joining me now, wade henderson, president and ceo of the leadership conference on civil rights and human randy weingarten, president of the american federation of teachers. thank you for being here. >> thank you. >> wade, i'll start with you. there will be four witnesses, it will be a limited amount of time, what one question do you want to hear asked of jeff sessions? >> well, it's outrageous joy that senator sessios nomination is going forward and his hearing is being held. it's required that every nominee be evaluated. what's shocking in this instance and not shocking but nonetheless embarrassing, is that the senate has chosen to use its friendship towards senator sessions to cover its responsibility of providing advice and consent for the nominee. in other words, collegiality is trumping, if you will, the advice and consent responsibility of the constitution. what i'd like to see senator sessions asked are his views about the voting rights act, about wrongful prosecutions, yes, those that occurred 30 years ago but, more importantly, about problems with voter i.d. today. about problem

joining me now, wade henderson, president and ceo of the leadership conference on civil rights and humaningarten, president of the american federation of teachers. thank you for being here. >> thank you. >> wade, i'll start with you. there will be four witnesses, it will be a limited amount of time, what one question do you want to hear asked of jeff sessions? >> well, it's outrageous joy that senator sessions nomination is going forward and his hearing is being held. it's required that every nominee be evaluated. what's shocking in this instance and not shocking but nonetheless embarrassing, is that the senate has chosen to use its friendship towards senator sessions to cover its responsibility of providing advice and consent for the nominee. in other words, collegiality is trumping, if you will, the advice and consent responsibility of the constitution. what i'd like to see senator sessions asked are his views about the voting rights act, about wrongful prosecutions, yes, those that occurred 30 years ago but, more importantly, about problems with voter i.d. today. about problems with e

joining me now, wade henderson, president and ceo of the leadership conference on civil rights and human randy weingarten, president of the american federation of teachers. thank you for being here. >> thank you. >> wade, i'll start with you. there will be four witnesses, it will be a limited amount of time, what one question do you want to hear asked of jeff sessions? >> well, it's outrageous joy that senator sessions nomination is going forward and his hearing is being held. it's required that every nominee be evaluated. what's shocking in this instance and not shocking but nonetheless embarrassing, is that the senate has chosen to use its friendship towards senator sessions to cover its responsibility of providing advice and consent for the nominee. in other words, collegiality is trumping, if you will, the advice and consent responsibility of the constitution. what i'd like to see senator sessions asked are his views about the voting rights act, about wrongful prosecutions, yes, those that occurred 30 years ago but, more importantly, about problems with voter i.d. today. about proble

wade henderson and randi weingarten, thank you both. >>> that's "all in" for this evening. chris hayes will be back on monday, i'll be here this weekend. the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening and happy friday, rachel. >> good afternoon. >> you're still here. >> i'm never not working. thanks for joining us this hour, good to have you with us. electoral maps drive democrats nuts. and this is why. this is the national electoral map. this was in 2008 when barack obama won the presidential election that year by a mile. but the map's really red, right? obama won by a lot, he's in blue, but the map still looks very red. that's even more true when you make the map county by county instead of state by state. this is an election that the democrats won. this kind of things drives democrats nuts. but it's just -- it's an accident of the way we make maps and the way we show electoral votes, right? people who live in rural areas tent to vote republican, that shows up on the map as big swathes of the country looking red on the map even if those swathes of the country death

wade henderson and randi weingarten, thank you both. >>> that's "all in" for this evening. chris hayes will be back on monday, i'll be here this weekend. >>> new pictures of the gunman who police say opened fire at a from a airport with deadly results. travellers describe what it was like as they ran for their lives. >> i heard three quick cracks that initially sounded like a firecracker. i kind of turned and after the first one went off and realize it was actually gunshots. >> this morning new questions about the motive and what airports can do. >>> and donald trump 3450e9s wi meets with intelligence officials. and a massive winter storm hitting the southeast with snow, freezing rain and ice, which places will be hit and how they're coping. >>> good morning. we want to begin with that breaking news out of florida. gorn good morning, ayman. >> reporter: and we're learning more about the gunman including new details on the state of his mental health. officials say the suspect 26-year-old esteban santiago, an army veteran, complaining about hearing voices back nearly two mont