what he wants in this transition. alex, you covered this team and these people in varying degrees for a long time. it strikes me that the only reason this is still going on the way it is is that at a certain level, donald trump is intrigued by the possibility of having mitt romney as secretary of state. this would not still be going on unless donald trump didn t meet with mitt romney and think maybe this is a good idea. part of it has to be coming from him. absolutely right. if you look at just the immediate political pressure confronting donald trump, the easiest thing in the world would be to go with somebody like rudy giuliani or some other loyalist. the president-elect s political capital will probably never be higher again with his own party than it is right now. if you just want to jam somebody who you know you can trust, you like on a personal level, through the senate, now is the time to do it. the fact that he s entertaining the idea of mitt romney so publicly and over the
true unnamed source or well-placed leak. it s stabbing someone from the front versus the back. i suppose she can make the case i m just being public about it. this suggests a certain independence that s taking police rigplace in this whole transition. i don t think any of his inner advisers has total control over what he s doing or how he s doing it. what s unusual is you have leaks often in this process and vetting of people by releasing their names but they are directly communicating to opponents, directly making statements like this to try to get to him. i don t think anyone, even the inner circle, knows what mpl mpl we are talking about mitt romney, saying it s the team of rivals model. i think this goes beyond that. this is not like abraham lincoln who brought these guys on. no one there said anything close to what mitt romney said about donald trump. hillary clinton didn t say anything close to what mitt romney said about donald trump about president obama. historically spe
ask of these people, do they want the job and will they be loyal to the president. if they receive the job. i think with the background of mitt romney, i think he would do a great job and the question is, whether or not he would be loyal and it s up to donald trump. there s also giuliani is up there for consideration. there are questions and concerns about his business ties with foreign countries and that will come up in the confirmation process. everyone that comes up, they will have supporters and critics but at the end of the day it s donald trump s decision. the good news is the gop has a deep bench for these top positions. that s looking forward to the next administration. let s look back a little to this election. jill stein, dr. jill stein, the green party candidate, now wants a recount in three states, wisconsin, michigan and pennsylvania. this after a bunch of computer scientists got together and said we looked at this, we are concerned maybe there was some hacking. they don
kou just as easily imagine that course unfolding here in a much more important job. there is no person ever that mitt romney respects and reveres more than his father. you can bet that s something he s thinking very carefully about. great to have you with us. president-elect donald trump picks his cabinet and meets with advisers, but there is one very important thing he is not doing every day. new details about the intelligence briefings he s not getting regularly. that s coming up. remembering someone often thght of as america s mother. for those of us who did nothing other than watch tv from like 1979 to 1983, florence henderson was just a huge part of our afternoons. she was on tv always so reassuring and this morning we all woke up just saddened and surprised to find out she had passed away. stay with us.
care for mitt personally. i m still very unhappy that mitt did everything he could to derail donald trump. he didn t just go after him from the standpoint of saying i disagree with his policy on immigration or disagree with his policy on taxes. he attacked him on a personal level about his character, integrity, honor. so alice stewart, the public airing of grievances as it were over mitt romney, do you think it s constructive? well, i don t think it s a surprise, clearly because governor huckabee and newt gingrich were loyal supporters to donald trump from the beginning since they had the opportunity and are expressing their feelings and concerns. look, any person that s put up for these top jobs is are going to have supporters and critics. mitt romney clearly has been vocal in the past about his criticisms of donald trump. huckabee and gingrich questioned whether or not he will be loyal. i agree with what ari fleischer said earlier. the main questions you need to