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In his transition operation, and didn't actually go and bother to get the briefings across the government, that three months ago, i'm getting briefings in some of these federal departments that no one has given before because no one bothered to hear about it. these are technical matters, what's going on inside of the government. i think he basically -- he basically doesn't care. and he attracted -- anybody who did care and knew about the government was kind of lined up against him when he was running. and so he had no -- he demanded loyalty from everybody he put in the government, so nobody kn...

Flynn with the blackmail with russia. and now this. why despite all of that, did donald trump hire him on? >> president obama warned against this. now we learn that michael flynn told don mcgann in early january he was under federal investigation for his work with turkey throughout the campaign. none of that was red flag enough to not be named national security adviser. sally yates warned after he was in the position. there were early warnings here. there were people in the transition operation set up during the campaign that were saying to then candidate trump. i'm not sure michael flynn is t...

They didn't do more vetting because, remember, there was a really dysfunctional transition operation by the trump folks. they didn't expect candidate trump to win the presidency. they didn't have the kind of internal vetting that other presidents in transition have had. >> why vet a guy for connections to russia if you want a connection to russia? obviously at some point they liked what he was doing. he was doing it for them. >> that is one of the questions we've been struggling with for more than a year, which is why did candidate trump take such a positive attitude toward president putin and...

A way for institutions to agree. >> chairman, chairman, there are hundreds of millions of dollars -- [ inaudible ] >> both of you have talked a lot about party building and the need to build infrastructures, so that you can elect people all the way up to where you want to go. so can you talk about over the next couple of months, changes at the actions we're going to see from you, at the committee to begin to create this infrastructure and what it's going to look like? >> we are putting together now a transition operation so that we can understand what the immediate opportunities are. what the ...

Starting to fill out those positions now, two cabinet roles. tom price, i think that's important, conservatives are thrilled by this pick. he has been the leader of the opposition to obamacare in the house. he's also been the leader of the alternative to obamacare. he's an orthopedic surgeon. he has experience on the realities of the policy side of things. i've been going back and forth with capitol hill republicans throughout the day and last night when this news broke. people are very excited about this pick. so two big cabinet selections today. that's been the focus of the trump operation b...