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national republican party to be clear, in context, there s a whole bunch of problems that the trump dpan has for the republican party. there s a new poll that puts donald trump nationwide 14 points behind hillary clinton. 14 points behind? now, that is not the only poll in the world, right? there s another national poll out also tonight from fox news that says he s only 3 points behind hillary clinton. we ll be talking later on in the show with an expert about how to read the various polls right now. how to know what s right, especially when you ve got results like these that are so disparate. in either case 13 points behind or 3 points behind, he is still behind. the headwinds seem very clear right now. tonight at fivethirtyeight.com they re reading those headwinds for the presidential race and looking at the senate polls. fivethirtyeight is giving the republican party a 68% chance of losing control of the united states senate this year. so that is just one of the problems th ....
service. school and homes have been targeted. children have been morning the casualties, wolf. the syrian regime and russia have not stopped this. a warning from the united nations, there will be mass starvation in this city if food, water supplies and water are not allowed in very soon. will ripley reporting for us. thanks very much. that s it for me. erin burnett outfront starts right now. outfront, the breaking news, president-elect trump at this hour laying out his promises for day one. you will hear him. plus, trump s controversial chief strategist steve bannon speaking out and saying, i m not a racist. trump meeting with america s first self-made black billionaire. he s a democrat. how did that conversation go? he s my guest tonight. let s go outfront. good evening, i m erin burnett. o outfront tonight, breaking news, trump releasing a new video, first policy statement since his trip to the white house after the election. trump breaking his silence bre ....
be pushback here. he spoke very favorably of exxonmobil ceo rex tillerson. rex will will be a fierce ade for america s interests around the world and has insights and talents necessary to help reverse years of foreign policy blunders and disasters. [cheering] you re winning with health care. we re winning on the border. we re winning with isis. because we are going to get isis out. we re going to win so much, you will go to paul ryan, you will go, mr. speaker, please, please, we can t stand winning this much. we can t take it. and he is going to come to see me and he will mr. president, the people in wisconsin are tired of winning so much. more on that today. start with team fox coverage, david lee miller at trump tower in new york. begin with fox news digital much, right. gnaw nah. donald trump won 306 electoral votes. you need 270 to win. is it conceivably possible that 37 electors would be what we call faithless? it has happened in the past, that one or two or her ....
characteristics about rex tillerson that donald trump views at positives are things that have john mccain concerned. he said he wants answers about the connection to the russian government. i have concerned over his reports of relationships with vladimir putin who is a thug and a murderer. we will have hearings on that issue and other issues concerning him. that is the time to make up your mind. what kind of questions would you ask rex tillerson? his view of vladimir putin, his role in the world, and the leader of the opposition was murdered on the orders, i believe, of vladimir putin and the shadow of the kremlin. the deal that he did in 2011 is estimated to be worth half of a trillion dollars. so you know these are enormously large deals. a reflection of that that was putin in 2012 awarded him the order of friendship, one of the highest civilian honors in russia. tillerson has also spoken out against sanctions in russia and that may be essential in understanding his te ....
neighborhoods, the smartest people who work for you in your staff, they all live in the same neighborhood. whether they re black or white or asian. there s this book written, there s a test if you are part of the new elite. the new elite are corporate executives, really quality lawyers, doctors and because it s now at the point where it is merit-based, whether you re part of the elite, we ve kind of forgotten about ordinary americans out there. and so, it s like, it drove my boys crazy. it had them take the test in the book and it said, have you ever been on a factory floor? were you raised in a neighborhood where over 60% of the people didn t go to college? if you get a chance to go to starbucks or mcdonald s for coffee, where do you go? do you know anybody who has whole milk if their refrigerator? because everybody else has skim milk? elitist. so part of it is that it s understandable, the good news is, it s based on merit advancement in many cases now, but the bad news ....