US investigating leak related to Petraeus case

Mr Trump said on Twitter shortly after Mr Petraeus, a retired general, left an hour-long meeting with the Republican victor of the Nov 8 election at Trump Tower in Manhattan. “He basically walked us around the world”, Mr. Petraeus told reporters at Trump Tower in Manhattan.

“And what I’ve seen through these discussions I’ve had with President-elect Trump, as well as what we’ve seen in his speech the night of his victory, as well as the people he’s selected as part of his transition, all of those things combined give me increasing hope that President-elect Trump is the very man who can lead us to that better future”, Romney concluded.

Trump tweeted after the meeting that he was “very impressed” with the retired four-star general. Bob Corker, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who is getting new attention from Trump’s team. But in an unusual public airing of internal machinations, Trump senior adviser Kellyanne Conway warned Sunday that the president-elect’s supporters would feel “betrayed” if he tapped former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney as secretary of state.

As he was leaving Trump Tower on Monday, Vice President-elect Mike Pence said, “There will be a number of very important announcements tomorrow”.

On the campaign trail, Mr. Trump often used Mr. Petraeus as an example of the type of aggressive prosecution and severe punishment Hillary Clinton should face for mishandling classified information when she was secretary of state.

Steven Aftergood, who directs the project on government secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists, said, “It suggests that much of the campaign hoopla directed against Hillary Clinton by Mr. Trump was manufactured, and not honest”.

Petraeus pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of mishandling classified information after he shared government secrets with his mistress Paula Broadwell, a married woman who was his biographer.

Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, favoured by Trump loyalists who worked on the election campaign, remains in the mix for the job of America’s top diplomat, Trump aides say.

And a researcher who said the Trump campaign is citing one of his reports said it included nothing about voter fraud.

FULL NAME: David Howell Petraeus DATE OF BIRTH: Nov. 7, 1952, in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York AGE: 65 EDUCATION: Petraeus attended the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, where he graduated in the top five percent of his class.

Trump tweeted on Sunday that there was voter fraud in McCarthy’s home state of California, New Hampshire and Virginia without providing any data to back up his claim. New Hampshire’s deputy secretary of state, David Scanlan, said: “There’s no evidence that we’ve seen that supports claims like that”.

Stein’s campaign said she would file a petition Wednesday for a MI recount, after which Trump would have seven days to file objections.

“After a presidential election tarnished by the use of outdated and unreliable machines and accusations of irregularities and hacks, people of all political persuasions are asking if our election results are reliable”, she said in a statement. Mr. Corker was also scheduled to meet Mr. Trump on Tuesday.

Miller said Trump was not expected to announce his decision for the coveted secretary of state job on Tuesday.

On NBC’s “Meet the Press”, Conway said Stein, “the Hillary people” and others supporting recounts have to decide whether they are going to back a peaceful transition “or if they’re going to be a bunch of crybabies and sore losers about an election that they can’t turn around”.

Mr. Trump’s other meetings on Monday include Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke, Rep. Lou Barletta (R-Pennsylvania), Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, former SEC chairman Paul Atkins, businessmen Sandeep Mathrani and Dave Stewart, former CATO Institute head John Allison and Kathleen White, a fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation.