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They may be cambodian or women -- >> let me say one thing about rick perry. i know him pretty well and one of the things about him is he understood how the state was having to fight against the department when he was the governor and they were fighting all the time in a place where you have a lot of interaction in texas with this department and forget diversity for a second. what's more important? actual understanding -- my point is you shouldn't just say i'll check a box because the department of energy is an easy box to check based on the color of their skin but the american people want some...

You know what, hold some private meetings. pick someone. let the senate confirmation process begin. this preseason, is he, will he, won't he, punk him. this is not the most efficient way to staff the federal government. >> when you look at time line and pace, president-elect trump is not behind where other presidents have been when it comes to cabinet selections. it took president obama a couple weeks to name his first, clinton a month to name his first. we live in a world now where there's news all the time. everybody's on twitter all the time. >> the president-elect of the united states, tha...

>> and particularly for a trump administration because this is someone that doesn't have a record as a politician or military leader going back like we've seen with presidents before him. so this will give us an indication of where he plans to go because we don't know where he's been. >> it was interesting to hear senator rand paul say to the president -- he was talking to us, talking to the world but he was also talking the president-elect trump who says "pick someone who thinks the iraq war was a disaster, pick one slyke you who thinks removing qaddafi was a disaster, pick one like you who t...

Race as a president, and to make sure, by the way, that we get independents and women voters. >> you know, matt, i don't know you that well, but i've always thanked you for coming on this show and respect your strong views. and clearly, the question is gut, perhaps, versus calculation. people that have strong views about this president and don't really like him being in the white house, period, there may be all kinds of factors involved, but they really want him out of that white house deeply. will that driver th them to pic someone who may not share their deep feelings about the president. in...

For her already because he urged the president again and again publicly, pick someone who's not a done and -- a judge and as slitter general she's never been a judge. vied excited about her nomination. ears what he said about his hopes for her. >> whether it's a democrat or republican or an independent, the great country that we're in, as ruled by law, and that's what you're going to make sure continues. we're grateful that you've agreed to accept this assignment from the president. >> reporter: and so it appears at least right now, the top democrat in the senate, a very excited and hopeful ab...