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secretary of defense here tonight. we know last week he made a surprise announcement at his first thank you rally saying yes he s indeed choosing general james mattis for defense secretary. but the fact that two will be up on stage together, certainly notable, especially given that is the military friendly town. so donald trump hoping to cash in on the energy here almost to validate his pick for secretary of defense. and we know trump has many thank you tours and rallies ahead. just two this week alone and thursday he ll be in iowa and friday in michigan. you heard him taking credit for what he said is a $50 billion investment by softbank. what are you learning about this? reporter: i have to say not a lot of detail coming from the trump transition team or the company tonight. but certainly a little showmanship on the part of the president elect today really trotting out on the ceo of the company and trump towers there before cameras gathered. contours of the deal are $50 ....
the election is being rigged by corrupt media, pushing completely false allegations and outright lies in an effort to elect her president. reporter: donald trump trailing in the polls and plagued by allegations of sexual misconduct is falling back on his favorite safety net. the election is rigged. it s rigged like you ve never seen before. the investigation of hillary clinton was rigged. it s all rigged. it s all rigged. the gop nominee now insisting there s a monumental conspiracy to rig the entire election against him. trump tweeting today, of course there is large-scale voter fraud happening on and before election day. why do republican leaders deny what is going on? so naive. but trump s claims aren t true. there s no evidence of widespread voter fraud. and the candidate s claims are putting election officials, even those in his own party, on edge. today, ohio s secretary of state, a republican, who plans to vote for trump, blasted the candidate s claims as reck ....
get under his skin that his own running mate is not defending him. i m curious the kind of mood in trump world right now. you know, i have not heard that they re upset by governor pence s performance in any way or that they re worried that he might have upstaged donald trump. there was a lot of pushback to that reporting from the campaign. but what i can tell you was that before they were deciding on who was going to be donald trump s running mate, there was some concern about choosing somebody who would upstage donald trump, somebody like newt gingrich or chris christie who is more of a politician, a more practiced politician, bombastic politicians who know a lot more about policy than donald trump does. so there is precedent for that feeling, but i m not getting anything from the campaign about them feeling like governor pence did too good of a job last night. but what i do know is that ty want to get donald trump better prepared for this next debate coming up on sunday. i was ....
by the kremlin, an important point as well in the way donald trump painted his relationship with intelligence agencies in this country vis-a-vis how it could be taken overseas. right now is the start of the 1:00 p.m. hour here in the east. imagine the role of this man right now. this is a live picture in front of the senate foreign relations committee, and that is the ceo of exxonmobil, a multinational company so large, while it s said they can t change the weather, they can forecast it. they have their own weather bureau, a sprawling organization of 70,000 employees. rex tillerson is the nominee to be our next secretary of state, a job offer that came to him. it s been said in the public domain in part because of his relationship with russia, because of his relationship with vladimir putin. imagine all of this in light of the news conference we just witnessed, in light of what donald trump said and didn t say about russia and putin, in light of what donald trump said about u. ....
protesters are taking action against the prosecute s crackdown. activists say the recent wave of arrests is striking fear into families who pose no criminal threat. ice officials say that the arrests were in fact routine. nbc s gabe gutierrez joins me from atlanta. gabe? hi, there, amon. there were several arrests in atlanta alone. ice officials say these were routine law enforcement operations, but immigration advocates say this is what they have feared. on the same week that protests ecorrupted in arizona as a mother convicted of using a false social security number was deported. families of undocumented immigrants say they are now living in fear from california with donald trump being president, i see no hope for us. to north carolina. this week immigration and custom enforcement raids in at least six states. ice says the raids were routine, no differentiate than those in the last administration. this is where the raid happened. this is where the rai she say ....