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Watch: Donald Trump delivers first press conference since July

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On Wednesday, President-elect Donald Trump held his first news conference since his election in November. This is a transcript from the press conference.

Thank you very much. It 's very familiar territory, news conferences, because we used to give them on an almost daily basis. I think we probably, maybe won the nomination because of news conferences, and it 's good to be with you.

We stopped giving them because we were getting quite a bit of inaccurate news. But I do have to say that, and I must say that, I want to thank a lot of the news organizations here today. Because they looked at that nonsense that was released by maybe the intelligence agencies, who knows, which would be a tremendous blot on their record if they, in fact, did that, a tremendous blot, because a thing like that should never have been written, it should never have been had, and it should certainly never have been released.

But I want to thank a lot of the

And by the way, speaking of veterans, I appointed today the head secretary of the Veterans Administration, David Shulkin. We 'll do a news release in a little while and tell you about David. He 's fantastic. He will do a truly great job. One of the commitments I 've made is that we 're going to straighten out the whole situation for our veterans.

Our veterans have been treated horribly. They 're waiting in line for 15, 16, 17 days. Cases where they go in and they have a minor, early-stage form of cancer and they can 't see a doctor. By the time they get to the doctor, they 're terminal. It 's not going to happen. It 's not going to happen.

So, David is going to do a fantastic job. We 're going to be talking to a few people also to help David. And we have some of the great hospitals of the world going to align themselves with us on the Veterans Administration, like the Cleveland Clinic, like the Mayo