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Homeland security secretary for donald trump. thats general john kelly. on the right side of your screen, senator sessions of alabama continues, jeff sessions, continues to take questions from the senate judiciary committee. both of those confirmation hearings now happening at the same time. its a wild day for news. were going to keep watching both of those hearings. remember, there were something like nine hearings originally scheduled for this week alone. weve just gotten word in that one has ...

Its pretty clear that they are out of step, whether its the secretary of health and human services and whether they raise the eligibility age for health care and people working in manufacturing and people working in dining and women cutting hair, they dont want to work until they are 67 or even 70. their bodies give out. members of congress, we have good benefits and salaries and were working inside and climate control weather and not lifting heavy things and were not wearing our knees or hips o...

Eight of his top aides over the past couple of days. they all said you know, after the election he has been open about it. they said they went through stages of grief. they said he was the first one to reach the stage of acceptance, now where do we go from here. and he will lay that out in front of his home town crowd in chicago. >> we will be covering president obamas farewell address live from chicago. that special coverage begins at 8:00 p.m. eastern time here on msnbc. again we are continuin...

I mean, there may be no law that says the president cant enrich himself using the powers of his office but there is a law that says that if they are not vetted properly and one of them is found to do something in office that benefits themselves or their family, that cabinet official will go to jail. the vetting process, the financial disclosures, all the rest of it, its a bear. but its not mean. its there for a reason. and at least nine cabinet nominations are up this week already without the tr...

Decency sir was said in this room. the watergate hearings were held here. the clarence thomas hearings, among others. so quite a lot of history under scoring this confirmation hearing going on today. >> casey hunt watching it all. we continue to watch it life. its going on five hours now of testimony. khizr khan, the gold star father who got into a very public feud with donald trump last summer is right behind senator sessions today sitting a few rows behind him. before the hearing khan wrote to...

The types of actions the russians have taken. we need to make sure we have a coordinated and strong response. and that was the focus of our talk. >> did general kelly give you any indication what he personally thinks of the intelligence report that came out publicly on friday that donald trump was briefed on? >> well, we didnt talk specifically about the report. but he certainly believes that this is without question a major threat to homeland security and one that he will be focusing on. >> is ...

And its important to disclose it. i mean, there may be no law that says the president cant enrich himself using the powers of his office but there is a law that says that if they are not vetted properly and one of them is found to do something in office that benefits themselves or their family, that cabinet official will go to jail. the vetting process, the financial disclosures, all the rest of it, its a bear. but its not mean. its there for a reason. and at least nine cabinet nominations are u...

All right. so many hearings underway at this moment. you are looking at senator john mccain on the left side of your screen from arizona, a republican of course. that is the hearing in homeland security, the committee on homeland security in the senate. they are having their confirmation hearing for the nominee for homeland security secretary, johncaly. general john kelly. when he starts speaking we plan to bring that to you live. on the right side of your screen, senator jeff sessions has been ...

Circumspectly. >> what about the comments of khizr khan, he was saying some of the things said by jeff sessions doesnt align with some of the policies proposed by donald trump. is he -- >> the role of the attorney general is to enforce the laws of the united states f. the president wants him to do something different he will not do it. senator jeff sessions will enforce the laws of the united states. he believes in equal justice under the law. he believes everyone should be treated fairly. >> do...

There are at least nine cabinet nominees that are going to have their confirmation hearings this week, including five that will happen all at once, all on wednesday. that same day, the president-elect is due to give his first press conference since july. tomorrow night is president obamas big farewell address in chicago. well have more on that later. tomorrow during the day, its the first of two days of confirmation hearings for arguably the most controversial trump nominee of all, jeff sessions...