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pick for small business administration, in addition to a couple of other picks, iowa governor branstad, scott pruitt, that s the most fraught, the most controversial since i think he named stephen mnuchin as his treasury secretary pick. how interesting what he said to matt lauer about his emerging relationship with a man whose presidency he called a disaster not along ago, barack obama. we all take in trump in these massive doses, it is literally drinking out of a hire hose. i ve heard nothing that s happened since the today show this morning, since he described this relationship with president obama, he is the creator of birtherism which became a movement in and of itself and he basically described this president, who now sits at a comfortable 55% approval rating, one of the more popular outgoing presidents we ve seen certainly in my political career, he counts him as one of his counselors. my understanding from folks who
wrestle mania. the president-elect has made a couple of memorable cameos, you ve probably seen the video and if you have, you probably haven t forgotten it. she has been active in republican politics. she ran for senate in 2012. she s very wealthy, pumped a lot of money into her own political dealings and other republicans. she s been a supporter of the president-elect since the very beginning, someone who has been in his corner for a very long time. say what you want about the wwe, it has grown exponentially under the leadership of herself and her husband, vince mcmahon. now she s the president-elect s pick for small business administration, in addition to a couple of other picks, iowa governor branstad, scott pruitt, that s the most fraught, the most controversial since i think he named stephen mnuchin as his treasury secretary pick. how interesting what he said to matt lauer about his emerging relationship with a man whose
he ll throw something else out there bigger to take the attention away from that issue that was the initial issue. but the process continues. i mean, today we saw elaine chao. she was the former labor secretary in the bush administration. and listening to those on the ground, grassroots people like mark mo rirks orkmoriel, the h national urban league, she was great as head of the national secretary. she was able to work before katrina and after katrina, particularly after katrina when the issues of trying to place people who were evacuated from new orleans, to put them in jobs, so that s a plus for that one when it comes to bringing people and communities together, but when it comes to the possible treasury secretary pick, there is concern, once again. same thing that he blamed
that s one of the reasons the republicans insisted john boehner insisted that don t bring lew. he knew the budget much better than anyone else. he ran circles around them, but in defense of vulnerable people. in addition to that, i think it also shows what s happened in recent history. if you look at the treasury secretary pick for the most recent presidents who have had two terms, you look at the selection of james baker under president reagan. you look at the selection of bob rubin under bill clinton. the selection of john snow and hank paulson and now jack lew, there are two things that all of them have? common. the one is they re all close to the president in terms of ideology and thoughts. the second thing is they essentially compound on what the president ran on. if you look in the case of baker, reagan, reagan was one of the key people in charge of the budget office in 1981, and then reagan makes him his treasury secretary. same thing with bob rubin. the issue that the preside