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Nominee withdrew in what some dubbed nanny gate. a republican source told cnn last month he voiced second thoughts about his nomination because all of the criticism that he would be facing from democrats, labor unions and other liberal groups. he pushed back against those reports, tweeting, i am looking forward to my hearing. and, jake, once again, that hearing now scheduled for february 16th. now that he has all his paperwork in. >> all right, great, jason carol, thank you so much. joining me to talk about this all, republican senator johnny isaac son, serves on the health education labor and...

Narrative. it's not a coincidence they had this press call hastily organized tonight. an hour before the call they sent out a e-mail to reporters. every morning they're going to have calls to update reporters on who donald trump is meeting with as well as possible nomination announcements. >> and john, the crucial thing about the so-called landing teams, the official designees, that's how you actually populate those 400 jobs in the state department. getting the secretary is the easy part. compared to what the rest of those jobs are. >> yes. and it's one of these things that goes to one doesn't...

So that's something to keep an eye on these landing teams. and it also, as kristen suggested, an effort by the trump team to change the narrative. it's not a coincidence they had this press call hastily organized tonight. an hour before the call they sent out a e-mail to reporters. every morning they're going to have calls to update reporters on who donald trump is meeting with as well as possible nomination announcements. >> and john, the crucial thing about the so-called landing teams, the official designees, that's how you actually populate those 400 jobs in the state department. getting th...

>> and i think they limited the pool tonight. because they announced on his press call that they would have not just a lobbying band for people incoming, but a five-year post employment lobbying ban. that's unprecedented. that's more than twice as long as what president obama had. and president obama actually had a difficult time finding people who were career government services professionals because lobbying is such a part of the industry here that, you know, anyone who wor in this community who is qualified, chances are at some point in time they will do something akin to lobbying whether t...

Eventually be filled. and the question is at some point when they start to just fill them with people, if they're really late to this party, who will those people be? and how much damage can they do? >> and most of these jobs are not senate confirmation jobs. go ahead. >> and i think they limited the pool tonight. because they announced on his press call that they would have not just a lobbying band for people incoming, but a five-year post employment lobbying ban. that's unprecedented. that's more than twice as long as what president obama had. and president obama actually had a difficult tim...