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And safe workplaces order, which required wage transparency among federal contractors. he signed joint resolution 43, which gave states the authority to halt federal funding of family planning services to health clinics like planned parenthood, and hes appointed the fewest number of women to cabinet posts since ronald reagan. joining me right now from berlin is nbc news senior white house correspondent hallie jackson. hallie, thank you for joining us from a city ive come to like quite a bit, ber...

Guy who is cheating on his wife and wrecks the car to deflect the discussion. the truth is that we have a serious problem of collusion and with the russians by u.s. persons and that the russians engaged in a very serious effort to undermine our election, and its incumbent on us as democrats and republicans to get to the bottom of it. >> whats your biggest question for the director of the fbi tomorrow, james comey, and what do you expect him to say to you in response? >> hes probably not going to...

Republican president might do. >> not so. a number of his picks for cabinet posts were anti-worker, anti-union. you know, puzder was a terrible pick for the secretary of labor. devos for education. i could go on down a number of those lines. and then just recently, i mean, he did a couple of things that fly in the face of what he said in the campaign. he took away -- he signed an executive order to do away with the fiduciary rule. the fiduciary rule says if i give you economic advice, it has to ...

Just another thing that president obama has done while leaving the white house to try to gum up the works as he leaves. >> senator, are you comfortable with somebody having a mental disability and having a gun? >> you can take a look at what the constitution says which is what i do as a physician who spent lots of time working with patients with all different backgrounds. theyre clearly people labeled one way or another, and im not comfortable with this late midnight recommendation by the presid...

Organizations who are behind him with the senate being behind him and i think in that kind of fight, he wins. the democrats i would guess wont even threaten to ames: its an extraordinary moment we have come a supreme court nomination pending at the outset of an administration with all of these nominees for cabinet posts still pending. as we reported earlier, rex tillerson was confirmed by the united states senate today to serve as secretary of state. the vote there was 56-43. our research shows ...

Organizations who are behind him with the senate being behind him and i think in that kind of fight, he wins. the democrats i would guess wont even threaten to filibuster. >> james: its an extraordinary moment we have come a supreme court nomination pending at the outset of an administration with all of these nominees for cabinet posts still pending. as we reported earlier, rex tillerson was confirmed by the united states senate today to serve as secretary of state. the vote there was 56-43. our...

You guys -- >> i dont disagree with bruce. i dont think anybody disagrees that people in cabinet posts should be highly qualified, most qualified and having diversit diversity -- wait one second, having diversity and having people who are the highest qualified is not mutually exclusive. the fact that you have a cabinet where you have not just a high preponderance of white men but a high preponderance of goldman sachs people it does seem to tilt hard. it is hard to imagine that out of all the cab...

>> i dont think theyre totally ready. ramping up. one, there was transition in the transition early on. chris christie and his team, switched to pence team and slowed down and had trouble selecting and getting cabinet and subcabinet level people through. i think quickly see people in position, but behind where they should be. >> of the key 15 cabinet posts, 13 of the nominees are white, ten of the 15 never held political office. sean spicer defended those choices today. >> number one thing is is...

Closer to the white house hell pass by treasury as well. >> a lot of them are empty met for cli in terms of these guys being in charge. his men and women with the cabinet, all of them are not in place yet. were going to have some votes today. we believe general mattis, secretary of defense, head of home land security, general kelly, mike pompeo, congressman who will be taking over the cia, his confirmation scheduled for monday. so, theres a lot of work to do. >> you made this reference to senato...

Hes going to follow through on the promises he made to working people who in the end gave him the edge in my state. i think its a very short time period. >> to deliver for those voters. >> absolutely. to -- and the early indicators with his nominees for cabinet posts, he said he was going to drain the swamp. excuse me, these are the powerful the, the billionaires, the bankers, et cetera, hes populating his cabinet with. i think people are troubled already. >> hes made a very clear claim that onl...