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It was going to be different. washington bureaucrats were not going to run the government the way they had. business as usual will be different. well see what the outcome is but hes doing what he said he was going to do during the campaign. >> criticism is the same. new republic after eisenhower made his selections wrote this. ike picked a cabinet of eight millionaires and one plumber. what was even more remarkable about it was absence of any experienced administrators in government. >> oh boy. ...

Friend. some of the most prominent selections were of men he had never met. the others were men he had met during the course of the campaign. talk about some remarkable parallels with whats going on right now. >> hes chosen as secretary of state someone he didnt know who he quickly bonded with. >> someone he didnt know three weeks ago. >> i was talking to someone yesterday. >> same thing with d.o.d. two of the most important picks were men he did not know a month and a half ago. >> there are abo...

Department? >> well, environmentalists are not going to be happy with this pick. this is about a shift in priorities. donald trump is about jobs and about establishing more approach to -- he really wants to use the drilling -- have more drilling. hes a man who likes to build things. ive already talked to members of congress who say he wants to pay for this one trillion dollar infrastructure plan with the loyalties for more drilling, both of these selections of rick perry and ryan zinke for inter...

$700,000 in the 2016 election cycle to democrats in the house. $86,000 to republicans. my point is these bureaucracies are liberal themselves. and so they have a stake in all of this so they definitely do not want a pruitt or any of these other people -- >> let me just show a picture of basically the selections so far for dnld trumponald trumps cab. margaret, as you look at, that does it concern you? the vast majority white, male -- >> billionaires. >> politics aside, is that -- >> look, we alwa...

Weeks ahead? >> coming up, as we go to break, the problem is theres so many mixed signals? >> many, many. >> we are going to be isolated. we are not going to -- >> but an event will focus that. >> he wants a more powerful military and says he will wipe out isis quickly, and i think thats why the selections are so important. general mattis, and if tillerson is secretary of state we will have a disproportionate impact -- we will find out if theres irony there. "morning joe" is back in a moment.

And it would be an absolute disaster for the state department and it would be a disatlantic ci disatlantic cidi disaster for the secretary of state whoever that would be, and i dont have an opinion and will sit back and see where it goes. >> disaster fits john bolton in this position. >> we said donald trump is the last guy in the room and he trusts himself above all, and i invite our viewers to go back and read his recent comments about the iraq war and see what he might do with iran and anothe...

Republicans cant. >> i want you to look at this. i just checked the last few presidents. everyone is complaining about donald trump being able to point at his secretary of state. there is belief that it will be the gentleman. barack obama appointed secretary of state december 1 and that was hillary. bush didnt appoint until december 16. clinton didnt announce until december 22. it is almost as though people cant think of anything that they are not ready to complain about with donald trump. isnt ...

Genuinely interested in what they did. so i think they think this is a pretty good choice. >> just from 30,000 feet, i know there are a lot of people very concerned about donald trumps possible selections for his foreign policy team. if that foreign policy team ends up being pompeo, general mattis, and tillerson at state, how would you rate that team? >> the most important criteria i was looking for was head of the agencies were people that the president would listen to. he wouldnt blow off. i t...

The next treasury secretary told me a few weeks ago, he never worked for anyone in his life and had no desire to go to washington. hes been integral in the recent weeks. he was heavily involved with selections for his cabinet. especially the selection of scott pruett. donald trump picked to lead the epa. heres more of my interview with carl icahn. scott pruett of oklahoma and a climate change denier, scientists continue to disagree about the degree and extent of global warming and its connection...

Mad anthony wayne, was george washingtons favorite general, had an amazing spectacular career, and was a great american. so general mattis successfully led a division of marines into baghdad. he was the head of central command for a few years, very qualified eminent military thinker. im not going to trash all of the selections, but i would appeal to president-elect trump to repeal some of the selections he has made. >> it surely will be a heated nomination process for some of them. thank you ver...