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Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. In 29 days donald trump will become the president of the United States, but until then barack obama still holds the job. In the waning days of his term, hes making what appear to be several different efforts to trumpproof the white house. Today moving to block one of trumps biggest priorities dating back to the early days of his campaign, the creation of some kind of Monitoring System for muslims in the u. S. Yesterday we played you trumps response to ...

Heavy military influence. The president elect has chosen three retired jeernls to serve atop his administration. Can trump also coming under fire for his selection of scott pruitt to head the epa. Pruitt as oklahomas attorney general sued the epa for its regulations on the states oil and gas industry. Also trump lashes out at a union leader who criticized that deal to save jobs at the carrier plant in indiana. Trump attacking the man on twitter, but not denying his claims. So, theres a lot to co...

Good evening again. Were just about 24 hours from the precise moment when you falla sleep on the sofa. Thankfully, theres plenty happening tonight including new names for Donald Trumps cabinet, sharp new criticism for one big league frontrunner, mitt romney, and a great look at how families divided by the election will cope tomorrow. Lets begin with cnns jim acosta. Reporter as donald trump settles in for the thanksgiving weekend, the president elect is making room at the table for picks. For st...

During a 72second q a with reporters. Has it caused you to rethink or reevaluate your plans to deal with immigration in the United States. You know my plans all along. Ive been proven to be right, 100 correct. Whats happening is its not clear which plans the president elect was referring to over a year ago in an interview with an abc reporter. He expressed support for a database to track muslims in the u. S. That was followed by his call to ban all muslims from entering the country. After the ma...

And held for questioning. Yeah, why such a fuss . That was the official line from the white house. Wasnt that many people, why did everybody make such a big deal out of this. Were talking about a universe of 109 people. There were 329,000 people that came into the country, 109 of them were stopped for additional screening. Uhuh. That was monday, that was bull pucky. On tuesday, badgered by recorders, the press secretary said okay, the 109 number was referring only to people initially detained bu...

Response after last weekend. Only 109 people were detained and held for questioning. Yeah, why such a fuss . That was the official line from the white house. Wasnt that many people, why did everybody make such a big deal out of this. Were talking about a universe of 109 people. There were 329,000 people that came into the country, 109 of them were stopped for additional screening. Uhuh. That was monday, that was bull pucky. On tuesday, badgered by recorders, the press secretary said okay, the 10...

Protests last weekend. We had this weekend of chaos and confusion and protest and recrimination and the white house walking parts of it back and not others and lawyers flooding into airports across the country to help people who were stranded. After all that, the white house tried to say, geez, this is no big deal, geez, you people just calm down. This was the white house response after last weekend. Only 109 people were detained and held for questioning. Yeah, why such a fuss . That was the off...

Uc berkeley has forcibly cancelled lecture. This bill will extend and improve the Veterans Choice Program so that more veterans can see the doctor of their choice. We will see what pans out in the negotiation. But i think not seeing that. Can i just [laughter] i think i got this but thank you. Maybe. That was cool. How do you follow that . Roll my window down and cruise. Brian sean spicer said im going to take a break and let him take some questions. If he was behind the podium there you have go...

Shortly to address whats taken place over the past 24 hours. Here are the tweets from the president of the United States posted yesterday i heard poorly rated morning joe speaks badly of me, dont watch anymore. Then how could low i. Q. Crazy mika along with psycho joe came to maralago three nights in a row around new years eve and insisted on joining me, she was bleeding badly from a face lift. I said no they stayed home to lay lou and i called and asked them to come in this morning to address t...

On the russia investigation. Robert mueller obtaining a letter that was drafted by the president and his senior aide Steven Miller in may explaining the rationale for firing jm, the fbi director. The letter was never sent because they believed the content was, quote, problematic. According to the New York Times which broke the story, a different letter, written by the Deputy Attorney general and focused on mr. Comeys handling of the investigation into Hillary Clintons private email server was ul...