Downplayed evidence of Climate Change. But we begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener. Your world in 90 seconds. Ive been honest. I said i am going to be putting on the greatest killers youve ever seen. We need that. Its time. Trump names his secretary of defense. Mad dog mattis, but we are not announcing it until monday, so dont tell anybody. Mad do vintage trump. It was, wasnt it . It was vintage trump. Classic unscripted trump moment. Classic, stream of consciousness. Like a classic rock band. The death toll is rising in tennessee from a raging wildfire that swept through a great Smoky Mountain area. The reason we are going to be okay is because we are mountain tough. Former usc and nfl running back joe mcknight was shot to death after a possible road rage he just got out and shot that man. Government forces are obliterating neighborhoods held by rebels. In aleppo, the sound of shelling has not let up. Legendary astronaut buzz aldrin is recovering in new zealand after getting sick while at the south pole. The return for tiger woods after 466 days. All that. To tie the game. Where was that . Ten feet high. Not even close president obama flips the switch to light the National Christmas tree for the last time. Merry christmas, everybody. And all that matters. Ive been a fan of your shows so long and i never dreamed a day where i would be interviewing chelsea handler. What did you dream about . Kelloggs pulled their advertising from the conservative outright website Breitbart News and its readers products. The culture wars have now reached cereal. Give it a week and we will be talking about whether to deport chef boyarde. Announcer this portion of cbs this morning sponsored by toyota. Lets go places. Welcome to cbs this morning. Charlie rose is on assignment. Anthony mason is with us. Good morning. Good morning. A mouthful. Glad youre here. President elect donald trump returned to Campaign Mode in ohio at his first victory rally since winning the election. Mr. Trump savored the spotlight as renewed most of his Popular Campaign promises. He thanked his supporters and mocked hit critics. He revealed his choice for defense secretary. He will nominate retired marine corps general james mattis. Manufacturing plant to highlight his deal to keep more than 1,000 jobs from going to mexico. Major garrett is in ohio. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Donald trumps first public event since winning the presidency looked a lot like a campaign rally, complete with disdain for washington elites and mockery of the media and promises of middle class the biggest difference is in the rhetoric comes with a clout and expectations of a presidency to be. The bottom line is we won. We won. We won big. Reporter at the first rally of his thank you tour, president elect donald trump revived campaign enthusiasm and added postelection glee. We did have a lot of fun fighting hillary, didnt we . How many times did we hear this . There is no path to 270. Things are going to be much better now. Reporter mr. Trump also reporter and eventually revealed his long settled pentagon pick. We are going to appoint mad dog mattis as our secretary of defense. Reporter trumps Transition Team decided on retired general james mattis days ago. Mattis who is 66 years old served more four decades in the marine corps and led forces in iraq and afghanistan. Thing to general George Patton that we have and its about time. Its about time. Reporter earlier, mr. Trump announced an agreement with carrier to keep open its indianapolis manufacturing plant preventing roughly 1,000 jobs from moving to mexico. They say its not president ial to call up these massive leaders of business. Reporter the deal grants 7 million of state tax breaks over ten years and includes mr. Trumps promise to lower Corporate Tax rates and reduce regulations. Companies are not going to leave the u. S. Anymore without consequences. Not going to happen. Reporter Vice President elect and indiana governor mike pence provided tax relief to carrier. I think its just the beginning. Reporter pence told scott pelley, the catalyst for the deal was we are going to roll our sleeves up and drive a hard bargain. Reporter the biggest cabinet vacancy remains secretary of state. And sources tell us that general mattis supports retired army general David Petraeus for that post. Petraeus is competing against Rudy Giuliani, davidmyth romney bob corker. If petraeus would be selected he would be the third retired general in the trump cabinet or the trump white house. Carrier deal. Wall street journals Editorial Board called it a shakedown that will hurt workers and the economy. The New York Times said the populist appeal outweighs its practical effect. Bernie sanders told us the deal sets a dangerous precedent. We have to tell Corporate America that if they want defense contracts, that if they want to be good corporate citizens, they are not going to throw American Workers on the street. You dont bribe them with large tax breaks. President elect trump said there will be consequences including high taxes, for companies that leave the country. An extraordinary confrontation between trump and Clinton Campaign strategists shows the bitterness of the election has not faded. The two sides faced off yesterday at a Harvard University forum that is held every four years. Its usually a respectful look back at the campaign, but the meeting descended into a shouting match, according to the the washington post. Nancy cordes was there at nancy, tell us all about it. Reporter the most contentious moments came about 90 minutes into the session as the trump aides describing the brilliance of their ceo steve bannon. That was too much for the Clinton Campaign and Clinton Communications director Jennifer Palmieri started to push back and calling out the white house chief strategist who was not at the meeting when she called is harnessing racial undertones to win. Youll hear audio of her and then Kellyanne Conway argued clinton lost because of not connecting to white class voters. If providing a platform for White Supremacists makes me a bit tactician, im glad to have lost. Do you think i ran a campaign where White Supremacists had a platform . Are you going to look me in the face and tell me that . It did. Wow, i mean, hesyourpresident. How is that. If he is going to be my president then he needs to show me that White Supremacy is not acceptable just steps a million times you know and now youre just lying a couple of hours later at his indiana rally, donald trump denounced the altright nationalist movement saying he condemning bigotry and prejudice in all of its form. At this forum, both sides accused each other of focusing too heavily on theeg were particularly sore about the Media Coverage of clintons private email server with palmieri saying it will go down as quote the most grossly overrated and overcovered and most destructive story in all of president ial politics. Gayle . Nancy, thank you. The president elect senior transition adviser Kellyanne Conway is on the campus of harvard where the event took place. Kellyanne, good morning. Last night. Good morning, gayle. It was very spirited. I think the audience learned a lot about the election from the mechanics and messaging point of view and, obviously, some of these feelings are still raw. I think most people are not prepared for donald trump to become the next president of the United States, and you had a group of professionals and later robby mook and i just really discussing what went on in the hardfought campaign. We heard you were accused last night of giving a platform w do you think that perception still exists and is the campaign concerned about that . Well, its not a fact. Its just completely false. And that is why i asked jen palmieri, Communications Director for hillary clinton, if she would look me in the eye and tell me that i ran a campaign that would allow that. She said yes, you would. Well, and that is unfortunate. I took that personally and i know its not true, gayle. And, you know, president elect trump has denounced every single element of that awful movement. Hes never met these people. He doesnt ask for their he denounced it on the record with the interview with the the New York Times last week. I think some people are stuck in the Permanent Campaign and they ought to realize that donald trump won 306 electoral, 30 of 50 states and counties that president obama carried are america were attracted to his message and his message of growth and job creation and patriotism and better trade deals. What happened just yesterday . Thats what president s do. Just yesterday president elect trump and Vice President elect pence wednesday to indianapolis and announced carrier would keep a thousand jobs in indianapolis that were thought to go to mexico. Leaders make good on their promises and keep american jobs in america. Are grateful they are going to still have their jobs. Wall street journal editorial page, this morning calls trumps carrier deal arm twisting of a company. Is this a sustainable strategy to boost the economy . But that is a false characterization. During those talks which were very genial between the carrier and ceo and president elect trump and Vice President elect pence, they were talking about how to Work Together. Has Rudy Giuliani been told he is no longer a contender and are you widening the search for secretary of state . I wont divulge private conversations that havent been made public, but i will tell you, gayle, that decision has not been made by the president elect. He will make that ultimate decision as to secretary of state. Its a very important decision, as are off the senior posts and senior staff appointments. A number of qualified men and women to hold that post and the president elect and Vice President elect are gathering the counsel of a number of different people and not rushing Major Garrett is reporting this morning that general mattis who will be mr. Trumps choice for defense secretary supports petraeus as secretary of state. Do you think that will weigh heavily with mr. Trump . Well, general petraeus was in trump tower to meet with the president elect and they had an hour long meeting, very productive and constructive meeting. I know the president elect was impressed with that meeting with general petraeus and for good it weighs in the Decision Making that folks can see they can Work Together whether an Economic Team or National Security team or other advisers in the cabinet or elsewhere, norah. We know who makes the ultimate decision here and its donald trump. But it does matter to him to take the counsel of these people, whoever he trusts to be in his cabinet. You suggested earlier that donald Trump Supporters would feel betrayed if mitt romney got the position of secretary of state. Do you still feel that they feel that way, some of them . Just breathtaking backlash that i was seeing and hearing in private communications, on social media and elsewhere, with respect to the possible appointment of mitt romney. And look. Ive been on the record as talking about that. Mr. Trump has said that he gave me permission to talk about that publicly. So ive been doing that. But ultimately that decision is donald trumps. I would note there are a number of people in contention for that. He is still being considered for the post, mitt romney . As we have publicly said, there are four people, as of yesterday, who are in contention for secretary of state. That list may expand, that list may narrow. I know the president elect will make his choice public in due course. We will see if due course is next week. Kellyanne conway, thank you for joining us this morning. Thank you for having me. The death toll in the devastating wildfire in tennessee is rising. There are now 11 confirmed deaths. Wildfire in the last 13 years. At least 80 people are injured and a number are still missing exactly how many is unknown. More than 700 buildings were damaged or destroyed. Demarco morgan is in sevierville, tennessee, where he spoke to people desperately hoping to find missing loved ones. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Officials will finally start letting residents back in the city of gatlinburg for the First Time Since they werece evacuate earlier this weekend. Many of them will get a chance to check out their homes and structures for a couple of hours. With the concern that they may look like this threestory home here behind me, leveled by wildfire. Drone footage shows the widespread damage across gatlinburg. The fire seemed to have a life of its own, destroying some buildings and leaving others unscathed. Oh, my gosh. Its okay on, we are getting out. We are getting out. Its okay. Oh, my god. Reporter this couple was on their honeymoon when they barely made it out in time. Morning, we knew something was off because the view outside of the cabin was really smoky and foggy and an orange color. Reporter at a red cross shelter notes with the names of loved ones still unaccounted for cover this message board, including members of the reed family. 9yearold and 12yearold kids were with their mom the night of the father. Michael reed received a call from his wife that the flames were approaching their home. He hasnt heard from them since. To have two of our own we are heartbroken. These two are nurses at the school the missing girls attend. We are truly a family and this is hurting all of us. Our teachers, our principal, our assistant principal and us. Reporter this has to be a tough time for you . Tough time. Reporter Sevier County mayor larry water says while many of the missing have been found safe, the number changes deceased. We have got Strong Mountain heritage and so we are going to recover from this and we will be back stronger than ever. Its just going to take us a little time. Reporter there are conflicting reports in the local newspaper this morning that many homeowners like this one say they didnt even get a warning. It wasnt until they actually saw the flames that they wanted to get out. But the National Park service and county officials said they did give proper warning before the wildfire began. It moved so quickly. Carnivals Princess Cruises will pay a 40 million fine for dumping oily waste into the ocean and largest fine in its history. Peter is here with what prompted the investigation. A whistleblower discovered the elaborate worker system on princess ships three years ago and alerted investigators. The ships using a socalled investigators charge the cruise line had been dumping thousands of gallons of contaminated water at least eight years. Our open seas are not dumping grounds for waste. The Justice Department says ship engineers aboard the princess polluted the ocean and covered up their actions. A campaign of destruction in an effort to hide the deliberate pollution of our seas with oily waste. Bilge water, a mixture of water, oil, and other chemicals below deck, they are required to filter it and store it until they get to port which can be expensive. The d. O. J. Says Princess Cruises what is called a magic pipe connected to a hose to feed the dirty water into a tank that hold water from the ships sinks and showers and in some places the cruise lines are allowed to dump that water at see. A whistleblower turned over these pictures from inside the ship. Investigators say the cruise line used illegal practices on not one but five of their ships we are very sorry for any harm done to the environment. Princess cruises president jan schwartz said they are very sorry. Many were fired. We have worked very hard to improve and strengthen our operations and learn from our mistakes. We have dramatically changed our shipboard and shore site flee ganizations and organizational structure and leadership. We have invested in millions of dollars upgrading our equipment. Cruise line has been hit with big penalties for similar charges. In the late 1990s, Royal Caribbean paid 27 million in two separate cases and three of the ships engineers were indicted. The plea agreement also requires all princess ships to participate in a courtsupervised and Environmental Compliance program. 10 million of the settlement will go toward Community Service projects to benefit thhave bump. It will be a windy friday all day so grab a warm coat and a scarf to keep warm. Temps in the milder 40s because of the wind. But it feels cooler than that. Some clouds around this morning, but those should move out for sunny skies today. A wind advisory across most of the Mojave Desert today, but not for the las vegas valley. Highs in the low 50s. 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