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Backgrounds and qualifications for these different positions. importantly, they all want to serve. >> fred, are you very active in west point association, you are a veteran, a west point graduate. looking at national security, the foreign policy that is emerging, this president has no experience on it. hes been controversial on nato, on putin. you heard president obama and angela merkel speaking to an audience of one, mr. president-elect. these alliances are important. stand up to russia when yo...

Registered democrat. and there are others. i have not actually, to be honest with you, we have not checked with anyone political background. if you look at the number of people that come through of this tower and continuing to come through and the coming days, it is an impressive start of lineup and business leaders and successful in government and variety of backgrounds that share a vision of making this country better. >> gingrich said he wont be apart of trumps cabinet. >> i dont know, nothin...

Process together so they can start naming people. and there is a sense that some of the people who have been cut off have close ties to chris christie and part of that is because chris christie and trumps son-in-law jared kushner dont exactly have a warm and fuzzy relationship. of course, christie prosecuted kushners father back in 2005. can you respond to those reports that this is personal, that this is coming from jared kushner? hes at the center of this? >> thats absolutely inaccurate. there...

Role in the trump campaign. its shocking this is even a surprise. heres who steve bannon is. hes somebody who has a lifelong success, worked with people of all backgrounds and necessities in business, in politics, in media, instrumental in organizing trips to detroit, to flint, then-candidate donald trump made, as well as the meeting with the president of mexico, as well as the meeting with the president of egypt and the prime minister of israel, benjamin netanyahu. steve bannon has been nothing...

Do you want a womans voice represented at the highest levels? >> see, the only thing that matters is what their views are and what their agenda is and what theyre going to put forward. thats the only thing that could possibly matter. and you can have women who do a very poor job of representing womens views and men who do a good job. also, women arent all the same. we have different views of about all sorts of things. >> which is why we need to be represented. mollie is right, women are not all ...

Before the murder as a glorious symbol. bannon, himself, has described a civil war as for the south, the war of independence. >> so, boris -- >> i think the record is pretty clear on what bannon is really about. >> so theres that article, boris, theres also one about bill kristol, the republican spoiler renegade jew, another, birth control makes women unattractive and crazy, which i read, contains a spoof, it has a line of how women should go off birth control because thats the only way to preve...

Shawn is describing is kind of the "what" of what is going on, and im looking at how did this happen. i come from more a more rural part of ohio. a lot of voters and a lot of people have not had much experience with people from different backgrounds. the county i come from is 97% white. thats not the whitest county in ohio. you have counties in appalachian where trump cleaned up which are t 99% white. they are not deliberately trying to be racist or bigoted. they may not know that many people of...

The "what" of what is going on, and im looking at how did this happen. i come from more a more rural part of ohio. a lot of voters and a lot of people have not had much experience with people from different backgrounds. the county i come from is 97% white. thats not the whitest county in ohio. you have counties in appalachian where trump cleaned up which are 99% white. they are not deliberately trying to be racist or bigoted. they may not know that many people of different backgrounds. so when y...

Rice and john kerry, people with very deep national security and foreign policy backgrounds who knew people all over the world. >> madeleine albright. >> madeleine albright. could not forget my partner this business, madeleine albright and also working for her as secretary of state, just people with incredible depth and rudy giuliani has had a very active business practice and legal practice, all kinds of conflicts of interests which would have to get resolved because hes worked for foreign gove...

Election like we are, you have a small circle advisers that donald trump had. i wouldnt be surprised -- i dont know the exact number, but even i was surprised when i heard. thats a lot of jobs, they have to be vetds, their backgrounds, the 15 silos, deep diving, theyre adding a lot of people to do that vetting, and im sure theyll look at the executive committee once thats done to look at the individuals and make our own recommendations. but lets be clear, these will be decisions made by presiden...