At todays sessions hearing. The equivalent of being made to go to the back of the bus. Major holes in tillersons sanctuary. Were we lobbying before or against . Im a germaphobe, believe me. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york, im chris hayes. There are just nine days until donald trump becomes president of the United States. Today we were inundated with news, much of it disturbing, about what to expect when he takes office. In fact there was so much news today it is, frankly, impossible for us to fully cover what we saw and heard, which may well have been the point. We are going to aggressively cover the issues we have deemed most important and they are big 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 Conf
before. he attacked our reporter katy tur on multiples on occasions. absolutely. so now it s critical that the media do its job and do not be afraid, do not back down, do not try to because buzzfeed screwed up in some way because of the michael cohen thing, don t now not do your job because this clearly was something that wasn t vetted. so here s my you re referring to that dossier which circulated, published by buzzfeed that contained a bunch of unverified and possibly unverifiable, frankly, outlandish and lurid accusations. you could tell from the first moment that in a smart tactical sense they were going to attack the weakest point so that was distinct from the cnn report, right? but he conflate it had two very wisely, i thought, to attack them both and correct. and the main story, really, if
reported, they wouldn t let the reporters we did. one of our own reporters tried to look. yeah, because of course somebody went to staples and hour earlier. i don t know but that certainly is plausible. creatined this problem that looks like a law student s dorm room, you know? it really it s like obviously we ve thought this through and obviously we ve addressed the conflict of interest, just look at how many sheets of paper there are. just look at all this paper in an era where none of this is really on paper. so this is where now after this what happened today the threat against cnn and nbc has suffered the same sort of threat before. he attacked our reporter katy tur on multiples on occasions. absolutely. so now it s critical that the media do its job and do not be afraid, do not back down, do not try to because buzzfeed screwed up in some way because of the michael cohen thing,