inevitable. and kristen welker, reminding folks, recall the cabinet process, cabinet vetting process, certain members the president focused on and certain ones vice president pence was focused on. tom price was considered sort of in the pence wing of that. a good point there. i don t think the president was personally as invested in him as, say, a steve mnuchin or perhaps a ryan zinke. and tonight s panel, host of, analyst, host of hugh hewitt on saturdays and campaign policy director for obama and clinton and carolyn start with you. the one thing that i am mildly surprised about the president sort of accepting this resignation is that he is also one of those, you don t give an inch. uh-huh. you don t. when you feed the beast here, the washington beast. the sacrificial lamb of tom price. is it blood in the water?
what s been happening, including in the last week in europe, you have consistently cabinet officials saying things that are different than what the president has said, on nato, on israel, on russia, including russian sanctions. so i think if you re tillerson coming in, it s not that he has not found the right person. some of it may be that they don t have a cabinet process to ensure discipline in the message, and he doesn t want to be saying to himself, i don t want to say something different than what the president is saying, which is what happened this week with vice president mike pence. congressman? the number one thing we need to do is get all the cabinet members and key advisers that have to have senate approval, we need to get them in place as soon as possible. that will help establish the goals and the direction and the communication. and i think that the senate democrats could do their part and say, you know what, the republicans approved the obama cabinet and key advisers
it is now whittling this down. we are going through the cabinet process right now. they worked with the federal society. got it down to just a few. the names are names they will love. the nomination will solidify conservative majority on the supreme court since his death last february the court has been operating with the 4, 4 split. president obama nominated judge garland to replace justice scalia. president elect trump said his choice would be pro second amendment and anti apportion. the new supreme court isn t the only big shake-up. reince priebus says the white house press corps should expect
he cares what every single word says. which i know is difficult at times. anyway, congratulation on your positions. i don t have a lot of advice for the president-elect, but what i care about is the country. i believe this is the forgotten man and woman election. what s important, i think, and one of the reasons people are so upset with washington is they make promises and don t keep them. so, to me, if you re going to be the head of policy, i want to ask you are we going to get originalists on the court? we re going through the cabinet process but next it s the supreme court. he has a list of 30 judges. we have it down to a few, and the names are names that people are going to love who believe the constitution should be interpreted as it was intended. if the democrats try tofilib happened on a supreme court,