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Secretary of state and cia director could face confirmation fights. >> i will oppose both pompeo's and haspel's nominations. >> the president needs the team around him he feels most comfortable with. >> might a republican tank trump's nominees? senators rand paul and lindsey graham weigh in, ahead. and charging into the storm? president trump's attorney says a porn star might owe them millions of dollars for violating her nondisclosure agreement. but is stormy daniels' lawyer says his client is the one who's been violated. >> she was physically threatened. >> might a lawsuit keep stormy sile...

Secretary of state and cia director could face confirmation fights. >> i will oppose both pompeo's and haspel's nominations. >> the president needs the team around him he feels most comfortable with. >> might a republican tank trump's nominees? senators rand paul and lindsey graham weigh in, ahead. and charging into the storm? president trump's attorney says a porn star might owe them millions of dollars for violating her nondisclosure agreement. but stormy daniels' lawyer says his client is the one who's been violated. >> she was physically threatened. >> might a lawsuit keep stormy silent?...

Tough confirmation fights, unclear if they're complete bit time you have this meeting and then the fate of h.r. mcmaster hanging in the balance. what does that mean for this administration as they look towards what could be the most important foreign policy meeting the president has? >> what was interesting is the president said one of the reasons why he wanted to remove tillerson and bring pompeo in was to get ready for the north korea meeting that is supposed to happen sometime perhaps in may. and now you have a situation where the team isn't in place. but i also think this is a president in...

Former secretary of labor under bill clinton, professor of university of california berkeley. michelle goldberg, columnist at slate. michleyou cered the tea party back in 2009 and 2010 and i've seen people tweeting about similarities and here's one question i have as you watch republican -- democratic elected officials behavior and the activism of the base, is -- is the democratic party behind or ahead of the curve of what you saw happening with republicans in opposition in 2009? >> i think the whole thing is moving much more quickly. we're 19 days into this nightmare and -- >> not even three ...

Been a target of these protests and now you have seen in the last couple of these confirmation fights except for joe manchin you've seen the democratic caucus hold together and vote as a block so it's kind of this like rapid fire tea party 2.0. this kind of -- everything that happened then has just -- just this kind of -- all of politics has sped up to an insane degree, the sort of hardening of resolve and strengthening of backbone among democrats has happened quickly. >> it's funny because i agree with that, too, as someone who covered the tea party in 2009 as well and it's like fruit fly evo...