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Presumably placing a more liberal justice, but will their base let them take that more moderate tack. it's unclear. some liberals want to take a tough line, and are you seeing that happen in some cabinet nominees as well, john. >> manu, busy day on capitol hill. we'll check back in if anything else happens. where he had the president's supreme court pick tonight. democratic boycott tactic here. the vote on senator sessions is about to happen. betsy devoss, the education secretary, put out a committee on a party line vote. no democrats voting for her. welcome today 12 of the trump administratio...

Including chelsea manning. and another mound of cabinet hearings on cabinet hill, nominees pressed on everything from nato to nafta. a day after secretary of education nominee betsy devoss took a political bruising over publ >> people do not believe that the federal government should be telling us what is caught in the classroom. gaspard... it was her french name. then she came to louisiana as a slave. i became curious where in africa she was from. so i took the ancestry dna test to find out more about my african roots. the ancestry dna results were really specific. they told me all of these p...

The first thing to know about the nominee to be for secretary of education, she's sitting not just on one but two enormous family fortunes. betsy devoss is very wealthy and the sheer amount of her wealth and the sprawl of her financial interests makes her difficult to vet. you have got to know what she's got in terms of assets and financial entanglements in order to know where she may have a conflict of interest her new job. how do you sort that out? mrs. devos and her husband have investments in 250 companies registered to a single address in grand rapids, michigan. 250 companies at one addre...

It's not whether they legitimately have anything that would disqualify them from taking the job, it's just about the kill. it's about the sport of the kill. it's a vicious town. >> you look back at betsy devos and her hearing, i would be curious, leslie, how you think that went. >> well, first of all i don't think that, i think she avoided the question that a lot of people especially democrat want to hear the answer to, and that is whether or not she plans to defund and dismantle the public education system throughout all 50 of the united states. that is a major concern, there are people out t...

This committee she's up against tonight is a tough lineup. look at the line up. patty many you ary, chris fur fi tim kaine, elizabeth warren. they came ready to make this a contact sport this evening. >> do you think if you were not a multibillionaire, if your family had not hundreds of millions of dollars to contributions to the republican party you would be sitting here today? >> have you ever managed or overseen a trillion dollar loan program? >> i have not. >> how about billion dollar loan program? >> i have not. >> no experience managing this. >> this is a shame. this rush job, ini built ...