Loyalty for some of these high level positions. Mnuchin has been a close economic adviser to donald trump, he was a finance chairman for his campaign, and all of this sort of helped him end up getting the nod for this cabinetlevel position. The big question, though, is whether donald trump is ready to put some of those loyalties aside especially when it comes to filling that coveted secretary of state slot. Donald trump and mitt romney putting their past differences aside, at least for dinner. The two talking foreign policy, alongside trump chief of staff reince priebus. Over garlic soup and sauteed frog legs inside Trumps International hotel in new york. Do we have the next secretary of state right here . Well see what happens. Romney speaking to reporters after the meal showering praise on trump and the transition. We had another discussion of affairs throughout the world and these discussions ive had with him have been enlightening and interesting and engaging. Ive enjoyed them very, very much. Reporter and lauding the president elects accomplishments to a nod where he fell short in 2012. Its not easy winning. I know that myself. He did something i tried to do and was unsuccessful in accomplishing. He won the general election. And he continues with a message of inclusion and bringing people together. Reporter romneys remarks a sharp contrast to their bitter rivalry on the campaign trail. Donald trump is a phony, a fraud. Mitt was a disaster as a candidate. Reporter the president elect making his Economic Team official this morning. Can you, gentlemen, confirm that this has happened . We can, indeed. Were thrilled to be here and were thrilled to work for the president elect, and honored to have these positions. Former Goldman Sachs banker Steve Mnuchin as treasury secretary. But mnuchin is sure to face scrutiny for his tenure as a mortgage banker. Heading up a firm that made big money off of foreclosures. The dnc calling out trumps pledge to drain the swamp. Dubbing mnuchin a Billionaire Hedge Fund manager and Goldman Sachs alumnus who preyed on homeowners during the recession. Trump also selecting billionaire investor wilbur ross to lead the commerce department. Commerce secretary, sir . Time will tell. Reporter meanwhile, carrier announcing they have struck a deal with the Trump Administration to save at least 1,000 jobs at his factories in indiana. But so far the details of the deal havent been announced. Now, donald trump and mike pence will be doing a little bit of a victory lap on thursday. Theyre expected to visit the carrier plant in indiana. Meanwhile, trump is on twitter, teasing another public appearance, saying coming up december 15th, hes going to hold a press conference with his children, where hes going to explain how hes going to sever ties with his businesses. In this tweet storm he points out that hes not legally obligated to do it but that he thinks it is visually important. If he does take questions and hold a formal press conference it will be his first time doing so in a long while. Back to you, chris. Again when it comes to conflicts, the absence of a specific law does not mean there is an absence of responsibility. Lets talk about what we know and what we dont know. Bring our panel, cnn political commentator and democratic strategist john phillips. Cnn political commentator and donald trump supporter and kevin sherry, former Senior Adviser to mitt romney, president ial campaign. Paul begala, donald trump, gathered a lot of momentum from the populist segment of politics and saying im going to be for the blue collar again. Mnuchin former Goldman Sachs guy, widely criticized for running what was called a foreclosure machine, and wilbur ross, a guy who buys companies, and figures out how to make the most of their failing assets, do you think this works to trumps favor of being for the blue collar guy . Yeah, he waon fair and squar on a populous message but he said he would drain the swamp. Hes just bringing in bigger alligators. A couple of billionaires and a couple of washington insiders. Mr. Ross and mr. Mnuchin, billionaires from wall street, and then on the other side congressman tom price from georgia, longtime chairman of the budget committee, d. C. Insider of the first order and elaine chow, very important woman. Longest serving secretary of labor. And a good person but this is not draining the swamp. And mcconnells wife, also. She is. But you shouldnt hold that against her. Shes suffered enough. Im saying it gives her a pedigree. John phillips, these announcements why do you like them, specifically mnuchin and wilbur ross . Well Trumps Campaign was always aspirational. It was always, im rich, you can be rich, too. Im going to go out and hire the best. Im going to hire the brightest. Im going to go out and bring in skilled negotiators, people that are corporate sharks that know how to get the best deal possible, and theyre going to go in and theyre going to cut that deal for you. And i think thats what were seeing with these two picks. Hes also, he also ron on an outsider campaign, this was an outsider election. Voters wanted a change in course. They wanted someone to go in and bring a different look to the ball game. And thats also what these outsiders who hes putting in these cabinet positions are going to do. People learn more about what they did, though, theres going to be some blowback well see how he handles it. Kevin, mitt romney, what, how good was this dinner that he came out of this in a complete aboutface about all the things that he said about donald trump . How good is the food at jean georges and should i get there with my wife right away to try to heal some of my wrongs . We would all be lucky to dine there. Look, we dont know what was discussed at that dinner. But we do know from all the signals that theyre still having serious discussions, i still say this is a good sign for the party and the country that these two men are talking. Ultimately we dont know who donald pick donald trump is going to pick, and this is his decision to make. If he wants it, you know, if he wants to talk to the best men, and the best women in the country, hes doing it right now. Hes talked to an impressive alist of people going in and out of trump tower. And hes, you know, by all accounts his picks have been excellent. And you know, well just have to see what happens this week. Chris, can i object to something you said . Go ahead. Its only possible for dinner to be so good when youve got two tee totalers at the table. I would strongly disagree with that. I think food always makes the meal. But kevin let me get back to you about this for a second. I get why this might optically be good for trump, to show that he can put his arms around people but im saying for mitt romneys perspective, you know the man and the politician. He talked about trumps character. Not about, you know, things like oh, lets see what he does. Lets wait and see. He said that hes a con man, and a bad business guy. And now, hes either not saying those things or pretending they dont exist anymore. Why . Well, 2016 everyone in the Republican Party said pretty nasty things about each other and i think this is a good sign that they are able to get beyond that, and have serious discussions about the future of the country. And thats what this is all about. This isnt about anyones personal pride. Its not about what happened in the campaign. This is about whats best for the country. And i think both men, you know, believe in a sense of duty, and i certainly think mitt romney does. We dont know ultimately who hes going to offer this position to. I think if he offers it to mitt romney hell have to make that decision at that time. Only time will tell if thats going to happen. Look, hes talking to great people. He cant go wrong with his secretary of state pick. These are three or four really excellent picks. Now john phillips, carrier, trump is waving his victory flag, look i got jobs to stay here, im not even president yet, imagine whats going to happen. Do you know how he got carrier to stay . Look, he ran on the theme of keeping jobs in the United States, and not Incentivizing Companies to move out i know, but do you know how he did it . Because theres a real concern of people looking at the deal, what inducements mean. You know, are these taxpayers in indiana basically paying to keep their own jobs . Do we know . And should we know . Should we know the detail of how he kept carriers jobs . Yeah, look, that is not something thats uncommon. Those of us here in the state of california do that all the time with film subsidies to try to keep the studios from moving to new mexico and canada and louisiana. Its what you have to do to protect your economy. Were a company town. Were a hollywood town. And if hollywood leaves california, were toast. And if manufacturing leaves the midwest, which they have in large numbers, that area is going to be economically depressed forever. If they want to bounce back, if they want to come back, they have to keep those jobs there. Is it as simple as that, paul . First of all the United States is the number one manufacturing economy in the World Everybody thinks its china, its not, chinas growing much more quickly but does it matter how those jobs were kept and what that means for how other Companies May come to the government thats the problem. I actually applaud him using the bully pulpit to beat up on a powerful corporation to keep jobs in america did he pay them . Thats what we dont know. For years theres been bills in congress to have an exit tax they call it, Tax Companies ship jobs overseas instead of tax cuts. President obama has proposed that year after year and the Republican Congress has killed it. Now president elect trump seems to have the same position. I hope he can pass a law. Because if he doesnt have a law that sets the same tax code for everybody, punishing jobs overseas, rewarding jobs here at home every ceo will know they can hold their jobs hostage and get a special deal we dont want that. As a oneoff its a good thing though absolutely you want more jobs in the country especially if theyre good jobs bounce back to up for one quick one kevin. The idea of conflict. Theyre real. Donald trump dealing with that in a twitter feed this morning saying theyre there going to be legal documents separating him completely from the company and you know, to string him up to be just about the country. Do you think that we should see whats in those documents . Well, donald trump, this is the biggest cloud that could be hanging over his presidency, because he does not want the idea that everything hes doing is a conflict of interest. So were just going to have to see what happens on december 15th, and what his legal team whos excellent is going to come up with. To be able to separate him from his business. And thats not going to be an easy task because he is his business and his brand is obviously him, and thats not an easy task and weve never really seen this before but i have trust in his legal team that theyre going to be able to figure out some way to separate him from his business and right but as reagan said trust but verify do you think the media, or at least Congress Oversight committee should see the documents, so we can have confidence in what is being done in the name of the United States . I have confidence that he will present something. Im not sure exactly which documents well see ultimately. But i think hes going to have to present something to the American People, and you know, instill in the American People some trust that hes going to do everything he can for the American People and for his business and thats just going to have to come in time when his legal team comes out with their kevin, john, paul, thank you, as always. Alisyn . All right, chris we want to get an update on another big story that is unfolding this week and thats the north dakota pipeline. Thousands of veterans are now pledging to act as human shields for protesters who are blocking the Dakota Access pipeline all of this as calls for the demonstrators to leave grow stronger. Cnns sara sidner is live near cannonball, north dakota, with the latest. Sarah, what is the latest there . Were hearing the morning prayers here in the camp. This is the largest camp for the Standing Rock sioux and all their supporters. This is also the camp that the governor has said he wants evacuated. Hes ordered an evacuation. Theres also some word from Law Enforcement that they were going to stop people from being able to come in and out of the camp, and stop supplies. But then they sort of backtracked both backtracked on that saying, look, were worried about the weather. We may ticket people but were not going to actually stop people from moving in and out, and bringing in for example food. But i do want to let you hear from one of the tribal members whory acted to the governors statement that he was trying to people safe by making them evacuate from this camp and they say theyre not going anywhere. The governor, if you want to make this safer, then stop the Dakota Access pipeline. Stop the whole thing completely. You want to poison our people . Thats the only way that anyone is going to stop . Mmhmm. That is the sentiment here. There are no longer just hundreds of people but thousands of people who are inside this camp and as you can see the temperatures are frigid. Theres a very large amount of snow that is covering the tepees, and the yurts but people are saying theyre not going anywhere and they have set up new checkpoints here so that you have to basically get permission to come into this camp. All right. 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All right that was congressman tim ryan, addressing confidence before the vote to become leader of the democrats today. Ryan is trying to unseat incumbent nancy pelosi who has held a leadership role since 2003. Joining us now is democratic congresswoman Debbie Dingle of michigan. She is supporting mrs. Pelosi to keep her position as House Minority leader. Congresswoman, thanks so much for being here. Good morning. Its good to be with you. What do you think tim ryans chances are at this upset . I think Nancy Pelosis going to be reelected as leader this morning. I have a great deal of respect for tim. He gets in his gut like i do, and said what was happening in the midwest, but ours is not the only issue that matters in a very diverse caucus. And i say nancy has been a good leader at pulling ought of the district issues together which we have to be to be united to take on some of the challenges were going to be facing in this next congress. Congressman ryan was on new day yesterday and i asked him what his beef is with Nancy Pelosis leadership and he said it basically comes down to math for him. He said she had not delivered on winning, and he said that you all are down 60 seats since 2010. He says thats the smallest number in the Democratic Caucus in 87 years. How can you argue with that logic . Because i dont think its one person. I think that one of the things that weve all got to start recognizing as members that were all part of that. And we need somebody who is battle tested. Donald trump has made clear hes going to privatize social security, privatize medicare, pry to develop a muslim registry. We have to have somebody who is not afraid to take on a fight. That its going to represent everybody and bring us all together. Ive had very long talks with the leader over the last two years about whats happening in the midwest and i know she hears them. But the discontent is heard also through members of the black caucus, the coastal versus the different geographical regions. You cant go into this and be a leader and only focus on one thing. And the president ial campaign is what where some of the failures occurred in this last election. Most decidedly a downticket effect. Nancy pelos