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Quickly as possible and faces the stark reality, it's very difficult to get done. he talks about a tax plan in place but does he really have one and can the senate and house and white house get together quickly to get one together? the republicans on capitol hill when they see these tweets, specifically in the morning, they have to reconfigure their day. everything gets thrown up in the air and quite frankly, while mitch mcconnell might publicly say that he likes what he's doing, the bottom line is there's an incredible amount of confusion right now from republicans on capitol hill. >> mark, w...

Vice-president, very heavy hitters. so, short list and they shouldn't be nominating themselves. the white house should be approaching people saying, do you want this? >> the day of phil mudd. we were like what? so, that aside. mark preston, you're watching this go down. such chaos. is this just a data point and a larger graph? >> it's a finally tuned machine. i don't know what you're talking about chaos. this is not chaos. bottom line 50,000 feet, the administration is moving along. i'll preface this by saying it happens in every administration. it just doesn't happen at this level. the fact t...

This administration is running like a fan tuine tuned machine despite the fact i can't get the cabinet approved. >> reporter: and he is making news on russia. saying he is not aware of advisers in contact with russian officials during the campaign. that runs contrary to what we are hearing at cnn from sources who say there are former campaign officials who were in constant contact with russian officials throughout the campaign. in the press conference, president trump continued to speak glowingly about russia saying he hopes to have positive dip malomatic relations going forward. he will go to...

Respected military leader. he is currently at lockheed martin. had a long and storied career in the navy se.e.a.l.s. this was very important for trump. he picked him to immediately replace general flynn, and the circumstances of him turning this down are what? >> well, we're still trying to find that out and find the context of the actual conversation and why he decided not to accept the offer. i think we need to step back and look at the administration as a whole. this isn't uncommon necessarily. there has been some struckgglesy the trump administration to put people who are very experienced ...

Events. the president offered some gentle criticism of the media. >> the press has become so dishonest that if we don't talk about it, we are doing a tremendous disservice to the american people. >> tom: trump at one point singled out cnn's coverage of his ministry can. >> the story after story after story is bad. i won, i won. and the other thing, chaos, there is a zero chaos. this is a fine tuned machine. >> tom: it's a fine-tuned machine. later, a cnn reporter tried to ask a follow-up question. >> tomorrow the headlines are going to be "donald trump rants and raves. because quote i'm not ra...