well, on the thursday, i guess, after the election i was fired. he didn t have the very best people in front of him to be able to make a full and fair decision about. so in the end this is a monumental staff failure that failed the president and as a result failed the country. now, that s not a trump critic you re listening to. that is an early endorser who, of course, was in charge of transition saying, full stop, not the best people, and failure. now, as always, we report out what we re hearing and the white house has responded to this. and i want to show you their response which focuses on the idea that donald trump has assembled in their view, quote, an incredible team. but donald trump s staff has been riddled with rapid departures, a turnover rate much higher than predecessors in both parties. he s had trouble filling the holes that are then created. 693 confirm s are in place. you can see many other presidents were much higher, including obama, clinton, et
and doesn t know about various matters. personal matters and what s going on in his administration. and it benefits him to maintain a deniability whether or not it s plausible. but we also know that trump has approved many nominees and other appointees who have troubling things in their past. he has dismissed the alleged wrongdoing. he s described them as good people, he personally likes them and he doesn t care about some of these things that are in their background checks. so in this case i don t know for sure. i frankly think either way is plausible here. yeah. marc, i want to ask you about this brookings institute. they did a study, found that a 69% turnover rate for the president s 18, that includes positions like national security adviser, chief of staff, communications director, the white house counsel, and that was before shanahan s departure. i mean, this may not be on top of voters priority list but it does have an impact, right? well, you know, that kind of puts me on t
turnover rate was for the prior administrations. but more broadly, when donald trump ran he ran as outsider from washington, as a change agent and someone who s going to come in and shake things up. and he s done it. and this is what it looks like. there have been quite a number of tell-alls that have come out of the white house. they ve kind of been gripping summer reading and i imagine more are going to come out. the real question susan raised here is why does he not even confirm or better yet just appoint some of the people who don t even have to go through the senate confirmation process? in this case mick mulvaney. you had another case the puerto rico fiscal control board, which is in charge of getting the finances of the yoinisland toge. he waited five months after a court ruling saying these nominees were kind of not properly appointed. and then he went ahead and just reappointed them about, what, 70 days before their terms were to expire. sought things the president does have b
there s something different that happens here the vetting that isn t done. this isn t the only acting secretary. probably one of the most important ones, there s a lot of acting. epa administrator, u.n. ambassador. department of homeland security. this is an administration that s had a 65% turnover rate among senior level advisers, not just cabinet people. senior level advisers, that s an extraordinary rate, at one point the president said, you know, i believe it was last january, i kind of like acting, it gives me more flexibility. as barbara points out, mattis left six months ago, and so he s had an acting since then. the president then i think what he was saying was, i don t have to go through confirmation. if someone is acting and i don t like them, i can get rid of them
owned, real estate owned. that s what happens when a property goes to foreclosure, we call it an reo. ben carson, genius surgeon. not a policy genius. even two years in he doesn t know an acronym that applies to one-third of the asset sales of the organization he oversees. unlike six former trump advisers who were charged in the russia investigation, guilty pleas or convictions for five of them so far. the best, trump s so good at hiring only the best that there is a 68% turnover rate of senior jobs in his administration according to brookings. he is so good at hiring only the best, he s considering kris kobach to be the immigration czar. his resume includes running the national commission on unproven election fraud which was closed down and also for advising anti-immigrant former sheriff joe arpaio. here is the best part.