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To do. >> what would be the chances of wrapping other countries? >> i think the europeans in particular. a decent chance. and i think it makes it a little bit tougher. then also one other thing. interesting that this happened, joe, on the same day that rex tillerson became secretary of state. what it says again is what we used to call the interagency process. shall we say it is not up and running. >> you get the sense, mark halpern, you're going to have a lot of competition within these agencies between these agency heads in terms of -- this is a jolt in some ways. but you would think that you...

Emergency. the transition team reportedly pushed back allowing mattis to retain only a half dozen top officials. i'm joined by congressman mo brooks from alabama who serves on the house armed services committee. congressman, are you concerned about the vacancies on the national security council, regional directors there if there's a north korea, icbm, if there's an emergency starting at 4:00 p.m. tomorrow, does it concern you there aren't the folks tasked with monitoring that? >> i'm comfortable the people we have serving america in the intelligence agencies and national defense, pentagon orie...

Great again, you have seen this through the transition phase, to lower the cost of the boeing. >> you see unusual extreme of people even kanye was there. >> he has entertainers, academics, people success in the pi military, no matter the field, to bring them together to say no matter the idea, he wants you part of this movement. >> he has a spat with the intelligence community how does he repair sna. >> just to be clear. just to be difference the respect that he has for the men and women go today go in to make sure the country is protected to gather and use intelligence to our nation's benefit...

Acquitted himself well. why around those numbers going up? >> at the end of the day, when you see, you know, good confirmation hearings and then you also see the intelligence community, you know, coming forward and saying look, we still have these questions about the election, questions about russia's role in it, the degree to which there's still -- some sort of clouds over what -- what's going on with the president-elect sort of coming in. he has had trouble and again when you are in a transition phase, he has had trouble getting wins on the board ultimately. there hasn't been that much that ...

Intelligence services? >> well, i didn't want anyone to be confused and think that i had a role in the campaign. i did help in the campaign some in early september and for a few months, weeks after that. but as they have moved into the transition phase, i haven't really had a role and i kept being introduced on various television shows as senior adviser for the transition. and that is not accurate and not fair to the people who really are doing the advising. so i thought i should just let people know that i'm a private citizen and still support mr. trump. >> were you deliberately sidelined, do...