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As far as we can tell. the president-elect has asked the top officials at the state department to stay on, the director of the national counterterrorism center, the head of the drug enforcement agency, the guy who runs the treasury department office that fights terrorist financing, that guy, they've asked him to run the whole treasury department for a while because the trump folks didn't pick anybody else to start working there. hope you guys didn't have any plans. you guys don't mind staying on indefinitely while the trump administration gets its act together, do you? you're just going to sta...

Closer to the white house he'll pass by treasury as well. >> a lot of them are empty met for cli in terms of these guys being in charge. his men and women with the cabinet, all of them are not in place yet. we're going to have some votes today. we believe general mattis, secretary of defense, head of home land security, general kelly, mike pompeo, congressman who will be taking over the cia, his confirmation scheduled for monday. so, there's a lot of work to do. >> you made this reference to senator schumer that there were some negotiations today. i think for democratic leaders, they want to b...

But the cabinet is only the tip of the proverbial federal bureaucracy iceberg. there are about 4,000 positions for political appointees. of those, 690 are crucial, trump has announced his picks for just 30 of them. meaning 96% of these key offices won't even have a nominee when he takes over the government according to an expert on transitions, the brookings institution, "it's just -- there is no other word for it, weird, for those of us who have been involved in government for decad decades." observers are most concerned about the national security council. politico reports most of the nsc's ...

Hispanic. trump is on track to have at most just three of his nominees confirmed tomorrow, his first day in office, james mattis, secretary of defense john kelly, secretary of homeland security and possibly mike pompeo as cia director. that's compared to seven for both president obama and george w. bush. but the cabinet is only the tip of the proverbial federal bureaucracy iceberg. there are about 4,000 positions for political appointees. of those, 690 are crucial, trump has announced his picks for just 30 of them. meaning 96% of these key offices won't even have a nominee when he takes over t...

Folks didn't pick anybody else to start working there. hope you guydidn't have any plans. yoguys don't mind staying on indefinitely while the trump administration gets its act together, do you? you're just going to stay, right? the "washington post" is keeping a tally of nominations for the incoming administration. of the 690 key positions in the new administration that require senate confirmation, of those 690 positions, the president-elect has so far nominated 30. 30 out of 690 and those are just the ones that are important enough to need senate confirmation. even the positions the president...