Camerota. We say hello to you and welcome to your new day. President elect donald trump announcing new appointments to his cabinet 30 days after claiming victory. Trump picking another general. This is his third. This time to lead homeland security. He also tapped a Climate Change skeptic to head up the epa. This as the president elect takes to twitter to target a union boss who called him a liar for getting the facts of the carrier deal wrong. We will speak to that union chief in just moments. We are 43 days away from mr. Trumps inauguration. So, lets begin our coverage with cnn National Correspondent sunlen serfaty. There has been a flurry of announcements in the last 24 hours coming from the trump transition team. The president elect making some big picks for key roles in his administration, but trump is also spending his time taking to twitter. Getting into a war of words with a local union leader who has been critical of trumps claims over jobs actually saved at carrier. Reporter president elect donald trump naming two more hardliners to his cabinet. Elevating Climate Change denier and fierce epa critic Oklahoma Attorney general scott pruitt to run the agency. There were a number of qualified candidates that the president elect interviewed and he settled on attorney general pruitt. Reporter 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. T 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 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. Thank you. Democrats and environmentalists are fired up about Oklahoma Attorney general Scott Pruitts nomination. John jones joins us now with more. Why are they so fired up . Scott pruitt calls himself a leading advocate against what he says is the epas activist agenda and now donald trump wants to put him in control of the agency. It created a storm of outrage on the left. One former top aide to the Obama Administration calling pruitt an existential threat to the planet. 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 is like the fox guarding the hen house. He has fought to 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 or science 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 a glimmer of hope for middle ground by meeting with al gore who has been a leading voice on the issue of Climate Change. Alisyn. Joe, thanks so much. Chris collins, currently the cochair of president elect trumps House Leadership Committee and services. He also serves on the house energy and commerce committee. Good morning, congressman. Yes, good morning, alisyn. Lets talk about scott pruitt. How is it going to work when a fierce critic of the epa is put in charge of the epa . Well, as a fellow fierce critic of the epa, i know hes going to roll back the regulations that have been an overreach. The epa has gone to extreme measures whether it was a couple years ago or last year. The waters of the u. S. Trying to regulate and call mud puddles in a pasture navigable waters. The overreach of the epa as the republicans have said have hurt our economy, have hurt our farmers. Certainly hurt our Energy Production and doing so driven up the cost of energy. So, i look at attorney general pruitt as someone who understands balance. The epa is out of balance. Theyve gone to the extreme. Yeah. He will bring it back in balance and we all want clean water and we all want clean air. But there is an extreme where you start driving up the costs of living and doing business in america, overregulation and then the federal government stomping on states rights. He will correct that overreach. Now, during the primary, donald trump said that he actually vowed to abolish the epa. Is that really whats happening here . No, its not abolishing the epa but bringing them back and understanding the importance of states rights and be Energy Independent and we need a policy which includes fossil fuels. It wont be abolishing the epa but rolling back hundreds, if not thousands of regulations that was simply an overreach. Lets bring them back into the common sense world where we all live and not have the extremists. Congressman, does scott pruitt believe in Climate Change . I think all of us, including scott pruitt would say that human activity certainly has an impact on the environment. Whether you want to use the word climate and climate and the environment. But, again, the extreme that the epa has gone to in the past thats impacted our basically standard of living in this country that has to be rolled back. Youve just said you have to put things first. Dont go to the extremes. We all know human activity has an impact on the environment and hence on climate. But its not the top priority of the United States. We have less than 4 of the population of the world even live in our country and we dont control the other 96 . If we want to talk about the real issues its china and its india and its mexico and others. Sure. That are polluting the environment. Its not the United States of america. But what about the treaties . The paris treaties. The accords. Where the United States is part of a global community, International Community vowing to do whatever they can do to keep manmade emissions down so as not to enhance Global Warming. Where is scott pruitt on those . Well, i cant say where our next epa head is on those. If we look, the United States is so far ahead of most of the world, especially, you know, where 80 of the people live. And thats the problem. Were starting from a different point. If you look at our air and our water and compare that to what you see in china and some other, you know, countries that are, in fact, causing problems around the world, thats the real issue. It was not that were starting from the same place. But driving up our costs would put more and more workers in the United States out of work. And were all about bringing the jobs back. There it is. Thats exactly the crux of the argument. Because environmentalists and people who are certain, they say, of the science of Global Warming feel that Scott Pruitts loyalties lie with the fossil fuel industry. And not with the environment. They lie with the workers of the United States who need to bring some jobs back, some manufacturing jobs. At some point i suppose if nobody goes to work we wont have to worry about much more pollution. We need to get people back to work in this country. We need Affordable Energy and Energy Independent and just the overreach. Whats happened the last eight years under president obama. Some of these agencies have just gone rogue on the American Public and we just need to bring them back to the center. Speaking of jobs and certainly americanmade products, why is it that the House Republicans there was a water bill, as im sure you know. And inserted into it was a provision that for the future Infrastructure Projects to only use American Made iron and steal products. Yet, House Republican tried to spike that provision and they ended up in a place where it will only last for a year. Why . Why would House Republicans not want it to just be American Made steel . Well, theres a balance here. And the balance is how far do our dollars go. Were going to have to not put a straitjacket on ourselves. And while Everyone Wants to do what they can in this country, there is always the cost factor and i think theres the balance that a mandate like that would put us in a straitjacket. I think theres no question. Everyone wants to buy u. S. Made products. We need to bring our manufacturing back to this country to put people to work. Why not have that provision . Do you agree do you believe that American Made steel should be the First Priority and that is what we should use for our Infrastructure Projects . Im somebody who believes in a competitive free market and, you know, encouraging the minute you put Something Like that in place i think costs may actually go up because competition has been restricted. Im somebody who just believes in competition. Believes in the best value for taxpayers. Okay. To get the most work we can done for the least amount of dollars. Did you disagree with the carrier deal that the president elect just struck to keep jobs here even though it will be more expensive for carrier . Well, carrier made that decision and i applaud them on that decision. The federal government is not throwing money into that deal. Well, theyre getting state incentives. Theyre getting trump did, obviously, apply public pressure. So, did you approve of that . Oh, yes. Good for president elect trump to stand up and do what he can to try to keep jobs here. And i applaud him on that and a private Company Makes their own decisions. Carrier made the decision to stay. Governor pence very, very small amount of money given. I only wish new york could get jobs or save jobs at that same dollar level. We have a couple zeros after ours. No, i thought it was a reasonable move and i think somewhat surprising. But, boy, we were all glad. Certainly those 1,000 or so families that are going to be having a merry christmas. Congressman Chris Collins, thanks for being on new day. President elect donald trump slamming a union boss who called him a liar over the carrier jobs deal. We get chuck jones side of the story when he joins us live next. Good morning, mr. Jones. I take. 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. All seems beautiful to me. Why are you checking your credit score . You dont want to drive old blue forever, do you . [brakes squeak] credit karma, huh . Yep, its free. Credit karma. Give yourself some credit. President elect donald trump firing back at a local union leader in indiana who called him a liar over the terms of the carrier jobs deal. The union chief says trumps numbers do not add up. Heres what trump said in his announcement last week in indiana. The United Technologies and carrier stepped it up and now theyre keeping actually the numbers over 1,100 people. Which is so great. Which is so great. Are they keeping jobs . Yes. But its hundreds of jobs. 800, not the number that the president elect put out. The extra 300 administrative engineering jobs that make up the total were never going to mexico. Despite the incentives to keep jobs in indiana, carrier will still shift 550 jobs to mexico next year and there may be more to come. We have the man at the center of this very public feud with the president elect chuck jones. He is the president of the united Steel Workers 1999 union there. Good to have you, mr. Jones. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. So, if i had to hazard to guess it was you saying that the president elect lied his blank off that got him to go after you on twitter. Do you regret saying that . No, i do not. Maybe, you know, the choice of words werent the best, but the message was the same. He didnt tell the truth. He inflated the numbers and i called him out on it. That means that you believe that the president elect knew that the real number wasnt 1,100 and said that anyway. How do you know that . I do not know that to be a fact. But, you hear all the time how much of a skilled negotiator that he is. You know, he says about himself. So, ive been in a lot of negotiations as a union representative. So, i would have to assume that he knew the world knew the precise numbers or should have. He said the reality is youed the be thanking him because you failed to keep the jobs there because youre not being effective as a union leader. Fair criticism . Well, you know, hes not listing everything i said. Any time ive talked to the media, one of the first things ive said is i thank him very much for getting involved in help save the 800 jobs that are going to remain here in indianapolis. The people we are very grateful for what he did. So, hes not listening to that. So, what is the reality for the workers at carrier . We had one of your workers, one of your Union Members on one of our shows last night and it seems that the concern is that people see this as a good thing, obviously, that more people will get to have paychecks for the holidays for their families. But that it belies the reality of how the jobs are being lost and how the wages are coming down at carrier and Industries Like it. What is the reality . Well, the reality is were grateful, once again, to have 730 of our members still have a job. And its due to president elect trump getting involved. My problem is when they put out earlier in the week that 1,100 and some odd jobs were g