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I think it just highlights how we never had a president like president-elect trump. >> we have been talking about that for more than a year now. the idea that he is so different than anybody who has been in politics. his business not only is it large, but its complicated. we dont know everything about it. we dont know who all he has loans to or from. we havent seen his tax returns. the idea he needs to have an arms length from the business is obvious to most people. how that will happen, there i...

Appearing with bernie sanders behind him as well as joe manchin of west virginia. i think this is very much a recognition of what the democratic party has gone through the last months or really the last weeks since the election really shook the party to its core. and this is a demonstration that democrats want to try to publicly bring into the fold all of those progressives who supported bernie sanders over hillary clinton. the energy that was behind bernie sanders clearly did not carry through ...

How would you describe though, the energy of the democrats on capitol hill? is it, lets see what the autopsy says? is it still a defeatist attitude? what are you seeing and hearing? >> reporter: i think theres a sense that there were voices that needed greater representation and i dont think there was any real threat to chuck schumer as the next leader. hes done a lot of the work behind the scenes in building the relationships with fellow senators and the real question will be, does a bernie san...

Republican democratic party and more in chairman of the party being chief of staff. its curious. >> you talked eight years ago about how you said barack obama was conservative with a small c. conservative the way buckley said looks at the world as it is and not as we want it to be. you look at donald trump and you look at infrastructure, hes talking about big infrastructure plan with schumer and pelosi. hes talking about bringing our troops back home and ending 15 years of war. and then on obama...

Spending. >> weve been talking about this for a long time. well talk about protests and unrest and everything. >> and top names picked for top positions. >> but you already look at the first big bill. it sounds like a democratic bill when you talk about this massive infrastructure plan that he and schumer and pelosi have already been talking about. it seems like the whole ideological board is going to be completely tossed around where youve got a republican that doesnt want to be as aggressive a...

We may not see voting on the dnc chairmanship until february or march. what is behind keith ellison is circling of the wagons. bernie sanders agrees on something off the bat. most people were not expecting anything like that. you see the members and the state party chairs saying hang on. lets not rush to conclusions. they like howard dean. >> schumer is standing behind bernie sanderss guy. they said the party miscalculated and needs to recalibrate. >> they know the sumer world knows it needs som...

Was an important player. but it would be -- if donald trump puts him in the most powerful job in america next to president of the united states, which is really what white house chief of staff is, it will create a firestorm, given the nature of breitbart, given the nationalist tendencies. it would be the most inflammatory thing that trump could do. >> im engaged in informed speculation when i say i think steve mnuchin will be treasury secretary. i think you could see bannon as chief of staff and...

You watch and think, boy, the conservatives fight a lot better than the democrats do. >> well, theres a big difference. the republicans were in the majority. >> truth. >> they had the power. this is about power. if somehow we had a result where schumer was going to be the majority next year and donald trump was still the president, well, yeah, i think they might have thought about this strategy and just continuing the mcconnell strategy. i wrote earlier this year that we could face an eight-seat...

Joining us now, former house majority leader eric cantor, senior writer at politico jake sherman and "wall street journal" white house correspondent carol lee. >> lets begin with jake. obviously washington has been shane up. what have you picked up over the past 24 to 36 hours about how trump is going to be working with pelosi and schumer and other democrats? >> i think you bring up an interesting point. i think republicans are beginning to be terrified that donald trump will do deals with pelos...

Option of legalization open. he wanted to get through a primary without having to discuss it. he supports legal sdwlags. and i think his hope was, once he got into the general election, to then start talking about legalization as a way to atrack more voters. >> for the first time in five debates senator rubio publicly admitted not only did he support obama and schumers amnesty but he still supports it today. he avoided doing that in the first four debates. he explicitly admitted it in this last ...