he ll meet with senate democrats and house members, we re told, to try to figure out a way to save parts of obamacare. are we going to stay with this, guys? all right. we re going to come back to this when the president walks up and get a look at that. meantime, donald trump says he has inside information on the russian hacking into the u.s. election, information that others don t have. despite what democrats, republicans, and even the intelligence community says. so how will this affect the president-elect s relationship with the intel community? ahead, we ll speak to a former cia agent who actually ran again donald trump for president. p) achoo! achoo! (snap) (snap) achoo! achoo! feel a cold coming on? zicam cold remedy nasal swabs shorten colds with a snap, and reduce symptom severity by 45%. shorten your cold with a snap, with zicam. well you don t want to live with mom and dad forever, do you? then she says.bazang! ok, good one. uh, how do i check my credit score?
lonnie chen, steve cortes, and simone sanders. thank you all for joining me this morning. simone, let me start with you. you just heard dana report that democrats in the senate have this list of eight donald trump nominees. they re not going to seek to block them, dana is reporting, just maybe delay them, drag them out. is this what you want to see? what effect does that have? a very chilling effect, actually. republicans will tell you in 2008 they moved very swiftly to confirm all of president obama s nominees, and that this delay, if you will, by the democrats is just political posturing. but i think it s important that democrats come out in this new congress and demonstrate that they re not just going to go
we ve assembled a political a team. this was always a movement of outsiders and his cabinet will be that as well. some of people, you re right, don t have public profits necessarily, people like rex tillerson, betsy devos. i think that s a good thing. but clearly there will have to be more forthcoming from them than people in public life regarding the confirmation process. i m confident they ll all be confirmed. jackie kucinich, simone raises a question about democrats essentially having steel in their spine. that is a consistent question. it s not a new question either, right? i think the stereotype of democrats on capitol hill for a long time is they may not fight the fight until the end or that republicans are willing to fight longer and harder on certain things. do you think democrats will find the fight here and let it last?
house, other than, you know, strongly worded letters in speeches, maria, what can he do? you re right, john, it s going to be a very difficult, i think, and challenging task moving forward for democrats to protect the majority of the affordable care act. what i think that republicans also have to understand, and i believe they do see this challenge as well, is that the affordable care act right now gives 20 million americans health care coverage and health care security that they didn t have before. and obamacare, the affordable care act, is constructed in a very complicated but solid manner, meaning if you get rid of one part, the other parts that republicans claim are very popular and they want to keep are going to fall apart. so i hope that what republicans want to do is not completely take it all away, and frankly trump has alluded to this, but that they will work with democrats to do what we have
millionaires/billionaires, who according to the democrats have not given over the basic information that nominees need to give to the office of government ethics, fbi background checks and others. therefore that is why they are saying they need that basic information that they say they had not just from obama nominees, but from bush nominees, talking about recent history, and they need that before they can start with hearings and committee votes, never mindful senate votes. this is like kids, need versus want. do they need the information or is it just they want the information and the republicans on capitol hill say you re not going to get it? what power do democrats have to delay these votes or hearings? reporter: that s a great question. there are certainly some procedural tools they can use, each committee that has oversight over, you know, various nominees, has different rules and regulations. but look, the bottom line is