For energy secretary, an investment banker Steven Mnuchin delete treasury. Plus the Transition Team rounding up that cabinet choices today announcing former governor of georgia sonny purdue as the pick for agriculture secretary. Jenna in the meantime, capitol hill is buzzing, and the press roll along for the inauguration parade that will head down pennsylvania avenue. Our chief White House Correspondent john roberts speaking with the incoming press secretary and Vice President elect getting us all caught up and ready for tomorrow. What is happening today . Good afternoon to you appeared by the way, i will be on the flatbed for the parade tomorrow, looking forward to doing that again tomorrow like i did in 2012, an incredible Vantage Point to watch the incoming president greet the nation right after the inaugural address there at the west front of the capital. Sean spicer, incoming press secretary held his first on camera briefing today, lamenting the fact that he believes and the trump
Rocking the u. S. Navy. The feds accusing officers of partying with prostitutes and spending millions of your taxpayer dollars. Dozens of admirals caught up. And lonely and need buddies . A company is offering you fake friends that looks like theyre partying with you so you can get pictures to post online. Seriously . Lets get to it. They do not believe what the president said is true. The Top Republican and the top democrat on the House Intelligence Committee have formed a united front against President Trumps unsubstantiated claim that president obama tapped the phones at trump tower during the election. Devin nunes and adam schiff have said they see nothing to support the president s assertion. Dont have any evidence that that took place. I dont believe in the last week of time that the people we talked to, dont think there was an actual tap of trump tower. To date, i see no evidence supports the claim that President Trump made that his predecessor had wiretapped his and his associa
To change the subject back to Hillary Clinton. Russian partners. Cnn has exclusive video of trump meeting with a russian billionaire father and pop star son bwho were linked to don jr. S meeting with the russian lawyer. And now moscows insider out. The ambassador also seen as a spy is on his way home. His replacement played a key role in the russian invasion of ukraine. What does that mean for u. S. Russian ties . Im jim acosta. Youre in the situation room. With the Trump Administration rocked by a series of bombshells on russias election meddling, a Top Republican describes the white house as paralyzed. Various Administration Figures paint a picture of chaos now reaching the president s inner circle after son donald jr. Released email showing he embraced a proposal of russian government help in attacking Hillary Clinton. The president tweeted today that the white house is functioning perfectly and hes trying to defuse claims that russia acted to help get him elected. An interview with
Ahead this hour, more of their revealing conversation. The president sitting down with republicans and democrats as the calendar turns the page onto 2018, trying to lock down a new infrastructure package. It was one of the most promising areas for bipartisanship when the president first set foot in the oval office. Now 11 months ago. Democratic leadership spending the early months pleading with the president to sdrtrike a dea. We sent so many signals after the election that maybe a place we may be able to Work Together in a comprehensive way was on the issue of infrastructure. They started out with health care. Now tax reform. I told him about infrastructure. We have a trilliondollar infrastructure bill. We havent heard a real peep out of the white house. He talked a lot about infrastruct purp we have put out an infrastructure plan over a month ago. We havent heard a peep for him. It works for small towns, big cities and everything in between. And if President Trump wants to focus on t
Media and some questions about a possible wedding invite as well. Well get to that in just a moment. We start with the department of justice under fire again today. This time for failing to address complaints of Sexual Misconduct made by its own employees. The departments Inspector General issued a report describing a systematic problem there with many of the alleged perpetrators receiving little to no punishment. And in some cases, even getting performance awards and bonuses. All of this coming as President Trump continues to hammer the department, repeatedly questioning the credibility of the fbi and now a republican lawmaker taking it a step further, calling on the agency to purge its personnel. Lets bring in the panel. Julia ainsley, National Security and justice reporter for nbc news, richer painter, chief white house ethics lawyer under george w. Bush, nick ackerman, special watergate prosecutor and a partner with dorsey and whitney and an msnbc legal analyst. Matt welch, reason