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come back here to try to make a difference. i want to congratulate you on the difference you have made. now one of the questions i would ask you is why you re willing to leave a place with so much responsibility and background and capability to be willing to be the secretary of health and human services. thank you, senator. when i think about the mission of the department of health and human services, which is to improve the health, safety, and wellbeing of the american people, it s what i ve literally spent my life trying to do. and so to have the opportunity to participate if confirmed, to be to serve as the secretary of health and human services and to try to guide that organization in a direction that would further fulfill that mission, i can t think of anything more exciting for fulfilling. i think you have the background for doing that too, with the wide range of experience you had between the different practices and hospitals and then coming here and going through ....
destruction. this is threatening a feud between the top agencies and the president-elect white house. we re getting phew reaction from moscow. we ll get to that in a moment. let s bring in eugene scott and tom lobianco. good morning. the strategy behind this statement. just three sentences. unsigned. what what is the the calculation here from the trump folks? it s a continuation of donald trump s message during the campaign that he believes he knows more than the intelligence community. that s a hard sell to make at this point, given that we know he only is getting about once a week president daily briefs gnat would give him more information about national security globally. that statement is inaccurate. these are not the same people that were heading the departments when the bush administration was in place. this is new information and new revelations about what is happening abroad. tom, i talk t about the possibility that this would cause a feud between the intellige ....
e-mails. and then the letters comey sent to the hill, one saying we found more e-mails on anthony weiner s laptop that could be pertinent to our investigation, we need to look at those, and then his follow-up letter a few days before the election in which he said, we ve done that review and we haven t had anything. hillary clinton herself has said she thinks that first letter in late october changed the course of the election. so, the inspector general is going to look at that and a couple of ancillary things. there have been allegations that an fbi deputy director should have taken himself off part of this case because of some connections to the campaign or his wife s connections to the political to politics in virginia. some allegations that an assistant attorney general for legislative affairs passed information along to the clinton campaign, and other employees disclosed nonpublic information. the foeklecal point is the two actions by the fbi director, the letter to the hill ....
capricious, ash tear or made sense. the supreme court in boumedin struck it down saying it was not an adequate substitute for habeas. that s correct, senator. your role was to find out a way to engage congress on the detainee treatment because it was your view that congress, being involved, would strengthen the president s hand? as a lawyer? yes. i was not a policymaker but i did advise. as a lawyer. as did many others. there were very other many fine lawyers, too, senator, who advised the administration that engaging congress would be a good idea, because we had read our youngstown and our justice jackson. any lawyer i think who understands this area of the law would suggest the president is stronger when he has congressional support. the signing statement. is it fair to say there was a conflict between the vice president s office and other parts of the bush administration about what the signing statement should say or look like? that s my recollection, and ....
they ve already helped him make this pick and go through this process, but they are now going to get out there and work the roots for the votes, especially for the democratic votes he needs and the more conservative states out there. this is how you do a roll-out. whether you agree or disagree with something, and after the last few days, how can something like the travel ban be so rocky and so confusing where government agencies are not talking to each other, and they do this again. whether you like the judge or not or a president from a marketing and branding standpoint. that s perfect. this is the dividing line in the white house. the travel ban was ushered into being by steven miller and steve bannon who are disrupters by nature. they create this sort of environment of chaos as part of their governing philosophy, but the supreme court pick is a very conventional washington thing. this is a reince priebus operation. it was done by the book. it was contrary to what everybody th ....