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Went on to say he would recuse himself from the russia investigation if it came to nap he would be open to that. he didn't announce he is recusing himself but open to reap accuse himself. >> congressman, as you said before, though, he did in question with al franken he did explicitly say that he was seen as a surrogate of the campaign and he certainly never met with any russian officials, right? >> the russian ambassador is a russian official. it looks looks like he is trying to be cute with his words now when clearly had he a number of opportunities to be truthful about a meeting with russian...

The state dement. one ofhe problems, as you know, when the democrats have drug out all the confirmation processes, then the secretaries themselves haven't been able to put in their own team. i know that is the case in all the cabinets, they're now trying to backfill some of the human bodies that they need just to get the machine to run on time. again, i don't know where they are on a spokesman, but it is very important that -- >> couldn't they pick staff, phil? he didn't just get confirmed, it's been almost a few weeks now. and you can always be looking at staff, that's part of the transition ...

Confirmed as secretary of state by the full senate but the president's pick for education secretary, betsy devos at this hour, she's in jeopardy. what exactly happened in the past hour to make that so? coming up. mr. gorsuch goes to washington. president trump's pick for supreme court making the rounds on capitol hill. will he be confirmed? democrats ready for a battle. president trump suggesting mitch mcconnell should go nuclear. what that means, we'll explain coming up. let's get right to capitol hill, though. kasie hunt has been covering all these fast-movingevelopments today on the var...

Member of cloongress or not -- >> it was the second one wre he was directly involved -- >> wait a minute. he said didn't you know about all of these? six companies, specific to a piece of legislation. he said he didn't know about any of them. on this other one he said, oh, yes, i vetted that company myself. i purchased the stock. >> it's important to remember, confirmation processes are like a campaign in a way in that it's not -- this is a mistake hillary clinton made. her defense on the e-mail stuff was all legal. i've done nothing wrong. in the court of public opinion that is a presidential...

Inauguration tomorrow. for today, he is at the concert that is just getting under way. we'll hear him speak. they had a runup to it where some of the people who couldn't get into the shortened parade had a chance to perform. then he'll be heading to blair house tonight for the traditional overnight before tomorrow. >> covering the inauguration on thground level. thanks. as donald trump put it, transition process he thinks is going well. still under way. today steve mnuchin, nominated for treasury secretary and rick perry, he is the energy secretary pick, both addressed controversies that have ...