the nominee i'm most excited about is betsy devoss.eak the government domination of schools you can change the entire country. this is something as a mom and a minority, it's dear to my heart. there is inequality in education, and it has been perpetuated by the left. we have somebody scaring the unions. >> it was also gratifying to hear her renouncing common core. this has been a big concern about betsy devoss. i have known governor perry for a lot of years. this is a can-do guy, he was one of texas's most successful governors. lou: he's also one of the most decent classiest guy you will ever meet. he's the same person in person than anywhere else. >> energy has been a big part of his governorship. and he always said you have got to seal the border. this is christmas morning. every day it gets better. lou: donald trump gave a shout-out to paul ryan talking about his genius and reminding he will be building a wall. what was your reaction? >> i was there in the room when it happened. these are two people who are better together than they

of bets i devoss -- you have betsy devoss at the education department.harles: i have got to bring in this topic. and i want both to opine on this. a couple was booted off a jetblue fight after harassing ivanka trump. she was traveling with her children and other family. one of the culprits yelled, your father is iewning the country. why is she on our plane. she should be flying private. i don't care who you are. you are a mother with your children and people are yelling aught on a plane? >> it's unbelievable. let me show you how the media covered this. an a.p. head line said "men removed from a jetblue flight with ivanka trump aboard." if this were chel see clinton, the reversal and the call to action in supporting ivanka would be enormous. but because she is the daughter of donald trump, she almost deserves it. charles: the two men in question dweetd before they got on the plane their intention to give her a hard time. >> one of them is a college professor. they are the ones who demand safe spailss but they can't give common courtesy not to yell at some

betsy devoss loves charter schools and school choice, and that's music to the ears to parents whose children are trapped in schools with teachers who care more about tenure and pensions. she is called the most ideological anti-education nominee since the department of ed started it' it's -- if the largest teachers o is against her, that's good. it's not all sunshine with these nominees. but we have to celebrate the bright spots where we can and encourage liberty that comes from too much government for far too long. you are my silver lining and i'm kennedy. donald trump won't legally be the president until january 20. but political shenanigans could snaimpt away. harvard president is offering free legal advice to electors who want to dump trump. let me ask my shock absorbent party and what happens next. gavin mcbegi mcginnis is here. , and sandra smith. let me ask you. i interviewed one of these gies couple weeks agene calls himself a hamilton aelectric tear. this year it's all about hamilton. it's a phenomenon. >> we can begin the to what a hamilton elect is being loosely defined as someone

betsy devoss at the education department.ou: i'm going to get to the paul ryan question we always discuss each time you are here. ryan telling "60 minutes" that he didn't see this one coming and he and the president have patched it all up. and yesterday he wouldn't mention his name. ryan would not mention the president's name. he mentioned the vice president-elect. but not the president-elect. this is a man with a real problem. >> donald trump doesn't seem to think so. i think they are getting along fine. for paul ryan to say he didn't expect donald trump to win the presidency, i didn't either. i can name on my one hand the number of people i know -- lou: his offense is he continues to insult the president-elect. he continues to have a very difficult time even saying the words donald trump, president-elect. >> you don't need to be thin skinned on trump's behalf. lou: i'm not thin skinned. but i'm also not blind nor am i deaf. if he's going to play the bull, i'm going to points him out. >> they are allies now. they talk every

i really enjoyed and i really think betsy devoss with school vouchers, i can go on. >> i am talking about the top crisis. this seems like an impossible test. you are going to have the opposite side and the democratic side and they're not enjoying any of the picks and they're controversial and extreme. i think that his picks has been reasonable and i don't think he will have a lot of problems getting them through. i just don't. >> what does this conversation battle looked like, or is it a battle at all? >> schumer is very smart and he's great at mouse trapping. they put out something a couple of days ago that laid out criteria for all of trump's appointees which had a whole lot of financial disclosures and of tax returns and ethics investigations. i think he's going to probe for the weak spot. you cannot refuse one or two cabinet officials. i think he's going to look for two of them and taking them down just on principles. >> i cannot tell you which two. >> president obama is vacationing in hawaii and paying a visit to the marine base. he spent some time talking to his former aid on cnn, i

puzder, pruitt, obamacare opponent tom price going to hhs, school voucher backer betsy devoss as educationtary. democrats charge that trump team has one mission -- >> to dismantle and yundermine and destroy the agencies they hope to run. >> reporter: trump calls it keeping his pledge to drain the swamp. democrats pledging to stop scott pruitt from taking over the epa are considering forcing all senate republicans to say publicly if they believe in global warming, which pruitt doubts. i'm steve handelsman, nbc news, capitol hill. >>> even before ballots were cast in the election, financial pros made calls on what stocks to buy for a trump warehouse? but who got them right and wrong? >> reporter: it's been a full month since election day in the u.s., there's a clear reaction in the markets to donald trump's victory. not everybody got it right. most experts were wrong. we went back to the record to pick out a few examples of what market pros were advising if trump had won. the most common recommendation made was that equity mar wets were going to collapse. barclays, citi, bank of america, s&p

betsy devoss in the education department.ome where the liberals and the democrats will try to focus and make a fight of it, even if they know they don't have the power to stop it. >> i assume they know, the democrats, they'll probably not get enough to come to their side to derail the nominations. >> they know these are losing battles they have to wage nonetheless. >> some democrats might vote to confirm manchin and others. >> if you're in 2018 in a state that trump won in montana or missouri or other places where you have a hard fight on your hand, you'll think twice about how many of these you'll vote against. everyone's going to vote for mattis for secretary of defense. he's very popular. they realize that was not a fight to waniwage over whether to pass a waiver to allow him to serve. they'll look at sort of where is the pressure coming from the left, from environmentalists, from, you know, civil rights, democrats who are upset about the pick of carson and concerns over urban poll icy under him. jeff sessions, voting righ

school voucher proponent, betsy devoss to head the education department. billionaire wilbur ross to head commerce. elaine chao at transportation department. and just today, he announced his pick for labor secretary. former fast food executor, andy pussner. south carolina governor nikki haley will be at the united nations. his choice to head the epa is someone who has sued the agency, is suing it, scott pruitt. another retired general, mike flynn, will be his national security adviser. and wrestling executive linda mcmahon will be the head of the small business administration. still undecided, u.s. secretary of state, of course, and also interior and agriculture. meanwhile, trump's penchant to use the bully pulpit continued yesterday with a stinging twitter rebuke of a local union leader out in indiana, who criticized trump's numbers on how many carrier jobs were saved. here was chuck jones, by the way, just yesterday, the labor leader. >> i appreciate mr. trump getting involved and saving as many people's livelihoods as he did. so i don't think that can go

he's going to be joined by his education secretary betsy devoss, and i think that the challenge thoughor the preside president, he has said he wants to unify the country, and he's coming back to these places where he won. will we start to see him go to some of the states he lost? that's really the big question. look, steph, michigan is a significant state for the president clinton. he was t -- president-elect. he was the first to win ai george h.w. bush won here. you were talking about in your production some of the controversy swirling around his transition, including the fact we are going to learn he will stay as executive producer of "the apprentice." they say that's okay. i spoke with one supporter who ex prpressed a little bit of concern. they said he's the president-elect. he should focus on running the country. >> there's some new names in the mix. this morning i reported gary cohen, the president and coo of goldman sachs has been tapped to be the national economic council adviser to the president. this is the person who assists the president on all things related to the economy

betsy devoss, all of us know who she is.some people say it's not happening, those people are insiders. >> they are insiders of the best sort. you have to have people who understand public policy and washington policy to get through the kind of legislation donald trump hopes to achieve. these are the people -- they are not insiders or lobbyists. none of these people are making a lot of money off what they do. martha: if you cut the number of people at agencies in washington and force them to dial it back, that will be an indication -- we'll continue this conversation. great to see you, a great piece as always in the "wall street journal." bill: there was a race to help an american hero for a medical emergency at the south pole. martha: coming up on "happening now." president-elect trump going on a victory tour today. also some new details on that incredible story of kidnapping and torture of a suburban mother. the lead author of a new study on using the party drug ecstasy as a treatment for ptsd. bill: updating. we are learni

you tell betsy devoss that public schools should be a monopoly and you will get a lecture about school have you ever heard a tax cutting plan from obama? vorny regulars monica crowley and will have a big impact. david freedman vows to move america's embassy to jerusalem. this is the most conservative team in at least a generation. no wonder the left is apoplectic. but they are stuck on the vote, the russians did it, the white supremacists did it. they have inspired investors with a promise of growth and there is optimism. the second hour of "varney and company" is about to begin. [♪] we moved up just a tad more. now we are 48 points high on the dow jones average referring $19,900. we are on dow 20,000 watch, but it appears to have stalled in the last couple days. look who is here to answer the questions. maria bartiromo and biz peak. maria, you first. wait for it. why did we stall? >> i think 20,000 will be a tough level to get over because it's round numbers. it will get there, you know it, you predicted it first. but it's going to have some resistance because nothing goes up in a str

as well as trying to oppose betsy devoss. >> i think you are right on devoss.i mentioned before in terms of policy differences between the parties. that's why the possibility of a tillerson nomination could be dangerous for trump. if they sense some sort of weakness they will go in there and try to bite the nominee on the leg as well. that's where all this talk about russia's efforts to influence the election comes in. so you have got a lot of democrats and some republicans, again mccain and graham especially talking about the russian efforts to influence the election. calling for a long extended investigation of that. then when they tie, rex tiller on, he said he made deals with vladimir putin. he was awarded the order of friendship in 2014. that's where democrats can see the opportunity, this is the guy we'll go after. stuart: i think all four of the people we mentioned get in. >> i think you are right on three of them. i'm not sure about tillerson. there is always the possibility this will be a trial balloon. we are getting a lot of reaction. i think tillers

wife of richard devoss, about the couple involved in republican politics for a long time in michigan. donald trump has said to grass-roots parents that he would "end common core," yet betsy devos, all she was active in education policy and was on the wrong side of that in michigan, not merely voicing words of support for the common core regime, but backing it with their money, so of course, like many supporters of comic or who -- like many erstwhile supporters of common core who have changed their mind, she says she is against it but will have to prove to parents that it is more than the convenience. host: if you want to read one of the most recent articles by michelle malkin, looking back at the election, but also, the eight years of the obama presidency, this get to your calls and comments with our guest michelle malkin, her work available online at the michellemalkin.com. host: go ahead. from youngstown ohio, democrats line. caller: i really hope that trump can do a good job based on his ability to manipulate and then all the other things that he does. i do not trust a person that can't admit their mistakes. he is the epitome of capitalist republican white male, and i