with supporting terrorism. president obama is expected to address both of these issues and much more when he holds his year-end press conference this afternoon. got every angle covered for you. we begin with joe johns at the white house. good morning. >> reporter: the president getting one more opportunity to make his case to the american public on why the administration is on the right track and the fight against international terrorism holding his last news conference of the year here at the white house before flying off to san bernardino, california, to meet with the families of the victims there. on thursday, the president visiting the national counterterrorism center outside washington, d.c., reporting that so far, his experts have found no specific, credible threat against the homeland. also announcing that he has ordered a review of the so-called k-1 fiance program

that allowed one of the attackers in san bernardino to slip into the country. the president adopting a mostly reassuring tone at a time when some of his critics are saying he's a bit too low key on terrorism. listen. >> for anyone trying to harm americans need to know, they need to know that we're strong and that we're resilient, that we will not be terrorized. >> after the president's visit to san bernardino, he does fly off to hawaii for his long family vacation there, not back in washington until after the new year. john berman, back to you. >> joe, thanks so much. that friend of the san bernardino shooter we mentioned is waking up behind bars this morning. what did officials uncover that led them to bring terror charges? cnn justice reporter evan perez has that part of the story. evan? >> reporter: he's the only person thus far to face any charges as a result of the san bernardino terror attack. enrique marquez is the friend

and neighbor who helped syed farook buy two military style rifles that farook and his wife used to kill 14 people. he bought two rifles so farook wouldn't have to go through a background check. and immigration fraud. he took money to marry a woman who's part of farook's extended family. the most serious charge is material support for terrorism and stems from a plot that marquez, a muslim convert, and farook planned in 2012 but never carried out. idea was to attack a library or cafeteria using pipe bombs and guns and attack a prosecutor said was designed to maximize the number of casualties. a second chilling plot involved attacking a busy highway at rush hour, an area with no exits. they would use pipe bombs to disable cars and farook would open fire on people in the cars and marquez would stand on a hillside to kill law enforcement and rescuers trying to help victims.

prosecutors also revealed that a few hours after the san bernardino attack, marquez called 911 and he talked of wanting to kill himself and that he let farook hold guns for him. alisyn? >> yes, a little late for that remorse. evan, thank you for that. let's bring in now our cnn terrorism analyst and editor in chief of ctc sentinel, pool cruickshank and paul fuentes, cnn law enforcement analyst and former fbi assistant director. tom, let me start with you. so now that enrique marquez has been charged and is behind bars, does that mean investigators think they've gotten everything out of him that they could have? >> i think so. i think that would be the indication because he cooperated for several weeks. so they had all that time to really exhaust all the information they could get out of him and i think when they were at the point they were satisfied, they went ahead and informed him he was going to be charged and informed the rest of us. >> as we just heard from evan's

reporting and as we can read in the affidavit, enrique marquez gave them a lot of information, a lot of information about even what they had planned beforehand, how he got the weapons. what stands out to you about what he told investigators? >> i think in a way -- >> hold on, tom. this is to paul. >> i'm sorry. >> fascinating new information from enrique marquez, relating back to those plots in late 2011 and in 2012 that farook and he planned to hit their own community college, riverside community college, a library or a cafe there, also to attack a freeway. of course, all those years later, there were a lot of us asking the question, why would farook attack his own workplace, his own holiday party? well, it turns out that several years previously, he had been planning to attack his own

community center, because he was familiar with the surroundings there. i think there was the same dynamic playing out this time round that he was familiar with this building, with the location. so it was an easy target for him to hit. and some fascinating new details from the charging documents that he arrived there at 9:00 a.m. basically in the morning and put an explosive device on a table inside the holiday party in a bin liner and inside was three pipe bombs with a remote control mechanism linked to a toy car. he then leaves that party an hour and a half later, and then comes back a further half an hour later to launch the attack. so it doesn't seem there was any kind item that triggered this. >> do you agree this was a

target of opportunity because it was easy? what do you think is significant in what has come out in the affidavit? >> i think in a way what didn't come out or what we don't know is what excuse for not informing the authorities. when you talk about doing something two, three, four years ago, that's one thing. and then in terms of conspiracy, you have to commit an act furthering the idea, the talk that you're making, which he did. he buys the weapons. he helps assemble pipe bombs and is completely involved in this. then suddenly he's not involved for a couple of years but he's the one person that could have stopped the attack. he's the one person -- we don't know what the mother knew or didn't know, what other people, friends and others knew. but he knew. he knew that farook had the capability for the last several years of doing an attack wherever that might be. and the fact that he could have been the one person to make the phone call that would have prevented it. >> tom, you know what, i want to

stick with you for one second, tom. what he does do is makes the 911 call after the attack, and then he expresses what sounds like shock, or remorse. let me read it to you. we don't have the audio. he says my neighbor, he did the san bernardino shooting. 911 says, your neighbor did what? >> he was the shooter. >> 911 says he was the shooter? >> marquez says the blank used my gun in the shooting. you said he use your gun? he says yes, oh, my god. then they say how do you know it's your gun? they can trace all the guns back to me. you know, this, again, just -- what do they do to guys like this, tom, in law enforcement after he's given all this information. he's valuable to them. now they've charged him with terrorism related crimes. does he end up being prosecuted for a lesser crime because he's given them all this information? >> he's already been charged with, you know, the crimes he can be charged with in relation to helping farook and the

weapons and being involved in that sense. unless they know that he knew information in advance of the attack, he's not going to be specifically charged with the murders. i don't think they know that and i don't think -- it may not be true that he did know it prior to the attack. once he knew the attack happened, you know, it was pretty clear in his mind that he knew it was farook. and what i'm saying is that several years ago, when he does -- when he gives farook the weapons but doesn't get them back and then, you know, the pipe bombs, the statements they were making pipe bombs for recreational fun, you know, doesn't make sense either. so, again, three, four years ago he could ask farook, give me those guns back. we're not going to do any attack and then if he didn't give the guns back, then call the sports. since he didn't do any of that, even though there's a time delay of a couple years from the time of acquiring the guns to actually carrying out the attack, he still enalled it in the first place and can couould

prevented it in the second place. >> we know the wife of farook had become radicalized and had officials been reading her personal direct messages online, they might have been able to see that. you deal with this all the time. is it time for counterterrorism officials to change the way they do business and investigations? >> well, they already are. i speak to senior u.s. intelligence officials about this and over the last couple of years there's been a huge move into monitoring social media from the united states intelligence points of view. this is almost as important now as all that clandestine intelligence or the eavesdropping that the nsa does, just reading people's social media, particularly overseas, looking for danger signs. the fbi does a lot of this already. they have sort of undercover agents on these radical social media sites befriending

potentially dangerous individuals. a lot of these investigates have been triggered by the fbi, looking at social media. it's really hard because there is just such a huge amount of social media out there. so how to sort of spot the danger signs, how to detect when people are going from radical thought which is perfectly legal in the united states to radical action, very, very tricky to figure that out. they're trying to figure it out as upstream as possible. but over the next weeks, i think, there's the worry that another couple like this or another radicalized individual could get through and launch some kind of attack. because you can't stop all of this, alisyn. >> of course. let's pray that investigators are ahead of them. paul cruickshank, mr. fuentes, thank you. cnn's wolf blitzer will have live coverage of president obama's year-end news conference, beginning at 1:40

p.m. eastern. >> sure to be a subject there. two young americans charged with trying to help islamic terror groups. jalil aziz indicted for attempting to support isis. he shared extremist propaganda on 57 twitter accounts and called for attacks on military members. and 22-year-old adam shaffi was arrested, he was attempting to travel to turkey. the democratic national committee suspending the sander's campaigns access to the party's voter data base after improperly searching confidential data from hillary clinton's campaign this week. athena jones live in washington with the breaking details and the fallout, athena. >> this is a major blow to sanders. his campaign has been suspended,

discipline by the democratic national committee after snooping into rival hillary clinton's data. the campaign has been suspended from using the dnc's data system. this news of course is coming just a day before the third democratic debate in new hampshire. now, clinton's data was accessed by at least one of sanders staffers after a software error occurred at a technology company that allows the campaigns to access voters' data. we're talking about vital information here that the campaigns use to make strategy uk plans. you're not allowed -- one campaign is not allowed to look at another campaign's data. the sanders campaign will remain suspended until they provide the dnc with a full explanation of what happened and they provide proof that the data they accessed has been discarded. a spokesman for sanders blamed the tech company here, saying, quote, on more than one occasion the vendor has dropped the fire wall between the data of different democratic campaigns.

he's also making the points that their records were also vulnerable. the spokesman did hold his own team accountable for the breach, saying that behavior is unacceptable and the staffer was fired immediately so. a lot of fallout here. back to you, alisyn. >> we'll be debating that in our political debate segment coming up. die-hard "star wars" fans flipping out after catching the first screenings of "the force awakens." it's received critical acclaim and now fan reviews are in online. fans on twitter raving that the movie stays true to the original trilogy. disney is set to make a fortune. the first international screenings have hauled in more than $14 million. it could smash box office records this weekend. >> that's incredible. >> john, how excited are you? >> is that why you're bleary eyed, you were there? >> no. my plan all along was to wait

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breaking overnight, the democratic national committee suspending the bernie sanders presidential campaign from accessing his voter data base after one of the top staffers used confidential data belonging to hillary clinton. a sanders staffer has been fired over the incident. here to discuss senior politics editor of the daily beast, jackie kucinich and washington

correspondent for the "new yorker," ryan lizza. scandal, intrigue. there's something going on that's odd and hard to understand. >> very hard to understand. >> the democratic national committee has a voter data base. you're supposed to have fire walls so one campaign can't get into the other campaign's stuff. that went down, a sanders person tried to cheat, here we are. >> i put interesting facts about the voter in the data base. if the other campaign calls you, they have the same kind of data on you and it goes into their section. both are adding to the file, right? in the general election that fire wall goes up so all the democrats can have access to the data. that fire wall has to stay separate in the primaries. there's strategic information you want to know about voters that you are collecting. it sounds like from the reporting that the dnc had some kind of software glitch and that

fire wall came up and so i got to see the data that they put in about you. >> this wasn't the bernie sanders campaign plumbing for information on their rival. this wasn't watergate. it was a software glitch and they took a peek. >> four peeks. >> four peeks according to the dnc. >> "washington post." >> "the washington post." that they had tried -- they just took a peek at what hillary clinton's data was. how big a deal is this? >> it's a very big deal that bernie sanders doesn't have the access to that data anymore. i can tell you that. right now they don't know who they contacted. they don't know who they needed to call back. who was absolutely not going to vote for them. that takes time, money, to get that information back. they don't really have time to be backtracking right now. until they get all of that information to the dnc, they're kind of flying blind ahead of a really important iowa caucus for bernie sanders.

any wins he can register early will help diminish hillary clinton's -- the feeling of inevitability which she is riding high on right now. >> there's a big democratic debate saturday night here. i want to role play for a second. alisyn camerota, attack me, bernie sanders for this scandal. >> bernie, senator, keep your hands off my vote data. >> hillary clinton, you really want to talk to me about computers and storage and things like that? >> ah, i see where you're going. >> you really want to go there at this point in the campaign. >> i see where you're going with that, senator. >> is that how this plays out? >> that's a pretty good comeback. you should be a political consultant. >> will this come up in the debate. >> i think it will, i think it's inevitable that the moderators will bring it up. i don't know if bernie sanders knows about this, it was a low-level staffer.

. >> it's interesting to see how hillary clinton will react. to see if she gives him a pass. >> she needs to return the favor. >> he said, i'm sick of talking about your e-mails. >> hillary clinton can't make a big deal with e-mail, glitch stuff. >> if they can put this on the staffer, that's one thing. i don't know. it will be interesting. maybe she will give hum a pass. this does, bernie sanders is trying to project this brand where he wants to talk about the issues. he wants to stay positive. if it starts coming out this was more than just an accidental or peek into her data, this could also erode some of the branding that bernie sanders has built up throughout this campaign. >> all right. let's talk about what's going on in the republican side of the race right now. the answer is a lot, right? there's a battle between marco rubio and ted cruz. there is a new chapter this morning because ted cruz has a new ad playing in iowa. do we have that ad?

let's play that. >> securing our borders and stopping illegal immigration is a matter of national security. that's why i fought so hard to defeat president obama and the republican establishment's gang of eight amnesty plan. their misguided plan would have given obama the authority to admit syrian refugees, including isis terrorists. that's just wrong. >> you didn't see marco rubio in that ad but he is the clear target, ryan. >> this is why i think -- rubio has muddied the waters a little bit on this issue, right? rubio sponsored that bill. >> it was for legality of the 11 million people who were here. >> it's a compromise between democrats and republicans. the democrats get a pathway to citizenship and republicans get increased border security. and that's the big compromise. cruz was against that bill. now, rubio has come back and said you were for one amendment that had a legality aspect to

it. >> he was. >> everyone who was against that bill is on cruz's side, rush limbaugh, all the conservatives who are anti-immigration reform are with cruz and it allows cruz to go out and have this conversation and do that ad that marco rubio does not want to be talking about. in the long run, despite the fact that rubio has helped muddy the waters on who is pro-amnesty, in the long run, this is a conversation that does not benefit marco rubio. >> jackie, what about from 2013 where cruz clearly introduced a bill that was for legalizing the 11 million people who were here illegally and he even said, it's time for them to come out of the shadows. he has a different stance now. is it working for rubio to point that out? >> i think the fact that cruz has this ad shows that he hit a nerve, that the fact that cruz amendment came to light, he's trying to shore up, to make sure that he stays the immigration hard-liner, the image he's cultivated throughout this campaign.

ryan is right. a lot of the immigration hard-liners, steve king for goodness sake in iowa has endorsed ted cruz. he is reiterating his kra deaei credentials there. marco rubio did draw some blood with this comparison. >> the other big fight on the republican side right now is between jeb bush and donald trump. i had a chance to talk to the former florida governor overnight. i asked him about this reporting that his campaign has been doing due diligence to see if they could get out of the pledge, that jeb bush would support the republican nominee, including if it's donald trump. i asked the governor, does he think that donald trump would make a better president than hillary clinton? this is the answer-ish that i got. >> you didn't answer my question. would he make a better president than hillary clinton? >> i've levered not to answer questions. that's one of the things you do in political discourse. answer what you want to say. >> wait. you're just not going to answer outright? don't republican voters deserve to know?

you're attacking donald trump every day now, which is something you got into reluctantly. >> i am. >> do you think he would make a better president than hillary? >> i don't think he's qualified -- >> absolutely. i'd be a better president than hillary clinton. >> does donald trump? >> my point is -- he is not qualified to be commander in chief of the united states of america's greatest fighting force. >> that was an interesting exchange. it took jeb bush a long time to answer what you want, not what the question is. he said this right after the debate. he finally has learned not to answer questions that he thinks are loaded -- not that your question was loaded -- that he doesn't like. >> surprising that his father and brother were president and a two-term governor. there's something in honesty but i can't believe he said that. >> that says something.

>> can you imagine if they took out your question and there was an attack ad that had jeb bush saying hillary clinton would milwaukee a better president than donald trump without any context. i can see why he didn't say it. my goodness, you can't imagine that wouldn't be splashed everywhere. >> right, right. >> from the context, reading between the lines, i think we all have to believe that he does not think that donald trump would be a better president than hillary clinton. right? isn't that what you have to assume? isn't that the takeaway from that conversation? >> he's hoping he will be the president. he did get around to that, i'll be better than any of them. ryan, jackie, thanks so much. great to have you guys. >> new details are emerging about the ring leader of the paris terror attacks. how did he manage to cross the french boreder? could his actions trigger new calls for tighter controls on refugees? we'll look for answers ahead on "new day." ly not alone.

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they did have european passports, most of them, including the ring leader, who was a belgian moroccan. a lot of the details, we will have to find out how they were able to make it into europe undund undetected from syria. we have seen dozens and dozens and dozens of pell, men women and children, coming to this greek island of lesbos. >> the refugee crisis continues. that's important to note. an unlikely bromance brewing between donald trump and vladimir putin. what does donald trump think of putin? and where is this heading?

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donald trump getting a vote of confidence from a man most world leaders prefer to distance themselves from, russian president vladimir putin.

putin called trump bright, talented, saying he's the absolute leader in the u.s. presidential race and now donald trump is returning the love. a cnn political commentator and associate professor at the city university of new york. let me read you the trump response. in some ways it's more interesting than what vladimir putin said. trump said it is always a great honor to be so nicely complimented by a man so highly respected within his own country and beyond. i've always felt that russia and the united states should be able to work well with each other to defeat terrorism, restoring world peace and trade. >> putin is not a democratic. he's an authoritarian leader. it underscores the degree to which trump has authoritarian tendencies himself. putin is a guy that's trampled all over russian democracy.

indeed trump has some of the same tendencies here at home fwl it isn't the type of endorsement most candidates running for president would seek. vladimir putin's approval ratings in the united states. favorable 10%, unfavorable 76%. why on earth would donald trump brag about being liked by a guy who is so wildly unpopular? >> there's been this weird strain in the republican party of admiring putin because he's strong unlike obama. it's also worth remembering that trump is the one republican who has endorsed the russian air strikes in syria. saying that it's good that russia is attacking isis. there's actually a policy overlap between him and putin as well. >> i was speaking to sam clovis, a top adviser to donald trump, especially in iowa overnight. clovis told me, this just shows how strong donald trump is. he's not even president and he's

forcing vladimir putin to show respect. >> yes, that's ridiculous. really what's happening here is the best explanation is that because trump is endorsed what vladimir putin is doing, putin is endorsing trump. right? it's not that complicated. but trump has this mega low maniacma nigh -- maniacal view. >> what about the flip side of this? you don't hear a lot of world leaders offering praise for donald trump. david cameron has gone out of his way to say trump would not be welcome in the united kingdom. certainly muslim leaders around the world not happy with donald trump. what does vladimir putin get out of saying pleasant things? >> russia has been very hostile to refugees coming into europe and russia has been portraying itself as the kind of leader -- new leader of the west against this islamic invasion, very

culturally conservative. in a way there's an ideological connection you see between the way putin has been responding to the middle east and the way trump has been responding. >> there are a lot of muslims who live in russia. >> right. >> does putin pose risks to himself by praising donald trump, a man who called on banning muslims from the united states? >> putin's greater danger is that all of this bombing he's doing in the middle east is actually leading in russia from muslims inside russia itself. a lot of people think that will be a big problem for russia. putin doesn't seem concerned about that. he wants to position himself. part of re-establishing russia as a great power is re-establishing russia as a defender of the west. >> do you expect to hear donald trump bragging about vladimir putin more? >> donald trump is incapable of not bragging about anything. i think it makes -- anything that is for his wheel house he'd brag about. >> the wife of pga star jason

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\s the texas teen, ethan couch went missing while serving probation for a deadly accident he called. they say his wealthy parents didn't teach him right from wrong. couch and his mother went missing after video surfaced allegedly showing him at a beer pong party. >> you have this kid doing crazy things, is not held accountable. a loved people are upset about the fact that he got probation.

we now know the u.s. marshals and the fbi formally joining the search. how is that going to change the game when this young man is apprehended? >> it's going to change it greatly because the federal government has tremendous resources in tracking down fugitives. they are outstanding at it. as two defense attorneys, we can tell you when the u.s. marshal decides they want to track somebody down, they're very good at it. >> they get their man. >> they do. increasingly, a guy, especially a kid like ethan couch leaves a digital trail. this is not somebody who will be able to slip into the corn like "field of dreams." he has friends. he's not a survivalist. he should be found eventually. >> however, joey, it is believed he is traveling with his mom or left with his mother. he has an adult with him. these people have means. >> that's the issue. that's why -- in a typical case where someone doesn't have the resources that he has, it's

another matter. when you have resources and potentially you plan to do this, it may be a long time come before they get him. in light of that. what i find ironic about this whole thing, for one moment backing this up. we talk about affluenza, the defense that was raised regarding not being held accountable and there not being consequences to anything you did. then you get a sentence which pretty much -- >> reinforces. >> corroborates exactly, there's no consequences there either. i do think ultimately he'll be brought back. >> you do think -- you both feel he'll be brought to justice? >> yes. there are defendants who go on the run and disappear. this is not one of those defendants. this defendant is a young man who is not used to being on the lam. he will in all likelihood be found. >> slip up. >> just the fact that he has the resources will prolong it that much more. >> he has the resores but he doesn't have a stack of cash -- >> his mom might. >> his mom has mastercards.

>> we don't know, really. >> they leave a trail. >> the mother, what kind of consequences does she face? >> in texas, a parent in the juvenile system, a parent can be made part of an order for probation and can have obligations under that order. a parent can be held in contempt. this is an increasing trend we've been seeing, i'm sure joey has been seeing it, too. in juvenile cases parents are increasingly being held responsible for when their kids violate or when their kids do things wrong. there are even some jurisdictions that charge parents with misdemeanors when they just don't watch their kids. >> some were calling for that in the original sentencing. >> it's not only the fact of what danny is talking about. it's the aiding, abetting, the assisting someone who should be speaking with their probation officer. >> let's talk about that. i want to show you the video that apparently set this all off. this video allegedly showing couch at a beer pong party. it does not actually show him drinking but, you know, we all

were teenagers. if you're at a beer pong party, likely the chances are pretty high. we don't know that he did for sure. is there enough video evidence, joey, to him have violated his probation, aside from the fleeing? >> i think the attorney would have had a challenging but certainly a good argument with respect to this video. it's horrific what we know, he was not supposed to be around alcohol, not supposed to be consuming alcohol. look, you're 16 years old. you kill four people. you're told to go rehabilitate yourself. you're given an opportunity. take that opportunity as a second chance for the lease on your life because you took others. with the video, attorneys could have made multiple arguments. the problem you have now is that it's a violation in and of itself for him not to be in contact with his probation people. >> original sentence, ten years of probation. ordered into a long-term mental health treatment away from his parent's influence. that's the one thing the judge tried to stipulate.

the punishment was widely considered a slap on the wrist. it outrage, especially the families of the four people he killed. we'll speak with some of them later. two years into this probation he goes missing. the families, the families of the four people he killed, do they have any legal recourse? >> other than civil actions they may have filed in this case already. >> even though he's fled? >> they really don't. if he goes back before the judge and gets his probation revoked, even that is not a hearing that typically you'll have victims come back and testify at. the judge will look at the facts and circumstances and either row volk his probation, send him to whatever facility they can, whether it's juvenile court or adult court and there really isn't going to be recourse for the parents. but those who have lost loved ones can and, i believe, have filed civil lawsuits. >> right. >> that is really their only main source of recourse, that and restitution that's been

ordered. that's small. >> in addition to the victim pact statement. certainly victim pact statements are critical in instances like this. now you have another opportunity for the families to say, you know what, this was serious to me. if you heard the father speak who lost his daughter and his wife, how riveting and what he has to say. >> goodness. >> how courageous he is, the fact that he talks about going to a dark home. the fact that he says this person, this child has not been held accountable. judge, hold him accountable now. you have every opportunity to do it. look at what he was doing at that party. >> let's talk to them, if they happen to be listening or somebody helping them hide or flee, turn yourselves in because you have to show some modicum of decency here. >> it does not help them at all. >> it ends the horror for these families. >> doesn't help him to be on the lam. >> not at all. he's adding to whatever punishment he'll get. >> there's a lot of outrage to this story. glad you could bring your legal

expertise. get in on the conversation, tweet us at new day or post your comments on facebook. come/"new day." our counterterrorism professionals do not have specific and credible information about an attack on the homeland. >> it's not very reassuring but it's very honest. theme parks announcing metal detectors at their gates. >> disney will be randomly be selecting guest for a secondary screening. >> turmoil in bernie sanders' presidential cam campaign after snooping into rival hillary clinton's data. >> vladimir putin transmit pg a message to donald trump. >> to get praise from vladimir putin is not going to help donald trump. he raised the price of a drug used by aids and cancer patients. he lied to his investors about the health, the returns. he collected money from public company investors. >> this is "new day" with chris

cuomo, alisyn camerota and michaela pereira. >> good morning and welcome back to your friday edition of "new day." chris is off. i'm told this man here is john berman. he joins us now. president obama is trying to reassure a jittery nation that the homeland is safe. ahead of the holidays. the president is expected to defend his isis strategy when he holds his final press conference of 2015 this afternoon, which will be live on cnn. >> today, the president flies to california to meet with the families of the san bernardino terror attack. this as federal agents arrest the friend of the shooter who admitted to providing the weapons, charging him with conspiracy to support terrorism. let's begin with cnn's senior washington correspondent joe johns, live for us at the white house. what's the latest, joe? >> we've been seeing a lot of this lately, the president getting one more chance to make his case to the american admini the right track against isis and international terrorism, holding his final news conference of the year here at the white house

before he flies off to san bernardino, california, to meet privately with the families of the victims of the attacks out there. on thursday, the president going to the national counterterrorism center meeting with experts, saying there's no specific and credible threat against the homeland at this time. also announcing that he has launched a review into the so-called k-1 fiance visa that allowed one of those attackers in san bernardino to get into the country. the president adopting a mostly reassuring tone at a time when he's under attack on capitol hill, because some say he's too low key on the issue of terrorism. listen. >> anyone trying to harm americans need to know, they need to know we're strong and we're resilient, that we will not be terrorized. >> reporter: so after this visit to the victims' families in

california, the president heads out to hawaii for his long holiday vacation, will not be back in the united states -- i'm sorry, will not be back here at the white house until the new year. back to you in the studio. >> all right, joe, thanks so much. that friend of the san bernardino shooter we mentioned is waking up behind bars this morning. what did officials uncover that led them to bring these terror charges? cnn justice reporter evan perez has that part of the story. evan? >> he's the only person thus far to face charges as a result of the san bernardino terror attack. enrique marquez is the friend and former neighbor that helped syed farook buy two military style rifles. federal prosecutors charged him for lying on a firearms application. he bought two rifles so farook wouldn't have to go through a background check. and immigration fraud. he took money to marry a woman who's part of farook's extend

family. the most serious charge stems from plots that marquez and -- who's a muslim convert and farook planned in 2012 but never actually carried out. the idea was to attack a library or cafeteria using pipe bombs and guns. an attack that prosecutors said was, quote, designed for maximum number of casualties. a second chilling plot involved attacking a busy highway at rush hour, an area with no exits and they would use pipe bombs to disable cars and farook would open fire on people in the cars. marquez would stand on a hillside to kill law enforcement and rescuers trying to help these victims. prosecutors also revealed that a few hours after the san bernardino attack, marquez called 911. he talked of wanting to hill himself and that he let farook hold guns for him. alisyn? >> evan, thanks so much for all of that back ground. joining us now to talk about this and so much more is state department spokesperson john

kirby. thanks for being here. >> thanks for having me. >> we want to ask you about the news coming out of russia, secretary of state john kerry was in russia this week, meeting with the foreign minister there. he talked about syria. all of this is connected to terrorism, what's going on in syria, obviously has a ripple effect here. and secretary kerry seemed to change his tune on syrian president bashar al assad and what should become of him. let me play for you what secretary kerry said this week. >> okay. >> as i emphasize today the united states and our partners are not seeking so-called regime change as it is known in syria. >> regime change in syria, that's what the administration had said it has been seeking for years. what's happening? >> no, there's no change to our view and our policy that assad's lost all legitimacy to govern and needs to go. what we want to put in place is

a political transition to a government that is responsive to the syrian people and representative of the syrian people. what he's referring to is that while we work through this transition, this political process, we want to make sure the institutions of government are able to stay in place so that when the syrians come home, when the refugees go back to syria, there's a government that can take care of them. it's assad change, not a regime change in terms of the institution of government. >> assad still needs to go? >> absolutely. >> according to the administration. >> absolutely. there's been no change in that. >> we're not calling that regime change? >> what the secretary is referring to was the change that needs to happen is assad's leadership. lost all legitimacy to govern. he needs to go. the institutions of government, what we learned over the last 14 years, if you destroy all the institutions of government, then it just makes a more chaotic environment and makes it harder to beat back terrorism. >> i think the reason people are confused is because of the

mistakes being made. 2011 the time has come for assad to step out. it is a country where the leader is the regime. bashar al assad is the regime. he's a dictator there. how -- what do you leave in place if he goes? >> that's what we're doing here in new york today. the international syria support group is meeting. we're meeting at the u.n. this afternoon to talk about exactly that, john. what is the process, the political transition through which we can get to a government that is representative of the syrian people, that they have a voice in and yet preserve the core institutions, whether they're economic, educational, even security related so that government can function going forward. that's what we really want to see. those are tough questions. that's why we're here in new york. >> is russia on board with the u.s.'s plan? >> russia has been a constructive part of this process. and the second will meet with foreign minister lavrov this morning before the meetings kick off. they have been very helpful.

i will tell you in this process we don't see eye to eye with russia on every aspect of it. there is still a lot of work to be done at the table, not just with russia but other nations. there will be 20 some odd participants in this meeting today. not all of them agree on the future of assad. we know that's a core issue that has to be solved. one of the other things that's important and they want to try to get to today is trying to get a framework around where a cease-fire can be put into place. it's hard to have a political transition and negotiations when people are still killing each other. >> the battle against terror, the battle against isis taking place inside syria but also now inside the united states. and the president and everyone here now focused on what defensive measures should be taken to prevent isis from getting here. they're talking about the visa waiver program, ways to make sure that potential terrorists don't get in. >> exactly. >> what changes do you want to see? >> we're working very, very hard right now. we've been working with congress on the visa waiver program. it's important to remember that is still an important program. it doesn't mean it gives

somebody a free pass. if your country is part of the visa waiver program, you as an individual applying for a visa to the united states still have to go through an extensive screening process. we recognize that that program, like any other program and the secretary's been clear, any program by which the state department assists people coming into the country on a permanent or nonpermanent basis, we have to take a look at that now, especially in light of san bernardino. we're doing that. we're reviewing all those programs. the one that is specifically under review very efly is t heae k-1 visa program. >> it sounds like the entire visa program needs an overhaul. they were talking about this yesterday on capitol hill. congressman jim jordan had a department of homeland security official on and they admitted they have a hard time tracking people once they're in this country. listen to this exchange yesterday. >> how many visa waiver program travelers are in the country today?

just the overall number. how many are here today? >> there are 20 million persons who entered the country each year. >> 20 million a year. do we know how many are here today? >> i do not know. >> okay. 20 million people and he went on to say is they can't track all of them. they don't know how many overstay their welcome. that's a problem. >> there is definitely things about the program we want to take a look at. it's difficult to track every individual when they come into the country on a visa. we have to make sure the politics are credible and that we have done the proper screenings and checks before they come to the country. but this is something we're working on with dhs every day. i think as we go forward, as we review that program and the fiance visa program, if there's changes we need to make, we'll make them. >> often times you hear people out of the administration, out of washington saying we're

reviewing things. it's under review right now. can you give me an example of some common sense change that you think should happen now? >> it's hard to say because the reviews are just now starting. but one of the things we're looking at, i know this has been a topic of discussion lately is the degree to which you look at somebody's social media platforms. how much does that help you? what are the limits? what are the laws governing your ability to do that? we'll take a look at that. social media is one of the aspects, we know now in the wake of san bernardino, they had material out there in san bernardino. we'll take a look at that. if there's common sense, and the secretary, ed mayes this clear, if there's common sense changes we find as we review that need to be changed right away, before the review is complete, he wants us to make them. >> how about the degree to which you question people. some people have said obviously if you ask somebody ben the on jihad, do you have jihadist tendencies, they so no.

but there is evidence that et al security that does this behavioral security. sometimes when you ask, they'll start sweating, things like that. >> a big part of how the visas aren grated is the interview. our counselors are professional. they have been trained. they're very competent. if somebody has malintent and they have every intention of hiding that malintent as they go through this process, it will be that much harder to catch them. nothing is fool proof here. we want to get the system as perfect as possible, knowing that's a difficult bar to reach and we'll keep working at that. >> john kirby, great to have you

here. more parks announcing metal detectors at their gates. we'll calm visitors that could be jittery for the holidays. alina machado has more. >> reporter: universal studios, sea world and disney's theme parks in california and florida are now using these metal detectors. disney is randomly selecting guests for a secondary screening using the detectors. they've also added what they're calling visible and nonvisible security at all of their parks. this includes the use of specially trained dogs to patrol key areas. some of the other things you might notice, they are discontinuing the sale of toy guns on disney property. they're also no longer allowing people to bring toy guns to the theme parks. if you're 14 and older you won't be able to wear any costumes at any of the parks. these changes come weeks after the san bernardino and paris attacks and just in time for the busy holiday season. disney has not given any

specific reason on why they've decided to use these enhanced security measures now. a spokesperson releasing a statement that reads we continually review our comprehensive approach to security and are implementing additional security measures as appropriate. >> hopefully those measures will calm fears to be sure. breaking overnight, a setback for bernie sanders' campaign. they are suspended from using the democratic party's voter data base after confidential data from hillary clinton's campaign was accessed. athena jones, live in washington with more. >> a bit of campaign intrigue for us this friday morning. this is a major blow to sanders, coming just a day before the third democratic debate. the vermont senator's campaign has been suspended from using the democratic national committee's voter data base after snooping into rival hillary clinton's data. the breach happened on wednesday. clinton's data was accessed by at least one of sanders staffers

after a software error occurred at the technology company that runs the program. we're talking about vital voter information the campaigns use to make strategic plans but you're not allowed to look at another campaign's data. the sanders campaign will remain suspended until it provides the dnc with a full explanation of the episode and provides proof that any data that was accessed has been discarded. a spokesman for sanders blamed the tech company, saying, quote, on more than one occasion the vendor dropped the fire wall between the data of different democratic campaigns. he's making the point that sanders voter records were also vulnerable. but the spokesman did hole his team accountable for the breach saying, that behavior is unacceptable and that staffer was fired immediately. a lot of talk about data this campaign season. we'll see if it comes up at that debate tomorrow night. alisyn? >> athena, thank you so much for all of that background. we'll be talking about that in some of our political segments

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all right. jeb bush now going on owe fenls. he predicts that donald trump's campaign will implode and trump will not get the republican nomination. he also slammed a surprise trump fan. russian president vladimir putin. i talked to the former florida governor overnight on "anderson cooper 360." listen. >> i want to start with your reaction to the reporting from the russian news agency. they quote russian president vladimir putin saying that donald trump is a bright and talented person without any doubt and the absolute leader of the presidential race. donald trump responded, says it's a great honor to be so nicely complimented by a man so highly respected within his own country and beyond. so what do you make of all that?

>> i don't respect vladimir putin. he is the leader of an important country, certainly not a regional power has barack obama called him. to get praise from vladimir putin is not going to help donald trump. he's not a serious candidate. he would bring chaos to the presidency just as he's done to this campaign. it's entertaining but the simple fact is we're at war right now with islamic terrorism. he's not offered one compelling, specific thing to do to keep us safe. it's all high volume, lots of talk but nothing specific. he hasn't taken the time to learn the issues. and i think we need someone with a steady hand in the presidency. we're never going to beat hillary clinton with grandiosity with big language without anything to back it up. >> you say he's not a serious candidate, he's the candidate of chaos. the question is, what are you going to do about it? you're looking into whether you could pull out of that pledge you signed to report the republican nominee, whoever it is, including donald trump.

why are you doing that due diligence? >> because donald trump had threatened to go, once again, to become a third party candidate. so i didn't know they were doing this. that's a smart thing to do is determine exactly what the consequences are for making that kind of decision. my intention is to win the nomination. i think as we get closer to the caucuses in iowa and new hampshire that donald trump will begin to fall because he's not a serious candidate. >> you spent a lot of time on the campaign trail saying you were sick of talking about donald trump. now your super pac went up with an ad praising you for going after donald trump. you do seem much more will on the debates and on the stump to talk about donald trump. why is this now a good strategy for your campaign? >> well, my strategy is to talk about my plans. when you can compare it to donald trump's, it makes it even more vivid that long before the attacks in paris and the tragedy in san bernardino win laid out a specific proposal to be able to

destroy isis, which is exact sali what we need to do. it requires america's leadership in the world. it requires building an army, sunni-led in syria and getting back in the game as it relates to iraq and without american leadership, this srnt going to happen. we can't do it alone. when you compare that to donald trump who late september said that isis was not a threat and says that, let russia take care of syria when their interest is to prop up one of the most brutal regimes in the world. it shows the lack of understanding of where we are in the world today. >> would he make a better president than hillary clinton? >> i don't think hillary clinton is going to be elected president of the united states. she's not trustworthy. her proposals are not better. >> you didn't answer the question. >> you answer what you want to say. >> you're not going to answer outright? don't republican voters deserve to know? you're attacking donald trump every day now. which is something you got into

reluctantly. >> i am. >> it is part of your campaign. do you think he would make a better president than hillary clinton? >> oh, absolutely. i'd be a better president than hillary clinton. that's why i'm running for president. >> no, no, donald trump. >> he is not qualified to be commander in chief of the united states of america's greatest fighting force and he's had a chance to bone up, god willing he'll start doing it. it looks like this is all about him, not creating strategies to keep us safe. the world has been turned asunder, turned upside down. we don't need another version of that as the republican nominee. >> the super pac came out with an ad with much of the same line of attack you heard right there. the super pac spending money saying that donald trump is a bully, praising jeb bush for taking him on, saying he's the only candidate willing to take on donald trump. the campaign clearly thinks -- >> the tactic is changing now.

you can see the tone. there's a shift. >> i see something definitely has shifted particularly with jeb bush's delivery. he seems to be engaged in what i'm calling aggressive honesty, radical honesty. he's peeling back the curtain, yes, i don't answer questions like that. now i have zingers. he's telling you his process which is refreshing and interesting. the question is is it going to work? we'll analyze jeb bush's new strategy. too little too late? bernie sanders's campaign taking heat for accessing hillary clinton's private campaign data. how is the democratic national committee responding? we'll take a look, ahead.

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moments ago we listened to and watchedmy interview with republican presidential candidate jeb bush. his attacks now xwaurly aimed at donald trump. make clear he's not backing down from what we saw at the debate, taking on the front-runner directly. here to discuss cnn's senior political reporter nia-malika henderson and todd gilman.

todd has covered ted cruz for years. remember that in about a minute and a half. nia, i want to start with jeb bush. you heard him talking to me last night. clearly eager to go after donald trump when he can. the super pacs now running ads. why do you think the bush campaign thinks this is the strategy that can turn things around for him? >> it's funny. they sort of tried this before, right, it didn't work very well. they are very much thinking that the establishment wants to see someone take on who many people think is a bully. that's what he's doing. he's not only doing that, he's clearly going more media appearances as well. right after the debate he was on our air talking to our folks, talking to you last night, although dodging questions that you asked him and not very skillfully, telegraphing his strategy there which i think in some ways suggest he's not as

nimble a politician as he needs to be. we've seen that kind of impact so far. >> now let's talk about marco rubio and ted cruz. we'll remember that todd covered ted cruz for years. they've continued their argument. it started at the debate this week, about whether or not ted cruz ever supported legalization of the 11 million to 12 million undocumented migrants who are here. he says he never did. marco rubio says he did support legalization. so listen to what they said on the stump yesterday. >> well, he's going to have a hard time. he's not told the truth about his position in the past on legalization. >> i oppose amnesty. i oppose citizenship. i oppose legalization for illegal aliens. i always have and i always will. and i challenge every other republican candidate to say the same thing. or if not, then to stop making

silly assertions that their records and my records on immigration are the same. >> todd, is ted cruz telling the truth that he always opposed legalization? >> he really should have stopped before he said i always have and i always will. he hasn't always opposed legalization. there was an episode in 2013 when rubio was pushing the gang of eight comprehensive reform bill which was something that cruz can and all the migrant opponents can paint as amnesty. when cruz did say, here's an amendment, this would be get. it would bring people out of the shadows. there's this way back machine that all of the researchers on rubio's staff can dig in and pull out quotes where ted cruz said he supports legalization. legalization is different from citizenship. cruz has been consistent in opposing citizenship. it's a major problem for rubio in a republican primary that he has supported a path to

citizenship. there's a major difference to them. >> we have that way back machine also. it's called videotape. hit play. let's do that now from 2013. boink. >> i don't want immigration reform to fail. i want immigration reform to pass. and so i would urge people of good faith on both sides of the aisle, if the objective is to pass common sense immigration reform that secures the borders, improves legal immigration and allows those who are here illegally to come in out of the shadows, we should look for areas of bipartisan agreement and compromise to come together. >> so here's the thing, nia. even if you concede that marco rubio is winning this battle over whether ted cruz did or did not support legalization at some point, even if rubio is right and cruz is fudging things with this, doesn't cruz win the war here in a republican primary

campaign, particularly in iowa by discussing immigration at all. again, with the republican primary electorate, isn't this the biggest vulnerability for marco rubio? >> i think that's right. he's certainly trying to muddy the waters a little bit there. as cruz said in our debate. but you've got people like rush limbaugh. jeff sessions, like steve king, these are kind of lions to conserve pitchesp this they're coming out and backing cruz and saying the real important issue here is rubio stood next to chuck schumer and backed amnesty and cruz was on other side of it. they're going to make it as black and white as possible because they know that to a lot of conservatives, particularly in iowa and the southern states as well, amnesty is a nonstarter for voters. >> cruz wasn't on the other side of that. what he said, that was his support of the bill for legalization.

that wasn't a poison pill as he's now claiming. >> it was a poison pill. cruz is either fudging now or he was being terrifically disingenuous then. really, he's doing both. rubio is clearly vulnerable because he has supported and came out in your debate the other night and continues to be in support of a path to citizenship. cruz is vulnerable, this is where rubio is getting him. in fact he has been playing the game in the senate just like everybody plays the game in the senate. he has been disingenuous, it was a poison pill or it's been something that has flip-flopped. rubio is us this to show that shuz is not the purest he presents himself to be. he's using this to not just be about immigration but the cruzzen brad of authenticity. >> it's interesting seeing two such skilled politicians and campaigners at the top of their games going after each ear right now. meanti

meantime, there's somewhat of a scandal on the democratic side of the race right now. the dnc has suspended access for bernie sanders presidential campaign to democratic data held at the dnc. why? it's complicated but what happened here, a sanders campaign staffer actually accessed data that should have been privileged only to the clinton campaign. the dnc found out about it. they suspended not just the staffer -- the sanders guy actually fired this guy. the sanders campaign can't access the dnc data at all. how much of a problem is this for the sanders people? >> it's a problem. in some ways it goes against the bernie sanders brand. he is supposed to be a new breed of politician, very much differentiating himself from hillary clinton. who kind of in his view and the view of his supporters are playing the old game of politics, sometimes dirty politics. in this kind of smashes at that.

this is not fight -- this is pro-pry -- proprietary data. it's a prsh foblem for the dnc they don't have a better protector of the data. it's a problem for the bernie sanders campaign, not only for brand but the fact that he can't access this data at this crucial moment of the campaign. >> and very quickly, todd, is this permanent? they're not going to let the sanders campaign access voter data base for the rest of the campaign? >> it sounds as though the dnc wants reassurance that this problem has been taken care of, that the ill-gotten games have been discarded and probably this will get patched up. the party is there to provide

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martin schreli, he raised the price of a drag by 5,000%. joining us to discuss this case is cnn senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin. >> good morning. >> we all remember this scuzzy

guy -- >> that's the technical term. >> who price gouged people at their most vulnerable and hiked up the cost of this most important drug. now what's up with him. >> this is a completely separate scuzzy transaction. >> shocking. >> before he bought these drug companies he was involved in a couple of hedge funds. the short version is he basically was taking money out of these hedge funds that was supposed to be for the business, lying to the people who were the investors and putting it in his own pocket or using it for his own purpose. >> that's not allowed? >> not so much, no. >> wow. he's unscrupulous on me levels. did he ever get in trouble for the price gouging? >> not yet. that's why this has become a political issue, because the government in most cases is simply powerless to control the price of drugs. it's difficult to set up a

system where companies can prosper and do what companies do and charge what they need to justify their investments but also make those drugs afordable. that's why his case has been such a lightning rod. >> my producer is yelling in my ear that i should use the word allegedly. don't we know that he hiked the price? he hasn't been convicted of price gouging. >> that's where you have to keep the two cases separate. the hedge fund thing is an alleged crime. he is just charged. he's not been convicted. he has definitely raised the prices on all these drugs. but what makes that case so interesting is that it's not at all clear that there's anything illegal or improper about that. the system may allow that. the question there is, you know, my mentor in journalism, michael kinsley used to say, the scandal isn't what's illegal, the

scandal is what's legal. the scandal may be that it was legal for him to raise the prices that much on these drugs. >> i want to shift gears and talk about another major justice issue that's gripping the country, that's gun control. >> right. >> president obama vowed to make much of 2016 a focus -- to focus on gun control. he recognizes that he can't do it through congress or congress has showed very little interest in tackling some of this. he's vowing executive action. what can the president do about gun control? >> the one thing he appears likely to do is there's something that is referred to often as the gun show loophole. is that when individuals sell guns at, say, a gun show, they don't have to do background checks. if you are a business, you're in the business of selling guns, you have to do background checks. what the president apparently is going to do is expand the definition of what's a business. and basically try to include more of these private sellers in

the group of people who have to do background checks. the question is, does the president have the legal authority to do that? or does he have to get congress to expand the definition of background checks? >> what's the answer? >> i don't know. first of all, he hasn't done what he said he's going to do so we can't actually test it. it will wind up in court and a court will have it decide if he has executive authority. he can't define gun seller in the way -- in a way that contradicts the actual law. that's going to be the argument. i just don't know how that will be resolved. >> after these mass shootings, there's often a cry for a ban on so-called asalt rifles. i say so-called because gun rights enthusiasts say what makes something an assault rifle? that's a political term. they're all semiautomatic. you pull the trigger, a bullet fires out. one is black and looks scary and

one is brown and you go hunting with it. let me show you a poll. this is an abc news poll for this week, support for banning so-called assault weapons, 53% of americans oppose that ban. 45% would support it. can the president do anything on that front? >> that almost certainly not. that would require an act of congress and congress is not -- is certainly not inclined to expand control of assault weapons. one of the most amazing things in american politics, in the early '90s when president clinton passed the brady bill which did limit assault weapons, 80% of the country supported banning or restricting assault weapons. look at it now. it's more than 50% oppose. the anti-gun control position, notwithstanding what we've seen so much in terms of all these shootings, has gained ground in recent years. >> how do we explain that?

>> i think a lot of it has to do with the national rifle association and other gun rights supporters saying the only cure for a bad guy with a gun is a good buy with a gun. whether you believe that or not, they certainly say it a lot. the republican party has embraced the idea that the second amendment to the constitution guarantees a very broad, individual right to bear arms. that was something that the supreme court never said until 2008. the constitutional argument, which always has a certain resonance in the united states is an important one. is a big one now. and they now have the supreme court on their side. >> jeffrey toobin, always great to get your perspective on all of this. thanks for being on "new day." what's your take on this hot topic? tweet us at "new day" or post your comment on facebook.com/newday. the fbi and u.s. marshals are joining the search for the so-called affluenza team, ethan

couch. he received probation for killing four people in a drunk driving incident. we'll have the latest on the search, next. search next .

the fbi and u.s. marshal service are joining the search for ethan couch, the teen gone missing after a deadly drunk driving incident which he caused. they say he suffered from influenza, that his wealthy parents didn't teach him right from wrong. after a potentially incriminating video surfaced. here is more. >> reporter: look closely at this video. that young man with the blond hair may be ethan couch. and if it is, he could be in big trouble. that is because couch is on probation and isn't supposed to be drinking alcohol. 2.5 years ago at 16 couch drove in a drunken haze, crashed and killed four people. >> really need some ambulances sadly. we flipped and oh god.

>> someone posted the video on twitter earlier this month and the county da got wind of it. they want to talk to couch about it but he disappeared. his probation officer hasn't heard from him and no one knows where he is. >> i hate to say i told you so. >> the county sheriff wanted him locked up in 2015 but it was changed. >> attorneys blame the boy's parents for that night all because of hue they raised him. a psychologist and defense witness testified that the boy suffered from something called influenza, a lifestyle where wealth brought privilege and there were no consequences for bad behavior. >> the so called influenza defense took across the country. the court bought it. couch pleaded guilty to

intoxication, manslaughter. but instead of going to jail, the judge sentenced him to alcohol rehabilitation and ten years probation. his father agreed to pay half a million dollars for his son's pricey rehab digs. victims families were horrified. >> we had over a 180 years of life taken, not lived but a 180 years of future life taken. and two of those were my wife and daughter. >> deposition tapes from one of the civil suits against couch. listen as ethan's mother admits letting her son drive illegally. >> you understood if this at any time he was under 16 he was never to be driving by himself. >> yes. >> nevertheless you allowed that behavior to happen, correct? >> yes. >> when is the last time you recall disciplining ethan for

anything. >> i don't remember. >> and now the authorities think couch might have fled the country with none other than his mother. the boy's attorney would not discuss the case. if authorities do find couch, a judge will decide if he violated his probation. a sheriff spokesman says couch is allowed due process adding cases are not prosecuted or revoke order modified based on hearsay or based on a grainy video we can't identify someone in. this time ethan couch could end up behind bars for a decade. randy kay cnn miami. >> he says his one hope right now is that ethan couch right now will always wounder, will always look over his shoulder thinking that someone might be there to capture him. >> let's hope an adult comes to their senses and ends this and brings him in. >> shocking to think an adult might be involved in him being on the run right now. >> and so it's so sickening to

revisit the steps of how they got to that tragedy. >> and we're going to talk with a father who's son was injured in that car wreck. and we're also going to speak with a lawyer representing a man whose wife and daughter were killed in that accident. we're following a lot of news. let's get to it. >> we will not be terrorized. we've prevailed over greater threats than this. >> the paris terrorists communicated using encrypted applications. the fiancé, if there are changes we need to make we'll make them in the visa pram. >> improperly access ee ee ee e confidential information. >> as a parent i started to feel impeld to tell the story. >> how do you think people in

the nfl office feel about you these days? >> this is "new day." good morning. it is friday december 18th. president obama is expected to defend his isis strategy a few hours from now on cnn live of course. and the president also reassuring the country that once again we are safe for the holidays. >> the president will then head to california this afternoon and meet with the families of the san bernardino terror attack that. visit comes after the arrest of a former neighbor of one of those attackers. federal agents charging enrique marquez with conspiracy to support terrorism. >> one more opportunity to make his case on why the country is on the right track when it comes

to isis for the president. he is going to have his last news conference of the year here at the white house. at least it is expected to be that. and after that he does fly off to san bernardino california for private meetings with the families of the victims in the attacks out there. on thursday the president visiting the national counterterrorism center right outside of washington d.c. once again rate raiting that is experts have found no credible evidence of a threat to the homeland, also saying he has ordered review of the controversial k-1 fiancé visa program which allowed one of those san bernardino attackers to get into the country. the president trying to be reassuring at a time when his critics, when capitol hill are saying he's not doing enough. listen. >> anyone trying to harm americans need to know -- they need to know that we're strong and that we are resilient.

that we will not be terrorized. >> so after the visit with the families in san bernardino, the president flies off to hawaii for his long vacation there. he'll be back in washington d.c. after the start of the new year. >> the friend of the san bernardino shooter remains behind bars with a hears set for next week. what finally led officials to arrest him? >> he's the only person thus far to face any charges as a result of the san bernardino terror attack. enrique is the friend and former neighbor who helped syed farook buy two military style rifles they used to kill 14 people. they charged him with material support for terrorism. lying on the gun application.

and immigration fraud. he took money to marry a woman who is part of farook's extended family. the most serious charge stems from plots that marquez, a muslim convert and farook planned in 2012 but actually never carried out. the idea was to attack a library or cafeteria using pipe bombs or guns and it was designed to maximize number of casualties. second chilling plot involved attacking a busy highway at rush hour in an area with no exits. they would use pipe bombs to disable cars and farook would open fire on people. a . and prosecutors also revealed a few hours after the san bernardino attack marquez called 911 and talked of wanting to kill himself and that he had let farook hold guns for him.

independent senator angus king of maine is with us, happy holidays. >> thank you. >> we just heard report an enrique marquez, the friend of this california terrorist. he is now under arrest. my first question again, you are on the intelligence committee. i don't want you to tell us anything classified but are you confident that there was no one else involved in anyway with the san bernardino attack? >> no. i don't think we can say that yet. i wish i could but the fbi is still working on this. and one of the pieces of evidence that is most puzzling is both of the shooters destroyed their cell phones right after the event or during the event and they also destroyed the hard drives on their computers. if you weren't in touch with somebody else that would be

incriminating to them or to you, why would wow do that and we don't have an answer to that question. and i don't think anybody can say definitively at least as far as i've heard in the last few days that there wasn't anybody else involved. >> it's strange to think that syed farook would have plotted an attack with enrique marquez in 2011 and 12, one they didn't ultimately go through, carry out an attack in 2015 and not have any communications with anyone else over that intervening period. >> it -- a program so controversial a couple years ago

but seems to me this is an exact case where that could be very useful to see what number his number called and where you could chain. and this is a case where that tool i think is particularly important. >> and you in fact are proposing legislation with senator tom cotton that would give you new types of access to some of this information? >> well we made a change last year which actually i supported. i didn't like the idea of all of this phone data being in the hands of the government. i think there is always potential for abuse in that situation. so we made a change where the data is left with the phone companies. the gap was there was no requirement that the phone companies hold that data for any particular length of time. tom cotton and i are concerned the phone companies can start to reduce that to shorter than a year or a few months and then it won't be useful in a case like this. so we put a bill in.

and frankly i had an amendment on this. it didn't make it when the bill went through so tom and i are going to move to shore up a defect. >> it will interesting to see if this new environment helps that get through this time. before thanksgiving president obama made a speech to essentially say he knew of who specific and credible threat against the homeland. of course a week later the san bernardino attack happened. and then just yesterday he did the same thing. he came out and said there was no, you know, credible and specific threat against the homeland right no. go out and enjoy the holidays. i do not recall two such messages like that over a short period of time from the president. why do you think he's doing that. >> two things. he doesn't want to raise fears, he doesn't want to let the terrorists win. what we're talking about here is a new kind of terrorism.

the san bernardino attack was kind of a hybrid. we had the fiancé, the wife from pakistan, has been radicalized when she got here. but the real danger, let's take marqu marquez. he was an american citizen. he got radicalized if you look in his background, online, watching videos and that kind of thing. that is what we have to worry about. it is the lone wolf. this was two lone wolf, we think. we're not sure of that yet. but there are people sitting in their basement being radicalized watching these videos and i frankly think it is a mistake for the president to make that kind of reassurance. because, you know, it could happen i again, i think and. and i hate to say that but i think it's a fact. and the point is there isn't any. i can tell you there isn't any credible evidence of an imminent plot. that is true.

but that doesn't mean there won't be an attack from somebody who is self radicalized sitting in their basement somewhere. >> the fact is a they don't come with specific credible threats beforehand. that is what we learned in san bernardino. >> right. that's exactly the problem. and here -- we've got to get to the root of this. and one of the ways i think we're failing in this war -- and it is a war -- is in the battlefield of ideas. isis posed something like 90 thousand social messaged a d es. and that is feeding this. young people. i can't figure why it appeals to them but it is. we have to counter that. work with the muslim world. they have to take the lead on this. they are the ones who are credible saying this isn't islam. this isn't what we believe and we have to start posting videos of what it is like to live under isis. we've got to fight it out on the

battlefield of ideas because we are not going to be able to kill or arrest our way out of this. ultimately it is going to be the ideas that win. >> one last idea, what would you tell him? he's got a news conference coming up in a few hours. what will you tell him that sshe he -- how will you be explaining to him that he shouldn't be telling the united states the that there is no specific credible threat. >> well -- >> well you are a senator it is part of your job. >> okay. well i think he ought to say we have no credible threats but there is this risk of radicalized lone wolf terrorism and we have to be diligent and alert. and we have to report something we see as suspicious or worrisome. and we're not going to let these people terrorize them but nobody can give you a guarantee that some deranged person in some part of the country isn't going to do something awful!

you talked about the success that isis is having on social media around the world right now. one of the things that people in the united states are now saying is the u.s. has got to get better on defense on social media, which means checking social media when a lot of people are coming to the united states right now. is this a change you would like to see in the visa process here sh? >> absolutely. a bunch of us sent a letter to jay johnson earlier this week. that essentially said that. let's google people and find out what -- >> can i say, everyone seems to agree on this. i haven't found a lot of people who disagree on that right now. how quickly can you get something done along these lines? >> it should take a great deal of policy. these visas are processed by state department people around the world and you just say okay here is the checklist and at the

bottom is check social media, google them and see what comes up. and this raises another important point john. and i ran across this yesterday. that is manpower or people power. i'm not sure we have enough resources to do all the checking and investigating. i don't know how many fbi agents are involved in san bernardino, but i'm sure it is more than 100. and we're talking about straining our counterintelligence and law enforcement, just the shear number of people necessary to check out the leads and do the visa applications. and by the way, well we're now going to look into the fiancé visa. it ought to be all visa programs. it ought to be the visa waiver program. we can't be closing doors after the horse is already through. we ought to be in my view looking at the entire process by which people get into the

programs and be more diligent how we check them. >> thank you very much for being with us. have a great holiday. >> thank you. >> wolf blitzer will have live coverage of the year end news con coverage from president obama about 1:40 p.m. eastern. indicted for attempting to provide material support to isis. authorities say the 19-year-old shared extremist propaganda on 57 twitter accounts and called for attacks on u.s. military members. in northern california, adam chafee charged with trying to aide al nusra. >> the democratic national committee suspending the campaign's access to the voter database after a staffer accessed confidential data from hillary clinton's campaign.

here with more, athena jones from washington. >> this is not good news for sanders and it is coming just a day before the third democratic debate. as you said the vermont senator's campaign has been suspended from using the democratic national committee's voter database. this is after. > snooping into the -- you are not allowed to look at another candidate's data. the sanders campaign will remain suspended until it provides the dnc with a full explanation of what happened and provides proof that any data that was accessed has been discarded. a spokesman blamed the tech company saying that on more than one occasion the vendor has

dropped the firewall between the data of different democratic campaigns. the staffer that accessed the data was fired. and he told my colleague a short while ago that he wasn't trying to take clinton data. he was trying to figure out how badly the sanders campaign data was exposed due to this breech. this now former staffer says the sanders campaign didn't gain any material benefit from his actions. >> thanks. u.s. secretary of state john kerry in new york pushing for an end to the civil war in syria. this hour he is set to hold a high level meeting with members from other countries. >>. ♪ hello where are the lionel richie

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question. >> i've learned not to answer questions. that is what you do now in political discourse. you refuse what to say. >> this comes from the aftermath of this week's cnn debate. has something changed in the bush campaign in the past week? john sununu is a former new hampshire governor and also a advisor to the 2012 romney campaign and former chief of staff for george h.w. bush. let's talk about what many are calling a shift in the bush campaign. we saw there in the interview with john berman and we saw it on display in the cnn debate tuesday night when he went man to man with donald trump in a way he hadn't before and he engaged. let me play a portion of that. >> this is a tough business to run for president. >> i know you're a tough guy

jeb, yeah. >> and you're a -- >> you you're really tough, yeah. >> so governor, in the past, jeb bush backed down out of decorum in the debates but this time he didn't. what do you think has shifted with jeb bush. >> well i don't know what's going on inside the campaign. i haven't endorsed anyone. but i think what i see from observing is that they have recognized that this has become a campaign in which emotion is a very strong part of it. and he's trying to make sure that people understand the passion he has about some of the issues. the follow up to the exchange you put up there i think was a very important one, where bush talked about the substance of a problem. and that is the fact that we want to put -- if you want to put boots on the ground to deal with isis and virtually all

except for rand paul on that stage want to and you want 90% of those boots to be our allies in the mideast, you have to at least have a style and a tone that doesn't turn them off. and i think he's d-- >> and some of the candidates have gotten burned when they tried to engage with trump. and for a while jeb bush seemed as though he were trying to ignore him and take the higher road but now he appears to be engaging him. is that a wise tactical move? >> i think it is a good tactical move for jeb bush to do that. i think he's got to be firm on his issues. i think he has to engage on differences in issues and difference in style and difference in capacity to be commander in chief. so i thought the approach he took at the debate was good. i thought the interesting thing about the debate in addition to what jeb bush did was the mark

kear ers that cruz and rubio played down. and i think they are laying an agenda for the weeks in between debates and then they go out into the town halls and other campaigning and reinforce those. >> let's talk about what happened about the debate and what's happened since. they engaged on ill great lakes and who has the strongest policy and what they both said in the past. they have continued that battle just yesterday on the campaign. on the campaign trail. let me play for you their argument that continues. >> well he is going to have a hard time because he's not told the truth about his position in the past on legalization. >> i oppose amnesty. i oppose citizenship. i oppose legalization for illegal aliens. i always have. and i always will.

and i challenge every other republican candidate to say the same thing. or if not, then to stop making silly assertions that their records and my records on imgragts aimmigration are the same. >> you have a interesting perspective on this. you too just like these two gentlemen are cuban american. who do you think is winning the war? >> i think senator cruz had a very tough time the other night on the fox network when he got quizzed about the legislation amendments that he had filed. i think those two are going to keep going at it. they are arguing, as christy said sometimes they are arguing about issues that seem to be more appropriately argued on the floor of the senate. but the fact is that immigration is a tough issue and at one time or other i do believe that both of those candidates supported a

pathway to legalization. >> and does that hurt. i mean, let's say that ted cruz did support a path to legalization. does that hurt both of them? during this primary? can they win the primary having had those positions? >> yeah. i think the immigration issue is an important issue. but i don't think you have to be at absolutely one end or other in order to win the primary. i think there are nuances in there that a lot of the republican primary voters will accept. what is important is to be committed to make sure that anyone that comes into this country gets vetted properly. i think jeb bush put that marker down in the debate. he wanted to make sure that people understood that that was his position. i think rubio and cruz both have that position. i think the republican primary voters are more concerned about making sure that anyone that comes into the country gets

vetted properly. >> very quickly governor. i want to ask you what's going on with russian president vladomir putin and donald trump. putin gave something of a glowing review of trump in the last coup24 hours. he said he's a bright person and talented. what's also interesting is donald trump responded this morning about what he thinks about that endorsement or at least positive review. listen to what trump said about putin. >> you know, fine about putin. i think that he is a strong leader. and a powerful leader. he's represented his country. that's the way the country's been represented. he's actually got popularity in his country. they respect him as a leader. >> is that the right take on putin? >> look, putin is smart. he recognized that the biggest

gift he could get out of the election next november is donald trump ending up as president, the united states ending up with a president that really doesn't know how to be commander in chief and how to deal with these tough foreign policy issues and putin is just out there stirring the pot and having a good time. >> and is donald trump taking the bait? >> say that again, please? >> putin is stirring the pot but donald trump likes what he's saying. should he be responding so positively to vladomimir putin? >> all you have to do to get a positive response out of donald trump is stroke his ego. >> governor sununu, thank you very much. >> thank you. have a great weekend. a young man on probation after killing four people in a drunken driving crash believed to be on the run. the influenza team vanished

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the fbi and u.s. marshal service now helping service for the influenza teenager what's gone missing. ethan couch killed four people two years ago. couch's lawyers said his parents teach him right from wrong and he just got probation. now he's on the run. joining us his attorney. and mr. todd clement. mr. clement lost both his wife and his daughter in that accident. are you surprise ed ethan and h mother are both missing?

>> yeah i'm sure you can read the shock all o over my face. yeah. no surprises at all. >> why not? >> there was a pattern. just four months before the crash an arresting officer made the statement to ethan that if you keep this up, if you keep acting like this you are going to wind up killing yourself or someone else. that could have been chance number one and that didn't happen. chance two was the probated sentence. chance three was the rehab facility in california. chance four was the state hospital in texas. chance five was the boy's ranch. you know nothing is going to make an impact on this guy unless there is something severe and certain. >> you can read it in your face and we can hear it in the tone of your voice, kevin. that has got to absolutelily y y infuriate you. >> i would say infuriate you.

anger has to subside at some point. anger is a temporary emotion. and i try not to hang on to that. but i do feel like accountability hasn't been demonstrated yet. and i would still like to have some accountability. because i need for my son lucas to see that there are consequences for bad decisions. >> and todd, the fact it is not just this boy, the tanger who's missing right now. -- teenager. >> his mother also, at this point how much culpability do you feel she has in this whole situation? >> a great deal. at the very opening of the criminal trial, the first thing ooelten couch's defense attorney said in his opening statement is ethan couch is a product of profoundly dysfunctional parent whose set no boundaries and enabled this bad behavior. again the exact same thing. and he goes back. you know, they have protected him time and time again.

when the video comes out and him reenacting what happened the night of this crash, remember, he and his friends were playing beer pong at the house where he was staying by himself at 15 years old just before this crash happens and look at the twitter video that went viral. guess what he's doing. it appears to be the exact same thing. >> and this gets back to the judge's sentence. the judge initially sentenced this kid to 10 years probation. no jail time whatsoever. so what would your message to this judge be today two years later? >> well this judge is now retired. but it is clear that she gave someone a chance that didn't deserve it. and exactly what lucas mcconnell predicted -- and kevin you had in his impact statement at the criminal trial, your son predicted it. what did he say? >>ky read you just the last line of lucas's victim impact statement. this was back in december of 13

before the actual sentencing lucas wrote. he was then 13 years old. the last sign says. while i think we should do our best at forgiving, i believe that if this situation is not handled with severity you won't take it seriously. and that was his foresight two years ago. i just wish the judge had had that same foresight. >> wow your son. what would your message be right now to ethan if he's watching somewhere on the run in the united states or perhaps in a different country right now? >> well first of all i don't wish anything bad upon ethan. and with what's happening i don't see an exit strategy the way he's going. i would just say ethan, you know, you're a man now. it is time to man up, come in and let's begin to make good decisions and start again. you are not beyond redemption.

>> todd, have you heard it all now? the u.s. marshals involved. i talked to the sheriffs last night. do you have any updates right now in the hunt? >> no. what we understand is he was gone for a while before it was determined that he was gone. and the sheriff here in fort worth has made statements like he is number one on our list. we've enlisted the u.s. marshals. we've enenlisted fbi. and the local sheriff here rather colorfully said when he find him he's going to go to big boy jail now. >> how is lucas doing now? >> he's going great. we've got a strong support group at our church and he's got a strong belief in jesus christ and he's doing well.

he's going to be fine. he still can't reconcile the lack of justice. if you look at the justice symbol. it is the lady with the scales. and she's blindfolded. justice is supposed to be blind. it is supposed to be meted out equally no matter who you are. there should be no tilting one way or another. and it's hard for me to reconcile with my son and my other two sons as well that, you know, there is no accountability. he can't reconcile. >> todd, we talked about the sentence from the judge, the sentence she initially gave. but what about how the system worked after that over the last few years. contact with the probation officer, how the monitoring of ethan has been handled. do you now have questions about that? >> you know, he is in the juvenile system. and there are special rules for

juveniles. and most of the time it really works. i don't know that we can blame the system after this occurred for this. i think we, again, just have to put the blame where it belongs. on eithere a lot of us do think it was a system failure at the sentencing and not after the fact. >> our thanks and best of luck to your son lucas. >> thanks. >> tweet us at and post yo comments. tackling the topic of football head injuries, up next will smith is up to talk about "concussion," future of football and more.

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his isis strategy this afternoon and then to california meeting with the families of the san bernardino terror attack. a friend of the san bernardino terrorists now behind bars on charges. officials say he bought the guns but was not involved in the planning of the attack. and getting fired after improperly searching data from clinton campaign on a democratic database. now spending the campaign's use of the database until the issue is revolved. jeb bush refusing to back donald trump over hillary clinton in an issue with our john berman he dodged picking one over the other. saying he's quote learned not to answer questions. and the "star wars" fans are lining up. the movie now in theaters. and getting solid reviews and lots of fans give it bigs thumbs up. for more on the five things

visit "new day" cnn.com for the latest. >> one of the biggest stars in hollywood speaking out about the hidden medical costs of playing football. will smith plays a doctor in "concussion" and how it's impacted smith's view of football, that's straight ahead.

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a new film on christmas day about football-related brain trauma is creating controversy for its negative portrayal of the national football league. our sports anchor sat down with

will smith and talked football, parenting and a little bit of politics. >> yeah absolutely. and in this movie will smith plays the doctor who basically found the link between football and this kind of brain damage. he did the autopsy on mike webster, hall of fame player with the pittsburgh steelers and basically found out it was football that likely killed him. i asked will smith's personal feelings take a look. >> your son played football. i know you are an eagles fan. >> oh my gosh, yes. >> when you were first considering this part in this movie what was the conflict about that. >> i was a football dad and grew up in philly and loved football. i did not want to be the guy who said to the world that oh guys there might be a hidden danger that we're not seeing.

but after i met dr. omalu and he told me his story and i, sort of, understand the science of it, as a parent i started to feel impelled to tell the story. because i didn't know. while my son was playing, i didn't know. and i knew that if i didn't know, other parents didn't know. so it became important for me to be a part of the delivery of the information. >> you weren't just a football dad. you were a football dad. you would fly back to l.a. every week to see him play from china. >> >> we were shooti ining kara kid in beijing. and i commuted for ten weeks for the entire football season. >> well that is what cea's so complicated about this. football isn't just about football. it is about how they connect

with their kids. >> absolutely. >> and connect with their dads and traditions on thanksgiving. and people are reluctant to see that challenged. >> yeah. i think that -- i had to accept in the process. and why this was very helpful just for my development as the human being, that it is not black and white. it is not -- there is not easy answers. it is both things at the same time. it absolutely is one of the most beautiful, poetic and powerful sports you will ever see. it is the strongest and most powerful human beings on earth. but at the same time there is a hidden potential, long-term brain issue with the game that is hidden in plain sight. so that there is -- it is both things. it is not one or the other. >> and now for the million dollar question is, now that you know what you know, educating

parents you said. if tre came you do now, what would you say? >> i would say son, listen, i love you. and if were up to me you could play, but your mother said no. >> ha ha ha. that is an excellent strategy. i love it. the nfl in this movie is not exactly looking good. they are portrayed as willfully hiding the truth. do you think that is an accurate portrayal. >> that is something we debated very heavily during this film and i like to chock things up to a lack of knowledge and a lack of clarity about what is real and what's a true. >> how do you think people in the nfl office feel about you these days? >> you know i -- i probably won't be getting my free super

bowl ticket this is year. >> don't worry. i don't think roge are goodell sent me a christmas card this year either so you're in good company. >> indeed. >> after living in that skin for a year, he's really bothered by all of the anti immigrant rhetoric that he hears in politics right now. so much so that he said i am considering running for office. he said i can't rule it out. >> you are kidding me. >> maybe president. kanye says he wants to run. maybe what do you think about that cnn? >> what a ticket. something you are hitting on about football. something a lot eff parents are struggling with. it is more than just a game. it unites communities. it is almost like a religion in some areas. given this new science and new information, how do we reconcile that? >> he says it is not a black and

whitish. and i think that is true -- white issue. . you heard him say whether he blames jada or not he will pull his son out of football. and that is a long-term threat to the way the nfl has a foothold. >> so how are they reacting? how are they counteracting the press of this movie? >> they came out with a statement they welcome the conversation and made a point they have made over 40 rules changes to help player safety in general. but we'll see in this movie that will smith's character takes a jar with a brain in it and he starts shaking it. and it is hard to see how any rules changes is going to dull the fact that that is what is happening. is going to be a controversy. >> good to have you here

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let's meet filly. he's homeless. he recently set up a christmas tree under the highway for the people living around him. >> my purpose was to stir hope and smiles. >> that was his hope. not the city's. the city called it a code violation. >> really? >> yes. they took it away not once but twice. the second time crushing it in a garage truck right in front of him. and his fellow citizens heard. >> i don't care what code violation it is. it is holidays and these people need everything they can uplift them. >> saving christmas. saving christmas. >> he received dozens of christmas trees after his was destroyed. complete with decorations, even presents to put beneath the trees. he's received so many trees john he's now handing out the extra to others who could also use

them. >> see, that is what we can do by helping others. we don't have to have thousands or millions to help somebody. >> i will say i hope the compassion and outreach to the homeless continues jond just christmas. >> me too and i hope they have learned their lesson. >> hey poppy. >> good morning. newsroom begins right now. i'm poppy harlow for my friend carol costello. in just a few hours president obama will hold his year end news conference. weigh heavily will be the nation's deepening concerns over terrorism. also the president travels today to san bernardino california, the sight of the terrorist