between the bush administration and the obama administration in the midst of the financial crisis was financialo the well-being of the entire planet, and the steps that president bush took at the end of his administration to start the crisis were largely picked up by the obama administration and extended so that there wasn't an abrupt shift in policy. it is interesting that the person who president obama picked to be his first treasury secretary and was really the navigator of the course was tim aithner, who had been democratic treasury appointee but wasin his career, the president of the new york fed. so, he was part of the triumvirate of hate policy, -- hank paulson, ben bernanke, and the new york fed president tim geithner. that triumvirate was the one that really charted out the course for responding to the presidentd on whom bush relied. onre was unusual continuity the stewardship of the response to the crisis and i think it has to be regarded as one of the most effective government history ofn the economic policymaking. i think to: underscore that, josh in his typically modest w

the future. certainly beyond its administration, it could hand over the unipolar moment to whatever administration followed it. it comes at a steep price. the american people as we have seen soon tired of paying the bills. economic, moral, human. of being the world's policemen. and you could tell that the bush administration was not being realistic about the cost and its laughable predictions about how much the iraq war would cost the american taxpayers. initially the figure it put forward was $20 billion. it's more at i think the latest estimate is 1.7 trillion, with a "t." and probably another half a trillion in expenses for iraq war veterans in the future. taken as a whole, the war or terror is the second most expensive war in american history, right after world war ii, which is astonishing. the american people are right to wonder what they got for all of the blood and treasure they poured into it. i think the iraq war might have been avoided all together had president bush and the nsc not underestimated its costs, risks and uncertainties. and this again shows that presidents, including the inc

but over all i think the transition between the bush administration and the obama administration in theidst of a financial crisis was actually critical to the financial well being of the entire planet. and steps that president bush took at the end of his administration to staunch the crisis were largely picked up by the obama administration, and then extended so that it was, there wasn't an abrupt shift in policy. it's interesting that the person whom the president obama picked to be his first treasury secretary and, therefore, really the navigator of the course in response to the financial crisis was tim geithner who had been a democratic treasury appointee earlier in his career. but at the time of the financial crisis during the bush administration was the president of the new york fed. so tim geithner was part of the triumvirate of the treasury secretary hank paulson, the fed chairman ben bernanke, and the new york fed president, tim geithner. that triumvirate is the one that really charted out the course for responding to the crisis and on whom president bush relied in making his de

of the bush administration. e september 11 attacks and the transition out of office of george w. bush changed the tone and action undertaken during the transition period. in 2008 president bush led the most determined transition out of office that we have experienced. he began the transition cycle in 2007 in discussions with his chief of staff, josh bolten who led the effort. bolten interne -- in turn closed the circle by habit representatives of the incoming outgoing executives meet well before the election. he brought together representatives of the candidates in the white house in july. almost two months prior to the 2008 party convention. clay johnson, who led the transition of the executive director for president bush and to office in 2001, he was the office of management and lead the department and agency planning work together information for a new team. he will be on the second panel. equally important in the 2008 transition was interest in making use of those administration preparations by those leading

for the administration to do things that will be recognized by the american populace as contributingin recognizing things that will have an effect on their health and health care. an example would be drug pricing and looked at from a different perspective. that is that the way that pharma makes money is by selling the drugs that the fda approves and selling those drugs to make money means that to cover the cost. understanding the mechanisms and the medicine approaches we can better understand the mechanisms of disease and leads to smaller trials and more success of those trials and therefore less obligation to cover costs. that approach you'd be able to say let's get back to the basics and figure out the mechanisms of the disease for these winds which would drive down the cost per drug companies to buy will have an impact on health care and drug costs. price right now is a major driver of health care and the cost curve in this country. everyone agrees it's not sustainable so here's a way to approach a direct way. i think that's the kind of message i would try to establish. >> one of

>> we've had a multitude of different jobs in the administration. i do think there is value moving throughout the government. there are high-level project managers and it hope helps to he expertise in that area. you can use those people all throughout the government. >> every one of these people made the decision at some point to leave the white house to go to the federal government. the positions were filled for the first time and he said they want you to think about going out and get another role to make sure you don't get burned out. i said that's great. i bring a message to matt ness and there is a lot of mad at us and the federal government so there is a method called for. >> i haven't worke >> i haven't worked on labor issues except i have a passion for what the department of labor does. it was hard for me to see a noble way to spend my career to work with a dynamic secretary of labor a lot of people are reading about these days and will work on hard challenges. i have spent most of my career as a political person but what i lacked was true med

they will not want to go into the administration. and there will be a lot of people that will not get the desired jobs in the administration and they will decide to step out and make money. and make no mistake, these people are highly prized on the outside. there was a study a couple of years ago where they looked at the salaries of people who came out who had been very well-connected in congress compared to other lobbyists for instant and the people with connections made a good bit more money. another study showed that there is a shelf life to that money which is if you are a member of congress, -- if your member of congress that you used to work for retired or was defeated, your salary may not go up and may even diminish. the valuation -- there is a direct cause and effect there. now, one of the best examples i think of revolving door action was described in a story by eric lipton in early 2013 in the new york times. and ate about amgen's provision they got put into the 2012 fiscal cliff legislation. really wantedly, a two-year exte

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the time. a doctor walking in i am told. he needs to get administration together and he's making it a busy one and his day starting with meetings with different advisor and trump tower and 58th floor triplex apartment and then here in the new jersey golf club in new jersey. and a look the trip team opponentmentes so far. attorney general, jeff locks li the general mat us to be secretary of defense. and senior transition time that maddis is a strong candidate for a cabinet event and i asked him about p the prohibition between military man. and there is mad dog maddis as he was known in the marine corps and engineered loyalty from the troops. they spent nights in standards meeting ended today with trump. he came out and pointed and said this is the real deal. and when that announcement comes probably tomorrow, we heromney meeting. >> romney was first meeting that trump and arrived before 1:00 and it went beyond the scheduled time allotment and ended before 2:30. neither men offered a specific rendering of whether or not he will be offered a cabinet position

they are working throughout the weekend to build the new administration. and we hope to hear more names tonight, but tomorrow is the day we'll get more names. the following positions are filled so far. attorney general white house chief of staff and chief strategist to the president for national security and cia director. and now, a closer look at the appointments. first of all jeff sessions for attorney generalment it is getting a lot of push back for the democrats. >> senator sessions was vetted for a federal judgeship several yearsing on and at that time it was public that he made jokes about the kkk, that he racial slurs. used racial slurs and that he said things that cause the not just democrats, but people in his own party, republicans to say this is a man who is not fit to be a federal judge. >> mike emmanuel takes a closer look at the pick. >> americans can't bring labor and subsidicize those not working. >> reporter: sessions was a tough critic of bipartisan imdpragz reform and concerned about amnesty for millions of illegal immigrants and that was

this is why the bush administration started early. that is pretty much what i wanted to leave you with. eagles, part of the partnership for public service. we are committed to making government more effective. we are nonpartisan and nonprofit. we have been working with the team since spring. in april, we convened all five senior campaign officials, the candidates who are still in office, pulled them off-site for two days to talk about governing the country. it is the first time we have seen that this early. as an american, super proud to see a safe, non-partisan environment where these teams could talk about governing this entity, which is the u.s. federal government. since then, we have been working closely with the teams. both are committed to the effective transition, which is exciting and the understand the importance of governing this country. anita: thank you. that really helped to frame things. i will talk a little bit more from the practitioner point of view. i want to pick up on something that sandy mentioned -- you never know

and beginning to educate the administration about the potential opportunities for the administration to do things that will be recognized by the american populace as really contributing, recognizing and contributing to things that will have an effect on their health and health care. an example would be drug pricing and looked at from a different perspective. that is that the way that pharma makes money is by selling the drugs that the fda approves and selling those drugs to make money means that they have to cover the cost of things that did not work. understanding the mechanisms of that leads to smaller trials and more success of those trials and therefore less obligation to cover costs. that approach of being able to say let's get back to the basics and figure out the mechanisms of disease for ways that will drive down the costs for drug companies so that they can survive will have an impact on health care and drug costs. drug costs are the major drivers of health care and the cost curve in this country. everyone agrees it's not sustainable so here's a way to approach it directly. i

so for example in the bush administration, and the card worked in the republican administration. and new those. and you need the knowledge of the washington community. how does the media work. what are the relationships on the hill like? with news organizations there needs are the same no matter who is president. when you come in, as president and your press staff comes in they have to be familiar with that. what are those routines? can't just do what you want and have everything on your terms because if you want to get good publicity you have to understand what the dynamics are of the media. >> host: you are speaking to someone who has made a careful study of the presidency in a number of years. but you really highlight so many stakeholders and constituencies when you come into office. and the most important group on the block so to speak because that is where your legislation is going any way they are, you have the press particularly not well known to the press, governor might not be, senator obama had some exposure to the national press in the campaign but there constituencies,

the reagan, george h.w. bush and george w. bush administrations. -- gulfston.lston veteran of the bill clinton transition process. the first session is 75 minutes. each of them will give a brief review of some of the most important things they see and they have experience in their transition and then we will aim -30 five minutes of q&a because that is what most of you want to do. we will start with david. david: thank you. appreciate your time. were talking about presidential transition. i want to take a quick step, understand the sheer scope and magnitude of what we are talking about. there are 4000 appointments, generally not a lot of experience in this process, there are a lot of folks coming in. what is -- has happened is this is a reinvent the wheel exercise, a groundhog day exercise that every incoming team is going through. not only is it big and complicated, it is also a time of vulnerability for the country. by and large, the white house is virtually empty, the original files are virtually gone. there are no hard drives or they wiped hard

the next was a great society with anna johnson and the obama administration has brought in the fourth wave, the affordable care especially in the monuments they really are qualitatively a new step in the development of an american state the way the europeans have had to stay for much longer. >> vester marino, how is this affected you and i and anyone else? >> people usually don't mean to bureaucrat is to face, federal bureaucrat especially. everything you do in life is effect by rules that these people make. anything that involves your health care now is increasingly dictated by department of health in humans or versace. if you want to apply for a job, there are all kinds of requirements and regulations and employers especially have to comply with all kinds of red tape. the compliance cost of satisfying federal regulators are early next eventually. education, schools are being managed in schools used to be the quintessential local institutions where americans really govern themselves in their school houses and these are now being dictated to by washington. every aspect of life now is

you know, i served in the clinton administration as well as the obama administration. i think it's getting worse, not better in that regard. >> sorry. we're going to get you a microphone real quick. >> my question for the panel is to get a sense of your advice to congressional staff on carrying out effective investigations on a day-to-day basis. i've seen this as an investigator on the senate side, working for a private law firm, seeing this at an executive agency in the white house, and in a very practical way some of the lessons i learned in the senate are not necessarily cared through. things like keeping investigations confidential until they are ready to be final. making them confidential, treating materials that are sensitive as sensitive, and in doing other things in a way for congressional staff to establish creditability. i may be using that in a different way than you used, morton, but in a way that there is a balance of power and how both parties can establish creditability. as a lawyer, yes, we do have different interests, but we do believe facts should carr

it's a priority of the administration. we are very optimistic it will get passed in the lame duck session. i have been asked to not refer to the lame duck session as such and pretend i didn't say that. i heard of someone who went to their halloween party as a lame duck. they had a crutch and a cast and dressed like a duck. the house of representatives and the education workforce held a hearing on a new proposal to allow a different type of multiemployer plan. there is definitely room for creative ideas and we are working closely with staff of both houses to analyze new ideas in the multiemployer world and however, we need to make sure that any new idea doesn't put existing legacy plans at further risk of insolvency. so that's a lens we are going to look at, look at any new proposal through. the problems facing multiemployer plans are complex and they deserve adequate time for full consideration and an open process involving all the interested parties. the single employer system is, as i mentioned, is much more -- much less

the time. a doctor walking in i am told. he needs to get administration together and he's making it a busy one and his day starting with meetings with different advisor and trump tower and 58th floor triplex apartment and then here in the new jersey golf club in new jersey. and a look the trip team opponentmentes so far. attorney general, jeff sessions, white house chief of staff. reince priebus and white house strategist steve beenon. and assistant to the president on national security and retired lieutenant michael flynn and cia director mike pompeo. and doug, we hear another cabinet pick is imminent and there is one more meeting tonight. do we know with whom? >> we don't know with whom. in fact mike pence and president-elect trump boarded a motorcade. they are going to stay within the confines of the golf course grounds and come back for dinner and more work to it be done after that. they are infatigable in some sense. it would be announced tonight. mr. trump in the brief talk with reporters. said it locks like tomorrow. the general mat us to be secret

the george w. bush administration to the obama administration is considered to be very smooth. how much of that is something that would have been the case if not for your experience on september 11? mr. bolten: first, thank you for having us and it is a privilege to be here. 9/11 had a lot to do with it. of tenor and the substance the transition that we worked on as president bush was leaving office in 2008 was very much a product of the terrorist attack of 9/11 in the sense that president bush called me in probably a year before the inauguration and maybe even a little more. he wanted to be sure that whoever was elected president, that his white house executed the best, most effective, deepest, most cooperative transition in modern history. in large part because this was the first transition in modern history during which there was a really keen sense that the homeland itself was under threat. ais period of transition is real point of vulnerability for the country. those of us who have either left the white house on january 19 or arrived on january 20, and i have done the forme

carry on from the obama administration. so now we are talking about the incoming trump administration. it is going to be different, no question. it is going to be different. foreign policy institute, one of your goals, your goal is to rope us support for democratic institutions and human rights. that's under attack today. that's under attack. the principle opponent is russia and what they are doing. i think there is going to be a great deal of concentration on russia. russia is using its influence to affect the geographic cal boundaries of democratic, independent states as well as democratic institutions within these democratic states. their target, quite frankly, has been their neighborhood, the former republics of the soviet union but also the former communist bloc and then beyond, including the united states of america. so we all see what's happened in ukraine. we know that russia has invaded the territorial integrity of ukraine and they are continuing to disrupt the development of ukraine as an independent democratic sta

is there a connection to the new administration? promise the representatives that we would come back and talk to people in washington and share whatever we thought we had learned in terms of insides about the dprk that the dprk wished us to take away. we have been doing that. lee siegel in new york city and with the person with the logistics for this meeting and put them in place did do some writing and has shared that writing with various people. i have done several oral debriefing and so we are trying to be good to our word that we gave them all lump ore. i don't want to overstate anything we might have accomplished sharing views and insights if not more than not. but whatever it's worth, we have that he had >> thank you. >> thank you, kim. mr. ambassador, thank you for your remarks. it is very useful to hear people talk about what does north korea believes as opposed to what we see a rhetorically and what we see in terms of their actions. i am going to continue and ask you what you think north korea thinks about some additional th

the w. bush administration. conversely, george w. bush eight years later would bequeevept barack obama two wars and the greatest recession since the 1930's and yet he did maybe the most spectacular job of transitioning between two different party presidents of any president to date so -- and the obama people have been very complimently of that, even if they would maybe have preferred the other way around. peace and prosperity and a crappy transition. >> in the clinton white house, it would be interesting to see if the bill clinton people are being picked over the obama people or a view of let's start fresh. that's one thing to look at. >> very good point. >> this was addressed in the first panel but are the people wanting to come in wanting to blow up some of these agencies that trump has expressed saying we don't need them. cat: let's talk about the other transition that might occur that does affect the white house as well and that is the possibility that the senate could go back into democratic hand. what are some of the tips that y

that will set the tone for the administration. given the way the campaign was run in the way the opposition to him, what kind of president is he going to be? think what he does in the first weeks of office will be more important for him then for previous presidents. i would hope that is also part, what is the tone they want to set and what are they going to do to demonstrate that. >> i think a challenge they have now is that before you make a lot of your appointments, setting up your decision-making structure, what information do you want together? who do you want to talk to? what groups do you want to take into account? what's important for the president? for the president-elect and the president, it's a different decision-making system that it's going to be running your business. running your business you can decide who you want to talk to and not bother with people that you don't. when you're president obviously are going to have to take into account congress. you you can just make decisions on your. you have to think about what

i served in the clinton administration as well as the obama administration. think it's getting worse, not better, in that regard. >> we're going to get you a microphone real quick. >> my question for the panel is to get a sense of your advice to congressional staff on carrying out effective investigations on a day-to-day basis. i've seen this as an investigator on the senate side, working for a private law firm, seeing this at an executive agency in the white house. and in a very practical way some of the lessons that i learned in the senate are not necessarily carried through, things like keeping investigations confidential until they are ready to be final, making them confidential, treating materials that are sensitive as sensitive. and in doing other things in a way for congressional staff to establish credibility. i may be using that in a different way that you used it, morton, but in a way that there is, despite differing interest on either side of a congressional investigation that is a balance of power, and that those parties can establish credibility.

that will set the tone for his administration. given the way this campaign was run and given some of the republican opposition to them, what kind of the president is he going to be? i think what he does in the first weeks is going to be even more important for him than for previous presidents are i would hope that is also part, what is the tone to want to sit and what are they going to do to demonstrate that. i hope very much your thinking about the. >> i think a challenge they have right now is before you make a lot of your appointments, setting up a decision-making structure, what information do you want to gather, who do you want to talk to, what groups do you want to take into account, what's important for the president, win for the president-elect of into the president. so it's a different decision-making decision that is going to be running a business. because running a business you can decide who you want to talk to and not bother with people that you don't. and when you're president you obviously have to take into account t

with infrastructure expected to be one of the very first things in the new administration and congress to take a look at, we couldn't pick a better topic to kick off the next series. once the administration and congress come to town, we will be tracking all of it whether it is the bills moving through congress, the rules and the agencies, the lobbying dollars were the contract is moving through all the different agencies. so, for today we have an exciting lineup of panelists and i want to say a word of thanks to the speakers and moderators of panelists for taking time out to join us today and i've also take a moment to acknowledge the partner building america's future and in particular my friend and neighbor. they had been great partners to us. [applause] as well as setting about 5 feet away from where i sit. i want to introduce the first session today. it is my pleasure to welcome to bloomberg and bloomberg government the secretary of homeland security jay johnson. he will be having a conversation with my colleague from bloomberg news. obviously with infrastructure being such a big to

why issue it now, late in the administration? vivek murthy: the decision to commission the report on how to haul, drugs, and health was a decision i made at the very beginning. it was the first major decision i made in december 2014. these reports take several years to produce. we did it on the quickest timeline possible. we knew there was a great need for this report i am issuing a call to action for our country to take on the public health crisis of addiction. there are 20.8 million people in america with substance abuse disorder. that is similar to the number of people with diabetes. despite this heavy burden of illness, only one in 10 people are getting treatment. that's what we have to change. how does the report do that? in several ways. it lays down the scope of the problem, which is one not everyone understands. it raises on the property list. it also lays out the evidence for prevention and treatment strategies. when i travel the country and talk with families, many don't realize that we have evidence -based methods to tr

this is why the bush administration started early. that's pretty much what i want to leave you with. i'm part of the center for presidential transition, we are part of the partnership of public service and committed to making government more effective. we are also nonpartisan and nonprofit. we've been working with the teams since the spring. in april we can be all five senior campaign officials of the time, the candidates who are still in office. we pulled them off site to talk about governing the country. it's the first time in history we've seen that this early. as an american super proud to see a safe nonpartisan if i did where he seemed to talk about governing this entity which is the u.s. federal government. since then we've been working closely with the teams. both teams are committed to an effective transition which is exciting. they understand the importance of governing this country. i'll leave you with that. >> really well done. thank you. thank you, david. that really helped to frame things. perfectly, i will talk more from

you see everybody holding hands when the administration comes in >> comes down to the work. >> that's what matters. >>> hillary clinton is still leading donald trump in the popular vote by nearly a million votes. she will not be president. donald trump leading in electoral votes, 306 to 232. the electoral college, which will cast its ballots december 17th, retiring is introducing a bill that would do away with the elecra >>> lenny stein horn is here, this happens, we heard a big uproar in 2000 when it was al gore on the popular votes and lenny talking about what we saw four years ago during president obama's reelection, when a guy named donald trump said the electoral college was a joke. >> exactly. look. this has been an issue a long time. this is now the fifth election in our nation's history in which the winner of the popular vote is not going to be occupying the and in last five election, two democrats have won the popular vote. but lost the electoral college. look, the critics of the electoral college say it violates the principle of one person, one vote. there is one election to

even some bad things might happen and you can sort of put it behind you to reunite the administration>> as for the prospect of romney joining the administration, that will not be made until next week. >> trump's 75-minute with "the new york times" yesterday it wasn't tell vievised. on whether climate change is man made or not, trump said, quote, i think there is some connectivity. some something. it depends on how much. on conflict in the middle east, he said, quote, i would love to be the one who made peace with israel and the palestinians. that would be such a great achievement. trump was fuzzy on how exactly how to do that, he did suggest his jewish 35-year-old son-in-law jared kushner could help. >> and asked if it's not group i want to energize. and if they are energized, i want to to look into it and find out why. >> and finally, trump put aside any questions of conflictses of interest with his far-flung business empire. say, quote, the law's totally on my side. the president can't have a conflicts of interest. >> that raised a lot of questions, yes in legal circles. also in tha

the real deal. thank you. >> reporter: will he have a place in your administration? re going to see. >> reporter: [ inaudible ]. >> just a wonderful man, what a career, and we're going it see what happens, but he is the real deal. thank you, everybody. >> reporter: do you want the job? general? >> reporter: general -- >> okay. >> watching live shots coming out of new jersey where president-elect donald trump meeting with several individuals today and our own kelly o'donnell has been keeping her eyes on that door, and we heard you shouting out the questions, kelly. thanks for doing that for us. talk about general mattis and what he might be considered for in this new administration? it looks like we're having trouble there technically with that live picture coming out of new jersey. and, again, general mattis just meeting with president-elect trump. the retired marine corps general. potential, is what we're hearing, for secretary of defense and has been described by one general, somebody that would be a good choice. a fellow general in the army, commenting about this r

he said he looks forward to the incoming administration. you also saw there, as he was getting into his car and driving away, some of the reporters that were part of that press pool yelling out questions to the former governor, asking him if in fact he apologized, if in fact he would accept a position in the incoming administration. the governor did not answer any of those questions. but once again, you saw that meeting that lasted i would say close to about two hours in bedminster, new jersey, between the former republican candidate and president-elect trump. there's been some speculation over the course of the past week that in fact the election, president-elect trump was going to offer the position or at least consider mitt romney for the position of secretary of state. that was not addressed in the brief comments there that the governor -- and you're seeing now live pictures of president-elect trump and vice president-elect pence waiting for the next meeting scheduled to take place, it's a busy day of meetings. this is michelle rhee, a p

that leads to questions if christie will have a position in the administration. and then also rudy giuliani. he has been angling for a secretary of state job. we asked the president-elect if that is what he is looking at the mayor for. >> secretary of state? >> and other things. and other things. >> reporter: so, guys, a little bit of hedging there. maybe other positions he may be looking at. this is all coming in the wake of saturday's meeting with the former massachusetts governor mitt romney. we are told is under consideration for the state job. i'm told from trump advisors that trump is intrigued by the idea and perception of what it means for romney in the administration. particularly in the wake of the battle over the past 16 months. it is interesting to see how that plays out. one thing to keep our eye on. starting today, a focus on economic jobs. the economic transition landing teams and domestic policy. we are keeping a close eye on who the next big cabinet an pointme appointments will be. boris and christine. >>> so donald trump could be placing a fellow

both the bush administration and the obama administration tried and disappointed at the attempts to get north koreans to engage seriously and make moves through diplomatic channels. the current pos sure -- posture is to sit back and not engage and it's clear they are willing to move. what everybody agrees now and it's a bipartisan view that the north korea program is moving forward. you may have to take further actions because there will be red lines. >> indeed. north korea's nuclear arsenal believed to have as many as 40 bombs. in addition the country is making huge progress putting ballistic missile that could hit u.s. mainland, so you agree that this should be the top u.s.-foreign policy priority. now what would you guess it's reaction to election? >> it's almost impossible to guess what goes on in north korea. i don't think anybody has a good idea. the reality is that the key player is probably not north korea in some ways but china, the question is really what's the north korean attitude towards china and vice versa. they are basically the lifeline for north korea, one of the frust

confirmation regard opportunity to bash over the administration's policy. even if the next president wants to send a message by taking some across the aisle i would expect the expense to be a lot more like chuck hagel's experience and a lot less like norm's experience. >> i think again this is a situation where in a matter which of the two nominees is elected. in clinton's case, you have seen, she has coveted the fact number of republicans have come over to support her campaign, mostly in protest to donald trump's existence as a mommy so the kids are ready-made batch. either potential nominees for cabinet posts released a

all the political appointees in the administration are expected to resign at the end of an administration so effective presumably january 20, 2017 when the new team comes in. that's what the transition is about. it's about preparing the incoming team to have the right people in place and to understand what the state of play is on the whole wide-ranging issues, national security, domestic policy, economic policy. that's what a transition team does in about ten weeks' time. it's a mammoth task that needs to get started as soon as possible in order to prepare the president when he is president on january 20th to take over and run the government. >> it is a mammoth task. we hear so many different things about what's happening inside the trump transition team, right? some say it's a blood bath. there have been more firings than hirings. the trump team says it's going smoothly, we are proceeding at a normal pace. what do you think? is the truth somewhere in the middle? >> it probably is. i would urge, though, a point of view that suggests these decisions are extremely important. what president-

that came from the obama administration. e challenge of it is we should , do our own work to work that out. if you want to do something investment in the military, that means you got to go do all this other stuff domestically that maybe might not need it or not where the investment is. if we are able to be together, i think we solve all of that. and we can be. james can you see lifting the : sequester or getting rid of it? mr. mccarthy: you're not going to list the caps. you can talk about where you make the investment. if you have enough money, you're are going to invest, prioritize where you are going to do it. in the sequester, you are not able to prioritize. i look at the fact that one of the rules if you get elected you should take the responsibility of where you should make the i don't want to go in debt. i don't want to go in debt. decisions of where to spend that money. i got only a certain amount of money, but i want to invest in the right place that. -- that would solve pro-desk solve the problems. your home state.

is there more the administration could have done on that front? >> i think we've been very committed to trade enforcement and to the use of the trade remedy laws. i think as you see now, i think there are more trade remedies being imposed by the commerce department and itc than ever before in history. a lot were in the steel sector. on the trade enforcement side we brought 23 cases before wto, morne any country in the world, 14 of those cases brought against china. we've won every case that's been brought to conclusion and we're continuing to work on those cases. so i think we believe that enforcement is very important. that clearly is an issue that's been underscored by this campaign as well and i expect it will be important in the future as well. >> i had a theory that you had at least one or two more wto cases you were going to roll out during tpp debate. >> we work on ongoing basis and bring as soon as we are confident they are ready to go. whenever we're ready to go, we will bring them. >> could we see more between now and the end of the admin

because radio operators were licensed to be contingents whether you play the administration once it. an early example of political dangers with licensing. >> what you are describing as the federal size of the federal government -- >> the federal government employed personnel, not much since world war zero make because the federal government gets the states to do most of this, almost all federal regulatory programs give money to the states and states have to comply with federal regulations, states are the ones administering these programs would people haven't noticed the growth of the federal government in terms of personnel being carried out through agencies and getting private institutions for officers, full-time job in compliance with federal regulations the government made the enforcement of this through state and private parties. >> what is the role of the federal register? >> guest: compilation of regulations. it wasn't even started until 1935. one central place people go to see what regulations are and in the old days congress passed a statute, tremendously important statutes, t

folks in the trump administration. get this thing going here. wonderful spokeswoman. >> thank you so many. lou: you have seen the president be so gracious today. talk about presidential. when you put presiden presidentp against that name, he's 389. >> donald trump is a humble, amazing man. i had no doubt in my mind that people would be drawn to him like a magnet like the other leaders across the world. i'm so proud of my president barack obama the graciousness and the respect that he has shown to our president-elect donald j. trump. i look forward to that smooth transition as of now all the way until january 20, 2017. very, very proud of the both of them. >> i know they have to be proud of you and appreciative of all you have done. you have done much and you have don't bully with great energy and great class if i may say so. >> it was my honor and my pleasure. i truly believe donald trump, our president-elect and mike pence, our vice president-elect. i believe they will hit the ground running making sure our poor, our middle class, our inner cit

why issue it now late in the , obama administration? vivek murthy: the decision to commission report on alcohol, drugs and health was a decision i made at the beginning of the tenure. it was the first major decision i made in december 2014. these reports take several years to produce. we did it on the quickest timeline possible. we knew there was a great need for this report. i am issuing a call to action for our country to take on the public health crisis of addiction. i am doing so recognizing there are 20.8 million people in america with substance abuse disorder. what surprises people, that is similar to the number of people with diabetes in america and it is 1.5 times the number of people with cancers. despite this heavy burden of illness, only one in 10 people are getting treatment. that's what we have to change. born how does the report do : that? vivek murthy: in several ways. one comment lays out clearly the scope of the problem, which is one that everyone necessarily understands and races and on the priority list. number two, it

i think the administration or the president-elect's administration kind of turning around and saying, we are going to make a serious effort to ensure that there is not the kind of revolving door we may have seen in previous administrations by putting in place, for example, this five-year ban. i think that's a great idea. the essence of the trump candidacy is as the outsider. it's crucially important for his credibility but also the cr were elected with him for him to behave in a way that's completely above reproach. >> dickerson: let me ask you now, switching and going back to grover's point, the budget. so we have promises that were made on the campaign trail, and then we have the reality of the budget. where should peopleing to figure out where the rubber meets the road, what should they look to? >> for starters, president-elect trump is going to be inheriting the worst fiscal situation of any president as judged by the debt relative to the economy. he's walking into office. so he's got a tough starting point. he spent a lot of time on the campaign talking about the portion of getti

is i the trump administration? >> well, i think the president-elect made his views on that quite clear during the course of the campaign, but as we go forward, what i can tell you is it's not going to be about a specific tactic. what i see in these meetings with the president-elect and candidates for our national security and our national defense is someone who is determined to surround himself extraordinary background and capability. we have real challenges around the world today, john, and the american people should know that president-elect donald trump is going to surround himself with men and women who are going to ensure our national defense. we're going to rebuild our military. but this is going to be a president that is going to be determined to destroy isis and to confront radical islamic terrorism, so it can no longer threaten our people here at home. >> dicke mr. vice president-elect, you went to see "hamilton." the actors sent a message to you. part of it was, "we are the diverse america that are alarm a

and byron's point, not just supreme court justices were important, and how the trump administration will interpret and enforce federal law and have more immediate importance about the constitution in the supreme court. when he was attorney general, gave a famous speech at tulane law school where he called for jurisprudence of original intent, seen as a radical concept in the late 80s, i did a study a few years ago, and there was criticism from my colleagues in the academy, in journalism. and the following five years, 500%, it is just as consequential. i want to recognize that. and the trump administration -- [applause] >> supreme court nominee is important, and conservative constitutionalists. and pick a supreme court nominee now, and easily confirmed, i know a lot of judges are on the list of the first 10 or 20, it shows what it takes the george w. bush cared about nominees, and lower court judges and if he were paying attention to politics he would nominate a senator. only one senator has ever been turned down for confirmation for any job. if you appoint senator mike lee for example, s

ford and they've criticized the policy of this administration. this is one instance where i agree with, with the republican platform. i might say this in closing, and that is is, as far as foreign policy goes, mr. kissinger has been the president of this country. mr. ford has shown an absence of leadership and absence of grasp of what this country is and what it ought to be. that's got to be changed and that's one of the major issues in this campaign of 1976. >> president ford, would you like to respond. >> governor carter, again, is talking in broad generalities. let me take just one question that he raises. the military strength and capability of the united states. governor carter in november of 1975 indicated that he wanted to cut the defense budget by $15 billion, a few months later, he said he wanted to cut the defense budget by 8 or $9 billion. more recently he talked about cutting the defense budget by 5 to $7 billion. there's no way you can be strong militarily and have those kind of reductions in our military appropriation. now, let me ju

i do not think he belongs in the administration. is going to be secretary of state. who else is going to come into this cabinet? donald trump went around the country denouncing wall street and it appears that a lot of the people in his initiation in the cabinet are people from wall street. >> you guys are sitting around. don't go anywhere, more when we come back. ♪ ♪ welcome back. we back with the southern california dynamic duo. if you were the strategist first chuck schumer, would you look for opportunities to work with president trump? or would you say, oppose him across the board? >> i do not think that will happen. if there is an infrastructure bill that will do something to rebuild the crumbling bridges, to modernize the rail system, democrats will cooperate with. it will also be a very big jobs bill. he would create a huge number of jobs. byause he cannot create jobs tinkering around with trade agreements, he has to find another way to do it over his constituency will be unhappy. there are other areas where you have to oppose

already made by the obama administration. that's a shame because that means that we have -- we haven't given up but we've made it harder, the obama administration is made it harder for the incoming administration to get a better deal to take a strong line on political prisoners and succeed before releasing any change, permissions for trade and the like. >> those on the side would argue it wasn't working. they talk about driving cars from the 1950s, they don't have any goods. by isolating them, we're punishing the administration. so open the doors from the fruits from the west. the people will rise up or the situation will be improved, at least. what's wrong with that argument? >> i think generally speaking the cuban-american community in florida and the rest of the united states has been right on this. our problem is not that we've seen too tough a line coming out of u.s. government on these issues. we haven't seen a tough enough line. i think that the trump administration would have a much better opportunity to get a better d