To the cast of hamilton. Hes turned trump tower into a staging ground for the biggest reality show in the country, a daily parade of wouldbe job applicants and other meal tickets, marching down or up the marble hall to the goldplated elevator for a meeting with the big man. Its been an odd stew of celebrity, larry king, al gore, mitt romney, bob gates, d. C. Mayor, mueller bouzer, laura ingraham, marla maples, a new york mayor, bill de blasio, and wrestling executive, linda mcmahon, just to name a few in this potpourri. Anyway, here was trump today, telling the press to get ready for his show. Weve got some great people coming in today. Youll see em. What do you talk about with mayor bouser from washington, d. C. Today . We have a lot of people coming up. A great group of people, doing very well. God, its like ed sullivan in the old days. A really big shoe tonight. Trump has also mastered the spectacle of making dramatic announcements. Last week, it was a deal to save 1,000 jobs at the carrier plant out in indiana. Today he tweeted his threat to cancel a deal with boeing. Here it is. Boeing is building a brandnew 747 air force up with for future president s, but costs are out of control. More than 4 billion. Cancel order that was trump. Trump was asked about that earlier today. Lets watch. Well, the plane is totally out of control. Its going to be over 4 billion. Its for air force one program. And i think its ridiculous. I think boeing is doing a little bit of a number. We want boeing to make a lot of money, but not that much money. So what can we make of trumps transition Razzle Dazzle . Nbcs Hallie Jackson is in fayetteville. And Howard Fineman is global editorial director for the Huffington Post and an msnbc political analyst. Let me go to Hallie Jackson. Whats tonight . Whats the show. The defense chief . The new pentagon chief hes going to put on parade tonight . Reporter yeah, the show is james mattis, James Mad Dog Mattis. Were in fayetteville. Home to ft. Bragg. A huge military veterans presence here. It is very intentional that drrp will be appearing with his defense pick. You talk about the razzledazzle and the art of making an announcement. It was only a few nights ago, his first stop on the thank you tour in cincinnati that he surprised the entire arena by basically prematurely announcing that mattis was his defense secretary pick in the first place. Describing even his aides that were with him, that were thinking he was going to wait until to today to go ahead and make that announcement. He certainly understands the art of a tease, if you will, from his days in the reality show world, i would say. Whats the reaction to the media out there, to you yourself out there with that crowd . Whats the hate level . Reporter i think thats a tough one to answer. We havent seen the president elect yet doing what he typically does, what he did during the campaign and what he did in cincinnati, which is point to the media and encourage folks to bobby calling us the dishonest press. Theres a little bit of the introspeakers, diamond and silk, a duo that has often appeared, introduced at campaign rallies, were here again tonight and took a few shots. People turned around and booed, but seemed a little less intense than what we saw toward the end of the campaign. Donald trump came to the lobby of trump tower this afternoon to tout another economic success. He was joined by a Japanese Business executive, lets watch trump in action here. So, ladies and gentlemen, this is masa of softbank from japan and hes just agreed to invest 50 billion in the United States and 50,000 jobs. And hes one of the great men of industry, so i just want to thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much. And if you would like to speak to him, you can. But one of the truly great men. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. You may want to say hello. Yes, thank you. Ill see you soon. Trump did not say what specific investment that Japanese Company planned to make here in the United States, anyway. Ive got to go now to heidi and to howard. Action jackson, or Something Like it. I mean, this guy is going to its like i want to say at the end of the show, in the old days, before uber and other ways to get around, taxis in new york. You always listen to wind. The knifing. Something there, something happening upper west side. Its constant buzz, buzz, buzz, pingpong. It seems like thats the kind of presidency he wants to advertise. Youre just seeing the new season of trump tv. Had a certain way of manipulating us during the campaigns, and now theres a new way, which is, dont have any news conferences, dont have to take any questions about some of the hardhitting Investigative Journalism thats being done right now about some of the ethical questions surrounding his transition. But, just have a huge media stakeout, a parade of personalities coming and going, let the speculation go on about whos going to get the rose on secretary of state as well as other positions. And keep us running around, like the sheep that we are. Just wait for them to come out. Guess what ive got. Then he disappears. Its very midtown, manhattan. It is. And thats donald trump. And its bang, bang, bang, hes always got to be the center of attention. Well, action does tend to grab our eyes. Action grabs our eyes. But what im interested in more than that is the combination of generals and billionaires that seems to be the stew that hes developing here. And of course, it also has a kind of medieval kingly aspect to it. Where people are coming around, from around the world, before the coronation, to offer gifts to the new king. 50,000 jobs here, from japan. Carrier doing this in indiana. And donald trump is stressing his personal power to get these things done. His personal relationship, which is a different, nonlegislative kind of leadership. Lets talk about this billionaire thing. Youve met people youve met people of enormous wealth and when you meet people of enormous wealth, they seem to keep score by money. If theyre a billionaire, they dont like people who are local candy store owner. Thats who he trusts, people who have made a lot of money to run our country . Maybe, but i think you have to look at their philosophy. Its not only that hes stocking his cabinet with millionaires and billionaires, but its millionaires and billionaires who have a particular world view and view on the markets. And that is to deregulate everything, privatize everything, privatize the social safety net. You just had mike pence saying today they want to block grant medicaid. The strange thing about the election, chris, we can all debate whether trump has a mandate to do what he wanted to do in the campaign, the populous platform that he sold. The one thing that there is clearly not a mandate for in this election is to have a establishment republican agenda, which seems to be at least in terms of domestic policy, which is emerging with these cabinet picks. Well, its an unleashed establishment agenda. Otherwise, this is a hardcore passion to deregulate and allow except with the case of trade, except for trade, to lieu the free market in the neverending battle between markets and the state, this is the market run wild. Hally jackson, youre still with us, i believe. Let me ask you about the gold plating of this guy. He seems to like people who are have become sfl, attractive people, if you will. He likes the golden look. Ive looked at the cabinet picks hes made. He seems to want everything to look like hit belongs in trump tower. What else can you tell us along those lines of his kind of wealth. I might call it monetary aestheticism. Just based on my experience with the president elect since hes been elected, whatever the aesthetic is, its playing very well with those who were elected to sit in these positions. We were talking about his cabinet picks. And some of what you just were saying came up a little bit, who he might pick. What if he picks an establishment guy like a mitt romney for secretary of state versus a Rudy Giuliani . Who do you like that hes put in his administration so far . You know the name that came up again and again . It wasnt james mattis or tom price, it was ben carson. Maybe thats because ben carson was in the news yesterday or the day before, but a lot of folks like the idea that he was bringing in someone who had been critical of him and who he had been critical of, but had become an ally. I found that interesting. And someone notable if that, again, it wasnt some of these other picks that you would have expected folks to be talking about. I think kbrr right. I had one source close to the transition tell me, appearance does matter for the president elect. You know, somebody that would, for example, for secretary of state, have that bearing to be an International Diplomat and to represent the United States abroad. A casting call. Anyway, today president obama defended his administrations counterterrorism approach in a speech down in madille air force base in tampa. Lets watch that. So rather than offer false promises that we can eliminate terrorism by dropping more bombs or deploying more and more troops, or fencing ourselves off from the rest of the world, we have to take a long view of the terrorist threat. A sustainable counterterrorism strategy depends on keeping the threat in perspective. The terrorist threat is real and it is dangerous. But these terrorists want to cast themselves as the vanguard of a new world order, they are not. They are thugs and they are murderers and they should be treated that way. You know, the world must wonder, guys, about the choice of president s we make, because we dont have a pattern, you know . Theres no theme with obama and trump and then one guy sort of sophisticated, long view. The other guy is loud and now well, we do have a pattern, chris. We follow george w. Bush, who was seen as reacting to the moment, as a visceral gunfighter. And he portrayed himself as such, at least for the first many years of his administration. We replace the evisceral gunfighter with the cerebral long view of barack obama. Now after the cerebral long view of barack obama, weve gone back to the gunslinger, only more so. Yeah in physics, the pendulum slows, in american politics, the pendulum swings faster and faster. Heidi, this is mostly what i would call fickle. But im not sure. I think we correct every four years from the past eight years, we correct and we sometimes, by the way, its getting harder and harder to get reelected in this country, if you look at these margins. Nobody comes in like a big second term anymore. Those days are over. I dont know that his Foreign Policy, we know that he has a clear, that the people who elected him had a clear vision of that, because he also cast himself as antination building and as someone who was going to take us out of the middle east. Nation building is a peaceful answer. I mean, nation building is in part a peaceful answer. The wall street journal is fantastic. He talked about the fact that the man doesnt have an ism is. Is it hawkishness or dovishness . Here he is. Trump could be a postideological president. Its nearly impossible to identify clear ideological bent of any kind. Its probably a mistake to try, because the definitions of left and right, liberal and conservative, are being scrambled right before our eyes. Well, you know, i think thats true in terms of heres the thing, okay . We dont know what his Foreign Policy is going to be yet. His team is not in place yet, but his domestic policy is coming into price clear focus, chris. You already see, theres a great story today out on how the Heritage Foundation is going to be kind of the mind behind a lot of his domestic policy. They have very clear views on this stuff, and thats why you hear mike pence already starting to talk about block granting medicaid. They have a clear vision on deregulating the markets, deregulating wall street, privatizing the social safety net. And i think as journalists, we have a responsibility to start to explain to people who voted for trump, in very clear terms, what that means. I had a great conversation with an older journalist today about how many people in america dont even understand kind of the civics, background, behind medicare and the social compact that we created, to stop our poverty among the elder. Well, i agree completely with heidi, that on Foreign Policy, the bluster, were not sure where hes going to take the bluster. You know, where hes going with nap but i think in domestic policy, you have to say that theyre going after theyre accepting no First Principles that have been part of the American Social and political compact since the new deal and since the Great Society, in particular. So should poor people be worried, who depend on government for food stamps . Well, what donald trump what donald trump is going to say, what the Heritage Foundation said going back to 1980, with their first report for ronald reagan, is that there are ways to make the free market serve poor people. This was jack kemps dream. However, in reality, the fact is that half the American People depend in one way or another on government help and theyre going to still need it. I think somewhere in Donald Trumps mind, he knows that to remain popular, hes got to be careful. But the default setting is going to be privatize, privatize, and privatize. Let me ask you a question, with a liberal perspective. Why do conservatives believe that the best way to help the rich is give them stuff. Tax cuts, more money, give them benefits. And the best way to encourage poor people is cut their programs. Hurt the poor, help the rich. Because they have a fundamental distrust of the role of government. This is theyre saying, it all gets wasted in government. Cut out the middle man and lets have free markets in the extreme. Thats their answer. And talk about pendulum swings. Theyre insisting that a pendulum is going to swing away from the Great Society and even the new deal. What are they when are the republicans going to thank obama for tripling their wealth in eight years. Havent they noticed . I think this is one of the things that democrats will privately say theyre very concerned about, which is they feel that obama has really set donald trump on a great glide path in terms of the fundamentals of the economy. Nobody thanks him. Nobody thanks they treat obama im going to see him at the Christmas Party tomorrow night and im going to thank him. The republicans have done very well. Hallie jackson, thank you, down in fayetteville, North Carolina. Ready for the big show tonight. Youre all great get guestuests. Coming up, the case to reject or notelect donald trump. Argues that trump demonstrates every day hes not qualified for the office. 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