good man, he s obviously served his country. can he run this department? there is a 50-50 odds he will beat senator sanders. senator who can slow up the process on the floor can make some advances. there are some confirmation hearings and that will take some time, and if he does step in it during the confirmation hearings, he ll have a hard time getting the votes. but this is an election year, and there will be a number of democrats feeling they need to bill over the several hours. i think that helps him because the democrats can t vote down every one of these cabinet nominees that are coming up before him, no secretary of. i think with the midterms approaching, it would be very hard for democrats.
by this. betsy devos at the department of education has not filled top positions, she herself said that the department of education should perhaps be abolished. take a look at ben carson, the secretary of, over whatever agency he s hud, take a look at rick perry over at energy. all these people are on record as saying that these departments should be abolished. the president is on record saying he wanted to drain the swamp and make the government a little bit smaller. so two things very quickly. one, look, you can disagree with president trump. you can disagree and be angry he is our president but he does have the right to do this and he s consistent by putting people in place that want to shrink the government as opposed to grow it. i don t agree with that philosophy. i think there should be some qualified people in these roles, particularly at the state department, particularly in education, but the reality is that this is a person who won, and the reality is that this is a person
kushner is back in washington, d.c. as president trump s secretary of, well, everything. the senior adviser son-in-law with no prior diplomatic or government experience has a long to-do list. not only is he working to broker a peace deal in the middle east, he s also working on improving ties with china, improving ties with mexico. don t forget he s also supposed to be innovating the government. meanwhile, the real estate project that put kushner on the map, well, that s bleeding debt. let s bring in cnn northern correspondent cristina alesci. what s the fate of this project and what s going on? reporter: well, the building has been struggling to make debt payments of what s goinging on. more context here, jake this. deal was jared s entrance into prime manhattan real estate before the family made smaller-scale investments. for example, condos in new jersey, but jared overpaid for this fifth avenue address, and now the family is trying to find a way to turn the deal around. 666 fifth
germany should have learned from hungary on this last year, but they ve failed to, and we ve seen what happened just this week in berlin. we ve got to be able to say, no, if you re coming from a hotbed, a known terrorist area, then we ve got to have a system in place. and, gregg, i just can t say one or the other, and i don t think anybody has. it has to be a mixture. gregg: all right. i want to switch to another topic. there s a washington post today, noter terribly flattering to the president-elect, i m sure you ve seen it, in which the writer basically says what trump is doing is a casting call for people who look the part for particular positions and cabinet slots and so forth. there you see some of the picks so far. and i ll be specific. the post says, you know, general giles mattis, secretary of james mattis, quote, rugged combat general, looks the part. nikki haley is the ambassador to write. and then for rex tillerson, secretary of state, they refer to him as sort of
okay. and then eboni williams earlier says she hopes it comes back. it s not coming back? no. i think journalism is dead as we once knew it now everybody is a journalist. you can go on and blog and you can tweet. there is no editor. the difference between now and each just a few years ago, there is no editor. nobody in charge. the polls show that most americans are getting their information on facebook. yeah. facebook. yeah. that s a bleak situation. we are here for a few more years anyway. i think we ll be okay. finally, are you going to do anything for trump? do you anticipate helping him out? you know, he offered me a cabinet position. i did not think it was a great fit for me. i told him at this point in my life. what was it? i can t say. secretary of, what? it was a secretary of. the reason i m not saying yes is because i feel like that that is information that he and he alone owns. and only he should disclose