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Responsibility is to champion exxon mobil. he's going champion america now. >> all over d.c. people are lining up. james baker and continued lisa rice who called him an excellent choice with broad international conspiracy and former defense secretary robert gates who sites his great integrity. in fact those three power players actually suggested tillerson to trump. they also worked with tillerson and exxon at paid consultants. it is that sort of coziness and the oil giant's vast economic influence that concerns crit iics, especially the boss's deep ties to russia. >> anybody who's a friend of ...

State john kerry says that kind of move to undercut negotiations is unprecedented. >> my reaction to the letter was utter disbelief. during my 29 years here in the senate, i never heard of nor even heard of it being proposed anything comparable to this. >> well, at the heart of the issue is something called the logan act. if you haven't heard of it before, you're not alone. tom foreman knows about it and as he's about to explain, it's a law designed to keep you and me, private u.s. citizens, from intruding on foreign policy. but it isn't used very much. >> reporter: a new york paper is calling...

Republicans are defending their actions. >> this is ultimately about stopping iran from getting a nuclear weapon. >> all over d.c. crit riks talking about the logan act. what on earth is the logan act? a relic of history. a law that grew out of a spat between the united states and france way back in the late 1700s, cue the fife music. president john adams federalist party wanted war, but a doctor named james logan traveled to france and brokered a deal to stop it the senators were furious and passed a law to make such diplomacy punishable by fines in prison. jescy jackson's talks with russia a...

>> windy, school's cancelled. >> i don't know. my guys had a snow day today. neither went in because my wife was home alone with them the. she said, i don't know if i can deal with it. all right, fine. do what you want to do. they are in a tent watching "frozen" over and over, their new favorite movie. i started in dallas. woke up at 5:00. made it 7:00 a.m. we're a hovering over d.c. and the pilot's like, everything at laguardia is closed. nobody is going to laguardia. we'll hover over reagan and hope they let us in. he said, okay, we'll race to jfk. we made it in. just a different airport. >>...

Air and share with all the viewers around the country. >> and we fully expect president obama will submit himself to questions from the d.c. press corps but it is important that local press have a chance to ask the president of the united states questions, not just idle casual questions about local food preferences, but the questions that are important regionally and specifically locally, and so the d.c. press corps gets plenty of opportunities to grill president obama and also to grill jay carney, his spokesperson -- >> not lately. >> it's an important thing for local reporters, local press, ...