All ultimately it wont matter because it will not need a confirmation. Attorney general, the man thats tabbed by president elect trump is jeff sessions. Subcommittee and his position on i mmigration is what best connected him with donald trump. He was the senator that came out and endorsed donald trump. Hes also u. S. Attorney and a former attorney general in the sta state. He was one of the most vocal critics of Hillary Clinton on that house benghazi committee. This is a smart man and every one i spoken about him agrees to that. He graduated first in his class, he went to harvard and law school as well. Hes a three term congressman from congress swept in as part of the Tea Party Wave a few years ago. Some of his comments viewed as a controversial at times and he said the n word and snowden deserves the death penalty. A lot of people in the Intelligence Community felt comfortable about it as far as today. Peter, the meeting is tomorrow. I think we have a graphic showing up all the meet
At any moment the bipartisan salute to Vice President joe biden will happen on the senate floor. His political friends and foes lining up to pay tribute to bidens 4 1 2 centuries in public service. It is sure to be a relatively emotional affair. Were going to bring that to you live coming up. Also another fastmoving day. Terry branstad selected to be the ambassador to china. And Oklahoma Attorney general weve just confirmed this, skooth prscott pruitt, as the head of the Environmental Protection agency. And on december 7th, remembering pearl harbor, 75 years after that devastating attack. We have more live from hawaii. Lets start this hour though with politics. Katy tur is outside a busy trump tower this afternoon. Welcome back from vacation. Very well deserved. Reporter thank you. You can see im very disheveled out here. You look terrific. You look rested. Lets talk about the Business Today though. We just learned about the epa, right . Weve just confirmed that. Reporter yeah. Donald
Another nuclear test. Satellite imagery suggests north korea is preparing for its 6th test at the same site as the first five. And the u. S. Navy has sent the Aircraft Carrier uss carl vinson to the waters off korea. All this after the u. S. Dropped i i its largest noucle bomb on forces in afghanistan. Afghanistan Defense Ministry said it killed 36 isis members, but no civilians were hurt. Lets go our panel. Retired four star general Barry Mccaffery, nbc news chief Richard Engel, courtney can you bey, and traveling in west palm beach, florida. Youve been covering that part of the world for such a long time. How much of that statements, essentially north korea saying if trump wants war, hell get war, how much of that is a real threat . Oh, i think its a very real threat. North korea has missiles deployed all along its border. They are pointing at seoul. And if north korea feels that it is being attacked, that its grip on power is being threatened in any way, it will launch those missile
Syria aviation elements that are certified and train to deliver chemical munitions. I would be astonished if they werent devastated by the strike. As many of your commentators have discussed already, its highly unlikely to have any Significant Impact on assads survival instinct to not be overwhelmed by sunni muslim rebellion factions. So i hope the next step, though, if they continue to use u. S. Military power, is not to use proportional power, but to go try and destroy the Syrian Air Force in place. Well now talk about that. What kind of an air campaign would that be . Always harder than one would imagine. These we would have to get more carriers in the region. We would have to negotiate Political Support out of saudi arabia or other regional states, the egyptians to support an air strike. I bet it would be a matter of weeks, not days. We would lose aircraft. We would kill russians. It would be considered by most an overt act of war against the existing syrian government. There would
Separated herself from the business. How is she being treated unfairly . It is a targeting of her brand. Shes not directly running the company. It is still her name on it and there is efforts to under mind that name based on her fathers position on particular policy hes taking. This is a direct attack of his policies her name. For him to stand up for her because they have a problem with his policies. That was nbcs halie jackson questioning sean spicer today during the afternoon in the white houses Briefing Room. The president today like lincoln and fdr attacked a National Retailer on sociamedia, just kidding, no other president haves done this. My daughter, ivanka, has been treated so unfairly. Shes a great person. The tweet came 21 minutes after the intelligence brief, the white house said he was freed up by then. She was informed last month about it but it went public last week, sluggish sales were the reasons given. Ali remaining us in the studio and joining us now is our own stefan