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Secretary, that's not the democrats' fault. he's the former governor of georgia. he has not filed his ethics paperwork. he has to go through the process, what will you divest. that's not filed yet. in the case of the director of national intelligence, that paperwork has been filed. we're still waiting on that. yes, the democrats are stalling every bit as they can, but not in every case. >> with alexander acosta, the labor nominee, apparently, that confirmation hearing was supposed to be tomorrow, but instead of doing it tomorrow, acosta is apparently going to nashville for this rally. so again...

Ethics paperwork in place and in terms of the vacuum of nominees below the cabinet level that we've yet to see and we really need to see it for the good of the country. >> i read somewhere there's really only a handful of confirmed positions and 116 yamiche that have not been filled so these nominations we're waiting on him. >> you're waiting on him and i think this conversation that we had they were having about the media, and also when we tacked certain reporters in some ways it's filling this void because he knows that if reporters are talking about the idea of all these different empty sea...

Trump. >> woe learned that donald trump's team has taken an unusual hard line against allowing the political appointees that president obama has and serving as ambassadors around the world to stay even a day after the inauguration. what's also true is that they're finding it somewhat challenging to recruit ambassadors for these positions overall, and so the question is will they be left without envoys in key places throughout the world and also it raises questions about who is donald trump going to turn to to take some of these important posts in countries that have really vital relationships ...

Get through. well, get ready for the confirmation rush or blur here in washington. eight hearings over three days this week. then we'll continue on into next week. the question is can donald trump get his key choices through. at least when it comes to the national security team he wants them all in place by the time essentially the day trump is inaugurated. democrats have complained about the fast pace. democrats have complained there are too many hearings at the same time. you can't attend. they've also complained some of the ethics review is not done yet. we got to move along? >> the democra...

Nominees that have not submitted their ethics paperwork, signed off yet before their hearings have gone forward. they do not have the power to block these nominations because they themselves change the senate filibuster rules in 2013 so to insure that 51 senators could vote to confirm nominees, there are 52 republican senators, and right now there are no nominees other than rex tillerson in which republican senators are feeling a little squimish about. unless some republicans start to -- trump will probably get his cabinet. >> we'll hear from the president-elect on wednesday. this is a great c...