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east coast. a live look at the u.s. capitol on this thursday morning. good morning, everyone. i'm kasie hunt. it's wonderful to have you with us. new this morning we are learning more details about the sexual assault allegation that was made against pete hegseth, the man that donald trump wants to be the next secretary of defense. cnn obtained the police report from 2017. it was made to monterey police in california. pete hegseth wasn't criminally charged, but did later enter into a settlement agreement with his accuser. the accuser is identified as jane doe in the report, and she told police that she got into an argument with hegseth following an after party at a republican conference at the hyatt regency hotel. she told officers that hegseth took her phone from her hands. then she said she tried to leave the room, but hegseth blocked the door with his body.

she said that she remembered remember much else. according to the report republican senators don't have to wait long to question hegseth about this. he is scheduled to visit capitol hill today alongside vp elect jd vance. vance has been stepping into the role of sherpa. it's an unofficial term for some of trump's key cabinet choices, bringing them to talk with republican senate colleagues. this week. he also is bringing a message to senators thinking about rejecting trump's nominees. posting on social media that the president elect, quote, deserves a cabinet loyal to the agenda that he was elected to implement. on wednesday, it was matt gaetz, trump's choice for attorney general, who made his pitch to senators. gaetz is facing his own sexual misconduct allegations. a house ethics report is going to stay behind closed doors for now senators looking forward to a hearing. >> folks who have been very supportive and saying, we're going to get a fair process.

>> so it's a great day of momentum for the trump-vance administration. >> all right. our panel is here. joining us now lulu garcia-navarro, cnn contributor new york times journalist alex thompson, cnn political reporter for axios maya wiley, the president and ceo for the leadership conference on civil and human rights and mike dubke, former trump white house communications. mike dubke, what is your actual. you're the former trump white house communications director. yes, i was. and so in that capacity you lasted a little bit longer than some others who had the role the communications challenges that anyone coming into that job are going to face, based on what we saw on the hill talk a little bit about what's going on in your understanding in trump world about the defenses for these. i mean, you've got sexual assault allegations against pete hegseth. you've got sexual misconduct allegations against gates. uh, it seems like they're all in on gates. but the hegseth situation may be something of a surprise. what's your read? >> well, i think i think it's a it is starting to bubble up a little bit. and then you've

also got with tulsi gabbard, you've got some other issues that are, that are bubbling up my read is that the the trump administration or incoming trump administration is reading the polls from, from november 5th, which is basically that the president won because he was a disrupter and he wants to disrupt washington. my my deeper take on all of this is this is a very typical trump negotiation tactic in which you put one person or one thing in your negotiating in a stance that is so far out that it makes everyone else run over to that side so that they don't necessarily pay attention to everybody else that's there. so i think all of this attention that we have on gaetz right now is part of of that. i don't i don't fully expect gaetz to make it all the way to the nomination. i love the raised eyebrows that i bring at six, 6 a.m. in the morning, but i do think that what what all of this that is happening right

now is doing is helping the rest of the nominees get through the process. now, whether or not there's something with hegseth or gabbard or others we have to wait and see. but i think this is all part of a larger larger communications effort. >> my, you have your eyebrows raised as well. well, i look we're talking about the cabinet for the united states of america and positions that are going to make significant decisions about the daily lives of people and so i'm notwithstanding, whatever the strategy or tactics are here, i mean, i think the point is we're seeing a president elect nominate people who typically would not get through a vetting process in many instances and make it to the nomination and because of the pattern and the number of people that we're seeing who actually have allegations against them of sexual violence should actually make us a bit concerned with

whether or not we're going to have a full vetting of all of the people who are coming through this process, no matter what part of the process. so, alex thompson, the mark caputo over at the bulwark is reporting this morning that, you know, in his round of meetings, matt gaetz's first round of meetings, he told senators that his priorities are not going to be to do some of the more controversial things that donald trump or other republicans have potentially called for or suggested they might call for, he said. according to caputo look, i'm not going to go in there and indict liz cheney, have stormtroopers bust through the studio door at msnbc and arrest anthony fauci. in my first week. now, caputo says in the last clause in my first week sounded like an disclaimer to some. we, of course, have been reporting this out at cnn. but what is your read on on that? >> it shows that despite his firebrand status and basically saying that he was threatening to defund many of the agencies at doj and behind closed doors

with senators like i'm, you know, that's sort of part of a performance act, right? and also, it's contradicting what trump has said on the campaign trail about going after his political enemies. but some of this is also, you know, this ethics report has become sort of a holy grail or an object of, of of obsession. the thing is, senators are concerned about more, even privately more than just this ethics report. and this one incident. matt gaetz has a lot of, you know potential, potential flags in his file. >> lulu. >> yeah, i mean so i have this theory of the case here, which is that, you know, they're branding themselves as the avengers, right? >> they want to it's like all these pop culture mean, i've kind of thought of them as the pretenders, which is that these are not people who actually not only would they, if they got vetted they wouldn't pass, but they also just don't have the experience necessary to run these massive agencies. and so when you hear

gates saying in private, don't worry, on week one, i'm not going to go. yes, it is an ominous disclaimer obviously, because what is week two, three, four? and if he lasts to month six, what is that all going to look like? and what we're seeing here is a trump administration that is very like not interested at all in competence not interested at all in how efficient anyone's going to be. and very interested in the communication strategy. and very interested in getting people out in front and in that sense, i do think gaetz fits the bill because i think actually i do think he's going to be go through, and i think he's going to go through because it's going to force all the republicans to bend the knee early, which is what he wants. and secondly, you know, at this point, matt gaetz is one of the most famous cabinet potential cabinet picks that he's got even more than mehmet oz. >> all right. we've got a lot to get to this morning. so coming up here on cnn this morning, nikki haley taking a stand russian iranian syrian, chinese

sympathizer. her blunt assessment of the president elect's pick for director of national intelligence. plus potential first in russia's war with ukraine. it was an intercontinental ballistic missile just used in an attack. we'll dig in and democrats still reeling from their major loss this election season the new chair of the new democrat coalition, congressman brad schneider, joins us live. >> we need to rebuild our party, and we need to reconnect with hard working people across our country to give them hope that tomorrow can be better for their kids than today america's favorite holiday spend thanksgiving morning with cnn with live coverage of parades around the >> john berman and erica hill host cnn. thanksgiving in america live next thursday at 8:00 on. >> you didn't get where you are playing it safe. you seek opportunities. others don't. your growing ambition needs a partner built for growth with

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though, might be an uphill battle if we bring in somebody like this who smells to other intelligence agencies like someone who will compromise their too cozy with russia and other adversaries, then they're going to hold back information that could be really critical to our success. >> this is a choice that actually puts americans at risk because we won't have access to intelligence that could be critical to our safety. i think republicans will likely begin to come around. >> so this is one of those picks alex, that has, you know, and mike, you alluded to this, right? it's fallen kind of off out of the headlines in many ways because of the salacious things going on with other cabinet picks. but tulsi gabbard is someone who and in fact, let me just play this. i talked to her back in 2019 about bashar al assad. and i asked her if she thinks that he

was an enemy of the united states. here's what she said. take a look do you think assad is our enemy? >> assad is not the enemy of the united states because the united syria does not pose a direct threat to the united states. >> now, of course why that comment and framing is noteworthy, especially in this context, is because of the ties between assad and the russians and the realities of where we are now. is there a world where there is a national security contingent in the senate that starts to take this nomination more seriously? >> yes, because she is one of the greatest, biggest critics of the current, not just national security state, but sort of american foreign policy establishment that you've had in many, many decades for perhaps, you know, ever like the only thing i can even think close to is in the 70s post-church committee stuff. and that's why you're going to see people like mitch mcconnell take a very, very close look at her record. but, you know, for trump's base, you know, the

fact that she's getting criticized by nikki haley is a feature, not a bug. this is why people like tucker carlson and stuff have really gravitated towards tulsi gabbard, because they see her as sort of a a wrecking ball to what they see as a, you know, a national security state off the rails. >> yeah. well our reporting this morning, mike, is that tulsi gabbard is at odds with the community. she may soon be tasked with leading because of her distrust of broad government surveillance authorities and her support for those willing to expose some of the intelligence community's most sensitive secrets. i mean, the stakes here are incredibly high. >> they are incredibly high. and to alex's point, i think there's, you know, some of the things that we forget when we're talking about these individuals being nominated is that there's a difference between a messenger and a manager and i don't think that she's been nominated to be a manager of dni. she's been nominated to be a messenger. >> power, right? >> absolutely not. but we also forget that there are also a dozen other political nominees that will come in to each of these agencies to run it. but

again, going back to the point for not a not a feature, not a bug she absolutely personifies a lot of what the trump campaign was saying vis a vis the defense. the defense industry, but also the national intelligence so i think a lot of these nominations whether it be gates at doj or tulsi gabbard, it's a way for the trump administration is saying this time it's going to be different. whether she makes it through because there's a lot of hurdles for her to get through in the senate is another is another question. >> the one thing i will say is i absolutely agree because donald trump himself is the one who's been having phone calls with with vladimir putin. i mean so putting her there is not such a stretch. we're all talking about her as if she is in isolation. the fact that she that he is nominating her says a lot about donald trump's priorities and what he wants in that role, and that should be the concern and it's not new. >> donald trump was president before, and when he was, he actually cited in one instance

with vladimir putin over our own intelligence services, not to mention the fact that he himself has endangered national security. he is the president elect he gets to pick. but the pattern here is loyalists to donald trump and his agenda. and we should be very concerned about that when we're talking about national security. >> all right. ahead here on cnn, this morning, a dangerous storm system moving inland. some places have yet to see the worst of it plus, what happens to the information the ethics panel collected about matt gaetz after they decided not to release the report. former congressman charlie dent, who chaired that committee, is here to discuss >> thanksgiving in america live next thursday at 8:00 on. >> i got matched with these guys. >> i got matched with these car insurance companies, experienced ups. my info with over 40 top providers saving me over 800 bucks a year. >> i want that kind of relationship start now free at

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and in the video too i think it's fair to say it looks different to many of the incoming strikes we've observed on cctv. there seem to be multiple separate projectiles landing from possibly a similar point of origin at this stage, we don't know what device was indeed used, and ukrainian officials are working, it seems, at the site to establish more details about that. a western official speaking at the sidelines of a summit in southeast asia, has said that they do not believe this was an intercontinental ballistic missile, but instead a ballistic missile. that may be a case of semantics, and the range over which the device was indeed used, rather than its capabilities. that will hopefully be elucidated. but we do know is that we are probably dealing here with a new type of russian weapon certainly no comment from the russians so far. but just to think back to yesterday, casey the u.s. embassy closed very suddenly, citing very specific i think it's fair to speculate that if russia were to use a new type of weapon with

potentially intercontinental capabilities they might choose to warn other nuclear powers about that, perhaps that was behind the u.s. and other nato allies closing their embassies briefly yesterday in kyiv at 5 a.m., when that missile was launched, the sirens went on here briefly. the dnipro was the target. but i think what we're looking at here potentially, regardless of what type of weapon, seems to have been used, is russia trying to alarm the ukrainians? the ukrainians being deeply concerned and possibly now the introduction of a new capability from russia, which may accompany that. it was in this instance by other hypersonic and fast missiles be able to get through ukraine's air defenses. >> casey, a remarkable sequence of events, of course, just a couple short months before donald trump set to take office here in the united states. nick paton walsh in kyiv for us this morning. nick, thank you very much. all right. time now for weather. some relief out in washington state today as a major storm moves away from the northwest coast. but heavy rainfall not done yet in

california. let's get to our meteorologist. our weatherman, derek van dam. derek good morning. >> yeah, that's the nature of these bomb cyclone as they tap into a moisture feed from the pacific ocean, you'll be able to see it on the satellite in just one moment. but this is the result. so this heavy rainfall that has just blasted the northern and central portions of the state of california, you can see some of the treacherous driving conditions that people are having to contend with tropical connection. you can follow that all the way back towards the state of hawaii. there it is all the way into northern california. we call this the pineapple express, and this just unleashes a torrent of rainfall. in fact, we've got a rare high risk of excessive rain that could lead to flash flooding along the northern coastline of california. and you there today. another storm system will impact the western coastline and the pacific northwest with more wind, more mountain snow and guess what? speaking of snow, some of you getting your first flakes of the season chicago. you're

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caucus in the house chosen to lead at a time when some in the party are looking to the center for answers. after democrats election losses. >> if we're going to win more elections, we've got to appeal to voters in the senate. >> we like when the center left and the center right work together. >> that's what we want. >> we can't be afraid to speak our minds because we're going to get lambasted by the far left of our party. >> the road to a congressional majority runs through the center left, not the far left. >> all right. joining us now, the newly elected chair of the new dems coalition democratic congressman brad schneider of illinois. congressman, thank you very much for being here. thank you. congratulations on your ascension to this post. what is your diagnosis for? what went wrong for democrats? this election cycle, and what is the answer going forward? >> well, i think a lot of things went wrong. at its core, the with voters across the country to gain the support at certainly at the top of the ticket where we had a heartbreaking defeat at the

same time as there, on one level, an ebbing tide on another level. and you mentioned the new dems, which i was proud to be selected to lead in the next congress. we had a tide coming in. we were 100 members in the current congress. we were 42 members when i came here in 2013, and the new congress will be 108. and there's two undecided races. we could be as many as 110 members in the 119th congress. we are more than half of the democratic caucus so there was a shift towards the center moderates. and i'd like to say moderates, a style more than a position. we have a variety, a wide range of positions within our caucus, but we are the ones who are willing to roll up our sleeves, get things done, can communicate at our in our home districts about growing our economy, meeting the needs of people that they talk about at their kitchen tables and our candidates did well across the country harris, the vice president, harris didn't do enough to

convince voters that she wasn't the progressive figure that she ran, as when she ran for president in 2020, in the primary? well it's clear she didn't do enough because she didn't win the election but i think the movement between july and what we saw in the election in november, this is still in the end. it was a very close election. i think the popular vote, it's going to be roughly a 1 to 2% difference. we need to do better. we need to convince more people that the democrats are putting the economy first, addressing the needs that everyday families have and will continue to do that. that's the message we need to take from this election, and that's the message we need to communicate back over the next two years. >> some in your party have said that part of the problem was that many democrats sounded like they came out of faculty lounges in the ivy league instead of from, you know factory floors down the street in their neighborhoods. do you agree with that? >> we have to be able to talk to everyone and meet people where they are. so my district on the northern suburbs of chicago i have the full diversity that we see across

the country. so i have some of the wealthiest zip codes in the nation, but i also have communities that are really struggling, struggling, and people who work in the c-suites. and we have people who work on the factory floor. we have to be able to hear from all of these people and make sure they understand that not only are we listening to them, but we understand the challenges they face and we have real workable solutions that address the issues they care about most not just talking about the things that are perhaps at the more esoteric ivory tower level. >> the former house speaker, nancy pelosi, still in congress, has had some critical words for president biden in the wake of these losses, saying he should have stepped out of the race earlier. among other things is there a level of frustration among house democrats with the former house speaker going forward? >> i think, you know, democrats remain united. nancy pelosi always says our diversity is our strength. our unity is our power. i think hakeem jeffries succeeding speaker pelosi, showed that in the last or in

this congress, how we have been the ones who when the republicans with a very narrow majority majority wanted to do anything that needed to get done, they had to turn to the democrats, and the democrats were always united. i think you'll continue to see that unity. you saw it in the reelection of leader jeffries. >> there's no discontent at all. >> there's a lot of discussion and there's a lot of opinions. and we'll have very vibrant and sometimes heated conversations. but i think there's a unity that we need to move forward and do better at connecting with the american voters. >> i appreciate your diplomatic approach, sir. congressman brad schneider, thank you very much for joining us today. i appreciate it. all right. ahead here on cnn this morning, new overnight. the department of justice looking to break off part of google. why the government wants the judge to force the sale of chrome that's next in our morning roundup. plus, what does it take to disqualify someone in today's political climate when compared to the standards of the past i will be recorded as

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not set until report is uncertain. some democrats hoping to force it into the public eye with a vote on the house floor, and if that were to happen, the gop could only afford to lose three votes. already, one house republican says he'd vote to make the report public i think it's very important that everybody has, as much knowledge as possible so that they can make an informed decision. >> it sounds like yes, that's a yes. >> this does not show friends it's show business and my personal feelings about mr. gates should have nothing to do with what's going on here in the country. and that's a big problem in our country, is that people are allowing interpersonal conflicts to affect their ability to legislate joining us now former republican congressman charlie dent of pennsylvania he served as chair of the house ethics committee from 2015 to 2017, which is, of course, the most thankless job in washington congressman, thank you for being here. >> thank you, john boehner. good right. so talk to us a

little bit about they committee has released these reports in the past after someone has left congress. what do you think the dynamic is here? i mean, we're also seeing the members of the committee in a much more public way than we usually do seeing them on camera yesterday was really remarkable to me. well, yeah. >> look there is precedent for releasing reports after a member of congress has departed. there was a case of a was buzz lukens of ohio in 1990. there are allegations of him having sex with a 16 year old. he resigned. report was released afterwards. there was another case around the same time in 87, a member uh report was released after after he resigned because of uh, bribery. misuse of campaign funds, that sort of thing uh, mark foley, you may remember that case. >> i did cover that case. >> you remember that after, you know, he sent inappropriate tweets to pages. uh the committee actually deposed sitting members of congress after foley resigned. blake farenthold, they released a statement after he resigned

that was over sexual harassment. and a settlement. >> so there's nothing shocking here. >> uh, in terms of what the committee could do so what's unusual about this whole thing is usually when a member of congress resigns due to scandal, they go away quietly and they go about the business of rebuilding their lives and their relationships and all that sort of thing. >> they don't get elevated to the attorney general of the united states. >> top law enforcement officer. that's why this is so different and compelling. plus, you have the united states senate sitting out there saying, hey, we have an official record. we'd like to put together as part of this confirmation process. >> and so we still have time. by the way, you just saw congressman van orton talking about how they're going to go about, you know, releasing this report. somebody's going to go to the house floor and move, you know, a privileged motion to have this thing released. then there will be a motion to table. and and that'll be the procedural vote. but there are plenty of house republicans who are going to want to vote for this. we all know that. they just have great disdain for matt gaetz. so i wouldn't be at all shocked if this is released one way or the other, either. at the committee meeting in december 5th or a

motion on the floor or a leak. >> yeah. so congressman, you have i mean, as the chair of ethics, right? you've seen a lot right? you you understand kind of the depths that people can go to. what how would you kind of stack what matt's matt gaetz did as a sitting member of congress? i mean, what these lawyers are alleging are that these two women, there's a lawyer that's been out there publicly for two women who spoke to the house ethics committee who say that there were sex parties over the course of a number of years, while he was a sitting member of congress, that they were paid to attend. one of them says that she witnessed him having sex with her friend, who was 17 years old at the time what does how does this type of behavior fit into the pantheon of other bad behavior i can assure you that that that committee is composed of ten members, evenly split republican and democrat. >> i am certain that they looked at this case they reviewed it. they deposed all these various people. and i suspect that report is pretty nasty. and i suspect they all

want we're going to vote for it. prior to his resignation so i think there's a lot in there. i'm sure that the the report recommends sanctions of some sort reprimand, censure expulsion in the worst cases of that smoot. now that he resigned. so that's what they're looking at. and they're also by the way, if they if the committee uncovers potential criminal wrongdoing, they can refer the matter to the justice department. i was involved with a few of those cases that happens. i don't know what's in this report, but this is really messy. and matt gaetz did not resign because this report was going to be clean. so i suspect they did their job professionally and thoroughly. the committee bipartisan basis now they're caught up over this issue of a post resignation release. and that's unfortunate, but i do think they'll get to it. and by the way, i don't think speaker johnson did anybody any favors by running his mouth and saying, this shouldn't go public. you know, when i when i got appointed this committee, only john boehner ever asked me to do is just make sure the committee functions. that's it never. >> and speaker ryan probably never wanted to hear from you. >> frankly, that's true. and

same with ryan and pelosi. she was. speaker two while i was on the committee. i never was involved in any of them ever trying to intervene or interfere with any type of an investigation or how we should go about it. >> all right. congressman, former congressman charlie dent, former chair of the ethics committee, sir always great to see you. thank you for for being here in these times that we live in now. all right it is 49 minutes past the hour. here's your morning round up. the house speaker, mike johnson announcing wednesday the single sex bathrooms on capitol hill are reserved for, quote individuals of that biological sex. end quote. this issue first raised earlier this week targeting congress's first transgender member sarah mcbride, who was elected earlier this month mcbride wrote in a statement, i'm not here to fight about bathrooms, going on to say i will follow the rules outlined by speaker johnson even if i disagree with them. it is unclear how this will be enforced. the department of justice wants google to break up with chrome. they are asking a judge to force the company to sell the browser in order to keep google from shutting out other search

engines. this summer, a judge ruling the tech giant holds a monopoly in the search market. the biden finalize a deal between seven western states over the usage of colorado. the colorado river. the deal would protect drinking water for tens of millions of americans, but getting all seven states to agree before donald trump takes office could be an impossible task. the alec baldwin film rust held its world premiere in poland, three years after a cinematographer was accidentally killed on set. a moment of silence was held for halyna hutchins. baldwin. not at the premiere. he was charged in the shooting, but the case was later dismissed. all right, let's turn now to this from a lack of experience in the core competencies to allegations of sexual misconduct. many of donald trump's picks for his next administration have come under intense scrutiny as we have discussed. today, he is, of course, still pressing forward the scandals that plagued trump's picks for major cabinet positions makes some offenses that were once

considered disqualifying seem frivolous. so what changed since accidentally failing to pay your taxes on a car or smoking marijuana in college was enough to tank your nomination? our panel is back. and we were just talking about this with the congressman. lulu. i mean like when i think about the way that these scandals have, like what used to constitute a scandal compared to what constitutes a scandal now, um, it just it kind of blows your mind. >> so i actually think if you remember the scandal about, um, i mean i hate to even use the word scandal because now it does seem sort of quaint, but when the illegal nanny sort of thing. remember that. i think that actually might sink a nominee now, because of where the republican party places its emphasis. whereas actually sexual assault credible sexual assault and rape allegations seem to be just fine. i think this has got to do precisely

with where donald trump puts his emphasis. i mean, he is someone who is also been found liable for sexual assault and so that for him is not disqualifying. whereas you know, immigration is an issue where it is. so it just goes to show you where, you know, someone like this puts the weight. >> yeah. i was going to say politicians may say they're principled, but most of them just follow the voters. >> donald trump was able to overcome all of these things. voters still elected him anyway. and that's why you're. yes, twice. and that's why he's electing people with some of these same liabilities. >> do you think the rules apply? maya to some of these people? i mean, we have we have also found in politics that donald trump does seem to have a set of rules that apply only to him. right. there are others who have tried to do trumpian like things, and they have not been allowed to get away with them by voters, by others. um, do you think in this case, because trump is say, is so aggressively backing matt gaetz for example, that and part of this difference, it seems to me

maybe maga and the peculiarities of, you know, how they think about things like this is that going to be enough to protect him, donald trump or not women. >> it was 26 women who lodged allegations about donald trump and sexual misconduct of some form or another and i do think the fact that elections did not produce a consequence for that is a significant problem for society and for what we're now seeing in positions like matt gaetz, where he would have legal responsibility for sex trafficking. i mean, this is actually part of the job of being an attorney general with a minor. in other words, in other words, being accused and investigated for both ethics and criminally, for the very things that the agency is responsible for. i think one of the things that is happening here and to your point is there's we've almost got to a

place in society where we're not actually talking about the reality of whether or not these things are real. it's like being able to appoint someone who does not agree with science to run a health agency that relies on science. and there's some of this. and i say this because i don't think we're acknowledging this enough. there are a lot of people out here anecdotally saying, oh, but he's not really going to do that, or, oh, that's not really going to happen. and i think what's going to start to happen here, if we start to and continue to see people who are not only unqualified in some instances may work against the very responsibilities that they have, that's a question, but it's a possibility when real people's lives are impacted. it is going to have a change in some of the political. >> the only thing i might raise is that voters, i think in some cases may have actually voted to dismantle some of the places. some of these agencies, but not dismantle but not dismantling protection i don't think voters voted to dismantle protection. >> i think there is a concern

so there's a big difference between we don't trust government versus what we feel about government when it doesn't protect us, when it should or do its job. whether it's vaccines and public health or the rule of law and whether we're protected from crime. >> just quickly on this point, i don't think it's a trust issue. i think it's a broken issue government is broken. that is what millions of americans were saying with the election of donald trump. and we need to do something about a broken system. that's what disruption is about. now, whether or not these people are meteors that are going to break up agencies or just speed bumps that are going to slow down some of the things that agencies do, this system america does not have faith in its institutions the way that it used to. >> but that's why he's but that's why he's asking and putting in place people who are communicators. we are in a polluted information system and many of the people that he is putting in place are part of the pollution of the information system.

>> changing communication system. i wouldn't necessarily also a polluted well. >> it is a polluted because you are seeing people, um, taking information that is simply not true. we are not being given facts people do not understand basic issues. and so when you have and you are putting people there that are saying things that are factually incorrect, starting with that the election in 2020 was not stolen and moving on from there, what he is putting in place, there are people who have the biggest megaphones who will be able to amplify that even more, and so our already polluted information system is going to be even more polluted we are talking about quaint scandals from years ago. >> one of the reasons that the quaint scandals then became scandals that derailed nominations was because there for years were scandals, were never covered there was a collusion between the elected officials and the media about about sexual misconduct on capitol hill whatever. and then

that situation changed. there's now a now now we have these other scandals that are coming out. it is a it is a changing system. we are we are really for the last eight, ten years, we are going through a communications revolution. that is whether it is making people not trust government, think that it's broken whatever the case may be, that is what we're trying to navigate through here. and that's probably part of the reason donald trump won. >> can i just say one thing here? we literally had a black asian woman with significant no matter what you think of her political views or whether you wanted to vote no question about her qualification for office. completely denigrated on qualification for office in this political debate. despite that and now we're watching all these cabinet nominees that literally in some instances, let's take it literally, department of education, where apparently the qualification is you went to school. we are not

having an actual conversation about what it means to have an effective working government at the same time, we're seeing picks for key positions that are clearly and donald trump has said this publicly often about whether or not they will be loyal. that is not fixing government. that is breaking it. >> all right uh, obviously a very charged conversation here, but so i do want to leave you with this today, president elect donald trump may be busy picking his cabinet, but he still apparently has time for a side gig hawking merch. you know what trump's up to right now? >> he's selling guitars. >> that's right. a man who does not play the guitar is selling limited edition guitars. >> there he is, stevie ray vaughan with his for only $10,000, you can own the world's ugliest autographed guitar. the guy who says we can't afford apples is selling $10,000. guitars, guitars. >> the latest venture in the long list of trump approved

goods for just $10,000. as you heard there, an american flag guitar with his signature could be yours. this is just the latest in a long line of products that the president elect has thrown his weight behind we are announcing the launch of trump coins. >> they're called trump digital trading cards. >> i've wanted to do this for a long time. i have some incredible people that work with me on things. my new trump watches. that's a lot of diamonds. i love gold, i love diamonds. this bible is the king james version and also includes our founding father documents. yes, the constitution i seem to remember when i covered his announcement at trump tower that there was trump. >> i remember being cologne at the time. >> i think trump water trump steaks success by donald trump. >> if you really want to know the name of the cologne that was the name of the cologne, let's just be factual here, okay i had forgotten that fact check. >> thank you for restoring that that fact in my brain, mike success. >> thanks to all of you for being here. i appreciate it thanks to all of you at home for joining us as well. i'