There is no doubt the genuine secular leaders in the mid-East, those who value freedom and minority protections like Fattah el-Sisi (Egypt) and King Abdullah (Jordan), will find a more consistent and stable ally with President Donald Trump.

“I believe that President Trump will be vigorously engaged with the issues in the region,” el-Sisi said. “As a matter of fact, Trump has shown deep and great understanding of what is taking place in the region as a whole and Egypt in particular. I am looking forward and expecting more support and reinforcement of our bilateral relations.”  (link)

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi has praised U.S. President-elect Donald J. Trump, saying that his inflammatory statements from the campaign trail do not necessarily reflect the actions he will take as president.
El-Sissi, in an interview with Portuguese news agency LUSA released on Saturday, said, “let’s not jump into conclusions or worry” about future U.S. actions or policies in the Middle East. The army chief-turned-president was interviewed prior to his upcoming Nov. 21 visit to Portugal.  El-Sisi was among the very first foreign leaders to congratulate Trump’s on his presidential victory.
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Those who enjoy the deep weeds of politics, especially White Hat/Black Hat intrigue, will find this Reuters Story popcorn worthy.

The Back Story – Admiral Michael Rogers, not to be confused with former House Intel Chair Rep. Mike Rogers, is the Director of the NSA (National Security Agency) and U.S. Cyber Command.
Admiral Michael Rogers met with President-Elect Trump, somewhat quietly, last week (Thursday).

It has been reported that Admiral Rogers did not inform his “superiors” of the meeting with President-Elect Trump. President Obama is out of the country. Def Sec Ash Carter and DNI Chair James Clapper, both loyalists to President Obama, do not necessarily align with Admiral Rogers (they would also be the “superiors” per se’).
Many pixels are still needed to bring clarity to the picture. However, reasonable spidey senses indicate the libertarian sensibility side (smaller intrusion of government, less snooping and more freedom liberty etc) of President-Elect Trump (think R and R Mercer here too) is antithetical to those who made the Patriot Act a hammer instead of a scalpel.
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Would require a congressional waiver; yet, in my humble opinion, ‘Mad Dog’ would most definitely be the type a Trump transition team would consider even if needing such an avenue.  Your thoughts?…

James Mattis, retired Marines general and possible candidate for defense secretary or other national security post, now meeting with Trump.

— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) November 19, 2016

As Mattis exited, Trump told press: "All I can say is he is the real deal." "We'll see" if role as defense sec. A "brilliant wonderful man." https://t.co/5mcsfhMixB

— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) November 19, 2016

*Snicker*… Body Language.

NOTE – video replaced with better quality. Also on the schedule for today:

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♦ January 12th 2016 Governor Nikki Haley delivered a Republican State of The Union rebuttal speech that was specifically intended to undermine and ridicule presidential candidate Donald Trump.
The wording within the speech itself was constructed, coordinated, and by her own admission, approved by Washington DC Republican Leadership (Ryan/McConnell).
♦ Thursday November 17th, 2016, South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley met with President-Elect Donald Trump.
♦ The next day, Friday, Governor Haley delivers a speech to the Federalist Society where she discusses the 2016 presidential election and how candidate Trump’s successful presidential bid was a rebuke of those DC republicans who wrote her script in January.
Her remarks begin at 11:44 of the video below.  You decide her current intent:
https://youtu.be/gKwjzZ55G_M?t=11m44s
Our outline of Governor Haley’s GOPe speech in January can be found HERE.

Mitt Romney spotted in JFK tonight waiting in the cab line:

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Challenge a liberal ideologue on the issues, any issues, and they have nothing to fall back upon except the charge of racism.  Everything is racism, that’s all they have.
In this interview Tucker Carlson challenges Jonathan Allen of Roll Call over Allen’s accusation that Senator Jeff Sessions is a racist:

Counter Point –> Now that Jeff Sessions is Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general, you’re going to hear a lot of people dig up old accusations that Sessions is a racist. In fact, CNN did so last night. However, between the nature of the accusations and Sessions’s actual record of desegregating schools and taking on the Klan in Alabama, it strains credulity to believe that he is a racist.  (read more)

Great interview in The Hollywood Reporter with Trump campaign CEO Steve Bannon.  Well worth the read. Excerpt:

(Via The Hollywood Reporter) […]  “The media bubble is the ultimate symbol of what’s wrong with this country,” he continues. “It’s just a circle of people talking to themselves who have no f—ing idea what’s going on. If The New York Times didn’t exist, CNN and MSNBC would be a test pattern. The Huffington Post and everything else is predicated on The New York Times. It’s a closed circle of information from which Hillary Clinton got all her information — and her confidence. That was our opening.”  (read more)

This is too funny.  There’s a media live-stream of the lobby in Trump Tower that has been ongoing for two days.  CSPAN Pool Feed HERE  and Fox News (Via Facebook) have a broadcast set-up using the stream and there are actually thousands of people just watching the elevator lobbies:

LOLOL… Best Election Ever !
The live stream feed is below:
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(New York, NY) – President-elect Donald J. Trump today announced that he intends to nominate U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions to serve as Attorney General and U.S. Rep. Mike Pompeo as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.  Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn has been selected to be the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs.

U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions has dedicated his life to public service. He has a distinguished legal career and has served as both the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama and Alabama Attorney General prior to his service in the U.S. Senate. He has been one of President-elect Trump’s trusted advisors on the campaign and will now continue his service as our nation’s chief law enforcement officer. (more…)