Good day. Im Andrea Mitchell. Somebody can kidnap us. Live in washington where president obama just named his advisor Denis Mcdonough to run the white house from now owner where republicans are meeting in charlotte and planning a revival of the grand ole party. More on that in a moment. More for our daily fix. David gregory, moderator of meet the press, nbc News White House correspondent Kristen Welker and justice correspondent Pete Williams. A loot going on all fronts. Denis mcdonough, and news out of the white house on the secret service skrefgs in cart hana. Thats right. Andrea, well, ill first start with the breaking news. According to a source from the hill and also Law Enforcement source the Inspector General has finished its report on the secret Service Scandal and specifically the secret services own investigation into that scandal. We are told that that report will be sent to the hill a little later on today. It includes the agency did implement proper reforms. That is what we
with national journal, and olivia bowe miller with the new york times . it s been a long week. get me through this, you guys. jonathan, first to you. we see today dennis mcdonough, the new chief of staff. we ve seen john kerry s confirmation hearing next friday. we re going to have on january 31st we ll have chuck hagel s confirmation hearing at the armed services committee. hillary clinton s long farewell. how is it shaping up? what can we read into the big decisions that the president has made? well, clearly the president especially with the announcements today, is filling out his team. the team that s going to carry him through to the second term, and it s also the first term was all about the folks that were close to the president personally, folks who worked with him in chicago, folks that worked with him in his senate office, on the presidential campaign trail, and this go-round it appears that the president is appointing people who are close to him
0 it s time for a new republican party that talks like adults. it s time for us to articulate our plans and our visions for america in real terms. it s no secret we had a number of republicans that damaged the brand this year with offensive and bizarre comments. i m here to say we ve had enough of that. but is changing the electoral college rules to gain the presidency a way to improve the brand and get smart? coming up here, former republican party chair and mississippi governor haley barbour. and kimmel kidnapped. i ran out of time. apologies from matt damon. ran out of time. i want to apologize. to matt damon. we ran out of time for him. matt damon. extremely overrated matt damon. after being the butt of jimmy kimmel s notes for a decade, matt damon gets help from an howard baker certainly rescuing the ronald reagan second term from don regan, a bad chief of staff by all accounts. what is the pluses and minuses of denis mcdonough. he knows the president so well,