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You recall, the third one im talking about now was released on the -- late on a friday. we knew it would be released that day. the desire was to get it out. the thinking was to get it out quick so that potentially people that might be coming here to harm us would not take advantage of some period of time that they could jump on an airplane and get here or get here in other ways. so that was the thinking. in retrospect, i should have -- this is all on me, by the way, i should have delayed it just...

Now is the president wants to focus on getting his cabinet up and complete. we will continue to make nominations both at the deputy and under an assistant secretary level, but in key agencies like i.c.e. where there is an assistant secretary, there are 30 other agencies where there will be acting heads to make sure that in the transition process we have someone in that position to ensure continuity of government. >> reporter: yesterday you said 109 individuals were held by this extreme vetting, ...

>> they are, but theres no way the democrats can suspend or shoot down any of these options. and the reality is it also goes to show you -- and this is what ive been hearing at lot -- theres not really a strong, organized leadership. of they kept nancy pelosi, whos been losing since 2010, chuck schumer himself is going through this theres process -- transition process, and he that a progressive caucus while the majority of the american people in the esteem of many who have watched this year want...

Leader at a press conference today, a call tomorrow with vladimir putin. he did sound today open to lifting these sanctions in some form, didnt he? >> right. exactly. he did the opposite of putting an end to the speculation as senator mccain would have wanted him to. without a doubt, trump campaigned on having the united states have a warmer, more friendly, more open relationship with russia. and in a lot of ways, this is him pushing back against the final legacy of the obama presidency. remembe...

Have to get it back into fact. disregarding whoever is president, the role, if you read the constitution, article one, the role of the house and senate has to have that. >> when congress acts, there will be a president prepared to sign and not veto those bills. >> james: more on this later with our all-star panel. president trumps point man on the transition process at the epa says he thinks the 50% cut in the workforce is a good place to start. he predicts the president could seek to cut $1 bil...

Disregarding whoever is president, the role, if you read the constitution, article one, the role of the house and senate has to have that. >> when congress acts, there will be a president prepared to sign and not veto those bills. >> james: more on this later with our all-star panel. president trumps point man on the transition process at the epa says he thinks the 50% cut in the workforce is a good place to start. he predicts the president could seek to cut $1 billion from their budget. he fore...

Bannon, jared kushner, youve got reince priebus, youve got sean, kellyanne, hope. a battery of people around him in this transition process that are helping at the white house level. remember, he doesnt have his cabinet in place. so all the teams, the secretary of state, rex tillerson, you have general mattis in place, you have general kelly moving in place, general flynn. but the rest of his team isnt in place. so policy is difficult to start dictating. and this is a first class team. at the po...

Distractions. who can do that? >> he has two sets of teams and everybodys telling him that. its a little bit of what happened with reagan again, in these statements of let reagan be reagan, let trump be trump. its an incredible team, steve bannon, jared kushner, youve got reince priebus, youve got sean, kellyanne, hope. a battery of people around him in this transition process that are helping at the white house level. remember, he doesnt have his cabinet in place. so all the teams, the secretar...

Ground when it comes to the political transition process or the future of the syrian regime and president assad, this is something that weve heard officials saying this is not expected to be discussed. that these talks are not expected to compete. theyre expected to complement the political talks that take place in geneva, those u.n sponsored talks that are expected to take place next month. its a very interesting time for these talks to be taking place. we are looking at a very different realit...

So we can get it passed the senate with a simple majority and im president trumps desk. he has said here that is his major priority. we can do better. for not going to leave anyone behind. kick in the novel as a preexisting condition. the price of obamacare or those philosophies we want to keep. theres a better way to do it to do it in october to get to. >> you just made some big promises. do you think that will get done? he talked about preexisting conditions. there has to be a program in place...