Watch Jake Tapper Press A Trump Adviser On Trump's Hypocritical Appointments

Tapper: “You're Not Draining The Swamp. You're Just Putting A Whole Bunch Of Critters In It”

From the November 30 edition of CNN's The Lead with Jake Tapper

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JAKE TAPPER (HOST): Now, as I know you know, one of the companies highlighted in that ad is Goldman Sachs. You see Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein shaking hands with Hillary Clinton at the end. Now the president-elect is installing a former Goldman banker as his Treasury Secretary. He's also reportedly considering Goldman president Gary Cohn to run the Office of Management and Budget. I don't need to tell you he attacked Ted Cruz's wife and Hillary Clinton for ties to Goldman Sachs. What do you say to those critics who say that the appointment of Steve Mnuchin is putting the same people who he accused of robbing the working class in charge of the Treasury Department?

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TAPPER: Goldman Sachs was cast by your campaign as the bad guy, the people who robbed the middle class, and now you are putting a lot of these same types of people, former Goldman Sachs executive, a turn-around specialist, an investment banker, you are putting them in charge of the economy. What is your message? Forget spinning or messages or whatever to me. What's your message to a person out there on the street who voted for Mr. Trump thinking, you know, he understands that Goldman Sachs is a bad guy. What's your message to him when they say, hey, what are you doing? You're putting the same characters -- you're not draining the swamp. You're just putting a whole bunch of critters in it. 

JASON MILLER:  Jake I couldn't disagree more. What we're going to tell them is the same folks that helped craft the president-elect's tax plan have taken that message of economic populism. The same people who helped craft the president-elect's trade plan, as far as we start putting together deals that actually help American workers. The exact same people who helped to put together these plans for the president-elect are the people that he is now putting in to implement them. And so this is the exact same message that president-elect Trump was talking about on the campaign trail and now we're actually going to go get it accomplished in Washington. 

Previously

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