and if you're going to go back to the clinton administration, there's an argument that the clinton administration was too distracted ahead of the attack on nine over 11 ahead of osama bin laden. i'm not saying that it was a parallel in any way, that they were too focused on trying to deal with, you know, trying to shrink the government. but when you are distracted with something else, things fall through the cracks. and, elaine, when we're talking about just gutting the federal government, taking a hammer to it, seeing what happens, it feels to me like a you're putting you're putting the country in a pretty vulnerable position, especially when you add on top of the not just the buyouts of the federal workforce, but the pushing out of fbi employees, the firing of prosecutors. the buyout was offered, by the way, to the cia. i mean, it's not just civil servants, it's folks who are who are focused on keeping the country safe. >> well, and the big the big difference between the private sector and the public sector is people can live without twitter. i know some people may think that's, you know, impos

. >> it was almost even worse were secretary clinton went into blaming the trump administration for the horrible accidents this is the kind of thing americans reject they reject the premise that new blood in new ideas and new ways of looking at government spending are unwelcome people rejected that they had the choice not to reiterate but they had the choice they rejected people like secretary clinton and, here's who are going to deliver nothing but the same old if you look at the faa the biden administration made very little progress in hiring more faa air traffic control this was an issue for ten years that is significant in a real-world consequence than a little progress but not much in a new view can take over and do a better job. >> i find a little hypocritical she's talking about an agency protecting the faa when the faa did not protect 67 victims in air disaster over the pandemic river the faa did not protect a near miss between the united and delta airlines aircraft that happened over phoenix sky harbor and the safety record in the skies even though 16 years of not having a larg

they are talking a lot about the 90s and clinton administration and tens of thousands of haitian and cuban migrants before some of the legal rulings by the supreme court. if you have are at gitmo and sent from the u.s., often the migrants picked up at sea are sent to gitmo but they've never been in the u.s. once you have set foot in the u.s. you have certain rights according to current immigration law. i imagine the lawyers will start getting involved. >> harris: great. glad you were with me to answer that question, jennifer. great reporting always. thank you. >> president trump: under the trump administration we're moving with urgency and speed to get these vicious and violent criminals the hell out of our country and restore law and order to our suburbs, cities and towns. the border is now closed. we won't allow our territory to be violated after four long years. >> harris: anybody who says they didn't see what was coming was not paying attention to donald trump. he meant what he said. the president indeed is moving at lightning speed with his crackdown on illegal immigration and y

op ed with four other past surgeons general who served under the trump, obama, bush, and clinton administrations. and in this op ed, you implored the new trump administration to, quote, "prioritize global health security and vaccine confidence as critical national security concerns." what is your degree of confidence that the administration is heeding your advice? - well, i'm concerned because there's so much chaos going on now in the administration that we just kind of shift from one topic to another and there doesn't seem to be a cohesive, strategic plan as it relates to issues of global health. and because of these misinformation, disinformation, confusion, the public is not sure who they can trust anymore. - well, the senate finance committee just this week has voted to advance robert f. kennedy jr.'s nomination to run the department of health and human services. now, robert f. kennedy jr. has spent decades advocating against vaccines and spreading misinformation. he has called the covid-19 vaccine, quote, "the deadliest vaccine ever made." he suggested the pandemic was, quote, "ethnically t

across the agencies. >> that was true in in. >> the administration. >> you served. >> in the clinton administrationent. >> is. >> you know, we omb is a. >> for a lot. of people. >> a boring just their. >> eyes. glaze over. >> when they hear just the acronym. right. but in. terms of domestic policy, it's a powerful agency in the government because it is involved in in how the how the, the, the administration, the presidential administration spends the money that the congress gives it to spend and the implementation. >> of that. >> spending, what it actually looks like, not just the raw number. >> of dollars. >> that go. >> out, but. >> how what the conditions are for the spending, what the regulations are that attend, that spending, all of that. that is the stuff of governance, right. so he has a deep understanding going into this job, which makes him, to your point, earlier, nicole makes. >> him. >> in addition to the views that he has. >> which are. >> perfectly aligned with the views that we talked about the last time i was on, and he is elon musk, steve bannon and russ vought, the three of them.

this has happened before during the clinton administration. detainees of cuban and haitian dissent were both detained at guantanamo. are you looking at that model setting up these detention facilities? karoline: secretary hegseth answered this question and he said the department of defense is already on it. he has directed his agency to ensure gitmo is increasing their capacity for beds. that's executive president trump's executive order did. directed secretary hegseth to expand the operation center to provide for this extra detention space. as secretary hegseth confirmed, that operation is underway. karoline: sure. reporter: can you clarify whether the tariffs will be going into effect tomorrow or the might be some leadtime? they will be going to affect? karoline: correct. reporter: is there a scenario in which canada and mexico and china can offer concessions and they will be removed? karoline: the president made it clear those tariffs are going to be implement it and and effect. if the president decides to rollback the tariffs, i will leave

he said sometime during the clinton administration usaid began to promote radical social agendas suchulation control, lgbt q and climate ideologies added, president biden topped it off, political culture would eventually skew far left, encouraged conservatives and independents. you are a guest often on our show, we talk a lot about what our government is doing in other countries. in latin america, africa, and other places we are using usaid and state department to push left-wing ideologies that these countries find offensive. hurting our relationship with these countries, isn't it? daniel:they are using taxpayer dollars as a woke slush fund to impose their agenda. the bigger problem here is government is too big, finances so many programs and regulations in different parts of the government that are working at cross purposes. the woke agenda nobody asked for. to make government more effective, musk and his team need to expose the massive fraud and waste and one of the ways we can do this is extend the tax cuts. you cannot now ask the american people to pay more in taxes, than they hav

you know, if you go back under the clinton administration, the united states worked very closely withthe with colombia during plan colombia, they were dealing with the farc, which acted like a terrorist organization, but they were actually insurgency. they were a political party. they wanted to govern colombia. we're not dealing with that with mexico. now, with respect to china, we've seen a 20 500% increase of chinese nationals coming into the united states. we just heard the director of the fbi reiterate in exit interview the other night on 60 minutes that he believes i agree with this, that china, the gravest threat to the united. so are we so blind as to not to ask there a bigger play at stake here you have mass my mass out of china that just doesn't take place without the government of china knowing. exactly what's going on right. so so to answer to answer your question it really comes who knows? the lay the land, right? who who is the best making for trafficking knowing that money is the ultimate motive for the cartels? who's best to handle those operations of getting all of the

continuation of us policy over decades and decades and decade , yes the bush administration, the clinton administrationp markets for our agriculture products. i don't like the fact that we have taxpayers $28 billion last time during the trump administration bats what you came and asked they came and asked us for to compensate farmers loduring that i'm definitely being nicer to you that i have been to catherine ty i did not agree with the last trade ambassadors approach to say i'm gonna be the trade ambassador but i'm not to spend time on opening markets. my question to you is, when you look at apple in about 30% of our market export is canada and mexico in the u.s. free-trade agreement increase that capacity why are we arguing with our closest neighbors because export markets for apple in the meantime not going out and opening up more apple markets, the tariffs that were put on cost us an unbelievable retaliatory tariff in india basically decimated the market and went from $120 million in india down to 1 million. hundreds of families lost their economic livelihood we had about 68,000 people employed in

final word, lisa. >> by the way, clinton administration wanted to merge usaid with the state department and trump administration is not the first to consider this. beyond that, democrats use a lot of foreign entanglements as guise to enrich themselves and friends and clinton foundation and penn biden center with a lot of chinese money flowing in and it was a place for classified documents being held and what exactly were they trying to buy with that influence or just the way the biden family enriched their office in the foreign relationships as well. digging furthers under the hood u you'll find out m. liz: terrific stuff from the one and only lisa boothe. have a great weekend. now listen to this. >> i've never been that impressod with his political operations. >> biden's operation? >> no, i haven't. some people unhappy with that. didn't sound like joe biden to me. >> i think it's a legitimate question to say, is this an episode or is this a condition? liz: nancy pelosi being real about why democrat hads to push joe biden out of the race. he's been attacking her. joe biden has been agai

invented is a theocratic thing going on forever, people don't know some history for example, the clinton administration 90s using guantÁnamo bay for migrants. this is not new. >> it's interesting one of the things obama was running on was closing gitmo. there is a period of time for democrats have popular thing to shut it down and now it seems to be a popular thing to be used in this way and it does send a message in this specifically might be trendy with this bank we've seen grow and expand dramatically in the last year end a half or so across america, particularly but up to 30,000 migrants could be there and as the president pointed out, these are the real bad guys intended to be there. >> i know you have intel on this, what are you hearing? >> i spoke with secretary noem just before this and we had a conversation going to understand what's happening. she further added details, datafiles, murderers and rapists they are running up, they are not just petty criminals. this is the news, marines and soldiers are at gitmo putting up thousands of beds for more people and people need to understand that whate

communism from soviet union and allies and respond to global disasters and sometime during the clinton administrationsaid began to promote radical agenda and joe biden topped it off and going for them and going far left and more. charlie: that's somebody that loves the work usaid does and recognizing it's off the rails and completely separate whistle blower went on them last night and saying the same thing and these are the people that love the mission but realize it's gone completely off the rails and the part of brewer cats. >> the part of bureaucrats going to clean up the mess and instead of being appreciative we avoided embarrassment, i was retaliated against and had to sue them under the whistle blower protection act and botch them and this was under the assistants and she did a good job of streamlining bureaucracy and there's important programs that will be thrown out with a bureaucracy growing over six decades and not successful and i hope this could be an act of creative destruction, which is a good thing and instead of total destruction, which would be the concern of overreach. rachel: sound

this is kind of like the idea we saw in the clinton administration welfare to work. >> or bridge to jobserything you just said. it is 15 million identified. john, and eric trump 1.0 administration 19 states as seat stomach received approval and another nine applied for when the biden administration came in and mixed it. this is something on the table for a while. i agree with the issue it improves health. i also think, by the way, but is something else he will ask me about, people using medicaid in the wrong way. they might have a way to make money, but they don't tie it and with health insurance or essentially medicaid part of a managed date. the vast majority of people in this country get their insurance by working for it. they are part of it and might even take a job a little less and they want to get the health insurance to provide for their family. with medicaid, but is uncoupled the. the federal government pays 70% of medicaid across the board. even though state administered program to a large extent, it is mostly federally funded program. fraud and abuse and misuse of medicaid is

. >> the clinton administration had tens of thousands of migrants at guantanamo bay that's been used>> but that was before 9/11, and a supreme court decision that gave anyone since they are the right to habeas corpus. in other words, the right to a lawyer anther day in court. that 2,000 decision -- the supreme court ruled individuals in guantanamo bay can challenge the legality of their detention. it has been a factor that for years slowed the government's ability to complete the prosecution of khalid sheikh mohammed and other 9/11 planners. right now, there aren't enough beds at gitmo for an influx of migrants pick the marines have set up tents for about 1,000 people as of now, but those are not secure areas. hegseth has said they may use the golf course there to put up tents for 6000 migrants. would not rule out sending migrant families to gitmo and putting hardened gang members in with the 15 remaining detainees captured after 9/11. it's not clear whether this plan is legal and whether they migrants who are taken there will suddenly have a right to a lawyer, which will begin a lon

. >> clinton administration had tens of thousands at guantanamo bay and used many times over. >> thatme court decision that gave anyone sent to gitmo the right to maybe yous corpus and that's called lock down and they can challenge the legality of detention and it's been a factor that slowed for years the government's cases and ability to complete the prosecution of shake mohammad and the over 9/11 manners and it's not clear whether sending migrants to guantanamo bay is legal and whether the other migrants will have a right to a lawyer and the same legal rights they would have in the u.s.. all of this could begin a long legal process that could prevent the u.s. government from then deporting them to their final destinations. stuart: that toweled change things. that could change things. thank you, jennifer. bring in chris olivaras. full control of the southern border is mission accomplishment. that's his words. is america in full control of the border in your opinion? >> well, stuart, you know, we have numbers a lot lower than what they were before from the prior administration. i can

[inaudible] >> the clinton administration had tens of thousands of migrants at quote tony mowbray ander: what exactly are their day-to-day tasks and why do you need more? >> some are able to do enforcement actually. operation lone star, state based troops have authorities. federal troops, what they do is relieve border patrol and to have the opportunity to actually do it so what is happening right here which i talked with a bunch of those doing their duty, they are calling in observation two border patrol. it is a process that in the past tom was telling me might take 3. 30 minutes on an indication that someone is crossing the border for there to be a response because under the bond administration border patrol was too busy babysitting migrants who were being processed to enter the country. now because crossing the border is illegal and we'll get you deported, less people are crossing, more assets are calling out those crossing the border and are being intercepted and sent back for their claims of asylum and so the whole feedback loop creates a disincentive for those who want to cross

. >> also the former treasury secretary in the clinton administration, now a professor at the harvard kennedy school. well, very. >> good to see you. >> larry summers. >> let's. >> talk about. >> the tariffs. first of all, because donald trump has, under all questioning, just disputed economic, you know, economic understanding that tariffs create a. burden on the consumers here. the tariffs. are not paid by the country. >> that. >> is hit by. these tariffs. but donald trump seems to be believing that this is a weapon that will actually raise money. >> for the u.s. >> and not cause inflation. >> look. >> tariffs are a. self-inflicted supply shock. >> to our economy. they'll raise the prices. because they're like a sales tax on. >> all the imported. >> goods that will raise the margins of the. firms that. have to compete with imports. it will make. >> a mess. >> of the production of automobiles in north america, given that the chassis go. >> back and forth across the. >> border a number of times before a car is produced. so this will raise the price level. this will make american famili

that actually ties back in, in the in the clinton administration.nd the first day there was an executive order, i believe, to essentially bring the internet to the federal government. so the prior wave of new innovation that had not been deeply or at all really part of most federal agencies, was now a mandate to get on the web. and so that required, you know, what, some different skills, different people and some people that were from prior periods are not willing to make that shift back then, you know, appropriately, perhapsere encouraged to move on if they wished. so in that sense, this is not unprecedented. the scale of it and, and those kind of rushed move that that's definitely unusual. >> well, with the speed of which this is moving here, do you anticipate there will be fallout such as if you remove this many people? there might be something that these jobs were doing that will fall through the cracks at some point. is that a concern? >> yeah, absolutely. and again, i'm concerned that the that essentially the movements of young employees, inex

we've seen this in the clinton administration, in the george w bush administration.ore power has been gone to the oval office from the agencies. but this is on a whole dramatically different level. and, you know, they are trying to just run roughshod over systems that have developed over decades to try to provide some checks and balances, not only in in legislating, but in how we hand out contracts and everything. and what happens when musk leaves the government and he has all that. what happens with all this information. when or if? well, if but you know, i mean, he is a special government employee. he has some limits. >> but 130 days in theory. >> what my what's fascinating to me is that i'm hearing on the hill is there's a couple different reads on this is is that trump wanted musk to take all these arrows at first, okay. that he was he you know, he was happy to have the world's richest man working for him okay. but now there's also republicans and democrats out there saying that musk has run amok and that the white house there is there's problems in the white hou

and i worked in the clinton administration. i worked in the obama administration.h asked questions how do we better contract to save the government money? under obama, there was a u.s. digital service. how do we make sure our systems are working? that's within the mission of how do we make government work more effectively, more efficiently? what we're talking about here is potentially breaking how government works, undermining how government works, and people who haven't gone through the basic protections to ensure that our data is safe are getting access to it. that's why the judge acted so quickly, said our claims were extremely strong and went ahead to prevent this information from being accessed and, as you noted, requires it now to be destroyed. this is a moment where we need to protect our republic, to make sure we operate faithfully to the laws, and we don't do what you put. well, a bell that can't be unrung you take this information and you stop it from being used properly. people don't get their social security checks. people's private information gets use

hegseth said thousands of haitian and migrant cubans were sent to gitmo here to speak of the clinton administrationgrants at guantanamo bay and it's been usy times over. >> but that was before 9/11 and supreme court decision gave anyone sent to gitmo right to habeas corpus, in other words, a right to a lawyer and day in court. that 2008 decision by the supreme court bohemian and flesh v. bush guantanamo bay can challenge the detention, back to you, john. >> john: a lot of lawyers will be busy, jennifer griffin, we will be back right after this. please don't go away. our heart attack was... scary! never want to go through that again. but we could... with heart disease, you never know. so we made changes. green juice. diet, exercise... ...statins helped. but our ldl-c (bad cholesterol) - it was stuck! - stuck! just couldn't lower it enough. and high ldl-c meant a real risk of another attack. so i said, “let's ask our doctor about repatha.” what can i say? listen to your heart. repatha plus a statin dramatically lowers ldl-c by 63%, and drops the risk of having a heart attack by 27%. do not take repat

i reviewed every single program from the clinton administration when i took over in 2001, and i endeds, and i redirected toward our priorities. that took a month. we did it quietly. the career people caught a lot of the clinton programs dogs because they didn't work. and they were they didn't even like them, but they they quietly implemented what they under the clinton years, what. they were told to do. and they do the same thing. when i was in office. i the notion that aid is not following the foreign policy, of course it isn't. there's no aid administration. they haven't appointed any people from the republican party to run aid under trump. so of course it. >> hasn't moved. >> toward their foreign policy. they just took office three weeks ago. it takes a few months, you know, to move any agency or department. but i might add one last thing. the fact is that the state department in the f office controls every single dollar aid spends. that's what the office was created for. and they've done that for 20 years now. it's not new, and i might add, who controls the appropriation? the cong

policy, over decades and decades, yes the bush, clinton administration and others, in opening up markets for agricultural products. i don't like the fact that we taxed taxpayers 28 billion dollars during the last trump administration, that is what they asked us for, to compensate farmers during that loss. i am being nicer to you than i have been to katherine tai. i did not agree with the last trade ambassadors approach, to set i will not spend any time opening markets. my question to you is when you look at apples, 30% of our market export is to canada/mexico, and the u.s. free trade agreement increased capacity. why are we arguing with our closest neighbors, our biggest export markets for apples, in the meantime not going out and opening up more apple markets? the tariffs put on cost us in unbelievable retaliatory tariff in india. it decimated the market and went from 120 million in india down to $1 million. hundreds of families lost their economic livelihood. we have 68,000 people employed in the apple sector in our state. this is no small number. i fought hard and got the biden admini

he served in president bill clinton's administration. he described how countries can use culture, foreign aid, and influence instead of force to achieve their goals. hard power, the kind president trump has preferred is military force. it sanctions its strong arm tactics. soft power. that's hollywood movies, blue jeans and yes, sesame street, all intended, as peter baker of the new york times describes, fuel america's popularity around the world and thus its influence. the united states could sometimes get what it wanted. the theory went because other countries aspired to be like the united states or be its friend. and history shows that it's often more effective long term. nye himself said, in the short term, hard power usually trumps soft power, but the long run effects might be the opposite. or, as a caller to my sirius xm radio program said yesterday, who would you rather teach iraqi kids? big bird or al qaeda? disease prevention helps us all. education that fights extremism. it brings me to today's poll question. it's bearcats. com

when i took over from the clinton administration, i had a review very quietly.i didn't do it in the newspapers. i didn't threaten anybody. i didn't call for the shutdown of all aid missions in the field. we did quietly. we did it over several weeks. we shut down scores of programs. i can tell you some they're worse than the ones you just mentioned. when the democrats control aid, they move the agency to the left. when the republicans take control, they move it to the right. the career people do what they're told to do. do you think they they did this on their own. they did this because the white house told them to do it. so the thing is that i think is amusing is that republicans are accusing aid of not listening to the foreign policy advice of the president of the united states. well, the foreign policy advice was coming from president biden, who's on the left, who put up the lbgtq flag and all the american embassies, not only did the embassies did, should we abolish the state department because of that? i mean, this this doesn't make any sense. it doesn't make

guest: this is actually just restarting something we've done a number of times under the clinton and other administrations where we would contain illegal immigrants of one sort or another at guantanamo. it is a big place, it is not like they are going to be with the terrorists. it is its own facility. in of the way the trump administration has talked about it is that is where they are going to put the criminals that their own countries aren't taking yet. in other words it will be sort of a hole facility while the administration applies pressure to what is called countries that are not honoring their international obligations to take their own people back. and there's a lot of countries like that. venezuela was one of them but the president seems to have persuaded them either with carrots or steak or both to comply with their international obligations. there are still other countries that are doing that, so as i understand it, that is one of the main reasons they are setting up this facility. so they can get people out of the united states until they can get the paperwork in the travel documents, etc. to s

. >> and we knew in the clinton administration, as was true for george. >> h.w.h. >> and others, that what it cost us to protect a worker was greater in terms of its impact on the taxpayer and on the economy. so we know they're inflationary. now, as to whether or not this is a good negotiating. >> strategy, that's another story. >> steve just said they're focused on fentanyl. i kind of kind of. >> ironic. >> by the way, there would not be. >> a tariff. >> on the imports of fentanyl that the syndicates or the bad guys in mexico perpetuate. and i grew up in mexico. i was a trade negotiator with mexico. spanish is my first language because i grew up in mexico. i know the economy well. putting 10,000 troops on the border. my guess is they will be infiltrated by. >> the syndicates. >> there certainly will be a lot of effort on behalf of. >> the drug gangs to. >> make friends with the federales. >> who are going to be. >> charged the 10,000 of them with ferreting out fentanyl. so you have to. keep these. >> things in perspective. >> and maybe that's why the president g

i reviewed every single program from the clinton administration when i took over in 2001, and i endedhat took a month. we did it quietly. the career people caught a lot of the clinton programs dogs because they didn't work. and they were they didn't even like them, but they they quietly implemented what they under the clinton years, what they were told to do. and they do the same thing when i was in office. i the notion that aid is not following the foreign policy, of course it isn't. there's no aid administrator. they haven't appointed any people from the republican party to run aid under trump. so of course it hasn't moved toward their foreign policy. they just took off three weeks ago. it takes a few months, you know, to move any agency or department. but i might add one last thing. the fact is that the state department in the f office controls every single dollar aid spends. that's what the office was created for. and they've done that for 20 years now. it's not new, and i might add, who controls the appropriation? the congress does and omb does, which is controlled by the white h

why did the clintons that obama administration say that because they were financially benefiting from that because it was a known enemy that they could get more defense money and, and here we go back into the circle of the money again. but um, i think with donald trump is going to try to do is bring peace. however, he has made these aggressive statements about brits, where he said, you know, he was, you know, kind of some piece to his chest about terrorists if they tried to create their own currency and move away from the dollar. one thing about donald trump is that he's hard to predict. he'll say he's doing one thing, and then you know, he might gets weighed in a different direction. however, all that said, he's been very clear about wanting to end this conflict and no more money going to ukraine. no more money going through an illegitimate president with zalinski, he's never had any sympathy for zalinski or this situation. and has pointed out that this has been a where this should have never, it happens. and that was instigated by america in the 1st place and nato. and he's even gon

one time in particular was during the clinton administration, the national partnership for reinventing government. it was led by al gore. i ran a think tank at the time and came to meet with folks working on this. after seven years of this effort, they reduced the civilian employee population by over 126,000, they closed 250 federal offices, released the federal registry by 700,000 pages, 16,000 pages of regulations. i understand, governor reynolds, iowa launched a reorganization effort. the objective to make government more effective and more responsive to the people of iowa. gov. reynolds: more efficient, more effective, more responsive, more accountable. it brought transparency to the process, we are better at what we are doing. the employees appreciate the environment we are working in. they appreciate the culture of communication we are creating in the state or they love being part of it. >> did you bring any experts for reinventing government back in the 1990's? gov. reynolds: i brought in one consultant to do the comparisons in other states to see where we were an outliner, wher

because it's been tried before this law was passed during the clinton administration for buyouts. hought about trying to do to streamline things. >> okay. >> you know, and again, thank you for having me. >> but from. >> where we sit. >> our position is not. >> that it shouldn't be done or that it couldn't be done. our position is that it should be. >> done correctly. >> or appropriately. okay. because there are rules and regulations that governs these. >> type of actions. >> we're just. >> saying follow those rules and regulations. >> it gets it gets a little weird because the maximum is 25 grand. the average federal worker is making about 8800 a month. so you can't get to september. you would use up that 25. so they're going to call it administrative leave. and no one knows where the money's coming from. what would be the proper way to do it in your view. and some people think it's a pretty good deal. i guess 50,000 have or whatever have accepted it. everett, are they being hoodwinked or fooled? >> i try to believe that myself and those i've spoken to, several of those individuals

in the wake of the crash we heard from former secretary of state hillary clinton accusing the trump administrationge effort of gutting safety standards by trying to reduce government staffing. clinton posted on x u.s. airlines had gone 16 years without fatal crashes, maga fired the faa chief, gutted the aviation security advisory committee and traffic air traffic controllers with layoffs. about you but mike whitaker the recent head of the faa also critical of musk's space agency was not fired he resigned in january. transportation secretary sean duffy says is he doing what he can to shore up the system i'm going to make an offer to air traffic controllers to let them stay longer. pay them more, give them a bonus, keep them on the job. make the system safer. >> tonight, the government is limiting the number of flights allowed to land at reagan national per hour. all to reduce congestion. they spoke they understand they could be delayed. >> i don't mind. i'm saving my life. yes, sir. they delay, that means something is wrong in the sky. >> i'm hesitant but, you know, i'm here so, i think going to be

guantanamo and guantanamo related issues, and later served as a senior diplomat in the clinton and obama administrations. his latest book is the national security constitution in the 21st century. professor, great to see you. >> good to see. >> you, fredricka. >> so past presidents have utilized guantanamo bay to house migrants, including haitians, cubans. i actually have spent some time in guantanamo covering when the haitian and cuban refugee crisis had reached a particular peak, and using those facilities. but how do you see the trump administration's plans either mirroring or differing from those efforts? >> well, they differ. >> in a way. >> that makes them really impossible to achieve. first, those cases you described all involve people who are coming to the united states and had never entered the united states, and therefore hadn't acquired various kinds of rights. the people who he's talking about bringing there now have been in the united states, and they're subject to what are called removal procedures, where they're supposed to determine whether they're criminals who must be deported. they ha

one time in particular was during the clinton administration, the national partnership for reinventing government. it was led by al gore. i ran a think tank at the time and came to meet with folks working on this. after seven years of this effort, they reduced the civilian employee population by over 126,000, they closed 250 federal offices, released the federal registry by 700,000 pages, 16,000 pages of regulations. i understand, governor reynolds, iowa launched a reorganization effort. the objective to make government more effective and more responsive to the people of iowa. gov. reynolds: more efficient, more effective, more responsive, more accountable. it brought transparency to the process, we are better at what we are doing. the employees appreciate the environment we are working in. they appreciate the culture of communication we are creating in the state or they love being part of it. >> did you bring any experts for reinventing government back in the 1990's? gov. reynolds: i brought in one consultant to do the comparisons in other states to see where we were an outliner, wher

. >> clinton administration.ered. exactly how they were going. >> to take this plan and whether it would work. a matter. >> of a week is arbitrary and capricious to make that decision. the other there are many other concerns, for example, appropriations. >> for most federal. agencies end. >> on march 14th. so what's the promise worth after march 14th? the government. responds in a sense that, hey, no problem. if for some reason we can't fulfill. our obligations, then there's case law. there are courts that say that a resignation is considered involuntary. but to me, that seems like a hollow assurance that, hey, if. >> later on you find. >> out that we misrepresented to you, the. government about your. >> employment. >> then maybe you can sue us, maybe you can go to court. but you might have a legal claim that to. >> me, that's in the. >> memo of. >> the. >> government, the opm, justifying. the legality of this. that to me seems. like a weakness in the argument. >> so. >> danny. >> what's. >> the quickest. >> way

we have political appointees and advisors to the past five presidential administrations, clinton, george w. bush, obama, trump, and biden. this group also has affiliations with seven of the most well-known think tanks in the country, including ai and brookings, as well as as the america first policy institute, the economic policy institute, the free enterprise institute, the heritage foundation and the hoover institution. it is also an accomplished group. if you look them up, many are best-selling authors. some thought this would not be possible. how can you get a wide-ranging group like that to agree on topics and measures for this progress report? honestly we were not sure whether we would or not. this whole thing was an experiment. we did not know until four or five months ago if we would be standing here with anything to report. it took us almost two years meeting every month. all the topics in the progress report, as cece said, had a super majority support, not just a simple majority but at least 75% of the board agreed. we did not stop there. we did not want this to be another expe