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>> they are making a stand i suppose for the base, making a stand for their donors. >> some might argue playing a short game ignoring the long game. >> a stunning prediction from an influential congressman. congressman castro say some people could be in big trouble because of their contacts with russia. after democrats were briefed on intelligence reports that devin nunes reviewed two weeks ago. listen to your self to congressman castro sounding this warning to the trump administration. >> my im...

Supreme court. weve seen now almost for ten years an effort by the republican to dominate the federal judiciary. they used the filibuster in the senate to the point where we couldnt get judges approved. thats why the rules were changed. then when president obama tried toill the supreme court vacancy,ch mcconnell said no, merrick garland will not get a hearing or a vote. i will not meet with him. a departure of 230 years of tradition in the senate. now comes neil gorsuch, carefully chosen and wer...

She was tapped to serve at the national security council at the white house but its changed after cnn broke the story that she is plagiarized vast portions of her book. >> jim acosta in new york. thanks very much. trump says he hopes to do, quote, good deals with russia. this weekend he raised the possibility of lifting u.s. and european sanctions in exchange for a reduction in moscows nuclear arsenal. this comes as russian president vladimir putin is moving major military hardware into crimea...

And vowing to turn any profits from foreign government officials staying at his hotels over to the u.s. treasury. >> i hope at the end of eight years ill come back and say oh, you did a good job. otherwise if they do a bad job ill say youre fired. >> reporter: before trump left that room he did finally say none of his campaign associates had been in touch with russian officials during the election but he would not say whether he would keep those punishing sanctions on moscow as many republicans ...

>> got a small business. hes making a stand. ordinary guy doing something extraordinary. >> thats a great story. all right. late night comics taking on mr. trumps cabinet picks, and of course his meeting with kanye west. here are your late night laughs. >> donald trumps pick for secretary of state, rex tillerson. rex tillerson. yeah, theres a name that lights up a room, rex tillerson. did you know this, rex tillerson was once the president of the boy scouts of america. yeah. of course, as donald...

Were still planning to take in syrian refugees. we have very robust vetting procedures for those refugees. it involves our intelligence community. our national counter terrorism center. extensive interviews. investigating them against all the available information. >> i think it would be highly irresponsible to bring in 10,000 syrian refugees at this point in time. i have called upon the president to suspend this program. >> well, bringing in refugees. now, there are a number of governors from a...

Care act and medicaid expansion there are more patients on medicaid that are coming to us for health care. >> this morning the majority leader kevin mccarthy said he wants to set up a select committee on planned parenthood like the one theyve got on benghazi. so this hearing was just the first step on the fight that planned parenthood hadnt planned on. brett? >> thank you. this hour, speaking of the house leadership, that leadership is trying to come up with a plan not just for gop intermural po...

Face of acceptance. you know, to say you are okay. we are from here. were not just outsiders that, you know, people in these communities are gay and lesbian and have a right to, you know, feel at home where theyre from. >> if i might also say that we want to put a face on kentucky, a positive spin. >> yes. >> there are some wonderful progressive people here, wonderful, loving people. thats not what the rest of the country is seeing right now. >> reporter: what do you think of kim davis? >> i thi...

These licenses could be issued another authority, including perhaps the commonwealth of kentucky or the governor himself. >> that was kim davis speak iina bit ago. martin savage is in kentucky. you talked to the couple right before they walked in. did they think they were going to get a license? >> reporter: they werent certain going in. a couple weeks ago they were here and went before kim davis. they wanted a marriage license then. she denied them. and in the interim, you had it becoming a nat...

Work for the state can do it without the legislature changing it is something i will leave up to the courts exactly how to do it. i think that people that stand up and are making a stand to say they believe in something is an important part of the american way. >> shortly after that, david axelrod asked the question, how quickly will kentuckys clerk defiance of scotus on same-sex marriage back con ten, issue in the gop presidential race. it seems it is an issue as of this moment. what is your re...