Be pushback here. He spoke very favorably of exxonmobil Ceo Rex Tillerson. Rex will will be a fierce ade for americas interests around the world and has insights and talents necessary to help reverse years of Foreign Policy blunders and disasters. [cheering] youre winning with health care. Were winning on the border. Were winning with isis. Because we are going to get isis out. Were going to win so much, you will go to paul ryan, you will go, mr. Speaker, please, please, we cant stand winning this much. We cant take it. And he is going to come to see me and he will mr. President , the people in wisconsin are tired of winning so much. More on that today. Start with team fox coverage, David Lee Miller at trump tower in new york. Begin with fox news digital
much, right. Gnaw nah. Donald trump won 306 electoral votes. You need 270 to win. Is it conceivably possible that 37 electors would be what we call faithless . It has happened in the past, that one or two or here there, faithless in protest, not voting the way the voters of the state have ordained. This is, remember a federal republic, not a direct Demock Estimate they have agency. Now they face consequences at home. Every state has a different law what the penalty for an elector who Doesnt Follow state laws are. But lets say you get that many electors, some brag, may be as many as 20 that would be faithless. Lets say you got it all the way up to 37 that you need to push trump under 270. Then the election goes to the house and trump wins it there anyway. This is all cockamamie. Bill Wall Street Journal writes this. What should really Distress Americans that the losers are
day ahead including a meeting with some of Silicon Valley top executives. Trump tower. Good morning, david lee, who do they expect over there today . A long list of special guests, martha. In fact you might best be calling trump tower Silicon Valley north. A number of titans of tech will be arriving in the next few years. Invitees include representatives from apple, amazon, google, microsoft and ibm. The Priority Item on the agenda is expected to jobs, and the special visas. Bill issued by the government that allow many foreign tech workers to hold positions here. The President Elects chief strategist steve bannon in the past expressed concern there were too many Silicon Valley ceos that hail from south asia or asia. At least one company will be bringing some welcome news. Ibm announced that it plans to hire 25,000 Tech Professionals in the u. S. One tech titan
conspicuously absent from the invitee list though, argue hably the President Elects favorite tech company, twitter. They are not expected to be represented here today. In other news it is now official. Mr. Trump is going to nominate rick perry as the energy secretary. In announcement just a few hours ago this morning the Transition Team said the former Texas Governor helped his state prosper by developing Energy Programs as well as infrastructure. And fox news has learned now that mr. Trump plans to nominate montana Republican Congressman ryan zinkte as secretary of the interior. He is a former navy s. E. A. L. He met with mr. Trump earlier this week on monday. The President Elect though still apparently looking for his Agriculture Secretary nominee. Growing speculation is mr. Trump is eyeing north dakota democratic senator Heidi Heitkamp the job. If offered heitkamp might turn it down. A Special Election would have to be held to replace her and likely to favor a republican. Lastly, still no word on mr. Trumps choice for secretary of veterans affairs. Veterans groups are calling for mr. Trump keep Robert Mcdonald in that position. He had the job now for about two years. And many veterans groups say that mcdonald, a republican, has implemented the types of reforms they would like to see and hope that he continues to hold that position. Martha . Martha we will see. David lee, thank you. Mr. Trumps pick for Secretary Of State, Rex Tillerson, face as rough road to confirmation mostly because of his ties to russia. Is this an advantage or disadvantage for him . This is first faceoff between the Trump White House and Senate Republicans opposed to this. How will this go down . A packed show beginning a senator from tennessee bob corker who was up for that job, one of the people under consideration. The chairman of the senateForeign Relations committee. Theyre the people who will hold tillersons confirmation hearing. He will be here in a few minutes. We look forward to that. Well get thoughts from trump Transition Team spokesman jason miller. Who will be here as they work on convincing skeptical republicans that tillerson is the man for the job. This is the first showdown likely to happen for one of these spots. Bill trump had Merry Christmas on the Lecturn Last Night which was really nice touch. We added our own nice touch, martha. Christmas trees. The poinsettias. Martha we love Christmas Spirit and love having this around. Bill we do too. Merry christmas. Could this be another recordbreaker . Market set to open in 20 minutes. Dow looking for a major milestone. 20,000 today . Maybe . Maria bartiromo is here to talk about that live in a moment. Martha it dances around it but will it close above it, that is the question . Its a meltdown of humanity, the
images, video, the voices from aleppo will break your heart. Well show you what is going on there as ceasefire unravels when we come back. The civilians are stuck in very small area that doesnt exceed two square kilometers with no safeguards, no. Save aleppo. Safe humanity. Bill President Elect donald trump pushing ahead for his pick of Secretary Of State. Exxonmobil Ceo Rex Tillerson setting up potential showdown in the u. S. Senate, including members of his own party who have concerns over ties to the russia leader Vladmir Putin. Mr. Trump heaping praise on his pick just last night in wisconsin. Very excited about rex. You know rex is friendly with many of the leaders in the world that we dont alongwith. Some people dont like that. They dont want to be friendly. I am doing the deal with rex because this is what it is all about, tennessee north bob corker chairing the Senate ForeignRelations Committee leading youre on the short list. Why do you think he went in a different direction . Look, as, as i said when President Elect Trump called me on monday night Rex Tillerson is
someone known around the globe. He has run a huge operation. He knows these people personally. For what President Trump wishes to do, i think Rex Tillerson was his best choice, i really do. So now he is moving into Confirmation Hearings. Obviously bill, what people are going to want to know, rex under the hood, advising the president. It will be the president s Foreign Policy that is carried out but people will really want to press him what his views are of our relationship to russia, china. Many of the people in The Middle East and thats what these hearings are about. My guess is he will be very prepared. I just got a call from someone who will be handling his transition and, well have those hearings set. Bill you said in your answer there, for what mr. Trump wants to do. What is that based on your understanding . Well hes, look, lets face it, he will tell you himself. He is a prolific deal maker and
i think people are going to want to understand towards what end . You know we had, bill, 60 or 70 years of policy towards europe since world war ii where they have been whole, democratic and free. Putin obviously is trying to upset. What he is doing in the baltics, eastern ukraine, crimea. How he helped destablize with many of the just efforts that have taken place in europe and just the Refugee Crisis itself. So which he has helped produce through whats happened in syria. So, people are going to want to understand that. And even though Rex Tillerson is a businessman had to do business with these people and to me that is very understandable, of course he did, and the fact that he nose these people to me is certainly a plus but im going to want to know, everyone else is, on the committee is going to want to understand. So what will he be advising the president as it relates to those
relationships, and the norms that weve had in place to keep us as an alliance in a very strong position. Bill okay you said a lot in your answer there and you know being friendly does not necessarily dictate a friendship. No. Bill as twisted as that statement may sound but you had your own colleagues, john mccain, lindsey graham, marco rubio especially, they already expressed mixed feelings. Will Rex Tillerson be confirmed . So, im going to bet at the end of the day, again i have had conversations with him through the year, bill. This guy is a guy that exudes confidence, calm, strength, leadership. I assume, unless he is going to totally attempt to reorder the world as relates to our relationships, that he will be but again, it is not going to be your normal proforma deal. The last two secretaries of state were widely known, relative to their views. Rex tillerson highly respected comes to this as a clean slate where no one really understands what those views are. People are going to want to know. I mean, look, putin has not been a friend to the United States. Putin has not been a friend to freedom and democracy and western values and cometics. I mean that is just not who he is, and people are going to want to know, and its accelerated or amplified by the fact that President Elect Trump has said some things relative to russia that, lets face it, very different than where weve been. That alone has sort of amplified peoples concerns about Secretary Of State tillerson but my guess is at end of the day he is confirmed. Bill are there concerns that you have, then . Lets that could be a deep hole, sir, and i think you understand that. Yeah. So bill, i began this with
knowledge that i have tremendous respect for this person. So i began there that he is competent. Hes done big things. He has been at the same place for 43 years. He is a great american, okay, he is. So i began there. But i do want to probe these things and i got to believe if gates and Condoleeza Rice and dick cheney and steve hadley and jim baker, all people that i respect, i got to believe if theyre behind him, they know that his view of the world is similar to it theirs and you know, so there is some alignment here. I go into this as chairman, you know, it is going to be a neutral application of the process and, yeah, ive got some questions that id like to have answered. Everyone else does too. My guess is he will perform well. Bill okay. Last question, you will hold hearings on russia and socalled
ties to our past election. Do you believe moscow tipped the election in Donald Trumps favor . I have no way of knowing and that is why were going to have these briefings and hearings, maybe even go a lot deeper. No question it appears they have hacked, bill. Sophisticated countries do things to gather intelligence. I mean it used to be almost done by, always done by human beings, human intelligence, we call humint. There are other ways of gathering intelligence and countries do this around the world so should we have our hair on fire that hacking took place . No. I mean thats what happens. But then the question is, i mean we you should protect against it, dont get me wrong. As i said on another program, bill, every time i make a phone call i assume somebody from another country is trying to
listen in on that, but what was it they were attempting to do . Anytime that someone like putin, an autocrat, can really cause americans to have this discussion or other countries as the integrity of the electoral process, hes winning, hes winning. If he can discredit the integrity of what we do here in the Voting Process in electing folks, he is winning. And so we do need to get to the bottom of it and understand what it was he was attempting to do. The dni has one view. The cia has a different view. The fbi has a different view and so we as policymakers need to understand what exactly has occurred here. Bill senator, thank you for your time. Bob corker out of tennessee in tennessee. Thank you, bill. Bill thank you. 21 past. Martha. Martha a lot there. So President Elect Trump pledged to stop companies from sending jobs overseas. Now a Major Tech Company with big announcement today bringing workers back home. Well tell you who that is. Plus he was welcomed into our home as the allamerican dad. Family and friends now remembering alan thicke after his shocking death at just 69 years old yesterday. Well be right back. What makes this simple salad the best simple salad ever . 20,000 is that certainly it is within reach. Is it sustainable is the question. Well see what happens on inauguration. A lot of Market Watchers say, buy the market until at least donald trump gets in there but right now it is all on the expectation that earnings are going to get a real boost as a result of policies he is putting in place, Rolling Back Regulations and lowering taxes. I remember when you and i both were on floor of New York Stock Exchange and we were celebrating 10,000. Martha 10,000. Were talking about dow 20,000. Does 20,000 mean anything . Not really. It is just a round number but at the same time it creates an excitement and creating an acknowledgement this is fundamental rally. This is not about noise. This is not about short selling or volume. This is about the fact that things are Getting Better and they are expected to get better. I told you earlier when we were talking the other day, one of analysts i spoke with expecting earnings to be up 20 as a result of Corporate Tax rate that pulled down to 15 . Martha yeah. Whats good for companies is not always good for jobs. We see an intense amount of automation, robotics going into a lot of these earnings numbers. Ibm says 25,000 more jobs. She is part of the Advisory Committee to donald trump on jobs. They will all Talk Technology today, right . I think so. It is interesting with a little effort and with the messaging that donald trump has been putting out there, everybody gets into line. So here you have general my romiti going to trump tower today, before she gets there she announces she will create 25,000 jobs. I think it martha after she gets in the door. Put the offer right on the table. You make the right point. It is really skillsets out there. People have jobs openings, but cant find people that actually have skillsets required to fill those jobs. She send couraging donald trump to do more training when it comes to technology. That probably will come up today. Martha initially tech stocks sold off after trump was elected. There was a bitter feeling that he was not favorable to that group, maybe to Hardcore Manufacturing and rust belt and those folks. How do you think it will go today. They were not favorable to him. Entire election they were clearly in Hillary Clintons camp. Martha wrote a big check. Sketch bezos who owns washington post. Said they were folk to put 20 reporters on donald trump because they owe it to readers. They wouldnt put anymore reporters on Hillary Clinton. Tech stocks traded down on the expectation. Also because they were not expected to get favorable policies they have been getting under President Obama. I want to be a fly in the wall on meeting. They definitely want to have h1b visas. They want cheap labor. Hire people overseas give them less for jobs than they would. That is not going to fly for donald trump. Martha apple, for example that would be huge and one of the things that we see, everybody goes in there, seems to come out
saying, oh what a great guy. He has great plans. So he is very charming ability to win people over. Well see how long it lasts. Always the question. Maria, thank you very much. Good stuff. Good to see you. Bill from a local campus to you at home. A professor in a major <