top positions, including attorney general, cia director, and national security adviser. his picks are hardline conservatives, mostly loyalists, all come with some controversy. we re covering all of that much more this hour with our guests, including congressman andre parson, and our correspondents are standing by. let s begin with sara murray over at trump tower in new york city. sara, trump said earlier this year, i m quoting him now, he said, i don t settle cases very easily when i m right. but he agreed to settle this one. give us the latest. reporter: that s right, wolf. donald trump is singing a different tune now that he s the president-elect, and the trump organization put out a statement saying that they still believe that they would have won if it had gone to court, but president-elect trump wants to devote his full attention to the important issues facing our nation. as of this weekend, that means going to do some of these interviews with potential
one. trump university really a big problem for donald trump. when you look at what a really fly by night operation this was and when you look at the representations that were made to students and the education that was really provided, it does seem like a fraud case really they weren t allowed to call them selves a school. they had to stop doing that. there are certain rules that whether you can really be a university and they were not a university by any stretch of the imagination. so, you know, you can see why schneiderman and others are moving forward on the trump university case have a lot of confidence. but, you know, obviously, any sort of sane observer from the outside would say, settle this case. look at the peril that the testimony, the time. but he hasn t settled it so far. his line has always been and it has gotten him to the presidency. i m a winner, i m a winner, i don t settle.
art of using the threat of litigation to get your way. it s been an effective tool for him sometimes. because, obviously, people don t want to get into litigation. a lot of people don t have access to lawyers like donald trump does. so they re scared. and they don t have the money he has to litigate. to drag something out in a lawsuit for years and years and years. and it s a rounding error for him. but for other people, it s real money. it s also fascinating, we haven t heard it so much lately in the campaign, but early on in the campaign, part of his stump speech, but in many public appearance, he talks about how you never settle lawsuits. if you settle lawsuits, it only brings on more lawsuits. and he would brag about this. but the truth is, he settles lawsuits with some regularity. indeed, he does. in our case, i think he wanted to settle on two different occasions. it s just as in everything he says, you can t take him at face value about these things. that s the w
says, you can t take him at face value about these things. that s the whole mythology, i don t settle, i m a tough guy. but the truth is, i do settle, because it makes sense. it s a sensible business strategy to settle. it is. in the run-up to the suit against you, i think you ve said that donald trump tried to intimidate you? well, he, you know, i didn t at the time, you know, i was doing a series of book readings and his attorney showed up at one of the book readings and came up and said, you know, i m a writer, too, wink, wink, and they had people in the audience who stood up and asked leading questions, like, aren t you out to write a book that s really going to damage donald trump. they would actually send people yeah, yeah, there was a couple people planted in the audience. i guess if i would have been a little shrewder at the time, i would have said, no, of course not, he s going to be president some day. but that didn t happen then. but he taped one of the book re