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Who is not making the decision. there are democrats in line who voted for trump. it is clearly a personal choice for a lot of these people. >> we have been talking about the politics a lot, but there's substantive reasons why donald trump's supreme court nominee needs bipartisan buy-in. and that you need a consensus nominee. his campaign was under fbi investigation. he's day after day declared policy that is unconstitutional like the muslim ban. and he suggested to change liable laws, which could be an unconstitutional amendment of the first amendment. this is the time when we need the strong ...

President trump, final say in approving sensitive raids and drone strikes. in anticipation of more numerous and more rapid approval. the plan would reportedly and the re-approval process under president obama that could delay submissions by hours or in some cases, even days, possibly diminishing their success. guy, you seem to be nodding your head. >> guy: i think this is a reasonable course of action. if there's going to be major operations, i think the president should have final say as commander-in-chief, but to put a lot of authority into the hands of james mattis, i think that's something...

>> is it conceivable that this will happen this week or is the fact that it hasn't happened by now tell you that at least donald trump was not wowed and general david petraeus is on another sunday show this morning and a lot of people are saying that could be an audition of sorts for him? >> i've started to hear that trump is moving away both from romney and giuliani. doesn't mean it won't eventually be them. things change quickly in trump's orbit, but the push and pull between the two of them has created a lot of room for another option, petraeus being one of them. i think you're going to see...

Vice president-elect is very is in1r06r78ed. tom price, a member of congress, somebody people are very familiar with. even though democrats won't agree on this, republicans don't need democratic votes for this, these confirmations. >> interesting. you make a good point. mike pence, clearly, has the president-elect's ear. very influential and emerging with some of these picks and i asame very influential having elaine chao announced as the new transportation secretary? >> elaine chao comes to this ready to go, just like tom price. elaine chao served in the bush administration as labor secretary...

Cruz and rubio. what does cruz think he needs to do to fight back against rubio and rubio seems to be trying to get a lot of the support -- or traditional support you would think that cruz is going to have? >> last night was a striking turn in the republican race especially for senator rubio, because he has had an under-the-radar, careful approach to his entire campaign, avoiding fights, trying to appeal to as many republicans as possible. but now the fight is here with senator cruz looking at the battle over foreign policy. he knows that cruz is a threat to him now, and perhaps in the future ...