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Says you can't hire family members. it says you can't hire a son-in-law or daernl or a mother of father. you can't bring the family into the government business because the first loyalty of every public official should be to the people of the country, nautto some relative who put them on the pay role. trump, what's he up to in regard to jared cukushner, his highly trusted krlsh adviser? >> as you say, the congress felt this was dangerous. that the bias that most people might naturally hold for their family is a dangerous thing if it can lead them to give out perks or power to poem who wouldn't...

Includes a son-in-law. he says no federal official can do it. donald trump is deciding to test it, daring the media to take a stand. let me get this straight. i believe letting a big man ignore the law, in fact, the spirit of the law, you send him the worst possible signal. you tell him he's above the law. if you say this isn't a big deal hiring your son-in-law to sit with you in the oval office, tell me when you plan to say no to donald trump. tell me now because believe me, this is just the first stip, the first taste of what it's going to be like, and remember the mentality that gave us the...

Here? the legality, the law is clear you cannot put him in the cabinet. you cannot put them in an agency. that law explicitly applies to the president and agency heads. gres is worried about the secreta secretary of defense saying i'm make my son my secretary? that's illegal. the question we have reported on is whether you can get around that, which has never happened before, but could you get around that by setting up some kind of adviser who is not in an agency? how would it be tested? you could sue over it. there was a suit that went into federal court over whether hillary clinton as a spou...

Statement. it's what dictators, what pow e hungry people do. it's a good test to whether he's going to obey the law or plow through it. >> the question is, who's going to stop me? >> yes. >> he's going to dare them to do something about it because it is difficulty procedurally, probably, to charge him or sue him. he's going to say, go ahead. you know, we don't need no badges. >> well said. but the fact is, he's also saying, i read the law. simply put, i'm going to ignore it. the spirit of the law is clear. >> donald trump has built his entire career of ignoring barriers, ignoring spirit of the...

Racism, democrats expressed their concern about his serving as a.g. elizabeth warren said in a statement, 30 years ago, a different republican senate rejected senator sessions nomination as a federal judge. in doing so, there senate affirmed there can be no compromise with racism. congressman luis gutierrez said if you have nostalgia for the days when blacks kept quiet, gays were in the closet, immigrants were invisible, and women stayed in the kitchen, jefferson sessions is your man. that was tough. joining me, joe walsh, and howard fineman is editorial director of the "huffington post" and m...