chuck grassley stepping up, who are willing to hold the administration accountable when they see something going astray. and i think steve hadley was exactly right in the previous segment there s a lot we don t know about this and it s dangerous to jump to conclusions so i think this seems like a good start. and, of course, john, this is not going to make the trump administration very happy. i don t think so. kbro yu this is the republicans giving into what president trump is calling fake news and illegal leaks from the executive branch. now to news about president trump s cabinet, his labor secretary nominee is out. he quits. fast food ceo andrew puzder withdrew his name from consideration one day before his confirmation hearing was to begin. it came as politico obtained part of a 1990 interview on the oprah winfrey show where puzder s ex-wife alleges abuse. the most frightening thing was leaving because once i made that break, and once i made it
administration in just a few minutes but now let s talk more about today s developments. charles krauthammer is in washington tonight. first on the labor secretary nominee stepping back and what has been not a great week for the trump administration. well, it was a pretty easy call in the end. too heavy a lift for too small a payoff. this is not a major cabinet position. it was clear that there were a lot of videos syncretic issues and had a lot of opposition from republicans. not one administration in the last 20 or 30 years has gone without losing at least one cabinet nominee so this is no great catastrophe. the timing is bad. it s a bad week. it adds to the sense of disarray or at least being in retreat but in the scheme of things it s minor.
and invite the ethical questions in the front door of the white house. any blow back from that if. from may be. the office of government ethics, there are not a lot of laws or constitutional provisions restricting what the president can do in office. that is why this is murky from the start. one requirement is elected official may not use their office to make endorsement. this is something the office of government ethics sub tweeted trump before he took office. you wonder if he will get a warning letter or call after this tweet. all of that talk and show of all of the big files that show how he separated himself from business and daughter saying she is stepping back from the business. it shows he is still very, very into the money making endeavors of his family. thank you. and his name. i want to talk to you about the travel ban in a few minutes. that hearing for the labor
i want to thank senator schumer. all right. that was just moments ago, democrats calling on president trump s labor secretary nominee, andrew puzder, to withdraw his nomination. that of course was chuck schumer speaking at a press conference just moments ago. back with me right now, kirsten powers and alex burns. kirsten, democrats have not been successful in their attempts to spike the football, to ruin any of these, to derail any of these nominations. do you think there is a chance it could be different with puzder, is there something different about this? i think it s unlikely. i think the democrats think in the beginning they thought with devos they couldn t get any republicans on their side. they feel the more time they spend trying to go after these nominees, there s a possibility more information about come out about them and that could possibly pressure republicans to go against trump. i think it s very unlikely. but they re under a lot pressure, obviously, from their
done nor in two years, four yeas does he face the same environment like, where is the change, sir? things are moving forward and getting done. whether they get tax reform done. that s something we talk about needing democrats on your side of the fence. tax reform has to be a bipartisan process. we re talking about the trade deals moving forward. there will be things that are done. obamacare replacement in mind. whether that s the change americans are looking for or whether we re just hating all of our incumbents and voting them all out. 2006, 2008, 2010, 2014, you can argue 2016 was a significant wave, too. a lot of big things happened. sit tight. the battle ahead for the president s labor secretary and other cabinet picks. will the labor secretary nominee be the one the democrats defeat?