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And safe workplaces order, which required wage transparency among federal contractors. he signed joint resolution 43, which gave states the authority to halt federal funding of family planning services to health clinics like planned parenthood, and he's appointed the fewest number of women to cabinet posts since ronald reagan. joining me right now from berlin is nbc news senior white house correspondent hallie jackson. hallie, thank you for joining us from a city i've come to like quite a bit, berlin. what was -- give us the sense of the room, how lagarde behaved. i watched her facial expressi...

Guy who is cheating on his wife and wrecks the car to deflect the discussion. the truth is that we have a serious problem of collusion and with the russians by u.s. persons and that the russians engaged in a very serious effort to undermine our election, and it's incumbent on us as democrats and republicans to get to the bottom of it. >> what's your biggest question for the director of the fbi tomorrow, james comey, and what do you expect him to say to you in response? >> he's probably not going to tell me who is under investigation, but i intend to ask him about hypotheticals of how the russi...

Republican president might do. >> not so. a number of his picks for cabinet posts were anti-worker, anti-union. you know, puzder was a terrible pick for the secretary of labor. devos for education. i could go on down a number of those lines. and then just recently, i mean, he did a couple of things that fly in the face of what he said in the campaign. he took away -- he signed an executive order to do away with the fiduciary rule. the fiduciary rule says if i give you economic advice, it has to be in your best interest, not my profit line. it would cost workers will get 25% less in their retir...

Just another thing that president obama has done while leaving the white house to try to gum up the works as he leaves. >> senator, are you comfortable with somebody having a mental disability and having a gun? >> you can take a look at what the constitution says which is what i do as a physician who spent lots of time working with patients with all different backgrounds. they're clearly people labeled one way or another, and i'm not comfortable with this late midnight recommendation by the president as he's leaving office. >> senator, i want to ask you about scott pruitt. as you well know, de...

Organizations who are behind him with the senate being behind him and i think in that kind of fight, he wins. the democrats i would guess won't even threaten to ames: it's an extraordinary moment we have come a supreme court nomination pending at the outset of an administration with all of these nominees for cabinet posts still pending. as we reported earlier, rex tillerson was confirmed by the united states senate today to serve as secretary of state. the vote there was 56-43. our research shows that the highest number of nay votes for any secretary of state in history. some of the recent vot...