hope you've been eating your wheaties, hydrating and maybe going to the gym. i haven't been so i wouldn't have seen you if you were. new year's resolutions, i think they have a long sort of tail. anyway, this week is going to be your first endurance test of the new administration. 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 obama's big farewell address in chicago. we'll have more on that later. tomorrow during the day, it's the first of two days of confirmation hearings for arguably the most controversial trump nominee of all, jeff sessions iii who has been nominated to be the next attorney general of the united states. we're also gearing up for an