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Will feel pressure to purchase, partner or contract with corporate or non-profit entities you and your family invested in should you be confirmed as secretary? >> i can commit to you that nobody will feel any pressure like that. >> well, as you know, this committee has not received your required paperwork from the office of government ethics, and they have told me they cannot provide me assurance right now that your conflicts of interest have been identified and resolved by the office. so, again, will you be providing this committee with three years of tax returns? that we've requested? >> sen...

At this time. this is very reminiscent of the deepwater horizon disaster in 2010 that left 11 people dead. we will keep you posted with more information on this breaking story. ainsley: 1200 loss will professors sending a letter to congress opposing the nomination of jeff sessions for attorney general saying in part nothing in senator sessions's public life since 1986 has convinced us that he is a different man than the 39-year-old attorney who was deemed too racially insensitive to be a federal district court judge. steve: can they stop him? judge andrew napolitano, you have seen a lot of con...

A kremlin investigation mode in many cases, they look at it in a different way. i think that there is universal belief that russia has been involved. to what extent whether they were trying to tilt it to one person or another is where they separate. we are going to go through an indepth review ourselves. i think the committee and the armed services committee will do the same. hopefully we will get to a place where we have unanimity. do i think they tried to sow confusion? absolutely and they have been successful in doing so. >> bob corker in these confirmation processes, always a pleasure, sir...

Concerned. no longer requiring 60 votes to break a filibuster but 51 votes right now. the democrats have 55 members in the senate to 45 republicans. so they can obviously deal much more easily with those confirmation processes. once again, gloria borger, our chief political analyst with us, dana bash, the state of the union anchor candy crowley. let's go to capitol hill and get the reaction. i don't know if there's reaction to what we just heard from the president, from the republicans, dana, but i assume it's going to be very negative. >> absolutely. because just as candy was pointing out, wh...

Right now. >> a tax code overhaul? dare we even say that phrase? >> within two months, no chance. >> the tax code is being gradually overhauled, yes. i don't know that there'll be a big deal on taxes the way we were talking about last year but i think there'll be some tax changes as well. the details of those, matt's in the right direction, upper income americans, making sure they can't deduct as much money i think is where we're headed. >> we're going to start with these confirmation processes. how quickly can this stuff get going? >> who knows. i think there are some people spoiling for an i...