Live Breaking News & Updates on Transition Headquarters|Page 5
Stay updated with breaking news from Transition headquarters. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
Forward. i think it could fall even lower. it s great to be back here by the way. transition headquarters. i feel like you guys are making good progress. just because change was motivating factor in this election, it doesn t mean that everyone he picks is going to be this huge departure from the norm. you re setting up a situation in the white house where they have bannon and reince priebus and perhaps you re going to see mike flynn and we are. word is he accepted. if he ends up with someone like mitt romney, you have balance. you see a model emerging here as potential one hand and other. now we look at state and defense and maybe treasury as defining, incredibly important appointments that honestly could make or break whether this is a cluster or not. we keep our eye on this idea that he ll be one from group b and one from group a and move ....
He received such great support last week and why he won the election, because he s not this typical politician. he s not going to be confined by the media norms. when he sees something that s incorrect he s not afraid to stand up and set the record straight. but trump s latest firing adding to the concerns of establishment republicans. mike rogers, former chairman of the house intel jligence committee, was booted from the transition team. he was one of several recent dismissals with ties to chris christie. jared kushner is at the center of all this in-fighting. all of this unfolding 65 days away from trump s inauguration. sunlen serfaty is outside trump tower where the president-elect is back at work at his transition headquarters. good morning. reporter: good morning. lot of pushback coming from trump transition officials disputing the notion that this last week for them has been a turbulent time for their transition and joining in that chorus this morning is president-elect donal ....
To recently fired chris christie. and sources say trump s son-in-law jared kushner is at the center of the infighting. all of this unfolding just 65 days away from trump s inauguration. jason miller the communications director of the trump transition team is standing by live right beside me in the studio. lot to talk about just about a minute. jason, thank you. but first, mr. trump is back at work today, at his transition headquarters inside the trump you toer, and that s where cnn s sunlen serfaty is this morning. r good morning. good morning to you, carol. a lot of pushback this morning from top transition officials disputing the notion that there are transition has been at all turbulent. including this morning, joining into the chorus of pushbacks, president-elect donald trump who took to twitter to say quote very organized process taking place as i decide on cabinet and many other positions. i am the only one who knows who the finalists are. trump also taking issue over twitter w ....
Spectrum news and knows a lot about what s going on in new york. great to have you on. erroll, let me go to you first, gloria borger has been reporting that all of this chris christie jared kushner bad blood, the instigator of all the christie folks, that is overblown. is that what you re hearing? i suspect that is overblown because they had a number of policy differences and, frankly, look, there were reports we had reporters sniffing around the transition headquarters weeks before election day. it was a slow and sleepy place. nobody in the campaign knew the kind of roll that they were going to have to play or how suddenly they would be plunged into high gear. so there are a number of different reasons and a number of very ambitious competitive people who i think once the stakes really sort of went up decided, you know what? maybe chris christie and his crew are not the people to have this plum position. let s keep in mind that when the heat was really on after that embarrassing v ....
Already. i asked the taxi cab driver to take me to trump transition headquarters and dropped me off here instead. so, when you look at the list of people who are on the trump transition team, you ve got some george w. bush people there, h.w. bush people there, reagan administration members who are a part of this administration, how he is going to drain the swamp when he s hiring republicans been in washington the last 30 years. he s brought in lots and lots of new faces but you have to have old hands that have been through it before. that doesn t necessarily mean they were part of the establishment. as you know, many, many of the people who are with the establishment became never trumpers and very publicly signed letters never opposing him. they re easy to identify. there were people with bush and reagan who did listen to the same song that donald trump did that was out there in america that said we want change and they were part of that. so, i think just because they ....