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Jan 3 2017, 02:17 AM
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MSN News: Trump Expected To Pick Robert Lighthizer As U.S. Trade Rep

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Robert Lighthizer is President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to be the next U.S. trade representative, CBS News chief White House correspondent Major Garrett reports.
Trade has been a central part of Mr. Trump’s agenda since the earliest days of his campaign. Mr. Trump has been highly critical of numerous free trade agreements, including the landmark NAFTA treaty signed by President Clinton, and the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a multinational trade deal urged on by President Obama. He has also called for more restrictions on trade with Mexico and China.
Like Mr. Trump, Lighthizer has long called for tariffs on foreign imports. In 2011, he wrote an article for The Washington Times arguing that Mr. Trump’s protectionist views had longstanding precedent within the Republican Party.
Lighthizer, long considered the favorite for the post, was previously a deputy U.S. trade representative under President Reagan, and has since worked as a trade attorney in Washington, D.C. -Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-people-who-could-cause-trouble-for-donald-trumps-agenda/?ftag=MSF0951a18
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Jan 3 2017, 02:19 AM
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MSN News: Trump Getting Intel Briefings On Daily Basis, Says Spox

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WASHINGTON — Incoming White House press secretary Sean Spicer is defending cryptic comments by President-elect Donald Trump that he knows ‘‘things that other people don’t know’’ when it comes to allegations of Russian hacking.
Spicer tells Fox News Channel’s ‘‘Fox & Friends’’ that Trump is getting national security briefings ‘‘on a daily basis’’ and ‘‘there doesn’t seem to be conclusive evidence’’ Russians were behind the hacking of Democratic emails during the election.
Spicer also dismissed on Monday a report released by the FBI and Homeland Security Department supporting the accusations against Russia, calling it a ‘‘how-to’’ manual on basic cybersecurity for Democrats.
In an interview on NBC’s ‘‘Today Show,’’ Spicer said President Barack Obama only punished Russia after Democrat Hillary Clinton lost the election and that the recent sanctions were politically motivated.
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Jan 4 2017, 02:34 AM
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MSN News: Exxon Mobil & Tillerson Agree To Cut All Ties

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Exxon Mobil Corp said it reached an agreement with Rex Tillerson, its former chairman and chief executive, to cut all ties with the company to comply with conflict-of-interest requirements associated with his nomination as secretary of state.
If Tillerson's appointment is confirmed, the value of more than 2 million deferred Exxon Mobil shares that he would have received over the next 10 years would be transferred to an independently managed trust and the share awards will be canceled, the company said.
Tillerson will also surrender entitlement to more than $4.1 million in cash bonuses and other benefits, the company said.
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Jan 4 2017, 01:51 PM
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(Fox News) Trump taps lawyer Jay Clayton for SEC Chair
President-elect Donald Trump has tapped Wall Street lawyer Jay Clayton to head up the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Trump announced his pick in a statement Thursday and called Clayton "a highly talented expert on many aspects of financial and regulatory law."
"We need to undo many regulations which have stifled investment in American businesses, and restore oversight of the financial industry in a way that does not harm American workers.” he said.
Clayon, who has represented Goldman Sachs and Barclays Capital, said he wants to encourage companies to create jobs, while monitoring the financial sector.
"If confirmed, we are going to work together with key stakeholders in the financial system to make sure we provide investors and our companies with the confidence to invest together in America," he said.
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Jan 5 2017, 04:37 PM
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Huffington Post: Trump Picks Former IN Senator For Director Of National Intelligence

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WASHINGTON, Jan 5 (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday picked former U.S. Senator Dan Coats as his director of national intelligence, a senior transition official said.
The official announcement is expected this week as Trump makes decisions on some of the remaining major positions he must fill as he prepares to take over the White House on Jan. 20.
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Jan 6 2017, 02:29 AM
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Yahoo News: Ex-CIA Director Cuts Ties With Trump Amid Tensions With Intel Community

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Former Central Intelligence Agency director James Woolsey distanced himself from President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team on Thursday evening, a source close to Woolsey told Yahoo News. The move was partially a response to the president-elect’s “attacks” on the intelligence community’s assertion Russia was behind cyberattacks on Democrats during the election.
Woolsey served as a senior adviser to Trump’s presidential campaign and he continued to make public appearances as a top adviser following the election. A spokesman for Woolsey, Jonathan Franks, issued a statement ending that relationship on Thursday.
“Effective immediately, Ambassador Woolsey is no longer a Senior Advisor to President-Elect Trump or the Transition,” Franks wrote in an email. “He wishes the President-Elect and his Administration great success in their time in office.”
In an interview on Thursday, Woolsey, who led the CIA from 1993 until 1995 under the administration of President Bill Clinton, told CNN’s Erin Burnett he didn’t want to give the wrong impression.
“I didn’t want to fly under false colors,” Woolsey said. “I’m not really functioning as an adviser anymore, and so when I’m on the screen, everybody announces that I’m former CIA director and that I’m a Trump adviser. And I’m really not anymore.”
A source close to Woolsey explained to Yahoo News that the former CIA director wasn’t “comfortable” being identified as a senior adviser to Trump because he was not participating in many of the transition team’s conversations about intelligence issues. The source said Woolsey is “still supportive of Trump,” but “would prefer to not be officially associated.”
“With all the conversations ongoing and he wasn’t involved, it’s hard to be thought of as senior adviser and referred to as such. It didn’t sit well with him. He’s an extremely honest guy,” the source said of Woolsey.
Trump’s transition team did not immediately respond to a request for comment on this story.
While Woolsey was only a senior adviser during the campaign, the source said the Trump transition team “continued to love that he was on television” after the election. The source further suggested Woolsey was “uncomfortable” with multiple things that have happened since Trump’s victory last month.
Specifically, the source pointed to the fact Trump has suggested he might limit the power of the Director of National Intelligence. The source said Woolsey would not support changes to that role without congressional approval.
“The position was created by Congress and he thinks, if we’re going to restructure things, it has to be at least blessed by a vote of Congress,” the source explained.
The source also said Woolsey “was uncomfortable with the attacks on the intelligence community” that have been made by Trump. While officials, including current director of U.S. intelligence James Clapper, have concluded Russia was behind cyberattacks on Democrats during the presidential election, Trump has disputed that claim. In an interview earlier this week, Woolsey contradicted Trump and said he believes Russia was involved in the hacking. The source who spoke to Yahoo News said Woolsey didn’t think it was appropriate for Trump to question the intelligence community’s conclusions about Russia’s role in the campaign cyber attacks.
“Could it be any more clear that Russia was behind what happened in the election?” they asked.
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Jan 11 2017, 04:31 PM
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(The Guardian) Trump announces choice to lead veteran's administration --“By the way, speaking of veterans,” Trump has tapped David Shulkin to lead the veteran’s administration, he says. Shulkin is under-secretary for health for the United States Department of Veterans Affairs.
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Jan 11 2017, 04:44 PM
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(The Guardian) Trump says Tillerson is “brilliant.” He says Sessions “was brilliant.” Trump says Sessions was “a great prosecutor and attorney general in Alabama.”
“I think we have one of the great cabinets ever put together, and we’ve heard that from so many people,” Trump says.
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