bring in david nakamora and jane newton small. thank you for being with us today. good morning. so, david, let me start with you, will trump s meeting with romney end up being more than a photo-op? could romney end up in trump s cabinet after their intense rivalry? it is hard to say. mitt romney criticized donald trump harshly last spring, became the face of the never trump movement, even polls that suggest trump could lose utah where romney lives. didn t happen. trump carried the state. you re seeing the gop establishment getting in line, falling behind the trump administration and to some degree it makes sense, people want the administration to succeed for the good of the country. the people want to know whether it is romney or someone else, will trump broaden his cabinet picks to sort of bring in some establishment figures? that would probably send a calming signal not just to washington, perhaps to those around leaders around the world watching and maybe know that a gop est
derided online pretty quickly after making those statements because she said them without a hint of irony and really said i want to combat online bullying and you know in, other interviews she has said i wish my husband wouldn t tweet so much. i wish he would, you know, scale back on the late night tweet storms that he s known for now. and you write how an opinion poll taken after the republican convention found pledgia trump was less popular than michelle obama and that 20% had no opinion or didn t know who she was, so how would you expect those numbers to change after her husband assumes the presidency? well, a lot will depend on how she inserts herself. we re already seeing reports possibly she will stay in new york for a while and maybe it will take a while for the unknown numbers to climb. she is part of what will now be the first family so we expect her to be a much more recognizable figure. so that will definitely change, but i think she has a lot to do. i mean, she is tie
some who say it is unlikely that romney would have a fit in this. but it is maybe too difficult to tell right now, maybe get some more signals today after rudy giuliani has been mentioned for secretary of state, you know, pays a visit. we ll see what trump says about that. so much speculation out there. what are your take aways from all the meetings this weekend? getting signals, any kind of signal on how trump s administration is shaping up, especially after all the scrutiny over his three picks on friday? i think it is a real balancing act between the alt-right and the base that elected him and this sort of fired up republican crowd who really wants to see change come to washington and so to some degree a lot of the picks this week have pleased that base. jeff sessions who is a senator from alabama, a huge favorite among the alt-right, who is now going to head the justice department, and you ve got mike pompeo, representative, also a big tea party advocate, huge trump supporter
major infrastructure initiative, he may find significant support among democrats. he may have some problems within the republican party, because once it comes to the point of actually having to figure out how we pay for this, they re going to, i think, have to come to grips with the fact that if we re going to rebuild, we have got to figure out how we re going to pay for it. i want to see mr. trump s details, one thing to tweet out that you re going to build infrastructure, something else to actually put together a plan that will get the job done. and so far what we have seen from him is not very much detail. but he may get a lot of support from democrats, we re willing to, look, we want to get things done, we didn t support him, but we want to get things done. we want him to succeed. mr. trump, he flipped a lot of towns in crucial battleground states that voted for owe palm kwa twice including your home state. what can democrats do to bring those voters back? i think the mistake o
meeting, it was a warm and substantive exchange and i know he s under active consideration to be the secretary of state of the united states along with some other very distinguished americans. also, new this morning, trump s chief of staff reince prepare ous priebus is addressing concerns of michael flynn for security adviser. can you rule out a registry for muslims? look, i m not going to rule out anything, but i wouldn t we re not going to have a registry based on a religion. but what i think what we re trying to do is say there are some people, certainly not all people, chuck, there are some people that are radicalized and there are some people that have to be prevented from coming into the country. and newly elected senate minority leader chuck schumer on why he thinks trump was able to crack the democrats blue wall. we did not have the kind of