larry: our guest is senator tim scott from south carolina.e in the senate for confirmation hearings as the new ambassador to the united nations. how do you think she is going to do? how do you think the people of south carolina are embracing the idea of their governor moving on to this new role? larry: the latter question is easier than the former. everybody is screaming and shouting and excited for our governor, nikki haley, to move forward with lots of optimism, and hope for a great transition -- a great transition for her, and the process through the nomination area i think she will do very well. i think there will be less attention based on her position at united nations than perhaps , who had alerson fairly raucous start to the hearings. larry: your colleague, senator rubio, the you endorsed and surerted, said he was not if he could support mr. tillerson as secretary of state. what is your response? he is on the foreign affairs committee. i have great respect for his intellect and knowledge of the world. i think he has a very good perspe

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tim scott has endorsed him.e'll have african-american leaders who have worked with him for decades and understand his record. he's voted for the voting rights act. politics is politics but i feel very confident in what will present as senator sessions character and record in the next few days. >> do you believe he will be confirmed? >> i do. he i believe he will be confirmed with democrats who vote for him as well. senator joe manchin, the senator from west virginia will is vote for him. we will hear from people who know his record, his four-decade career in public service, up holding the rule of law. his priorities of the justice administration. african-american and civil rights leaders who have worked with him for decades. >> if he is confirmed and i think you are right, it certainly points to that he will be, let's look at his views on current laws and some of the things that might present challenges if he were to be confirmed. for instance, same-sex marriage. senator sessions has said, i'll read you his quot

reform, something that donald trump has spoke been, a lot of leading republicans like rand paul, tim scott and obviously, it's a huge democrat issue, there's room for compromise and i've said for a long time that donald trump ran as a third party in the republican party. and thank you again for that, right now we're not doing as well-- ments you need it now. >> you guys-- >> and the party is not going bankrupt. >> to be fair, paul ryan, kevin mccarthy, my husband included, a lot of people were against that bill and were going to vote against it long before donald trump weighed in on it so let's be fair about that. >> can i do this with you-- >> it was a bad move. >> i think most of the audience doesn't realize what this committee is. once you understand it, maybe you're in favor of gutting this committee. here is what it is, if a house member says i have a grief with another house member, he showed up somewhere, he shouldn't be there and you do this anonymously. it's an anonymous accusation and then you're both on a stage somewhere and you can go to that member and say, did you ever get ca

>> several republican lawmakers have hit back, including senators tim scott and marco rubio. also lindsey graham and john mccain. on twitter the president bashed graham and mccain the two senators should focus their energies on isis, illegal immigration, and order security instead of always looking to start world war iii. trump's order ordered christians and other religious minorities be granted priority other muslims. here's what he said with regard to persecuted christians -- >> they've been horribly treated. if you were a christian in syria it was impossible, at least very, very tough, to get into the united states. if you were a muslim, you could come in. and i thought it was very, very unfair. so we are going to help them. >> however, according to the pew research center, almost as many christian refugees were admitted as muslim refugees in 2013. many world leaders have reached out to refugees, including canada's justin trudeau, tweeting, canadians will welcome you regardless of your faith. #welcometocanada. his country offers permits for those who have to the new law. t

the read on all of that and the significance all has been lost on tim scott, the republican of south carolina. senator, as you witnessed these events and see these events, it seems to average folks looking at the protesting and even being here and you're obviously free to protest but often seems petty. but what do you make of those that opted not to come here or be there for -- i'm talking the congressmen and women that won't be there tomorrow. >> it's unfortunate. the party that says they support diversity, i wish they supported diversity tomorrow. the bring our country together, those 50 or 60 lawmakers decided to order the country that would be befitting of unity. i did not agree with president obama but i was at his inauguration. so it's important for all of us as leaders to remember our words and our actions have impact. we should be very cognizant of that fact. >> neil: yeah, you brought in and we discussed before, it's not so much about the president, but the presidency, not about so much who occupies the white house but the white house. our institution that means a great deal

. >> reporter: republican senators, marco rubio and tim scott said the rush to implement the policy created confusion, anxiety and uncertainty. it the white house press secretary downplayed the disruption. >> we made sure that the people coming in weren't coming in to do us harm. the system actually worked really well. >> the president brushed off criticism of the surprise announcement tweeting, if the ban were announced with a one-week notice, the bad would rush into the country during that week. a lot of bad dudes out there. there's been confusion about whether or not the ban won apply to permanent u.s. people with green cards who come from the seven countries included in the ban. at first the administration said that the ban would apply to them but now the secretary of the department of homeland security has said that those people with green cards would be granted waivers. jonathan carl, abc news, the prowhite house. >>> barack obama is speaking out on the ban just a week and a half after leaving office. through his spokesman he said "citizens exercising their constitutional right to the

. >> vice president lekt mike pence met with tim scott. >> president obama and the first lady honored the day by participating in a project in southeast washington. they joined the naylor road family shelter, then headed out to playground where they greeted children from the community. >>> tonight two local congressmen are joining a growing list of lawmakers who say they won't attend donald trump's inauguration. at least 30 democrats say they're not going. many of them because donald trump attacked the civil rights icon. representative john lewis has said he doesn't consider trump a legitimate pretty. derrick ward has been getting reaction down at the mlk memorial. >> reporter: yeah, reaction here and a lot of other places around town. you to be some issue that falls around the time of martin luther king's birthday. this year is no exemption and is rather close to the civil rights icon because it's one of his contemporaries who is at the center of this. take a look. there were parades and wreath layings on this observance of martin luther king's birthday. this year it happened at the

he was and vice-president elect mike pence and his family visited mlk memorial this morning and tim scott was there with pence laying a bouquet in the foot of the memorial. >> and day of service from americans nationwide including president obama and first lady michelle obama and the president tweeted in honor of their legacy we're joying in day of service to tour community here in d.c.. president and first lady participated in event at the jobs have priority, too it's a family shelter naylor road south east d.c. >> dr. king's daughter tweeted this powerful birthday daddy missed you. yesterday was dr. king's actual birthday he would have been 88 years old. >> that's you a very powerful picture there. >> just so he that. >> twitter has become one of the president elects's favorite tools of communication and use today to take on chief john brennan and tweeted this me message claiming whether cia director t himself was leakier of fake news criticism hours after brennan argued trum lacks full understanding of threat that moscow poses to u.s.. take a listen. >> he is going to be in few days ti

ainsley: tim scott, a senator from south carolina.s to work with donald trump to improve race relations in our country. what can they do together to improve the problem here. >> yeah. you know, shortly after trump was elected, tim scott bravely talked to, you know, people on, in the news to tell them that he was willing to go on a listening tour, go to ohio, go to these inner-city, frankly democratic-controlled cities where african-americans are hurting, and they want change. and i think part of that is that they just want someone to listen to them and tell them that you know, they're going to be heard and they're going to have their, their problems addressed. really they're just like any other americans. they want to put food on the table. they want a better future for their kids and their family, just like any other white or latina person. that is why i think the trump presidency is going to do very well, he is not going to be divisive in fact he wants all of america to do better. that includes blacks and african-americans and inclu

. >> republican senators, marco rubio and tim scott said the rush to implement the policy created confusion, anxiety and uncertainty. john mccain and lindsey graham went further, saying, we fear this executive order will become a self-inflicted wound in the fight against terrorism. the white hou >> we made sure that the people coming in weren't coming in to do us harm. the system worked well. that's the takeaway from this. >> reporter: the president brushed off criticism. saying, if the ban were announced with a one-week notice, the bad would rush into our country during that week. a lot of bad dudes out there. >> you heard sean spicer say they think this is working well. jon karl at the white house. and they appeared to move so quickly on this, they had to clarify a key part of this already? >> reporter: the key issue here is permanent legal residents of the united states. those with green cards who are from the countries included in the ban, at first, the officials were saying that they would be included in the ban. now -- later, we had a clarification saying green card holders from those

in a statement tonight, south carolina's senator tim scott, said that "today that man was rightly sentenced to death." a justice department official confirms that the roof case is the first time a death penalty verdict has been rendered in a hate crimes case. at the formal sentencing >> he is asking for an appeal? >> reporter: yes, but the judge told him the rules are since he chose to act as his own lawyer, he has to file that appeal on his own. david. >> steve osunsami has been covering this case from the start. steve, thanks. >>> we turn now to the showdown on capitol hill. president-elect donald trump's pick for attorney general, senator jeff educatisessions int seat. tonight, you will hear how he answers questions on his record on race and civil rights. what he says about those confirmation hearings 30 years ago. he promised he would uphold the law and speak truth to the president-elect. abc's mary bruce on capitol hill tonight. >> reporter: with just a few paces -- alabama senator jeff sessions walked across the hall from his own office into the glare of his confirmation. >> so help y

. >> republican senators, marco rubio and tim scott said the rush to implement the policy created confusion, anxiety and uncertainty. john mccain and lindsey graham went further, saying, we fear this executive order will become a self-inflicted wound in the fight against terrorism. the white house secretary downplayed the disruption. >> we made sure that the people coming in weren't coming in to do us harm. the system worked well. that's the takeaway from this. >> reporter: the president brushed off criticism. saying, if the ban were announced with a one-week notice, the bad would rush into our country during that week. a lot of bad dudes out there. >> you heard sean spicer say they think this is working well. jon karl at the white house. and they appeared to move so quickly on this, they had to clarify a key part of this already? >> reporter: the key issue here is permanent legal residents of the united states. those with green cards who are from the countries included in the ban, at first, the officials were saying that they would be included in the ban. now -- later, we had a clarificati

jimmy kemp and i did a -- we did a big summit in columbia, south carolina, with tim scott. we've been talking about these ideas. now we want to execute these ideas. and i do believe that the multi-generational poverty, the persistent high poverty is what we need to go at right away. that, to me, is who is hurting the most. and if we can help crack that code, all the rest of these problems get much, much easier to solve. >> as you try to do that, one of the areas you anticipate you can get cooperation from democrats on, and where are the areas where they're going to -- >> i do believe that -- i would like to think that what i call the poverty trap, the benefit cliffs, is something we can all agree needs to be addressed. if you take a person's benefits, they'll have these benefit cutoffs that disincentivize taking the next step into the work force. and the challenge is, you can't sit in washington, create a better formula to make sure that work always pays. the brits have a universal credit in england. they're working on this. we're a bigger diverse country with 50 states. it

. >> marco rubio and tim scott, said the rush to implement the policy created confusion, anxiety and uncertainty. john mccain and lindsey graham went further. we believe this will be a self-inflicted wound in the fight against terrorism. >> we made sure that the people coming in. >> if the ban were announced with a one week notice, the bad would rush into the country during is that week. a lot of bad dudes out there. >> jonathan karl reporting. a tech titan took a stand against the immigration victim today. >> eight offices world wide, including here at the mountain view headquarters in the bay area. company ceo's addressed the crowd in silicon valley, google and its employees are pledging $4 million to nonprofits supporting refugees. the co-founder of yelp tweeted a note he sent to all employees today saying, i would not be here writing this if america did not welcome immigrants. he added we will do everything in our power to help and protect our affected employees. >> there was a much different scene today at san francisco international airport after a weekend of noisy protests ove

i talked to senator tim scott about it. he is the only black republican in congress and he has not shied away from racial issues during his senate career. he has been stopped by cops and has been racially profiled. i talked to him directly and he said, you know? i spent the time to research this and i think these are important charges to go back and look at the full context. if you personally feels that there are no indications of then you have other senators who are couching their comments. when asked thed other day whether he thought sessions was a racist, he said i would never call somebody that, but he was going to ask tough questions because some of the issues were raised during the 1986 hearings. we have the aclu. david cole, the head of the aclu, and the head of the naacp are testifying at the hearing. all this will come out and you will have the full context. republicans are definitely prepared to answer these charges. host: a lot attention focused on jeff sessions this week. "the new york times" with a onble page f

donald trump -- >> you know, what struck me today, there was something from south carolina senator tim scott who there was some debate on capitol hill today over not confirming cia director nominee. and scott said apparently the democrats were okay with not having cia director moving forward. and i thought to myself, that's that strikes a bit of hypocrisy. because we had supreme court for 11 month, no deadlocks, no -- there wasn't a constitutional crisis. but it seems like it is still strange to go that long with vacancy. >> it is unusual to go that long. and the other hand, it is rare to have a vacancy that would be a key swing vote in the middle of an election. so i think both sides argue here that the other side is violating, and of course, right now, it is very likely that they would tend to switch sides, to: no not fill the seat, particularly today, democrats don't like the nominee they see, a filibuster, for example, might be the ones arguing it is okay to leave a vacancy. example of how the two party often are critical when it comes to -- >> hippocras any politics? never. >> never, ev

this is the moment when you need a tim scott from south carolina or cory booker from new jersey. if i'm in the white house and i'm not a person of color, regardless if i'm a person of color or not i want these people to come to the office to tell me what i should do, to tell me what their constituents are thinking, what the black community is thinking. i hope this is not a bridge that's been burned and would hope that donald trump would call a john lewis and people like him to come into the oval office. >> but why would -- >> victoria, we do this every year during mlk day, right? we think what would martin luther king jr. say today about where we're at? react, of course, to what robert and sahil said. as a researcher and academic, i know you do this every year. you think about topics like this. what would an mlk say today about where we're at? >> well, i think he would follow the course of saying, we need to make our positions known. we cannot engage in violent protests, but we need to exercise our constitutional rights to protest, nonviolent protests. this is going to be very im

tim scott, a strong champion for education and joe lieberman served here for 24 years representing connecticut until he retired in 2013. i have said what i havto say about mrs. devos. think we shod move ahead with senator scott introduction. we'll turn it over to senator lieberman, then we'll hear from mrs. devos, then we'll begin her questions. >> i will note i'm surprised the number of folks, photographers who showed up to hear senator lieberman's introduction. very well done, senator lieberman. i have known the devos family for about three decades. i started learning how to sell when i was in college and it was one of the devos companies i learned how to sell. i'm thank new that a champion of public education, a champion of education and specifically a champion of education for poor kids sits to my left. i will recall my own upbringing as a poor kid who by the time i was in the fourth grade attended four different schools. it's important to recognize the powerful impact education has specifically on poor kids. so up excited about this transition, looking forward to the opportunity to have b

side, you mentioned this is uniting republicans, within an hour of booker making his announcement, tim scott, the only sitting black republican senator said, no, i am going to support him with a very strong and passionate statement, and explaining why he invited jeff sessions to his home state, and talked about civil rights issues and criminal justice issues and decided based on that and his own homework he said he did on sessions passed with regards to civil rights that he is going to support him. there's a lot of emotion here within the people who are going to be deciding his fate, never mind what he's going to do as attorney general. >> what is the calculation going on in senator booker's office right now? is this a play for national prominence? to be a leader in the democratic party? the fact that the party is rutterless in terms of leaders, or that the issues of booker cares most deeply about? >> i think it's both. cory booker is somebody who has gone out and done his own thing and kept his own prominent profile by doing things differently from his colleagues and he's also somebody that

you heard from tim scott.you heard from tom cotton specifically about the special immigrants visas which bring iraqi translators who have helped u.s. troops here. lawmakers don't like surprises and particularly don't like surprises that affect them and their constituents and people they care about. this is something he is going to have to fix or he needs these people on the hill. they're not happy right now. >> do you think they appreciate the uproar at the white house, gloria, that's under way right now? >> it's very hard to tell, wolf. in listening to sean spicer's press conference today. the word he kept using was exaggerated. this was all exaggerated. another word he kept using was overblown. the reaction is overblown. only 109 people were detained. as a result we have made 324 million people in the united states safer. that is not what national security officials believe. i think that they are sort of pushing it aside or live in a different universe and say, you know what, our supporters -- i think they'r

republican senators marco rubio and tim scott said the rush to implement the policy created "confusionnator pat toomey says he supported increased vetting but he called the executive order flawed, too broad and poorly explained. >> officials in the state department are warning it won't help the fight against terror and there's word of a growing number of veterans outraged because some of those immigrants put their lives on the line to help the troops. martha raddatz has more. >> reporter: dozens of career diplomats worldwide have drafted a rare formal letter of dissent. saying president trump's restrictions on refugees and immigrants will not mean a drop in terror attacks in the united states. rather, it will be a drop in international good will towards americans. sean spicer reacting to the news of that letter first reported on abc. >> i think that they should either get with the program or they can go. >> reporter: veterans groups are speaking out strongly against the ban as well. the head of the iraq and afghanistan veterans saying in a tweet, this is flat out un-american, ignorant

you saw bob corker, lamar alec ander, tim scott, marco rubio. all of them coming out and saying they have problems with this. you saw tom cotton speaking out because of the iraqi translateors that were being -- that were having trouble getting into the country. there is -- there is broad support particularly among republicans. you are absolutely right. >> the question is this a one shot wonder? like we saw earlier in the obama administration. >> i don't think necessarily so. i don't think it's necessarily poison the well already for things to come, and i think that the fact that the white house is moving up their supreme court announcement to tomorrow is a way to make sure that it's not poison because there's -- there are very few things that rally republicans together as much as a supreme court pick, and one that we expect to be conservative and one that most republicans are going to like in some ways what this is an early lesson of is checks and balances works. this is an executive who made an executive order, and what happened? the judicial g

i was talking to tim scott last night, the republican south carolina african-american senator, and he stands with john lewis on this in terms of donald trump. this may have been one of the tweets he should have let go, he told me. he didn't. he immediately maligned his district. i don't know. equating maybe because he is an african-american congressman that his district is poor. it was so offensive how he decided take it to him and his district and something he could have just walked away from and rose above. if you want to answer -- there's a different way to do it. he could have said disappointed to hear that. john lewis, i wish you would give me a chance and i would love to sit down and talk to you about this. there are many ways he could have been more diplomatic, but he is who he is. >> there's nothing that angers trump more than questioning the legitimacy of his presidency, and that's the whole reason why or at least he could speculate the reason why he is so skeptical of russia's involvement in the election and russia having an impact. he is -- anybody who is questioning his le

you also have senator tim scott from south carolina, the only african-american republican member of thesenate, coming out and saying he thinks that session sez a fair man and that he went at great lengths to determine at he invited sessions down to south carolina to get his views on race and policing ultimately said i'll support this nomination. so, something would have to go terribly wrong, according to my sources, for sessions' nomination to ultimately be derailed here. there is widespread support among his colleagues. he, of course, is a soeenator, d there is very little precedent for senators rejecting one of their own. it happened when george h.w. bush nominated josh tower as defense secretary. he was denied by his colleagues. but we have no hints of that going on right now. unless sessions puts a significantly foot wrong, we suspect he will likely be confirmed as the next attorney general, but it is going to be an intense day for him on the witness stand today, steph. >> and we are looking at that room as it's filling up. we can see senator orrin hatch and lindsey graham, both alr

ted cruz had an op-ed and senator tim scott, the senate's only african-american republic came out? support of him. condoleezza rice in support of him. sessions obviously in the hot seat here. >> hallie jackson, who will continue to engage and record and report the reaction from team trump to this not only this hearing but the other concurrent hearings going on today. hallie, thanks. >>> greta van succesteren has b watching and listening. what is your take on what you've seen so far? >> look it's a high bar to defeat him being done firmed by the u.s. senate. the republicans do own the u.s. senate and they only need 51 votes. i don't think the democrats truly expect they're going to prevent this man from becoming the next attorney general but they are trying to bloody his nose going back to the mid 1980s which is fair. personal thought if if i were going about to question him whether republican or democrat, is i'd like to know what he had done or did in the last 10 or 15 years, because like vice president biden who said people can change, even if you believe that back in the 1980s he

i know because tim scott and i worked together to pass the pace act last year to make it easier for us to control health care, insurance increases and to allow states to make a determination about group size for health insurance plans. now, one of the things that i am hopeful about is that president-elect trump and the course of many visits to new hampshire over the last year again and again pledged to take robust action to combat the opioid epidemic in new hampshire and across america. and yet by repealing the affordable care act, president-elect trump and republican leadership in congress would make the opioid crisis so much worse. this would be a broken promise to communities all across this country who are struggling with addiction. the affordable care act has given millions of americans access to treatment and recove recovery. it saved countless lives. and repealing it would deny treatment to people suffering from substance use disorders. it will cost lives. it will take a terrible toll on communities across america. in new hampshire alone, health care reform has helped over 100,0

tim scott, who we just talked his tweet. with a picture there of a school bus going back to school, saying back in session today, i'll be sworn in to my new term just after noon. nancy pelosi with a tweet this morning, working families expect ando fight for their health economic security in the 115th congress house democrats will do just that. house is what she says. cohn, ongressman steve democrat from tennessee talking that his live hit on cnn, he was in earlier today. that took place in the cannon rotunda, where greta brawner has been all morning. theing busy this morning in cannon rotunda with the interviews and all the action on the first day of congress. he crossed right in front of us at the cannon house otunda building as this place is coming alive. lawmakers returning to ashington and new faces, john was talking about diversity. we sat down recently and talked freshman from state of going ton state who was to become the first indian american woman elected to that is and representive elect primila democrat from -- >>

he understands how important somebody like betsy devos can be to the next tim scott, an opportunity to have a choice, an opportunity to create an option. let me sum up again. it only thing she has aspired to his moving the power out of this town and moving it to states and localities where local school systems can make decisions about their future. gosh, we tried this for a long time and it hasn't worked. why do we try trusting the people or elected locally to decide how their children, in fact, are educated, and more importantly than that, how to construct a system that lets every child succeed. thank you, mr.thank you, mr. cht thank you, senator burr. senator warren? >> thank you, mr. chairman. first, what to say i share senator murray and senator murphy is frustration with the confirmation process. we were not allowed to ask this of us a second round of questions during her hearing which i was allowed to do during the previous secretary of education hearing. instead we are forced to a hearing before ethics review was finished, and we were denied a second hearing to question mr. boss

devos will be introduced by senator tim scott, member of this committee, strong champion and then senator joe lieberman who served here for 24 years representing connecticut until he retired january 2013. thank you both for joining us. i have already said what i have to say about mrs. devos appear next-line secretary of education, so i think we should move ahead with senator scott introduction. turn it over to senator lieberman and then we will hear from mrs. devos and begin her questions. senator scott. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i will note i am surprised the number of folks, photographers who showed up to hear senator lieberman introductions. very well done, senator lieberman. i've known the devos family for about three decades. i started learning how to sell when i was in college and was part of one of the companies that i learned how to sell, so i'm very hateful that the champion of public education, a champion of education and specifically a champion for poor kid. i will recall my own upbringing as a poor kid who by the time i was in fourth grade attended four different schools. it

another republican colleague who went out of his way to get to know jeff sessions is senator tim scott, the only african-american g.o.p. senator. in december, scott invited sessions to visit his home state of south carolina, where the two lawmakers met criminal justice professionals in charleston. and you know, i have such great regard for my colleagues across the aisle, but i am heart broken at 30 years after the denial of jeff sessions, a judicial bench, when the jeff sessions that i've come to know in the 12 years i have been in congress doesn't -- and i the him, i feel like pretty well, he's a gd, decent, fair man. he tries to follow the teachings of jesus christ. he tries to treat people fairly and equally. assistant -- from he was assistant district attorney thomas harrison, who had started in the helping prosecute regarding the lynching of an african 19-year-old, just horrific, 19-year-old african-american michael donald. in alabama. and the assistant district attorney harrison at the time prosecuted the case in state court, he was quoted as saying, sessions asked what we needed

he was joined by his family and south carolina senator tim scott.ident-elect also posted a comment on twitter saying, america today honors the life and enduring legacy of dr. martin luther king jr. whose -- , vision made as a better nation. the meetingke about and was asked to comment on statements made by the resident elect about john lewis. mr. trump: let me briefly state we did have a constructive meeting. the modernl light of civil rights movement was the right to vote. it is very clear that the system is not working at its maximum.

provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable tim scott, a senator from the state of south carolina, to perform the duties of the chair. signed: orrin g. hatch, president pro tempore. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the senate stands adjourned until 3:00 p.m . on tuesday, january 17, 2017. january 17, 2017. we have a lot of different team member groups and choices people can make with their healthcare. i will use the example of someone who is electing single coverage. if they are single coverage and you are a lower paid team member, to give some examples, if you are in your silver plan, your annual premium is about $750 a year, about $30. , about $30. paycheck. so that's a little higher than you, and then you are able to earn up to $800 a year in wellness dollars. your individual deductible would be $3000. >> are there other questions. >> do you contribute to the hsa or only the wellness dollars. >> we can contribute to the wellness dollars. we do not contribute to the health savings plan. we also can tribute to the hra an

can you support any of them, betsy devos, steven mnuchin, you're a no there, mick mulvaney, tim price, scottitt, andrew putzer in, rex tillerson, are you a yes on many? >> i've made a decision on only three. i'll vote for the secretary of defense and homeland security and secretary of the department of transportation. i lean to voting for the secretary of hud. i expect this will be -- i like very much the pick for secretary of the va. i think he's the best pick of all. so i assume i'll vote for more than half of them. but when he nominates somebody that's a climate fear of epa or to run medicare who believes we should raise the eligibility age for medicare, thinking about the barb barber, the person that works retail, the construction worker, the restaurant worker, wait until they're 67 or 70 to get on medicare is just cruel. >> all right. thank you very much, senator. i appreciate your time tonight. thanks again. >> thank you. >> my panel is back with me. bakari, democrats, you heard him say he'll vote for some but there's eight nominations they are actively trying to stop. are they being o

senator tim scott, the only black republican in the chamber, also supports sessions after sessions visitedo listen to constituents' concerns, including the walter scott case. scott's statement saying in part, "we may not agree on everything, but you would be hard pressed to find a nominee for any post that any senator is in 100% agreement with. i've gotten to know jeff over my four years in the senate, and i found him to be a consistently fair person." opening remarks are set to begin at 9:30 this morning. >> well, i certainly hope if he went to south carolina and talked about the walter scott case, that if he is in fact confirmed, that the federal government continues its civil rights case in that situation. so, really quickly, kacie, what are people saying on the hill about him getting through? >> reporter: i think we're going to see a lot of fireworks today. i think what cory booker is doing is very significant. you're going to see john lewis as well. i think we shoul prepared for some emotional monts. there is an outside chance that something that happens at this hearing could impact t

greg valliere and eugene scott and tim naftali and salena zito.llyanne conway and how she is concerned with the confirmation process. listen. >> every president tends to sign into law executive action. for example, i'm very concerned about the palatial pace of the confirmation process. i'm sure you are aware that they are on trial this week. some are incredible qualified men and women to serve the country. >> in the meantime, you have chuck schumer asking tough questions for the democrats. listen to senator schumer. okay. >> chuck schumer basically said -- accusing republicans of stonewalling. the fact the committees have the ethics information late has held it up. and the length of time the senators have had to ask questions. c what schumer is saying you reap what you sow. you made it difficult for us, we will make it difficult for you. >> they wanted to have more done by now sdplchlt th. >> they wanted more done by now. the ethics committee communicated they did not have as much information as they would like. part of the sessions are asking que