Donald Trump wants to help Hillary Clinton “heal” and will not pursue an investigation of her private email server, according to a senior adviser to the president-elect.

Kellyanne Conway said Mr Trump is setting a tone for congressional Republicans by refraining from calling for more investigations, adding: “He doesn’t wish to pursue these charges.”

Days earlier, he had said he wanted to think about whether to look more into Ms Clinton’s emails and the US justice department’s decision to not recommend charges against her.

But Ms Conway said on Tuesday: “If Donald Trump can help her heal, then perhaps that’s a good thing.”

During the campaign he had vowed to put his Democratic presidential rival in jail over the matter. The phrase “Lock her up!” was a rallying cry for Trump supporters up to election day.

The change in stance came as Mr Trump abruptly cancelled a meeting with the New York Times, accusing the organisation of changing the conditions for the session “at the last moment”.

The newspaper denied the charge and said his aides had tried to change the rules.

He had been scheduled to meet Times reporters, editors and columnists and did not give details of his complaint, saying in a morning tweet only that “the terms and conditions of the meeting were changed at the last moment. Not nice”.

After again hitting out at “the crooked media”, he said in another tweet: “Perhaps a new meeting will be set up with the @nytimes. In the meantime they continue to cover me inaccurately and with a nasty tone!”

Eileen M Murphy, the newspaper’s senior vice-president for communications, said: “We did not change the ground rules at all and made no attempt to.”

She said Mr Trump’s aides tried to alter the conditions, asking for a private meeting only, with nothing on the record, “which we refused to agree to”.

“In the end,” she said, “we concluded with them that we would go back to the original plan of a small off-the-record session and a larger on-the-record session with reporters and columnists.” That was followed by Mr Trump pulling out.

He held private meetings with representatives of the television networks on Monday.

Earlier, he confirmed he will take the US out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership as he defended his worldwide business interests.</s>US President-elect Donald Trump has come over all magnanimous.

A spokeswoman for Trump said he won't pursue a further investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails so she can "heal". In fact, the incoming President has backed down from his pledge to appoint a special prosecutor to look into the former Secretary of State.

Kellyanne Conway, who managed Trump's campaign said: "He doesn't wish to pursue these charges. If Donald Trump can help her heal, then perhaps that's a good thing."

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Republican supporters often chanted: "Lock her up!" at rallies, while Trump had previously threatened to do just that.

"If I win I am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation - there has never been so many lies and so much deception," he said during a presidential debate.

At the time Clinton said it was "awfully good" that someone with the temperament of Trump wasn't in charge of the law in the country, which prompted Trump to remark: "Because you'd be in jail."

He had repeatedly criticised the Democratic nominee's email saga.

But Conway said she thought the decision would help set the scene for a more conciliatory tone from Republicans in Congress.

"I think when the President-elect, who's also the head of your party, tells you before he's even inaugurates that he doesn't wish to pursue these charges, it sends a very strong message," Conway told MSNBC.

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Clinton's email sage began last year after it emerged she had used a private server for emails when she was US Secretary of State.

Investigations by the FBI found that had included classified material and her server could have been hacked by foreign powers.

FBI director James Comey said she was "extremely careless" but decided not to recommend criminal charges against her.</s>A top Donald Trump transition adviser, Kellyanne Conway, said Tuesday that the president-elect would not honor his pledge to have his Justice Department go after Hillary Clinton.

“I think when the president-elect … tells you before he’s even inaugurated that he doesn’t wish to pursue these charges, it sends a very strong message” to congressional Republicans, Conway said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”

Conway made the comments when asked if Trump would also encourage the GOP-led Congress to forgo potential investigations of Clinton.

But later in the day Monday, during a meeting with the New York Times, Trump did not rule out the possibility of his administration investigating Clinton.

During the campaign, Trump directly told his Democratic foe that he would appoint a special prosecutor to investigate her, accusing her of committing many crimes.

“I hate to say it, but if I win I am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation,” Trump said during the second presidential debate. “Because there has never been so many lies, so much deception.”

Trump frequently claimed that Clinton broke the law with her use of a private email server as secretary of state. The FBI looked into whether she or her aides mishandled classified information and concluded that no one should be charged. But Trump proclaimed that Clinton was “guilty as hell,” and his rallies were constantly interrupted by chants of “Lock her up!”

But Trump started to back off the pledge to investigate Clinton after he won the election. “I’m going to think about it,” he said in a postelection interview on CBS’ “60 Minutes.”

As president, Trump would supposedly be independent of the Justice Department and the criminal investigations it pursues.</s>Hello, and welcome to our live-wire coverage of Donald Trump’s transition to the White House. Trump is expected to travel this evening to Mar-a-Lago, his home in Palm Beach, Florida, where he will spend the Thanksgiving holiday.

The Trump team has not announced a list of the day’s meetings. Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani and Trump aides Corey Lewandowski and Paul Manafort have been spotted entering the tower and heading upstairs.

Trump does not want to ‘lock her up’ – Conway

Top Trump aide Kellyanne Conway told MSNBC that Trump no longer desires to see Hillary Clinton behind bars, despite his popular rally chant “lock her up”.

Conway’s statement was decried for implying that the president would direct the conduct of the Department of Justice in general, and in particular the attorney general – who is traditionally supposedly independent from the White House despite being a political appointee, and who would conceivably initiate and oversee any such executive branch investigation. (We’re couching all this because it’s unclear – isn’t it? – how all this will/could work going forward.)

“[If Trump] tells you before he’s even inaugurated he doesn’t wish to pursue these charges, it sends a very strong message, tone and content, to the members,” Conway said.

A former spokesman for Eric Holder sends up an alarm:

I think Hillary Clinton still has to face the fact that a majority of Americans don’t find her to be honest or trustworthy, but if Donald Trump can help her heal then perhaps that’s a good thing. I think he’s thinking of many different things as he prepares to become the president of the United States, and things that sound like the campaign aren’t among them.

Farage will not be ambassador to US, UK government says

A wishful tweet by Trump notwithstanding, interim UKIP leader Nigel Farage will not become the British ambassador to the US, Downing Street and the UK foreign office have said.

The prime minister’s spokesman said: “As far as the ambassador goes, there is no vacancy for that position. We have an excellent ambassador to the United States and he will continue his work.”

Trump has issued a two-and-a-half minute video assuring everyone that his transition is going smoothly and sketching a few points for pursuit in his first 100 days in office, including deregulation and withdrawal from Trans-Pacific Partnership talks “from day one” of his presidency. The TPP has not yet been signed.

The New York Times has announced that meetings between Trump and the Times publisher, and with editors, reporters and columnists is back on after the Trump team canceled it earlier.

The Times released a statement earlier this morning announcing the meeting had been canceled:

Thank you for reading and please join us in the comments.</s>WASHINGTON -- President-elect Donald Trump, after a campaign marked by a vow to put Democrat Hillary Clinton "in jail," declared Tuesday that "I don't want to hurt the Clintons," and a top adviser said he had no interest in pursuing further investigations of Clinton.

Trump also said he saw no potential conflicts of interest between his new job and his worldwide businesses, and he disavowed praise and support from extremist "alt-right" groups.

The president-elect's remarks in an interview with The New York Times were tweeted out by Times reporters.

Trump reversed his campaign trail vow to seek a special prosecutor for Clinton, saying he wanted to move on to his agenda of creating jobs, repealing President Barack Obama's health-care law and cracking down on people entering the country illegally. His comments were a firm suggestion to Republicans who control both houses of Congress to do the same and abandon years of probes into the former secretary of state.

[TRUMP: Timeline of president-elect’s career + list of appointments so far]

"I want to move forward," he said. "I don't want to move back. I don't want to hurt the Clintons. I really don't."

He continued, "She went through a lot and suffered greatly in many ways."

The president-elect made clear that he would not seek to pursue an investigation himself nor make it a priority when he assumes office.

"It's not something that I feel very strongly about," Trump said, unlike health care or immigration. "This has been a very painful period of time."

He predicted that his supporters would not be disappointed because the Trump administration would "save our country" in other ways.

But there was some criticism in conservative circles.

If Trump's appointees do not follow through on his pledge to investigate Clinton for what he claimed were criminal violations, "it would be a betrayal of his promise to the American people to 'drain the swamp' of out-of-control corruption in Washington," said the group Judicial Watch.

In his wide-ranging, hourlong interview with reporters and editors at the Times, Trump was unapologetic about repeatedly flouting the traditional ethical and political conventions that have shaped the American presidency. The interview had been scheduled, canceled and then reinstated after a dispute over the ground rules.

Trump said he had no obligation to establish boundaries between his business empire and his White House, saying the Trump brand "is certainly a hotter brand than it was before."

On another topic, Trump saw no problems in working out any potential conflicts of interest between his companies and his White House post.

"In theory I could run my business perfectly and then run the country perfectly. There's never been a case like this," he said. But he also said he was "phasing that out now" and passing business operations on to his grown children.

He said it would be extremely difficult to sell off his businesses because they are real estate holdings. He said he would "like to do something" to address ethics concerns.

But he said he could still have business partners into the White House for grip-and-grin photographs. He said critics were pressuring him to go beyond what he was willing to do, including distancing himself from his children while they run his businesses.

"If it were up to some people," he said, "I would never, ever see my daughter Ivanka again."

Trump rejected the idea that he was bound by federal anti-nepotism laws against installing his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, in a White House job. But he said he would want to avoid the appearance of a conflict and might instead seek to make him a special envoy in charge of brokering peace in the Middle East.

"The president of the United States is allowed to have whatever conflicts he or she wants, but I don't want to do that," Trump said. But he said Kushner, who is an observant Jew, "could be very helpful" in reconciling the long-standing dispute between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

"I would love to be able to be the one that made peace with Israel and the Palestinians," Trump said, adding that Kushner "would be very good at it" and that "he knows the region."

"A lot of people tell me, really great people tell me that it's impossible -- you can't do it," Trump said. "I disagree; I think you can make peace."

"I have reason to believe I can do it," he added.

Trump also defended Stephen Bannon, his chief strategist, against charges of racial bias, calling him a "decent guy." And he savaged Republicans who had failed to support him in his unorthodox White House bid.

Trump held out assurances that he did not intend to embrace extremist positions in some areas. He vigorously denounced a white nationalist conference in Washington over the weekend where attendees gave the Bellamy salute, the gesture notably used by the Nazis, criticized Jewish people and spoke some words in German.

He also said he thinks there's "some connectivity" between humans and climate change, a reversal from his campaign trail declaration that man-made climate change is a hoax.

He did not repeat his promise to abandon the international climate accord reached last year in Paris, saying that, "I'm looking at it very closely." But he said, "I have an open mind to it" and that clean air and "crystal clear water" were vitally important.

The Trump interview came after Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway suggested that what he said on the campaign trail may well depart from what he does as president. Trump, she told MSNBC's Morning Joe, is "thinking of many different things as he prepares to become the president of the United States, and things that sound like the campaign aren't among them."

It wasn't immediately clear whether Conway was referring only to congressional investigations, or additionally to the Justice Department. FBI Director James Comey has declared on two occasions that there is no evidence warranting charges over Clinton's use of a private email account. Justice Department investigations are historically conducted without the influence or input of the White House.

He was leaving late Tuesday for Florida for the Thanksgiving weekend.

On the policy front, Trump released a video late Monday in which he said his transition to power, which has at times been chaotic, "is working very smoothly, efficiently and effectively."

He outlined a series of executive actions in the video that he said he intends to take on his first day in office: issuing notification of intent to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement; canceling restrictions on energy production; putting in place a rule that two regulations must be eliminated for every new one enacted; ordering a plan to protect U.S. infrastructure from cyberattacks and other forms of attack; directing the Labor Department to investigate "abuses of visa programs that undercut the American worker"; and imposing a five-year ban on executive officials becoming lobbyists.

Absent from the list were plans such as building a wall between the U.S. and Mexico, repealing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and undoing the nuclear deal with Iran.

Trump's reversal on further investigations of the Clintons raised questions about the gulf between his campaign promises and what he intends to do as the nation's 45th president.

Trump fueled chants of "Lock Her Up!" at campaign rallies across the country throughout his campaign. He vowed, in particular, to use his presidential power to appoint a special prosecutor to prosecute Clinton for her reliance on a private email server while she was secretary of state and what he called pay-for-play schemes involving the Clinton Foundation.

Conway suggested that Trump's new posture is aimed at Republicans in Congress who have relentlessly investigated the former secretary of state, including whether classified information passed through her private email server and how she acted in connection with the raid on the U.S. compound in Benghazi that killed four Americans.

Trump has been promising to unite the country around his presidency, saying repeatedly that he will be president of "all Americans." Not everyone is buying it -- protests continue across the country -- but the president-elect has been hosting a politically diverse parade of officials at his golf course in New Jersey as he's tried to fill out his Cabinet. The visitors have included Mitt Romney, the 2012 GOP presidential candidate who called Trump unfit for office. Trump had called him "a loser" who "choked."

Trump also tweeted Tuesday that he's "seriously considering" naming former GOP presidential rival Ben Carson to head the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Giving unsolicited advice for political appointments internationally, Trump tweeted Monday that the United Kingdom should appoint the longtime U.K. Independence Party leader, Nigel Farage, as ambassador to the U.S.

"Many people would like to see Nigel Farage represent Great Britain as their ambassador to the United States," Trump tweeted. "He would do a great job!"

Though Trump's first five picks for top jobs in his administration have all been white men, transition officials said Monday that the team he ultimately puts together will represent a cross-section of the U.S.

Trump spokesman Jason Miller told reporters in a conference call that the president-elect met with a "high-caliber and broad and diverse group" of job seekers and advisers in recent days, and predicted that the top rungs of the executive branch that Trump assembles in the coming weeks "will be very broad and diverse, both with the Cabinet and the administration."

That point was echoed by Conway, who said that assuring diversity -- both in backgrounds and political philosophy -- is a priority for Trump.

"And diversity means meeting with people across the aisle who are traditionally more Democratic, who are coming together and wanting to offer him advice, perhaps vie for a spot in his Cabinet," Conway said. "But willing to give him counsel and willing to share experiences and have candid conversations about their views and their backgrounds."

Information for this article was contributed by Laurie Kellman, Steve Peoples and Eric Tucker of The Associated Press; by Michael D. Shear, Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Maggie Haberman of The New York Times; by Elise Viebeck of The Washington Post; and by staff members of Bloomberg News.</s>"I think that the American people, in regard to the email server -- we had a big American jury trial in this election and Mrs. Clinton lost," the Wisconsin Republican and Trump supporter told CNN's Chris Cuomo on "New Day." "She's been called out for her bad acts with the server."

During the presidential campaign, Trump vowed he would appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the former secretary of state after the FBI and Justice Department decided against prosecuting Clinton for her use of a private email server while serving in the Obama administration.

Trump supporters embraced this plan often chanting "lock her up!" at his rallies and Trump interrupted Clinton during the second presidential debate to say if he were president, "You'd be in jail."

But now the President-elect said he won't push for prosecution of his former rival, telling The New York Times that she has "suffered greatly."

Duffy agreed that Clinton has been through enough. "At what point, we can say is that enough. Did we get our pound of flesh on her? I think so," he said. "Let's set this one aside. The investigation has already taken place. Let's move forward in making America great again." If the Trump administration is going to effectively accomplish the President-elect's agenda, he can't be tied up with prosecuting Clinton, Duffy argued. "If you're going to actually get the big things done that are going to help grow our economy and put these middle (class) Americans that have been left behind back to work, you can't have a big massive big fight with Mrs. Clinton," he said.</s>President-elect Donald Trump will not push for further investigation of Hillary Clinton related to her private email use and the Clinton Foundation, breaking with a key campaign theme.

He had vowed to jail Ms. Clinton and crowds at his rallies chanted “Lock her up”.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will not pursue investigations against Hillary Clinton over her family’s charity or her use of a private email server while she was Secretary of State, MSNBC said, dropping a threat made to his Democratic rival during the bitter presidential campaign.

Mr. Trump had vowed to jail Ms. Clinton and crowds at his rallies chanted “Lock her up.” But he now believes she “has been through enough,” MSNBC reported on Tuesday, citing an unidentified source.

Addressing the report in an interview with MSNBC, senior Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway indicated it was correct. “Hillary Clinton still has to face the fact that a majority of Americans don’t find her to be honest or trustworthy, but if Donald Trump can help her heal then perhaps that’s a good thing,” she said on MSNBC’s ‘Morning Joe’ program.

The FBI investigated Ms. Clinton’s use of a private email server while she was Secretary of State during President Barack Obama’s first term, concluding in July that her actions were careless but that there were no grounds for bringing charges.</s>President-elect Donald Trump "doesn't wish to pursue" more investigations into Hillary Clinton's email practices, a top adviser said Tuesday.</s>Clinton aides did not respond to a request for comment about Mr. Trump’s remarks.

During their second debate, Mr. Trump turned to Mrs. Clinton and vowed, “If I win, I am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation, because there’s never been so many lies, so much deception.”

After Mr. Trump’s turnaround on Tuesday, the conservative commentator Ann Coulter, one of his staunchest supporters during the campaign, suggested on Twitter that Mr. Trump was overstepping his role.

“Whoa! I thought we elected @realDonaldTrump president,” she wrote. “Did we make him the FBI, & DOJ? His job is to pick those guys, not do their jobs.”

Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, a conservative advocacy group that has been a relentless critic of Mrs. Clinton, said on Tuesday that it would be a mistake for Mr. Trump to drop the threat of appointing a special counsel to look into her email use.

Mr. Fitton said that although the F.B.I. had already investigated the matter twice, that inquiry was flawed. His group has gained access to thousands of pages of Mrs. Clinton’s State Department emails through lawsuits and is pressing its case in court even after her defeat.

Representative Jason Chaffetz, a Utah Republican who leads the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said last week on Fox News that his committee would continue to investigate the matter as well because “we’ve got to get to the truth.” Mr. Chaffetz’s office said on Tuesday he was unavailable for comment about Mr. Trump’s statements.

Although the F.B.I.’s email investigation is closed, the agency still has an open inquiry into the Clinton Foundation. That inquiry began after the 2015 publication of “Clinton Cash,” a book by Peter Schweizer that asserted that some foreign entities had given money to the foundation in return for State Department favors when Mrs. Clinton was there. The Clintons have denied the assertions.</s>President-elect Donald Trump has decided that his administration will not pursue criminal investigations related to former rival Hillary Clinton's private email server or her family foundation, his campaign manager said Tuesday.

Trump's apparent decision, conveyed by campaign manager Kellyanne Conway in an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe,'' would be an extraordinary break with political and legal protocol, which holds that the attorney general and FBI make decisions on whether to conduct investigations and file charges, free of pressure from the president.

During his campaign, Trump had issued incendiary calls for a special prosecutor to reopen the FBI's closed investigation of Clinton's use of a private server while secretary of state and had also urged investigations of allegations of corruption at the Clinton Foundation. He nicknamed the Democratic nominee "Crooked Hillary" and encouraged chants of "Lock her up!" at his rallies.

But Conway said Trump now sees things differently. "I think when the president-elect, who's also the head of your party, tells you before he's even inaugurated that he doesn't wish to pursue these charges, it sends a very strong message, tone and content" to fellow Republicans, she said. "Look, I think he's thinking of many different things as he prepares to become the President of the United States, and things that sound like the campaign are not among them," she added.

Trump has not spoken directly about his apparent change of heart but hinted at it in a post-election interview with CBS's "60 Minutes.''

"I'm going to think about it," he said. "I don't want to hurt them, I don't want to hurt them. They're, they're good people.''

Trump's conciliatory gesture stood in contrast to his continued fights on Twitter. The president-elect escalated his longstanding battle with the media on Tuesday, canceling a meeting at The New York Times and blasting the publication on Twitter hours after he criticized TV journalists at another contentious sit-down.

Trump had scheduled two meetings with the publisher and journalists from the Times on Tuesday, including one on-the-record session. But the president-elect, who frequently attacked the paper during his campaign, suddenly canceled the events in a series of tweets.

"I cancelled today's meeting with the failing @nytimes when the terms and conditions of the meeting were changed at the last moment. Not nice,'' Trump wrote to his nearly 16 million followers on the micro-blogging site. "Perhaps a new meeting will be set up with the @nytimes,'' he continued. "In the meantime they continue to cover me inaccurately and with a nasty tone!''

Times editors and reporters also took to Twitter to deny Trump's account. Clifford Levy, the paper's assistant masthead editor, tweeted out an official response saying it was the president-elect who had tried to change the ground rules by seeking only a private meeting. "We did not change the ground rules at all and made no attempt to,'' Levy wrote. "We were unaware that the meeting was canceled until we saw the President Elect's tweet this morning.''

Times columnist Nicholas Kristof went further, tweeting: "Mr. President-Elect, no reason to be scared of Times journalists!''

The extraordinary spectacle of a man about to become president and one of its leading newspapers engaging in a Twitter war underscores how Trump's always contentious relations with the media have deteriorated even further since his election. The relationship between presidents and those who cover them is often an adversarial one, but media experts say Trump's blasts against reporters — he called them the "lowest form of humanity" during the campaign — have broken new ground.

His Twitter spat with the Times came one day after Trump did sit down with television news executives and some well-known TV journalists — and repeatedly told them the campaign reporting about him was "unfair" and "dishonest."

Participants in the meeting at Trump Tower in New York described it as a contentious but generally respectful gathering.

But if the media elite attended in hopes of improving relations with the forthcoming Trump administration, that wasn't quite in the cards. The president-elect specifically called out reporting by CNN and NBC that he deemed unfair, according to four people who attended the meeting, all of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity because the meeting was off the record.

Instead of striking a harmonious tone to build rapport following the election, Trump was combative, participants said. In a calm and deliberate voice, he told the group sitting around a conference table that they had failed to provide their viewers with fair and accurate coverage, and told them they failed to understand him or his appeal to millions of Americans.

But he made no mention of the enormous amount of airtime that the networks, especially on cable, devoted to his campaign. A number of analyses have noted that Trump's presidential effort was boosted by the news media's fascination with him.

In a sign of another battle with the media to come, Trump also shrugged off the need for a constant press pool covering him, the people said, though he did not delve into specifics. Trump has repeatedly shirked his pool, upending a long-standing tradition of the president and president-elect.

A protective pool, as it is known, is considered necessary for disclosure of what the president is doing and transparency when big news breaks. Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, for example, drew criticism when she left a September 11 memorial ceremony after falling ill without alerting pool reporters.

On the policy front, Trump released a video late Monday in which he said his transition to power, which has at times been chaotic, "is working very smoothly, efficiently and effectively.''

He outlined a series of executive actions in the video that he said he intends to take on his first day in office: issuing notification of intent to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement; canceling restrictions on energy production; putting in place a rule that two regulations must be eliminated for every new one enacted; ordering a plan to protect U.S. infrastructure from cyberattacks and other forms of attack; directing the Labor Department to investigate "abuses of visa programs that undercut the American worker"; and imposing a five-year ban on executive officials becoming lobbyists.

Notably missing from the actions were some of his most prominent campaign promises, such as building a wall along the U.S.-Mexican border to keep out illegal immigrants and developing an early plan to confront the Islamic State terror group.

Though President-elect Donald Trump's first five picks for top jobs in his administration have all been white men, transition officials insisted Monday that the team he ultimately puts together will represent a cross-section of America.

Trump spokesman Jason Miller told reporters on a conference call that the president-elect met with a "high-caliber and broad and diverse group" of job seekers and advisers in recent days and predicted that the top rungs of the executive branch that Trump assembles in the coming weeks "will be very broad and diverse, both with the Cabinet and the administration."

That point was echoed by Trump's campaign manager Kellyanne Conway, who said that assuring diversity — both in backgrounds and political philosophy — is a priority for Trump.

"And diversity means meeting with people across the aisle who are traditionally more Democratic, who are coming together and wanting to offer him advice, perhaps vie for a spot in his Cabinet," Conway said. "But willing to give him counsel and willing to share experiences and have candid conversations about their views and their backgrounds."

The Trump aides were seeking to dismiss speculation that the parade of people summoned by the president-elect — which has included women, nonwhites and erstwhile political foes — has been merely for show.

That skepticism comes in the aftermath of a brutal presidential campaign that was punctuated by frequent incidents in which Trump said and did things that offended women, Latinos and Muslims, while drawing support from white nationalist groups.

Exit polls suggest that Trump owes his victory to white voters, of whom 58 percent supported him. By comparison, he won only 8 percent of African American voters, and 29 percent each of Hispanics and Asian Americans, the exit polls showed.
Trump's aide Kellyanne Conway announces that the president-elect will not seek new charges against Hillary Clinton for possible crimes related to her email server.