WASHINGTON (AP) - The Latest on the U.S. presidential transition (all times EST):
7:55 a.m.
A top adviser to Donald Trump is dismissing post-election protesters as "a bunch of crybabies."
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani was asked Thursday about protests in several cities following Trump's victory Tuesday.
There have been protests in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington and elsewhere. Some demonstrators carried placards declaring "Not My President."
Giuliani said on Fox News Channel's "Fox and Friends" that most of the protesters are college-age students and seem to be "1 percent of 1 percent of 1 percent."
Giuliani said he would advise the president-elect to tell them to calm down and after a year, "you'll be living in a better country. If not, go cry then."
Giuliani is widely expected to get a major position in the Trump administration.
7:45 a.m.
Don't expect Donald Trump to apologize for his "birther" campaign when he meets with President Barack Obama at the White House.
That's according to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who has been overseeing the transition for Trump. The president-elect and Obama are meeting later Thursday. Christie was asked on NBC's "Today," whether Trump would apologize for his repeated comments casting doubts on whether Obama was born in the United States.
Christie said "I think that's all past us." He noted that Obama has made barbed remarks about Trump. He said: "That's politics though."
Asked if Trump's birther comments were "just politics," Christie said "everything is in the context of politics" - though that doesn't mean Trump didn't believe what he was saying.
Obama was born in Hawaii.
3:30 a.m.
President Barack Obama is set to welcome his successor, Donald Trump, to the White House, extending an olive branch to a man he blasted as unfit to serve as commander in chief and who led the charge to challenge the legitimacy of his own presidency.
The Oval Office meeting on Thursday symbolically begins the transition of power. Obama is a Democrat who ushered in a sweeping health care law and brokered a landmark nuclear accord with Iran. Trump is a Republican who has vowed to wipe those measures away after he takes office on Jan. 20.
First lady Michelle Obama also plans to meet privately in the White House residence with Trump's wife, Melania Trump.