No turmoil in transition, Trump says

Former Rep. Mike Rogers announced he’s stepping down as national security adviser for the Trump transition team.

Vice President-elect Mike Pence walks past media as he leaves Trump Tower with his wife Karen, Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2016, in NY. “I think there is, but I think this is growing pains. and once they integrate people who have been doing it (in Washington) with people in NY, I think you’ll see a smoother transition”.

The switch slowed Trump’s ability to coordinate with the White House. Rumors have swirled that the Trump transition had allowed these calls to take place on open lines, and that no one was briefing the president-elect beforehand. As quiet and discreet as his father-in-law is loud and combative, Kushner is said to have taken part in the ouster of Christie and the New Jersey governor’s network.

Conway said reports of firings and disorganization were false.

So who is in the running to work in a Trump administration? Intelligence and sources familiar with the subject confirm that security clearance has been requested for Kushner. “It’s not just appropriate, necessary”.

Mr Christie’s role has since been handed to Vice President-elect Mike Pence, requiring new approvals and confusing the installation of Mr Trump’s team into the White House.

Defying the usual presidential press protocols, Trump has twice in the past week ditched the pool of reporters who follow him in public. After all, Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump and Ivanka Trump are all part of the transition team that is responsible for staffing the incoming administration and setting the policy agenda.

“I think a lot of what is being reported on is traditional, transition type of political reporting that is out there”, Reed said. The team did not name any lobbyists who had been dropped from the group. The next day a wave of negative media coverage highlighted the same contradiction between his campaign’s promise to “Drain the Swamp” and his emerging administration’s reliance on the very special interests he had railed against. We weren’t ready on Day One. He expressed confidence that by Trumps Jan. 20 inauguration, “everything will be in good hands.”.

Indeed, Trump hadn’t been seen outdoors since Thursday, when he traveled to Washington to meet with Obama and Republican congressional leaders.

Vice President-elect Mike Pence walks past the media as he leaves Trump Tower with his wife Karen, Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2016, in NY.

Bruce Jentleson, a professor of public policy at Duke University, believes if Trump fulfills his term “it is highly likely” he will appoint more than one justice.

Moskowitz, who voted for Clinton, suggested there were “positive signs” that Trump might govern differently than he campaigned, but she wrote in a letter to parents that many of her students, who are overwhelmingly black and Latino, would feel that “they are the target of the hatred that drove Trump’s campaign”.

An unexpected visit to the Manhattan high-rose was New York’s liberal Mayor Bill de Blasio, who met with Trump Wednesday and exited to say he had concerns about the president-elect’s proposed deportations of undocumented immigrants.

President-elect Donald Trump said Wednesday that his transition was not in disarray, assailing news media reports about firings and infighting and insisting in an early-morning Twitter burst that everything was going “so smoothly”. But with Trump’s own team in transition, that was no easy feat. “And after the election, they’ve had to scramble quite a bit”.

In the days after Trump won the November 8 election, Assad called his rising counterpart “a natural ally” against terrorist groups – the name he uses for all opposition forces. He then met with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Sen.

The two began mending fences after Trump’s victory when Romney called with congratulations.

Businessman Carl Icahn disclosed on Twitter, based on conversations with the president-elect, that Trump was considering Steve Mnuchin, a former Goldman Sachs banker, and Wilbur Ross, a billionaire investor, to lead the Treasury and Commerce departments. Populist Sen. Elizabeth Warren of MA also kept a top spot in the group that will help steer the party.

“We’re not going to rush to put names forward until we’re absolutely sure”, Trump spokesman Jason Miller said hours later. But late last week, they realized that time was needed to get organized and figure out how they would search and vet people beyond the inner circle, the sources said.