Good morning and thank you very much so much for joining me from wad. Beautiful city. Im carol costello. The president elect leaves new york on a military jet bound for washington. Hes among hundreds of thousands streaming into the capitol for tomorrows inauguration, some to celebrate, others to protest. Minutes from now, sean spicer will deliver his first on camera briefing. Well bring it to you live. Also this hour, another round of hearings, first up former Texas Governor rick perry, trumps pick to lead the Energy Department. And then Steve Mnuchin, the nominee for secretary of treasury. The wall street veteran will be grilled over his personal dealings and the fiscal policies of a trump white house. Cnns Sunlen Serfaty is on capitol hill, but lets begin with Jason Carroll outside trump tower in new york. Good morning, jason. Reporter good morning, carol. The prerkt will be heading your way very soon. He has a packed day ahead of him with three inaugural events starting about 2 45 w
much. reporter: he s from iowa, be nice to herbert hoover. i m sorry. i didn t mean to be cruel. christine romans, thanks so much. any minute we ll get the first briefing from sean spicer, the man donald trump has tapped to be his white house press secretary. these are live pictures from the trump transition headquarters where spicer will speak to reporters. today s event comes after spicer announced monday s briefing will be held in the white house after all. team trump floated the idea of moving the press out of the west wing where they have been stationed since 1970 to accommodate, quote, massive demand. where me to talk about that and more phil mattingly, frank sesno, malia cardona. why is sean spicer holding the press conference today? this is the process, this is transition into reality which is tomorrow. what s the most interesting thing, come to the white house for a year in a prior organization, in understanding
victims and charges could be coming. this is moving far beyond sandusky and threatens to taint the golden legacy of head coach joe paterno. joe paterno s tenure as a coach will be over soon and penn state is planning his exit. the time cites two people briefed on conversations with penn state officials who says the board of trustees has yet to determine the timing. if this is a sign of anything, paterno was scheduled to hold his weekly news conference about an hour ago. reporters including our jason carroll were there ready to ask paterno about sandusky, the rape and abuse charges and what paterno knew. that news conference was canceled. instead penn state issued this statement saying due to the on going legal circumstances centered around the recent allegations and charges, we have determined that today s press conference cannot be held and will not be rescheduled. so the big issue still remains who knew what for how long and how was the situation with sandusky dealt with? p
victims and charges could be coming. this is moving far beyond sandusky and threatens to taint the golden legacy of head coach joe paterno. joe paterno s tenure as a coach will be over soon and penn state is planning his exit. the time cites two people briefed on conversations with penn state officials who says the board of trustees has yet to determine the timing. if this is a sign of anything, paterno was scheduled to hold his weekly news conference about an hour ago. reporters including our jason carroll were there ready to ask paterno about sandusky, the rape and abuse charges and what paterno knew. that news conference was canceled. instead penn state issued this statement saying due to the on going legal circumstances centered around the recent allegations and charges, we have determined that today s press conference cannot be held and will not be rescheduled. so the big issue still remains who knew what for how long and how was the situation with sandusky dealt with? p