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That tweet he sent about the president wiretapping him was true, and then you have also got this attempt to distract away from the larger issue, which is the russians meddled in our election. they weaponized information that they gave to wikileaks that the trump campaign used throughout that campaign. they -- he would regularly site leaked information during the presidential campaign, and now you have this web of connections with carter page, paul manifort, and betsy devosss brother. youve got h...

Never going to find ourselves in a mess like this again. a moment ago, charlie teed up the next question i have for you. there was a meeting first reported by "the washington post" and confirmed by nbc news that was set up by the united arab emirates between the blackwater founder, erik prince, and a individual who had close ties to vladimir putin in order to establish a trump/putin back channel. the white house is denying that they had anything to do with this, but prince represented himself ...

Great health care plan for the people. dont worry. republicans face tough questions about health care and ear issues from his south carolina constituents. he hosted a town halln state capital columbia. political editor beth fogey is there. were his constituents angry? >> well, i would say they were pretty much fired up. i dont know if angry is quite the right word. people are feeling very passionate about all sorts of issues. lots and lots of questions. i suppose theres a collusion between the t...

Program to provide legal status to adults here who had citizen children. and what happened in that case was, that went from a conservative justice and a judge in texas into the conservative fifth circuit court of appeals and then reached a divided supreme court and ultimately, president obama was blocked. president trump is in a difficult situation, because the next court that will hear this case will be the court of appeals for the ninth circuit, which under the ninth circuit of the u.s. which ...

They have to continually put out his fires without getting him angry. >> the presidents controversial nominee to become the education secretary, betsy devoss, the vote is supposed to be tomorrow in the u.s. senate, but i think democrats are looking for ways to delay it again? >> they are really putting the pressure on, and we are seeing activists around the country dialing up their outrage to senators offices both through emails and phone calls. this is going to be a really big test for this adm...

Presumably placing a more liberal justice, but will their base let them take that more moderate tack. its unclear. some liberals want to take a tough line, and are you seeing that happen in some cabinet nominees as well, john. >> manu, busy day on capitol hill. well check back in if anything else happens. where he had the presidents supreme court pick tonight. democratic boycott tactic here. the vote on senator sessions is about to happen. betsy devoss, the education secretary, put out a committ...

Including chelsea manning. and another mound of cabinet hearings on cabinet hill, nominees pressed on everything from nato to nafta. a day after secretary of education nominee betsy devoss took a political bruising over publ >> people do not believe that the federal government should be telling us what is caught in the classroom. gaspard... it was her french name. then she came to louisiana as a slave. i became curious where in africa she was from. so i took the ancestry dna test to find out mor...

The first thing to know about the nominee to be for secretary of education, shes sitting not just on one but two enormous family fortunes. betsy devoss is very wealthy and the sheer amount of her wealth and the sprawl of her financial interests makes her difficult to vet. you have got to know what shes got in terms of assets and financial entanglements in order to know where she may have a conflict of interest her new job. how do you sort that out? mrs. devos and her husband have investments in ...

Its not whether they legitimately have anything that would disqualify them from taking the job, its just about the kill. its about the sport of the kill. its a vicious town. >> you look back at betsy devos and her hearing, i would be curious, leslie, how you think that went. >> well, first of all i dont think that, i think she avoided the question that a lot of people especially democrat want to hear the answer to, and that is whether or not she plans to defund and dismantle the public education...

This committee shes up against tonight is a tough lineup. look at the line up. patty many you ary, chris fur fi tim kaine, elizabeth warren. they came ready to make this a contact sport this evening. >> do you think if you were not a multibillionaire, if your family had not hundreds of millions of dollars to contributions to the republican party you would be sitting here today? >> have you ever managed or overseen a trillion dollar loan program? >> i have not. >> how about billion dollar loan pr...