Says hell make his choice for secretary of state which is expected to be exxonmobil Ceo Rex Tillerson. President obama makes an appearance on comedy centrals the daily show and offers a veiled warning to donald trump about flying blind without proper u. S. Intelligence. Were learning new details about testimony taking place in the trial of accused Charleston Church shooter dylann roof. Law enforcement officials describe what they found in his car following that shooting. Good morning. It is tuesday, december 13th. Im alex witt alongside ali velshi and lieu questions bergdorf. Donald trump is expected to formally announce the choice of exxonmobil chairman and Ceo Rex Tillerson to become the countrys top diplomat. The official won is set to come this morning. Trump announcing on social media last night. It was fooled by a Facebook Post from 2012 republican nominee mitt romney in which he said it was an honor to have been considered for secretary of state of our great country. My discussions with president elect trump had been both enjoyable and enlighteningry of have very high hopes he will lead the nation to greater strength, prosperity and peace. Sources tell nbc News Donald Trump had called romney to tell him he was not going to be nominated. The president elect is turning to another figure with no previous experience in government service. Tillerson was born and raised in texas graduating from ut austin where he studied civil engineering. Tillerson joined exxonmobil 41 years ago in 1975 where he has spent his entire career. His life long passion has been the boy scouts of america. Still listing his rank of eagle scout on his resume, and according to the Dallas Morning News he also served as president of the organization when it voted to allow openly gay youths to join their troops and earn their merit charges. Tillerson became leader of exxon after spearheading projects in the United States, yemen, and russia, where he helped bring exxon into the postsoviet market partnering with an oil giant with a struggling stateowned company. This all leading to controversial ties with Vladimir Putin even as he has taken aggressive stance toward russias european neighbors. Despite early skepticism he will be getting highprofile support. The Washington Post reporting he will be publicly endorsed by exdefense secretary robert gates and former secretaries of state Condoleezza Rice and james baker. This morning support for tell r tillerson, dick cheney expected to back him as well. And thats not the only texan joining the trump administration. Sources tell nbc news that former Texas Governor rick perry is going to be nominated to become the secretary of energy, thats it. Thats one of the departments perry said he wanted to eliminate as a president ial candidate, except that when asked about it, he couldnt remember it in a debate. Yesterday trump announced a tightened up wall street, gary d. Kohn, president of that company, will serve as director of National Economic council. In a statement trump said kohn will be my top economic adviser and help craft economic policies that will grow wages for our workers, stop the exodus of jobs overseas, and create many great new opportunities for americans who have been struggling trump also met with former hewlettpackard ceo Carly Fiorina as mentioned. A fierce critic of trump during the president ial primaries being considered for director of national intelligence. Remember trump commenting on her face. Amid talk of russia yesterday, she put the focus on china as americas top rival. Spent a fair amount of time talking about china, as probably our most important adversary and rising adversary. We talked about hacking, whether its chinese hacking or purported russian hacking. The high quality of people that hes named already says so much about his executive abilities but it also said that people recognize the opportunity that our new president elect has to really make a huge impact on peoples lives in this country and on events around the world. She mentioned china hacking and purported russian hacking. She didnt, interestingly, mention 400pound guys on their beds who could be responsible for hacking. Stick around because we will talk to Carly Fiorina about technology and the intelligence community, as well as her trip to trump tower, later this morning on morning joe. The former chairman of Hillary Clintons campaign is throwing his support behind requests by a Bipartisan Group of Electoral College members who say they need more information on russias role in the election before casting their votes next week. In a letter james clapper, the 10 electors, asked for the briefing saying the information directly impacts their deliberations of whether donald trump is fit to serve as president. John podesta, who had his personal email account hacked leading up to the election, applauded the move, releasing a statement that read in part, the bipartisan electors letter raises grave issues involving our national security. Electors have a solemn responsibility under the constitution and we support their efforts to have their questions addressed. During an interview that aired on the daily show last night, president obama was asked to weigh in on this comment from donald trump over the weekend explaining why he didnt need the daily Intelligence Briefings. I dont have to be told im like a smart person. I dont have to be told the same thing in the same words every single day for the next eight years. In the meantime my generals are great, are being briefed. Mike pence is being briefed. Im being briefed also. But if theyre going to come in and tell me the exact same thing that they told me it doesnt change necessarily. There will be times where it might change, there will be fluid situations. Ill be there not every day but more than that. But i dont need to be told the same thing every day, every morning, same words. Sir, nothing has changed, lets go over it again. I dont need that. I think the president elect may say one thing and do another once hes here, because the truth of the matter is that its a big, complicated world. It doesnt matter how smart you are. You have to have the best information possible to make the best decisions possible. If youre not getting their perspective, their detailed perspective, then you are flying blind. Part of what we have done is to just hammer away at the basic principle that intelligence shall not be subject to political spin. And im very proud of the fact that over the course of the eight years, the message ive sent to every Intelligence Agency is, i want it straight. Several of the president elects past tweets criticizing president obama over the daily Intelligence Briefings are get some attention like this one from september 2012 where he tweets, priorities. While fundraising and campaigning on our dime, obama has skipped over 50 of his intel briefings. This one from 2014 where trump posts, fact, obama does not read his Intelligence Briefings, nor does he get briefed in person by the cia or dod, too busy i guess. The man reportedly under consideration by president elect trump for the number two job at the state department is clarifying his allegations that the election hacks being blamed on russia may actually have been a diversion by the Obama Administration. Over the weekend former United Nations ambassador john bolton said potential breaches could have been a false flag operation by the white house. Speaking yesterday bolton denied he meant to imply the Obama Administration may have been involved. What has been misreported about yours truly for reasons which i find hard to understand is that i accused the Obama Administration of conducting the hack. That is absolutely false. Let me be clear. I am not saying that the administration was responsible for the hack. I do worry about the politicizing of intelligence in this administration, looking at what happened at benghazi the cia could be politicized . I think it certainly came out at a very convenient time to conclude it was russia at a time trump was being criticized for what he was saying about putin. A false flag conclusion is not simply based on cyber fingerprints or where the electrons are. This is a political decision about who stood to benefit. President elect donald trump has postponed this thursdays News Conference where he was expected to address any conflicts of interest pertaining to his business. In a series of tweets last night trump wrote, even though im not mandated by law to do so, i will be leaving my businesses before january 20th so that i can focus fulltime on the presidency. Two of my children, don and eric, plus executives, will manage them. No new deals will be done during my terms in office. I will hold a press conference in the near future to discuss the business, cabinet picks, and all other topics of interest. Busy timesed. A senior transition source tells nbc news the announcement has been delayed until january. News of the castle lation was first reported by bloomberg. Trump transition officials told the publication no new date has been set for the announcement but it is set to take place prior to his inauguration, january 20th. The republicanled committee to investigate the 2012 benghazi terror attack has shut down and ceased operations. When the committee publicized its findings in june, the report found no new evidence of wrongdoing by hillary clinton, who was secretary of state at the time. The committee submitted its official final report to Congress Last week. Though some democrats criticize the timing. Congressman elijah cummings, the top democrat, called the final report a desperate rehash saying republicans voted on this partisan report five months ago but delayed filing it and completing it until after the election. Congressman trey gowdy, the chairman, called the report the final definitive accounting of the attack. The Benghazi Panel was created in may 2014. It spent more than 7 million investigating the benghazi terror attack. New information this morning on the gunman who confessed to killing nine people inside that South Carolina church last year. According to testimony from a former state Law Enforcement officer, dylann roof had a handwritten list of other churches and their addresses inside a backpack he was found with upon his arrest. Other items found inside his car, a confederate flag, an American Flag that had been burned, empty ammunition boxes, and a laser attachment for a gun that the witness says helped with accuracy. Testimony continues later this morning. Roof faces the Death Penalty if convicted. Still ahead, Major League Baseball cracks down on hazing. Plus a couple of lawmakers behaving badly, including former illinois congressman aaron schock, whos pled not guilty to federal charges. Those stories and a check on weather when we come right back. Liberty mutual stood with me when i was too busy with the kids to get a repair estimate. Liberty did what . Yeah, with Liberty Mutual all i needed to do to get an estimate was snap a photo of the damage and voila voila sigh i wish my Insurance Company had that. 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Former pennsylvania representative chaka fatah has been sentenced to ten years in prison for what prosecutors called a whitecollar crime spree. A federal jury convicted him in june on 23 counts, including conspiracy, fraud, bribery, racketeering, and money laundering. In 2007, he took an illegal 1 million loan to help finance his failed 2007 bid for philadelphia mayor. Then illegally used hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal and Charitable Funds to help repay part of that loan. He also used Campaign Funds to pay for his sons Student Loans and took a bribe from a friend who wanted to become an ambassador. Fatah had served nearly 22 years in congress before resigning after being convicted. Former illinois congressman aaron schock has pled not guilty to charms he illegally used campaign and Government Funds to support his jet set lifestyle. Shock was indicted in november on 24 counts including nine counts of wire fraud, six of filing false income tax returns, and theft of Government Funds. A conviction on a single count of wire fraud carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. You may recall shock spent tens of thousands of dollars in government money lavishly decorating his Capitol Hill Office in the style of downton abbey. Well, it looked good i guess. Weather with nbc meteorologist bill karins. It was a little too much for my taste, a little. Your reaction was worth it though. The cold is the story over the next couple of days. In some areas well see some of the coldest temperatures theyve seen in nearly a year. It will be significant. Right now this is like the warmup act. Kind of the opposite of that. This is the windchill advisory. Theres five states under that. 2. 5 million people. Right now were looking at windchills in the negative 20 to negative 30 range. If you had exposed flesh, takes about 30 minutes for frostbite to occur at temperatures like that. Warnings is when it gets worse than this. Negative 20 for a windchill in bismarck. You can see how widespread it is. Negative windchills through nebraska, iowa, back here through wyoming, through montana, and now theyre starting to move through the great lakes. The cold is finally starting to head not just in the Northern Plains but starting to spread east ward. Green bay at negative 5. Detroit is down to 1 for your windchill this morning. So were going to call this one the siberian express. This air, the origins of it, came all the way over from siberia, moved over the north pole, heading down through canada. As we track windchills, this is going to be this afternoon. This is High Temperatures on the left. This is how the feelslike temperature to the right. Minneapolis a high of 9, windchill negative 6, even during the daylight hours. Chicagos going to feel like 15 and 6. So you get the idea how chilly its going to be. We go into tomorrow morning. Green bay windchill negative 6. Cleveland has a windchill of 4. Indianapolis only has a High Temperature tomorrow going to be around 20 degrees. This is wednesday afternoon. Notice the worst of it around madison at negative 13. Still in the negative 20 range around fargo. Finally by the time we hit thursday, it arrives in areas of the east. Temperatures will plummet during the day in cleveland, windchill negative 8. New york city around 17 with a windchill. As we go through thursday night into friday it gets worse. Thankfully over weekend things will rapidly improve. Todays forecast, we do have a little bit of light snow. Careful out there. Areas from st. Louis through illinois and indianapolis, we have a little bit of white snow, a coating. Enjoy the warmth in areas of the east, by far this is the warmest day well have until sunday. 17, i cant complain considering what our friends in the Northern Plains are having to deal with. It gets worse. D. C. , new york, boston, through thursday afternoon, friday morning, thats when the windchill will be single digits. Okay, thanks for the headsup. Still ahead, the new England Patriots overcome a sloppy second half during last nights game against the baltimore ravens. All the highlights from monday night football next in sports. When youre close to the people you love, does psoriasis ever get in the way of a touching moment . If you have moderate to severe psoriasis, you can embrace the chance of completely clear skin with taltz. Taltz is proven to give you a chance at completely clear skin. With taltz, up to 90 of patients had a significant improvement of their psoriasis plaques. In fact, 4 out of 10 even achieved completely clear skin. Do not use if you are allergic to taltz. 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