Hello, everybody, i am betty nguyen at msnbc headquarters in new york. We begin with new reaction from donald trump on the audience as pens took his seat. And trump tweeted our future v. P. Was harassed by the cast of hamilton. Cameras blazing. This should not happen. And the actress that blaze blur thanked mike pence. We, sir, we are the diverse america who are alarmed and anxious at your new administration will not protect us. Our children, our parents defend us and i would truly hope this show inspired you to uphold our American Values and to work on behalf of all of us, all of us. Trump also tweeting this morning about the 25 million settlement in all three of the lawsuits against Trump University. He tweeted this, i settled the Trump University lawsuit for a small fraction of the potential award because as president i have to focus on our country. One of the cases had been scheduled to start in just two weeks. The deal does not require trump to acknowledge wrong doing, and he said during the campaign he would not settle. Later today he will hold one of his most high profile meetings since winning the election, his meeting with mitt romney, and it becomes amid reports that romney is being tapped for secretary of state. And Kelly Odonnell is there. How should we be read into trumps meeting with mitt romney today . Reporter from talking with various aides, i think the starting point is this is an opportunity for the president elect to try and heal things with former rival, a former critic, and one of the most prominent members of the Republican Party to speak out against donald trump, so its a way to try and fix that situation and come together. I am also told its about a chance to talk about ideas, and whether or not it kind of extends to a cabinet level job, and that could be too soon to tell and it may also be something that is not knowable until they have this meeting and a chance to sit down and talk. But it gives you an idea of how the president elect is spending his weekend. Theres a lot to do. Not only Holding Meetings with romney but other picks for the cabinet and working with his senior staff to go over the plans for the new administration, and theres just a little over 60 days to go. The motorcade pulled in to what soon may be known as the jersey white house, trumps weekend home at his golf resort to work on transition plans. Todays big meeting could be awkward. Heres what i know. Donald trump a phoney, a fraud. Reporter eight months ago mitt romney led the charge against trumps candidacy w. Withering takedown, and their relationship unravelled. Mitt romney choked, pure and simple and he choked like a dog. Reporter but today trump will host romney for a private fencemending meeting, and romney may have opened the door with a congressionally tweet of best wishes. And some say its more about sharing ideas than a cabinet job interview. He has filled three positions, jeff sessions, immigration hard liner. Trump advisers defended the pick sending praise from fellow senators who would need to confirm sessions. 30 years ago sessions was blocked from becoming a federal judge after he was accused by making racial comments, and he denied that. And he turned to mike pompeo, and trump went with another campaign confidant, lieutenant general, michael flynn. Meanwhile Vice President elect, mike pence, took in hamilton on broadway. His arrival getting mixed reviews. The beginning of the theater production, and at the end, after the curtain call the star of the show, who plays aaron burr, and he talked about anxiety in the country about civil liberties. Thats very, very unusual. And this morning donald trump is using one of his favorite modes of communication, twitter, to respond. In two tweets this morning, trump at first says our wonderful future vp was harassed at the theater, and noting cameras were blazing, as he describes it, and then he goes on to say the theater must be a special and safe place, and the cast of hamilton was rude to a very good man, and calling on the cast of hamilton to apologize to mike pence. We have not heard from mike pences inner team yet this morning if he is calling for that, but donald trump defending his running mate and his future partner in government. Back to you, betty. Twitter is always very busy, isnt it . Thank you. Joining me now, msnbc contributor nicholas con tau sory, and beth fewy. Before i get to the question about romney and the meeting today and the important issues, and i want to ask you about the hamilton moment and trumps tweet. Is he getting caught up in my knew shaw when there are bigger things on the plate. The cast of hamilton is not harassing thats a strong word he used, harassed. The audience was booing mike pence, and the cast came out and delivered a plea of how to think of them in the future, and trump is mixing those two things, and saying the cast insulted pence and thats not true. Beth, let me move to this. Will this be business as usual as, you know, the country club as the president elect is meeting with romney to try and fill out these cabinet members. We were talking about my knew shaw. The fact that romney is on the list and he will go and meet with trump in a place where a whole bunch of reporters are staking out, its significant. We know theres no love lost between these two men and they are public in their distain for one another and that was during the campaign and now its time for governing, and he feels maybe mitt romney feels this is a way he can make a contribution to direct trump on the matter of the country, and we know that, you know, basically we have seen trump play nice with putin and say positive things about him, and maybe romney feels this is a way to step in, and give advice to the president elect on how he should play out on the world stage. Weigh in on the tweets here because we have the major issues and dont see a whole lot of tweeting from president elect trump on the details of what hes doing, but we see it over the issues of hamilton and him feeling mike pence was harassed. How do you balance that . We know from trumps interview on 60 minutes, he plans to continue to tweet, and he knew exactly how many new twitter followers he gained since the election and that was the only specific thing we heard from him in that interview, and its a way to get around the media, and hes kind of thin skinned, and certain things get to him. Watching that video and seeing mike pence, the subject of attention at hamilton, and president elect watches a lot of cable news and he is sitting there all morning watching you and us and seeing its a big story and it gets to him and its a reflection on him as much as pence, and its a hair trigger reaction. What about the names that surfaced for cabinet positions. Are there any surprises to you . The people who have been named for sure are the loyalist and the people who stuck with trump in the campaign earlier when most of the party abandoned him, and mitt romney is a real departure of this, and trump, he said he was a fraud, strong words. What role is he being asked to fill here . Is it to deploy his own credibility on the world stage on behalf of trump and different ideas he might not agree with, or is it to help shape the policies of a Trump Administration . Its always unclear in the early days. Beth, are these, i guess political apoints going to be political scores or are they going to be rewarding loyalist . What is this telling you . We are seeing a few, rewarding of loyalist and political scores. He put mike flynn in and he is a huge loyalist, and so trump rewarded him with a very important position. On mike pompeo, he was a very important player in the benghazi scenario, and we know trump said at the campaign, he said lock her up, and it doesnt look like they will lock up hillary clinton, but bringing up one of the Hillary Clintons biggest critics from the benghazi days, its to check that box and settle the score, if you will, and thats an affective way to do that. And then giving insight on steve bannon, and a reporter has met with him more than ones. Bannon arguably is one of the people to have most clearly seen it, and he absolutely rejects the idea this is a racial line. I am not a white nationalist, and he quotes bannon saying we are going to build an entirely new Political Movement and everything related to jobs. And bannon surprised everybody with the victory. I can see the outlines of policies that would work at least in the short term for donald trump. A road project and building project that could attract democratic votes in congress and provide jobs and stimulus to the economy. Its interesting, i am not a white nationalist, i am a nationalist, and i am not sure what that means to be a nationalist. Who is in the nation if you are a nationist, and that is the pluralism, and nobody is really clear who belongs inside the nation he is talking about as a nationalists. Thank you. And now ivanka trump, and joining me now is monica hessy, a style reporter for the washington post. Thank you for being with us today. Your reaction to ivanka sitting in with the meeting between her father and the Prime Minister . She is fascinating because shes mysterious, and we are trying to figure her out. In the first interview the family gave after the election, and she goes on screen and says i plan to be a daughter and dont plan to be politically involved, and four days later she is photographed sitting in the meeting with the chinese Prime Minister. What are the chances she will be in the room when her father meets with mitt romney today . We do know president elect trump said his children are his advisers, and they hold high positions in his company, and its hard to figure out how the family will go about dividing that business from the business of the country, and the campaign did say that it was not going to be continued, that ivanka would be in the rooms with all foreign dignitaries, so whether she will be in the room with romney, i dont think we will know that yet. If they are going there, and meaning the children are going to run his business, and they are going to be in the room with the meeting with the Prime Minister, how is that going to work . I think thats what people are asking and there are conflicts in more ways than meetings with the Prime Minister, and when ivanka had the meeting on 60 minutes, she had a bracelet on from her jewelry line, and then they sent out saying this is Available Online for 20,000. They are used to being in business together and they are used to discussing all matters together, and now they are going to have to figure out how to do that when one member of the family has a high security clearance that the others tkaob. We have floated the word around, blind trust, and so many are saying that is not possible in this situation. Its obviously not a blind trust when its your children running it, and you are meeting with them on a daily basis and you are inviting them into political meetings and that becomes a much more difficult situation that, again, the family is apparently trying to figure out. So will she have a role in the administration . Will she have a role in the Transition Team . Where does she fall into all of this . She has said that she does not plan to have a role in the administration, and that would violate nepotism rules if she was taking a salary. She said there are a few issues she is passionate about, and he is passionate about child care and women in the workforce, and whether its possible for her to have a role in the administration on those particular issues but on nothing else is a bit like taking a scalpel to her role, and she will have to cut that finely and carefully. Its going to be very interesting. Thank you for joining us today. Thank you so much. This election of mike flynn is being called alarming by one newspaper today. Why . Should the country be worried . Some answers, next. And show some love for the people we love. And the places we love. The stuff we cant get anywhere else and food that tastes like home. Because the money we spend here can help keep our town growing. On Small Business saturday, lets shop small for our neighborhood, our town, our home. On november 26th, get up, all get together and shop small. If you have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis, isnt it time to let the real you shine through . 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No, betty, thats pretty much the take of many people, both democrats and republicans inside and outside the Intelligence Community. The interesting thing about the flynn pick is for a while it looked like donald trump, we were seeing a new donald trump with his soothing words on Election Night and his upbeat remarks after meeting with president obama, and the flynn pick suggests donald trump will govern as a campaign on Foreign Policy and its an approach that threatens to not only the Obama Administration. Sounds like Bloomberg News said it was a reflection of the fire brand theme. Is that what you are saying, too . Mike flynn is a bit of a character and mystery, and he rose up through the ranks with worked for Stanley Mcchrystal for the joint Operations Command and wrote an interesting paper in afghanistan about how military intelligence was failing, and he was removed from the post a year early because he was accused of having a chaotic management style and that set him on a course of growing bitter and critical of president obama. By the time he was on the campaign trail with donald trump, he was making extreme statements that raised eyebrows within the Intelligence Community and he was leading chants of lock her up, and he was suggesting that, you know, tarring muslims with a brush of islamic extremism, which troubled a loft people, betty. Among the history is this tweet from earlier this year saying, quote, the fear of muslims is rational. What are some of the other defining moments, would you say . He has been very vocal about the notion, he has been critical of the Obama Administration for not saying islamic extremism and a lot of republicans weighed in with that criticism, and flynn made a lot of statements that make muslims uneasy, and something about the National Security adviser, and maybe balancing out the flynn pick, and mitt romney will be off around the world, and mike flynn will be in the white house helping to make the policy and he will be the first person that the president sees in the morning and last person he sees at night, and talking about the policy and he will have a sizeable influence in the Trump Administration. What are they saying . Hes a solid guy and a decorated war hero that called the rise of the Islamic State at a time when many obama officials were calling it the jv team and saying there was nothing to worry about, and thats true, and he was warning about the rise of extremist in iraq and syria before the Islamic State began to seize territory. 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