Ones. Among them, the president elect evoking nazi germany to characterize u. S. Intelligence agencies, offering kind words to the russians who the Intelligence Community believe hacked the dnc and clinton campaign. Trumps secretary of state pick exxonmobil Ceo Rex Tillerson possibly lying under oath at his confirmation hearing about exxonmobil lobbying against russian sanctions and an impassioned and unprecedented plea from a sitting senator, cory booker, to reject trumps attorney general nominee senator Jeff Sessions over his record on civil rights. But we begin with the story we believe to be most important at this Pivotal Moment and what this day with as about. The nearly incomprehensible set of conflicts of interest that result from refusing to relinquish ownership of a multibillion dollar organizations that is engaged with businesses and countries around the world, the full scope of which we still dont know. Thats because trump refuses to release his tax returns. Well, im not sho
Local abc station in houston at the time of this refinery explosion in march. Thankfully it was only one person who was hurt in this blast but it was big enough, scary enough, you can see it from this local coverage. It was scary enough that it put a spotlight on that plant and not in a good way. Part of what turned up in the local coverage of the aftermath of that explosion and fire was the bad record at that plant. They had a bad safety record. In 2015, 17 plants in and around pasadena, texas, reported on their workplace injuries for the year, almost a third of all the workplace injuries for that year came from that one plant. Out of 17 plants who were reporting. After that explosion and that fire in march, the Houston Chronicle further dug in. They found that on the day that explosion happened, that plant was not legally operating. It was its permit to operate under the Clean Air Act expired. They were running the plant anyway on the day the plant blew up. All of that bad press, all
Price but a hearing nonetheless. Were getting some information on at least what he sees as the replacement for the Affordable Health care act or obamacare. So a lot of attention focused on these hearings for the president elects choice for health and Human Services. Secretary congressman tom price of georgia, he san orthopedic surgeon. Hes been an outspoken critic of the president S Health Care law but just now saying that he would be prepared to implement insurance for everyone, which is what the president elect has said in a recent interview would be his goal and there would be no medicare overhaul. He has said he wants to transform medicare and there are ethics questions also surrounding an investigation into thousands of dollars in a Biomedical Company not long before introducing legislation that would benefit that company. Some transactions there. Lets get to msnbc Political Correspondent kasie hunt following the hearing from capitol hill. Lets be clear. This is not the confirmati
We dont know how this is going to work out. Watch this space. That does it for us tonight. Now its time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. Good evening, lawrence. Good evening, rachel. I watched the beginning of your show tonight after that cliffhanger that you left last night. Theres so much to talk about in it, but the basic lesson seems to be that the people who are telling us that its all fake news might want to actually produce, deliver some fake news that they can therefore point to as proof that its all fake news. Yeah. I dont know who i mean i dont want to speak to the origin of this thing, this forgery that we were shopped. I think the bottom line is we all need to do Due Diligence all the time. But it is worth being aware that somewhere, for some reason and we dont know what that reason is somebody is shopping pretty good forgeries of what appear to be nsa documents about trump and russia. And so its just i felt like its kind of a weird thing to do a news story about,
Poppy harlow joins me. We have a lot of anticipation building at the g20 summit in hamburg, germany. In just a few hours, President Trump and Russias Vladimir Putin will sit down for a facetoface meeting. Will russias election meddling be part of their discussion . This meeting happens as current and former u. S. Intelligence sources tell cnn that since the election, russian spies have stepped up their intelligence gathering efforts in america. Officials say the kremlin is emboldened by the lack of a strong response from the Current Administration and from the Obama Administration. We have it all covered. Lets go first to sara murray whos live for us in hamburg, germany. Good morning, sara. Reporter good morning, poppy. Well, president s trump and putin did meet briefly earlier this morning for the first time. They shook hands but the real substance will come later in what is sure to be a closely scrutinized formal bilateral meeting between the two leaders. If putin likes donald trump,