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President and the president-elect. reporters will then try to get a few questions in. we will see if they answer reporters questions. later the president-elect will head up to capitol hill for a very important meeting with the speaker of the house, paul ryan. sean spicer is joining us right now, the chief spokesman strategist for the republican national committee. hes been very much involved in trying to get donald trump elected president. first of all, i know you worked really hard to get him e...

>> the berther issue, you did not hear of discussions between president elect and the president. >> they did not settle all differences. tha theyre trying to send out that message as well. >> when i asked about the priorities for the president going forward over the next 70 days or so. in addition, the answer was not the affordable care act. >> this is the enrollment period. there was a huge level of enrollment in the level in the past couple of days. >> thats what donald trump intend to do with...

Delegitimize paul ryans birth but the leader of the party but does not want to see entitlement reform but some of the hardcore conservative ideas as far as budget are not in line with paul ryan. >> reporter: all i can do is tell you what the speaker has told me. he had multiple phone calls with the president elect and says that they are on good terms. youre right, it was a rankerous campaign but they believe theres an opening to try to accomplish something. theyll all be held accountable by the ...

Is congressman michael mccall. hes the chairman of the house homeland security committee so hes someone who obviously is very familiar with the issues that the president elect has talked about extensively on the campaign trail. in addition to that, he is somebody a supporter and someone to give some diversity, some geographic diversity to this staff. theres been a lot of concern and i think katy tur has talked about this that this would be a very new york centric group and so this would be someo...

? january, the president elect may have to take the witness stand in his own defense in a trial of alleged fraud involving trump university . mother in-law with a keen sense of smell...

Leaving on the republican national committee on capitol hill. it looks like they were there -- he left the white house at around 12:45 or so. its 1:51 on the east coast, at least more than an hour, dana. that was the meeting between donald trump, the president-elect, and the speaker paul ryan. >> which is probably as important, if not more important, than the one that happened in that building. go ahead, mark. >> i was going to say, the irony is a week ago we were talking about how donald trump ...

In press. joe biden wrapped up a meeting with the vice president elect mike pence. and im told the transition office base has been building out for several months. there will be office space in washington and theyll maintain space in new york and indianapolis. one of donald trumps former foes, john kasich, the governor of ohio, was here at the white house earlier this afternoon. he was here because the cleveland cavaliers were celebrating their big nba finals victory with president obama. john k...

Overseas. the president described to the president elect some of the issues he expected to come up with some of our allies and partners. so its an opportunity to talk about those issues. there also is an opportunity for the two leaders to talk about staffing and organizing a white house. thats complicated business. and any white house is expected to be straushed in a way to deal with multiple challenges or even multiple crises at the same time. the president-elect expressed a lot of interest in ...

>>. >> we just saw president elect trump and melania. >> based on the activities, they are coming our way next. just to give you a sense of that, the relationships are under way. there was a call today from vice president elect mike pence to house democratic leader, nancy pelosi, they knew each other. it is now a new relationship. i work in this building a lot and this is a high level activity for the state of capitol hill. even when president obama was here, there was always a lot of security a...

>> we heard the words from paul ryan today. basically saying what donald trump pulled off the most stunning political fete hes ever witnessed and talking about how how much he will get done with the president elect. donald trump is already getting briefings, daily briefings of the countrys most important intelligence. what can you tell us? >> this is something that president obama, the white house announced yesterday that he would extend the same presidential daily briefings to donald trump. thi...