Oklahoma attorney general, scott pruitt, a Climate Change denier tapped to head the epa. Then theres andrew puzder, trumps pick for secretary of labor. Hes the ceo of a corporation that owns hardys and carls jr. And hes against a 15 an hour minimum wage. Sensing a pattern here . Meanwhile, Kellyanne Conway implied she would not take a white house job because she has young children. But what about men with children . Well discuss all of that in the upcoming broadcast. Lets get right to jeff zeleny in des moines. Did donald trump stick to the script on his thank you tour . Reporter good evening. He did stick to his script. This is the president ialstyle donald trump. Weve seen a variety of Donald Trumps but tonight, exactly one month from Election Night when he found out he was indeed on his way to the white house, he stuck closely to his teleprompter speech. He thanked the people of iowa. At least the people who voted for him. Was won this key battleground state by ten percentage points. He was basking in the glow of the victory. He visited ohio earlier. A very interesting moment at the beginning of the rally. There were a couple of small pockets of protesters. He was in the middle of talking about visiting ohio, mentioning john glenn when these protesters sort of broke out here. Watch how donald trump reacted to this. For the next seven decades, he devoted his life to serving the american people, which he did from the cockpit of his bullet riddled fighter jet. Tough times. In the weightless silence of his mercury oh, thats okay. Thats okay. We have to respect john glenn. Thats all right. I think they are actually on our side, they just dont know it yet. They will be soon. Interesting. I think they are actually on our side but they dont know it yet. That does represent one of the challenges he faces here. Hes going around to these battleground states that he won, speaking to his supporters who voted for him but he does also have to win over other people with his ideas and its clear that that is something that hes trying to do here, trying to bring his message of change that he campaigned on into reality. We know the realities are far more difficult as he builds his cabinet, don. Sounds like hes taking an note from the current president on how to deal with protesters. Fill us in on the latest cabinet picks. Reporter the cabinet is really rounding out here. We have nearly all of his choices except for four positions. Secretary of state, top among them. I am told by an official look for that potentially early next week. A long list of people still in the running for that. Also, an opening in the veteran affairs administration, an opening in the interior department and an opening at the department of agriculture. Other than that, don, the cabinet is coming together. What were seeing is a pattern running throughout all of them. Conservative business men, largely business men, running the epa or tapped to run the epa, tapped for other positions here and they by and large are opposed to the obama agenda, the obama era regulations. This is to be expected here. Of course, one of the interesting things we see, republican president ial candidates campaigning to reduce the size of governments and eliminate some of these departments. Donald trump is not doing that. Hes naming someone to all of these positions, like epa, like education, like the department of labor and transportation. Look for them to try and change much of what has happened over the last eight years. Also look for most of them to get confirmed. There may be a hiccup here or there but important to remember here that republicans control the senate. Democrats are objecting to a lot of these choices, particularly epa. But, again, republicans control the senate and they will need 51 votes to get these nominees confirmed. Jeff zeleny, thank you very much. I appreciate it. I want to bring in cnn analyst david gergen and political analyst kiersten powers. David, ill begin with you. Donald trump won the white house exactly one month ago. Did you here a Campaign Speech here or a unifying message tonight . Hes mostly just playing to his base, don. Hes gradually moderated. He didnt go into a lot of attacks against other individuals on american side, but im not sure its working in the way that perhaps he wanted. We do have a new survey out today from pew, which is a very respected survey group comparing the the approval of ais appointment and the way he is explaining what he is going to do as president to the past president s. And similar polls were taken all the way back to george bush sr. In 1989. He has low numbers. 40 on both. It does not appear that hes really building a base. Hes got a reliable base but he doesnt appear to be going beyond it. Kiersten, theres always twitter. Lets talk donald trump and twitter. Chuck yoens a Carrier Union boss who trump lashed out at last night is now receiving death threats. There it is right now. Do you think that trumps tweets are knee jerk reaction to the criticism of the carrier deal or is it more calculated than that . Could it be both a little bit . It could be both. Sning he is reacting at the moment and i think a lot of what he does is very calculated. He was getting great coverage for this deal that he did and this person comes along and basically rains on his parade and he has in the political Morning Consult poll, 60 of people thought better of donald trump after this deal, including about 42 of democrats. So now along comes somebody and says actually what you said wasnt true, its not that many people. The fact of the matter is, its still a lot of people. And donald trump, i think, another way to handle it would be to say, hey, lets figure this out and try to get these peoples jobs back. Instead, he attacks him and starts talking about something that hes really never said before, which is blaming jobs going to mexico on the unions. This is a new story line because before it was always that it was trade and globalization that was taking the jobs. That would have been the less reactionary and more diplomatic way. Should he be more careful . Yes. I think he should be more careful. But donald trump got to where he is with such an improbable election and success doing this the kind of stuff. So he probably feels, im doing this my way. I think were seeing a pattern emerge here and that is that donald trump approaches these questions of being president ial and governing from a power perspective and that is, do i have more power than the other side . Am i the alpha male in this situation . And im going to seize upon every situation and basically threaten the people who may oppose me or stand in my way. If you dont do this, im going to do that. You know, david, its different when youre knocking the media and knocking a big company. What about an individual like that . Essentially punching down . I dont think he was punching down although he did go after this union chief. I thought what we saw tonight in iowa, very importantly in this rally, after a series of threatening American Companies in this union chief and going after this union chief, tonight he was actually trying to bully china. He went after them right at the beginning, bringing Terry Branstad up, his new ambassador to china. He brought up a series of complaints he had about china that ordinarily would have been handled by diplomat s and quietly in order to get china to come around, especially trying to get chinese help on stopping the crazy North Koreans from blowing up things. But this pattern of constantly using threats, heres what i want to you do if you dont do it, boom, im going to hit you on something, that is, i think, very unlike any president ive seen. Its very new and i think may work for a while but ultimately it has real problems well run into real resistance down the road. I think the chinese, among others, will not be bullied. Keerston, what do you think . Because his supporters seem to like it. Is he an equal opportunity offender. Doesnt matter. Is that right . Hes very aggrieved and sees himself as being under attack and undervalued and i dont know that he thinks its punching down. I think he feels like hes on the same level. Counterpunch. Yeah, a counterpunch. Look, hes attacked reporters by name. Ive been attacked on twitter and hes singled out katy tur in the middle of tens of thousands of people, singled her out. I mean, putting her safety in jeopardy. He doesnt seem to understand the power that he has. I really dont think that he gets it, that he doesnt i think he just thinks its two people having a fight. I think he understands it all together too well. Thats the problem. Really . The power that he has. The power that heist has. Especially when its peoples safety. Because now that the union chief is saying that hes getting death threats, kristen mentioned katy tur and others and when he attacks someone, reporters, not just me, anyone, any reporter, most times they dont respond. But people do come after you, david. You think he understands that that is a threat to, you know, someones safety, when he attacks . Well, im not sure he appreciates the safety angle so much but i do think he wants to draw blood. And when he goes after boeing, as he did over the air force one costs, hes scoring points with people who want to cut government costs but mostly hes trying to bully boeing and they are apparently talking to him now. But the bigger issue is how he goes after these individual companies, saying if you now leave, im going to deregulate give you tax cuts and all the rest. If you leave anyway, im going to slap a 35 tariff on you. Youre not going to be able to sell your cars because the prices will go up 35 . Thats a pretty big threat. I want to move on to talk about this because i felt a certain kind of way about it in the beginning and then after thinking about it, i think i changed my mind. Were learning tonight that donald trump is going to stay on his executive producer of Celebrity Apprentice. New york times is also reporting that trump is going to turn his business over to his sons but will keep the stake in his company. We are in uncharted territory here. The second part we will talk about he will turn it over to his sons, but the fact that hes getting royalties from Celebrity Apprentice, a show that he helped make successful, i think the media is reading too much into that. Ronald reagan got royalties from movies he was in. The current president gets royalties from books. Whats the difference here. Is this a distinction without a difference . When i heard executive producer, to me that suggested he was having he was still having some sort of role in the production of the Celebrity Apprentice. If its just receiving royalties, yes, i agree, it would be the same as receiving royalties from a book. If he is producing and giving ideas yeah, if he is that involved, i would say no. He was hired to do a job. One job. Hes the president of the United States and thats what he needs to be spending his time on. David, what do you say . Well, i think look, i think the amount of money is minimal and its not worth talking about. I do think theres a question of taste. Do you really want to be connected as president of the state with Celebrity Apprentice all throughout your presidency . I would think that would you move on. I think the big question, the big enchilada is december 15th when he reveals what is he really doing about his company. Thats where the real conflicts are. Theres a conflict of nbc and nbc news will cover him throughout his presidency. And nbc owns the apprentice. Lets talk about his sons, though. You said hes going to keep a stake in the company. His sons are going to run it. Do you think thats enough . No. No . No, its not. The example that ive used before is imagine if Chelsea Clinton was running the Clinton Foundation and was working on the Transition Team, which is essentially whats happening right now with his children and then hillary was like, oh, and im just going to hand it off as president to chelsea and shes going to run this with bill clinton and people would be hysterical. Their heads would be exploding. This was donald trump criticized this when she was secretary of state. What if she was president . The new york times, who is liberal, they said if she won, they should give up all operational control, bill and chelsea. So i just dont understand how anyone would accept this. But i also hear, david, the surrogates are defending it using the opposite argument of what kiersten said, saying we should give him a chance. Everybody should give him a chance, the same chance that they gave Hillary Clinton. When did she get a chance . Shes not president elect so she had no chance. Defending it that way doesnt make sense. I dont even understand what that means in this context. Right. Listen, hes already got foreign diplomats going to his hotel in washington to throw parties. They are under pressure. They feel under pressure that when visiting heads of state or government come in here to washington, they shouldnt stay at blair house, they should stay at his hotel. And his people are going to be out looking for Hotel Opportunities in other countries. We just heard about taiwan and that sort of thing. That is paytoplay. That is fundamentally what we mean by pay to play. You pay your dues, put something into my kitty and then by the way ill have an audience with you and consider something. Thats what happened in centuries gone by. I think its fundamental and i think there will be constitutional questions. He can separate himself out. We ought to give him time to say, heres what im going to do and lets not judge it, prejudge it totally. Lets see where he comes out. If he really separates out, we ought to praise him for it. Im out of time. Thank you, david, kristen. Okay. When we come back, donald trump says he takes his cabinet appointments seriously. Apparently not that seriously. What do his picks tell us about his presidency . Afoot and lighthearted i take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me, the long brown path before me leading wherever i choose. The east and the west are mine. The north and the south are mine. 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I have to start with you because youre the only one here. Good evening, don. Lets talk trumps latest cabinet picks, shall we, his pick to head the epa is attorney general scott pruitt, a prominent critic of Climate Change science. What does this selection signal to you . Well, that he wants his people in there and reverse the direction weve been going in in the previous years. With the epa, it has a lot less to do with Climate Change. Were still trying to find out where trump stands on those issues but a lot more on the legal epa versus going through the rule of law and through congress. Versus acting on their own to change rules and regulations. Thats why pruitt got that job. So let me ask you this. There was the gore meeting. We discussed it. The Leonardo Dicaprio meeting. The buzz about ivanka trump acting as chimt czar. Was that all head faking . It looked like he might be shifting on policy. And then he picks a hard liner. First of all, cabinet secretaries carry out the president s policy. The important question is whether does donald trump stand on this issue. He said Climate Change was a chinese hoax. On another hand, he said hes open to listen to various ideas on it. I dont think we know yet what direction he will give the epa administrator or the secretary of state or the other people responsible for carrying out certain elements of the policy with Climate Change. Make no mistake, president s call the shots and cabinet secretaries carry them out. So if he has raised questions in the past about Climate Change, and i think what he has raised has been exaggerated, hes questioned the degree and extent to which Human Element has caused global warming. He has not denied that the globe is warming. Hes acknowledged it is. But it doesnt matter because its the president s policies that hes going to be charged with carrying out. Hes also suing the epa, correct . He is suing the epa along with 28 other attorney generals because the epa is overreached and i think thats why donald trump t