president-elect. instead, tweets about turning over his business to two of his sons. welcome back to early start. i m christine romans. i m george howell. donald trump set to name his pick for secretary of state this morning. multiple sources telling cnn the president-elect has chosen this pan. t man. ceo of exxon mobile rex tillerson. there are already signs of trouble ahead for tillerson s nomination. there s uncertainty overviews of climate change and questions about his close relationship with vladimir putin. raising concerns on both sides of the alisle. we get more from cnn s phil mattingly at trump tower. reporter: george and christine. the pick is in. the president-elect will announce that rex tillerson, exxon ceo is his selection for secretary of state. he intends to nominate the ceo because the two just hit it off.
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putin and to reject all accusations of putin helping him. you know, he, which was quite unusual for trump, who flip-flopped on many issues, except one. it was very consistent throughout the whole campaign, and, you know, as president-elect, for if not praising putin, but definitely defending putin s record, and denying any involvement of kgb in the process. we saw that wikileaks served as a kgb branch, had been dumping all this data on hillary, on dnc, while collecting data on trump and republicans. and as i predicted six months ago, they would collect this data to sort of have something on them, in case if trump won. the book is winter is coming. garry, thank you so much. thank you for being with us. in the next hour of 360, more breaking news about the delayed announcement of trump s business empire that was supposed to take place this week, now not going to happen until next month. and the man believed to be the front-runner, the texas oil man
lead the department of energy, the department he once forgot. trump putting off the press conference later this week where he promised to announce the future role in the company he built. let s get right now to nbc s national correspondent peter alexander at the white house who s following the latest dwoms. good morni developments. reporter: rex tillerson is a texas oil man who s risen to become the company s chairman and ceo. he s been in leadership there since president reagan was in power. tillerson is the first person nominated for secretary of state in modern history with no public sector experience. still his work sent him to dozens of countries like saudi arabia and yemen and that s the experience that donald trump s team said makes him qualified for this job. trump himself tweeting this morning, i ve chosen one of the truly great business leaders of the world, rex tillerson, but
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