white house counsel s office would say we re not getting names sent over. and he, john kerry, doesn t have the political sway to force some of these nominations through the way hillary clinton did. yeah. he didn t have an agreement as she did at the start that he could bring a lot of people with him and hire a lot of people, sort of on his own authority. and there are two other complicatie ining factors. you referred to the slowness of the white house counsel s office but both the white house and state department point fingers at the hill saying we are being required to answer so many questions about nominees that are so far down in the weeds that we have to do these ginormous investigations before we can even possibly give you a name and they have to so they have to do investigations on people who are never end up being named. so there s a lot of extra work involved. but all that to say that there are a lot of vak scancies there. what s the political fallout? this was on hillary