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Have been awesome. and i think hes done it with considerate and thoughtful acumen. so it is a lot going on at one time. this administration by december will vp filled 80% of the most important jobs, which is far ahead of any other administration. >> in terms of the numbers, they have filled a lot. i dont know if you just heard us. we were coming into the commercial. well trump today announced two more picks. state and interior. both are white men. so now all four of the most influential cabinet ...

Large here to hammer on the drum beat about are these good appointments in general? are they the right people for the job. >> they should focus more on the individual qualifications of these people rather than the fact that they have tremendous military service in their backgrounds. >> you think the media are sparking a useful debate but at the same time are they playing a little bit into military stereotypes? >> yeah, absolutely. and thats what we need to dismantle. the reality is that all thes...

To do it any other way, though. i know it sounds trite but thats the way he is. hes just a wheeler and dealer businessman. he cuts deals over dinner. he calls people on the phone and tells people how he thinks it is. he doesnt have any of that political acumen that you would expect somebody to have that would be in that position. it is bizarre -- >> he has people around him. >> well, he does have people around him certainly that do. but it is bizarre to have that dinner in a very public place bu...

Well talk about that with my panel now. i dont know. the dinners, the public fighting, what do you think? >> its like the apprentice, like the president of the united states. its really -- the idea, even if you look at the romney dinner, when i first heard about jim acosta, in the middle of a restaurant, hes clearly creating a show for the public, you know, to make this as much of sort of a mystery for us all to follow who is he going to choose. >> i dont know if he knows how to do it any other ...

You had firsthand experience. >> id like to say it had something to do with recognition of competency. i think its a -- just his personality type. he is somebody who the family he came from and the success they had in business in new jersey and a tough market, he kind of grew up building relationships so from that he knew where to go to build the trump coalition and find people to help make decisions and he also -- the good thing about the excellent role he played is he recognized where they wer...

You shared that with us. why? >> i think she has the best background for the job. shee shes the most experienced. theres times ive been disappointed in hillary. i mean, i feel like its such an historic election. the first me mafemale president. i think shes too smart to have made the mistakes shes made. still, when it comes down to it. she has been there. shep has seen it. there from the wings or sat in the chair. i feel like shes the one who can bet lead our country forward. >> did you struggle...

You if youre president of the united states and if youre the first female ever to be president, that shores up the internal confidence. the thing obama showed in that interview was that he was confident. he said i can do these other things, yet he also realized and yesterday what if i had the legislative acumen of an lbj, the genius of a lincoln, the communication skills of a churchill, then maybe there would have something i could have done that i didnt do. so you need confidence but you also a...

All right, rudy giuliani, no surprise, very passionate, making the case for trump. and specifically going after what he believes was a mishandled investigation of hillary clintons e-mails. moments ago we talked, heres what he said a little bit. >> fbi made a colossal mistake. that is an embarrassment to the fbi. she destroyed 33,000 e-mails. she had somebody with a hammer hammering 13 cell phones. dont tell me thats not a criminal act, chris. >> its not a criminal act. >> or i have to give up my...

Him up. but an incredible parallel universe moment for a lot of the folks at that rally. >> yeah. im not so sure. he got mixed up, frankly. and if new this state youre sensitive to to how you pronounce this state and often times visitors come in and mispronounce it so the fact that donald trump tried to school nevadans on how to say nevada, not nevawda is interesting. but hes had a problem with pronunciation a bit. he calls angela merkel, the chancellor of germ that, angel-a merkel. the other da...

He got mixed up, frankly. and if new this state youre sensitive to to how you pronounce this state and often times visitors come in and mispronounce it so the fact that donald trump tried to school nevadans on how to say nevada, not nevawda is interesting. but hes had a problem with pronunciation a bit. he calls angela merkel, the chancellor of germ that, angel-a merkel. the other day he pronounced acumen ack-you-men. its embarrassing, though, when youre in a state to go on stage and try to scho...