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Remains to be seen which nominees might get scrutiny from republicans and which one democrats will go over. i don't anticipate either of these guys, if the confirmation process is well run, i don't anticipate either of these guys having confirmation problems. the bigger question from a policy point of view is who will drive economic policy in this administration? we don't know who will be head of the national economic council. these guys are not people with experience in government in a way that leads you even with a bob ruben, i don't have a sense of what policies they're going to care about ...

Bannon and now, despite all of that, they've done nothing to publicly try and calm those fears and instead they start careening towards another appointment where you have this type of baggage. what does that tell the american people about your tensions? >> how far is a guy like trump willing to push the envelope? it's one thing if you're a liberal and pick a person conservative on law and order you may get away with it, but if you're out there with bannon, with breitbart and then you pick somebody who looks like they might be an old seggy, you have a problem. >> and when kellyanne conway says ...

>> how far is a guy like trump willing to push the envelope? it's one thing if you're a liberal and pick a person conservative on law and order you may get away with it, but if you're out there with bannon, with breitbart and then you pick somebody who looks like they might be an old seggy, you have a problem. says we have a long short list, she's saying we don't know, there's a lot of uncertainty because the people he's closest to may have confirmation problems, they may exacerbate bads narratives out there already. right now, these nominations coming after a campaign from a president-elect w...

Publicly try to calm those fears. and instead, they start careening towards another appointment, where you have this type of baggage. what does that tell the american people about your intentions? >> how far is a guy like trump willing to push the envelope? it's one thing if you're a liberal and pick a person who's relatively conservative on law and order, you might get away with it. but if you're way out there with bannon and breitbart, and pick somebody who looks like they might be an old segy, you've got a problem. >> and when kellyanne conway says we have long short lists, what she's sayin...

Who is seen by many, including himself, as the leading conte contender to be secretary of state. a whole bunch of articles that raise questions about whether he has conflicts of interest because of his business deals ironically with paid speeches. i'd been over the idea that there are confirmation problems for anyone that trump wants. trump goes in with an enormous amount of power, a republican with a republican congress. i was thinking if he wants someone he's going to get someone. the state of articles this morning makes me think he's wrong. >> i wrote one of those articles how giuliani got ...