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Poor job of assembling a team of top advisors. 52% think he hasnt done a good job keeping campaign promises. if the president isnt keeping his promises, whats that say? is that -- is he a deal maker in chief or the deal maker he promised out on the campaign trail? >> well, first of all, he has been slow on making appointments. department after department has a very thin team. its been very hard for them to govern with that. its also true, he has not been able to keep a lot of his promises. this ...

Welcome back. tonight im obsessed with this question. what if you were elected to run a government and no one showed up. if you were concerned about the deep state and the career bureaucrats having too much power and you didnt bother making appointments to fill the government with your people. thats what has been happening these first 100 days. president trump had nominated only 58 people for those senate-confirmed positions compared to 85 for george w. bush. 95 for his father, hw. 176 for bill ...

Today the lame duck governor booted out of office by the voters of his state, the republican pat mccrory began signing into law these bills that will sharply reduce the power of the new governor, the democrat roy cooper. he rammed through legislation would undermine the governors input into state election boards, increase republican control over who he picks for his own cabinet and bar him from making appointments to statewide positions, all powers his predecessor, the current republican, enjoye...

It was a quick thing, a matter of a few hour. they would have an additional special session and this would be aimed at a whole raft of efforts to reduce the governors powers. >> on this show last night david price said there would be no notice for the special session republicans called to strip power from the incoming democratic governor. the power grab has been met with outrage and protest. the associated press reporting that 16 people arrested today, 17 arrested yesterday including a journalis...

Exception to the rule in the democratic party. the far left, which is driving all of this, they are at war. theyre at war not just with the republicans or the conservatives, theyre at war with the very foundation of the country, sean. >> i agree with you. doug, ive been saying this, it is going to get worse, i promise you. >> which is going to hurt all of us because were not born as democrats and republicans, we are americans. >> i came out of the womb a conservative. >> so did i. >> i was born ...

Efforts? are republicans standing in the way? what republicans are helping you? what republicans are being obstructionists here? >> weve asked the chaian to do an oversight. radio silence there. >> why? >> i dont know. i dont know. >> whats the staff say? >> they are basically giving us saying that theyre going to wait and they want to give president-elect trump time to get his staff together and making appointments. lindsey graham, who i dont agree with on many issues, over there on the senate ...

Importantly for the technology that enables her business to connect with customers at lightning speed. >> businesses that are antiquated in the way that they are not moving forward will probably fall off the cliff and you know, essentially close their doors just because everythings so instant. they are attached to phones, to technology so we had to move in that direction as well. >> for small business owners contracting with a lead generation company is nothing new. what is new is that uberizati...

Unrealistic goals of making appointments and seeing every veteran within 14 days, that performance goal became the marker instead of actually attaining that. what i mean is just on paper they were trying to meet these goals and the only way they could do that was to literally get rid of some of the data that shows that these veterans have been and continue to wait for care. so hes taking away that bonus as a measure of the metrics in which these administrators get these bonuses and removing bonu...

Minute. youre meeting for anybody 30 seconds to a minute to gavel down. isnt that -- >> you know this is something that bob bird had put into place with harry reid supporting and barack obama supporting to block george w. bush from making appointments in his administration. so if the president believes he is above the law and above the american people, i think this looks like just a chicago style politics of paying off your friends and your contributors and were seeing that with unions and contr...

Seconds to a minute to gavel down. isnt that -- >> you know this is something that bob bird had put into place with harry reid supporting and barack obama supporting to block george w. bush from making appointments in his administration. so if the president believes he is above the law and above the american people, i think this looks like just a chicago style politics of paying off your friends and your contributors and were seeing that with unions and contributors and see it also with -- >> wh...