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West palm beach, florida. want to bring in john pierre, spokesperson for movon.org. worked for president obamas 2012 election team. a former bush chain adviser. good to see both of you on monday morning. thanks for being with us. let me start with you, the transition so far, how would you characterize it? >> bumpy, a little bit of turbulence. this is not unusual. i should put it in perspective. most presidential transitions are bumpy. its a misnomer there is an office of president-elect. there...

That is what needs to happen next. we need to get credible independent forensics experts who are not just the i.t. department, somewhere in the bowels of the irs, who are doing what they were told to do. i didnt detect that lois lerner was upset about the loss of her e-mails and files. >> who knows what that means. all e-mails during the relevant times. okay, we cant get communications from lois to you from lois, why dont you produce them, white house, if there are any. why dont you produce them...

That is what needs to happen next. we need to get credible independent forensics experts who are not just the i.t. department, somewhere in the bowels of the irs, who are doing what they were told to do. i didnt detect that lois lerner was upset about the loss of her e-mails and files. >> who knows what that means. all e-mails during the relevant times. okay, we cant get communications from lois to you from lois, why dont you produce them, white house, if there are any. why dont you produce them...

They did the due diligence to find out what it would mean if she was on the ticket and what they found was that while it might help, it would not help enough to overcome the political firestorm that it would create. its not the first time that an election team -- >> its par for the course, is it not. >> there was a quayle moment that was a part of the 92 campaign. cheney asked bush to dump him. he said i considered it for a while and decided it wasnt worth it. this happens. >> we were talking to...

His wife, valley jared, david axelrod and a couple other people. there isnt anybody there because he never listened to anybody else. >> there isnt anybody experienced enough to say if you do this, that is likely to happen. >> even the experienced people around him, he has never listened to, whether it was bill daley, chief of staff or rahm emanuel. he doesnt listen to anybody else except himself. >> i think you have a point. >> no disconnect, no one knows what that means. keep it honest. >> to p...

His wife, valley jared, david axelrod and a couple other people. there isnt anybody there because he never listened to anybody else. >> there isnt anybody experienced enough to say if you do this, that is likely to happen. >> even the experienced people around him, he has never listened to, whether it was bill daley, chief of staff or rahm emanuel. he doesnt listen to anybody else except himself. >> i think you have a point. >> no disconnect, no one knows what that means. keep it honest. >> to p...

His wife, valley jared, david axelrod and a couple other people. there isnt anybody there because he never listened to anybody else. >> there isnt anybody experienced enough to say if you do this, that is likely to happen. >> even the experienced people around him, he has never listened to, whether it was bill daley, chief of staff or rahm emanuel. he doesnt listen to anybody else except himself. >> i think you have a point. >> no disconnect, no one knows what that means. keep it honest. >> to p...

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And joe madison. thank you both for being here tonight. >> hi, reverend. >> dana, lets start with nikki haley and her situation. how can she put an accused white supremacist on her election team? reverend, a patty on your back because i think this is significant. lets give governor haylley som credit. white supremacists are a minority. this is a problem. the conservative citizens council has be deviled several republicans for some long period of time going back to trept lott and before that. you...

George bush was governor for an event and a couple of us were talking to carl rove, bush came out, he looked at us, scowled and said, you know, when the rove news conference is over, maybe ill do mine. he was very sensitive, very sensitive to the idea there was a bushs brain, there was a dick cheney running the white house and so forth. i dont know if he believed that. i know david has written extensively about that, but its something thats always really bothered him. of course, at the very end ...