this. If i must. Wait for it. Wait for it. Its worth it. I know what youre thinking. They say threes a crowd. I think weve seen enough. The director doesnt think so. So, errol. Full disclosure. I was close to being cast in that ad. Ill never understand that. He says i dont think there is anything wrong with a beautiful woman in a bikini eating a burger and washing a bentley or a pickup truck or being in a hot tub. Ive never seen the ad before so this is entirely new to me. I think the issue the Trump Administration is going to have to deal with if he becomes the secretary and becomes the face when it comes to this level of sector, you have him on the other side of much of what Trump Supporters want. They want better working conditions and they want work to carry some dignity and respect. It seems not just the ad, which is sort of bad enough, but his stances on paid sick leave, on minimum wage is going in exactly the opposite direction. It creates an opening for somebody if the democrats ever get it together to go to these people and to go to the active, growing movement of people who are fighting for higher working conditions and say, okay, come back home. Clearly the Trump Administration doesnt care about the things that you care about. Selena, give us the through thread on the the themes of what has been coming through in these picks of the cabinet that are wealthy people after a campaign that was about helping the working man and woman. The people being put into these cabinet positions. Labor, environment, health and Human Services who seem to be against the typical agendas of those agencies. What is the through thread here . If you listen to voters this year. You know, like in indiana, iowa, pennsylvania, especially Small Business owners. Keeping the minimum wage to a point where it didnt impact their bottom line or cause them to get, you know, rid of workers, you know this is what people wanted. This is what Small Business people wanted. So he is in line with Small Business owners. The bulk of them are out there in the center part of the country. You know, and both of his picks, whether its epa or for labor are within the conservative orthodox. They reflect what conservatives have been talking about since 2008 when they ran against barack obama and reinforced in 2012 along with the Midterm Election cycle. David, last word. Very quickly. I just think its striking how conservative they are, these picks. More than donald trump. The big through line here is deregulation. Constricting government regulation. Thats something he believes in as president elect. Coming up on new day we will have kellyanne conway. She will join us live in our 7 00 hour. The nation is grieving. And rightly so. As we remember the extraordinary life of space age hero and former senator john glenn. He, of course, the First American to orbit the earth. He died thursday in ohio hospital. He was 95 years old. Lawmakers, astronauts, everyone in the public truly honoring an american legend. God speed, john glenn. Reporter he was the last of the mercury 7 a founding figure of the u. S. Space program. John glenn hurdled into history aboard the friendship 7 spacecraft in 1962. The lone astronaut took off becoming the First American to orbit the earth. I feel fine. Oh, that view is tremendous. Reporter those close to him remember his bravery. Think about this. Hes sitting on a rocket that had failed twice in some of the previous tests and nobody had ever done that before. Hes going at this incredible speed and hes looking out the window and admiring the view. Reporter glenn celebrated as an american hero, earning the congressional space medal of honor. His legacy so great the government decided he was too valuable to risk in another spa spaceflight. Glenn retired from nasa in 1964 and won a senate seat in 1974 representing ohio, where he served for 24 years. In 1984, he ran for president. With the nomination of my party, i firmly believe i can beat ronald reagan. Reporter he lost the democratic nomination, but went on to succeed in a new endeavor. After 36 years, glenns dream of returning to space had finally come true. Proving at age 77 he had one more mission left in him. Glenn became the oldest person in space aboard the Space Shuttle discovery. In 1988. A legend in his own time. Glenn was awarded the president ial medal of freedom in 2012. Overnight flags that u. S. Capitol lowered to half staff at the wake of his passing. Respect for a man with a lifetime of remarkable achievements. A combat pilot in two wars, u. S. Senator, astronaut. Few parallel the extraordinary life of john glenn. 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Dont dilute or mix toujeo® with other insulins or solutions as it may not work as intended and you may lose blood sugar control, which could be serious. Find your rhythm and keep on grooving. Lets groove tonight. Ask your doctor about toujeo®. Share the spice of life. S. President elect donald trump refusing to let up on china during a victory rally in iowa last night. Is he sending mixed messages about the communist nation. Listen to this. One of the most important relationships we must improve and we have to improve, is our relationship with china. The nation of china is responsible for almost half of americas trade deficit. They havent played by the rules. And i know its time that theyre going to start. Theyre going to start. Theyve got to. Lets bring back our panel. Errol llouis, selena zito and david gregory. Theyre not playing by the rules and we need to have a great relationship with them. Its not just a little bit inconsistent. It leaves out a lot of the overall relationship with china. This is what critics of trumps approach have been saying for a while now which is that its not just a bilateral relationship where we can sort of point to a rule and currency manipulation and thats the totality of the relationship. The tpp was intended to get america into asia. America into sort of cutting off at the pass some of chinas trading partners in that region of the world. And sort of create some competition which opens a new front to get into some of the security questions around the manmade islands that theyre involved in. He doesnt want that. If that dies, then we have to start over with china. That dies and china should basically send him a thank you card. It will be maybe one of the first things they say to the ambassador. Thanks a whole lot for not competing with us in asia. We have a free hand, we are going to strengthen ourselves. Now, lets talk. He said he will negotiate his own deals. Selena, what do you see in the fact that this is not off the cuff. His eyes were fixed in one direction. Apparently thats where the teleprompter was. This was a sculpted message. How is this a the kind of follow through on what he promised during the campaign . You know, he talked a lot about in the campaign about currency manipulation and steel dumping. Things that impact, you know, sort of Middle America and they feel that impacts manufacturing. And, so, hes consistent on that. I mean, theres no subtly with him. He negotiateats what hes goingo do when he either tweets or hes at a rally. Were sort of not used to that kind of diplomacy. And on one hand hes saying china youre bad on this, this, and this. But we really want to have a Good Relationship with you, too. He sends branstad who does have a Good Relationship with the chinese president. What is interesting is the extent to which he is already at president elect trying to keep the chinese leadership off balance by putting in governor bransatd tr bransstad who has a relationship with the president. While hes on Campaign Mode on this thank you tour going after china in a way, again, seems too off the cuff. There was a sculpted message. Nevertheless, he is still developing a policy tour china but seems to be freelancing in terms of throwing out these charges and throwing china around. There has to be a coherent strategy and china has pushback that it can get engaged on trade and the economy to say nothing about the military questions in the south china sea. So, this becomes an interesting chapter for trump to be opening up at this stage even as hes putting both the National Security and an Economic Team together. Lets talk about another big country, russia. It is also complicated. So, leading senators lindsey graham, john mccain, even bob corker are now suggesting that they want to launch wideranging investigations into exactly what russias role was in meddling in the u. S. Election. Its interesting to hear bob corker on the list that he would be Holding Committee hearings next year about it because his name has been floated for secretary of state. That may be the end of his bid or the end of the result that he is maybe privately been told or doesnt look so good for him as far as actually getting that job. But this is a tremendously important bipartisan issue. This is something that really kind of got skipped over in the concluding weeks of the campaign and absolutely everybody, including the Incoming Administration owes it to the public to get to the bottom of this. Its very, very serious. Selena, this was something that was ignored by the political right all the way up to the president elect who said, you know, its not true. Even now the president elect will say, we dont know that russia was behind the hacking. So, whats the plus minus on thi