patrick kennedy, career public servant in the foreign service.rsecretary in 2007 but he joined the u.s. foreign service in 1973 and he served in all the administrations since then, republican ones, democratic ones, all of them. until today. he's now out. he's part of a wave of career senior management who were just all unceremoniously no notice cleared out of the state department. people who have been there since the 1970s and the 1980s who didn't leave in previous presidential transitions. according to "foreign policy" magazine, just the top tier officials who have been cleared out of the state department, they represent more than a century of combined experience at the state department. and it's one thing to clean house. it's another thing entirely to clean house with no one ready to take over their jobs. when those jobs were, you know, overseeing security for more than 275 diplomatic outposts around the world including some of the most dangerous places on earth. or when there's jobs where, say, arranging for evacuation of u.s. citizens trapped

patrick kennedy has been at the state department since 1973.the move leaves a huge management void for incoming secretary of state rex tillerson who has no diplomatic experience. we get more from michelle kosinski. >> reporter: miguel and christine, it is clear although the new secretary of state hasn't been confirmed that the new administration is starting to clean house. this is an entire top level tier here at the state department. they have decades of experience each. combined it is more than 150 years of service. although career state department people, they have the high level positions had to be appointed by a president and confirmed by the senate. as the process works, they submit their resignations now there is a new administration. it is expected that at least some of them would be asked to stay on. given their experience. when you think about it, decades here at the state department. they have been through multiple administrations. including changes in party. they were told their services new orlean were no longer needed. they were n

the under secretary of state, patrick kennedy, illegally pressure the fbi to un-classify emails from hillary's illegal server. undersecretary kennedy needs to resign. >> state department and fbi denied those claims in the department is still waiting for a confirmed secretary of state. senate leaders say though. it will consider rex tillerson's nomination next week. >> james: mainstream media were never keen on donald trump's candidacy but now that he's in the oval office, reporters and editors appear to have adopted an even sharper edge in their coverage of the 45th president. joining me to discuss this brave new world are howard kurtz and chris starr well. welcome to you both. let's put some flesh on these bones. a recent "new york times" headline read "trump repeats lie in meeting with lawmakers." article in "the washington post" said trump's disregard for the truth endangers his ability to govern. cnn anchor jake tapper tweeted this morning a citation from biblical scripture, proverbs 12: 22. a display of piety on social media by jake tapper. what's it all about. >> the l word. i a

>> one of the names you might recognize under the secretary patrick kennedy, a long time serving top official who has been embroiled in the benghazi controversy. he was in charge of management then and also in charge of helping handle secretary clinton's e-mail when she was at the state department. the critic from republicans about him. there was also the assistant secretary for administration joyce ann barr. the secretary for consul affairs. another long serving official and gentry smith who handled the office of foreign missions. embassies here and cons consulates. 150 combined years of institutional knowledge among them. it does leave a gaping hole in the management department of the state department. as secretary of state rex tillerson has not been confirmed yet and expected to be next week. they do have deputies there. it really does leave a lot of institutional knowledge out of door as this new secretary comes in. >> they said they have people who can fill the slots. how unusual is it to go after staffers like this and without having a replacement lined up? >> it's unusual. gen

patrick kennedy, the undersecretary of state, who pulled security from benghazi, who tried to play with investigation and the e-mails, resigned this week. he was actually pushed out. >> thank you, ed. donna? >> i want to pay tribute to a musical and social legend -- the passing of butch trucks, the allman brothers' drummer. a lot of people know that he was named one of the top 10 drummers by rolling stone, but what a lot of people don't know is that the allman brothers almost single-handedly desegregated music in the south. they were the first rock-'n'-roll band to play in an integrated -- it was an integrated rock band, and they played these little podunk towns. and when they would not let jaimoe register for a hotel room, the allman brothers style was not to pick up picket signs. they busted up the place, and then they'd leave. now, i'm just saying. >> thank you, donna. christine? >> that's great. and now the end is near, matt. the long, sad tale of kathleen kane is finally over, as frank sinatra would say. josh shapiro this week fired ellen granahan, kathleen's twin sister. so, now b

the trump administration according to two senior striadministratio officials, this comes after patrick kennedy who served asinifor nine years, as the under sk secretary and worked there more than 40 years. >> elise, starting with you, what happened? tell me the back story? >> reporter: brooke, we're talking about four officials with a combined 150 years of institutional knowledge at the state department. pat kennedy, long serving under secretary of management is kind of a controversial figure, he was involved in handling the ben g -- benghazi attacks and criticized for mishandling hillary clinton's e-mail server, we're talking about michelle bond and assistant secretary for counsel counselor affairs, gentry smith who handles the office of foreign missions embassies here in the u.s. it's very common for officials both political appointsees to submit their resignation after a new president that's required by law but normally what happens is that these officials are asked to stay on until their successor is confirmed an that was true for many of the officials who served under the bush and clinton

four top officials with the department including under secretary for management patrick kennedy have all resigned. kennedy had served in that role since the bush administration in 2007. these reports of other long-serving diplomats quitting. news from the state department comes as mark morgan, the chief of the border patrol, also resigned after being asked to leave and just a day after the president's announcement about his proposed border wall. >>> we are now 30 seconds closer to the symbolic end of the world. >> that's right. according to the doomsday clock that inch eed forward today wit the scientists who control it blaming in part our new president. sicientists expressed concerns about trump's comments about climate change and nuclear as statesmen or act as petulant children. >>> scientists say they've grown human cells inside pig embryos and they say it's a step toward growing livers and other human organs inside animals for transplants into people. the cells only made up just a tiny part of the embryo and were grown for just a few weeks. now these animal to human experiments h

. >> patrick kennedy is out at the state department. this is according to a spokesperson here.ly involved in running of much of the business of the state department. in particular during the time when secretary of state hillary clinton was here. republicans have criticized him for the handling of international affairs in libya, benghazi and most recently from notes released in october, the investigation of hillary clinton's handling of classified information. the fbi notes said that an fbi official claimed that kennedy was seeking a quid pro quo for the down grade of the sensitivity of some of those messages. the state department denies that. the fbi denied that. because of that, the "washington post" had reported that transition officials with the trump team thought that kennedy had too much authority here and wanted him out. also because of that investigation into those e-mails and the news that came out, republicans wanted him to resign. here we are. last day is friday. back to you. >> shepard: thanks, rich. we'll be right back. >> shepard: on this day in 1961, americans wat

they include the long serving number two-man at the state department patrick kennedy. it's part of an on going mass exodus of service officers who don't want to serve during the trump era. >> the high flying protesters on a crane in southeast washington are due in court today. they unfurled a long banner reading resist to protest the election of donald trump. they were charged with second degree burglary, unlawful entry and destruction of property. >>> we're learning more about the teenager shot in northeast washington. one victim is a student at friendship charter high school right across the street. he had just left school when here's the latest on the investigation and what the school plans to do to protect those students. >> reporter: l let's first talk about the investigation. the teens were shot on metro property there. but the scene expanded all the way along grant street. that's where police found the gun used. they also saw a group of teenagers that they took in for questioning. those teens and the one victim all go to friendship charter school. today i talked

including patrick kennedy who, remember, he was the guy benghazi who reduced the security force in tripoliefusal to turn over hillary's stuff, he and three others are gone. so it looks like one way or the other the swamp is. ainsley: the swamp is starting to drain? steve: sure. ainsley: they can stick in that position. brian: four are gone. without rex tillerson there, tillerson will get a chance -- technically he has no diplomatic experience. get a chance to put his own people in charge. what it sounds to me this is a new government. there is not a lot of experience, you would think, with government. but, yet, they seem to have a mission at every department. they have people looking at cost controls in almost every division of the federal government already. they gutted the state departments to a degree at the highest level. they have already looked at the border patrol and said that's not going to fly. and something else that donald trump is doing and i'm sure it's knowingly. what has happened over the last two administrations? a huge attempt to get comprehensive immigration reform? what

to the president, obama at the time, that isis was a jv team, that we've seen undersecretary patrick kennedy try to convince the cia to wipe the server clean of the secretary of state after the benghazi affair, we see the attorney general meeting on the tarmac, there has been a history that's taken away the credibility of the intelligence community. >> i'm asking you about the actions of the president-elect so far and what he said towards the community. do you like that? >> these are government agencies. and i think when the american people spoke, they spoke about every government agency being under review, including the intelligence community. and it is important. but he's putting his people, general kelly, he's putting him in there, my good friend mike pompeo as cia director, these are good people he has a strong relationship with that will control the intelligence community. again, kate, i have to tell you, we need to have the best, most capable, most compensatent peop in the intelligence community and give them the resources necessary so they are correct in what they're doing. >> i think

it is true that these are political appointments, but we know that patrick kennedy stayed on from presidentush into president obama because of the intricacies of management and finances there. what do you think is the real story behind the departures of these four top state officials? >> great to be with you, thomas. thank you. and the real story here is there is tumult right now at the state department and it's leaderless at some of the most bureaus for the actual morale and work of the diplomatic corps. our diplomats need to know that they have strong leaders in their management bureaus, the administrative bureaus, and these are the bureaus that right now are without leaders. and it's not clear who will replace them. so it's a very uncertain time right now for people at state and it send a very chilling signal as well into the bureaucracy. and that's what's really dangerous right now about this moment is that people who dedicate their lives and careers to being diplomats right now are being given the message that their service is at risk, and that's a real concern. >> i want to talk about

four of the top career officials are out including under secretary for management patrick kennedy who since 1973. the state department says the turnover of long-time staffers is just business as usual. often part of any transition. this follows news of other top departures and reports that two long-serving diplomats have chosen to quit rather than serve this new president. >>> the battle over the president's planned border wall with mexico just intensified with mexico's president canceling a planned trip to washington to include a face-to-face meeting with president trump. white house correspondent hallie jackson reports. >> reporter: wall whiplash with the back and forth on the border wall and how to pay for it. >> who is going to pay for the wall? >> mexico! >> reporter: mexico says i won't, so the administration floating an idea to slap a 20% tax on mexican imports, a way to fund the $8 to $14 billion wall. turn urnd the plan, americans would play for more cars, fruits and vegetables and alcohol. in a fact, footing the bill themselves. that headline coming as president trump made h

>> one of the names you might recognize, undersecretary of management, patrick kennedy, longtime in service, embroiled in the benghazi controversy, in charge of management then and also in charge of helping handle secretary clinton's e-mail when she was at the state department. real criticism from republicans about him. the assistant secretary for administration, joyce ann barr, the assistant secretary for consular affairs, michelle bond, another long serving official, and ambassador gentry smith, who handled the office of foreign admissions. that's embassies and consulates here in the united states. as you said, these are long-serving career officials, 150 combined years of institutional knowledge among them and it does leave a gaping hole in the management department of the state department as secretary of state rex tillerson he's not been confirmed yet but can't p expected to be next week. these bureaus have deputies but it really does leave a lot of institutional knowledge out the door as this new secretary comes in. >> the state department says they have new people who could fill the s

one of the best known names in that category is patrick kennedy, who of course has testified many times on capitol hill, probably most familiar to people as part of the voice of the state department management during the benghazi hearings. he took a lot of criticism for that. our reporting shows did want to stay, but was told that his services would no longer be needed. he left this week along with several other people who have kind of in the building and in the department management functions. this really is in keeping with the trump administration's view that they want to bring in their own people. i don't know whether they consider pat kennedy part of the swamp, but they certainly have made it clear that drain the swamp is the operating ethos, and there are a lot of bruised feels at the state department as you know well, and a lot of sense this was done in a ham-handed and short-sighted fashion. we'll have to wait and see how it plays out. >> anne gearan, julyian tet and peter alexander thanks so much. we'll be right back. are you getting this? these numbers are off the charts... sir

the most senior person who retired was patrick kennedy. he was the under-secretary for management.ed that job for 10 years, which was an usually long period of time. he took the job at the time i was deputy secretary of state, and then he continued for eight years in the obama administration. it's -- pat was going on in years and it was time for him to retire. frankly i don't think it's a particularly big deal. although, you know, in washington people always try to look for a political angle to just about anything. >> after those tweets from the president before he was elected about patrick kennedy, you know he wasn't staying, right? >> right. the fact of the matter is he had done the job for 10 years. i'm not sure we've ever had under-secretary of management who has been in that job for 10 years of that's a long time. >> right. but there was definitely some -- >> there may be some bad blood. i would be the first to acknowledge that. >> that's for sure. that's one way. thank you. mr. negroponte, appreciate it. >> my pleasure. >> great to talk to you. lots still ahead on "squawk box

. >> in the case of patrick kennedy at state, he was appointed by george bush and stayed on throughout obama's presidency. some of these other officials who resigned were responsible for essentially the safety and security of u.s. diplomats abroad and consulates and embassies abroad. these are actually real positions where you need actual leadership. and maybe there are people waiting in the wings. we don't know yet. these are not jobs that can just go by the wayside. there's got to be a plan to keep the trains running on time when it comes to the safety of u.s. public servants working internationally. >> as we await the president, this transition period has been rocky. you were sent in to break up washington and disrupt. one of the other conversations is he said he wanted to bring back waterboarding. he thought it was an effective tactic. now he says general mattis and congressman pompeo have told him they don't need this and he'll probably listen to them. but this came up at the congressional retreat. please don't takous us on a side track on this conversation. listen to the presiden

and had around the holiday and santa claus came earlier but state density bonus in some respect patrick kennedy might have done us a favor to look at the state density bonus is providing and needs to be recaptured in the inclusionary going through an update you might have received a memo from the department but provide i have copies of some materials that came from the last we called a technical advisory committee on december 19 for those of us were around during the holidays spent our monday night in the meeting director rahaim was there it shows simple math we can't want to erode the inclusionary housing standards take on 7 percent to our inclusionary to equalize the value that the state density bonus provides to a typical project as you can see the numbers from the controller's office not from this is from their consultants a project ever 18 percent requirement be effective repudiation by the state density bonus of 15 percent that's the project in september in for the record to keep that even 24 requirement on this project because of 501 as you may know the recommendations to have a differen

patrick kennedy tried to get the c.i.a. to wipe the server of hillary clinton. you know, this is a practice that's been going on, nobody knows better than this current administration whether they can influence it that way. if there is truth to it, we need to resolve it. >> bill: green wall believes an incoming trump administration being aggressive with the intelligence community are the threat to the c.i.a.'s control over decision making. is there truth to that, sir? >> i would say no. my good friend, mike pompeo is about as high integrity as a public servant we'll see. top of his class. a successful small businessman. he will clean house in the c.i.a. this president-elect didn't look for yes men. we saw that yesterday in the confirmation hearings of general mattis and mike pompeo and rex tillerson. they'll bring the intelligence community back together so we can be the dominant powers throughout the world. >> bill: i appreciate what you are saying about your colleagues and their testimony this past week. does the president-elect have some sort of responsibility

someone like patrick kennedy in the middle of benghazi, if he wants to walk away, walk away. >> well,hese people are quitting. my reaction is good. it saves rex tillerson some work when he gets there. he won't have to fire them. or ask them to resign. and so what we have with the media, as you all know, not you, you got the liberal media that's going from adding -- they have added irrational reporting to irresponsible reporting, which then leads to fear in the hearts and minds of the american people. that's what they're doing. every little mole hill is not a mountain. but that's all they have to work with because they have acted so irresponsibly and so irrational. abby: do you think the response from the trump administration has been right about this? and when we talk about this war of words between them and the media, it seems like and we were talking earlier, normally when you get into office have you sort of like this honeymoon phase where even the press take as step back and say let's cover this fair and see what this man can do in office. seems like we are one week in and already

. >> reporter: mayor patrick, says they are one storm away from even bigger problems. >> the ocean is right up to, um, john f. kennedyoulevard here if we don't fix this, then the next storm could do serious damage to our streets. >> reporter: it's the same beach decimated by winter storm jonas last year. >> we repaired it and we got a year out of the those rye pairs. so the dunes that you see, um, sort of destroyed behind me they did their job for year. they held back the ocean. they protected the street and the sidewalk behind them. now we have to come in and make morey pairs. >> reporter: many shore towns are drying off from flooding overnight which claimed a number of vehicles like this honda. we found group of friends trying to save it. >> now we got it turning over and everything but it still won't fire. so as of right now we're just waiting on a couple more people to come and help us try to push it off the hill and see if we can get flat and get some of the water taken out. >> they work around water that is still covers the work way. >> hopefully get it moved without getting a tow truck. a little too much money

. >> reporter: mayor patrick rose nel low says they are one storm away from even bigger problems. >> the ocean is right up to john f. kennedy boulevard here and so if we don't fix this, then the storm could do serious damage to our streets report roar the same beach decimated by winter storm jonas last year. >> we repaired it and we got a year out of the those repairs so the dunes that you see, um, sort of destroyed behind me they did their job for a year. they held back the ocean. they protected the street and the sidewalk behind them. but now we have to come in and make some morey pairs. >> many shore towns are trying off from flooding overnight which claimed a number of vehicles like this honda. we found group of friends trying to save it. >> now we got it turning over and everything but it still won't fire. so as of right now we're just waiting on a couple more people to come and help us try to push it off the hill and see if we can get it flat and get some of the water taken out. >> reporter: they work around water that's still covers the roadway. >> hopefully get it moved without getting a tow truck because just a lit

kennedy when he made this trip -- >> that's folklore. >> he looked at this and said, how can it be like this? he communicated that to daniel patrick moynahan who spent 30 years -- that was basically the 30-year project bringing that back. he eventually became one of the powerful members of the public works committee in the senate who had influence on how that work got done. >> it's a great walk when you go to washington. >> that was the folklore that it was in the inaugural parade that he looked out and realized, this is not the stuff of a world class international city. >> initially, presidents were sworn in in march, then it was changed so that the interim would be shorter and sworn in in january. the speshs of abraham lincoln and the start of the civil war helped with that since between the election and his inauguration, war broke out. it's interesting, since the inauguration has been on or about january 20th, there have only been three other times when it has rained. it rained on fdr in 1937, which was his second inaugural. it rained on nixon in '69 and george w. bush in 2001. you think january 20th at this latitude, this clim

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father of the declaration in madison was the first congressman and john marshall and pressure kennedy -- patrick henry and then starting the civil-rights movement. to have a great appreciation for the work done of people like that you want to perpetuate that for the future. >> where did you grow up greg. >> i grew up in virginia. i love history a steady history in college my mom was diagnosed very early was thought to be terminal cancer. john hopkins or mail clinic would not take her he'd just doggedly pursued a place to treat her but she just celebrated her 73rd birthday. we did this metadata few years back but that is that determination and persistence the something is right it is the right thing to do. my first cousin ironically turndown baseball scholarships to go into the ring core had opportunities to delay those opportunities but then to anybody that serves they have agreed there is something in their lives that is bigger than that wirth sacrificing. said to be with men and women like that. so those were the things that shaped who i am bertrand my children you're not, you are one yet to p