Chief of staff Reince Priebus is with us life. After shocks rattled new zeal land hours after it is hit by a powerful earthquake. At least two people killed. Others feared trapped in debris. Tsunami triggered. Were there live. Big, bright and beautiful, the super moonlighting up the sky this morning with its closest pass to earth youve got one more chance to catch it today, monday, november 14th, 2016. From nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a. Good morning. Welcome to today on a monday morning. I said you have another chance al yelled out across the studio tonight. Well talk more about that and see more beautiful images in a second. Let us get right to president elect donald trump. Speaking out in a wide ranging interview as his white house staff begins to take shape. New protests over his election erupt yet again. Talk about all of it as the man who will serve as President Trumps chief of staff Reince Priebus. Matt and savannah, good morning, president elect trump is starting to map out what his Administration May look like beginning with his inner circle. Different factions of the republican party, one who has antagonized the establishment, the other who represents it. Donald trump revealing his first president ial picks. For chief of staff Reince Priebus. And his steve strategist steve conservative news sight breitbart. Both men to seven as equal partners. Priebus pick celebrated by established republicans but not likely with trumps outsider base. One Campaign Source telling nbc news instead of draining the swamp we put in the head alligator. Bannon bomb thrower lining up with the altright and white nationalists. Defending bannon saying he has despiting breitbart. The president elect documented to crack down on undocumented immigrants beginning with criminals. What we are going to do is get the people that have criminal records, gang members, drug dealers, we have a lot of these people, probably 2 million, could be 3 million, after the bord er is secured. Determination. Paul ryan says there wont be mass deportation. Donald trump is not planning on that. As for his Signature Campaign pledge, trump now says in places hell settle for a fence. Trumps also promising to appoint Supreme Court justices who are antiabortion acknowledging roe v. Wade could eventually be overturned affecting womens access to abortion. Then some people wont be able to get an abortion. No, but perhaps theyll have to go to another state. Reporter on another campaign pledge, trump is refusing to rule out appointing a special prosecutor to look into Hillary Clintons private email server. Theyre good people. Ill give you a very good and definitive action the next time we do 60 minutes together. In this bitterly divided country, trump is also targeting minorities with racial slurs and personal threats. I am so saddened to hear that. And i say stop it. If it helps, i will say this ill say it right to the camera. Stop it. Reporter this weekend asked if he thought his rhetoric had gone too far on the campaign, president elect trump said, no, i won. This morning hes also pledging not to receive the 400,000 a year president ial salary and not to take any long vacations during his time in the white house. In his much to be done. Matt and savannah . Peter, thank you. Another big person until pick, steve bannon, will serve as Donald Trumps chief strategist and senior counselor. It is a pick that immediately caught some controversy. Nbcs Hallie Jackson in washington with more on that. Hallie, good morning. Reporter hey there, savannah, good morning to you. Steve bannon, the former head of breitbart news, has been a controversial figure in the president elects orbit from the moment he came on board late in the campaign. His supporters are now critics are growing very concerned about what kind of world he might bring to the west wing. Often on stage with his boss, steve bannon now in the spotlight after helping to propel donald trump to the presidency, promoted to chief strategist in a position to shape the future president s policies. Ban be, one of trumps first appointments, and already his most controversial. Before joining Trumps Campaign in august, bannon led breitbart news, a offensive headlines like this one calling a conservative columnist a renegade jew. Bannon saying this summer he wanted breitbart to be the platform of the altright, a conservative Extremist Movement with ties to white nationalism. The appointment of breitbart drew immediate fire. The racist fascist extreme white is footsteps from the oval office. To send his children to school with jewish students. A claim he denies. Politically he s a flame thrower. You may own these buildings but theyre occupied by a permanent Political Class that is out for your destruction. Reporter house speaker, paul ryan, brushing off any issues with bannon. Ive never met the guy. I trust donalds judgment. Reporter but ryans congratulatory tweet praising Reince Priebus, the next never mentioned the chief strategist. Are you ready to electri dond trump president of the United States . His long time relationship with ryan, two men representing two factions, now under one west wing. The Antidefamation League has come out against bannons appointment. A couple of his friends and associates spoke with nbc news by phone defending his charges of antisemitism, acknowledging breitbarts provocative but calling bannon a champion of diverse voices. They describe him as an intense and focused leader. Hallie jackson in washington, thank you. Reince priebus, chairman of the Republican National committee, will join the Trump Administration as chief of staff. Good morning, congratulations. Hey, thank you. Very nice of you to have me on. You were on our set wednesday morning after don the election. You said you hadnt talked to trump about a position in his administration. You hadnt even thought about it. So this came together rather quickly. Did you have any reservations about accepting this position . No, not at all. I mean other than making sure that it was good with my wife and the kids and getting that piece of my life straight. Weve had a Great Partnership and ive learned to get to know president elect trump and steve Great Partnership and he really wants everyone to understand out there that he wants to be a president for everyone. Right. No matter your background, your race, your gender, your faith. He wants to do well for every american across the board. But to some, youre an odd choice for chief of staff because theyve been watching this campaign over the last year or yearandahalf. Theyve heard donald trump say we want to bring change to washington, we want to drain the swarm, were going counter to youre the ultimate insider and dealmaker. Why are you the right fit for this job . Well, first of all, its about an advisory role. It is an operations role. But also, i was elected by the grassroots members of our party across the country. I get elected by the people that are making the phone calls and putting up the yard signs and the people doing the work. Im a guy from kenosha, wisconsin who was elected but secondly, i would just tell everyone that the reason we had an electoral landslide in this country is that donald trump was able to bring different pieces of our party together. The reason why he did as well as he did is that he appealed to people like me. He appealed to people in all respects of our party. And so that it takes a talent and an ability that president elect trump had. But it was his message and the delivery that created that bannon . In some ways he is the flip side of the coin here. A lot of people are concerned because they look at breitbart news. As one paper put it, recently accused president obama of recruiting more hating muslim, and i guess people are bondering is this the world view that white house . Can you let them know anything about him that would be contrary to the website he ran . Sure. And that wasnt his writing. That was some articles in breitbart. It wasnt him. Okay, but he is the head. The buck stops with him. The guy i know is a guy that isnt any of those things. The guy i know is the guy sitting in an office all day yesterday talking about hiring talking about guy that exhibited none of those qualities. Heres a guy whos Harvard Business school, is he a tenyear naval officer, London School of economics, i believe. He is a guy who is pretty hes very, very smart. Very temperate. And together weve been able to manage a lot of the Decision Making in regard to the campaign, along with kellyanne and its worked very, very well. Interview last night, you saw a president ready to be president for every american so that in 20 years people are going to look back at President Trump and say, wow, this guy did every single thing he said and he led this country with honor and dignity. Thats the donald trump that people are going to be talking about in 20 years. Let me just follow it this way, in the west wing will you or steve bannon have more power and influence in shaping Donald Trumps agenda and policies . I think it is a different role. The chief of staff is operations of the white house. In regard to advising the president , i think if people understand President Trump, he likes taking opinions from a lot of different people. Hes not a person that just listens to one person and does whatever that one person says. He decides. So in advising the president , i would suspect that me, steve bannon, i think jared kushner, obviously, his soninlaw is going to be very involved in donald trump is going to be. I think you are going to find that in a few months, as people see the agenda roll out in the first 28 days, the first 100 days, that he is going to be a president for all americans and he is going to make you proud. Reince priebus, again, congratulations. You bet. Talk to you soon. Thank you. Well, what is next for the Democratic Party . Still reeling from a stunning loss. President obama set to hold a News Conference this afternoon. Nbcs Kristen Welker with that part of the story this morning. Hi, is hi, savannah. In addition to that press conference, president obama will also call members of the Democratic National committee today as Hillary Clinton reaches out to House Democrats to discuss next steps in what went wrong. The outreach comes on the heels of clinton placing part of the blame for her loss squarely on the shoulders of fbi director james comey. Reporter democrats looking for the way forward with president obama and Hillary Clinton poised to reach out to Top Democrats today. Where the party goes next and who its leader will be with the president leaving the white house. It will likely also be a rallying cry, not to give up on key Party Policies like obamacare and immigration reform. What did go wrong . In a phone call with donors on saturday, clinton said shes heartbroken, blaming fbi director james comey for stopping her momentum after he revived the issue of her emails in the 11th hour of the race. I just cant believe it is always somebody elses reporter but on meet the pr press, Kelly Anne Conway blasted clinton for the finger pointing. Sometimes you have to reflect and figure out what went wrong. We saw the polls before the announcement on october 28th. Reporter Rudy Giuliani claimed obamacare played a role. We put up front in all of Donald Trumps speeches for the last two or three weeks not the fbi but obamacare. Reporter but within clinton failed to aggressively reach out to White Working Class voters in places like michigan, ohio, and pennsylvania. A source familiar with former president bill clinton tells nbc news he was pushing for more outreach to those communities. Other realization the Obama Coalition just didnt turn out in the same force without president obama on the ballot. Even though we didnt get those turned out, it is not time to give up. It is time to keep fighting. The press conferences after the election. Today he is talk about the transition of power and how the country can move forward even as thousands take to the streets to protest the election of president elect trump. Also this morning, strong aftershocks are rattling buildings and a lot of nerves in new zealand where a powerful earthquake hit overnight. Nbcs janice mackeycrayer is in christ church. Reporter good morning, matt. Magnitude 7. 8. There have been hundreds of aftershocks, several of them strong. A tsunami alert has been lifted but people are still being warned to stay away from the shoreline. So far two deaths have been reported, though rescue teams are only now getting a clear picture of the damage. Another the earthquakes epicenter there are huge cracks in roads and landslides have cut off towns. The focus of the relief effort now is trying to get supplies about two hours north of here where a state of been declared and it is accessible only by air. Experts believe the earthquake was actually two separate quakes along different fault lines. New zealand lies on the socalled ring of fire where tectonic plates meet and often collide. You the quake this time was but it was also deeper. The physical damage doesnt appear as dramatic but nerves are seriously rattled here and there is, of course, concern that the death toll could rise as rescue teams begin to clear the rubble. Janice, thank you very much. Lets turn to al with a first check of the weather. The supermoon . This is really cool. The video and pictures just amazing. As you look not just in this country but all around the world. The weathers been sp the supermoon and you just have to be in awe. Look at it just balancing on top of the arch there in st. Louis. And all over the world weve got some gorgeous video and pictures. You can see. You beauty of this, the orbit around the earth of the moon is not exact will i round. It is more elliptical, more eggshaped. Now the supermoon, this is the orbit. The furthest away. The average distance. Around the country tonight, the best places to see the supermoon going to be in the rockies, the southwest, southern california, on into the central plains. Gulf coast, into the mid Mississippi River valley. Have some clouds and some showers and that may obscure your view but a lot of places are going to see a beautiful supermoon here in the United States and around the world. mom hurry up, honey were going to be late . Ugh. Like this woah knocking at door mom and i were out earlier is when we all give a little more. Back in college, didnt you do some super mooning . I could have told you you were going to do that. I couldnt help it. That wasnt a denial, by the way. Exactly. Statute of limitations has long ago run out on that. Did social media play in the election of donald trump. What Mark Zuckerberg is saying about misinformation shared during the campaign. 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