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Trump team: Meeting with NY Times is back on

by Joe Concha and Harper Neidig - 11/22/16 9:56 AM ET

President-elect Donald Trump’s meeting with The New York Times on Tuesday is back on, hours after he abruptly canceled it via Twitter.

{mosads}Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks told a pool reporter Tuesday morning that the president-elect would soon be departing for the paper’s office.

Hicks also told CNN that at least part of the meeting would be on the record.

The Times released a statement acknowledging that the meeting is back on as well.

“He will meet with our publisher off-the-record and that session will be followed by an on-the-record meeting with our journalists and editorial columnists,” the statement said.

Trump tore into the Times in a series of tweets early Tuesday morning, saying they “cover me inaccurately and with a nasty tone!”

I cancelled today’s meeting with the failing @nytimes when the terms and conditions of the meeting were changed at the last moment. Not nice

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 22, 2016

Perhaps a new meeting will be set up with the @nytimes. In the meantime they continue to cover me inaccurately and with a nasty tone!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 22, 2016

The failing @nytimes just announced that complaints about them are at a 15 year high. I can fully understand that – but why announce?

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 22, 2016

In March, Trump sat down with the Times as a candidate for an off-the-record meeting.

Parts of that conversation were leaked a day later to BuzzFeed.

Times executive editor Dean Baquet said at the time that “he didn’t know who had spoken to BuzzFeed to describe the off-the-record portion of the session, and that he didn’t intend to pursue it.”

Trump has yet to hold a press conference as president-elect, a longstanding tradition.

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