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Welcome back, everybody. a little-known white house office responsible for vetting and placing thousands of qualified key posts across the government appears to be in utter chaos. an investigation by the washington post found that the presidential personnel office has struggled to place qualified people in key positions. the ppo is responsible for recruiting and vetting candidates for more than 4,000 government jobs with more than 1200 requiring senate approval under trump. the office was launch...

Does mean they want a reasonable and rational policy, and by and large they believe the people who have been here, who have not gotten into trouble with the law other than the fact of their illegal crossing should be allowed to stay in some kind of legal status. >> and yet, after multiple administrations, there is no legal conclusion that has made that happen. ron brownstein, thanks for your time, and happy easter. >> happy easter to you. still ahead this hour, from classrooms to capital teach...

Xi jinping in surprise visit to beijing. kim is expected to attend summit with moon jae-in late in april and meet with president trump is in works as well. the president tweeting wednesday, for years and through many administrations everyone said that peace and denuclearization of the korean peninsula was not even a small possibility, now there is a good chance that kim jong un will do what is right for his people and for humanity, look forward to our meeting. paul wilkowicz is an american schol...

Future. elizabeth: we have 30 seconds left, but one last topic because there was fresh beauty of the russian diplomats that were expelled from the united states. we saw the video this morning. i want to get your reaction. that is obviously came last week and watch it develop through the week that the u.s. with other countries to expel diplomats. relations between the u.s. and russia after this still the same >> yakima remarkable this hasnt been the main story over the last couple weeks because t...

Senate is currently sitting on 78 nominees who have already been vetted and passed out of committee, cant get a floor vote, this includes spokesperson richard who was nominated in september to be president trumps ambassador to germany, we are back with dan henninger, kim strassel and jason riley, kim, youve been digging at the numbers on this for us, how big a problem is it compared to previous administrations? >> it blows previous administrations away. if you look at this point in time in the p...

That you cover that, you know, these military relationships, some of the intelligence relationships have been described to me as almost existing in a parallel reality with donald trumps public pronouncements and twitter feed. do you get any sense that this clash, that the fact that this sat on his desk for a good and important ally that has relied on the united states of america in previous administrations, that this is starting to strain the relationship between some of our important allies, at...

According to "the post," 387 of trumps appointees have been confirmed. compare that to 548 of the obama folks, 615 by the george w. bush folks by this time in their administrations. the responsibility of filling their positions falls largy on something called the presidential personnel office. but according to the "the post" the obscure white house office has suffered from inexperience and a shortage of staff, hobbling the trump administrations efforts to place qualified people in key posts acro...

Children, prisoners, immigrants. >> so the constitution does not say they have to be legal citizens that they need to have account of everyone here. >> the opposite. it says you must count everyone, regardless of their immigration status and this was adjusted by the 14th amendment to get rid of the infamous three-fifth clause and make sure everyone is accounted. republican and democratic administrations have tried to ensure that everyone is accounted. they work hard to pretest questions. they pr...

Weve got the best people. i have the best people. so were going to get the best people. >> despite those mentions as you may have urd of the best people, thus far in just the month of march we have witnessed the departure of six administration officials including the secretary of state, national security advisor, comms director and the white house turnover continues. new reporting tonight from "the washington post" sheds new light on the huge number of open positions in this administration that ...

Know our plans or believe they can wait us out. >> i dont want to tell everyone what im doing or what im thinking. im not like other administrations where they say were going to do this in four weeks. that doesnt work that way. >> my administration will not telegraph exactly military plans and what they are. >> david, what do you make of trumps cleveland pronouncement on syria? >> you know, it gets at this oddity in the way he thinks about american power. i think ryan was getting at this before....