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Donald Trump arranged for a group of prostitutes to urinate on the Moscow hotel bed where the Obamas had slept, according to sensational reports in the US.

The President-elect engaged in 'perverted conduct' because he 'hates' Barack and Michelle Obama, it is claimed.

The lurid detail is contained in a dossier allegedly written by a retired British MI6 spy for Trump's political opponents.

None of the claims have been independently verified.

In response to the reports, Donald Trump tweeted: "FAKE NEWS - A TOTAL POLITICAL WITCH HUNT!"

The memo, published in full by Buzzfeed, claims: "According to Source D, where s/he had been present, Trumps (perverted) conduct in Moscow included hiring the Presidential suite of the Ritz Carlton Hotel, where he knew President and Mrs Obama (whom he hated) had stayed on one of their official trips to Russia, and defiling the bed where they had slept by employing a number of prostitutes to perform a [redacted] show in front of him.

The FSB - Russia's spy agency - had the hotel room bugged at the time with "microphones and concealed cameras", it is claimed.

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The report goes on: "Speaking separately in June 2016, Source B (the former top level Russian intelligence officer) asserted that Trumps unorthodox behaviour in Russia over the years had provided the authorities there with enough embarrassing material on the now Republican presidential candidate to be able to blackmail him if they so wished."

Another allegation says that Trump had participated in sex parties in St Petersburg, but that witnesses were bribed or coerced to disappear.

It is also claimed that Russia tried to further compromise Donald Trump through "lucrative" business deals, including ones involving the 2018 World Cup.

The report claims: "The Kremlin's cultivation operation on Trump also had a compromised offering him various lucrative real estate development business deals in Russia, especially in relation to the ongoing 2018 World Cup soccer tournament.

"However so far, for reasons unknown, Trump had not taken up any of these."

Possession of compromising information about Trump has led to Russian intelligence agencies "cultivating, supporting and assisting" the Republican for five years, the report claims.

The billionaire businessman is understood to have found out about the claims during a during a meeting with intelligence chiefs, who last week presented him with evidence of Russian interference in the 2016 election.

A two-page synopsis of the dossier has been submitted to Trump and President Obama, it is believed.

The FBI is now said to be probing the credibility and accuracy of the allegations.

One high level administration official told CNN: I have a sense the outgoing administration and intelligence community is setting down the pieces so this must be investigated seriously and run down.

"I think [the] concern was to be sure that whatever information was out there is put into the system so it is evaluated as it should be and acted upon as necessary.

The classified briefings were presented by four of the senior-most US intelligence chiefs -- Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, FBI Director James Comey, CIA Director John Brennan, and NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers.

Sources claim intelligence chiefs took the extraordinary step of including the synopsis in the briefing documents to make Trump aware allegations involving him are circulating in Washington.

It is understood they also wanted to demonstrate how Russia had potentially harmful information on both political parties, but only released information damaging to Hillary Clinton and Democrats.

CNN has reviewed a 35-page compilation of the memos, from which the two-page synopsis was drawn, but said it is not reporting their details as it has not independently corroborated the specific allegations.

It is claimed some of the memos were circulating last summer but US intelligence agencies have now checked out the former British intelligence operative and find him and his sources to be credible enough to present the information.

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They were prepared by the former MI6 agent, who was posted in Russia in the 1990s and now runs a private intelligence gathering firm.

CNN claim his investigations on Trump were initially funded by groups and donors supporting Republican opponents during the GOP primaries and further investigation was funded by groups and donors supporting Hillary Clinton when he became a nominee.

Spokespeople for the FBI and the Director of National Intelligence have declined to comment.

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There are only a few key spots left as Washington watches to see who President-elect Donald Trump will select to fill the final spots in his Cabinet.

The people Trump picks will not only be tasked with running entire departments, they'll be the best indication of how Trump intends to govern and which of his many (and sometimes contradictory) policy positions he intends to pursue.

Here are the picks announced so far for Cabinet and Cabinet-level jobs:

Chief of staff

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus will be Trumps chief of staff.

Treasury secretary

Steven Mnuchin, a 17-year-veteran of Goldman Sachs, is Trumps pick for Treasury secretary.

Secretary of state

Trump tapped ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson to lead the State Department.

Secretary of defense

Trump picked retired Marine General James Mattis as his defense secretary.

Attorney general

President-elect Trump has tapped Sen. Jeff Sessions as attorney general.

Commerce secretary

Billionaire investor Wilbur Ross, a Trump economic adviser, is Trumps pick for commerce secretary.

Labor secretary

Trump has tapped Andy Puzder, the CEO of CKE Restaurants, which included the Carls Jr. fast food chain.

Health and Human Services secretary

Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), the chairman of the House Budget Committee and an early Trump backer, was chosen to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.

Housing and Urban Development secretary

Trump tapped retired neurosurgeon and former GOP primary rival Ben Carson to serve as HUD secretary.

Transportation secretary

Trump picked former Labor Secretary Elaine Chao to serve as secretary of transportation. Chao served as deputy secretary of transportation under President George H.W. Bush and is married to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

Education secretary

Trump announced that he will nominate Betsy DeVos, a prominent advocate for school choice and charter schools, as education secretary.

Homeland Security secretary

Trump has decided to nominate Marine Gen. John Kelly, the former U.S. Southern Command chief, to run the Department of Homeland Security.

Interior Secretary

Montana Rep. Ryan Zinke, a first-term congressman, was Trump's choice.

Energy secretary

Trump picked former Texas Gov. Rick Perry for energy secretary.

Environmental Protection Agency administrator

Trump picked Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to run the EPA.

Ambassador to the United Nations

Trump has tapped South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley to be his ambassador to the United Nations.

Director of the Office of Management and Budget

Trump tapped Rep. Mick Mulvaney, a conservative South Carolina Republican, to lead the Office of Management and Budget.

Here are Trumps choices for other White House and administration jobs:

White House counselor

Kellyanne Conway, Donald Trumps campaign manager and a senior transition adviser, will serve in the White House as a counselor to Trump.

Chief strategist

Former Breitbart News executive Steve Bannon, who was Trumps campaign CEO, will be Trumps chief White House strategist.

White House national security adviser

Trump has picked Retired Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn for national security adviser.

White House counsel

Trump tapped Donald McGahn, a partner at the firm Jones Day who served as the Trump campaigns general counsel, for the job. McGahn is a former chairman of the Federal Election Commission.

Director of the Central Intelligence Agency

Trump has chosen Kansas Rep. Mike Pompeo for the job.

White House communications team

Sean Spicer will serve as Trumps White House press secretary, Hope Hicks will be Trumps strategic communications director, and Dan Scavino will be social media director.

Small Business Administration administrator

Trump has picked Linda McMahon, a professional wrestling executive and former Republican contender for Connecticut's U.S. Senate seats, to lead the Small Business Administration.

Deputy commerce secretary

Trump tapped Todd Ricketts, the co-owner of the Chicago Cubs and a member of the powerful conservative Ricketts family, to be deputy secretary of commerce.

Deputy national security adviser

Trump has selected K.T. McFarland, a Fox News analyst who served as an official in the Reagan White House, to be his deputy national security adviser.

Senior policy adviser to the president for policy

Stephen Miller, a key campaign aide, will serve in this post.

Director, National Economic Council

Gary Cohn, the president and COO of Goldman Sachs, was the president-elect's pick to lead the NEC.

Republican National Committee

Michigan GOP Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel was picked by the president-elect to succeed Priebus as the national chair.

Regulatory reform adviser

Investor Carl Icahn will serve as Trumps special adviser for overhauling regulations.

Director of the White House National Trade Council

Peter Navarro, an economics and public policy professor who helped craft Trump's trade policies during the campaign, will lead a new trade council inside the White House.

The following is a list of likely contenders and will be frequently updated as new information becomes available.

Agriculture secretary

Trump is slated to meet with Elsa Murano, a former president at Texas A&M University and USDA food safety official, to discuss the agriculture secretary job.

Three-term Idaho Gov. Butch Otter added his name to the mix of candidates for agriculture secretary when one of his spokesman told an Idaho radio station he was being vetted.

Susan Combs, a former Texas agriculture commissioner, is another possible candidate for the job. Combs recently met with Vice President-elect Mike Pence.

Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (N.D.) was previously seen as the leading candidate, but sources say both Democratic leadership, concerned about the loss of a Senate seat, and many of Trumps agriculture advisors are against the move. Heitkamp said recently shes likely to remain in the Senate.

Former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue visited Trump tower on Nov. 30 and was earlier considered to be in the mix.

Other names include: Charles Herbster, a Nebraska-based agribusinessman who helped to organize Trumps agriculture advisory council; one-time deputy agriculture secretary Chuck Conner; Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback; former Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman; and Sid Miller, the current secretary of agriculture in Texas.

Veterans Affairs secretary

Cleveland Clinic CEO Toby Cosgrove has emerged as the top contender to be Trumps secretary of Veterans Affairs.

Trump has also met twice to discuss the VA post with Pete Hegseth, the former head of Concerned Veterans for America, a conservative advocacy group established in 2012 and backed by the industrialist Koch brothers.

Hegseth, a 36-year-old Iraq War veteran, has butted heads with the more traditional veterans groups for some of his aggressive tactics and they have raised concerns that as secretary of Veterans Affairs he would make radical changes that could hurt veterans, like pushing for privatization of health care services.

Some of those groups have urged Trump to keep on Bob McDonald, the former CEO of Procter & Gamble who has been running the VA since 2014.

But others, including VA whistleblowers who have reported a series of dangerous failures at the agencies, recently wrote to Trump endorsing Hegseth.

These organizations each want to keep the status quo and to keep lining their pockets at the expense of our nations heroes, they wrote of the more established vets groups. That is exactly the reason Mr. Hegseth is the right choice to run the VA.

Trump has also met with former Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts to discuss the VA post. And House Veterans Affairs Chairman Jeff Miller, whos retiring from the House and was an early Trump backer, has also been seen as a potential candidate though has not met with the president-elect about it.

U.S. trade representative

Among the top contenders Trump is considering for U.S. trade representative are two men leading the transition at the agency: Dan DiMicco, a former steel company executive who advised Trump on trade throughout his campaign; and Robert Lighthizer, a longtime trade lawyer who has spent much of his legal career representing U.S. steel companies.

Both men align with Trumps defensive view of trade, and picking either would send a signal he is likely to follow through on promises to get tough on China and other nations that break the rules on trade.

Another name that has recently entered the mix is that of Wayne Berman, a senior executive at the Blackstone Group and a Republican mega-donor. Others said to be in the running but seen as less likely candidates include David McCormick, president of Bridgewater Associates, and former Rep. Charles Boustany, a Louisiana Republican and longtime advocate of free trade.

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Donald Trump fired off a tweet Thursday on toughening up the countrys nuclear weapons capabilities, saying the United States must greatly strengthen and expand them -- at least until the rest of the world comes to its senses.

Later Thursday afternoon, Jason Miller, transition communications director, sent CBS News a statement to specify that the threats the U.S. faces issue from the possibility that terrorist organizations and rogue regimes might obtain nuclear weapons.

President-elect Trump was referring [in the tweet] to the threat of nuclear proliferation and the critical need to prevent it---particularly to and among terrorist organizations and unstable and rogue regimes, Miller wrote.

Miller did not directly address the part of Mr. Trumps original tweet that said that the U.S. must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability, but he did add that the president-elect has also emphasized the need to improve and modernize our deterrent capability as a vital way to pursue peace through strength. This suggests that Mr. Trump was not talking about increasing the numbers of nuclear weapons in the U.S. arsenal, so much as updating U.S. nuclear systems and infrastructure.

Nuclear arms control experts warned that there is a danger of oversimplification in using Twitter to talk about nuclear strategy.

It requires a lot of thought and a lot of study and Twitter, with 140 characters, probably doesnt lend itself to the best discussion of this issue, Nick Burns, the former NATO ambassador, told CBS News.

Relying on Twitter may also simply be confusing. Daryl Kimball, the executive director of the Arms Control Association worried that Mr. Trump has the entire world guessing now about what U.S. nuclear strategy is likely to be, and that not is helpful to for American security.

In the bigger scheme of things, Mr. Trump needs to determine whether he in fact does plan what Kimball calls a radical departure from U.S. policy going back to Ronald Reagans presidency -- that is, will he increase the number and kind of nuclear weapons the U.S. will have in its arsenal?

Expanding the U.S. nuclear capabilities will have consequences, Kimball warned.

This kind of statement - to expand capabilities certainly is going to put Moscow on edge, Kimball said, and he called on Mr. Trump to further clarify his remarks.

He has said all sorts of things that are contradictory, Kimball said. He needs to be clear. He needs to be precise. Thats what we expect from U.S. presidents on nuclear policy.

Mr. Trumps transition website takes a cautious tone on the countrys nuclear arsenal. The president-elect recognizes the uniquely catastrophic threats posed by nuclear weapons and cyberattacks the site says, but he would modernize the nuclear arsenal to ensure it continues to be an effective deterrent.

But the president-elect has also suggested the threat of nuclear weapons could be useful during his campaign, even suggesting earlier this year that nukes could be fair game in the fight against terrorist organizations in the Middle East.

In an interview with MSNBC in March, Mr. Trump asked, Somebody hits us within ISIS, you wouldnt fight back with a nuke?

Later, he asked of nuclear weapons, if the U.S. isnt going to use them, then why are we making them? Why do we make them?

Look, nuclear should be off the table, the then-GOP candidate said. But would there be a time when it could be used, possibly, possibly?

Mr. Trumps tweet follows Russian President Vladimir Putins own urging of his country to beef up its nuclear arsenal.

On Thursday, according to Agence France-Presse news service, Putin gave a speech saying we need to strengthen the military potential of strategic nuclear forces, especially with missile complexes that can reliably penetrate any existing and prospective missile defence systems.

CBS News Arden Farhi contributed to this report.

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