well like i said i don t think it s surprising, melissa, that democrats are feeling a little down. obviously we are didn t win the white house and don t control congress. a lot of things we care about legislatively are being turned around such as epa, healthcare. but on the republican side it is also not surprising. i mean if you are republican with the control in congress and you have the white house you re thinking all this great legislation that s passed. that hasn t happened for the gop even though they ve been in control for the last 10 months. lots of cabinet resignations, staff shake-ups. democrats picking up seats in special elections for state legislators in areas where trump has won and yesterday you had two u.s. senators rebuke him and say they were no longer going to run. this is unprecedented for a president of any party in any first year. melissa: do you agree with that characterization. i definitely agree democrats should feel like they re losing and they will cont
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policies that will seek to prevent iran from ever obtaining a nuclear bomb, and i think if the senator, that is if senator schumer were not persuaded during the confirmation that he would be willing to break with the president and it s that important. the iran issue is simply that important, but again, if i were a betting man, i would say that he ll be confirmed, that he ll satisfy the questions that have been raised, but that fate is very much in senator hagel s hands as well as in senator schumer s. the hearings will tell the tale. thanks for your time. i appreciate it. thank you. bill clinton is in haiti today. we ll take you live to the island nation still devastated from the aftermath of the earthquake three years later. president obama facing backlash in the cabinet resignations and the new picks out there. is the white house diverse enough is the big question. you re watching msnbc, the place for politics. most people tend to think more about how they brush than what t