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If hes under investigation, points of recusal or not? >> the inspector general of the justice department has jurisdiction over the fbi, so theres nothing unusual and the fbi being ininvestigated by the inspector general. the other points i think people may not know is that inspector generals dont have any power except to write reports, they cant prosecute, or fire anybody. >> they pass it on to the authorities. >> right to people who can prosecute. but they themselves cant do that. >> as a forme...

>> i think he does. i agree completely with general mattis and others that russia must be seen as a potential adversary or enemy on certain issues. we need to find areas of cooperation but ultimately president putin has a very different agenda than ours so he will have to be tested economically, diplomatically and even militarily in the baltics and elsewhere, but ultimately i think president-elect trump once he sits in that oval office and has people like general mattis and pompeo and maybe even...

Mr. pompeo said i will not follow the order and they will resign or they will follow it and carry out the presidents direction, but its president-elect trump who make it is policy, its a good way to flush out what they think, but ultimately its what the president-elect thinks and not them. >> dana, what do you think? >> i completely agree that the buck stops with the commander in chief. the fact is that this is somebody who has never been in an elected office, hes never been in a position dealin...

Nominees to, and thats a standard i think we should stick to here as well. ill remind you in previous administrations folks who look like they were going to sail through confirmation were ultimately tripped up on issues that came up in their fbi background check or in their ethics disclosures. we constitutional also, wolf, have the significant and unresolved issue of president-elect trumps potential conflicts of interest, which i hope were going to hear a clearance to this wednesday. >> thats wh...

Complex public records and difficult public positions that i think deserve a full and fair hearing. im going to be pushing back on our moving forward with eight different confirmation hearings this week. the same week that were also going to be voting on the budget reconciliation -- and the same week that donald trump is at least allegedly going to faebl hold the press conference where he will radio veal how he plans to deal with his conflicts of interest. >> what would be wrong with starting th...

With him when he is right, and we will oppose him when he is wrong, and hold him to some of the words he used to get elected. like saying he wouldnt cut social security and medicare and medicaid and that he was a different kind of politician. well see. hopefully he will work on infrastructure with him. the democrats will work with president trump if he is serious about increasing jobs and protecting social security. >> so there are some areas of agreement. infrastructure, as you point out, build...

Support sessions after meeting with him on wednesday. he joins me now. senator sherrod brown of ohio. welcome to "politicsnation" again, senator. >> good to be back. thanks, reverend sharpton. >> now, senator brown, you met with the attorney general nominee sessions. first of all, what was your impressions? and tell us a little about the meeting. >> yeah, i met with senator sessions on wednesday. he asked to meet with me. ive worked with him on a couple of trade issues, a set of issues i actuall...

Flowing here and talk more importantly -- >> even on christmas eve. >> more importantly, about the substance of what he is saying. ben, lets go to you. does that clarify things? does that change the context of what he said? >> i think it definitely changes the context of what he said and thats probably the reason why he put this tweet out there is to make it clear he was taken out of context. i also think what youre seeing from donald trump is something very clear. he is not going to play games....

Establishment republicans. >> it is the pit in the cherry for the business community in particular, which is obviously a pillar of the republican coalition on many different fronts. this is shaping up to be the most friendly pro corporate administration since ronald reagan in terms of appointees and the big tax cut hes promising, the rolling back of federal regulations. we mentioned climate, consumer protection on finance, dodd frank. a lot of different ways hes going to give the business commun...

President. he tweets about it, and says, did china ask us if it was okay to devalue their occurrence, making it hard for our companies to compete. heavily tax our products going into their country? the u.s. doesnt tax them or build a massive military complex in the middle of the south china sea. i dont think so, what are the implications here? >> this is either spontaneous commentary from donald trump. or it is the president-elect signaling a substantive shift in the primary superpower relations...