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This morning help wanted. the trump administration is hiring, or it should be. >> it should indeed, because this administration needs to fill nearly 2,000 appointed positions including some pretty big ones that experts say are critical to keeping the cogs of government moving smoothly. right now this administration does not have a number two at the state department, the defense department or treasury, at least not yet. the president says it is the democrats' fault. joining us craig fuller, chief of staff to vice president george h.w. bush. he also served as the co-chair of president bush's tra...

That was another complicating factor as well. >> when was he acting as a u.s. senator? what were those roles that he was taking on as he had any of these potential and reported -- catherine, this is just one of the cogs in the wheel that is still ongoing coming monday. the washington post showed 11 connections of team trump to either the russian government, russian business, and -- just potential unknown links in addition to that. when will all of this smoke be a fire as what the beltway is saying right now? there's so many different pieces of smoke right now. we're already in the middle of th...

Being basically part of the administrative apparatus dealing with immigration. that's problem one. problem to two is the law itself tries to reduce the states and localities into administrative cogs in the machinery of the federal government and the supreme court said in the 1997 case dealing with the brady handgun violence prevention act that you can't -- the federal government cannot commandeer the resources and the bureaucracies of state and local governments. >> in fact, this is an abiding belief -- >> that one i think will be out the window. >> it's an abiding belief of conservative justi...

Either you do what we say or we're going to cut off all federal funding to your state. the first problem with that is that the supreme court has been very clear that where there's a quid pro quo like that it has to be explicit and unambiguous in the original statute so if a state were to be collecting money from the department of education, for example, or the department of state it would have to say right there this money is conditioned on your cooperating with us in terms of being basically part of the administrative apparatus dealing with immigration. that's problem one. problem to two is t...

Them let make that judgment without threats to donald trump or a process that makes them seem like they're supposed to be just cogs in a wheel. they are officers. they are people. >> have you got to go. our satellite is going down. thanks a lot for that i appreciate it. >> now it's time for twitter storm. our nightly forecast of social media's most intent weather patterns. it's always storming on twitter a dust storm of desfather ration is swarming over holiday celebrities. some of whom we have never seen before pleading with electors not to vote for trump in less than a week. twitter, of cour...