State Dept. not bothered by Trump’s calls to foreign leaders

By Joel Gehrke

Published November 17, 2016 8:51pm ET

State Dept. not bothered by Trump’s calls to foreign leaders — "It is possible and it's fairly routine ... for the phone calls, even, that we have with our counterparts are sometimes done over unclassified telephone systems," John Kirby said. (AP Photo) | Evan Vucci

President-elect Trump’s contact with foreign leaders is not alarming the State Department, despite his potential use of non-secure phone lines to conduct the calls.

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