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States. let me ask you another question, general. white house press secretary sean spicer said that the white house has not made any substantial changes to the national security council on its principles committee. of course you know steve bannon has been elevated, given a seat on the principles committee and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and the director of national intelligence, unlike the way it was in the obama administration, they now can -- they shall come when they're addressing an area of expertise, but they are no longer on the principals committee. is that a big deal, i...

Through a recess appointment because the senate rules require that the committee actually approve it before the whole full senate actually votes. so, that could be the first step that could be a pretty dramatic step for donald trump. it actually can limit how long they can serve in office if the senate does not confirm them to the post. >> manu, lastly if you could, cnn has also confirmed this washington post story, betsy devos, president trump's choice to run education, attempted to pled plegiarize some of her answers. is that possible ? >> it is possible, jake. in her questions and answers t...

Welcome back to "the lead." we're sticking with politics now because we are just under four hours away from president trump announcing his supreme court pick. but even before we get to that likely contentious debate, there was a genuine senate showdown over his cabinet nominees today. senate democrats are boycotting committee votes on congressman tom price for health and human services secretary and steve mnuchin to run the treasury department. late today senate minority leader chuck schumer postponed a hearing on jeff sessions. at this point in the obama presidency, at least 12 cabinet or cab...

The trump mission, style, rhetoric and views. he was the first senator to endorse. he has attended at least 45 trump campaign events. he wore the hat. >> now, jake, what democrats did was they objected on the floor of the senate to prevent committees from meeting for longer than two hours when the senate is in session. that is something that is rarely done, but democrats have done now for two consecutive days as they try to make a things as difficult as possible for donald trump, but tomorrow the judiciary committee will have a vote on jeff sessions, expected to be approved on a party line vot...

Vote. in the senate finance committee, democrats were very concerned about those two choices, tom price for hhs, steven mnuchin to head treasury, saying they misled the committee on some of the key questions and answers during their sworn testimony, d dramatically deciding ton show up. under the rules you need to have at least one democrat present to have that committee vote. i had a chance to talk to senator ore inhatch, the chairman of the committee who did not hide his frustration. >> anybody to do something like that, it's just complete breach of decorum. it's a complete breach of committe...