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Lets give it a better shot and maybe we will take power back.ig but right now, do we want to be petulant? w do we want to be subversive? i just think it hurts your party. >> well, its a close call. keep in mind, if you got a $10 dollar bill and a $20 bill in your wallet, both thoseal presidents had their inaugurations boycotted by their predecessors. john adams boycotted, john quincy adams boycotted. >> bill: there was bad feeling but never like this. >> oh, if you know american history, and i k...

All right, next time around, lets give it a better shot and maybe we will take power back. right now, do we want to be petulant? do we want to be subversive? i just think it hurts your party. >> well, its a close call. keep in mind, if you got a ten dollar bill and a $20 bill in your wallet, both those presidents had their inaugurations boycotted by their predecessors. john adams boycotted, john quincy adams boycotted. >> bill: there was bad feeling but never like this. >> come if you know ameri...

Where president after president have chaired. >> bill: the 54th pew. the stop that so many have made to begin this day and that is where we await the future first family to emerge. as we wait on that, donald trump may have broken the mold on president. we talk about this a lot and we analyze how we got there. but even as the ultimate outsider he has many things in common with predecessors. well talk to a presidential historian to talk to you about that. intriguing details. >> shannon: were just ...

Go through senate confirmation. this is not something thats being held up in congress. they just need to pick people and put them place. they have not bothered to pick people for these jobs. the "new york times" today had a harrowing report on how little has happened to stand up anybody to take over basically all of the key national security positions in the new incoming administration. i mean, the old national security council at the director level, point people for all of these regions and iss...

Over basically the keys to destruction of civilization? >> well, obviously, i mean, when you put it that way, its a pretty enormous responsibility. i mean, the president of the united states is the most powerful person on the face of the world, capable of destroying hundreds of millions of lives with a few words and the push of a few buttons. thats a sobering and awesome responsibility that i hope and trust that donald trump will take as seriously as all of his predecessors have since the dawn o...

This is not something thats being held up in congress. they just need to pick people and put them place. they have not bothered to pick people for these jobs. the "new york times" today had a harrowing report on how little has happened to stand up anybody to take over basically all of the key national security positions in the new incoming administration. i mean, the old national security council at the director level, point people for all of these regions and issues in the world, those people d...

Predecessors were limbauuminari n nuclear science. one was earnest moniz. >> i think perry was there a couple of years. >> and led cheers at texas a&m university. >> that is sort of written in a snide way, isnt it? >> that was snidely written but its a very good parallel to give you a sense where we are going here. >> before the man is discounted as a cheerleader, let us remember he ran one of the largest economies in the world in texas. im not defending him. what i have selected him as to run t...

Hasnt picked any one for any of those jobs. and thats unusual. they havent picked any directors for any of the national security council jobs. these are not jobs than have to go through senate confirmation. this is not something thats being held up in congress. they just need to pick people and put them place. they have not bothered to pick people for these jobs. the "new york times" today had a harrowing report on how little has happened to stand up anybody to take over basically all of the key...

Became president of the united states, and there is a president, again, for better or for worse. if you look at all of his predecessors in the early days of this republic, whether it was a thomas jefferson, a james madison or a john quincy adams, there was a very particular type of president, and then there was andrew jackson. andrew jackson spoke to a very different constituency, a very different set of voters than they had. he spoke to them in a very different way. he governed in a very differ...

Or create 1,500 jobs. wal-mart announcing 10,000 new jobs this year. trump noticed. responding on twitter, thank you to general motors and wal-mart for starting a big jobs push back into the u.s. [ music playing ] >> reporter: as washington puts on the finishing touches for fridays inauguration, some republicans are apprehensive about trumps rocky transition. senator john mccain told cnn hes not surprised trumps approval ratings are far lower than his predecessors. >> he seems to want to engage ...