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Reputation of someone who glad hands that press. this is going to be in the news and its going to dominate the news. >> bret: i want to point dr. robert mueller, this is sound from 2013, talking about james comey. stick ive had the opportunity to work with jim for a number of years in the department of justice, and i have found him to be a man of honesty, dedication, and integrity. his experience, his judgment, and a strong sense of duty will benefit not only the bureau but the country as a whol...

To danas point of what happened over the weekend, we saw two senators up for reelection announced their plans to filibuster the nomination. and interestingly so, they chose their base which wants to fight this war brutally, go as far as possible, even though they know theyre going to lose over more moderate voters in their conservative states because they dont want to face the wrath of their base. they dont want to worry about potentially losing money from donors to depressing their base in thei...

Talking about them doesnt change the law. doesnt change the policy. doesnt move the federal government. how important is this? >> i mean, it will be interesting to see what his tone is tomorrow night. is it more conciliatory in any way? does he show some signs of humility? does he reach out? we know thats a difficult thing for the president. does he reach out to democrats in any way? does he recognize how difficult it will be to get something done without significant bipartisan support? he has d...

Were talking here these are literally executive level departments, the secretary of state, the secretary of agriculture. this is not the cia director, not the epa director. just the executive level. how much is in place a mon in and what does it mean? well, you can see nine have been confirmed for donald trump. nine cabinet secretaries. six are still waiting confirmation. they still have to have hearings or they still have to have a vote. not there yet. and one is picked for secretary of labor, ...

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Think americans in general who probably did not go tout out to vote because maybe they thought hillary was going to win and they thought their vote wasnt going to count. thats the majority of the american people who dont want trump in the white house. >> i have to ask this. pretty much the only action, the only thing thats happened is at the executive level with him giving executive orders. not much has happened in the congress meaning the senate and congress altogether. do you think that these ...

Good-bye today, posting a photo of her and the president on twitter. lovely picture there. it was a lovely day here. and her walking through the white house with the dogs, bo and sonny, for one of the last times. my panel is back with me. pa carry, a poignant moment. its a bittersweet moment when you see this change of power, you become accustomed to it, is change. >> theres a whole generation of individual who is grew up on barack obama. thats the only president theyve ever known. he served adm...

Outside world has a tendency to kind of fade away. and youre in a really interesting bubble. and once that echo chamber just starts going, people are building the product they want to build. so i think if you bring in diversity, that changes. when you have diversity at the executive level, you build a great product. slack which is one of the un korms n s unicorns now. they have a great product. theyre growing really fast. theyre extremely diverse. i think you look at, once again, you look at twi...

Defense im a big proponent we need to fund our defense department but when you throw away money on top of that you are wasting money you already have. look, there has to be systemic reforms in the way that the country contracts out for defense programs or the way spends money overseas or programs such as. this there is no doubt about it that has to be fixed at the executive level. if its defense department spending they have to be accountable to the secretary of defense. in terms of how that mon...

Try to make an adjustment and they did not. what its doing on average is knocking about two years after the jail sentences of primarily drug offenders, 6,000 as you mentioned, the largest one-time release according to information published by the "washington post." another 8,000 would come by estimates in november. this is part of what we have seen at the executive level an attempt to deal with what many people think are overlong sentences. according to one count, the average type of inmate sent...