on friday along with the news that those same trump kids will also be brought on board in a formal role setting up the trump administration as part of the transition effort. so they are going to be running the trump family business and they are helping set up the trump administration with formal roles on the transition team. nbc news has confirmed as well tonight that in addition to all of that, in addition to them running the business and helping set up the administration on the transition team, donald trump has already requested top secret security clearances for all of his children. did i mention that they are still running the trump family business? nbc news now reports that mr. trump has requested top secret security clearances for his three eldest children. if the obama administration and the intelligence community decides to grant those clearances, that would allow
think that president-elect mike pence would be clearing his card, focusing on his new role as chairman of the transition effort. you might think that. you d be wrong. as i just talked about with my friend chris hayes, vice president-elect mike pence is planning on staying on as governor of indiana until his term formally ends on january 9th. he s staying on as the full-time governor of indiana until just 11 days before the trump administration takes office while he is simultaneously supposed to be running the whole trump transition effort. why is mike pence doing that? i don t know. but it appears that governor pence does have some loose ends that he s maybe trying to tie up before he heads to washington. the indianapolis star is now reporting that governor pence has decided to wage a court battle back home with everything else he s dealing with, decided to wage a court battle back home to try to keep some of his e-mails secret. this comes out of a lawsuit that indiana filed against th
believe that rudy giuliani at least for now is the favorite for the job. he s made it clear that s the job he wants. i do think it is the trump campaign s attempt or the transition team s attempt to send a signal, look, we know we need to try to build a government. we know that s going to involve bringing in thousands of people and that some of those people may have been critical of trump in the past, but we really want the best people for this job. even on that front, other people who have dealt with the transition effort say they re still getting mixed signals and there is still a lot of animosity toward people who did not support trump at the outset. he has about 4,000 political appointees he has to find. could i say one thing to what sara was saying. it s absolutely right, about people not supporting donald trump. there is another problem and that s the reverse. donald trump ran on some things that are very antithetical to what had been the traditional republican credo. because
card, focusing on his new role as chairman of the transition effort. you might think that. you d be wrong. as i just talked about with my friend chris hayes, vice president-elect mike pence is planning on staying on as governor of indiana until his term formally ends on january 9th. he s staying on as the full-time governor of indiana until just 11 days before the trump administration takes office while he is simultaneously supposed to be running the whole trump transition effort. why is mike pence doing that? i don t know. but it appears that governor pence does have some loose ends that he s maybe trying to tie up before he heads to washington. the indianapolis star is now reporting that governor pence has decided to wage a court battle back home with everything else he s dealing with, decided to wage a court battle back home to try to keep some of his e-mails secret. this comes out of a lawsuit that indiana filed against the obama administration on the issue of immigration.
family business while mr. trump is president-elect. all other presidents in the modern era have put their assets in a blind trust. trump is not planning on doing that. he s keeping his family business his family business and his kids are going to keep operating it while he is president. we learned that simultaneously on friday along with the news that those same trump kids will also be brought on board in a formal role setting up the trump administration as part of the transition effort. so they are going to be running the trump family business and they are helping set up the trump administration with formal roles on the transition team. nbc news has confirmed as well tonight that in addition to all of that, in addition to them running the business and helping set up the administration on the transition team, donald trump has already requested top secret security clearances for all of his children.