as the energy secretary. there s been a real transformation in the way a lot of these republican leaders speak publicly about donald trump now that he s the president. the true trump loyalist steve bannon had an extremely contentious interview excuse me, steven miller, extremely contentious interview just yesterday with jake tapper and i want to share some of that. he of course is a white house policy adviser. it s tragic and unfortunate that steve would make these grotesque comments. you have 24 hours a day of stephen, you re being you re not going to give three minutes for the american people to hear the real experience of donald trump. i hear you. there s one viewer you care about here and you re being obsequious in order to please him. it was reported stephen miller had to be escorted from the cnn set. the president weighed in afterwards tweeting, jake tapper got destroyed by stephen miller.
to the president. she sits right outside his office. she s really arguably his closest confidant in the west wing, has been at his side since the campaign began. a lot of people in the white house consider her an adopted daughter to the president. so a lot of the pressure on hope hicks, who i believe has already been interviewed by the special counsel, and, you know, i just don t see anything that don jr. did or told the senate yesterday as really being exculpatory or at all. i just see it as raising more questions and really putting out a flag for mueller that there s probably something there, when you can t answer the key question at the heart of all this. ken, then to eli s point, we know hope hicks has already been questioned, but does this put her in a hotter seat, that don jr. is pointing to her, rather than his father? i think it does. i mean, she is a key witness in all of this. it really puts her under scrutiny and under a lot of pressure. because obviously she s loyal t
had with him have been enlightening. mr. trump is directing our anger for less than noble purposes. he continues with a message of inclusion, bringing people together. well, we heard they ate frog s legs, but right there mitt romney may have been eating crow. what a difference eight months makes. now mitt romney is possibly poised to be donald trump s secretary of state despite the previous acrimony. he s laughing mike lufuka and senior editor of business insider josh barro. let s start with you. yeah. mitt romney turning here, does this make him a patriot? does it make him a flip-flopper? is it a positive he s had such differences with donald trump in the past? first of all, in fairness to mitt romney, what he said is he has increasing hope. open heart, open mind. his official position is that he has an open mind. it s not a total like i was wrong, i m sorry.
down south more than 20 tornadoes ripped across towns overnight killing at least five people. dozens of homes and buildings have been destroyed, including a 24-hour child day care center in alabama. donald trump is expected to add tw big money men to his cabinet. steve mnuchin, his former campaign finance chief as treasury secretary and investor wilbur ross as commerce secretary. trump also had dinner with mitt romney last night who is being eyed for secretary of state. the islamic state has claimed responsibility for the attack at ohio state university calling the student who wounded 11 people with his car and a knife their soldier. u.s. intelligence officials tell nbc news that there are no known contacts between artan and isis. tragic accident at cirque du soleil s san francisco show has left an employee dead. the technician was struck by a lift during rehearsals and later died at the hospital. and tonight the world s most
that wraps us up. i m stephanie ruhle. you can find me on twitter. here s more now with craig melvin. stephanie, thank you so much. a lot of breaking news to get to. at least five people killed overnight during a series of tornadoes that tore through alabama and tennessee. elsewhere in tennessee, thousands of people remain out of their homes today as wildfires continue to race through the smoky mountains. meanwhile, donald trump tweeting today he ll be leave being his business to his children while he serves as president. trump also saying he ll hold a news conference with his kids on december 15th, a little more than two weeks away. that will be his first news conference in almost five