Giuliani, and our expert, jon karl, Martha Raddatz, brian ross and the New York Times columnist tom friedman. Announcer plus after a crushing loss this is painful and it will be for a long time. Announcer how will they redefine their path forward . We ask Keith Ellison. And now its time for america to bind the wounds of division. Announcer with the country struggling to unite what happens next . From abc news, its this week. Here now, chief anchor, George Stephanopoulos. Good morning. The shock of the new this week after the biggest upset in american political history, this unforgettab unforgettable, once unimaginable image. Donald trump sidebyside with president obama in the oval office. Soon it will be his office, his home. As america wrestles with it the first answers from that famous skyscraper where our future government is taking shape. Trump tower is buzzes with intensity. The president elects family, loyalist, advisers and wannabes all jockeying for position and the man at the center soon to be the worlds most powerful now shoulders the hopes and dreams of millions of americans, the fear and anxiety of millions more. It is time for us to come together as one united people. From his moment of victory, a kinder, gentler donald trump. Talking highly of his opponent who he promised to jail. We owe her a major debt of gratitude for her service to our country. Deference to the president whose legitimacy he questioned. Mr. President , it was a great honor being with you and i look forward to being with you, many, many more times in the future. Thank you. Respect for the Republican Leaders he denounced. I think were going to do some absolutely spectacular things for the American People. But away from the rituals of washington alongside the elation of Trump Supporters, there is deep anxiety, anger and fear. [ chanting ] protests four nights running. You are under arrest. Thousands marching across the country. On twitter, trump dismissed them as professionals then praised their passion too. On social media, vicious racist images, schoolkids taunting minorities. White power. So how will a President Trump bind those wounds rubbed so raw by his campaign . Which promises will he keep . Which will fall away . How congress and the world responding to this. Its an earthshaking change. Secretary clinton has conceded to donald trump. Donald trump will be the 45th president. He has pulled off something that no one believed he could do. Defeating Hillary Clinton unlike anything weve seen in our lifetime. And were going to examine all of those questions this morning, starting with the latest on the transition. Starting from our chief White House Correspondent jonathan karl. Our chief Global Affairs anchor Martha Raddatz. Our chief investigative correspondent brian ross and, jon, let me begin with you and know mike pence, Vice President elect mike pence will be in charge of replacing chris chris tee christie, and next big decision, chief of staff. Two names talked about the most, steve bannon, reince priebus, both allies but they send quite a different message. Reporter george, i am told that decision could come as soon as today. It is hard to imagine a choice more stark than the choice between reince priebus, the chairman of the republican party, a clear establishment figure and stephen bannon, a leader of the right wing, Breitbart News network. Somebody who spent most of the time beating up on the republican establishment. I can tell you, george, that congressional leaders on the republican side are hoping it is priebus. They see priebus as somebody who they can clearly work with. But conservative activist, Tea Party Activists are threatening donald trump that if he chooses reince priebus, he will lose much of his base of support. They are telling him not to do that. They want bannon, somebody who has spent much of the past two years trying to destroy speaker ryan. Who knows . He may surprise us and pick someone else. It gets broader, and republicans will control the white house and both houses of congress. Where does President Trump defer to those Republican Leaders and take them on . Well, the Republican Leadership is quite hopeful at this time that they will have wide latitude. Trump is a big visionary guy, and not a detail guy, obviously. They are preparing to charge ahead with a republican, a conservative agenda that paul ryan talked about a lot on the campaign trail, a lot of that, of course, will depend on who the person is on his righthand side whether bannon or priebus. Not too many clues from trump himself in the first week and he mentioned infrastructure, and immigration and jobs. And then on obamacare, said he wants to replace it and repeal it, but talking about preserving the position plan and that kids can stay on their Parents Health plans until the age of 26. Yeah, from the conservatives, the battle cry for the last couple of years especially from people like ted cruz was repeal obamacare, every single word of obamacare. That is not the message from the donald trump and on infrastructure, theres a potential for him to reach out to democrats. Hes talking about Infrastructure Spending far in excess of what any republicans would have considered under a democratic president. So you have some mixed signals. The other thing i would add to that list, i am told very early on in this transition process to expect that trump will announce his nominee for the Supreme Court. That will be something designed to very much please conservatives even as they may get a little nervous on some of what hes talk in terms of obamacare and infrastructure. Okay, jon, lets move on to National Security with Martha Raddatz and personnel will matter so much here as well. Our next guest Rudy Giuliani talked about possibly as secretary of state. Youve got this general mike flynn, a loyalist, considered for National Security adviser, perhaps, but also talk about some establishment figures like george w. Bushs steve hadley for department of defense . Steve hadley, thats an outlier for sure, but he is very experienced. He may be National Security adviser but i think that would be a hard choice for mr. Trump to make, president elect trump to make because general flynn, hes very comfortable with. And you know in that position you have to be very comfortable with someone like that whispering in your ear about National Security, so i think general flynn is probably the top contender for that job. Secretary of state, maybe they would consider steve hadley for that job. Richard haass, there are people from the council on Foreign Relations and Administration Official many years ago under george h. W. Bush. There are always names floated. Newt gingrichs name is out there. Sometimes you just want to make the loyalist us happy by floating those names. I think this will play out over the next several weeks but this is a huge decision. This is where he he has the least experience. He will have to rely on people with experience. He said he would rip up the iran nuclear agreement. Renegotiate nafta. Well, i think they would really like to rip up that agreement and get a new one, but thats going to be very difficult. You, of course, have russia involved in that. And i think the question is what do they do in the meantime . I listened this week, rick renel an old u. N. Hand on fox news talking about really pressing to see if the iranians are violating any of the terms of the agreement. Really press them on that, and make sure there is full compliance. I think you will see that in the coming months that they will just talk tougher. Nafta and american advisers on the ground in syria and iraq and trump suggesting to the wall street journal he would stop aiding the rebels, fighting assad. Comfort to putin there. Yes. Comfort to putin there. Again, so what does he do . President elect trump has promised a safe zone, a humanitarian zone. Do you put u. S. Troops on the ground . Do you try to get other troops on the ground . And hes also promised an intelligence search. Mike flynn knows a lot about that. Tactically mike flynn has been fantastic with intelligence when he was in the military and theyll be looking at that. If you have good intelligence that truly does put mean putting troops on the ground in some way. Lets move on to the legal issues with brian ross, 4,500 outstanding lawsuits now for donald trump including Trump University in court this week. Thats right. He was a major Real Estate Developer and they sue and get sued all the time and of those hundreds of lawsuits, were told 30 are significant. Theres pressure for him to settle that. The suit before he goes into office. That could happen. As well, we know as a Real Estate Developer, he has hundreds of millions in debt. In loans. He borrows money for often all kinds of people around the world including more than 100 million from a german bank now under federal investigation. The questions also about his business. He has said its going to be given to his children to run at the same time we saw his children appointed to formal roles in the transition. A lot of ethics experts looking at that saying that is not a blind trust. Experts on both sides, both parties say that. Turn over the operation to his three children, donald jr. , eric and ivanka. Thats not a blind trust. According to the experts we talked to, they are involved now in choosing the next government. Its really a situation that no other president had in years and years. He clearly is not going to follow the idea that generally there is no rule that requires this but there generally is a situation which people are required to put their interests to the side so they dont have a conflict. All recent president s have done that. As you point out, the president is exempt from the conflict of interest rules that all other administrations Administration Officials must abide by. Its a common practice, but not required by law. Brian ross, martha, thank you, jon karl as well. A top trump adviser and vice chair of the transition, Rudy Giuliani. Thank you for joining us this morning. Congratulations on the victory. So is this true . You want to be secretary of state . Not to create more rumors. So thats between him and me but im happy to answer any other whatever i want to be ill discuss with the president elect. Thats the best way to do it. Not to create more rumors. So thats between him and me but im happy to answer any other questions. Ill just do one followup on that. Is it fair to say that you would like to serve President Trump . Again, thats a discussion id like to have with him. Im very happy in my law practices and my security firm. I work all over the world. I have a very, very full life. So it would have to be something where i felt he really needed me and not that id be the only one that could do it but maybe that i could do it a little different or better than somebody else. As a followup on his campaign promises, president elect trump has not riled out seeking a special prosecutor for Hillary Clinton and says he has other priorities. Do you think it would be a good idea to go forward with that . Thats a tough one. George, it really is. As a lawyer i hate to use the one hand but the other but on the one hand you dont want to disrupt the nation with what might look like a vindictive profession even though it might not be violating the law, but on the other hand, you want equal justice under the law. If she has violated the law the fbi never completed the foundation investigation. Thats as far as i know that is still an ongoing investigation. That they completed the email investigation but not the foundation investigation. Exactly what you do with that i guess the next attorney general will have to figure that out. I dont know if that will be me or not but the next attorney general would have to figure that out and im going to make a guess, not a definitive statement. I would think if you had to make a decision like that youd give that to an independent counsel. You wouldnt make it as the apoi appointee as, you know, the new president. We have a lot of precedent for that in the past. Weve done that in the past. Or maybe that you want to sort of put that behind you. I dont know. Thats a tough decision. We saw secretary i can see why we saw secretary clinton reported today she believes that she would have won the election but for the interference of the fbi director james comey. Your response to that . Well, you know, i actually think it was obamacare. Again, why you won an election and why you didnt is a subject of, you know, books that get written 20 years later. And being part of the campaign, we put up front in all of Donald Trumps speeches for the last two or three weeks not the fbi, but obamacare. That seemed to me to be the thing that moved the votes in michigan, that moved the votes in places where we pennsylvania, wisconsin, the blue states we were able to turn red and basically havent been red since ronald reagan. I think obamacare was the bigger hit. The fact that those premiums hit on what was it, november 1st, right . Such a closely divided election. Secretary clinton won the popular vote in those three states you just mentioned. Michigan, pennsylvania, wisconsin, and about 100,000 votes separated the two as well. How much of a mandate does president elect trump have coming out of this close result . You have the same mandate whether its a close result or it isnt. Youre the president of the United States. You have to act like the president of the United States. Youre the person in charge. You have to set the agenda. Thats how you get yourself reelected by a much bigger number if you want to get reelected. Thats the way you govern the country. I mean the constitution of the United States doesnt change the powers of the president based on the number by which you get elected, and he has a pretty sizable electoral map win. Much more than anybody thought. I think people thought that if he won hed win by like one state the way president bush did. I mean he won by a sizable margin. I even believe he won a little after the election, i think if we spent a little more time in minnesota we would have won minnesota. You see a lot of anger in the streets this week. Demonstrations every night since the election. I know you called the protesters cry babies earlier in the week buff seen the spate of incidents, racially charged incidents across the country right now. What should president elect trump do to get that under control right now . First of all, i do have to ask the following. I feel very bad about that. But if those were donald trump people doing that after a Hillary Clinton election, i think a lot of people would be a lot more anger in the media at the fact that theyre protesting a legitimately decided election. Having said that, i think we understand their frustration. We certainly dont want to make it worse. I think theyre exaggerating the fears of a donald Trump Presidency because theyre coming off a campaign where theyre very disappointed. Im sure our supporters would have been very disappointed had donald trump not won and i just hope it calms down. Now where it goes into violence, i have a zero tolerance for riots. You know, took over a city that had two riots in four years, and i had none, and they knew they couldnt riot on me,s and when i saw the people in the street in new york city, i said to myself, youre breaking giulianis rules. You dont take my streets. You can have my sidewalks but you dont take my streets. Because ambulances have to get through there, fire trucks have to get through there. People die when you crowd the streets of new york city with protesters. You can do plenty of protesting on the sidewalk. So, you know, i would ask them to please respect id ask them to please respect the democratic process. I know both secretary clinton and president obama were very gracious and i respect that a lot in the way they handled it the day after, two days after but i wish they would Say Something about it too. Because after all these are supporters of president obama and Hillary Clinton and maybe they could say a something about this. Theyve said that everybody should president obama said that everybody should root for the success of president elect trump. Those are the protesters protesting president elect trump. What on those Trump Supporters out there, and we have seen several incidents of this, with racially charged intimidation of students and things like that . Doesnt president elect trump have some responsibility to Say Something about that . They they shouldnt be doing it either but i mean the major the major focus here is at least the one i was in one a couple of days ago where they saw me in the car and they started banging on my car. So these are not you know, i want to amend my statement a little bit. Im not sure these are even Hillary Clinton, barack obama supporters. I think these people are, you know, kind of like professional protesters more. They didnt look to me like all those protesters in all those cities professionals . Yes. You gather a certain number of people around you, but, you know, they looked they didnt look to me like people w