Trump, Pence receives first look at president’s daily brief

Spicer called Trump the “new sheriff in town” and said he’s determined to bring qualified people into his administration.

“That organization right now is not created to work”, according to the person close to the efforts, who like others involved in the transition, insisted on anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the internal process.

For example, Rudy Giuliani, a contender for secretary of state, has received money consulting for foreign governments – an issue that arose when he ran for the presidency.

President-elect Donald Trump at his election night rally in NY.

Hicks said she was unaware that Trump planned to leave his home and had not meant to leave the press in the dark.

Cohen later told the New York Times in an interview that “Trump transition officials had excoriated him after he offered some names of people who might serve in the new administration, but only if they felt departments were led by credible people”.

Trump has vowed to “drain the swamp” when he begins his White House administration next year.

Also on Thursday, reports surfaced that Governor Nikki Haley of SC, who backed Senator Marco Rubio in the Republican primaries, might now be a candidate for secretary of state.

Kissinger was Secretary of State under Republican presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull was the second leader to talk to Trump and the pair are said to have spoken for 15 minutes.

Campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said Thursday she expects initial announcements of Cabinet choices to come “either before or after Thanksgiving” and told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” program, “It’s Donald Trump and Donald Trump alone who makes the ultimate decisions”.

The president-elect’s spokespeople said that it takes time to assemble a federal government and the team is approaching the matter in all seriousness.

Some diplomats who had set up meetings with transition team members for the coming days discovered those officials were gone as part of this past week’s purge of Christie’s team and anyone registered as a lobbyist.

On social media, Trump said a “very organized process taking place as I decide on Cabinet and many other positions”. “We’re going to get the transition team where we need it to be”, spokesman Jason Miller told reporters in Trump Tower on Wednesday.

Trump has been ensconced in Trump Tower for days as he deliberates. The Wall Street Journal reported the Vice President-elect Mike Pence on Tuesday ordered removal of all lobbyists from the transition team.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and some of his advisers on Wednesday sought to quell reports of disorganization on the transition team and fierce internal battles among its members.

Patriots owner Robert Kraft was spotted walking into the building Wednesday afternoon with banker Steven Mnuchin, according to a pool report. It was not immediately clear whether they arrived together. He did not answer any questions from reporters about the goal of his visit. Trump officials have said they plan to respect the traditions of press access at the White House.

The president-elect has named Bannon as a top White House adviser, sparking outcry from Democrats who say the conservative media CEO peddles conspiracy theories and white supremacy. “This was a typically false news story”, Trump wrote Wednesday. The White House needed the transition to submit a list of names of staff they wanted to send into the agencies, so they could be given background checks, and required those individuals to submit to code of conduct and conflict of interest statements.

Those teams will receive briefing materials from the agencies they are assigned to and will have the opportunity to ask questions about how the agency operates.

America’s future First Lady Melania Trump “paused her studies” to pursue a modeling career in Milan and Paris.

Lu notes that part of Obama’s motivation is how helpful and gracious former President George W. Bush was with his outgoing presidential transition. But veterans of Washington’s transition rituals said Trump seemed to be further behind. Like Trump, he’s called for the U.S.to work more closely with Moscow. We will make them as carefully and consistently as we can. He met Thursday with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, his first face-to-face meeting with a foreign leader since winning the election. “I have every intention of serving out my full term of governor and I have no reason to believe as we stand here today that I will do anything other than serve out my full term as governor”, Christie said in a news conference in New Jersey on Thursday.

“There has been no outreach to date”, Kirby added. “We are ready and able to provide context if it is desired”.