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State because there is a sense that rudy giuliani is potentially still a front-runner for this position being a loyalist but heres what, i asked that question to a top transition source about an hour ago. is this real? come on, is he really, is this for real, for real? and this person said, this is for real. he is coming and flying in to meet with the president-elect and heres why thats a good thing. >> vacation in hawaii. >> the president calls you, dont you show up? >> apparently, you do. you ...

Results of the election. i am, too. more than i can ever express. >> hillary clinton gives her first public speech since her concession address last week. good morning. welcome to "early start." im christine romans. >> im george howell. it is thursday, november 17th. 5:00 a.m. in the east. donald trump is considering the governor of south carolina for the secretary of state despite the stormy history. that is the word from the transition source. nicki haley is set to meet with trump at the trump...

The japanese prime minister. and the farewell visit with german chancellor angela merkel. >> im george howell. welcome back to "early start." >> im christine romans. nicki haley was not up for re-election eight days ago. she is the sitting south carolina governor. >> a lot to talk about with nicki haley. trump is considering her for role of secretary of state. that is the word at least from the transition source. haley is said to met with the president-elect at trump tower. she spent the prima...

A one-time critic of donald trump could join the trump administration. south carolina governor nicki haley meets with the transition team today. a world leader meeting at trump tower in a matter of hours to pay president-elect trump a visit. these two world leaders get together this morning. it is president obamas farewell visit with angela merkel. welcome back to "early start." im george howell. >> im christine romans. new this morning, word of a transition source that donald trump is inter...

National security clearance. he is pushing back on a tweet this morning saying, "i am not trying to get top level security clearance for my children. this was a typically false news story." chris and poppy, we know according to a transition source that all of this seems to have stemmed from one transition staffer with the department of defense without having the proper. lets bring in professor ron brownstein and national political reporter for bloomberg politics jennifer jacobs and cnn politic...

Is part of the jockeying thats expected when a new administration comes in and is filling key cabinet posts. some of my colleagues are reporting its been described as a knife fight inside the trump transition meetings. i was told last week that there were some disagreements going on between the so-called, you know, never-trumpers that are starting to make their way into some lower-level positions in trump transition with people who are with donald trump all along and saying they dont want those ...

Former u.n. ambassador under george w. bush. i was told just earlier this evening from a trump transition source that naming john bolton to that position might use up a lot of political capital in the way that this source described it. thats an indication that donald trump may be leaning toward rudy giuliani and giuliani for his part, he was speaking at a "wall street journal" ceo conference earlier this evening. he was asked who would make a good secretary of state. he said john bolton would ma...

Adult children, his son-in-law, jared kushner, are among his top advisers. we saw this during the course of the campaign. you recall just last week when president obama was meeting with donald trump in the oval office, jared kushner was taking a stroll with the current chief of staff on the south lawn of the white house. im told by a transition source that president-elect trump, yes, has asked for top secret security clearances for his adult children and for his son-in-law, jared kushner. now, k...

That may be why you see shifts from someone like rudy giuliani being a lock to now questions being raised. the more people donald trump talks to, the more people mike pence talks to, the more of an indication they can get of problems that can come up if donald trump tries to place some of his very close loyalists into his cabinet. thats also why youre seeing a transition source tell me there are other names that donald trump wanted to talk about going into this meeting with mike pence today he w...

Trip. trying to reassure u.s. allies about president-elect trump. good morning. welcome to "early start." im john berman. >> im christine romans. it is tuesday, november 15th. 5:00 a.m. east. vice president-elect mike pence heads to trump tower to go over cabinet positions. they will look at departments of education and commerce and treasury and state. some of whom could be named as soon as today. the meeting comes among what one insider calls a knife fight. a transition source tells cnn the spl...