pence have a very strong relationship. not only collaborating when it comes to legislation but also a friendship. this is where mike pence becomes incredibly powerful and important. it was, perhaps, a very smart pick on trump s side because he s going to look at the leadership within mike to make sure he can can bring in not only paul ryan but a lot of senators on the republican side. donald trump in his big interview with the new york times made a lot of headlines. one of the themes is that he seemed to reverse himself on some of the key things he said on the campaign trail. now he s maybe for immigration reform. now he s not sure about waterboarding anymore. he s not going to get a special prosecutor to look into hillary clinton. these are all flip-flops from what he said out on the trail. do you see that as him moderating his views to try to work more with more mainstream republicans? what did the base, and the voters who voted for him on those issues? i think donald trump get
apprenti apprentice. what fun if you can t tweak your main adversary from the campaign. you dang it will in front of mitt romney. it creates this incredible drama. will the two of them make up because you need conflict for these dramas? and now you ve got the drama of the trump loyalist saying, don t give it to this guy and kellyanne is exmroiding this a little bit. it keeps us interested in who s going to get it and who s not going to get it in terms of i can t imagine mitt romney is going to be happy about this, if he doesn t get the ask. reporter: right. who would be the happiest about that? donald trump. he likes nothing more, as he has said repeatedly over the decades in his paid speeches, is revenge. it s one of the guiding principles of his life. he advises his corporate clients, like this is your path in business, to make sure if
though, he s someone who s a lightning rod. he s a hard liner on a whole host of issues. he would be a tough pick as well. no doubt president-elect trump is taking all of that into consideration. as you point out, he s enjoying this hole day, likingly making phone calls as well. i don t think we ll get a major announcement today. i think he ll try to take this day to mull over some very big decisions. we may get an announcement as early as tomorrow, though. every time we think we know what s going to happen with this president-elect, it tends not to be our plan. one other thing, reports donald trump has only received two intelligence briefings since the time was elected and refused the rest, apparently, which sunday usual. usually president-elects will have a briefing every day. reporter: it s very unusual. according to intelligence officials, president-elect trump has only had two briefings since
the fact that you have seen some of the rhetoric among republican elected officials and activists and media, some of it pretty troubling and not necessarily connected to facts, but being used effectively to mobilize people. and, obviously, president-elect trump tapped into that particular strain within the republican party and then was able to broaden that enough and get enough votes to win the election. controversy continues to swirl around steve bannon, the newly appointed senior counselor to president-elect trump. a transcript of remarks made in private to a conference in 2014 appears to shed new light on his
trump s name to be taken down last month. the buildings are now owned by equity residential, which bought them from the trump organization in 2005. at the time the two sides signed an agreement to keep trump s name on the building for a set period of time. that deal has now expired. in a statement to cnbc, equity residential said in part, we are assuming a more neutral building identity that will appeal to all current and future residents. ali, the director of the nsa is speaking out about the recent wikileaks releases leading up to the election. in an interview, he says the hacks of the dnc and clinton presidential campaign were done by an unnamed nation with a goal in mind. there shouldn t be any doubt in anybody s mind, this was not something that was done casually. this was not something done by chance. this was not a target that was selected purely arbitrarily. this was a conscious effort to