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Previous administration, so i don't think it should come as any surprise that there are people burrowed into government during eight years of the last administration. >> so is the president trying to get rid of people who could oppose him or people who opposed him? >> yeah. >> it's not normal to fire attorneys, it's just the abruptness of it. >> what spicer is talking about is larger, this idea that there's a conspiracy, that the federal bureau rackcracy is out to get this president. you might say when trump came into office and compared the intelligence community said there were echoes of naz...

Majority and he could lo the labor par, which would beore incredibly lefteaning. it would be hostile to trump. >> ts phone call was supposed to last one hour. it only lasted about 25 minutes. prime minister turnbull is playing down the abruptness of the call. here is what he said about the communication with president trump. >> the report that the president hung up is not correct. the call ended courteously. as far as the nature of the discussion, it was very frank and forthright. i stand up for australia's interests. i make australia's case as powerfully and persuasively as i can wherever i a...

Team is identified, vetted and confirmed. so why leave gaps in these crucial positions and if there's one thing i learned in 40 years with the state department, crises can blow up literally overnight out of nowhere. why deprive yourself in the interim of these career foreign service officers? >> it seems to me that part of what's unusual here -- and for those of us who are observers of these agencies and observers of the work at the state department from afar, just as citizens, it's hard to know what counts as normal and how out of the norm these things are. some of the abruptness of the dismi...

Why deprive yourself in the interim of these career foreign service officers? >> it seems to me that part of what's unusual here -- and for those of us who are observers of these agencies and observers of the work at the state department from afar, just as citizens, it's hard to know what counts as normal and how out of the norm these things are. some of the abruptness of the dismissals, the abruptness of the departures for people who as you say therein there 20, 30, 40 years. they have been through different presidencies. it seems like it was last minute. is that your impression of how these ...

To -- for people to leave as the new administration comes in. what's a little unusual about this is the abruptness of it, and the rather lack of civility to it. i mean, pat kennedy has served in the state department, served with distinction, served in places like iraq. he's served for some 45 years and deserved more than 24 hours to clean out his office. i think it's the tone, and frankly, if people worry about civility in washington and the need to change it, i think we're kind of going in the wrong direction. >> david, what do you think? some people might say what's wrong with the president ...