Packing his bags for beijing, assuming Senate Confirmation the next u. N. Ambassador to china. The president elect has a new title today as well. Time magazines person of the year, and while we watch the daily ins and outs and Donald Trumps tower, also here in washington, d. C. , the site of celebrations getting underway for bahrains national day. Joining me now to connect all of these dots are cnn Global Affairs correspondent elyse lavette and Jessica Schneider in new york. Jessica you first. As we hear who is likely to be the next ambassador to china, why branstat . Governor brenstat earning praise from the Trump Transition Team today saying he as an immense knowledge of china and the chinese people. Actually a longstanding friendship with president xis china dating back to the mid1980s when president xi was studying agriculture as an official in china, came to iowa to study things and when he formed a friendship with the governor. In fact, the governor had president xi for an lelabo
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0 president in the 12:00 hour. this as team obama releases a new ad tying seniors to romney s 47% remark. so my job is not to the worry about those people. they should take responsibility and care for their lives. it frightens me that someone could think that way, and is running for president. all right. say good morning and bring in today s political power panel. an msnbc contributor and political editor for the grio. democrat dick strategies and republican strategist. it s great to have all three of you here. alice start with you. the race is becoming a tape gotcha game. the president s campaign responding to romney s remarks by digging up something mitt romney said back in 2008, basically parallels what the president said. take a look. i believe that at this time to change washington it would be helpful to have somebody that comes with more private sector skill. experience outside washington. i don t think you change washington from the inside. i think you change it from the
apparently it s some type of investment firm that s in this building there called the gateway center. not the entire building from our earlier reports has been entirely evacuated. but we do know from the police that they are saying that no one is hurt at this time, and there has been no type of gunfire or any shots fired but apparently this individual walked into the investment office and started asking questions before taking people hostage. can we report what we know about the family? all right. so we do understand that the mother of the hostage-taker is on their way to the scene to help whip the negotiators there. again, this man walking into the building this morning of an investment office there, called the gateway center, and they have taken people often within that building itself, in the office, and we re going to work to see exactly how many people they confirm are hostages. again, the chief there just moments ago at the top of the hour giving a press conference to r