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Nominations. they have to be confirmed. this is the slowest start we have seen in many a year. partly because chris christie is running the transition, was fired and all the people he suggested put in place for the nsc, the national security council at the would you say and state and other agencies were basically blacklisted, i'm told. they are not viable candidates. so, the nsc has the advantage of not needing confirmation for their staff, but they are unstaffed at the director level. anyone below mike flynn and mcfarland, the deputy, they don't have a spokesperson, for instance. they don't h...

Go through senate confirmation. this is not something that's being held up in congress. they just need to pick people and put them place. they have not bothered to pick people for these jobs. the "new york times" today had a harrowing report on how little has happened to stand up anybody to take over basically all of the key national security positions in the new incoming administration. i mean, the old national security council at the director level, point people for all of these regions and issues in the world, those people don't stay on. those people go away the day after tomorrow. they pac...

Unclassified because the trump folks had never bothered to get people with clearances in place and they're not allowed read anything classified if they don't have security clearances. and then in mid-december the trump folks replaced the person they had running their national security council transition, replaced him with somebody new, they replaced him in mid-december but that person didn't start meeting anybody from the obama administration until january. well, you know, it's the holidays. now the national security council at the director level, point people for these issues and places in th...

This is not something that's being held up in congress. they just need to pick people and put them place. they have not bothered to pick people for these jobs. the "new york times" today had a harrowing report on how little has happened to stand up anybody to take over basically all of the key national security positions in the new incoming administration. i mean, the old national security council at the director level, point people for all of these regions and issues in the world, those people don't stay on. those people go away the day after tomorrow. they pack up and leave but there is nobo...

Hasn't picked any one for any of those jobs. and that's unusual. they haven't picked any directors for any of the national security council jobs. these are not jobs than have to go through senate confirmation. this is not something that's being held up in congress. they just need to pick people and put them place. they have not bothered to pick people for these jobs. the "new york times" today had a harrowing report on how little has happened to stand up anybody to take over basically all of the key national security positions in the new incoming administration. i mean, the old nation security...