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Standard clearance process. >> but one question not answered that that hearing, whether sally yates warning were heeded. chris? >> all right, jessica. approach ka how much warning did the administration need and why werent those warning heeded for 18 days? obama warned trump about flynn, telling him not to hire flynn. defenders of the president say he acted quickly. lets take a look at the time line and figure out for yourself what were looking at here. okay? this is where it all starts november...

System. >> i could safely assume it wasnt positive, right. but look, were happy to get their support. theyre going to have an opportunity to vote on the bill as well and they have an opportunity to govern through all these committees and through the process as well. this process was run through regular order from the beginning, and that regular order means that everyone that has a say in the process. so if they want to come on board and give us ideas of how to make the bill better, certainly wel...

>> well, it is different -- different legal hurdles that you have to satisfy before you actually either renegotiate or withdraw from nafta. so those legal hurdles are one thing, withdrawing is another thing. the withdrawal is a different issue. so were talking about steps prior to withdrawal that have to take place that the president has been talking about. >> bret: filling white house positions, of 556 key positions that require senate confirmation, 468 of them have no nominee as of tonight. 40...

>> bret: either could we. >> thats okay. >> bret: ill tell you, chuck schumer said you havent reached out to democrats and theyre not going to sign on to anything -- anything that -- anything until the repeal part is out of the system. >> i could safely assume it wasnt positive, right. but look, were happy to get their support. theyre going to have an opportunity to vote on the bill as well and they have an opportunity to govern through all these committees and through the process as well. this ...

Health care that you need to be on the front end of this? >> no, not necessarily. i think that, you know, in regard to health care, it is something that the republicans have been talking about for six years, and tom price is one of the architects who happened to be our secretary of hhs, and so obviously, we had a plan that weve been working on for a long time. in regard to tax reform, we feel like it is something that the white house should drive and we have driven the process. weve been meeting...

Politics is all about. but the truth is, obama care has been a disaster for many years and weve all pledged to do something about it. thats what were doing hopefully tonight, tomorrow and the next day. >> bret: all right, tax reform. the rollout today, first of all, was this rollout done because you learned something from health care that you need to be on the front end of this? >> no, not necessarily. i think that, you know, in regard to health care, it is something that the republicans have be...

This kind of been a slow process? >> because what you dont see there, bret, two different things. the decision-making process of what fills the slots and then the clearance process. the clearance process is a process that we cant control. we have hundreds of people in the decision-making process, which is already done. so for example, you could have all of your undersecretaries at hss already picked. the president signed off on them, been interviewed, ready to go. once you get that person, you h...

Very well th very well th very wealthy, people and businesses like president trumps, that wont pass muster with the democrats zmplic. >> reporter: speaker of the house, paul ryan will use reconciliation, where bills considered only need a simple majority, which republicans have. >> we want to look at every avenue, but we think it is the preferred, logical process to bring it through. chairman hankling is marking it up. once we markup the bill, we want to move it to the bill as quickly as possibl...

This kind of been a slow process? >> because what you dont see there, bret, two different things. the decision-making process of what fills the slots and then the clearance process. the clearance process is a process that we cant control. we have hundreds of people in the decision-making process, which is already done. so for example, you could have all of your undersecretaries at hss already picked. the president signed off on them, been interviewed, ready to go. once you get that person, you h...

>> bret: either could we. >> thats okay. >> bret: ill tell you, chuck schumer said you havent reached out to democrats and theyre not going to sign on to anything -- anything that -- anything until the repeal part is out of the system. >> i could safely assume it wasnt positive, right. but look, were happy to get their support. theyre going to have an opportunity to vote on the bill as well and they have an opportunity to govern through all these committees and through the process as well. this ...