convinced russia tried to influence the election and dispute between intelligence agencies and law enforcement over the reported determination by the cia that vladimir putin s cyber team was working to see trump win. senior national correspondent john roberts reports on the trump transition tonight from outside trump tower in new york. good evening, john. reporter: bret, good evening to you. the president-elect was on offense again today against intelligence agency claims that russian hackers were working to get him elected. dismissing those analyses is nothing more than political sour grapes. but when it comes to one potential cabinet pick, those intelligence analyses may add an extra mauzure of security. rex tillerson is the pick for secretary of state. an official announcement may still be days away, in an interview, trump told chris wallace that tillerson is an influential and impressive candidate for the job. he s much more than a business executive.
convinced russia tried to influence the election and dispute between intelligence agencies and law enforcement over the reported determination by the cia that vladimir putin s cyber team was working to see trump win. senior national correspondent john roberts reports on the trump transition tonight from outside trump tower in new york. good evening, john. reporter: bret, good evening to you. the president-elect was on offense again today against intelligence agency claims that russian hackers were working to get him elected. dismissing those analyses is nothing more than political sour grapes. but when it comes to one potential cabinet pick, those intelligence analyses may add an extra mauzure of security. rex tillerson is the pick for secretary of state. an official announcement may still be days away, in an interview, trump told chris wallace that tillerson is an influential and impressive candidate for the job. he s much more than a business executive.
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trump transition tonight. rudy giuliani is apparently out of the running for secretary of state. rudy giuliani is one of donald trump s earliest and most rabid supporters and was reportedly trump adviser steve bannon s pick for the job.giuliani, he c that he has taken himself out of the running for that position. it was on november 29th. and i thought that the president-elect who my main interest was getting him elected, not getting a job. saving america. i thought there were enough choices, good ones, for him to pick that i wasn t absolutely necessary. if i felt like i was the only one who could do it, probably, i would have stayed in. the wall street journal reports that exxon mobil ceo rex tillerson is now donald trump s
implementing for the past week. i think they re trying to maintain here that kris kobach just made this stuff up and it was never donald trump s positions. this was the statement from the trump transition tonight. quote, president-elect trump has never advocated for any registry or system that tracks individuals based on their religion. and to imply otherwise is completely false. that s what they re trying to say now. and that s insane. there should be a lot of systems, beyond databases. we should have a lot of systems. that s something your white house would like to i would certainly implement that. absolutely. absolutely, i would certainly implement that. databases? beyond databases. donald trump is on tape advocating aegistry of muslims, in the united states. but as of tonight, the donald trump president-elect transition team says he never advocated