questions raised about the trump administration about staffing the executive branch. >> i know you're looking at the situation and you know how much is on the line for the people in president. you brought up a great point, where's the staff? >> at homeland security, fema, the u.s. trade representative's office, they're doing huge renegotiation of nafta. bob doesn't have a permanent deputy in place. that's a massive undertaking they're doing it with a smaller staff and it's not ideal. >> 20 minutes later the president tweeted, were not looking to fill all of those positions, don't need many of them, reduce government. those tracking the staffing say president trump likes behind the face of hiring a confirmation set by his predecessors. of the more than 4000 appointments, 1100 require 700 confirmation. only 124 on the job. roughly 145 more awaiting