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People and great governors, and you can control it better than the federal government because you are right on top of it. >> conservatives, especially republican governors, will love that line. they believe too much power, too much authority, too much regulatory enforce the semi-colons should be given back to them. some republicans worry if you pass a budget that gives them more power and shifts the money and the decisions to them, what happens next year? if the economy takes a bad turn or if th...

Bannon, jared kushner, youve got reince priebus, youve got sean, kellyanne, hope. a battery of people around him in this transition process that are helping at the white house level. remember, he doesnt have his cabinet in place. so all the teams, the secretary of state, rex tillerson, you have general mattis in place, you have general kelly moving in place, general flynn. but the rest of his team isnt in place. so policy is difficult to start dictating. and this is a first class team. at the po...

Distractions. who can do that? >> he has two sets of teams and everybodys telling him that. its a little bit of what happened with reagan again, in these statements of let reagan be reagan, let trump be trump. its an incredible team, steve bannon, jared kushner, youve got reince priebus, youve got sean, kellyanne, hope. a battery of people around him in this transition process that are helping at the white house level. remember, he doesnt have his cabinet in place. so all the teams, the secretar...

They didnt lead their people. >> one of the ways in which the democratic party was outmaneuvered by the republican party to the point it bamboozled and now destroyed them in terms of their ability to form any governing majority anytime soon is the issue of redistricting and how congressleal districts are drawn. i think there was skepticism when it was announced a few weeks ago that eric holder and barack obama would form a political project to work on that issue for democrats. the fact that that...

Immigration. they had a chance. they had a good bill passed in a bipartisan fashion in the senate. boehner i hold responsible. they didnt lead their people. >> one of the ways in which the democratic party was outmaneuvered by the republican party to the point it bamboozled and now destroyed them in terms of their ability to form any governing majority anytime soon is the issue of redistricting and how congressleal districts are drawn. i think there was skepticism when it was announced a few wee...

They had a chance. they had a good bill passed in a bipartisan fashion in the senate. boehner i hold responsible. they didnt lead their people. >> one of the ways in which the democratic party was outmaneuvered by the republican party to the point it bamboozled and now destroyed them in terms of their ability to form any governing majority anytime soon is the issue of redistricting and how congressleal districts are drawn. i think there was skepticism when it was announced a few weeks ago that e...

Obama and netanyahu over the past eight year, but at the policy level, what is at the center of this? >> well t obama administration had worked very hard during the second term to try to get these parties together and i think they felt they were consistently undermined by the settlement policy and thats really what crystalized them in a vote to criticize israel for the settlements. its also criticism for the palestinians but that, of course, is what made the headlines and this is at a moment, un...

I cant speak for the president-elect, but when he says dont talk about what we are going in mosul, thats a tactical engagement that requires the support of the united states and other partners. and at the policy level, policy drives strategy. and what we would all want our president to do is be very determined and very focused on what his policies are. then we can derive what those individual strategies might be and tactics are. what is happening in mosul has nothing to do with strategy and ever...

And time again, when are we as a country from a societal level to a policy level, going to say, enough is enough. lets work to actually address the problem, instead of reacting to tragedies that happen time and time again. you know? through the course of my involvement in officer-involved shootings ive had the opportunity to work with prosecutors in different states, and speak with individuals at the department of justice. speak with individuals at the white house under the obama administration,...

An olive branch to a rival or a sign that he was going to immediately bring in a woman or a person of color. he has sent a message he is bringing in some very hard-line people into this administration. and thats exactly what he said he was going to do. so i think were seeing him follow through on these promises. >> youve got jeff educations own wft of the big four cabinet agencies that have been picked. i know youre writing about this. tell me about where the sessions nomination is headed. >> jo...