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Updated: Wednesday, January 11, 2017 @ 1:47 PMPublished: Wednesday, January 11, 2017 @ 11:00 AMBy: Lynn Hulsey-Staff Writer
President-elect Donald Trump took on intelligence reports, detailed how his businesses would run while hes president and announced his Supreme Court plans during an hour-long news conference today.
It was his first news conference since winning the November election.
Trump started by slamming reports claiming that Russia has compromising personal and financial information about him asfake news.
Russian officials deny the report.
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Trump spokesman Sean Spicer started the press conference criticizing Buzzfeed.com story about the intelligence report.
Spicer said the report from the left-wing blog isoutrageous and highlight irresponsible.
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Russian officials deny the report.
This is an evident attempt to harm our bilateral ties, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters in Moscow. The Kremlin does not engage in collecting compromising information.
After news reports were published about the briefing,Trump tweeted: FAKE NEWS - A TOTAL POLITICAL WITCH HUNT!
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Trump also said he expects to name a replacement for Associate Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia within two weeks of taking office.
Trump"s business will continue to pursue deals in the United States, though not abroad, while he is president, and he will relinquish control of the company, according to a lawyer who worked with the Trump Organization on the plan.
Trump: I think it"s a disgrace that information would be let out.
Trump will put his business assets in a trust and take other steps to isolate himself from his company, said the lawyer, who spoke to reporters before Trump"s first news conference since his election Nov. 8. The lawyer requested anonymity to discuss details of the plan.
The move appears to contradict a previous pledge by Trump, who pledged in a tweet last month to do "no new deals" while in office.
To help allay concerns about conflicts of interest, Trump will hand managerial control of his company to his two adult sons and a longtime business executive. The lawyer who advised Trump also said that the Trump Organization will appoint an ethics adviser to its management team who must approve deals that could raise concerns about conflicts.
Trump also took questions about his cabinet picks and how the confirmation hearings are going.
Trumps pick for attorney general, Sen. Jeff Sessions, used strong words in the first day of his Senateconfirmation hearings to deny any hints of a racist past. Today, a group of black lawmakers will speak out against his nomination including New Jersey Democrat Cory Booker, who will take the rare step of testifying against a current Senate colleague.
Hearings on Trumps nominee for secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, began today.You can get live updates from the hearings here
The Associated Press contributed to this story.
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