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Even if he is in his job tomorrow, which i hope happens, there is still, as you said, a vacuum, not just on the management side but on the policy side. >> and we should point out that steve bannon, arguably, is clearing that vacuum with foreign policy decisions. >> that's what mt concerns me about the executive order, that there was no apparent coordination or feedback from four key agencies directly affected, homeland security, state defense and justice. >> homeland says they weighed in but the argument is whether they were overruled at the last moment when some of the visa issues were addres...

Saying they're still left in the dark. but trump's team says they're moving forward on this today. ready to announce their so-called landing teams made up of transition staff that will deploy and interact with the department of justice, state defense and national security with other agencies to follow. >> i think we made tremendous progress in giving the president-elect some ideas about how to move forward with his core team and potential members of his cabinet. >> reporter: today in trump tower, a flurry of meetings lined up for the president-elect. including south carolina's governor nikki h...

Uphold this campaign promise. >> we are going to drain the swamp. >> reporter: unveiling a new lobbying ban. requiring anyone under consideration for a job in the trump administration to sign a written pledge to terminate their lobbying. and when they leave office, they will be banned from being a lobbyist for five years. >> we talked about draining the swamp, this is one of the first steps. >> reporter: as they make headway on some aspects of the transition, other parts are still slow moving. trump's team has not yet contacted the pentagon, state department or other federal agencies to inform...

The primary process when donald trump was new to the republican party never mind politics. and so they do have a close relationship and he is also -- he, reince priebus, is also somebody who not only understands washington, most of the people in that building down there -- that way, i guess, the capit capitol, he helped get elected to the republican majority so he has the relationships which, when you're chief of staff, you need so. i don't know 100%, nobody does if it will be him, we might be surprised but i'm told whomever is it that is a position they want to fast track, they want to do ext...

>> it is -- well, let's not say. anyway, moving on. >> this got awkward. >> i mean, i will also say, look, and i think that a lot has been made of this sort of controversy. it may be a controversy where none actually exists. people have forgotten that janet napolitano was a cabinet level secretary. cathleen is out there. valerie jarrett. where have they been, though? could the white house not have done a better job in terms of pushing back on this narrative? >> it's partly because of the sort of sexy job, the jobs the beltway media tends to cover are state defense, cia, those are sort of the j...