GOP In the Dark on Trump's Health Care Plan; Schumer: Tom Price Legislation, Stock A Crime; Trump Taking Credit for Jobs Returning to U.S.
MANU RAJU, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL REPORTER: Donald Trump is expected to be there as well as Trump transition, administration officials. And expect more effort to try to get behind a cohesive plan because, right now, there are a lot of folks on Capitol Hill operating in the dark as to what Donald Trump wants.</s>BROOKE BALDWIN, CNN ANCHOR: We'll continue that conversation. And also under the file of Obamacare, let's talk about the story you broke. Tom Price, who is also up for secretary of HHS, Health and Human Services, for the Trump administration, there are some questions about his stock, soon after, the company said stock he proposed legislation in Congress.</s>RAJU: That's right. The company, a device maker, Mr. Price purchased stock last year. Less than a week later, he offered legislation designed to delay a federal Medicare rule that affected medical device companies that made knee and hip implants, and that's exactly what they make. Since the story broke, the Price team is saying the broker did this, he wasn't aware of it. But he maintained that stock and kept that stock while he served in the House. And now he promises to divest the stock if he does become head of the Health and Human Services Department. I spoke with Senate Democratic leader, Chuck Schumer, trying to stop Price's nomination. And he thinks this raises some major, major issues.</s>SEN. CHUCK SCHUMER, (D-NY), SENATE MAJORITY LEADER: I think there's a very good chance he will not be confirmed. I would urge that this is not a partisan issue. I would urge our Republican friends, who also talk about cleaning the swamp, this is exhibit A.</s>RAJU: Schumer suggesting Republicans would vote with Democrats against Price but we don't have any indication, Brooke, that that will happen. We'll see what happens in his Wednesday confirmation hearing, the first of two on Capitol Hill.</s>BALDWIN: Thank you, Manu Raju. Three days until Donald Trump becomes the 45th president of the United States and he is taking credit for all the new jobs coming back into the U.S., tweeting, "With all the new jobs I'm bringing back into the U.S., I believe people are seeing big stuff." Trump's tweets followed the morning announcement from General Motors plans to invest $1 billion in U.S. factories, retain or create about 7000 jobs and move 450 jobs from Mexico back to the U.S. Walmart, announcing it will add 10,000 jobs this year. And Trump tweeting, "Thank you to General Motors and Walmart for starting the big jobs push into the U.S." So, with me now, former Wall Street executive and business expert, Alexis Glick.</s>ALEXIS GLICK, BUSINESS EXPERT & FORMER WALL STREET EXECUTIVE: Nice to see you. Hi. Great to see you.</s>BALDWIN: It's awesome news for the economy and the auto news, but were some of the jobs already on the docket to be created the U.S. or is some of this creatively timed?</s>GLICK: Perfect question. The reality is many of these were in the pipeline and were discussed quite some time but you do have to give Trump and the administration a lot of credit for the fact that they have been having this dialogue with CEOs around the country of what do we need to do to give you the visibility and incentive to keep jobs in the United States? So, it's a dialogue between protectionism, protecting jobs from going overseas, and to their great credit they're starting to give CEOs what they need and what they are thinking about ere sing -- every single day is visibility, around taxes, legislation to keep my factories in the United States and they have spent an awful a lot of time over the past couple of months and I think we're starting to see the dividends pay off.</s>BALDWIN: If you take the reverse logic, saying I get the credit for these jobs would he get the credit for Mercedes and BMW, who had been producing in the U.S. and going to Mexico, does it work both ways?</s>GLICK: Yes, I harkened President Obama when he was president-elect and I remember he did a very similar thing. He brought together all the CEOs and leaders across to country to talk about jobs and one thing I can say in hindsight that President-elect Trump needs to think about is you cannot slate from the White House and the rhetoric right now is really important particularly when we're talking about things like tea tariffs, even if you're giving them visibility around taxes, you have to be careful that the rhetoric doesn't turn around. I think today it is quite remarkable and should spend a lot of time talking about the president of China just appeared at the -- today. No leader of China has shown up to what is considered probably the most powerful convening of global leaders in the world and what he essentially said is no one wants to create enemies through a trade war. No one wants to put up these barriers. And what we have to be careful of is there's currency risks not only trade risks but global risks so the fact that the president of China stood up there today and actually quoted Charles Dickens of "for the people and by the people."</s>BALDWIN: So fascinating.</s>GLICK: I would say what is China trying to do, they are not the holder of our largest currency anymore.</s>BALDWIN: We have heard this guy talk about China a lot.</s>GLICK: We do. We have to be careful that our rhetoric doesn't pull us away from the important leadership that we have had around the world. The last thing I say, too, Brooke, is let's not diminish the importance of job training. Walmart along with the retail federation yesterday announced a huge job training program in the United States to really make sure we're addressing the skills gap and retail the one of the largest industries in the United States to employ people but the important thing here is that if you look at college-educated workers today versus high school age workers, we have the widest gap in the history of the country, college kids are getting paid 56percent more than high school kids so we have to be looking at what is our job training philosophy how are we making sure we have the skills necessary for this future work force to continue to create jobs here in the United States?</s>BALDWIN: Glad you mentioned it, and focus on Walmart in the training piece of it all. Alexis, thank you very much.</s>GLICK: Thank you.</s>BALDWIN: Next, moving vans spotted outside of the White House. What is the first thing the first family plans to do after the inauguration? Somewhere warmer perhaps? That's coming up.