Be pushback here. He spoke very favorably of exxonmobil Ceo Rex Tillerson. Rex will will be a fierce ade for americas interests around the world and has insights and talents necessary to help reverse years of Foreign Policy blunders and disasters. [cheering] youre winning with health care. Were winning on the border. Were winning with isis. Because we are going to get isis out. Were going to win so much, you will go to paul ryan, you will go, mr. Speaker, please, please, we cant stand winning this much. We cant take it. And he is going to come to see me and he will mr. President , the people in wisconsin are tired of winning so much. More on that today. Start with team fox coverage, David Lee Miller at trump tower in new york. Begin with fox news digital
much, right. Gnaw nah. Donald trump won 306 electoral votes. You need 270 to win. Is it conceivably possible that 37 electors would be what we call faithless . It has happened in the past, that one or two or here there, faithless in pr
russia. but the question in this hearing process everyone understands that as the ceo you have completely different responsibilities. people want to see those deals get done. but as representative of the united states you want to have a good feel whether or not he believes that at its root, putin is somebody who we should or can possibly deal with. somebody who has been very close to assad. someone who has been very close to iran. is that somebody we can negotiate or deal with? well, again the thing that i would say number one thing we need our secretary of state doing advocating for the president-elect s america first foreign policy. mr. trump won with overwhelming number of electoral delegates, biggest number for republican since 1988. people are buying into this america-first foreign policy will we send reps out martha: the question be that america first include alliance with russia, something maybe romney and corker sat down in the same meetings were not going along with?
a special election would have to be held to replace her and likely to favor a republican. lastly, still no word on mr. trump s choice for secretary of veterans affairs. veterans groups are calling for mr. trump keep robert mcdonald in that position. he had the job now for about two years. and many veterans groups say that mcdonald, a republican, has implemented the types of reforms they would like to see and hope that he continues to hold that position. martha? martha: we will see. david lee, thank you. mr. trump s pick for secretary of state, rex tillerson, face as rough road to confirmation mostly because of his ties to russia. is this an advantage or disadvantage for him? this is first faceoff between the trump white house and senate republicans opposed to this. how will this go down? a packed show beginning a senator from tennessee bob corker who was up for that job, one of the people under consideration. the chairman of the senate
i think people are going to want to understand towards what end? you know we had, bill, 60 or 70 years of policy towards europe since world war ii where they have been whole, democratic and free. putin obviously is trying to upset. what he is doing in the baltics, eastern ukraine, crimea. how he helped destablize with many of the just efforts that have taken place in europe and just the refugee crisis itself. so which he has helped produce through what s happened in syria. so, people are going to want to understand that. and even though rex tillerson is a businessman had to do business with these people and to me that is very understandable, of course he did, and the fact that he nose these people to me is certainly a plus but i m going to want to know, everyone else is, on the committee is going to want to understand. so what will he be advising the president as it relates to those
we saw this with the tillerson nomination but you have 52 republican senators everybody gets to pretend i am the crucial 51st vote giving everybody leverage was the more you can pass that lead to the republicans the more the white house has leverage over senators rather than senators having leverage over the white house but we do see this every administration where they try, there is a tradition of picking someone from the other party for one cabinet position. i also think this isn t just about cabinet picks. it is not entirely just about senators. it is about the image of the parties. one of the reasons why a lot of conservative democrat switched over and became republicans under reagan was the images of the party changed and we are seeing that again right now so you are seeing someone like joe mention, his state is essentially a republican state. is a popular lagging behind the trend conservative democrat. martha: a lot of people thought he might cross over. like jim jeffers had do