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At todays sessions hearing. The equivalent of being made to go to the back of the bus. Major holes in tillersons sanctuary. Were we lobbying before or against . Im a germaphobe, believe me. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york, im chris hayes. There are just nine days until donald trump becomes president of the United States. Today we were inundated with news, much of it disturbing, about what to expect when he takes office. In fact there was so much news today it is, frankly, impossible for us to fully cover what we saw and heard, which may well have been the point. We are...

How important this process is, to getting confirmation, as we saw what happened in 1986. More importantly, i think he took head on a lot of the critics and criticism of decisions that hes made and votes hes cast. And i thought in particular, with cory booker becoming historic, you saw the first sho for the 2020 democratic nomination for president. Lets just put that on the table. Certainly, thats part of the drama and theater of what he chose to do. But i also found it somewhat ironic that just in january of 2016, in legislation that he cosponsored with mr. Sessions, that celebrated those who ...

Himself. the president on this russia thing feels he shouldn't have. what do you think? >> two days before he recused himself in a phone call, i suggested to jeff sessions under the situational way it is, he would have to recuse himself. i don't back off of that advice. i'm not saying he did it because of my advice. i'm sure he did it because of the ethics panels within the justice department said he had to do it. >> neil: all right. the fact that he didn't run this by the president, we're told the president says that show as lack of loyalty. >> okay. go back to something eric holder proudly t...

He's scared of mueller. >> the special council that ends up being robert mueller and a high regard for james comey. trump got himself in a terrible situation. i don't think chris was going out there and being hey, what a crazy idea. i bet that chatted about it. i think he won't do it because it would cause such a backlash and rosenstein won't do it. i think trump wants to do it. >> i would be agreeing, but i didn't think he would fire comey. i didn't think of it on the day of perhaps even with getting a hint it could happen. he knows how to do self infli inflicted wounds. what does he think an...

That, this praisefest, in which the president sits and just sort of soaks it all in. thank you. i appreciate. that's not a normal thing we have seen. that is the media's job. the media's job is not to say, hey, mr. president, great job. love that cabinet meeting. really solid. >> i do think it is important to acknowledge that criticism of the news media is perfectly appropriate and often justified and so there's nothing inherently wrong with the president saying that we do a bad job at this or that. his rhetoric, talking about our hate and we're enemies of the american people, that i think -- ...