bit more time, by holding this news conference on december 15th. one more headline, i'll give you, tamron, which is that we just had that daily conference call with his transition team. they say that he has narrowed down his picks for secretary of state to four people, including mitt romney and rudy giuliani, of course he had dinner with mitt romney last night and then mitt romney came out, made that statement and said, the president-elect did something that he couldn't do, which is to win a general election. it wasn't quite an apology for all of the scathing comments that romney had made about donald trump during the campaign, but clearly an oli branch as he vies for that top position. transition officials not naming the other two candidates, but if we're reading the tea leaves, he's met with david petraeus and also senator corker. so possible they're in the mix as well. tamron? >> kristen, thank you very much for catching us up to speed there. we really appreciate it. thank you for watching this hour of "msnbc live." we really appreciate it. i'll see you here tomorrow. let me turn things over to dr h andrea mitche"andrea mitchell r.