ability when all of these disparate leaks are coming forward? you know, he won this election eight days ago. that s still early in the process. i don t think you can make any real judgments yet. except that he is not considering moderation. the often discussed but never-seen pivot by donald trump to the center is not happening, and that s the real message of this whole process to me. one thing we know is that donald trump, as jeffrey points out, is not going to change. and the political class in washington, particularly republicans who have been out of power for eight years, some of whom were are desperate to go inside an administration, if they weren t loyal to donald trump, sorry, not happening. and the donor class as well. i was talking to a source today. they ve heard from donors who kind of want to be involved in positions and appointments.
president-elect let others, some of his aides, do that kind of tweeting? you know, wolf, i i don t think that it s very presidential to be up at night tweeting out. but i think donald trump, if he if he really restructures how he uses twitter, it can be beneficial for him. if he wants to go over the media, if he wants to go over wolf blitzer and talk directly to the people you talk to, he can do that by way of twitter and push back on stories that he thinks are false. i do think you have to have some restrictions and guide rails on how you use it. but to talk about stories that are false on what s actually happening inside the transition team and he wants to talk directly to the american people without having a press conference, i think that s okay. and we re i mean, america is changing. technology is changing. and the way that politicians and barack obama was brilliant at this, using the other sources of media to talk to a wide array of folks all across america i think is real
start building the team out. and so it would make sense that chris christie would slide out of that position, donald trump and mike pence step into it and start methodically working through what chris christie had done and what they re going to do to build out their team the way they see fit. again, i don t see this as troubling at all. i think this is really good. this kind of tension and friction to get the right people in place for the american economy, that s what americans want. it would be expected from an outsider who has to build a team from the ground up. if hillary clinton won there wouldn t be problems. she would plug into barack obama and her husband s team and you have the same d.c. players doing the same d.c. thing that americans are sick of. when you bring in the outsider, in the end you get a better product. eight years ago john podesta was in charge of the obama transition team. he played the lead role. you re absolutely right. the vice president-elect at that
pushing out officials who work for chris christie who jailed kushner s father a decade ago. not so say top trump officials. this whole description of the knife fight or the internal fighting, nothing could be further from the truth. jared is helping put this together. reporter: but cnn has learned kushner, who is one of trump s close ez advisorers is likely to receive a top secret clearance. staffers argue there is nothing wrong with that. i would say no paperwork has been completed, sent in or submitted to this effect. reporter: as mike pence met with the man he is about to replace, vice president joe biden, trump advisors cautioned forming the new administration will take time. you would be really dumb to accelerate and start making mistakes in order to make the press happy. reporter: former trump rival and texas senator ted cruz is said to be on a long short list for attorney general. whether there is something within the administration or whether it is an ally on capi
the election of donald trump to the presidency could have consequences on the civil war that s raging in syria. it all comes down to the complicated relationship involving russia, the united states, and the brutal regime of syrian president bashar al assad. our global affairs correspondent has details. what is the latest? reporter: well, wolf, just less than 24 hours after russian president vladamir putin spoke with the president-elect about closer cooperation in syria, moscow started a massive offensive in terrorists in rebel held areas of syria. president assad said donald trump could be an ally in that fight. but with 87 civilians killed in aleppo today alone, many of them children in air strikes against schools and hospitals, the syrian people are afraid a trump presidency means only suffering. syrian jets pounding hospitals, schools, and blood banks in aleppo. terrified schoolchildren flee