Good day. Im Sheinelle Jones at msnbc World Headquarters in new york at 1 00 eastern. Here is whats happening. Following a civil rights rally in washington, d. C. , with at least 17 civil Rights Groups participating. Hans nichols is there at the march. Hans, explain to us whats happening now and why all of this is really taking place. Reporter hi, good morning, or good afternoon now. It is pouring down rain and the animating principle, the feeling of this rally all day has been about criminal Justice Reform and the immediacy and frankly the velocity with which a Donald Trump Administration is going to hit washington, hit the folks here and the issues they care about. The reverend alsharpton, his group is organizing this, he was speaking earlier. Hes an msnbc contributor and what he said is that the fight will continue. Listen to how he put it. You may switch president s but were going to switch legs and keep on marching. We wont back down. We wont be trumped. Reporter im going to have my cameraman pan out and look at the crowd. Its been pouring for about the last hour. You can see a fair number of people there leaving now. I would say the crowd is about 50 , maybe less what it was when this it all started. Should also note that we still have a lot of speakers left to go on stage. They are under cover. We are not now. Producers wanted more context on whats happening, no doubt respected reporter there has done a lot of these events and what we should note a lot of people are staying and talking to them. The Affordable Care act, the importance of that, economic and social justice, civil rights and what youre going to do about Police Brutality and criminal Justice Reform that seems to be the biggest crowd pleaser here, the biggest applause getter here, talking to some folks just mingling around here, thats what they want to hear about. We have heard from the mothers of trayvon martin. A lot of focus on that. What is the Civil Rights Community going to do and how will they counter what they suspect will be some dark years in the Donald Trump Administration. Guys . Hans nichols, thank you. We will continue to monitor the r rally. Donald trump from icon john lewis. I dont see the president elect as a legitimate president. I think the russians participated in helping this man get elected. And they helped destroy the capped daes of hillary clinton. Lewis added he wont attend the inauguration. Itll be the first time hes skipped the event for 30 years. Thank you for joining me this afternoon. Thank you. Can i start with the news of the day . Im interested on the congressmans comments. Do you agree and how significant is it to have a capitol hill veteran, a man like john lewis questioning the president elects legitimacy . At this legitimate as we approach Inauguration Day president elect trump will be president trump. Regardless the congressman also understands that he has to be worked with particularly on things that we agree with. There may be a lot of things that many do not agree with but the things that we agree with certainly need to be embraced. The goal has to be to bring america together. I was reading your oped on voting rights, taking a view that might surprise some people. Can you explain what youre thinking . Talk to me about what you wrote. What we stated was one of the major provisions is an i. D. What had been proposed was an executive order by the president to actually say voting pictures could be put on Social Security cards as one example. And everybody has a Social Security card so could have their picture done. 6,000 or 7,000 where that could be done. Certainly president obama challenged us in one of his last speeches. He still has others perhaps to make, about the issue of fixing the voting rights. I think with president elect trump he has the same opportunity. He says the system is broken. This is one remedy that at least gives everybody an i. D. You see commonality here. Listen, we may not agree but there are some things we can agree on and try to move forward to get something done. Absolutely. It should be easier to vote than xhaleninging. Many states, and we havent seen all the information come out yet but probably states where rights were suppressed because they did not have the proper i. D. To vote. I think this is something that needs to be addressed. We need to make it as easy as possible for individuals to vote. Women and men gave their lights so we could have that right. Something thats been bothering me for a couple of days and i just decided to bring it up. One of my friends is a die hard republican, if you will, and he tweeted after president obama spoke in chicago, look, politics aside, i may not agree with everything president obama says but hes a good man, a good father, a good husband, a decent guy. That was his tweet. Can i tell you the reaction was brutal. I could not believe he was attacked people called him all sorts of names. I thought, they dont even know him. Hes a bigtime republican. It was just he said president obama was a decent man. Thats all he said. It was so visceral and so mean. I was scrolling through it and it was almost heartbreaking this is where we are that we cant say politics aside this is a decent person. They wouldnt even give him that. Well, that, unfortunately, is where we are. The reality is that what he said was something that needed to be said and more and more people need to Say Something as opposed to people being silent. Technology gives us a way to hide from who we are today, unfortunately. Many things people believe that they are saying through technology so thats a good thing that we know where people are. I dont feel like im naive but i didnt realize i dont want to sound naive in saying i didnt realize there was so much hate but were walking past folks, our kids are playing together, and its so much hate. I have to believe there are far more people of goodwill than people of ill will. Ill will probably exists but there are far more people of goodwill. I think thats what we have to tune into as a human race. The confirmation hearings for jeff sessions. Your mom wrote a letter against his appointment as federal judge. Would you stand by that or does he deserve a chance to show that hes changed . I think everybody deserves a chance. What im not able to evaluate is if theres really been any change. In relation shship to who he wa and the things he said then. Hopefully it will all evolve. Hopefully theres been evolution and hopefully there are individuals who support him, wouldhallenge him in times when he may feel going in one direction or another may be wrong for some. This morning president obama delivered his final weekly address. Id like to play a piece of that for you now and then talk. It has been the honor of my life to serve you as president. I am even more optimistic about our kcountrys promise and look forward to working along your side as a citizen for all my days that remain. What do you see as the key parts of president obamas legacy and what do you think well be talking about or will still be affecting us 20 years from now . 20 wow. Im not sure that i have looked out that far how about tomorrow. What i can say weve got to look at where president obama started. The worst economy in the world. The whole World Economy was about to collapse and he was able to get fund iing through congress to actually bail out wall street, to bail out also the auto industry. I think what people are challenged about is why people were not able to be bailed out more. And when you look at health care, which is huge, regardless of if it changes names, the the reality is that is going to be something that has to be put in place, health care. When you look at lgbtq rights and marriage equality, that is the kinds of things people will be saying is a significant legacy. Were two days away from honoring your fathers memory. What do you want people to remember . Well, what i want people to remember perhaps more than anything else is that the work is not complete. People say celebration. I say observe. I dont know how we celebrate when women still make less than men. I dont know how we celebrate when 50 million or 60 Million People live in poverty. I dont know how we celebrate when violence is at epidemic levels in communities not just colors but in communities all over americ i dont know how we celebrate wh we are denigrating each other as opposed to finding ways to embrace each other. We have to find a way to extract the good out of individuals. My father may have looked at somebody and said that person may be 80 bad. Im not going to focus on that. I will focus on the 20 good. Thats what im going to work to extract out of that person. Thats what we have to do, extract the good out of americans because americans are good people. This is a great nation. And thats what i believe my father would want to see us working together to create the beloved community. Moving forward as we count down to Inauguration Day would you say youre hopeful, optimistic, cautious or how would you describe how you feel . I would always always must be i would say cautiously optimistic and, again, only because being negative doesnt achieve anything. The fact of the matter is for the next four years and the next two years before an election takes place, two years and the next election, people need to be organizing like never before at the Grassroots Level to truly understand. I mean, as a democracy were one of the worst participants in the world in terms of voter turnout. If more americans had turned out perhaps there would have been a different outcome. People still are not voting. Why are we not voting or understanding that you dont have a vote to lose, that people gave their lives so we might embrace and have the right to vote. I could talk to you for the next three hours, my friend. It was a pleasure talking with you. Thank you for the opportunity. Still ahead, republican senator marco rubio really vote against Rex Tillerson for s sec of state. Hi, im frank. I take movantik for oic, opioidinduced constipation. Had a bad back injury, my doctor prescribed opioids which helped with the chronic pain, but backed me up bigtime. Tried prunes, laxatives, still constipated. Had to talk to my doctor. She said, how long you been holding this in . laughs that was my movantik moment. 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Tell your doctor about side effects and medicines you take. Movantik may interact with them causing side effects. Have your movantik moment. Talk to your doctor about opioidinduced constipation. More than a dozen civil Rights Groups are gathering. The rally started near washington monument. The goal is to preserve and protect americans civil rights and the underlying theme is criminal Justice Reform. The number of congressmen boycotting Donald Trumps inauguration has risen to 11 today. The news tweeted last hour alongside with had this, a picture of congressman and noted civil rights activist john lewis, making waves today for telling my colleague chuck todd he doesnt believe trumpa legitimate president. He responded on twitter calling lewis all talk no action. This morning Jennifer Holliday canceled her performance at trumps inauguration. Citing pressure. The dream girl star said she didnt realize the appearance might be seen as an endorsement of trump. President barack obama delivered his final weekly address. He offered thanks. Whether weve seen eye to eye or rarely agreed at all. My coveringses wi conversations you at farms and on factory floors, at diners and on distant military outposts, all are what you made me a better president and a better man. Political reporter for the Los Angeles Times and molly hooper for the hill. Good afternoon to both of you. Good afternoon. Seema, ill start with you. Something went awry on russias involvement in Election Hacking. A number of democrats said they lost faith in fbi director james comey. What happened . This is a story that will continue to grow. Weve seen it and the hearing for Rex Tillerson, the president elects appointee to be secretary of state. Questioning russias role in the election. Vladimir putins direct involved. I think this will continue to grow. He was such a central figure in the election. He spoke publicly about Hillary Clintons emails but not the other things coming up now, the dossier we dont know whether its true or not but some alleged controversial behavior. He didnt talk about that during the election. Molly, what was the fallout of the meeting . This is the first time you had the democrats and republicans in the same room with the heads of you had director clapper, comey. All briefing on the russian hacking. Debbie Wasserman Schultz was then head of the dnc. Remember, she lost her job once the emails came out basically showing she was kind inform cahoots with the clinton camp. So debbi Wasserman Schultz according to our reporting gets up and just goes after comey saying if the russians were hacking if the russians were hacking dnc websites and our emails why didnt you come to me. You should have come to me. Comey said we went to the right people. She kept press iing comey and h would only give his standard answer. Democrats were furious he was sort of toeing the line and did a great disservice to the democrats but not going directly to debbie Wasserman Schultz. I was reading he was nonjudgmental until the last 15 minutes and i thought you know going into this what this is about. I was surprised how angry everybody was. What happened . The other thing is they wanted to know if comey was investigating trump ties with russia. Other incidents that happened since then and he wouldnt say. Comey would not say if hes investigating ties between trump and russia. That made them very upset saying there is a double standard and made comey look like he wasnt fit to hold the position. I see. Lets talk about the confirmation process. Marco rubio grilling secretary of state nominee Rex Tillerson. Is Vladimir Putin a war criminal . I would not use that term. Let, let me describe the situation in aleppo and perhaps that will help you reach that conclusion. I understand there is aody of record in the public domain. Im sure theres a body in the classified domain and i think in order to deal with a serious question like this it is in the public domain. Fully informed before advising the president. It is never acceptable, you would agree, for a military to specifically target civilians which is whats happened there through the russian military. Your ability to cite that is globally accepted. Is tillerson at risk of not getting confirmed despite a gop majority . I think if anybody is at risk, he is at risk. Well have to see where this goes. Senator rubio certainly put down a marker there. He strongly questioned him. Is Vladimir Putin a war criminal. If senator rubio decides not to support this, that would perhaps allow some other republicans to perhaps join him and follow suit. Keep in mind. You see the scrum of people asking questions. A number of hearings went on. We he would talk to senators like lindsey graham. A former rival. Also we talked to, you know, various other republicans who were skeptical. Mccain wouldnt tell us whether he would vote for tillerson or not. Lindsey graham was concerned about tillerson. Rubio, graham and mccain and all the democrats vote against him, hes not going to get in. But whats been fascinating to watch is the senators like lindsey graham, ted cruz, and even john mccain who had stakes in the fight and how theyre going after and asking questions of Donald Trumps nominees. Thats one aspect to keep an he eye on. Its a good point. Get your popcorn, my goodness. I like the way youre talking about it. If i had the volume down i would think were you talking about movies. I love my job. It was good talking to you. The signature accomplishment of his administration but did president obama fail to convince americans that obamacare is r l really working . Thats ahead. And well keep an eye on the civil rights rally in the Nations Capital where speakers are sounding a warning about the Incoming Trump administration. At least 17 civil Rights Groups are participating. Organizers are concerned about how a Trump Presidency will impact issues that matter most to them. We are being tested right now. Whether or not we have courage enough, hope enough, fight enough, loud enough to do what is necessary. Furious democrats let fbi director comey have it. A member of the House Intelligence Committee will join us. Also the trump tweet effect. What do americans think about his twitter outbursts . Everything your family touches sticks with them. Make sure the germs they bring home dont stick around.