Great for all of our people. Everybody. Everybody throughout our country that is includes innercities, that includes everybody. Well do a special job lou were counting down now to the inauguration with many of authorize favorite political analysts among them randy evans, matt sclap, and liz peak with us, and tonight steve moore, and leader of trump domestic transition team, Ken Blackwell, republican lawmakers hard at work today, trying to get as many as trump cabinet members confirmed by senate as possible. But the democrats are you an president elect trump is not draining the swamp with his cabinet picks, he is filling it up. We expect to be able to vote to general kelly, and general mattis tomorrow. And look forward to beginning debate on congressman pompeo. Lou there you have it. The battle is on. Well have latest on all of that political contest, that is taking place even as the inaugural pomp and circumstance is underway, leading to the president elects swearing in tomorrow at noo
2016 president ial campaign. Theres growing call from both the democrats and the republicans for sessions to recuse himself from the russia probe. Should he do it . Attorney general sessions, hes still maintaining his innocence. He says and i quote for the very latest, go to our own blake burman live at the white house. Hey, blake. Reporter hey, trish, the important part of that quote that you read was about the campaign. Here at the white house, they are pushing back by saying thensenator Jeff Sessions was able to talk to ambassadors, in this case, ambassador, an ambassador of any country under his duties as a member of the senate. However, the other part here and which is a problem for sessions is the testimony he gave during his confirmation hearing which he said and i am quoting, i did not have communications with the russians. To that end, many republicans are calling republicans keep in mind are calling for the attorney general, should he be overseeing an investigation into russi
Several democratic lawmakers are calling for resignation of attorney general Jeff Sessions after a new bomb shell report says the a. G. Had contact with russias ambassador on more than one occasion. It is a fast moving story developing throughout the night. 9 22 eastern time and here we were with preexisting plans to take on this topic for two hours tonight. The Washington Post is out with a headline that reads, sessions, the attorney general, spoke twice with Russian Ambassador during trumps president ial campaign, justice officials say. Now quote forgive that piece, sessions did not disclose when asked about possible contacts between members of president Trumps Campaign and representatives of moscow during sessions confirmation hearing to become attorney general. Here now is that moment from his confirmation hearing on january 10th. If there is any evidence that anyone affiliated with the Trump Campaign communicated with the russian government in the course of this campaign, what wil
Several democratic lawmakers are calling for resignation of attorney general Jeff Sessions after a new bomb shell report says the a. G. Had contact with russias ambassador on more than one occasion. It is a fast moving story developing throughout the night. 9 22 eastern time and here we were with preexisting plans to take on this topic for two hours tonight. The Washington Post is out with a headline that reads, sessions, the attorney general, spoke twice with Russian Ambassador during trumps president ial campaign, justice officials say. Now quote forgive that piece, sessions did not disclose when asked about possible contacts between members of president Trumps Campaign and representatives of moscow during sessions confirmation hearing to become attorney general. Here now is that moment from his confirmation hearing on january 10th. If there is any anyone affiliated with the Trump Campaign communicated with the russian government in the course of this campaign, what will you do . Sen
Corporate tax reform, but before they can get to that Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell said today Congress Needs to resolve health care reform. Listen. I think finishing on tax reform will take longer, but we do have to finish the Health Care Debate, up or down, win or lose, before we go to taxes. Kayla tausche is on capitol hill with whether the gop leaderships plan to repeal and replace obamacare is gaining any traction. I think they got it through committee, didnt they . Yeah, after 28 hours, bill, it got through the energy and commerce committee. That wrapped up a few moments ago. Health care is the First Political test for the administration and for this congress. Speaker ryan has been getting some help from the president and Vice President in making his sales pitch for this bill, but interestingly today i asked him how he plans to win over companies that will either have to accept or offer these plans theyve been so critical of the way obamacare was structured, and he said