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You to the people who voted for him both democrats in places that hillary clinton thought would vote for her and republicans. right? and to show that hes in command, hes making decisions, hes making things happen. >> bill, is he going to be open to criticism for -- you got a lot to do. put together an administration, for soaking up the adulation? >> i guess people can criticize him and hell say look, im busy making appointments right and left and draining the swamp here in washington. and hes de...

Steve mnuchin, goldman executive, at one point a partner, but then moving to hollywood. not a well-known name on wall street. more on that in a moment. wilbur ross, billionaire investor, as commerce secretary. what do we see in these kinds of choices? >> whas interesting is, theyre getting criticized because, of course, president-elect trumps big promise on the campaign trail was to drain the swamp. and the question becomes, is this draining the swamp? he has chosen billionaires, people who are ...

Picks is many are very wealthy people with pecuniary financial interests in the industries theyre overseeing. what do you think of donald trump who ran supposedly as the populist billionaire picking so many of the super rich to be in his cabinet. >> he is certainly not draining the swamp at all. he is filling it with loyalists, millionaires or billionaire, republican establishment. there is nothing there showing thus far from his cabinet picks that there is at all draining of the swamp. i read t...

Presidency? not sure the american people will stand for that or congress including the republicans stand for this. >> is this draining the swamp? working on family business at the same time? >> as kellyanne conway said, every day he sits with accountants and lawyers to assure him everything he does is right. going to look strenuously to make sure its not going to flow together. hes ensuring to take appropriate precautions that he doesnt get to position hillary clinton was. >> kellyanne conway al...

Be -- >> the -- >> -- there has been some determination made at the level of the justice -- >> but people are -- im -- >> prosecutable. >> people liekd him who voted for him in big part because they thought he was going to go after clinton and the rest of the swamp. does it hurt them that he doesnt -- >> first of all hes not draining the swamp because right now the swamp is trumpism. the swam is what he is doing in terms of his own businesses and being president of the united states and the two ...

Other than trade deals as the governor of south carolina. so they are going more untraditional. theyve talked about this idea of draining the swamp, bringing new faces and putting new people in charge of things. nikki haley, though, was a governor and shes somebody who has experience leaving and dealing with at least on some level with foreign governments. ben carson not so much. and just to give you a little more background, it was established by lyndon johnson in 65. it employees 8,000 people....

Congress if they dont exact the same kind of scrutiny and toughness on donald trump. legality or not, i can tell you it is not going to pass political muster and people are going to be bothered and donald trump himself made such an issue of conflict of interest, of crooked hillary. so were going to have what knew? instead of crooked hillary? were going to have don the con trying to make profit out of presidency? im not sure the american people will stand for that. and im not sure the u.s. congre...

Fight. thats sort of been the story of her life. >> you mentioned the whole draining the swamp theme thats happening with the trump transition team. and you said that was part of his election promise to do that. there seems at least reportedly, some turmoil, maybe a lot of turmoil with the transition team, jared kushner the source of, the center of it orchestrating the removal of chris christie and others connected with him. whats the story there? >> i think we tend to think there is more turmoi...

>> i want to talk about this draining the swam. has to provide a lobbying form and when officials leave the government they will be banned for being a lobbyist for five years. i want to talk to you about this. how much of this is really draining the swamp? is there any way for people to get around this? is this going to maybe discourage people from joining or can they just basically lobby without registering as a lobbyist and it doesnt actually drain the swamswamp? >> thats the key one. the regi...

Pleading with her spupporters, o not give up the fight. thats been the story of her life. >> you mentioned the whole draining the swamp thing with the trump transition team and that was part of his election promise to do that. there seems to be at least reportedly, some turmoil, maybe a lot of turmoil with the transition team. jared kushner is supposedly the center of it, orchestrating the removal of chris christie and others. whats the story there? >> i think we tend to think theres nor turmoil...