You have two people who I would classify as extremists. Donald Trump because of his behavior and Ted Cruz because of his views, leading the Republican Party. Lawrence O'Donnell More Quotes by Lawrence O'Donnell More Quotes From Lawrence O'Donnell Rudy Giuliani is on the list [of Secretary of State ] not because of competence, not because of foreign policy experience, he`s on most entirely because of loyalty to Donald Trump. Lawrence O'Donnell lists loyalty states Rudolph Giuliani will be the first Secretary of State whose last public office was mayor, the most thoroughly domestic public office that we have. Lawrence O'Donnell rudolph lasts office The rumored frontrunner for [Donald] Trump`s Secretary of State is former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani who of course has no foreign policy experience. Lawrence O'Donnell rudolph cities new-york The professional permanent staff that lies right beneath them will still be in place, making everything work until the [Donald] Trump appointees start populating the offices on top of them. Lawrence O'Donnell staff office lying In this case, the government will essentially be run by the people who are running it now. The top level [Barack] Obama appointees will leave by inauguration day. Lawrence O'Donnell government running people The incompetence of the [Donald] Trump transition team, the likes of which we`ve never seen is a bad thing. Lawrence O'Donnell transition likes team Everybody in Washington wants one of these jobs studies this book. It`s called the Plum Book because the people in Washington turn the pages looking for the plum that they want, the job that they want. Lawrence O'Donnell jobs book people The [Donald] Trump transition team is already functioning as the worst transition team we have ever seen. And the good news is the slower they do their work, the better off we are. Lawrence O'Donnell news transition team My biggest surprise of the year does involve Donald Trump and it involves his money. And I am one of the prominent disbelievers of his claims of wealth and how rich he was. He put out a press release before he did his financial disclosure form saying he made over $200 million from a TV show.If you know about the economics of televisions, that sounds impossible. I don`t believe it. Lawrence O'Donnell tv-shows believe years My pick for Best Political Move of the Year, which is the decisive (ph) and this means it is actually the best political movement is Bill Clinton getting on the phone and encouraging Donald Trump to run for the president. Lawrence O'Donnell running mean moving Safety concerns are reasonable. Banning refugees is certainly not. Lawrence O'Donnell refugee concern safety I agree that we have to have the toughest screening and vetting that we can have, but I don`t think a halt is necessary. What we have to do is put all of our resources through the Department of Homeland Security, through the State Department, through our intelligence agencies, and we have to have an increased vetting and screening . Lawrence O'Donnell agency states thinking This year [2015] has shown with painful clarity that our existing systems, approaches, and funding, are inadequate to the task at hand, and to the amount of human suffering that is ongoing. Lawrence O'Donnell suffering hands years According to the international organization for migration, more than 1 million migrants have arrived in Europe this year, the most since World War II. Half of them were Syrian. Lawrence O'Donnell europe war years His [Rudolph Giuliani] marital life became unhinged with his wife kicking him out of the mayor`s residence of Gracie mansion. That he took up residence as a house guest in an apartment owned by friends of his.The friends were a loving gay couple. And that is the best thing I know about Rudy Giuliani. Lawrence O'Donnell gay wife couple Rudy Giuliani needed to feel safe because he turned his life into a public mess. A public mess that the "New York Tabloids" covered daily. Lawrence O'Donnell tabloids safe new-york Lieutenant General Michael Flynn ran the defense intelligence agency from 2012 to 2014. He served as a top national intelligence adviser to General Stanley McChrystal in Iraq. Lawrence O'Donnell iraq agency defense I`m just learning that according to a source familiar with the transition process, President-elect Donald Trump intends to select Lieutenant General Michael Flynn as his national security adviser. Lawrence O'Donnell select transition president Donald Trump hasn`t decided, and most importantly, we don`t know if the old rules still apply. Lawrence O'Donnell trump stills knows Someone who traffics in much more than what Jeff Sessions said back then will be with the president every day in the White House as his senior strategist. Lawrence O'Donnell senior white house