And not nice. In the end, the incoming an hourt sat down for and 15 minute, wide ranging on the our discussion. This is as close to a press conference as we have gotten out of donald trump since july 20 seven. Itd did not disappoint. Among the topics addressed, trump seemed to change course on climate change, saying he would keep an open mind on the Paris Climate Accord heard he also said there is quote, some connectivity between humans and climate change. Trump was lukewarm on the idea of prosecuting Hillary Clinton email, sins regarding saying he would be divisive for the country. The incoming president disavowed groups of White Supremacists who have been celebrating his election victory and defended his appointment of altreich and if heve bannon, thought bannon was racist, he quote, wouldnt even think of hiring him. Trump said he is following the law and as president he has more important things to worry about than boosting his bottom line. Trump fielding questions on several other subjects. Nicole, there is a lot to talk about here. We are going to spend a fair amount of time talking about it and what stands out to you from this press conference . First, i watched an experienced this by following maggies tweets. Is a Remarkable Development that trump is ushering in. I think hes the host twitterverse first post twitterverse tweeter to be elected president. As a journalist, what did you think of watching it unfold in realtime . When george bush would have supporters in, they would come in, they would do their interview and have to go and write a story, file it. This was different to me as a communications professional. We got to experience it in real time without any sort of try organizing. Proritizing. Prioritizing. President elect trump has put twitter at the center of his communication strategy and in doing it this way, in arranging this meeting with the times editors and having a private press conference, he sort of forces them to use his medium of choice to report on what he was using theher than normal Television Camera and broadcast. I would love the see the transcript of the whole thing. But it seems to me that in almost every way apart from trashing the times and the way he started yesterday with Network Anchors, kind of criticizing him for the way they had treated him unfairly, in every other way he seemed to be trying to reassure people and turn down the temperature clumsy but ic and as wage age asage peoples fears. It was very interesting to me that the meeting yesterday, which seems to be the more bomb baffletic donald trump, is sort of an escalation and that might bring some people back into the fold, main stream republicans that have harbored mistrust. But i thought yesterday was sort of a chilling warning to his detractors in the media, back to sort of the bullying. I thought it was in very start contrast. Yeah, especially if you believe that a meeting was lendale white, a transplant dp tantrum was staged and then they said i dont know who could have possibly leaked that story. Now it seems it may be trump who leaked it. Every addstration i have covered comes into power play and bleeskeds it has mastered a new technological tool whether it was bill clinton with Satellite Television or others with facebook. In other words, weve found a way around the gate keepers, a way to communicate directly with the american people, go over their heads, around the side door. Well, you can do that a little bit but in the end you still need 9 main stream media. Coming up, we get a line into Kellyanne Conway. Donald trumps Senior Advisor joins us next. Tay tuned. From bedminster to trump tower, our next guest has been a fixture behind the scenes in Donald Trumps deliberations. And maybe shes going to washington, d. C. . Who knows. She joins us now from trump tower. Kell dell, what is the proper line for donald trump to draw regarding his business interests when he becomes president . Whatever the legal lines dictate, of course. Hell comply with all of that and hes made clear all along that his Adult Children will be managing the family business. Obviously these are not entrylevel positions. Theyre already respected executives andmentees of in the business. You have seen their handiwork. I think the Old Post Office building in d. C. Is a great until example of under budget, on time work that these Adult Children do and well hell do that. He has a team of lawyers and accounts and advisors who will make sure he complies with the lie. Some suggest just complying with the law isnt enough. Is it appearances as well . Thats the typical response of a politician comblos not been a successful businessman and job creator. Apart from that i think he has to apply with the law and that should be the appearance. In other words, people will know he has a fulltime job as president and commander of the in chief of the United States. Hes committed to that. Hes already said he wont take a salary. He will donate that to charity. But there is no reason to believe that this man is lying or wont do what hes supposed to do upon taking office. 9 wall street journal wrote a stronglyworded edtore combral about this. They are not professional politicians and have been as you know certainly friendly to capitalism. The oped was about the political damage to the administration if mr. Trump doesnt liquidate hays d his business holdings. Hes going to be constantly scrutinized for his pecuniary interests in holdings on a wide variety of issues. Is the wall street journal, from the perspective of wanting him to succeed, not being critical of him, that right that it might be the safest thing to liquidate the assets and move forward . Well, first, hes already made clear he has a 100day plan. If you are talking about the fact he wants to create 25 million jobs over 10 years and release coal and shale and other energy interests, we already know what he stands for. Its not like hes going to invent policy based on a business he is no longer involved in or not, temporarily not involved in. But secondly, more importantly, as president of the United States he will have no authority whatsoever over what is happening in his business, what the acquisitions are. The most important part about this is people never look at the other side of the ledger. How many tens of millions of dollars has donald trump and his family sacrificed in order for him to run for president . First of all they spent a lot of money and other businesses have been in abeyance, with the three Adult Children also on the campaign trail and him being away from his business for a year and a half to do this and now for the next four to eight. Its actually the money theyve lost that nobody wants to talk about, not what he might gain based on different positions. He decided to run voluntarily so those sacrifices are ones he decided it take on himself. The question is really what rulings the e. E. O. C. Or National LaborRelations Board might bake with employees where specific businesses of his would be affected by legislate isk or legal rulings. Or Foreign Policy with interests much his in south america or sabre ashea. Hes not asia. Hes not laid out his policies on those issues and they will be called into question if he makes decisions that seem to benefit his businesses. It sounds as if theyll be called into question no matter what. I know the results of the election are very you have to tough for you to swallow, john. This man understands america and will now represent all americans but this whole line of argument is presumptively negative and accuseatory. With all due respect, kelly, the wall street journal i did you should read the article. It has nothing to did election results. It has everything this to did with standards. I did read it. No, you are presuming this does because some people are still in Political Campaign mode and have, like, political ptsd of sorts. You are accusing him of making policies based on things hes not even talking about. You are presuming hes doing this for the wrong reasons where most americans that voted for him, 300 and some electoral votes, that aint nothing, believe that hes actually going to go there and work their them, not just line his own pockets the i find a lot of argument, of course its your show and you are welcome to do it of course but i find a lovetd the line of argument accusatory. Lets switch to a new topic, Rudy Giuliani proorltd reportedly being considered as director of National Intelligence. Is that true and would he be good at that . He would be great at any job. Mr. Trumps first criteria is for that or any job is that you are qualified and capable to do the job day one. Secondly, i know he was out in bedminster yesterday and had a great comforts is he being considered for director of National Intelligence . Hes being considered for any one of a number of positions the is that one of them . Could be. Thats for somebody who is expert in those areas. Intelligence gathering, security. He obviously is well respected around the world and would command a certain presence representing the president elect and his administration but the fact is that when the president elect is filling his cabinet he has to think about how everyone is working together and who is the best person for each of though jobs. Those jobs. To johns other point before, i think the diversity of people who have come through the door is just a Remarkable Group of men and women from different political, economic, social back grounds, certainly different races, ethnicities and religious persuasions. Its been quite a group of people who in many cases just wanted to come and offer advice and counsel and their vision for the country. For some that will lead or could lead to a formal position in this administration but for all of them, i assure you, theyre just happy to have the time with the president elect and the Vice President elect to share their ideas and offer their support. Were also thrilled it includes people from the other side of the aisle like Tulsi Gabbard and revered Business People by robert johnson. Nd Kathy Mcmorris rodgers, the highestranking woman in congress, who gave birth three times while in congress. A remarkable personal and professional story. They just keep coming. Theyre folks who have been captains of industry, job seekers, job creators. Its just an Incredible Group of men and memorandum women and thank you for covering it. We heard from donald trump election night. Thats relatively long for a president elect the is there a reason why hes not done that . And when can we expect to hear from him . I think you will hear from him soon but hes incredibly busy. John, we publish his schedule every day and its just one after another after another interview. When hes not sbrowing interviewing people in person hes taking calls from people cross the globe. Hes been incredibly busy doing that and then reflecting and discussing the interviews hes just had. Today we had an amazing off the record meeting here with the top executives and anchors from the three Major Networks and a couple of the cable stations and i thought he very much enjoyed that discussion. I thought it was a fabulous opportunity for them to be with each other and so we have the press here in the lobby every day. They have access to any number of different people coming in and out of trump tower. We make many people available to them. People were who are meeting with president elect trump and we feel like this is a very transparent process where you literally can see the people coming in and out of the two buildings as they meet with the president elect. Has a single thing gone wrong with the transition so far . Hm. Not really. I can tell you its a high energy. Great deal of excitement but the excitement is now being funneled into the very Serious Business of helping him make decisions on his cabinet and his senior staff. I was in washington, d. C. Last week. Most of our Transition Team is in washington, d. C. Steps away from the white house and they are, its really remarkable to me anyway to see people Standing Shoulder to shoulder, millenials born before after reagan left office and men and men who served on his team and in his administration. There is just this buzz of activity and focus and those people who nobody is paying attention to what theyre doing. Theyre making sure that everything at the different agencies is as it should be, making sure they work with president obama and his Current Administration on these very important decisions and testimonies. So its very exciting to all of us involved here in this and i will tell you its going incredibly smoothly. Its like scheduling the interview version of rallies for donald trump. I got to ask you about one rart report in the New York Post real quick. It says during the meeting today with the Network Anchors and executives that at one point donald trump exploded at them in anger. Is that true . No. Thats not true. I sat right to the left in the meeting. And hes the president elect, he won. Winning solves a lot of problems and makes a lot of statements. Im really happy that he reached out to them after a very long, bruising, hardfought, not always fairly covered campaign. Kellyanne conway, thank you. Now hell be zealing as the president elect with the media including bloomberg. It wasnt justify the potential Trump Administration officials at the tower today. Donald trump met with a number of anchors, including wolf blitzer and george stephanopoulos. The New York Post reported tonight that the meeting did not go all that well. They said trump occasionally lashed out at some of the participants. Kellyanne conway denied that a few moments ago. Trump has bun done only one e eonone interview since h became president elect and hes not p done any victory rallies, no thank you tour or veterans events or indoor photo ops since he was elected the leader of these United States. So far every person hes selected for the cabinet as administration has been written notice. If you buy the notion that hes just too busy doing other innings . Or is there some other reason hes staying off camera . John i do not buy the notion busy to do some things on camera just because all president s are busy and they still find time to do a press conference. He hant done a speech, hasnt done any of the things you just retailed. I just think these appointments it would benefit him to explain them, makele the argument for in . Of these somewhat controversial people. Michael flynn, jeff sessions. Controversy controversial guys. I think in a brief way to set p the discussion of ha his notions were would help. My mark my theory is hes enjoying doing what he wants to do. He is enjoying the power and the media speculation and when you run for president , particular hi someone whos never done this before, a lot of his day was filled with you have to get on this plane, fly to this place. I think hes just enjoying the fact that he doesnt have to perform in public and hes taking a break from it. John he would also like to see his home. Theres that. I dont think its disastrous hes not done more. Its just odd given owe voluble he used to be in other settings, when he used to be on trigs wall to wall. Except that he basically did one or two events a day for most of the campaign. I think he likes to dole out portions of trump on his own timetable and right now there is just no reason for if. I do think he is having an extraordinary number of meetings. John im p going to call Kellyanne Conway a liar but having just read that story, given the multiple sources confirming the con tent puning ss, without im Kellyanne Conways crebled credibility, there say lot of consistency throughout the accounts. Mark unless the people were trump officials, shame on the people who agreed to go to an off the record meeting and shared accounts of it. John i do know some who that shared those accounts. Mark i can tell you this. He is mad at cnn, i can tell you that. John i think hes pretty mad at a lot of people. Mark i would say hes particularly mad at cn nmple. John stick around. Stick around. More after these words from our sponsors. John welcome back. The race for the presidency may be over but the race for House Minority leader has just begun. Join us now from his home town of youngstown, ohio is congressman time ryan, who is challenging nancy pelosi as speak erments whats wrong with her as leader . Well, whats wrong is we keep losing. I love nancy. Shes a mentor of mine and a historic figure but we keep losing. Were down 20 seats since 2010. Smallest Democratic Caucus weve had since 1929. We have to keep score here and if a coach keeps having losing seasons, even though its tough, got to get a new coach. John the leadership job in congress is both a legislative and ash job and has political implications. What makes you think you are qualified having never held a leadership position in the house wf , to lead a legislative agenda in terms of trying stop Donald Trumps ideas . Well, i know how to fight. I come out be youngstown politics and thats going to be important in the next two years. We can talk as democrats all we want to infrastructure or the future of work or you know, technology, all that stuff. It doesnt mean a hill be beans if y