Loss this is painful and it will be for a long time. Now its time for them to bind the wounds. With the country struggling to unite. What happens next. Here now, chief anchor. George stephanopoulos. Shoulders the hopes and dreams. The fear and anxiety of millions more. It is time for us. For us to come together as one united. A kinder gentler donald trump. We owe her a major debt of gratitude. To our country. Deference to the president whose legitimacy he questioned. Mr. President , it was a great honor being with you and i look forward to being with you, many, many more times in the future. Thank you. Respect for the Republican Leaders he denounced. I think were going to do some absolutely spectacular things for the American People. But away from the rituals of washington alongside the elation of Trump Supporters, there is deep anxiety, anger and fear. [ chanting no trump, no kkk, no racist usa ] protests four nights running. You are under arrest. Thousands marching across the country, on twitter he dismissed them as professionals then praised their passion too. On social media, vicious racist images, schoolkids taunting minorities. White power. So how will a President Trump bind those wounds rubbed so raw . Which promises will he keep and will which fall away . How congress and the world responding to this. Secretary clinton has conceded to donald trump. Donald trump will be the 45th president. He has pulled off something that no one believed he could do. Defeating Hillary Clinton in the campaign unlike anything weve seen in our lifetime. And were going to examine all those questions this morning starting with the latest on the transition from our chief White House Correspondent jonathan karl, our chief Global Affairs anchor Martha Raddatz and our chief investigative correspondent brian ross and, jon, let me begin with you and know mike pence, Vice President elect mike pence will be in charge of replacing Chris Christie and two names talked about the most, steve bannon, reince priebus, both allies but they send quite a different message. Reporter george, i am told that decision could come as soon as today. It is hard to imagine a choice more stark than the choice between reince priebus, the chairman of the republican party, a clear establishment figure and stephen bannon, a leader of the right wing, Breitbart News network. Somebody who spent most of the time beating up on the republican establishment. I can tell you, george, that congressional leaders on the republican side are hoping it is priebus. They see priebus as somebody who they can clearly work with. Much of his base of support. They are telling him not to do that. They want bannon, somebody who has spent much of the past two years trying to destroy speaker of the house paul ryan. Who knows he may surprise us and pick someone else but as you say, its imminent. It gets to the broader question, as well of now that they will control the white house and both houses of congress, where does President Trump defer to those Republican Leaders and take them on . Well, the Republican Leadership is quite hopeful at this time that they will have wide latitude, trump is a big campaign trail. Of course, again, a lot of that will depend on who the person is on his righthand side, whether its bannon or whether its priebus. Not too many clues from trump himself in the first week and he mentioned infrastructure. He mentioned immigration and jobs and then obamacare but says he both wants to replace it and repeal it but talked about preserving the preexisting condition ban and idea that kids can stay on their parents plan until the age of 26. Yeah, from the conservatives, the battle cry for the last couple of years, especially from people like ted cruz was repeal obamacare, every single word of obamacare. That is not the message from the donald trump and on infrastructure, theres a potential for him to reach out to democrats. Hes talking about Infrastructure Spending far in excess of what any republicans would have considered under a democratic president. So you have some mixed signals. The other thing i would add to that list, george, i am told very early on in this transition process to expect that trump will announce his nominee for the Supreme Court. That will be something designed to very much please conservatives even as they may get a little nervous on some of what hes talking about in terms of obamacare and infrastructure. Okay, jon, lets move on to National Security with Martha Raddatz and personnel will matter so much here as well. Our next guest Rudy Giuliani talked about possibly as secretary of state. Youve got this general mike flynn, who is a loyalist, considered for National Security adviser, perhaps, but also talk about some establishment figures like george w. Bushs National Security adviser steve hadley for department of defense . Steve hadley, thats an outlier for sure but hes very experienced. He may be National Security adviser but i think that would be a hard choice for mr. Trump to make, president elect trump to make because general flynn, hes very comfortable with. And you know in that position you have to be very comfortable with someone like that whispering in your ear about National Security, so i think general flynn is probably the top contender for that job. Secretary of state, maybe they would consider steve hadley for that job. Richard haass, there are people from the council on Foreign Relations and certainly an Administration Official many years ago under george h. W. Bush. There are always names floated. Newt gingrichs name is out there. Sometimes you just want to make the loyalists happy by floating those names. I think this will play out over the next several weeks but obviously this is a huge decision. This is where he he has the least experience. Hell have to rely on people with experience. Has made some major promises, as well. Said he would rip up the iran nuclear agreement. Renegotiate nafta. Well, i think they would really like to rip up that agreement and get a new one, but thats going to be very difficult. You, of course, have russia involved in that. And i think the question is what do they do in the meantime . I listened this week, rick ranell, an old u. N. Hand on fox news pressing to see if the iranians are violating any of the terms of the agreement. Really press them on that, make sure there is full compliance, so i think youll see that in the coming months immediately that they will just talk tougher. Nafta, another thing weve got american advisers on the ground in syria and iraq and trump suggesting to the wall street journal he would stop aiding the rebels fighting assad. Comfort to putin there. Comfort to putin. Again, what does he do . President elect trump has promised a safe zone, a humanitarian zone. Do you put u. S. Troops on the ground . Do you try to get other troops on the ground . And hes also promised an intelligence search. Mike flynn knows a lot about that. Tactically mike flynn has been fantastic with intelligence when he was in the military, and theyll be looking at that. If you have good intelligence that truly does put mean putting troops on the ground in some way. Lets move on to the legal issues now with brian ross, 4,500 outstanding lawsuits now for donald trump including Trump University in court this week. Thats right, george. He was a major Real Estate Developer and they sue and get sued all the time, and of those hundreds of lawsuits, were told 30 are significant. Theres pressure for him to settle that. The suit before he goes into office. That could happen. As well, we know as a Real Estate Developer, he has hundreds of millions of dollars in debt, in loans. He borrows money for often all kinds of people around the world including more than 100 million from a german bank now under federal investigation. The questions also about his business. He has said its going to be given to his children to run at the same time we saw his children appointed to formal roles in the transition. A lot of ethics looking at that saying that is not a blind trust. Experts on both sides, both parties say that. Turn over the operation to his three children, donald jr. , eric and ivanka. Thats not a blind trust. According to the experts we talked to, theyre involved now in choosing the next government. Its really a situation that no other president had in years and years. He clearly is not going to follow the idea that generally there is no rule that requires this, but there generally is a situation which people are required to put their interests to the side so they dont have a conflict. Yeah, all recent president s have done that. But as you pointed out, the president is exempt from the conflict of interest rules that all other administrations Administration Officials must abide by. Its a common practice but not required by law. Brian ross, martha, thank you, jon karl as well. Lets move on now to a top trump adviser and vice chair of the transition, Rudy Giuliani. Mr. Mayor, thank you for joining us this morning. Congratulations on the victory. So, is this true, you want to be secretary of state . Whatever i want to be, ill discuss with the president elect. Because thats the best way to do it. Not to create more rumors. So thats between him and me but im happy to answer any other questions. Okay, well, just do one followup on that. Youve also been mentioned as a possible attorney general. Is it fair to say that you would like to serve President Trump . Again, thats a discussion id like to have with him. I mean, im very happy in my law practice and my security firm. I work all over the world. I have a very, very full life. So it would have to be something where i felt he really needed me and not that id be the only one that could do it but maybe that i could do it a little bit different or a little bit better than somebody he. His campaign promises, president elect trump has not riled out seeking a special prosecutor for Hillary Clinton and says he has other priorities. Do you think it would be a good idea to go forward with that . Thats a tough one. George, it really is. As a lawyer i hate to use the on the one hand but the other but on the one hand you dont want to disrupt the nation with what might look like a vindictive prosecution even though it might not be. On the other you want equal justice under the law. If she has violated the law, the fbi never completed the foundation investigation. Thats, as far as i know, that is still an ongoing investigation, that they completed the email investigation but not the foundation investigation. Exactly what you do with that i guess the next attorney general will have to figure that out. I dont know if that will be me or not but the next attorney general would have to figure that out and im going to make a guess, not a definitive statement, i would think if you had to make a decision like that, youd give that to an independent counsel. You wouldnt make it as the appointee of, you know, the new president. We have a lot of precedent for that. Weve done that in the past or maybe that you want to sort of put that behind you. I dont know. Thats a tough decision. We saw secretary so, i can see why i was going to say, we saw secretary clinton reported today she believes that she would have won the election but for the interference of the fbi director james comey. Your response to that . Well, you know, i actually think it was obamacare. Again, why you won an election and why you didnt is a subject of, you know, books that get written 20 years later. And being part of the campaign, we put up front in all of Donald Trumps speeches for the last two or three weeks, not the fbi, but obamacare. That seemed to me to be the thing that moved the votes in michigan, that moved the votes in places where we pennsylvania, wisconsin, the blue states we were able to turn red and basically havent been red since ronald reagan. I think obamacare was the bigger hit. The fact that those premiums hit on, what was it, november 1st, right . Such a closely divided election. Secretary clinton won the popular vote in those three states you just mentioned, michigan, pennsylvania, wisconsin, about 112,000 votes separated the two candidate, as well, so how much of a mandate does president elect trump have coming out of this close result . You have the same mandate whether its a close result or it isnt. Youre the president of the United States. You have to act like the president of the United States. Youre the person in charge. You have to set the agenda. Thats how you get yourself reelected by a much bigger number if you want to get reelected. And thats the way you govern the country, i mean, the constitution of the United States doesnt change the powers of the president based on the number by which you get elected. And he has a pretty sizable electoral map win. Much more than anybody thought. I think people thought that if he won hed win by like one state the way president bush did. I mean he won by a sizable margin. I even believe he won a little after the election. I think if we spent a little more time in minnesota, we would have won minnesota. You see a lot of anger in the streets this week. Demonstrations every night since the election. I know you called the protesters cry babies earlier in the week but youve also seen this spate of incidents, racially charged incidents across the country right now. What should president elect trump do to get that under control . Well, you know, first of all, i do have to ask the following, i feel very bad about that. But if those were donald trump people doing that after a Hillary Clinton election, i think a lot of people would be there were would be a lot more anger in the media at the fact that theyre protesting a legitimately decided election. Having said that, i think we understand their frustration. We certainly dont want to make it worse. I think theyre exaggerating the fears of a donald Trump Presidency because theyre coming off a campaign where theyre very disappointed. Im sure our supporters would have been very disappointed had donald trump not won, and i just hope it calms down. Now where it goes into violence, i have a zero tolerance for riots. You know, took over a city that had two riots in four years and i had none and they knew they couldnt riot on me, and when i saw the people in the street in new york city, i said to myself, youre breaking giulianis rules. You dont take my streets. You can have my sidewalks, but you dont take my streets because ambulances have to get through there, fire trucks have to get through there. People die when you crowd the streets of new york city with protesters. You can do plenty of protesting on the sidewalk. So, you know, i would ask them to please respect id ask them to please respect the democratic process. I know both secretary clinton and president obama were very gracious, and i respect that a lot in the way they handled it the day after, two days after but i wish they would Say Something about it too. Because after all, these are supporters of president obama and Hillary Clinton, and maybe they could Say Something about it, not the right thing in a democracy theyve said that everybody should president obama said that everybody should root for the success of president elect trump. But what about those are the protesters protesting president elect trump. What about those Trump Supporters out there and weve seen several incidents with racially charged intimidation of students and things like that. Doesnt president elect trump have some responsibility to Say Something about that . Well, they they shouldnt be doing it either, but i mean the major the major focus here is the at least the one i was in one a couple of days ago where they saw me in the car, and they started banging on my car. So these are not you know, i want to amend my statement a little bit. Im not sure these are even Hillary Clinton, barack obama supporters. I think these people are, you know, kind of like professional protesters more. They didnt look to me like all those protesters in all those cities professionals . Well, yes, you gather a certain number of people around you, but, you know, they looked they looked they didnt look to me like people who were, you know, carefully studying Political Science and were all upset about, you know, the ideology of the election. You know, final question i want to get in what brian ross was talking about earlier. What do you think president elect trump should do to assure people there wont be a mingling of his businesses and governmental duties now that his children are running it during this part of the transition . Well, my advice would be that once he enters office there should be a separation a blind trust or some kind of blind trust. As brian pointed out, its different in the case of a president. They have a lot more leeway in the way they can fashion it, but i think, you know, for the good of the country and the fact that you dont want a question coming up every time there is a decision made, he should basically take himself out of it and just be a passive participant in the sense that he has no decisionmaking, no involvement and those decisions get made separ