well, the transition, itself, is obviously january, but the preparation for it begins in the weeks after the election. they ve got, like, a landing team there, you ve got there s a group of lawyers quhos co who come to the department and start meeting with components and reviewing issues, how things work in the building, how does paper move in the building. all those fun things about bureaucracy that you want someone to know on their first day. so they re there. we re working with them. and it will be a smooth transition. i was worried for a second you were saying there that you re still waiting for them, that nobody has shown up yet. no, no. don t want to give that misimpression. i was going to excuse myself, run out to the street and hail a cab and go to the end of the world. she scared me there are for a minute, clarifying, the transition is under way, not that it hasn t started yet. it s under way at the justice department. that s normal. not much else about what s go
and see how far the red goes, the counties that got flipped, the things that got the number of states nine out of 13 battleground states, there is no question the overwhelming support, where this election was played, he won overwhelmingly. i think the idea that people are talking about these recounts is a joke. and it needs to be treated like a joke. one final question. i know you have to run, sean. he had another national security intelligence briefing today. i understand this is the third time he has done it. they offer it to him every day, the u.s. intelligence community, these briefings. mike pence takes these briefings. why is he turning down these national security briefings? he has a team around him. general flynn and others. he has a landing team at nsa and the national security council as well as throughout the rest of the government. department of defense, department of justice. department of state, constantly providing feedback to him. he is 100% briefed. his staff is
community, leading governor christie who at that time had a larger profile in trumpland to interrupt and tell him to pipe down. that s not normally the personality you see in a national security adviser. supposed to get all the feuding departments and agencies to work well together. and ken vogel, what is the word you re getting on other potential nominees? today was a day when other names started to emerge. people like nikki haley and others for different jobs, additions to the possible lists. yeah, i think we re going to see them focus on these landing teams as they call them, and the ones that interact with the actual agencies and the sort of facilitate the transition of power. and we ll see some hints in them, the folks that are named to them. folks who are going to be possibly nominees themselves, or the allies of those folks will be the folks on these landing teams. that s why i think this news about general flynn was so interesting coming the day before they announced the la
yeah, that s right. i was told that general flynn and a guy by the name of carl higby, a former navy s.e.a.l. who served two tours in iraqi freedom, that flynn and higby were seen recently at the pentagon meeting with some official there s. so i think that we have some seen some preparations being made in this regard, even as you reported in the opening we haven t seen the landing teams as they call them actually meeting with folks at these agencies in official context. now that said, there was just a conference call that the trump transition team held with reporters in which they said that they are announcing their landing team tomorrow on the national security front. this is the nsc. so flynn would be included potentially in that, as well as doj, department of defense, and department of state. so they re clearly making moves. they may not be moves that insiders like. flynn has said he would support cutting half the workforce, the
intelligence matter, he is a controversial figure in the national security establishment in both parties. we re joined now by ken vogel of politico. ken, you have some reporting on general flynn tonight? yeah, that s right. i was told that general flynn and a guy by the name of carl higby, a former navy s.e.a.l. who served two tours in iraqi freedom, that flynn and higby were seen recently at the pentagon meeting with some official there s. so i think that we have some seen some preparations being made in this regard, even as you reported in the opening we haven t seen the landing teams as they call them actually meeting with folks at these agencies in official context. now that said, there was just a conference call that the trump transition team held with reporters in which they said that they are announcing their landing team tomorrow on the national security front. this is the nsc. so flynn would be included potentially in that, as well as doj, department of defense, and depart