for secretary of state i am excited about that. secretary elaine chao, transportation, an agency that i ran. i think she is a good steady leader. i don t know a lot of the other people. i want them to recognize that being a cabinet member means you have to lead a department, you have to advise and counsel the president and motivate the department to do what the president wants. so it s not like running a company. it s not like being a legislator. it s a different challenge. and you have to respond not only to the president. you actually have to respond to congress because every member of the cabinet is obligated to go and testify before congress quite regularly, and they don t like doing it. that means you have to respect article one s position in our government where they are a partner in almost everything that is either domestic or economic. when you talk about the cabinet positions some of the
time to time. reporter: clearly senator widen and democrats including the one from ohio not taking that as humor which senator roberts says he meant it in. but of course roberts was talking about how widen opened up this hearing. and the reality is there are a lot of very serious issues that have democrats more concerned about steve mnuchin than perhaps any other of donald trump s cabinet nominees, which is saying considering how aggressively they opposed people like tom price for health and human services secretary. there are issues about mnuchin s running banc one west which held a lot of the mortgages that went underwater during the financial crisis, particularly reverse mortgages allowing elderly people to live in their house while having more cash to live on. in the end the bank owns the home. but there have been elderly peep
power from one president to another president. and the reality that you are hosted by article one in the constitution, the congress, you are hosted by congress to take that oath of office. and the people are before you. and it s it s mind blowing to have that experience of seeing all of these people that you have the responsibility to protect. you talk about all the people who will be there. one of the folks who will be, your former boss, of course, former president bush and his wife laura. by the way we are learning that in the last 20 minutes they are confirming they will still attend even with george h.w. bush in the hospital. but there are 60 democrats not attendsing. i love how people are making a lot of people making a big degree. a lot haven t gone to the inauguration. not to this degree. you don t know how many. because in the past it wasn t
bush. the words that a president uses should be crafted in such a way that they represent empathy, judgment, wisdom, and inspiration. do you think his tweets to this point have represented empathy, wisdom and judgment? i think they represented empathy. i m not sure they reflected as much judgment. and i m troubled that it causes it does cause a lot of people to change the way they d their busiss. now donald trump will become the president of the united states where he is governing bureaucracies as well as leading america and the world. and he is going to be the voice for freedom around the world. he is going to be the voice for democracy. he is going to be the voice for inspiration. and he is going to be the motivating voice to lead a bureaucracy that has to help him. every bureaucrat is now going to be on the trump team. he s going to treat them as if they are on the trump teeth. andy carr you are joining me
the oath of office are the people wearing uniforms. and they take an oath to follow the command of the commander in chief. that puts a burden on the commander in chief. sometimes he will call on those people to make sacrifices that he would never invite on anyone but the president will own the sacrifice. andy, have there been moments in in transition where you have wished that president bush used haddis voice and spoke up. no. i respect how president bush respected the office of presidency zhao even when there was a lot of unrest. even then. he has been a healing voice for the world. when he opined he opined positively about things happening in america. and he has done tremendous things in africa. to be a healing voice you have got to use your voice. he uses his voice. he doesn t use it in a way that others could use it, to drive a wedge. i respect that. and laura bush has also been very active? we are looking now at live