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Years ago when president obama turned to tom daschle to lead his effort to pass health care law, nominating daschle to run the health and human services. it did not go well. >> the man who was supposed to tackle health care, tom daschle. >> i deeply apologize. >> took himself out of the running for secretary of health and human services. for the former senate majority leader, it's an enormous fall from grace. to the man from south dakota who bragged in a campaign chergs years ago that he still drove his old broken down car was caught not paying taxes on a car he been riding around in for years...

And get -- >> that's true exactly. >> to get an answer for and get ahead of before the hearing. >> although, and here is the unifying theory, which is if you go back to the tom daschle example that we started with, and tom is watching this like, how did that happen? how did i -- this guy released his taxes. daschle was shamed into withdrawing. >> that's right. >> if he hadn't been ashamed, if the administration said, we don't care, maybe he gets confirmed and ultimately that -- if you take that approach, we're going to see how far that gets you. michael steele, rebecca traister, thank you for ...

To understand for a second why the vetting process for cabinet nominees matter so much, consider what happened eight years ago when president obama turned to tom daschle to lead his effort to pass health care law, nominating daschle to run the health and human services. it did not go well. >> the man who was supposed to tackle health care, tom daschle. >> i deeply apologize. >> took himself out of the running for secretary of health and human services. for the former senate majority leader, it's an enormous fall from grace. to the man from south dakota who bragged in a campaign chergs years ag...