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Question for her. i am curious to know, catherine, if you are still with us, how this may impact to the lucknow of those senior aides in the transition to trump. bill, did you have anything to add? >> bill: to boil it down, i think thats what the white house would argue today is that all of this happened postelection. democrats who have been very critical of this white house, prior to the transition process, they are going to argue you are a long way from getting to a final conclusion. and i thi...

And of course subpoena is a pretty powerful tool. >> there is one foreign policy issue that ties into this. you famously said during the transition process that you yourself have seen no evidence of collusion. you talked about the george papadopoulos meeting. were geting into wikileaks. the idea that donald trump jr. had this private message exchange with wikileaks. not something you knew what you said there was no collusion. >> thats right. >> jared kushner, we dont know whats in the e-mails he...

Bakari, it starts with congratulations and ends by saying know we stand ready to help in any ways which we can. lets turn back the clock to donald trumps fuel, rise in politics built on questioning barack obamas birthplace, his campaign, based on wiping away his legacy. how difficult do you think this letter was to write, bakari? >> i dont think it was difficult at all for the 44th president of the united states. what we saw during the transition process was a man who held the office in great es...

Time, american history. what do you want to tell them right now to people who are listening? >> everyone in the state of texas is focused first on saving every life that we can. then we want to help in the evacuation and transition process, in typical texas fashion, well rebuild and make it better than ever. >> what about an aid package plan? is that in the works? what is the status of that right now? >> the president and his team have been talking to us about providing tremendous aid. it will b...

Franchesca? >> thanks. what exactly is sean spicers role in the administration at this point? how much longer do you expect him to stay on staff? >> as he said, i believe a week or so ago, the days all run together now, but he was going to stay on in a transition process through august. nothing has changed. >> nothing has changed since anthony scaramucci leave something. >> no. >> and on signing the statement. it said it would drive china and russia and north korea closer together. can you elabo...

>> thank you, sarah. following up on the question about the position. what exactly is sean spicers roll in this administration at this point and how much longer do you expect him to stay on staff and then something on the signing statement. >> as he said,ible that was, gosh, a week or so ago, the days all kind of run together now, but he was going to stay on in a transition process through august and nothing has changed. nothing has changed at this point. >> on the signing statement, one of the ...

At any given moment. >> following up on the question about the position, what exactly is sean spicers role in this administration at this point? and how much longer do you expect him to stay on staff? and then something on the signing statement. >> as he said, i believe it was, gosh, a week or so ago, the days all kind of run together now, but he was going to stay on in a transition process through august and nothing has changed. >> so thats not because of anthony scaramucci leaving. >> no, noth...

So first of all, you have a really slow transition process where trump people dependent think they were going to get elected. so they dependent have a whole group of people who they knew they wanted to put in place. so back in january, february, and march, the process had slowed down. second of all, the vetting process has been, by all accounts, very slow. youve got to go through fbi background checks, the office of government ethics. theres a whole power center, group of top officials at the wh...

Rolls in key places. we saw this activity around a mber of states. thats why we were anxious to get the states to come to us and we declared it to be critical. >> did you leave with open election investigations going on? >> the president wanted us to do an after action report which we did. there was a public version of that that went out on january 6th. i would encourage officials in the chair now to continue looking at this issue and continue to look at how the cyber security can be improved. >...

>> tucker: one anchor saying, no, i dont see any evidence. wayne merry is a former american diplomat to russia and knows a lot about the country. he joins us tonight.ry this does seem like the governors question, what is the crime being alleged here. do you see it? >> there are a lot of allegations and a lot of allegations based on leaks which have not yet been substantiated. some of the accusations are important if they prove to be true. but let us keep in mind that every new u.s. administratio...