Strom Thurmond, the former segregationist candidate for president was the Republican Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1986 and he tried to get Jeff Sessions` nomination through that committee, but he couldn`t.
Lawrence O'DonnellIn this case, the government will essentially be run by the people who are running it now. The top level [Barack] Obama appointees will leave by inauguration day.
Lawrence O'DonnellA number of foreign policy experts distanced themselves from Donald Trump, not Michael Flynn.
Lawrence O'DonnellI don`t think anybody knows it was Russia that broke into the DNC. She [Hillary Clinton] is saying Russia, Russia, Russia. Maybe it was. I mean, it could be Russia. But it could also be China. It could also be lots of other people.
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