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Minimum wage among other things, not surprisingly a departure from the obama administration? what can you tell u.s.? >> this pick is so controversial because a lot of the issues where he stands on the issue, most likely crossing his desk at labor secretary. you touched on one. minimum wage. opposes the $15 minimum wage but is for a smaller increase from the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour. thinks $15 will hurt small businesses and wind up leading to job losses, and also an outspoken critic of obama care. in fact, said those rising premiums cause a government mandated restaurant recession...

Never trumpers, he joked about them as well last night, saying they're on a respirator now. he'll continue the thank you tour over the course of the next several days. the next stop this evening in grand rapids, michigan. next week, making stops ipwisconsin, pennsylvania, and alabama. stephanie. >> i want to talk about donald trump's new choice for labor secretary. it's not a name people would recognize, but donald trump did say i'm going to drain the swamp. it's not going to be the same old washingtonians. but people don't seem to like this guy. >> reporter: yeah, this is certainly not a wash...

Trump would be and how erratic his appointments would be. they've been consistent. they've been extraordinarily consistent ideologically and as willie said, they are basically the type of people that he predicted. you have generals. you have billionaires. and mostly you've got some pretty rigid conservative ideologues. i'm surprised by just how consistent the selections are. are you? >> no. they are also donors. these are people who were on the finance committee or gave to his super pac or gave to his campaign and they supported his cause and he's saying thank you. they are also people who are...

Stock markets in europe are up slightly in early trading. they just opened an hour or so. shanghai mixed overnight. millions of workers about to get a raise thanks to new overtime rules pass by the white house. not anytime. a federal judge in texas suspended that rule from going into effect. it's a major blow to a really important goal of the obama administration to raise wages for working americans. ruling findings it's overreached its authorities by raising the overtime limits. here's what would have happened on december 1st. the salary threshold was set to increase from $450 per week to $91...

Else. was know with the president speaking in wisconsin coming up talk about the plan to boost overtime for up to 5 million people. how is this going over and there are people on the right that are saying that this is going to cost jobs that this isn't going to create jobs. explain the reaction. >> it's a big debate about it. you know this is the follow on to our discussion a moment ago. you look at a weaknesses in the jobs report and you say, what can we do about it? the president is trying to do things he can use his own executive authority to do. what he's done is try to adjust the overtime...