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Chief strategist, communications director for the republican national committee, a top adviser to the president-elect. joining us now from the trump transition headquarters in new york. sean, thanks very much for joining us. >> thank you, wolf. good evening. >> he clearly has not given up his twitter account since being elected. he tweeted this earlier today. it's generated a lot of commotion. quote, nobody should be allowed to burn the american flag. if they do, there must be consequences. perhaps loss of citizenship or a year in jail! as you know, the u.s. supreme court ruled back in 1989 th...

Their citizenship. what is your position on flag burning? >> in my neck of the woods, people don't burn them they honor them. but we have a first amendment right, but where i come from, you honor the flag. if somebody wanted to show their first amendment right, i would be afraid for their own safety, but we'll protect our first amendment. >> so to be clear, you don't like it, as we have said, but you believe that is protected under the first amendment? >> that's what the court upheld. i think the best thing we could have going for us is growing an economy. i don't know why anybody would want t...

Going to put together the exact plan and how we're going to do this. and it's something that the president-elect has said it's something we wants to tackle early in miss administration, potentially a day one issue. again, that was a campaign promise he made on the trail. it's something he's going to uphold. people are worried about what's going to happen with their health care. we have a president-elect who's going to dive in and tackle that right away. they're going to come up with a solid plan and move forward right away. rvelg a >> and to end where we began, in this new network with preside...

Mike pence, having designed indiana's medicaid expansion under obamacare. meantime, the palace intrigue over who will be chosen as secretary of state continues to take center stage as trump hosts more contenders today. inviting bob corker to trump tower. >> he needs to choose someone who he's comfortable with, who he knows there will be no day light between them and him. >> reporter: having a dinner tonight with mitt romney, with the two being joined by their wives. sources say the sit-down is so trump and romney can get to know each other more. but the president-elect is threatening to step o...

Eye on it. laura coates, thank you. thank you for joining me today. i'm carol costello. "at this hour" with berman and boudla starts now. >> hello, everyone, i'm kate bolduan. >> i'm john berman. okay, i thought there was going to be an animation there. it said "pause." i'm not going to pause. >> dramatic pause. >> i'm going to keep going. president-elect trump is having mitt romney over for dinner tonight. what is on the menu, you ask, is it a cabinet position? perhaps revenge, a dish best served cold they say. or is it the first amendment which is at least in one respect out of season at t...