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Right? he can get that. oh, if he didn't get that waiver, they'll be a lot of angry people. such a popular choice. >> that waiver is included as a temporary funding spending bill, if you will, which is critically important. some are saying, why include the waiver in that essential legislation? they say this is really not fair. >> it's a continuing resolution that funds the government. sets up an expedited procedure to get him through sooner so he can get that vote. i believe he ought to be confirmed after the hearings and proper vetting. you know, when you look at north korea, russia, iran -- ...

Re-election bid in a very, very tight race there. tightest in north carolina history losing to his democratic rival by some 10,000 votes. still taking up a lot of meetings today. tomorrow, for his part, wolf, expected to head to ohio meeting with victims and first responders from the attack at osu. >> the president-elect may be softening his hard-line stance on illegal immigration. turned to president obama for staff and cabinet choices, we're told as well by the president-elect. those revelations came from interviews following trump's selection of "time" magazine's person of the year. talking...

Him was -- you know, i said, you are going to go down in history first for not something you did but for who you are. the first african-american president. but actually, you're not really black. you're half white. you were raised by three white people. mother and your two grandparents. and he interjected and don't forget the indonesian stepfather. and we had a very interesting conversation about what it means to be black in america and how important it was for him to be the president who happened to be black and at the same time a symbol for african-americans. you know, it was -- he was always...

>> i think because of his incredible career in the military, the respect all americans have for him for his service. certainly the men and women in uniform respect him immensely. >> you just came back to washington, spent a few days in afghanistan with u.s. troops on the ground. still, what, about 10,000 u.s. troops in afghanistan. >> yes. >> they're fighting over there. a very, very dangerous operation and didn't just go to kabul? you went outside of kabul? >> we did. the president says he ended two wars. there are still thousands of americans at war in afghanistan and fighting not just the t...

Regard to his selection as person of the year. said this about the children, the kids brought heillegally. he said they got brought here at a very young age. worked here, gone to school here. some were good students. some have wonderful jobs and in never-never land because they don't know what's going to happen. about 11 million undocumented immigrants in the united states. a lot of children as well. president obama wants the children at least to have some sort of legal status, and donald trump, the president-elect, now indicating he might be ready for that. >> as we all know the history of th...