NBC MEET THE PRESS
11/17/24
10:44 AM
KRISTEN WELKER: Eugene, what about the tension between: yes, you have the ethical questions, but then also the questions about whether these folks, some of them, are- actually have the right experience for the roles that they're being picked for?
EUGENE DANIELS: Yeah. To Jen's point: if Democrats can convince enough senators, Republican senators, on the issues and the policy prescriptions and whether or not these people have the management experience, that's probably a better lane for them to try to do this in. Right? Because you -- you are not going to see them -- we have seen from Republicans for a long time in the Senate and the House, is that you know, a lot of the tabloidy stuff doesn't bother them, right? And that has been key as Trump has run the Republican Party. So Democrats can do that. Talk to them behind closed doors and they have- they can do a pressure campaign, right? That’s a question we’ve been asking a lot of both House and Senate Democrats. Are you guys going to work on a pressure campaign, publicly…
WELKER: Ooooooh.
DANIELS: …to convince some of these senators to do the thing that they're saying behind closed doors that they already want to do?
JEN PSAKI: And need to pick one. This is the hardest thing for Democrats.
DANIELS: Exactly. We have to pick- we can't do all of them.
AMNA NAWAZ: And the public-private thing is important too, because the vote to make Senator Thume Majority Leader was a private vote. They will have to publicly defend votes for the nominees.
