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We're not sure what many of these people are doing. some of them seem to be like 23-year-old trump campaign staffers who ran the campaign in kentucky. some are real washington people. >> lobbyists. >> we found around 36, at least 36 registered -- former registered lobbyists. this is not a swamp-draining group of people. >> 36 lobbyists working in the agencies, including a guy from a luge defense contractor on the tech side now at the department of defense. >> that's right. there's a guy named jeff burr, the head of government relations through the construction industry trade association is who...

Haven't a problem banning lobbyists from his administration so there are many lobbyists, a lot of campaign people, former hill staffers and some of these fringe types. >> sam, i want to talk to you about a guy who's not in the agency named sebastian gorko. we played a clip of him at the top of the show. he's friends with frank gaffney, a notorious anti-muslim bigot. what should we know about sebastian gorka? >> dr. g., as he refers to himself. he -- i mean, he is the guy who was a breitbart writer, i think had donald trump not won the election he would be lobbying to get on world net daily tel...

>> right. >> the key point here is these people we're talking about are there, the whole level of, like, well, i served in previous administrations, i know what i'm doing, i can be confirmed by a senate to be a deputy, that doesn't exist in the government right now. >> as we've seen with these cabinet nominations, off public debate, you have scrutiny by congress, you get to have a decision what about is the policy of the administration on x. the concern of some people is that by installing these beachhead teams who wouldn't even tell us their names, we had to file foia requests, these are peop...

>> i still can't get over that and joining me to talk about it, michelle goldberg, columnist at slate and sam seder msnbc contributor. there was a sense we had we didn't want a spectacle of the press conference to overwhelm the news but that exchange, like, just rid of what you think of the president's disposition or him as a person or his politics, it's like did he not understand? >> that actually was a super easy question because the answer to it is "ain't semitism is terrible, i condemn it". >> and we'll do everything we can to make sure people feel protected. >> particularly when you have ...

Straight simple question. so, you know, welcome to the world of the media. >> i still can't get over that and joining me to talk about it, michelle goldberg, columnist at slate and sam seder msnbc contributor. there was a sense we had we didn't want a spectacle of the press conference to overwhelm the news but that exchange, like, just rid of what you think of the president's disposition or him as a person or his politics, it's like did he not understand? >> that actually was a super easy question because the answer to it is "ain't semitism is terrible, i condemn it". >> and we'll do everythin...