20th, 2017. mark your calendars and help us spread the word to student film makers. now a look at the presidential transition process when two former white house officials in the clinton and bush administrations. they discuss how leadership positions are filled to ensure that the next president is ready to govern on inauguration day. this is an hour. people are filing in. i want to thank everyone for coming out today. on behalf of our president thomas burr and the 3,000 members of the national press club i want to thank everyone who braved metro road closings and construction here at the press club for coming out today. and i think one of the reasons we have such a good crowd is to talk about a presidential transition gives people hope that there s light at the end of the tunnel after the long campaign but at the same time i learned that sometimes the light at the end of the tunnel is a locomotive coming at you. and so today what we re going to do is we re going to talk a
people are filing in. i want to thank everyone for coming out today. on behalf of our president thomas burr and the 3,000 members of the national press club i want to thank everyone who braved metro road closings and construction here at the press club for coming out today. and i think one of the reasons we have such a good crowd is to talk about a presidential transition gives people hope that there s light at the end of the tunnel after the long campaign but at the same time i learned that sometimes the light at the end of the tunnel is a locomotive coming at you. and so today what we re going to do is we re going to talk about sort of that tunnel. what s going on in terms of presidential transition and what needs to be done to get us to noon on inauguration day. we have a really great panel for this discussion. and so with us today, we have clay johnson who served as the deputy director for omb in the bush white house beginning in 2003 and before that he was an assistant
say these things. this say trend unfortunately we see. nominees start out in support. they change their mind. which suggests we can t wait out this issue. it s not an age issue. this is a concern about the public and that we keep hearing this concern that the public won t understand what they re seeing, that they wouldn t understand oral argument is just a part of the process. they won t understand that the justices have to be harsh on both sides. they mied think someone is getting ganged up on. i find this to be concerning because it suggests that more information is actually going to be bad for the public, that the public needs to be shielded from information. it does seem to have an elitism to it that already those of us who do read the transcripts and li listen to the audio or read the reports from the supreme court press corps, that we re the types that can understand where oral argument falls but tv would reach a different kind of audience who wouldn t understand it. i
this out. he caled a smith & wesson. the atf says mateen legally purchased the weapons used in the attack within the past week or so. mateen had a permit to carry the weapon because of his work of being a security guard. seemed professional to me. as a security guard, dressed as a security guard? oh, yeah. gun and everything. reporter: he was known to the fbi suspected to be an isis sympathizer but found in evidence in 2013 and 2014 as direct links to the terror group. a man that worked with him in 2014 is wishing investigators had done more iblg. i saw it coming. he said he was going to kill a whoa bunch of people. reporter: mateen worshipped here just two days before the attack saying that he kept to himself and saw no indication that mateen would do something so violent. we don t recall any friend of him in this mosque as he would not socialize with anybody. reporter: when it was all over, at least 50 people were killed inside pulse nightclub, more than 50
it s okay. go. thank you. good to see you. have a great day and fun in l.a. i m kendis gibson. coming any moment right now senator bernie sanders speaking in south carolina as the presidential candidate unveils a new plan that he hopes will sway a major voting block. will it be enough? also this hour, people across the country demanding action on gun control. another rally under way in new york city right now as the 2020 presidential candidates respond on the campaign trail. the man behind the white house curtain, yeah, closer look at stephen miller in two feature pieces being written today. a new york times reporter who wrote about this west wing character and we ll ask that journalist if his feature pushed the president s buttons today. a lot helping as appening a on the air this sunday. a lot on the campaign trail, bernie sanders has lost steam in the polls, rolling out a new policy on criminal justice reform. our road warrior is traveling with senator bernie sanders