trying to make some peace. trump has been so hostile to mexico. now he s warming relations. robert costa, we made him work hard on his first day back. thank you. appreciate you being with us from washington tonight. coming up, the question oprah had to ask michelle obama about the first lady s future. we ll bring you the answer right after the break. thanks for loading, sweetie.
and that was v.a. secretary to what appeared to be a pretty robust reception. we re seeing right now trump just filling out his cabinet. there s a mix of conservatives. with the v.a., there was a push to keep on mcdonald, but the trump team says they were looking for a new voice. and the secretary of the army is the nomination i was thinking of that came up. v.a. is still under discussion. and carlos saleem having lunch with donald trump? we reported that tonight at the post. he s one of the world s wealthiest man. he s been in a feud with donald trump for years, going back to how slim broke with trump, but they had dinner, saturday night, trying to make some peace. trump has been so hostile to mexico. now he s warming relations. robert costa, we made him work hard on his first day back. thank you. appreciate you being with us
as december 2015 and they were inside the dnc s computers for almost six months before that. and so as he went through the nomination process, russia seemed confident in him. and then started the systemic leaks. he was clearly aware from u.s. intelligence but his denial, his flat out denial right now is nothing less than suspicious. and i m sure ambassador mcfall will speak more on that. ambassador, let s broaden to the foreign policy implications here. which is there is room for agreement about how to approach these countries. people have rightly pointed out that barack obama ran on warming relations with certain controversial countries like iran and cuba. certainly another nominee has the right, in this case the president-elect to advocate relations with various countries based on an assessment of u.s. national interest. what seems to be the problem here is the idea not that donald trump is doing it independently. in a way that might have his interest. but it seems like putin tim
country. and opening up cuba for religious and political freedoms. those are the top priorities with regard to the relationship with cuba. there were concessions made on behalf of cuba and prisoners set free but we need to continue to push those. that is something we can both sides can agree to. we ll talk more about those warming relations between the u.s. and cuba, at least what we ve seen over the past year and a half. thanks so much. appreciate that. thank you. up next, president-elect trump will be leaving his palm beach estate soon ready for a slate of at least eight meetings tomorrow with potential cabinet and staff picks. find out who is headed to trump tower as well. plus, the president-elect has been slamming the wisconsin recount effort that hillary clinton s team just joined in with the green party. trump calling it a scam cooked up by the green party to raise millions. we ll be joined live by a recount expert next.
travel. it s easier to invest in the island, people to people initiative. there was a lot of tension because many in washington felt that havana wasn t advancing as fast as it should and that an opportunity could be lost and that could be the scenario now. now we ll see what happens with president-elect donald trump, but one thing that i ve heard from cubans in havana that is very clear, they don t see this process of reestablishing relations with the u.s. as a surrender. they donsee it as a negotiation between two countries and they believe they have to be treated as equals and as partners and in these terms and under these conditions the cubans will probably not advance much more than they have until now. juan carlos, i think it was pretty clear that fidel was not a fan of the warming relations between the u.s. and cuba. so with his death, does he give his brother raul any greater freedom? raul has always been seen as a more pragmatic of the two, but raul was the head of the