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Believe the appointment of whitaker is unconstitutional? >> yeah, i mean, the constitution says in it that the senate is to confirm principled department heads like the attorney general. indeed, the attorney general is kind of the best example of someone that needs to be senate confirmed. and whitaker is effectively a constitutional nobody. he's not someone the senate has confirmed, and the whole idea behind our constitution is to prevent the president from just reaching into the bowels of the justice department and picking some nobody, some lackey, who is his friend, to do his bidding. there'...

Senior? >> jonathan hollyfield director of the white house initiative. smith who is a commissioned officer in legislative affairs. mary elizabeth taylor who are is a commissioned officer who just got appointed by the president. >> these are all second and third tier people. how many people are in first tier positions? >> there is no one that is at the assistant to the president level. however, the two persons that i named before are commissioned officers which are as you know very well are in the senior level positions, as well as the fact that executive director is jonathan hollyfield. and yo...

Commissioned officer who just got appointed by the president. >> these are all second and third tier people. how many people are in first tier positions? >> there is no one that is at the assistant to the president level. however, the two persons that i named before are commissioned officers which are as you know very well are in the senior level positions, as well as the fact that executive director is jonathan hollyfield. and you have other people, the deputy director of the white house fellows program is african american. you have the second lady in the united states, her communications dir...

Closer to removing mr. pruitt from office? >> i don't have any personnel announcements on that front. certainly we have confidence in the number two, otherwise the president wouldn't have asked him to serve at such a senior level position. but i don't have anything further on that front. >> i wanted to catch back up on china after the delegation came back. presuming that the president has had some briefing on that interaction now, can you tell us his reaction to the talks that happened, if the u.s. plans to talk to china again before the may 22 public comment deadline and what the next steps a...

Announcements on that front. certainly we have confidence in the number two. otherwise, the president wouldn't have asked had imto serve such a senior level position within the epa. i don't have anything further on that front. >> i want to touch back on china after the delegation came back. presuming that the president's had some briefing on that interaction now, can you tell us his reaction to the talks that happened if the u.s. plans to talk to china again before the may 22 public common deadline and what the sort of next steps are? >> sure. the president had a briefing this morning with mem...