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Images of Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn and Rep. Mike Pompeo, R-Kan., seen on a television screen inside the clubhouse before President-elect Donald Trump arrives at Trump National Golf Club Bedminster in Bedminster Township, N.J., Friday, Nov. 18, 2016.

Both Romney and Trump were positive about their sit-down, a marked shift in tone after a year in which Romney attacked Trump as a “con man” and Trump labeled him a “loser”. Trump has backed these techniques, saying: “We should go tougher than waterboarding”, which simulates drowning. “There’s no suggestion he’ll moderate his tone or policies”.

“That’s a message not just about him following through on his campaign promises, but it’s about partisanship”, says Zelizer. Bannon’s news website has peddled conspiracy theories, white nationalism and anti-Semitism. Sessions fit right in with Trump’s deliberate rekindling of American white supremacists.

“The president-elect has made it very clear the state should not interfere in state marijuana laws”, Tvert said. “Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud”.

The 57-year-old has been outspoken in his warnings about the dangers of Islamist groups, saying the USA needs to “discredit” radical Islam.

Mr Sessions and Mr Pompeo would both require Senate confirmation; Lt Gen Flynn would not. He has said Obama’s counterterrorism policies have “emboldened our enemies” and those concerned about warrantless wiretaps have “exaggerated the extent to which this is somehow violative of our Constitution”.

In tapping Sessions and Flynn, Trump is also rewarding loyalty from two of his most ardent supporters during the presidential campaign. Flynn ran the Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) between 2012 and 2014. Bob Corker for secretary of state.

Jeff Sessions may be known as a pro-business conservative but as USA attorney general he is unlikely to shy away from indicting big companies and individuals for serious white-collar crimes, legal experts said, citing his record as a lawmaker.

Sessions, a Republican, was denied a federal judgeship in 1986 after hearings in which he was accused of making racially charged remarks as a US attorney. Allegations he made racist remarks led the Senate to deny his confirmation as a federal judge in 1986.

When his judgeship was ultimately denied, it would reportedly be “only the second time in almost 50 years the committee stunted a judicial nomination”.

Sessions, like Mike Flynn, is not a conciliatory pick or one that will win Trump plaudits from his critics on either side of the aisle.

Several minority and civil rights groups, including the NAACP and the Council on American-Islamic Relations, have sharply opposed President-elect Donald Trump’s decision to appoint Sen.

Some Democrats slammed Sessions’ nomination Friday, including Rep. Luis Gutiérrez of IL, who said the senator was the right pick “if you have nostalgia for the days when blacks kept quiet, gays were in the closet, immigrants were invisible and women stayed in the kitchen”.

Republicans were supportive on Friday.

Rep. Steven Palazzo, R-4, praised Trump’s pick for Central Intelligence Agency director, Kansas Congressman Mike Pompeo. Obama has sought to close the facility, arguing that it is too costly, has damaged the nation’s global reputation and aids terrorist groups’ recruiting efforts. He has said that Edward Snowden, a former government contractor who uncovered the spying programme and who now lives in Russian Federation, should get the death penalty if he is ever tried and convicted. “I’m heartened by the choice”.

The 52-year-old Kansas lawmaker may be best known for his harsh criticism of Hillary Clinton’s handling of Libya policy. He was appointed to the House Select Benghazi Committee to probe the 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic outpost in Benghazi that killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.

Black Lives Matter activist and Campaign Zero co-founder DeRay Mckesson said Sessions’ “documented racism and previous ineligibility for public office make him unfit to be the standard-bearer for the nation’s justice system”.

The American Jewish Committee, for one, fought aggressively against Sessions’ 1980s nomination, citing his “negative bias on civil rights and civil liberties issues”, according to a press release from the time.

Sessions said the Obama administration’s counterterrorism policies had “emboldened our enemies” and failed to address border control, claiming that hundreds of foreign-born individuals have been charged with acts of terrorism since September 11, 2001.

The president-elect is still weighing a range of candidates for other leading national security posts.

Here’s who he’s chosen so far.

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