The white house. Well talk what that could mean with a democratic strategist and the deadly fire in oakland, california what were learning about the dozens of desperate victims and what they did when they realized they were about to die. Good afternoon. President elect donald trump has Just Announced another deal to boost the American Force work. He stepped out from the golden elevators at trump tower a short time ago with a head of a Japanese Bank and announced it plans to invest 50 billion in the United States and create approximately 50,000 new american jobs. Well have much more on that in just a moment, the president elect is taking aim, after making a deal with carrier to keep hundreds of jobs in the United States. This time hes targeting boeing. The Company Employees more than 150,000 americans. And the president elect is apparently upset over how much taxpayer money its spending to build two new air force jets. This morning tweeted boeing is building a 747 air force one for future president s but costs are out of control. More than 4 billion. Cancel order. Really . Can you cancel an order by twitter . Its unclear whether this can be some sort of negotiating strategy from the president elect. Heres what he told reporters at trump tower. Totally out of control. Its going to be over 4 billion ars force one program. And i think its ridiculous. I think boeing is doing a little bit of a number. We want boeing to make a lot of money but not that much money. The u. S. Government ordered two new air force ones from boeing to be ready around 2024. But the military has asked the company to speed things up because defense Officials Say the current president ial planes are getting too expensive to repair and maintain. Both have been in Service Since the early 1990s and have a shelf life of about 30 years. The two new air force ones are set to be updated versions of the 747. The contracts for them were initially supposed to cost about 3 billion over the course of ten years but the pricetag has reportedly been getting bigger. President elect trump has his own plane, trump force one. A boeing 757 with golden seatbelt buckles and bedroom and flat screen tv. After the inauguration, government officials will expect him to travel in air force one loaded with communication equipment. Transportation Officials Say he once owned stock in boeing but sold it in june along about all of the other holdings in American Companies. We believe thats new information, sold off all of his stocks in American Companies and say the president elects criticism of boeing is part of an effort to keep costs down across the board. The company responded, were currentry under contract for 170 million to help determine the capability of the military aircraft that serve the unique requirements of the president of the United States. We look forward to working with u. S. Air force on subsequent phases of this program allowing us to deliver the best planes for the president at the best value for the american taxpayer. That number to that number to which boeing is apparently referring is the cost of the contracts that the government is already awarded. Not the final cost. This comes as the president elect holds another round of high profile meetings at trump tower, including the exxonmobil ceo, rex tillerson, reported candidate for secretary of state. Transportation Officials Say they have widened their search to fill that position and mike pence told fox news, hes taking his time to find the person whos best for the country. Hes going to listen on an ongoing basis, a broad range of candidates, im confident hell choose a secretary of state putting America First under the world stage. The president elect tonight is set to continue thinks thank you tour with a rally in north carolina. With all of that we turn to peter doocy. Busy day around there. Reporter very busy and productive up on the 26th floor because the president elect came downstairs from his office to the lobby for the second time today a few minutes ago, unprecedented during the transition to announce this massive job creating deal with the japanese ceo of sofbank standing next to him. The deal was first announced on twitter as many things are with a pair of tweets. One of them said, masa said he would never do this had we not won the election. Mr. Trump said this. Ladies and gentlemen, this is masa of softbank from japan and hes just agreed to invest 50 billion in the United States the ceo stuck around to say 50,000 jobs would be in american based start ups and if this works out, this is 50,000 jobs and 1,000 jobs saved at the carrier plant last week. What more do you know about the rex tillerson, is he up for secretary of state . Anything for sure . He is being considered according to transition officials for the secretary of state position. Its interesting, exxonmobil does a lot of business in russia. That means exxonmobils ceo, mr. Tillerson has been doing a lot of president with Vladimir Putin for many years. Tillerson came in a back entrance today, didnt see him or chance to ask him questions but we did see the democratic d. C. Mayor here and later on terry bran stat, he is going to be at a rally on thursday and another one at fayetteville, the home of fort bragg. His first public joint appearance with general james mattis. Peter doocy down there. Sold all of the american stocks, that was news to me. News to me and put him in good stead with those who say you have to address conflicts of interest with business and what you do as president. This way he gets his Stock Holdings out of the way by selling tell apparently a good thing too. Right when he said this boeing stock went down, it went down. You cant say he sold like 150 types of bonds and shares. It wouldnt have looked good to tank their stock and you own so he was out and guess hes mad at boeing, the negotiating tactic. Who knows because the dollar figure thats been attached, 4 billion for one plane. When in fact, the Defense Department put aside 1. 65 billion according to the white house, 1. 65 for two planes. Possibly they go to a third. Several hundred million more. These are expensive planes and intention communications on them, air force missile systems. Air force one and marine one helicopters have been targets in the past. Obama said the marine one project is too much. This has happened in the past. Its a negotiating tactic and he took on boeing during the campaign to say they were going to prepare seats for aircraft selling to the china market in china. One of the jobs this is not a new target. Take the cure ig machine out of there. This softbank i never heard of, 50 billion, out there excited about that. Big Telecommunications Company and his son runs it. He already has Big Investments in the United States. Softbank owns 80 of sprint. He has other tech investments, he wants to as he puts it be the Warren Buffett of technology. Hes going to be investing in a lot of Tech Startups and projects in the United States. He also has an eye on emerging operations of sprint and tmobile and backed away from that recently figuring that regulators would get in the way. New administration, new fcc, thinking he has a better shot at it now. That weve been doing this every day takes away the gee whiz ive never seen anything like this, never been a president to be a role like this. Industrial policy, youre kind of taken to company after company. It is not something the republicans are used to doing. They want the market to handle it. You should read the column i did its this post idealogical moment in american politics, neither democratic or republican. Youve got a guy elected by the Republican Party apparatus who is behaving in a in a target against one company after another manner thats not the market principle of the Republican Party. Thats why jerrys notion of post idealogical as an thet cal to all they ever talked about my whole life until all of a sudden and it seems to be okay with the republican base. They are happy. Everything is fine. Until it isnt. Until it isnt. At a certain point its going to be within the Republican Party theres going to be a push back against this. Because they dont want bureaucrats making decisions that companies should be making because the Companies Know best how to operate. On the other hand, trump ran on basis of getting more jobs in the United States keeping jobs in the u. S. This is one way he can go to the next rally and say, look what ive done. Good to tal to you john. Pleasure. Should a former general, military general be the secretary of defense . Donald trumps pick of the retired marine general, secretary of defense had started a debate in congress over civilian control of the military. Thats what we do in the United States. The civilian side controls the military, always been that way and that way for a reason. Lawmakers would need to pass a bill to allow mattis to take this job. . Republicans want that done and done now but not everybody is on board. The debate from capitol hill as we continue from the fox news desk on tuesday afternoon. Democrats give james mattis the waiver he needs to become the secretary of defense. Thats the word from leon panetta. As weve reported under u. S. Law a nominee for defense secretary must be out of the military for at least seven years before you join the cabinet. The law is in place to allow for civilian control of the military. The president elects choice retired three years ago. Congress would have to give him a waiver. Former secretary of defense panetta told the Washington Post newspaper that he doesnt think military service should disqualify a nominee. Some lawmakers disagree, including ruben gallego, an iraq war veteran and he says he believes in the idea of civilian leadership of the military. As a result he will oppose the waiver. While that debate conditions, Senate Republicans say they are trying to speed up the nomination process. They say theyve added a framework for the waiver to the spending bill needed to keep the government running past this week. What are Republican Leaders saying about this, mike . Reporter the latest thinking appears to be having the waiver for general mattis in a new congress in a new year without making your eyes roll back in your head. That framework language how to consider the waiver may come up later this week. Well see. Mean whwhile i asked Mitch Mcconnell if he has any concerns about democrats slowing up contribution of president elect trumps nominees. As a result of what our colleagues on the other side of the aisle did in 2013, theres not a whole lot they can do and im sure theyll try to make it as difficult as possible. So praperhaps they could slop consideration but not stop cabinet nominees. As for general mattis, hell be joining president elect trump in fayetteville at the thank you tour event. It should be a crowd pleaser with fayetteville being a huge military town. Its not as if the democrats dont have a historically sound argument here. What are they saying . They are concerned that last minute maneuver since we havent seen the government funding language, that the waiver could be stuffed into a must have piece of legislation. House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi issuing a statement today, rushing aside the law that ensh trines civilian control of the military without discussion in a massive must pass funding bill would set a terrible precedent. We have not seen the language of the resolution to fund beyond december 9th. We do expect to see it late night tonight. You can believe everyone will be looking for any language pertaining to a general serving in civilian control of the government. Mike, thank you. Vice President Bidens term hasnt ended but at 74 years old hes already talking about 2020. What the Vice President said about running for the bigger job in four years. Thats next. If youre going to wish, wish big at the lexus december to remember sales event get up to 2500 customer cash on select 2016 and 2017 models for these terms. See your lexus dealer. Vice President Biden has left the door open for a possible run for the white house come 2020. He told reporters on capitol hill yesterday that he is going to run for president. Though it was sort of a word salad moment after an emotional ceremony and today backtracked a bit saying he doesnt make decisions that far in advance but the door is clearly open. A top biden donor has already bunch bought a bunch of web domains and some democrats asked him to challenge Hillary Clinton in the last 2016 primaries but after his son beau died of brain cancer, he decided to stay out of the race, saying the window had closed. A democratic strategist and former senior aide to Chuck Schumer and togman strategies. What is he doing . Is it one of those i had an Emotional Biden moments . It could be but that drives so much of his decisionmaking. I think democrats are looking for a way out of the paper bag theyve trapped themselves in and biden is someone who is someone blofd, well regarded in the Democratic Party and its a way in the stages of grief for democrats to move forward and look to the future rather than rekrim nation. His numbers are good. Hes very popular guy. Hes very popular with so many kinds of people that democrats lost to trump. Absolutely. This is really an internal conversation that needs to happen at the national stage, not about who the new dnc chair is going to be or how pelosi maintains her grip on power. Its a national voice, someone who holds an Important National office discussing the future of the Democratic Party. When the republicans discuss their future and came out with an anticipate, thutopsy and lo won the election how are the democrats doing . They are not doing very well at all. They are hung up on Something Like we got more votes, we won the popular vote. America is not set up that way. If you do away with the electoral college, you might as well do away with senate. Biden is somebody who could speak to that whole swath of folks who feel left behind by the economy and not clinton supporters. Whats your sense of how that blue wall of the rust belt got away . There really is a sense that folks were con descended to and said well run up numbers in urban areas. A guy told them were going to bring the jobs back like coal is going to come back. I want to say thats not happening because everything said that will not happen but they were paid attention to and taken seriously and courted. Everybody the fact that trump post truth it almost became something that was not rhetoric, it was campaign slogan. When the New York Times said were going to fact check all of his speeches. You dont have to do this. Its an internal conversation about biden and i really do believe hes someone like trump who can speak to the demographics that feel left behind. My dad is 86, soon to be 87, i feel he could do it but 78 is not really young. After a fouryear term hes 82. I think 78 is the new 68. Whether or not he even runs it is an important conversation to be having and hes someone with the stat tour that folks move past the finger pointing and start looking to the future. Think hell sit down with somebody . It was a very emotional moment about his son, now late son and some of the reporters just gathered around and it slipped and backtracks. Think hell sit down and have a real discussion about this . It feels like the kind of thing a lot of democrats might be into hearing. What the Clinton Campaign showed is the democratic field. Who might bidens opponents be . Andrew cuomo, camilla harris. That goes to the point of the popular vote, running up numbers doesnt make you president. Hell have a serious conversation. I think hes obligated to. Joe on the train. Back and forth on amtrak. Investigators in los angeles are responding to a report on a busy metro line. Then fbi the fbi call well be right back. [vo] quickbooks introduces jeanette. And her new business i do, to go. Jeanette was excellent at marrying people. But had trouble getting paid. Not a good time, jeanette. Even worse. Now im uncomfortable. But heres the good news, jeanette got quickbooks. Send that invoice, jeanette. 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