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These folks are family people at the core, and i believe paul ryan on this one, and i intend to hold his feet to the fire. >> yeah. so, you feel comforted. you have, you know, speaker ryan on immigration and just broadening out we've been hearing these cabinet nominees on iran and russia and the border wall and their words stand in such stark contrast to the rhetoric we heard from trump on the trail and if you think about it, if you have trump and steve bannon and jared kushner there in the west wing, how much does it matter that these cabinet picks -- what they're saying? who will be setting ...

Of the s.e.c. as apparently donald trump is going to allow him to do, if that's not putting the hen, the fox in the hen house, i don't know what it is. it's by definition the fox is now in the hen house. if you let carl icahn pick the head of the s.e.c., and he does not have to divest himself of his considerable $25 billion fortune, it's like trading on inside information. >> right there, carl icahn being able to influence policy making and doesn't have to divest any part of his business, how extraordinary is this? he can -- if he can influence the epa, he can directly impact his billions and ...

Meeting in conversations where they are setting policy that's going to affect the business empire, that is the very definition of a conflict of interest and no getting around it. >> let's look at the law, david gregory, in terms of nepotism. they say a public official may not appoint a relative unless that individual appointed employed, promoted or advanced if they are in violation, basically, they're not entitled to pay and money may not be paid from the treasury. is that how they're getting around nepotism laws? >> i don't know how the lawyers will come to some agreement. but i agree with er...

We've got to have have a congress that's willing to make progress on issues america cares about. >> let's go to our white house correspondent michelle kosinski. it's obvious he wants democrats to win. peel back the layers. what is this really about? >> reporter: we haven't seen him do this before during his presidency. i think now -- you look at all that's been going on in this election season, this unprecedented season. and they see, you know, places where democratic support, where democratic seats have gone away, where races are razor-tight, where state legislatures are setting policy when t...

Great, the currency should have done up. they didn't let it. they're not letting the currency go down either. neither is great. effectively means that the united states is setting policy for china right now and china lets the u.s. decide the currency worth and then china can end up with fiscal policy that doesn't let it respond. china really ought to manage that itself and not let us run their currency. that's a choice they've made. >> this is another piece of the puzzle and the debate over whether any of this should say anything about interest rates. larry summers, used to work for president ...