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President bushs team could not have been more professional or more gracious in making sure we had a smooth transition so that we could hit the ground running. one thing you realize quickly in this job is that the presidency and the vice presidency is bigger than any of us. so i have instructed my team to follow the example that president bushs team set eight years ago and work as hard as we can to make sure this is a successful transition for the president elect. >> now melania trump will be mee...

I get in there. >> reporter: voters like this made trump president elect. clinton won 11 counties in pennsylvania, five by narrow margins. one of the biggest issues here? the cost of obamacare. >> my health insurance has blown. just for me you are looking at almost 360 bucks a month. >> reporter: for clintons urban supporters, the trump victory? >> what is your over riding emotion this morning? >> disappointment. >> shock. >> >> shock. >> reporter: sfeels like the country has changed for worse. ...

Welcome back. a few minutes away from the first images of the president-elect of the united states, donald trump, being sketched in the oval office by the president of it is united states, barack obama. theyve been meeting almost an hour since donald trump and his entourage arrived at the white house. melania trump, the incoming first lady, is meeting with michelle obama, the first lady of the united states, at the same time. we were going to be watching all of this very closely. well of course ...

Organizational issues in setting up the white house. we talked about foreign policy. we talked about domestic policy. and as i said last night, my number one priority in the coming two months is to try to facilitate a transition that ensured our president elect is successful. and i have been very encouraged by the i think interest in president-elect trumps wanting to work with my team around many of the issues that this great country faces. and i believe that it is important for all of us, regar...

You are absolutely right. >> the mood in an event like this is much lighter than his meeting with donald trump. >> this is what the president said yesterday, this is apart of the democratic process that yes, president obama, lebron james, were on different side sides of donald trump when this campaign was under way. now, the voters have spoken and thats the message from president obama and thats the phone hes trying to set today. >> a big day for her, chris jansing. >> we have a picture of presi...

Means as president trump starts to get high intelligence briefings. >> thank you so much for joining us. greatly appreciate it. we have kristen welker standing by, i think. chris jansing, standing by. we were talking earlier about whether or not donald trump has been to the white house before. theres a photo circulating of him being greeted by ronald reagan. if its not a doctored photo at this point but the internet, but there is a photo that appears to have shown donald trump being greeted by r...

That was then. this is now. the article largely written before he was the president elect. now he is the president elect. is that expected to change? >> i dont know how quickly its going to change and we still hear from people who feel very adamant that absent any kind of real signs hes changed on some of the positions he took during the campaign, theres no reason why some of these people including ones who publicly signed up with the never-trump movement would sign on to work for him and many a...

Vegas, or los angeles. he only spent a few nights in a hotel room and comfortable in his own residence and we know that mar-a-lago was nicknamed and intended to be white house south. trump tower could be white house north and the city is taking precautions for the first since i guess the 40s and set a barricade and the garbage, sorry not, cans, but trucks around it. barricaded it. and a restricted fly zone over manhattan and queens since he is the president elect. so its not an unusual question....

>> lets talk about the business side of donald trump, our ple president elect trump, runs a business, he has said hes going to give it into his kids where they are running it into a blind trust. what do we know about that? >> the president does not have to. the president and the vice president are not legally obligated to have their business dealings separated. this is unprecedented. you got a president elect of 500 businesses in 22 countries. saudi arabia and china and clearly there are sticky ...

Over how trump would lead. japans financial markets tumbled. trumps call for both japan and south korea to defend themselves hit close to him. trump threatened to undo the iran deal. >> translator: a future u.s. president-elect is obliged to stay committed to this multi-lateral nuclear deal. >> reporter: after warning that the fate of the world is at risk with a president trump -- >> this guy is temperamentally unfit to be commander in chief. >> reporter: the white house now turning the page. >>...