richmond, of the black caucus. when they come to testify, it s the same day donald trump is going to be giving his press conference. today is a wash. jeff sessions has gotten out of the biggest day of his hearing basically unscathed. it was a pretty friendly affair. even dick blumenthal, the senator from connecticut, who pretty sharp and smart attorney, was relatively light on him. you saw as we discussed last week, the collegiality of the senate because jeff sessions got out of the day basically unharmed. steve, if we had a score card on all of trump s cabinet selections, which one, right now, would you go ahead and check off sessions looking like he is going to get through and maybe it sounds like tillerson is probably even, enter what we heard from what they said, he is going to get through. who are you looking at going keep in mind every time you try to handicap these
confirmation hearings this week for eight of trump s cabinet selections. coming as democrats in the senate plan what they are calling a talk-a-thon tonight where they will protest republican plans to repeal the affordable care act. also known as obamacare. in south carolina, meanwhile, a federal judge could begin deciding tomorrow whether charleston church shooter dylan roof will face the death penalty. roof rested his defense today without calling any witnesses or presenting any evidence to suede the jury. this is the same jury that convicted him last month of federal hate crimes in other charges in connection with the deaths of nine people at a black church in june of 2015. heavy rain and melting snow are leading to flooding in other major problems in california and nevada today. the storms are also causing rivers to rise. flooding roads and knocking down trees and damaging homes. forecasters say more rain is expected in the days ahead. and turning back now to
does he denigrate the intelligence community? does he denigrate people who have given 30 years of service to government as he did yesterday? or does he flip-flop as he did today and say, no, not really true. i respect intelligence. who comes out in front of the cameras? behind the cameras i suspect he ll be perfectly respectable. we ll have to wait till tomorrow afternoon, that briefing taking place in new york city over a trump tower. everyone stand by. we re getting some new information on some of his cabinet selections that may be facing some serious problems. we ll be right back. safelite, w busy your life can be. mom: oh no. tech: this mom didn t have time to worry about a cracked windshield. so she scheduled at safelite.com and with safelite s exclusive on my way text she knew exactly when i d be there, so she didn t miss a single shot. i replaced her windshield giving her more time for what matters most. tech: how d ya do? player: we won! tech: nice! that s another safelite
determined to do is to keep faith with the american people who have voted in this past historic election both in the presidential election and in elections here in the congress of the united states to give us the majorities and to give us the control of the white house to make good on that promise. the president elect s advisor said yesterday on tv with replacement of obamacare that nobody has insurance now under obamacare will go without it. is that also your prior to? let me just say, we have on the floor of the senate now the obamacare repeal resolution. the priorities between now and january 20th are hearings on cabinet members. we hope the minority will treat president elect trump s cabinet selections in the same way that
the faith of the american people who voted in the presidential election and in elections here in the congress of the united states, to give us the majority and to give us control of the white house to make good on that promise. the president-elect [inaudible] no one with obama care will go without it. let me just say we have on the floor of the senate the obamacare appeal resolution. and the prioritieses between now and january 20th are hearings on cabinet member and we hope the minority will treat president-elect trump s cabinet selections and in the same way we treated the president obama