good morning to you. we're so grateful for your company as always. i'm christi paul. breaking news out of egypt. the number of people killed at that horrifying massacre at a motioning has climbed to 305. >> this as egyptian officials say the attackers were carrying isis flags and automatic machine guns when they surrounded the mosque and its entrances. >> that happened yesterday. meanwhile egypt's air force launched air strikes. these air strikes on the attackers and, quote, tear riflt outposts containing weapons and ammunitions. we have a detailed report in just a moment. but first.

the agency cast with helping you safeguard your finances is leaderless. >> once the clock struck midnight, as you were sleeping, most likely, richard cordray stepped down from the consumer financial protection bureau. here is the problem. his replacement depends on who you ask is the replacement. >> a lot of confusion this morning over who is leading the top u.s. consumer watch dog agency. here is why. president trump tapped white house budget director nick mulvaney to be enter richl chief of the consumer financial protection bureau or cfpb. the announcement came hours after richard cordray formally resigned and named leandra english his successor. the appointments of two officials to the same post sets up a political and legal clash here, and the question of who is in charge when employees return to work on monday.

massachusetts senator elizabeth warren who helped create the cf p. b tweeted this, the dodd-frank act is clear, if there's a cfpb director vacancy, the deputy director becomes acting director. donald trump can't override that. the administration can appoint a new government official into the job as long as they're confirmed by the senate under the federal vacancies act to served in an acting capacity. the cfpb was created after the 2008 financial crisis to protect consumers and keep an eye on wall street. republicans argue the apgt see has too much power, not enough oversight and establishing 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 over all of the bureau. >> 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 taking on wall street. more recently it forced wells fargo to pay full refunds to customers after employees set up phony accounts. the bureau gave $130 million to service members, veterans and their families harmed by predator financial practice, and it made credit card costs more transparent, saving consumers more than $16 billion in fees. >> abby phillip, cnn white house correspondent with us now as well as julian sell ser, historian and professor at princeton, rah westwood from the white house examiner and joey jackson, cnn legal analyst. abby, i wanted to start with you because, as we hit monday morning, this watch dog group may have no idea who to report to. what are you hearing about how this is going to play out? >> reporter: we're expecting the

white house in the next couple hours to push back on what richard cordray did on his way out the door yesterday. they're going to really double down on their interpretation of the president's ability to go ahead and appoint nick mulvaney as an interim successor. i think the white house believes they have that power to do that and that richard cordray can't just say who his successor is. so i don't think that they see this as a legal dispute. however, clearly democrats on the hill are going to push back. this is also going to make it much more likely that the president needs to move very quickly to get a replacement into that agency. the sooner he does that, the sooner he'll have a senate confirmed candidate and they can move on with fresh leadership and resolve the issue once and for all. >> joey, that brings me to you. senator elizabeth warren yesterday said this about cordray's decision in a tweet,

president trump can't override that, he can nominate the next director, but until confirmed by the senate, leandra english is the acting director under the dodd-frank act. the dodd-frank does speak to this. joey jackson, in legal parameters here, who is going to be running this agency on monday? >> i think the simple answer, christi is whoever the president wants to run it. here is why i say it. i think the merits, the politics and objective are on the president's side. even in the event there's a legal dispute, think of all the wonderful things the agency does, as martin savidge pointed out. if there's a standstill, it does nothing. from the president's perspective and his party's perspective, that's great. you don't want regulation of business. to the merits of the issue, he's the president of the united states. the president gets to a point people. in terms of the actual rule of dodd-frank, it says if the director is absent or unavailable, it doesn't say if the director resigned. so that's another interpretation. i think also, christi, courts

are loathed to get involved in political disputes. finally on the politics of it, when you have the president who is a republican, house republican, senate republican, change the law in the event it's that much of an issue. i think at the end of the day the president gets what the president wants with regard to this dispute. >> all right. so while he was south carolina congressman here is what nick mulvaney -- he actually co-sponsored legislation to kill this legislation. let's listen to what he said then. >> it's a wonderful example of how a bureaucracy will function if it has no accountability to anyone. it turns up being a joke. that's what the cfpb has been in a sick sad way. you have an institution with tremendous authority over what you do for a living, over your businesses, over your members. >> julian, i want to point a couple things out here. it's not the first time somebody has been put in charge of an

agency that they weren't exactly a cheerleader for. for instance, we have epa director scott pruitt, remember. he actively fought against the epa. we have secretary of energy rick perry who at one point didn't necessarily know the specific responsibilities, i guess, of the energy agency. but he wanted to eliminate it at that point. what do you make of the pattern we see of the president putting people in charge of agencies that they're not passionate about? >> well, it's a very consistent and effective tactic. we saw this under ronald reagan. we saw this under george w. bush. when there are regulations and government bodies that a conservative president like president trump opposes, and you can't simply dismantle them, you put people in charge who will either not run them effectively or not run them at all or make sure that the mission is not accomplished. this has been very important to

the trump administration. and while we're focused on the tweets, i think the administration has been moving to staff many of these agencies with opponents of the agencies. it can be devastating to the policy. >> makes you wonder where the agencies are headed in terms of their effectiveness. sarah, i want to move to something that's caught a lot of people's eye, this reaction to the president's tweet claiming "time" is considering him to be person of the year. here is what he tweeted so we're all on the same page. he said time mag scene called to say i was probably going to be named man, person of the year last year but i'd have to agree to a major interview and photo shoot. i said probably is no good and took a pass. here is how "time" responded. he said the president is incorrect about how we choose person of the year. "time" doesn't comment on the choice until publication which is december 6th. sarah, is "time" basically saying that the president concocted this idea that he was

asked for an interview and a major photo shoot were hand? >> i don't know that i would read "time's" statement as a denial. they didn't say donald trump was never under consideration. i don't know that any news organization dangled an award or a recognition over someone's head to force them into granting an interview. that doesn't sound like a practice i or any other news organization would engage in. certainly i think there are a range of people "time" would choose as person of the year. it was very unlikely this unfolded exactly how president trump said on twitter. we know he has a history of recounting events in the most favorable manner toward himself and the truth is probably somewhere in the middle between the two accounts. i don't think he would make something like this up, but certainly revisionist history is something he's fluent in. what really happened between "time" and president trump, we may never know.

but the truth is probably somewhere in the middle. >> we should point out there were some celebrity tweets after all of this. in fact julia louis-dryfus tweeted, "the new york times" called to say i was going to be named kmeed wran of the year. i took a pass. luke skywalker saying "time" magazine called to say i was going to be named man of the year. but i would have to agree to leak spoilers. i said no problem. then they told me you turned it down and no i don't want it anymore. thanks anyway. it's comical on the surface. is there an erosion? >> his credibility, willingness to stretch the truth, a story like this gets right to the heart of that question which is much bigger than the "time" magazine cover story. >> we'll be watching that on december 6 no doubt. abby, joey, julian and sarah, we appreciate you so much. thank you.

in one of the most conservative states in the nation, a democrat, yes, a democrat has a chance to flip a senate seat. can doug jones convince skeptical conservative voters to cross the aisle? also, guarding president trump's financial records. an insider at the irs talks about the unprecedented security to protect the president's tax returns. >> we decided we should actually turn it into a safe in a locked room. so we'll do that. >> who has access to that room? >> i don't know. i don't have access. plus a horrifying story out of egypt. new details on the attackers who carried out that mosque massacre as the number of dead has increased to more than 300. that is coming up next. what powers the digital world. communication.

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and they were carrying isis flags an machine guns. more than 300 people were killed in the attack. cnn senior international correspondent ben wedeman is live from cairo. ben, what else are egyptian officials saying about this? >> reporter: the latest we're hearing is the statement read out on oh jipgs television from the public, prosecutors saying among other things that 25 to 30 men, some of them dressed in combat fatigues were lo hair and beards set off an explosion outside the mosque yesterday during friday prayers. then they went inside firing automatic weapons. they said one of them was carrying an isis flag. now, we've learned separately from the middle east news agency, that's the official news agency of egypt, that the death toll now stands at 305 people

dead, 128 wounded. among the dead, 27 children in this attack. now, in the aftermath of the attack, the egyptian air force went into action, striking vehicles that egyptian officials believed were those vehicles of the attackers. they also struck ammunition and weapons storage facilities as well. now, we did hear the egyptian president abdel fatah el sisi saying in response to these attacks, egypt would use brute force to hit at the terrorists, certainly given that this is the largest deadliest, bloodiest terrorist attack in egyptian history. he's going to have the support of the egyptian people when he does, in fact, carry out this threat to use brute force against the terrorists. >> ben, do we know why this

particular mosque was targeted? >> reporter: there's a lot of speculation, martin, about why it was targeted. some are suggesting because it was a mosque built by sufis, muslim mystics who are diametrically opposed to the jihadi philosophy of isis. but the fact of the matter is, it's just the mosque by the side of a busy road. at the time of friday prayers, people stop at the nearest mosque. but perhaps that's why they targeted it, because, in fact, isis is opposed to the sufis. they call sufiism a disease, and those who follow it heretics. we know on the 16th of november last year a 100-year-old sufi sheikh was be headed by isis.

this is an area of the sinai where many of the tribes are opposed to isis who have been cooperating with the egyptian police and egyptian military. so that perhaps is another explanation why this choice of targets, but it's significant, over all the years where isis has operated in the sinai, this is the first time they actually target a mosque, a mosque full of hundreds of fellow muslims. martin. >> as we've said, it's a horrific attack. ben wedeman, thanks for the update. fellow defectors say this north korean sold yerd who escaped across the border, they say he's a hero. coming up, why they say his defection was more daring than most, and what we're learning from him as he recovers. just two days left for people in alabama can register to vote. will the scandals, the accusations and attack ads change their minds or will they

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>> this comes as the president tries to push tax reform next week. trump will meet thursday -- i'm sorry -- tuesday with senate republicans ahead of their expected vote. >> monday is the deadline to register to vote in alabama. this is a close race that can see a democrat flip a seat in a deep red state. >> despite sexual harassment and sexual abuse allegations against roy moore, democrat doug jones is still facing an uphill batter to energize his base. here is cnn's kaylee hartung. >> reporter: the name dominating national headlines for more than two weeks. we know roy moore is running for the u.s. senate and his campaign is in trouble. >> they were girls when roy moore immorally pursued them. now they are women. >> reporter: what about the other guy, the challenging to the man accused of being a sexual predator. >> what we're getting nationally is, oh, alabamans would vote for a pedophile over the liberal

deck krat. >> in this circumstance, yes. >> you're just saying it flat out. >> yes, absolutely. >> in the red state of alabama where republicans have held every state-wide office for the last 25 years, the blue label of democrat is drowning out doug jones' name to some, even while his opponent is drowning in scandal. >> we're staying in our lane as best we can, obviously to some extent, it ooh es a distraction. >> born and raised in alabama, the 63-year-old first-time candidate is a long-time attorney, a federal prosecutor who is best known for successfully putting domestic terrorist eric rudolph and ku klux klan members who bombed a church in 1963 behind bars. >> i'll work across party lines. >> reporter: in the state that elected president trump for 28 points, he's trying to appeal to more conservative voters. focusing on what he calls kitchen table issues, jobs, the

economy, health care. he says he would vote to raise the federal minimum wage and supports the african-american. f feyerick. for many it comes down to one issue, jones is pro choice, believing it's an intensely personal choice and supporting the current abortion laws. >> i wouldn't vote for the baby killer for hell or high water. i don't believe in murdering children. >> reporter: strong rhetoric can be heard on the air waives. in print, a different story. the editorial boards of top newspapers writing stand for decency, reject roy moore. this front page above-the-fold editorial denouncing moore and supporting jones. alabama voters are skeptical of outside influences on this race. their choice on december 12th is crucial to the balance of power in washington. kaley hartung, cnn, atlanta, georgia. >> let's talk about this very

controversial campaign. to do that cnn political commentators patty solis doyle and ben ferguson and cnn political analyst julian zelizer. patty, the accusations against roy moore, some conservatives still skeptical of doug jones, maybe because he's a liberal, and "the washington post" saying he's struggling to energize african-american voters. there's 2 1/2 weeks left. what do you think doug jones can do if he wants to win? >> well, i think for the first time in a very, very, very long time, democrats have a chance to win a senate seat in alabama. but it is alabama and it's going to be very tough. i think what doug jones really needs to do is energize his vote and make sure he pours all his resources in getting his vote out. i think for roy moore, you know, there are -- i don't know if we can trust these polls in

alabama. i think it's very hard for anyone to say to a pollster on the other end of the telephone line, yes, i'm going to be voting for someone who has been banned from the mall because he preys on teenage girls. i think the most we can hope for is that the people who just cannot stomach that in alabama will stay home. if those people stay home and doug jones energizes his base and the democrats and african-american voters, we may stand a chance to win that seat. >> i'm with you on those polls because i've been spending a lot of time in alabama covering this, so there is skepticism. >> roy moore just released a new add. let's take a look at it and then we'll talk about it. >> five state campaigns. 40 years of honorable service. roy moore has been intensely scrutinized and not a hint of scandal, but four weeks before the election, false allegations, a scheme by liberals and 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. >> this is such a classic ad, it almost seems cliche. is it going to work, ben? >> i think it will work with a lot of his base. here is the thing, if you pander too much, whether you're the opponent or roy moore, it's going to get you in trouble. i think what you're seeing roy moore do here is a smart political play. this has nothing to do with what he's accused of. politically you put out a campaign ad, acting as if everything is okay, everything is normal and reminding people how long they've been voting for you in alabama. there's a very good chance this could pay off for him. i think this race is probably a lot tighter than the polls are showing there. i also think a lot of people think he's pandered too much, tried to go after voters that

will never vote for him. his whole objective should be, let me make sure every single democrat in the state is going to come out and vote for me, and that should be enough to get me over the top. if he continues to go out there and try to go for too many people that were never going to vote for him in the first place because of this controversy, i don't think he'll win this thing. so for moore, this is a pretty simple smart play. go back to your base, go back to the people that have been voting for you for 30, 40 years, and remind them of what you've done politically and maybe they'll overlook all these other issues which, again, it's alabama. they don't have a history or record of voting in democrats. you heard a lot of callers in talk radio. may show is carried in alabama, in birmingham. there's a lot of people who said i'm not voting for the democrat. i don't like roy moore and what he did, but i don't want a democrat representing me for the next six years in congress. >> i agree.

i think the race is much tighter than the polls suggest. julian, we'll switch subjects here, pivot a bit. major development in the russia investigation. lawyers for the former national security adviser michael flynn no longer sharing information with the president's lawyers. this means flynn could be cooperating with special counsel mueller's investigation, are planning to plead guilty. who should be worried about this development? >> i think everyone higher up in the white house will be worried about a story like this, whether it's jared kushner or the president himself. obviously the implication of the stories and the implication of the news is that they are getting flynn or trying to get flynn to cooperate in exchange for lenient treatment of him, he can give information about higher ups if that information exists. when a story like this breaks, everyone in the upper levels of the white house will be nervous about what exactly flynn is up to and what his attorneys are willing to deliver in exchange

for protection. >> i definitely think there are some anxious moments now to come. ben, i want to read you this tweet that comes from norm eisen, he chairs the citizens for responsibility and ethics in washington. he said, quote, i negotiated a cooperation deal for a target with mueller's office when he was u.s. attorney, and let me tell you, he's not going to give one to flynn unless he implicates someone up the ladder. that means kushner, don junior or big daddy. they are all having indigestion tonight. he's speaking from experience here. >> it sounds to me like a christmas list of what he's hoping. he's saying back in the day when i did something, this is how it went down. look, i think flynn right now is going to do everything he can, maybe even to protect his son. and that can mean that he falls on the sword. we know that's something he's been very concerned about. you know the conversations you had with flynn.

i don't think they're as concerned as people want them to be. i think flynn clearly crossed the line. i think his son is in trouble. that may be that flynn is saying i'll do more, take more responsibility for my actions. but i think there's a little bit of wishful and hopeful thinking there by many on the left saying, oh, this is going to be finally the smoking gun that's going to bring down this white house. i don't see it. >> patti, would you agree with that or do you think there really is serious concern here? >> i think there's definitely concern here. i worked in the clinton white house when we had a special counsel investigating white water. we didn't do anything really and we were concerned because you don't know who is saying what, what to whom, what they're saying about you. here in this instance it seems from what we're hearing, from what's already come out of the mueller investigation with the

indictments of manafort and gates and the guilty plea, that there is something there. and it seems to me that mike flynn has something to offer the investigation. so i would think if i were working in the white house, they already have some indictments. they're clearly working towards more, and mike flynn is willing to cooperate. i would be very, very nervous if i worked in the white house right now. >> julian, is this creative leaking on somebody's part? is it meant to instill this kind of discussion and fear? >> yes, that is part of the intention of this, and that's part of how special prosecutors work. they try to create that level of unease, and it's not the wrong thing to do always, so that you hopefully shake up testimony and shake up comments from people involved in the investigation. and you send a signal that you're very serious about who

you're going after, and you create this kind of unease intentionally. yes, that's exactly what this is supposed to do. >> ben, i interrupted. go ahead. >> i was going to say, remember whether it's papadopoulos or his former campaign chairman, those that have been indicted, all of those indictments have revolved around non-campaign issues. we had this same conversation just a couple weeks ago when manna forte was indicted about the white house has got to be nervous and terrified, this is the campaign chairman. again, those are business dealings, many going back more than a decade. i say the same thing i said then, you've got to look at what's on paper here. i think if you look on flynn, who does he want to protect? he wants to protect his son. i think this is more about a family issue than the white house. the same way manafort and his assistant and others around him, they got indicted for nothing that involved the campaign, nothing that involved collusion. the word collusion wasn't even

in their indictments. >> ben, we've got to leave it there because time a factor here. you got in the last word. patti solace doyle, ben ferguson and julian zelizer, thanks for joining us. we'll hear from two alabama young republicans on how they plan to vote in that very controversial election. kim jong-un's regime trying to make it harder for north korean soldiers to escape after this soldier's daring escape was this soldier's daring escape was caught on camera. bee you're better off healthy.

fellow defectors say the north korean soldier who ran across the border is heroic. >> the north korean regime were

not so thrilled. reportedly replacing the soldiers who failed to stop the defectors. workers were seen digging a trench and planting trees in an attempt to try to fortify the border to try to prevent future escapes. here is cnn's anna coren. >> you can see him moving at a good rate of speed. >> reporter: speeding down a deserted road on the dmz, a north korean soldier is attempting something the u.n. command says no one has ever done before. >> you will see kpa soldiers come out of this building here as the vehicle quickly moves past them. >> reporter: using an army jeep, he drives to within meters of the south korean border and under a rain of bullets from his own comrades, he runs across the demarcation line defecting. >> there have been many gek de fek tors but this is the first i want to praise for bravery. he was heroic, i never thought to do this because it's a

suicide mission. this 32-year-old would know. he spent fen years as an officer in the north korean people's armed based on the dmz. while he thought about defecting, he never imagined pulling off such a daring escape. instead he crossed the border into china, made his way to thailand and then defected to south korea four years ago. that's where he met his wife, also a defector who doesn't want her identity revealed fearing for the safety of her family back in north korea. conditions were harsh, everyone was hungry, even the soldiers, he says. the u.n. is sending rice and fertilizer and it all goes to the ranking officials. there are many soldiers who also die from disease because they're not given medical treatment. the latest defector, the third this year suffered serious injuries from his arms and abdomen from at least four bullet wounds. by the time he was medevacked to hospital he lost more than 50% of hiss blood and was almost

dead. while surgeons were operating, they discovered dozens of parasitic worms, some up to 27 centimeters long which doctors say were the result of poor hygiene and malnutrition. >> back in the 1990s, famine and starvation plagued north korea. but the u.n. says malnutrition is still a major problem. more than 40% of the population is undernourished and one in four children face chronic malnutrition. while north korean soldiers are generally treated better than civilians, life is still a constant struggle. this exclusive footage obtained by a south korean christian mission shows north korean soldiers physically plowing the soil instead of using livestock. here, they're foraging for a bird easiness hunting for chicks presumably to east. pastor who heads the mission rescued hundreds of north koreans. he said while the footage is bleak, it's not hunger that

motivates defectors, but rather the desire for freedom. north koreans are thirsty for the outside world he explains. those who defect including soldiers are hungry for information and have a strong desire to get out. he says he, too, wanted a better life, especially for his new family. and now working as a journalist, he occasionally broadcasts loud speaker messages to the north korean soldiers and has this message for his fellow defector. congratulations on your defection. hatch pi south korean. i'm wondering if you heard my broadcast and it helped with your defection. i hope we can meet. >> cnn's anna coren, thanks very much. >> they might as well be top secret document, the irs is taking an unprecedented move to keep president trump's tax returns under lock and key and away from hackers.

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well, president trump, he bucks tradition, didn't he, when he refused to make his tax returns public. well, now the irs is going to unprecedented lengths to make sure the documents don't end up in the wrong hands or in the public eye. >> here's cnn's cristina alesci. >> reporter: in the heart of washington, d.c., a government agency is closely guarding a document in such high demand that bounties have been placed on the file. >> well, they're a big tax returns. the biggest -- i guarantee you this, the biggest ever in the history of what we're doing. >> reporter: more than a year after then candidate donald trump said his tax returns would be released, gaining just a glimpse of them has become mission impossible. and now the internal revenue service is increasing security. >> now, we've heard, to all of the president's returns being in a safe. turned out it was safe-like. in the sense it was a locked cabinet in a locked room. one of the things we're going to do, we decided we should

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