Martha irony there. Well talk about that in a minute. President elect making news on the future of his business empire. So many questions how all of this is going to work because it is all so unprecedented. Announced his go sons who he trusts implicitly, eric and donald, jr. , will take control of the company. But they postponed a News Conference that was supposed to lay out all of this would work, avoiding conflicts of interest. That was supposed to happen on thursday. Were waiting to find out when that will happen. Eric well find out about all this morning but we begin with David Lee Miller outside of trump tower where all the happens are about to happen. Good morning, david lee. Reporter good morning, eric. This is big day for texas. Two sons from the loan lone star state, will join the cabinet. Mr. Trump Transition Team formally announced exxonmobil Ceo Rex Tillerson will be secretary of state. Rnc chairman Reince Priebus says tillerson has the skills and experience for the job. Th
Holiday from his twitter habit tonight, continuing his criticism of the federal judiciary in general and Supreme Court chief Justice John Roberts in particular on thanksgiving holiday when the president expressed his thanks to the troops while staying close to home. The president s florida resort in West Palm Beach tonight. Reporter happy thanksgiving, the president spending this thanksgiving evening having thanks giving dinner and spending time with his family, something he began by thanking those who were not as lucky. I dont want one. They look very big, 5000. Reporter a timehonored thanks giving tradition for the commanderinchief, extending gratitude to the American People to those who serve and protect, donald from doing so today in person and by phone. I want to express our profound gratitude for the extraordinary sacrifices you make to defend our nation while you are away from your families and loved ones. Reporter visible outpouring of appreciation from mister trump but in star
Billion in return for temporary protected status for the dreamers and refugees in this country. As well as reopening the shutdown. Disruption keeps growing after the standoff over the president s border wall reaches day 30 point we are into the fifth week of the shutdown. We are honored on this very irregular program for the Vice President of the United States, mike pence. Mr. Vice president , welcome. Thank you for being with us. Good to be here. Chris we were going to have from kevin Court Reviewing within this plan but i will ask you now, what the president offer . A goodfaith compromise to address what is a genuine humanitarian and security crisis on our southern border. And ends the Government Shutdown the senate leadership, connell has agreed to bring this bill to the floor on tuesday. Congress will begin its work. Really what the president did over the last month and notably over the last two weeks was direct our team to meet with rankandfile democrats. To find out what they wer
Jillian i say this every time we play this song. Rob i forget it every time you say it. Jillian i know im getting thumbs down from matt. Youre watching Fox Friends First on this monday morning im jillian mele. Rob im rob schmitt, thanks for getting up with us. Second summit with north Koreas Kim Jong un. Jillian latest round of denuclearization talks begin wednesday. Griff jenkins with the preview, another busy week, griff. It is, indeed, the president heads to hanoi in hopes of goal, theres no shortage of nay sayers, Senate Democrats expressing concern in letter and they are demanding saying we believe your next meeting with kim must demonstrate tangible verifiable progress of denuclearization in reducing tensions with the north. But the president shot back last night. We are giving up nothing, the sanctions, we have a special feeling im not pushing to speed but we are not doing getting rid of sanctions. Rob, and jillian, Senior Administration Officials Say the goal in vietnam to grow
As for muellers final warning that russia systematically interfered in the 2016 election barr said, quote, there is an increasingly robust program, end quote, in place to prevent it from happening again in 2020. Laura jarrett is live in washington with more on this very revealing interview. The attorney general once again this morning trying to explain why he felt the need to issue that fourpage memo laying out what he believed were the special counsels principal conclusions ahead of actually releasing the report. A move that barr has taken on a lot of heat for in recent weeks. Take a listen to how he described it. I was just trying to state the bottom line and the bottom line was that bob mueller identified some episodes, he did not reach a conclusion, he provided both sides of the issue and his conclusion was he wasnt exxon rating the president but he wasnt finding a crime, either. But of course mueller did explain for us earlier this week why he didnt reach that decision, why he dec