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Way. but he -- it was a great conversation. >> cnn's suzanne malveaux has more on the complicated relationship between the president and his successor. >> it was a great honor being with you and i look forward to being with you many many more times in the future. >> reporter: so much for the pleasantries, donald trump today blasting president obama on twitter, doing my best to disregard the many inflammatory president o. statements and road blocks. thought it was going to be a smooth transition. not. but this afternoon trump seemed to have changed had his mind saying the transition was going s...

He called me, he called me. we had a very, very good talk about generally about things. he was in hawaii. and it was a very, very nice call. and i actually thought we covered a lot of territory, a lot of good -- >> are you satisfied with the transition thus far? >> well, our staffs are getting along very well. and i'm getting along very well with him other than a couple of statements that i responded to. and we talked about it and smiled about it. and nobody's ever going to know because we're never going to be going against each other in that way. >> that was donald trump moments ago fielding ...

I actually thought we covered a lot of territory. >> agreeable tone there coming hours after mr. trump tweeted this. doing my best to disregard the many inflammatory president o statements and roadblocks. thought it was going to be a smo smooth transition. sunlen serfaty has more from mar-a-lago. >> reporter: good morning, joe and alison. as president-elect donald trump continues time in florida, it is the public feud with president obama which escalated in the last few days. it seems that both sides now are taking steps to at least publicly lower the temperature on the spat. donald trump here...

And -- >> great to be here. >> -- waiting as we had the sad news about debbie reynolds. can you believe it? one day after her daughter. awful, awful, awful. i want to get your take on the obama/trump transition. here's what the president-elect said about president obama in the transition tonight. >> he called me. we had a very, very good talk about generally about things. he was in hawaii and it was a very, very nice call and i actually thought we covered a lot of territory. lot of good territory. >> are you satisfied with the transition thus far? >> well, our staffs are getting along very wel...

>> reporter: so much for the pleasantries. donald trump today blasting president obama on twitter. doing my best to disregard the many inflammatory president o. statements and roadblocks. thought it was going to be a smooth transition. not. but this afternoon trump seemed to have change his mind saying the transition was going smoothly. trump and obama had been careful to avoid personal criticism of one another in the weeks after the election. but the more combative tone emerged this week after obama claimed he could have beaten trump the he ran for a third term. >> i am confident in this visi...