good morning and thank you very much so much for joining me from wad. beautiful city. i m carol costello. the president-elect leaves new york on a military jet bound for washington. he s among hundreds of thousands streaming into the capitol for tomorrow s inauguration, some to celebrate, others to protest. minutes from now, sean spicer will deliver his first on camera briefing. we ll bring it to you live. also this hour, another round of hearings, first up former texas governor rick perry, trump s pick to lead the energy department. and then steve mnuchin, the nominee for secretary of treasury. the wall street veteran will be grilled over his personal dealings and the fiscal policies of a trump white house. cnn s sunlen serfaty is on capitol hill, but let s begin with jason carroll outside trump tower in new york. good morning, jason. reporter: good morning, carol. the prerkt will be heading your way very soon. he has a packed day ahead of him
things you ve got there, john and kate. let s start with confirmation hearings set to get under way tomorrow. if all goes as planned, the man who could be the next attorney general, jeff sessions, will be in the hot seat. in addition you have general john kelly, the man who could be the next man to head up the department of homeland security. despite all the complaints coming from the office of government ethics, oge, which has been complaining they ve not been getting paperwork in for some of these nominees in a timely manner. mitch mcconnell, just seen coming into trump tower not too long ago, says that s basically a bunch of rubbish, he says all those who have been complaining about that, democrats and some of the other critics, need to essentially, quote, grow up, saying that the paperwork is coming in in a timely fashion. the process is moving forward, as is plans for that press conference on wednesday. as you said, it s been a while since we ve heard donald trump answer questions
dangerous right now, as this manhunt is under way. several schools in the area are under lockdown right now. we will keep you posted on this and obviously our hearts go out to the families of master sergeant deborah clayton and the deputy sheriff who lost their lives this morning. absolutely, keeping a very close eye there and also keeping our eye on washington as we need to turn to politics and the jam-packed week ahead, the last full week of preparation before the president s inauguration, starting tomorrow a full slate of confirmation hearings quick off for donald trump s cabinet picks. wednesday the president-elect s long-awaited news conference coming, that of course is trump s first in six months. if he holds it. he had one scheduled in december. meantime republicans in congress are preparing to repeal obamacare. let s go to cnn s jason carroll outside trump tower. what s happening, jason? reporter: a long list of
everybody has been properly vetted, as they have been in the past, and i m hopeful that we ll get up to six or seven particularly national security in place on day one. that is senator mitch mcconnell leaving trump tower just now. speaking to the controversy kind of surrounding some of donald trump s pick and their confirmation right now. less than 24 hours to go until the first round of hearings for the cabinet nominees kicks off on capitol hill. the battle to stall, though, the process is underway. after the office of government ethics told democratic leaders in a letter that several of trump s nominees have not been properly vetted. thanks so much for being with us. jeff sessions does have his paperwork in, so the ooitices office is not speaking about senator sessions here in this regard, but beyond that he is
the trump national golf club hosted a sort of speed dating for cabinet positions. one by one, a slew of candidates met with donald trump. but trump s adviser and former campaign manager says don t put too much stock in who you see and don t see at that transition headquarters. it s a long short list for each of these positions. he s also met with senator bob corker from tennessee who was rumored to be on the list for secretary of state. others are qualified. but let s go back to my previous comment which is not everyone who consults with the president-elect and comes to meet with him, chris, is going to be in his cabinet or in his federal government. cnn s jason carroll outside trump tower in new york with more. good morning. good morning, carol. kellyanne conway called it a long short list of candidates that trump will be looking at. adding to that long list, just found out that congresswoman gabbard will be meeting with trump today. she s a democrat from hawaii. and a former co