his top spokesman says the new president will likely sign a handful of executive actions. you can also expect more tweets once he s in office. today the trumpet team is exposing frustration with the cabinet confirmation process. senior national correspondent john roberts is outside transition headquarters. good evening. good evening to you. anyone who has been through this process will tell you that the most important thing about a presidential transition is to make sure that the incoming administration is equipped to handle any type of crisis that might evolve over the early days of the administration. today trump s team suggested democrats may be putting that risk. trumpet transition officials expressed deep concern this morning that democrats are slow walking the confirmation process. potentially jeopardizing donald trump s attempt to have his national security team in place on friday. press secretary sean spicer said
festivities in record numbers. the president-elect will enter office with record low approval figures, pulls but he and his supporters are pushing back and what they are calling for fake polls. the relationship with vladimir putin is getting stranger. with putin comparing trump critics to prostitutes. john roberts is outside trump transition headquarters good evening. good evening. donald trump is tweeting about the inauguration on friday, he is angrily taking aim at polls that show him with the lowest pre-inauguration public opinion rating of anyone in recent history. tweeting the same people doing the phony election polls are now doing approval rating polls. trump s team is planning a steady stream of negative news
reprimanding israel for its settlements. it s something they did kind of in secret without communicating with democrats or republicans on the hill, and it was something that they knew was going to spark a political firestorm, but they re doing it at the end because obama wants to lay down a kind of marker about what he stands for, what he believes in. he can only do that in this period of time. it s an interesting day in washington. we talk about the soon to be former president doing sthingz as he leaves to try to essentially set some things in place that are hard for trump to reverse. he says he is doing trump a favor. i suspect it s trump transition headquarters that might have a different view. as we speak, there are a number of senior trump officials, people from the campaign who are now coming into the white house, senior staff, that are having a transition drill at the white house today. the chief of staff will hang out with the chief of staff. the press secretary will hang out
shop next door to his transition headquarters to brief him. in fact, as a backup measure, they sent over hard copies of all the president s daily brief that lyndon johnson was allowing to be shown to president-elect nixon. at the end of the transition, those envelopes were all returned to them unopened. he was also disparaging the intelligence community in private meetings saying things like a whole lot of them just need to be fired. those things weren t acted on. now, there s a key difference there because those disparagements were done privately. they were done in national security council meetings or other small groups. they weren t done on twitter or in any other public medium. that s the real difference here, is this getting to know each other process normally happens behind closed doors. this kind of thing has not played out in public in this way before. interesting enough. okay. let me play you guys this sound bite. this was a sound bite, a video from six years ago that surfac
rejected trump s offers of homeland security secretory, secretary of veterans affairs and an ambassadorship to italy. the one job he did want, attorney general, as we know, has been offered to alabama senator jeff sessions. back at transition headquarters at trump tower in new york, donald trump is reviewing his choices for secretary of state. a decision is expected this week. sources say the leading candidate right now is exxonmobil ceo rex tillerson. trump tweeted about him this morning, writing, quote, whether i choose him or not for state, rex tillerson, the chairman and ceo of exxonmobil, is a world class player deal maker. stay tuned. even before making it official, critics are extressing outrage, especially over tillerson s relationship with russia. marco rubio tweeted this out. quote, being a friend of vladimir is not an attribute i m hoping for from a secretary of state. it s worth noting in 2011, exxon