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People in the u.s., it's like adding offense to the injury to say that there was none that was bright enough for the president? >> that's not what i said. he has tremendous respect. again, you have to look at the totality of diversity that exists within this cabinet. there are so many ways to express this both in terms of gender and background, race, ideology. he continues to put together an amazingly diverse cabinet. so if you're looking specific at hispanics, as we move forward, we've got 5,000 jobs to fill, there is going to be a tremendous number of hispanic-americans that fill those posts...

People in the u.s. it is like offense to say there was nobody bright enough for the -- >> -that's not what i said. you have to look at the totality of diversity in this cabinet. there are so many ways to express it in terms of gender, background, race, ideology. he continues to put together a diverse cabinet. if you look specifically at hispanics, we have 5,000 jobs to fill. there will be a tremendous number of hispanic americans that fill those posts and i just caution people to stay tuned. lots of great things are coming. >> are you guys going to send anybody to syrian talks on monday? >> i'...

The 4,000 political -- >> thank you for clarifying that. 536 individuals that are on these beachhead teams. temporary employees that serve as assistants to the secretary disig knee's office. those individuals are able to work in the various departments as temporary officials for i think it's up to 120 days. in some cases they stay on. it will be up to the secretary or the administrator of the department or agency to decide whether to maintain them on. maybe they choose to not stay on board but in any case that will be a decision that's made. if they stay, then they are counted as part of the o...

For our secretary of agriculture, all 21 cabinet nominees have been named, 27 total individuals have been named that require the consent of the senate and we have 536 beach head team members that will be reporting for duty at agencies following the inauguration bright and early on monday morning. there are many people -- many people to thank in this regard and i'm really here just to do that. there is a memorandum that will be in your possession by the end of this briefing that i'll be conveying to the president-elect today to give him a full report on the transition efforts and the progress t...

4,000 number >> those people are temporary. in some cases until the secretary, administrator or director is confirmed, they are unable to make a permanent appointment. we are working, as i mentioned before, very, very aggressively at the undersecretary, assistant secretary, and ambassador levels to have individuals ready to go. now that the cabinet is filled i think you will see a lot more activity at that level. but the president-elect wanted to make sure his entire cabinet was locked and loaded before he started getting to the deputy under and assistant level. now that's complete as of this ...