Withering criticism of president obama dating back to his famous birth certificate president obama has fuelled the fire with campaign trail vitriol against trump, almost unprecedented from a sitting leader as well as one very public dressing down at a white house Correspondence Dinner five years ago. Carl cameron begins our coverage tonight. Reporter president obama hosted president elect trump in the oval office for what they call the cordial meeting. Sgli wa i want to emphasize to you, mr. President elect, that we now are going to want to do everything we can to help you succeed, because if you succeed, then the country succeeds. We had never met each other. I have great respect. The meeting lasted maybe for an hour and a half. Mr. President , it was a great honor being with you. Like forward to being with you many, many more times in the future. Reporter First Lady Michelle Obama met in the white house residence with future first lady melania trump. Joe biden met with his succes r successor. Trump and pence visited capitol hill for lunch with paul ryan. There was no sign of past acrimony. Donald trump had one of the most impressive victories we have seen. We will turn that into progress for American People. We will lower taxes. We will do a real job for the public. Thats what we want do. Reporter ryan gave trump a tour of the speakers balcony looking down on where he will be inaugurated. Beautiful. Reporter trump and pence met with mitch mcconnell. Strongly at immigration and healthcare and jobs. Issues that we obviously agree on. Reporter campaign insiders like rudy giuliani, chris christie, Newt Gingrich and Jeff Sessions and others are all being considered for cabinet and other top posts according to campaign sources. Under consideration for white house positions are kellyanne conway, steve bannon, steve miller, jason miller along with rence priebus and sean spicer. He barely took part during the race and half the transition staff was recast to campaign organizing because they thought they were going to lose. They have a ton of catching up to do. Priebus was in the fox hole from the beginning. Is he leading the way . He seems to be the likely pick for chief of staff. Tremendous victory that he played a big part in with the rncs planning literally for the last eight years he was the chairman of the party. A lot of the other names that have been thrown out there may get rotated. They may get moved around. Some will probably not get picked because they have 4,500 positions to fill, 70 days to do it and they are starting from scratch today. Big are the cabinet members. Carl, thanks. Lets get more on what was said and not set during todays meeting at the white house. Kevin cork has that from the north lawn. We discussed a lot of different situations, some wonderful and some difficulties. I very much look forward to dealing with the president in the future, including counsel. Reporter seeking counsel seems like the last thing president elect trump would want, especially considered he described him this way during the campaign. I think hes the worst president maybe in the history of our country. He has been a disaster. Reporter considering president obamas description of mr. Trump. His campaign took away his twitter account. Because he is erratic. If his closest advisors dont trust him to tweet, why would any of us trust him with the nuclear code . Reporter one would wonder how they stand being in the same room together. Today, all was forgiven. Very good man. Reporter if not forgotten as the two men said all the right things after their hour and a half long meeting. While the president said he is rooting for a successful trump presidency, trumps view of success could mean repealing and replacing obamacare. Officials acknowledge the Oval Office Meeting gave the president a chance to make his case. Worries about the future decisions should not have any impact on anybody capitalizing on the countries that are there today. Reporter the fate of obamacare may be less pressing for the Transition Team than filling the more than 4,000 staff positions needed to hit the ground and start running the government in january. That means leaning on the expertise and advice of a president who up until tuesday implored the country to vote against you. My number one priority in the coming two months is to try to facilitate a transition that ensures our president elect is successful. Reporter speaking of transition, in december, the obama team will conduct a first of a couple of war gaming exercises with the trump team to help prepare them for a National Security crisis. That second one will come in january, days before mr. Trump officially has access to the nuclear codes. Kevin cork live on the north lawn. Thank you. There are questions tonight about the future direction of the Democratic Party and who will be steering that ship. Reporter if the tears and hung down heads at clinton headquarters didnt tell the story, a Conference Call among House Democrats the following day did. Sources tell fox news the call was akin to a Group Therapy session. There were rumblings of dissent. There was talk of restlessness in the troops. The Democratic Party has got do a fair bit of soul searching and rejuvination now. They have to start taking new approaches. They have to start finding new people. Reporter democrats projected that even a pickup of 12 seats in the house would be a bad night. They picked up only six. Only two in the senate. Chuck schumer will take the helm as the new minority leader. In the house, nancy pelosi is likely to hold the raeigns. Shes very good at keeping the caucus unified. Thats not an easy thing to do. Theres a lot of different points of view. She is really good at sort of working with them and talking to folks and saying, how can we get the most unity and how can we work together. Reporter the 75yearold pelosi is a tireless fundraiser, raking in over 127 million in this cycle for house races while visiting 324 fundraisers in 50 cities. Theres also a realization among democrats that no house leader could have stopped trump and his coattail affect. So goes the top of the ticket, so goes the house. Thats a reality we need to accept and understand. Reporter republicans have their own concerns. Some have suggested that paul ryans speakership could be threatened if tensions with donald trump resurface. Others have dismissed that noting the house is fiercely protupr protective of its own turf and its own constitutional responsibility. Thank you. Lets talk about the relationship between president elect trump and congress. Earlier today, i spoke to House Speaker paul ryan. I started by asking him how his meeting with the president elect went today. Wonderful. Wonderful. You are not just saying that. No. We had a great working lunch. The president elect, first lady incoming and the vicepresident elect, great working lunch. I can tell you what i got out of donald trump is this a man of action. He is ready to get working. He wants to get it done for the country. Its really, really exciting. Does he want to get it done with you . Yeah. Were already talking about how to execute plans, how to get the transition working, how to make 2017 a success for the American People that just asked him to be president of the United States. Right before the election, i had an interview with donald trump and mike pence. I ask them about whether he was going to work with you. Here is what he said. I will work with paul ryan. Im very disappointed in the leadership and [ audio distorted ] le, jack be , jack knocked over a candlestick onto the shag carpeting. 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Paul ryan, im very disappointed in the leadership, because i really believe we would be winning by a lot. That we have to fight against republicans is absolutely insane and ridiculous. Im very disappointed. I will work with everybody. Im not just talking about paul ryan. I will get things through. He was disappointed. Did he express that today . Not at all. The past is the past. More importantly, look how we closed the campaign. You saw the guy next to him, mike pence. We did a rally in wisconsin the saturday before the election saying everybody come out and vote for donald trump, for mike pence, for ron johnson who rowo reelection. It went republican, it went for donald trump. We reelected ron johnson. We had a great year in america, but in wisconsin we closed the campaign by calling for republican unity. That is what we now have Going Forward. When you hear Trump Supporters out there still sore that republicans didnt all of them step behind this was an unconventional year. He was an unconventional candidate. The point is, we unified, at the right time at the end. It worked. Donald trump heard something out there in america that no one else heard. He heard and he saw a movement out there. This he pulled off like i said yesterday one of the most impressive political feats i have seen in my lifetime. Its an amazing thing. Donald trump deserves all that credit. By the way, we were expecting and being told to expect more losses in the house than we got. Donald trump gave coattails. He had an up draft on the ticket where more House Republicans got elected because of his candidacy. He gets a lot of credit for that. We had a very good night. We will have probably a 241 seat majority, which is impressive. So that means we have a good, strong working majority. We retain the majority in the United States senate. What we got is, lets go and execute. Lets get these things done. I think about just the regulations. Think about the out of work coal workers, ranchers getting hit by the interior department, think about the regulations that obama is planning on rolling out that will put a dark cloud on our economy. Its being lifted. Just from regulations, it helps save millions of jobs, helps the economy. Thats before we get going on passing a legislative agenda to get people back to work to fix our countrys problems. Were all very excited about getting to work on this. I want to go through the agenda and whats coming. Last question on the process here. Are you worried about any challenge to your speakership from the Freedom Caucus or anybody else . No. Were excited about getting Going Forward and about working on executing an agenda. The democrats are the ones in the turmoil. Republicans are unified and excited about working with our president elect with a good transition so we hit the ground running. Lets talk about what you are trying to get done. What do you think goes first . Thats what were thats what a transition is for. We started that discussion today. Mike pence knows republicans extremely well. He is working with us as well. Thats exactly what were going to be working on in the coming weeks and months about how to sequence the reforms to make good on Campaign Promises donald trump made that he is serious about and to pass an agenda to get this country back on track. Obamacare, its got to be up there. Absolutely. We want to go big. We want to go bold. We want to do everything we said we would do. Obamacare is failing. It has to get replaced quickly. So is tax reform. So is securing the border. There are these things we need to do. Now were going through sort of the nittygritty details how to get these things done. You passed a bill to repeal and replace. It got vetoed by president obama. It was the replace part we never had a sense republicans were singing from the same sheet of music on what it looked like. We did. That was what our better way agenda was about. 247 House Republicans agreed and signed up for a full replacement plan. If you go to better. Gop, look at our items, you will see our replacement plan. We are on the same page on these things. It resembled the reforms he was talking about. You are not on the same page on immigration. I dont really agree with you. We are on the same page on securing the border. That Border Security is what president elect trump is talking about. Thats something we all totally agree with. The deportation i think right now, we want to secure the border. Thats first the first priority. Lets tick down these things. You have a debt ceiling coming up. How is that going to work . Ha thankfully, were doing it with a republican president and congress. We can tackle our fiscal issues. We can tackle the oppressive taxes that are stifling job creation and business and making america uncompetitive. Having a debt limit, which occurs march is around the time this occurs. With president elect trump with President Trump and a Congressional Republican and Congressional Senate democrats in the minority and Senate Republicans in the majority makes a world of difference better. We can use this as an opportunity to get good things done. Your solution has always been to put things including entitle. That is paul ryans plan. Thats not Donald Trumps plan. Well, you have to remember, when obamacare became obamacare, obamacare rewrote medicare, rewrote medicaid. If you are going to repeal and replace obamacare, you have to address those issues as well. What a lot of folks dont realize is this 21person board called the ipap is about to kick in with price controls on medicare. What people dont realize is because of obamacare, medicare is going broke, medicare is going to have price controls because of obamacare, medicaid is in fiscal straits. You have to deal with those issues if you are going to repeal and replace obamacare. Medicare has Serious Problems because of owe be a bebamacare. Those are part of our plan. Do you put obamacare replace repeal and replace through the senate in budget reconciliation . Those are okay. Social security obviously is something you have always talked about. Thats something i talked about. That was not part of our better way agenda. Frankly, the fiscal pressures are mounting faster on health care than social security. What about taxes . Is that going to be up top . Absolutely. Look, we taxed our businesses in america at much higher tax rates than our foreign competitors tax theirs. Therefore, they are winning and we are losing. We have trillions of dollars overseas of American Capital that could be redeployed to america but for our tax laws. This tax code is just stifling economic growth. Donald trump put out a tax plan in the campaign that is almost the same as the tax plan that House Republicans we are absolutely on the same page on reforming the tax code. Reigning in the irs and simpli y simplifying the tax system. This is critical to get the economy growing, getting wages up, getting businesses hiring. Thats something we talked about today and something we will work on as part of our big agenda. On the immigration front, are you in favor of building a wall . Im in favor of securing the border. I believe that you have to have physical barriers on the border. I will defer to the experts as to the right way to actually secure the border. Remember, its not just Border Security. You have to have interior enforcement. You have to have a visa tracking system. Someone cant steal an identity to get a job. This is something that all republicans agree needs to be addressed. Its something donald trump ran on. That means securing the border. We will do whatever it takes to do that. For the opponents, the democrats, the never trumpers who said that they were concerned about donald trump the president in National Security. That he would have his finger on the button of the nuclear codes. I look at that that was campaign rhetoric, hyperbole. First of all, the donald trump we saw at 2 00 or 3 00 in the morning tuesday night was a president. We saw a man who was mag nan muss. He understands he was given the mantle from the country to turn this country around and get us out of a tough ditch we were in. 70 of americans dont like the path america is on. They want a different path. We as republicans offered specific solutions of the problems. Thats what were going to focus on. He is talking in his transition about getting the kind of experts and advisers on