Money for Trump Tower security part of stopgap spending bill

He said – I was surprised – he said, ‘I’ve never found it to be useful.’ He said, ‘I’ve always found, give me a pack of cigarettes and a couple of beers and I do better with that than I do with torture.’ And I was very impressed by that answer.

He later told reporters at Trump Tower that the manufacturer is “doing a little bit of a number” and the cost is “ridiculous”.

Mattis, who retired from the military four years ago, needs a waiver from a law that requires defense secretaries to be out of military uniform for seven years. “He’ll get that waiver, right?”

The Trump transition team also confirmed that the president-elect will attend the Army-Navy football game on Saturday in Baltimore.

Trump appeared disciplined – much unlike past campaign rallies when he broke from his talking points to makes news – and stayed mostly on script during his rally.

Only a few Democrats have signaled they’ll oppose Mattis’ nomination, and most of the critics on Tuesday made clear their concerns lie with the military-civilian responsibility issues, not Mattis’ credentials.

The bill would limit debate on the one-time waiver for Mattis to 10 hours, essentially curtailing in-depth discussion about how his appointment would affect the tradition of civilian control of the military. Gen. George C. Marshall was the only officer to ever receive a waiver and he served as defense secretary in the early 1950s. The year-end funding bill must pass by Friday to avoid a government shutdown and Democratic leaders are urging the GOP to refrain from adding any wording to the bill that could set up Mattis’s position before Trump is sworn in.

Democrats including Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, a Democrat from NY, have said they will oppose granting Mattis a waiver.

Mattis is considered a supporter of alliances with foreign countries, a departure from Trump who has accused allies of relying on the United States for their defense without paying enough.

There was a protest scheduled on Facebook with roughly a dozen people signed up to protest Trump’s “Thank You Tour” this evening. We’re bringing people together. Great group of people. The President-elect also commented on flag burning during his first stop on his “Thank You” tour in Cincinnati last week. “This is not going to go away”, said Michel Merluzeau, Aerospace Defense Contracting Expert. That conversation takes place shortly after China protested Trump’s phone call with the president of Taiwan, a country that China regards as a renegade province.

Trump again pledged to rebuild America’s crumbling infrastructure, cut both business and personal taxes, repeal and replace Obamacare and stop illegal immigration.