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| Donald Trump at the White House: Obama reports 'excellent conversation' – live | Donald Trump at the White House: Obama reports 'excellent conversation' – live |
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| 10.10pm GMT | |
| 22:10 | |
| Video: President-elect Donald Trump appeared before the press to answer several questions this afternoon during a visit to Capitol Hill, and said that his first priorities once he is inaugurated will be controlling immigration, reforming healthcare and creating “big league jobs.” | |
| (Or, possibly, “bigly jobs.” We’ve never been totally sure!) | |
| Trump was in Washington to meet President Obama and also held discussions with key Republican figures including Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell. | |
| 9.49pm GMT | 9.49pm GMT |
| 21:49 | 21:49 |
| The president-elect’s staff has provided no information, despite being asked, about his schedule or activities since leaving Capitol Hill. | The president-elect’s staff has provided no information, despite being asked, about his schedule or activities since leaving Capitol Hill. |
| Today I was the pool reporter for the president-elect. The total information I received from the transition was 2 emails, 6 words total 1/ | Today I was the pool reporter for the president-elect. The total information I received from the transition was 2 emails, 6 words total 1/ |
| 9.36pm GMT | 9.36pm GMT |
| 21:36 | 21:36 |
| Video: House speaker Paul Ryan meets with Trump in Washington | Video: House speaker Paul Ryan meets with Trump in Washington |
| This is the most incredible political feat I have seen in my lifetime. Donald Trump heard a voice out in this country that no one else heard ... he connected in ways with people no one else did. | This is the most incredible political feat I have seen in my lifetime. Donald Trump heard a voice out in this country that no one else heard ... he connected in ways with people no one else did. |
| 9.20pm GMT | 9.20pm GMT |
| 21:20 | 21:20 |
| President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team has announced that former Ohio secretary of state Ken Blackwell will be in charge of handling domestic policy issues in relation to the upcoming Trump administration’s legislative and executive priorities in its first hundred days | President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team has announced that former Ohio secretary of state Ken Blackwell will be in charge of handling domestic policy issues in relation to the upcoming Trump administration’s legislative and executive priorities in its first hundred days |
| Blackwell, who currently works as a senior fellow at the Family Research Council, a Christian lobbying organization that lobbies lawmakers against LGBT rights, abortion and pornography, first gained national attention in 2006, when he was running to serve as Ohio’s governor. | Blackwell, who currently works as a senior fellow at the Family Research Council, a Christian lobbying organization that lobbies lawmakers against LGBT rights, abortion and pornography, first gained national attention in 2006, when he was running to serve as Ohio’s governor. |
| In an interview at the time, Blackwell declared that homosexuality was a “lifestyle” that “can be changed. | In an interview at the time, Blackwell declared that homosexuality was a “lifestyle” that “can be changed. |
| “I think homosexuality is a lifestyle, it’s a choice, and that lifestyle can be changed,” Blackwell told the Columbus Dispatch at the time. “I think it is a transgression against God’s law, God’s will.” | “I think homosexuality is a lifestyle, it’s a choice, and that lifestyle can be changed,” Blackwell told the Columbus Dispatch at the time. “I think it is a transgression against God’s law, God’s will.” |
| “The reality is, again,” Blackwell continued, “that I think we make choices all the time. And I think you make good choices and bad choices in terms of lifestyle. Our expectation is that one’s genetic makeup might make one more inclined to be an arsonist or might make one more inclined to be a kleptomaniac. Do I think that they can be changed? Yes.” | “The reality is, again,” Blackwell continued, “that I think we make choices all the time. And I think you make good choices and bad choices in terms of lifestyle. Our expectation is that one’s genetic makeup might make one more inclined to be an arsonist or might make one more inclined to be a kleptomaniac. Do I think that they can be changed? Yes.” |
| Trump himself has said that, while he does not support same-sex marriage rights, he does support LGBT rights. Vice president-elect Mike Pence, on the other hand, first emerged on the national stage after signing an expansive anti-LGBT measure into law, and once signed into law a bill that would send same-sex couples attempting to obtain marriage licenses to jail. | Trump himself has said that, while he does not support same-sex marriage rights, he does support LGBT rights. Vice president-elect Mike Pence, on the other hand, first emerged on the national stage after signing an expansive anti-LGBT measure into law, and once signed into law a bill that would send same-sex couples attempting to obtain marriage licenses to jail. |
| 9.01pm GMT | 9.01pm GMT |
| 21:01 | 21:01 |
| From the president-elect’s pool report: | From the president-elect’s pool report: |
| Hope Hicks sends the following update about the president-elect’s plans for tonight: ‘Now heading to NYC’ | Hope Hicks sends the following update about the president-elect’s plans for tonight: ‘Now heading to NYC’ |
| That is the full extent of what she has told me. | That is the full extent of what she has told me. |
| She is not responding to questions about his schedule for the rest of the day | She is not responding to questions about his schedule for the rest of the day |
| The “dishonest press” is getting its comeuppance from the new administration, it seems. | The “dishonest press” is getting its comeuppance from the new administration, it seems. |
| 8.48pm GMT | 8.48pm GMT |
| 20:48 | 20:48 |
| Patrick Wintour | Patrick Wintour |
| President Barack Obama should urgently seek to impose constitutional checks on the US president’s access to “the most awesome assassination machine ever known to man”, a former state department official in the Obama administration said today. | President Barack Obama should urgently seek to impose constitutional checks on the US president’s access to “the most awesome assassination machine ever known to man”, a former state department official in the Obama administration said today. |
| Jeremy Shapiro disclosed the Obama team before the 2012 elections had considered imposing such constitutional checks on the US president’s ability to order killings fearing Obama was about to lose the presidential elections to the Republicans. | Jeremy Shapiro disclosed the Obama team before the 2012 elections had considered imposing such constitutional checks on the US president’s ability to order killings fearing Obama was about to lose the presidential elections to the Republicans. |
| Speaking in London, Shapiro, a former special adviser an assistant secretary in the State Department, disclosed the Obama team in the State Department “in the run-up to the 2012 election the Obama thought might lose and there was some thinking - ‘Gee, we have created the most awesome assassination machine ever known to man whereby we can, with very little oversight, basically kill anyone in the world outside of America.’” | Speaking in London, Shapiro, a former special adviser an assistant secretary in the State Department, disclosed the Obama team in the State Department “in the run-up to the 2012 election the Obama thought might lose and there was some thinking - ‘Gee, we have created the most awesome assassination machine ever known to man whereby we can, with very little oversight, basically kill anyone in the world outside of America.’” |
| He added the Obama officials thought “We are using that responsibly because we are good people,” but it was not institutionalized. “When people looked at it they thought, ‘Christ this is scary, what if we give this to the Republicans?’” | He added the Obama officials thought “We are using that responsibly because we are good people,” but it was not institutionalized. “When people looked at it they thought, ‘Christ this is scary, what if we give this to the Republicans?’” |
| He said the Obama team “started to have a process to institutionalize the process, but it did not get very institutionalized.” | He said the Obama team “started to have a process to institutionalize the process, but it did not get very institutionalized.” |
| Leslie Vinjamuri, senior lecturer at SOAS, added Obama should put all his remaining energy in his final weeks in the Oval Office to “do anything he can to to regulate, to create norms, institutionalize, create blocking mechanisms.” | Leslie Vinjamuri, senior lecturer at SOAS, added Obama should put all his remaining energy in his final weeks in the Oval Office to “do anything he can to to regulate, to create norms, institutionalize, create blocking mechanisms.” |
| The academics were discussing Trump’s approach to foreign policy and the degree he will delegate or take personal charge. | The academics were discussing Trump’s approach to foreign policy and the degree he will delegate or take personal charge. |
| Shapiro warned: “in the last 15 years, power in foreign policy has centralized to an enormous extent within the presidency and Congress, and most of the institutions in foreign policy has become enormously supine in the face of what ever the [resident wants to do does in foreign policy. We have essentially by default almost given this to the president.” | Shapiro warned: “in the last 15 years, power in foreign policy has centralized to an enormous extent within the presidency and Congress, and most of the institutions in foreign policy has become enormously supine in the face of what ever the [resident wants to do does in foreign policy. We have essentially by default almost given this to the president.” |
| 8.38pm GMT | 8.38pm GMT |
| 20:38 | 20:38 |
| Words for solace and strength | Words for solace and strength |
| Cora Currier writes for the Guardian: | Cora Currier writes for the Guardian: |
| Audre Lorde once wrote that “poetry is not a luxury”, and right now it is a necessity. What kind of poetry can get us through a Donald Trump presidency? We’ll need satire and spitting vitriol. We’ll need rallying cries. We’ll need reminders of human dignity. | Audre Lorde once wrote that “poetry is not a luxury”, and right now it is a necessity. What kind of poetry can get us through a Donald Trump presidency? We’ll need satire and spitting vitriol. We’ll need rallying cries. We’ll need reminders of human dignity. |
| Each poet here has struggled with the relationship between poetry and action, with the question of poetry’s relevance in a time of crisis. Adrienne Rich said: “A poem can’t free us from the struggle for existence, but it can uncover desires and appetites buried under the accumulating emergencies of life.” These are words carefully chosen not for solace but for strength, poems that dip into the reservoirs of literature to find fuel for the day ahead. They are, to borrow from WH Auden’s famous poem September 1, 1939, “ironic points of light” that “flash out wherever the Just / exchange their messages”. Poems that serve as signals through the ages that good exists, and that someone is awake and listening. | Each poet here has struggled with the relationship between poetry and action, with the question of poetry’s relevance in a time of crisis. Adrienne Rich said: “A poem can’t free us from the struggle for existence, but it can uncover desires and appetites buried under the accumulating emergencies of life.” These are words carefully chosen not for solace but for strength, poems that dip into the reservoirs of literature to find fuel for the day ahead. They are, to borrow from WH Auden’s famous poem September 1, 1939, “ironic points of light” that “flash out wherever the Just / exchange their messages”. Poems that serve as signals through the ages that good exists, and that someone is awake and listening. |
| Click through for: | Click through for: |
| Gwendolyn Brooks – Langston Hughes | Gwendolyn Brooks – Langston Hughes |
| Adrienne Rich – What Kind of Times Are These | Adrienne Rich – What Kind of Times Are These |
| Nayyirah Waheed – Some words build houses in your throat | Nayyirah Waheed – Some words build houses in your throat |
| Margaret Atwood – Men with the Heads of Eagles | Margaret Atwood – Men with the Heads of Eagles |
| Muriel Rukeyser – Poem | Muriel Rukeyser – Poem |
| 8.31pm GMT | 8.31pm GMT |
| 20:31 | 20:31 |
| 'A great campaign device' | 'A great campaign device' |
| Very interesting quote from Gingrich today on the border wall. Throughout campaign Trump repeatedly insisted Mexico would pay. pic.twitter.com/qPgig2wSi4 | Very interesting quote from Gingrich today on the border wall. Throughout campaign Trump repeatedly insisted Mexico would pay. pic.twitter.com/qPgig2wSi4 |
| 8.27pm GMT | 8.27pm GMT |
| 20:27 | 20:27 |
| Curiel to allow campaign remarks in Trump University trial | Curiel to allow campaign remarks in Trump University trial |
| A US judge on Thursday tentatively rejected a bid by Donald Trump to keep a wide range of statements from the presidential campaign out of an upcoming fraud trial over his Trump University venture, Reuters reports: | A US judge on Thursday tentatively rejected a bid by Donald Trump to keep a wide range of statements from the presidential campaign out of an upcoming fraud trial over his Trump University venture, Reuters reports: |
| The ruling came in advance of a pretrial hearing later on Thursday where lawyers for the president-elect will square off against students who claim they were they were lured by false promises to pay up to $35,000 to learn Trump’s real estate investing “secrets” from his “hand-picked” instructors. | The ruling came in advance of a pretrial hearing later on Thursday where lawyers for the president-elect will square off against students who claim they were they were lured by false promises to pay up to $35,000 to learn Trump’s real estate investing “secrets” from his “hand-picked” instructors. |
| Trump owned 92 percent of Trump University and had control over all major decisions, the students’ court papers say. The president-elect denies the allegations and has argued that he relied on others to manage the business. | Trump owned 92 percent of Trump University and had control over all major decisions, the students’ court papers say. The president-elect denies the allegations and has argued that he relied on others to manage the business. |
| Trial is scheduled to begin Nov. 28. | Trial is scheduled to begin Nov. 28. |
| In the ruling on Thursday, U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel in San Diego said Trump’s lawyers can renew objections to specific campaign statements and evidence during trial. Trump’s attorneys had argued that jurors should not hear about statements Trump made during the campaign, including about Curiel himself. | In the ruling on Thursday, U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel in San Diego said Trump’s lawyers can renew objections to specific campaign statements and evidence during trial. Trump’s attorneys had argued that jurors should not hear about statements Trump made during the campaign, including about Curiel himself. |
| Trump attacked the judge as biased against him. He claimed Curiel, who was born in Indiana but is of Mexican descent, could not be impartial because of Trump’s pledge to build a wall between the United States and Mexico. | Trump attacked the judge as biased against him. He claimed Curiel, who was born in Indiana but is of Mexican descent, could not be impartial because of Trump’s pledge to build a wall between the United States and Mexico. |
| Read the full piece here. | Read the full piece here. |
| Judge rejects Trump's bid to keep campaign statements out of upcoming Trump University fraud trial: https://t.co/c8DgxKS7G4 pic.twitter.com/lSuai8mO2D | Judge rejects Trump's bid to keep campaign statements out of upcoming Trump University fraud trial: https://t.co/c8DgxKS7G4 pic.twitter.com/lSuai8mO2D |
| 8.21pm GMT | 8.21pm GMT |
| 20:21 | 20:21 |
| On Capitol Hill, Trump describes agenda: 'big league jobs' | On Capitol Hill, Trump describes agenda: 'big league jobs' |
| Here’s footage of the impromptu press conference, via the Huffington Post: | Here’s footage of the impromptu press conference, via the Huffington Post: |
| Asked about his priorities, Trump mentions immigration, the border, health care and jobs, “big league jobs.” | Asked about his priorities, Trump mentions immigration, the border, health care and jobs, “big league jobs.” |
| What are Donald Trump's three biggest priorities?Immigration, health care and jobs. "Big league jobs." pic.twitter.com/tvuiwtNUk5 | What are Donald Trump's three biggest priorities?Immigration, health care and jobs. "Big league jobs." pic.twitter.com/tvuiwtNUk5 |
| Updated | Updated |
| at 8.22pm GMT | at 8.22pm GMT |
| 8.20pm GMT | 8.20pm GMT |
| 20:20 | 20:20 |
| Ohio governor John Kasich is praying for the success of Trump, whom he has come very close to openly despising. | Ohio governor John Kasich is praying for the success of Trump, whom he has come very close to openly despising. |
| Kasich outside WH now following Cavs event saying he is praying for success of Donald Trump. | Kasich outside WH now following Cavs event saying he is praying for success of Donald Trump. |