good report. thank you very much, jim sciutto reporting for us. let s talk a little bit more about the breaking news on the trump transition. joining us now, former congressman jack kingston. congressman, thank you very much for joining us. thank you, wolf. so you read that new interview, the first he s done since becoming president-elect with the wall street journal. he s open to amending obamacare instead of simply outright repealing it, if you will, replacing it. he said out of respect to the president, he wants to consider that. didn t speak about building the wall, mexico paying for it. is there a difference now in governing as opposed to campaigning? there is a difference, and i think a lot of it is just the tone and the words that you choose and you need to choose them carefully. i believe the two provisions that he s talking about do have overwhelming republican support. the preexisting illness part, which was not unique to obamacare, there were a lot of provisions on
we re back with the breaking news. donald trump now hinting that he may be willing to keep parts of obamacare in place after president obama urged him to reconsider his vow to repeal the law. we re joined now by our political team. jeff zeleny, you ve been covering hillary clinton for a long time. in this interview with the wall street journal that donald trump just gave, he sounded at least a bit like hillary clinton saying obamacare, he wants to amend it. she always said she wanted to change and improve it, if you will. what is the behind the scenes development here? because it sounds from the democrat s perspective very encouraging. right. this is just one example. we re heading into a unpredictable situation. he said on the preexisting conditions specifically, it s something he will consider. and he said it came out of his
he is saying this because of his respect, he said, for president obama. and he said that 90-minute meeting they had in the oval office behind me was really, really important. so he s saying a lot of positive things from your perspective, right? no, he s not yet dealing with the fact that there was almost 15 monthes of bullying going on in the republican primary. the children were listening. back before the conventions, it is being played out in kindergartens here in california and across the nation. and then as soon as this election was over, the day after the election kids were in the classroom in trump marches with their signs. and many cases saying now we can be racist. come on now. this is really serious stuff across the nation. tell me congressman. what do you want the president elect to do? i want him to stand before the television cameras as soon as he possibly can and say we re all american, wherever we ve
us. thanks, wolf. just ahead, donald trump may be softening on obamacare after his meeting with the president. is he suddenly sounding like hillary clinton, and who is to blame for hillary clinton s election defeat? we ll take a look at the hand wringing and finger pointing inside the democratic party. take a look at this, live picture in from miami right now. looks like some protests are developing there, anti-develona trump protests developing in miami. much more right after this. but through good times and bad. .at t. rowe price. .we ve helped our investors stay confident for over 75 years. call us or your advisor. t. rowe price. invest with confidence.
conversation with president obama in the oval office. so i think one thing to keep in mind here, donald trump has before he ran for president as a republican he was always a manhattan liberal. so there s more of him potentially coming out here. if he goes down this path, he will get himself into a fight with conservatives over this. so who knows if this is just a trial balloon or what not. but him leaving the door open to this is probably giving some heartburn to conservatives. and he said he s doing this out of respect to the president, that 90-minute meeting he had yesterday. give us the behind the scenes decision for the change in the transition team, the vice president-elect mike pence is now in charge, chris christie not so much. another effort to turn down the temperature hear in washington. what we were hearing behind the scenes is that chris christie was running into some trouble because he was trying to persuade trump and other people that, listen, we ve got to hire so