General. Especially the failure to defend the civil rights, women and minorities and lgbt americans. He said i do not take lightly the decision to testify against a senate colleague. The immense powers of the attorney general with the deeply troubling views of the nominee is a call to conscious. The attorney general is responsible for ensuring the Fair Administration of justice and based on his record, i lack confidence that sessions can honor this duty. Also set to testify is representative john lewis. Sessions is winning new support from republicans like former secretary of state condoleezza rice. Rice is from alabama. She wrote a letter praising him as a friend and man, quote committed to justice as well as law and order. New questions surrounding the appointment of Donald Trumps soninlaw to the white house post. Democrats are asking the Justice Department and government ethics to review the appointment as Senior Advisor to the president. Kushner is resigning from all his other jobs
Michael flynn vacated that job, and its just that chain of events that well be talking about today. Its that chain of events and this story specifically that dominated the White House Briefing within the last hour here as part of the exchange with press secretary sean spicer. President obama warned president elect trump from hiring general mike flynn. Why did he not heed that warning . Its true that president obama made it known that he wasnt exactly a fan of general flynns. The question you have to ask yourself, really, is if president obama was truly concerned about general flynn, why didnt he suspend general flynns security clearance which they had approved just months earlier . How did they not do that besides not liking some of the comments he made . As we get to our correspondents as well, hallie, its been called a connard for the trump house to rely on their reasoning, why wasnt general flynns security clearance canceled . Do you know why . This is a line youll keep hearing over
Gorka is out. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Why did the president of the United States fire a former fbi director james comey. Thats the question thats the heart of the investigation being led by special counsel Robert Mueller. Whether the president himself committed criminal obstruction of citizens. Today we learned for the first time the president himself wrote down his reasons for firing comey in a letter he planned to send him on the day of the firing. A letter drafted with the help from white house aide be steven miller. That letter was never sent to comey he has frequently failed to restrict the president from his impulses found contents of this letter to be so problematic he convinced him not to send it. That letter is now reportedly in the hands of the special counsel Robert Muellerer. What i says, we dont know for sure. According to the wall street journal, they wanted him to state that he, donald trump, was not personally under investigation. The Administration
Respond now and please pass this on. I cant do, um, everybodys name, but i just want because theres so much conflict happening right now, i think its important for all americans to know that Something Like this, when it happens, it tends to pribring out the best in peo. Even some of my competitors and people i have raging arguments with on television, you think we hate each other, but we dont. So im going to thank you for your kindness, from folks like sean hannity who reached out to me to steve doocy and ken cuccinelli, harry hauk and bruce lavelle, to megyn kelly and joy reid and tamron hall, to all of you, thank you. To folks like mayor landrieu down in new orleans and cory booker in washington, wendy williams, thank you so much for the flowers from you and kevin. Theyre amazing, and from little kevin as well, thank you very much. Gloria borger and David Chalian and dana bash and kirsten powers, symone, angela, bakari, alice, fareed, jeff, allison gols, don gnash, thank you so much.
Tuesday. The president caught between hard liners and everybody else. We love the dreamers. We love everybody. This president is a president who loves people. Then new details about what russia did during the election and the revolving door of the white house. Go gorka is out. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Why did the president of the United States fire a former fbi director james comey. Thats the question thats the heart of the investigation being led by special counsel robert mueller. Whether the president himself committed criminal obstruction of citizens. Today we learned for the first time the president himself wrote down his reasons for firing comey in a letter he planned to send him on the day of the firing. A letter drafted with the help from white house aide be steven miller. That letter was never sent to comey he has frequently failed to restrict the president from his impulses found contents of this letter to be so problematic he convinced him not to send it. T