Charleston. Flash flood, rescu rescues, millions tonight in danger. A wild victory for the ages. Nightly news begins right now. Good evening. Im kate snow in for lester tonight who is interviewing president obama in chicago just hours before the president s farewell art address. We begin with a busy day. Senator Jeff Sessions spent more than eight hours fielding questions at a hearing about his nomination for attorney general. Pete williams has our report. Senator sessions served as an reporter Jeff Sessions held a granddaughter in his lap prepared to go before the very committee he was a member of but voted against him in 1986 when he was nominated to be a federal judge, concerned about his record on several rights. The caricature credited of me was not accurate. It wasnt accurate then and its not accurate now. Reporter in a hearing interrupted nine times by protesters, he said he would be against any blanket ban. He said he would step aside if investigations of the Clinton Emails or
A wild victory for the ages. Nightly news begins right now. Good evening. Im kate snow in for lester tonight who is interviewing president obama in chicago just hours before the president s farewell address. We begin with a busy day. Senator Jeff Sessions spent more than eight hours fielding questions at a hearing about his nomination for attorney general. Pete williams has our report. Senator sessions served as an reporter Jeff Sessions held a granddaughter in his lap prepared to go before the very committee he was a member of but voted against hiin to be a federal judge, concerned about his record on civil rights. The caricature created of me was not accurate. It wasnt accurate then and its not accurate now. Reporter in a hearing interrupted nine times by protesters, he said he would be against any blanket ban on muslim immigrants. He said he would step aside if investigations of the Clinton Emails or Foundation Came up. With regard to secretary clinton and some of the comments i mad
Is to repeal and replace obamacare. And that was our message today and will be our message on capitol hill. Democrats are about to speak any moment. Well take you there live. Theres so much to cover. An historic day in washington. Good morning, everyone. Im Stephanie Ruhle in for tamron hall. Weve got all of this covered for you with our correspondents from capitol hill to the trump tower here in new york city. I want to take you first to msnbcs kasie hunt who is covering president obamas first visit to the hill since june 2015. Id think hed be down there a bit more often. You had a brief exchange with the president as he arifd. Is he still in the building . He is. Excuse me if i keep looking over my shoulder. If well see him, eventually hell be coming through that door on his way out but hes being mobbed, were told, by members of the house and senate who want to ask him questions. Hes sticking around for that. He has, were told, take be a pretty combative push against republicans and
statement. it lasted less than two minutes. he s wearing a gray sweater and in a soft, mumbled voice, he told jurors, i m not going to lie to you, there s nothing wrong with me psychologically. he spent the entire time talking about his mental competency and this infuriated some people in that courtroom. at least three of them, including one family member, stormed out. the prosecution are now having jennifer pickney on the stand, the wife of the pastor who was killed at the emanuel church. they introduced a new piece of evidence, a note found in dylann roof s jail cell. this is what it reads. i am not going to lie to you. there is nothing i do not regret what i did. i am not sorry. i have not shed a single tear