Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im christine romans. And im george howell, its wednesday, december 14th, 4 00 a. M. On the east coast. Today, with donald trump, his thank you tour, the president elect on stage with onei am adversary, the speaker of the house, paul ryan. The rally turned into a lovefest with trump praising ryan, and ryan complimenting trump right back. The exxonmobil chief Rex Tillerson who may face an uphill battle for the senate confirmati confirmation. Cnns jim acosta has the latest from wisconsin. Reporter george and christine, donald trump has taken another victory lap here at the rally here in wisconsin. Trump praised tillersons contacting around the world but he did not mention tillersons past ties to russian president Vladimir Putin. Trump looked back at the election victory and thanked his supporters, including House Speaker paul ryan who he praised in an unusual way. Heres more of what he had to say. Speaker paul ryan, ive really come to oh, no, ive come
Debate when rick perry was asked which three departments he would eliminate if he became president. He had that sort of an oops moment where he couldnt remember which department he wanted to eliminate, at lead not all three of them at first. Then later on during that debate he said yes, one of those departments i would eliminate would be the department of energy, the department he has now been tasked with heading up. So that is one of the developments here from trump tower. Also, a lot of talk still about trumps choice, Rex Tillerson, for secretary of state. A number of gop leaders weighing in at this point. Coming forward in support of tillerson. People like Newt Gingrich, people like condoleezza rice, issuing a statement, saying tillerson is an excellent choice. He will bring to the post Broad International experience, a deep understanding of the Global Economy and a belief in americas special role in the world. Also, bob gates coming forward in support of tillerson as well. Saying h
Change the election results. If you are one of the people who cannot accept that donald trump won the election, have no fear. Government sponsoring therapy and especially here in new york city. Its on us. Let me just remind you, mornings are better with friends. Cheer up. Hes going big and hes kind of pete hegseth is having pancakes and punditry at johnny bs in west allis, wisconsin. Christmas decorations up. Good morning, pete. Its incredibly festive. Donald trump will be here in stal is later today to talk about for his thank you tour. Were talking politics in the diner. Asking how donald trump is doing. Ive been looking at the diner. Theres something called the king of johnny vs. Ten eggs, hash browns, three bacon, three sausage and ham. If you can eat it in an hour, you get it free. Thats not for an entire table, just for one person . Just one person. Expensive. Man oh, man. Thank you, pete. We look forward to talking to you throughout the show. Cant wait is that a guy thing . I wo
President elect Donald Trumps choice for National Security adviser general flynn, quote, inappropriately shared classified military information with Foreign Military officers in afghanistan while serving as u. S. Military intelligence chief there. The report quotes the findings of a secret u. S. Military investigation in 2010. Washington post reporter Craig Whitlock broke the story. He appeared on msnbc in the last hour. We have an adverse information report about general flynn and it found, as you said, that he inappropriately shared classified material with Foreign Military officers while he was serving in afghanistan. Now, the investigation also found he did not do so knowingly. He was not disciplined by the army as a result. He was summoned back to washington. He was promoted to lieutenant general. This is a significant disclosure into general flynns career because of course during the president ial campaign he was among those who were leadi inine chants of lock her up about Hillar
He said we are unwilling to postpone. All here are unwilling to postpone another minute, another day in doing what we know is within our grasp. It shows the government at its best, mr. President , and it shows that our politics can still come together to do big things for the American People. I see my friend senator hatch who i have worked with for years and years have stood up, junior senators, senior senators, everyone came together. Jill and i are proud to stand beside you, mr. President , as you sign the last law into legislation and proud to have served with you and your commitment to change the way we deal with our Health Care System. Its going to make a big difference and this particular bill is going to allow people to live, live longer and live healt healthier, but most of all, mr. President , i think it gives people hope. Ladies and gentlemen, i always kid the president that when he asks me to join him on the ticket and my daughter came home on lunch and shes a social worker