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Always going to be a level of chaos. and president trump ended up succeeding in chaos in 2016. but i think you are right, that no matter who ends up becoming the chief of staff, or who ends up saying things, the main mover and shaker is the president himself, trump. >> there is still hundreds of positions in the trump administration still notfilled. i want youo go through two things for me. what the numbers are and how has the white house responded. president trump thought washington was too booted, has he articulated he plans to fill the seats, conditional them entirely, or do people not want...

Clinton's victory, what would hillary clinton be saying? >> she would say i won. i'm setting up my cabinet. i won. >> people were trying to undermine her win. >> i got to say every time he goes he and talks about this stuff, it just draws people back to the fact that he lost the popular vote. he just needs to move forward. he is president of the united states. >> the other thing he needs to do is stop saying things that aren't true. >> right. >> that is the part where i might agree with you. >> to david's point, yeah, he comes back to it like a dog with a bone but the thing that troubles me an...

Level? >> god, i hope so. >> of course, it does. he mischaracterized what intel, the intel agencies unclassified report said. and so, yeah, that takes on -- they did not, as david ignatius said, they were egnostic. they basically said like a supreme court decision. we are not going to rule on this part of the case. >> we are not political analysts. >> mike allen, thank you very much. >> mike, we are very excited about your new venture. >> thank you so much. roll tide. >> roll tide. sign up, everybody. i'm signing up. i like that. >> of course, you do. >> because it's mike allen. i've missed ...

You want to see in a perfect world? donald trump in terms of how he presents toward russia and any evidence that trump isn't, at this point, just putting out his opening bid into what will ultimately be whatever deal we have? >> which is what he is doing with the saudis and what he is doing with israeli and what he is doing with everybody. he is putting out his opening bid. >> it's his approach to disrupt and destabilize and challenge your opinions and then see how he can get the best deal. trump is right. it's in everybody's interest and the world's interest to have a better less dangerous re...

Defensiveness has to do with things we don't know about. >> all right. harold, your job is to try to start asking donald to go golfing on saturday mornings m early. >> we don't have that relationship. >> you know everybody. harold can get you on any golf course you want to get on in the world. maybe did you make sure it's a golf course you can't take your phone on. >> we have missed so many news stories and we will get to them. you have to shilt your pie hole for a second. >> golden globes? talk about that? >> no. still ahead on "morning joe" on the intel committee. congressman adam schiff joi...