By Karen DeYoung, Greg MillerVideo will play in Play now Don't auto playNever auto playThe bloodletting in President-elect Donald Trump's transition team that began with last week's ouster of New Jersey Gov. Former congressman Mike Rogers, R-Michigan, announced that he had left his position as the transition's senior national security adviser. Increasingly, among the shards are more mainline Republicans in the national security field. The New York Times also reported the exit of Matthew Freedman, a protege of former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, who headed the National Security Council transition team. I want them to be able to get a handle on the national security infrastructure of the United States and get it in the right direction.

Source: New Zealand Herald November 16, 2016 07:58 UTC