Transition Chief News Today

Voters, between the ages of 18 to 34, by 2020 theyll be the largest segment of the american electorate. Theyre not part of this trend. White millennials will almost certainly not vote for donald trump, young white people. The children. Heather mcghee, fernand amandi. Well be right back here on saturday after joy reids bonus hour. Well be here, if my voice makes it. Be sure to tune in for that. The Rachel Maddow show starts right now. Do you know that i have magic throat lozenges that cure everyt...

Could go anywhere. and so i have always thought that was the much more problematic thing. and, listen, i know why they focus on mueller and it is appropriate. but people should not take their eye off the ball. >> i have two follow ups on that. one is, you write about in the book and one of the things you talk about is you were the transition chief before they won and then you were fired from that job. >> yes. yes. unceremoniously. >> out. hit the bricks. done. >> if you read in the book it was v...

That was the much more problematic thing. and, listen, i know why they focus on mueller and it is appropriate. but people should not take their eye off the ball. >> i have two follow ups on that. one is, you write about in the book and one of the things you talk about is you were the transition chief before they won and then you were fired from that job. >> yes. yes. unceremoniously. >> out. hit the bricks. done. >> if you read in the book it was very unceremonious. >> and my sense is that was a...

Before the midterms. now pete williams, looking at this list, all these people have been vetted by the fbi. some of them were almost choices last time when gorsuch was chosen. and the fact is that having turned this over to leo and the federalist society, this is the best thing that happened in the transition as far as the white house is concerned. this is the cleanest nomination and confirmation that they have. everything else got boll oxed up by firing their transition chief. but this is the o...

Mueller? well, i think its a disgrace whats going on. well see what happens. but i think its really a sad situation when you look at what happened. many people have said, you should fire him. again, they found nothing. and in finding nothing, thats a big statement. so well see what happens. i think its disgraceful and so does a lot of other people. this is a pure and simple witch hunt. >> welcome back to "hardball." that was president trump openly musing whether he should fire special counsel ro...

Trumps travel ban from inside the government and why is his former transition chief -- why is he saying this? >> he was ill-served by whoever it was who came up with the way to roll this out. not including relative people that need to be included like general kelly and others. enormously ill served. extraordinarily ill served. ill served. the failure of people around him to do that ill served the president. the president deserves to be served well. and one of president trumps key cabinet nomin...

Havent been handed over. mike pence was forced to sign new ones after the ouster of o chris christie as transition chief, handing them over tuesday, but more are needed, including code of conduct agreements that according to "the times" as of last night had not been turned in. the current and soon to be vice presidents met yesterday. joe biden reflected on the transition. >> you think the administration is going to be ready on day one? >> no administration is ready on day one. we werent ready on...

Thats him meeting with the white house chief of staff. the current white house chief of staff. by friday hes seen touring the grounds of the white house staff. by friday, chris christie was out as transition chief. by this morning, chris christies handpicked guy to run the transition at the department of justice, he was out, too. chris christies own chief of staff who christie picked to basically manage the whole transition effort, hes out, too. chris christies former law partner who he picked t...

You know, whether you blame stalin or not, whether you blame a stalinesque purge or not, the start of the trump administration is wobblier and weirder than i think anyone expected or imagined. the trump campaign has taxpayer funded transition offices in washington. apparently, though, they are not really using them. theyre still apparently, reportedly trying to do everything or some things or just the not chris christie things from trump tower instead of working from washington. the dumping of c...

This is getting really, really fascinating really fast. you know, whether you blame stalin or not, whether you blame a stalinesque purge or not, the start of the trump administration is wobblier and weirder than i think anyone expected or imagined. the trump campaign has taxpayer funded transition offices in washington. apparently, though, they are not really using them. theyre still apparently, reportedly trying to do everything or some things or just the not chris christie things from trump to...