Despite the poll numbers, still being under federal investigation, president obama officially endorsed Hillary Clinton today. Even as Bernie Sanders continues to say he will not quit. The president met with sanders at the white house earlier and released a short video playing off Clintons Campaign slogan, saying hes with her. We have fox team coverage. Mike emanuel has all the details of sanders busy day in d. C. But we begin with chief washington correspondent james rosen at the white house tonight. The scrutiny over the president s endorsement amid a federal probe of state department emails. Good evening in the grand sweep of american history. You could say that todays big awe nounsment by president obama represents a passing of the torch to a previous generation. Eight years after they battled for the democratic nomination in a few hours before she clinched it this time around, president obama endorsed Hillary Clinton. In a threeminute video recorded tuesday and released today on tw
Anything like that . Im not a bad person. Why would he attack me . Good morning, everyone. Lets get right to it. Im tamron hall coming to you live from the msnbc headquarters. Breaking news right now, it is now official. President elect donald trump announcing his picks for three key jobs in his administration. According to a press release just out in the last hour, senator Jeff Sessions of alabama the first senator to endorse trump during the campaign has now been selected for the job of attorney general. Congressman mike pompeo of campus for a cia director and Lieutenant General mike flynn as National Security advisor. Amid breaking news, Vice President elect pence arrived at trump tower in the past hour. Weve got a great number of men and women and great qualifications that have come forward to serve this new administration and im just humbled to be a part of it. Our agency teams have begun to arrive at agencies in washington, dc this morning, beginning with what were very confident
Brooks will join us live to talk about it. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Two days before donald trump is set to be briefed on cyber attacks, sources tell cnn his twitter attacks have intelligence officials on edge with one describing the relationship with trump as potentially hostile. Republicans have made their first move to repealing the health care act. President obama was warning them to let gop lawmakers go it alone as they seek to replace the law with what he calls trump care. Fellow reality tv star Omarosa Manigault trump has named Communications Director for the office of public liaison. During the campaign she said a Trump Victory would be the ultimate revenge and that every critic and detractor would have to, quote, bow down to president trump. And six people including the head of the naacp were arrested at a sitin protesting the nomination of senator Jeff Sessions of alabama to be the n
It is a day of dissent and a message aimed at President Trump. Demonstrations are unfolding across the country and the world. Women making a loud call for respect and equality. Its 1 00 eastern. Im Kristen Welker live in washington, d. C. On what has become a monumental day of activity. Im overlooking capitol hill right now where our correspondents are fanned out all across the Nations Capital as well as major cities across the country. Where massive marches are taking place as we speak. And i think we want to begin with Stephanie Gosk who is here in d. C. Weve been checking in with her all day long. Stephanie, theyre estimating there are about 500,000 people who are expected to participate. Youre there in a sea of people. Reporter im not surprised by that number. We had been talking about 200,000 earlier in the week. But its just such an enormous crowd. I know, obviously, from the ground level we dont have the best perspective on it. Al i can tell you from trying to walk through that
Have those votes and at the same Time High Court drama going down, the grilling of neil gorsuch starting again this hour after being pressed about the president s criticism of judges. When somebody criticizes the hone hone honesty or integrity of a j. I find that disheartening. Somebody said i should not criticize judges. Okay, i will criticize judges. Trumps former chairman, working for a russian billionaire and his job was to promote Vladimir Putin. Okay. Heres where things stand right now. Republicans have 237 members, and they need 216 of them to vote yes, and that means they can afford to have up to 21 republicans oppose it but not a single more. Right now nbc news has counted at least 27 republicans who said they would vote no or at least leaning that way, so the white house and Republican Leadership have 24 hours to turn at least six of those nos into a yes. Can they do it . We have the best team in the business to break it down for me this morning. Lets take you to kristin welk