family s name, and the father is a professional and everybody is going to know who he is. and what is going on. i mean, this is going to have a long-term set of ramifications for everyone, for the boys, for the family, for the father s profession. everybody involved, absolutely. dr. lillian mcdavid who has an intelligent brother apparently, thank you very much. up next the view from space. a view that the satellite captured high above the earth. and tiger woods is having a tough time with the tournament, and is he on the verge of losing his ranking as the top golfer in the world? hit it off. we play golf, and then the luau. he s like da vinci with ice. and after, we help hang christmas decorations. wait, wait, wait. you flew last minute. on christmas. with points from chase sapphire? yeah. amazing. believe it.
donald trump is picking rex tillerson for secretary of state. what more can you tell us? reporter: that s right, don. tomorrow morning the president-elect will announce who his top diplomat will be, and it will be as you noted rex sillerson, ceo. they didn t actually have a relationship prior to this process according to trump transition officials. this was driven in large part by three people, the recommendations of roberts gates, of james baker and condoleeza rice, people well regarded in the foreign policy. all people who recommended the president-elect should sit down and have a conversation with rex stiller son. i m told the twoman hit it off. they had similar deal making background, and in though conversations is where the president-elect reached a level of comfort with rex tillerson he hadn t with anybody else. because of that he has now reached the point where he is
sense that he and rex tillerson sort of hit it off, in a, you know, a handful of meetings and all of a sudden the guy is the nominee. you know? sort of shows you how trump acts in sort of a gut instinct, which we know from his business experience, he would sort of hire people on the spot. you know? and i think that that s sort of how the tillerson thing sort of came about. the other interesting point i think is that trump is going to be up against some of his rivals over the past year. lindsey graham, gave out the cell phone number of, you know, a year ago. yeah. marco rubio, little marco for so long. john mccain was not a war hero. these are the people who now are in positions to really stymie trump s administration from the very beginning. just to bring it full circle. he ll have support from rice and gates after running for a year against the bush administration s foreign policy. rice and gates. two of the chief architects of iraq. said he s going to drain the swamp. turns out