Trump to meet with Sen. Corker regarding diplomatic post

NEW YORK – U.S. Sen. Bob Corker, R-Chattanooga, was set to meet today with President-elect Donald Trump to discuss a position on his Cabinet.

Trump met Monday with candidates for top Cabinet posts, including retired Gen. David Petraeus, a new contender for secretary of state.

Today’s meetings will include Corker, who is being considered more seriously for the diplomatic post, as well as Mitt Romney, who has become a symbol of the internal divisions agitating the transition team.

Petraeus said he spent about an hour with Trump, and he praised the president-elect for showing a “great grasp of a variety of the challenges that are out there.”

“Very good conversation and we’ll see where it goes from here,” he said. A former CIA chief, Petraeus pleaded guilty last year to a misdemeanor charge of mishandling classified information relating to documents he had provided to his biographer, with whom he was having an affair.