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This is the destruction of a cancer cell by the bodys own immune system, thanks to medicine that didnt exist until now. and today can save your life. ♪ ♪ >> neil: well, a constitutional first. vice president mike pence breaking what was a tie in the senate. 50-50 to confirm betsy devos as education ceremony. jan brewer relieved. great to have you, governor. shes in, but do you think shes going to have a hard time now that all of this problem that she received in the confirmation

Possible secretary of state. what do you think? >> im concerned some of the statements hes made about the sanctions in russia, that we should ease those. i am concerned about his relationship with russia. we want to make sure that the secretary of state is a person who represents america, and once again, russia is not our friend. theyve attacked our allies. they are attacking us through the internet. we need to make sure that the secretary of state has independence and will represent u.s. intere...

Again, russia is not our friend. theyve attacked our allies. they are attacking us through the internet. we need to make sure that the secretary of state has independence and will represent u.s. interests and are not concerned about commercial interests with russia over what is our national security interests. >> do you think tillerson might have confirmation problems? >> im not going to prejudge a confirmation process. i think the members of the senate need to recognize the independent roles, t...

Became clear he was not going to get it. this statement gives him some face saving because it says he told trump on november 29th that he wasnt interested in joining the administration. and so this makes it look a little less like he wasnt able to get the job that he sought. that some people thought he had a good shot given all his work for trump during the campaign. >> i have to say i had been hearing that he would have potentially confirmation problems on capitol hill because of all his busine...

Continu continuum. trump will get an excuse here and there and flip flop here and there. if it looks real swampy in a year including his own business arrangements, then it could suddenly turn on him and people can say this is the system we always had, a new face pretending to have a new system. this could pile up and become an obvious criticism later on that you always in the end are supporting people from goldman sachs and giving them good jobs and influence at the highest levels of government....

Remains to be seen which nominees might get scrutiny from republicans and which one democrats will go over. i dont anticipate either of these guys, if the confirmation process is well run, i dont anticipate either of these guys having confirmation problems. the bigger question from a policy point of view is who will drive economic policy in this administration? we dont know who will be head of the national economic council. these guys are not people with experience in government in a way that le...

Bannon and now, despite all of that, theyve done nothing to publicly try and calm those fears and instead they start careening towards another appointment where you have this type of baggage. what does that tell the american people about your tensions? >> how far is a guy like trump willing to push the envelope? its one thing if youre a liberal and pick a person conservative on law and order you may get away with it, but if youre out there with bannon, with breitbart and then you pick somebody w...

>> how far is a guy like trump willing to push the envelope? its one thing if youre a liberal and pick a person conservative on law and order you may get away with it, but if youre out there with bannon, with breitbart and then you pick somebody who looks like they might be an old seggy, you have a problem. says we have a long short list, shes saying we dont know, theres a lot of uncertainty because the people hes closest to may have confirmation problems, they may exacerbate bads narratives out...

Publicly try to calm those fears. and instead, they start careening towards another appointment, where you have this type of baggage. what does that tell the american people about your intentions? >> how far is a guy like trump willing to push the envelope? its one thing if youre a liberal and pick a person whos relatively conservative on law and order, you might get away with it. but if youre way out there with bannon and breitbart, and pick somebody who looks like they might be an old segy, yo...

Who is seen by many, including himself, as the leading conte contender to be secretary of state. a whole bunch of articles that raise questions about whether he has conflicts of interest because of his business deals ironically with paid speeches. id been over the idea that there are confirmation problems for anyone that trump wants. trump goes in with an enormous amount of power, a republican with a republican congress. i was thinking if he wants someone hes going to get someone. the state of a...