pompeo and general mattis and mitt romney and says this guy is putting competent people around him. insiders, maybe so, but they can run washington. democrats first line in dnc statement on steven mnuchin was so much for draining the swamp. brown came out and said we re stocking it with alligators instead, that donald trump is. here s the thing i m more curious about. the transition team and folks close to the president-elect would make the point that you just did which is why not put these people who have private sector experience in to help the american worker and try to do tax reform and push these things forward because they have connections in that world and they re able to push through change. you obviously have criticism on the other side. what i want to know is in three minutes i am leaving to go to the airport for the victory tour. it will say hallie jackson on
see some rain in texas. no more severe weather on the way. looks like the fire weather will be improving with cool temperatures out there. additional rainfall beginning of next week. what a tough time. tennessee and alabama. the fires and then the tornadoes right on top of it back to back. really tough. thank you so much. we ll keep you will of them in our thoughts and prayers. still ahead on morning joe this morning from the house republican leadership, we ve got congressman tom cole and we ll ask him about the washington insiders that donald trump is going to bring to the white house. plus the great doris kearns good wy goodwin will join the conversation. i want to jump in. i know it s thursday and for the kids to like the rock n roll, there s something going on with prohibition tonight? isn t there some handsome there it is. i ve been there.
jake, let me ask you this. another political story talks about pelosi after winning agrees to leadership structure changes. what concessions does nancy pelosi have to give back to her caucus and where does she and where does the democratic party on capitol hill go from here? she s decentralized power which is a mostly symbolic move. it shows that she gets it. i think the most interesting thing that happened in this campaign is nancy pelosi was trying to rib tim ryan saying hillary clinton didn t even win your district. donald trump did. people close to tim ryan were, like, duh, that s the point. we don t need san francisco liberals when harold ford was in the house and when you were in the house, joe, the democratic party had members in the deep south, in texas in big numbers. that s how you get to majority to push positions you are talking about. there are no rural southern democrats. all urban southern democrats and
general editorial board doesn t like the picks much more than elizabeth warren does. people are looking at their bios and noticing things on trade and mortgages that are questionable. they ll have to answer those in the hearing. i don t expect either of them will have nominations stopped if they answer tough questions from at least one party. in the end as we ve said so many times, this is about donald trump and what kind of economic policy he wants. assumption is we would see corporate tax reform and not individual. sounds like they ll try to do both and that happens once in a generation. it will be an early test. if he can somehow quickly in the first six months of the year pass individual and corporate tax reform, that would be a big accomplishment. you know, steve rattner, he s pounded for being a washington insider. it seems the- being a wall street insider. the attack from wall street is that he doesn t play the game on a high enough level. that s certainly one of the
context to these things. there doesn t seem to be any context to it. just a lot of rage. doesn t it seem that new republic piece made a lot of sense because all you re doing is playing into donald trump s hand if you keep calling him a nazi or say he s a fascist or as one renowned journalist said comparing him to putin and claiming that american journalis journalists could be dragged off in handcuffs to jail if they write something. it s insanity. it s hyperbole at this point and all they re doing is helping trump. i think that piece is really smart on a lot of points including the notion of you re not going beat trump at the outrage game. it s not going to happen. the moment that s really going to test democrats that want to oppose policies is if he comes forward with policies that are appealing to some democrats