Welcome to the "700 Club."

While sporadic protests are swirling around the country,

the President-elect Donald Trump is making his top priorities

clear as he gets ready to become president--

cutting taxes, improving the health care system,

and dealing with illegal immigration.

Well, Trump also signaled that he

is standing firm on his positions

on abortion and the Supreme Court.

And he's named two of his key White House appointments.

Gary Lane has the story.

GARY LANE: Trump made the important announcement Sunday

that Reince Priebus will become his Chief of Staff ,

and Stephen Bannon Senior Counselor and top White House

Strategist.

Priebus is the Chairman of the Republican National Committee,

a key Washington insider.

By contrast, Bannon is an anti-establishment

conservative, the former head of Breitbart News.

Strange bedfellows?

Trump released a statement saying, "Steve and Reince are

highly qualified leaders who worked together on our campaign

and led us to a historic victory.

Now I will have them both with me in the White House

as we work to make America great again."

Also on Sunday, more anti-Trump protests.

This time immigrants rallied outside the Trump Tower.

On "60 Minutes," Trump was asked about immigration

and his pledge to deport those here illegally.

He said first he'll focus on criminal illegals

and then others.

After the border is secured and after everything

gets normalized, we're going to make

a determination on the people that you're talking about,

who are terrific people.

They're terrific people.

GARY LANE: Trump had a word for the frightened protesters.

Don't be afraid.

We are going to bring our country back.

GARY LANE: And what about those committing acts

of violence against minorities?

They're harassing Latinos, Muslims.

I am so saddened to hear that, and I say stop it, if it helps.

I will say this, and I'll say it right to the cameras.

Stop it.

GARY LANE: While Trump has indicated a willingness

to talk about some changes to some of his campaign pledges,

he's standing firm on judicial and Supreme Court appointments.

I'm pro-life.

The judges will be pro-life.

GARY LANE: Trump's campaign speeches

were often interrupted with chants of lock her up.

Some rally attendees wanted Trump opponent Hillary Clinton

jailed over her email and Clinton Foundation scandals.

Trump pledged on the campaign trail

to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate.

But when asked about that, he said

he wants to focus on his top priorities first.

I'm going to think about it.

I feel that I want to focus on jobs.

I want to focus on health care.

I want to focus on the border and immigration

and doing a really great immigration bill.

We want to have a great immigration bill.

And I want to focus on all of these other things

that we've been talking about and get

the country straightened away.

You called her crooked Hillary,

said you wanted her to get in jail.

Your people and your audiences kept saying lock her up.

Yeah.

Do you want--

She did some bad things.

I mean, she did some bad things.

I know, but a special prosecutor?

I don't want to hurt them.

I don't want to hurt them.

They are good people.

GARY LANE: The President-elect said

he'll have a more definitive answer later.

More announcements on some important cabinet positions

could come later this week.

Vice President-elect Mike Pence is now heading up

the transition effort.

He's covering job vetting and decisions

affecting more than 4,000 Executive Branch positions.

Gary Lane, CBN News.

Well, whether they like it or not,

this election was a referendum on the eight years of the Obama

presidency.

And the people didn't like the Obamacare.

They didn't like what's happened to our foreign policy.

They didn't like all the regulations that

have been put in place, and they didn't

like the stagnant growth.

They just didn't like it.

Americans are used to winning.

And we've been told this is the new normal is to lose.

And so whatever they wanted to say about this, that,

and the other was caused by this, it was caused by the fact

that the American people wanted a change.

And they wanted a robust domestic policy and a more

robust foreign policy.

But now, after losing a number of governor seats,

after losing a tremendous number of legislative seats,

after losing the presidency, the Democrats

are now trying to figure a plan for their future.

So our Wendy Griffith went to find out.

Wendy.

Thanks, Pat.

Well, many Democrats are pushing for a serious change

in the party's positions on its policies.

They want grassroots organizing to focus more on their base

and winning back those white working class voters who

went for Donald Trump.

We have to do a lot of rethinking.

Democrats have focused too much with a liberal elite,

which is raising incredible sums of money from wealthy people.

Now, Democrats have to choose a new leader of the party's

National Committee.

One leading candidate is Muslim Congressman Keith Ellison

of Minnesota, but others are looking to get into the race

as well.

Some liberals are pushing the party

to move even more to the left, as Bernie Sanders.

Democrats lost the White House along with the House and Senate

under President Obama, along with governorships and state

legislatures.

Well, more strong aftershocks in New Zealand

after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck the country Sunday.

Tourists and residents in the area were stunned.

The earthquake last night was just

so devastating and shocking.

It just-- it knocked me out of bed.

Things fell on me.

The room that I was staying, in the hotel

that I was staying in, is now condemned.

I can't return.

The whole bed just sort of jumped out from the wall,

and these doors just literally buckled and just

opened and swayed back and forth, back and forth.

Wow, look at that.

Officials say at least two people have died.

The quake caused damage in the capital of Wellington,

even generating a small tsunami.

New Zealand is sending military helicopters and a Navy ship

to rescue about 1,000 tourists and hundreds of residents that

are stranded in one coastal town after the quake cut

off train and vehicle access.

Pat, such a beautiful island.

I hate to see that happen there.

It is.

Wendy, that's the so-called Ring of Fire,

and once that thing-- you know, the Pacific plates

meet with the-- well, the various coastal plates,

the North American plate, et cetera,

you see that Ring of Fire and New Zealand

is right down at the bottom of it.

So Indonesia and Japan and then coming over to our coast

and then down to South America.

And this is a very volatile seismic area.

And once it starts moving, I dare

say you'll find other earthquakes taking place,

and it will be painful for people.

I looked up at the sky last night,

and the moon was so bright, it was like the sun.

And Wendy, tell us about it.

It is wonderful to see this.

The brightest moon in almost 69 years,

Pat, is lighting up the sky this week.

It's called a super moon and you can get it.

You can see it here in the video.

It's 14% bigger and 30% brighter than a normal full moon.

The reason, the moon's orbit is bringing it closer to Earth

than any time since 1948.

And in 18 years, it will be even closer,

with the next super moon occurring in 2034.

And Pat, so you were out there taking a look at it last night.

I looked at it.

It was so bright, I had a hard time.

I wasn't wearing dark glasses at 8:00 at night.

But there that beauty was, and it's a gorgeous thing.

You know, the thing about it we've got to remember,

it's like God's provision.

If that moon wasn't there, this planet we're all on

would be teetering back and forth all the time.

That keeps us in a stable orbit and a stable rotation.

And apparently, this planet was hit by Mars, I believe,

or some similar planet, and the moon

was ejected as a part of that mass.

It formed its own planet, but it's God's plan

to look after us on this earth.

This is a very special planet, and when

you look up at that moon, you can thank God that it's there.