Transition teamworks to fill his cabinet. Its my prayer on this thanksgiving we begin to heal our divisions and move toward as one country, strengthened by shared purpose and very, very common resolve. Trumps latest nominees include two women. Betsy da voss on the left there, education, and South Carolina governor nikki haley at the united nations, on the right there. Trumps fellow billionaire ross, and the big debate, mitt romney or Rudy Giuliani. Those are the two most often reported names for secretary of state. Vocal supporters and vocal detractors on both sides. Nbcs Kristen Walker joining me from palm beach, florida, on this thanksgiving afternoon. Lets start with these interesting tweets here about mitt romney from Kellyanne Conway this morning. Tell us about these. Krashgs happy thanksgiving. These tweets are raising eyebrows. Let me give you a little context. You set up the stage. The fight seems between Rudy Giuliani and nit romney. Giuliani is a loyalist, a hardliner. Mitt r
Including some duties normally assumed by the first lady. And shell do so from the east wing. With aides planning to overhaul the Traditional Office of the first lady, turning it into the office of the first family. Shes so strong, as you know, into the womens issue, and child care and so many things. Shed be so good. Nobody could do better than her. Reporter as both donald jr. And eric take handson roles in their fathers transition, cnn has learned donald jr. Was heavily involved in vetting candidates for the interior secretary position. While eric was included in at least one meeting with mitt romney about the secretary of state job. The brothers also set to lead trumps businesses. Raising red flags over potential conflicts of interest. But trumps camp argues its all about transparency. The reason that you know about the children being involved are two things. One, theyre on the website, and theyre publicly named as being part of the transition. And two, we brought the press in to sh
Energy group on the right and we accidentally showed the website of the Siberian Energy group on the left. Im sorry about that. You can understand why we might mix those up. The live Siberian Energy group versus the dead Siberian Energy group. Interesting. The reason we even know we made that mistake and put up the website is this article on politico. Com concerning the murky origins of half a Million Dollars paid to former security advisor mike flynn. While he was working on the Trump Campaign. The Siberian Group is the only publicly traded oil and Gas Exploration company in the u. S. That has 100 of its assets in russia. Siberian energy group. Part of what politico talked about last week and we told you on the show, there is a link between the ceo of that now defunct Siberian Energy group and the guy who paid mike flynn and the guy who paid mike flynn more than half a Million Dollars which mike flynn did not disclose on which his security clearance application in washington. This is
Intelligence officials consider credible. The fbi is still investigating the credibility and accuracy of these allegations based primarily on information from russian sources but the bureau has not confirmed many essential details about mr. Trump. Officials tell us that the two page summary also included allegations that there was a continuing exchange of information during the campaign between trump surrogates and intermediaries for the russian government. These Senior Intelligence officials included the summary in part to make the president elect aware that such allegations involving him were certainly among intelligence agencies and other government officials in washington. It was also included in part to demonstrate that russia had compiled information. Potentially harmful for both Political Parties but only were these information damaging to Hillary Clinton and the democrats. A Spokesman Says this is all fake news. He says the kremlin does not have compromising information on trum
About not showing up for the game . The 11th hour begins now. Good evening once again from our headquarters in new york and 69 of the Trump Administration, the biggest story where the white house is concerned came from across town. A lot of people on this broadcast and elsewhere has said what the russia investigation is missing is a president saying he wants to get to the bottom of it all. This was a hugely consequential day and not in ways that they would like. Today we heard from the top two members of the Senate Intelligence committee. On the right, richard burr of north carolina. On the left, mark warner of virginia. In plain english, they sounded like senators ought to sound. Saying in effect weve got this. Promising a sweeping investigation. Already the biggest in decades and a bipartisan report when its all over if you can believe that. Taking questions under the hot lights in the capitol, they revealed theyve already reached out to 20 witnesses. The only thing they didnt allow,