so -- it's pretty hard to be more qualified for this job than loretta. throughout her 30-year career she has distinguished herself as tough, as fair, an independent lawyer who has twice headed one of the most prominent u.s. attorneys offices in the country. she has spent years in the tremp trenches as prosecutors fighting fraud, cyber crime all vigorously defending civil rights. a graduate of harvard college and harvard law school, loretta rose from assistant u.s. attorney in the eastern district of new york to chief of long island office, chief asubjective u.s. attorney and u.s. attorney. she successfully prosecuted the terrorists who plotted the bomb, plotted to bomb the federal reserve bank and the new york city subway. she has boldly gone after public corruption, bringing charges against public officials in both parties. she's helped secure billions in settlements from some of the world's biggest banks accused of fraud and jailed some of new york's most violent and notorious mobsters and gang members. one of her proudest achievements was the civil ri

attorney loretta lynch. [applause] i also want to thank the chair of the senate judiciary committee for being here on a saturday to show his support. [applause] it is pretty hard to be more qualified for this job than loretta. career,ut her 30-year she has distinguished herself as tough, as fair, an independent lawyer who has twice headed the most prominent offices in the country. she has spent years in the trenches as a prosecutor, aggressively fighting terrorism, financial fraud, cyber crime, all while vigorously defending civil rights. a graduate of harvard college and harvard law school, loretta rose from assistant u.s. attorney in the eastern district of new york to chief of the long island office, chief assistant u.s. attorney, and u.s. attorney. she successfully prosecuted the bombrists who plotted to the federal reserve bank and the new york city subway. she has boldly gone after public corruption, bringing charges against public officials in both parties. she has helped secure billions in settlement

he will nominate loretta lynch, 55-year-old u.s. attorney, a harvard law graduate currently in brooklyn. we don't know when the president will officially announce it. he didn't do it just then and i had the chance to. i want to bring in the anchor of "the lead," jake tapper. jake, this is in some ways the first move of the rest of the president's life. his first nomination, his first big decision after the midterm election which did not go well for him. looking at it, what do you make of it? >> it's interesting for a number of reasons. first of all there were -- the other contenders for the job, the solicitor general don verrilli and the secretary of labor tom perez. the fact that he reached outside his comfort zone and is anticipated to pick u.s. attorney lynch says something about reaching outside his comfort zone. also it says something about wanting to pick somebody that perhaps there will not be a contentious confirmation hearing about. there was perez when he was nominated and then confirmed to be secretary of labor that was v

loretta lynch the nominee. she's come before the senate twice before for confirmation as a federal prosecutor. not a single vote against her either of the times she's been confirmed. if you want to know why even the basic stuff can't get done, why even the easy stuff is impossible in washington now, it's this parallel universe that we've got. conservatives have built themselves a very popular, very successful media landscape that doesn't just tell conservatives things they want to hear in terms of opinion. they just make stuff up. they make up news stories that aren't true and when they get corrected in other places they never disappear from the conservative media. and this is not just now but increasingly what american conservatives consume as their news diet. this is what they think news is. this is their information stream. in a world in which everybody was operating from the same set of facts, which are facts. the confirmation of loretta lynch as an attorney general is a mildly interesting process story. in

loretta lynch. yes, that loretta lynch. she has come before the senate twice before. there was not a single vote against her. if you want to know why the basic stuff can't get done, why the easy stuff is impossible in washington now, it's this parallel universe that we've got. conservatives have built themselves a very popular landscape that doesn't just tell themselves things they want to hear. they just make stuff up. they make up news stories that aren't true. and when they correct it from other places, they never are e seem concerned. this is what they think news is. this information stream. in a world in which everybody was operating from the same set of facts. in our sane world, the conservatives do not operate from the same set of facts. they operate from an information diet that says these two women are the same person or might as well be -- >> in that world. which might as well be that world. the confirmation is going to become the most fascinating thing on earth. who knows what they're going to make up next. and relieve your other allergy symptoms... so you

but it turns out, teddy roosevelt here had the wrong loretta lynch.s is the attorney genome -- this is the attorne attorney general nominee. this is the one who defended clinton during whitewater. there's just no way to tell them apart. (laughter) but as soon as walrus-man noticed the mistake, brietbart issued a correction by leaving up the same headline and adding the word "corrected." from there, it's the exact same story about how obama's loretta lynch defended the clintons until you get to the very bottom of the article, where it reads, "correction: the loretta lynch identified earlier as the whitewater attorney was, in fact, a different attorney." (laughter) so i'm giving a tip of the hat to breitbart journalist warner todd huston for breaking this news, finding out it's broken, but sticking with it anyway. (laughter) because no matter who she actually is, i still stand against the nomination of loretta lynch. i just don't think a coal miner's daughter has any place as attorney general. (laughter) plus, why isn't anyone talking about the time she

pretty incredible for loretta lynch.ging in jeffrey tuba now to discuss this a little more. jeffrey this is a woman who's essentially stayed under the radar. done tremendous work. very low profile. why do you think she rose to the top and able to beat out the others the president was considering for this job? >> well, you know, i have to start with a bit of a bias here and just confess at the outset. that loretta lynch and i were new prosecutors together in january of 1990 with offices down the hall from each other. in the u.s. attorney's office when we were both junior prosecutors. so i have watched her as a colleague and as a journalist for almost 25 years. and it is true. she is not a well known figure. even in new york city. much less in the country. but she has done this very demanding job as u.s. attorney which supervises law enforcement, federal law enforcement for brooklyn, queens and long island, for two terms. and she's done a very good job. she has done a very wide range of cases from organized crime cases to

attorney loretta lynch. [applause] i also want to thank the chair of the senate judiciary committee for being here on a saturday to show his support. [applause] it is pretty hard to be more qualified for this job than loretta. throughout her 30-year career, she has distinguished herself as tough, as fair, an independent lawyer who has twice headed the most prominent offices in the country. she has spent years in the trenches as a prosecutor, aggressively fighting terrorism, financial fraud, cyber crime, all while vigorously defending civil rights. a graduate of harvard college and harvard law school, loretta rose from assistant u.s. attorney in the eastern district of new york to chief of the long island office, chief assistant u.s. attorney, and u.s. attorney. she successfully prosecuted the terrorists who plotted to bomb the federal reserve bank and the new york city subway. she has boldly gone after public corruption, bringing charges against public officials in both parties. she has helped secure billion

they were saying the loretta lynch during whitewater was a different attorney.hat is the knee-jerk reflective move to immediately combat this nominee. is that what you expect in terms of reporting on this? >> you know, she's a very interesting nominee. of course because of the historic reason you talked about, confirmed the first african-american woman to head the justice department because she's so well respected in the law enforcement community. she's tough, she's fair, she's considered independent, but at the same time, i think she was the least controversial of the top contenders that the white house was looking at for this job. she had not served in the white house, in the obama administration, has two other contenders had. she's not part of obama's inner circle. in that sense, may be easier to confirm. saturday at the white house, president obama said there should be no delay. she should be confirmed without delay. but the question is whether the democrats in the senate will try to push her through in this lame duck session. senator leahy did say he believ

she went to harvard law school with loretta lynch.renshaw has led the campaign to include girls and women of color in president obama's my brother's keeper, which calls on community groups and businesses to help women of color out of the criminal justice system. -- you knowwith loretta lynch, you are in law school together, in a small class together. >> yes. we are all delighted that president obama has seen the good was done in nominating loretta lynch. it could not come at a better time for him, given how much should the administration has been under over the last 10 months, two recognize that women of color do exist. his addresses on my brother's keeper, one of the things he said was that boys need role models, they need to be able to look up and see the possibility that they could become the attorney general of the united states. most boys of color already had that role model. the question was, would you recognize that the one constituency that has not yet had an opportunity to see someone look like them in that position had been

orren hatch wrote this when president obama nominated loretta lynch to be his next attorney general,ll and fair process, something that is technically hard to do in a post-election lame duck session. if senator hatch had been inclined to wroit a more honest version of that sentence he would have said that confirming loretta lynch is something technically easy to do in a post-election lame duck session. and what makes it so easy is that loretta lynch is already serving in a senate-confirmed post, which mean the onerous job of gathering all the paperwork of her leave and financial paperwork and all the other stuff that nominees have to present for confirmation has already been done. and the judiciary committee already has it. that is the single biggest time-consuming chore in the process. the documents for scrutiny only by the committee staff. the senators themselves almost never look at that stuff. there is absolutely no reasonable point in doing another fbi background check on loretta lynch, but the fbi has conducted many pointless back ground checks on nominees and will, of course w

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as i mentioned earlier over the weekend, president obama nominated loretta lynch.t's pretty hard to be more qualified for this job than loretta. throughout her 30-year career she's distinguished herself as tough, as fair, an independent lawyer. maybe the only lawyer in america who battles mobsters and drug lords and terrorists and still has a reputation for being a charming people person. [ laughter ] >> ask anyone who has ever worked with, dealt with, or interacted with lynch, and they will tell you that she is fair, courageous, and serious when it comes to upholding the law. i've had dealings with her on a case in '97. she's not always did what we thought should have been done. but she's always operated with fairness and integrity. and always made us feel the law, and the protection of the american people, was paramount and would not be intimidated to do anything otherwise. i think the president made a good choice. thanks for watching. i'm al sharpton. "hardball" starts right now. >>> the reckoning. let's play "hardball." ♪ ♪ >>> good evening, i'm chris matthews

first we should point out that loretta lynn of has twice been confirmed by the senate.d 2010 to be u.s. attorney in new york. but i want to play for you a little bit of what she said this morning when president obama announced her as his pick to be the next attorney general. listen here. >> mr. president, thank you, again, for the faith that you've placed in me. i pledge today to you and to the american people that if i have the honor of being confirmed by the senate, i will wake up every morning with the protection of the american people my first thought. >> reporter: as you mentioned, also republicans are saying they want to wait until the new congress convenes in january before they begin to hold confirmation hearings and then hold that vote. but the obama administration does believe that she will make it through very quickly, and mitch mcconnell, ted cruz and others are saying, please wait. we'll have to see what they do but, of course, president obama is headed tonight to asia and it may be next year before this confirmation vote is held. >> yeah. we'll see. you kn

they are focused on the nomination of loretta lynch. but also, president obama is actually heading to asia, much later tonight. but he was asked about the release of these two this morning in that nominating ceremony for loretta lynch. take a listen to what he said there. >> well, i think it's a wonderful day for them and the families, obviously. we're very blissful it's taken this turn. and i appreciate corredirector clapper doing a great job on what was obviously a challenging mission. >> reporte >> reporter: and may seem obvious, in a president obama was brought into this process. he did approve sending clapper to secure the release. we also know that members of congress were briefed on this, as well, which they aren't always, on some of the missions. but in this case, they were, pamela. >> erin mcpike, thank you. will, you have unique perspective. you interviewed the detainees just weeks ago, in a cnn exclusive interview. what's your take on the tdynamis going on here? >> a lot was at stake for north korea. you think about the unite

today he nominated loretta lynch for attorney general.d she would be the first african-american woman to hold that job. nbc's kristen dahlgren has more on the nomination and how the shift in congress could put that nomination in jeopardy. >> thank you everyone. >> reporter: flanked by president obama and outgoing attorney general eric holder, loretta lynch accepted the nomination for what the president called the people's lawyer. >> i will work every day to safeguard our citizens, our liberties, our rights and this great nation which has given so much to me and my family. >> reporter: the 55-year-old is currently the u.s. attorney for eastern new york. known for tough conviction like the new york police officer who assaulted abner louima. >> loretta might be the only attorney battles mobsters and terrorists and still has the reputation of being a charming people person. >> reporter: the daughter of a school librarian and baptist minister, lynch is a wife and stepmother, harvard educated. and if confirmed would be the first african-america

so -- it's pretty hard to be more qualified for this job than loretta.hroughout her 30-year career she has distinguished herself as tough, as fair, an independent lawyer who has twice headed one of the most prominent u.s. attorneys offices in the country. she has spent years in the tremp trenches as prosecutors fighting fraud, cyber crime all vigorously defending civil rights. a graduate of harvard college and harvard law school, loretta rose from assistant u.s. attorney in the eastern district of new york to chief of long

but it turns out teddy roosevelt here had the wrong loretta lynch. is the one who defended clinton during whitewater. and there's just no way to tell these two women apart. but as soon as walrus man noticed the mistake, breitbart issued a correction by leaving on the same headline and then adding the word corrected. from there, it's about how obama's loretta lynch depended the clintons until the bottom where it says correction, the loretta lynch identified earlier as the whitewater attorney general was, in fact, a different attorney. i salute breitbart for not taking down a headline that you know is false. they eventually took it down. oh, my apologies, they are craven political hatchet men. corrected. ♪ mmm mmm mmm mm mmm mm mmmmmm here we go, here we go, here we go. ♪ fifty omaha set hut ♪ losing feeling in my toes ♪ ♪ nothing beats that new car smell ♪ ♪ chicken parm you taste so good ♪ ♪ nationwide is on your side ♪ mmm mmm mmm mm mmm mm mmmmmm all around the world the dedicated people of united airlines ♪ are there to support you. ♪ that's got y

he will stay in the job as long as loretta lynch remains unconfirmed.they're trying to frame her -- >> i don't agree with him on anything, but can't he ask the question very narrowly, is it your reading of the president's authority to parole people case by case? could that be extrapolated to millions of people, just say, i'm creating a format for people to apply for status in this country, if millions apply for it, they all get it, even if i don't know their names yet. because it's supposed to be case by case. >> i think any nominee will find a way to not answer that question. >> and still be nominated, still be confirmed? >> witnesses show up on the hill and what they have to do is try to say almost nothing and not infuriate the senators in front of them. holder was great, he basically treated the guys and the women on the panel -- >> you said, jonathan that they can't answer the question whether it's constitutional in this executive order, until it's been written. it will have been written by the end of the year, and the hearings will be later than th

her name is loretta lynch.ee over sees federal prosecutors in brooklyn, staten island and long island. it was interesting. the white house, all day, wouldn't make a final decision, let alone an announcement after he returned from his trip from say sau next week, and then late tonight that changed, after 6:00 p.m. tonight on a friday night, the white house announced, yes, in fact, all that reporting was correct. loretta lynch is the president's nominee for attorney general, and president obama will make the official announcement in person at the white house tomorrow. so now there is the washington politics of it all, especially since we did have a giant national election in which republicans won over control of the senate. so now, there's the washington politics of it all. especially since we did have the giant election which the body confirms. loretta lynch has been confirmed by the senate twice already. she was confirmed in 2000 and again in 2010. that's a really serious factor. that's in her favor in terms of

and the loretta lynch nomination is not the only substantive matter that's pending. today, as you know, is the 11th day of november. it's the marking of armistice day. we celebrate in this country, and i do men e mean celebrate it, as veter ran's day. memorial day is the more somber day. veter ran's day is the day that we honor and recognize and say thank you to, and, yes, celebrate, yes, everybody who has served their country. this is the day that we celebrate every veteran. tonight, there's a big concert on the national mall in washington which is a celebration of the troops and a salute to the troops in washington. lots of veterans get free stuff. they can get free pancakes at ihops and a free visit to the buffet at golden corral. vice president joe biden today was at arlington national cemetery and he spoke in moving terms about both veterans and military families. >> the english poet john milton once wrote they also serve who only stand and wait. they also serve who only stand and wait. when our son bo, a major in the delaware national guard was deployed to iraq

>>> president obama announced a historic choice to be the country's chief official, he nominated loretta lynch the top federal prosecutor in brooklyn to be the next attorney general, replacing eric holder who is stepping down. we get more tonight from nbc's kristen dahlgren. >> thank you, everyone. >> reporter: flanked by president obama and outgoing attorney general eric holder, loretta lynch accepted the nomination for what the president called the people's lawyer. >> i will work every day to safeguard our citizens, our liberties, our rights and this great nation which has given so much to me and my family. >> reporter: the 55-year-old is currently the u.s. attorney for eastern new york, known for tough convictions like the new york police officer who assaulted abner louima. >> loretta might be the only lawyer in america who battles monsters and terrorists and still has the reputation for being a charming people person. >> reporter: the daughter of a librarian and minister, lynch is a wife and stepmother, harvard educated. and if confirmed would be the first african-american woman to h

here is that loretta lynch. this one went onto become california's public utilities commissioner and is not the loretta lynch who can become the first african american woman to serve as attorney general. sometimings, people might share the same name. but, remarxblely enough, they e they are not the same person. take chris hayes, me and chris hayes of saint lewis. me, but two totally different people. see, the word correction is tucked into the headline which remained obama's attorney general nominee loretta lynch. and the update reading correction, loretta lynch identified earlier as the whitewater attorney was, in fact, a different attorney. eventually, the article was taken down all together. if not, the folks should let the development run. protests continue to rock mexico sdi city as many fear the worst. a group of protesters manage to light a door at the president's ceremonial palace on fire. this as out rage continues over the alleged massacre of missing students. police opened fire on a group of student a

loretta lynch, federal prosecutor, she will not get a confirmation vote any time soon. the democrats control the senate right now. democrats will continue to control the senate through the lame duck period until the new congress is sworn in. anybody short of a supreme court justice can be confirmed with a simple majority vote in the senate. democrats have a ma jority. there is no known democratic opposition to loretta lynch becoming the democratic attorney general. so if the democrats put her up now for nomination, she would be confirmed, in all likelihood. they're not going to do it. a top-ranking democratic aide telling nbc news today that they will not put loretta lynch up because, according to democrats, there just isn't enough time. the lame duck session is short. they say it's a lot of work to confirm somebody so they don't plan on doing it. they don't even plan on trying to coit. that puts the confirmation of obama's nomination in the hands of this nice man, mitch mcconnell who will take over in january. who here thinks it bodes well to have mitch mechancconnell

but you're right, loretta lynch is different than tom perez and therefore an improvement. megyn, is congress must take serious its oversight obligation. you just talked about ferguson. there's a lawyer at the justice department still working making $160,000 a year named carla debinski. she is on the unit investigating ferguson. she was involved in gross misconduct in new orleans against police officers, rigging the outcome of that criminal prosecution. she still works at doj. will loretta lynch do anything about her? or is it win at all costs when it comes to the police? >> in particular at least take her off of the ferguson investigation where there's not even an appearance of propriety. there's no appearance of propriety in having her on that case. chris adams, good to see you. >> good to see you, megyn. >> impartiality is the word i was looking for. coming up, how the government is using special airplanes to spy on your cell phone call. really? not going to be very interesting. it's going to be like did you pick up the baby? how about the groceries? with some people it

attorney loretta lynch to be his next attorney general.epublican leaders promised a fair confirmation process but said it should wait until the new congressm is feet?ed januar. she will be the first black woman to run the justice department. the president travels to china today for a 10-day trip across asia. his first stop is beijing for an asia pacific summit. obama says he wants to improve relations with the chinese government after the apeck meeting, the president heads to buncha and will end his travels with the second trip to australia. over the last 24 hours, the fight against isil has intensified. a wave of explosions killed at least 48 people and injured nearly 100s. reports detail boobby trapped homes targeting civilians and police. in syria, kobane, the battle ground is desolate. the city has been caught in the middle of the coalition forces fight against isil. this is what is left. a shell of what it once was. nearly 200,000 people from fled. in an airstrike attack, u.s.-led coalition forces hit a gathering of isil leaders. the

and still has the reputation for being a charging people person. >> that's probably because loretta doesn't look to make headlines. she looks to make a difference. she's not about splash. she is about substance. >> loretta lynch has been able to get through 7at confirmation twice, something the obama administration is enthused about. she served as a u.s. attorney for the eastern district of ern district of new york. >> outside the president's inner circle, she does have experience with eric holder. she chaired the ag's advisory committee since early last year. there is a question of just when her confirmation would happen. well, democrats are in charge right now of senate judiciary and the senate overall. they may start the process. but the white house says it's not going to try to ram this in before the new year. so, it may end up bleeding over into the republican-led senate. well, the incoming majority mitch mcconnell weighed in on this pick saying ms. lynch will receive fair consideration by the senate and her nomination should be considered in the new congress through regular or

could the loretta lynch confirmation get done? could the vivek murthy confirmation get done? can anything get done? joining us now a political reporter at the huffington post that has been writing about gun rights politics. the vivek murthy nomination was off the record for a long time after they decided to shelf it after that threat from the nra. what do you make about the chances of gun reform groups now essentially trying to put him back on the agenda based on what just happened in the elections? >> i think that the ebola crisis in particular highlighted the fact that the senate has yet to confirm a surgeon general. so certainly there's momentum that's stemmed from the talk about the conversation around ebola and the fact that we didn't have a surgeon general to try to explain to the american people more about -- more information about the disease and why they shouldn't be panicking, but the problem is that there are roughly ten senate democrats who continue to oppose dr. murphy's nomination because of comments he made criticizing politicians for being too scared of the nr

attorney loretta lynch to be the next head of the justice department.if confirmed, lynch will be the first african-american woman on the job taking over for outgoing attorney generic holder. we're live at the white house with the very latest. >> reporter: loretta lynch is a low profile prosecutor, twice selected by the senate, hoping to avoid a confrontation with the new republican body. harvard grad who successfully tried against public officials in both parties. it would be hard to be more qualified for the job. >> loretta might be the only lawyer who battles drug lords and terrorists and still has the reputation for being a charming people person. that's probably because loretta doesn't look to make headline. she looks to make a difference. not about splash. she is about substance. >> republicans would like to get eric holder out of the position quick a as possible given the problem over the irs scrutiny of conservative groups and fast and furious sting that sent guns across the border. incoming senate majority leader mitch mcconnell said, ms. lynch

attorney loretta lynch to be head of the justice department. lynch will being the first african-american woman on the job taking over for outgoing attorney general eric holder. we have the latest at the white house. hi, wendell. >> reporter: hi, arthel. loretta is a low-profile attorney twice confirmed by the senate. she has strong ties to eric holder but not apparent political ties to president only. the reflection may help to avoid confrontation with the new republican majority in the senate. lynch successfully prosecuted terrorists and mobsters and brought corruption charges against public officials in both parties. >> one of her proudest achievements was the civil rights prosecution of the officers involved in the brutal assault of the haitian immigrant. >> analysts consider that significant, given the justice department's ongoing investigation into the police shooting of an unarmed black man in ferguson, missouri. republicans would likely get eric holder out of the position as quickly as possible given their differences with him over the i

wendell goler with the latest. >> reporter: if she's confirmed, loretta lynch will be the first u.s. attorney elevated directly to the post of attorney general in almost 200 years and the president wants to avoid a confirmation battle with the new republican majority of the senate. a harvard law school grad, grew up in north carolina. she twice served as brooklyn's u.s. attorney and prosecuted high profile terrorists and mr. obama said it would be hard to find someone more qualified to be attorney general. >> she has boldly gone after public corruption, bringing charges against public officials in both parties and helped secure billioning in settlements from the world's biggest banks accused of fraud and jailed some of new york's most violent and notorious mobsters and gang members. >> she also prosecuted the police officers involved in the assault of patient immigrant -- republicans would like to get holder out of the post he held for six years as quekly as possible given the problems over the irs scrutiny of conservative groups applying for tax exem pt status and botched fast and f

nominee for the next attorney general, general loretta lynch. [applause] i also, by the way, want to thank the chair of the senate judiciary committee for being here on a saturday to show his support. [applause] it's pretty hard to be more qualified for this job than loretta. throughout her 30-year career, she has distinguished herself as tough, as fair, and independent lawyer who has twice headed one of the most prominent u.s. attorneys offices in the country. she has spent years in the trenches as a prosecutor ,ggressively fighting terrorism fraud, cybercrime, all while vigorously defending civil rights. a graduate of harvard college and harvard law school, loretta rose from assistant attorney to chief of the long island office, chief assistant u.s. attorney, and u.s. attorney. she successfully prosecuted the terrorists who plotted to bomb the federal reserve bank and the new york city subway. she has boldly gone after public corruption, bringing charges against public officials in both parties. she has helped secure billions in settlements fr

member of the caongressional hispanic congress, loretta sanchez. in september, you said you were disappointed in president obama. does this news change that? >> well, i would like president obama to use his authority and act swiftly to help the american people. how do we help america? we ensure that we keep these families together. people who have been working hard here. people who have been part of our pshgs pta and deacons in our churches and i don't believe that's about american values. so, yes, mr. president, do something now. >> do you. if the details that have been released is this what the hispanic caucus is looking for from the president? >> i believe in march or may of this past year. those things we believe would not change the law, but would change some of the regulations that the executive branch has made with help to how you treat

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known for tough convictions, like the new york police officer who assaulted abner louima. >> lorettall has reputation for being a charming people person. >> reporter: the daughter of a school librarian and baptist minister, lynch is a wife and stepmother, harvard educated, and if confirmed would be the first african-american woman to hold the host. significant to civil rights leaders. the next attorney general will oversee federal investigations, including the one in ferguson, missouri. >> i think loretta lynch certainly satisfies all of us that she will continue in the same vain that eric holder had began. >> reporter: but while the president urged a speedy confirmation, republicans may not be as quick to push lynch through a lame duck congress. mitch mcconnell said her nomination should be considered in the new congress. what could be a high-power partisan battle shaping up over a woman the president says has always been more about making a difference than making headlines. kristen dahlgren, nbc news, new york. >> the president is certainly busy this weekend. this morning, he's on