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Trump’s UN Ambassador and EPA Picks Face Hearings
Ana Marie Cox, senior political correspondent for MTV News, founder of the blog Wonkette, and contributor to The New York Times Magazine, discusses the confirmation hearings of President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for UN ambassador, Nikki Haley, Environmental Protection Agency administrator, Scott Pruitt, Commerce Secretary, Wilbur Ross, and head of the Department of Health and Human Services, Tom Price.