disclose the software updates delib rattly slowed down. where are we going to go? we are adilgtsed to apple. we will run right back. >> sneaky. thanks for joining us. >> "new day" starts right now. see you tomorrow. >> we were straight and all of a sudden started fish straight and it started. skidding. >> a jetblue flight slides off the ice. >> we ended up in a snowbank. >> merry christmas. we say christmas again very proudly. >> president trump is touting his accomplishments and he says he deserves more credit than he is getting. >> you're seeing a man who said one thing during the campaign and his actions are very, very different. >> if you're someone who voted for donald trump, you're pretty happy with how the year ended.

>> it's critically important we respect the independence of the fbi. >> he's making the point that we need to make sure there's no bias. >> it's a coordinated campaign to muddy up the investigation. >> some of the audience is cheering for republicans. those are the spasms of a diagnose party. >> this is "new day" with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. >> we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. this is "new day," it's tuesday, december 26th, 6:00 here in new york. bill weir joins us. >> did you have a nice christmas? >> i did. >> we begin with brnz for all of you. there was a scare for holiday travelers on christmas night in boston. a jetblue airways flight skidding off the taxiway after landing at logan airport in icy conditions. >> passengers say the plane started fishtailing and spinning after hitting a patch of ice. the mishap took place after a winter storm dumped several inches of snow in the area.

cnn's rene marsh is live in washington with the very latest details. good morning, rene. >> good morning. a jetblue flight from savannah essentially skidded off the taxiway right after touchdown at boston's logan airport last night. passengers say the plane was spinning until it was facing the opposite direction. take a listen. >> we were straight and all of a sudden it started fishtailing. and, yeah, it started getting rough. >> once i realize d we were goig off the runway, i was like, uh-oh. >> all of a sudden we started sliding and spinning and spinning and spinning end anded up in a snowbank. >> passengers were bused to terminals and the airport's runways, they were briefly shut down yesterday because of winter weather. but i want to leave you with some good news, just take a look

at the operations at boston logan airport. looks like things are back to normal in the sense that they only have some 25 delays and one cancellation. and overall, nationwide, things look pretty good if you're flying. >> could be so much worse. >> this huge arctic blast is gripping much of the nation. could bring more snow and freezing rain later this week. what does it mean for your new year's eve plans? let's check in with meteorologist chad myers with your forecast. >> it means andy cohen and anderson cooper are going to be cold on new year's eve. probably windchill, times square, zero. maybe below zero. right now windchills are almost 40 below zero in the midwest. not quite that cold here in the northeast, where things have calmed downwind wise, but single digits, and the pets are cold, too. make sure they don't stay out too long in this. we're nowhere near where we should be. 20, 30 degrees below normal. right here for today across a lot of the northeast and the midwest. and this is all the way until

saturday. the air does not warm up. it's going to be a long-term cold event. and for new york city, your normal highs should be 40. when the ball drops, the temperature will be 10. and the windchill will be zero or below. so that's why they put 7 million people in that little space to keep everyone kind of warm. >> that's right, but on the risers, where anderson and andy will be, and i don't know if you've ever covered it in times square, it is so bone chilling, you cannot get warm for like hours after you go inside. it's exciting and exhilarating and freezing. >> chad, get a load of my assignment for new year's eve? key west. key west. >> sweet! >> you did something right this year. >> that's the payback for standing in a hurricane. >> i think that's right. all right, so president trump says it's time to get back to work today for the american people. the president focusing on his legislative agenda for the new year and lashing out again at the press and the fbi in a series of tweets over christmas

weekend. cnn's sara murray is live in west palm beach, florida, traveling with the president. hi, sara. >> reporter: good morning, alisyn. the president says now it's time to get tobacback to work after spent the last few days engaging in the traditional christmas activities, but also, this is president trump, lobbing attacks on twitter. after a quiet christmas at mar-a-lago, president trump promising to get back to work, touting his make america great again agenda. this after repeatedly complaining he's not getting the credit he deserves for his accomplishments. he attended a late-night church service on christmas eve, taking calls with young children on the santa tracking hot line. and teleconferencing with the troops. >> i just wanted to wish everybody a very, very merry christmas. we say christmas again, very proudly. >> reporter: trump claiming he has led the charge for americans

to say merry christmas instead of happy holidays. >> it's my tremendous honor to finally wish america and the world a very merry christmas. >> reporter: despite the fact that president obama used the phrase repeatedly while in office. >> hello, everyone. and merry christmas. >> so merry christmas, everybody. >> merry christmas, everybody! >> trump also spent the holiday weekend lashing out again at the country's top law enforcement agency, attacking fbi deputy director andrew mccabe, former fbi director, james comey, and fbi lawyer, james baker. the president pouncing on reports that mccabe is planning to retire in march, going after the fbi deputy over donations his wife's campaign received from a super pac connected to virginia dpmgovernor terry mcauliffe, a close friend of the clintons. the president hasn't shied away from attacks on the justice department or the fbi since taking office.

still, the white house insists that trump has more confidence in the fbi now that he's hand-selected the man in charge. >> i think he's very pleased to have chris wray running the fbi. >> reporter: the criticism coming amid growing questions from republicans over the credibility of special counsel robert mueller's russia probe. >> if the president continues to try to, you know, undermine the legitimacy of that investigation and if republicans continue to try to help with that, i think that puts us in peril. >> and while the president says he is back to work today, there are no events on his public calendar here in mar-a-lago. the white house says he will be preparing to work with congress on his upcoming agenda, which of course includes a budget, as well as finding some kind of immigration fix for the d.r.e.a.m.ers and the white house insist infrastructure is also on the table early in the new year. in the meantime, stay tuned for tweets. alisyn, bill? >> thank you, yes, if there's one thing you can bank on, sara, it is that the president will be tweeting. thank you very much. joining us now to discuss all of

this. we have a.b. stoddard and david drucker. so the president spent the christmas weekend giving thanks and celebrating the spirit of christ. just kidding! he was tweeting. so, a.b., obviously, as sara just said, if anybody thought that there was going to be some sort of new tone or new spirit in the new year, obviously, there's not. and this is what we can expect. and there was a lot -- there were a lot of tweets about, again, the fbi and sort of undermining the fbi and that seems to be what the president is focused on right now. >> right, well, he is also focused on the fact that he believes that they've had a great win on tax reform and he doesn't get enough credit for a booming economy. and on and on. familiar themes. when he has a grievance against the russia probe, he tweets about it. that's gone on all year. and he also gets frustrated that he doesn't get a lot of positive, glowing reports in the aftermath of passage of a bill like that. this is really, you know, there

was an exhaustive piece in the new york times a few weeks back about the first 11 months of the protest. and it talked about how if trump doesn't see himself in the headlines for a few days, he'll get frustrated and actually will create a sort of chaotic event or say something controversial to become, you know, the source of the headlines again. so vacations are a time to look and expect for tweets. there will be more before january 1, i assure you. but this is an interesting theme in terms of the fbi. because, as you see more and more conservative media be joined by republican lawmakers, critical heads of committees who are involved in this, in this investigation and really need to be measured, non-partisan voices on this, you see a growing chorus of people criticizing bob mueller and the campaign, and the entire fbi. and so the president is really pleased by that and will continue to stoke it in the

weeks and months to come. >> it's interesting that there's an old sarah sanders, sarah huckabee sanders tweet from 2016 going viral. when you're attacking fbi agents because you're under criminal investigation, you're losing. that one didn't age well, david. but what was interesting about these tweets, these attacks on mccabe, how can fbi director -- deputy director, andrew mccabe, the man in charge along with leaking james comey of the phony hillary clinton investigation, including the 33,000 illegally deleted e-mails, be given $700,000 for weiss campaign by clinton puppets during the investigation and some including ethics experts from prior white houses say, boy, that is a christmas present for robert mueller. >> well, look, guys, the president is not going to change his tone, even after what was a rather significant legislative victory and whether you laike i

or not, a major policy change that will go into effect, something that republicans have tried to accomplish for three decades, and they weren't able to do it. but the president looks at things a certain way. and i think that by keeping his tweets and his grievances at the forefront, he feels as though he's in control of the narrative and he gets a lot of positive feedback from his base. what hurts him, ultimately, is that this is the sort of behavior that is driving a lot of the negatives and it's driving a lot of the opposition to republicans, heading into 2018 and the midterm elections. when you look beneath the numbers, it's not just that his approval numbers are low, because it depends on how and where those are distributed, it's about the kind of energy that it has stoked on the democratic side in opposition to him. it's the republican-leaning suburbs that don't like that

sort of behavior that could vote against republicans or just not show up in 2018 and that's the real problem with this. because it actually obscures some of the things that he's accomplished that a lot of republican voters, that's why they voted for him over hillary clinton, even though a lot of them didn't really like him. and so when we're looking at the political significance of this, the message is, look, they kind of seem to bounce from here to there and they may cause him some problems in the special counsel investigation. they may cause him some problems on the hill. but there's another election coming up. hillary clinton will not be on the ballot and the republicans will not be able to lean on that. >> yeah, but, may cause him some problems in the investigation. it depends on what level of problems. to your point, bill. we have the former ethics czar saying that these tweets, he thinks, amount to like witness intimidation. here's norm eisen. he says, normally someone being investigated the for obstruction

of justice who intimidates three key witnesses against him risks additional witness tampering charges. so a.b., this is, you know, that's a -- this is just a suggestion by norm eisen, but it's sort of catching a little bit of attention, that whether or not the president is actually putting himself in some sort of legal jeopardy by continue to tweet this. >> right, and i'm not the arbitrator of that and whether or not that will be an avenue of pursuit for special counsel mueller in terms of what he's doing with obstruction of justice and abuse of power or anything like that. i just think that it is, it is a -- what is new, alisyn, we know, in the last couple of weeks is that this has sort of gone mainstream, the attack on the investigation and mueller and the attack on the entire fbi, so no matter what comes out at the end, in terms of a report and findings at the end of this probe is going to be easily discredited by trump's base and others in the republican party,

because of the -- this campaign to sort of attack the fbi. and that's the big concern for the party right now. david's talking about that energy on the democratic side, among independents and democratic voters. the more that the president attacks these institutions and tries to undermine trust in them, and the more this investigation goes on, and we know it's going to go on. we know it's not going to be wrapped up in the next week or so, like the president's attorneys keep telling him, the more that he puts the republican party on the spot, with are they going to stick up for rod rosenstein, the deputy special counsel who wired bob mueller, because he can be fired, or are they going to continue with this campaign. that's the big political challenge for them. >> and so much calculus is, what is on their political agenda? a.b. and david, we'll talk about that when we come back. what will republicans tackle when they return to capitol hill

in 2018. a look at the gop's long to-do list. it's coming up next.

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there. >> the mouse print. let's bring in a.b. stoddard, associate editor for real clear politics, and cnn analyst, david drucker. david, your paper, "the examiner," has some new reporting on this infrastructure plan. how big and what do you know? >> well, first of all, i think there are young americans all over the place going, stereoinstructionstereo instructions, i have to idea what you're talking about. >> you're right, you're right. >> although the battery on my iphone isn't doing so well. i think the president would like to take this tax reform bill and roll it into momentum for infrastructure. but republicans do not like to spend the kind of money it takes to fund the kind of infrastructure bill the president would like to enact, especially after they've had to play a lot of accounting games with a tax overhaul bill. they think the tax overhaul bill will end up working out just fine, but it's still a lot of games to play with the numbers. and if they're going to get help from democrats in the senate, which they would need, because it's a spending bill, democrats are going to demand all sorts of

things they will never get. at the very least, because they're not going to help president trump and the republicans governor, help their majorities look good if they don't extract significant concessions. but january is really going to be a bear. january 20th, which happens to be the one-year anniversary of the president's inauguration, obviously, is when government funding runs out. everybody plaid kumbaya to get out of washington for the holidays, but you're going to have democrats wanting things, having to do with the d.r.e.a.m.ers and immigration. you're going to have republicans on the right, with the house freedom caucus, wanting spending concessions and things shaped the way they want them. and then you'll have the president and his demands. and i think, sure, everything could work out fine, but with everything on the table and you laid out that checklist, in addition to what the president will start talking about in terms of infrastructure over the long haul for 2018, it's going to be a very, very tricky move for them to get everything done

and somehow move into an infrastructure debate with the elections looming. >> yeah, so a.b., david just set the table perfectly for how interesting it's going to be to watch all of these backroom deals. because paul ryan and mitch mcconnell have a date at camp david with the president, the first weekend of january, right? so paul ryan wants entitlement reform. the president wants a $1 trillion infrastructure package. democrats might be able to get onboard with that, but they're so angry with how the president has dealt with them. so, this will be, you know, the president's powers of persuasion, i guess, on the full display. >> that's right. it's interesting, because the senate majority leader, mitch mcconnell said that 2018 is going to have to be more bipartisan. they're going to have to work together with democrats on infrastructure. and the president has spent the year, you know, calling the democrats losers and obstructionists. he had a moment in september where he cut a deal with them to fund the government for three

months. and he talked about, he made a promise for them on legalization for the d.r.e.a.m.ers. that created a boomerang among his conservative base and republican congressional leaders. so it was fleeting. if he's going to have a really bipartisan relationship with democrats that actually helps get a $200 billion federally funded combined with hopes for an $800 billion state-funded and private entity-funded infrastructure package through the congress, he's not going to get the house freedom caucus. he's going to need the democrats. and so that's going to have to be completely bipartisan, because they won't have back up republican bills. they will be making up the votes for conservatives with democrats. that relationship has to start now. it has to start now on hurricane relief, on funding the government, on legalization for the d.r.e.a.m.ers. the children's health insurance and all the things that have to be resolved by january 20th. so they can't hunker down at camp david and leave the democrats out of this discussion, for all of january.

and then expect to go on to something where they work well together. also, that entitlement reform that paul ryan wants, is being, there's -- they have a euphemism they've created calling it welfare reform, because the president ran against never cutting medicare or social security. so that's a fight within, again, the republican party. if he wants to go after food stamps and stuff, the democrats are not going to be so helpful, i don't think, on infrastructure. >> that's interesting. >> look, guys, i interviewed mitch mcconnell late last week and asked him, what was on his agenda? and he said nothing as ambitious as tax reform. he talked about an immigration bill dealing with the daca kids that the president will sign and mitch mcconnell stressed that. and then he also talked about a banking bill to deal with a particular rollback of dodd/frank. those are the only things he discussed legislatively. he's always focused on the election. hea he has one less seat to deal with his majority, to begin with. because doug jones will take office, pushing the republican majority down to 51 seats, a

one-seat majority. they're going to have a very difficult needle to thread next year. >> okay, david, thank you. a.b., i know you are soldiering through a christmas cold. so our thanks to you, as well. hope you have a great rest of the day. >> thanks so much, deviguys. great to talk to you. >> so coming up, there's news out of russia. sl vladimir putin's main political rival has been banned from running in the upcoming election. how'd that happen? that's next. i saw the change in rich when we moved into the new house.

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with the fbi. the fbi deputy director, andrew mccabe, and the fbi counsel, james baker, were both called out by the president on twitter over the holiday weekend. and they could potentially be witnesses in special counsel robert mueller's russia investigation now. so, does the president risk complicating his own case by doing this? joining us now is phillip mudd, cnn counterterrorism analyst and former cnn counterterrorism official in fbi and joe jacques jacqueslong. so phil, you know the guys at the fbi. you're friends with andrew mccabe. can you peel back the curtain and help us understand what's happening at the fbi when they wake up every day to the president poisoning the well at the fbi. >> when you go to the fbi, the first thing you do in the morning is sit around and laook at threat information. behind closed doors, despite the fact that the fbi director has been appropriately quiet in public, i can tell you that the

fbi officials will be going to andy, whom i knew when i was at the bureau saying, look, brother, you know, it's okay, we're with you, we'll stick with you, we're staying low because we don't want to engage in a fact with the president. when you fight in the mud, you get dirty. there's got to be a ton of support for andy mccabe, regardless of whether people think the russia case is a good case or a bad case. he's got decades of service. you support somebody like that through thick and thin. >> joe, let me ask about this tweet that came from the ethics czar of the bush white house. richard painter says, using twitter on christmas eve to intimidate a witness, mccabe, in a criminal investigation is not a very christian way to celebrate the holiday, but it does make mr. mueller's job easier, and that's a nice thing to do. merry christmas. could this be legal jeopardy for the president? this tweet? >> well, it might be. this is something where he's getting into a dangerous thing. we've never had a president do this before. we're in a whole new territory with the tweeting and stuff like that.

i wish he would stop doing it, actually, because i think he's causing more problems with it than not. but, you know, this is what they do, right? they attack the investigators, not so much the case, because we don't know what's going on. >> you say, this is the oldest trick in the book. >> it is. this is a defense tactic, where if you can't attack the case, you just sully the investigators. >> sure, you put them on the defensive. instead of doing what they're supposed to be doing, they're actually trying to put this out, this isn't biased or prejudiced. this is -- people have been reassigned now. now the deputy is going to retire in 90 days. so, this is what happens when you put people on the defensive. >> it's interesting, he also tweeted, sort of a who knew. wow, fbi lawyer james baker reassigned, according to the news. that story had been out for a couple of days. and that tweet, that kind of tweet gives him a bit of arm's length distance from the government he's in charge of, phil. but talk about the james baker point of this. that reassignment, how did that play into the investigation and

why? >> well, i don't think it plays into the investigation significantly. what the president is trying stood to look at the fbi internally and look at people like james baker, who would not be involved in this investigation. obviously, it's the mueller investigation. and claim that the entire fbi and the leadership is prejudiced. i don't think it's about affecting the investigation. i think it's about, if there are charges that come out of it, further indictments, the president says, look, i told you all along. this is the swamp that's trying to take down my presidency. these people were after me from day one. james baker, andy mccabe, two people who weren't part of the investigation, so the president is trying to put the fbi all into one basket and say regardless of what mueller comes up with, i can tell you they're all dirty and they all want to go. and this investigation is a hoax. i think that's what the president's saying. >> so let's look at it from the president's point of view. if he thinks there were people at the fbi that were somehow involved in his case and they don't like him and their texts reveal they were anti-trump and

had an anti-trump bias, then does he have a point that somehow the investigation isn't legit? >> part of the due process clause of the 14th amendment protects american citizens from investigations that are fundamentally biased or prejudiced to them. >> so he is protected by that. and of course he would be upset by that if he thinks it was biased. but does the reassignment of these folks -- when it's sent out they sent an e-mail that appeared to be anti-trump, they were taken off the investigation and reassigned. there's a process in place to protect against that. is that sufficient? >> they acted quickly enough. nobody knows for sure exactly what everybody is doing. investigators have sending these text messages and way back then didn't anticipate this thing going down this road, i'm sure. there might be a lot more texts or e-mails that we don't know about, too. it's going to be interesting to see how this material either gets released on purpose or gets released through some sort of -- >> what do you think about that? do you think a reassignment of

these people who sent the anti-trump texts, is that case closed? is that enough? >> i don't think so. i suspect there's more of that out there. the inspector general over at the department of justice is very aggressive. if there's more in there, they're not going to try to hide it. the point here is broader. when you're looking at this investigation, what are we supposed to do? are we supposed to have people certified they actually voted for the president? if you voted for hillary clinton, you're not allowed to participate? investigations are supposed to be nonpartisan. some people here made mistakes. but when you step back, if several hundred people are involved, do you think every single one of them is supposed to be a trump supporter? this is not healthy for the american democratic process to try to say that only people who supported the president should be allowed to participate in an investigation. >> and it gets even weird than that. you would have to certify that your spouse isn't a democrat. so it's also, andrew mccabe, spouse that this is about. you would have to say that your wife supports the president, also. this has tentacles that gets

weird. >> what is the ethic, the idea of politics within a service branch like the fbi or the cia? do agents sit around and talk about their politics? or is that the sort of thing like in a naewsroom is really discouraged? >> i didn't see much of that in 25 years of service. i served at both the cia and fbi. you might hear a comment around the water cooler. i'm sure people are commenting about the president's twitter habits. it's not just that federal officials are forbidden from participating in the political process. when you go in the office every day and you're looking at terror plots in cities like atlanta or new york or chicago, you're not si sill siting around going, what's going on at the white house, besides what's going on in the investigation. >> thank you so much. two of the best basketball players in the world face off on christmas. why things got very heated on the court next in the bleacher report. ♪

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did the refs gift wrap a holiday win for the warriors in the nba finals rematch against the cavs? andy scholes has more in the bleacher report. >> social media was going off about the matchup between lebron and kevin durant. at the end of this game, two minutes to go, lebron driving to the basket is going to lose the ball out of bounds. could have easily been a reaching foul, but no call was made. and then lebron once again driving and loses the ball, again, no foul called on durant. warriors would win the game, 99-92. and after the game, lebron and durant had different opinions about what happened. >> obviously, the whole return wasn't -- he fouled my twice. but, whatever. what are you going to do about it? >> it's probably the same play a bunch of those dudes on twitter are probably arguing about in

24-hour fitness that that wasn't a foul. so they've been in that position before, but just not on christmas. keep that [ bleep ] on twitter. >> all right. it was an emotional christmas day on the gridiron for one houston texans player after winning his battle with knowledge hod non-hodgkin's lymphoma. david quessenberry playing in his first nfl game. this game featured maybe the greatest catch ever. deandre hopkin going up and tipping the ball to himself and still finding a way to get both of his feet inbounds. an unbelievable catch. steelers win 34-6 and clinch a buy in the first round of the playoffs. that was the only game of the highlight for the houston texans, but what a highlight it was. >> and keep both feet in. even i know rule. andy, that is great. but i'm so confused about the basketball one. aren't you supposed to try to knock the ball out of the other guy's hands? >> but you can't slap their arms

at the same time. and i was pretty shocked he didn't get either foul call. >> are you going to be arguing about that at 24-hour fitness later. >> i would. if someone hit me like that, i would be arguing about it. don't know fiddif i would go to twitter, but i would definitely argue. 2017 has been ajournalism. and the job of getting the truth out to the public when our leaders do not deal in fact, comedians have even got in on the act. brian stelter will look at the top seven stories of 2017, next.

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president trump's war on the press and his administration's own credibility problems played a major role this year in the media. >> from late-night comedians to the serious business of finding the truth, brian stelter takes a look back at the top media stories of 2017. scoops, falsehoods, feuds, firings, and a cultural reckoning. here are the top seven media stories in 2017. >> number seven, late-night in the age of trump. from jimmy kimmel's emotional obamacare appeal. >> if your baby is going to die and it doesn't have to, it shouldn't matter how much money you make. >> to the outcry after

charlottesville. >> the fact that it took the president the two days to come out and clearly denounce racists and white supremacists is shameful. >> to "snl's" searing satire. >> sorry, kellyanne, i'm in pouty baby mode. >> late-night became a force, channeling the frustration and fear of many viewers. number six, the anti-trust battle of the decade. >> our breaking news. the justice department is suing to block at&t's takeover of time warner, the parent company of cnn. the doj argues that the deal would harm competition. but some wonder if this is really about president trump's vendetta against cnn. after all, there's another deal. this one involving conservative-leaning sinclair, that's making far less noise. sinclair purchasing tribune media. and now disney bead bidding forg chunk of rupert murdoch's

empire. will that deal face the same scrutiny? this doj lawsuit brings a lot of uncertainty to the media landscape. at a time when facebook and google's domination of the ad market is already causing anxiety. that brings us to number five, russian ads on social media. tech giants finally admitting that russia used their platforms to meddle in the 2016 election. >> facebook told congressional investigators today that it sold about $100,000 worth of political ads to a so-called russian troll farm, targeting american voters. >> similar disclosures from twitter and google followed. hauled before congress, the companies were shamed for missing russian interference. >> i must say, i don't think you get it. you've created these plamptform. and now they are being misused. >> facebook, google, and twitter have all pledged changes. but can they be trusted to police their platforms? number four, the white house credibility crisis.

it started with spicer's very first statement from the podium. >> this was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period! >> sean spicer, our press secretary, gave alternative facts. >> as the press secretary's credibility crumbled, the ridicule ramped up. >> i came out here to punch you! >> spicer left, but his replacement didn't exactly inspire confidence. >> sarah huckabee sanders knows what the president said, she just is pretending he said something else. >> fact checkers have been in overdrive this year. and every false statement is another stain on the white house's credibility. but at the same time, there is more pressure than ever on us in the press to be careful and get it right. number three, the power of investigative reporting. it created the conditions for michael flynn's firing as national security adviser. it led to the ouster of health and human services secretary, tom price, following a story

about his use of private planes. and it drove the withdrawal of president trump's drug czar nominee. >> this was something that there was an explosive report by "60 minutes" and "the washington post". >> investigative reporting held the powerful to account, and we saw that again in our top media story of the year, coming up. number two is donald trump versus the media, still. you know, this time last year, we wondered if the new president would tone down his tax on the fourth estate. but, no -- >> you are fake news. >> soon after taking office, trump called the media the enemy of the people. and he tried to redefine the term "fake news" to mean any coverage he didn't like. >> all i can say is it's totally fake news. it's just fake. >> trump has lashed out with verbal attacks and empty threats. >> it's frankly disgusting, the way the press is able to write whatever they want to write, and people should look into it.

>> trump's media bashing has sent a chill through newsrooms across the country, but the press and other champions of the first amendment are not backing down. and the number one story in media this year, the sexual harassment reckoning. it was a moment foreshadowed by the april ouster of fox news star bill o'reilly, following secret harassment settlements. it exploded with the publication of two stories about movie producer, harvey weinstein. exposes by "the new york times" and "the new yorker" sparked a me too movement that reverberated through every corner of industry and politics. as the floodgates opened, titans of media tumbled. >> veteran journalist and political analyst, mark halperin, is leaving nbc news after cnn uncovered accusations of sexual harassment by five women. >> breaking news, charlie rose fired and now three more women are coming forward with sexual harassment allegations against the veteran journalist. >> shocking new details about

the sexual harassment allegat n allegatioallegatio allegations against matt lauer, who was fired by nbc today. >> the weinstein effect is a watershed moment in american culture. but will it usher in real, systemic change? let's see how the media covers that story in 2018. >> wow, what a year! i tell people all the time, it's been dizzying. it's been a head-spinning year in terms of the amount of news and the cataclysmic changes from some of these stories. >> if you would have said at the beginning of the year that matt lauer and charlie rose would be taken down for sexual impropriety allegations and the president would maintain his office despite more than a dozen accusers, that's a screenplay you could never sell. >> all of that. the tidal wave of all of those accusations. but also, i just think that one of the silver linings of having been under siege by journalists this year is that journalism has

come roaring back. i think the fact checking we do in realtime, the having to be so fact-based, there's just been stellar journalism happening. and stelter journalism happening. it's been heartening and that's what these times required. >> the first amendment is not guaranteed. you have to fight for it, day by day. and what's interesting in what the president said in disparaging the media and how they can make up anything, people should look into it. yes, you should. we should all wide. our media appetite. see what they're writing on the right and the left and make your choices smartly. >> there you go. thanks to our international viewers for watching. for you, "cnn newsroom" is next. for our u.s. viewers, "new day" continues right now. we were straight and all of a sudden it started fish tailing. >> a jetblue flight skidding off the taxiway in boston after hit an patch of ice. >> we started sliding and we started spinning and ended up in a snowbank. >> merry christmas. we say christmas again very

proudly. >> president trump is touting his accomplishments and he says he deserves more credit than he's getting. >> you're seeing a man who said one thing during the campaign and his actions a very, very different. >> if you're someone who voted for donald trump, you're pretty happy with how the year ended. it's critically important that we respect the independence of the fbi. he's making the point, we feed to make sure there's no bias. >> it's a coordinated campaign to muddy up the investigation. >> some of the audience is cheering for republicans. and those are the spasms of a diagno dying party. >> this is "new day" with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. >> good morning, everyone. welcome to your "new day." chris is off. bill weir joins me. we'll talk more about with what jeff flake said in a moment. but first, breaking news. a scare for holiday travelers on christmas night in boston. this jetblue airways flight skidded off a taxiway after landing at logan airport in icy conditions. >> passengers say the plane started fishtailing, spinning

after hitting a patch of ice. the mishap took place after a winter storm dumped several inches of snow in the area. and cnn's rene marsh is live in washington with breaking details. rene? >> this was a jetblue flight from savannah and it skidded off of the taxiway right after touchdown at boston's logan airport last night. passengers said that the plane essentially kept on spinning until it was facing the opposite direction. take a listen. >> we were straight and all of a sudden it started fishtailing. and, yeah, it started getting rough. >> once i realized we were going off the runway, i was like, uh-oh. >> all of a sudden, we started sliding and we started spinning and spinning and spinning. and ended up in a snowbank. >> all right, well, the airline says that there were no injuries. so that's the good news. passengers had to be bused to the terminals at the airport