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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 ....
this compromise bill. so as you mention the politics are fascinating. you have the president and vice president calling rank and file democrats asking them to vote in favor of the package. you had nancy pelosi and elizabeth warren on the other side saying stand up and fight. bottom line it got through. there were conservative defections because some of them wanted to vote to fight the immigration executive order. it now appears that that will happen in february when funding for homeland security is due to expire, sean. mike, thank you. joining us mow from the white house is fox s own ed henry. i guess we ve got a new world order in washington tonight, ed. we do. and why would john boehner not wait for the new congressional majority and just do a short-term cr? well, that s a good question. and i think john boehner s going to be facing that come january. everyone s going to run out of town now if in fact this gets through the senate. that s still a hurdle that has to be met ....
tamron hall in the house. craig, thank you so much for not dancing. j.t. is a national treasure. thank you for not dance. are you ready? a new round of new polls, including a new national poll out and one from the battleground state of florida. this is a bloomberg poll. a lot of people talking about it this morning. kellyanne conway forced to defend donald trump s schedule this morning which includes promoting his new hotel before hitting the campaign trail. claiming hillary s plans in syria could spark world war iii. also ahead, hillary clinton finally connecting with millennials. a new survey is out this morning. clinton is speaking this hour in florida. we will bring her comments to you live. plus, arizona sheriff joe arpaio is also a donald trump supporter. he s now been charged with criminal contempt in a case involving racial profiling. what this means for the man with the nickname america s toughest sheriff. good morning, everyone, i m tamron hall. coming to you live ....
unfairly. what is wrong with having an overzealous watch dog committee? and isn t getting rid of this office the kind of swampy stuff that republicans across america elected donald trump to get rid of? they re bringing anonymous charges and trying them in a public arena. a person targeted by that has to defend themselves after they ve been attacked publicly when they don t have a right to face their accuser. that s a right that goes right back to jesus himself standing before the high priest. i m going to read it off the screen here, with all that congress has to work on, do they really have to make the weakening of the independent ethics watchdog as unfair as it is? so the president-elect appears to be making the argument that you guys have a lot of other things on their plate. why make this the first move in secret the way it went down last night? i would have been happy to bring that to the floor and let democrats vote on that independently. i think you would have s ....
good evening. i m erin burnett. out front tonight, breaking news, president donald trump signing an executive order launching an investigation into voter fraud as early as tomorrow. this is according to a senior administration official. it comes as trump is speaking out tonight, doubling down moments ago in an interview with abc news on his false claim of massi massive voter fraud. it s been called false. look at the pew reports. i called the author last night and he said there was no evidence then why did he write the report? he said no evidence of voter fraud. why did he write the report? he s groveling again. i talk about the reporters that grovel when they want to write something that you want to hear but not necessarily millions of people want to hear or have to hear. you ve launched an investigation. we will to find out. and i will say this, of those votes cast, none of them come to me. thun of them come to me. they would all be for the other the inve ....