Today and something the president himself highlighted at the Press Conference. Take a listen. I think a lot of his views are going to be shaped by his advisers, the people around him, which is why its important to Pay Attention to these confirmation hearhearings. This is a job of such magnitude you cant do it by yourself. You are enormously reliant on a team. How you put a Team Together to make sure that they are getting you the best information and they are teeing up the options from which you will ultimately make decisions. Thats probably the most useful advice, the most constructive advice ive been able to give him. Personnel is policy, in other words. Especially for a Chief Executive who for the first time in the history of this republic has zero experience in Public Service of any kind, not the government nor the military. With policy positions all over the map, even changing from one day to the next, its nearly impossible to predict just what
trump will do as president. The only thing hes actually had to do so far is pick his top advisors and cabinet secretary nominees. On that score, the last two days of Confirmation Hearings have been an utter train wreck. On capitol hill today, trumps point man on health care, congressman tom price, was besieged by ethical and legal questions over stock trades hes made involving the medical industry while sitting on a committee that ovsees said industry. At one point, price was even caught directly contradicting an official fact sheet from the trump transition stating that price is, and i quote here, Financial Adviser designed his portfolio and directed all trades in the account. I did it through a broker. I directed the broker to purchase the stock but i did it through a broker. You directed the broker to purchase particularly that stock . Thats correct. Yeah. Now more on prices legal and ethical issues ahead. At his hearing today, epa nominee scoot pruitt faced tough questions from senator bernie
sanders over his stance on made made Climate Change. Why is the climate changing . Senator, in response to the co2 issue, the Epa Administrator is constrained by statutes im asking your personal opinion. My personal opinion is immaterial to the job of really . You are going to be the head of the agency to protect the environment and your personal feelings about whether Climate Change is caused by Human Activity and Carbon Emissions is immaterial . More of that exchange with sanders coming up. Both those hearings came after the shaky debut last night of trumps pick for education secretary, betsy devos, who showed little familiarity with some of the central tenets of education policy, including a landmark law called the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act. Thats a Federal Civil Rights law so do you stand by your statement a few minutes ago that it should be up to the states whether to follow it . The law must be federal law must be followed where federal dollars are in play. So were you unaware what i just asked you about the it, that it was a federal law. I may have confused it. Senator Maggie Hassan who you saw live joins me later in the show. We also learned in the course of the vetting process, two of trumps nominees discovered problems with household workers, the exact kind of issue that has disqualified Cabinet Picks in the past. Trumpsominee for commerce secretary wilbur ross admitted he recently fired a long Time Employee who he found to be undocumented. Employing undocumented workers was enough to thwart two of bill clintons Attorney General nominees in 1993, zoe baird and kimba wood. Both withdrew. Nick mulvaney just disclosed he failed to pay more than 15,000 in Payroll Taxes for a household employee. Eight years ago a similar Tax Compliance issue derailed the nomination of tom daschle who had been the Senate Majority leader for secretary of health and human services. But in 2017, republicans hold the majority in the senate and unless gop senators defect from their party, these are the people who will be running the government. Im joined now by senator brian schatz, democrat from hawaii. Senator, there are various opinions about how senators should take their role of advice and consent. There are some who believe the president should have constitutionally and as a matter of principle wide latitude in selecting the people in his administration. Others were much more willing to vote no. Wheres your personal feeling on this . Well, i think a president ought to have his or her cabinet. I think they ought to be able to assemble there team but there should be exceptions. To me those exceptions come with pruitt, betsy devos and time price. And the reason for all three of them i think not being qualified for these cabinet positions is that they are unique. They are being asked to lead agencies they want to dismantle. Tom price wants to shred the social safety net its not that
he wants to undo obamacare. He wants to block grant made cade. He didnt vote for the Childrens Health insurance program. This is a person who made a career out of systematically dismantling the social safety net. Youve been a hawk on climate for many, many years. Scott pruitt is not qualified to lead the epa. Theres never been a person even on the republican side, who wants to do such violence to the mission of the epa. Are you as of now a no on all three . Im a no on all three and those and betsy devos, oh, boy, that was a rough performance to watch i was talking to a friend of mine not in politics, that went viral all over the internet. Millions and millions of views of a Health Education labor and pensions meeting. Something is happening across the country and its not late october of last year but now
where people are realizing that a lot of these nominees will do violence to the agencies they want to run. We have a nominee for the Education Department who basically will not commit to Public Education. Who doesnt understand the law at its most basic level and wont commit to not privatizing Public Education. So youre a no on all those three. I remember hearing early reports democrats were going to choose one or two to focus their fire against. Obviously civil Rights Groups feel very strongly about Jeff Sessions although its his colleagues what will be voting. That will be a tough vote for democrats to win. There are also concerns about mnuchin. What im hearing is do you feel it is the temperature of the Democratic Caucus that opposition is not politically problematic for them . I think youre exactly right. I think wenderstand that were the fighting 48. We are the leaders of the Democratic Party nationally and people expect us to fight. They also expect us to allow a president to stand up a government so i anticipate this week secretary Nominee Mattis and secretary nominee kelly will likely get a vote later on this week or early next week. We want that National Security team in place partly because we want rational sane adults in the room in case something happens right away where the new Commander In Chief has to deal with it. But there are a couple not just a couple probably three to six nominees that i think a lot of us are going to have an extremely hard time swallowing. So you just said youre the fighting 48. 48 being the key number there, the number of democrats. You need two or three votes, you need three votes to defect. Do you have any sense that theres anything that any of these nominees could do or say, whether their performance in the hearing or whats turned up in vetting that would lose them those three votes . You know, i dont know the answer to that question but i know a lot of people have been noticing that many of the sort of mini scandals that have popped up in this issue with mr. Price and a stock trade, less e
things have sunk greater nominees in the past so were trying to figure out what is the new political calculation. Is there nothing that would cause a republican to defy the President Elect . Are there no circumstances where were going to get any bipartisan cooperation from the republicans because it have private conversations with members of the gop on the senate side who tell me theyre rational on climate but none of them have popped their head up and said they cant vote for a Climate Denier for the epa. We need profiles in courage. We dont need a dozen, we only need two or three in order to make a strong statement on one or several of these nominees. Courage in the senate usually has to do with whether people are calling in as constituents or making themselves known as voters. Senator brian schatz, thank you very much. Appreciate it. Thank you, chris. Joining me now, katie packer and sam seder, host of the
majority report. Katie, the standard is interesting. I remember the early days of clinton they came right out and they ran into a buzz saw with several nominees. Tom daschle was an example of that for barack obama, though mostly smooth sailing. It occurs that in some ways thats perception and shame. A scandal is only big enough to blow up a nominee if thats how its perceived to be but if you can lock down the votes you can basically confirm anyone. Well, and the rules are just sort of different now, you know . It used to be when you had some scandals that the incumbent the President Elect and his team would hint that this is maybe time to step aside. Trump doesnt really cow that easily. Trump is standing by people that he has put into these poogss. Some of these socalled scandals, are they scandals . Tom prices stock trade netted him i think 300. Is that something the American People will be so outraged over
as some of these senators are . I dont know that the Person Public looks at the epa as the golden goose that many of the liberals on capitol hill view it as. What a lot of these democrats really object to is that these are republicans that actually are supporting republican ideals that are being nominated and they dont like it. Of course they dont. But i dont know that theyre scandals. I think we should make a distinction, right . In tom prices case, well talk about that, theres allegation of behavior that might violate the stock act. Maybe it didnt but theres clarity that needs there which is distinct from the ideological case. Do you agree with katie that this is look, anyone that a republican president nominated for epa democrats wont like what theyll do. Anyone they nominate for education theyre not going to like what theyre going to do. How do you distinguish between normal and abnormal, basically . Well, is it an appointment that attempts to nullify the existence of the agency . The senator made this paint. You have pruitt whose job it has been to actually nullify the Statutory Authority of the epa. To litigate against it. So what . Now hes going to be so what . Republicans dot nlike these agencies. B that should be explicit. If the republicans dont like these agencies and they want to sell to the American Public that the epa should not be the Environmental Protection agency but rather it should be the allow corporations to extract as much as they want they should say it. Theres a reason why theyre not. Republicans have been saying that for years. If betsy devos wants to sell the ideology that they should use government money to simply fund parochial schools they should say it. Shes incredibly evasive. Thats not what betsy devos stood for at all. And she did not address all the questions that had to do that the senate was asking. So clearly they think its a problem. That is not what betsy devos has stood for at all. But devos does favor
vouchers. She does favor vouchers. What betsy devos has stood for for the last several decades is allowing parents to have choice. Not just rich parents whove had choice for forever but for all parents to have choice and what the democrats on that committee dont seem to understand is all these socalled qualified people that have served at the helm of the Department Of Education have left generations of children in failing schools. They havent fixed that with these experts. Betsy devos is somebody that has a passion for those children and thats what she brings to the table. So you think passion is more important than expertise . I think betsy has a lot of expertise. You thought yesterday she manifested expertise at that hearing . I thought many of the questions that were being asked were designed to trip her up. They werent designed to assess whether or not she was qualified for this job at all. So you think betsy devos is in the mainstream of theres
different kinds of ways of looking at these different nominees. Nominees who are trump nominees and nominees who could have been, say, marco rubio nominees and what i hear from you as someone who is an antitrumper but a die hard republican that betsy devos falls squarely to you within and scott pruitt and tom price, these are all basically your youre good with these as a republican nominee . Yeah. I think that betsy falls squarely in that category and has the support of republicans not because she has contributed to those republicans, she knows those republicans and they know her and they know her background and they trust her. Well, they know her a little bit because shes contributed to them. You know, the democrats want to make this about contributions and her wealth. Betsy devos is on record as saying that she does not believe that christian philanthropy can fund Christian Education and she is looking for other sources. She is on record saying this. She is on record saying she doesnt believe in public school, she believes in the concept of Public Education where you take public funding and fund private schools. And everyone knows she did not say she doesnt believe in Public Schools. That is false. That is false. She is just looking to drain money from the system and we know how this works out. Subsidies for People Living in poverty do not work in terms of providing them spa i private schools. Bottom line. But trapping kids in failing schools works very, very well. Shes not even attempting to fix the Public Schools. Shes totally disregarding them and wants to undercut the entire system. Thats not true. Charter schools are Public Schools. Charter schools are Public Schools. If thats her position she should be up front about it. Let me intervene for a moment. To katies point, it strikes me theres ways of undoing things statutorily and through administration so you could but republicans could, for instance, get rid of the Department Of Education, they could get rid of the epa, they
wont do those things even if they dont believe in the Current Mission of it. I will say this. Do you think theres a standard that people what should the standard be, katie, for you when you think about what is the standard that i would not as a senator vote for someone from my own party . We havent even touched ben carson who an incredibly accomplished career as a neurosurgeon, i think everyone would agree. Beby his own admission knows nothing about Housing Policy and his own spokesperson said he shouldnt run a federal agency because he doesnt know enough earlier. Were just sort of letting that one go because hes not a Lightning Rod in the way these ones were talking about but that also seems to me like i dont know. What do you think of that . Well i think the Trump Administration is in a very, very difficult place with both the liberals on capitol hill and with the media because if they bring in socalled experts that have been doing this for decades hes accused of not draining the swamp. If he brings in outsiders that
have different kinds of expertise and a different approach then hes accused of not bringing in people that know what theyre doing. I do think theres some disagreement about what the approach to Public Education should be. The democrats are completely beholding to Randy Weingarten and the Teachers Unions and are never going to do anything that challenges that. Betsy devos is a threat to them because shes going to challenge that. Is that what education is about . A problem with Teachers Unions . She could not even answer its certainly part of the problem. The most fundamental questions that faces educators today about Growth Versus proficiency. Let me wrap this up with one little point in terms of behold on the Randy Weingarten, as someone whos interviewed her a lot, it was tremendous dissatisfaction with arne duncan across the board from Teachers Unions, an incredible civil war inn the Democratic Party. I wouldnt say its lockstep. Im sure it pales to how she
feels about betsy devos. On that we agree. Katie packer, sam seder, thank you very much. Up next, what we know about tom prices stock prides that are raising ethical questions. Its something that came up often in yet another confirmation hearing. Did you take additional actions after that date to advance your plan to help the company that you now own stock in. Im offended by the insinuation, senator. Well, let me read what you did. You may be offended, but heres what you did. I can stay. Im good. I wont be late hey mom. Yeah. No kissing on the first date, alright . Life doesnt always stick to a plan, but with our Investment Expertise well help you handle whats next. Financial guidance while youre mastering life. From chase. So you can. Opioidinduced constipation. Prescription opioids helped my chronic knee pain, but left me constipated. Finally, i let it out. Told my doctor. He said movantik may help me go more often. Dont take movantik if you have or had a bowel blockage. Serious side effects include opioid withdrawal, severe stomach pain, severe diarrhea, and stomach or intestinal tears. Tell your doctor about side effects and medicines you take. Movantik may interact with them causing side effects. Have your movantik moment. Talk to your doctor about opioidinduced constipation. To keep track of at this point so first it was discovered price received a Sweetheart Deal im using that term from kaisers description of it from an australian biotech firm that allowed him and another congressman to buy that Company Stock at a discounted price. Thats the deal senator murray asked him about in the clip we just played. That deal, while perhaps unseemly, does appear at first blush to be legal but a few days after that story broke, Time Magazine came out with another story about price, this one alleging he invested in six different pharmaceutical Companies Just weeks before introducing legislation that would have benefitted all six companies. Something that looks a lot more like a potential violation of federal law but the biggest story about price, the one that alleged the most direct quid pro quo, or at least implied it, and the one that prompted an Immediate Response from the campaign was the discovery by cnn that on march 17, 2016, price purchased stock in a medical Device Company that scribes itself as the world leader in hip and knee
replacements. Then less than a wee later price introduced legislation called the hip act which would have directly benefitted that same company. If price made that trade with direct knowledge of that, that he was going to introduce that legislation that would almost certainly have been illegal. Remember, when price was asked by senator murray about the australian biotech firm he said he chose the stock. But when senator Elizabeth Warren asked him about the hip replacement Company Stock, the other deal, stock that would be illegal for him to knowingly purchase he says his broker acted entirely on her own without his knowledge. Did you buy the stock and then did you introduce a bill that would be helpful to the company she just bought stock in . The stock was bought by a by a broker who was making those decisions. I wasnt making those decisions. So lets just be clear. This is not just a stockbroker someone you pay to handle the
paperwork this is someone who buys stock at your direction. This is someone who buys and sells the stock you want them to buy and sell. Not tr not true. So when you found out thats not true, senator. So you decide not to tell them . Wink wink nod nod and were supposed to believe that. Senator, do people care if he profited off this . What is your sense of why this should matter . Well, i hope people care about this. Obviously mr. Price is responsible for his investments. These are investments that are personal and hes made several in the industry in which he serves on the committee that can affect the value of those companies. That in and of itself is the appearance of conflict but when we look at the fact that he may have gotten a special deal being able to buy some of the stock, the fact that he bought the stock and introduced legislation that could affect its value, that raises very serious ethical
issues and perhaps legal issues. The person who should be secretary of health should not have those types of ethical lapses. I have to say, senator, that part of the old cliche about the scandals whats legal has been illuminating to see what exactly you guys in congress are able to do within the law. For instance, buying preferred stock from a company at a place you regulate but the stock act was introduced to cut out the worst excesses after a big investigation. The trump folks are saying the cnn report is wrong, that it should be retracted and that representative price had no idea that stock was being purchased for that hip company when he was going to introduce legislation that benefitted them a week later do you believe Congressman Price . Youre absolutely right about the stock act. It was passed in order to prevent these types of abuses. I think this should never have been done. A congressman should not be buying stock in a company and
introducing legislation that affects its value. A congressman should not be buying stock in a company hes on a committee that could affect its value and the congressman certainly should be sensitive to getting special considerations of buying into a company perhaps at a reduced price. No. Theres two issues here. Was it legal . Thats an issue that i can not answer but certainly this is something that is raises very serious ethical challenges at a minimum and one that raises questions about dr. Price. I ask if you would adhere to that same standard for yourself. Absolutely. I have divested of any individual stocks because i dont want to be engaged in any second guessing. Its not just conflicts, i dont want to have the appearance of conflicts so yes im care to feel the type of investments i participate in and try to use generic type funds. So. So theres two allegations here, specific allegations and
then what has been established but not contested which is that as congressman with a key role in statutory oversight of the medical industry he was individually picking stocks in that industry at the same time hes voting for or drafting legislation that has a direct affect on the companies in that industry. And that presents a real challenge at a minimum youre going to have appearance of conflicts. You might have direct conflicts. You may have illegal action. Its something a congressman should avoid. Senator cardin, thank you for your time tonight. Appreciate it. Thank you. Coming up, senator Bernie Sanders goes head to head with trumps epa pick. Thatsight after this short break. Trust me, you do not want to miss it. [burke] at farmers, weve seen almost everything, so we know how to cover almost anything. Even a rodent ridealong. [dad] alright, buddy, dont forget anything
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scientists officially declared 2016 the hottest year which knocks out the previous record of 2015 which knocked out the previous record of 2014 so its notable that when Oklahoma Attorney general scott pruitt, Climate Change denier and trumps choice to head the epa senator Bernie Sanders tried to pin him down. Do you believe that Climate Change is caused by the emission by Carbon Emissions by humanactivity . The climate is changing and Human Activity contributes to that in some manner. In some manner but you havent told me why you think the climate is changing. Senator, the job of the administrator is to carry out the statutes as passed by this body. Why is the climate changing . Senator . Response to the co2 issue, the Epa Administrator is constrained by statutes im asking you a personal opinion. My personal opinion is immaterial. Really . Senator, ive acknowledged to
you that Human Activity impacts the climate. Impacts. Yes. Scientific community doesnt tell us it impacts they say it is the cause of Climate Change, we have to transform our Energy System. Do you believe we have to transform our Energy System in order to protect the planet for future generations . I believe the epa has a very Important Role in regulating the emissions you didnt answer my question. Senator, i believe the administrator has a very Important Role to perform in regulating co2. Its kind of amazing. He wont say the thing he believes under oath in front of senators which if he doesnt believe it, he should say, i guess. But the prize for most staggering testimony may go to trumps nominee for secretary of education, and that as Senator Schatz said went kind of viral. Well play that for you next. Just like the people who own them, every business is different. But every one of those businesses will need legal help as they age and grow. Whether it be help starting your business, Vendor Contracts or employment agreements. Legalzooms network of attorneys
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senator tim kaine and senator Maggie Hassan. Should all schools that receive f schools Taxpayer Fund being required to meet the requirements of the individuals with disabilities in education . I think thats a matter best left to the states. So some states might be good to kids with disabilities and other states might not so good and then what . People can just move around the country if they dont like how their kids are being treated . I think thats an issue thats best left to the states. I want to go back to the individuals with disabilities in education act. Thats a Federal Civil Rights law so do you stand by your statement a few minutes ago that it should be up to the states whether to follow it . The law must be followed federal law must be followed where federal dollars are in play. So were you unaware what i just asked you about the idea, that it was a federal law . I may have confused it. I do have to say, im concerned that you seem so unfamiliar with it. Joining me now, senator Maggie Hassan of new hampshire,
member of the Senate Committee on health, education, labor and pensions. Senator, what was your impression of what this nominee does and doesnt know about this fairly significant Landmark Piece of civil rights education. Chris, its nice To Be With You tonight. You know, education and access to quality education for all our kids is really the foundation of our democracy. In my family, that includes making sure that both of my children, including making sure both of my children had access to quality education and our now adult son ben happens to have very severe and pervasive physical disabilities. Ben doesnt speak, he cant use his fingers to access a keyboard but hes very cognitively able and because of the provisions of th i. I d. Ea. The Individuals With Disabilities Education Act he had access in our community to learn and graduate from high
school. And thats the kind of opportunity we all want for all of our children. And before the i. D. Ea. Was passed, children like my son were often put in institutions where they didnt have access to education, people assumed or stereotyped them believing they couldnt learn and when you think about the importance of that civil rights law to children like my son and children around the country it was really concerning to me that ms. Devos seemed so unfamiliar with it. And problems with the Voucher System she has supported has had in honoring the i. D. E. A. What do you say to people that say that Senate Democrats on that committee are essentially playing gotcha. That you are trying to quiz her and go into obscure areas of policy in order to catch her. There is nothing obscure to my family about the i. D. E. A. There is nothing obscure to most educators i know about the importance of educating all our children what i was trying to get at when i talked with ms. Devos at the hearing was my concern about the fact that the Voucher Programs that she had supported made children with disabilities if they were to receive a voucher like kids without disabilities do it made those kids sign away their rights under the i. D. E. A. So i thought it was very important to get her perspective on why she thought that was okay and whether she would, as secretary of education, the countrys top Education Officer charged with making sure that all of our kids have access to free, appropriate Public Education so that they can thrive and participate in the 21st century, be the work force we need. I wanted to make sure she was committed to enforcing civil rights laws that protect all children so that they have access to education and i was very concerned that she seemed confused or unfamiliar with the fact the i. D. E. A. Is a federal law she would be charged with enforcing and i think its appropriate that we make sure that the countrys top Education Officer really does understand the full obligations in the way our Public Education system works. I was very concerned she was so unfamiliar with such a basic thing and that goes to concerns a lot of us have that ms. Devos does not have experience significant experience with Public Education, didnt go to Public Schools herself, her children dont, shes never been a teacher. So i just was very concerned. Senator, are you going to vote for her . Look, im going to wait t
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sessions was, he was the chair of Donald TrumpsNational SecurityAdvisory Committee on the campaign, you cannot be involved in that investigation so that means if Jeff Sessions is going to follow the rules he has to recuse himself on day one, the day he joins. And he actually has an outstanding question on this matter from Democratic Senators who have asked him the answer to that and its going to be telling what his response is and hopefully he provides that before confirmation. What about comeys role in all of this. You have been critical of the way hes conducted himself in terms of the clinton investigation. You felt he was way outside the norms and precedent. Do you i guess fundamentally, do you have faith or trust in him that they that this if there is an investigation that they will pursue it doggedly and let the chips fall where they may . You know, i have fifaith in m comey to pursue this information, but why did he do this before the election . Now with him under investigation himself by the inspector general, i think its very difficult for him to lead this investigation. I really think the thing needs to be taken out of the regular Chain Of Command at the Justice Department. There needs to be a special counsel, a special set of fbi agents that have full authority to investigate this and go wherever the facts lead them. And, you know, not have to worry about is there precedent for that matthew . Yeah, there is. There have been special counsels appointed, eric holder appointed several. In fact, general mukasey appointed several at the end of the bush administration. When there are serious political things that are tough for Attorneys General to investigate, theres long standing precedent for doing this and the only way you can have a fair unquestioned investigation into this. Matthew miller, thank you for being with me tonight. Appreciate it. Thank you. Thats all in for this evening. The Rachel Maddow show starts right now. Good evening, rachel. Good evening, chris, thanks, my friend. You bet. Thanks for staying with us