we elected the next president of the united states. we should be patriotic. we should stand behind him. reporter: workers are replacing the trump name with the street address. when we reached out to the management company equity residential to ask about the name change they didn t get political at all. they said the contract between the firm and the trump organization simply ran out. in a statement a company spokesman said assuming a more neutral identity will appeal to all current and future residents. they are trying to separate the political side from the business side. reporter: the residents who signed the petition don t care about the reason, as long as those golden letters are gone. we are joined from trump tower here in new york. you have been in other trump branded properties. what are they telling you? there s a building neighboring those high-rises. it still has the trump name and those letters aren t coming down because the trump organization still manages that bu
christie out after bridgegate. that it was much more a fact that some of christie s staff was convicted of some of the staff members were convicted of, you know, causing the big tie up of the bridge. so, you know, i do think there s been this very interesting past between them over his father, but i don t think it is motivated now one thing i did confirm is jared kushner has been involved in the transition team in following his father in law s order, which is no more d.c. hacks. and christie had put in there a lot of lobbyists. he doesn t want lobbyists in there. i don t know if i don t think it was motivated for christie people as much as it was for stout. you have a story about kushner mulling over a role in the white house. you have been reporting on this. we now know nikki hailey coming tomorrow to trump tower, unclear
carolina, will be meeting with donald trump tomorrow here at trump tower, along with other officials here. but i can tell you that governor haily under consideration for secretary of state as well as other cabinet positions. that s something we re looking at. donald trump met with a number of critical potential cabinet appointees earlier today. he met with in addition to that general mike flynn, the retired general who was a part of donald trump s campaign. he is under consideration for national security adviser. that is also something that was discussed. what we re hearing, they said that the trans significance starting to deploy what they call landing teams at various agencies and apartments around the federal government critically tomorrow.
interesting patch between them. one thing did i confirm, jared cush never has been involved in, no more d.c. hacks. and christie had put in there a lot of lobbyists. and he doesn t want lobbyists in. there i don t know if it was as motivated for christie. and you have a story by jared cush never mulling over a cope. we also know, nikki haley coming tomorrow to trump tower. unclear what part she would play. there was a part of it, it was described as the front-runner, the clear lead. that s what i had been told by sources in the transition, by people close to giuliani. giuliani has been telling people that he all but has this based
learned the president-elect wants them cleared. jim acosta broke the story. he joins us now from outside trump tower in new york. so these security clearances, i mean, how unprecedented is this? well, obviously, it s something, anderson, we haven t seen in a very long time. president obama s two young children, were not in position to receive these types of security clearances. and what we do understand at this point is that the trump transition is looking into this, although we should point out, anderson, one trump transition source is pushing back on this, somewhat, saying that donald trump has not made the official ask for his children to have these top-secret security clearances. but it would not be unusual, given how these adult children of donald trump have been close advisers throughout this entire campaign, his son-in-law, jared kushner, might not be in line anymore to be white house chief of staff, although that was one of those rumblings out there, prior to reince priebus,