now, and that he you know, is facing opposition even among republicans who are murmuring why is he the head of this committee anyway. he was appointed by john boehner, it s essentially a patronage position to someone who does a lot of fund-raising. he s a former dairy farmer. people are questioning why is he qualified to be in this important position when he was a member of the trump transition and now seems completely unethical and compromised. not just a member of the transition, at one point early in the campaign, he was one of the handful of folks briefing this administration on matters of intelligence and also at one point, if i m not mistaken, admitted to the washington post or said at least, to the washington post he was fielding phone calls from foreign leaders who were trying to get in touch with general flynn. and maybe now if he was briefing the trump administration, the trump administration is briefing him. maybe he had to go to the white house, the person within
fundamentally transforming the united states of america. [ applause ] 6 some argue they won on his performer but they rejected overtures to reform the chicago machine. he made it clear he wasn t interested in risk taking or challenging the chicago machine lock on a lot of mechanics of government in cook county in chicago. said a frustrated former colleague. mayor richard daley last of the big city bosses built that machine. by rewarding allies with patronage position. today, obama choice of aide suggest unbreakable bond to that machine. jalry jarret, david axelrod and rahm emanuel and bill daley all cut their political deet on the daley machine. the legendary chicago tribute writer once penned this advice to mayoral candidate richard m. daley the son of the big city boss. reward your friends and punish your enemies. a phrase the president used once to describe how latinos should think about elections.