that all eyes are focused on. david petraeus getting a nod of approval, donald trump tweeting he was very impressed by him. but mitt romney, his meeting tomorrow night will be a private dinner one on one with the president-elect. that will be the second face-to-face meeting in as many weeks with the president-elect. wolf? significant moment indeed. phil mattingly, thank you. now to donald trump s stunning new claim about a rigged election. he s alleging that millions of votes were cast illegally in the presidential contest and that s why he lost the popular vote to hillary clinton. this as trump condemns the push for a recount in several states. let s go to our national correspondent suzanne malveaux who is work thing story for us. another trump tweet unleashing criticism and concern. update our viewers. reporter: election officials are calling trump s claims of illegally cast votes as absurd,
that s right. i ve got plans for the inauguration. with a republican majority in the senate, a republican majority in the house, a republican in the white house, you know, you guys are going to have a lot of problems right now. we re going to have a lot of challenges and opportunities. i think president-elect should focus on putting together a cabinet that will allow us to work in a positive way, learning the lessons of this campaign and moving forward. i do think that secretary clinton won the popular vote and i do think that donald trump won the electoral college. i think that means there isn t a strong mandate for donald trump, and i am encouraged if he is seriously considering nominees for secretary of state like governor romney who were critics during the course of the campaign. and i m hopeful that we might see other candidates emerge for secretary of state. you could vote to confirm governor romney, is that what you re saying? i would seriously look at his record. but
distraction. rebecca, there could be some isolated incidents, but millions of voters that voted illegally? sure. and i think the tell here, wolf, is his team wouldn t address this on the call this morning, they didn t say whether he would urge the justice department to the take action, but his campaign s attorneys aren t taking action. they re not calling for recounts and they dismissed jill stein s recount in wisconsin as completely frivolous, as a fund-raising ploy. so i doubt i m skeptical that he s serious about this. he should just say i won the free and fair election. let s move on. he risks looking like he hasn t yet stepped into the office that he won. he s got to sort of reel that in before inauguration. it s also interesting, this public battle over mitt romney, whether or not he should be the next secretary of state. they re going to have dinner again tomorrow night, second time in nine days that donald
together and he s going through a very detailed and thorough interview process for all the key positions. and when he s ready, he ll make that public. romney is scheduled to meet with trump sunday, along with the chairman of the foreign relations committee, bob corker. david petraeus, whose government career imploded amidst allegations he shared classified documents. he was sentenced to two years probation, admitting that he made false statements to the cia. the meeting went very well. he basically walked us around the world, showed a great grasp of a variety of the challenges that are out there, and some of the opportunities, as well.
trump, the president-elect will meet with mitt romney. some of donald trump s top aides are publicly saying this guy doesn t deserve it based on what he said during the you could you think top aides like kellyanne conway, this would be a faux pas to go out in public and talk about deliberations in the campaign. campaign senior staff said they were essentially talking to president-elect trump, then-candidate trump through the media as a way to get a message across to them. wolf, i think this to a certain degree is less about republican party unity even though they may be characterizing it that way, more about this idea of, look, president-elect trump has to make a decision about which candidate he thinks the best to run his arguably most important department, regardless of what the political fallout can be. it is pretty extraordinary, rebecca. it is. i mean, donald trump has done this throughout the campaign process, now throughout the transition. this is totally in character for