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Administrative -- theyre stepping in and trying to measure what president trump is doing. >> you make an important point. to build on that, were talking about separate from the corruption and the criminal questions, were talking about what looks like, in this account, a fan fiction presidency. the general saying that the president acts like a sixth grader, says do this, do that, go kill our enemies, assassinate foreign leaders which by the way the u.s. has a policy against, and wow, that feels g...

Head of veterans affairs. >> nominations show a lot about a presidents values. brian, you and i heard during the last campaign, donald trump said over and over again, i feel so strongly about the plight of the veterans and the department of veterans affairs. elect me, and ill fix it. and the way he fixes is by appointing someone with no administrative or serious political experience, who was destined to fail in that job -- ronny jackson -- even without all the personal problems that were raised....

And the way he fixes is by appointing someone with no administrative or serious political experience, who was destined to fail in that job -- ronny jackson -- even without all the personal problems that were raised. >> and i couldnt help but note what a momentous week this was on foreign affairs, on our soil and on the korean peninsula. you had the leader of france come here and kind of very adroitly work on the american president as a diligent boxer would, only using much more gentle hand and f...

Congress, used in exxon, jeffrey skilling. if he denied honest representation to people who were not paying him, federal prosecutors could bring charges against nick mulvaney based on an on the record confession he made about pay to play. >> he said earlier in the speech the constituents he always talked to, the lobbyists were in two categories, they gave him money and didnt give him money. meanwhile scott pruitt is facing a ton of fire heading to the hill. >> whats so ironic, i was reading up o...

Reading up on scott pruitt and his opening statement and realized mick mulvaney pledged to investigate scott pruitt. >> because hes got another job at omb. >> right. i think the opening testimony is very telling. he will not address any of the ethics issues on his own. i guess hes waiting pore members of congress to grill him. according to "the new york times," internal documents show hes prepared to throw other epa administrative staff under the bus blaming all his problems on them. hes not tak...

Her state but if asked shell refuse. i cant imagine jerry brown is eager to participate? are you hearing more support than not to answer the presidents request? >> secretary nielsen was on fox addressing this this morning. she made the point she feels she is making progress with governor brown. look, we hope all governors would participate in helping to make america a much safer place. this has gone on for 40 years. weve had a broken immigration system for far too long. the american people deser...

Gotten under the skin of president trump. >> you know the old adage, thou protest too much, the question becomes are we hearing a president that has been in many ways insecure? are we hearing from someone that in this book when they talk about all kinds of lack of administrative, lets say administrative -- the character that we would expect of an administration. let me use that phrase rather than where i was going. or the kind of administrative continuity from one policy to another, one strategy...

Is this part of the trump administrations plan to tear down the administrative? >> we heard steve bannon several months ago make those type of claims. what is troubling you look at secretary tillerson who is looking to fill these positions that being sidelined by the white house. because they werent, you know, people that hes looking to put in may have disagreed with donald trump as a candidate. but, now, are willing to serve under president trump and these are people with really strong credenti...

Better now. but it has been a great disappointment for them. >> i was going to say quickly, its paradox cal. i feel the reason were seeing more unilateral action is because unified control of government has been so rare. its been much more common through the 20th sechlry but here we are in a situation where they do have unified control of government and theyre still struggling. he is moving on a kind of administrative -- the sheer fact that hes able to over -- to begin to overturn so many obama ...

Everyone -- this is our opportunity and has a lot left ton agenda he wants to get done whether its immigration, taxes, the border wall, theres so many other things that he wants to get done that were not going sit around and figure out -- this is the opportunity, this is the time, this is the opportunity for every member who has said they want to repeal and replace obamacare and put their yes in the column. >> you talked about this being done in three phrases, phase two and three, this is not in...