Be very crowded but trust me, within minutes of taking this down the crowds are going to come. Just you wait. A point of reference, for next year we put in crowded shots. In the meantime donald trump is away from this madness. We got a lot into what he is planning to do. He is already leaking out the names that will populate his cabinet, top advisers, chief among them the ambassador to the united nations, charlie gasparino, managing editor, other names popping up and what they make early on, the names they have seen so far. What do you think . A tale of two beginnings. If you look at his cabinet choices including mitt romney, Rudy Giuliani, steve mnuchin, Rudy Giuliani will be Homeland Security or a battle going on, those are pretty strong people. Jeff sessions will be a law and order a g and that is the good start. The bad start for donald trump is some of his waffling on key positions, you dont have to believe the New York Times. A lot of viewers mistrust anything the New York Times reports, but go to the transcript and listen to donald trump on bended knee at the New York Times do a 180 on a lot of policy positions and clearly softening. He is not even in office yet technically. He is president elect, bad sign when you start say i wont indict someone i call the crook for many years, wont get rid of obamacare, wont repeal it, not going to build a wall, maybe a fence. Neil there are things where he is pivoting to put it mildly, reading those remarks as did you, left with a clear impression there are no guaranteed bets here and maybe the choice of people is an early indicator of that. Neil i already spent that money. Neil a fox news alert for you. One thing i noted when i was listening to mark levin, popular radio host in the conservative committee and he was calling this president elect nixonian more than ronald reagan, not so much for watergate for the moderate to moderate liberal positions he seems to be taking on Climate Change, looking or talking to someone like mitt romney and disappointing those who thought he was going gangbusters on a lot of issues that defined his Campaign Including the wall thing or he is pivoting but there are a lot of ticks off conservatives. There is a lot going on and a lot to discuss. Nikki haleys appointment proves that you can criticize trump as a republican during the campaign and end up on his team. She was one of his harshest critics early on in the primary, supported marco rubio, ted cruz, and as a governor hes not the kind of guy you want to see as president and when he won the nomination she backed off a bit, but her appointment coming now at an interesting time, we are getting all these people asking trump, demanding trump Say Something to denounce the white nationalists that are suddenly in the news all over the place. Actions speak louder than words. And it was very big to people. Those who bristled in the past, they are happy with that, not so conservatives and to an early point they are the ones very much part of that faction within the trump team, dead set oppo romney, dead set opposed to those who would be your mainstream choices for cabinet. They want the rowdy rabblerousers, Newt Gingrich said, not be my first choice referring to romney, secretary of state, a bit of a tempest in a teapot. Choices are the good part, those conservatives, depends on how you define conservative, someone as far right as keith bannon, who i like but i know his brand of politics. If you want to define him as conservative, he is far right, the mainstream consensus would be mitt romney would be a good secretary of state, very forceful. Neil there are factions and you know them better than i do, look at the stuff he said during the campaign, that is what they remember here but it will be tried hard to put a toothpaste back in the tube. They always find a way to do that but this wasnt just someone cutting the eventual nominee some sharp elbows. There are a few things going on with the romney possibility. First of all, maybe he is smarting than we are thinking if he is eliminating what might be a source of criticism. The team of rivals, getting people that might be critical, the other interesting thing is people throughout Trumps Campaign wondered how much he says he really believes, how much will the act on . Neil i use him as a proxy and he sounded pretty angry, overture to liberals and everything from Climate Change to how we deal with isis, you name it. Might be more a fence. These are reversals that are fairly significant. The problem donald trump has with conservatives, mainstream conservatives, they are not conservatives has been the fact he was a liberal two years ago. He was for open borders. Remember his explanation about abortion, what to do, you punish women for abortion, a liberal was telling, he said the woman deserves some punishment, that is something liberals have said for many years that conservatives never believed women who get abortions to be punished, they believe the doctor should be sanctioned. He was a liberal very recently. So that has someone like me, i am conservative, i look at certain policies, never wanted a wall but im for immigration control. Neil i am not trying to judge what he should be, but he is very different than what he campaigned as. He might be focusing on bigger issues that can bring home disaffected voters that go to him. But i am telling you these are pronounced steps in an opposite direction that have folks wondering where you are going. The romney thing is a perfect example because trump said he wanted to get friendlier with russia, spoke highly of Vladimir Putin and romney in 2012 said russia is our biggest geopolitical foe. At that time democrats made fun of him but how many options does he have . That might be something we are forgetting. I dont think he has a lot of people who are trump loyalists that would do a good job in something as important as being secretary of state. Rudy giuliani, the guy, contracts, and could be a real problem, but i that new english, he wants Rudy Giuliani over mitt romney. Stuart you dont want to populate with vanilla candidates, judicial a difficult cabinet, stocking it with very much team of rivals, what Abraham Lincoln said, the base is scratching its head on this. Charles the other thing, people forget donald, these are his cabinet choices, the buck stops with him. He is going to run it as a ceo so no matter who he puts in he will only listen to himself and maybe his wife and not even them. If you know buddy buddy in the campaign, everybody was pretty and seek we us to donald trump. Neil everyone who secondguessed him, watch closely, in the meantime ben carson saying, telling me yesterday, thinking about that, housing and urban development, remember this . They are interested in having you to be a hud secretary. So many promises made over decades and nothing has been done. It has been a longterm interest of mine and i am thinking and praying seriously, we had offers. Stuart a hud position . If i would say that is one of the offers on the table. Neil doctor carson what do you make of that . He has been criticized for not having the background but made a good point with me, i grew up in an urban area, with crime and all the problems. That made me think, from the school of life, he knows the territory well but is that enough . Happy thanksgiving. From the school of life, someone like doctor carson, there is not one thing he attempted in life that he has not successfully accomplished. Hud secretary, anything this man cannot do, he has spent the better part of 30 years solving the most complex problems the medical world has ever known. He is up to the task of solving these problems as well. Neil health and human services, a top neurosurgeon would be more comfortable, a huge bureaucracy, and it is a hornets nest. What do you think worked, his thinking on this . Doctor carsons background, upbringing, being born in innercity, detroit, understanding the problems that face inner cities, he definitely have a passion for advancing opportunities to underserved communities, he did that with cars and scholar fund, doctor carson has a big heart and is a Problem Solver and those of the things he is considering as this weekend. Neil i had a chance to get to know him over the course of this campaign dating back to when he challenged barack obama at that healthcare event. The one thing i noticed is he is such a gentleman, a dignified individual, you know the washington world, sharp elbows, get out of my way, this is my bureaucracy and before you got here, that could be a very different world. Couldnt it . Doctor carson is a gentleman, a statesman and my belief is that is what we need in washington, our government, and but with all due respect and be perceived by doctor carsons calm manner. He is a strong leader and while he speaks softly he commands respect and in my experience with him, he does not need to raise his voice to get things done and that is what i appreciate about being on his team. Hes a great leader and has done amazing things. He would not have been accomplished the Different Things he has done in his life and building the reputation of the department of pediatric neurosurgery at johns hopkins, people will be surprised when they work with him because he does speak softly but he is a very amazing man, he would not have been able to accomplish the things he has done. Neil he stayed very calm, during surgery he separated more than his share of conjoined twins. To the best of my memory, in the history of seeking this office no one has done that. We will watch closely, thank you very much. Take a look at chicagos ohare airport. I know what you are thinking, doesnt look too crazy. In second it is going to get nuts. 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When you add up all the people traveling for the thanksgiving holiday by car, train, plane or bus it will be close to 49 Million People according to aaa. The vast majority going by car. That said this is the most we have seen as far as people traveling since 2007 up over 2 and at Newark LibertyInternational Airport it is smooth sailing. I want you to see this. You could book a ticket and get out with no hassle, no problem. What is to be mad about that . Neil the same people who forecast the Election Results were on top of the thanksgiving day crowd. Any second, the very second we leave you. We can zoom in and make it look worse if you want. Neil my goal is to panic people. Things are okay right now. Thank you, Adam Schapiro. We are getting signs the weather could play into travel plans. I will bring everybody down again on the weather side, not bad, one store moving across the central part of the country, a similar set up last week which was a stronger storm fortunately, rain and snow and airports all green across the map, little delay at lax due to construction and a 15 minute delay going on in laguardia and that is where it was going. We might see delays later on around detroit and chicago but none should be that bad. The system moving through is strong, the rain not making its way to the southeast much, snow three photo five inches in places that can handle snow. This is how it plays through the day, the storm, center of lowpressure pools off to the north, the rain moving across the ohio valley, slick spots on the roads as you are driving and a little snow across parts of michigan in northern parts of wisconsin. Tomorrow this storm we can do a lot but moves to the east coast. Precipitation totals not that extreme and that is good news, thanksgiving day, precipitationwise not much going on, a little snow, a little bit of rain across coastal areas and snow across areas of maine and our attention will turn across the west, big storms moving into the west, rain or snow in the west anytime, that is something to be thankful for, we definitely need it. Neil two feet of snow. Thank you very much. You are probably aware the markets have been running crazy since donald trump got elected president of the United States the giving up a little ground today but a lot of folks are confident is continues on and on through small stocks and that could be very good, when retailers hope the wind at their back. Neil looking at the Dow Jones Industrial continuing to run up adding to record territory here. A little are for those traveling, if your sites include germany, pilots in germany will extend 24 hours, that is sort of the method by which you get in and out of germany, tangentially a european problem. And update, the pilot strike has extended another 24 hours looking for better pay, better benefits. This runup in stocks has a lot to do with confidence, a better environment and fewer regulations in that environment. Things are going to pick up for the economy under President Trump. Do you agree with that . We are thrilled with the progress we made, employees have done a nice of the last couple weeks, no question that our business has picked up over the last few weeks which we are encouraged by our progress in the fresh food portfolio and try to approaches, businesses like tvs and electronic started to pick up so we are encouraged by our progress and think theres a lot of upside going forward. Neil this is not political, what is going on shows Consumer Spending again. The consumer is moving forward, our business get stronger and stronger. No question that our traffic over the last few weeks has been very encouraging and consumers are looking for value and as they become more informed and educated where to find value our businesses responded very well. We are encouraged by that. Neil trend that may or may not help you, the number of Online Shopping by friday at 1 00 and four shoppers now it used to be close to half of them a few years ago. What is going on . Is it friday itself not as significant or is it an every day event . In the macro what we have seen is what used to be a one day events turned into a couple weeks events and that is good for us. Consumers ability to find information about value benefits us a lot. Our prices are better than most of our competitors so as consumers go online to research where to find the best value, it wins almost every time. The extension of the black friday holiday from what used to be a 1day event to multiweek event helps us because we have a big vibrant growing fresh food business that before the holiday takes off and as we close tomorrow for thanksgiving day we get set up for friday morning where electronic business will explode so we are encouraged by that. Neil you stood by that trying to give your workers the day off, the opposite of the trend we saw going on as recently as last year. Of the retailers following suit. What do you make of that . That is the easiest decision, we have been closed for ten years. It is the right thing to do. Our employees have done a wonderful job serving our customers. I dont know if you worked in the retail store the whole day but you sleep that night, working really hard to serve our customers and we think it is the right thing to do to give him the holiday off, bright and early friday morning to serve our customers again but our employees will end up being more refreshed and able to serve our customers really well if we give them that day so we think it is the right thing to do and we will continue to do it as long as i can. Neil you assume they like being with their family but it depends. That is true. Neil have a great thanksgiving, thank you very much. Have a great day. Neil there is one industry that is thankful about the Election Results and that is the goal industry benefiting right now from donald trump might with a wave of his hand onto the very regulations that put that industry under the gun. And in the immediate spotlight. After this. I love getting more for less. Thats why this control enthusiast rents from national. 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