well, good morning, everyone. >> i'm victor blackwell. good ard saturday to you. president trump is waking up in florida starting his christmas vacation after his first major legislative win. >> and the president traveling to florida after signing the tax bill into law and cheering what he calls the largest tax cut in history. aides telling him to avoid the traditional years and news conference for fears he could overshadow this end of the year high. cnn is following every development from the white house. >> reporter: president trump heading to his retreat in florida spending the next ten

days or so over the christmas break. he did not hold his traditional year end news conference as many presidents do. but he did sign the bill into law. >> we're very proud of it. >> president trump signing the tax bill into law. his final oval office act of the year. injecting a burst of reality show drama into the moment, the president hastily summoning reporters after white house saisai aides said he would sign it privately. >> we're going to wait till january 7th or 8th and do a big formal ceremony, but every one of the networks was saying, will he keep his promise, will he sign it for christmas -- before christmas so i immediately called. >> the president hoping to end 2017 on a high note presiding over the first major overhaul of the u.s. tax system in three decades. he downplayed concerns of the

laws on popularity with many americans or that it could be a weight on republicans in the midterm elections. >> it's become very popular. february 1st, that's when you'll start to see it. >> even as he blasted democrats for standing in unison against the bill, the president says he believes the rivals will come aboard next year. >> the democrats very much regret it. they wanted to be a part of it. i really do believe we're going to have a lot of bipartisan work done and maybe we start with infrastructure. because i really believe infrastructure can be bipartisan. >> it's an open question whether bipartisan ship is wishful thinking or a new year's resolution. the president complained about not getting credit for his accomplishments. >> harry truman had more legislative approvals than any other president and a record long held and we beat him on

legislative approvals for which i get no credit. >> we asked the president if things had gone smoother if he had started with infrastructure rather than trying to repeal obamacare. >> i wanted to save the easy one for the one down the road. so we'll be having that done pretty quickly. >> when asked whether he had any regrets from the start of his presidency mr. trump shook his head no. politico first reported a memo from his hand picked chairwoman suggesting he's losing support from women voters in the midterm elections. the role of the former chief strategist steve bannon remains a question. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell made clear he blames bannon for losing a republican senate seat in alabama. >> let me just say this. the political genius on display

throwing away a seat in a red state in america is hard to ignore. >> at the white house, there was no traditional year end news conference like most presidents have done. >> all i want for christmas is to take your questions. >> with the holiday season upon us i'm delighted to see americans giving each other the best christmas president possible, a strong economy. >> in fact, president trump has not held a formal news conference since february. he was planning one but some advisors argued against it. that tension was clear in the oval office as aides tried again and again to escort reporters out even as the president seemed eager to talk. the president arriving in florida with a bounce in his step greeting his supporters as he started a ten-day christmas

break. even though president obama and other presidents have long celebrated christmas, mr. trump has taken credit for shining a new spot on the holiday. >> of course that merry christmas line has long been a central line of president trump's campaign rallies. he has said that he will bring back christmas. it's always been appropriate and fine to say merry christmas but the president has used this and his supporters seem to like it. the president in sunny florida, a merry christmas from here to both of you. >> thanks so much. and here now our political commentator and cnn political analyst and historian and professor at princeton, university. good morning to you both. the president as you just heard in jeff's piece, he didn't hold that end of the year press

conference. he hasn't done a press conference since february. i want to go to the journalist on the panel here. your thoughts on all of this? he wanted to avoid all russia questions? >> i think it would be difficult to manage the president's press strategy when he's gone through so many communications direct torrs and press secretaries. it's very hard to figure out how and when you're going to put this man in front of the cameras and i think that's why they haven't had any formal press conferences. there is also a backlog just as you suggested, a backlog of bad news that is building up. and at some point they're going to have to have a concerted strategy on how to deal with what they say as a white house about the russia probes, both by congress and by the special investigator. he's got top aides who have been arrested who have pleaded guilty. there's a lot of bad news that they're going to have to manage and so i would look elsewhere than the end of year press conference if there was going to be one as a place for him to try and explain all of that.

>> and you know he's there in florida. some of his tweets have happened when he's not the white house. he's got a lot of time to watch a lot of television so just because he didn't do that press conference doesn't mean we may not hear from the president during his time off. >> right. you have this image of some of his top staff like john kelly trying to contain him, trying to hold him back from saying anything from tweeting anything, but now that he's alone or now that he's a little more isolated on vacation, this has been the kind of moment where the tweets start. and i think the staff is looking at the numbers for the midterms. they're following the investigation. what they don't want is for president trump to overwhelm his own victory on the tax bill. >> all right. well, let's stick with the russia investigation. we know that the house intelligence committee members traveled to new york to interview long time president

trump's assistant. she's essentially been the president's gate keeper. how significant was this interview with the president's long time assistant? >> well, you know, it's interesting. it's hard to be sure. of course this is a person that is relevant because although we talk about her as a top assistant she actually had a pretty important title and a pretty important role. i think what this gets to though is the interaction between the special investigator and the congressional committees. so the congressional committee may not have had a deep or expert kind of set of questions to probe her with. on the other hand they could have turned up information that the special investigator -- that the special council could in fact make use of and once you start connecting certain dots even a seemingly insignificant piece of information, how did the president react to that piece of news or was the president in the room when

certain conversations took place, it can really start to sort of fill in the picture and so it's hard to say exactly what will come of all of this. i would suggest that if she did the right thing and did what her attorneys undoubtedly told her to do which is to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, it will help somebody, possibly the special investigator more so than congress fill in some of the blanks on what happened during the campaign. >> speaking of congress and their investigation of course nancy pelosi putting out a letter this week telling paul ryan, make sure this this russia investigation that is happening, all of them that are happening in the house, that they keep on going. however paul ryan responding to her, we actually have that statement from paul ryan's folks. he essentially says to suit her political agenda, leader pelosi would like to see this investigation go on forever. that is obvious and he goes on to pretty much say whether it concludes next month, next year or in three years, she will say

it is too soon. here's what we do know. this has become very partisan, these investigations on capitol hill. are they approaching the point where they're just going to be irrelevant because now both sides have gotten so partisan? >> i do think the republicans are in the middle of a campaign to try to discredit the entire investigation and we've seen in the last week an acceleration of the rhetoric that the special counsel is biased towards the democrats and more of a hardening of the partisan tensions on capitol hill. i don't think the partisanship necessarily subverts the process, but ultimately this does have to be handled in a political arena. this will turn back the congress and if the republicans are in control of congress and really don't want to do anything about this, they do have the capacity to let it fizzle. and robert mueller has a big

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welcome back. in washington, 2018 for the republicans will be about building political momentum. right now the president hopes the mo men fum from the tax bill win will get other priorities through congress. president trump and congressional leaders will get together during the first week of the new year to tackle major infrastructure proposals. but with historically low approval ratings can the president push this agenda forward? the panel back with us now. let me start with you. the president referred to the infrastructure proposal which is forthcoming as the easy one that he'll be able to bring democrats in on. is it? >> oh, no. there are a couple of problems. number one, victor, is that the president's proposal for infrastructure as least as it was laid out during the campaign involves bringing private industry in and having them receive tax cuts in exchange for doing infrastructure projects. democrats immediately reacted to

that. it's the furthest thing from what they would like to see. what they would like to see is flatout government spending and have it work its way down through the traditional road projects, transportation bills, rebuilding of ports and so forth and so on, so they're sort of miles apart, maybe not in the overall dollars that might be committed or even the list of projects that should be tacked but the methodology is fundamentally different so it's a mistake to think that democrats will simply come on board. >> from a historian's perspective, big infrastructure spending, building things, historically is popular with both party to show this is how we're moving our society forward, but this could get in politics like everything else. >> no it should be an easier piece of legislation. the president is not incorrect in that members of congress in both parties are very desire rous to have money come into

their districts for these kinds of programs, but there is a fundamental difference on what infrastructure policy means, one for the president, it's about using private contractors for democrats it's not. and second, look, the tax bill is also low hanging fruit and he should have received some democratic votes on that and he didn't. so not only are there differences in terms of policy, but the parties are at logger heads and it's going to be hard to get democrats to say yes to anything that president trump wants at this point. >> let's go back to february and i want you two and our viewers to listen to what the president said. this was during his joint address to -- address to the joint session of congress about infrastructure. >> to launch our national rebuilding i will be asking congress to approve legislation that produces a $1 trillion investment in infrastructure of the united states financed through both public and private

capital creating millions of new jobs. >> so that was almost 300 days ago, erol, will this plan coming from the white house, will it be really coming from the white house or will this be something like we saw for the health care fight where he's going to sign on to something that really is birthed through congress? >> well, he's going to need a lot of cooperation and it's going to be very tricky. one thing that stands out, victor, is that when he made that promise or when he made that suggestion that was a trillion and a half dollars ago. i mean, now because of the tax cut, the money is essentially gone or spent if you want to think of it that way. over the next ten years if you want to add a trillion and a half dollars to the deficit you're not going to add another trillion dollars to the infrastructure. one thing that probably won't be available, i it's safe to say they won't be able to do it with

51 votes. they won't be able to slide that through as a budget bill. they kind of maxed out the nation's credit card. >> if the trillion and a half dollars ago and now you want to spend another trillion, the money is gone, that is unless you start cutting spending, listen to the question of entitlement and where that discussion will go in 2018 first from house speaker paul ryan and then from senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. >> will congress take up entitlement spending next year? >> yes, we will. >> i think the democrats are not going to be interested in entitlement reform. >> who wins here? >> well, i think we'll see how it plays out, but there's a good possibility that at least an early look at this is going to be on the table no matter what because of the -- the rules, we may have a sequestration, we may have some budget tightness just

in the next quarter frankly and they're going to have to sort of either specifically refuse to enact cuts to medicare or they're going to have to watch them take effect. i mean, that's how much stress we're under from a fiscal standpoint and i think the question is going to come up almost immediately. it is also worth pointing out that this is something that paul ryan has always been committed to. it was the suspicion that democrats always had about this tax bill is that the idea was to sort of make it almost impossible to pay for medicare going forward at the projected rates and you know, again, we may get an early look at that. it might start happening sooner than people think. >> we only have to look back a couple of cycles to remember the ad of someone impersonating paul ryan pushing a grandmother in a wheelchair off a cliff. if republicans go from that tax cut that just was signed by the president yesterday into a conversation about raising retirement ages and cuts to medicare and medicaid which the

president promised he would not sign, what does that mean for them in 2018 as they head to november? >> i think they're setting themselves up for political failure. a tax cut that's skewed for wealthier americans and corporations, with the campaign in the next few months to cut social security, medicare, other forms of domestic programs will allow democrats to say look, the republicans are cutting taxes for the wealthy and they're paying for it on the backs of disadvantaged americans and i don't think the republicans can afford that given where the poll numbers are. if they do that i think they're guaranteeing themselves that they'll be looking at a democratic majority come next january. >> all right. the white house says that that infrastructure plan will be coming out sometime in january. we know that the mitch mcconnell and paul ryan, and the president

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welcome back. i'm renee marsh in for christie paul. >> i'm victor blackwell. good morning to you. a terror attack has been averted in san francisco. a former u.s. marine is accused of plotting an attack during the holiday season. >> everitt aaron jameson told an officer he wanted to show his support for isis. >> reporter: the fbi has stopped a plot that targeted san francisco around the holidays. authorities say everitt aaron jameson was plotting to stage an attack on pierre 39 in san francisco sometime over this christmas holiday and the fbi agents who were tracking him online saying he was modelling his planned attack on those over the past few years including san bernardino and most recently in new york city.

jameson voiced his asupport for that truck attack in new york city when eight people were killed on a bike path and then the complaint says jameson recently became a tow truck driver in his hometown in california leading to concerns that he could attempt that exact same type of attack that we saw in new york city. now, the criminal complaint also details the letter that authorities found inside his home under a search warrant this week. the letter said things like, you all brought this upon yourselves, and you've allowed donald j. trump to give away thing to the jews. also we have penetrated and infiltrated your disgusting country. top officials have been warning as recently as last month about this possible uptick of isis inspired attacks here in the u.s. the fbi did a search of jameson's home just 90 miles

from san francisco and they found fire arms and empty magazines, ammunition and fireworks. jameson is now in custody. cnn, washington. well, california's modesto b says jameson's attorney says he's denied the allegations in the investigation. the largest wildfire since the 1930s. the fire as burned an area larger than new york, washington, and san francisco combined. it's about 65% contained now. almost 3,000 firefighters are fighting this. look at your screen it's almost unbelievable to watch that this has been going on for weeks now and although weather conditions have improved over the past few days, there's no rain expected in the next couple of days to help put out that fire. >> and they were saying potentially dangerous travel conditions this holiday weekend for millions of americans. let's get right to it.

cnn meteorologist has the latest. good morning. >> and good morning to you. there's a lot of people, over 100 million people that are planning to travel this weekend ahead of the holidays and if you're anywhere in the eastern half of the country you're going to have tsome problems to conted with. nashville, but it's where it's headed. that's going to be a big concern because as we push this forward, notice pretty much all the eastern cities, we're talking portland, boston, washington, d.c. and stretching down into the southeast, this is where we're going to have some problems. now, the concern is going to be those air travel problems. especially in a lot of the eastern city airports. take a look for example at some of these on the timing. okay? we're talking airports like boston, jfk, up around philadelphia but notice how far back it stretches. charlotte, even atlanta could have busy travel delays today. tomorrow we have our next system that will be arriving into areas

of the midwest, so now you're talking cleveland, detroit and even cincinnati that will end up having some travel problems as well. buzz what about the longer term forecast? the holiday forecast? the thing is for most cities you're going to see a big cooldown in temperatures. take new york for example. high of 55. today that's not too bad. you're going to have the rain with it, but the temperature is not too bad. once we get to christmas day you're talking a high of max about 38 degrees and they're not the only ones. again, we've got a couple other cities that are going to be dealing with it. boston again, 41 today down to 37 on christmas day. so renee, victor, the same thing is going to be for cities like chicago, cincinnati, cleveland. a big temperature drop by the time you get to christmas, but because of the moisture that may up your odds of having a white christmas. >> what's the name of your graphic designer? who did all that. >> her name is haley and she is absolutely fantastic and i have

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38 minutes after the hour now. president trump signed the gop tax cut bill into law before leaving for his christmas break in florida. he praised the bill as a giant tax cut for the middle class. but a lot of his plan leans towards tax cuts for corporations and business owners. >> so what does this all mean for you and your wallet heading into the new year? chief business correspondent christine romans breaks down what's in the bill. >> this is the most significant tax overhaul since the reagan administration. it will be felt in every corner of the economy but it's not the simp simplification they promised. while it does cut taxes across the board those middle tax cuts are modest and expire. make no mistake, this is about corporate tax cuts. the corporate rate is slashed to

21% from 35%. the tax burden on pass through businesses is lowered with the hope but no guarantee that corporate tax savings will mean more jobs and higher wages. now along the way, concerned corporate tax cuts would come at the expense of teachers rs, students, parents but this final bill keeps deductions for student loans. it keeps a deduction for teacher spending. it doubles the child tax credit and increases how much of that is refundable meaning americans get that money back even if they don't make enough to pay income taxes. hello, new york, new jersey, illinois, california, no more unlimited deduction of state and local income tax and property tax. instead, it is capped at 10 grand and that could hurt home prices. so could the new cap on how much mortgage interest could be deduktded. $750,000 for a loan. now, homeowners in high tax states bear the brunt of that. other potential losers, the

elderly. people buying health insurance eliminating obamacare's individual mandates could hike premiums and the individual tax cuts expire by 2025 to help keep the cost of the bill below $1.5 million. most scores show deficits up by more than a trillion dollars over a decade. cnn, new york. >> well, many people in southern california may have seen the skylight up last night. the light came from the launch of spacex rocket. it took off from an air base near santa barbara. people from downtown los angeles to the inland empire reported seeing it. some even posted pictures on social media about an alien invasion, but the sheriff office let people know there was no reason to be alarmed however, elon musk had some fun with it though. he tweeted that this was a quote, nuclear alien ufo from

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more than football. this is a story about a coach, quarterback and a little but loaded question that changed their lives. late summer, 2015. harding university high school, charlotte, north carolina. sam greiner, a first year head coach tasked with turning around the underfunded program and breaking some bad news to sophomore braheam murphy. >> the athletic director comes to me and says by the way braheam murphy and some other guys are not eligible. i was blown away because he's so smart. >> but he didn't have the grades to play. >> when he told me that i didn't show any emotion but once i got home i just cried for like two days straight. >> home, a complicated word in braheam's life back then. >> i had to be on my own at times and sometimes i stay at my friend's house, me and my sister stay at my friend's house. we were going back and forth.

>> you were homeless. >> i wasn't in a stable home. >> reporter: braheam lost his mother to a brain aneurysm. >> after that everything went downhill. my dad loves me and everything but we were going through problems. >> the coach noticed that when he dropped him off at home it was never the same place twice. >> he opened up to me and i didn't know what to do at times so i go into my office and i start thinking, i'm like, something's tugging at my heart. >> sam greiner has spent years talking faith, family and football. so he called his wife conny. it was time to practice what he preached. >> so he stayed with us. we had dinner a couple of times with them and i fell in love. >> and their daughters charlie and journey, just two and three years old at the time absolutely submiten with the new big brother. so when it came down to that little life changing question. >> he's like, is it okay if i

stay here with you guys for a little bit? i said you can stay here as long as you want. and two years later, you know -- >> it was an adjustment, but it worked. >> i just felt that when i had someone caring for me i felt like it made me do better in school and it made me want to do better in life, you know. >> his grades shot up, straight a's. braheam said in finding a family, he also found faith. >> once i met god it -- that's -- that's a main turn in my life also. >> and football, well, that fell into place. but the story is far from finished. braheam will leave for college in the summer. he earned a scholarship to the united states military academy at west pointe. >> i shed some tears because conny, they're going to make me cry. >> oh, my gosh. >> what you going to tell braheam on graduation day? >> that i love him, that i couldn't be more proud of him.

i mean -- >> he's doing a family tree changer. i never had an opportunity to go to west pointe. he's better than me. he's trying to go to college right now and one day we'll probably be working for our own son. >> wow, wow, wow. thanks so that family, that coach who stepped in when that young man needed him. all right. let's go to the scene at lambeau field yesterday. andy shoals here. will the game be affected tonight. >> tonight the packers' game is going to go on as planned but how this van ended up on those other cars in the lambeau field parking lot. accumulations up to 8 inches... ...don't know if you can hear me, but [monica] what's he doing? [lance] can we get a shot of this cold front, right here. winter has arrived. whooo! hahaha

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police were called to the home of the green bay packers yesterday after many called saying there was an active shooter. >> more on this in this morning's bleacher report. >> the packers host the vikings tonight in a game at lambeau field. yesterday afternoon one side of the stadium was crawling with police. turns out there was no active shooter. a 20-year-old man who had been terminated by a food service company drove on to the grounds to confront a former coworker and an eyewitness says it was a pretty scary scene. >> we know he's been looking for him because they got in an argument before. he comes and he starts driving

him right behind me. i move my truck out the way and i see his car go flying. he goes right under him, keeps going. he crashes through the guard's gate into lambeau field. >> the police arrived on the scene and quickly arrested the suspect. a bomb squad was called to check his car. nothing was found and tonight's game is going to go on as scheduled. the rockets james harden becoming the first player to score more than 50 points in consecutive games last night but it wasn't enough as the rockets fall to the clippers. harden was very frustrated at the end of the game with the flopping by the clippers. he ends up getting ejected from the game for knocking the balg out of the official's hands right here. >> i'm tired of hearing i made a mistake or i didn't see it or like i'm -- it's frustrating to

me as a player. >> harden likely going to face a fine for those comments. after sunday's loss to the jaguars, he called bortles crash even though bortles had a pretty good game. jaguars fans thought it would be funny to buy a bunch of trash cans and ship them to clowney. well, clowney got those trash cans and he decided to do something good with them. >> one man's trash is another person's treasure. they sent me the trash cans, i said, why not? fill them up with toys and give them back. so we hang out and gave away a lot of toys and it was better than that. >> yeah, so clowney fills those trash cans and an entire truck with toys and finding some very deserving children to give them to this time of year. so turning a negative situation into a very positive one. santa clowney i guess we could call them.

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