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Of this troubles ever since he made that appointment. because he recused himself. >> and jeff sessions was trying to do the right thing, chris. he was trying to comport with the rule of law and honor some of the specifics of his office. meanwhile, you had ryan zinke, tom price and scott pruitt running roughshod over the perks of their office, using taxpayer dollars to take private flights, get police escorts to restaurants, have staff pick up dry cleaning for them and trump isnt bothered by any ...

Week with pat shanahan, the acting defense secretary, where all of a sudden all of these issues started to bubble -- >> he had personal family issues that go way back. >> personal family issues. >> well known. >> the president last tuesday told us -- the reporters at the white house that he had only found out about those issues the night before pat shanahan with drew himself. we asked him, is this a vetting problem? why are you just finding out now? he defending his administrations vetting. so i...

Country. trying to work with them to find a system where if you are under tremendous duress in your country and you can no longer -- youre no longer safe to stay in your country, to have that option. but the flood of people that we see coming now, its obvious to me and many others and i think reflected in our bill this has got to be addressed and stopped. >> very quickly, the whole ugly and embarrassing episode with patrick shanahan, do you think theres a vetting problem? >> you know, i just rea...

The middle of june in 2019 the polls predicted everything. >> lets talk about the sudden decision of patrick shanahan, he says withdraw my nomination to become the permanent defense secretary. the president said he only learned about the problems yesterday. what do you think in. >> its very strange. some of the reporters that we know say they heard about it weeks ago. for the president to just get it yesterday, he knows a lot about a lot. he likes to get information as we already know. the botto...

He is the one, the serious guy. >> right. he has put on a veneer. but also, if you contemplate that notion, if he is genuinely looking a little forward, like whats going to happen perhaps? lets play the odds here. there is a decent chance maybe hell be in a position to run for president. >> right. >> slide into president. now is the time for him to make these sort of signal to these people, the arpaio people, the carl higbies, those folks, im with you. down the road, i may not be able to cavort ...

Because im going into the general, if i will. but right now its sort of the primary. and that is the time for him to do that. >> i also think, mckay, the carl higby story in the grand scheme of things, its a small story. but i find it really generally appalling. really appalling. >> you? >> right. but this is someone who got hired in the administration that you can say has a vetting problem. the dark money pack hired him as soon as all that was made public. it is explicit white supremacy. it is ...

Of new stuff about ronny jacksons time as the white house physician and his time in the white house medical unit. unprofessional behavior he is said by his colleagues to have exhibited on the job is laid out in the 2012 i.g. report. also a list of jaw-dropping allegations against him from 23 current and former colleagues in that office including accusations of repeated drunkenness on the job. ronny jacksons tenure at the white house medical unit is turning out to be a whole new scandal that we d...

Doctor? a second bit of fallout here is that this now makes two dozen, 24 senate confirmable nominees including cabinet nominees the president has put forward who have failed as nominations. this is either a vetting problem or were starting to see the results of what happens when you try to run a federal government without any vetting process at all. its either bad vetting or no vetting. but then theres also this. the implosion of jacksons nomination was not just some generic nomination to run s...

Said, you know, we should have more trust and love. that is true broadly across our society i think when it comes to nominating and confirming individuals at the highest level of u.s. government. im not sure its about trust and love. its about vetting verification and assuring that these people are -- have the requisite skills to carry out their jobs. i think in this administration, more than any ive seen in my lifetime, there are -- there is a wide number of people who are simply not qualified ...

Watching and thinking, im hoping no one is confusing a pro-promotion with a vet. vetting is a term of art in washington and usually means an fbi full field investigation and they take a good hard look at your life. working in proximity of the president, weve seen known about all kind of bad characters who have worked around this president and others. so does this point out a vet problem and perhaps now a procedural problem that this has been allowed to hang out there for enough days to attract e...