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Violating the federal wage and hour rules. >> wow. >> so this is something where youre taking someone who is known to be a law breaker, and putting them in charge of the agency in charge of enforcing the law. this is, like, making an arsonist the head of the fire department. it is totally unacceptable. >> wow. attorney general eric schneiderman, thank you so much for your time this morning. >> thank you, rev. glad to be here. lets bring in our panel, tara dowdell, democratic strategist and for...

Picked for the energy department. so he announces that. donald trump announces -- well sources in the transition announce that. were also then getting a statement from senator joe manchin hes now happy to stay in the senate. this was something everyone was watching closely in terms of the balance of power in the senate. what are you hearing over there? what does this all mean? >> he was being considered for the energy department job. manchin had met with trump yesterday. the fact hes saying hes ...

Background investigation and fully be aware of what kind of influences they want in our election system. because we want to prevent it in the future. that is key. i think its important that we dont inflate this with russia actually having an influence on the net end result of our election last november -- >> right but its the political -- second part seems to be fuelling a reaceson to the first part especially by the president-elect and it seems to be lining up people against him now. youve got ...

President-elect mike pence. this is revolving door that we have been watching today. we gotten rudy giuliani and any ao nikki haley and we got mike pence sitting down with minority in the house of the senate. this hour, the agenda being discussed is the senate minority leader elect chuck schumer, mike pence is having a meeting today with nancy pelosi and schumer, will they be ready to move on trumps agenda? >> it is humbling to me to be back in the room. we are at the beginning of a transition p...

He believes that no faith in and of itself should be judged as a whole, but there are some people in countries abroad that need to be prevented from -- need to be prevented from coming into this country, so i think thats where 99% of americans are at. >> president-elect trump appears to be bullish, at least for now, on working with fellow new yorker chuck schumer. he tweeted, i have always had a good relationship with chuck schumer, hes a lot smarter than harry h., goes on to say schumer has the...

Weeks from now, no one will report it was a messy process. they just want to know whos going to get these very important jobs? once those jobs come out that will be the story. that will tell us how trump wants to be president, what tone does he want to set, policies does he want to pursue? all of those are complete unknowns at this moment, and thats creating a situation of anxiety. >> i want to ask you as we wrap this up and touch on this later in the show. we know chuck schumer will take over h...

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Infrastructure plan. chuck schumer trying to get through a $265 billion plan. >> and schumer is all for squeezing iran. thats a big thing in the senate next year. chuck schumer voted against the iran deal. trump promised to renegotiate that deal. hell find an ally in chuck schumer on that front. >> thank you. appreciate its interesting year. up next, trump huge success as a businessman helped get him elected. once he takes office could hi international empire turn into a big problem? what will...

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And schumer is about to be -- his replacement in buffalo, were going to do what is right for the u.s. house. well see new conference. well cowork out everything in conference. were not going to pass in the house when you think you can pass in senate. they wont let you pass things that matter. finally, i said to the president, this has to happen. this does not happen, youre going to have a run of unconstitutionality that will be terrifying between now and the new president coming in in 2017. i wi...