good saturday to you from the white house. where 68 days from almost right now, donald trump will arrive as the 45th president of the united states. we'll be with you for the next couple of hours. i'm leland vittert. >> i'm elizabeth prann. right here on capitol hill on pennsylvania avenue. donald trump is now hiring. the president-elect has 68 days to staff his administration. about 1,000 high-ranking appointments requiring senate confirmation. mr. trump making his first big move replacing new jersey governor chris christie with vice president-elect mike pence. doug has more on the transition of power from new york. hi, doug. >> reporter: hi, elizabeth. the big news out of the transition team is that mike pence is taking the hell am now as chairman replacing governor chris christie, and moved to vice chairman. it came a week after two of governor christie's aides were convicted in the bridgegate trial. insiders say this was no demotion. >> how can you say he's demoted? you have the vice president-elect of the united states coming into washington as the number two person in washington, so i think all mr. trump was trying to do is give governor pence or vice president-elect pence the role that he thinks he deserves to have in running and organizing the government. >> because pence has long washington experience, and christie does not, trump may see pence as the right guy to build the best team. remember, there are 4700 jobs to fill over the next nine weeks. all this as protests continue outside trump tower in new york and beyond for a third consecutive night. the scene outside trump tower, a bit chaotic. police found an unattended package and moved hundreds of protesters and reporters out of potential harm's way. nothing was there. hundreds of people spray pasting graffiti. one man was shot by a man who got into a confrontation with a protester and then opened fire. in los angeles, dallas, miami, boston, kansas city, burlington, vermont and many other cities, too. >> doug, thank you so much. >> and a little bit more on the protest. live pictures right now. union square, new york, on this saturday afternoon, where people are gathered to express their disapproval of donald trump's election to the presidency. you'll hear them chanting as they're chanting "not my president." as doug reported, thousands of people across the country have been demonstrating against the president-elect this week from iowa city, to ft. worth to los angeles. most of the protests have been peaceful, but some have incited episodes of violence and disrupted traffic, particularly screen left upper box. portland, oregon, where emotions were high. as well as in miami. [ chanting not my president ] >> he hee not going to take away my rights. >> the latest comes from portland, oregon, where hundreds marched through the street. police had to throw tear gas and flash-bang grenades after protesters threw burning objects at them. a couple of hours ago when we arrived for the show, there was a crowd gathered along the north fence chanting "love trump's hate. "and here at the white house, and the secret service guard shack, they have brought out some of their riot gear to be at the ready. i asked one secret service sergeant, i said, what with the riot gear? he said, this week, who knows what will happen. >> on the property of congress, it's been very peaceful. we haven't seen any protesters, just a gorgeous saturday. a lot of unknowns, like you said. in washington, the halls of congress are adjusting to the new administration now that republicans control both chambers as well as the white house. it remains to be seen just how much compromise will happen over the next four years. molly joins us now with more. hi, molly. >> hi, liz. president-elect donald trump is a washington outsider. but he's an outsider who knows a lot of the key people on capitol hill. republicans and democrats. some who did support him in the election and others who didn't. trump met with house speaker paul ryan on thursday. ryan showed trump the view from the speaker's balcony. ryan said he did vote for trump in early voting but had pointedly campaigned or voiced support for trump in october. still, the two men said they are ready to work together on legislation. trump also met with senate republican majority leader mitch mcconnell on thursday. mcconnell said republicans have a, quote, temporary lease on power, but warned it would be a mistake to, quote, misread your mandates. meaning overreach the legislation. also expected to play a big role in trump's hill outreach as his new vp, a former congressman leading the transition. >> makes perfect sense to have vice president-elect mike pence with this role, because first of all, most of the transition will go on in d.c., some of it here in new york, but also because mike pence will be vice president. >> and chuck schumer, the likely senate minority leader. schumer is and has been friends with president-elect trump. >> they've already begun to talk. he's a smart transactional person. and i think we'll get along just fine. >> mcconnell said he would be, quote, shocked if congress did not move forward to appeal obamacare. trump said he wants to repeal and replace it, while leaving two parts of the law intact, coverage for preexisting conditions and allowing adults up to 26 years old to stay on their parents' health care. >> so fascinating. we'll also see the different fak so factions in congress. >> and how schumer will work with the factions of the democratic party as well, perhaps those on the more aggressive end of the party. >> leland? >> only in washington is calling someone transactional considered a compliment, making the transactions, making those deals is the responsibility of an awfully big team here at the white house. since wednesday morning's victory, the trump team has been burning the midnight oil, trying to vet people who will end up running the country. new york congressman chris collins is a member of the trump transition team and joins us now from lancaster, new york. congressman, i appreciate you being here. i imagine there are a lot of phone calls from old friends now looking for jobs. >> well, certainly a lot of people want to participate in this moment in time to make america great again for all americans. so absolutely, there are many people now that are energized, that would love to be part of what we're going to do to transform america, get it back to 4% gdp growth. and absolutely reduce the size of the bloated bureaucracy, bring efficiency in the government. i'm one of the few people that has ever through my role as an executive implemented business efficiency into a large municipal government. it worked fabulously in our county. and i think i can bring some of those principles to the transition team. as we know, we want to reduce the size of government, empower, not enable people, but empower them. >> i want to get to this issue of the transition team. what has been your marching orders now from vice president-elect pence who is leading the transition? what's your marching orders on who to find, what kind of people to hire? if you look at the list right now, rudy giuliani there as part of the transition team, reince priebus part of the transition team. and vice president-elect pence part of the transition team. these aren't exactly outside rs at the top of this letter. >> the transition team has been moving for the last month or so already. we just put together -- president-elect trump just put together the formal team yesterday. i'll be back in d.c. on monday. we'll find out exactly what our role is. at the end of the day, to make sure we're vetting these candidates, to make sure they are endorsing change, are certainly focused on the mission of downsizing government, less regulation. >> but so far no litmus test about insider versus outsider, looking just for the best person for the job. >> it is all about the best and brightest. again, taking president-elect trump's vision of making america great again. it's certainly smaller government, less intrusive government, like all of the above energy policies, and priority one is obviously getting rid of most of obamacare if need be through reconciliation, and getting a replacement plan that frankly the republicans have been working on for years. so it's tweaking that, as we move forward. >> you talked about tweaking it. i want to show you what president-elect trump had to say about it on "60 minutes." >> repeal it or replace it. we're not going to have like a two-day period. we're not going to have a two-year period where there's nothing. it will be repealed and replaced. and we'll know. it will be great health care for much less money. >> during the campaign, we heard from then candidate trump saying that he wanted to completely eliminate obamacare. now we're hearing that things like leaving the mandate for preexisting conditions there, and also older children can stay on their parents' plans, those seem to be okay to stick around now. where is the balance here? >> well, that's always been a part of our republican replacement plan. it was somewhat frustrating to hear the democrats always talking about, in fact, those two good positions that we would be eliminating, we've said from day one, keeping kids under 26 on their parents' policies, making sure we take care of those in one way or another. folks with proceed existing conditions. and the third piece is making sure we don't have limits on lifetime coverage. those have always been for the last two or three years part of our replacement plan. and there's nothing inconsistent with repealing obamacare, in recognizing that in at least those two or three situations, those are good common-sense policies that will be -- >> congress has also -- a lot of folks we talked to said they worry about the 20 million people who have been helped by obamacare. a lot of people seeing rising premiums on the other side. is there a balance there of making sure the 20 million people stay insured as well? >> well, again, leland, there's no question what we can do is getting rid of those, for instance, the list of mandates that every policy has to have, and some of the nonsense. we can get back to patient centric care. we can talk about high deductibles with hsas which we think are wonderful. obamacare did not like health savings accounts. we are not going to leave millions and millions of americans stranded. we can come up with more cost-effective plans that allow businesses to develop with insurance companies, plans that work for them and their employees. i believe you'll see health savings accounts front and center in what our plan is. and they were left in the dust by obamacare. >> last question, just a quick yes or no. if the president asked you to leave congress and make the 16-block trek up pennsylvania avenue to make the transition, would you do it? >> i already explained to the president-elect the answer is no. i'll stay in congress to best serve this nation. i've already explained that to president-elect trump. i think i can do a lot-the next four years, and eight years, in my role on the energy and commerce committee. >> that is a refreshingly blunt answer to that question that so many here in washington have been getting the past week. congressman, appreciate you joining us. come back as you do more good work and let us know about it. >> we sure will, leland. thanks. have a great day. >> all the best, sir. >> as president-elect trump and republicans prepare to take-the white house, democrats are asking themselves what went wrong. the party suffered losses up and down the ticket this week. one democratic strategist had to reach way back last night on "special report" to find a time in history when his party was in such disarray. >> the democratic party is at its worst point since ulysses s. grant. it didn't matter what kind of democrat you were tuesday night. if you were a populist, or centric like murphy of florida, you lost. so all wings of the party have some soul-searching to do. >> and here for some soul searching, democratic strategist and served on the clinton campaign national finance team. sir, first of all, appreciate you joining us on this beautiful say. >> great to be here. >> for so long we have been talking and dissecting the autopsy report that republican leaders gave. excuse the sirens in the background, in 2012. were we misplaced in that -- in our observations there? should we have been focused on the democratic party at that time? >> i think that's a great question, elizabeth. the democrats made a failure as well in not realizing that their broad coalitions in 2008 and 2012 were in part because of the candidate at the top of the ticket. president obama was able to bring so many people to the polls and lost in the fact that he was so successful, that a normal candidate hillary clinton, mike dukakis, other democrats haven't been able to bring that coalition to the polls. if you look at what happened in wisconsin, there are ten counties at least where tammy baldwin won, barack obama won, and donald trump won. that indicates that some of those obama coalition people did not go for hillary clinton. >> and a lot of the blue we saw turn red. i do want to ask you, we saw an op-ed by debbie dingle, i said hillary clinton was in trouble in michigan. she went on to reference a number of local chambers of commerce, union halls, a lot of conversations that she was having with voters. are there situations such as debbie dingel who said, i'm seeing red flags here, come to my state, come talk to these voters, they're really undecided? >> i think to some degree, yes. i also think the polling was off. i think the clinton campaign did an incredible job running the campaign, and their analysis looked like they were poised for victory. it's easy to look back and say they screwed this, they screwed that up. perhaps the push for diversity and inclusion in politics, didn't appeal to the folks in the rust belt, in those union halls, those former reagan democrats. but it's hard to say that they blew it by not realizing that. the polling in michigan predicted an easy clinton victory. >> we've been talking about that polling a lot. i want to look forward with you because that what we do, with elook forward. in two years, democrats will be defending dozens of seats in the senate. so who is at the hell am? where is the leadership in the democratic party looking forward? there are still vulnerabilities. >> i'm glad that the choice of the dnc is not going to be until next year. because the one thing we should not do is rush to judgment and decide this is the solution. keith elison's put his name in the hat, but so have so many other people. sanders appeals to the disaffected white voters, like in missouri where we didn't do well at the national level. howard dean understands you have to build the party -- >> he's not new. >> that's the problem. but what he talks about is we need to build the party from the ground up across all 50 states. that's something unfortunately president obama did not do as we would have liked over his term. >> are you going to be able to get them back? >> it's not easy. and one thing we need to do is look at areas we did very well. so we did very well, we exceeded expectations in the latino vote. that's why somebody like john perez is an interesting pick. the 18 elections which you alluded to a second ago are difficult for us in this regard because it's most red state senators, up for democrats. so picking a very liberal progressive to run the party could be difficult for them to defend. >> sure. wish we had more time. thank you so much. it's fascinating. we appreciate you looking forward for us. >> good to be with you. >> thank you. >> fox news is your place to see all angles of what comes after the election. tomorrow at 11:00 a.m., "mediabuzz," how the media missed the signs that president-elect trump would win and how they will cover mr. trump going forward. of course, fox news sunday will be talking to trump senior adviser kellyanne conway about how the transition is going. our own shannon will be hosting a special night edition of "special report" at 8:00 p.m. eastern tomorrow. she'll be speaking with republican senator tom cotton and tucker carlson, his new show, tucker carlson premieres monday. check it out. >> there's already been so much that's happened in this week since the election. one of the poignant moments here at the white house, especially on thursday, there when president-elect trump showed up. i don't think that is the video, but it may be of some of the white house staffers. this looks like video from when hillary clinton lost there. people leaving her campaign headquarters and victory party in tears. we saw some of the same scenes here at the white house on wednesday when president obama was issuing his statement in the rose garden saying now is the time to come together, telling his staff, now is the time to welcome president-elect trump and his administration. there were many in the white house staffers in tears as well. not only during president obama's remarks, but also as the staff made their way back to the old executive office building out of the rose garden. it was almost as though these folks were leaving a funeral of a long lost friend or something like that. as they were coming to grips with this idea that what they thought was going to happen on tuesday, so clearly did not, elizabeth. >> well, yeah, you certainly saw the tale of two reactions. we saw a lot of people who took the election very, very personally. we saw pictures, as you mentioned, that night, election night. we saw pictures of the transition team there at the white house, very upset. the fact of the matter is, there is a president-elect and you also hear resounding voice saying, this president was elected and now it is time to buckle up the boots and get to work. we know the president has to pick thousands of people in his staff. especially people very, very close to him in the cabinet. so a lot of work needs to be done. people are looking forward. >> dare i quote president obama who once said, elections have consequences. coming up, we will talk about those consequences. will winning the white house change president-elect trump into a washington insider, instead of an agent of change, and what will his millions of supporters think about that, and what do they want. plus, four americans lost their lives in afghanistan after a taliban attack. we'll tell you how defense secretary ash carter is remembering them today from bagram, afghanistan. meanwhile, in iraq, the battle for mosul against isis rages on. greg talcott is literally at the tip of the spear. greg? >> reporter: i'm in irbil, iraq, with the fighting against isis in mosul intensifies. i'll have that story coming up. you don't let anything keep you sidelined. that's why you drink ensure. with 9 grams of protein and 26 vitamins and minerals. for the strength and energy to get back to doing... ...what you love. ensure. always be you. welcome back to the white house on this saturday. an ohio judge has declared a mistrial in the case of a university of cincinnati police officer charged with killing an unarmed black man. the judge came to a decision after the jury spent about 25 hours deadlocked in deliberations over the case. the 26-year-old officer, ray tensing, was arrested last year after investigators say he shot 43-year-old sam dubose in the head when he was trying to drive away from a traffic stop. the prosecutor will decide in the next two weeks whether he will try the young officer again. we have a fox news alert for you on afghanistan. four americans have been killed and more than a dozen people have been injured in an apparent suicide bombing inside bagram air force base. defense secretary ash carter has released a statement expressing his condolences to the families of two of the service members. u.s. contractors were also killed. he also sent condolences to those family members. for those who carried out the attack, my message is simple, we will not be deterred in our mission to protect our homeland and help afghanistan secure its own future. the taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack. >> in iraq, it is isis that is the real threat to american troops on the ground acting as advisers. fierce fighting continues in the isis strong hold of mosul. as radical fighters say death is the outcome. greg palkot live in irbil, iraq. are they making any progress? >> reporter: some progress, leland. but yes, a long and difficult fight. in fact, it's been nearly four weeks since this massive operation has been launched to evict isis from the city of mosul. not too far from where we are. things have only gotten worse. the reports we're getting today inside the city, iraqi forces have been clashing with militants in two different neighborhoods in eastern mosul. a terror car bomb setting up a massive gun fight there. the people we've been speaking with, say iraqi soldiers are doing well, but the foe is maniac maniacal. the terrorists have no rules so it's hard to strategize against them. in the past couple of days, they said isis has killed 70 civilians for so-called treachery, and then strung their bodies up at intersections in the city. the fight gets harder, the civilians human shields get closer to the terrorists. the iraqi forces and u.s.-led coalition are being called in. they aren't too useful in urban warfare, so are big iraqi tanks used in some districts. basically the soldiers are on their own against isis. the flow of refugees is accelerating. we've been watching the last couple of days a massive new camp being built. 50,000 people have fled the fighting so far. officials say maybe as many as 800,000 could get out a long time ago. maybe about two months ago. thinking that perhaps isis would see the cards stacked against them and turn and run. guess what, they haven't. back to you. >> as we think about this, greg, you've got obviously the iraqi special forces, but the peshmerga are a key ally in the fight against isis. they've complained the obama administration has not given them the weapons they need. has that changed? do they had have the weapons or are they now looking to the trump administration for the keps come january? >> reporter: they're looking to the future, leland. we've been speaking to peshmerga official the the last couple of days and they were disappointed in the obama administration, feeling they did not supply them with enough weaponry and enough equipment. they say they are very hopeful that a new trump administration could do that. remains to be seen, however, in an interview yesterday with the "wall street journal," donald trump said he might cut off the moderate rebels on the syrian side of the border doing battle with assad. we'll see what happens. >> a lot of decisions for the incoming president. greg palkot in iraq where it is already saturday night. we'll have jack keene talk about what donald trump will do for the military in office. when liz and i return here from washington. can i give it to you straight? that airline credit card you have... it could be better. it's time to shake things up. with the capital one venture card, you get double miles on everything you buy, not just airline purchases. seriously, think of all the things you buy. great...is this why you asked me to coffee? 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how do we translate from candidate trump to president trump? we saw a couple of days ago as the protests began, president-elect trump tweeting about the presidential election. he said, i just had a very successful presidential election. that is as raw and tough of a tweet as you get. in the next morning, he follows it up with this next tweet, love the fact that small groups of protesters last night have passion for our great country. we will all come together and be proud. clearly those are two very different voices he's speaking with. does he run the risk as he tries to become too presidential of losing all those traits you just talked about, and thus, his support? >> well, i think that what the president-elect needs to pivot to now is really focus on the business at hand. there is certainly some indications in the last couple of days in comments that he's made, for example, he doesn't wish to discuss, you know, the possibility of trying to go after hillary clinton for possible injustices in the past, but rather, to focus on the business at hand, of job growth, of the economy, of making smart decisions. and frankly, i think that's where he needs to go. he needs to get away from a number of the social issues that, frankly, a lot of the electorate feel that are things that have bogged us down over the last number of years. and people really want to get on to what they elected him for, which was -- which is to develop our society. >> also, as you pointed out, so often, brent, elected him because of all of the qualities of his personality that are so different than typical politicians. so many people in focus groups saying all along, even if they didn't necessarily agree with him, they kind of liked his perspective. present fr brent from minneapolis, thank you, sir. iraqi forces still pushing forward to regain mosul. we will have the very latest from iraq. and overseas, the united kingdom celebrates armistice day, the holiday that recognizes the end of world war i. >> if i should die, think only this of me, that there's some corner of a foreign field that is forever england. remember when you said that men are superior drivers? yeah... yeah, then how'd i'd get this... allstate safe driving bonus check? ... only allstate sends you a bonus check for every six months you're accident-free ... silence. it's good to be in, good hands. we celebrate veterans day here in the united states, but in the uk, they celebrate armistice day which marks the end of world war i. head of memorial services all over the country. prince harry represented the royal family at the national memoriam to read a poem and lead then a moment of silence. one of president-elect trump's promises is that he would take better care of u.s. vets and rebuild our military. but how will his plan work exactly? we're now going to bring in retired general jack keene to tell us what should be done at the top of trump's military agenda. general, first of all, thank you so much for joining us. i heard you talk very often this week, really, that we do have the best military in the world. on the show in particular, we have had the undersecretary of the army, we've talked to the secretary of the air force on this show. and keep in mind, i have a feeling there's a trump addition when it comes to readiness. are our men and women ready? >> yeah, that's a great question. having the best military is one thing. but what i want our viewers to understand is the military has to be so superior, that our adversaries do not want to challenge us, because we're such a credible deterrent, much as we were during the cold war and the soef yent union never p stepped up to challenge us because we had the incredible deterrence. what has happened is we have eroded that superiority over the last eight years, because of the drawdown in the budgets. and first is readiness. and readiness is a serious problem in all services, and particularly as it pertains to pilot training, maintenance of aircraft and pilot safety. second, the chief of staff of the army has come before the congress of the united states, and he said something that no service chief has said in 40 years, and it's simply this, i'm not certain i could win a conventional war. as a matter of fact, i believe the united states army is at high military risk to achieve victory. that is stunning. and why is that? because only one-third of the united states army's combat fighting units are indeed ready. those are some of the serious problems we have in front of us. >> okay. who can make them ready? we immediately say the commander in chief can make them ready. we can speculate how he will be the commander in chief, we can also look at him on the campaign trail, what he told voters how he would be the commander in chief. one sound byte i want to play is back in december of 2015. i want to get your reaction. take a listen. >> i would bomb the [ bleep ] out of them. i'd blow up every single inch. >> all right. so we all know that the president-elect trump can be provocative and right down to the point. i want to ask you, he also said, i'm not sure if it was in that particular speech, where we as voters may not be privy to his plan, but he will have a plan. do you have confidence, and what strategy should he have going forward? >> yeah, well, first of all, to answer the readiness issue, this is a question of dollars. the president and congress have to put dollars back in the defense department budget and then hold that department accountable make sure that money is spent effectively and not wasted. when it comes to the bombastic statement made on the campaign trail, he also made a more explanatory statement which i thought was really thoughtful. he said, listen, i want to tell my generals to give me a plan within 30 days in a way to defeat isis. believe me, the pentagon has had plans for a long time now in tems of a campaign plan, but the president of the united states in office now doesn't want any part of it. but a thoughtful plan will come forward. the main effort will be in syria, because hopefully by the time the president-elect takes office in january, either the operation in mosul is successful, or it's pretty close to ending. and, therefore, the territory in iraq has been returned to the iraqis. what the president will have to decide there is, do the troops stay? how long? how many? and what's their mission? in syria, he's going to get an option, liz, that's different from what's taking place now. we have the syrian kurds and arabs trying to take down isis. they can't do it. he's going to get an option of arab coalition forces, modest amount of u.s. troops, maybe some nato troops. that would be very different than the current strategy. it's up to him whether he thinks that's a reasonable option or not. >> general keene, i hope we had more time ahead. i had more questions about syria and iraq. but of course, we'll have you back for your expertise. thank you. appreciate it. >> good talking to you, liz. we'll have much more in the fight against isis tomorrow on america's news headquarters. lieutenant colonel oliver north will join us. tune in. ahead on america's news headquarters, how our nation is honoring our vets, as veterans day weekend. we'll hear the story of those wounded in battle. and also, from their families. >> i think that the military spouse, the military family is a demographic that we tend to forget, sadly. like i mentioned earlier, i would not be here without my wife or my children. ugh. heartburn. sorry ma'am. no burning here. try new alka-seltzer heartburn relief gummies. they don't taste chalky and work fast. mmmm. incredible. can i try? she doesn't have heartburn. new alka-seltzer heartburn relief gummies. enjoy the relief. . . . as well we should, all across our country people are taking time to honor those who wore the uniform in the armed forces. in new york vets marched past trump tower. down in texas a parade in the state capital of austin. we also want to say thank you to all those who have and continue to serve. >> of course i echo that. we take time to honor members of the military. for many it's also a time to learn and to do more for the brave which is exactly the goal of the 2016 wounded warrior experience. i was blessed to be a part of it. it's a symposium presented by military of the purple heart service foundation. it features ten extraordinary retired wounded warriors. these courageous men and women shared their different recovery processes, both seen and unseen, the resources both available and not available and the transition back to civilian life. woven in and out of each conversation was a theme of resiliency and often loved ones who stepped up to provide care. >> i think it's really important for people to realize that it's a team. the whole situation is a team. when i deployed, i had to have everything in my life taken care of by my wife. >> if you would like to see more of this discussion, profiling these wounded warriors who served on the front lines, please watch tomorrow at noon on fox business network. leland, it is an absolutely unbelievable experience when you hear all of these men and women and the families who were there when they were on the front lines, and they were especially there when they were home from the front loins and they were recovering. it's an enlightening experience and can encourage you to do a little more for veterans. >> enlightening in so many ways. you pointed out earlier the seen and unseen injuries and so many now who come home from war and maybe don't visibly see what has scared them by what they've gone through, whether it be post-traumat post-traumatic stress disorder or a concussion syndrome from an ied explosion or something like that. now it's their family that has to take care of them for the rest of their life. >> a little later in the show we'll introduce you to a new campaign that senator elizabeth dole launched called hidden heroes. she's talking about the caregivers. the injuries are with you not only when you come back for the battlefield, but your entire life. >> on this veterans day weekend we at fox news are saluting our troops just like the hidden heroes. stay with us. we'll have more on senator elizabeth dole's campaign and you'll meet more wounded warriors. now that fedex has helped us simplify our e-commerce, we could focus on bigger issues, like our passive aggressive environment. we're not passive aggressive. hey, hey, hey, there are no bad suggestions here... no matter how lame they are. well said, ann. i've always admired how you just say what's in your head, without thinking. very brave. good point ted. you're living proof that looks aren't everything. thank you. welcome. so, fedex helped simplify our e-commerce business and this is not a passive aggressive environment. i just wanted to say, you guys are doing a great job. what's that supposed to mean? 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>> how can you say it's devoted. the vice president of the united states, the number two person in washington, all mr. trump is trying to do is give vice president elect pens the role he deserves to have in terms of how he's going to run and organize the government. >> fox confirmed on election night mr. trump reached out to mitt romney who had been so critical of trump. while we don't know what was said, it may have led to the romney tweet which said best wishes for our duly elected president. the other big news out of the transition, mr. trump indicating that he would be willing to keep two provisions of obamacare intact, not denying people with previous conditions and allowing adult children to be covered until the age of 26. some say that's not as big a deal as it's made out to be. that said, repealing obamacare may be the easy part, replacing it much harder. >> the problem is to pass a new bill because we have control of the house and the senate. but senate rules mean you need 60 votes to pass a bill, which means you'll need roughly eight democrat senators to join us to get a new health care package through the senate and to the president's desk. >> he's saying no senate democrats will be won over unless they're offered some compromise as trump seemsing willing to do. >> doug mcelway, thank you very much. a little sound bite from now president elect trump about what he thinks he will do when it comes to jobs. >> -- going to fix our inner cities and rebuild our highways, bridges, tunnels, airports, schools, hospitals. we're going to rebuild our infrastructure which will become, by the way, second to none, and we will put millions of our people to work as we rebuild it. >> as we have heard over the past couple days, job creation will be something president elect trump puts at the top of the priority list for his new administration. noteworthy that the current unemployment rate sits at 4.9%. president elect trump says that's not good enough. joining us to tell us why and how the president elect is planning to boost jobs and the economy is mr. trump's senior economic adviser and ceo of federal cervix bank, steve caulk. >> great to be with you. >> we've heard infrastructure, big jobs program. what is it? what's the goal here and what's priority one when it comes to the economy? >> i think most importantly what we want to do is make sure we're focusing on the demands that the people have made and the policies and plans that mr. trump has articulated so well throughout this entire campaign. tax trade, regulation, deregulation and energy. those drivers, those large macro policy changes that can drive the job growth, increase gdp from the real numbers which i think are much closer to 9.5%. we need to set the benchmarks now on what they really are, start using real numbers so we can move, measure, monitor and control the growth of those job numbers and growth as we proceed over the next six, 12, 24 months. >> talking about redoing how we calculate the unemployment numbers. so many people have left the workforce because they can't find work or have become disgruntled with that idea. going back to that, what of those drivers that you laid out is the top priority? is it the trillion dollar infrastructure project, reworking trade deals that were such a cornerstone of president elect trump's beginning speeches? >> what have we observed over at the last week? people laughed in april when i said the plan we wrote specifically focusing on reducing corporate tax rates from 35% to 15%. we heard all this hullabaloo about how the markets would absolutely crash and no one would buy into this concept. what have we seen? since the elect we've seen a record dow, true direction. what people have found most important and what i have discovered in talking to hundreds and hundreds of ceos across this country as i do every single month is finally they are willing to get off of their hands, they see certainty in leadership. they're ready to make the investments, do the merger, move forward with the acquisition and most importantly start to grow their businesses again. it's the uncertainty that has frozen us in the past eight years. it's that very issue, that lack of clear-eyed leadership that has us stuck in a rut. number one, let's address the tax issue. we're going to repeal, as weave talked about, obamacare and do away with some of the ridiculous mandates including the subsidies, the individual mandate where you're required to have this, and most importantly, the employer mandate. i think it's that employer mandate that drove up costs, reduced competition that frustrated small and medium-sized businesses. this entire package of tax, trade, regulation and energy is all about reigniting the entrepreneurial flame. >> i'm fascinating about the issue you brought up in talking about what the market dird in the days and hours that mr. trump was elected. we saw dow futures plummet down 800, and the next day the dow took off. how do you translate what is a speculative investment into infrastructure stocks, energy stocks, transportation stocks, those kinds of things that people think that president trump is going to help those sectors, into actually helping those sectors? >> let me ask you a very simple question in response to your question. do you look into the eyes of mr. trump or anyone that's made up this economic team and think that that was a joke, think that we weren't serious about wanting to create jobs and grow this economy? common sense leads any ceo, any shareholder, any investor to look at how the dollars work. when you talk about putting 20% back into the coffers of a company to concept to expand, you'll get the receptivity that the markets have reflected this week. remember, we're not talking about a day, a week, a month. we're talking about moving and digging out of a cataclysmic hole created over the last eight years. this team, this leadership group and mr. trump can do this. >> the market seems to be betting on you guys with real dollars. mr. calk, appreciate it. come back and talk to us as the plans begin to be implemented. >> my pleasure. thanks for having me. president elect donald trump wasted no time in getting to work on capitol hill meeting with key house and senate leaders who vowed to work with him to get meaningful legislation passed. our own molly henneberg joins us now. >> the senate majority leader expected to remain mitch mcconnell and republican house speaker, also expected to remain paul ryan. in some ways, the bridge between president elect trump and capitol hill will be vice president elect mike pence, familiar with the procedures on capitol hill. he's likely to play a big role in helping guide legislation through congress. trump met with speaker ryan on thursday. despite some back and forth between the two during the election, ryan said he ultimately did vote for trump and two said they're ready to work together. trump met with mcconnell on thursday and said mcconnell's have a, quote, temporary lease on power but warned it would be a, quote, mistake to misread your mandate, meaning over reach with legislation. mcconnell said he would be, quote, shocked if congress did not move forward to repeal obamacare. >> we also know democrats are shocked. what about leadership on that side of the aisle? >> when president elect trump takes office, he'll likely be working with old friend and fellow new yorker chuck schumer. he's expected to become the new senate minority leader after senate democrats vote next week. trump and schumer go back decades, but that friendship may be tested as schumer becomes the top democrat in washington. still the top senate republican says he can work with senator schumer. >> i get to determine what we're going to talk about, but after that, yeah, you need democratic cooperation to do most things in the senate. there are a couple exceptions to that. most things require some level of cooperation. and i anticipate it. this is not just post election sweet-talk here. >> the current senate minority leader democrat harry reid is retiring after this term. elizabeth? >> molly henneberg reporting, fascinating. thank you very much. the election of donald trump means justice antonin scalia's seat which will almost certainly be filled by a conservative nominee. ruth bader ginsburg is 83, stephen breyer is 78. joins us is carey severino with judicial crisis network. thank you for joining us. i appreciate it. i want to dig into your opinion. we have an updated list of almost two dozen possible names. i want to get your opinion on who you think -- we saw anyone from senator mike lee from utah to judge margaret ryan from the iowa supreme court. i could go on. we have about half of them there, half of the people who have been tossed around. i want to ask you who has the best chance of getting approved? >> i think this list is an excellent one. it was so great that trump took the historic precedential step of putting out a list. the presidential role of ap pointing supreme court nominees is one of the most significant they have. what they'll want to look for is someone with a long record on the bench so we can see they don't don't just talk about philosophy but put it into practice, but they put it into practice when they felt it wasn't going to help them politically. supreme court nominees an justices are always getting hit by the media, critics from all sides saying they want them to rule in their favor. we need justices willing to stand with the right legal result despite a lot of public pressure. i hope that's the kind of person he'll pick from this list. >> i want to play a sound bite from kellyanne conway. she was on our hannity show last night, now the senior adviser to the trump transition team. i want your reaction. >> mr. trump has put out his list of possible nominees. >> how certain are you he'll choose from that list? >> he said he will. what's important about that list is everyone on that list is qualified to do the job and everyone on that list is in the mold of an antonin scalia. that's very important to him, they respect the constitution and don't make up the law as they go along. >> perhaps no clues, but she did echo the same sentiment you mentioned. my question to you is, going forward, how does that list begin to shrink 21 candidates, how do you narrow it down? >> i'm sure they'll look and dig deep into all of the judges' records on that list. again, this isn't probably going to be the only seat that now president trump will have to fill. he'll probably have to fill two or three additional ones. i do think he's going to remain committed to that list. really, the fact that there was this opening thanks to senate leader mcconnell and senator grassley as well, there was an opening that reminded people of the significance of the course and foresight of the list, that may have turned the tide of this election. he's going to be committed to make sure this is someone in the mold of justice scalia. >> carrie, we only have time for one more question. so many voters were so focused on this particular issue. what is the court going to be facing in the next few years that really motivated voters? >> i think they could see what would happen if hillary clinton were nominating the next justice. she went through the laundry list, cutback on the second amendment, first amendment freedom of speech, freedom of religion. wanted to expand abortion rights far beyond where they are now. she wants a court that's going to be in the pocket of the environmentalists and unions. it was very distasteful to a lot of people that she seemed to be so policy oriented in her goals for the court. i think what we need are judges committed first of all to the constitution and the law. all of those issues are going to come before the court as well as executive power, another major issue they've seen so far, and will continue to be coming up, we want the court standing up for our constitutional separation of powers and making sure the constitution is our guide and not just what one president would want to do. >> carrie sayer vino, thank you. >> thank you. shannon bream reported this week that 7 out of 10 voters rated the supreme court nomination as one of their motivating factors. the fact that we saw now president elect and then candidate donald trump put out a list of initially 11 candidates means he was very, very serious and he tapped into the fact that this is something voters were very passionate about. we heard from carrie a number of serious issues the court will be facing. we know there's one open seat and there is a possibility of two more. so voters were very tapped into it and it was a huge motivator for them as they went to the polls last week. >> especially for socially conservative voters. you think about the supreme court, but also the federal district courts and federal circuit courts that the president elects judges to has so much effect on our every day life and those appointments are made for life. noteworthy, as you pointed out, initially a list of 11 judges who then candidate trump put out to be discussed. i talked to one of those judges personally shortly after he was put on the list. i said hey, congratulations. he said congratulations for what? i had to tell him he was on this list. there hadn't been any vetting of these judges ahead of time. you have to wonder that as the trump campaign has gone through this past couple of months, if they have done anything to get ready for january 20th. we know there was a transition. we also know as you talk to so many within the trump organization, they were as surprised as anybody was in terms of the fact that they won and now have so much to do. we'll talk about that as we continue here from washington on the show. still ahead, president elect trump won big in the election, but that didn't fix some big splinters within the republican party. we heard he reached out to mitt romney. but is it enough? we'll have a fair and balanced debate about the future of the republicans. plus, with post election recovery in focus, what will the democrats tackle first? >> last night i congratulated donald trump and offered to work with him on behalf of our country. i hope that he will be a successful president for all americans. this is not the outcome we wanted or we worked so hard for, and i'm sorry that we -- u truste as your financial advisor? 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have occupied the white house can really know. you think about the parallels here. michelle obama came into the white house with two young girls. melania trump will arrive in the white house with baron trump, about 10 years old. you can think about how many questions there are about raising a child inside the white house. >> remember, we saw a lot of president obama talking about how he's going to be spending two more years here in washington, d.c. it depends on making sure yop family is happy, but the transition, a very public life for him. like you said, only 10 years old. wouldn't you like to be a fly on the wall for that conversation? fascinating. >> you sure would for that one and so many others that have taken place at the white house over the past couple days. as you get a sense of the situation here between these two women in the conversations, i'm wondering, liz, give us a sense of how you feel the transition is going from the family perspective, not only that, but body language as well. >> i think it's interesting to see the two women. we saw the same thing with president-elect donald trump and president obama. their meeting was supposed to only be 15 minutes long and it lasted only 90 minutes. the fact of the matter is, there's a huge amount of respect between both of these parties, even though it was a very contested company, a lot of things said during the campaign. when it came to the end of the day, the ballots were cast and we have a new president. that's the bottom line. we heard that from the president and his supporters who said it's time to move forward. everyone is looking forward. don't you think? >> we saw the body language from the president and the president elect, smiles and jokes as well. the other people that have to come together are the republicans. in the final days of the campaign, republicans came home to the party in the sense of the voters. but the president elect must also bring together republicans on capitol hill even if some of his policies aren't republican orthodoxy. is it possible, especially on an issue like trade reform. trump supporter scott brown joins us along with matt cove yack, staunchly anti trump. matt, it might be worth, before we get into this to revisit your twitter account from tuesday evening, quoting from it now. you win particular credit for running the most inept, unserious presidential campaign in a century staffed by clowns wasting money and it continues. if you had any class -- i guess you're speaking to donald trump, you would slither back to trump tower and spend the next year apologizing to everyone you offended, forget politics. matt, he won. as someone who served on capitol hill, are you ready to apologize, move on and come together or do you still have have hard feelings? >> i don't have hard feelings. i've apologized and deleted those comments. those are based on the exit polls that we now know are wrong which at the time it looked like he would lose every battleground state. there's a chance for republicans to unite, repealing an replacing obamacare, building up the national defense. these are important things that can now happen. election was extremely successful for republicans, 52 republican senators, 33 republican governors, at least 238 members of the house. this was a good election night for republicans. you have to give the trump campaign a lot of credit. i don't agree with everything they did, but you have to give credit for the way they could win this election with a lot of powerful people working against them. >> as you hear matt's words which are conciliatory and mature to say the least, but are you hearing the same thing from other never-trump elements of the republican party? we heard from mitt romney saying he wanted to bring the party back together and sent best wishes to donald trump. >> i know matt and i like matt. thank you very much for stepping up. we are americans first, as our sitting president said, and we do need to move together. yes, i have noticed a marked change with many of the never-trumpers, the so-called establishment who recognized, yes, if it was not for him, ron johnson more likely would have lost, pat toomey more than likely would have lost. and we would be talking about majority leader schumer. in 2018 potentially a supermajority, but look at the supreme court choices. i think the first thing they should do is repatriate all that offshore money, upwards of a $3 trillion stimulus bill and look attacks reform and looking at obamacare, you can keep the pre-existing care, you can keep a kid until 26. you can do the catastrophic care and coverage. there's a lot of things you can do. it's going to take everybody on board to actually do it. >> matt, to that point of everybody coming on board, there are policies of donald trump that he talked about over and over on the campaign trail that are pretty opposite of republican orthodoxy, free trade and protectionist trade policies. is this something that republicans can get over and are willing to support the president come january 20th on? or do you think there will still be the republican infighting? >> that's a great question, leland. honestly, there are areas where there's a lot of agreement, but a couple areas where there isn't agreement. this will depend on what kind of president trump chooses to be. i was encouraged by the meeting with president obama. as i said before, there is tremendous agreement on major issues. you're right, disagreement on some issues and trump may triangulate on an issue like trade and may pull democratic votes or perhaps an infrastructure bill which he talked with senate minority leading incoming schumer about and nancy pelosi as well. republicans started to unite before the election. trump won about 90% of republicans. the party is fully united behind him, he's our president elect. we're all praying for him and we want him to succeed because we want the country to succeed. it's going to be a challenge on some of these issues with the comments he made versus governing. >> matt, i have to give scott the last word. to that point, is president elect trump ready to bring republicans together or will we see ard ha line on infrastructure where he wants to bring in a trillion dollar plan on trade where protectionist policies don't jive with republican policies? or is it he going to move toward an orthodox republican view? >> great question. if you look at canada and mexico, they're already coming to the table and saying we'll relook at nafta, renegotiate, so that's a good thing. there's nothing wrong with that. that's just by him being elected. if you're going to hit an infrastructure bill, we need to prioritize what those needs are. that's the key. you can't throw the money out there on these pork projects. come up with a specific prioritization of the actual issues and then you get everybody together. thank you, leland. >> scott, you know better than i do what a hard wrap means. 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the latest. the four americans were part of a larger group of people getting ready for a post veterans day run when they were targeted clearly by the suicide attacker. of the four attackers, two were u.s. service members, two u.s. contractors working in afghanistan. 16 other americans according to military officials were injured in this attack. it happened right around 5:30 this morning inside bagram air base when officials say apparently a man posing as an afghan laborer detonated his suicide vest where people were getting ready for this morning run. the taliban has claimed responsibility saying the attack had been planned for four months, but how the explosives got in there, if they were smuggled in and how exactly this guy got in there without being flagged by security is unclear. bagram is known for heavy security because it's where top u.s. officials including the president will fly into when visiting the country. secretary of defense ash carter released a statement saying, for those who carried out this attack, my message is simple, we will not be deterred in our mission to protect our homeland and help afghanistan secure its own future. of those four americans that were killed, at this point, elizabeth, we don't know their identities. again, getting ready for a post veterans day run when they were killed. >> absolutely devastating. john huddy reporting live, thank you so much. speaking of this veterans day, we take a look at the hidden heroes among us, the men and women who care for our injured veterans. >> there's deployments and training exercises, but there's an end date. here there is no end date. when you've been making delicious natural cheese for over 100 years like kraft has, you learn a lot about how people cook. i wish i had like four different mexican cheeses but in one super melty cheese. it does exist! you still have two cheese wishes left. as we pause to honor and thank the members of the military, it's also an opportunity to thank their families. military families sacrifice so much, none more than the dedicated loved ones who care for our wounded warriors. we had the chance to speak with one family on a ten-year journey to recovery. there is no typical day in the life of pat and patty herran. pat survived a near fatal bullet to his brain. >> i heard i wasn't supposed to live. >> he says he was able to survive and thrive because of his wife patty. she dropped everything to embrace the role of a care giver. doctors removed not only 40% of his skull, but his left temporal lobe, too, the language center using for receiving, writing, reading and speaking it would be two years before patty would hear her husband utter one word. >> i had no medical background walking into the situation, i just felt so uneducated. so i didn't know where to turn, and i didn't know -- i was having to make these huge decisions on my husband's behalf. >> decisions and 24-hour care, caregivers are the hidden heroes, precisely the reason why senator elizabeth dole launched her campaign to raise awareness. there's more than 5.5 million tending to loved heroes providing services that would total $15 billion annually if these dedicated people received a paycheck. they quit their old jobs, let go of friends, let go of hobbies, all while not asking for help. >> as a care giver, there's still a lot of pressure. i feel like i'm carrying the burdens of the world most days. some days you think how can i do this another day. it feels overwhelming and very tiring at times, and i think just having more opportunities for respite and relaxation for caregivers is really important. >> when pat began rehabilitation, had no use of his right leg or arm. he had no sense of smell, awareness, taste of touch. today he's walking and talking. we'll be the first to tell you that thanks to his caregiver, he has a second chance of life. >> my wife has done so much the last nine years, i wish i could find someone so she can have a break. >> elizabeth dole is now on a mission to help our nation's veterans and their families. she took time to sit down with me and spoke about the ways we can support people who have been wounded while serving our nation. >> take me back to 2011, even before then, when you started to get the motivation, when you decided there was a need to help caregivers, they weren't getting attention that they needed. >> my husband, bob, was hospitalized at walter reed military hospital for an extended period of time, actually 11 months. i was there constantly. and i got to know many of the wounded warriors and their caregivers, the young spouses in their 20s, 30s, mothers and dads as well taking care of the wounded. as i really began to develop a friendship with them, i invited them to go out to dinner, get them out of the hospital room for a night. i learned what they were trying to handle, and it was incredible. many of them were concerned that they had different systems of health care to coordinate. in other words, their loved one had experienced multiple injuries, wounds and illnesses, and there are, they were trying to coordinate across health care systems with different structures, very, very confusing. being so young in their 20s, they had president had a lot of experience with these issues and they were raising children. so this really touched my heart deeply. >> which led you to launch the hidden heroes campaign. >> that's right. this is a societal crisis. with these young caregivers, imagine being in your 20s and suddenly the life that you had planned has changed overnight. it's so sudden the way it hits. they need help just understanding how to deal with the initial care giving. they're not trained as caregivers, nor are they trained in legal and financial matters. it's almost overwhelming. >> you said there's at least 5.5 million if not more. >> right, military caregivers. >> what specifically do you feel they need and where does hidden heroes come in? >> i think they need, first of all, to have an opportunity to communicate with other caregivers who have similar challenges. we have a new state-of-the-art website, hiddenheroes.org. caregivers can find a whole community, scores of other caregivers that they can share problems, discuss issues, have a strong shoulder to lean on the they're going through a tough time. >> you've also been the first female senator of north carolina. you ran the red cross. what is more difficult, holding these titles or being a caregiver? >> well, you know, i love this mission field. i feel had i not been with my husband at walter reed for so many months, i would not have been aware of what's happening. so i feel blessed to have this mission field, to be able to go to work every day looking for ways to provide the support for these caregivers, and i love that. public service to me is just a wonderful way to give back for the blessings that we have in america. >> thanks to senator elizabeth dole and all the hidden heroes. for more 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