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Is part of the jockeying that's expected when a new administration comes in and is filling key cabinet posts. some of my colleagues are reporting it's 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 don't want those never-trumpers filling important roles with the administration. anderson, they are making some pr...

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. that's 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 make a good secretary of state but he also said he would be a better one. getting to that jockeying t...

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. i'm 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, keep in mind, there are other things moving along inside the trump transition. although we are heari...

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. that's also why you're 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 wanted to talk about richard armitage, he wanted to talk about henry paulson, a former treasury sec...

Trip. trying to reassure u.s. allies about president-elect trump. good morning. welcome to "early start." i'm john berman. >> i'm 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 split pits republican operatives like chairman and chief of staff reince priebus against outsiders li...