Well, if i might to make sure we are not making a mistake senator coops. It is my hope that if you are confirmed and we do make progress on bipartisan criminal Justice Reform that as Attorney General you will carry out whatever legislative decisions might be made by this body. Last let me say in my six years here in addition to not working on a number of bipartisan proposals on criminal Justice Reform you have repeatedly voted against congressional attempts to prohibit torture in the military on text or the interrogation context and to defend enhanced interrogation practices. Are you clear now that our statutes prohibit torture and if the president were to rover yid that clear Legal Authority what actions would you take . On your previous question i would note the federal prison population has already dropped 10 or more percent and will drop
another 10,000 this year. What is happening now is reducing the federal population. This law only dealt with the federal prison population. And th
Widening as i speak, with new names added on like a traffic lineup in manhattan. Theres still no indication that donald trump is anywhere near to making one of the key decisions of his presidency, who will serve as his chief diplomat. Vice President Elect mike pence ran through some of the top contenders yesterday. I think everyone that hes talked to and has been talked about, whether it be a Rudy Giuliani or mitt romney or General Petraeus or senator corker or john bolten, and others, bring extraordinary background and qualities to this. Nbc news reports that several new names have been added to that list, even if they remain outside contenders. The associated press, meanwhile, is reporting that prospects of Rudy Giuliani and mitt romney, they say, are fading. The new names include jon huntsman, who was critical of trump during the campaign, but who wasnt also reportedly in the mix, ceo of exxonmobil, rex the bulk of the time was with the President Elect, donald trump. I found it an
Israeli consulate, was an 18yearold young woman who was here celebrating the new year with a couple of her friends. They survived but she did not. Dozens were injured as well. Were not yet sure whether or not americans are among the wounded. We cannot definitively rule that out as of yet. Many are still in the hospital, at least three people are in critical condition. So still trying to confirm whether or not any americans are among the wounded here. This is an awful start to the new year. Thank you. On the heels of the turkey terror, a new report on isis and its aspirations to launch mass casualty chemical attacks. It comes from the British Security minister in a Newspaper Interview published today. I want to bring in chris dicky and also an msnbc contributor. Thanks for being with me once again. While we have no claim of responsibility for the attack in turkey at this point, i want to
ask you about the new interview with the British Security minister on Chemical Weapons. Do we even k
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immunity. I want it in public. Lets go. He says he is ready. We have President Trump talking in a tweet about mike flynn saying mike flynn should ask for immunity and this say witch hunt. Excuse for big loss. Donald trump may have got even distracted when a reporter asked a question yesterday. Watc
Reporter certainly. That will be a challenge for some of them especially in districts where the president is very popular. If members did not side with him on this. I think the big question right now is will it get to the floor . Thats a decision that Doesnt Reside in the white house. Its really a decision for the majority leaders of the republicans, Kevin Mccarthy a long with the speaker, they run the floor. If they believe it is sort of a doomed bill, theyve got to make a calculation about tip typically you could see them not put it on the floor with that political exposure for each and every member to be recorded on something that went nowhere. Thats typically how this goes. We saw the president saying he wanted a vote. That was a point of leverage. In the time weve been talking about this and when weve been updating our own whip counts and describing the mood and the atmosphere, i can assure you, if there were people in leadership who thought we had that wrong, they would be callin