lots of luck in your senior year, mr. trump. look, there is a lot -- here's what i think? >> what does he need to know? >> the public has moved far beyond where mr. trump is on all of those issues relating to the social agenda as well as health care. the public has concluded that health care is a basic right, as much a right as getting an education. >> but he was elected on those slogans. >> he was elected on the slogans. but there wasn't -- look he lost the popular vote but for 175,000 votes in three states it would be a different outcome. so there is a thousand reasons why you could attribute our candidate's loss. it could be anything from the failure to speak to the constituents i'm giving her credit of having a relationship with, working class and middle class people. it could be what happened with the fi. it could be a whole range of things but this is one election andrea where i don't think the issues really up attituded. a school you know well, yurtd of pennsylvania, the annenberg school, they did a study showing how few minutes were devoted to any issue. look, i'll

so mr. trump is the commander in chief with the final word. if the truth is what he determines it to be, in a nation that is divided, we have a problem. i would make very quickly two points. number one, i think there is a distinction at this point, although i don't take any joy in saying this, there is a distinction between the american government and the american people. this is not a government that i approve of, at least mott in the way it's presently being run. there's a distinction between the government and the people. i think mr. trump and those around him will have to learn when you sign on in public service, you have to be welcoming of a public critique. the questions start about how you juxtapose with what he's saying versus what they are saying. again, this narrative is going to get hard to follow. >> tavis smiley always brings the english language with it. tavis, thank you. ely, nicole, thank you all very much. our next break. when we come back, what vice president joe biden now has in common with a pope, other than being a fellow

mr. young, newly elected to the senate, we welcome you here, and this is our first public appearance and we thank you for your interest in our country's future and thank you for being here, and mr. rob portman, he serves on more committees than anybody in the senate, and we thank you for your responsible thinking and leadership, and want to thank jeff markly who cares deeply about these issues, for joining this committee, for your principled efforts in so many regards, and i know they will continue here. and cory booker, a new start to the senate and i know will play a big and vigorous role here and we thank you for being here today. just to give you a sense of what is going to happen today, we have four very distinguished people, two of whom are colleagues who will introduce the nominee, and then we will move to opening statements. i will give an opening statement, and our distinguished ranking member will give an opening statement, and then our nominee, mr. rex tillerson will give his.

what are mr. trump's ideas to address those crises? >> reporter: mr. trump has said he would keep the idea of preexisting conditions not, you know, stopping people from getting insurance, that he would keep staying on your plan until you're 26 years old you should your parents' health care. what are you worried about would not be in this replacement plan that you need to see in order to support it? >> well, first of all, i'm worried they may be throwing 20 million people off of health insurance. i'm worried about caps. right now we force the insurance companies to make sure that if you have a very serious illness that runs up a big cost, they will continue to pay it. >> reporter: right. they cap it at, say, $100,000. >> they may say you have a terrible form of cancer and we only pay $100,000. we remove it and pay your medical needs. i'm worried if you take back into the states and give states discretion, a lot of patient protection acts we have developed to protect people will disappear. >> reporter: a lot of people in social media are worried about bi

mr. trump had a lot to say about brexit in the "times of london." check this one out. >> i thought the uk was so smart in getting out. obama said they'll go to the back of the line meaning if it does happen and it was bad statement. i think you're doing great. >> talking beauty of brexit. kelly is live in london. what's the word on these comments? >> stephanie, generally the reaction has been very positive here in britain particularly because of those comments on trade. the prime minister's office said today that theresa may welcome's the president-elect's comments on negotiating a trade deal quickly. it's a very important trading partner to the u.k. the foreign secretary echoing that saying it's very good news. but on the flip side, comments about germany's auto industry, immigration in europe, and the future of the european union not going over well with european leaders. the president-elect said that allowing refugees and migrants into germany was a catastrophic mistake and that he expects more countries to leave the european union because of it.

lots of luck on your senior year, mr. trump. look, it's -- there's a lot -- here's what i th >> what does he need to know? >> the public has moved far beyond where mr. trump is on all these issues relating to the social agenda as well as health care. health care is a basic right. >> he was elected on those slogans. >> well, he was elected on the slogans, but it wasn't -- look, he lost the popular vote, and but for 175,000 votes in three states, it would be a different outcome. there's 1,000 reasons why could you attribute our candidate's loss. it could be anything from the failure to speak to the constituency. i'm giving credit for having a relationship with. working class and middle class people. it could be what happened with the fbi. it could be a whole range of things. you know, this is one election, andrea, where i don't think the issue is really intruded. >> one of the big issues is he said drain the swamp. now, he is -- he -- yesterday he repeated that he is not going to release his taxes ever. and says he doesn't need a

and i strongly support mr. trump for president, did since early september. and i wish him well. but i'm not really functioning as an advisor anymore. just felt like things had come to the point that i ought to make sure that nobody gets a false impression. i didn't want to be claiming that i'm something i'm not. >> whatever the reasoning, the timing is obviously notable. this is no kind of quiet friday news dump departure or an exit over the holidays that just occurred. woolsey is bowing out on the eve

trump's 16 minute inaugural address, while pleasing supporters, was a declaration of combat. mr. trump presented a dark, distaupe yan picture of the country he is inherits. >> forgotten men and women in poverty, rusted out factories derived of all knowledge. the crime and the gangs and the drugs, this american carnage stops right now and stops right now. >> president trump proposed a solution more pop you list and national list than it was conservative. his rallying cry: >> america first. >> is borrowed from charles lind berg, though mr. trump and others have rejected lind berg's isolationism and antiseminichl. around the world foreign leaders were rattled by his declaration, worrying it means an end to u.s. commitment to international agreements and institutions. and joining me now is the counselor to president trump, kelly an conway. welcome to the white house north lawn, which will come a familiar place for you, i think, for the next few years. let me begin with this question. the presidency is about choices so i'm curious why president trump suppose to send out his press secr

trump's visit in light of the travel ban. there's been a petition to block mr. trump's visit now having 460,000 signature, and that's more than double since i was on air. and taken up for debate in parliament. we heard from the olympic champion mo fara. he's bn knighted by the queen and a british citizen of somali orig origin, wrote on facebook it's deeply troubling that i will have to tell my children daddy may not be able to come home. this is not playing well abroad and certainly not with america's western allies. >> we've been watching this petition as well and with my product assistants in the studio, it's going up so quickly and thousands by the minute, it seems. with regard of what they're trying to do, preventing donald trump from making a state visit, he has been invited by theresa may and presumably has accepted and he's supposed to address parliament and all of that would go awry if this petition becomes strong enough. >> and an invitation from the queen herself. this is a very awkward, diplomatic political situation and a lot of pressure domestic on

but mr. trump has done business there. egypt. mr. trump has done business there. the united arab emirates, mr. trump has done business there. by his own rationale, these other countries should be included. why is he not doing it? we think it has to do, in part, with his business practices. this is wrong and unconstitutional. >> the administration will push back on that about the conflicts and the courts have acted within the last 24 hours. this will continue as we see these cases move forward in city and city. norm eisner, great to have you on. >> thanks for having me. >> ft. lauderdale, to florida beyond the protests and trump's refugee ban creating shock waves in the corporate world. a response when we come back. >>> this is new york city, people that have amassed in lower manhattan, traveling around battery park. many protests not just around new york city. we've been watching these around the country, people that are not fans of the trump immigration ban. it's not just lawmakers in d.c. or the protesters on the streets that are making their voices heard about

now mr. trump pulls ahead of mr. obama late yesterday morning through the early evening before the president reclaimed the lead. now, in terms of the issues people were searching for when it comes to the outgoing president, his successor topped that list. mr. trump was followed by chelsea manning, israel, edward snowden and ill great lakmmigra. when it comes to the current president, immigration has dominated the searches over the last two days followed by russia. obamacare and jobs transitioned in there and isis stayed at the bottom of the chart. president obama tops the list followed by donald trump. george w. bush comes in third. while abraham lincoln and john f. kennedy round out the top five. the bottom half of the top ten includes ronald reagan, bill clinton, george washington, fdr and thomas jefferson. i'm so happy to be here at the dubliner. i can't believe it's been eight years since our first show here, alex. and a lot of the crowd, a lot of familiar faces, are all here. we're drinking guinness and getting

lots of luck in your senior year, mr. trump. he lost the popular vote and but for 175,000 votes in three states it would be a different outcome so there's a thousand reasons why you could attribute our candidate's loss. it could be anything from the failure to speak to the constituency i'm giving credit for having a relationship with, working class and middle-class people, it could be what happened with the fbi. it could be a whole range of things but this is one election, andrea, where i don't think the issues really intruded. i'd lay you 8-5 that you ask any informed person in the news media and say "what was hillary's position on free college? can you explain it? what was hillary's position on helping people with free child care?" those issues never got into the game. all the outrageous things that were said and done by the candidate sucked the oxygen out of the air so there's never a discussion about the economic issues. it never got there. it wasn't the press's fault. i mean if you get a chance to have to talk about whether

mr. trump obviously has sort of enunciate ad a more sympathetic approach. john mccain was just in ukraine this weekend talking about standing with them against the russians. i think that division is going to be one of the crucial things to look at. >> we heard from congressman schiff saying mr. trump needs to stop talking this way to have any credibility. any sense -- is he going to stop talking this way since it worked for him so far? >> it has absolutely worked for him so far. when he has been saying you will find out what i know tuesday or wednesday, that has been particularly surprising. in fact, jarring. i certainly wonder as i'm sure you do what it is we are going to learn tuesday or wednesday. i would imagine that he tamps down that kind of rhetoric once he does take office. he probably will hear that from his advisors that he should probably cut that out. in terms of him casting some doubt on what the intelligence community found, that's not necessarily a bad thing. we have heard back and forth about whether you should cast some doubt about everythi

in some ways what mr. trump was controversial on that and other ways wasn't that controversial. he's talking about nato members spending more money, 2% of gdp is the required threshold, that is a line we've heard none other than from president barack obama. he said it in europe, i know you've been on some of the trips. he said it in canada where he stood in the well of the canadi canadian parliament and said we need more canada, we need canada to up their contributions to nato. in some ways controversial but in other ways a continuation of what president barack obama has been calling for and that is a morrow bust nato. one final of this, you haven't heard from the pentagon but heard from senator marco rubio. he's been critical on trump, that's significant because rex tillerson, trump's nominee for the secretary of state he could come up somehow caught in the crossfire on this. rubio not indicating which way he'll vote on tillerson. >> the real question is what the role of nato is and whether or not it's a relic. so how are the president-elect's comments being viewed by european

let me tell you, mr. trump has a long memory and he keeping a list. >> every critic, every detractor will have to bow down to president trump. everyone who doubted donald trump, whoever challenged him, it is ultimate revenge to become the most powerful man in the universe. >> oh, my god. this is lie emperor describes, we have to bow down. what do you think is she credible? >> no. >> i never blame a staffer because i been there. >> he wants her to talk like that. he wants to have that heard. >> he backed off that as well. it didn't go down inside the tent. >> if she's running engagement for the white house -- >> when you start a conversation -- the. >> the word clown has to be taken back. you can make fun of the guy for having too many bottle of water on television, but you're dealing with chuck schumer here. >> thank you. it is great to have you back. >>> coming up director presented overwhelming evidence that russia is behind the hacking. is he ever going to find a way out of this when it's convenient to

. >> mr. trump, we are here to end the trump carnage! >> reporter: in d.c., this was the scene on inauguration day. the next day, the washington mall packed with even more people, demonstrating on president trump's first day in office. in new york, thousands pounding the pavement in front of trump tower. >> i knew i could not sit at home. >> i think we need to be active, not just today but for the next four years. >> reporter: crowds calling on their leadership for change. >> what is your message for coming out here? >> my message is we're going to keep fighting. we're not going to let them take away women's rights. we're not going to let him defund planned parenthood and we're not going to let him repeal obamacare. >> reporter: in philadelphia, more than 50,000 people covered ben franklin parkway. out west, seattle police standing in solidarity with demonstrators for three miles, tweeting, "we're going the distance with you." at sundance film festival in utah, not even the snow could slow them down. >> the silver lining of this election

does bernie sanders have the answer for demrats in the fight against president-elect trump? >> mr. trump right now has got to do one of two things. >> i sit down with bernie sanders coming up. this is "mtp daily," and it starts right now. >>> good evening. i am chuck todd in washington, feeling a tad bit better. >>> senator bernie sanders, who has become the spiritual leader of sorts of the progressive opposition to trump will join me later in the program to discuss the democratic party's counter-attack against trump's attempts to repeal obamacare and we'll dive into tough questions about the future of the democratic party in the age of trump. >>> we begin tonight with an unprecedented rift involving president-elect trump, the u.s. intelligence community he is about to command, and the republican congress over a matter of national security. today the full extent of those divisions were exposed, right on national television. the top u.s. intelligence chiefs from the state department, our top spy agency and the nsa all testified on capitol hill defending themselves against president-

mr. trump. mr. trump, to be clear, you're standing on a republican -- >> i fully understand. >> the place where the rnc will give the nominee the nod. >> i fully understand. >> just to be clear, we're going to move on, you're not going to make the pledge? >> i'm not going to make the pledge at this time. >> that was august 2015. major point of contention in the republican party. major point of contention at the republican debates. lots and lots of drama around that issue. all the other candidates say, yeah, i'll make the pledge. but donald trump for a long time wouldn't. and that is why it was genuinely a big deal, it was the resolution to something around which there was a lot of tension. it was a big deal when on september 3rd, donald trump changed tack, finally announced that yes, he would sign this pledge. >> i have signed the problem. [ applause ] so i will be totally pledging my allegiance to the republican party and the conservative principles for which it stands. and we will go out and we wi

quote, mr. trump must be deprived of the use of guantanamo bay. it remains to be seen if and how the obama administration plans to respond. trump takes office in nine days. tick-tock. that does it for us tonight. we'll see you again tomorrow. now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel. it's good to be back. i walked right back into breaking news. we have a breaking news statement we're going have to read. thanks. breaking news is that the director of national intelligence james clapper says he just spoke with donald trump, and he released this statement. he said this evening i had the opportunity to speak with president-elect trump to discuss the recent media reports about our briefing last friday. he said we also discussed the private security company document which was widely circulated in recent months among the media, members of congress, and congressional staff even before the intelligence community became aware of it. i emphasized that this document is not a u.s. intelligence co

that portion is classified but that was part of mr. trump's briefing on friday. the president-elect reacted by neither accepting nor rejecting the finding. there was absolutely no evidence that the hacking affected the election results voting machines want touched. the president-elect tweeted. no one is suggesting that voting machines were impacted and the president-elect still appears to be largely on his own, at least within his party, on this dispute. >> reporter: donald trump is calling the controversy over russian interference during the presidential election a political witch hunt, putting himself at odds with the intelligence community. >> i think there is a difference between skepticism and disparagement. >> reporter: he's at odds with members of his own party. >> every american should be alarmed by russia's attacks on our nation. >> reporter: and he's even at odds with the outgoing president. >> we have to remind ourselves we're on the same team. vladimir putin is not on our team. >> reporter: after an intelligence briefing on friday, trump dialed down h

democratic process, de denigrat secretary clinton and they had a clear preference for mr. trump. but mr. trump who had dismissed charges of russian hacking as a witch hunt in a statement only acknowledged that russia, china and other countries are engaged in cyberhacking and emphasized that there was absolutely no effect on the outcome of the election. while the report did not make a political conclusion, it clearly pointed a finger at putin. >> i would have liked to see the president-elect finally acknowledge the obvious. everybody else has accepted this, it's time for him to. >> reporter: afterwards the vice president elect trying to make peace with intelligence officials and operatives said to be angered byes disparaging comments by the soon to be commander in chief. >> i know the president-elect and i both appreciate the sacrifices that the men an women who serve in our intelligence services around the country and around the world provide in contributing to the safety and security of the american people. >> reporter: and as mr. trump tries to move on, another signature campai

mr. tillerson and will again in the senate. i stand ready to help him succeed. i hope he does become the best secretary of state our nation ever had. i intend to hold him and the department of state accountable. >> after a contentious weekend that saw the president and press secretary pass along known falsehoods, sean spicer went to the briefing room and addressed the weekend's controversy over the facts around crowd sizes and the president's comments that maybe we will have another chance to keep iraq's oil. >> i believe we have to be honest with the american people. sometimes we can disagree with the facts. there are certain things we may not fully understand when we come out, but our intention is not to lie, jonathan. we will do our best. i will tell you the facts as i know them. if make a mistake, i will do the best to correct it. >> can you state this administration will not send more troops to iraq to take the oil? >> i'm not going to talk about what we may or may not do. the presid

it was writing about trump. by denying known and provable facts, as when mr. trump denies making statements he has made, or by rejecting facts that he has not made and it is challenging over the public sphere. the resulting frenzy of trying to prove either the obvious known facts or the classified and therefore unknowable facts, two fruitless pursuits creates so much stat knowing what it is really. and i think it's especially challenging for reporters when you want to fact check the guy you are covering and he wants you to fact check some small thing while avoiding the bigger story. >> yeah. i actually think we had a really interesting debate in our daily news meeting about how to handle donald trump's tweets. i was hearing from so many people. i thought we had to discuss it. in the end, he is the president of the united states. in the end, everything he says, small and large, bears scrutiny and reporting. will there get to be a point a year from now where he is tweeting about what he saw at the theater last night and that's less interesting? maybe. on the oth

joining me is mr. trump's chief of staff reince priebus. welcome back to the show. >> thanks for having me, chuck. >> i want to start on timing of the executive order and to implement it immediately. was there any thought given of creating a 72-hour grace period, a one-week grace period in order to allow border patrol agents to understand what the rules are, allow agencies to allow federal agencies to understand what the rules are. it seems a lot of the chaos yesterday could have been avoided had you included a timed grace period. why was that not included? >> i don't think you want a grace period because people who want to do bad things to americans would move up their travel days before the grace period is over. it's one of these things and if you ask a lot of the people at the customs and border patrol you'll rip off the band-aid and you have to move forward. it wasn't chaos. the fact of the matter is 325,000 people from foreign countries came into the united states yesterday and 109 people were detained for further questioning. most of

a historic rebuke to mr. trump and a declaration of feminism in a polarized america. >> thank you for understanding that sometimes we must put our bodies where our beliefs are. >> with signs many made of poster kls board, kids in tow, women, and men showed up in other cities. houston, indianapolis, miami, phoenix, miami, and juneau, alaska and arkansas, women crowded the capital steps. complaining that reporters under reported the size of his crowd. >> we highway massive field of people. you saw that. packed. i get up this morning and i turn on one of the networks and they show an empty field. >> a country divided fully on display as well. among president trump supporters there is hope. >> making history, changing america. >> i think this will be a dizzying first 100 days. >> 70% of americans believe that under president trump divisions will continue or get worse. past presidents in divided times reached out to opponents. nixon during the vietnam war. >> we are caught in war, torn in division, wanting unity.

mr. trump himself dodged when asked about that issue of sanctions today. >> we'll see what happens. as far as the sanctions very early to be talking about that. as far as again putin and russia, i don't say good, bad, or indifferent. i don't know the gentlemen, i hope we have a fantastic relationship. that's possible, and it's also possible that we won't. we will see what happens. >> doesn't know the ygentleman long way from the stable mates. we'll be right back. managing my moderate to severe crohn's disease. i didn't think there was anything else to talk about. but then i realized there was. so, i finally broke the silence with my doctor about what i was experiencing. he said humira is for people like me who have tried other medications but still experience the symptoms of moderate to severe crohn's disease. in clinical studies, the majority of patients on humira saw significant symptom relief. and many achieved remission. humira can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious, sometimes fatal infections and cancers, including lymphoma, have happened; a

ford's ceo giving some credit to the incoming trump administration. mr. trump, of course, tweeting. "instead of driving jobs and wealth away, america will become the world's great magnet for innovation and job creation." msnbc's ali velshi talked with ford ceo mark fields just a short time ago. >> yes. >> how much credit did he give to the incoming trump administration? >> that's the first question i asked him because they were badgered by donald trump throughout the campaign. >> yes. >> said he called donald trump to tell him about this but i said how much did it have to do with him? here's what mark fields told me. >> we looked at a lot of the factors and one of the factors we looked at is the more positive u.s. manufacturing business environment under president-elect trump, we are looking at some of the pro-growth policies he's been talking about so clearly this is a vote of confidence that he can deliver on that. >> a vote of confidence that he can deliver on the promises he's made. ford announces 700 new jobs in flat rock, michigan, they're going to make electric and self-drivi

it's to mr. trump's credit. he should appoint a strong minded defense secretary who is likely to challenge assumptions held in the white house. bob costa, you could say the same thing for pompeo who is very positive about the cia. i think pompeo probably has a lot of people inside the agency rooting for him because he is so strongly supportive of the work that they do. you could talk about general kelly and the wall. you could talk -- i mean, you could go down the list. so try to explain to us what is going on here where donald trump, not only selected people who were at odds with him on what he said in the campaign trail, but also it was his transition team that sat and prepared them to say all of the things that they said on capitol hill yesterday. >> the president-elect almost seemed to acknowledge this reality in a tweet this morning saying his cabinet nominees could have their own views and he doesn't necessarily need them to reflect his own view. it seems to be an acknowledgment that trump is a celebrity p

clapper and others to brief mr. trump last friday. but a couple ever thiof things. first, no written documents were turned over to trump or his team. and second, we're told by sources with direct knowledge that mr. trump was not briefed about these allegations at all. that the reason they were part of the presentation was not because intelligence believed them to be true but rather as context. they wanted to have this available should they feel they needed to explain to mr. trump more fully the difference between their assessed intelligence the russians tried to manipulate the election and these kinds of spurious, unverified, raw allegations. disinformation is what one of our sources told us. and that there was also information about hillary clinton in this two-page document available to the briefers. mr. clapper and others, should they have decided to use it. also, unverified material, also not considered accurate material, it was available as an example to mr. trump. but we are told that that material was not briefed to the president-elect. >> katy tur is also wit

trump's campaign itself or mr. trump himself or just about mr. manafort. but at least in part in the business dealings, the advice they have had with russia. hope hicks told the times we have absolutely no knowledge of any investigation or even a basis for such investigation. representatives of these agencies i mentioned also told "the new york times" they were providing the information because they feared that the trump white house would obstruct their efforts. they wanted them to know already. nbc's kelly o'donnell joins us from the white house, kelly, it just keeps coming to the president-elect. i just wonder, well, we'll get to this now. what do you make of all of this? is this something that is going to be a sdrx to this president, these continuing probes? >> well, certainly any time you have a new president and the spectre of investigation, there is a contentious relationship between trump and the intelligence community based on the kinds of issues you're talking about. the russian effect. the associates of trump in his campaign and business life pri

trump's tweets about the march, is that what you expected? and do you expect the democrats to leverage the rallies in any wire? >> absolutely, but women are the majority of voters in the u.s. and all of these congressmen do need to get re-elected. if women can stabilize their opposition to the trump administration they actually can have an impact on these congressmen in these districts. sometimes we have teen these protests play out and then they fizzle out. if they can target their individual congressmen, they can actually have an effect. we have seen women split more cohesively down race lines in the election. women were split on trump, 46% voted for him. that is what you're going to see, if they can change that, if they can move toward a certain direction, i think you might see it. >> as the senate panel is expected to vote on the secretary of state tomorrow, as we look ahead to nominations, who's likely to not get confirmed or is everyone going to get through? >> rex tillerson is the one i'm going to watch. if he and all the democrats go

you are serving the whole public, not just mr. trump's supporters. keep remembering that. more people voted for other candidates than donald trump. going back to that question, i would say his business is central. that needs to be explored. i think that has great repercussions for what's going to happen in the next four years. what are his connections with other countries, the family? i think that's central in the early days. media chase the shiny object that trump is throwing out each morning? the fact that he is tweeting is not news at this point. we have to cover what the president-elect and the president says. but the fact that he is going to say something outrageous that becomes the focus of the coverage i think is abdicating the role which is the media should set the agenda in deciding the news. when the president says something we cover it. but we should not be ping-ponging back and forth from his tweets. >> what can the washington press corps learn from donald trump's incredible interactions with the tabloids of new york over the last 30 years? >> that's a great qu

mr. trump started the process to build a wall along the mexican border. signed another order to cut off funds to stananctuary cities an ordered a comprehensive plan for undou undocumented aliens. americans would likely pay nor for all kinds of imports and some conservatives in congress are pushing back. senator lindsey graham tweeting, simply put, any policy proposal which drives up cost of corona, tequila or margaritas is a big, bad idea. >> to those who like corona, i'm going to protect the price of corona. >> busy first nine days, so joining me now is president trump's chief of staff, reince priebus. mr. priebus, welcome back to the show, sir. >> thanks for having me, chuck. >> i want to start with timing on the executive order and the sense of urgency in trying to implement it immediately. was there any thought given of creating a 72-hour grace period, a one-week grace period in order to allow border patrol agents to understand what the rules are, allow agencies in the federal government to understand what the rules are? it seems that a lot of the cha

melania trump bru mr. trump brushed off the lawsuit. he said he'll give the u.s. treasury profits from any foreign payments at the hotel which his lawyers say don't count anyway. >> paying for a hotel room is not a gift or a present and it has nothing to do with an office. >> mr. trump has said he'll have his two sons run the business but the suit says that won't solve the problem. to win the ethics group must also show it's directly harmed by any constitutional violation, the legal experts say its claim of harm is having to spend time and money suing mr. trump is not enough. >> this is a pretty out-of-the-box suit. it is hard to be successful on this subject. >> the lawsuit does not seek monetary damages but instead wants the court to have trump's businesses stop taking payments from congressional governments. >>> and many are voicing their conflict of interest with president trump. elijah coming, gerald connolly and andre carson said the hotel lost more than 1 million lost in the first two months since operating. the federal agency overseas the hotel and the old

mr. trump's trip there saying, quote, event is over capacity at 300 plus. excited to thank the men and women of the intelligence community. and it comes a day after the senate confirmed two of his top national security officials, general james mattis and general john kelly secretary for homeland security. mr. trump followed through on one of his promises signing an executive order directing government agencies to scale back aspects of the affordable care act. he raised mortgage insurance premiums through the federal housing authority. moments ago, donald trump wrapped up his first public event as president in an interfaith prayer service at the national cathedral. walk us through the fast-paced events. president trump at the national cathedral and he's heading to the cia? >> reporter: i get the impression today from the full complement of white house press that are here and the day that's planned, this is not a sleepy saturday. this is, really, an effort by the brand-new trump administrat

he'll have a challenge ahead of him navigating both mr. trump's politics on intelligence and making sure the intelligence agencies that report back up to him have his confidence and that they know he is going to be their advocate. kate? >> that's one way of putting it. it's been -- how do i say? kind of a contentious week with donald trump tweeting constantly about intelligence officials and intelligence, you know, workers, people who do this for a living. not real happy with him right now. >> reporter: and importantly, vice president-elect pence at that meeting today on the house side almost seemed to give mr. trump a little pass suggesting, well, intelligence officials have been wrong on certain issues. in the past, it's been pence who has tamped down some of the anti-intel official rhetoric we've seen from the president-elect. one thing about mr. coats, though, he is very well respected. he was an ambassador to germany earlier in the bush administration. long-time indiana political family, then came back to the senate. was in the senate

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they're professionals that will be there january 20th working for president trump. >> mr. ambassador, when we look at the sanctions that are currently being deployed against russia, when trump comes in, do they just continue automatically? what does it take for him to change them? >> yes, they do continue. it will be incumbent on him to be proactive to change them. if he chooses to do so. and in doing so i think he'll have to explain to the american people and to his own administration -- i want to keep emphasizing that -- these people will be working for him come january 20th, why he is reversing it. maybe there will be an argument. i look forward to the new intelligence he allegedly has. maybe there's some reason for it but right now i think that would be a very difficult thing for him to do without explaining his actions. >> you mentioned the intelligence he claims to have. what would he have? either he has something that is from the intelligence community and we spend about $17 billion a year trying to get the best possible, or he has it from some other nonpublic sourc

for me, his goals are clear than mr. tru mr. trump's right now. put tin wants sanctions lifted that obama put in place. second, he would like us to endorse his war in syria and get on his side to say woe're going to fight terrorism together. third he would love us to recognize russia sphere and we agree not to get into the way of each other. in his dream of dreams he would love president trump to recognize crimea being part of russia. he will have a nice summit with him. as i said before, what i don't understand, i know what put tin wants, i don't know what the new administration wants. >> ambassador, thank you. hope you come back. >> thank you for having me. >>> election union dropping -- >>> record-breaking rallies across the world what happened now. >>> you're watching msnbc the place for politics. imy moderate to severeng crohn's disease. i didn't think there was anything else to talk about. but then i realized there was. so, i finally broke the silence with my doctor about what i was experiencing. he said humira is for people like me who have

trump was doing something or mr. flynn was doing something untoward. the extent to which there's pushback from the trump campaign that's what we'll be looking for. >> the bottom line the question being raised is the potential this would violate the logan act, dates back more than two centuries which says no u.s. citizen can interfere effectively with a foreign government when there's an issue that's contested regarding this country's government and that one as well. hans nichols son the hill for us, thank you very much. >>> i want to get to steve king, who is a republican congressman from iowa, he's joining us now. congressman king, thanks for being here. >> you bet, thanks for having me on. >> walk me through this. you were in the briefing, director clapper, director comey there as well. give us the takeaway, take us behind the curtain about broadly what was spoken about and what some of the frustrations are that you witnessed? >> of course to start this out, it was a classified briefing and members aren't allowed to be in there with any recording or

ford was a frequent target of mr. trump on the campaign trail. here's a sample of how he slammed ford in the past. >> ford is building a huge plant, $2.5 billion. nobody does -- maybe we don't buy fords anymore. who knows, right? but -- but look. they are building in mexico a $2.5 billion plant. it started two years ago. and now, because nobody did anything like go to see them, find out what is happening -- nobody did anything. they just announced they are going to double down and build more in mexico. we want them to stay here. >> so that changed in november after donald trump tweeted, quote, i worked hard with bill ford to keep the linkon plant in kentucky. i owed it to the great state of kentucky for their confidence in me. mark, what influence did this kind of rhetoric have on your decision making, if any? >> well, first off we have to put it into perspective. we make decisions in the best interests of ford. we work for our shareholders. clearly, first and foremost that's the most important thing. and at the same time as we said, there is a l

trump, but at the same time i think it was a surprise for mr. pena. everybody expected that this was kind of bragging in a political campaign. but now that everybody is realizing that he's reality, we have to take different steps. people want him to be a true leader, to take a stand, speak for dignity and sovereignty but at the same time he has to be very clever because there's a lot at stake. the relation between mexico and the u.s. is very complex in terms of business economy but at the same time social issues, community issues, humanitarians issues, family issues, people are leaving on both sides of the border. >> thank you, alfonso, for joining us this morning. one mexican told me today they want president pena to be macho, to keep having this aggressive stance against donald trump for what they perceive is a very sort of dismissive attitude from the president of the united states toward mexicans. and as we just heard from alfonso, president pena now, he's under a lot of pressure. he's actually holding an emergency meeting with lawmakers today to

and mr. trump established a religious test for refugees from those countries allowing an exception for christians and others from minority religions. >> it is not a muslim ban. you see it at the airports. you see it all over. >> the aclu disagrees. this is unconstitutional. it flies in the face of protections of due process, equal protection. it violates domestic statutes and acts of congress. we also believe it may violate the convention against torture. it may also, we believe, violate the first amendment. >> in his first week in office, president trump unleashed a flood of executive action on immigration, the environment, abortion and trade. >> this administration has hit the ground running. >> also this week, the executive order mr. trump attempted to start the process to build a wall along the u.s./mexico border and signed another order to cutoff funds. to pay for the ball the administration floated a plan to put a 20% tax on mexican imports. >> it's certainly an option. >> but americans