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>> yes. >> how can -- how can amsterdam be amsterdam with your ideas? >> but its a very good question. and i think the problem is we dutch are known for our tolerance. yes a tolerant people. we are tolerant country. but in the process of the last decades, we made one mistake, and that is we started to become tolerant to the intolerant as well, to the ideology of hate that has no tolerance for us. we became tolerant as well. hey, we have in holland whether you like it or not the enormous problem ...

Fast food ceo andrew puzder tapped to lead the department of labor, the same agency that found widespread wage violations at his restaurants. ben carson for secretary of housing and urban development who complained the sorts of program hud oversees foster, i quote here, dependency. secretary of education, betsy devos championed the use of public school funds for private school vouchers. today trump made two new cabinet picks with their own controversies. department of the interior, montana repub...

Department of energy and now thanks to trump, he may run it. perrys not the first trump cabinet pick whos openly hostile to the agency he soon could lead. theres climate change skeptic scott pruitt to lead the epa, who is currently suing the epa over its efforts to reduce greenhouse gases. fast food ceo andrew puzder tapped to lead the department of labor, the same agency that found widespread wage violations at his restaurants. ben carson for secretary of housing and urban development who compl...

-- and we are here to try to fix it. and what i admire for mr. zwroens, hes fighting for the american worker and he didnt acknowledge that mr. trump is going to be on his side helping the american work. there is a big problem out there. were losing jobs in our manufacturing base and those families that are going on out of work over the holidays, that is a very sad thing. more governmental dependency. a reduced tax revenue for state and for the federal government. and weve got to do a better job....

Cost/benefit analysis, its $794 job. its $7 million paid out over ten years. and if you think about it, stephanie, if those people are out of work and theyre on some level of governmental dependency or unemployment insurance, there could be a possible increase in crime, a lowering of self-estreself-estee self-esteem. so many different variables that went into the deal. i get the point about crony capitalism, and what the new trump administration would say to people is look, were going to look at...

Workers staying in indiana, state income tax, their lack of dependency from the government, the flow through to the shopping malls and the local businesses in the community, if you did a cost-benefit analysis on that, as i know it was done, you would see that its a very positive deal all in for everybody. >> except that its a gift to a company that winds up giving a lot of other companies the chance to ask for the same thing. >> exactly right. so if you do a case-by-case cost-benefit analysis, m...

Conservative grassroots, gives a lot of speeches, wrote terrific books. i think trump wants to keep that energy alive. its loyalty, its diversity and i think some of the conservative positions that hes taken with regard to dependency on the government and all of that fits a world view that trump has articulated in the course of the campaign. >> you know, jeff, its interesting, kellyanne conway over the weekend said essentially the list of contenders for secretary of state has actually grown. its...

Previous offer from the president-elect, william said "hes a neophite and that is not his strength. "what do you think changed? >> thats a good question. i dont think very much. lets remember dr. carson didnt feel he was capable of running health and human services department but it was then okay to be president. but not run hhs. now he can run hud. look, i think this is a loyalty play on the part of donald trump. this is the fact that he has a business manager who says something about his stren...

About his dedication to truly improving conditions for african americans, for hispanics, and for poor people. and for returning the ladder of success that you and i had when we were young. which means a good education and ia good job, rather than dependency. that was a jack kemp candidacy there, or a rudy guiliani candidacy. and i truly believe that a good education and a good job is a lot better than giving somebody welfare. >> would you like to be part of it? >> i like what im doing right now,...

I loved it. it was the first time i was ever in a newspaper, right? i was probably a sophomore in high school. >> mm-hm. >> and i said i love it. you know, i just liked it. i mean, i dont think theres anything wrong with that. i thought it was amazing. >> joining us now, michael dantonio. and author of the donald trump biography, "the truth about donald trump." at a certain point, donald trump turned against you after giving you this cooperation. eventually sued you over the book, which he lost ...