Who are optimistic, 202 7488000. If you are pessimistic, 202 and if you have mixed thoughts about 2017, 202 7488002. I hope 2017 is a terrific year for all of you. With some breaking news from istanbul, turkey as the death toll continues to mount. The current death toll at 39, including at least 15 foreigners killed in an attack in a nightclub and desk in istanbul, turkey. A gun man opened fire at about 1 30 local time as revelers were marking the new year. Another 69 people were being treated in the hospital or are said to be , four are said to be in critical condition. Have imposedrities a media blackout on coverage of the attack, citing security and public order concerns. Some media reports speaking of wyatt more than one attacker, and some witnesses claimed the attackers were speaking arabic but there is no confirmation. A developing story, the situation in turkey were the death toll stands at 39. On the front page of the New York Times as times square, with more than a Million Peo
President elect of the United States. And we found that out this morning when trump announced that he wanted to avoid any appearing of conflict of interest. Hes having legal documents drafted that are going to extract him from the corporation, that bears his name. Were going to get more details about exactly how its going to work at a press kwompbs his kids in two weeks. This move though indicates how quickly Inauguration Day is approaching. And so does a dinner that happened last night with secretary of state contender mitt romney. Mr. Trump took mr. Romney to a fancy dinner at a french restaurant in a Trump Building around the corner. The two were joined by the Incoming White House chief of staff Reince Priebus for what looked like an allbusiness occasion. And on his way out, romney revealed that he has done a 180 from the primaries. Of course the big trump detractor. Instead now expressing to reporters that he really appreciates the way that trump has handled himself, since winning
Well talk with the former head of the intelligence agency. General Keith Alexander is with us as we look at mm mm. For more on the trump transition, with me, newt gingrich, former speaker of the house, and a fux news contributor. Thanks for joining us. Its great to be back with you. Broadly speaking, how would you characterize the transition so far . We had a great conversation last week with Steve Mnuchin and wilbur ross who seems focused on tax reform, rolling back regulations, but broadly characterize what we have seen so far . President elect trump first of all has been very methodical and looked at absolutely first class people and has picked people who will be tough and intelligent and have a lot of experience. His choice of betsy devos for education is remarkably powerful because she spent years of her life fighting for the right of poor children in neighborhoods with bad schools, to have the choice of going to a better school. Shes spent a great deal of her own personal money i
Doing something against the law. No reasonable prosecutor would bring second case in 100 years focused on gross negligence. Cheryl well look at political implications in a moment but first the legal ones with prosecuting to attorney brian claypool. Brian, your initial thoughts on testimony today as an attorney . Well, cheryl, i have four questions for fbi director comey. First of all, why did he not consider charging Hillary Clinton with gross negligence . Last time i checked, extremely careless is tantamount to grossly negligent. That is the first crime that wasnt considered. The second crime is perjury. She lied twice. The third crime, is obstruction of justice. And the fourth crime, i just researched is tampering with evidence. 30,000 emails were destroyed. Im a lawyer and i will tell you, cheryl, lawyers make recommendations to clients, but clients make the ultimate decision on making, on whether these emails were to be destroyed or not. Cheryl brian, i want to get your thoughts on
Have felt from free trade. He hit andahalfity, tpp and he tried to paint Hillary Clinton as on the wrong side of both those issues. Rose we continue for most of our program with a conversation with mike morell. Hears what i would like to see him do. I would like to see him stand off tomorrow and denounce putin encouragement into ukraine and denounce annexation of crimea. I would like to see him denounce putins assistance to the rebels in the assistance of the shoot down of the air liner and denounce supporting a butcher and dictator. I would like to see him just stand up and denounce putin. And ill tell you that at the end of the day putin would have more respect for him than he does now. Rose tankersley and morell next. Rose funding for charlie rose has been provided by the following and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and Information Services worldwide. Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Rose we begin then