Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, alison stewart. Stewart good evening and thanks for joining us. President elect donald trump has spent the weekend at his golf club in new jersey meeting potential cabinet members and white house staff. Mister trump has been accompanied by his Transition Team chief, Vice President elect mike pence. The pair took time out from their meetings today to attend services at a presbyterian church. Among todays invitees were former new york city mayor rudy giuliani, new jersey governor chris christie, and kansas secretary of state kris kobach. Mister pence said today mitt romney, who met with trump yesterday is a serious con
President spending 75 minutes with the New York Times. To hear your comments on some of his shifting opinions on Hillary Clinton, his decision not to go after Hillary Clinton on the you mail server issue and on the issue of climate change. Our phone lines are open. 0 is our line for democrats. 2027488001 if youre a republican. Independents, 2027488002. Send us a tweet. Join us online. Good wednesday morning. Thank you for being with us. This is the front page and the wall street journal. Trump pulls back on the call for a clinton investigation. A full transcript is available at their website. Let me read you a portion. That is from the Washington Timesfrom the new york he said that from president elect trump on president obama. Rob is on the phone from florida. Democrats line. Softening andps some would say shifting views. Caller thank you for cspan. Donald trump is a new york city rhino. Republican in name only. I myself, im a democrat. I was a big ross perot supporter because of trad
Tom keene in new york. At g7 will focus be china. Tom the president with those comments. What i find remarkable is how all of these leaders seem to be speaking to their homes, but it is not a g7 meeting but it is people talking to america, to canada, etc. Francine especially japan where you see shinzo abe trying to get out of the increase. Lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news. Nejra starting with the g7, angola merkel does not have much support when it comes to austerity. The debate over stimulus versus belttightening has shifted. Canadas new Prime Minister had shifted his countrys focus to Infrastructure Spending and cash. David cameron joins markel as a champion of fiscal restraint. Just a few minutes from now, president obama holds a News Conference at the summit. In france, strikes at Oil Refineries may spread today. Workers at six of eight refineries have walked out. The strike is protesting the president s proposed labor reforms that makes it easier to fire employee
Independents can dial in at 2027488002. Do you trust the government to protect against terrorism . cspanwj. If you want to get through on twitter, make a conversation on acebook. Com cspan. You can always send us an email. Pew research center, view of government handling of terrorism post9 11 low. Here, you can see it for the first time. More americans do not trust the government. 52 as opposed to 48 that do. You can see variations over the years since 2001. Over all of those years, americans have trusted the , a majority of americans have trusted the governmentprotect against terrorism except for now. The New York Times this morning looks at the president s press conference, his statement yesterday. His defense response to terror attacks. Mr. Obama now realizes he was slow to respond to public fears after terrorist attacks in paris and california, acknowledging his lowkey approach led americans to worry that he is not doing enough to keep the country safe. He is engaged in a blitz of