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This morning help wanted. the trump administration is hiring, or it should be. >> it should indeed, because this administration needs to fill nearly 2,000 appointed positions including some pretty big ones that experts say are critical to keeping the cogs of government moving smoothly. right now this administration does not have a number two at the state department, the defense department or treasury, at least not yet. the president says it is the democrats fault. joining us craig fuller, chief ...

That was another complicating factor as well. >> when was he acting as a u.s. senator? what were those roles that he was taking on as he had any of these potential and reported -- catherine, this is just one of the cogs in the wheel that is still ongoing coming monday. the washington post showed 11 connections of team trump to either the russian government, russian business, and -- just potential unknown links in addition to that. when will all of this smoke be a fire as what the beltway is sayi...

Being basically part of the administrative apparatus dealing with immigration. thats problem one. problem to two is the law itself tries to reduce the states and localities into administrative cogs in the machinery of the federal government and the supreme court said in the 1997 case dealing with the brady handgun violence prevention act that you cant -- the federal government cannot commandeer the resources and the bureaucracies of state and local governments. >> in fact, this is an abiding bel...

Either you do what we say or were going to cut off all federal funding to your state. the first problem with that is that the supreme court has been very clear that where theres a quid pro quo like that it has to be explicit and unambiguous in the original statute so if a state were to be collecting money from the department of education, for example, or the department of state it would have to say right there this money is conditioned on your cooperating with us in terms of being basically part...

Them let make that judgment without threats to donald trump or a process that makes them seem like theyre supposed to be just cogs in a wheel. they are officers. they are people. >> have you got to go. our satellite is going down. thanks a lot for that i appreciate it. >> now its time for twitter storm. our nightly forecast of social medias most intent weather patterns. its always storming on twitter a dust storm of desfather ration is swarming over holiday celebrities. some of whom we have neve...

The people on capitol hill can work with bannon. bannon has been in charge of breitbart which has criticized paul ryan and a lot of the republicans on capitol hill so they dont like him. >> hes slung more arrows at mitch mcconnell and paul ryan than he did at democrats. >> didnt he write a book criticizing the bushs? when we talk about alt-right, this is breitbart, this is steve bannon. we have a republican controlled house and senate and reince priebus goes way back in wisconsin with speaker ry...

Gone. were going to get this country back on the right track, returning to the cogs, returning to the principles -- were going to reembrace the principles that made america great, apply them to the challenges of this new economy and this new era. were going to make this country special if not more so than its ever. >> i dont think anybody imagined starting out how great immigration would be. but it seems to get bigger and bigger. we saw the new years eve sex attacks that took place in europe. th...

Right? >> china matters a lot more than it used to. its about double the size as it was in the late 1990s. its got a huge debt bubble. its popping right now. it has a debt bubble very similar to what happened before the sub prime crisis in the u.s. when china launched a stimulus program to try and compensate for the fact that americans werent spending. i think u.s. stocks will be hit to a certain extent by this. oil prices are coming down. thats actually a little bit of a fuel for consumer spend...

Will there be a dismantling of the police department and then taken over by the county police? from an institutional perspective those cogs that need to be swapped out folks are waiting to see what they might do. >> its a start. >> as willie said certainly there are a lot more questions this morning than answers about who the shooter was and also obviously the two officers what their condition is. were obviously going to be following that closely. we certainly our thoughts and prayers are with t...

Playing robin to first lady nancy reagans batman. mrs. reagans crime-fighting, drug demonizing just say no campaign studded with celebrities and all the rest, was one of the crucial cogs of the 80s-era war on drugs, a war that is still causing casualties on all-sized today. today the u.s. government decided to take that war in a radically new direction, and really, no one knows how this generation of republicans is going to react to this change. it is the rarest of all things. a legitimately ope...