Trump is a phony and a fraud. But the two men met today. What did they say. Yeah, were a long way from that. Apparently what we saw is what you pointed out. Foreign policy is a crucial component of what mitt romney wants to talk about, and it is exactly what they spoke about. What does that mean for perhaps a future cabinet position . That is untold. As they walked out together after an hour and 20minute meeting, donald trump cupped his hands in front. His face, said it went great. Mitt romney said this we had a a farreaching conversation with regards to the various theaters in the world where there are interests of the United States, of real significance. We discussed those chairs and exchanged our views on those topics. Very very thorough and indepth discussion in the time we had. And appreciate the chance to speak with the president elect. And and look forward to the coming administration and the things well be doing. Thank you. As you see, mitt romney did not answer any of the shouted questions. He turned and walked to his car and left. We werent able to follow up on that. As you note, all the conversation appeared to be about Foreign Policy. Now. Mo has plenty of experience on the economic side of things. That was the big core of his 2012 campaign. But the focus on Foreign Policy only adding to the speculation about when this meeting might lead to a future position, im told from transition officials that is a possibility. Its something they wanted to discuss. The big question is, is that something donald trump wants to settle on, and perhaps more importantly, is that a position mitt romney would want . Right. Aside from the personal barbs back and forth, theyve got real policy differences on free trade. Theyre on totally opposite ends of the spectrum. And the same thing on russia. Theyre on totally opposite ends of the spectrum, a huge issue now. But we are told, phil, that the Transition Team says, yep, there may be another maker appointment announced today. Any idea what that position might be . Reporter right now, we know theres a possibility of another appointment, and likely inside the track of National Security. Lining up with what we saw yesterday. Obviously naming the attorney general, it the National Security adviser, naming the prospective cia director yesterday a big component of a big National Security push by the trump team. Theres a possibility another name would be added to that, as well. We dont know what it might be yet. Expect it to be on the lines of National Security, perhaps on the intelligence side of things. Poppy . Phil mattingly, bring us more as you have it. Thank you very much. Lets bring in cnn political commentator and former mitt romney Public Policy director, lonnie chen. Also with us, former georgia congressman and former Senior Adviser to the trump campaign, Jack Kingston. Thank you, gentlemen, for being here. And lonnie, let me just begin with you. As you know, these two men have said not the nicest things about one another. Lets take a walk down memory lane. Donald trump is a phony. A fraud. Mit was a disaster as a candidate. Hes playing the members of the American Public for suckers. Romney let us know. He was a very poor campaigner. He gets a free ride to the white house, and all we get is a lousy hat. Romney choked like a dog. He choked. He went his promises are as worthless as a degree from trump university. I have a lot of friends i have a lot of friends, by the way, mitt romney is not one of them. Maybe that changes after today. You wrote in mitt romney in this selection, you really wanted to see him as president four years ago and wanted to see him this year again. What do you make of all of this . Can the two come together on the personal stuff and the policy stuff . Mainly russia, as mitt romney calmed the greatest geopolitical threat to the world back in 2012. I think that at core people have to understand mitt romney is a patriot. Its not just talk. This is a guy who cares and loves cares for and loves his country deeply. So immediately after the election, you saw him reaching out by saying, you know, look, i congratulate the president elect. They had a very nice phone call where by all accounts the president elect was gracious. I think that this is about sharing views with someone whos going to be leader of the free world. Governor romney cares about whats going to happen to the president elects administration. He cares whats going to happen to the country. Let me jump in and tell people. Theyre looking at donald trump, lives pictures walking back into the golf course. The woman who just left was michelle rhee. Obviously potentially being considered for an education post. Who knows what they said. Doesnt look like she made any comments. Continue what you were saying. This is part of a process of helping the president elect govern well. When the governor made the remarks, they talked about a bunch of stuff around the world. Thats part of the process of helping the president elect understands the challenges we face. To you, congressman, campaigning is much different than governing. You can get along with someone when youre governing even if you didnt get along with them on the campaign. What we know from the president elect is that loyalty is huge for him. Lets listen. Theres never been the loyalty this we have. I have the most loyal people. This guy is so loyal. Been very, very loyal. Hes been loyal to trump from day one. Shes so loyal and so amazing. Mitt romney has not been loyal. Do you read this meeting as optics, or do you think that mitt romney is seriously being considered for secretary of state . I dont think its optics. Mitt romney is a serious man. He has a grip on the world. Hes been around the block economically, politically. I think about george bush calling Ronald Reagans plan voodoo economics. Certainly Hillary Clinton and barack obama when they were opposing each other in the primary exchanged sharp elbows. That sort of i think this does happen. And you can get past that. At the same time, i think romney is the kind of guy that if they make their paegs and i believe they potential already have but i think he would be an absolute loyal soldier, but more importantly, they both love america and want to do whats right. Amtrak on, your point of being congressman, on your point of being a local soldier, you can get past personal things. I want our viewers to listen to what donald trump has sbeds russia and Vladimir Putin over said wiabout russia and Vladimir Putin over the course of the campaign. So different from calling them our numberone geopolitical foe. Lets listen. Do you ever notice anything that goes wrong, they blame russia. Russia did it, they have no idea. Were being hacked because we have people who dont know what theyre doing. They say putin likes trump. And he said nice things about me. He called me a genius. He said were going to win. Thats good. Thats not bad. Thats good. Some opponents said they want us to disavoid the statement. Why would i disavow, why . If we could get along with russia, wouldnt that be a good thing instead of a bad thing . I had nothing to do with putin. Ive never spoken to him. I dont know anything about him other than he will respect me. Congressman, to your point, can mitt romney be a good soldier and follow that ideology when it comes to pooun a putin and the kremlin if he has a vastly different view of russia . I think number one mitt romney does not need the job. He would want to do the job because of the best interests of america. In that respect, i think the two would understand that mitt, are you working for me, for my policy. Are you comfortable with it. Mitt romneys the guy whos going to say, no, i cant do this. I want to say is that you saying is you dont think romney will take the post . No. Thats 100 me, but im saying he would not take the post if the two had a major policy division, if they couldnt get together. I want to say this remember, trump said one of the problems he felt that we had the middle east is we always broadcasted to the enemy in advance what we were going to do next. Bringing in somebody like mitt romney could throw some of our enemies off a little bit because it could be a mixed signal, and i think sometimes in Foreign Policy thats not a bad idea. What do you make of that, lonnie . Can you know better than anyone how mitt romney feels about russia. How he feels about free trade. Look, youve got the meeting today with president obama and president xi of china. China is critical. Mitt romney feels different about free trade in china and the World Trade Center trade organization th world trade organization. Do they get on the same pang . I think it is clear the rhetoric drumpg used on the campaign trail reflects a different view of the world. Thats truch the question is, is the policy going to be dramatically different. I think the one area where there is some concern and conflict is over the notion of cooperating with syria. Cooperating and dealing with the syrian crisis. I think clearly that is the one policy pronouncement i would be concerned about. A lot of the other stuff seems to be about tone and bluster and about his relationship with putin, whatever that might be. So we have to really us is out what the genuine policy differences are there. On trade, i will say if you recall four years ago, governor romney was aggressive in terms of his stance on how we deal with china on the global trade stage. He wasnt paying flat tariffs no tpp, thats true. But i guess its just important for us to really figure out as we go through the transition process, what is the policy of the Trump Administration going to be . And then we can have this discussion once we figure out exactly what it is theyre going to be fighting for, once the president elect takes office. I think thats important to figure out. And another thing thats important, its important for cabinet members to stay in their own lane. Secretary of state would follow the lead of the ustr, the u. S. Trade rep when it comes to trade policy. And one of the things that i know can be a problem, you dont want the secretary of hud to start dictating to the secretary of agriculture what he or she should be doing. So i would say mitt romney would be fine with some of the policies that are limited to state department. Although thats vast, its the whole gloen. Again, hes the kind of guy whos going to sign on if he believes its a good working relationship. I think thats what makes mitt romney a quality prospects for this position. Well see. And as we know, donald trump is having nonstop meetings this weekend about a lot of these petition positions. We may get an announcement on the National Security threat today. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Coming up, donald trump says the catch the hit show hamilton harassed his Vice President ial pick. The direct appeal the actors made last night to mike pence. We have a guest. And Vice President elect pence, i hope youll wait a few more minutes. As president elect trump works to fill his cabinet spots, Vice President elect pence got a mixed response as he walked into the theater for hamilton. [ boos and cheers ] later during the curtain call, one of the stars made a plea to pence, heres what he said Vice President elect pence, we welcome you, and we truly thank you for joining us here at hasnt an american musical. Hamilton a american musical. We are diverse america who are alarmed and anxious that your newonstration will not protect us. Our planet [ cheers ] our children, our parents, or defend us and uphold our inalienable rights, sir. But we truly hope this show has inspired you to uphold our American Values and to work behalf of all of us, all of us. [ applause ] [ cheers ] thank you for attending the show. An american story told by a Diverse Group of men and women of different colors, creeds, and origins. [ applause ] to represent all of us. Rachel crane joins us. Youve been following this all day, obviously talking to representatives from hamilton. First to the president elect. Donald trump responding this morning on twitter. Whats he saying . Of course, you know, president elect trump is has a busy schedule now trying to select his cabinet. Still managed to find time tweet about last nights incident saying, actually calling it harassment. Saying, our wonderful future v. P. Mike pence was harassed last night at the theater by the cast of hamilton. Cameras blazing. This should not happen. He sent a follow uptweet saying, the theater must be a safe and special place. The cast was rude to a very good man, mike pence. Apologize. Brandon dixon, the star of hasnt who also was the one delivering the message replied to Donald Trumps tweet saying, conversation is not harassment, sir. And i appreciate mike pence for stopping to listen. We have been able to confirm with a spokesperson for the musical that mike pence did indeed stop and hear the entirety of the message as he was leaving the theater. And that spokesperson also pointed out that he did not think this was harassment. He was unclear of what Donald Trumps definition of harassment was. He also pointed out that they thanked mike pence for coming to the show. Their message delivered in a polite manner. The tone was respectful and polite. And a lot of chatter about this message on social media. Over a Million People talking about it on twitter. What are some of the responses . Im sure they span the gamut. Yes. Lynn manuel miranda, the writer and the former star of hamilton tweeting, proud of Hamilton Music am, proud of Brandon Dixon for leading with love, and proud to remind you that all are welcome at the theater. Also the mayor of new york office tweet being this showing support for the catst of hamilton, the aclu. Newt gingrich tweeting, the arrogance and hostility of the hamilt hamilton cast to the Vice President elect, a gest theater, is a re guest at the theater, is a reminder that the left still fights. Just one of millions of tweets about the subject. And several hash tags actually trending on twitter right now. Boycotthamilton as well as pencemusical. The irony is that hamilton is sold out. By boycotting it, its only going to maybe drop the prices. Interesting. That is reflecting history. This is the current race coming into this at the end. Not something anyone expected to see that was going to see hamilton. Thank you. Appreciate it. Coming up next, trumps pick for attorney general. Facing scrutiny over his task. Well take a closer look at alabama senator Jeff Sessions and why a Senate Committee once refused to confirm him as a federal judge. Oh no, that looks gross whoa, twhat is that . Try it. You gotta try it, its terrible. I dont wanna try it if its terrible. Its like mango chutney and burnt hair. No thank you, i have a very sensitive palate. Just try it guys, i think we should hurry up. If you taste something bad, you want someone else to try it. Its what you do. I cant get the taste out of my mouth if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. Its what you do. Shhh dog, dog, dog. President elect Trump Holding backtoback meetings in bedminister, new jersey, trying to fill many, many cabinet positions. Mitt romney emerged with michelle rhee, a possible pick for secretary of education. Much more on that as it comes in. Meantime, Donald Trumps pick to run the Justice Department has had problems with Senate Confirmations before. In 1986, thenalabama attorney general Jeff Sessions could not get the blessing of the interstate Judiciary Committee to become a federal federal Judiciary Committee to become a federal judge. Why . Because he made racist comments. More on the senators background. Here we go. Reporter Jeff Sessions has been alabamas senator for 20 years, and before that, alabamas attorney general rule of law is an important thing. Reporter and u. S. Attorney witness has not answered your question. Reporter he is currently a member of the senate Judiciary Committee. The same committee that denied him a federal judgeship in 1986 over allegations he made racial remarks calling the naacp unamerican and communist inspired. One africanamerican u. S. Attorney who worked under sessions testified that sessions called him boy and joked about the kkk, saying he was okay with them until he learned that they smoked marijuana. Sessions denied the allegations and says hes never been a racist. I am not a arrests. I am not insensitive to blacks. Ive supported Civil Rights Activity in my state. Reporter in the senate, sessions earned the reputation as a staunch conservative and garnered respect from his colleagues on both sides of the aisle. If confirmed, he will be taking the reins as the chief Law Enforcement officer in the country. At a time when the relationship between Law Enforcement and communities of color is front and center. Everyone needs to be held to account. Just because you are a sitting senator going before those who are your brothers and sisters in the same body doesnt mean youre entitled to just walk into a position that is the frankly one of the most powerful positions in this country. Pamela brown reporting. Thank you for that. Lens