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Years, it becomes a big deal for the administration to fill gerbil appointments as well as cabinet posts. >> why the democrats -- if we were in an election today, republicans think they would pick up one or three in the senate. you can't change the dynamics of the race right now but republicans today are more pessimistic than they were yesterday. in the npr maris poll the president is at 41. if he is there on election day then the senate gets more interesting. >> i have no doubt he has galvanized his base with the campaigning he has done. my question is is there any limit to it? is there a lim...

House. those confirmations in the next few years, it becomes a big deal for the administration to fill judicial appointments as well as cabinet posts. >> which why for democrats -- if we were in an election today, republicans think they would pick up one or maybe three in the senate. you can't change the dynamics of the race right now but some republicans today are more pessimistic than they were yesterday. in the npr/maris poll the president is at 41. we've seen him up around 44. if he is there on election day then the senate gets more interesting, too. >> i have no doubt he has galvanized hi...

The white house kind of infighting, that's what's happening right now. >> go ahead, rachel. >> just to follow-up on that. we're hearing that it's gotten so bad at the white house that certain white house sources administrative sources have started leaking negative information on people that the president wants to be named to certain cabinet posts including jackson that there's actually a covert campaign to try to get this out in the media because the president trump will not listen to these advisers and so they have to go public with these things they're seeing and that's just incredible. >> k...

Particularly on deregulation, making the united states less energy dependant and more energy independent. i'll keep you posted. >> bloomberg reports that white house officials are discouraging conservative lawmakers from defending pruitt too strongly. let's bring in writer philip wegmann. we will circle back to the cabinet posts. let's start with the state visit, phil. what this means for macron and president trump dine on lamb and nec nect nectarine tart. >> against iran. that is the question we will discuss, but that is why i just

This a bit, no the just that the fact there are already three cabinet posts requires senate confirmation. >> there's that. >> bogging down the senate. on top of that, this is just, a guy here who the president knows and the president has somewhat of a rapport with. more than that, doesn't have a replacement lined up yet. you saw when he fired rex tillerson. didn't announce it saying tillerson's out. announced it rolling out with a tweet the person taking his place. they don't have another person set to take over as epa director. so i think this may, pruitt may hang on for some time. >> thank y...