senator james lankford. senator, great to have you with us tonight. >> great to be with you, lou.is some night. i personally am expecting a stem winder from the president. how about you? >> we're waiting to see it. we understand the tone he's going to bring out is a tone of reconciliation for the nation and a tone to reach out to all people and firmly set the agenda. we'll see what it is. we know he's capable of writing and reading a speech, and ad-libbing during a speech. we'll see what he looks like. lou: as you talk about the president and what he's capable of, he's also capable of showing republicans how to win election. he did it on november 8th, and where some people were talking about losing control of the senate with this president being successful on november 8th, it's clear his coattails did spread to a lot of the country. this is a president also who is meeting so much resistance and obstruction within his own party that some of them are beginning to look like they should be with the other folks in the not-so-loyal opposition, and the opposition is having its way on a n

and when someone who is -- whose service and friendship i value as much as i do james lankford and jim inhofe speak so highly of a friend and colleague from their state, it's not easy for me and it's not easy for the rest of us to oppose that nomination, their friend. but we've done that and we've done that for weeks now and we've done that now for throughout this night. i take no joy in doing this. i take no joy in doing this. having said that, i take no joy in the fact that the levels -- levels of seas around my little state of delaware are rising, and we are the lowest lying state in america. we see every day the vestiges of sea level rise. i take no joy that when i catch the train in the morning to come down here -- i go back and forth every day, but i take no joy, standing on the platform at the wilmington train station, looking at a beautiful riverfront, which we've worked on for 20 years to transform an industrial wasteland into something that is lovely and beautiful and clean, but even now the fish that swim in the christina river, we can't eat them. in fact, most of the bodies

to the republican senator james lankford who sits on the house intelligence and homeland security committeesyou along with all of our colleagues, democrat and republican, want this job filled. it is a crucial job. let me get your reaction to the news, the vice admiral turning down the president's offer, jim sciutto referring to the word of chaos in the white house as his reasoning. we are a family program so i will simply say according to a friend of harward's he called the offer a, quote, bleep sa sandwich. what's your reaction? >> obviously that's all hearsay. you're telling me it's third hand at this point so i have no idea with what the facts are. this is a position the president is trying to fill, an incredibly important position. i'm surprised 72 hours after flynn resigns that we're still in the process of doing that, no, i'm not. it's an incredibly important position. it is a person that advises the president directly. this is an inner circle of the white house and so i will look forward to seeing that position filled. the implication seems to be the white house can't hire good talent

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