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>> reporter: but his defense work doesn't end there. he's using his thank you tour to stand up for his pick of secretary of state. exxonmobil ceo rex tillerson. >> rex is friendly with many of the leaders in the world that we don't get along with. >> reporter: now, one of the interesting things and the question of conflict of interest in donald trump's family members, they've been very transparent about the role trump's children will play and they were clear about naming donald trump's own children as transition officials. but aside from this meeting today where reporters were allowed to get i...

Is who's getting tapped. so, whether he picked democrats or not while ting makes a ton of sense to look at 2018, unfortunately for democrats, that's already a huge uphill battle for them. republicans are in very safe spot keeping the senate in 2018. >> leslie, i mean, it makes it seem like democrats don't care about policy, they care about power. you know, you have a chance to really have influence over what's going on by holding one of these cabinet posts and to put it aside when the balance of power right now is already 52-48, what difference does one more make? isn't it more important to ha...

Tillerson's vast knowledge and kesz dealing with dozens of government leaders throughout the world. reince priebus playing down any issues with tillerson's rip with putin, here he is this morning on "fox and friends." >> having relationships with people is not a bad thing. i don't know how we got to the place where having an actual functional relationship with someone who might not be a person that we would first think of to have a relationship with is suddenly a bad thing. we have a lot of problems in this world and we're not going to solve those problems by making believe that people don't e...

He brought a lot of generals in as his immediate picks for his cabinet posts. it speaks to -- well, we don't know what is going on in his mind, but i don't want to let you go without asking about russia hacking and interfering in the election process. john bolten is one of the people pushing back on the idea that is a given that the russians did this. listen. >> i can see russia -- for them to be so in expert that the trail can rapid i will be taken back to them, it's just hard to once. >> there was russian interference, there was russian hacking. this comes from the white house, congress, bot...

>> that last clip we saw, only from september. so his position on the epa has evolved from getting rid of it to refocussing the epa on its core mission, clean air, clean water. >> the obama administration would contend that some of those regulations that donald trump doesn't like are there to do just that. so, you know, it's going to be a matter of interpretation, what does donald trump have to do in order to prove to his supporters that he was serious about cutting regulations, about doing those things. at the same time, he doesn't want to be the president that is responsible for more water -...