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>> the law must be -- federal law must be followed where federal dollars are in play. >> so were you unaware what i just asked you about the it, that it was a federal law. >> i may have confused it. >> senator maggie hassan who you saw live joins me later in the show. we also learned in the course of the vetting process, two of trump's nominees discovered problems with household workers, the exact kind of issue that has disqualified cabinet picks in the past. trump's nominee for commerce secretary wilbur ross admitted he recently fired a long time employee who he found to be undocumented. empl...

Since 1974, an amendment to the fabe labor standards act excluded workers hired from the basic rights of minimum wage and overtime pay. that all changed last month when an appeals court delivered a win to president obama, reviving a labor department regulation to extend the minimum wage and overtime pay to most home health workers. a reversal of a trial course decision against the regulation earlier this year. it's just a major victory in a decades-long fight for recognition of the labor force composed primarily of women who performed domestic work. in a new book entitled "household workers un...

And has a lot of washington experience and has a lot of trust built up with the particular presidential candidate. >> let's go to the history book. it seems like it started with tom eagleten in 1972 who had electroshock therapy, and frank mankowitz who spocked to him, never actually said, did you have elecroshock therapy? i loved him, but you think he would have offered that up? >> you would think so. that's one reason we know that the standard final question people get asked when they're being vetted, is there anything i haven't asked you about that could prove to be really embarrassing. that...

You know, for romney, beth myers. eric holder did it for obama in wait. so it is always someone that's fairly prominent in the party. and has a lot of washington experience and lot of trust built up. with the tuck presidential candidate. >> susan, it seems to me this started with tom eagleton in '72 who had electroshock therapy and frank -- the press guy, never actually said did you ever have electroshock therapy. you think he would have -- you think he would have offered that up. >> you would think so. that's one reason we know the standard final question people are asked when vetted, is ther...

Finances and drug use and employment of household workers, something that wasn't asked too far long ago and became an issue with a couple nominees for senate confirmation, not really for vice president. it's become a much more elaborate process, and they also look at things are more personal, like the personal rapport between the presidential candidate and the perspective vice president. >> what about the questions of belief? and i know this sounds a little ethereal, jason, but what do you believe? what is your religiouss beliefs? do they get into that? why did you convert from one religion to...