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Transition was seen as reassuring to some establishment republicans. but rogers said it was, quote, absolutely the campaign's prerogative to let him go. >> they said they wanted to go in a different direction. it was easy for me to hand it off to mike pence and his capable hands coming in. so, i think that was kind of a combination. i think there is some confusion going on about a chain of command coming ought e ing out . hopefully, they'll get that settled soon. signing they're going to need to do it because as this clock ticks, all of these decisions become more important and you have to mak...

Transitions have been methodically planned. this one was treated as an afterthought for a number of reasons. that increases the chaos. you can call it a scrum, call it a knife fight if you want to be dramatic. you have a bunch of people who see unusual opportunities with massive ambition trying to curry favor while the clock ticks. they're big jobs with real responsibilities, and there's no clear process by which to select those people that's already been prebaked. >> let's look at some of the names being floated right now. secretary of defense. here are the names that are being floated. no id...

Trying to figure those sorts of things out and they're really hard to figure outssentially until election day, but what they can tell you is -- and this is like why clinton is, you know, has put forward such an effort. trump would say he's also in trying to build out this effort. they want to bank vote early. so we are looking at all of these states to just see, what is the partisan splits in these states. and it's really important. and we benchmark it to what obama did in 2012 because that's how he won the presidency, right? i mean, his early vote efforts is really -- really paid off for him....

Tuesday night and the clock ticks, do you feel the pressure of the competition or do you just seal yourself off in that room and say, we're making this call when we know what the call is, and we don't care -- >> we're completely insulated. i don't know what others are doing and that was a policy decision that was made a long time ago at nbc news. just for that reason. because you could imagine, like, you know, if it was everybody was like sort of feeding off, you know, competition, then it could create pressure that you really don't want in that room and we don't have it. >> and i know the vie...

>> i went to sleep shortly after that. >> i took a nap for 30 minutes this afternoon. >> you only slept 30 minutes? >> come on. >> i slept in the stair well. >> oh, my got. >> it was fine. >> i generally don't sleep during hack-a-thons. >> do you start getting increasingly more nervous as the clock ticks? >> if you are not getting through a certain problem, you will feel more pressure and like the world is closing in. >> these kids have been staring at security screens for 24-hours and they are starting to develop interesting projects. >> you just came up with this idea here? >> yeah. >> serio...