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let s face it. the big show is going to be the supreme court. and i think also the planned parenthood funding. some republicans are squishy on that. one other thing he said this morning that will cause concerns on the hill from his party was talking about a border tax, instituting a border tax on companies that ship jobs overseas. that s something when he talked about that after the election, republicans were running away from that. majority leader of the house, kevin mccarthy warned it could start a trade war. paul ryan started to distance himself from that saying we ll worry about doing this in a larger tax reform bill. trump today made it very clear that he wants to go that route. as president, you do have fairly wide latitude to impose tariffs. does he carry through with some of those threats? i agree with karen. a lot of stuff is symbolic. we knew tpp was dead. a symbolic move. when we get into details of legislative push on obamacare and supreme court nominee and on ....
this is what we do. we protest when we disagree and i don t think there s any reason for people to be told to come together and support this if they don t believe in it. i m not suggesting support tonight s nominee but don t plan the protest before you know who the nominee is. and that is where we are. we re at the point of transparent obstruction on both sides, olivia nuzzi and david jolly, thank you. the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. good evening. thanks, my friend. thank you for joining us at this hour. this is a big important historic news day. good to have you here. thank you for watching the news on a night like this and thank you for watching it here. antonin scalia, nino to his friends, he was beloved by his fellow supreme court justices. even the justices who disagreed with h the most, perhaps escially the justices who disagreed with him the most in terms of their day jobs. they loved his company. justice scalia and justice ruth ....
confronting internal revolt over the house health care bill and his unsubstantiated claim that president obama wiretapped phones at trump tower. a lot of americans need to know. reporter: amid this turmoil, fbi director james comey could confirm today whether the bureau is investigating ties between trump s campaign and russia. leaders of a senate judiciary subcommittee also hopeful comey will also respond to their request to provide evidence regarding the wiretapping acquisition. they re about to screw up big time if they keep running to the intel committee and not answer that letter. reporter: earlier this week sean spicer qualified trump s accusation, but now he s sounding defiant. he feels very confident it will ultimately come of this, it will vindicate him. reporter: lawmakers on both sides of the aisle showing growing frustration about the white house s failure to provide any evidence to support trump s extraordinary claim. i think, frankly, the administra ....
kellyanne conway had to say about it today. that cannot be verified. that s a classified briefing. we should all be increasingly confirmed that we have, quote, intelligence officials, divulging information unsourced, unnamed to the rest of us. just to smear the president-elect of the united states we now have intelligence officials divulging information they re sworn not to divulge. we should be very concerned about that. i don t even think this is fake news. i think it s just fake. i would take the news word right out of it. reporter: so what we re seeing from donald trump and his advisers is pushback against the intelligence community but taking issue with the underlying allegations that cnn has not cooperated and have not been reporting. and reince priebus, trump s chief of staff, said he asked donald trump directly about some of these underlying allegations. donald trump apparently told him they were complete garbage but in more colorful language. you can bet this will ....
hackers were targeting the dnc and other democratic operations. by the way, as candidate trump was publicly calling on the russians to publicly hack hillary clinton s e-mails. we don t know the contact or motive before the conversations, but the word they happened is a big real development. we should note the kremlin and donald trump this morning are calling it fake news. cnn s jim sciutto has been working sources all day, all night on this story. jim, bring us up to speed on where we are right now at 9:01 eastern time. i should knnote calling it fe news without the president or the white house responding to the substance of the reporting which we ve asked them to do. let s get to what the reporting is. one, two things caused alarm, raised red flags in u.s. law enforcement and intelligence. first, the volume and frequency of the communications between trump advisers and the russians. communications happen during campaigns, typically at a much lower level and much less frequent t ....