recession, depress global trade. what do you think? well, if you want to put the fox amongst the chickens then this is exactly the right way to go about it, there is no doubt, brooke. look, first of all there will be questions as to its legality and that relates not only to wto rules but bilateral trade treaties the u.s. will have with other nations but let s assume for purposes of discussion that we can put those legalistic nice tees to one side. okay . t the. the reality is tit for tat. if you introduce these tariffs on imports, then outgoing exports can expect quit pro quo going the other direction. i want to move off that, juana, let me move on the reporting we just heard from jim, sean spicer now officially
kellyanne conway, who was tapped as the counselor to the president, she was initially offered this position very early on after the election, she turned it down, she wanted a bigger more high-profile role closer to the president of the united states and she got that in being named counselor to the president. now being press secretary is not small potatoes as you know. it s a huge job. just ask ari fleischer, jay carney, josh earnest, robert gibbs. these are very big well-established people in washington and it s a huge, huge job. you re tangling with the press everyday and sean spicer has shown it on your show and other shows on cnn that he can handle it. he is somebody that donald trump has grown to really like. he tangled with michael smerconish on cnn and we were told that following that performance he got on a pat on the back from the president-elect himself. there were other people named
appointed as the press secretary for the next administration and also kellyanne conway who we know he had been offered that job, she said thanks but no thanks but now she s officially a quote/unquote counselor to the president. what will that mean? given the role we ve seen from kellyanne conway so far as trump s campaign manager and the role she s played in taking a front facing role towards the press i would expect to see her be someone who handles strategic messaging coming out of the campaign, takes a lead role as we ve seen her do in the last couple weeks since donald trump has become president-elect trump and talking to people, making sure the message is clear. she s a long time veteran pollster. a lot of us who reported in washington worked with her during the course of the campaign. she ll play a lead role in messaging along with sean spicer. another well known washington person. for a lot of reporters who might be concerned that the trump administration will be chilly to the
don t let directv now limit your entertainment. only xfinity gives you more to stream to any screen. just into cnn. in one of donald trump s last administration picks for the holidays, the president-elect has tapped rnc spokesman someone you see on cnn all the time sean spicer as white house press secretary. spicer is a six-year veteran of the republican national committee, well positioned among the washington press corps. more recently he has been acting as a spokesman for the trump transition team. so let s go to jim acosta, our cnn senior white house correspondent. we know sean so congrats to sean. tell me more about his rhett may and any other names as part of this announcement. brooke, we ve been hearing sean spicer s name for a while.
today, the new communications director, hope hicks the long-time spokesperson for donald trump will be the director of strategic communications, she was a fixture on the campaign trail handling the booking requests and sca vino, a low-level staff inside the trump organization for many years but got very good at instagraming and tweeting pictures of donald trump here there and everywhere is now the director of social media inside the white house so brooke it goes to show if you were there at the beginning of one of these campaigns, we saw with the obama campaign and moving into the obama white house, the bush years and so on, if you re there at the beginning you can land top primo spots in the administration and that s what s happened. safe sean spicer, who came in towards the end when reince priebus and kellyanne conway were coming in to right the ship after corey lewandowski went by the wayside, paul manafort and so on, spicer, prooeiebus, that