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Authoritarian act. on the other hand, you have this sealed off vice president's office that can present to capitol hill, to the country the face of normalcy. is that a normal way that a system like this, an authoritarian system would operate? >> absolutely. one temporarily looks a little worse than the other. what is lost in the shuffle is what unites them. what unites them in this particular case is utter incompetence, right? if we take pence at his word, which actually i would recommend doing at least as a thought exercise, then what we're looking at is a perfectly incompetent transition tea...

There are consequences that the president didn't anticipate, he is learning those consequences, i'm glad, and we should be celebrating that he is not stuck on stupid. >> let me ask you both about mike flynn. the state department is looking into it, but there is a little dysfunction on the oversight side. they are breaking up over the release on these. he was national security advisor for 24 days and he did not disclose payments, and now there are suggests by politico that the turkish company he worked for was close to putin. this is one of the tragedies of what happened. the transition process...

Executive orders that the president has put forward? today is the deadline for the regulatory reform officers to be in place. how many of those are there? >> i don't have a number on that. i can talk to our personnel office and get back to you. i think we have been able to work with, in many case, and i think i went over this early on in the process. but we installed beach head teams during the transition process. we put 400 plus individuals into these departments that, in most cases, transform into schedule c employees. so we have been able to be up and running on almost every one of these in...

Some of the military actions and the way that they see the lay of the land. they're going to answer questions, as they routinely do, on a situation like this. kayla? >> how long will you reasonably expect the government to take these essential personnel to draft, negotiate and implement complicated policies like tax reform and put forward something that's a little bit more meaty than just broad principle? >> well, i think we're going to have something to share with you tomorrow. and then we're going to continue to work with allies and individuals who want to be part of this process. that conve...

An extraordinary number, that's a very unrealistic request. >> was it the sheer volume of it? >> to say we want the national security adviser whose job it is to talk with foreign counter parts to document every call that he may or may not have made is not exactly a request that will be filled. but every document they asked for my understanding is that they've gotten. >> is it your position that during the transition, the trump transition has no custodial possession of any of thaese documents? that flynn filled out as part of the process to become the president's national security adviser. this...