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Believe the appointment of whitaker is unconstitutional? >> yeah, i mean, the constitution says in it that the senate is to confirm principled department heads like the attorney general. indeed, the attorney general is kind of the best example of someone that needs to be senate confirmed. and whitaker is effectively a constitutional nobody. hes not someone the senate has confirmed, and the whole idea behind our constitution is to prevent the president from just reaching into the bowels of the ju...

Senior? >> jonathan hollyfield director of the white house initiative. smith who is a commissioned officer in legislative affairs. mary elizabeth taylor who are is a commissioned officer who just got appointed by the president. >> these are all second and third tier people. how many people are in first tier positions? >> there is no one that is at the assistant to the president level. however, the two persons that i named before are commissioned officers which are as you know very well are in th...

Commissioned officer who just got appointed by the president. >> these are all second and third tier people. how many people are in first tier positions? >> there is no one that is at the assistant to the president level. however, the two persons that i named before are commissioned officers which are as you know very well are in the senior level positions, as well as the fact that executive director is jonathan hollyfield. and you have other people, the deputy director of the white house fellow...

Closer to removing mr. pruitt from office? >> i dont have any personnel announcements on that front. certainly we have confidence in the number two, otherwise the president wouldnt have asked him to serve at such a senior level position. but i dont have anything further on that front. >> i wanted to catch back up on china after the delegation came back. presuming that the president has had some briefing on that interaction now, can you tell us his reaction to the talks that happened, if the u.s....

Announcements on that front. certainly we have confidence in the number two. otherwise, the president wouldnt have asked had imto serve such a senior level position within the epa. i dont have anything further on that front. >> i want to touch back on china after the delegation came back. presuming that the presidents had some briefing on that interaction now, can you tell us his reaction to the talks that happened if the u.s. plans to talk to china again before the may 22 public common deadline...

Away from a government shutdown, what might happen in the 90 minutes? >> i dont think nib anything much is going to happen except there should be scrambling in the white house. a shutdown is an extremely difficult and arj wous task. you have to figure out who the nonessential employees and who the essentials are. which ones cant go to their offices, which ones have to. this is complicated. and we have an administration that is the least competent in history, i think. certainly in modernhistory. ...

Be the ambassador of singapore. >> she wouldnt be the only nominee to face problems because of alleged russia ties, right? >> yes. sam cloves who was nominated by president trump to take a senior level position at the department of agriculture had to withdraw from that position after it was revealed that he had contacts with george papadopoulos. we now know he tried to set up a meeting between trump and putin and was in contact with sam clovis. after it was revealed -- it was revealed during thi...

Clarify her testimony. what does that mean? theyre going to send her back to the white house and the white house is going to have to make a decision about whether or not to be renominated. her chances of being confirmed are exceedingly grim until she does so. so shes probably not going to be the ambassador of singapore. >> shes not the only one to have problems because of alleged russia ties, right? >> yes. sam cloves who was noticminated president trump to take a senior level position at the de...

Airport. he can the control wheel all the way left and all the way back to right. thats when i said, ive got it. >> he wrestles the plane back to a wings level position. >> with the steering the aircraft started to roll over on its back and would have continued to roll over and dive into the ground except at that fact, al reached over and advanced the throttle on the right wind and retarded the throttle on the left wing and the asymmetric thrust picked the wing up slowly and steadied the aircraf...

>> he wrestles the plane back to a wings level position. >> with the steering the aircraft started to roll over on its back and would have continued to roll over and dive into the ground and be destroyed except for the fact that at that moment al haynes reached over and retarded the throttle on the left wing and the asymmetric thrust picked the wing up slowly and steadied the aircraft. if he hadnt done it within a few seconds of when he did it, it would have been unrecoverable. >> but united 232...