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Nominee thats have different views than what the president campaigned on. of course there will be scrutiny. will he win some of the fights? possibly. i will tell you this, chuck, these people will have enormous power over americans for years. to have a little debate and discussion before they take office. if i was the republicans of course i would want to ram a cabinet like this through, im embarrassed by it. >> let me drill down on mick mulvaney. you defended tom daschell and said it was not a ...

Califano when franklin roosevelt was there he has heavyweights around him to run his domestic programs. you do not see this with president obama. who is his domestic counselor? can anybody name it? >> i can. >> who? >> her name is cecelia munoz. her forte is immigration. but i dont see her anywhere. >> im sure shes a wonderful human being. shes not a heavyweight in american political terms. where is tom daschell when they need him to run this? >> give me a couple other examples other than the he...

Grappled with it because he believes in it. >> i dont have an issue with that. but i still think the way he runs the white house is much more splittic kaypolitically at governmentally atuned. when lbj was there he had joe califano when franklin roosevelt was there he has heavyweights around him to run his domestic programs. you do not see this with president obama. who is his domestic counselor? can anybody name it? >> i can. >> who? >> her name is cecelia munoz. her forte is immigration. but i ...

Do just that. >> i want to quickly run with you with the big story this week, the obama administrations drone program in which we learned some new details about it and the leaked justice department memo and john brennans confirmation hearings. the big question is the killing of american citizens. do you believe, snork snorks that those strikes are warranted? >> well, i dont have the details and information necessary to make that judgment. but i do believe that its a threshold that we have to be ...

Well, we have much more on the storm to come. putting the business angle of the storm. but to recap for all of you, more than half a million customers remain without power across the region. all roads are closed in the states of massachusetts, connecticut and rhode island. and at least three people, some reports of four having died. now to politics and his new weekly address today, president obama issued a warning about the latest fiscal crisis threatening the u.s. economy. >> if congress does...

Yes, theyre willing to step up to the plate. but dana is right in this. it actually goes back to the point about republicans just wanting to challenge the president in any way. because if theyre going to get attack from the right they need to say they opposed the president in everything he proposes. so thats going to be a lot of the bluster on this. but generally nominees get approved. and we did see in the presidents first term, tom daschell had to withdraw his name after some tax issues and so...