We've been reporting on Russian President Vladimir Putin's response to Donald Trump's victory.

Yesterday, the BBC spoke to John Bolton, Trump's former national security adviser and now a staunch critic. He said he believes Russia and China are "absolutely delighted" that Trump has been elected again.

Bolton went on to say Putin "thinks he knows how to play Trump", and he "intends to use that" to Russia's advantage.

The former official also said he wouldn't be surprised if Putin and Trump spoke on the phone in the next couple of weeks.

In the clip above, Putin says he was "impressed" by Trump's response to an attempt on his life in July, calling him "courageous".

Lisa Lambert
BBC News

Throughout his campaign, Donald Trump repeatedly promised to exonerate the thousands of people jailed or charged in connection with the 6 January Capitol riot if he won, without giving details of who would or would not be impacted.

Within hours of his victory speech, two defendants moved to speed up the process. If they had succeeded, there would have been a flood of others seeking to follow them.

Christopher Carnell asked to have his trial delayed, saying that because of Trump's promises he believes his criminal prosecution will end after Inauguration Day. He said he was "now awaiting further information... regarding the timing and expected scope of clemency actions".

Mitchell Bosch took a more novel approach, saying campaign ads against Trump featuring footage of the Capitol riot and calling Trump a threat to democracy would bias potential jurors. Jurors who disagree with exonerating people connected to the disorder could be tempted to convict him to "send a message," he wrote in a court filing.

Jurors for both trials will be selected in Washington, DC, where 92% of voters backed Kamala Harris.

The legal gambits by Carnell and Bosch both failed. While there was no reason given by the judge in the first case, Bosch was told the jury selection process will be "adequate to screen out potential jurors who cannot be fair and impartial".

Earlier, a robotic dog could be seen patrolling Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home.

Security at the president-elect's Florida residence has been heightened following his election victory on Wednesday.

Mechanical guard dogs are increasingly used by law enforcement in the US and some are being developed by other agencies to perform tasks like walking on the Moon.

As we've been hearing tonight, Donald Trump is beginning to appoint people to senior positions in his administration.

While Joe Biden sees out his last 73 days left in office, there will be a lot happening behind the scenes as Trump puts together his new team.

However, it's still a while until they will be able to put any policies in place. There are two key dates in the calendar before that point.

The first is 6 January 2025, the date that Congress will certify the election. That will be presided over by Vice-President Kamala Harris.

The second is 20 January 2025, when Trump and his running mate JD Vance take the oath of office at their inauguration.

It as that point that power formally passes to Trump.

The latest episode of the BBC's Americast podcast is out. The team dissect the election result and the latest post-election developments.

It also features a lively Q&A during which a listener challenges the team and other parts of the media on whether they foresaw Donald Trump's return to the White House as a genuine possibility.

Join North America editor Sarah Smith, disinformation and social media correspondent Marianna Spring, and North America correspondent Anthony Zurcher as they provide the latest insights and analysis from the US.

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More now on the appointment of Susie Wiles, described as "the most feared and least known political operative in America" by US media outlets.

In a rare interview with Politico, published in April, external, she explained how she came "from a very traditional background".

“In my early career things like manners mattered and there was an expected level of decorum. And so I get it that the GOP of today is different.

"There are changes we must live with in order to get done the things we’re trying to do. I haven’t, and likely won’t, fully adapt. I don’t curse. I’m polite. It’s not who I am.

"But people either know that I’m a solid person, and I hope many do, or they don’t and judge me by my work for President Trump."

Wiles was asked by Politico what she would say to someone who likened her role as a senior aide to Donald Trump to one of "history's most notorious aiders and abettors".

Wiles answered: “I would turn my back and walk away. I wouldn’t answer it. Because it’s vile. It doesn’t deserve a response. They don’t know the inner workings of Trump world. They don’t know. And so they don’t have a right to judge in that way, in my opinion, and I’m not going to dignify it. I’m not."

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Need a quick catch-up? Here's a recap of the last few busy hours in Washington:

• White House press secretary speaks with reporters: Karine Jean-Pierre spoke with reporters for the first time since President-elect Donald Trump's victory. "This is a defeat but we are not defeated," she said, adding that the Biden administration will be "helpful" with the presidential transition
• Federal Reserve chair won't resign: Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said he won't resign if ordered by Trump. He added that the outcome of the US election will have "no effects" on the reserve's policy decision in the near term
• World leaders congratulate Trump: Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated Trump this afternoon on his election victory and said he's ready to resume contacts with him or any other Western leader who is prepared to do so. Meanwhile, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he is re-establishing a special Cabinet committee focused on US-Canada relations following Trump's re-election
• Trump holds first media interview since winning: President-elect Donald Trump spoke to NBC News in his first interview with the press since election night. He said his re-election was due in part to his immigration policy
• Trump announces chief of staff: Trump has announced his advisor Susan Wiles will serve as his White House chief of staff

As we reported earlier, Trump has named Susan Wiles as his chief of staff. So what does the role entail?

The White House chief of staff plays a crucial role in every president's administration.

They essentially serve as the manager of the White House and are responsible for putting together a president's staff. A chief leads the staff through the Executive Office of the President and oversees all daily operations and staff activities.

They also advise presidents on policy issues and are responsible for directing and overseeing policy development.

According to the Trump campaign, Wiles will be the first woman to serve in the role.

Ione Wells
Reporting from the US

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The White House has announced Joe Biden will visit the Amazon rainforest in Manaus, Brazil, ahead of November's G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro.

He will visit “local, indigenous, and other leaders working to preserve and protect this critical ecosystem", according to the White House, which described the engagement as a first of its kind for a US president.

Biden also plans to meet the Brazilian President Luiz Lula da Silva on the fringes of the summit to discuss workers’ rights and clean economic growth.

The Biden administration has committed $500 million to Brazil’s Amazon Fund over five years. Other major donors include Britain, Denmark, the EU and Norway.

The project uses foreign funds for projects to fight deforestation and preserve the environment.

There has been speculation over whether or not Donald Trump will continue contributions to the fund, given he has vowed to reduce sending money to other countries. Trump pulled the US out of the Paris climate agreement during his first presidency.

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As we just reported, Susie Wiles, a senior adviser to the Trump campaign in this election cycle, has landed a key role in the administration.

Trump referred to Wiles as “the ice maiden” in his victory speech yesterday. She operates mostly “in the back”, the president-elect said, but she is known as one of the most feared political operatives in the US.

Less than a year after she started working in politics, she joined Ronald Reagan’s campaign ahead of his 1980 election.

In 2010, she turned Rick Scott, a then-businessman with little political experience, into Florida’s governor in just seven months. Scott is now a US senator.

Wiles met Trump during the 2015 Republican presidential primary and became the co-chair of his Florida campaign. He went on to carry the state by 1.6% over Hillary Clinton in 2016.

Florida Gov Ron DeSantis, who put her in charge of his successful gubernatorial race two years later, described Wiles as “the best in the business”.

She will be the first woman to serve in the White House role, according to the Trump campaign.

As we reported earlier, Wiles was rumoured to become Trump's chief of staff.

President-elect Donald Trump has announced his campaign manager Susan Summerall Wiles will serve as his White House Chief of Staff.

Trump said in a statement that Wiles "just helped me achieve one of the greatest political victories in American history".

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More world leaders have congratulated president-elect Donald Trump on his election victory.

China'sPresident Xi Jinping congratulated Trump earlier on Thursday and "urged the two countries to find the right way to get along", Chinese state media reports.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum spoke with Trump on this morning, posting on X to say that the call was "very cordial" and they discussed the "good relations that we'll have between Mexico and the United States".

The head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen confirms on X she spoke to Trump today to congratulate him, and to stress the importance of "strengthening EU-US ties and working jointly to address geopolitical challenges".

Kremlin spies second chance to build relationship with Trumppublished at 22:22 Greenwich Mean Time 7 November

22:22 GMT 7 November

Steve Rosenberg
Reporting from Sochi, Russia

As world leaders were queuing up to congratulate Donald Trump, Russia’s president had been conspicuous by his silence.

Now, though, Vladimir Putin has commented on the US election result. And there’s no doubt that Donald Trump will have loved what the Kremlin leader told the participants of Russia’s Valdai Discussion Club in the mountains of southern Russia.

“[Trump’s] behaviour at the time of the attempt on his life made an impression on me,” President Putin said. “He turned out to be a courageous man.”

Then, more praise. "What was said [by Trump] about the desire to restore relations with Russia, to help end the Ukrainian crisis - in my opinion this, at least, deserves attention…And I take this opportunity to congratulate him on his election as president of the United States of America.”

Putin added that he is ready to have discussions with Trump.

Like the mountains here above Sochi, the Kremlin’s expectations from Donald Trump’s first term were sky high. He was seen as an American leader who would move mountains to mend US-Russian relations. It never happened.

But the Kremlin clearly spies an opportunity now to try again and build a working relationship with the Trump administration. It will hope to use that to end the war in Ukraine (on terms beneficial to Russia) and eventually to ease sanctions.

Damian Grammaticas
Political correspondent

UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy went on to say he "was a little bit surprised that the Democrats had made a decision not to centre particularly the economy in their approach to the election".

"We obviously had been really clear about growth. For us we knew the cost of living crisis that's where the public was at."

And asked if his hunch had been that Trump might win the election he said "I've got to say it was, I felt in my bones that there could be a Trump presidency".

On the issue of new taxes that Trump might seek to impose on imports to the US, and whether the UK would seek to be exempted from those, Lammy said "of course we would seek with a new administration to ensure that as a major ally we were aligned and that we were considered".

However he qualified that by indicating the UK would seek the same treatment for other close allies of the US too, saying "we will seek to ensure and to get across the United States, and I believe that they would understand this, that hurting your closest allies cannot be in your medium or long-term interests".

• Listen to interview here

Damian Grammaticas
Political correspondent

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The Foreign Secretary David Lammy has told the BBC his past criticisms of Donald Trump are "old news".

Speaking to the BBC's Political Editor Chris Mason on the Newscast podcast Lammy was asked about comments he made on Twitter in 2019 when he said "deluded, dishonest, xenophobic, narcissistic, Donald Trump is no friend of Britain" and described him as a "tyrant in a toupe".

"This is old news", Lammy said, adding "in that period, particularly with people on Twitter, lots of things were said about Donald Trump. It was a daily occurrence". He went on "you will struggle to find any politician, and that's not just Labour politicians, because the last Foreign Secretary David Cameron had some pretty ripe things to say about Donald Trump".

And he added, "I think what you say as a backbencher and what you do wearing the real duty of public office are two different things".

Asked if Trump had brought up the comments when he had dinner with him in New York in the run up to the election, Lammy said "not even vaguely. I think he is someone that we can build a relationship with, in our national interest, because we must".

• Listen to the full episode on BBC Sounds

Donald Trump's former commerce secretary Wilbur Ross says potential future tariffs will not be inflationary.

Throughout his campaign, Trump vowed that he would tax all goods imported into the US if he won back the White House.

Speaking to BBC's Newshour programme, Ross says tariffs introduced by Trump during his previous administration elicited a similar response by critics.

"Everybody was saying the same thing: nobody will build a car in America anymore because steel and aluminium prices are up...Well it didn't happen, and we didn't have big time inflation," he says.

Ross adds that foreign countries will "undoubtedly step up" subsidies for businesses.

"Second, the foreign companies themselves will probably absorb part, and then the US companies who buy those products will probably absorb part," he continues.

Speaking about Trump's qualities as president, Ross describes him as a "flamboyant personality".

"But beneath the bravado and all that, there's a very serious person, a thoughtful person," he says.

Could Trump really deport one million immigrants?published at 21:31 Greenwich Mean Time 7 November

21:31 GMT 7 November

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Donald Trump has promised the mass deportation of people who do not have legal permission to be in the United States.

In an interview with NBC News today, the president-elect said his administration would have "no choice" but to carry out those deportations.

"It’s not a question of a price tag. It’s not - really, we have no choice," he told the network.

"When people have killed and murdered, when drug lords have destroyed countries, and now they’re going to go back to those countries because they’re not staying here. There is no price tag."

If a US administration was able to legally move ahead with plans for mass deportations, authorities would still have to contend with enormous logistical challenges.

During the Biden administration, deportation efforts have focused on migrants recently detained at the border. Migrants deported from further inland in the US, from areas not located near the border, are, overwhelmingly, those with criminal histories or deemed national security threats.

Controversial raids on worksites that were carried out during the Trump administration were suspended in 2021.

Deportations of people arrested in the US interior - as opposed to those at the border - have hovered at below 100,000 for a decade, after peaking at over 230,000 during the early years of the Obama administration.

Experts estimate that the total bill for one million or more deportations would run into tens or even hundreds of billions of dollars.

• You can read more about the logistics of Trump's proposed mass deportation here.

President-elect Donald Trump spoke to NBC News, external in his first interview with the press since becoming president-elect and said his re-election was due in part to his immigration policy.

"We obviously have to make the border strong and powerful and, and we have to — at the same time, we want people to come into our country," Trump said. "And you know, I’m not somebody that says, 'No, you can’t come in.' We want people to come in."

The former president said he considered his election a mandate to "bring common sense" to the country.

In the phone interview, Trump said he attracted a more diverse coalition of voters this election.

"I started to see realignment could happen because the Democrats are not in line with the thinking of the country," he said. "You can’t have defund the police, these kind of things. They don’t want to give up and they don’t work, and the people understand that."

He also said he has not spoken to Russia's President Putin but: "I think we’ll speak."

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More now on Putin's speech in Sochi, where he congratulated Trump on his election victory and said he's ready to resume contacts with him or any other Western leader who is prepared to do so."

During his election campaign Trump repeatedly promised that he could end the war between Russia and Ukraine "in a day".

On this point, and what might happen once Trump resumes office, Putin said "I haven't got a clue. It's his last term. What he does is his issue," adding that help to end the Ukraine conflict "deserves attention".

When asked what he would do if he received a call from Trump requesting they meet, Putin said: "I don't consider it shameful to ring him myself. I'm just not doing it because the leaders of Western states at one stage were calling me almost every week and then suddenly stopped."

He went on to invite Western leaders to restore contact if they wish.

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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he is re-establishing a special Cabinet committee focused on US-Canada relations, following Trump's re-election.

It's going to focus on "critical Canada-US issues", and will be chaired by Deputy PM Chrystia Freeland and other top officials.

Speaking with media, Trudeau said this week: "The world is actually even more difficult and more complicated than it was four years ago. And I know that there's lots of work for us to do.

"I'm looking forward to do it on our side. We've been preparing for this. We're looking forward to doing this work."

Trudeau's relationship with Trump has been rocky in the past. Read more about what Trump's win means for Canada.