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All but does send a signal to the rest of the world, the united states does not stand for the principles of tolerance. >> realistically, a final question before i let you go, any of the president's cabinet nominees going to be rejected? >> probably not. we saw this with devos. we know that a lot of people did not want her but they thought they had to stick with their leadership. the leadership allowed two of them to vote against her knowing it would not make a difference. they'll probably go through, which is strange, because you have somebody with secretary of labor who doesn't believe in rai...

The republican leader made a huge mistake when he just piled all these nominations together having several hearings on the same day even though senators might be on different committees and could not attend them all. he did that even when some of the nominees hadn't finished their ethics reports, hadn't got all of their answers in. and i think that the democratic leader is saying, hey, let's go by regular order. let's slow it down. will it's have real debates and vote. now i will tell you this on jeff sessions, i don't know when i've ever had so many thousands of letters and e-mails even from ...

Billionaires and bankers. 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 reports, fbi reports. they were poorly prepared. and we need to examine those conflicts of interest. mulvaney for years didn't pay taxes on a household employee. republicans, when tom daschle had that, allowed him to go into office. and there's an additional problem. a lot of these nominees have views directly against what donald trump campaigned on. ...

Something that actually repeals and how they're going to repeal it and the next few weeks some of these cabinet nominees, the very controversial ones will be discussed very thoroughly on the floor of the senate. >> you say we will not be dilatory for no reason but that's exactly what the gop says that you're doing. this is sour grapes these are successful business people. of course they have more complications. >> they could have avoided all of it by filing the ethics reports and fbi reports that every other nominee from every other administration has done that's what the constitution says. th...

So many of them lined up. do you think anybody's got netting through? >> i don't know, stephanie, but couldn't have pick add better week. no shart 567 of information. all getting through but all pretty bruised. a few proverbial black eyes but all manage to survive. i'd like to see those ethics reports and get all the information in so that they can be completely vetted, because the worst thing is, if it drip, drip drips, gets confirmed and then a report may, a bunch of hearings and get a lot of distractions. if we're going to do it, let's get it done. >> and without seeing ethic reports and ne...