you can look at a state like wisconsin, governors like scott walker are asking for amore ntrol over the refugees coming into the states because they don't trust that the federal government is properly vetting them. it's not just obama's national security people who have said they can't properly vet them, there's also another thing happening where they are actually going into the communities, they're hiring third parties to go into the communities and determine whether the communities can actually handle them moving in. an this normally takes months if not eks. now they're taking suddenly two, three days. what's happening? people are distrustful. >> amy, rachel points out in wisconsin governor scott walker is asking for more control. the federal government will literally place refugees in wisconsin and any state and the governors who may not want the refugees have no say over it. >> a number of governors have opposed this, that's exactly right. bringing syrian refugees into this country at this moment i believe is the height of irresponsibility. we have the fbi director james comey also

i started to go at rallies to the other candidates, ones at the top of the polls, scott walker rallyof a sudden start talking to people who do they bring up unbid en, not scott walker they were talking about donald trump. these were people not trump ca camp, having covered politics so long you would recognize as buchanan voter or a grass roots conservative voter, these were not people you would normally think of being in the trump camp. i don't agree with everybody, he's a little coarse but said some interesting things. in that summer of 2015 bringing him up when smart people, so-called smart political people were making -- not taken seriously that's where i thought, something more here than people know. >> let me show you an image that we just received from the white house photographer, pete souza it's an image of president obama on board the marine helicopter circling the white house just one last time. on his way out of the city. jamelle bouie, eight years, first african american president, what is the meaning of the obama years? >> that's a big question. i think there are a lot o

and scott walker, public enemy number one for the collective bargaining actions he took, but streamlining mining regulation that's through the support of private unions and he even, in his 2013 address had a lot of these blue collar workers standing behind him. i think there's a split among unions themselves particularly looking at public unions versus private unions. eric: julie, back to you, the trillion dollars or 866 billion dollars that barack obama got to spend shall the stimulus program that he spent. how did the unions react to that spending? >> well, the unions were for it because it did put people back to work. eric: they were for it prior to it. in the aftermath, were they happy the way it turned out? >> i think it probably should have been more and it wasn't enough. again, these union leaders went to the white house and said they had an incredible and magnificent meeting with the president of the united states because they're under the impression he's going to put a lot of money behind his words. if he does they'll continue to praise him. if he doesn't, the state union leaders

scott walker talked to one of them earlier and asked the person, what are you protesting? and he said nothing. he just didn't say a word. >> i think is it, we happen to lives in a news cycle that we have cameras at every street corner and eyes on everything. is it symbolic of everything? no. but i will say this. the country is probably as polarized as its been over the last eight to ten years. i don't know if that's good or bad for markets. the markets don't seem to care. i think regardless -- >> we saw that flip in the mid-term. the country was really polarized with health care. >> but there is no mandate here. the dems won by the popular vote and in the swing states where they won, they won by 1%. a lot of people don't think it is a legitimate win. when you consider the knowledge of the russian hacking. >> we can go back and forth over that. >> look at california and new york. >> it doesn't matter. >> the founding fathers knew better than you do. >> and your guy thought it was rigged. your guy thought it was rigged. right until november 8. 9:00 p.m. >> i want to get beyo

rick scott of florida and scott walker of wisconsin are two the winners that we have tracked particularlyclosely. what we see is most politicians try to keep their promises. it is interesting. i think sometimes when we're cynical, we think that they make promises and forget about them once in office. we do not find that to be the case here we find they usually try to keep the promises here they either run into legislative opposition or their promises were not realistic in the first place. for instance, rick scott made promises to drug test welfare in florida -- welfare recipients and florida, but the court said it is not constitutional. there is no other reason besides the person is on welfare. you cannot drug test them. you have to have a reason or suspicion. host: how do you collect all the promises? guest: with barack obama, we collected them with a lot of his position papers he made public and also statements he made in speeches.d president obama was fairly new to the national stage back then, and the democrats were particularly interested in his policy positions, so he put out a lot

remember the congressmen who flew across state lines to avoid voting on governor scott walker's budget? there is a new policies one-third of residents want top secede from the united states. listen to the leaders of the women's march. >> i'm not as nasty as a swastika on a flag and i didn't know devils could be rest recollect, but i feel hitler in these streets. a mustache trade for a toupe, nazis renamed the cabinet. yes, i'm angry. yes, i am outraged. yes, i have thoughts thought an awful lot about blowing you have the white house. jesse: president trump responded to madonna with this. >> she is disgusting. i any she hurt herself very badly. i think she hurt that whole cause. i thought her and a couple others. but she was in particular, what she said was disgraceful to our country. jesse: the left that spent the last year smearing trump as rude, crude and unprofessional. moist's hard for them to make a value-based case against president trump. chelsea hand letter has this to say about the first lady of america. what you have donald trump on your show in. >> no. >> what about melania?

remember the congressmen who flew across state lines to avoid voting on governor scott walker's budgete is a new policies one-third of residents want top secede from the united states. listen to the leaders of the women's march. >> i'm not as nasty as a swastika on a flag and i didn't know devils could be rest recollect, but i feel hitler in these streets. a mustache trade for a toupe, nazis renamed the cabinet. yes, i'm angry. yes, i am outraged. yes, i have thoughts thought an awful lot about blowing you have the white house. jesse: president trump responded to madonna with this. >> she is disgusting. i any she hurt herself very badly. i think she hurt that whole cause. i thought her and a couple others. but she was in particular, what she said was disgraceful to our country. jesse: the left that spent the last year smearing trump as rude, crude and unprofessional. moist's hard for them to make a value-based case against president trump. chelsea hand letter has this to say about the first lady of america. what you have donald trump on your show in. >> no. >> what about melania? >> me

the whole reason -- i happen to be with scott walker over the weekend, you have here in washington allese people who think they are bigger than the american people. she is behaving like she's bigger than the president. >> sean: the thing is, that's the amazing thing. if you look at what the president said in his statement, the order was approved as to the form and legality by the department of justice and the office of legal counsel. this was a political decision by this woman. what i think from a political standpoint, it did not take donald trump very long to say his famous words "you're fired." and she's out, a little shock and awe and moving at the speed of light. d.c. is not used to it. it's happening before our eyes. >> i gave my last speech today at heritage, the point i made at the very end was the reason you can't understand this because you keep trying to turn him into a traditional politician but this guy is a chief executive officer. he runs a company. the guy in charge of the flowers up front, he says i don't like flowers, i'm thinking cactus. you're fired. he goes, you are

remember the democrat lawmakers in wisconsin who flew across state lines to avoid voting on scott walker's by the way wisconsin has a surplus. in california the only reason she won the popular vote was a new poll saying state residents wants to secede from the united states. how immature is that? the left is becoming hysterical. listen to the listen to the so-called leaders of the women's march. >> i am not as nasty as a swastika painted on a pride flag. i didn't know devils could be resurrected. what i feel hitler in the streets. a mustache traded for a to pay, nazis renamed the cabinet. yes. i am angry. yes, i am outraged. yes i have thoughts an awful lot about blowing out the white house. >> president trump responded to madonna with the. >> she's disgusting. i think she heard herself very badly. i think she heard that whole cause. i thought her and a couple of others. but. but i thought her in particular, that what she said was disgraceful to our country. >> so the left which that the last year smearing trump as root, crude and on professional has now taken the moral high ground making

remember the democrat lawmakers in wisconsin who flew across state lines to avoid voting on scott walker'sget? by the way wisconsin has a surplus. in california the only reason she won the popular vote was a new poll saying state residents wants to secede from the united states. how immature is that? the left is becoming hysterical. listen to the listen to the so-called leaders of the women's march. >> i am not as nasty as a swastika painted on a pride flag. i didn't know devils could be resurrected. what i feel hitler in the streets. a mustache traded for a to pay, nazis renamed the cabinet. yes. i am angry. yes, i am outraged. yes i have thoughts an awful lot about blowing out the white house. >> president trump responded to madonna with the. >> she's disgusting. i think she heard herself very badly. i think she heard that whole cause. i thought her and a couple of others. but. but i thought her in particular, that what she said was disgraceful to our country. >> so the left which that the last year smearing trump as root, crude and on professional has now taken the moral high ground mak

. >> donald trump send out cease and desist letters for scott walker's campaigns. slogan isn't that novel. in 1980, george bush and ronald reagan used "let's make america great again" until sometime mid last year. >> shepard: encouraging health update on george h.w. bush and his wife, barbara. we'll tell you about that next. when your pain reliever stops working, your whole day stops. [ sighs sadly ] try this. but just one aleve can last 12 hours. tylenol and advil can quit after 6. so live whole. not part. with aleve. and check your sunday paper for big savings. >> shepard: an update on breaking news out of tucson, arizona. new video into fox news, this is the airport there, tucson international airport. shows the plane crash. officials confirm the crash was deadly. we don't know how many fatalities there. what we do know, more than one person died or if anybody else was hurt. the crash has not affected commercial flights there at the airport. this is the plane apparently on fire at tulsa international airport. the initial report from the airport is there was some

walker: i want to push back calling it your organization. scott: your committee. mr. walker: founded in 1973, it has been a historical policymaker when it comes to legislation. i believe it was about the time we came into the 114th congress the freedom caucus was launched. i don't know that we have an adversarial problem with the freedom caucus. in fact, many of the freemed caucus remain in the r.s.c. voted for us in the recent chairman race. we try to be an arbitrator. that's why i believe we have an opportunity to lead the republican study committee because that's our approach. as i told the r.s.c., even running for this position, the republican study committee, it's not any more just about good policy. there's three components -- good policy but also the right approach and the right voice. i even dug out the old youtube commercial from the kellogg's commercial where the rough neck new englander guy and there is a line at the end of it that helped kellogg's corn flakes turn it around that says this, taste them again for the first time. i feel like sometimes conservat

was it scott walker? i missed it. (laughter) >> it wasn't hillary clinton!ly wasn't hillary clinton. >> woodruff: we'll bring you back on, you can answer that. i won't put you on the spot. only about a minute left. amy, i'm hearing two different sets of views about what donald trump accomplished or didn't today. >> if his goal was to -- and it's been his goal from the entire course of this campaign, he has a vision and message about shaking up washington, he's going to do things differently, not in a traditional manner. he doesn't care about the trappings of this, and you either believe that or you don't believe that, and he will be successful based on a washington working for him despite the fact that he doesn't think washington works. >> woodruff: well, we have how many days? 365 times four to talk about what he accomplished today and what he may accomplish in the future. i want to thank each one of you, mark shields, david brooks, amy walter, barry bennett, karine jean-pierre, lara brown and matt schlapp. you goat come back and weigh in many more times on

so much so that our governor in wisconsin, scott walker, is just now convening a special session of our state legislature to deal with all the new federal funds coming into the state to fight opioid abuse and to fight its law enforcement, its medical professionals, its courage and prevention. so we have to have a full front war against this opioid epidemic. that's what we funded a couple weeks ago. so this is happening everywhere in this country and thank you for going around and talking about it. thank you for making people aware. we really are sorry. >> all right. a lot of emotional questions. a lot of tough stories and it is a tough time in the country. on a slightly lighter note, i want to bring in christine ford, a grad student in the school of public health here. tw. >> i'm 23 as a millennial. >> where are you from? in there frederick, maryland, 45 minute away. as a millennial, many of people people have twitter, follow social media. donald trump has made a habit of calling out those who disagree with him. >> i know, he did it to me all the time through the campaign. >> exactly on

. >> scott walker is quitting the presidential race... >> narrator: one by one... >> fiorina and chrisistie. have suspended their... >> narrator: ...trump's competitors began to fall off. >> neurosurgeon ben carson dropping out of the 2016... >> narrator: but on the campaign trail, at some rallies, things were increasingly ugly. >> the anger only increased as it got farther along. >> it became completely acceptable. it became okay to come to a trump rally and wear a shirt that says hillary clinton is a c-(bleep)-(bleep)-t. >> narrator: and there were some in the crowds with a darker agenda. >> the campaign is continually dogged by a small and vocal number of white supremacists, klansmen, neo-nazis. >> some would come in wearing confederate flags on their t-shirts. >> this isn't a very large group of people, but they are very vocal. and they attach themselves to trump. >> trump, whenever there was a moment to draw a line between himself and these extreme parts of the voting bloc, he refused. i think without question, the only way you can interpret that is that he was going to use these

my state, scott walker, our governors, reformed medicaid so it actually works so doctors will take the. mike pence and mitch daniels in indiana, the woman who's coming in to run the medicaid program at the federal level, seema verma, she made healthy indiana work, low-income people in indiana have health care coverage to get access to a doctor. those are what we want to see happen in all 50 states. that's not been happening under obamacare. so we believe we can dramatically improve the way medicaid works by giving governors more control and flexibility to innovate to make it work for people with low income because it's not working in so many states right now. >> with me, congressman john kbrr yarma, democrat of kentucky. >> greta. >> i've seen so many estimates on this wall from $8 billion to $14 billion. any time you put a billion on something, that's a whole lot of money. is this money going to be -- is this money going to come out of congress? are you going to authorize this? >> well, i suspect the republicans are in control and they'll be able to authorize it. i think it's a bad id

i mean, it is where scott walker is from, the suburbs around there, and, you know, and also it's notust that's true politically, but also a company like harley davidson, i'm not saying it's partisan, but i have been to harley davidson factories and so forth in wisconsin with republican after republican. they are used to hosting republican politicians. so, the fact that they even thought this is not a good thing i think is quite telling. >> it is extraordinary, this early in a new administration to see something like this unfold. as you point out, especially on a gut issue which he campaigned on, manufacturing here in the united states. >> manufacturing in the united states, and something as symbolically as american and as american as it gets, which is harley davidson, right? >> very quickly, laura, on the two finalists, if you will, on the supreme court nominee, we're going to hear about that 8:00 eastern later tonight. they're both conservatives, but are there major differences? you've studied them? >> one of the major difrss between the two, one is far more prolific on the area of

of union protests, this is something that is familiar in states that led such efforts, governor scott walker comes to mind. but the union guys say that you let them down and shafted them. what are you saying? >> i think that's absolutely not substantiated by the facts. i encourage, frankly, people who are still confused by this to look at the actual lay of the land. if you look at the fastest growing union membership, it's only in states that are right to work. interestingly, the five fastest growing states in america for union membership, increasing, are right to work state. tennessee, number one in the country. the state of indiana put right to work back in 2012, has 50,000 union jobs than they did in 2012. michigan we've seen a similar trend. wages increase, employment goes down, and there's more opportunities for both union and non-union workers align. alike. when there are jobs there will be good jobs for people regardless of union opportunities. >> neil: if this is a little different than wisconsin, where you aren't sort of reinventing the books, you are allowing people a choice, right

wisconsin, scott walker is just now convening a special session of our state legislature to deal with all the new federal funds coming into the state to fight opioid abuse and fight its law enforcement, it's medical professionals, and it's counseling and it's prevention. we have to have a full front war against this opioid ep dick minimum. that is exactly what we passed and funded just a couple weeks ago. so this is happening everywhere in this country. and thank you for going around and talking about it. you need to help, thank you for making people aware into god bless you. >> a lot of people in your shoes. we are really sorry. all right. a lot of emotional questions. a lot of tough stories. >> it's a tough time in the country. >> it is a tough time in the country. on a slightly lighter note, christine is a grad constituent in the school of public health at gw. >> i'm 23. so as a millennial into where are you from? >> from frederick, maryland, like 45 minutes e away. as a millennial, many people in my generation have twitter at least follow social media. donald trump has made a habi

he had scott walker had sent him a copy of front page when he won his re-election.igned it, put it in a frame. you know, the expernce of donald trump behind the scenes is very different and says a lot about how trump himself understands the way the media landscape works and has for decade, made a point of cultivating relationships. in the press. and i think going forward, the question is going to be how does that work. are the new people around him, helping him kind of approach or urging him to approach the media in a different way. has twitter changed that to a certain degree. how will he use the white house? the oval office. you know, there's been a lot of back and forth in recent years with networks, shawna has more context on this than i do, but there's often resistance to putting a presidential address at prime time to slblow out programming that's pretty lucrative that we want to put up. i doubt somehow that if trump wants to do an address, that's going to pose as much of a problem. we'll see. >> no, it is really -- i talked to him on the phone december of 201

i was initially supporting scott walker and he dropped out. and then i was supporting ben carson.alized that ben carson wouldn't be able to pull it off. and i became more and more convinced that donald trump was the chosen man to be our next president, i'm a christian, and god spoke to my heart. stuart: that's interesting, amy, you see that. >> who i should support. stuart: we had the reverend franklin graham on the program, he said he saw the hand of god in the election and i take it you feel the same way? >> yes, i do. i was so excited that he was having prayer rallies in every capital and every state capital. stuart: you said it's morning in america. >> that's what has brought-- >> hold on a second, you said it's morning in america, that was your tweet. that's from ronald reagan, i think. >> yes, yes, it is. stuart: okay. >> i want to see america-- >> and retweets anybody. amy, i've got to run, but thank you for being with us, god bless you and see you. >> thank you, it was a privilege. stuart: thank you. check out the big board, not so good. we're up 30 points. we were up 60.

attack and public employees, we all remember when you guys so stood in there fighting against scott walker. the whole world saw your courage. you have to have a democratic party that stands with you. i think we should really change our language. meaningthink anybody is it in a bad way if they say flyover or rust belt. but we need to enrich and enhance ourselves, like the comment of making sure we talk native communities and the key partnership we have with them. we also have to talk to parts of the midwest,like south, to make sure that we to somebodybute feeling left out, lost, included.t, not i can tell you that, if we invest in the grassroots, on the ground in wisconsin, michigan and iowa, and minnesota, if we do that, and we prioritize voter turnout 365 days a year, we will willhose folks back and we win all over this country and in the midwest. [applause] >> jaime? mr. harrison: i think a lot of the pain that is being felt in the midwest is also pain felt in the south as well. very similar, the textile industry in south carolina was hit hard. to other types of industry. tourism became

joinings now is wisconsin governor scott walker.also the chair of the republican governor's association. good morning and welcome. >> good morning. great to be with you. >> it's strikes me that the one area where governors might have the hardest time is dealing with obamacare. simply because some have had to accept the medicaid expansion, others haven't. now the whole program seems to be up in the air. and this is a program that in many ways is being carried out at the state level already, governor. so what kind of discussions are you guys having about how to continue to provide for health care for people living in the states while also trying to kind of wait or deal or support with whatever change to this program is coming out of washington. >> i think the best thing the new president and the congress can do is follow through on their promises. it's part of the reason why there's the highest number of republican governors we've had since 1922. we've followed through our promises, whether it's in wisconsin or michigan or ohio or flo

. >> tom, you brought up a good point about talking to scott walker a year ago and doing a little bitarch on how important exports are to the state of wisconsin and the rest of the country. which would be hurt by this. >> at a critical part in the campaign, the governor and i wererading phone calls as i was trying to catch up with what he thought. he was in mexico at e time on a tde mission. thinking about that last night, i went online. the trade council in wisconsin for international trade says they have 8,500 companies in michigan and many of middle and smaller are eager to do business with foreign countries. and mexico is a huge market for them at this point. and the governor had been down there. do you think that those companies in wisconsin could now go across the border and say we would like to do some business down here? they are not going to get a good welcome. it's tough for them. we are living, however you want to describe it, in a global economy. i think the president, obviously, got elected and saying we are going to change the rules some but there are facts in play here.

they did this protesting in the young scott walker one with more votes.hat's what's going to happen here. they always overplayed. they don't understand what the american people are at. >> inauguration security precautions slowing down partial delivery by fedex and ups selecting delays around the capital. one restaurant is honoring the incoming president. we will show you back in a moment. introducing conduent. one of theargest business process companies in the world. whether it's in health care, customer care, technology, transportation or government. we touch millions of lives every day. conduent. advancing the everyday. maria: welcome back. the drug kingpin joaquin l. chappell guzman now in the united states. cheryl casone in new york. good morning. >> good morning, maria. i'll chappell guzman arrived in new york last night extradited at the request of the u.s. government to face drug trafficking and other charges after being recaptured in mexico year ago. bluesman who twice escaped from maximum-security prisons in mexico as the leader of this analog dr

scott walker, jeb bush, business executives and senators. the amazing part of mr.they never thought he was going to run. once he was running, he never looked back. >> cory, let's ask you besides. there are probably 60 empty seats, 70 empty seats close to where he's sworn in tomorrow because a whole bunch of democratic congressman have decided that they're not going to show up. but for the millions of people who voted for donald trump who are watching right now, what does tomorrow mean to them? >> it means the fulfillment of a promise. what you get for donald trump, which politicians have forgotten about is the truth. and even if you don't like what he says, he's going to tell you the truth. he's going to tell you that we're going to put america first. and if you're in america, and you want to be put first for a change, it means jobs for our country, renegotiating bad trade deals. he's going to do exactly what he talked about on the campaign trail and the reason is he's not accountable to the washington special interest. he's accountable to the american people these

scott: i think one of the -- rep. walker: i think one of the things that speaks strongly is if you look at how many votes paul ryan received on the floor the other day, i think that says a lot. i believe all but one republican voted for the speaker. i think it is rare you have that kind of support for the speaker of the house. i do believe there is a certain level of confidence in speaker ryan. as far as the oce part of the ethics bill, i believe sometimes even members of congress, you go through the different emotions. you go through different things. there were several testimonies shared at that conference about how different members have been charged hundreds of thousands of dollars without a chance to face their accuser. even saying that, i do believe speaker ryan did the right thing saying not now. a couple of months ago, it was kind of the same argument on earmarks. even if you are willing to make a constitutional argument or can make the point it is within congresses will mark to bring back earmarks, sometimes you hav

we believe jeb bush is going to be a big player and scott walker is a big player and watch out to tedz and marco rubio so make a showing. those are the ones that were, you know -- that were the big watch. when i came in and donald trump started to make some noise, it was like, put katy on him and it will be six weeks, probably. you could tell even from the beginning and i'm kind of a broken record on this. the crowds really large and when he went after john mccain and that was not a big deal in the voters' eyes, that to me signaled that this man was going to break rules and he was going to be able to break rules and continue to do so. he did. while it's surprising he was able to make it as far as he did and get to the white house and be the 45th president of the united states, the enthusiasm and excitement for him for something completely different and for someone that was going to blow things up was pretty apparent from the beginning. >> i almost forgot about the mccain moment but that was a signal of something very different going on here and torpedoed so many other presidential cam

i saw scott walker earlier today and reince priebus arriving. at the same time, jared kushner and ivanka trump are not known for being idealogical. i think it's an interesting white house. may be the most interesting since reagan brought -- >> here comes prt president and roselyn carter. >> president carter flew her commercially, by the way. >> in coach. >> and shook everybody's hand. talk about medical recoveries, tom. >> oh, my god. >> i mean, how about this? >> it is -- i mean, he's cancer free. and the fact is, it's a tribute to farm life. >> rural life, both dick cheney and jimmy carter. >> chuck, we're in trouble. >> it's also a tribute to his faith he will tell you. >> and his wife. >> yes, they're very, very strong. i saw her at nancy reagan's funeral and i hadn't seen her for a while, but -- >> marco rubio. >> a young man with a future, marco rubio. but anyhow, jimmy carter has been -- in terms of his interest around the world, how he does it. the carter organization is extremely organized. >> and positive. i've interviewed him on a b n

scott: the rsc this week engaged with donald trump on twitter responding to one of his health care tweets. is this something we will see more with the rsc? rep. walker: i think so. and here is why. a former chairman of the republican study committee was mike pence. nearly a decade ago. having someone in the white house, the vice president-elect, who has served in the same role, really opens up the lines of medication when it talks about the agenda and the legislation. we want to take more of a position where we are proactive rather than reactionary. lindsey: you mentioned there will be areas where the president-elect and congress might disagree. one that people predict my cause trouble is the infrastructure package the president-elect is proposing. lindsey: you mentioned there is there a way to spend $1 trillion in a conservative way? rep. walker: i don't know that we have settled on $1 trillion. i commend the president for coming in and saying these are where we have needs. it is our job to say this is as far as we can go as part of it is not paid for. i believe it is our job to not necessarily push back but sometimes share these are our concerns i

scott broom, wusa9. >> that's the drivers. even the walkers trying to get around are having a tough time because pedestrian barriers around some of the federal buildings. there are a lot of moving parts when it comes to getting around our area. >> there will be a lot of moving people. a lot of moving cars as well. the 441 on your i aweing ration transportation. >> we already have some closures in place and a lot of them are going to happen tonight. mostly around the national mall. tomorrow the big events by the lincoln memorial and union station. those areas could be packed. the secret service put out this map. the white house and also the washington monument. those roads are going to be closed. you can't get on e you can possibly get inside the green area if you're part of a business down here or if you're a resident. any part inside the red or green is going to be very tight to get to. you want to take metro. metro will open on friday at 4:00 a.m. closes at midnight. they'll have near rush hour service until 9:00 p.m. you want that smart tri

walker bush in '89 to get the cabinet through. today four of his nominees faced a slew of questions from similarities on both sides of the aisle. first up, scott pruitt at the epa. >> he's put somebody in place who's actually defunded or led to the defunding or the environmental protection unit within your own agency yet you joined in a dozen or more lawsuits over the last six years ever since you've been attorney general. >> simply as a matter of appearance and morality for that matter, you were able to do it. why not the president? >> i'm not familiar enough, senator, with the exactitudes of his holdings to have any judgment as to how easy or hard it would be. >> would you support moving the embassy from tel aviv into that consulate? >> absolutely. not only is that what israel wants but this congress has also said that that's what they support. >> you guys want to end the expansion of medicaid. that has people in minnesota scared out of their mind. >> the concerns that were expressed by the senator are valid concerns. the conclusions that he drew on the policies that i promoted and will continue to promote are absolutely incorrect. >> last n

scott. aside from journalists trying to track him down, there will be a number of russians wanting to know his sources and where he got his information. >> charlie d'agata reporting from london. >>> former president george herbert walkerntensive care in a houston hospital. he's 92 and has pneumonia. omar villafranca has the latest. >> reporter: today, president obama offered the bushes his best wishes at his final press conference. >> they have been a constant source of friendship and support and good counsel for michelle and me over the years. they are as fine a couple as we know. >> reporter: just this past saturday, mr. bush was treated for shortness of breath. despite his health issues, the 92-year-old has remained active. earlier this month he was spotted at an nfl game in houston. but one place mr. bush will not be is the upcoming inauguration. he wrote a letter to president-elect trump explaining why. it read in part -- my doctor says if i sit outside in january it likely will put me six feet under. same for barbara. i wish you the very best. president-elect trump tweeted his thoughts saying, "looking forward to a speedy recovery for george and barbara bush, both hospitalized. thank you for your wonderful lette

walker or a handyman, we can help you find the right person for the job. discover all the ways we can help at angie's list. >>> trump's pick to lead the environmental protection agencies, oklahoma scottic works committee. in the past, pruitt has doubted the scientific climate change. he said it's far from settled. pruitt told lawmakers yesterday that it's not a hoax. he also suggested it's unclear how much of a role humans actually play in affecting the climate and sparred with senator bernie sanders over that question. >> well, senator, the job of the administrator is to -- >> why is the climate changing? >> senator, in response to the co 2 issue, the epa administrator is constrained by statutes. >> i'm asking your personal opinion. >> my personal opinion is immaterial. >> really? you are going to be the head of the agency to protect the environment and your personal opinions about whether climate change is caused by carbon materials is immaterial? >> he has been on this issue. we've been asking who the leader of the democratic party is. over the past week and a half or so, bernie sanders has stepped up and said i am the leader of the progressive movement moving forward. >> he has.