now, it s telling this entire miniature controversy, we could even call it a nontroversy, fixated on slogans, not trump s actual governance. the thing that impacts people s lives isn t whether it s cute to say swamp or whether it s best expressed as dts. it s whether the people who made this swamp still get to run it. and trump actually did have a point when he campaigned on the idea that bankers run washington. people from top banks held big jobs in the bush administration and the obama administration. trump ran on changing that and so far, the only way he s changing it is by super sizing it. trump has put, this is a fact, more goldman executives and billionaires in his administration already than were in the last ones. now, whether you think that s good or bad, it s literally the opposite of what he ran on. now, up next, new fallout over the inaugural festivities and trump s conflicts of interest.
pompeo and general mattis and mitt romney and says this guy is putting competent people around him. insiders, maybe so, but they can run washington. democrats first line in dnc statement on steven mnuchin was so much for draining the swamp. brown came out and said we re stocking it with alligators instead, that donald trump is. here s the thing i m more curious about. the transition team and folks close to the president-elect would make the point that you just did which is why not put these people who have private sector experience in to help the american worker and try to do tax reform and push these things forward because they have connections in that world and they re able to push through change. you obviously have criticism on the other side. what i want to know is in three minutes i am leaving to go to the airport for the victory tour. it will say hallie jackson on
paulson, i have heard that name as well. it s not even so much that he was critical of donald trump. hank paulson is mr. bailout. right. he was in charge of the bailout, which, you know, a lot of people argue that saved the u.s. economy, maybe even the world economy, but for republican base voters, that sort of helped to it was the dawn of the tea party. without a doubt. that s hard to see, because those are donald trump s core supporters. there has been an acknowledgement from donald trump which, shocker, that he would acknowledge something that s antithetical to what he said, you know, a couple of days ago. that these are the people who run washington. to your point, wolf, you said 4,000 political jobs. where do you find 4,000 qualified people for these jobs? he ll have to go back on his promises. question is, could he pull in somebody like hank paulson. we ll use the term strange bed fellows more than ever to
saying, yeah you know what? we like the guy. we like donald trump. my best guess is again, we re six months out from the first vote right? we re talking about voter who is are trying to send a message and seems to be the career politicians don t know how to run washington. we see polls that show republicans very upset with their own party and congress and maybe saying government competence doesn t matter and why not donald trump? all right. take a lock at another set of numbers from your poll. his favorables, they have flipped from negative to positive. he s gone from a net negative of minus 35 to a net positive of plus 17. among republicans. so when you talk about this as a branding machine, donald trump marketing genius is that how he did it? how else did he do it? that is amazing. we never see that kind of movement in favorability numbers. i tell everybody at the very beginning, don t pay as much attention to horse race.
her, the longer eric holder stays as attorney general. look at it that way. so he covers both bases there. the last part the longer you wait to vote for her, the longer eric holder stays because the republican base doesn t like eric holder. they ve been fighting with eric holder since day one. he covers his conservative hide. that s the reflex of a, a governor chief set to get his team. number two, his brother and dad were president. they ve been through this. george w. bush went through this with the democrats. remember this is not new. democrats have done this to republicans and now republicans are saying you were jerks to us we re going to be bigger jerks to you. well that s not the way to run washington especially with this job. i m not delineating between cabinet jobs fight ore taxes health care anything you want. but this is the nation s number one law enforcement officer at the time when we have ferguson tulsa, anywhere else all this big conversation about police and the min