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Election was stolen, not an automatic disqualifier? >> he can have his own opinion. i mean, that's not a disqualifier because you may have one issue you disagree with. you know, the president has a lot to talk about. if i was him, i'd be talking about american policies that made us the top energy producer in the world and energy independent. i'd be talking about a border that in this lasted year in office i think 17 people came across the border and went na this wait for trial as opposed to 80,000 that came across last month, the highest month. so he's got plenty to talk about. he gets to deci...

Decide they don't want it to. >> little optimism. switching chambers, last night kevin mccarthy announced picks for the january 6th select committee finally, but they're not exactly his picks. they still have to be approved or not blocked by speaker pelosi. any indication on what she's going to do there? >> that's exactly right. speaker pelosi is going to have to approve these before they take their seats on the committee. kevin mccarthy recommended them. nbc news caught up with speaker pelosi earlier today, asked her. she said she's reviewing the recommendations by kevin mccarthy, did not say...

There is nothing automatically disqualifying. it's really the mate tricks of everything coming together that causes the people making the decision, should this person be trusted? could they be compromised? and that is what is so troubling here. because there is no automatic disqualifier, we have to infer that something about this whole picture was deeply alarming to people, like kelly and the intelligence establishment. >> and shan, i think that's a question i have. for john kelly and white house counsel done mcgahn to make contemporaneous memos of this we don't know what they were zay seeing....

As it relates to this president [ inaudible ] the fbi director. where does that process stand right now? how many people have been interviewed? does the president hope to wrap this up before he goes overseas? >> on the timing, i think as soon as he finds a candidate that fits the qualities that he feels are necessary to lead the fbi, that's the timeline of that. i know that the department of justice has begun to create that list and i believe they're going to -- if they haven't already, are going to be starting the process of interviewing people, either today or through the weekend. but, i mea...

Blake? >> the president in relation to nominating fbi director, where does that process stand. how many people interviewed, the president does he rope to wrap it up up before he goes overseas? >> i think on the timing as soon as he finds a can d.a. candidate that fits the qualities that he feels are necessary to lead the fbi, that's the time line on that. i know that the ept of justice has begun to -- department of justice has created that list, if they haven't already, will be starting the process of interviewing people. either today or through the weekend. i mean the president obviously want...