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Standard clearance process. >> but one question not answered that that hearing, whether sally yates warning were heeded. chris? >> all right, jessica. approach ka how much warning did the administration need and why weren't those warning heeded for 18 days? obama warned trump about flynn, telling him not to hire flynn. defenders of the president say he acted quickly. let's take a look at the time line and figure out for yourself what we're looking at here. okay? this is where it all starts november 18th, okay? michael flynn will be an invaluable asset to me and my

System. >> i could safely assume it wasn't positive, right. but look, we're happy to get their support. they're going to have an opportunity to vote on the bill as well and they have an opportunity to govern through all these committees and through the process as well. this process was run through regular order from the beginning, and that regular order means that everyone that has a say in the process. so if they want to come on board and give us ideas of how to make the bill better, certainly we'll listen to them. the truth of the matter, is obama care is failing everywhere, and many states,...

>> well, it is different -- different legal hurdles that you have to satisfy before you actually either renegotiate or withdraw from nafta. so those legal hurdles are one thing, withdrawing is another thing. the withdrawal is a different issue. so we're talking about steps prior to withdrawal that have to take place that the president has been talking about. >> bret: filling white house positions, of 556 key positions that require senate confirmation, 468 of them have no nominee as of tonight. 40 are awaiting nomination. it is on pace to be the fewest nominations in 40 years at the end of 100 ...

>> bret: either could we. >> that's okay. >> bret: i'll tell you, chuck schumer said you haven't reached out to democrats and they're not going to sign on to anything -- anything that -- anything until the repeal part is out of the system. >> i could safely assume it wasn't positive, right. but look, we're happy to get their support. they're going to have an opportunity to vote on the bill as well and they have an opportunity to govern through all these committees and through the process as well. this process was run through regular order from the beginning, and that regular order means that e...

Health care that you need to be on the front end of this? >> no, not necessarily. i think that, you know, in regard to health care, it is something that the republicans have been talking about for six years, and tom price is one of the architects who happened to be our secretary of hhs, and so obviously, we had a plan that we've been working on for a long time. in regard to tax reform, we feel like it is something that the white house should drive and we have driven the process. we've been meeting, though, bret, for all the listeners, we've been talking about this since before november, but ri...