Shopping district. Was it terrorism . Good morning. Im george howell. Welcome to early start. Im christine romans. Lets begin with politics. Frustrated, upset, disappointed with donald trump. Their candidate for president. Staffers baffled over how to keep the candidate on message and out of trouble. Sources revealing the campaign has reached out to Chris Christie, Newt Gingrich and other donald trump advisors for help to keep their nominee on message. Whats truly frustrating here is you have a very talented businessman who might actually become a historic figure, but he has to say every morning, the only people im fighting with are Hillary Clinton and president obama. You have to win the argument. Other than those two people, every time he talks about anyone else, it is an unforced fumbling, if you like, or interception, as i would say. It is clearly a mistake. One adviser telling trump he seems surprised by the negative public reaction with the battle over the gold star muslimamerica
Their job and refused to be there for the votes. On the president s nominees for health and Human Services and the treasury secretary. In response, the republicans changed the rules. They approved the president s pick without a single democrat by pushing forward a new rule. Joining us now with her on this, karl rove, former chiefs chief of staff and austan goolsbee, a former top advisor to president obama. First, we go to ed henry come alive on capitol hill tonight with the latest at what is going on there. Boy, what a scene. Ed. Trickle republican senators today came out against betsy devos, imperiling her nomination to be nomination secretary. Of President Trump can hold republicans, he will get most of his cabinet. He has harry reid to thank for that because remember, he changed Senate President so that you only need 51 votes instead of 60 votes to get nominations through. He did that to help president obama. Now, it is helping President Trump, which is by chuck schumer, the new Sen
Their job and refused to be there for the votes. On the president s nominees for health and Human Services and the treasury secretary. In response, the republicans changed the rules. They approved the president s pick without a single democrat by pushing forward a new rule. Joining us now with her on this, karl rove, former chiefs chief of staff and austan goolsbee, a former top advisor to president obama. First, we go to ed henry come alive on capitol hill tonight with the latest at what is going on there. Boy, what a scene. Ed. Trickle republican senators today came out against betsy devos, imperiling her nomination to be nomination secretary. Of President Trump can hold republicans, he will get most of his cabinet. He has harry reid to thank for that because remember, he changed Senate President so that you only need 51 votes instead of 60 votes to get nominations through. He did that to help president obama. Now, it is helping President Trump, which is by chuck schumer, the new Sen
Elect an apology for childish and inappropriate behavior. Day two of the hearings for senator Jeff Sessions of alabama and something unprecedented is about to happen. In the choice between standing with senate norm or standing up, i will always chose conscious and country. Let me ask you this question, is Vladimir Putin a war criminal . I would not use that term. The question is is that the most effective way to have progress continue to be made, there seems to be some misunderstanding that somehow i see the world through a different lens and i do not. Steve so thats where we start today. Thursday. Live from studio e, you know b yesterday we knew that president elect donald trump was going to give his First Press Conference in a very long time and he made about a dozen headlines, for instance, he layed out how hes going to sever ties with his company, russia did try to interfere with the election probably and hes going to donate all of the income from Foreign Governments to the federal
Dismissing u. S. Intel reports, painting the attack on Vladimir Putin personally. Almost in the same breath, trump refused to accept that russias motive was to try to help him win the presidency. . His First Press Conference in 168 days, trump said putin will respect america more with him in the white house. Russia will have much greater respect for our country when im leading it than when other people have led it. You will see that. Russia will respect our country more. Do you honestly believe that hillary would be tougher on putin than me . Does anybody in this room really believe that . Give me a break. That press conference was 77 minutes long. It was contentious. There were fireworks, especially when trump vehemently attacked reporting first broadcast on cnn that u. S. Intelligence officials presented him with documents alleging russian on ra tifs claimed to have compromising personal information about trump. Our chief National Security correspondent jim sciutto is part of our Tea