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Trusted aides. so its just this big vacuum of people who arent necessarily there to be close to trump. and then just to keep people abreast of how fast hes changing his mind and sort of actually what is happening. >> jonathan, its hard to get a straight answer and separate out the hyperbole. when you listen to some people, the state department has been hollowed out. you can roll a bowling ball down the hallways and not hit anybody. i will ask you for the effect it has had, especially with kind o...

Talk about the whipsaw effect, how it careens through the administration. what starts in the oval office or generally the west wing. >> well, i mean number one, throughout the administration, youve got an inability for people at the agencies to know not just where the policy is headed but all the twists and turns its going to take along the way. the lack of consistency makes it harder for them to do their jobs. but in addition to that, youve got a situation on capitol hill. we all remember the p...

People who arent necessarily there to be close to trump. and then just to keep people abreast of how fast hes changing his mind and sort of actually what is happening. >> jonathan, its hard to get a straight answer and separate out the hyperbole. when you listen to some people, the state department has been hollowed out. you can roll a bowling ball down the hallways and not hit anybody. i will ask you for the effect it has had, especially with kind of presidents direct acolytes now missing. talk...

And people are, i doubt, drinking tap water even with the government saying its okay. >> so im a little confused, though, because the government is distributing bottled water still, right, to households that have babies? is that right? >> reporter: right. they just started that. and, in fact, what the government was saying they may have to do is start importing bottled water from other countries to meet the supply. but then you get this kind of whipsaw effect where yesterday the news was dire. t...