Being scrutinized for their views on race, religion and russia. He was the first senator to endorse donald trump. Congratulations to my colleague and good friend Jeff Sessions. Great man. Who is going to make an extraordinary attorney general. The whole thing is terrifying. Mr. Sessions is throwback to a shameful era. He was not good enough to be a federal judge. A disgrace to the justice department. How, then, is he good enough to be attorney general. He is one of the stall wart senators. Hes also been a loyal ally to donald trump. Crime is rising, and the president , he blames the police. For too long, weve been blind to the way past injusts continue to shape the present. We must restore law and order. Jeff sessions is such an amazing man. Donald trump nominated three people to major posts today, and tonight he tweeted that hes working all weekend in choosing the great men and women who will be helping to make America Great again. The three picks are Lieutenant General mike flynn for
He interested in the idea of having him on board as well. Meantime, tonight, president obama is attending the apex summit in lima, peru, meeting with heads of states for the bilateral talks, many wondering what will be ahead as president elect, donald trump, takes over the reigns. He told the leaders not to assume the worst about the president elect. He told them, he does not anticipate major changes in poli policy. Here he is. Looking forward to the opportunity to meet with president shi. Over the past three and a half years, we have met nine times. The frequency of our engagement enabled us to talk about sheer challenges and manage differences between our countries effectively. We collaborated on key global challenges from supporting Global Growth to presenting iran to get a Nuclear Weapon and ending ebola in west africa. We demonstrated what is possible when our two countries work together. Meantime, barack obama and shing meeting tonight in peru. Lets bring in andrew stephens. He j
Promising a new dawn. That wasnt the only sign republicans were falling in line. This is the scene before he was nominated today. Those are make America Great again hats on every chair. House majority whip Steve Scalise was so excited about his new swag that he proudly waited around for the cameras. While House Republicans appear organized, unified to carry out the agenda of the man who successfully executed a takeover of their party or perhaps their own agenda preexisting him, theres one big problem, the man whose agenda they are going to be working hand in glove with, a man with exactly zero experience in government for first time in the history of the republic appears to be botching the job of building the team a president needs to actually run the country. After he unceremoniously dumped Chris Christie as the head of his Transition Team, he turned to mike pence where pence or someone on his team was required by law to sign a document to work with the white house on the transition a
Great man. Who is going to make an extraordinary attorney general. The whole thing is terrifying. Mr. Sessions is throwback to a shameful era. He was not good enough to be a federal judge. A disgrace to the justice department. How, then, is he good enough to be attorney general. He is one of the stall wart senators. Hes also been a loyal ally to donald trump. Crime is rising, and the president , he blames the police. For too long, weve been blind to the way past injusts continue to shape the present. We must restore law and order. Jeff sessions is such an amazing man. Donald trump nominated three people to major posts today, and tonight he tweeted that hes working all weekend in choosing the great men and women who will be helping to make America Great again. The three picks are Lieutenant General mike flynn for National Security and mike pompeo for cia and Jeff Sessions for attorney general. While every other cabinet position may simply reflect the president s views, the attorney gene
This is hugely important. The president will make an impact will have an impact on everything from the economy to the environment. Well break that down for you. Ken, this is news of james comeys testimony. Ive got that tweet word stuck in my head. We knew he would testify after memorial day. What does this mean, that hes been cleared for takeoff, that donald trump did and him to back off the investigation . My source isnt going that far. But i did speak to a course that said he said whether it was okay for james comey to testify. There was some speculation that mueller wouldnt want him to testify at all to the extent that hes had this conversation with donald trump and trump has asked him to drop the investigation into michael flynn. There is some speculation who believe that could be obstruction of justice if mueller was investigating that, he may not have wanted comey to talk about that. Now we are made to believe he has cleared comey to talk. We dont know what he cleared him to say