Tonight Christopher Lu News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Security posts for which the president elect is yet to appoint or nominate people and we don't know if come noon tomorrow anybody will be in those jobs at all. joining us is christopher lu. he served as the executive director of the obama-biden transition when the obama-biden team first arrived in washington. good to have you with us tonight. thank you for your time. >> thank you for having me. >> i have been trying to understand what is normal in a transition period and whether some of the things we are hearing on the surface level are disturbing or worrying, especially in national security w...

On the george w. bush folks for a while until he got his own people in place. that is something planned as part of your transition. no surprise to anybody. if there isn't clarity about what is supposed to happen at that agency or other agencies like that and the standing order is the people in charge should leave, do they just get up and walk away? if you are in a key national security job and there's nobody to take it, do you just leave,s even if there is nobody to hand your keys to? >> let me just say this. at the department of labor we are effectively closed tomorrow. it's a federal holiday...

Pushed out the door at 12:01 tomorrow afternoon as they were told a couple of weeks ago, perry said today i hope not. fingers crossed, i don't want that to happen. he said it is in the president elect's office now. it is noon tomorrow. those are a couple of key security posts for which the president elect is yet to appoint or nominate people and we don't know if come noon tomorrow anybody will be in those jobs at all. joining us is christopher lu. he served as the executive director of the obama-biden transition when the obama-biden team first arrived in washington. good to have you with us to...

Those jobs at all. joining us is christopher lu. he served as the executive director of the obama-biden transition when the obama-biden team first arrived in washington. good to have you with us tonight. thank you for your time. >> thank you for having me. >> i have been trying to understand what is normal in a transition period and whether some of the things we are hearing on the surface level are disturbing or worrying, especially in national security whether they are unusual. let me ask you given your experience here, are there -- is it an unusually large number of national security positio...

Are effectively closed tomorrow. it's a federal holiday for us. if the word has not come down to us and other agencies people have just left. as you pointed out, there are several people who have been asked to stay and they said i don't want to do this. i have other plans or i don't want to serve in this administration. these are decisions that should have been made weeks or months ago. >> incredible we are having this conversation tonight christopher lu, deputy labor secretary, unique insight in to whais starting to freak me out. >> thank you for having me. the "new york times" published so...