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Went on to say he would recuse himself from the russia investigation if it came to nap he would be open to that. he didnt announce he is recusing himself but open to reap accuse himself. >> congressman, as you said before, though, he did in question with al franken he did explicitly say that he was seen as a surrogate of the campaign and he certainly never met with any russian officials, right? >> the russian ambassador is a russian official. it looks looks like he is trying to be cute with his ...

The state dement. one ofhe problems, as you know, when the democrats have drug out all the confirmation processes, then the secretaries themselves havent been able to put in their own team. i know that is the case in all the cabinets, theyre now trying to backfill some of the human bodies that they need just to get the machine to run on time. again, i dont know where they are on a spokesman, but it is very important that -- >> couldnt they pick staff, phil? he didnt just get confirmed, its been ...

Confirmed as secretary of state by the full senate but the presidents pick for education secretary, betsy devos at this hour, shes in jeopardy. what exactly happened in the past hour to make that so? coming up. mr. gorsuch goes to washington. president trumps pick for supreme court making the rounds on capitol hill. will he be confirmed? democrats ready for a battle. president trump suggesting mitch mcconnell should go nuclear. what that means, well explain coming up. lets get right to capit...

Member of cloongress or not -- >> it was the second one wre he was directly involved -- >> wait a minute. he said didnt you know about all of these? six companies, specific to a piece of legislation. he said he didnt know about any of them. on this other one he said, oh, yes, i vetted that company myself. i purchased the stock. >> its important to remember, confirmation processes are like a campaign in a way in that its not -- this is a mistake hillary clinton made. her defense on the e-mail stu...

Inauguration tomorrow. for today, he is at the concert that is just getting under way. well hear him speak. they had a runup to it where some of the people who couldnt get into the shortened parade had a chance to perform. then hell be heading to blair house tonight for the traditional overnight before tomorrow. >> covering the inauguration on thground level. thanks. as donald trump put it, transition process he thinks is going well. still under way. today steve mnuchin, nominated for treasury s...

Will feel pressure to purchase, partner or contract with corporate or non-profit entities you and your family invested in should you be confirmed as secretary? >> i can commit to you that nobody will feel any pressure like that. >> well, as you know, this committee has not received your required paperwork from the office of government ethics, and they have told me they cannot provide me assurance right now that your conflicts of interest have been identified and resolved by the office. so, again...

At this time. this is very reminiscent of the deepwater horizon disaster in 2010 that left 11 people dead. we will keep you posted with more information on this breaking story. ainsley: 1200 loss will professors sending a letter to congress opposing the nomination of jeff sessions for attorney general saying in part nothing in senator sessionss public life since 1986 has convinced us that he is a different man than the 39-year-old attorney who was deemed too racially insensitive to be a federal ...

A kremlin investigation mode in many cases, they look at it in a different way. i think that there is universal belief that russia has been involved. to what extent whether they were trying to tilt it to one person or another is where they separate. we are going to go through an indepth review ourselves. i think the committee and the armed services committee will do the same. hopefully we will get to a place where we have unanimity. do i think they tried to sow confusion? absolutely and they hav...

Concerned. no longer requiring 60 votes to break a filibuster but 51 votes right now. the democrats have 55 members in the senate to 45 republicans. so they can obviously deal much more easily with those confirmation processes. once again, gloria borger, our chief political analyst with us, dana bash, the state of the union anchor candy crowley. lets go to capitol hill and get the reaction. i dont know if theres reaction to what we just heard from the president, from the republicans, dana, but i...

Right now. >> a tax code overhaul? dare we even say that phrase? >> within two months, no chance. >> the tax code is being gradually overhauled, yes. i dont know that therell be a big deal on taxes the way we were talking about last year but i think therell be some tax changes as well. the details of those, matts in the right direction, upper income americans, making sure they cant deduct as much money i think is where were headed. >> were going to start with these confirmation processes. how qu...