Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017
The Daily
The New York Times
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🗓️ 7 February 2017
⏱️ 19 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | From the New York Times, this is the Daily, I'm Michael Barbour. |
| 0:08.0 | Today, Betsy DeVos, |
| 0:11.0 | how the president's pick for Secretary of Education |
| 0:14.0 | came to be the most controversial appointment |
| 0:17.0 | in an already controversial cabinet. |
| 0:19.0 | The meaning behind the four hardback chairs |
| 0:22.0 | that President Trump has installed in the Oval Office |
| 0:25.0 | and what they tell us about his unconventional management style. |
| 0:29.0 | And the evolving legal future of the now frozen immigration ban. |
| 0:34.0 | It's Tuesday, February 7. |
| 0:44.0 | I rise this morning to speak directly to my friends on the other side of the aisle. |
| 0:49.0 | Sometime around noon on Monday, |
| 0:52.0 | Senator Chuck Schumer took the Senate floor. |
| 0:55.0 | I understand my Republican colleagues will go along with the president 90% of the time. |
| 1:00.0 | And made an appeal to his Republican colleagues. |
| 1:02.0 | But there are certain issues that are too important, |
| 1:05.0 | that demand putting country above party. |
| 1:09.0 | To take a hard look at President Trump's incoming cabinet. |
| 1:12.0 | There are so many billionaires with so many conflicts of interest |
| 1:15.0 | and so little expertise in the issues they'd oversee. |
| 1:20.0 | Democrats have found plenty of objections to the cabinet nominations so far. |
| 1:24.0 | They've approved just six of the 22. |
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