[cheers] we are going to come together and make America Great again. [cheers] thank you very much. Thank you, ohio, thank you. President elect Donald Trumps thank you tour getting off to a raucous start, our future president unifying americans and doubling down on several Campaign Promises in the process. Tonight, we break it down. Welcome to risk reward. Im adam shapiro in for deirdre bolton. After a surprise nomination of retired general mad dog mattis for defense secretary last night, the president elect not letting up on the Transition Team gas pedal meeting with a long list of cabinet contenders including former ambassador john bolton, former defense secretary robert gates, former Florida Attorney general pam bondi and democratic senator heidi heitkamp. President elect trump handing the Government Back into the hands of the American People last night. Im asking to you believe in america once again. We have many challenges, but this is truly an exciting time to be alive. The script is not yet written. We do not know what the next page will read. Well, ill tell you, its going to be a great pass. For the first time in a long time, what we do know is that the pages will be authored by each one of you [cheers] americans will be the captains of their own destiny once again. You are the movement, im the messenger. Im just really the messenger. Though ive been a very good messenger, lets face it, right . [ cheers ] joining me now is a vice chair of president elect trumps Transition Team, republican congressman marcia blackburn, good to see you. Good to see you. Given the people who have already been named to be potential members of the cabinet, is the president elect successfully handing over power to the people of america . Is he draining the swamp or does he need to do more . What do you think . I think he is draining the swamp and the best is yet to come because he is continuing to pull forward talent that is going to round out a cabinet. My colleagues in the house are really excited about what youre going to see in the 115th congress, and we are focused on how were going to be able to get some of these rules and regulations and laws that have just so stymied, they really throttled the economy and they throttled entrepreneurship and innovation, so this is going to be a really exciting 2017 that we are were doing the leadup to, and i tell you, i just love the fact that mr. Trump is doing a thank you tour, adam. It is great hes back out there. I love these speeches. I felt like last night i was listening to pages out of the book the power of positive thinking or other writings by Norman Vincent thiel that my mom used to have me read. I had the good fortune to experience some of the trump rallies and remember thinking that the thousands upon thousands of people who were there felt they were part of Historic Movement. Do you think the president elect is unifying those who did not agree with him and making them a part of this movement . Is he successfully reaching out to those who were against him . Yes, he is, and let me tell you why. People are looking at the way he has reached forward and extended the hand of fellowship and friendship to mitt romney. The way he called in people who did not support him and spoke against him and has looked first of all, at their leadership skills and their abilities, and how they could help him achieve a goal. And that is really good role modelling for burying the hatchet, and letting bygones be bygones and saying lets come together for the good of the country, and that is what you want your elected leaders to do is say, it is country first, and it is individuals and preferences of those individuals second. Liz and its i think a lot of americans are pleased to see a politician putting their words into action, but let me ask you about this because we hear a lot about the war on success, it continued with the liberal media complaining about president elect trumps business appointments, so here are some of the headlines i will read them to you. Populist trump fills cabinet with billionaires and wall street tycoons, the populist and his crew of billionaires, in picking cabinet, trump values wealth and inexperience. Now the president elect fired back at the media appropriately last night, listen. One of the Networks Said why he put on a billionaire at commerce . Well, thats because this guy knows how to make money, folks. Id like to put on a guy that failed all his life but we dont want that, do we . Tim geithner was nearly in the poor house when the Obama Administration put him in as treasury secretary, dont you want people who are successful and know what theyre doing in place . Whats wrong with that . You do, and people are successful and defined success in different ways, and you see that in individuals that are called to Public Service, individuals that are called to work in a small business, individuals that are called to build a company, and that is what makes this country so fabulous is that you have individuals with different strengths. Different talents and they put them to work in order to build their american dream. When did it become a crime to become a billionaire. I dont think we define success by the dollar figure by our names, but wilbur ross, for instance, started out very meek, an impoverished family. He worked his way up, did he not . You are exactly right on that. I think it would be so interesting to know the life stories of the individuals that are going to fill out this cabinet and how they had their beginnings, what road has been to their success, what their calling has been that brought them to Public Service and what those passions are. Theres a term i use a lot, its life equity. That is the sum total of your talents and your experiences and your passions, and that is what we want, is these individuals to put that life equity of theirs to work to make America Great again and safe again and one again, and i have never seen the type of optimism that i am seeing, the emails that im getting from people around the country. The momentum, the Energy Behind the Historic Movement that we all witnessed during the campaign. Thats right. And people that are saying, ms. Blackburn, you do not know me but i know you from tv, and i know youre heading this transition with other members of the congress and i want to you have my resume. If i can help in anyway, i want to help. And it is so exciting for me to get those emails. Im loving it. I might have been wrong on wilbur ross background, i want to move onto Something Else here. Key aides to Hillary Clinton and donald trump tore into each other during a shouting match at Harvard University. Weve got the tape. Clintons aides accused of trump winning the election thanks to appeal by White Supremacists. Kellyanne conway fights back, listen up. I would rather lose than win the way you guys did. No, you wouldnt, no, you wouldnt. Thats very clear to me. No, you wouldnt. Do you think i ran a campaign that White Supremacists had a platform. Youre going to look at me in the face and say that . Yes. The White Working Class voters. You think this woman who has nothing in common with how about its Hillary Clinton, she doesnt connect with people. They have nothing in common with her. Congressman, there is so much we could talk about from that exchange. Ive got ask your opinions on the fact the clinton aides are blaming White Supremacists for trumps victory and there are millions of americans who are not White Supremacists who voted for president elect trump. There are millions of americans who said i want to believe in this country again, and the goodness of this country, and the opportunity in this country. I always say there are five things, if you focus on them and get them right, things are going to come out. Faith, family, freedom, hope and opportunity. What the clinton aides are doing is trying to say those arent relevant. There has to be a justification because we couldnt have misread the American People that badly. They misread the American People, they made mistakes. Hillary clinton is not a likable, warm, endearing candidate, and they lost. They need to just get over it. They lost. They should go. One third or 209 of the nearly 700 counties that voted in both elections for president obama flipped their support to president elect trump. Now do you go back and call those people racists or White Supremacists . It seems really out of touch. It is out of touch because they misread what people were focused on. They want change. Theyre tired of a stagnant economy. They are tired of wage stagnation. They are tired of a Labor Force Participation rate that is the lowest it has been, the lowest it has been since jimmy carter, and they want to believe in what they can do in achieving their version of the american dream, and they see that opportunity that pathway back to prosperity through what trump has brought about. The clinton aides should listen to the song they played at all of president elect trumps rallies, you cant ys g sometime you get what you need. Or taylor swift, shake it off. [laughter] you get the last word, thank you very much, congressman. Good to see you, byebye. Trouble overseas and fox is on it. Two big votes in europe, italy holding a constitutional referendum. Matteo renzi publicly endorsed Hillary Clinton promised to resign if the no vote wins in italy. And in austria conservative Norbert Hoffer is running for president. The markets could take a turn for the worse. Fox business has you covered with Nicole Petallides and Lauren Simonetti on top of it for you. President elect trump pix warrior monk general mad dog mattis to lead the department of defense and rebuild the u. S. Military. Our own Geraldo Rivera couldnt be more excited. Hell tell all of us why after this. Plus more sound coming out from clinton and trump aides, that clash at harvards Campaign Managers conference. Yes, we will play it for you, but get a hard, stiff drink. Boy, did they go at it. After this. I would rather lose than win the way you guys did. No, you wouldnt, no, you wouldnt. Absolutely. Yes. Thats clear to me. Absolutely. How exactly did we win . Go for it. How exactly did we win . I dont want to tell you this because i want to save the suspense for next week. So i will not tell you. I refuse to tell you, and dont let it outside of this room. Do you promise . Raise your hand. We are going to appoint mad dog mattis [cheers] as our secretary of defense. They say hes the closest thing to general George Patton that we have, and its about time its about time [cheers] so president elect donald trump announced warrior monk retired marine general James Mad Dog Mattis for pick as defense secretary at his thank you tour in cincinnati. The general has a long and distinguished military career which includes 41 years of service in the marine corps, head as u. S. Joint forces command beginning 2007 and 2010 he took charge of u. S. Central command with responsibility for u. S. Operations in iraq and afghanistan. Mattis, who the president elect calls a generals general is wellknown for his tough talk. Take a listen. Going to afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didnt wear a veil. Guys like that dont have no manhood, its a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them. Adam i want to bring in general mattis supporter general i was about to call you general. Geraldo rivera. This is a good choice, is it not . May be the best choice of any of the cabinet selections so far. I think he is indisputably one of our great generals, you know the only problem is the kind of bureaucratic hangup that you have to be under the current law seven years out. Adam and theyve done it before. Substantively speaking, it doesnt have any effect how this is a quality person, a real warrior, a person who can make war against the bureaucracy as well as he fights the nations enemies. The bureaucracy as you know, the huge, the pentagon, all these thousands of civil servants. Adam his men love him. They gave him the name the monk and the whole thing. People take issue with his language, for lack of a better term and forgive me that i dont get in trouble, he is a bad ass and doesnt stand down, he stands up for the United States. I was in fallujah in iraq and i have a vivid image in my mind of a toyota truck stacked with dead enemy bodies. War is hell in every regard. You need someone who understands what it is to take a life and to risk your life, you really need because its so easy for a fat old belly scratchner d. C. To say send those young men into risk everything. This is a fighting general who has risked his own life, who heard the zing of bullets. This is the right man at this time in history for the job. Hes also a prudent intellectual. He studied warfare, he is i really think, a terrific choice. Adam youve been in war zones all over the world, what is the message this sends not only it enemies in the United States, but to our allies . I think that unmistakably, the message is first of all of competence. The United States military is not only huge and powerful, its also competent, and now with this selection, general mattis well led an unbeatable combination, and i think it will give pause to our enemies, including kim jongun in north korea. Adam what do they call him . Little fat boy . Little fat boy. Adam there is a morale issue among our servicemembers, this is the kind of appointment that can restore morale, is it not . I am a fan of president obama but he has vacillated hugely. We dont know what u. S. Policy is in the middle east, for instance, the vote on the red line in syria, the withdrawal, the precipitous withdrawal from iraq. I was on the last combat convoyoud of iraq in 2011. What was that about . Right now with the clear thinking, very carefully, basically expressed policy, i think donald trump can really improve morale. I think that his election already has. Adam what might this is a . We got word that president elect trump spoke to the president of taiwan that breaks protocol and risk a clash with china. What does this say . I hadnt heard that. Seems undisciplined. Seems idiosyncratic, youre going to formosa to taiwan and you built years of telling the republic of china that the republic of china is the representative of the Chinese People in taiwan is kind of this leftover aftermath of the cold war. I dont know, im not im not sophisticated enough, it might very well be, listen, could this be the way he sends a message to china that its not going to be like the old days. The chinese respect strength or respect decision. Well, weve got a lot going on with china with the conflict in the South China Sea and so forth, you know, who knows . The guy got elected against all odds, it may be hes figured out in the same way nixon went to china, maybe trump is the one that humbles china or puts china in perspective. The most important i got to ask you, corky and lennys lately . Yes, and i had the salmon and cream cheese and lennys you didnt share. [laughter] good to see you. Youve got to moderate. Adam but its the holidays, good to see you. More sound coming out from clinton and trump aides clash. It was an incredible clash at harvards Campaign Managers conference, now we have joel benson who thinks Hillary Clinton won. Were going to play that and the full exchange after this. More americans voted for Hillary Clinton than donald trump. So lets put it in context. There was nothing that said the road to popular vote anywhere. Thats where it is confuseed. Preface my statement by saying that. Guys, we won. You dont have to respond. You totaled your brand new car. Nobodys hurt, but there will still be pain. It comes when your Insurance Company says theyll only pay threequarters of what it takes to replace it. What are you supposed to do . Drive threequarters of a car . Now if you had Liberty Mutual new car replacement™, youd get your whole car back. I guess they dont want you driving around on three wheels. Smart. With Liberty Mutual new car replacement™, well replace the full value of your car. Liberty stands with you™. Liberty mutual insurance. Listen you guys won, thats clear, you won the Electoral College. Lets be honest, dont act as if you have a popular mandate for your message. And tony and i will talk about the wrong track number like you and i just did. More americans voted for Hillary Clinton than donald trump. Adam that was more from the contentious fight between clinton and trump aides at Harvard University last night. Joining me independent womens forum Hadley Heath Manning and Washington Times contributor Eric Schiffer. Hadley, start with you. The Founding Fathers set up