senatechumer, the new minority told mitch mcconnell, the senate majority leader, that he would like to not have simultaneous hearings. -- that request purely clearly is going unheeded. >> you mentioned jeff sessions, nominated for attorney general, he will be the first we see. his hearing starts tuesday. what meetings has he been having with his fellow senators leading up to this hearing and how is he going to be treated in that committee? >> he has been doing a lot of meet and greets with republicans and democrats. he started off pretty much right away with republicans in december, needing first, as is custom with members of the committee. democrats had a caucus-wide strategy not to meet with any cabinet nominees until the new year. have a flurry of democrats, where meeting with sessions and other nominees this week. i spoke to the second ranking dem and it -- democrats on the judiciary committee, he met with jeff sessions has did chris kuhn, dianne feinstein, many other democrats. we will see how it goes. a lot of these democratic senators emerged from these private meetings saying,