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Price and a stock trade, lesser things have sunk greater nominees in the past so we're trying to figure out what is the new political calculation. is there nothing that would cause a republican to defy the president-elect? are there no circumstances where we're going to get any bipartisan cooperation from the republicans because i have private conversations with members of the gop on the senate side who tell me they're rational on climate but none of them have popped their head up and said they can't vote for a climate denier for the epa. we need profiles in courage. we don't need a dozen, we ...

Majority report. katie, the standard is interesting. i remember the early days of clinton they came right out and they ran into a buzz saw with several nominees. tom daschle was an example of that for barack obama, though mostly smooth sailing. it occurs that in some ways that's perception and shame. a scandal is only big enough to blow up a nominee if that's how it's perceived to be but if you can lock down the votes you can basically confirm anyone. >> well, and the rules are just sort of different now, you know? it used to be when you had some scandals that the incumbent -- the president-el...

Appears to continue unabated with a host of conflicts? >> it certainly put the house republicans in the spot and easy for trump to say because the office of congressional ethics has no jurisdiction over the white house so he could do anything he wants to prop up an agency that can't investigate him and it costs him nothing and only put the republican house members in an embarrassing spot. so it was quite a maneuver for him to sort of push this and their faces and i'm surprised he chose to do this as one of his opening acts with the republicans they needed to work with in congress. >> one of th...

Republicans they needed to work with in congress. >> one of the many investigative reporters on the case, eric lipton, thank you for your dime tonight. >> thank you. >> i'm joined by the editor and publisher of the nation magazine and sam cedar, host of the majority report. what do you take from this, katrina? >> i take quality investigative reporting still matters it can in this moment lead to a transparent zahn campaign of mobilization which shamed this mind bendingly moronic republican caucus from taking action. i don't think the media should reflexively credit donald trump with his tweets ...

President obama and i were both in the senate, and we voted no. senator sanders voted yes. >> joining me now, sam seder. he's msnbc contributor and host of the podcast "majority report with sam seder." i think as -- you know, today felt like a landmark day in the democratic primary because it was like really -- okay, like this is real. >> right. these two candidates are within the margin of error in both the early states. you can feel with the clinton campaign they recognize they have to make the case, and they are making it and they're making it in a substantive way. this is not like smearing...