I don't want a yes man as the manager and I don't want a yes man the other way, either.
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So, I'm not just another #TeamStormy yes man (er ... woman).
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"Mike is far from a 'yes man,'" the source said.
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And she was not a yes man like everyone else.
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Just don't expect a "yes, man" to show up for duty.
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Sunday's elections show that voters would spurn a party yes-man.
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I... KN: I mean, I think he is a Trump yes man.
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Dwight is no-bullshit, but the others see him as a weak yes-man.
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He's not a 'yes' man at all, and he's really helping me get through this.
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The Jim Carrey movie Yes Man helped Bradley Cooper land a role in The Hangover.
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Trump needs a "yes" man — a VP who will take direction well and not question authority.
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"Say 'no' to Pelosi's 'yes' man," blared one ad from the Congressional Leadership Fund super PAC.
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But behind all of these moves, Samsung isn't just playing the yes-man to its critics.
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I got a whole bunch of fun stuff … My 'Yes Man' … This is (Star Wars toy) Furbacca.
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Trump's yes man at State Internal tension at State has intensified as the Ukraine saga has unfolded.
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If U.S. fortunes are to improve over the long term, the country needs more than a yes-man.
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Still, analysts said Choe appears to be more of a smooth "yes man" than a hardened enforcer within the government.
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Why would you craft a man's graven image to stick in a purgatorial state of constant nodding yes-man assent?
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He went from what Paul Begala called the President's "yes-man" into a "hey, I didn't really mean it"-man.
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That strategy has led to criticism from some, including Kelly, who warned Trump against hiring a "yes man" to replace him.
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When Mr Mogoeng, who delivered the blistering judgment, was appointed by Mr Zuma he was initially seen as a yes-man.
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Chad hates every last one of the "parade of losers" surrounding him — even/especially his new greasy Canadian yes-man Daniel.
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During the campaign against Caroline, viewers criticized him for not trying to break up the couple, and nicknamed him Yes Man.
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Hearst, for instance, isn't a yes man, and even he loses his sang-froid as the situation takes a tragic turn.
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"The last two years of my life I've really let go and said, 'I want to be a yes man,' " he says.
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"I said whatever you do, don't hire a 'yes man,' someone who won't tell you the truth -- don't do that," Kelly said.
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He's also been in movies like Yes Man and The Wedding Ringer, and popular television shows like Mr. Robot and New Girl.
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In his press briefing today, Mulvaney revealed himself to be a yes-man when this President needs someone who can tell him no.
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Democrats view acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker as a yes-man for the president's prosecutorial whims and a threat to the special counsel.
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I will never yes man your shit , just like you would never do that with my shit .. I got your back forever - 24hrs.
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To Sestak, his refusal to be a "yes" man is evidence of his independent spirit (which is why it's a stump-speech anecdote).
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It's a bit like a cynical, reversed version of the positive-thinking Jim Carrey comedy "Yes Man," with the smile turned upside-down.
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So this is either going to be a meeting of minds or Sunak will be the Prime Minister's yes man living in Number 11.
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Tuesday's debate allowed him his first national platform to be seen as independent of Trump and not a yes-man or a Trump patsy.
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"On April 18, vote Republican and say no to Pelosi's yes man," an announcer says amid a collage of images of Pelosi and Ossoff.
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So it was possible to "broker" a deal among these bosses, who could reliably instruct their yes-man delegates to vote a certain way.
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In his announcement video, he blasted Sessions for the biting comments at his healthcare town hall and framed him as a yes man for Trump.
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More from Tonic's Yes Man: But the conditions for making lots and lots of awesome sperm have to be just so, in particular the temperature.
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"I said whatever you do, don't hire a 'yes man,' someone who won't tell you the truth — don't do that," Kelly said at the time.
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If the "yes-man" prevails over qualifications in the secretary of state pick, then we should all be bracing for "hard" Trump headwinds through year end.
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" Tillerson, he claimed, was likely to be "another 'yes' man, enabling the risky, chaotic whims of a demagogue president," who Cardin claimed was engaging in "hate-mongering.
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Shanahan was already expected to face a tough confirmation hearing filled with questions from Democrats about whether he is too much of a "yes-man" to Trump.
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" Prince had enlisted the writer Dan Piepenbring, an editor at the Paris Review, as a collaborator on the autobiography, calling him "not a yes man at all.
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Always curious about 2017's versions of the fountain of youth, we sent our resident "Yes Man" Grant Stoddard to try the latest trend in scrotal beautification: Scrotox.
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Millions of Americans wanted a Justice who would follow in the footsteps of the late, great Antonin Scalia, instead of a progressive yes-man to a Clinton administration.
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"He cannot be a yes man," Anthony Principi, who served as secretary of veterans affairs from 2001 to 2005 during the Bush administration, told Vox of Trump's nomination.
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"The president's yes-man behavior with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin shows that Donald Trump does not understand the importance of the job he holds," the editorial board wrote.
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" Cotton describes himself as a yes man — not in the fatuous sense, but as someone who will take on any job, "then figure out how to do it.
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While Majlak's original role was ostensibly to be the one to say "no" to Logan Paul, views be damned, he appears to have become a yes-man over time.
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The former Fresh Prince star's M.O. has become all about broadcasting his "yes man" mentality to the world, throwing in some intimate family and friend moments to the mix.
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Sessions's appointment as attorney general wasn't initially seen as an attempt by Trump to install a yes man in the role (as, say, appointing Rudy Giuliani would have been).
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When it came to making political donations for Mayor Bill de Blasio, Jona S. Rechnitz liked to think of himself as a yes man, always quick with the pen.
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McConnell's Democratic predecessor as Senate majority leader, Joseph Taylor Robinson of Arkansas, was FDR's dependable New Deal yes man in the 1930s, supporting even Roosevelt's deplorable court-packing scheme.
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For his part, Mr. Kelly says he warned the president before being pushed out that if he were replaced by a "yes man," Mr. Trump would end up being impeached.
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When I started both my internships, I was so afraid of bothering anyone that I hesitated to ask questions and became somewhat of a hard-working but silent yes man.
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The overarching worry within the Department and elsewhere in the administration is Pompeo's close relationship with Trump -- with one State official calling the Secretary a "yes man" for the President.
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This will ensure, difficulties over the pending peace plan notwithstanding, that Netanyahu will retain his yes-man in the White House -- with all the benefit that carries for both leaders.
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Former White House chief of staff John Kelly said on Saturday that he told Trump that he would wind up impeached if the president hired a yes man as Kelly's replacement.
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The New Republic's Eric Armstrong wrote on Wednesday that Christie's appointment would give Trump a "yes-man FBI director" at a time when America desperately needs one who's independent and impartial.
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Former President Bill Clinton Adviser Paul Begala shared with me that Clinton couldn't stand a "yes man," and if someone sucked up to him all the time, he would exclude them.
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Trump also soured on Nielsen's predecessor John Kelly, who took over as White House chief of staff and recently warned Trump not to pick a "yes man" as his successor there.
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As we inch ever closer to a full-blown crisis, the last thing we need is a yes-man FBI director who has fed on the president's (gross) table scraps for months.
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Democrat Jon Ossoff is House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's (D-Calif.) "yes man," a top House GOP super PAC says in an ad attacking Ossoff ahead of the Georgia House special election.
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They are not going to serve as yes men for a yes man at the F.B.I. Last, along with the F.B.I.'s counterintelligence investigation into Russian meddling, there is a Senate investigation.
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It is painting Scheer as a "yes-man" for the wealthy who will cut public services, and its campaign ties Scheer to Ontario Premier Doug Ford, whose popularity has plummeted in recent months.
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For example, the pushover is the ultimate yes-man who struggles to say no to new tasks, bad ideas, and disrespectful coworkers — and whose lack of input is inherently damaging to their team.
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In October 2019, John Kelly, Trump's former White House chief of staff, told a live audience that he'd told Trump not to hire a "yes man," because if he did, he would get impeached.
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Their ranks include take-no-shit matriarch Maya (Minnie Driver), lackadaisical yes man dad Jimmy (John Ross Bowie), twitchy son Ray (Mason Cook), bully-adjacent daughter Dylan (Kyla Kenedy), and wry teen J.J. (Micah Fowler).
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I started with McCain because so many journalists still fall for his pose as an independent-minded maverick, ignoring the reality that he has almost always been a reliable partisan yes-man whenever it matters.
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This historically dismal polling comes at a particularly pitiful time for Christie, who, after debasing himself as a shameless yes man for Donald Trump during the campaign, was forced out of the president-elect's transition team.
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He could convey the swagger and haplessness of a two-bit crook, the authority of a hardened homicide detective, the unctuous ingratiations of a yes man — as well as a sense of vulnerability, desperation and weakness.
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His rivals in the political opposition often describe him as an American yes-man, and he is said to be distrusted in neighboring countries like Iran and Russia because of his closeness to the United States.
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The Oscar-nominated actor official left Alias in 2006 and his departure led way to a series of roles in films such as Yes Man, He's Just Not That Into You and his 2009 hit The Hangover.
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Read more: Trump couldn't handle that Bolton wasn't a yes man, so he fired himO'Brien will be Trump's fourth national security adviser, assuming a top role in a chaotic White House typified by high rates of turnover.
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"It barely took 12 hours for Trump yes-man Ron DeSantis to make a racist comment about his opponent," Zach Hudson, a spokesman for the Democratic political action committee American Bridge 21st Century, said in a statement.
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"Clearly there would be a rift if you were the president who thought you had someone who is a yes man and found out he is principled and is going to do the right thing," the source added.
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As luck would have it, I've already had the furrows taken out of my scrotum for one Yes Man column, and so the drive for me to go out and grow a pair was, on this occasion, somewhat muted.
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A war of words broke out Saturday between President Donald Trump and John Kelly after the former White House chief of staff said he warned his boss that replacing him with a "yes man" would lead to his impeachment.
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Before that, Kelly told The Washington Examiner he'd warned Trump not to replace him with a chief of staff who would be a "yes man," predicting that doing so would result in his impeachment — an assertion Trump reportedly denied.
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Former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly says he told President Donald Trump during his final days on the job not to hire a "yes man" to succeed him, warning the president that he risked impeachment if he did so.
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Ex-White House Chief of Staff John Kelly said Saturday at a Washington Examiner panel discussion that before he left his position last year, he cautioned President Trump not to hire "a yes man" as his replacement or he'd risk impeachment.
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The White House on Saturday pushed back on former White House chief of staff John KellyJohn Francis KellyMORE's recent statement saying he told Trump not to hire a chief of staff who was a "yes man" in order to avoid impeachment.
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Unlike every other Yes Man to date however, this project was largely dependent on the work what I was prepared to put it and for that reason, a lot more involved that letting some guy shoot botox into your scrotum.
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"There are people in government who could help run the department temporarily, but when the job requirements include being a yes-man to the president and having Stephen Miller's stamp of approval, no one qualified wants the job," Thompson said.
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Whitaker's refusal to recuse is an attack on the rule of law and the American justice system, but it is undoubtedly consistent with what President Trump wanted — an unethical yes man who will do his bidding rather than do what's right.
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"I don't see any way that Don McGahn is going to be a yes man," said Bradley A. Smith, a professor in election law at Capital University Law School in Columbus, Ohio, who has worked with Mr. McGahn on election issues.
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"I said, whatever you do -- and we were still in the process of trying to find someone to take my place -- I said whatever you do, don't hire a 'yes man,' someone who won't tell you the truth -- don't do that," Kelly said.
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Meanwhile, the most steadfast yes-man serving under Hackman turns out to be Washington's critical ally because he actually believes in the institution of the Navy and its rules, and places that above personal loyalty to the people that institution has historically rewarded.
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This isn't the kind of opinion conformity so evident on the Watergate tapes -- the private, behind-closed-door flatteries of a yes-man vying for favor with the boss -- this sycophancy is done on demand, at a distance, and for the largest audience possible.
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Read more: Trump couldn't handle that Bolton wasn't a yes man, so he fired himBut after an attack on two major oil installations in Saudi Arabia on Saturday, however, the prospect of peace between the US and Iran once again appeared to be a distant reality.
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" In the aughts, when Hader was establishing himself as an actor, he gave a series of bravura performances: a yes-man studio executive in "Tropic Thunder," a melancholy cop in "Superbad," an Army private who smokes some experimental weed and loses all his inhibitions in "Pineapple Express.
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"I said, whatever you do — and we were still in the process of trying to find someone to take my place — I said whatever you do, don't hire a 'yes man,' someone who won't tell you the truth — don't do that," Kelly said at the time.
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" In a near half-hour interview with Bash, Lewandowski defended himself against charges that he had failed to build an adequate campaign structure and that he was a yes man who fed Trump's worst instincts, such as the presumptive GOP presidential nominee's attacks on a federal judge for his "Mexican heritage.
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According to the report, Kelly said he warned Trump that hiring a "yes man" as his successor would only lead to impeachment proceedings, suggesting that current Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney was partially to blame for the current impeachment proceedings because he is unable to keep Trump out of trouble.
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He has spoken dismissively of Trump's proposal for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, implored Trump and Congress to restore funding to the Department of Homeland Security amid a partial government shutdown, and revealed he had warned Trump that replacing him with a "yes man" would result in impeachment.
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All of it points to Macron's fear that, even as he is ahead in the polls, his support from the well-heeled status quo and his former chums in big banking may not be enough to push the 39-year-old "yes man" for a global free market over the top.
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"I said, whatever you do — and we were still in the process of trying to find someone to take my place — I said whatever you do, don't hire a 'yes man,' someone who won't tell you the truth — don't do that," Kelly told the Washington Examiner at a conference in Sea Island, Georgia.
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This time slot is shortly after I wake up and allows me to exercise my face while drinking coffee, trying to relieve a nuisance neck pain with an inflatable traction collar and—in the name of an upcoming Yes Man episode—stretching my penis to see if I can achieve a permanent size increase.
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In an indication of the national interest in the race, outside conservative groups have spent nearly $5 million on TV ads portraying the first-time candidate as a sympathizer of Osama Bin Laden, a left-wing extremist, a Nancy Pelosi "yes man," and a college nerd who likes to dress up as Star Wars characters.
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Christie's honest tough guy image was replaced with that of a weak, bought-and-paid-for yes man, especially after Trump lost New Jersey to Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE.
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But there is at least one type of improvement in coverage Americans can look forward to: the end of the dreaded exposed rear end, that hospital cliché created by back-tying gowns that has been immortalized in movies including "Something's Gotta Give" (courtesy of a medicated Jack Nicholson stumbling down the hallway) to "Yes Man" (Jim Carrey this time, spotted on the back of a motorcycle).
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Hence more and more, the only way to present yourself to the people as an effective leader, rather than a yes man, is to talk of a determination to reform the European Union — as President Emmanuel Macron of France has done — or better still, to defy the European Union, as Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary and Mr. Salvini in Italy are both doing.
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Former White House chief of staff John KellyJohn Francis KellyMORE said Saturday that he warned President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump congratulates Washington Nationals on World Series win Trump hints that dog injured in al-Baghdadi raid will visit White House Vindman says White House lawyer moved Ukraine call to classified server: report MORE against hiring a "yes man" to succeed him at the White House, saying doing so could lead to impeachment.
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" House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie ThompsonBennie Gordon ThompsonChad Wolf becomes acting DHS secretary Senators urge Trump to fill vacancies at DHS Hillicon Valley: TikTok faces lawmaker anger over China ties | FCC formally approves T-Mobile-Sprint merger | Silicon Valley lawmakers introduce tough privacy bill | AT&T in M settlement with FTC MORE (D-Miss.) said in a statement Wednesday that Wolf "lacks the necessary experience" for the role and "when the job requirements include being a yes-man to the President and having [presidential adviser] Stephen MillerStephen MillerChad Wolf becomes acting DHS secretary Schumer calls conservative Trump court pick a 'bottom crawler' Omar renews claim Stephen Miller is a 'white nationalist' amid calls for him to step down MORE's stamp of approval, no one qualified wants the job.
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