martha kumar joining us to discuss transitions. martha kumar, folks are calling in.n a white house changes parties, what is historically in the modern era, what has been the best transition and the worst transition? transition ist would say is 2008. welltransition worked because president bush in december of 2007 said to josh bolten, his chief of staff, that he wanted this to be the best transition because we were in affords and we could not to have anything but a smooth transition. he wanted that set up. worked through the spring and summer. there was no law at that time required the sitting administration to bring in the candidate. when they were presumptive candidates, that is what he did. they worked on the process for clearing people who would come in to work on the transition, that the department of justice and fbi work on that. they worked on that. they worked on a memorandum of understanding of what the rules would be for transition, that both sides would agree to. then they worked on a piece of computer software for handling resumes that would come in. consi