His dealings in russia. He knows many of the players, and he noes them well. He does massive deals in russia. He does massive deals for the company, not for hince, but for the company. Nbcs Peter Alexander joins us from washington with more on this. What are you hearing about what the Transition Team is going through about tillerson and that potential here of him being the next secretary of state . Yes. It was nbc news, my colleague Andrea Mitchell who first reported the decision has been made that donald trump will select Rex Tillerson, the ceo at exxonmobil, to be his secretary of state. This countrys chief diplomat. John bolton, the u. N. Ambassador, would effectively serve as the number two deputy secretary of state in charge of daytoday operations among other things. No announcement is iminnocent. We are hearing from people familiar with the conversations at trump tower along the lines of the fact they want to sort of see how this name plays out a little bit not just in the press