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Are right on message. >> how does my hair look coming out of the gym? >> you have great hair, nobody has better hair. >> i want to say thank you. heather: the president have supported are fired up over this video, he cant handle a pro-american cabinet, dont worry, schumer jokes on you, another tweet said the skit is supposed to be funny, i forgot to laugh, so disrespectful. cant be outrage about everything. the expert and trump. >> everyone watching what melania is wearing but their son baron is...

>> we do have the majority. in the house weve passed more bills than any other time going forward. more than 158. he has signed more. twice as many as president obama in the first 100 days. more so than bush, more so than clinton and h.w. bush. so we have had some success. in the senate there are different rules and unfortunately those stall tactics, because the senate has to make confirmations. there are 1200 positions that have to be confirmed with a new administration and what schumer is doin...

With kislyak. you have seen senators on the democratic side meet with him, schumer, pelosi. this is something that democrats and republicans do when they are in the senate. >> why did michael flynn and jeff sessions disclose those? >> jeff sessions talked to his fbi counter part and said you dont have to disclose things that took place while you were in the senate. were going to hear from him today but the reality is why are we still talking about this a year out? im not saying dont do the inves...

Much of a blessing? >> maybe a little more. >> youre on the cabinet still. >> greatest privilege of my life. >> what did we just see? and have we ever seen anything like that in the history of the united states that you can recall? >> no, i cant recall it, which is why i have to believe in coming days were going to find out they were doing a north korea parody skit. >> schumers office did a parody. >> its really gross. >> explain why that is the spookiest thing youve ever seen. >> that we have a...

Give testimony before various committees here on the hill. the senate democratic leader rattled off questions of his own for attorney jeff sessions. >> did he interfere with the russian investigation before this recused himself? second, what safeguards are there now so that he doesnt interfere? third, he says he was involved in the firing of comey and the president said comey was fired because of russia. how does that fit in with his recusal? doesnt stand up well to me. >> schumer notes that the...

President trump. hard to see if this had anything to do with that highly unusual arizona tarmac meeting that lynch had with former president bill clinton last june, something that kellyanne conway today teed off on. >> it goes back to the tarmac meeting between lynch and president bill clinton. it takes about 4.5 minutes, not 45 minutes to talk about golf and the grandkids, a couple of selfies included. if i think those questions will be swirled around and i think what senator feinstein did is r...

Doesnt come away with a feeling that the curtain has been drawn between them and the truth and theyre sitting on the wrong side of that curtain. >> senator this morning as senate minority leader chuck schumer outlined the questions that he wants sessions to answer, i want you to take a listen to that. >> first, did he interview with the russian investigation before he recused himself. second, what safeguards are there now so that he doesnt interfere? third, he says he was involved in the firing ...

Well have that opportunity tomorrow, by the way. again, comey said three times that trump was not the focus of the investigation. now why would trump turn around and fire him if that was the reason he wanted to stop the investigation? the reason why he was fired is because of incompetence. think about feinsteins statements about him, schumer, johnson. think about all the democrats all fall were saying he has no credibility anymore. he needs to pack his bags. thats what hank johnson did. >> he sh...

To chuck schumer he got the phone call about the firing of jim comey and he tried to explain to the president why it was a bad idea. and in schumers account he said the president didnt seem to understand how big a firestorm it was about to uncork. >> and on the other side of the screen were taking a look at what is happening inside that hearing room. its set to start any minute now. we expect to see the top republican and democrat give their opening statements, statements from the witnesses here...

Think we can bring them on board. infrastructure is one of those policy issues that brings democrats and republicans together. there is american bridges and highways. >> democrats say theyre eager to do infrastructure but dont like the trump administrations ideas how to pay for the projects. >> based on recent reports the entire focus of the presidents infrastructure this week is on privatization. that sounds like a nice word. but when you scratch beneath the surface it means much less construct...