Choked. A preview of tomorrows trump romney meeting. There are some things you just cant imagine happening in your life. This is one of them. All in starts right now. He choked. Good evening from new york. Im Steve Kornacki in for chris hayes tonight. Donald trump making three major picks for his National Security team. The head of the cia trump tapping representative mike pompeo, a kansas republican who serves on the house intelligence committee. Former army officer who supports the socalled enhanced interrogation techniques and opposing closing guantanamo bay. Best known for his aggressive questioning during the benghazi hearings of Hillary Clinton, accusing her of failing to act when american lives were on the line. Come payo has to be confirmed by the senate if hes going to take over the cia. On the other side theres no confirmation necessary when it comes to trumps pick for National Security adviser, and that would be retired army general and trump loyalist michael flynn. Hes the
Good morning. Im al sharpton. For americans worried about how donald trump will govern, now we know the answer. Despite outreach to Establishment Republicans like mitt romney, trump has shown his core values, especially with his pick for attorney general, senator Jeff Sessions. Lets review his team. Trumps top strategist will be steve bannon, former head of breitbart. It is a site that has been called, quote, a white ethno nationalist propaganda mill. His National Security adviser will be general michael flynn, a man who says islam is a cancer. Islam is a political ideology. It is a political ideology. It hides behind this notion of it being a religion. It is like cancer. Ive gone through cancer in my own life. It is like cancer. And it is like a malignant cancer, though, in this case. It has metastasized. And sessions as attorney general. A pick that threatens all the work done by eric holder and loretta lynch. Sessions is against softening mandatory sentences, he backed trumps muslim
Pelley this is our western edition. Dylann roof showed no mercy when he shot nine African Americans to death in 2015 as they prayed in a Historic Black Church in charleston, south carolina. Today, a jury showed no mercy when they sentenced him to die. Mark strassmann is at the federal courthouse. Il reporter dylann roofs jury deliberated for two hours. They agreed unanimously he deserved to die for the racist rampage that killed nine black oorishioners in june of 2015. As the verdict was read, roof stood, eyes down, fidgetting with papers on the defense table. This was a racebased massacre, thats what jay stchardson the assistant u. S. Attorney told roofs journey this morning. He called roof an unrepentant racist who planned his attack for six months, bought the glock. 45, target practiced in his backyard, and entered the Mother Emanuel Church to slaughter innocent bible studiers. Roof then left the Church Holding the murder weapon before sis arrest and confession to f. B. I. Agents th
U. S. Senator, and u. S. Intelligence officials testify on russian hacking and interfered in the election, and james comey will testify publicly as will the heads of the cia and the nsa, the National Security agency. Then, the confirmation hearing for required general, john kelly, as secretary of homeland security, and he over sees some of trumps controversial promises, and tonight president obama bids farewell to the nation and ditches white house tradition and instead delivers his speech from his adopted hometown of chicago, recovering all the angles as the very busy day here in washington, d. C. Unfolds. Our correspondents are fanned out across washington to break it all down for you. Lets begin with the confirmation hearing for Jeff Sessions scheduled to stop at the bottom of the hour, so Phil Mattingly is up on capitol hill for what promises to be a rather contentious start to the process. Phil, set the scene. Reporter you can look at the witness list to understand how surreal thi
Direct campaign to interfere in our election process. Dni head James Clapper making it Crystal Clear at a congressional hearing yesterday that all 17 u. S. Intelligence agencies believed russia meddles with the u. S. Election. I do think that public trust and confidence in the Intelligence Community is crucial. And incorrectly calling out trump for his repeated attempts to undermine his conclusion. But i think theres a difference between skepticism and discouragement. But trump continues to strike a tone tweeted it was supposedly hacked by russia. How and why are they so sure about hacking. What is going on . And retired general Martin Dempsey breaking his rule not to comment on politics tweeting intelligence is hard thankless work. Fortunately we have dedicated patriotic and courageous men and women on the job. Thanks. Grow up donald. Grow up. Calling trumps comments dangerous. For a president not to have confidence in to not be prepared to listen to the agencies is mindless. He tappe