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But right now, they are going and interviewing people who may have seen things, but they know clearly that they have gotten images of somebody and now theyre searching down that image, anderson. >> so lets reset. thank you, deb. just back up. there has been a lot of different things going on here. so, here is what we understand at this time. a quorum on it. you have a massive effort, 30 federal agencies, state and local, federal, working together, thousands of people, some here, other states as ...

Secretary of defense when all of this is done. how does play out and what is the last thing he said? >> he is going to have to prove himself. starting with a lot of criticism. he will start with a lot of the republicans voting against him, maybe a few for him tend. he has to prove himself. he has not been a strong nominee in his performance there are questions about him which are legitimate, i think he may benefit from the fact that i think senator cruz went overboard the past week with the innu...

We heard from mcdonough on makele, not going to be a weaker secretary of defense when all of this is done. how does play out and what is the last thing he said? >> he is going to have to prove himself. starting with a lot of criticism. he will start with a lot of the republicans voting against him, maybe a few for him tend. he has to prove himself. he has not been a strong nominee in his performance there are questions about him which are legitimate, i think he may benefit from the fact that i t...

Matthews. chris you let me start with you. we heard from mcdonough on hagel, not going to be a weaker secretary of defense when all of this is done. how does play out and what is the last thing he said? >> he is going to have to prove himself. starting with a lot of criticism. he will start with a lot of the republicans voting against him, maybe a few for him tend. he has to prove himself. he has not been a strong nominee in his performance there are questions about him which are legitimate, i t...

Corrupt union. some of their local unions operate like episodes of the sopranos. he didnt seem to play any role in cleaning it up. since hes been nominated the first time, hes been now named in an embezzlement and extortion lawsuit, and they claim he covered up the embezzlement of union funds. there used to be the standard that you cant have the appearance of impropriety. we hope the president wasnt going to renominate him but he did. >> thanks for keeping us posted. thanks for keeping the clock...

Down. the head of the consumer agency was nominated the same way. there is november pending lawsuit on that. this ruling suggests that it may be null and void. all of the decisions nrb has made hundreds of them could be voided. that is a problem with the consumer agency, too. this has to go supreme court. this has not been friendly to labor. this could be chaos in terms of how to pick up the pieces from this. >> to push that along the labor board only has one legal member and it needs a quorum o...

Judiciary committee and former staff director of the house government reform committee. gentlemen, welcome back, wow, so this was a unanimous decision. i guess, congratulations to you, jay, are in order since you had a hand in this. i think a lot of our viewers know, nlrb adjudicate disputes between company and labor, explain the significance of this ruling. >> well, you actually said the significance at the beginning of your introduction to this issue and that is these decisions that have been ...

Its done. >> sure. >> and so then the question would be, what has that body done in which his presence was critical? very different for the nlrb. it is like a voting board and if you dont have a quorum, you dont decisions and actions. the question is, whether things that the cfpb that they could have done whether he was there or not. its more complicated and opens the door to challenge at least some of the actions the board has taken. >> nbcs pete williams from d.c. thanks so much. i appreciate ...

Fighting this. rich trumka, the president of the afl-cio put out a written statement saying we strongly disagree with the courts reasoning and decision and fully expect this radical decision to be reversed and that other courts addressing this issue will uphold the presidents recess appointment authority. in the meantime, the appointees to the nlrb remain in their jobs and the nlrb remains open for business, although we just spoke a short time ago to a conservative critic of the nlrb who is tell...

This is important, if they appeal to the supreme court and wait and see if they take, but even if they take it, wait for briefing ar arguments. what does it mean now, jay. are the decisions over the past year void? there have been important decisions from the nlrb last year? >> theyre void. the three-judge panel at the u.s. court of appeals from the district of columbia said they were invalid from the outset and the decisions were not a quorum and those decisions from the nlrb, void, period. >> ...