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Way for sanctuary cities, you'll see a justice department obeying federal immigration law. >> neil: that is the law of the land. many made a big deal of the number and the swiftness of some of these confirmation hearings. five in one day. in the case of wednesday. but there is precedence with barack obama and george bush. a lot is made of the fact that some of them have not filled out or completed and made available to committee members their financial conflict of interest forms is. that a big deal or something that is settled by the time the full senate votes on their nominations? >> i think ...

>> again, bipartisan painter and i have just gone up with an op-ed on "the guardian" website. these hearings should be postponed for any these hearings should be postponed for any of the norm niece who have not provided the ethics paperwork. we need to understand their conflicts, we need to understand how they're going to do their job. it's the same story with kushner, it's the same story with these nominees. ultimately, it's the same story with donald j. trump. no american official is above the law. these -- we don't know how these nominees are going to be able to comply with the law because ...

Other heavy hitters . the secretary of state directs teller sin, his choice foreducation. urban development and labor secretary as well as representative mike pompeo who is picked to lead the cia. elizabeth warren are bulging at the speed at which things are moving. she says select committees have not received financial disclosures for some pics for congress. taking to twitter she wrote in part, this is ridiculous. he wrote to donald trump , nominees dragged their feet on ethics paperwork. they tried to run out the clock. the director of office of government ethics responding to senator warren...

Rushing this through? republicans aren't having it. they're saying these are his nominees and we have control of the senate and we are entitled to start these confirmation hearings and to try to have as many people confirmed as possible before the inauguration. they say that's what president obama did when he was elected, and so their argument is at least is going to be there's nothing atypical about the process but it is setting the stage for some real fireworks. >> the office of government ethics says never in the four decades since their office was established have they been put in a positi...

Whom it's not known and not completed and the process of trying to discover and resolve conflict of interest has not been done and in some ways the administration is going to get a political fight. right up front with jeff sessions. much more so than with some of the others. >> this week could be the most important for the president elect since the election. these cabinet members whether it's their own portfolio that gets attacked or they're having to justify what the president elect has said in his promise that threatened during these intervening weeks as well as his own press conference. how...