New president . The signs that moscow may want to hit the reset button, again. Good afternoon, everyone and welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. 71 days. Thats how long president elect donald trump and his team have to prepare to run the biggest government and biggest military in existence. Step one happened this afternoon. The president elect met with president barack obama. Their firstever meeting in the oval office before, from afar, bo both men had lustily attacked the each other. Trump questioning whether the first africanamerican president had been born in africa. Obama frequently saying donald trump was unfit to be president. Today as a testament to the peaceful transition of power, both men shook hands, they said nice things, both men trying to speak to a fraught nation eager to hear some reassuring words. President obama said if president elect trump succeeds then the nation succeeds. Donald trump saying he would seek the counsel of president obama. What would you say was the
President putin issuing a statement which included an invite to the children of american diplomats in russia to christmas and new year shows in the kremlin. And then came this tweet from the kremlins twitter account reiterating that festive sentiment that has left a lot of people scratching their heads. Its apparently from putin who offers his new year greetings to president obama and his family, also to president elect donald trump. Lets go live now to moscow and Senior International correspondent Matthew Chance. Matthew, the u. S. Just slammed some of the toughest sanctions of any country in the world on russia so what now is behind this kind of response coming from putin . Its an interesting question. It was a very unexpected response as you indicated. We were expecting the kremlin to do a tit for tat expulsion of 35 u. S. Diplomats here in moscow. Thats what the Russian Foreign minister advised the kremlin to do but it was all very choreographed. It was all kind of staged to try an
He can represent himself. Will survivors and family members be forced to come facetoface with dylan roof . How to discuss that is senior contributor, and the author of security mom. Good to have you both on. The new Facebook Post tonight is disturbing. Let me read a portion of it. Seeing my fellow muslim being tortured, raped and killed in burma lead to a boiling point. If you want us to stop carrying out lone wolf attacks, make people with dala al sham. We will not let you sleep unless you give peace to the muslims. You will not celebrate or enjoy any holiday. By the way, btw says every single muslim who disapproves of my actions is a sleeper cell waiting for a signal. Im warning you, oh, america. What does this tell us about investigators proceed with this kind of information, julia . Well, this is a lot of proof, at least from artan himself that he was motivated by some form of terrorism, but what we dont know at this stage, don, is this the rantings of a guy who had selfradicalized
Obamacare. Supporters responded well to his fiery inaugural address. Many others saw it as unusually bleak. Protesters here and elsewhere are a sign theres more work to do to unify the country after a divisive campaign. I Donald John Trump do solemnly swear. Reporter donald trump, sworn in as 45th president of the United States, delivering a fiery inaugural address, painting a grim picture of america. Mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities, rusted out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation, and the crime and the gangs and the drugs that have stolen too many lives and robbed our country of so much unrealized potential. This american carnage stops right here. Reporter President Trump promising to take a nationalist approach to governing. From this day forward it is going to be only America First. Reporter trump striking a populous tone, echoing his campaign rhetoric. We are transferring power from washington, d. C. And giving it back t
And antisemitism blocks away from the white house. Donald trump says he disavowed them. Is that enough . Well discuss that. Lets get to the senior White House Correspondent, mr. Jim acosta. Reporter i talked to a source familiar with the discussions who says mitt romney, the 2012 nominee, is now seriously considering the prospect of joining Donald Trumps administration as secretary of state. Ive been told were not likely to get a decision on this until perhaps early next week and that romney will be talking about this with his family members over the thanksgiving holiday weekend. Mitt romneys family is probably his closest advisers so its not surprising hes doing that. Jim, donald trump met with the New York Times and softened a number of his hard Line Campaign promises. What can you tell us . It was striking he didnt have a press conference before leaving town in thanksgiving but he had a News Conference with the New York Times, they peppered him back and forth for a good long while a