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Elaine chow named as transportation secretary. could you work with her in congress to get infrastructure improvements going? >> i respect her, but i will say donald trump again told the country he was going to drain the swamp and now as president-elect trump, he refilled the swamp with recycled water. most of his cabinet are former or current washington insiders. he is saying one thing and doing another. >> congressman eric from california, appreciate it. >> new details about that recount in pennsylvania. a hearing will be held december 5th in harrisburg. plus, coming up, donald trump and flag...

Unbelievably powerful medium. he has 16 million twitter followers. he things this is a way going up over the top of the media, directly to the american people. most americans don't like the flag burning, carol. granted, it is a first amendment right. but years ago, calling "fire" in a movie theater was a first amendment right and that got reversed. >> mr. trump is serious about stripping american citizens of their citizenship if they burn a flag? >> i think he's upset about it and i think he's expressing what i think many of the people in his base are superupset about. you've got men and women...

The american flag. if they do, they should perhaps lose their citizenship or a year in jail. what do you make of that. flag burning, can it be made illegal? >> you have someone the incoming head of the federal government speaking about two consequences here that we know are unconstitutional. the supreme court has long said that flag burning in most cases is a protected right. justice scalia a part of that decision, whether you like it or not, this is speech. we basically have a right to speech and expression in this country and number two, you have the incoming head of the federal government t...

Proposed legislation and one of the things in that trump tweet that jumped the out at people, the revoking citizenship. the debates we had over flag burning have never gone that far. >> i'm not sure if he understands how wide ranging his thinks his powers go. this is a democracy and not a monarchy. that could change this january. the loss of citizenship, once you start with this, this is give a mouse a cookie. once you start down this road, what happens when the next athlete deals during the national anthem. we are talking about symbols in the country. if you are going to start prosecuting for...

Reporters anymore. in front of a podium. and again, there was word last week, stopped on to the classified national security briefings as well. >> let's take the tweet in two parts. about johnson, texas. have v. johnson, it was narrowly overturning the statute in 1989. it was a respectable minority point of view we thought to have a special category for the united states flag. among the dissenters, the liberal john paul, bronze star recipient and medal of honor, bob carie denounced flag burning statutes and it's an interesting and long conversation about whether or not there ought to be a cate...