Steve Bannon: “You essentially have about 4,000 or 5,000 executives. You…”

“Also, we didn't have a deep bench. There hadn't been, you know, there were a lot of Republicans. But when you take over the government, everybody, whether it's President Obama or President Trump, You essentially have about 4,000 or 5,000 executives. You put in three to 4,000. You put in right away. Another thousand have to be Senate confirmed. So you can hit the deck plates running with 3,000. Never had more than a thousand because you just didn't have a deep bench of training the second time.” (07:53–08:03)

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