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Thats the joe biden that has us here for two hours offering these tributes. >> welcome back to "morning joe." its the top of the hour on this thursday, december 8th. >> wasnt that a nice scene? >> joining the conversation, contributor to "time" magazine. good event. we have trumps choices. more have come in. >> we were talking earlier last hour the surprise at how ideologically conservative and sort of predictable his choices have been to this point. these look like ted cruzs selections and not ...

At every one of these selections. surprised that it just keeps coming. >> he didnt listen to al gore. >> appointing and nominating people like this and taking meetings during the transition is -- >> the question is, well see over time, is this a tip of the hat to the republican base to say come on lets all get together and well leave you like barack obama and not listen to any of his cabinet officers? barack obama did listen to anybody. he didnt listen to his secretary of state. he didnt listen ...

His cabinet secretaries are nothing but potted plants. we never know. in some of these cases we hope so but youre right though. if you have an ideologue running epa every single day, hes cutting away at regulations that protect water quality. hes cutting away at regulations that protect air quality. >> and working with republican led congress that wants to do it and will not have oversight hearings on behalf of al gore. >> this is very problematic politically. >> for some of us its terrifying. >...

Of climate change. on one hand donald trump brings al gore into trump tower. there are nice words about climate change. on the other hand yesterday you have donald trumps pick to be the new epa administrator. that is the attorney general of oklahoma, who is somebody that environmentalists are not fired up about. you know, one part of the good cop versus bad cop strategy is normally you have two employee employing this. you have donald trump both good cop/bad cop on these issues. >> its interesti...

Selection at the epa, because of pruitt, that it would be harder for donald trump to select an exxon/mobil ceo for stary of state, but we will see. every choice that comes out actually is showing just how conservative donald trumps selections have been, so its anybodys guess. >> do you have any sense, joe, just quickly. you mentioned the sort of opposition from romney in trumps inner circle. they dont like what he did during the campaign. how much does that weigh on donald trump himself? how muc...

Transition. were going to set into place a five-year ban on lobbying from the executive branch and a lifetime ban of anyone who serves in our administration from lobbying on behalf of a foreign government. making sure we have people in the administration that are deeply committed to the president-elects agenda to bring a renewed commitment to america first and americas interests first is what we mean. >> what do you say to people that look at the wealth of individuals being named to the cabinet ...

Individuals being named to the cabinet and say that seems like a different type of swamp. the wealthy are well connected even if they werent washington players. what do you say to that criticism? >> i say what the president-elect said the other night in cincinnati. he said, people have talked about some people that know how to make money being appointed to the cabinet. he said, its better to choose people who know how to make money than people that dont know how to make money. the truth of the m...

At his word. we all should take him at his word. the way our governments set up, some of the things he wants to get done democrats will try and stop and quite frankly will be successful in doing so. >> heres what donald trump said earlier on fox tonight. >> made some great selections and more than a few. its been a well oiled machine. were doing well. were getting fantastic people. and actually getting very good reviews. people are respecting the process and what weve done. >> since youve been e...

We all should take him at his word. the way our governments set up, some of the things he wants to get done democrats will try and stop and quite frankly will be successful in doing so. >> heres what donald trump said earlier on fox tonight. >> made some great selections and more than a few. its been a well oiled machine. were doing well. were getting fantastic people. and actually getting very good reviews. people are respecting the process and what weve done. >> since youve been elected, some ...

Populism which involved a little foie gras, certain amount of superb cooking, but was done in a populist happy manner. >> my reaction to that is oh, my. whats going on? >> those are pretty tough words, no doubt about it. you got me there. this was obviously a very emotional election. as our party unites and thats exactly what donald trump is trying to achieve and exactly what he should be trying to achieve, you are going to have hard feelings. there are individuals who were obviously very staunc...