showdown at the kwm financial protection bureau, pitching thement against an obama employee. who is in charge of the top u.s. consumer watch dog agency? >> he has very close knowledge of the comey firing and perhaps likely the president's state of mind when he did that firing. based on what i've seen, michael

flynn is in deep trouble. >> we all want to know the answers to everything tomorrow. this is a long process. >> the name dominating national headlines for more than two weeks. >> i'll work across party lines to create jobs and get wages up. >> what we're getting nationally is, oh, alabamans would vote for a pedophile over a liberal democratic. >> i wouldn't vote for the baby killer for hell or high water. well, good morning to you. i'm christi paul. >> i'm martin savidge in for victor blackwell. great to be with all of you. chaos brewing at the agency that has a huge impact on helping safeguard your finances. >> at the stroke of midnight, the man heading the consumer protection bureau, richard cordray stepped down. the question is who is going to

replace him as of monday? that depends on who you ask. >> a lot of confusion this morning over who is leading the top u.s. consumer watch dog agency, and here is why. president trump tapped white house budget director nick mulvaney to be interim chief of the cfpb. the announcement came just hours after the outgoing director richard cordray, an baem appointee formerly resigned and named leandra english the successor which makes her the acting director. the appointments of two officials to the same post sets up a political and legal clash here. the question of who is in charge when employees return to work on monday. elizabeth warren who helped create the cfpb tweeted this, the dodd-frank act is clear. if there's a vacancvacancy, they director becomes acting director. donald trump can't override that.

the administration can opinion point a current government official into a new job as long as they're confirmed by the senate under the federal vacancies act to serve in an acting capacity. so the cfpb was created after the 2008 financial crisis to protect consumers and keep an eye on wall street. republicans argue the agency has too much power, not enough oversight and establishes what they see as anti business regulations. mulvaney has been a long-time critic. while serving in congress, he voted in favor of killing the agency and once called it a sick and sad joke. president trump will ultimately nominate a permanent director. the opening is a chance for a major overhaul of the bureau. >> so what does the consumer financial protection bureau actually do for you? according to the joint economic committee on capitol hill, the watch dog group has several accomplishments aside from just taking on wall street, forcing wells fargo to pay fell refunds to customers after the bank set

up phony accounts. veterans and families harmed by predator financial practices, and it made credit card costs more trance parnt saving consumers more than $167 billion in fees. >> errol louis, political anchor for spectrum news, gabby from "the washington examiner" and joey jackson, a cnn legal analyst. so much to talk about. joey, i want to started with you. way tont read to you what senator warren said yesterday on twitter about cordray's decision to appoint leandra english. she said president trump can't override that, he can nominate the next director, but until it's confirmed by the senate, leandra english is the acting director under the dodd-frank act. joey, from a legal standpoint, who will be running this agency

monday morning? >> good morning, christi, good morning, panel. don't you love politics? i believe who will be running it is the person trump nominated to do it. here is why. clearly there's a classic and it's not too uncommon discrepancy between two different statutes. of course, you have the consumer protection financial affairs agency. it says, you know what, in the event the director leaves, the deputy director can step up. it also says -- in that little quotation it says unavailable or absent. so technically does a resignation mean you're unavailable and/or absent? that's the question. but then there's that vacancy act which allows the president to make an appointment in an agency. i think that as long as the president, christi, has control of both parties, what do you do? if there's any dispute, you change the law. i think the courts will be loaf to get into this. this is more classified as what

we call a political question in constitutional law. i think it's something that will be resolved. if you have the president of the united states saying i want you, even if it's aperson who said it's a sick, sad joke, the agency, i think the president generally would get what the president would want, irrespective of the party. as long as they control both houses, i don't see this as an issue. >> all right. errol, i want to go to you because joey just brought up a very good point we want to talk about. nick mulvaney at one time criticized the cfpb as a sick sad joke. he's a former south carolina congressman who co-sponsored legislation to shut this agency down. let's listen to what he said. >> it's a wonderful example of how a bureaucracy will function if it has no accountability to anybody. it turns up being a joke, and that's what the cfpb really has in a sick, sad kind of way. you've got an institution that has tremendous authority over what you all do for a living, over your businesses, over your

members. >> so errol, what do you prognosticate for us, what do you or others expect this agency will turn into in the future if he's at the helm? >> if he's at the help we can expect him to at least hollow it out, try to make sure it doesn't do much of what was just described by martin savidge. frankly, that wonderful partial explanation of some of the recent greatest hits by this agency explains why rick mulvaney and a bunch of others on capitol hill have been trying to kill it which is that it's a very effective agency. they've gotten tens of billions of dollars into the hands of consumers that was improperly taken away from them. whether you're talking about service members, student loans, talking about in some cases black borrowers who were discriminated against, there are large groups of people who have gotten lots and lots of money back that was improperly de need them for sort of skimmed off the top when it wasn't supposed to

be. as long as you have a hostile congress and now apparently a hostile administrator who is going to be running this agency, it will become a shadow of its former self which is really too bad. >> gabby, essentially, it's an aggressive watch dog -- a consumer watch dog. it's got broud power to combat financial abuses, but it's a critical agency, a lot of people see it, for consumers. is it strong enough in some capacity, though, to survive? is there a sense of that? >> well, the treasury department under thissed a registration has already signaled it wants to significantly scale back the responsibilities of this agency and the -- what it has on a day today agenda in terms of its duties and whatnot. it wasn't really a surprise that president trump would appoint nick mulvaney as the interim head of this agency considering he has been critical of its

operations and what it should promote in terms of consumer protection. so i do think there's a risk that we are going to see it, as errol said, hollowed out under the trump administration, likely to the point that it would just be obsolete, that it wouldn't be the same agency it was under the obama administration. and then the president could always make the argument that, well, this agency isn't doing anything and we should probably just repeal it legislatively. >> abby, i want to move on with you, here, to the "time" magazine versus president trump, it seems. president trump -- i want to remind everybody what he tweeted yesterday. "time" magazine called to say that i was probably going to be named man, person of the year last year but i would have to agree to an interview and major photo shoot. i said probably is no good and took a pass thanks anyway. time responded saying time doesn't comment on our choice until publication which is december 6.

do i understand this correctly, "time" is basically saying that the president concocted this, that they don't have a photo shoot and interview beforehand and it's a sur rise to everybody on december 6? >> well, it's clear that time is pushing back very hard on what the president is claiming in that tweet, and there is some truth to the idea that maybe they might reach out ahead of time or that it's known ahead of time who the person is. but what they're essentially saying is they don't reach out and say you're only going to be named if we get an interview. it's unclear what's going on here. we do know that the president has been named person of the year in the past and that he's particularly interested in "time" magazine. he is interested in a lot of magazines, always focused on how many times he's been on the cover. so this is no exception. it's not clear whether he was trying to get ahead of something here, knowing he wasn't going to be person of the year and is trying to sort of say, well, i

don't want to be person of the year anyway. it's just very unclear. "time" is definitely making it clear that this is not how they operate, they do not call someone and say, hey, we've got to have an interview, we have to have a photo shoot in order to name you to that position. >> errol, i want to look at some of the reactions from celebrities having a little fun with this. julia louis-dryfus said "the new york times" called to say i was probably going to be comedian of the year. i said probably is no good. i took a pass. thanks anyway. mark hamel said "time" magazine called to say i would definitely be named man of the year but i would have to agree to leak major episode spoilers. thanks anyway. it's comical on the surface, no doubt, errol. is there some erosion, some damage of some sort to president trump with all of this? >> there's damage to the

presidency to the notion that what was once a very high and respected office where you'd never even consider the level of kind of foolish back and forth and sort of self-centered musings, official statements out of the white house in the past, it's now part of the new normal. the fact that he immediately places himself on a plane where other comedians using the very same platform can ridicule him, says something about what the president's choice is, his unfortunate habit of trying to always weigh in on popular culture and become sort of a commentator in chief instead of leading the nation. >> abby and joey, thank you so much. errol, gabby, i know you're going to stick around. this "time" thing adds more intrigue to who is going to be person of the year at the end of the day on december 6. thank you. >> thank you, christi. it should be a major moment for ivanka trump on the world stage. will infighting within her

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24 minutes past the hour. good morning to you. i'm christie paul. >> i'm martin savidge in for victor blackwell. who is in charge of one of the u.s. top consumer watch dog agencies. >> president trump tapped nick mulvaney to be interim chief after the director stepped down. but that sets up a political and legal clash here because the outgoing director chose someone el else. jared kushner has until monday to turn over more documents to the senate judiciary committee. >> and president trump will be on capitol hill to push tax reform next week. he's meeting tuesday, in fact, with senate republicans ahead of their expected vote. but infighting in the trump administration is threatening to over shadow a major global summit. state department officials tell cnn the u.s. is not sending a high-level delegation to next week's global entrepreneurship in india. the main reason, secretary of

state rex tillerson doesn't want to support ivanka trump who is leading the u.s. delegation to the event. cnn's michelle kosinski broke this story down with the details. >> what we're talking about here is the global entrepreneurship summit. it's a big event. it's put on by the state department. this year first daughter and senior white house advisor ivanka trump is headlining it. she leaves this weekend. she was invited by the indian prime minister himself and the theme is women's entrepreneurship. what we're hearing now from several sources including senior ones inside the state department as well as a source close to the white house is secretary of state rex tillerson and his inner circle don't want to send senior people because they don't love the idea of ivanka trump leading the u.s. delegation here. from a senior state department official they, meaning tillerson an his staff won't send someone senior because they don't want to bolster ivanka. it's now another rift between

the white house and state at a time when rex tillerson doesn't need anymore problems with the president. from a source close to the white house, rex doesn't like the fact that he's supposed to be our nation's top diplomat and now jared and ivanka have stepped all over rex tillerson for a long time. he's not sending senior people from the state department and he's not supporting ivanka trump. when you look at this event in past years, president obama attended, last year it was kerry, and assistant secretaries. officials are telling us tillerson and his staff aren't letting anyone above the deputy assistant level go. originally the acting assistant secretary for the region was slated to be on the trip and she was then pulled by tillerson and his staff. when i asked a state department spokesperson who are the senior people going on this trip, and the list hasn't been officially published yet, they gave a short list of the top u.s. government officials, but none of them were

from the state department. there was an ambassador, but that person is already in india. you could say, all right, this event was an obama-era creation, the current state department is trying to slash its budget left and right and there is no permanent secretary for this region. the information we're getting back from our sources, if you're going to send a smaller delegation, fine, but wouldn't you send your senior people and cut back in other ways. we did get a statement from the state department. it says the department is committed to supporting women's economic empowerment and entrepreneurship. the summit is a prime opportunity to showcase the importance of these themes. the summit is really about the more than 1500 entrepreneurs, investors and supporters. but obviously they're not commenting on this perceived tillerson-ivanka snub and not denying any of this either. michelle kosinski, cnn,

washington. >> thanks, michelle. let's talk with our panel about all this. errol louis, cnn senior political commentator at anchorality the spectrum news. and gabby morn jello. good morning, happy post thanksgiving to both of you. >> good morning. >> errol, let me start with you. is this palace infighting or is it budget cutting and a sense of financial responsibility at the state department? what's your pick? >> honestly martin, it looks like a little bit of both. it's extraordinary -- the new york times has recent reporting on this as well, how much has been done to the state department as far as positions that are left unfilled. it's startling if you think about it. the president went on a 12-day trip through asia and still no permanent assistant secretary of state to cover that region. but one count apparently something like 10 of the top 44 positions at the state department have been filled, and the rest are still vacant.

so with thousands of diplomats being pushed out of service, they're expected to leave by the end of next year, it looks like you're going to be shorthanded no matter what happens. for the secretary of state, however, the try to pick a political fight with ivanka trump of all people, seems like something you'd have to call palace intrigue. we know there's probably going to be a reaction from the white house. >> gabby, rex tillerson is the secretary of state and yet sometimes it does feel ivanka and jared kushner have kind of been stepping on his turf. do you think it's the right way for mr. tillerson to handle his frustrations? >> i don't know that it's necessarily the right or mature way to handle his frustrations. i do think you have to feel for rex tillerson. he's been washing ivanka trump and jared kushner basically behave as though they are the desfak toe secretaries of state in this administration. we've seen jared kushner negotiating peace deals in the middle east, making routine

trips to skrab. we've seen ivanka trump interacting with global leaders on these foreign trips. those are traditionally roles that the secretary of state has fulfilled. so i do think there's a bit of frustration that's warranted. i don't know that stripping ivanka trump of a high-level delegation for a trip that is very important for this white house -- entrepreneurship is something they've promoted heavily -- is the right way to go about doing that. >> errol, let me switch subjects. president trump heading to the hill on tuesday to meet with senate republicans on tax reform. the senate hopes to vote next week, quite a few senators expressing concern. does the gop have the votes to get this done? >> i'd be surprised if they come up with it. in some ways this looks like a replay of their attempt to undo obamacare, the affordable care act. you have senators who are, to their credit, being very

forthright and very forthcoming about the problems they have with this bill, with what they'd like to see change, and they don't have enough of a margin to lose more than two republican senators. they, of course, it's important to point out, tied their own hands by trying to make sure they don't need a single democrat in either the house or senate to come along with them. they've tailored the bail narrowly and that gives an amount of power to each and every member of the republican senate. when you hear various people including a couple of opponents of the white house who said they're not running for re-election and, therefore, have nothing to lose politically. when you keep hearing corker and rand paul and lisa murkowski and susan collins sort of saying they've got serious problems with this, unless those problems got fixed over the holiday, i think they're going to have a real hard time getting to 52. >> yet, gabby, the president seems to be setting his sites beyond tax reform.

once that's all done, the gop is going to take up -- wait for it -- repeal and replace obamacare. there are major risks to keep going back to this, aren't there? >> not only are they planning on going back to obamacare, they are planning on tackling welfare reform, and they still have an issue to work out as far as the deferred action for childhood arrivals program goes, the daca immigration program. they do have a bit of a heavy month ahead of them in december and going into the new year. i think what we're going to see play out here is likely a situation that we saw with obamacare where the senate ended up voting on what was dubbed a skinny repeal bill, basically stripped out everything that was controversial in that verse bill that they tried to replace obamacare with. that's probably what could happen with tax cuts. we could get down to a bare bones piece of legislation, cuts taxtion, kugts the corporate rate and maybe includes individual mandate to offset some of those costs.

>> someone who might be voting on whatever comes forward next will be the next senator from alabama. monday is the deadline to register there. roy moore's campaign just released this new ad. let's take a look first. >> five state campaigns, 40 years of honorable service. roy moore has been intensely scrutinized and not a hichbt of scandal. but four weeks before the election, false allegations, the republican establishment to protect their big government trough. but we know a vote for roy moore means conservative judges, tax cuts and rebuilding the military. roy moore, the right choice. >> so, errol, is this the right way to go when you're facing these these accusations. >> a fact check, there was more than a hint of scandal. he was thrown out twice as the head of the supreme court in

alabama for failing to uphold the law. we've got i think in this case somebody reading the polls accurately, there's public polling, probably private polling that supports it in greater detail that voters are willing to overlook the sex scandal he's currently involved in because they want certain other things from him. they want a supreme court vote. they want somebody who is going to be solid on the second amendment rights that they care about so much in the conservative south. and if he can get folks to sort of buy into that, he has a better-than-even chance of winning when the election comes around in december. >> gabby, do you agree with that? we just saw that spot where you see roy moore is sort of against all the establishment. does that play well in alabama? >> well, if you listen to the alabama voters, both immediately after the scandal in the past few weeks as it's played out. they've definitely going to stand by him. there are some calling into question the validity of these allegations.

there are others who say i wouldn't vote for a liberal democrat as our own president said earlier this week, and there are some who simply, as r errol said, they're single dish issue voters and they want somebody in there who is going to vote against pro abortion legislation, who is going to support second amendment rights. i do think that's what they truly care about. but the question isn't what happens to roy moore in terms of this election. it's what happens to him if he gets to the senate. i think that's where all eyes are going to be. the republicans on capitol hill are going to have a huge decision to face if he is elected to the u.s. senate in terms of whether or not they want to expel him from the upper chamber. >> that's a whole nother conversation for a whole nother day. errol louis and gabby morrongiello, thank you very much. >> thank you. it was a daring escape from north korea. now kim jong-un is taking steps

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attorney general jeff sessions will be in texas for the funeral of a fallen border patrol agent. he was shot while on patrol. the fbi isn't saying exactly what happened. calling it a possible assault. the governor of texas says

martinez was murdered. the local sheriff says his injuries may be consistent with a fall into the culvert where he and his partner were found. the partner is having trouble remembering what happened. let's talk about north korea. it's fortifying the border after a soldier's dramatic escape caught on camera here. but at the exact spot where that defector ran to freedom there are workers seen digging a trench and planting trees. as our brian todd reports, there's a lot happening behind the scene to make sure it doesn't happen again. >> reporter: they were just a few feet behind him, fired more than 40 bullets, but failed to kill or capture him. the north korea soldiers who couldn't keep their comrade from pulling off a draw mastic escape in recent days a facing a fallout. a south korean lawmaker said nearly all the soldiers present on the border that day have been replace dollar. human rights observers say that

could be the least of their worries. >> what's their likely fake. >> they will be investigated by the military security command, possibly the state security department as well which is the north korean gestapo. it's very likely that torture will be involved in the pretrial investigation, if there's going to be a trial. it's most likely they will be charged with treason. >> reporter: the north korean's soldier's dash across the border was such a humiliation, that the repercussions could be felt among kim's top generals as well. >> i think the fallout will go higher up to a commanding person who were not able to stop this from happening because this is very high profile defection, very embarrassing for the kim reg ooenl eem: all the tape worms coming ut of the soldier's body is very embarrassing. >> reporter: experts say the commanders could be send to

labor camps. north korean workers were seen digging a trench at the spot where the soldier made a run for it. meantime, the south korean soldiers who risked gunfire to crawl to the north korean and drag him to safety have been given medals for their bravery. the 24-year-old at the center of this is off life support, out of the icu, but still suffering psychological trauma. >> last night he had a dream that he was in north korea again. >> reporter: the doctor says he's had to assure the man he's safe. ptsd is not the man's only concern. human rights observers say the north korean regime may go after his family back home, arrested, tortured, possibly even executed. they say this regime has sometimes been known to wipe up nearly three generations of a defector's family. brian todd, cnn, washington.

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u.s. health care costs are skyrocketing and more and who hospitals in rural areas are closing down. since 2010, 82 rural hospitals have closed nationwide. >> for some towns this means that the closest er is perhaps hundreds of miles away. cnn's simon ostrowski reports. >> patient 11, 1000 eerie, maine. >> dispatch. buckle up, missy. >> reporter: this is the ems crew of a small mining town that 2400 people call home. there's no professional ambulance service here and the

only hospital closed its doors for good in 2015. >> medical evans on scene. >> reporter: local residents have taken matters into therapy own hands. dawn good manson is one of several volunteer emts who act as the community's only lifeline. >> it's scary. it's scary to live here. i'm scared for our residents, i'm scared for my family. >> reporter: hen the hospital closed, the entire county, an area roughly the size of the u.s. state of massachusetts was left without any emergency medical care. any area that's more than 30 miles away from a hospital is known as a hospital desert. tonopa, more than 200 miles from emergency trauma care. >> if you need trauma care, you're looking at reno or las vegas which is 3 1/2 hours by vehicle. i know of some people that did not make it on the transport. they expired en route. >> my aunt, she had a lot of medical problems, and we weren't able to get her to higher level

of care quick enough. so she passed in our ambulance. it was just hard. she taught us how to be emts and we were working on her and there was nothing more that we could do. if we had had a hospital, they have years of knowledge, and it would have been different. >> reporter: dawn is bringing her latest patient to the airport, but by the time the plane arrives from las vegas, they've already been waiting on the tarmac for two hours. this is increasingly the reality of living in rural america. if you get injured or you get sick, you have to be driven to the airport so you can get flown to the hospital hundreds of miles away. >> i think because we're so rural, people tend to forget about us. why are we not worthy of health care? we're people, too. we need help.

>> reporter: simon ostroski. cnn. meanwhile, president trump hit the golf course with two of the biggest names in golf. i guess his is one of them. >> good morning to you. we've been seeing president trump take swings at figures from the sports world, yesterday he was taking swings with them. he played with tiger woods and current world number one dustin johnson at trump national golf club in jupiter, florida. president trump in the red hat. d.j. on the left, tiger on the right. tiger set to return to poetive golf for the first time in about nine months. it's college football saturday. jake hawk and his family find themselves in unique situation, he's an offensive lineman on the navy football team. his dad and two brothers are all army. we've heard of houses divided. this is one of them. >> the reason i wanted to serve is because my whole family has served. if you go back generations, it's

all army, army, army. my brothers were both serving al at the tile. my dad is retired, 20 years in the army. >> anybody that can love my son as much as they love him, i have to support them wholeheartedly. to talk to his brothers, they'll say go army, beat navy but we support jake. >> my mom's stance on support is always with me, and to my understanding she'll be a navy fan for the rest of her life. >> i root for navy. that's it. >> the army-navy game in this household is -- it's an important game. >> army-navy game last year it was a tough time. >> army, army, army. >> his heart is crushed, so that upsets me. >> i've never felt that bad after a loss. i don't think i'll ever feel that bad after a loss again. >> my brothers definitely rubbed it in. >> i spoke to my other sons who

said, mom, we're in the army. all i could say is, but you didn't play in that game. >> thanksgiving this year is going to be -- i'm not really sure what to expect. we're all going to be back together for the first time in a long time. >> there's always a little trash talk. they can't help themselves. it's who they are. >> until may of 2019, i will be a diehard navy fan. the day he throws his hat in the air and is no longer a midshipman is the day i switch back my loyalty to the army. >> all right. the army-navy game takes place december 9th. we'll be there and bring you some of the sights and sounds. it is one of the greatest sp spectacles in american sports. >> thank you, coy. we'll be right back. mike and i are both veterans, both served in the navy. i do outrank my husband, not just being in the military, but at home. she thinks she's the boss. she only had me by one grade.

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