With lawrence odonnell. Good evening. We have an open invitation to Jeff Sessions on the program. He has not made it yet, but tonight we do have senator al franken whose question created this gigantic Jeff Sessions controversy. Is it pur perjury . Well roll the tape of what was said in the house Judiciary Committee. They had a fight. The chairman arguing about what was actually said in the video where al franken asks that question. As if we dont have a record of it, as if we cant all check it. In the hearing senator franken said to the chairman, just check the video. Of course, they dont have video of the hearings, but we have video here. We will complete the Judiciary Committee meeting here tonight with al franken. Earning your sete pension. Yes. Well done, by friend. Tonight, as i say, we will ask senator al franken in attorney general Jeff Sessions perjured himself at a congressional hearing. The new Trump Health Care bill ran into fierce resistance in its first day on capitol hill,
At Temple University in philadelphia. Jason carroll is in denver just ahead of the trump appearance. Jeff, talk a little bit about the message, the importance of these two states, pennsylvania and ohio. Reporter well, wolf, now the march to the election day is on here. 102 days exactly from today. What the Clinton Campaign is trying to do is expound on their themes of the convention. We saw so many signs that said stronger together. Shes hoping that she and tim kaine are indeed stronger together but the reality is that the scripting that weve seen is going to be replaced by the political reality here, that shes locked in a very tight race with donald trump. Her campaign, along with tim kaine, is focusing on pennsylvania and ohio. 20 electoral votes here in pennsylvania, 18 electoral votes in ohio, they are going to be talking about the economy as they make their way across the bus here in philadelphia on to harrisburg and finally on to ohio. And really drawing a contrast with donald tr
Obama for a minute. The definition of self depos deprecating humor. Mocking the noble peace price, and in search for the recent nobel prize winner, and we could have taken this it was rigged. It was rigged. We should have won the prize for nuclear bob dylan wins the nobel prize for literature, and the Noble Committee cannot find bob dylan, and they have left emails and called, and he is notorious hard to reach. Like bill murray. Its funny, because when meacham got his pulitzer, he was right there. Stop it meacham will bring up pictures of saddam husseins palace. And then the polls are a toss up situation, in florida a quinnipiac poll puts donald trump within the margin of error, and ohio, the race is tied for trump and clinton at 45 each but with clinton on an upswing, and ohio, trump in the lead, 48 to 44 , and then 47 to 41 in pennsylvania, and then a onepoint toss up for North Carolinas votes, and then nevada has the race tied, and while in colorado clinton has taken a sevenpoint le
The determination and work towards a very worthy goal. Plus, the administration plans a new travel ban soon, and just today new steps to ramp up deportations and other immigration enforcement. People come in that are going to love the country. Not people that are going to harm the country, and i think a lot of people agree with me on that. And its day one on the job for the president S New National security advisor. I look forward to joining the National Security team and doing everything i can to advance and protect the interests of the American People. The atlantics molly ball, cnn jeff zellaney and Molly Hemingway of the federalist. Were standing by for scott pruitt to address the employees at the Environmental Protection agency. Well take you there live when he starts to speak. Meanwhile, todays other top stories, the Jewish Community Center Association says 48 senators in 26 states and one province received just shy of 60 bomb threats last month. You might recall President Trump g
A criminal investigation. Nancy pelosi flatout accusing sessions of lying under oath during his confirmation hearings. Sessions told senators he had no communications with russia when asked about possible Trump Campaign contacts with the kremlin. The Justice Department now confirm thats sessions met twice with the Russian Ambassador to the United States last year. Sessions insisting today that he was honest and correct during the hearing as he, quote, understood it at the time. Shortly before sessions recusal, President Trump declared he has perfect confidence in his attorney general. This distracting from the president s visit to an aircraft airier. A senior official suggests the white house was blindsided by this new twist first learning of the contact when the Washington Post wrote the story overnight. Well get the reaction from adam kin singer. Our guests and correspondents standing by. First, lets go to our justice correspondent pamela brown with the attorney generals recusal and