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>> police in massachusetts say they have found a stolen car used by an escaped inmate from rhode island. officers say 35-year-old james morales scaled the prison building and claimed over razor wire on saturday. they think he went to massachusetts and stole a car. he was serving time for stealing 16 guns from a u.s. army reserve center. he also faces child rape charges. he is 6 feet tall. 175 pounds with an eagle tattoo on his neck. >> the new cabinet facing possible delays on capitol hill as democrats consider plans to slow down the confirmation hearing process. incoming senate minority leade...

Like treasury and defense. white house chief of staff and u.n. chief ambassador. new people usually fill all those slots. that tradition is different when it comes to filling the judicial branch where the president only fills vacancies left over by the previous administration. through most u.s. history those were caused by a pretty usual process, unexpected deaths, the hearing process. even when george bush left office seats were left to president obama to fill. but thanks to senate republicans trump will enter office with over 100 judicial vacancies to fill. that's double bush's amount. plus ...

Like treasury and defense. white house chief of staff and u.n. chief ambassador. new people usually fill all those slots. that tradition is different when it comes to filling the judicial branch where the president only fills vacancies left over by the previous administration. through most u.s. history those were caused by a pretty usual process, unexpected deaths, the hearing process. even when george bush left office seats were left to president obama to fill. but thanks to senate republicans trump will enter office with over 100 judicial vacancies to fill. that's double bush's amount. plus ...

Handled. how intelligence is handled. i think that's the question we are asking. is the office of personnel management, are the appropriate offices within the administration, are they clearing him to have him handle that kind of classified, very important confidential informati information. >> do you have concerns about those coming up before you, the secretary of state for one? we have not yet seen who the deputy would be. a number of names have been bandied about. john bolton, elliot abrams, haas. we are not told who the number two would be who could have a lot of control over the state depa...

Russia. but the question in this hearing process everyone understands that as the ceo you have completely different responsibilities. people want to see those deals get done. but as representative of the united states you want to have a good feel whether or not he believes that at its root, putin is somebody who we should or can possibly deal with. somebody who has been very close to assad. someone who has been very close to iran. is that somebody we can negotiate or deal with? >> well, again the thing that i would say number one thing we need our secretary of state doing advocating for the pr...