trump economic adviser with us. thank you both for being here, we appreciate it. good morning. michael, you told the new york times, and i want to quote this here, that naming mick mulvaney, someone who s adamantly anti-consumer rewards financial predators and fails to put consumers first. why do you believe that? director mulvaney has publicly said that he opposes the very existence of this consumer protection agency, which as you ve noted, has returned more than $15 billion to working families and provided protections that they need for financial services. it s not a sad, sick joke to those families. they need that protection now, and it s what we have today is an attempted back door procedure to avoid the clear provisions in the law. congress deliberately and very explicitly set out that in the absence of the director, the deputy director takes charge of
certainly, thoughts and prayers going to the families. the navy is going to wrap their arms around these folks and these families and be with them for the long haul at the end of the day. so our prayers and thoughts with them, as well. all right, in other news this morning, another big story is this confusion after there are duelling directors that are nominated to the nation s top consumer watchdog group. the white house just weighed in, and they are downplaying some of the drama we ve seen thus far. not surprising, really. the cnn white house correspondent just got off the phone with the trump administration. abby, who s going to be in charge come monday? well, according to the white house, they are saying on monday, mick mulvaney, current office of management and budget director, and who was last night named to be the interim cfpb director will be in charge on monday, and they still expect the deputy director to show up for the job, even though richard
people will re-ask themselves, how about the credibility of those women, more than a dozen women accusing him. it s going to haunt republicans in the coming year because you have leader mcconnell and other senators saying, including mulvaney in your interview, they say the women are credible in the roy moore situation. does that mean the women are not credible when it comes to president trump? these are questions republicans are going to have to answer. and let s not forget that donald trump faces a lawsuit from one of the women who he called a liar, so this is going to be adjudicated in part, his credibility versus hers. and look, the bottom line is republicans have now decided to migrate to the position that we believe women, that we re going to believe women when they make accusations. well, donald trump has more than a dozen women who have accused him of behavior that he also bragged about in that access hollywood tape. they cannot escape the allegations against the president
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franken was i can forcefully kiss women and i can forcefully grope them. the identical behavior that he was on twitter attacking franken for. again, admitting and apologizing and repenting for, he was boasting one year earlier that he could do that because he was a star. we re going to have to leave it there for now. we ll have a lot more time in a moment. when we come back, i ll talk to white house budget director mick mulvaney about the republican tax plan and what do the democrats say about the senate s tax bill to make republican senator orrin hatch of utah respond like this. what you said was not right, that s all i m saying. i come from the lower middle class originally. we didn t have anything. so don t spew that stuff on me. i get a little tired of that crap.