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Better or worse, he hasn't made a lot of appointments in the deputy undersecretary, assistant secretary level so there are state department, defense department professionals who are filling out those roles. >> sam, i want to give you a second to respond then we're going to move on. >> the point is not that the president doesn't have authority to do it because i didn't vote for him. the point is when we say we're supporting something that's reliant on a very complicated strategy that sees beyond this first military action which we've just heard in libya turned out with a lot of unintended conse...

Ultimately comes down to him. >> sam, i mean, to me what was striking to watch the president yesterday in the rose garden was that his command of the issues seemed charitably extremely thin. but this is a place in which he is watching cable news all the time, and that is how he is producing his opinions on things. he doesn't have deeply held strategic visions or world view or a thick ideology or politics. he's sort of watching cable news, and that's how he's making these decisions. >> yeah, i mean that's conceivable. i mean it's also conceivable that that's a story. i mean within weeks of him ...

Appears to continue unabated with a host of conflicts? >> it certainly put the house republicans in the spot and easy for trump to say because the office of congressional ethics has no jurisdiction over the white house so he could do anything he wants to prop up an agency that can't investigate him and it costs him nothing and only put the republican house members in an embarrassing spot. so it was quite a maneuver for him to sort of push this and their faces and i'm surprised he chose to do this as one of his opening acts with the republicans they needed to work with in congress. >> one of th...

Republicans they needed to work with in congress. >> one of the many investigative reporters on the case, eric lipton, thank you for your dime tonight. >> thank you. >> i'm joined by the editor and publisher of the nation magazine and sam cedar, host of the majority report. what do you take from this, katrina? >> i take quality investigative reporting still matters it can in this moment lead to a transparent zahn campaign of mobilization which shamed this mind bendingly moronic republican caucus from taking action. i don't think the media should reflexively credit donald trump with his tweets ...

Trust. well, i don't know if it's a blind trust if ivanka, don and eric run it. is that a blind trust? i don't know. i would probably have my children run it with my executives and i wouldn't ever be involved because i wouldn't care about anything but this country. >> just this country, thavs not a blind trust. so far, president-elect trump's sole plan to deal with conflicts of interest from financial holdings is leaf leave it in th hands of his children. "america is on a precipice, unpressed threat -- joining me, sam cedar, msnbc contributor, catherine, columnist at the "washington post." i b...