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Robert Reich OWNS Kayleigh McEnany in a HEATED Debate over Trump's Horrible Cabinet Picks

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Published on Dec 8, 2016

CNN Panel with Kayleigh McEnany and former Labor Secretary Robert Reich discussing Trump's ridiculous pick for Labor Secretary Andrew Puzder. This former fast food exec is against labor laws and in fact has broken them on several occasions. He is also the originator of the Carl Jr commercials that feature women having virtual sex with fast food items. They also discuss Trump laughably staying on as an executive producer of the Celebrity Apprentice. Listen closely as Kayleigh offers Reich a back to back CANNED ANSWER,

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English (Automatic Captions) 0:00from the labor secretary uh rubber she's 0:09joining us as well 0:10Secretary Rice personal what do you make 0:12a if Donald Trump wanting to planning on 0:15continuing to be an executive producer 0:16of celebrity apprentice while president 0:18united states and also his pic of Andrew 0:21poster for up for labor secretary job 0:23you know very well well first wallet 0:25Anderson here's a man Donald Trump 0:29campaigned as if he was going to be the 0:32voice of average working people he said 0:34over and over again that he was going to 0:37represent the silenced worker of america 0:42actually what has happened he's filled 0:45his administration with nominees who our 0:48millionaires multimillionaires and 0:50billionaires and appointed the most 0:51anti-worker Secretary of Labor on in 0:55modern history i have racked my brain 0:57today to try to find any modern labor 1:01secretary who was so obviously and 1:04adamantly against things such as the 1:07minimum wage or the time and half 1:11overtime hours the labor laws basic 1:14labor laws basic labor regulations and 1:16there's nobody at that there was a 1:18fellow that Ronald Reagan briefly 1:21appointed named ray Donovan who got in 1:24trouble with the law had some legal 1:25problems i was very anti-labor but is 1:28nothing compared to this up this this 1:31nominee and Donald Trump seems basically 1:35to be unphased by the fact that he's 1:37filling all of these cabinet applied 1:39positions with people who dislike the 1:42very purpose of the department they are 1:44in a secretary of education who hates 1:46public education and they say an 1:48attorney general who is against the 1:50Voting Rights Act a you know a housing 1:53and urban development secretary who is 1:56against the fair housing laws i mean at 1:58that what are we doing here that this is 2:00not just right wing this is almost 2:02nihilistic and does it make sense his 2:07his mean you raise a lot of concerns 2:10about his tweeting last night 2:12does it concern you 2:13who the potential conflict of interest 2:15on his business side and this whole 2:17notion of I mean the latest example 2:19being remaining executive producer on 2:22Celebrity Apprentice well I think the 2:25biggest problem with all these conflicts 2:26of interest is not only that they might 2:28actually change his mind on particular 2:31policies that have a bearing upon the 2:34public interest or at least warp his 2:36perspective but they also reduced public 2:38confidence in the office of the 2:41presidency and that I think is the core 2:43issue here he doesn't care about public 2:46confidence in the office of the 2:47presidency he cares mostly at least as 2:50he's shown himself he cares about 2:52himself about his power about his 2:55dominance about humiliating others and 2:57maintaining maintaining that dominance 2:59about the office of the presidency is a 3:02sacred trust and reducing public 3:05confidence in that office making that 3:08office almost a vulgar a kind of a 3:11vulgar and demeaning position is a 3:14long-term costs potentially to this 3:17country in this society and frankly I 3:19don't think Donald from cares 3:21Kelly I mean is this demeaning of the 3:23office of President United States to be 3:25exact reserve a TV show 3:26no not at all because he's not an 3:28executive producer / say making 3:30decisions he's receiving a paycheck 3:31because he was integral to the creation 3:33of a Chevy is getting an executive 3:35producer credit which is what he's 3:36always he's getting the credit he's 3:38getting a paycheck he's not making 3:39decisions he's going to have no role and 3:41what the apprentice looks like and what 3:42the final product looks like look when 3:44Secretary Clinton came in to be 3:47confirmed there was a lot of worries 3:48about the Clinton Foundation can she 3:49handle it 3:50she promised there would be a line 3:51between the clinton foundation in 3:53between her work as Secretary of State 3:54she blurred that line she couldn't 3:56handle the job 3:57Donald Trump maybe the person who comes 3:58in who can handle the fact that yes he 4:01might still have ownership and here or 4:02there but he's not making the managerial 4:04day-to-day decisions in his business if 4:06he's the one who can handle that 4:08let's give him the same chance that we 4:09gave to Secretary Clinton and I just 4:11want to quickly say 22 Secretary Rice I 4:13think that was really unfair the way you 4:15characterize the cabinet picks on you 4:17know jeff Sessions is a great guy he's 4:19not against the voting rights activities 4:20for civil rights and i think the pic 4:22today mr. partner is a guy who is 4:24employees have said he cares about the 4:25cashier the same way care 4:27about the business owners I think it's 4:28really unfair to characterize them in 4:30that way just because he believes in the 4:31state's raising the minimum ways rather 4:33than the federal minimum wage he buys 4:34into that philosophy the conservative 4:36philosophy when you raise the minimum 4:37wage you hemorrhage jobs just because 4:39he's conservative it doesn't mean he's 4:40anti-worker direction i'm not saying 4:42he's anti-worker because he's 4:43conservative I'm saying these 4:44anti-worker because he's a worker his 4:46entire you know the Department of Labor 4:48came into his restaurants and found that 4:50half of his restaurants at wage and hour 4:53violations that violated the laws of the 4:55United States you think that's 4:57pro-worker I think it's pro-worker that 4:59he cares about the cashier the same way 5:01as he cares about the business owner 5:02people have come out and said that this 5:04man is someone who has treated me fairly 5:06that I used to wait you think it's you 5:08think it's pro-worker to have a salary 5:10every year that is that his weekly 5:13paycheck his weekly paycheck equals the 5:15average yearly paycheck of his workers 5:18and he's against the animal agent is 5:20nice that you think that is 5:21you think that is pro-worker I'm sorry 5:23about everything that now you're making 5:25a clases socialism argument and I don't 5:26buy into socialism i believe and 5:28democracy i believe in capitalism I 5:30believe that just because someone at the 5:32top is making a lot of money that 5:34doesn't mean we should demonize them for 5:35that reason why should i why should they 5:37be Secretary of Labor when they are in 5:39charge of enforcing the labor laws and 5:41they have a record of not even being the 5:43labor laws he should be Secretary of 5:45Labor because he believes in lessening 5:47regulation he believes in lowering taxes 5:49he believes and the fill in the 5:50philosophy that is going to make small 5:52business thrive that is going to make it 5:53work at the top and his best going to 5:55trickle down to the employees within 5:56that business he buys into a blender I 5:58mean that weird when i was in the 5:59nineteen Charlotte one when did we last 6:01have a secretary of labor who had the 6:04kind of non-labor no working person 6:07experience and has been an employer who 6:10has violated the labor laws i'm sorry i 6:12don't remember maybe you have a better 6:14memory when is the last time we had a 6:16secretary of labor who actually believes 6:17in conservative philosophy that is 6:19better for the worker in the long run we 6:20can adhere to this socialist idea that 6:22you want apparently viewers to adhere to 6:24this idea that's demonize the people at 6:26the top that's not gonna make anyone 6:28better off at the end and the end the 6:29policies of Donald Trump in the policies 6:31that his pic supports are going to make 6:33life better for the average worker 6:35well we're gonna find one in the 1980s 6:37and worked in the nineteen eighties it's 6:38going to work again 6:39it did not work in the 1980s what wages 6:42wages were flaps in the nineteen 6:44eighties actually the median wage 6:46started to flatten and decline in the 6:48nineteen eighties and that was because 6:49of it we had a president who believe in 6:51supply side trickle down economics and 6:53nothing trickle down and it worked 6:55because we had revenue double by the way 6:57we had the greatest gdp growth that 7:00we've seen in a very long time the 7:01greatest post-recession boom after World 7:04War Two that we've ever had many nations 7:05is nothing work nothing right down to 7:08typical workers we are we were going to 7:11get we're gonna jump in the middle of 7:12this Donald Trump is now being 7:14introduced