that s true. you have an alphabet soup of regulatory agencies here. you can t really blame the regulated parties when they look around and they are getting competing and in some cases conflicting mandates from their government masters. neil: who do they answer to? if you have mick mulvaney saying all right, i want to do this and the self-appointed director leaves and appoints his deputy to run things and she is barking orders, you can t blame the agencies involved or the banks and institutions, lending houses, from being a little confused. they are going to be violating someone, right? that s a fair point. the first step is to figure out who the real director s. we know that from yesterday, the federal judge, it appears to be more veiny. that piece of the puzzle is solved but it doesn t solve the larger problem which is that in washington we have so many different agencies are all trying to regulate and often overlapping and sometimes conflicting ways. i think can make it very
the law says there s a line of succession at the agency and if the director leaves, then the deputy director becomes the acting director of that agency. and there s somebody in that job, leandra english. she s been deputy director and at the agency from the beginning. who is in charge? who gets to decide? we ve got competing claims to the leadership of this agency. i ve never seen this ever before in the time that i ve been covering american governance and all the history i ve read about american governance. never seen this. yesterday, the deputy director, the person you would think would be the acting director, she filed a lawsuit in federal court trying to block the president s pick from taking the job. tonight we don t even know the status of hcthat. tonight we re wait fing for the justice department to file its response to that.
and they came and told us we were closing. that is so funny. welcome you abroad. with an apple. barrymore. the next day. the next day which would be our first performance without the director present. which as you know in a play, means a lot. when you get to open the director leaves. in this case it was writer/director, david mana. could do a whole another show about. let s not go an inch over there. hi, dave. this is, dave story. this ring. dave mana story. the producer met us at the door that night. richards. jeffrey richards. and said, i m sorry. it was a full house. it was sold out for some night to come. but can this happen it? is like when my first kid got stuck in the birth canal.
monday morning? good morning, christi, good morning, panel. don t you love politics? i believe who will be running it is the person trump nominated to do it. here is why. clearly there s a classic and it s not too uncommon discrepancy between two different statutes. of course, you have the consumer protection financial affairs agency. it says, you know what, in the event the director leaves, the deputy director can step up. it also says in that little quotation it says unavailable or absent. so technically does a resignation mean you re unavailable and/or absent? that s the question. but then there s that vacancy act which allows the president to make an appointment in an agency. i think that as long as the president, christi, has control of both parties, what do you do? if there s any dispute, you change the law. i think the courts will be loaf to get into this. this is more classified as what