Regime of kim jong un. Wolf blitzer is off. I am brianna keilar, youre in the situation room. Announcer this is cnn breaking news. Our breaking news, donald trump may be off at his florida estate, but he is busy putting his cabinet together. Today the president elect picked two women for his administration, one of them a sharp critic. South carolina governor nikki haley. She is the daughter of indian immigrants. She is trumps choice for United Nations ambassador. Even though she backed two of his opponents and exchanged sharp jabs with donald trump during the campaign. She has no Foreign Policy experience but is a rising star in the gop and says she is accepting trumps offer out of a sense of duty. The president elect picked betsy devos, a Top Republican donor and School Choice activist to head the education department. Trump says shell, quote, help to break the bureaucracy that is holding our children back. And dr. Ben carson today tweeting that, quote, an announcement is forthcoming about his role which he said is about making our inner cities great. Trump said he is considering carson for housing secretary. New information about one of the Biggest Challenges the Trump Administration may face, the aggressive Nuclear Armed regime of kim jong un. The Obama Administration has reportedly warned trumps team that north korea will be its Top National Security threat. I will speak with republican congressman peter king of the intelligence and Homeland Security committees and our correspondents, analysts and guests have full coverage of the days top stories. We begin with our cnn senior White House Correspondent jim acosta. The president elect has shown he doesnt really like criticism but thats not stopping him when it comes to building his cabinet. Reporter thats correct. He has done what many critics thought he was incapable of doing, and that is bringing in one of his harshest critics into his cabinet. As donald trump settles in for the thanksgiving weekend, the president elect is making room at the table for some surprising cabinet picks. For starters, his choice for ambassador to the u. N. , one of his toughest gop critics, nikki haley, saying in a statement the South Carolina governor and daughter of indian immigrants is a proven dealmaker. And we look to be making plenty of deals. She will be a great leader representing us on the world stage. Explaining her decision to step down as governor, haley said, when the president believes you have a major contribution to make to the welfare of our nation and to our nations standing in the world, that sa calling that is important to heed. When a bully hits you, you hit that bully right back. Reporter haley had a different calling in the primaries, when she was backing marco rubio, she attacked trump as a racebaiting bully. I will not stop until we fight a man that chooses not to disavow the kkk. That is not a part of our party. Thats not who we want as president. We will not allow that in our country. Reporter trump, punched right back. She is very, very weak on illegal immigration. You cant have that. Reporter in addition to his selection of haley trump tapped betsy devos for education secretary and appears to be closing in on announcing ben carson to lead housing and urban development. The devos pick is angering some conservatives alarmed about her common core stance. On her website she says she opposes common core. Something trump repeatedly vowed to end. Well put an end to common core, which is a disaster. Well bring our education local. Reporter trumps willingness to go outside his comfort zone may be a sign he could turn to one of his biggest republican adversaries to become his secretary of state. Mitt romney. His domestic policies would lead to recession. His foreign policies would make america and the world less safe. He has neither the temperament or the judgment to be president. Reporter the potential move enraging some of his core supporters. There is only one way i think mitt romney could even be considered for a post like that. He goes to the microphone in a public place and repudiates everything he said in the famous Salt Lake City speech. I can think of 20 other people who would be more naturally compatible with the trump fissivision of foreign po reporter the leading contender for defense secretary told president elect waterboarding doesnt work. He said, i have always found, give me a pack of cigarettes and a couple of beers and i do better with that than i do with torture. Reporter contrasted with trumps enthusiastic support for torture during the campaign. Torture works. I have these guys, torture doesnt work. Believe me. It works. Waterboarding is your minor form. Some people say its not actually torture. Reporter the selection of nikki haley for United Nations comes at a critical time for the Trump Transition Team. With so Many Americans uneasy about donald trump becoming president , one trump advisor told me they hope the haley selection serves as a pressure reliever for this holiday weekend. Jim acosta in new york. Thank you so much. And before donald trump headed to florida for thanksgiving, the president elect met with the New York Times. He dropped his pledge to prosecute Hillary Clinton and denied that his business interests are a conflict of interest. Turning now to cnn National Correspondent jason carroll. We are learning a lot, jason, about this meeting. Tell us about it. Reporter more about that meeting, specifically when it comes to his soninlaw, Jared Kushner. He was instrumental many say in getting donald trump to where he is right now. One of his closest advisors. Some seem to suggest Jared Kushner could be instrumental in helping with the middle east peace process. Maybe nothing, because i dont want to have people saying conflict. Even though the president of the United States i hope whoever is writing this story its written fairly, the president of the United States is allowed to have whatever conflicts he or she wants. But i dont want to i dont want to go by that. Jared is a smart guy. He is a very good guy. He is a quality person. I think he could be very helpful. I would love to be able to be the one that made peace with israel and the palestinians. That would be a great achievement. Nobody has been able to do it successfully. He would be part of that . I think he would be good at it. Knows the region, knows the people, the players. You can put that down in a list of many things that i would like to be able to do. Reporter clearly that would be a tall order. There is also a question, his critics point to the fact that this could be a violation of antinepotism laws. The law from 1967 enacted after john f. Kennedy installed his Brother Robert to be attorney general. You heard there from donald trump, president elect himself, that there could be possibly some way of getting around that. It seems as if he might be okay with that. Brianna. Jason carroll in florida, thank you. Joining me now is republican congressman peter king of new york, a key member of the intelligence and Homeland Security committee. Sir, thank you so much for being with us today. Thank you, brianna. I want to ask you about something that Kellyanne Conway said. She confirmed to the wall street journal that donald trump jr. Met last month in paris with diplomats to discuss working with russia on the issue of syria and then ivanka trump joined donald trump in meeting with the japanese prime minister, also on a phone call with the argentinian president. Is that appropriate for his children to have that level of involvement in president ial affairs . Well, you know, the president elect trusts them. He has faith in them. And unless there is something shown that they did something untoward or that there was something, i would say, corrupt going on, i i think its appropriate. Listen, i realize the issue, that you are using someone who is not actually an official part of the government. On the other hand, again, to me, i believe the president should have the power to get things done. I dont see anything untoward going on here. And if thats how the president wants to function and to get the information he needs and to send signals, i think it is appropriate. Obviously he has to be careful about it. I think he realizes that. He doesnt want his family to be getting in any kind of trouble, but he does have absolute faith in them. By doing that it sends a signal to people on the other end that the president elect is serious about what he wants. At the same time, they are going to be basically in his stead at the trump organization, representing his financial interests. Right. Yeah. So square that for me. Why is that okay . Yeah. This is the first time this has ever happened, that you had a president who had such a vast amount of interests, none of which is secret as far as i know. Theyre out there. I think donald trump himself has said that legally he can probably do all this, but he wants to find a way to put enough measures in place to assure people that everything is being done honestly and appropriately. And, again, this is the first impression. First time weve had as far as i know anything like this. You say none of his interests are secret. But he hasnt released his tax returns. So there are a significant amount of his interests that are indeed secret, the definition of secret. Yeah. Well, again, as i said, donald trump is not hiding the fact that he realizes there is an issue there, and i am sure that he and his lawyers and others will be working between now and january 20th to come up with a formula and put it in place to address this. Again, this is first impression. I dont see anything that donald trump is doing which is an attempt to get around the law. In fact, he wants to comply with the law, which he may not even have to comply with. Its out there. What i am saying is no secret. There is no secret that he has vast holdings all over the country and to some extent around the world. Weve never had this before in a president. There is nothing wrong with him having it. But now were putting the two together and i think he realizes the necessity of working through this in a way that assures the American People. I want to ask you about something you said here on the situation room in august. You talked about Hillary Clinton and even just the appearance of there being perhaps conflicts. Lets listen to that. She should have known as secretary of state the conflicts or the appearance of conflict that was being raised by accepting all this money from foreign donors, foreign companies, people who had involvement with overseas interests. And really, so it does raise questions about her judgment. Why does the appearance of conflicts with Hillary Clinton raise questions about her judgment and yet the appearance of conflicts i mean, you had donald trump, who met with Indian Business partners who built the first trump property in the country, he took a photo with them. It was put up and then deleted because it wasnt great news for donald trump. Why is there that double standard . The difference here is that there was no reason why she had to be going out, again, dealing with countries that were also dealing with the clinton foundation, and, again, she was secretary of state. And when she was going out affirmatively and, in effect, you know, breaking new territory, going out and seeking funding. Her husband was going out seeking funding. The fact is that now we had donald trump who had all this coming in. Before the campaign started he had all this wealth and interests. He is not denying this. He wants to find a way to make it work. Without defending the foundation because i think there have been some good points raised certainly about that and i think the fire wall was not exactly what she said it would be, were talking about a charitable foundation. When you are talking about donald trump, this is not a foundation. This is his business empire. This is solely for profit. This is something that should be treated even more seriously than a charitable foundation. Shouldnt it be . I think he is treating it seriously. Again, the how is he treating it seriously if he is meeting as bre president elect with Indian Business partners . He is going before the american public, he even went with the New York Times. Why, ill never know but he is acknowledging the issues are there and wants to address them. He is not denying that he has the interests and that he realizes there could be issues and that he wants to find a way to work around it. As far as the foundation, yeah, it did charitable work. It was also a good life line for the clintons also. I not into bashing the clintons, but there is a distinction in that donald trump had the wealth and Holdings First and then ran for president. He wasnt using one to benefit the other. He is acknowledging the wealth is there. He met with nigel farage, mr. Brexit himself. They thishad a meeting. He implored people within farages entourage not to build a wind farm near his properties in britain. So, i mean, that seems, as president elect, to be asking someone to do something to benefit his business, isnt that the definition of what you just said . No. Because its said publicly. He has known farage. They have a common interest on brexit. Donald trump can answer all this for himself. If youre trying to do something surreptitiously, you do it in the open and people know about it. Thats donald trump. He is different from other people in that. There are no secrets here. He says whats on his mind. He talks to allies and, again, i think between now and january 20th this will be resolved. It will be another issue used against donald trump and the American People obviously they elected him. The more he is attacked in the media, the more his numbers go up. He is out there in the open. He realizes the issues are there. Youre confident that, by the time he is no longer president elect trump, he is President Trump, that there are not going to be any concerns about whether he would use the presidency to benefit his business interests . Well, im sure that people in the media and some enemies will always try to attack him. I am confident hell do all he can between now or january 20th or as soon thereafter in place to have a formula in place to assure reasonable people he is doing the right thing. Many questions ahead, congressman king. Stay with me. Well be back with congressman king in a moment. Build their businesses and careers. My name is yasmin beloosagie and im a cofounder at she leads africa. I definitely could not do my job without technology. This windows 10 device, the touchscreen allows you to kind of pinpoint what youre talking about. Which makes communication much easier and faster than the old mac that i used to use. 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Donald trump picks more members of his cabinet. One a sharp critic. A day after seeming to drop some of his campaign pledges. Back now with republican congressman peter king of new york. A key member of the intelligence and Homeland Security committees. I want to get your reaction to the pick of nikki haley as u. N. Ambassador. U. N. Ambassad u. S. Ambassador to the u. N. Some are saying she is clearly someone who is very skilled in the natural art of diplomacy. Other folks are saying she doesnt have Foreign Policy experience. As someone with a lo the of Foreign Policy experience, is that something that worries you . No, it doesnt. Again, donald trump interviewed her. I dont know Governor Haley personally. She has ability. People who work with her say she is extremely intelligent. She is obviously familiar with world affairs. I have no doubt that shell do a very good job at the u. N. I think its important for a president to be able to put his team together, if he believes theyre competent and have the ability and certainly people who have worked with nikki haley, whether or not she is an expert on Foreign Policy, she is smart, intelligent, handles herself very well in public. All that is important as u. N. Ambassador. I confident that she will, you know is going to be able to get the job done very effectively. I think there is also another reason why many observers are so critical and thats because of how critical theyre sort of surprised because she was so critical of donald trump during the election. Its sort of stunning that he has brought in someone with whom he exchanged such harsh words. Mitt romney is someone he is considering. What does that tell you . Right. I think it shows that he is an openminded guy. People who say he is sensitive and thinskinned. He