Putting out a statement this morning saying in part that he has serious concerns about tillerson. And hes not alone there. But tillerson also picked up big endorsements from the likes of former secretaries of state Condoleezza Rice and james baker. This is the confirmation battle to watch, i can promise you, so stay tuned there. Also new in transition this morning the president elect has tapped former governor rick perry to head up the Energy Department. The same rick perry who said he wants to get rid of that department, even though sometimes he forgets which department hes talking about. Well get more on that in a second. And then there is this. Rapper kanye west appeared in trump tower today with none other than the president elect himself. The musician and husband of Kim Kardashian of course isnt up for a cabinet post as far as we know. Phil mattingly live at trump tower in new york. Keep a straight face. Quite a morning already. Rex tillerson, kanye west, insert your favorite rap
Congressional correspondence mike emmanuel, live capitol hill. Kem drats already speaking out on the hill today. Is it safe to say theyre coming out swinging or watching paul ryan walk in, by the way. No question about it. Its funny, the optics here. You have a lot of family members up here, a lot of people posing for photos and looking around capitol him. You have Senate Democratic leaders firing warning shots. You have Vice President biden swearing in new members of the senate, this hour. And on the senate floor, a short time ago, you have the new Senate Democratic leader taking aim at the president elect launching this attack on the president elects basically like of using social media. America cannot afford a twitter presidency. We have real challenges and we have real needs to get things done. And Many Americans are afraid, mr. President elect, that instead of rolling up your sleeves and forging serious policies, for you twitter suffices. Behind the skeerns on capitol hill, democr
Never had the ability to do so because of my courageous actions. I voted as a republican for years and years and years. But this isnt political for me. This is personal. Dana we have fox team coverage. Mike emanuel is on capitol hill with the latest on senator franken, but we begin with Jonathan Hunt in birmingham, alabama. Reporter lee koerman went on the nbc today show outlining her allegations first reported by the washington post. Allegations that roy moore molested her when she was in her early teens. He tried to get me to touch him as well, and at that point i pulled back and said that i was not comfortable and i got dressed and he took me home. But i was a 14yearold child trying to play in an adults world. He was 32 years old. Reporter moore denies all the allegations against him and is focusing his campaign on painting his democratic opponent as a liberal. This morning in response to the recent death of a Border Patrol agent in texas, moore tweeted doug jones and the senate equ
Boothe, capri cafaro and joining us on the couch, alex conan, former Communications Director for marco rubio. A lot of communicating going on in washington. Its not very friendly communicating, im afraid. Maybe you can give them advice. Im from minnesota. Minnesota nice. Yeah, that might work in a nice unless youre amy klobuchar. Not nice. Here we go. President trump ordering all u. S. Intelligence agencies including cia, fbi and dni to quickly cooperate with attorney general barrs investigation into the launch of the russia probe and the surveillance of the russia campaign. Judiciary chairman Lindsey Graham telling fox and friends that this is part of a larger review of those investigating his campaign were politically motivated. Barr will look at it from a criminal point of view. Horowitz will tell us how the department of justice and the fbi behaved. Im going to make sure it never happens again. I want to make sure that we have fisa laws that can detect when somebody is giving the c
Precedent that will echo well into the future. Dana Speaker Pelosi answered with this. Our founders when theyre with the constitution they suspected there would be a rogue president. I dont think they suspected we would have a rogue president and a rogue leader in the senate at the same time. Dana we have john brothel who is standing by with his thoughts but lets begin with chief Congressional Correspondent mike emanuel to catch us up on the news. Good afternoon. And they are where the minority in the senate, speaker nancy pelosi. They are meeting to try to see if they can get some of what they want in a senate trial. Pelosi and schumer met today to talk about their strategy and he also made this appeal on the senate floor. We want a fair trial. Message from leader mcconnell at the moment is that he has no intention of conducting a fair trial, no intention of acting impartially, no intention of getting the facts. Republicans have pounced today after pelosi decided to hold onto the arti