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>> this old chamber may look the same. but in the hushed whispers, you can feel the wind of change. >> reporter: in just 17 days, donald trump will join them as president, completing the gops ascension to power. the optimistic applause echoing across the capitol will soon give way to the challenges of governing. for making good on their pledge to repeal and replace obamacare to passing tax reform and easing government regulations, republicans are crafting a bold agenda. speaker ryan called it a ...

Have a majority of 241 to 194. yet in the senate republicans still need democrats, with republicans holding 52 seats and democrats 48. most pieces of legislation need 60 votes to pass. >> when you lose an election like this, you cant flinch. you cant blink. you have to look it right in the eye, analyze it, learn from it. >> new york senator chuck schumer is the new democratic leader. he told cnns dana bash, democrats werent be the obstructionists republicans were to obama. >> 90 to 95% of the ti...

I saw a lot of unpublished things where he talked about the his personal life and faith, with generous cooperation of robinson family, comes out on january 4th. the rest of the jackie robinson story. the a lot was never known about is had faith. think about pressure he was under in 194. coming up on 70th anniversary of his first game, this april. faith ended up playing a major role as it does in everyones life. you have bobby bowden coming up. his book about faith and that was incredible part of...

Perspective. he cant be sure. but isis certainly is a network and has a network of operatives in this country. >> indeed. richard engel, thank you so much for bringing us up-to-date on that. meanwhile, isis is also claiming responsibility for a series of 20 bombings in baghdad, iraq, over the past several days. at least 44 people are dead and over 100 more wounded after five car bombs and five ieds exploded in various parts of the city yesterday. now this comes after at least 30 people died in...

Just now getting underway here at capitol hill with a 115 congress being sworn in this afternoon, looking ahead to a packed agenda. in the senate, republican mitch mcconnell is due to return as majority leader with a little smaller majority than he had in the last congress. it will be 52 republicans to 48 who caucus with democrats. a change on the democratic side, with new yorks chuck schumer taking over as the senate democratic leader replacing the retiring harry reid. over in the house, gambli...

Hower, thats what presidents do or don do. >> didnt happen with reagan and clinton. >> but the point mark made in the last hour that we didnt spend enough time on, one of the big problems democrats have is the bench. there are really good people in the senate and house, a few governors, not that many, frankly, who are eligible or possible candidates in 2020. but as i talk to my democratic activist friends, okay, who is out there. who do we really want to try to cultivate or bring along, its a ve...

In case you missed it, the roster for the 115th congress is now complete after a few runoff elections in louisiana this weekend. john neely kennedy, no recommendation to the 35th president, defeated are democrats foster campbell by 20 point to take over david vitters senate seat. remember, both donald trump and mike pence stumped for kennedy in the last week of campaigning. and in the house, republicans clay higgins and mike johnson won their races without much difficulty. so where does that lea...

Easy to overlook all of the good things that are being done to help our fellow americans. we think its important to highlight the acts of kindness, such as this one that took place at a walmart in pennsylvania. walmart says on thursday, a woman walked into a store with a check and made a delivery for a man who decided he was going to give $46,000, paying off layaways for 194 people. the store says they spent the afternoon calling customers to tell them the news. >> what was going through your he...

Russia, which is currently being investigated criminally for misleading the american public about climate change is something that should scare every american. >> how do you see the issue of climate change, the issue of exxonmobils business? how do you see that fitting into international diplomacy? obviously if we were talking about energy secretary, this might be a different discussion. this would, i think, flabbergast different people. but how does exxon function in international relations? >>...

Chilling news. the idea that we with turn over the secretary of state to the head of, the head of or the former head of the largest private oil and gas company in the world, a company which is a partner with vladimir putin in russia, which is currently being investigated criminally for misleading the american public about climate change is something that should scare every american. >> how do you see the issue of climate change, the issue of exxonmobils business? how do you see that fitting into...