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interference in our election and how donald trump s pick for attorney general could affect brutality cases, including the case of eric garner. good morning, i m tamron hall. four days until donald trump is sworn into as president. 26 democratic members of congress say they ll join john lewis in boycotting the inauguration. congressman lewis told chuck todd he doesn t see the president-elect as a legitimate president because of the interference from russia in the election. here s what incoming white house press secretary sean spicer told me on the today show this morning. congressman lewis started this with your own chuck todd by saying that the election was illegitima illegitimate. now they are saying john lewis started it and that is their justification for some of the comments coming from the leader of the free world. now we ll bring congressman lewis live to you in this hour. let s get to kristen welker. she joins us live from trump tower here in new york. a lo ....
conversations with the russians of the trump team. plus, selma, alabama, 52 years after bloody sunday. today a re-enactment symbolic for the fight of voting rights in the 1960s and again today. the white house is now asking congress to widen its probe into russian interference in the 2016 election. their logic? they want to include the potential abuse of executive branch powers. the move comes after president trump accused former president obama of wiretapping trump tower in the week before the election. spokesperson for former president obama denied obama or any white house official ever ordered surveillance on a u.s. citizen. former director of national intelligence, james clapper, also refutes the president s president trump s claims here. in an exclusive interview on nbc s meet the press. take a listen here. for the part of the national security apparatus that i oversaw as dni, there was no such wiretap activity mounted against the president-elect at the t ....
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one of president trump s senior advisers changed plans, traveling to mar-a-lago after that tweet storm. and then the so-called winter white house. how the president s weekend trips to his private resort are causing problems for businesses in that area, and now the city wants payback. but we want to begin with president trump taking a fresh jab at president obama this morning in tweets, saying who was it that secretly said to tell the russian president, tell vladimir that after the election i ll have more flexibility ? president trump is referring to president obama s hot mike moment with the then outgoing russian president, dmitry medvedev. meanwhile, his former campaign manager, cory coreylewandowski. what we ve seen from the previous administration is they did spend time listening to conversations between then senator jeff sessions and the ambassador to russia while he was in his u.s. senate office. if that were to take place, which supposedly did take place, wh ....
mississippi. including one dedicated to the state s role in the civil rights movement. that event boycotted by several prominent african-american leaders like congressman john lewis, bennie thompson and the mayor of jackson, mississippi. the president did not mention the controversy in his remarks. he used his speech to pay tribute to civil rights activists, noting the contribution of the late met ger evers and every honored. today we strive to be worthy of their sacrifice. we pray for inspiration from their example. we want our country to be a place where every child from every background can grow up free from fear, innocent of hatred and surrounded by love, opportunity, and hope. let s go to white house cour correspondent jeff bennett near the mara laug mar-a-lago resort and what was the president s comments. the reaction to the room to the comments, from what i m told, this person was struck by the fact that the president appeared to hit all of the right note ....