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>> bret: kevin corke live on the north line. thank you. the trump administration will not release logs of visitors to the white house. todays announcement breaks with the practice of the obama administration, but officials say he is consistent with policies of previous presidents. they see releasing the logs could impact privacy and national security and interfere with policy development. open government groups are already assuming the administration over those logs. ♪ thousands of worshipers ...

Donald trump when he has power, especially power over the fuel standards they hope to have declined. agreement with president obama, they added jobs with the standards in place but now they are thinking, especially when it comes to trucks, we could do better if we didnt have to make the changes. it would be cheaper. >> eric: we heard things that i think this ceos and workers could sink their teeth into. >> dana: they are united in terms of wanting to make sure their companies are successful. i t...

Miller and others, jared kushner, his son-in-law, but hes not getting his information from any kind of deliberative interagency process. sounds weedy and nerdy but tell us why it matters. >> the most important thing, andrea, ultimately is leads to policy development and goes hand in glove with what richard was saying. you need the nfc interagency process to grind through the issues of the day, grind through the larger strategy so you can deliver clear coherent vat geez to allies and partners aro...

President obama. bhau is an added twist. he has the governor experience as well as the congressional experience. you know, the reaching across the aisle part is maybe a little more difficult for mike pence given his ideological record. in terms of how he carries himself and longstanding alliances with policy thinkers, as well asser elected officials. he is a real asset to trump in the early days of the transition. >> all this focus personnel. what do we know about the policy development? is it t...

He often does those decisions, you know -- he referred to all these folks today as basically in the same tone and tenor of talking about "the apprentice." i think youre going to see a lot of chaos in this process and it will be difficult to find the final folks for some of these seats until after the inauguration. >> i mean, it also seems to me there will be a tendency towards the folks who are the most vociferous or the most extreme along certain lines of his agenda on, say, immigrion. it seems...

Partisanship in washington. what is happening to loretta lynch has two dimensions worth mentioning. shes been held 134 days. shes been held seven times longer than the totality of the delay of her predecessors applying for attorney general position. there are two issues. one is that facts and circumstances have conspired to certainly suggest that there is a racial dimension as i think senator dick durbin mentioned a while ago to this debate. but secondly and more importantly is about president o...

Will they be available to face american justice? and no promise of free elections or political prisoners released, is this justified. you know, captain, the only prisoners released by cuba is from gitmo, and do you think that the change and new policy will change the communist regime of the castro? >> it needs to be the natural interest of the united states, if it is, it is good policy, if it is not it is bad. we used to it look at policy development carefully in the bush administration. in this...

Hes got to basically reargue this whole thing over again. thats something hes good at. >> well said. the president reserved his strongest language for those who have made it their sole mission to kill this law. lets listen to this. >> when i see sometimes folks up on capitol hill and republicans in particular who have been suggesting, you know, repeal, repeal, lets get rid of this thing, i keep asking what is it you want to do? are you suggesting the status quo was working? because it wasnt. it ...

Hes got to basically reargue this whole thing over again. thats something hes good at. >> well said. the president reserved his strongest language for those who have made it their sole mission to kill this law. lets listen to this. >> when i see sometimes folks up on capitol hill and republicans in particular who have been suggesting, you know, repeal, repeal, lets get rid of this thing, i keep asking what is it you want to do? are you suggesting the status quo was working? because it wasnt. it ...

Buy poison for your children. >> for food stamps, if you buy from your local farmer, you get two times the amount of the face value of your food stamp. >> there you go. >> well, in the efforts to also put, make sure there are kitchens in schools so you can actually cook healthy food, that weve got fresh fruits and vegetables in communities so people can actually access it now because we can pay now or pay later. >> zeke, does this move help with policy development? >> i certainly think it helps ...