Name out of consideration for any position, including the one he wanted, secretary of state. The news break says the president elect takes his show on the road saying thank you. In this case, stumping for votes again to a big crowd in louisiana, which votes for Senate Runoff tomorrow. Right now he is headed to michigan for another thank you stop tonight. Peter doocy is already in grand rapids. Reporter good evening. Former new york city mayor Rudy Giuliani is one of mr. Donald trumps most trusted confidants. He will not have a position in a trump white house. He has asked for his name to be withdrawn from consideration for any position in the administration. This evening, mr. Giuliani said this. Its not about me. Its about whats best for the country and the new administration. Becoming kind of very confusing and very difficult for the president elect and my desire to be in the cabinet was great, but it wasnt that great. And he had a lot of terrific candidates. And i thought i could play a better role being on the outside. Reporter Reince Priebus said giuliani was vetted for possible conflicts of interest but he passed with flying colors. Thats the big story tonight. A few hours ago the president elect was down in Louisiana Holding a get out of vote event for the u. S. Senate republican candidate john kennedy who faces a runoff there tomorrow. The remarks from the president elect sounded a lot like something you would hear at a Campaign Rally but with a big difference. I dont need your vote anymore. But im telling you, im very good at that. I dont need your vote. Can you maimagine that . In four years i will need your vote. Reporter he met in manhattan with paul ryan. We had a great meeting to talk about our transition. Were excited about getting to work and hitting the ground running. Reporter in d. C. , the fourth Ranking Member of the house is hopeful she will soon get the nod as interior secretary. If that happens, the race to replace her as chair of the house gop conference is expected to be very competitive. As is the secretary of state sweepstakes. A source close to trump tells Jennifer Griffin that Rex Tillerson is rising. The president elect likes that he has done business in over 50 countries, including trouble spots like russia and yemen. He is expected to meet with mr. Trump soon. Mitt romneys stock is sliding. His primary criticism is revisited. Petraeus is liked by the president elect. Theres concern theres enough generals in the cabinet, something the president elect is not concerned about, having too many billion irs aaires and multimillionaires in his administration. He chose gary cohn to be National Economic director, a day after he explained his thinking like this. One newspaper criticized me. Why cant they have people of modest means . Because i want people that made a fortune, because now they are negotiating with you. Okay . Reporter new disclosure documents reveal mr. Trump spent a fortune to become president elect trump. 66 million. A lot of dough but less than the 100 million he suggested. 12. 5 million of the Campaign Spending went to companies mr. Trump owns. He stands to make more of it back as executive producer of nbcs celebrity apprentice, a title he will keep after being sworn in. The show is all about business as a competition. In real life, mr. Trump is pledging to level the Playing Field so the us can compete with china. We negotiate our trade deal, stop product dumping and the currency manipulation which is a disaster for our country. Every time we get going, china and others, they just knock the hell out of the value of the currency. It doesnt work. Reporter a few hours ago there was a long line out into the snow here in grand rapids to get into this arena thats normally home to the nba dleague team that plays here. We expect the president elect on the ground within the next hour or so to say thank you and to introduce them to the newest member of his team, michigans own next education secretary if the Senate Confirms her, betsy devos. Thank you. More on the transition with the panel. President obama ordered u. S. Intelligence agencies to conduct a full review of cyberattacks and foreign intervention in or around novembers election. He wants a report on his desk before he leaves. We have Fox Team Coverage of the investigation into electionrelated hacking. Kevin cork is at the white house. With the president s push for some answers, and what spurred this decision. But first, Catherine Herridge on a controversial effort to try to give the federal government more say in voting security. Good evening. Reporter tonight a u. S. Government official said the designation is under consideration. No announcement is imminent. New controversy unfolds over a mysterious hacking attack on a state election system. As the campaign entered its final phase, the Homeland Security department offered resources to secure Voting Machines and Voter Registration databases. Georgias secretary of state was among a small group who declined the help. I was criticized quite a bit about that. But what they were offering was really out of the box Corporate Solutions that some states needed. We did not because we were already using our own solution. Reporter on election day, the Homeland Security department did not report unusual cyber activity. According to this letter to Homeland Security secretary jeh johnson, there was an attempted breech of a georgia secretary of state network linked to a computer with the Homeland Security address. He writes, at no time has my office agreed to or permitted Homeland Security to conduct Penetration Testing or security scans of our network. Could be a bad actor in the administration. It could be something else. Im keeping an open mind to that. Im very confident it was a department of Homeland Security address. Reporter the incident cops as the administration considers whether the electoral process should be deemed critical and given the same protections as the power grid and financial markets. Pressed on the issue, the white house counterterrorism adviser seemed to choose her words carefully. I think there will be continued engagement with state and local officials to make clear that dubbing it Critical Infrastructure is not in any way an effort to intrude upon or get in between the state control of those systems. I think the states are better suited to react more quickly to these type of things. I think we do have the ability to do that. Its our duty to do that under the constitution. Reporter Cyber Security experts say the Critical Infrastructure designation is misunderstood. Designating it Critical Infrastructure does not put the federal government in command of the voting. Reporter late today, a Homeland Security official said investigators have concluded the department did not scan the georgia secretary state of States Network in mid november and a theory is that it may have been a false positive. Thank you. Now to the relatively last minute directive from president obama to find out just how much russia or other foreign governments interfered with or tried to interfere in the november election. Kevin cork picks up the story from the white house tonight. Reporter a full review. Thats what president obama is ordering u. S. Intelligence agencies to conduct into hacking activity aimed at meddling in the 2016 election. It is to capture Lessons Learned and to report to stakeholders to include the congress. Reporter intelligence officials will deliver a report to the president and then that will be sent on to members of congress before he leaves office next month. A review that white house Officials Say will enable them to take stock of defensive capabilities and reduce future threats. We are committed to ensuring the integrity of our elections. This report will dig into the pattern of cyber activity tied to our election. Reporter wikileaks release of emails from the dnc and the Hillary Clinton campaign plagued the former secretary of state throughout the election cycle. A conscious effort by a nation state to attempt to achieve a specific affect said Michael Rogers in november. Lindsey graham said, its clear to me that wikileaks was designed to hurt clinton. It could be us tomorrow. The Obama Administration has accused russia of conducting many of the hacks that surfaced during the runup to the election. Denied there was impact object actual vote outcome. Asked about it at the summer, the president said it didnt come up in conversation with putin. I had made very clear to him our concerns around cyberattacks generally. As well as specific concerns we had surrounding the dnc. Reporter experts believe it has let to do with questioning the outcome of the election or partisan politics than it does preventing a similar attack down the line. Whats unusual is the scyber feature, to hack emails, dump large amounts of documents. Thats having an influence. We want to make sure we are addressing that. Reporter there are some who say, listen, this is coming after a democratic loss in the general election. Not after the victory in 2008 and 2012. Thats why some say this is all about partisanship. White house officials insist the person who stands to benefit is donald trump himself. More on this with the panel. Kevin cork live on the north lawn. A decorated army soldier who fought for the country overseas may be in serious trouble tonight over something he said to fox news. Senior Army Officials are asking once again, is the former green beret a hero who should be praised for protecting his troops in the field or a cold blooded murderer who should be tried . Jennifer griffin has the story. Reporter the u. S. Army has reopened a criminal investigation into a once de decorated green beret but admitted to killing an afghan who had been under his control during an interview with fox newss bret baier in october. Did you kill the taliban bomb maker . Yes. Former major Matthew Goldstein was a special forces soldier attached to a unit that took heavy fighting in february 2010. He later acknowledged during a polygraph when applying for a job at the cia that he had killed an alleged taliban member who they suspected of planting a bomb that killed two marines. He willingly offered up these details. Right. At the cia. Thats correct. Thats where it all started . Pretty much. Reporter he told the cia he killed the afghan off base, placed his body into a pit and burned it. Reached by phone told, he told fox news, quote, i made a lawful engagement of a known enemy combatant on the battlefield. He says the rules of engagement were so strict at the time that they were only allowed to detain and process afghans for drug crimes. He says following the suspected afghan bomb makers release, he tracked him down and killed him. He said he believed that letting go of the insurgent meant the man could later target afghans who were helping u. S. Troops. You could construe it as a Law Enforcement mind set. Theres limits how long you can hold guys. We would pull guys out. Clearly, these are enemy combatants, bad dudes. We wouldnt have any place to hold them. Eventually, we would let them back. They would cause terror to the community again. Reporter a senior u. S. Defense person said they have reopened the investigation based on new evidence that includes the green berets public statements. The dinspector general is investigating the original handling of the case which found not enough evidence to prosecute after a six day hearing. Duncan hunter, a former marine who served in iraq, has championed the case. He wrote the following letter to army chief general mark milli and Army Secretary eric fanning. Goldstein is a true warrior. Why the army is bent on destroying a heros career is astoni astonishing. Im confident they have more important things to do than investigate him again. You both have the ability to fix this. What is it like going from war hero to accused war criminal . Are you angry . No. It has been incredibly painful. And very difficult over the last year years, everyone who served with me stood by me. And so its over. Reporter he told me on the phone tonight that the person he killed was fwlot a detainee at the time that he killed him but had been under his control and was then released. He said he hashed all of this out a year and a half ago and the army found no evidence of murder. Senior defense officials think this may constitute a war crime. Why do you think the army is reopening this case now . Reporter their hands were tied once he admitted on air that he had killed this afghan. I have seen the notes from the original Army Investigation which were obtained by fox news. Im told that nowhere in any laws of war is it okay to kill a detainee and burn his body. The army did not have witnesses or proof before. Now they say they have goldstein in his own words. He will follow this story. Thank you. One of europes most liberal leaders appears to be reversing course on what could be her biggest political liability. Angela merkel is drawing a line in the political sand over one of islams most fundamental elements. Reporter Angela Merkel seen as a liberal icon for letting a Million Immigrants come into her country last year coming down hard this week against muslim women wearing full faced va ed. Translator we do not want any parallel societies. We have to tackle them. A loss of priority over honor codes, tribal and family roles. Reporter its a buzz word for politicians in france and elsewhere. Conjuring up an image of tough law and order systems. Its captured in the popular imagination. People are afraid that if people come to their country that they wont integrate. That they will try to reporter in the uk, theres there are 30 councils usually linked to mosques known of and allowed by the government. How you might live your everyday life. Reporter in fact, some of the harshest criticism of sharia law comes from the women. They say its discriminatory. They presented their results to theresa may next year. A poll in france found that 30 of muslims 46 of muslim yung considered sharia law more important than french law. Food for thought. Thank you. South koreas first woman president was impeached today. She was stripped of all her powers after the vote. She is accused of allowing a corrupt adviser to have influence and power over her and her office. Its now up to the nations Constitutional Court to permanently remove park from office or restore her presidency. Up next, the latest minute up to the minute dealings in the senate to avoid a Government Shutdown, a debate over funding government continues at this house. A live update from capitol hill. Shefox carolina in greenvil where prosecutors in the trial of the Charleston Church shooter played his recorded confession for the jury. Dill dylann roof is accused of gunning down nine black parishioners. He faces the Death Penalty if convicted. In miami as governor rick scott lifts the zika sdwozone on the affected area of the city. Florida is now completely free of any acknowledged zika transmission zones. This is a live look at detroit from fox 2. The big story there tonight, michigans governor signs legislation allowing selfdriving cars on the states public roads without a driver or a steering wheel. It leaves much to the discretion of the automakers and companies such as google and uber. Would you get in one of those cars now . Thats tonights live look outside the beltway from special report. Well be right back. Generosity is its own form of power. You can handle being a mom for half an hour. Im in all the way. Is that understood . I dont know what shes up to, but its not good. Cant the world be my noodles and butter . Get your mind out of the gutter. Mornings are for coffee and contemplation. That was a really profound observation. You got a mean case of the detox blues. Dont start a war you know youre going to lose. Finally you can now find all of netflix in the same place as all your other entertainment. On xfinity x1. Senators are trying to avoid a Government Shutdown at this hour. They are coming down to the wire. One thing that often forces movement in these standoffs, senators are anxious to begin their holiday break. At this hour, they are still considering a house plan to keep the government funded past tonights midnight deadline but not everyone is on the same page. That could mean a long weekend. We will get an update now from mike emanuel who is following the details. Good evening. Reporter good evening. It feels like we are heading toward this being resolved after spending much of the day thinking we were looking at a shutdown. This would fund the government through april 28. It passed the house 326 to 96. 118 democrats supported it. It contains money to fight terrorism, provide Natural Disaster relief and to deal with contaminated Drinking Water and Coal Miner Health benefits. But some want a oneyear extension of the benefits and have been leading the charge in holding up the continuing resol