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Donald trump, i think you can best sum it up in a word, unpredictable. >> yes, wait and see. thanks so much. while that's happening on wednesday, the other big story line this week for the trump transition team will be the confirmation hearings for many of the president-elect's cabinet picks. but the fact that many of those people haven't turned over background information and financial disclosures has some democrats threatening to draw the process out. trump's senior adviser offered a defense by describing the background process. >> it's basically just a process that takes a great deal of t...

Elizabeth warren you can talking about the government ethics office and they haven't filled out paperwork. senator mcconnell called it procedural issue. happened in the past that it wasn't all done. they are wealthy individuals without much government background. this is a scandal here? >> this is not a scandal. wildly successful businessmen and business women like linda mcmahon and wilbur ross, steve minute knew chin, these people created tens of thousands of jobs, taken companies with a infusion of cash and leadership and creativity brought them around benefited economy and individual worker...

On his own conflicts of interest which he doesn't seem to feel any shame about. >> to your point, i don't want to be unfair to the legislative knowledge in a donald trump tweet but he seemed to not even understand that the reason this was coming up now is because the parliamentary procedure sets the rules once at the beginning of the two-year term. >> the conference has to vote on it, it gets into this omnibus setting of the rules. look, i think paul ryan and kevin mccarthy knew that was a bad idea. they were against it to begin with. >> this is bunting and catching. this is basic stuff. you d...

Setting of the rules. look, i think paul ryan and kevin mccarthy knew that was a bad idea. they were against it to begin with. >> this is bunting and catching. this is basic stuff. you don't start off your new congress by saying "we're going to get rid of ethics rules." >> sounds bad. >> i would like to think this is an indication and road map for the future but this is a process issue that literally i think this type of overreach is almost impossible to imagine again except for some very major issues. so, you know, it's good that they didn't get away with this. i think donald trump is getting...

Got caught in its cross hairs. what do you make of the move? >> a lot of members complain of due process issues with the oce. it does hand democrats something to run on in 2018. the minute you have a scandal, people are going to point to republicans getting rid of the oce as part of a broader conspiracy of republicans to run the house of representatives in an under handed way. i don't think so much it's a process issue. after all, we uncovered all sorts of scandal and wrongdoing before it existed. there's plenty in place and always has been to uncover when members do things that are illegal or...