agencies. we talk about all the different problems, all the different scandals going on with this white house, this is perhaps the post deabiling for this country and for this government because they are so arrogant they think they can run everything from the west wing. >> yeah, i've been talking to folks in the pentagon, joe. i think general mattis, secretary mattis has been putting forward a number of nominees but running into a brick wall with white house personnel system. he does not have under-secretary for policy. he does not have most of his direct reports in place. i think they only have one service secretary there, the air force secretary, secretary wilson. they don't have a navy schenectady, an army secretary. even deputy secretary of defense has not been formally nominated. they are basically stalled out in terms of personnel at the defense department. same thing at state and elsewhere in the beaurocracy as you've talked about. these people are critically important. they do come together at the