stephanie d.lic service to the department of defense in succession of voluntary initiatives to the servicemembers and families of the united states armed forces of the, from february 2015, to january 2017. during this period, mrs. carter displayed an unwavering commitment to the men and women of the joint force and their family members. her sincere personal involvement in their welfare and untiring advocacy of improving quality of life made an important and lasting impact across the military community. an exceptional ambassador of goodwill, mrs. carter made numerous visits to walter reed, dover air force base and installations across the department to engage and support military families. her visits stateside and overseas, combined with her dedicated support of personnel transitioning from military to civilian life reinforcedded the values cherished most within the department of defense. the distinctive accomplishments of mrs. carter reflect great credit upon herself, the joint of at that, the dep

that starts with his wife stephanie. stephanie, we are grateful for your support.ter always refers to you as his perfect wife. i know that he means that. he balanced your own career with men and women in uniform and families. you have made a difference. a recent visit through afghanistan, we met with the unit that last -- lost soldiers in a suicide attempt. this puts in perspective where you fall on the chain of command. as much as i treasured the engagement i had with secretary carter, it pales in comparison to the hug i received from mrs. carter. whaters do not think about a hug will do. but when stephanie walked towards me with open arms, i forgot i was in afghanistan far away from the people i love. i forgot about being a commander for one minute, and i felt like a person again. it was really special, something i will never forget. stephanie, on behalf of all of those you have touched along the way, and those you have hugged, everyone joins me in saying thinks, you will be missed. -- thanks, you will be missed. [applause] i know your dad is working the service

stephanie nos cuenta de quÉ se trata. celebran la herencia del mariachi mexicano gracias al conservatorio mexicano de mariachi. naciÓ en el 2007 con cinco niÑos, y hoy son mÁs de 100. >> queremos hacer una diferencia nuestra comunidad. stephanie: para richard, es mÁs que un conservatorio. ha logrado crear la dinastÍa mata de mariachis. >> nuestras hijas estaban muy pequeÑas, y aquÍ les enseÑaron en el conservatorio. stephanie: quÉ bonito que saber que todos esos jÓvenes sigan las raÍces de sus padres de este lado de la frontera. para mÁs informaciÓn, puede entrar a la pÁgina web. ♪ leÓn: gracias stephanie. marÍa: el gobierno de guatemala rescatÓ varias piezas mayas como un enorme valor arqueolÓgico. leÓn: los niÑos de estados unidos estÁn consumiendo la mayorÍa de sus calorías diarias por medi williaamigos, buenas noches, vamos a hablar california, lo peor de esta sequÍa se ha extinguido. solamente un 2%, se mantiene severa y moderada 24%. mÁs de la mitad del estado estÁ arriba. lejos de una sequÍa, fase que lloviendo en

silver medal, stephanie inglis!rmination is still evident. what did ancient civilisations believe about the sun? there was a god that passed through the heavens each day. her sister stacey helping her with exercises that are part of her rehabilitation. she's doing her speech and language and sometimes gets work to do, so she gets me to give her a wee hand. it is good to be part of that and help her. is she a hard taskmaster? she can be at times. that's good. i do need help. it's good to get her to do it. with this support from her friends and family, stephanie has one ambition firmly in mind. my long—term goal is to get back into the sport and to compete in the next commonwealth games judo is in, which is in the 2022 games. i do think if i get selected for team scotland, i am capable of winning another medal. her family, though, grandfather, mother and father, just grateful their daughter is alive. and thankful for the donations from strangers of more than £300,000 towards stephanie's life—saving treatment abroad. i

i'm stephanie ruhle in for tamron hall.th our daily briefing on politics in just the first month of 2017, a new congress begins and a new president will be sworn into office leaving many questions about what the political world will look like in the year ahead. joining me, mark murray. good morning, mark. >> good morning, stephanie. >> why should we be hiding under the covers? >> i actually think there are going to be so many important political stories in development. here's a helpful way to keep track of everything we're going to see over the next 365 days or so. let me tick through some of them with you. i think maybe for donald trump and his new incoming administration, maybe the biggest question is what was actually going to define donald trump's administration? is it going to be change? he's promising a lot of it and we've already seen some of it. or is it going to be the inexperience? it's worth reminding everyone, donald trump has no experience in government. many of the top people staffing his white house have neve

stephanie? >> certainly is. turn to our panel. steve, no surprise, the democrats don't like this. the republicans are saying, no big deal as far as disclosures, getting all the information out there. what do you say? >> saying this is sort of part of a trend. that's what this is. how many times during the campaign when it came to these questions of ethics, of disclosure. think of the whole drama over donald trump and his tax returns did we use that word unprecedented. it was unprecedented during the campaign donald trump didn't release tax returns didn't put them out. how many times we haven't seen a major presidential candidate refuse to do that in the modern era, yet donald trump for all of that concern and outrage managed to get himself elected president. i feel we are going through a bit of a replay on this. absolutely unprecedented that everything you describe there about right now status of these nominees when it comes to getting clearance ethically to go before these committees for these

stephanie. [ cheers and applause ] stephanie. back there.e's really not going to like this because he tries to pretend like he doesn't exist at all but our senior adviser greg darneter. [ cheers and applause ] there you go. greg has been a leader in education his entire life. i've known him since i was a little organizer person, and it's just been just a joy to work with you all. these individuals, they are brilliant. they are creative. they have worked miracles with hardly any staff or budget to speak of, which is how we roll in the first lady's office. and i am so proud and so grateful to you all for everything that you've done so let's give them a round of applause. and finally i want to recognize all of you who are here in this audience. we have our educators, our lead leaders, our young people who have been with us since we launched reach hire back in 2014. when we first came up with this idea, we had one clear goal in mind. we wanted to make higher education cool. we wanted to change the conversation around what it means and what it ta

between stephanie -- where is stephanie? there she is. what a job. what is job you did. thank you. did he finally come through for you, stephanie? tom, thank you, stephanie, thank you your entire group, thank you. so far it's been perfect. the bigger one is tomorrow at around 12:00. okay? arlington national cemetery was so beautiful. so many people. it was incredible. so we went there and we laid the wreath with mike and it was beautiful and then we went to the lincoln memorial and had a concert and we thought it would be a small concert and never fewer people had it but what they pulled off was incredible. it was an unbelievable period of time but tomorrow seems to be the big one. i made a speech tonight about those live television cameras, i can't stand them. but actually, a couple of them are starting to get honest. but i thought it was a very good speech and so instead of saying it was a good speech, they are saying doesn't matter tonight, how will he do tomorrow? they never give you credit. but tomorrow we have a speech, probably around 12:00. it may rain. it may not rain. i d

. >> we're joined now by stephanie oclair, and stephanie, i'm being told that you were the one that captured that image just outside of the airport, tell us about what you saw as police were leading this person away? >> well, we were already outside on the tarmac from where they led us after we hid. and there is maybe five or ten minutes we were all waiting on the tarmac, a side door opened about 20 feet away with two security guards holding a man handcuffed, like a skinny light skinned man with dark hair. i can't say that he was white, but he was light skin. i saw him for a brief instant. they led him away. and then a few minutes later their fbi agent who came and walked towards where they took that man, we weren't told anything except five minutes ago we were given the first update by officials that there is three dead and nine people shot. but as far as myself and my family, we are all safe. there are many of us now on the tarmac and waiting for further instructions. >> you are still standing outside there? we're looking at pictures right now of the people on the tarmac and we've seen som

stephanie? >> there's a lot of criticism around some of donald trump's picks, that they are too rich and there's been pushback saying, don't say that. these people want to pursue the american dream. but we also learned that steven mnuchin had to amend his financial disclosure forms because he seemed to leave out 100 million bucks of real estate. how does that happen and why should the american people feel a-okay? >> there's two ways to look at this issue. the criticism of mnuchin as a big bank guy runs two ways. they foreclosed on people and that's terrible because these people lost their homes but defenders will argue, look, at this moment in history when big banks were failing, mnuchin stepped in with capital to buy these banks and put them on surer footing. of course they had to foreclose on people because of the disasters they made. he should get credit for restructuring these banks, keeping them alive and keeping some of the core business going at a time when not very many people were willi

stephanie? >> thanks so much, joe. happy new year. i am stephanie ruhle. this morning, we have got a lot to cover. first thing, ethics under fire. republicans in congress set to gut, you heard me, gut the watchdog that is overseeing them. and democrat are in an uproar over it. is this draining the swamp? as donald trump himself takes aim at another company. this morning, gm now in his crosshairs. >>> and breaking overnight, deadly storms, five people already killed as a series of tornadoes sweep through the south. >> we kind of saw stuff flying in the air. >> we're going to take you live to that scene, where overseas, a hunt for a killer. new pictures of the terrorist that killed 39 people in turkey. authorities identifying him overnight. we have got the latest. >>> and many airports in absolute chaos. this is a nightmare, one of the busiest travel days of the year gets even worse. u.s. customs systems completely down while people are trying to get back in the country and they're stuck. >> this has to be at least 5,000 people in line right now. this is wor

stephanie martÍnez con la alerta de evacuaciÓn para california.zos abiertos, otros no cuentan con tal entusiasmo. 120 hogares, afectada por incendios, evacuaron por fuerte lluvias en california. segÚn el servicio meteorolÓgico, esta podrÍa ser la tormenta mÁs fuerte desde 2010. podrÍa resultar en precipitaciones de 1.5 pulgadas. mientras que los helicÓpteros de rescate de aire y tierra fueron desplegados, la cruz roja creÓ refugios como este. >> les ofrecemos albergue, alimentos, desayuno, comida o cena. reportera: ofreciÓ los siguientes consejos. >> es muy importante poner el paquete de primeros auxilios, importante tener agua, una linterna y no usar las velas. las velas pueden causar un incendio muy rÁpido. reportera: tan sÓlo seis pulgadas de agua, son suficientes para perder el control de su vehÍculo. urgen a residentes en zonas afectadas a tener cuidado por deslizamiento de tierra y desprendimientos de escombros. reportando desde santa clarita, stephanie martÍnez, univisiÓn. selectos. dejÓ en tierra por varias horas a cientos de pasajeros var

>> stephanie, good morning.not just raining water behind us, it's raining money in washington. what's going on is donald trump has thrown open the flood gates. he's raised already more than barack obama raised in both of his inaugurations. how is he doing it? one, he's taking pac money which obama refused. two, he's doing it undercover of darkness. we disclose all donors of 48 hours. we have yet to hear the information about this. three, ands is most ominous of all, stephanie, it appears that it is most dangerous because of what's next in the republican war on ethics. you know they've been attack, including in the capitol behind us most lately, threatening to investigate the head of the office of government ethics because he had the tumerity to talk about donald trump's confli conflicts. it looks like the next salvo and that's what makes this money so dangerous. they're going to dump the obama protections on the revolving door. see that capitol behind us? it spins in a revolving door of corporate money innd out

stephanie ramos reports from washington. stephanie: today at trump tower in new york city, donald trump making an appearance in the lobby after the meeting with martin luther king iii. king saying he and trump had a constructive meeting discussing voter right and voter i.d.'s. >> it's clear that the system is it not working to the maximum. through an op ed we provided solutions begin to address a broken voting system. stephanie: when asked whether he was offended about trump's twitter rampage against congressman lewis? >> in the heat of emotion a lot of things are said on both sides. i think that at some point the goal is to bring america stephanie: days ago lewis called trump inlegitimate president. >> i think the russians participated and helping this man get elected. stephanie: trump fired back saying he was all talk, talk, talk, no action. lewis is a civil rights leader who was known in the marches in the 1960's, fighting for civil rights alongside martin luther king jr. today, lewis making his appearance since the dustu

kendis, erielle. >> stephanie ramos live in washington, thank you. >>> stephanie talking about the secretary of state possibility nominee. he has at least one supporter who is backing him right now. >> yeah, we're talking about rex tillerson, senator john mccain says he will vote in favor of the former exxonmobil ceo. the arizona republican does have concerns about his relationship with russian leader vladimir new president the benefit of the doubt with his selection. >>> the white house saying you won't be seeing the new president's tax returns during the election. you may remember donald trump said that he would release those tax returns once an irs audit was completed. but on abc's "this week with george stephanopoulos" on sunday top aide kellyanne conway said trump will not be releasing his returns. she says it's because people don't care about them. a recent abc news "wall street journal" poll found 73% of americans want to see those returns. >> okay, we're going to switch gears and talk about something people care about. the super bowl match-up. it's already set. new england versus atl

i'm stephanie ruhle.oments ago the hearing took place in fort lauderdale, esteban santiago, for the shooting that took place on friday at the orlando airport that killed five people. we'll going to gabe gutierrez. what happened? >> he was charged with committing an act of violence and he could face the death penalty if convicted. a preliminary hearing was scheduled for next week. this is the first court appearance for esteban santiago. in that video obtained by tmz really shows the horrifying nature that police say that he was walking through that terminal very calmly and he opened fire, stephanie. >> how did he appear in court? he was calm in the airport. was he calm in the courtroom? >> he just responded very quickly to the judge's questions, really had no expression on his face from what we heard from inside the courtroom. and he also mentioned that he worked at a security guard up in alaska, as we've been reporting for the last few days. he had actually gone to the fbi offices in alaska and complained

back to you guys. >> thank you, stephanie. we appreciate the update. >>> if you don't have it already, get it right now. the free wusa-9 phone app that is available in the app store and google play. we are pushing out alerts throughout the day to keep you ahead of the storm. >>> breaking overnight, a fatal traffic accident on new york avenue and northeast. our evan is there right now with more on the disturbing stories and details of this fatal accident. evan. >> reporter: yeah. very sad situation. it all happened right down the i'm at new york avenue and bladenberg road. this is usually a busy thoroughfare. there is a heavy police presence. it is blocked off. let's talk about why. it happened by the washington times building, if you know where that is. there was a rollover and a car actually caught fire. i think we have video of firefighters putting out that fire. sadly two people were ejected from the car and did pass away. beyond that, there's also somebody dealing with what they're calling critical burns. as for those tryi

with the new year comes another big operation for stephanie. surviving the accident, the 28 defied the odds. she is aiming high for the future. the uk is a major player in one of the fastest growing industries — video games. with pioneering firms in everything from virtual reality to mobile games, there are big hopes that 2017 will see further expansion and jobs in the sector. rory cellan—jones has been spending time with one of our biggest independent games firms. he was finding out what went into creating a character in a game, and ended up playing a part himself. look straight ahead, straight at this postcard, what we are going to do is get you to do a range of emotions. grrr! in the studio in oxford, i'm preparing for a role in a world war two blockbuster. not a movie, but a video game. oh, my leg... so this is the first stage in making me a character in the game and now i'm going to have to pull a lot of funny faces. so wrinkled, screwed up face. it's going to take many weeks but eventually i will be a character, a goodie i hope, in sniper

stephanie jordan sang a song.hat he would have been as confident today as he was then that this is a beautiful world. our citizens have sent us here to make sure that their world is as beautiful as we can make it. god bless you. godspeed. thank you for your service. [ applause ] >> chair washington and members of the board of the foundation, mr. butterfield, executive committee members and members of the 114th congress, to chairman cedric richmond and the executive committee members and my colleagues in the 115th congress, to all of our former members who are here, our former sta staffers, to all from our walks of life that we interact with as we try to carry out the business of the congress and our duties and responsibilities to our colleagues, to my homeboy, jesse jackson sr., and others from the civil rights community, it is with great honor and significant anxiety that i welcome all of you to this occasion. george george sanity anna someone who i quote often once wrote, if we fail to learn the lessons of our h

>> hi, stephanie.ight now the kremlin is letting donald trump do all of the talking revealing his proposals and saying very little. the kremlin spokesman saying this morning let's be patient. let's wait until he takes office and then we'll pass judgment on his initiatives. but remember, in december, putin and trump talked about not reducing nuclear arsenals but enhancing them and on sanctions wr , we would like to get rid of them but we didn't impose them. linking these two issues together in some kind of grand deal almost unheard of. one is about nuclear war. the other is about economic punishment, sanctions, one thing though the kremlin is very clear on, we agree. nato is a vestige of the past. russia would like to weaken nato and u.s. and european union. maybe here looking forward to the promise of donald trump's presidency. stephanie? >> president-elect also took the opportunity to blast nato during the interview. look at this. >> sure. i said a long time ago that nato had problems. it was obsolete

right now, hallie jackson. >> thank you, stephanie.e breaking news on several fronts. four hearings starting basically right now here on capitol hill. we've been waiting for them to begin. the nominees for commerce, health and human services, epa administrator and u.n. ambassador. all of them ready to face senators. you can see the four boxes on your screen. also the pardon predicamenpredi. obama's pardons. and george h.w. bush in the hospital in texas this morning. the 92-year-old admitted for shortness of breath. we'll have the latest on his condition. we have our team of correspondents everywhere across the country with all of this covered today, including right here on capitol hill. msnbc political correspondent kasie hunt watching the tom price hearing. kasie, let's talk about the congressman under fire over some of his stock purchases. democrats really fired up about this. talk to us about what's going on. >>. >> that's right, hallie. democrats are very, very focused on this.

stephanie jordan.sional black caucus i am honored to serve as your emcee of the ceremonial swearing-in of the congressional black caucus of the 115th congress. i am also honored to be here to celebrate my dear friend, and fell louisianaian congressman richmond to the new chair of the congressional black caucus. congressman rich monday is -- [applause] if you know him, you know that he's real. he loves our people. he's committed to our community. he's a tireless worker. he doesn't have any put-ons or put-offs. he is as real as you can get. he is a sincere and powerful and respected leader as one could ever ask for. you're blessed as we are blessed in louisiana to have him as our congressman and you are likewise blessed and this nation is likewise blessed to have him as new incoming chairman of the congressional black caucus. another big round of applause for my friend, your friend, congressman set -- set brick richmond. [applause] for more than 40 years the cbcc has remained the voice for african-americ

stephanie jordan.d to serve as your mc for the ceremonial swearing-in of the congress of the congressional black caucus of the 115th congress. i. i am also honored to be here to celebrate my dear friend and fellow louisiana in congressman richman, new chair of the congressional black caucus. congressman richman is, if you know him, you know that he is real. he loves our people. he is committed to our community. he is a tireless worker. he doesn't have any put on's or put offs. he is as real as you can get. he is a sincere and powerful and respected leader, as one could ever ask for. you are blessed as we are blessed in louisiana, to have him as our congressman, and you are like wise blessed in the nation to have him as incoming chairman of the congressional black caucus. another round of a applause for my friend and your friend senator richmond. [applause] for more than 40 years the cbc has remained a voice for african-americans in congress. over that same period, the cbc has become a dominant force fo

stephanie ramos has the latest from washington. stephanie, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. yeah, today president trump is set to meet with senate leaders as well at the white house after a day of revolving door activity. trump back in campaign mode complaining about losing the popular vote to hillary clinton in the 2016 election. sources say he repeated the false claim that he lost the popular vote because 3 million to 5 million undocumented immigrants voted. a republican aide claims he was only joking but a democratic aide disagreed saying the president spent ten minutes talking about the election. while trump won 304 electoral votes to clinton's 227, clinton popular votes. despite kwhufrp of trump's claims election officials have said there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud. today president trump welcomes auto industry leaders to the white house as he makes a push for more jobs in the u.s. >> he looks forward to hearing their ideas on how we can work together to bring more jobs back to this industry. >> reporter: also on the agenda mr. trump is set to sign another

we wish stephanie all the best. the showers through the night, there is a covering of snow mar over hills and icy conditions at the moment. temperatures are on the rise now and will continue to be throughout the day. the showers keep going the far north of northern ireland and far north of northern ireland and far north of northern ireland and far north of scotland, in particular. the showers we have at the moment across eastern england and coastal counties are few and far between, most dry. what we do have will push out shore. it‘s a chilly breeze across the country. it will push brighter skies to the channel islands eventually. through much of england and wales and southern scotla nd england and wales and southern scotland and the south and east of northern ireland couldn‘t have a more perfect winter‘s day to emgrace the outdoors. blue skies overhead for much of the day. cold in the breeze and later on the cloud will increase to parts of northern and western scotland and northern ireland, still with one or two fur

some of those highways stephanie was talked about will be salted tomorrow to get them ready. >> yes, crew does a great job. they have been out since last night putting brine down and getting everything ready. most have the main road have been treated. if you live on a side street it will be slippery tomorrow morning. snow will stick. it will hang out. lease be safe. leave yourself extra time. wake up you will to have go out and brush off the car and whole thing. maybe shoveling the walkway, things like. that you will need extra time on your try morning. not a day to hit shoes button. we have a system moving this. while they are generally who hades this is our first accumulating snow event, at least impact full snow accumulating event in the season. we are getting exercising our winter weather brains a little bit. we have in the done this since last winter. the here's storm scan 36789 we are seeing light snow break out ahead of the hain system over lancaster county, chester county, even down into kent county, delaware right around dover seeing light to moderate snowfall. main event is

but stephanie ruhle picks up the coverage right now. stephanie. >> thanks, joe, mika. i'm stephanie ruhle this morning. so much to cover because donald trump is getting to work. president trump with his first full workday, set to sign a series of executive actions to pull out completely to renegotiate trade deals. >> we're going to start some negotiations, having to do with nafta. >> and breaking right now, a lawsuit being filed at this very moment. alleging president trump has already violated the constitution by not selling his businesses. one of the men behind that suit joins us live. >>> and a term you haven't heard before. "alternative facts." after a press statement filled with falsehoods, the white house pushes back with this very bizarre argument. >> our press secretary gave alternative facts to that. >> wait a minute. alternative facts. >> alternative facts. >> a path of destruction takes place across the country. tornado breakout in the southeast. 18 people have already died. >> it was just terrible. awful. >> and now that wild weather is moving north. we're

at the supreme court, stephanie ramos, abc7 news. alison: thank you. this is the final day to purchase affordable care act. 11.5 million signed up before christmas in the 35 states served by healthcare.gov. premiums are up this year. 80% of customers signing up received subsidiaries to pay for insurance. 13 million are expected to buy coverage for 2017. coming up next right here at 4:00, we will tell you about oprah. she has a new job and it's in primetime. michelle: and a new first for twinkies. jonathan: also this -- >> you are driving along the highway and then this happens. you approach a car going way too slow in the fast lane. now a new measure to try and fix that coming up. doug: the last day of january started with cloudy skies now we are in the upper 50's and we have sunshine. what will february be like? the first i work overtime when i can get it my blood sugar to stay in control. so i asked about tresiba®. ♪ tresiba® ready ♪ tresiba® is a once-daily, long-acting insulin that lasts even longer than 24 hours. i need to cut my a1c. ♪ tresiba® r

stephanie ramos in northwest has more. on this martin luther king jr. day, the feud between donald trump and a civil rights icon continues. i think the russians participated in helping this man get elected, and they helped destroy the candidacy of hillary clinton. stephanie: from fine -- trump firing back on twitter, saying, "lewis is all talk, talk, talk, no action. " john lewis fought for civil rights alongside martin luther king jr. he is now leading a new movement among democrats encompass. attend.not plan to this will be the first one that i miss since i have been in congress. stephanie: now at least 27 democrats say they will skip out on the inauguration. these comments from john brennan had to do with the hack of the russians into the 2016 election. >> this is more than being about him. it is about the united states and national security. tells "thetrump washington post" he is finalizing a plan to have health insurance for everyone as we are days away from the inauguration. nearly a million visitors are expected to pack d.c. for trump's swearing-

stephanie. >> reporter: yes. second day in a row here of tean protesters are carrying anti- trump signs and cheering in the people coming in from their international flights. [ cheering and applause ] >> reporter: you could see the emotion on their faces as this family greeted loved ones arriving from the middle east. protesters met them with chants saying no hate, no fear, immigrants are welcome here. >> i think this was incredibly wrong, the policy that trump put in. >> american jews recognize the tyranny and we're fighting it. >> the orders that came down yesterday violated our constitution. >> reporter: sunday both virginia and maryland representatives joined the airport protests denouncing the executive order president trump continued to support in tweets. the president wrote our country needs strong borders and extreme vetting now. >> for donald j. trump and his efforts to save this country. >> reporter: at least one supporter came out agreeing with that message. back and forth continued after. >> i'm an am

stephanie ruhle picks up the coverage. a lot of news to cover, stephanie. [ muted ]. >>> a lot happening right now. starting with hitsing the gas. president trump ramping up his corporate outreach, meeting with automakers, ceos at this very moment and you remember it's after criticizing them for making cars overseas and not true, also known as a lie. the president repeating his debunked claim he would have won the popular vote if not for undocumented immigrants voting illegally while also talking crowd size yet again with congressional leaders. >> it was clear this was still on his mind. >> and the handover. trump's businesses now officially managed by his sons but is it enough? and the collapse. the governor of minnesota fainting while delivering his state of the state address. >> but despite that -- >> nobody wants to see that. we have an update on his condition this morning but we'll begin today with president trump bringing business leaders back together for the second time in two days. this time the heads of the big t

stephanie, you were with him at the beginning. hope and change was his mantra. donald trump now of course is going to be coming into the white house. did trump's win affect his message tonight, what he's trying to say, how he feels as opposed to it being a victory lap versus something else? >> well, david would know that better than i would. i would imagine that tonight is a little bit of a different speech than he would have given if hillary clinton had won the presidency. we're at a critical time in our country and we need hope and change more now than ever. i think the president -- as david said it won't be a victory lap, but he'll talk about some of the change he has brought about making this country a much more fair and just country. i think it will be a message looking forward about we need to stay the course and all of us can effect change. for those who may have lost the election, don't give up. we can still effect change. for those that won the election, let's work together. i think that's the kind of message we'll hear tonight. >> the significance of w

stephanie, thank you. stephanie ramos in washington. this is going to be a one of its kind type inauguration. >>> nearly three dozen members of congress say they won't be attending friday's inauguration in protest. >> and that includes four congressmen an women who represent districts here in the bay area. laura anthony has the story live from walnut creek. laura? >> reporter: larry, so far of those 30 or so congress members who have decided to boycott the trump inauguration, about a third of them are from california. while some are saying it does have to do with trump's feud with john lewis, others told us today they decided before that. in oakland to celebrate martin luther king jr. day, bay area congresswoman barbara lee reaffirmed her position that she sees no reason to do the same at friday's inauguration of president-elect donald trump. >> when you look at the campaign of divisiveness and bigotry and when you look at the fact that nothing has changed since the campaign, you know, i don't think that's something that i need to do in

i'm stephanie ruhle. we have a lot of news breaking overnight. building a wall, president trump set to sign an executive order today directing federal funds to fulfill this campaign promise. >> i will build a great, great wall on our southern border. >> amid new reports he will end so-called sanctuary cities and ban -- that's right -- ban people from coming from some muslim countries. >>> also breaking, donald trump promising to launch a major investigation over his claims of massive voter fraud during the election. >> the president has believed that for a while based on studies and information he has. >> we're going to break down those facts and talk about a supreme pick. the president sayse will announce his supreme court choice next week, and we've got the short list. >>> so much to cover. we begin this morning with president trump taking the first step towards transforming immigration policy in america just a few hours from now. he's expected to sign a new executive order putting money towards buildin

. >> we'll talk with stephanie ruhle later. she has exclusive information. again, this warning to american businesses that somehow they would be punished through a tax if they don't adhere to some of the things that the president is now saying are necessary to do business in this country. >> right. and he doubled down on that today, tamron. he said, look, if you outsource jobs, we're going to slap higher taxes on you. he said he's going to try to lower taxes for middle class americans and lower regulations by 75%. we saw during the transition, he took some of these companies on head on, over twitter, calling them out for outsourcing jobs, companies like gm, for example. today in that meeting, dell, lockheed martin, among other companies. >> what could these executive orders on nafta and tpp mean for you? let's bring in ali velshi. as you well know and kristen has reiterated, there are critics out there who say these actions could have unintended consequences for american workers and what we pay for goods coming into this country. >> that's what donald trump