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Of those have not been handed in. he is the member of the senate appropriations committee and senate budget committee. good morning, senator. >> good morning. great to be with you. >> i know that your concern about the reviews and the background checks not having been done, what's the hold up? >> i'm concerned because the committees can't do their job and they can't question the individuals if they don't have the ethics report or the questionnaires filled out or fbi report. these are the foundations for committee hearings and the foundation for doing our job under the constitution and we can't...

I've known the family for a long time down in charleston, and i do believe that the vehicle that she lays out for the people in the first congressional district will in fact carry the day. i think that she's going to be successful on may 7th. >> just very briefly, mr. leader, how much do you think mark sanford's personal transgressions, what happened with his family, his marriage, in terms of disappearing from view as governor, how much should that, if at all, be an issue for the democrats? >> well, the disappearance i don't think will be an issue, but i think when you look at the ethics repor...

Do you think he's going to leave it at that and said look, he did the right thing? >> i'm surprised he closed the door. mitt is talking about releasing it for one year. i suspect by the end, he'll ask for the 12 years. >> the other big factor here, this week, of course, big event tomorrow night. our own debate, brian williams moderating in tampa. here on nbc. how does mitt romney use this debate when we know this is the life blood? >> we already know one thing he wanted to do, defend gingrich on the tax returns. so get that out of the way. do it for the day after so it's not part of the debate...

Your tax returns. no you release your ethics report. what i think it's about -- >> i think it's wonderful. >> well, sure, from the perspective of the democrats. they couldn't hope for anything more. what's interesting about romney, aside from the awkwardness and his manifest malpractice last night in not having a better answer prepared for the obvious question about his tax returns and how much he's going to release and how many years he's going to release is the fact he seems to have embraced this identity as mr. 1%. because i think he thinks in the republican field, his way of connecting wit...

It's very simple. there are more people with huge financial holdings, which they have to divest under law so they don't have conflicts of interest. this takes a tremendous amount of time. many of these nominees did not submit their ethics report, did not submit the fbi report that were poorly prepared. >> these are all manufactured reasons to slow down the process because they don't want the administration to be treated like other administrations. >> mcconnell believes the senate will confirm all president trump's nominees, including former exxon ceo rex tillerson as secretary of state. some r...