Highlights of US President-elect Donald Trump's news conference

TRUMP ON PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES

"We have to get our drug industry coming back" to the United States, he said, adding that companies had been "leaving left and right."

Trump also called for new bidding procedures for US drug companies, saying, "They're getting away with murder (with drug prices) ... There's very little bidding for drugs.

"We're the largest buyer of drugs in the world and yet we don't bid properly. We're going to start bidding and we're going to start saving billions of dollars."

TRUMP ON JOBS AND MANUFACTURERS

"I said I will be the greatest jobs producer that God ever created, and I mean that."

"You want to move your plant, and you think, as an example, you're going to build that plant in Mexico, and you're going to make your air conditioners or your cars, or whatever you're making, and you're going to sell them through what will be a very, very strong border ... Not going to happen. You're going to pay a very large border tax."

TRUMP ON TALKS WITH MEXICO BEFORE BUILDING BORDER WALL

Trump said he would not wait for negotiations with Mexico to be completed before starting to build a wall along the two countries' border.

"I could wait about a year and a half until we finish our negotiations with Mexico, which will start immediately after we get into office; but I don't want to wait."

TRUMP ON OBAMACARE

"We're going to be submitting ... a plan. It'll be repeal and replace; it will be essentially simultaneously; it will be various segments, you understand, but will most likely be on the same day or the same week."

"Obamacare is the Democrats' problem. We are going to take the problem off the shelf for them ... we are doing the Democrats a great service."

TRUMP ON VETERANS

Trump announced the nomination of Dr. David Shulkin as secretary of Veteran Affairs. Shulkin is currently under secretary for health at the VA.

"We're going to straighten out the VA for our veterans. I have been promising that for a long time ... We interviewed at least 100 people (for VA head), some good, some not so good ... Our veterans have been treated very unfairly."