Regret recommending its elimination. When all in starts right now. Good evening from washington, d. C. , im chris hayes. In 16 hours, around noon tomorrow just a few miles from here donald trump will be sworn in as the president of the United States of america. Just hours after having received a briefing that only 11 other americans have ever gotten on how to launch a Nuclear Weapon and potentially start a nuclear war. This was the scene tonight, trump at the inauguration concert at the Lincoln Memorial where he took in performances from among others Lee Greenwood, toby keith, three doors down and an act known as the piano guys who did a cover of a one direction song on an open piano then performed a strong for the trump faithful called its gonna be okay. When all the singing was over, it was the president elects turn to address his supporters. Im the messenger. Im just the messenger. And we were tired. And i love you. Believe me, i love you. We all got tired of seeing what was happeni
And donald trump publicly urged russia to find Hillary Clintons missing emails. All of this was happening at the same time. This morning no direct response from the white house to cnns reporting. The kremlin and President Trump are dismissing these reports as fake news. Our Barbara Starr begins our coverage at the pentagon. Good morning. Reporter good morning, john and poppy. No surprise, another tweet from President Trump, a short time ago. He says, this russian connection nonsense is merely an attempt to cover up the many mistakes made in Hillary Clintons losing campaign. What that may have to do with whats at hand here is unclear to many. This press conference may give an indication of how much Congressional Democrats and republicans are going to pursue a congressional investigation into all of this. Cnn reporting overnight in fact multiple officials, associated with multiple Government Agencies telling cnn that trump aides had repeated contacts with russian officials and russian pe
Mold of justice antonin scalia. Gorsuch said this in his acceptance remarks. Standing here in a house of history and acutely aware of my own imperfections i pledge if im confirmed i will do all my powers permit to be a faithful servant of the constitutional laws of this great country. Bill senator john cornyn at the white house serving on the Senate Judiciary committee what oversees the hearing for neil gorsuch. It was a surprise. They kept it secret. How did the president arrive at this decision . Good morning to you. A long, deliberative process to get to the announcement last night. Nine months ago candidate donald trump listed names of Supreme Court justices and expanded it to 21. He whittled that list down to six finalists and interviewed four. During the transition he interviewed neil gorsuch at trump tower he knew he had his man and said the judge is qualified to sit on the Supreme Court. I studied every aspect of his life. He could have had any job at any law firm for any amoun
Here. After grilling trumps treasury nominee today. Im pretty surprised, mr. Mnuchin, im surprised you dont know these things. And rick perry learns about his government. After being briefed on so many of the vital functions of the department of energy i regret recommending its elimination. When all in starts right now. Good evening from washington, d. C. , im chris hayes. In 16 hours, around noon tomorrow just a few miles from here donald trump will be sworn in as the president of the United States of america. Just hours after having received a briefing that only 11 other americans have ever gotten on how to launch a Nuclear Weapon and potentially start a nuclear war. This was the scene tonight, trump at the inauguration concert at the Lincoln Memorial where he took in performances from among others Lee Greenwood, toby keith, three doors down and an act known as the piano guys who did a cover of a one direction song on an open piano then performed a strong for the trump faithful calle
Have the votes to take a significant step on tax reform. President trump was just out here giving House Republicans a pep talk. A source of the room tells fox that the president said i love you, gordon vote. The president praised both Speaker Paul Ryan and chairman kevin brady, but the new york republicans are worried about the impact of scaling back that state and local Tax Deduction. I cannot allow the people of new york and the people of my district come become Collateral Damage in a federal tax reform bill. We want to kickstart our economy, create jobs, we want to see people take home more money because they spend it better than the government spends their money, but not on the back of our constituents. Earlier the house Speaker Paul Ryan responded to that criticism. We actually added back at 10,000 property Tax Deduction in addition to the tax cuts that are already in the bill that everybody gets. Weve run numbers on these districts and shown that taxpayers in those districts, in