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The fact that senator mccain will finally be chairing that committee, who will be overseeing the appointment process of the defense secretary and for the first time in six years. this white house will finally get the level of scrutiny it needs over the defense department. >> well, it strikes me that we have had one attorney general since the beginning and we are now about to be on number 4 secretary of defense. we have had two secretaries of state. we are certainly going through a the love sefdz. i don't know if that says anything. but it's noted. >> i think it tells you that the president and...

Be tremendous pressure him to pick someone in the national republican mold which i see is increasingly right of right and that the appointment process while it's good, i'm glad he's moving to an earlier election and the process has been a huge problem in the senate and since 200811 senators have been appointed. since the last election, four senators have been appointed and that's partly because i have such a sclerotic system and they often die in office and generally a sign that maybe you stayed too long. i think we could use a lot more young people and a lot more competitive senate races rath...

Find the 6'5", hulking general with the shaved head. >> who would want that job? sfwl that's going to go in there and say we've got to clean up this place and get the integrity of the irs back. it's that feel, this sort of give off the sense -- get off the sense you're putting in somebody who's just a no nonsense kind of guy. whether they have ties to the irs or not is less -- you want to give the public the idea that, you know what, maybe it's a member of the opposite party. maybe it's a former -- maybe it's jon kyle or something. i'm just -- maybe it's somebody from the opposite side of the ...

Presidency, then a king. >> would the president not have been able to get the appointments through? what was the problem with the appointments to go to the appointment process? >> well, i don't know what his thinking was. but he has a bad hobt of forgetting there is a united states september. the constitution says there are 1100 positions, like secretary of state and member of the national labor relations board, that require teas advise and consent of the senate. if you send someone up here that senators don't want to confirm, then they can't be confirmed will. i was that way. president bush t...

About restraining an imperial presidency or then a king. >> greta: would not president not have been able to get the appointments through with the democratic senate? what was the problem with the the appointment he had to go to the appointment process? >> well, i don't know what his thinking was, but he has a bad habit of forgets there's a united states senate. the constitution says there are 1100 positions like secretary of state and member of the national labor relations board that require advise and consent of the senate. if you sent someone up here that the senators don't want to confirm, ...