next few days or weeks and then we ll see what happens after that. but i have, i think, great relations with most of the people that are very close to donald trump. i like them. i worked with them for years. i respect their intelligence and their principles and their ideology. if the president calls you and asks you to serve, you have to take that request very, very seriously. we ll wait and see what comes your way. you can get back to us on that. last issue for us this morning. cobach, secretary of state out of kansas, architect of immigration laws and helping out the administration in its transition planning on immigration. one of the ideas that he has put forth that may come back into the american legal system is a registry for muslim immigrants. now, that is a big red flag for a lot of civil liberties people. that s why it was taken out in 2011. the registry was put in place after 9/11 and taken out in 2011
security team. and national security has kind of been a weak link for donald trump. they needed someone who is going to be gunning hard at this which mike rogers was. to yank him out there all of a sudden puts the brakes on whatever they were doing now. new people have to come in. it s just so, people were not happy about that. just like mixed feelings in trump world about yanking somebody who is such a key player, smart guy, pulling him out of there. reading jen s great story the thing you would come away feeling and then talking to people in trump land is that so much of this is happening on the fly. and you ve got someone, jared kushner, who is not, you know, someone who comes out of a political organization who is making he s never done anything like this before. and he s making a lot of quarterbacking calls. it s not necessarily okay, we need to make sure that reince priebus and, you know, various sort of people who technically should be in charge and are being empower
put in, you have a legal reason not want to see him put his kids in high post because it s illegal. the ethical question, it s not just his kids, but his kids who are running this company of his and there is a concern about a conflict between what he does as president to help the country and what might happen just to help the business. isn t that a realistic concern? i think it s a realistic concern, but lisening to ttenin tone on donald trump, didn t know what the salary was for president of the united states. he said, no, i won t take the salary unless the law requires me to take one dollar a year. his interests go completely to the united states of america. he has a huge empire that he built that needs to be operated and run efficiently. i don t know how you could ever get to that point that you would assure everybody in the public that there wasn t some kind of cross over of knowledge base that would be helpful to the trump empire. i don t think it s unethical. him suspending his
christie. in my case, i was hired by him. there is a whole series about five of them that fit that criteria that were asked taleave in the last few days. reporter: kushner has a complicated history with christie. his father, charles, a real estate developer spending a year in jail after being prosecuted by christie an attorney in 2004. but a high-ranking trump insider is dismissing reports of infighting and says that the purge of christie loyalists is being mischaracterized. trump, too, is pushing back. defending the transition as very organized process taking place as i decide on cabinet in many other positions. i am the only one who knows who the finalists are. meanwhile a source with close knowledge of the transition says that kushner could likely end up with a top national security clearance as a key adviser to trump. fueling concerns over nepotism and a policy conflict of
anecdote you heard about rogers being told and who knew and who didn t know that reveal somewhat of what is going on within the team? a lot of back stabbing and infighting and hard to tell what the motivations are. they aren t necessarily always communicating with each other. i was told from someone within the transition team that they were told to call mike rogers and say, you know, thank you so much for your service, but you re dismissed and then an hour later another top transition official called him for a scheduled meeting and didn t know that he had already been let go. so, it s just that kind of, just not communicating with each other. i m not so sure that mike pence knew that mike rogers was going to be let go. i got a lot of phone calls after i broke the story yesterday morning with people concerned saying mike rogers is a guy who commands real respect. this was the guy who was supposed to be setting up national security policies and setting up, you know, recommending staff.