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Secretary, thats not the democrats fault. hes the former governor of georgia. he has not filed his ethics paperwork. he has to go through the process, what will you divest. thats not filed yet. in the case of the director of national intelligence, that paperwork has been filed. were still waiting on that. yes, the democrats are stalling every bit as they can, but not in every case. >> with alexander acosta, the labor nominee, apparently, that confirmation hearing was supposed to be tomorrow, but...

Ethics paperwork in place and in terms of the vacuum of nominees below the cabinet level that weve yet to see and we really need to see it for the good of the country. >> i read somewhere theres really only a handful of confirmed positions and 116 yamiche that have not been filled so these nominations were waiting on him. >> youre waiting on him and i think this conversation that we had they were having about the media, and also when we tacked certain reporters in some ways its filling this void...

Trump. >> woe learned that donald trumps team has taken an unusual hard line against allowing the political appointees that president obama has and serving as ambassadors around the world to stay even a day after the inauguration. whats also true is that theyre finding it somewhat challenging to recruit ambassadors for these positions overall, and so the question is will they be left without envoys in key places throughout the world and also it raises questions about who is donald trump going to...

Get through. well, get ready for the confirmation rush or blur here in washington. eight hearings over three days this week. then well continue on into next week. the question is can donald trump get his key choices through. at least when it comes to the national security team he wants them all in place by the time essentially the day trump is inaugurated. democrats have complained about the fast pace. democrats have complained there are too many hearings at the same time. you cant attend. theyv...

Nominees that have not submitted their ethics paperwork, signed off yet before their hearings have gone forward. they do not have the power to block these nominations because they themselves change the senate filibuster rules in 2013 so to insure that 51 senators could vote to confirm nominees, there are 52 republican senators, and right now there are no nominees other than rex tillerson in which republican senators are feeling a little squimish about. unless some republicans start to -- trump w...

Way for sanctuary cities, youll see a justice department obeying federal immigration law. >> neil: that is the law of the land. many made a big deal of the number and the swiftness of some of these confirmation hearings. five in one day. in the case of wednesday. but there is precedence with barack obama and george bush. a lot is made of the fact that some of them have not filled out or completed and made available to committee members their financial conflict of interest forms is. that a big de...

>> again, bipartisan painter and i have just gone up with an op-ed on "the guardian" website. these hearings should be postponed for any these hearings should be postponed for any of the norm niece who have not provided the ethics paperwork. we need to understand their conflicts, we need to understand how theyre going to do their job. its the same story with kushner, its the same story with these nominees. ultimately, its the same story with donald j. trump. no american official is above the law...

Other heavy hitters . the secretary of state directs teller sin, his choice foreducation. urban development and labor secretary as well as representative mike pompeo who is picked to lead the cia. elizabeth warren are bulging at the speed at which things are moving. she says select committees have not received financial disclosures for some pics for congress. taking to twitter she wrote in part, this is ridiculous. he wrote to donald trump , nominees dragged their feet on ethics paperwork. they ...

Rushing this through? republicans arent having it. theyre saying these are his nominees and we have control of the senate and we are entitled to start these confirmation hearings and to try to have as many people confirmed as possible before the inauguration. they say thats what president obama did when he was elected, and so their argument is at least is going to be theres nothing atypical about the process but it is setting the stage for some real fireworks. >> the office of government ethics ...

Whom its not known and not completed and the process of trying to discover and resolve conflict of interest has not been done and in some ways the administration is going to get a political fight. right up front with jeff sessions. much more so than with some of the others. >> this week could be the most important for the president elect since the election. these cabinet members whether its their own portfolio that gets attacked or theyre having to justify what the president elect has said in hi...