advisers saying don t take him literally. don t listen to his words, look into his heart. what is that? but that s where we are. so you have that world, and then you have this more grownup world on capitol hill, where there are serious questions being dealt with seriously. the huge unknown of this presidency is he is going to bring in good people around him. you hear trump voters say he s going to bring in good people. that was one of the rationalizations for voting for him. he has brought in some people who are experienced and knowledgeable. the question is how they work together and who steam rolls who, or if there is a give and take that turns into a functional administration. so tavis, you look at the polling right now. about the most highly regarded person in public life is the first lady. the president leaves office with very high approval numbers. the president-elect is under water at 37%. he s below 50%. that s uncommonly low from that
he s trying to communicate via twitter in the way he ran the campaign and run global affairs the same way. my sense after traveling to asia and europe is that the doubt that our allies have in the united states has never been greater than it is now. with donald trump s daily tweet it s getting worse and worse. i think what happens in that situation is when allies no longer count on the united states to be with them in their tough times and they are making the assessment, their behavior changes. the way they play their bets, look at contingencies around the world changes in shifts. i think that process has already begun. it s very hard to take it back. it is exacerbated a great deal by donald trump. i think we see this scrambling after a tweet, as we saw with his advisers you showed on air a few minutes ago to provide scaffolding, explanations or rationalizations or
else. will: a bill: a pretty good civics lessons hasn t it? i bet you ve learned some things. yeah, absolutely. it s been an interesting process. i think the unfortunate thing i ve learned is that a lot of americans are not as informed on this process as they probably should be. bill: what time do you vote today? so we vote at 2:00. bill: 2:00ing. in michigan. we ll watch it. thank you, michael, for your time. thanks for having me. bill: you bet. thanks for coming on. martha: all right. so the excuses and the rationalizations for the clinton loss continue. john podesta refusing to call the presidential election fair and free. he says putin hacked the election because he, quote, wants trump as his lap dog. karl rove is here to respond to all of that later this hour. bill: also the president-elect with two events over the weekend, another message for china. do not bother giving back the drone that you stole from the waters underneath the pacific, rather, you can keep it. that was
cleaning it all up and making the grown ready for the ground ready for next era of building. here we go. harris: interesting how some democrats are getting behind the president with the iran deal, how it would create 100,000 jobs. my god. harris: we were watching this unfold this morning. fatuous, nonsense, coming from the left. donald trump said we re going to get tired of winning. we won t. we ll get tired very quickly the left trying to come up with pathetic rationalizations of their demise from the political spectrum. they re at 1922 in offices they hold in this country. thank you barack obama. that is his principle legacy. who would want to hit that with a wrecking ball or anything? let it be. meghan: they have nobody to blame for their legacy for themselves as well. did horrible job last eight years, she did a horrible job running. wrecking ball already wrecked, in the rubble of the obama administration. president-elect donald trump is blasting the cia over its
united states, i m painfully aware of the history of what happens when people are treated differently under the law. and there s all sorts of rationalizations provided by the power structure for decades. in the united states for segregation and jim crowe and slavery, and they were wrong. and joining janet and me now from nairobi is nbc news senior white house correspondent chris jansing. chris, you had marked last hour four major areas and really far reaching as you were saying and that comment there one of the key marks. reporter: yeah, and i think what it really points out is the barack obama we are seeing as he gets closer and closer to the end of his second term and right before i came here i was talking to a member of the administration who is particularly close to him who acknowledged to me he is hearing the clock ticking much more loudly.