job difference would be, if you have to speak for the administration, for the president, you better be careful, right? that s why i distinguish the white house. the white house is not involved in the substantive work of government. it is a policy and political office. appointees are appointed under a different statute giving the president complete latitude. these are people who are political operators, not career civil servants. they make the choice to be there. they own everything the president says. so they are part of his commentary or failure to comment correctly or honestly or morally about charlottesville and the nazis? yeah. they have that on their conscience. they do. they are whispering to reporters after criticizing the media for printing anonymous sources and now they are criticizing the president behind his back anonymously. frankly, i think that s disloyal to the president and if they feel that way they should quit. that s strong. here is what veterans affairs
current attorneys who already worked there on other projects whether they would be interested in working on a new project that s going to be run by the political appointees out of the front office. trump administration political appointees. that would involve affirmative action and reviewing policies and college admissions that may be deemed to discriminate on the basis of race. usually, an anti-discrimination effort in targeting a university or a school would be run out of a special section. the education opportunity section which is run by career civil servants who stay on and one thing that is unusual about this is it is run out of the front office. it appears to be a new initiative and they re trying to redirect some people who are already working on other things to go after affirmative action policies that, in their view, at least, go too far and cross the blurry line the supreme court has drawn between efforts to help maintain diversity on
article, about who is going to be doing the investigating here. says the announcement suggests it will be run out of the front office where the political appointees work rather than the opportunity section run by career civil servants which normally handles the work of colleges and universities and schools. is that noteworthy? yeah, it is. though it is true also that even the section that is there is still governed by the political appointees, that s the way it normally happens. it makes it is an optical change because it looks as though somehow it is going to be a brand new initiative that is going to change things radically. it won t change things radically, it is the supreme court that decides what the parameters are on what the law will be when it comes to what i call the hunger games academic hunger games of america. as long as we have a culture that says you only get ahead if you have a college degree, and we don t respect workers the way other cultures do, it puts the great
not only be fired, i may have lost my bibberty. there is not two standards for the powerful and connected and for career civil servants. it should be at the discretion of professionals, not at the whim of a political leader. there is a report right now that the intel committee and the administration want to know if he helped guide russian meddling. angus king was on earlier and he said this. i can tell you that is an area of inquiry and an area of whether or not there was coordination. how much. i think it is important because we learn that the republican the trump campaign
you have all these messes. going back to the ambassadors and this, there is zero for these 44 u.s. attorneys. no one nominated. with the ambassadors it was get out that day. it s your kids who are in the middle of school overseas, they re done. so there s a sense in which he s saying what the haey, we re goig to create chaos, almost silicon valley style. what s incredible is he doesn t have his own people there. there s all these democrats and deep state folks that you don t trust, it s their right hands who are now going to be leading these agencies and these attorneys offices until they finally start figuring it out. and what does that mean? does that mean you have career civil servants who now are actually in charge of these investigations or is the second layer also political appointees? well, at least for the time being you have career civil sev