inevitable. and kristen welker, reminding folks, recall the cabinet process, cabinet vetting process, certain members the president focused on and certain ones vice president pence was focused on. tom price was considered sort of in the pence wing of that. a good point there. i don t think the president was personally as invested in him as, say, a steve mnuchin or perhaps a ryan zinke. and tonight s panel, host of, analyst, host of hugh hewitt on saturdays and campaign policy director for obama and clinton and carolyn start with you. the one thing that i am mildly surprised about the president sort of accepting this resignation is that he is also one of those, you don t give an inch. uh-huh. you don t. when you feed the beast here, the washington beast. the sacrificial lamb of tom price. is it blood in the water?
big meeting with the top tech executives, joining a call with the president of argentina and meeting with japan s prime minister. top trump adviser kellyanne conway saying ms. trump and her husband, jared kushner, would be the most likely family members to have official staff roles, but that they would be making big financial sacrifices to do so. cnn adding that the president-elect s oldest sons, eric and donald jr., have been part of the cabinet vetting process. clearly, this was the expectation, that his children were very involved in his campaigning and that they would be somehow involved in the white house. what do you make of all this? well, i think it s a natural progression of the fact that he s very close to his children, i find that rather wonderful, that a father and his children, who are adults, have this extraordinary bond. and it s one of the things that i felt most enamored me about donald trump, was this closeness. now, he can t hire his children. that s nepotism, and