Heavy military influence. The president elect has chosen three retired jeernls to serve atop his administration. Can trump also coming under fire for his selection of scott pruitt to head the epa. Pruitt as oklahomas attorney general sued the epa for its regulations on the states oil and gas industry. Also trump lashes out at a union leader who criticized that deal to save jobs at the carrier plant in indiana. Trump attacking the man on twitter, but not denying his claims. So, theres a lot to cover this morning. Lets bring in Sunlen Serfaty. Shes live in washington. Good morning, carol. A slew of announcements in the last 24 hours. The president elect here clearly making some big picks for key roles in his administration. But trump is also spending some time taking to twitter. Giving in to a war of words with a local union leader critical of trumps claims over jobs actually saved at carrier. President elect donald trump naming two more hard liners to his cabinet. Elevating Climate Change denier and fierce epa critic scott pruitt to run the agency. There were a number of candidates. A signal the Trump Administration is intent on reversing president obamas move to curb Climate Change. Trump also tapping another general to his cabinet. Retired general john kelly to head the department of Homeland Security. Raising questions about the militarization of his administration. Kelly a decorated fourstar marine general retired earlier this year as commander of the u. S. Southern command. He is also a gold star father whose son was killed in afghanistan in 2010. Tonight, trump will introduce Iowa GovernorTerry Branstad at ambassador to china at his third stop on his thank you tour in des moines. That the president elect is interested in maintaining its relationship with beijing. Trump also mixing business and entertainment. Nominating former wrestling executive Linda Mcmahon to head the Small Business administration. All this as trump is readying to announce his choice for secretary of state, which could come next week. Trump insisting former adversary mitt romney still has a chance at the post. Its not about revenge, its about whats good for the country. Reporter Trumps Administration moves are being overshadowed by another feud. The president elect lashing out again on twitter against the Carrier Union leader chuck jones after he called into question trumps math over how many jobs the deal he brokered with carrier actually saved. Jones appearing on cnn last night. 550 are still going to lose their jobs. Reporter trump tweeting minutes later that jones did a terrible job on blaming job losses on jones. If united Steel Workers 1999 was any good, they would have kept those jobs in indiana. Jones then calling into Anderson Cooper 360 to respond directly to trumps attack. Because of corporate greed and unfair trade they want to move these jobs out of the country. If he wants to blame me, so be it. I look at him how many billions of dollars he spent on his hotels and casinos trying to keep labor unions out. Reporter today at trump tower the president elect will be meeting with one potential secretary of state contender, former nato commander James Stavridis and then hell travel to columbus, ohio, to meet with victims and First Responders from the ohio state attack. Next stop of the victory tour. Another one of these campaignstyle rallies hes been having. All right, Sunlen Serfaty reporting live for us. Thanks so much. The war of words between the president future of the United States and a local union guy aint over yet. Chuck jones was on new day this morning. A lot of people in that crowd and throughout the plant thought they were, at that point in time, were going to have a job, only to find out, when we told them the next day, that 550 of them were going to lose their job to monterrey, mexico. A lot of people had dashed hopes. And they were not willing to give us any information until last thursday. When mr. Trump and pence came into the facility. We didnt know what the numbers were until noon that day. And so, thats when we found out 730 people were going to retain their jobs. And then when he got up there, and told people 1 100 jobs have been retained, people in the crowd and throughout the plant thought they were going to have everybodys got a right to their opinion. And sometimes we disagree on things. But, im not overly upset about any of it. He overreacted, president elect trump did, and i would expect if hes going to tweet something he should have come out and tried to justify his numbers. Okay, since we like perspective on this program, jones does not represent the national u. S. Steelworkers union but the local union in indianapolis. Hes the quintessential little guy, although he is union, he endorsed Bernie Sanders and he voted for Hillary Clinton. Still numbers dont lie. President elect trumps efforts saved 800 jobs. 3 und hf mr. Trumps 1100 jobs were never leaving the United States. And 550 carrier jobs are still heading to mexico. So lets talk. Im joined by reed wilson, a National Correspondent for the hill and rebecca berg a cnn political analyst and National Political reporter for realclear politics. Welcome to both of you. Thanks, carol. Okay. So reed, why go after chuck jones . Well, this is Donald Trumps style, right . He goes after anybody that who attacks him personally, and this deal with carrier is something that has some holes in it. And has theres still questions to be answered about it. States make these deals a lot but they dont always the companies with which they make the deals dont always necessarily come through. In nevada a few years ago the state gave away about a billion dollars in tax incentives to tesla to build a big factory outside of reno and there was a report just yesterday in one of the las vegas papers that showed that tesla has not hired the number of people that they said they would have hired by now. So you have to keep an eye on these deals as they go forward. Because the company will still get the tax break, not necessarily having to keep all the jobs in the state. Because you know companies are in the business of making money and we should never forget that. Rebecca, mr. Trump said that mr. Jones was any kind of union boss he would have kept those jobs in indiana by reducing union deuce. So, if you make 50k here as a union guy you pay seven bucks a week in union dues thats roughly 28 bucks a month. Right. So carol this is classic republican position that unions states where unions are active make it tougher for businesses to come into these states, and operate. Obviously democrats would disagree with that position. But really what this highlights is that their underlying Market Forces at work here that donald trump is not addressing with this carrier deal. And unions maybe are a part of that but its also taxes, and so part of the carrier deal was donald trump and mike pence approached carrier and assured them that they would be putting forth tax reform in this administration to make the climate easier for carrier to stay in the United States and that donald trump has promised renegotiating trade deals to make them more advantageous for american companies, and companies to stay in the United States. But, that is work yet to be done. I think what chuck jones is really highlighting is okay, he saved some jobs here, in indiana with this deal. Coupled with the tax incentives, the incentives stay in indiana, offered by the state. But there are many other jobs still at risk in indiana and also in the country and donald trump going to have to address those, and address the underlying forces. And the underlying forces, reid, u. S. Steel, the big fish, the company u. S. Steel, unlike mr. Jones, Indianapolis Union guy, u. S. Steel representative spoke to nbc, quote, Market Conditions will kick state if, when and how many employees we can recall from overseas. That means, you can read between the lines that u. S. Steel wants tax relief, incentives in the millions of dollars to return jobs to the u. S. Thats a whole lot more than seven bucks a week, right . Yeah. And the carrier deal is just one part of just one company, and you can imagine now that they have gotten a deal, every company that is thinking about moving their operations overseas is going to approach either the Trump Administration or a governor in whatever state theyre in, asking for tax incentives and deals like this. These deals happen all the time. There have been Something Like 200 mega deals over 75 million in the last couple of decades aimed at keeping companies in one state or another. But the fact is, again, you have to watch these deals over the long run, because even after you give the tax insensitives to tesla or carrier or boeing or exxon mobil or anybody like that, they dont necessarily end up keeping all the jobs that they promised. So the 730 jobs that are going to stay in indiana, theyre staying there now. Are they going to be there in a year, four years . Thats not entirely clear. Okay. So, so in light of what i said about u. S. Steel and its statement the dow is going crazy, rebecca, its up 1200 points. Companies are psyched. So, does that mean its good for america . Were not sure . What exactly does that mean . Well, i think what the market is reacting to, carol, is just theres great optimism right now among corporations that donald trump and republicans will actually be able to get some measure of tax reform done, and they have been hungry for this for many, many years. Especially on the corporate side. Corporate tax reform, something that Many Democrats actually would be on board with, as well. Because, really, many republicans, and some democrats, would argue that our Corporate Tax rates here in the United States makes american businesses make it tough for them to compete with foreign competitors, where taxes are lower in other countries. And so, i think the market is very excited about the prospect of tax reform. Certainly a number of people on the business side, and on wall street feel that obamacare has not necessarily been as successful as some people would have hoped and so theres some people excited, as well, about the possibility of health care reform. But youre absolutely right. When we talk about people being nervous potentially about Donald Trumps presidency, the market is not reacting that way at all. Its actually very bullish on the Trump Presidency so far. It certainly is. All right reid wilson, rebecca berg. Stick around because of course we still have a lot to talk about. Still to come in thes ins in could a Climate Change skeptic be in charge of the Environmental Protection agency . The firestorm over trumps controversial pick next and a little later donald trump makes his pick for Homeland Security as he strikes a softer tone on immigration in a new interview. Janet napolitano joins me with her thoughts. I have asthma. One of many pieces in my life. So when my asthma symptoms kept coming back on my longterm control medicine. I talked to my doctor and found a missing piece in my asthma treatment with breo. Oncedaily breo prevents asthma symptoms. 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Democrats and environmentalists are returning for a fierce fight over president elect trumps latest cabinet pick. Trump has tapped Oklahoma Attorney general scott pruitt to lead the epa. An agency he once sued. Joe johns has more for you. Reporter scott pruitt, Donald Trumps for Environmental ProtectionAgency Administrator is a staunch Climate Change denier. Giving democrats an environmental groups whip lash. After trumps highly publicized meetings with prominent Climate Change activists. Attorney general pruitt has a strong conservative record as a state prosecutor and has demonstrated a familiarity with laws and regulations impacting a large Energy Resource state. Reporter an ally of the fossil fuel industry the Oklahoma Attorney general is a fierce critic of the agency he may soon lead filing lawsuits against the epa over its regulations of power plants, including obamas effort to significantly reduce their emissions. When you look at the epa and the role that its played over the last several years, theres going to be substantial change in that agency. Theres going to be a regulatory roll back. Reporter critics blasting trumps nominee the league of conservation voters scott pruitt running the epa is like the fox guarding the hen house. Pad the profits of big polluters at the expense of public health. As for Climate Change, pruitt wrote in the National Review just a few months ago that the link between Global Warming and human activity is far from settled. Incoming Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer saying pruitts reluctance to accept the facts on Climate Change couldnt make him any more out of touch with the American People and with reality. The decision to name scott pruitt came just a short time after the president elect gave environmentalists what you could call a glimmer of hope. Or middle ground by meeting with al gore, whos been a leading voice on the issue of Climate Change. Carol . Joe johns reporting live for us from washington. Lets bring back reid wilson is with me again the National Correspondent for the hill and rebecca berg the cnn political analyst and National Political reporter for realclear politics. So, mr. Trumps pick to lead the epa sued the epa over mr. Obamas Emission Reduction program. But trump also talked with al gore and Leonardo Dicaprio about Climate Change. So what gives, reid . Well, this is one of the things that im going to be watching. Were going to see a seachange here in the relationship between federal government and the states now that weve got a new administration. Scott pruitt, attorneys general from state like texas and kansas, very conservative states, spent the last eight years suing the Obama Administration, every agency from the epa to the department of energy, the department of the interior, fish and wildlife service. Now, were going to see a reversal. If scott pruitt as the next epa administrator tries to undo a lot of the climate regulations that the Obama Administration has imletted if they skip even a tiny step youre going to see some democratic states, most notably california, stepping in with litigation as fast as possible. The Trump Administration is going to try to undo a lot of the regulations the Obama Administration has implemented but even undoing those regulations takes time, it requires public comment. It requires meetings. Every single one of those steps takes time, and if any of them are skipped, you can imagine the democratic states are going to step in and try to stop the undoing of some of the regulations, or at least tie them up in court for years. Okay. So that could be messy. And also rebecca during the Campaign Trump did say he wanted to dismantle the epa. With this pick, isnt it possible . Well, he did say that, carol, and then later sort of walked that back, walked back the opposition and said, instead of dismantling the epa entirely we can at least roll back some of these unnecessary regulations to help businesses who are really just trying to do the best that they can. So, he did walk back from that po