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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 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 enou...

Confirmed positions and of the 25 four have committee hearings scheduled. >> starts next week? >> exactly. on the 10th. >> lot of messiness in part because you have a lot of people who don't fully understand the organization they're taking over. lot of people want to change the way the government works but you can't change effectively what you don't understand. what other modules in the queue? >> one on working with the military, we have so many new generals being appointed. >> today the world is more dangerous, moves a lot faster, so the mistakes that can be made have a much higher price. and...

To take up the secretary of defense and homeland security and the cia. >> from everything you heard from president elect trump are you worried about continuity of a plan with his administration? >> there's 690 so-called executive level positions. so far 29 have been appointed. that's a long way to go and often the people on the second and third levels are where a lot of the decisions have to be made. apparently the transition team is telling people you're done tomorrow. without a replacement and in the nuclear system where we maintain weapo weapons, those people have been told they're going to...

Of the department of energy, i regret recommending its elimination. >> on questions about who exactly is running things tomorrow, trump's incoming white house press secretary says they've asked numerous obama officials to stay to help fill in gaps at high-level positions. by the way, that does happen frequently. this includes positions at the department of defense, state and treasury as well as a top national security post as well. still, the "washington post" reports today that out of 690 positions that require a senate confirmation trump as named just 29. "new york times" reports his securit...

Average share of multimillionaires in the cabinet. so the ethic s piece of this is even more complex for some of his nominees than we've seen on the previous nomination. >> the substructure of government. there are 690 positions to be filled. so far, he's only named people to 27 of them. the state department, the justice department? one person per department has been named so far. a total of 370 positions in those 4 departments, only four have been named. >> where is he in comparison to other administrations? >> he's behind. >> thank you. i appreciate it, all of you. i hope all of you got to s...