Immigration threat: I’ll build a fence, rather than a wall, says Trump

In the final analysis, Trump and the newspaper heads agreed to a new deal according to which they would meet for both an off-the-record talk and an official interview.

Earlier in the day, the President-elect met behind closed doors with reporters and editors at New York Times.and seemed to back away from some of his most controversial campaign rhetoric.

So, this was an on-again/off-again session, wasn’t it?

Trump has said he might have to build a fence, rather than a wall, in some areas of the US-Mexican border to stop illegal immigration, tweaking one of his signature campaign promises.

His parting comment was that the Times was a “world jewel”. So, we all did get to sit down.

Eileen M. Murphy, the newspaper’s senior vice president for communications, said: “We did not change the ground rules at all and made no attempt to“.

JUDY WOODRUFF: Well, you have been following what he has been saying quite a while. But I think the popular vote would have been easier in a true sense because you’d go to a few places.

Donald Trump’s recent presidential election victory has posited a lot of questions for a lot of different fields.

We asked him about prosecuting Hillary Clinton, which was a favorite chant of his supporters on the campaign trail. We don’t have any real way of evaluating the full scope of what Trump is really doing here.

“I’m looking at it very closely”. So that was new.

Trump repeatedly argued the U.S. should take a more aggressive approach to combating terrorism, including bringing back the use of the controversial torture tactic known as waterboarding.

Among Trump’s advisers is Myron Ebell of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a climate change denier tasked with overseeing the Environmental Protection Agency’s transition. So there was a lot that was new. “I would be guided by that”, Trump said. But Bookbinder added that this would not be illegal, even if true, because “conflict of interest laws don’t apply to the president”.

What Trump’s interview with the New York Times reaffirms is that the president-elect really doesn’t believe in holding positions on anything. He did chide them for continuing to ask about the topic though, telling one questioner: “Boy, you are really into [this issue]”.

JULIE DAVIS: Well, he very forcefully defended Steve Bannon.

Mr Trump, who takes office on January 20, also said he was thinking about climate change and American competitiveness and “how much it will cost our companies”, the reporter said, without elaborating.

Facing criticism for his campaign’s association with the “alt-right” movement – which is associated with white nationalism, anti-Semitism and racism – Trump was asked about a gathering of white nationalists in Washington over the weekend. “I disavow and condemn”.

After the election, Cook sent a memo to all US Apple employees that did not refer to Trump by name but did include some language about celebrating diversity, which was widely seen by observers in the tech industry as a rebuke to Trump’s anti-immigration platform. Mr. Trump has long opposed a wind farm planned near his course in Aberdeenshire, and he previously fought unsuccessfully all the way to Britain’s highest court to block it….

Meanwhile, a Trump spokesperson says the president-elect will have a meeting with the New York Times after all.