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Being overly involved. welcome to "early start." i'm christine romans. >> i'm john berman. it is tuesday, january 17th. 4:00 a.m. in the east. new trouble for the nominee. a cnn report has democrats calling for an ethics investigation of congress member tom price. the president-elect pick for health and human services. did he use influence for personal profit. price bought as much as $15,000 of a stock in a hip and knee implantmaker. days later, he introduced legislation that would benefitted the company. the hip act would have delayed the change in medicare and medicaid reimbursements to hurt...

President-elect takes ofsz office? welcome back to "early start." i'm christine romans. >> i'm john berman. nice to see enthusiasm morniyou. democrats calling for an investigation over tom price. the president-elect's pick for secretary of health and human services. the question is did he use congressional influence for personal profit. see if you can following the bouncing ball. price bought as much as $15,000 of stock in a hip and knee implant maker. days later, he introduced legislation that would directly benefit the company. the hip act. would delay a change in the medicare and medicaid...

Anchoring, unless every day you are following this stuff, and, you know, reading it constantly all day long, when breaking news actually happens and teleprompter goes down and you're on for eight hours talking about a subject, if you haven't spent months reading it up, you're not going to be able to do it. you can't even talk about it. let alone make decisions, the president, a far more important job than someone like me. >> and he knows more than anybody else in the country about what truly is going on in a lot of these countries. if he intentionally says, "i don't want to know," he doesn't f...

Briefings. not to be reading, but to teach himself and get into this. because what happens, as you know, with any story that's developing, you need to watch it over time. and then you can sort of predict where it's going to go. and if you don't pay attention until the last minute, you're likely to make a very, very -- >> even in the world of tv news anchoring, unless every day you are following this stuff, and, you know, reading it constantly all day long, when breaking news actually happens and teleprompter goes down and you're on for eight hours talking about a subject, if you haven't spent ...

Command a national, international audience. he can change the conversation, which is the 140 characters. really, we saw it in the campaign, we're seeing this already when he tweeted about boeing and essentially changed the focus away from a discussion that day, which was about michael flynn and his son pushing fake news stories about a very popular pizza place in washington, d.c., that led to a gunman showing up. so we're showing -- seeing a little bit of both, intervention in the economy, and as well as the way he uses twitter. >> you mention how he uses it to distract us, to get us to follow...