host: we would like to thank max stier, president and ceo for the center of presidential transition, with us here this morning and walking us through the building of president joe biden's cabinet and agency workforce. max, thank you for taking time with us this morning. guest: thank you so much, and have a good rest of the weekend. host: next, we go back to the phone lines and talk to you about your top public policy issue for the biden administration. you see the numbers on screen and we will hear your calls when we come right back. stick with us. ♪ >> today, on the communicators, author sarah fryer discusses her book, no filter, which chronicles the founding of instagram and the impact the app has had on the tech industry and society. >> you have to think instagram also reflects all of the celebrities around the world as well, right? and all of the brands. c-span i'm sure has any instagram, bloomberg has an instagram. it is all of these accounts that are doing instagram, but also these homegrown people, these people who otherwise may be would not have a voice, who are building these

we are back with max stier, president and ceo of the center for presidential transition. he is with us this morning to talk about what the biden administration will be doing develop president biden's cabinet and the agency workforce. max, good morning. guest: good morning. host: first of all, let's get into with the biden administration faces. on screen are going to see the biden political appointee tracker, which is done by our public service, that biden has picked 51 nominees to fill key roles so far. only 2 have been confirmed by the senate. max, what does president biden face when it comes to filling his key cabinet rules? guest: it is a big task and as you say the biden team is ahead of the curve in the historical term. they have got over 50 nominations they have made in the next highest administration in terms of having the outside the gate was the obama administration at 42. that is just nomination, not confirmation. there are over 1200 positions that the incoming administration has to fill that are senate confirmed. 4000 total appointees of those 1250 that require

then we'll hear from max stier who is the president and chief executive officer of the partnership for public service. has done a lot of work in transition. finally we'll hear from lisa brown who is the codirector of agency review for the obama-biden transition project. if the witnesses will be unmuted so we can swear you all in as is the custom of our committee. and if i can -- if you can put them on the screen so i can see them. mr. stier and martha, i see you all. if you would raise your right hand. [witnesses were sworn in] >> let the record show that all of our witnesses have answered in the affirmative, thank you. without objection your full written statements will be made part of the record. with that, ms. kumar, you are now recognized for your five-minute testimony, and we welcome you before the committee. >> thank you very much. good morning, chairman connolly, chairwoman maloney, ranking member hice and ranking member comer. i would like to say word about paulson remains as a professor at towson university in baltimore. senator sarbanes was very generous with his time to stud

then max stier come on challenges facing the biden administration, -- then max stier, on challenges facing biden administration. be sure to join the discussion with your phone calls, comments, text messages, and to -- and tweets. announcer: biden nominees, gina raimondo and denis mcdonough, will be on capitol hill next week for their confirmation hearings. tuesday at 10:00 a.m. eastern, gina raimondo, commerce secretary nominee, testifies before the senate commerce committee. wednesday at 3:00 p.m. eastern, former white house chief of staff dennis mcdonough, monai did for secretary of veterans affairs, testifies before the senate affairs committee. watch the confirmation hearings live on c-span, on demand that c-span.org, or listen on the free c-span radio app -- at c-span.org, or listen on the free c-span radio app. ♪ announcer: next, a conversation about the impact of former president trump on the republican party and potential 2024 gop presidential candidates. michael barone is a senior political analyst for the washington examiner. he was interviewed by hudson institute