donald trump really likes kellyanne conway. and kellyanne conway is not stupid. i just don't have the answer to whether trump had any idea she was when to say what she said, authorized it, suggested, whatever. i can tell you this. she does not feel any less confident about her place in trump world today than yesterday. she might be seeing the long knives, but she is not less confident. john: i will really a firm one fact. kellyanne conway has driven me crazy on the show because she is hard to get any straight answer out of. she spends like crazy. she will not address a direct question. mark: not like a sean spicer or jason miller. john: but not a dummy. a very smart woman. the second thing that is manifestly true, we saw through the entirety of the campaign -- donald trump chaos. he thrives on chaos. he likes chaos. he likes to hit people against each other. [bell rings] her,'t know the authorized but it would not surprise me. even if he is. it's with her, he sort of likes what is going on right now. mark: and my point about john spicer and jason miller -- john:

number five, kellyanne conway is not stupid. the answer to whether donald trump had any idea she said which was going to say come authorized to come authorized to, suggested it, whatever. i can say this, she does not feel any less confident in her place in trump world today than she did yesterday. she might be seeing the long knives, but she is not less confident. mark: here is the thing i think. john: i'm really a firm one fact of yours and it will even throw it into context. kellyanne conway has driven me crazy on the show because she is hard to get any straight answer out of. like crazy.-spins she will not address a direct question. mark: not like a sean spicer or jason miller. john: but not a dummy. a very smart woman. the second thing that is manifestly true, we saw through at the entirety of the campaign, donald trump loves chaos. he thrives on chaos. he likes chaos. he likes to pick people against each other. i don't know the authorized her, but it would not surprise me. even as he is furious with her, he sort of likes th

kellyanne conway, former campaign manager, senior adviser of the transition. maybe she is going to watch it in d.c. she joins us now from trump tower. what is the proper line for donald trump to draw regarding his business interests when he becomes president? >> whatever the legal lines dictate, of course. he will comply with all of that. he has made clear all along that his adult children will be managing the family business. obviously, these are not entry-level positions. they are already respective executives within the business, in charge of building things, acquiring things. you have seen their handiwork in the old post office building in d.c., a great example of under budget, on time work that these adult children do, and they will do that. he has made that clear. he has a team of advisers and lawyers who make sure he complies with the law. mark: president obama suggested that complying with the law is not a good enough standard. is he just going to comply with the law or will he worry about appearances, if there is an intersection between public action

(abc this week) sot - kellyanne conway / trump senior advisor "this is trump's party now. he won states mitt romney didn't. // i don't think a cost of admission for party unity gloria riviera, abc news, washington. the funerals are beginning for the six elementary school children killed in last week's horrific bus crash in chattanooga, tennessee. two of the six were laid to rest over the weekend, including 10-year-old zyanna harris. friends remembered her sparkling personality. the next funeral is set for thursday. three children remain hospitalized the bus driver, johnthony walker, is charged with vehicular homicide. the n-t-s-b says he was speeding. students and administrators had raised concerns about his behavior behind the wheel.. in the weeks before the crash. the north dakota sheriff leading the response to the dakota access pipeline protesters says the clock is ticking on demonstrators. more than 525 people have been arrested during months of protests. most of the demonstrators have been camping on federal controlled land. the u.s. army corps of engineers says it s

mark kellyanne conway, thank : you. we will be right back. ♪ mark: it wasn't just the potential trump administration officials at the tower today. the president-elect held off the record conversations with major media types, including network executives and lester holt, and charlie rose. including wolf blitzer and george stephanopoulos. "the new york post" reported tonight that the meeting did not go all that well. they said trump occasionally lashed out at some of the participants. kellyanne conway denied that a few moments ago. trump has done only one one-on-one interview since he became president elect. he has done no press conferences. he has not done any victory rallies, no thank you tour or veterans day events or indoor photo ops since he became the next leader of these united states. so far, every person he has hired for his white house team or proposed for the cabinet has been announced by written statement. kellyanne conway said his punishing schedule is just too packed for him to make public appearances. do

and number five, kellyanne conway is not stupid. and i don't have the chance to whether trump had any idea if she was going to say what she said, authorized it, suggested it, whatever. but i can tell you she doesn't feel any less confident than her place in trump world today than she did yesterday. she might not be seeing the long knives, but she's not any less confident. >> here's the two things i'll add. i'll really affirm one fact of yours and throw it into context. kellyanne conway has driven me crazy on this show as of late, she's hard to get a straight answer out of, she won't answer a question, but not a dummy. not a dummy. a very smart woman. and the second thing that i think is manifestly true that i saw throughout the entirety of the campaign, donald trump loves chaos. he thrives on chaos, he likes chaos, he likes to pit people against each other. i don't know whether he authorized her to go forward and say those things, but it would not surprise me if even as he's furious with her in some ways, he actually sort of likes t

we are talking about kellyanne conway here. if kellyanne conway is anything, she's a strategic beast. they want us to believe there is a tension and a discussion going on here about who'll best serve future trump administration and with a possible announcement today or next week. clearly, they did not want to role out a bunch more white guys. they want to do more appointments and nominations in train first that were not white guys. with egoba we go back to the two leading candidates who are both white guys. i they they cink they can get b them now. >> your post reporting that the secret service may now be renting or looking to rent two vacated floors of trump tower. fifth avenue, manhattan, one of the most expensive cities in new york. donald trump commented on conflict of interest and saying there cannot be no conflict. i am the president of the united states. while we are sitting here, going this is ridiculous. >> no more of this mr. trump now you are the president-elect trump, no more business about the government. what does

what donald trump decides, kellyanne conway and everyone else will respect. governor romney ran for the same office four years ago and lost spectacularly. it's donald trump who won 364 electoral votes. donald trump won wisconsin for the first time since 1984, won pennsylvania, won florida, won iowa. >> both romney and corker will meet with trump tomorrow night. romney, in fact, is having dinner with trump. >>> the vp elect promises some very important announcements tomorrow. steve cortez, republican strategist. steve, let me ask you more on romney. kellyanne conway makes it clear that she is making attacks for those who don't want him. mike huckabee, the former governor of arkansas. what is it that really bugs people about romney? >> chris, i'll tell you, those of us who are in politics, no matter where you fall in partisan terms, we love palace intrigue, don't we? it's fascinating. i would say regarding palaces, the european royal families intermarried a heck of a lot. i'm not sure it was about love, it was often for political convenience. that might be part

kellyanne conway denied that a couple moments ago. done a one-on-one camera interview since becoming president elect. any press held conferences, and has not done any victory rallies or thank you to her or veterans day event or .ven in your photo ops so far, every person he has hired for his white house team or proposed for the cabinet has been announced by written statement. you heard kellyanne conway that trumps punishing scheduling was just packed. do you buy the notion he is too busy doing other things, or is there another reason he is staying off camera? >> i do not buy the notion that he is too busy to do some thing on camera, just because all president-elect are busy. when i asked kelly and about this, i was not arguing for press conferences per se, although i think it will be good if you did something. to your point earlier in the -- itthese appointments would benefit him to contextualize them, to give the argument for these somewhat controversial people. michael flynn is controversial. jeff sessions is controversial. for that

kellyanne conway denied that a few moments ago. trump has done only one one-on-one interview since he became president elect. he has done no press conferences. he has not done any victory rallies, no thank you tour or veterans events or indoor photo ops since he became the next leader of these united states. so far every person he's selected for the cabinet as -- has been announced by written statement. kellyanne conway said his schedule is to pack for him to make public appearances. do you buy that, or is there some other reason he's staying off camera? john: i do not buy the notion that he's too busy to do some things on camera just because all presidents are busy and they still find time to do a press conference. i was not arguing for press conferences, per se, although i think it would be good if he did them. he han't done a speech, hasn't done any of the things you just mentioned. i just think these appointments -- it would benefit him to explain them, contextualize them, make the argument for them. a controversial guy. jeff s

he's boxed more than kellyanne conway. he boxed trump in by saying this is the only job i want. >> who does that? >> in the last 90 days of the campaign, there's no doubt that he earned trump's loyalty. i think they're going to find some other way to pay him back. >> he should be ambassador to italy. he should be ambassador to court of st. james. he should get a high end ambassador position. >> i'm of the view that the senate republicans are not going to run super rigorous confirmation hearings about most people. i do believe that rudy giuliani would have a hard time getting confirmed. and david petraeus might have a hard time getting confirmed as well. >> i think they have the numbers on that. >> they think they have the numbers. you never know until this thing takes off. and once it takes off, it could get very ugly. >> i'll say one more thing about romney. i think there are other names in the mix and romney will not apologize and may be a factor. trump likes the notion of romney going around the world to foreign capital

>>> donald trump's transition is a chaotic mess, kellyanne conway's weighs in and why the journalists she deals with totally misjudged the election. >> unequivocally and unprovable. if you quantify the analyses that were performed before the election, you will quickly see story after story, the path is narrow, the path is over, there is no 270. >> the media meanwhile ratcheting up their criticism of the president-elect. >> sources tell cnn there's infighting and chaos and the trump insiders didn't care about the transition because nobody thought they were going to win. >> week two, the media is talking about disarray, everything is going to hell. it's not even a month. >> the start of the trump administration is wobblier and weirder than i think anyone expected or imagined. >> and outrage that trump ditched his press pool to take his wife to dinner. with new appointments now for attorney general and national security advisor, are news organizations giving trump and his team a fair shot? megyn kelly on tough personal and professional challenges, including her long and bitter battle wit

what donald trump decides, kellyanne conway and others will respect. i hear from people who say my parents died penniless, but i gave $216 to donald trump's campaign and i would feel betray betrayed. >>> a warning to president-elect trump and the rest of the republican party from ted cruz. the senator predicting a popular revolt if the party does not deliver on the biggest campaign promises. listen to cruz describe what would happen if trump would flip on the key issues like the repeal of obamacare. >> if we're given the white house and both houses of congress and we don't deliver, i think there will be pitchforks and torches in the streets. people are so fed up with washington, this election was a mandate with change of the most catastrophic things of republicans could do which would be go back to business. >> and cruz stands by his claim trump is a pathological liar. he refused to answer that question and wanted to go back to business. >>> president-elect trump and president obama spoke on saturday. kellyanne conway says her boss enjoys speaking to p

he had steve bannon as well as kellyanne conway on staff. and what steve did was sort of, as you mentioned, he was the outsider. that populist theme that helped turn states like wisconsin that haven't gone republican since 1984 red. that's what steve bannon did. but kellyanne conway served alongside governor pence as the connective tissue to a republican that donald trump knew he needed to win. he ended up getting 95% of republicans which is part of the reason why he was able to win including turning some of those counties that went obama twice republican as well. that's what reince priebus will do, is that connective tissue to congress and republicans that he needs to get some of these big policy initiatives done. the senate, that's razor thin margins. he needs him to get these things done. >> one thing i really like about this reince pick, this is a man had has demonstrated the ability to keep different factions of the gop together. tea parties, trump supporters, establishment gops. >> evangelicals. >> all these pockets that at some point

kellyanne conway denied that a few moments ago. trump has bun -- done only one e e-on-one interview since h became president elect and he's not p done any victory rallies, no thank you tour or veterans events or indoor photo ops since he was elected the leader of these united states. so far every person he's selected for the cabinet as administration has been written notice. if you buy the notion that he's just too busy doing other innings? or is there some other reason he's staying off camera? john: i do not buy the notion busy to do some things on camera just because all presidents are busy and they still find time to do a press conference. he han't done a speech, hasn't done any of the things you just retailed. i just think these appointments it would benefit him to explain them, makele -- the argument for in --? of these somewhat controversial people. michael flynn, jeff sessions. controversy -- controversial guys. i think in a brief way to set p the discussion of ha his notions were would help. > my -- mark: my theory is he's

conway making fun at a brand new push to recount the results of the election. >> kellyanne conway, looking to a new york time on hillary clinton's supporters and backing a and pushing recounts. >> green party candidate, jill stein raising nearly $40 million in the past 24 hours to mount the giants. >> really, political reporters, let me start with you. i understand you got new information about the tweets from kellyanne conway, not about the recount but about romney saying she was getting concerns from trump's supporter for putting romney in as secretary of state. i just received comment on a different topic, that's responding to the criticism that president-electrump has not been receiving adequate intelligence briefings. >> according to the sources that i am talking about inside the campaign, they say that this report is inaccurate and they say these are former members of the intelligence community who were disappointed they were not offered jobs of this administration. they are argue rg that these are formal members of the intelligence community who are again disappointed by them not be

kellyanne conway was critical of former candidate mitt romney as possible u.s. secretary of state. >> the first job of any secretary of state is to support and work directly for and advise the president for whom you work. i felt compelled to mention it because it's just breath taking in scope and intensity the type of messages i received from all over the country. and i'm just me, not donald trump, the number of people who feel betrayed to think that a governor romney would get the most prominent cabinet post after he went so far out of his way to hurt donald trump, there was the never trump movement and mitt romney. he gave speeches against donald trump and attacked his character. i never heard him come out and say, i have a problem with x, y and z. but that 25 million job creation plan over the next ten years is something to look at. the factual reduce the capital gains tax and tax on employers and businesses, none of that was ever said. and his -- i mean the romney consultants were the worst to all of it including mr. trump. the twitter feeds were complete an

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kellyanne conway denied that a few moments ago. trump has done only one one-on-one interview on camera since he became president-elect. he has done no press conferences and he has not done any victory rallies, no thank you tour, no veterans day event or in-door photo op since he became the next leader of these united states. so far, every person he's hired for his white house team or proposed to the cabinet has been announced by a written statement. you heard kellyanne conway, just a few minutes ago, say that trump's, quote, punishing schedule was just too packed for him to make public paesappearan now. john, do you buy the notion he's too busy doing other things or is there some other reason he's staying off camera? >> i do not buy the notion that he's too busy to do some things on camera, because all president-elects are busy and many have found time in the past to address the american people and do a press conference. i was not arguing for press conferences, per se, although it would be good if he did them. he hasn't done a spee

le. >> certainly some harsh words from kellyanne conway. a bizarre view that we know donald trump is actively considering mitt romney, as well as others, for that potential slot. now if you think that mitt romney has spent his weekend fretting over it, he certainly is not showing any sign of that on social media. take a look at this photo of him with his wife anne romney and his grandchildren saying no greater joy than making discoveries together with grandchildren. a little bit of a relaxing time for them on the beach as all of this drama plays out, carol. >> so strange. all right sara murray reporting live for us this morning. so let's talk about all this. a lot to talk about again this morning. with me now cnn political analyst and national political reporter for real clear politics rebecca berg and errol lewis cnn political commentatocommentator. welcome to both of you. we've got some hot news just in to cnn errol and rebecca. this is from cnn's dana bash you just heard what sara murray said about kellyanne conway trashing mitt romney.

first of all, robert, your reaction to what you heard from kellyanne conway? you were not a trump fan. >> i was not a trump fan. kellyanne conway is an old colleague and friend of mine. i agree with her to a point. there's something to be learned from the electorate, but there's economic anxiety out there. here is another question that america has to ask itself. where is that bright line? where is the bright line when it cops to offending gold star american s americans? when it comes to offending people with disabilities? when it comes to offending people that are perhaps of a different gender from you? people laughed at that stuff throughout this campaign. people embraced that stuff during the campaign. the question becomes, is that something that we have to learn from the american electorate this past tuesday? absolutely. who are we as a country? >> you are saying there was -- >> someone like a donald trump -- >> essentially, you are saying you believe there was a racist almost that drove some of the enthusiasm? is that a fair point? >> well, i think that's

steve bannon and kellyanne conway on staff. what steve did was as you mentioned, the outsider, the populist theme that helped donald trump turn states wisconsin that have not gone republican since 1948, turned it red and that is what steve bannon did and kellyanne cone served alongside with governor pence conducting the republicans that donald trump knew he needed to win. he got 90% of republicans which is part of the reason he was able to win the way that he did including turning some of the counties that went for obama, twice, republican as well and that is what reince priebus is going to do, serve as the connection to congress and to the republicans he needs to get the policy initiatives done. you look at senate, those are thin margins republicans have for majorities so he needs to keep the conference in line to get these things done. >> what i like like areince thin has the ability to keep different factions of the g.o.p. faction together including establishment and evangelicals, and at some point, those against the going w

, as you know, kellyanne conway been the happy warrior of the trump campaign for weeks now. really railing against the media story line that have been going on until yesterday that, you know, hillary clinton had this insurmountible lead in september and yes, she hit bumps in october. we got our polls, and kellyanne conway continued to be the voice saying we believe we're going to win. i asked her today, what was she said there was never a moment last night behind the scenes that they felt that they weren't where they wanted to be because the reason they had this internal polling they paid for themselves, and this looked to people, not just generally of what they thought about the race because you know, let's be honest. everybody had an opinion. the trump people wanted to know, we're not so interested in what people think of the race. who is going to go vote? because at the end of the da the time. the only thing -- sounds like a cliche but it is so true. we learned that lesson again last night. it only counts on election day >> you were telling me in the newsroom. you saw lit

, as you know, kellyanne conway been the happy warrior of the trump campaign for weeks now. really railing against the media story line that have been going on until yesterday that, you know, hillary clinton had this insurmountible lead in september and yes, she hit bumps in october. we got our polls, and kellyanne conway continued to be the voice saying we believe we're going to win. i asked her today, what was

kellyanne conway and these other people sandbagging mitt romney so publicly is astonishing. it's never happened in any other transition in memory. and i -- here's the other thing. i'm not sure why mitt romney would want to take it under these circumstances. knowing he's coming into an administration that has many people like ben or kellyanne or others who hate him, they're going to sabotage him from within. >> i don't hate him. >> they're going to make it difficult for him to be secretary of state. he has the right qualifications, but, you know -- >> go ahead, david. >> let's be clear -- less than high regard. >> go ahead. >> here's my thing -- >> you have less than high regard -- >> i think donald trump's style here is so different than mitt romney's style, and people said they wanted something different. they did not want a career politician, and the reason why mitt romney will take this job if it's offered to him is because it's a secretary of state, and he went out as a loser and now he wants to come back and have a major important role to play here. i get why he's takin

what donald trump decides kellyanne conway and everybody else will respect. it's just the -- the backlash from the grassroots -- >> the incoming whies chief-of-staff reince priebus sees things differently. >> it's not a matter of warfare. it is a sort of team of rivals concept if you were to go toward the governor romney concept but i think that should tell all americans about where president-elect's heads at which is a place that will put the best possible people together for all americans. >> part of mr. trump's thanksgiving in florida was spent asking club members who they thought should be the next secretary of state. romney or rudy giuliani. according to a report in the new york post. rudy giuliani was quoted over the holiday as, my knowledge of foreign policy is as good or better than anybody they're talking to and he is been by trump's side longer than just about anybody this campaign cycle. another earlier endorser, senator bob corker who would bring to the cabinet experience as the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee. the parade of pro

anybody who actually thought that kellyanne conway had gone rogue, are they not paying attention? she's a hired gun. obviously, somebody had authorized her to do this. but what i find fascinating is what the end game is here, how much humiliation does mitt romney want to swallow in all this. and the question is, what is he going to swallow if he really wants this job, and does he understand what he's going into? does he understand the palace intrigue, the knives that are going to be out for him. and i agree with david. at some point the media has to understand that all the rules that they have lived by and applied just do not apply to donald trump or this new media ecosystem that he exists in and is enabling him in. >> i want to get to general petraeus. in order, apparently, to have another option to mitt romney, they're going to the first guy who would go into a senate confirmation hearing for secretary of state with a criminal record, a misdemeanor, pled down from felonies, about classified information and deliberately, knowingly handing over classified information to someone wh

as you know, kellyanne conway, their central message. i would note i was, as others were, a little surprised right after the initial comey letter he didn't talk more about the fbi. he spent all of four minutes in that in addition press conference and subsequent press conferences did not spend all his time or as much as we thought he might. his message continues to be about corruption, jobs but that omission of not saying the fbi we'll see if he repeats that here as he looks to expand the map. the campaign says internal polling says michigan will ab big surprise. >> okay. jacob rascon on the road on the way to the trump rally. up next, how many times have you heard that word in connection with the presidential race. unprecedented. we've seen things, we're going to try to put them in perspective. stick around. welcome back. recapping breaking news all this afternoon and this evening, the november surprise. fbi director james comey sending to congress this afternoon a letter saying he and his bureau finished their review of the newly discov

dagen: he listened to kellyanne conway, why he won? because of a lady. it was on, it was off, now it is on again. president-elect trump meeting with the editors of "the new york times." this on heels of big powwow with network news executives around reporters. what it all mines when it comes to the press and our incoming president. what makes this simple salad the best simple salad ever? heart healthy california walnuts. the best simple veggie dish ever? heart healthy california walnuts. the best simple dinner ever? heart healthy california walnuts. great tasting, heart healthy california walnuts. so simple. get the recipes at walnuts.org. sandra: fox news alert for you. we're awaiting president-elect donald trump's rifle at "new york times" building here in manhattan where he is set to meet with top executives there. earlier this morning he abruptly canceled that meeting accusing the paper trying to change ground rules at last minute. "the times" denied the charge. now the meeting is back on. one day after mr. trump met with tv news executives and ancho

kellyanne conway. president-elect trump said in his statement about fidel castro's death that his administration will do all it can to ensure the cuban people can begin their journey toward prosperity and liberty but also promised to reverse president obama's opening to cuba. how will ending diplomatic businesses out help achieve prosperity and liberty. >> martha, first, thanks for having me. what president-elect trump was saying is that the first priority he has is to make sure the political prisoners are released and the people of cuba know economic and political and religious freedom. he is opened to researching and in fact resetting cuba but his criticism of what has happened in the last couple years is simple. it's that we got nothing in return. that by reopening diplomatic relations with cuba, allowing commercial aircraft and the rest that we really got nothing in return. we didn't get those political prisoners releases or assurances that cubans who live on the island would be religiously and pol

when kellyanne conway tells you we're winning everywhere, no offense to kellyanne conway, that's her job. the congressman is right about obamacare, there are a lot of republicans especially after the "access hollywood" tape who ran from donald trump, sprinted from him. especially women. a lot of them have come home. the obamacare announcement has helped with that. we where we are now, until we get new data, we don't know about the fbi, where we were before the fbi a traditional election. a one, two, three, four-point race like obama/romney. >> why is trump doing this? he's a one man get out the vote machine. they don't have the ground games in a lot of states that the democrats have and nobody can get his voters out better than donald trump. so he's got to do these rallies. >> we got to take a break. i want to thank everybody on the panel. we're going to hear more from them later on. >>> up next, how is all this playing at dueling campaign rallying? is there no case as clinton says? we're going to hear what their supporters had to say today. changes to make things right. first, all c

here is kellyann conway. >> they listen. they learn. they see what the circumstancing are and he has even been talking to president obama. beyond the sit down they had 30 hours or so after president-elect trump won the election. they have been talking regularly on a number of issues. they talked just yesterday. if okay. so you have researched. is it possible president obama is is doing this to get reassurances that the work he has done won't be scrapped especially after president obama better explains all that he has done to him? >> yeah. if what conway is saying is true, and we don't know that. we haven't heard it confirmed. i think he is doing two things. he is doing as much as possible not to simply undo his legacy and to make an argument directly about what he has done. the second is to act as a president would in a time when m many people feel there is potential stability and to guide donald trump in the right direction. >> how normal are phone calls between a president and president elect? we know president obama described the tra

he had steve bannon as well as kellyanne conway on staff. and what steve did was sort of, as you mentioned, he was that outsider, that pehelped turned like wisconsin red. then you have kellyanne conway who served alongside with governor pence as that connective tissue to the republicans that donald trump knew he needed to win. according to exit polls, he ended up getting 90% of republicans, which was part of the reason why he was able to win the way that he did, including turning some of those counties that went for obama twice republican as well. that's exactly what reince priebus is going to do is serve as that connective tissue to congress and to republicans that he needs to get some of these big policy initiatives done. you look at the senate, those are pretty razor thin margins that republicans have for a majori majority. >> to that point, one thing i really like about this reince pick is that this is a man who has already demonstrated incredible ability to keep really different factions of the gop together. you're talking about tea par

kellyanne conway, mr. trump's senior adviser said this. >> it's just breathtaking in scope and in intensity the type of messages i've received from all over the country. i'm just me. i'm not donald trump. so, just as his former campaign manager, the number of people who feel betrayed to think that governor romney would get the most prominent cabinet post after he went so far out of his way to hurt donald trump. there was the never trump movement and then mitt romney. >> all right. so, what is going on here? let's bring back our panel. alex, why would we think that kellyanne is going rogue. why don't we think she's channeling donald trump, her boss, who for some reason has soured on mitt romney. if he ever was a candidate, it sounds like he no longer is. >> if donald trump wanted to make a definitive statement that mitt romney is no longer in the running, he could certainly do that. he could say it and tweet it and leak it out through advisors. we decided this was not a good idea. we don't have the chemistr

for example, kellyanne conway, successful campaign manager, we don't know what role she would play. know what role they would play, we only know priebus and bannon having official appointments to a trump white house and so there's a vacuum and people have put time, effort, and ambition into this want to make sure they have a place. >> thing, kelly o'donnell, robert costa and eugene robinson. pick for secretary of state could come down to two hawk, i'll ask senator corker and also senator rand paul who has serious concerns about both bolton and giuliani. this is "hardball," the police for politics. the most consequential decision the incoming president will have to make is who will be secretary of state. the former u.s. ambassador to the united nations john bolton who has called for bombing iran. that's right. senator bob corker of tennessee, the chairman of the foreign relations committee who said he's in the mix for the job. then there's former new york mayor rudy giuliani, reportedly the front-runner. giuliani is making it clear he'd like the job. >> now you're being considered fo

kelley a kellyanne conway right there, super smart. so they don't have their cabinet set in seven or eight days. >> neither did obama, the anointed one. great obama. double standard is nauseating. but it will always be a like this. this is what trump has it face. wikileaks showed us the media a immediamedia could lewded with hillary clinton's campaign. 90% of voters knew the media bias but didn't go along with it. >> unbelievable. did you expect new york times and washington post aep huff post would turn over a new leaf and be papers of you know, ethics that they would try and do a good job and be honest? no. they would continue to try to find something to pull apart again president-elect donald trump. they tried to say things that his transition is disarrayed. it is not. we talked about this on our show today. it is shameful. >> when we come back, judge janine piro. sebastian. but tonight. >> i think they will start with the biggest offices in the very near future. and certainly shortly after thanksgiving at the latest. >> newt gingri

it was kellyanne conway out in front of the cameras. but she told chris wallace just this morning that steve bannon was the general of this campaign. he orchestrated the campaign in that sense. the guy has vast experience, and as much as he's portrayed as i said as a flame thrower of the alt-right movement, he has vast experience as a commander in the u.s. navy. that's a wonderful thing to be doing when you're working at the white house and facing incoming fire. he was an executive at goldman sax. a successful hollywood movie producer and a successful publisher of the breitbart website. so he has vast experience. the two of these guys will be major players in the trump administration. >> two distinct separate personalities between the two. but the tea party patriots and conservatives are against reince priebus. they would say he served three terms as chairman of the republican national committee. some of them, do you think they'll be disappointed or say donald trump is going to really need some veteran washington hands who know how to p

let me repeat, what donald trump decides, kellyanne conway and everybody else will respect. it's just the back lash from the grassroots. i'm hearing from people who say, hey, my parents died penniless but i gave $216 to donald trump's campaign and i would feel betrayed. >> this is stunning to see how public this internal feud is becoming. what are your sources telling you about how mr. trump is feeling? >> reporter: well, obviously, conflicted about -- just about the secretary of state position, the fact that both -- that rudy giuliani, somebody who was incredibly loyal to him, even when the "access hollywood" tape came on. remember, he was the only one to go on tv and defend donald trump. he's been publicly lobbying for the job. and then, of course, you have some inside the trump camp who want mitt romney. you're absolutely right, brooke. i've never seen anything like this before. just put that on the very long list of things we've never seen anything like when it comes to a trump campaign, and now the trump transition and soon-to-be presidency. meaning that she clearly has

we know kellyanne conway is not in the room having meetings with nominees. she's outside the door. we also know she doesn't have a job yet. she's not chief of staff or chief strategist. >> under consideration to be press secretary, we know. >> something like that. >> possibly her best way of influencing. we don't know if she's actually gone rogue or -- >> she's going to have a job in some way. isn't it hard to see -- >> my reporting from early on and still stands, she doesn't, probably is not likely to go inside. more than likely outside. >> doesn't mean an important figure? >> doing it against the wishes of donald trump or sanctioned in a way? playing with us? an orchestrated kabuki division allowing them to x romney off the list without looking like they did it. bottom line, kellyanne, going rogue, it is unprecedented and shocking. >> is she potentially the fall guy here sort of? the one playing bad cop? >> it's possible, but on the other hand, this is not what we tend to see during a presidential transition. when these candidates are under consideration for cabinet posts those d