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Develop in the united states. thatcher, reagan, blair, clinton, now brexit and trump. they seem to sync up. kiir simmons, batty, eli, thank you for joining us. appreciate that. and again, we are waiting there at the pentagon, back up on your screen, that is the swearing in ceremony for donald trump's secretary of defense. general james mattis, expected to get under way any minute. also shortly after that ceremony, the president likely to sign another executive order. maybe several executive orders, obviously again, some conflicting signals throughout about what exactly will be in those. but we...

President trump's first visit to the state department -- excuse me, the defense department as commander in chief. a live picture here from the pentagon, donald trump there for the intering in of james mattis as his defense secretary. now mattis was confirmed by the senate last friday. he was officially sworn in that evening. he has been on the job since then. this is the most ceremonial swearing in. cameras, speeches, pomp, circumstance, that sort of thing. we are also expecting though that on this visit to the pentagon, trump will announce new executive orders. dealing potentially with refuge...

You're looking live inside the pentagon there. donald trump is in the building. they are getting ready -- and you can see everybody is stand pg sop we expect this will be getting underwait in just a minute here. this will be the formal -- excuse me, the ceremonial swearing in of james mattis. again james mattis was actually confirmed last friday. that was date donald trump was sworn in as president, as soon as he was confirmed, there was a hastily arraigned, very private behind the scenes ceremony too just get him officially sworn in. he's been on the job for the last week, but this will be th...

Pentagon correspondent is standing by. hans obviously the question, that is not very specific what i just read in terms of criteria. do we know how any of that is going to be determined? >> well, that's what the pentagon is going to be figuring out, steve, also importantly, what the state department is going to figure out. defining extreme vetting, and what that means is going to be a task for the state department. the pentagon component to this, potentially, they could be required and this is in some of the draft executive orders out there. set up a safe zone in northern syria. that is someth...

You think they do. i think voting works. i think unless you get democrats especially minorities and young people to understand, you can't be a sprinter in politics. you've got to be a long distance runner. you can't just vote in presidential elections and feel satisfied because the government's being taken away from you. >> that's right. but chris, here's the thing. you can't just vote but in between you have to be engaged. that's whatting in north carolina. forward together movement is keeping people engaged during these off years, right? too often, we focus on just, you know, going into the ...