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Implicate the trump business interests. but nonetheless, just making those contacts was inappropriate. >> thanks for joining me. im joined by betsy woodruff, who like almost everyone else in washington is at the baseball game tonight, and sam cedar, host of the majority report. betsy, i can hear the crowd cheering there. i believe the gop is winning at this point if my internet is correct. heres my question for you. stephen just made this point about the politics of this ultimately, and i think ...

Former employee who said she had a 20 year affair with the networks former chairman roger ailes and from the "the wall street journal" investigators are also looking at mr. ailss bow deetle to either mr. ails are the channel. mr. deetle who is running for mayor tells "the washington post" that he was used for that reason twice. michael schmidt h been reporting on the turmoil of fox news and host of the majority report and michael, we keep getting more and more stories that make lead me to believ...

Year affair with the networks former chairman roger ailes and from the "the wall street journal" investigators are also looking at mr. ailss bow deetle to either mr. ails are the channel. mr. deetle who is running for mayor tells "the washington post" that he was used for that reason twice. michael schmidt has been reporting on the turmoil of fox news and host of the majority report and michael, we keep getting more and more stories that make lead me to believe there is a very serious active and...

Administration liars, purdue now works for the treasury department. theres also danny tiso. his linked in page says he graduated from high school in 2015. local new hampshire paper reported he made honor role in 2010 when he was in sixth grade. im joined by justin elliot investigative reporter for pro-publy a a ll lly a and seemt of majority report. this is a great list. normally you would havent to go through a lot of effort to find this out. normally administrations tell you who theyre hiring....

Im joined by justin elliot investigative reporter for pro-publy a and seem seder, host of majority report. this is a great list. normally you would havent to go through a lot of effort to find this out. normally administrations tell you who theyre hiring. >> right. the other thing thats different is trump is not nominating people for roles that require senate confirmation. he said the other day that he thinks a lot of these jobs like deputy secretary of x dont need to be hired and these people o...

Price and a stock trade, lesser things have sunk greater nominees in the past so were trying to figure out what is the new political calculation. is there nothing that would cause a republican to defy the president-elect? are there no circumstances where were going to get any bipartisan cooperation from the republicans because i have private conversations with members of the gop on the senate side who tell me theyre rational on climate but none of them have popped their head up and said they can...

Majority report. katie, the standard is interesting. i remember the early days of clinton they came right out and they ran into a buzz saw with several nominees. tom daschle was an example of that for barack obama, though mostly smooth sailing. it occurs that in some ways thats perception and shame. a scandal is only big enough to blow up a nominee if thats how its perceived to be but if you can lock down the votes you can basically confirm anyone. >> well, and the rules are just sort of differe...

Appears to continue unabated with a host of conflicts? >> it certainly put the house republicans in the spot and easy for trump to say because the office of congressional ethics has no jurisdiction over the white house so he could do anything he wants to prop up an agency that cant investigate him and it costs him nothing and only put the republican house members in an embarrassing spot. so it was quite a maneuver for him to sort of push this and their faces and im surprised he chose to do this ...

Republicans they needed to work with in congress. >> one of the many investigative reporters on the case, eric lipton, thank you for your dime tonight. >> thank you. >> im joined by the editor and publisher of the nation magazine and sam cedar, host of the majority report. what do you take from this, katrina? >> i take quality investigative reporting still matters it can in this moment lead to a transparent zahn campaign of mobilization which shamed this mind bendingly moronic republican caucus ...

President obama and i were both in the senate, and we voted no. senator sanders voted yes. >> joining me now, sam seder. hes msnbc contributor and host of the podcast "majority report with sam seder." i think as -- you know, today felt like a landmark day in the democratic primary because it was like really -- okay, like this is real. >> right. these two candidates are within the margin of error in both the early states. you can feel with the clinton campaign they recognize they have to make the...