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Have been thrown into the mix for these to be cabinet posts are all people who were with him in the campaign. steve mnuchin, who helped him raise money in the campaign is up for treasury, is what i'm being told. you've got wilbur ross, another fund-raiser. rudy giuliani, my understanding is he could the get whatever position he would like, but his heart's desire is to be secretary of state. you've got jeff sessions, who also was, you know, a key ally to trump during the campaign. it sounds like maybe he's leaning towards secretary of defense. but all of those positions, all of those people are...

Influence is much less significant than they thought it would be, that they hoped it would be, and there is a lot of concern as you look at the newspaper headlines still across europe, stephanie. >> there is a lot of concern, and we're going to go back to athens any moment from now when president obama begins his speech. in the meantime, we have to take a look at the puzzle, the pieces of those puzzles are beginning to fall into place for the trump administration. i'm joined now by our top notch team to break it all down. katy tur, who has been with trump team for months. katy. there is so muc...

Border. >> so part wall, part fence? >> yeah, could be some fencing. >> jim acosta joins us from outside trump tower. late reports tonight there have been some disagreements within trump camp regarding key cabinet positions. what do you know about it? >> reporter: anderson, i think is part of the jockeying that's expected when a new administration comes in and is filling key cabinet posts. some of my colleagues are reporting it's been described as a knife fight inside the trump transition meetings. i was told last week that there were some disagreements going on between the so-called, you know...

Totally not qualified, totally not temperamentally sound for it. so explain to me why how mitt romney has reconciled himself with the notion of donald trump. i know you know mitt romney pretty well. how does he get his head around -- >> how is that any dmpb from some of the peep that are now up for cabinet posts and what they said about donald trump when he was running in the primary. mitt romney gave his speech, i believe it was march in the primary. he gave a speech because he believed that perhaps someone else was better fit to be the nominee of the republican party. but that is no differen...

Than existed before, names his three oldest children and son in law to be part of that and making a change having vice president-elect, mike pence, take over the chairmanship, and that is putting one person in char securing and forming the government along with the esident-elect and try to fill out those important cabinet posts, and then far beyond that, fill out all the jobs in the white house and then its agencies across the government. it's an enormous task. another part of the transition is to try to come up with -- this has already been in the works and it's now a matter of refining it, t...