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The white house intends to run things is christopher hill, assistant secretary of state for asia special affairs and david garrigan. is this out of the normal shift of administrations? >> what is not out of the ordinary is an incoming administration would like to have new people. its quite customary for people to leave as the new administration comes in. what is a little unusual about this is the abruptness of it and lack of civility to it. pat kennedy served in the state department, served with...

Knows the fine print and he keeps zeroing in on that fine print. >> well, two points. the first is that there is a growing bipartisan concern on capitol hill about all of these sentiments and questions that you are raising here, particularly with how exactly donald trump once he is in the white house will deal with his business when he is governing. the second point that i would make is i put the same questions to senior transition sources and what they told me is that this delay in the press co...

At. hes not loyal. he was never going to be. i dont think it was a real thing. >> all right. monica, stay with us. want to bring in the rest of the panel. joining us democratic strategist jonathan tasin. kristine quin. maggie heyburn who also interviewed trump many times. jeffrey lord. cnn political, lieutenant governor andre bauer. you hear monicas reporting, maggie. theres no precedent for an incoming president to have such, in this case such a complicated business portfolio. theres a lot of m...

Thing. >> monica, stay with us. i want to bring the rest of the panels joining us. kristine quinn and form former reagan. the lieutenant governor andre bower. you hear monica reporting. there is really no precedent for an in coming president to have such complicated business portfolios. there is a lot of moving parts here that we dont know the impact of. >> we dont know the impact of and think he has not figured out what it will look like to be fair to him and those around him. they did not thin...

Thats what i would be looking at. the abruptness of how quickly it was torn off and you can test it to see how it was twisted and working and let go. theres a lot of information that needs to be gained. as far as identification, it is out of the odds to say its not from a 777 or not from mh370. >> les, the flap is used to help control the airplane. what are investigators going to be looking at to, i guess, try to determine from this piece of debris what brought the plane down, really, in the end...

Quickly and without warning and the breaking news is that ten people are now confirmed to have been killed by the storm, two in new jersey, two in maryland, six here in virginia and including right behind me where a 90-year-old woman was fast asleep in her bed at quarter to 11 last night, when a big tree fell on her bedroom, slicing her bedroom in two. she was crushed and the neighbors say that last nights storm here in springfield was really scary. >> the abruptness, i mean, right there behind ...

Going to move rapidly through the floor of the senate, the bill passed by a margin of 18-1. it was adopted, i should say by a margin of 18-1. of the 19 senate democrats, only one voting against and that was senator dale shultz who was long rumored to be a dissending vote among the republicans. you have the protesters now back at the capitol, honking their horns. they are outside the senate chambers saying hell no we wont go. pushing back against the police. all of this happening with the abruptn...

Now, its important to note that this is the presidents prerogative. u.s. attorneys are political appointees and many past presidents have taken a similar steps. what is interesting here is that it was the speed and abruptness of those firings that is laysrag a lot of eyebrows. some u.s. attorneys only learned from media reports they were expected to hand in their resignations on friday. meanwhile an important deadline looms today. the house intelligence committee sent a letter to the department ...

Terms of the abruptness but not in terms of the overall plan to transition. >> stewart, it is not unusual for a first-time president -- for a new president i should say to clean house but why the back your bags and get out kind of tactic? is there a message behind the politics here? >> we have a president who has a specific agenda. i think hes made it very clear. and when we just talk about the immigration policy that he is steadfast on implementing, he wants to make sure that the lead federal l...

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