congratulations. thank you. shepard: the senate vote was 66-32 confirm the congressman. a majority of democrats voted no. president trump was critical of intelligence agencies for saying that russia meddled in our election. president trump agreed with the c.i.a. headquarters. he claimed the media cooked up the story, which was not true. jennifer griffin live at the pentagon. what are the reasons lawmakers are giving for voting against pompeo? shep, on the republican side, only rand paul voted against mike pompeo. democrats couldn t get to washington last night to cast their votes because of storms on the east coast. democrats were worried because pompeo seemed to backtrack after giving testimony that he would
entitlements. social security, medicare. but that was the republican party pre-november 2017. the republican party now of donald trump, you know, his main promise is not to cut entitlements. what this does is highlight how little room the new president has to play with in order to meet his campaign promises of protecting entitlements as well as increasing spending on infrastructure. shepard: to put a point on it, the biggest drivers of debt in america are not military spending or anything else that you ve heard about. the biggest drivers are social security and medicaid. it is president trump that said while campaigning and reiterated since becoming president, that he s not teaching either one of them for anybody. so if you don t do that, you add spending for healthcare and add spending for the military and cut taxes, the congressional budget office runs the numbers, this is before they replace obama care, this is just about
nominees for top spots leaving the cabinet incomplete for months says he s doing it to make sure the merits of each cabinet member or each head are properly debated so the democrats don t defer to the new republican president too much. we re not being dilatory but we re not just going to rush them through. to have a few days discussion on them makes sense. whatever happens today though is probably it for the week. republicans had a previously-scheduled retreat for house members and senators in philadelphia. even though the president s nominees are facing intense resistance in the house, they re sticking to the schedule. today is the last day of work in washington for them. shepard: peter doocy, live in washington. thank you. president trump meeting with his new c.i.a. chief this afternoon. vice president pence swore him in last night.
yes or no. doesn t this show bad judgment? no. the reality is that everything i death is ethical, legal and transparent. price says if confirmed, he would divest his interest in health-related companies to make sure there s no conflicts of interest, shep. shepard: what else did congressman price say about the future of the affordable healthcare law? democrats were certainly looking for details about what is next in terms of healthcare perhaps there s not a defined republican replacement. dr. price didn t make a lot of promises. you cut medicaid by a trillion dollars in your 2017 budget. yet today you want to stand on some notion that, well, whatever you guys do is fine. that s just not reality. what i believe in is a medical system that is responsive to the patients and provides the highest quality care possible. it s incumbent on you and me if
the other one would declare that u.s. steel had to be used to build those pipelines to the best of the nation s ability. here s what he said on that. we build it in the united states, we build the pipelines, we want to build the pipe. going to put a lot of steel workers back to work. environmental groups are already up in arms over all of this. so shep, you can expect we ll hear a lot more about this before the first shovel hits the ground. shep? shepard: the president met with auto leaders, today too. yeah, he s been talking about jobs. he had the leaders of the big three, ford, fiat chrysler and general motors. he pledged to automobile leaders that he would reduce the regulatory tax burden that would be less expensive to produce a car in the united states than to