you ve seen lots of articles about hud, about the state department. these are essentially hud is not being run at all, because ben carson is sort of in la-la land. but tillerson s trying to run the whole state department out of his back pocket, because they haven t bothered to fill some of the positions. tillerson s agenda is the same as trump s. that is to decrease the number of employees of the state department by a big number. but tillerson is all alone in doing this. and he can dona t do it. the state department is essentially functionless at this time. mattis is really the de facto secretary of state. what is the explanation for that. how are not basic state department posts being filled? the trump people will say, the senate isn t confirming our nominees, but that simply is not true. because there s about 250 positions that there aren t even resumes for to vet. i mean, yes, they are a little bit behind, but they re not getting the applications for dep secretaries all acro