you know, you asked me about carter page. it s possible that what some of this business with the russians could be about are people who were co-opted by the russians around donald trump and then in fact donald trump could have been duped in some ways into the positions that he took in the campaign. something like that could have happened. again, mr. president, open up, tell your people, let s see what happened. i think to your point we just don t know. we don t know yet. no. we don t. what we do know is the president of the united states has done nothing but divert and not tell us, hey, we want to get to the bottom of this. we see no indication of that. okay. carl, thank you. good to be here. thank you very much. coming up next, the u.s. ambassador to the united nations sits down with cnn.
adviser, michael flynn is trump s only pick for that position. it s no secret that flynn considers obama weak and spineless. that s what he s called the president. he also considers him incompetent in his foreign policy. flynn is also quite a hawk. so how would he change american strategy against isis, do you think, jason? well, you know, i served in jsoc under directors like general flynn when he was is d.i.a. and we know they have an aggressive policy. number one is to craft again the u.s. national interests first, and that s about divining first and foremost what is most efficacious, what s the most effective way that the u.s. protects our interests, and make sure that when we put soldiers in harm s way they re dying for a specific cause. right now if we give mosul, if we win mosul what s happening on the ground right now is when we turn that land over, we re going to cede it to a government that is almost a proxy right now of iran. and when we talk about, you know, bad allies a
but if that s if, if he s going to fight the terrorists, of course we re going to be allied with the russians, with many other countries who want to defeat the terrorists. so, jason, will president-elect trump be an ally of syria s bashar al assad? well, carol, i appreciate the questions, but let s face it, that s assad doing some statesmanship, and he s trying to do a little bit of gaming before this. remember, right now we have a president in power, so we actually have the executive branch able to operate. what president-elect trump is going to do as he s promised and laid out in his foreign policy speeches is make sure the interests of america is first. we have soldiers in harm s way, as you point out, every day right now in combat. so what s most important is to craft policy that can divine what is america s great interest at stake? who our allies are? they ll reveal themselves as they stack up, and line up
sergeant with army spep rations and cnn s military analyst retired lieutenant colonel rick francona. welcome to both of you. thank you. thanks for being here. jason, it is imperative for trump to put together a top notched experienced defense team because this is what s happening this morning in aleppo, syria. a children s hospital was hit by bombs. six children now being sheltered by doctors, they re huddling in the basement. they re cowering in fear. the syrian air force under the direction of syria s president bashar al assad is behind this bombing. assad said just yesterday he hopes trump will be an ally. listen. whether he can do, or live up to his promises, or not. that s how we re very cautious in judging them, especially as he wasn t in a political position before. so we cannot say anything about what he s going to do.
to recently fired chris christie. and sources say trump s son-in-law jared kushner is at the center of the infighting. all of this unfolding just 65 days away from trump s inauguration. jason miller the communications director of the trump transition team is standing by live right beside me in the studio. lot to talk about just about a minute. jason, thank you. but first, mr. trump is back at work today, at his transition headquarters inside the trump you toer, and that s where cnn s sunlen serfaty is this morning. r good morning. good morning to you, carol. a lot of pushback this morning from top transition officials disputing the notion that there are transition has been at all turbulent. including this morning, joining into the chorus of pushbacks, president-elect donald trump who took to twitter to say quote very organized process taking place as i decide on cabinet and many other positions. i am the only one who knows who the finalists are. trump also taking issue over twitter w