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florida. we'll have the latest on the mass shooting at the ft. lauderdale airport. then -- >> who is going to pay for that wall? >> mexico! >> or maybe the american taxpayer. and how democrats are keeping the resistance going. >> is there one united states senator who join me -- >> all-in starts now. good evening from new york. i'm joy reid in for chris hayes. and there is a lot to get to tonight including the latest on that terrible shooting it at the ft. lauderdale airport. but we are now two weeks there donald trump taking the oath of office as president of the united states. and for months, he's been defending the president of russia, vladimir putin. and dismisses all indications that russia played a role and praising wikileaks for releasing damaging information about his pokemon hillary clinton. today trump had his long anticipated briefing on the matter with top u.s.

intelligence officials at trump tower and we now know what he was told. shortly after the meeting, the intelligence community released a declassified version of it report and findings are nothing short of explosive. in bold letters at the top of the report, this is a key finding, quote, we assess russian president vladimir putin ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the u.s. presidential election. russia's goals were to undermine public faith in the u.s. democratic process, denigrate secretary hillary clinton and harm her electability and potential presidency. we further assess putin and the russian government developed a clear preference for president-elect trump. the report finds not just that russian military intelligence stole data from democratic operatives and institutions, passing them on to wikileaks to be released, but that russia waged a comprehensive propaganda campaign using state owned media and online trolls to push favorable messages about trump

and drive negative coverage of clinton. you'd think all that would make an impression on the president-elect himself. today he received a top secret version of that very report complete with the sources and methods deliver ted to him in person. but in a statement released after that meet, trump still refused to acknowledge or accept their conclusions about russia's correct role saying, quote, russia, china, other countries outside group and people are consistently trying to break through the cyber infrastructure of our governmental institutions, businesses and organizations including the democrat national committee. democrat. instead trump seems pore focused on the validity of his own victory than on russia's attempt to disrupt american democracy claiming that there was absolutely no effect on the outcome of the election including the fact that there was no tampering whatsoever with voting machines. the intelligence community has never claimed russia interference had an impact on

the election results and the report states that that was never their mission. quote, we did not make an assessment of the impact that russian activities had on the outcome of the election. the u.s. intelligence community does not analyze u.s. political processes or u.s. public opinion. so regardless of whether russia succeeded at influencing the election results, the report states that they sure tried. i'm joined by senator jeff merkley, democrat from oregon. and senator, when you read this report and were briefed on this report, what was your reaction? >> i was really shocked at how clear it is, this massive effort of russian hacking, of course hacking the dnc and officials like john podesta associated with it. and also an extensive false news operation and then amplifying that false news with a team of

troll trolls and bloggers out of peof petersburg. when you see that they worked so hard to amplify the themes of the trump campaign and to denigrate secretary clinton in case after case after case, these false news stories coming out of russia, being amplified trying to pull down her campaign. >> and there was even a part where they say they shifted their efforts toward undermining her presidency when it was expected that she would win. so meaning your colleagues would use it as fodder to keep investigating her. >> yes, they had a whole campaign prepared to delegitimize her victory and they took it down when they

found out trump had won. and then they were popping campaign corks. they were celebrating. >> and you talk about amplifying the messages that were the false news, the false reports. one of the people thoo was amplifying it was donald trump. and what do you make of the fact that without trump himself amplifying it on the stage at his rally, really in a sense even inflate something of the stuff in the wikileaks, what do you make of the fact that it couldn't have succeeded without help from him? >> it's really hard to get your hands on how this worked in the sense that when trump took on a theme on a theme, to some degree that theme was also taken up by the russian operation, that's how a third-party campaign works in the united states when you have a wall between the campaign and thirty party and third party says we'll see what the campaign does and help amplify it.

i can't say clearly, no one can at this point, how much influence the russian propaganda operation had as compared to the statements trump himself made but in both cases they were often completely 100% off track and wrong and that's what's disturbing here is the generation of false stories, the amplification of false stories, the hacking, all directed at influencing the outcome of the presidential election, it cast quite a shadow over the incoming presidency. >> and quickly, it could potentially cast a shadow over the senate. the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell has shown no interest in having a special standing committee the way they had for benghazi and other things. you have john mccain attempting to do an investigation. do you foresee the senate doing anything about the information in this report? >> john mccain really recognizes what a serious assault this is on the foundation of our

democratic republic and i applaud him for it, we should be hearing that from every leader in this country. this is -- john mccain called it an act of war. it is certainly a major assault on the united states system of democracy. >> indeed. >> and it should be thoroughly analyzed, extensively analyzed by a bipartisan committee in the public, not in the secret halls of just the intelligence committee working through the republican majority getting trapped and never let out. it needs to be a public bipartisan commission. >> well, we shall see. senator jeff merkley, thank you very much for joining us tonight. >> you're welcome, thank you. joining me now is neera tanden, president of center for american progress and matthew miller, former spokesperson for the justice department. i'll start with you, i'll ask each of you. neera, do you have any confidence that anything will be done about this? do you have confidence in the senate? you just heard senator jeff merkley say he has confidence in john mccain. do you have confidence in the senate?

>> i share his confidence in john mccain but john mccain's committee is not enough. as you can see in this report there's really breathtaking details, one of which is that russia has a history of exploiting -- i think the term really is exploiting western leaders with business contacts with russia because donald trump has never released his taxes we don't know what those business contacts would be. seems like they are definitely pointing in that direction, but that's an avenue of investigation and i think that's one of the critical reasons we need bipartisan bicameral investigation into this which is independent, has a special prosecutor or has real power in the minority and the majority to subpoena, to ask questions, to really get to the bottom of this. i don't have confidence in that happening now, but i hope, you

know, truly true patriots in the congress will look at this report and actually act in the country's interest. >> absolutely. and, of course, you were working with the hillary clinton campaign. have you talked to any of your fellow members of the campaign to get their reaction to this report? >> just a few and it's really breathtaking. i mean, the level of detail, the clarity. i mean, you -- i hope every american reads this report, reads it for themselves to see our intelligence community speaking in one very clear voice about the fact that russia intended to help elect donald trump and, frankly, his reactions make it clear that he knows it. i mean, obviously why wouldn't you just say in your statement today that russia did hack, that they were out to help him. instead, his actions are making it seem like he's guilty and understands they helped him. >> matt miller, to go beyond, we're focused a lot on what russian intelligence did in this report but it also does talk a lot about wikileaks, which is

still out there, which still has the ability to obtain documents. we don't know all of what they have and they could use it at any time. are we not focusing enough on the potential damage wikileaks could do whatever they feel like it depending on what they have or who they perceive to be their enemies at the moment, being enforcers for donald trump or vladimir putin or both. >> i think that's right. we're just at the beginning of asking important questions here. we now know about the russian government's involvement. we know some of wikileaks' involvement but the question you raise is an appropriate one. there's another question. there are many, many ties that were documented during the campaign between trump advisers and russia and in some cases the russian government or the forces in ukraine who were backed by putin and we really need to have an independent look at whether there were people connected to the trump campaign or american citizens or others who were helping this undermining of the -- of american democracy by the russian government. that that's something that this

report didn't get into but in the days to come, congress has to look at it, i think there needs to be an independent commission that looks at it and potentially the justice department, maybe a special prosecutor. >> matt miller, in this report it also talked about this being the new normal. that this wasn't a discrete activity we can expect to not be repeated. you have the propaganda arm for the kremlin that's still out there with even american hosts appearing on it. you still have wikileaks out there. do you -- are you concerned about the part of the report that said that it was also intended to undermine what they thought would be the next president of the united states? meaning this was an operation that would have continued had hillary clinton been elected. >> yeah, and they're not going to stand it down because she lost. you have to think -- if you look at what wikileaks was doing today, wikileaks was tweeting basically the same things trump was tweeting today -- attacking the conclusions of this report before it came out, attacking the people that support it. it looks like wikileaks is going to be an ongoing force backing up the trump administration. they talked today, said something today about assembling

reports on people -- about people who will are tweeting so, you know, there is a real concern that you will have a foreign government in cahoots with a shadowy online organization looking to undermine political opponents of the trump administration. and i know that sounds conspiratorial, but we just went through an election where they did exactly that. so there's real reason to be concerned. >> same question to you, neera, because obviously had hillary clinton been elected and this operation was not successful, part of it would have still been able to ripple into her presidency theoretically. do you think that republicans are taking this seriously enough because donald trump is their friend now but, you know, your friends today can be your enemies tomorrow. >> i mean, i'm frankly more concerned -- the report lays out the russians hacked into the republicans but chose not to release the data. i think people should be deeply concerned. what is there? could they release it at any time? does that mean russia has information today that could be deeply embarrassing to republicans and that's something they can hold over them?

i mean, again, it sounds conspiratorial but the reality is, it is laid out in this report. what i would say to senate majority leader mcconnell and speaker paul ryan, you both held dozens upon dozens of hearings on benghazi, you have our entire intelligence apparatus of the united states saying the russians tried to help elect donald trump and that they have the power that this could be the new normal. that they could use this information to affect americans and american political leaders. what do you have to hide by not holding hearings? there's not a single hearing in the house. how is that possible? how is it possible that they don't care enough in the house of representatives to get to the bottom of these questions? i think americans -- republicans, democrats and independents should be asking their leaders in the house and senate to have a bipartisan investigation. >> absolutely. you'd think all americans would agree at least on that. we shall see how it goes moving forward. matthew miller, thank you for joining us. neera is going to stick around

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it may take lawmakers weeks or months to digest the bombshell report on russia's attack on the u.s. election but donald trump seems to have his own fixations. last night, nbc news revealed details on the report and this morning trump tweeted that he's "asking the chairs of the house and senate committees to investigate top secret intelligence shared with nbc prior to me seeing it." he wants a congressional investigation into the leak. but an aide for the senate intelligence committee told nbc news they've not received a formal request for an investigation from trump or his team. a spokesperson for the house intelligence committee said it had not received an official. whether or not they do, however, a chilling message has been sent, including to the

intelligence community. trump may not be interested in punishing russia for hacking the u.s., but he's real interested in punishing government officials for doing things that displease him. neera tanden is still with us and joining us, missouri secretary of state jason candor. jason, i'll start with you on this, we've never had a president like donald trump. he's been compared to richard nixon and he has some nixonian qualities but you're talking about a particularly vengeful spirit. somebody who omarosa who worked with him on "the apprentice" said he wants to see everybody who fought against him bow down. now let's look at what he's done before he's gotten in. he wakes up this morning and rather than thinking about national security he's criticizing "celebrity apprentice," putting down arnold schwarzenegger. he lobbies against the ohio republican party chairman to oust him for daring to not be for him during the campaign, and then he did something that doesn't seem like it hurts him but it hurts us, pulling all the ambassadors in a

precedent-breaking move denies every single u.s. envoy, every ambassador, an extension past inauguration day. what do we make of this? >> you know, every time we talk about his tweets, which are basically the only way he makes public pronouncements anymore, i think we should talk about them as what they are -- they're policy positions of the united states. and that's really the problem with the president who's constantly putting his own insecurity on display. it's no longer the case that there's a kind of whacky guy running for president who tweets a bunch of stuff. these are policy positions of the united states, never find fact it's completely ridiculous that the united states now has a position on how arnold schwarzenegger is doing on "celebrity apprentice," but how about the fact that the policy position of the united states in a couple weeks when he becomes president seems to be that the intelligence community in order to prove something that we all

pretty well knew was the case, like the russian hack, had to divulge all sorts of evidence they usually would haven't to divulge publicly, which has a real consequence because now if you're an adversary of the united states seeking to do harm through cyber attack, now you know how other people got caught because they've been forced to show their math. that's because he's limiting his policy positions to 140 characters and those are now the policy positions of our country. >> neera, not only that, this is a guy who did threaten to lock up hillary clinton. to lock up his political opponent, something we don't usually do in the united states. but now he's asking republicans in congress to investigate the intelligence community for leaking to nbc news. what kind of a precedent is that setting? >> let's be crystal clear about this, what's happening. donald trump does not care, has exhibited almost zero interest in who leaked to wikileaks. someone targeted his opponents in order to at least undermine

democracy, now we know it's to help his campaign, hasn't expressed any interest in that source of leaks. but one leak to nbc, to explain what actually happened here, that's who he's going to go against. i have to say it's frankly chilling that someone who is going to control the fbi, who's going to oversee the fbi, who's going to oversee intelligence itself, who's going to oversee the irs has essentially a vendetta via twitter and i hope it's just -- i hope, i hope it just maintains itself to twitter but i think people can have real concerns about a president who's so interested in exacting revenge against people who disagree with him. i mean, it's just ridiculous to me that he -- it seems to me he cares a little bit more about the ratings of "celebrity apprentice" than russian hacking into our election. >> and he's the executive

producer of "the apprentice." if it didn't do well, he shouldn't be slagging the show, it's his show. but i think that's the serious point, right? you're giving somebody who's showed he's incredibly thin-skinned, who can't stop talking about the election, he was tweeting again this morning redescribing his election victory and insisting two weeks before the clinton campaign knew he was going to win. i mean, he's so obsessed with this but he's also a vengeful person, you know that through his entire public life. does it concern you that somebody that vengeful will have control of the fbi, the nsa, the cia? i mean, you think of the possibilities. >> it's frightening. if you live in the united states of america, you have to be concerned about this. if your inferiority complex cannot be in any way assuaged by becoming president of the united states, it's pretty bad. and when you run for office, one of the things that happens is people say this interesting compliment to you sometimes, they say "you know, you really

seem comfortable in your own skin." which is kind of a compliment reserved for politicians. no one ever says "what i love about my accountant is he's comfortable in his own skin." so the threshold is low. but the reason people care about that the is because it's a very public position in which you have a high degree of power. and that's anywhere in elected office. but we're talking about the most powerful position that you can occupy in the entire world. and so as a result, yeah, i think it's absolutely a huge concern that now we have, for instance, an app that exists that -- the entire point of the app is to alert you immediately if the president-elect of the united states tweets about a publicly held company, presumably so you can get rid of the stock. we're talking about american companies that the president-elect of the united states would take a position against. >> can impact their stock immediately and we've seen it happen already. neera tanden and jason kander, thank you both, have a great weekend.

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>> we don't have an answer, joy, as to why the gunman did what he did. he's been identified as 26-year-old esteban santiago. we believe he traveled from anchorage to minneapolis and from minneapolis to ft. lauderdale where when he got down to baggage claim in terminal two, he retrieved his luggage. we're told he checked his weapon in the luggage. the rules are you can, indeed, check weapons in luggage, notifying the airline. the weapons have to be separated from the bullets. witnesses say he then went into the bathroom, loaded his pistol, came out and started shooting. now, we don't know why. we do know he has reportedly had some mental issues that the fbi says in alaska that he recently walked into the office there saying that the cia was trying to force him to fight for isis so it's a very convoluted, disturbed individual here based on that story.

the authorities right now have him in custody. apparently after he fired his gun multiple times, we believe he may have changed out the clip in his hand-held pistol three times then according to witnesses he lay on the ground. i've spoken to people downstairs in terminal two who say getting out of here they feel lucky to be alive, it was hell. joy? >> nbc's kerry sanders telling us the gunman said voices in his head apparently he was hearing in that horrific shooting. president obama has been briefed on the shooting in ft. lauderdale while president-elect trump tweeted out "monitoring the terrible situation in florida, just spoke to governor scott, thoughts and prayers for all, stay safe." florida governor rick scott arrived on the scene a short time later and here's what he had to say about his conversation today, including who he spoke with.

>> i have reached out to president-elect trump and spoken with -- to him and vice president elect pence multiple times to keep them informed and they told me whatever resources that we need from the federal government they would do everything in their power to make that happen. >> reporter: did you talk to president obama? >> i have not talked to president obama. >> reporter: has he reached out to you? >> no, president obama has not reached out to me but i talked to vice president pence and president-elect trump and vice president-elect pence quite a few times. just to keep them informed. >> reporter: did you reach out to obama? >> i have not. >> reporter: did the president-elect contact you or did you reach out to him? >> i reached out to president-elect trump and vice president-elect pence. >> reporter: but you didn't call the president? you called the president-elect? you didn't call the president? >> absolutely. >> reporter: wouldn't it be appropriate to call the president for resources? >> i have a personal relationship with vice president

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we are going to build the wall 100% and mexico is going to pay for the wall. [ cheers and applause ] mexico will pay for the wall. okay? believe me. we'll build a wall, don't worry, we will build, i promise, we're building the wall and mexico will pay for the wall. [ cheers and applause ] donald trump has promised since the first day of his campaign to build a wall on the u.s./mexico border and that the mexican government would foot the bill. yeah. not so much. today the president-elect got slightly more detailed about who will actually pay for the wall and, surprise, it's you! the trump transition team and house republicans have a plan, reports politico, to fund the wall with your taxpayer dollars. you're welcome. in an interview today with the "new york times" trump explained the idea is to speed up the process by obtaining funding now through congress and getting mexico to pay us back later. "we're going to get reimbursed but i don't want to wait that long" says trump "but you start and you get reimbursed." trump added in a tweet "the dishonest media does not report any money spent on building the great wall for sake of speed

will be paid back by mexico later." >> right, so spend $10 billion of american taxpayer money to build your great wall and then demand a foreign country repay us for a project they oppose and that they've already said they have no intention of paying for. that should make sense. perfect. if you recall, trump has already had the chance to deliver the bill when he met face to face with mexican president enrique pena nieto last august but he didn't have the guts to make the ask. not only is trump seemingly about to break a campaign promise with his new plan, he's also breaking with the conservative financial ideas that republicans claimed to care so much about. joining me now is msnbc contributor josh barro. josh, do your fiscally responsible sensibilities have any problem with we're going to use $10 billion of our money now and then we'll totally get paid back by mexico who doesn't want to build the wall later? >> totally.

he said this -- it felt like shtick, like how could anybody believe this was going to happen? the "washington post" actually did a poll back in september and asked people "do you think, trump, if elected, will get the mexicans to pay for the wall?" and 21% of people said that he would do that. so on one hand that's a lot of people. on the other hand, that's less than half of the people who voted for him so a lot of the people voting for trump, they realize that, you know, this was just a thing he was saying, it was not going to happen. so -- and the other thing is he says, you know, $8 billion to $10 billion, it will probably cost more than that if you really want a wall along the length of the border. trump has said it could maybe be a fence in some places. so it starts adding up to real money, a billion here, a billion there. it's something that ends up being a non-trivial item in the federal budget if we foot the bill for it. >> donald trump can probably get away with anything.

he said he could shoot one on fifth avenue at one point in the campaign and he could probably get away with takebacks on the wall. but members of congress can't and you can see in their reactions, that politico story is fascinating because you can see they know they can't go back to their districts and say there's no wall. so now you have steve king, one of these republicans, this is the "washington post," he tweeted "just talked to steve king who says if trump can get funding for the wall from congress, i'm not going to say let's wait for the pesos." aside from the fact of the weird use of spanish there. the republicans in congress feel like they have to appropriate money for a wall. >> and they're in a tough place because this is an idea popular with republicans but not an idea that's popular broadly with the electorate. it's 2-1 against the idea of building a wall on the border with mexico. so i think they have to be worried in both directions. if they try to not appropriate the money to build the wall they could be attacked in the primary but if they do go along with spending what ends up being $20 billion or whatever on this wall, that's something they can be attacked for in the general election. so they have some time to figure this out.

the weird situation now is the law authorizes the president to go ahead and build the wall. he just doesn't have the money. he can move some money around in accounts, he can go do his photo-op in front of a piece of wall they built with money they find, then we'll see what the state of relations is come april between the president and republicans in congress. there's a lot of stuff, including obamacare, that i think they are going to find is much more difficult to reach agreement on than they thought it would be so i don't know whether congress in the spring will be in a mood to give donald trump the money to build this wall. >> he could build a wall, not the wall. maybe a little tiny wall, a six-foot wall. the other issue, of course, is mexico paying for it. he said i'll get them to give it to me later. you had former mexican president vicente fox who has become an excellent trump troll. and you cannot compel a foreign country to do what you say. now trump is making noises about renegotiating nafta.

isn't there a possibility you could see bilateral agreements between canada and mexico that cut us out? there are ways they could get around being bullied by the american president to give us $10 billion. >> well, two things about that. one is, during the campaign, he had a plan about how he was going to get mexico to pay for it. >> remittances. >> yeah, he was going to impound the billion dollars of remittences that get sent to mexico and say i'm going to do the impoundment unless you give me money to build the wall and the idea was mexico would have no choice because their economy depends on that. nafta is another point of leverage he has, he wants to renegotiate it. he could pull out. so i think the mexicans aren't going to take kindly to that kind of brinksmanship. on the other hand, the trump election has already been a disaster for the mexican economy. >> yes. >> and to the extent that trump makes good on separating the u.s. from mexico economically through immigration, through trade, through all sorts of things, i think that can cause a huge economic mess there. that said, that makes it all the more emotionally unappealing for the people of mexico to pony up to pay for this wall after they're being bullied by the

u.s. president. so no he won't get them to pay for it but he can do a lot of damage. >> do damage to their economy which would increase northward migration. there you go. josh barro, thank you very much. still ahead, the planned resistance to trump's cabinet picks as they head to confirmation hearings on capitol hill. first, we'll check into hotel trump for thing 1 and thing 2 next. what are you doing? getting your quarter back. fountains don't earn interest, david. you know i work at ally. i was being romantic.

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anyway, as we've reported on this show, the d.c. hotel was not ahead of schedule. multiple press releases about the renovation of the hotel -- which are still available on the trump organization website -- set the anticipated grand opening at the end of 2015, something he was even asked about in a legal deposition related to the hotel this past summer. >> it says construction scheduled to begin in spring 2014 with an expected completion in late 2015. >> okay. >> was that accurate at the time? >> perhaps. yeah. we were very much ahead of schedule. we're ahead of -- we're actually ahead of schedule and we also went higher end than we even thought in terms of finishes and materials. >> again, they planned to open in 2015, they actually opened in 2016, not ahead of schedule. what about the second part of trump's theme, that it was under budget? we have an important update

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donald trump has a long history of stiffing contractors for work on his properties and now we have an important update on his new d.c. hotel. so far three contracting companies who helped build that hotel say they're short more than $5 million and they filed liens against the property with the district of columbia. for instance, an executive from aes electrical says "we had people there well over 12 hours a day for weeks because they had a hard opening of september 12. but around the time they open, the trump organization and its correction manager lendlease stopped paying aes which claims it's still owed over $2 million." another company, the family owned local plumbing firm joseph magnolia filed a lien for nearly $3 million. the trump organization told the "washington post" in part "in developments of this scale and complexity, the filing of normal liens at the conclusion of construction is not uncommon as part of the closeout process."

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we are just a few days away from the first confirmation hearings for donald trump's cabinet nominees, including six different hearings scheduled on the same day next week. it will be the first time democrats have a chance to show what a substantive opposition to the trump agenda will look like. joining me now, wade henderson, president and ceo of the leadership conference on civil rights and human rights and randy weingarten, president of the american federation of teachers. thank you for being here. >> thank you. >> wade, i'll start with you. there will be four witnesses, it will be a limited amount of time, what one question do you want to hear asked of jeff sessions? >> well, it's outrageous joy that senator sessions nomination is going forward and his hearing is being held.

it's required that every nominee be evaluated. what's shocking in this instance and not shocking but nonetheless embarrassing, is that the senate has chosen to use its friendship towards senator sessions to cover its responsibility of providing advice and consent for the nominee. in other words, collegiality is trumping, if you will, the advice and consent responsibility of the constitution. what i'd like to see senator sessions asked are his views about the voting rights act, about wrongful prosecutions, yes, those that occurred 30 years ago but, more importantly, about problems with voter i.d. today. about problems with efforts to move polling places in states like alabama, his very own state. i'd like to see him asked about whether he can enforce statutes over which he has a hostility long established. so, for example, he opposed the violence against women act, he has opposed the passage of the matthew sheppard james bird enforcement act. we'd like to see questions asked about that.

we'd also like to see questions asked about his hostility to immigrants, his support for a muslim ban or arguing that a muslim ban is certainly worthy of discussion. these kinds of issues are frightening to the american people and i think the american people expect two things -- one, they expect a procedurally fair hearing, but they also expect a substantively complete hearing and neither of those will take place next week because the senator has not provided the essential information of a senate questionnaire that is required of every nominee before the committee. >> and randy weingarten, what do you think about betsy devos who is put forward as the secretary of education. what do you want to see her asked. >> we know a lot about her record in michigan and her record in michigan is -- makes it clear that this is the most

anti-public education nominee since the position of secretary of education was established. and we know whether people were trump voters or hillary voters, they want a secretary of education that actually strengthens and improves public education where 90% of the children of our country go, of schools that are the anchor of democracy, the propeller of our economy, and, instead, what she has done in michigan for the last 20 years is to destabilize, defund, and siphon off funds. and, frankly, even for our colleagues and our friends who actually believe that there should be some alternatives, what she has done is actually made schooling worse in michigan. so we want to make sure that people see the facts. what has happened is that 75% of public schools do better than

charters, these for-profit wild, wild west charters in michigan. and in detroit we see that 80% of the schools, the charter schools in detroit, are failing. so at the end of the day, we don't want to replicate that in the united states of america and we want to make sure that her record is clearly out there. we need a secretary of education who's going to lift up public education, who's going to help all kids succeed, not one who has a hostility to civil rights, as my colleague wade has just said about senator sessions, or someone who has an antipathy towards anything that is public, in terms of public education. you can't be about profit, you have to be about children and we have seen no evidence that she is about children in public education. >> very quickly i want to ask each of you. do you anticipate there being something on the order of civil disobedience to push democrats to be tough on these nominees? is there a particular nominee that civil rights groups for

you, wade henderson, are focused on? >> i can't predict what the civil disobedience will be involved. but, yes, it is very clear that opposition to the sessions nomination is building. we have 1200 professors around the country that have expressed their opposition. we have former massachusetts governor deval patrick in a letter to the judiciary committee stating his opposition and basing it on his prior service as an attorney for a defendant in a wrongful voting fraud case that sessions brought. that kind of effort is under way. so we don't know about civil disobedience but opposition is building everyday. and we anticipate seeing more next week. >> randi weingarten, do you anticipate civil disobedience? >> i anticipate a lot of opposition but you notice that senator mcconnell must be very concerned about all this because he's having this vote-a-rama, he's trying to push these things through. >> put them all together. >> exactly. but there's opposition around

the country and we're seeing all that. >> well, we unfortunately are out of time. wade henderson and randi weingarten, thank you both. that's "all in" for this evening. chris hayes will be back on monday, i'll be here this weekend. new pictures of the gunman who police say opened fire at a from a airport with deadly results. travellers describe what it was like as they ran for their lives. >> i heard three quick cracks that initially sounded like a firecracker. i kind of turned and after the first one went off and realize it was actually gunshots. >> this morning new questions about the motive and what airports can do. and donald trump 3450e9s wi meets with intelligence officials. and a massive winter storm hitting the southeast with snow, freezing rain and ice, which places will be hit and how