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. we do know that earlier

yesterday morning, the runways at that airport, they were briefly shut down because of the snow in the area. but i'm looking at the situation at boston logan airport right now. and at this hour, this is just a snapshot, i'm seeing some 95 delays and four skcancellations when you consider how many planes fly in and out on a daily basis, things don't look terrible. and overall, things don't look too bad if you're flying. >> and the sunrise behind you looks stunning. >> it does look nice, doesn't it ? >> it looks really pretty. so this arctic blast is gripping much of the nation and it could complicate your holiday travel. but what does it mean for my new year's eve plans? let's ask cnn's meteorologist chad myers. how's it looking? >> for you, it will be cold. new york city, the windchill is probably ten below zero. downtown with the wind, going through the buildings, we're not going to get snow. it's just going to be a cold day. the snow is really just bottled up here across parts of the great lakes from lake-effect snow. but here is the issue.

we have this surge of cold air coming down, one after another. coming down from the pole. coming down from -- maybe santa claus doesn't want the cold air up there. but it's coming down and shooting towards chicago and slides right at new york city and it's day after day of this weather. so new york, you're going to be in the 20s, but some spots will be colder than that. windchills somewhere around zero. farther back out to the west of there, chicago, you'll, of course, be colder. you're closer to that core of cold air with morning lows either zero or even below that at times. but bill weir is going to be in key west, where it will be 120 degrees warmer for a feels-like temperature, because that's fargo. no matter how bad you think you have it, you don't have it as bad as fargo. sunday morning in fargo, the windchill will be 60 below zero. not 59, 60. >> it's hard to do that math. >> i love you, fargo.

our thought, our prayers are with you. >> chad myers, thanks so much. well, president trump spent his first christmas as president on the attack, lashing out at the media and top fbi officials. cnn's sara murray is live in west palm beach, florida, with all of that. good morning, sara. >> reporter: good morning. well, look, the president says he's back to work today. that's after spending the last few days engaged in some christmas festivities. but also, this is president trump, so he was also engaged in some twitter attacks. 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 that he's not getting the credit he deserves for his accomplishments. trump, marking his first christmas in office with traditional presidential tasks. attending a late-night church service on christmas eve. >> merry christmas. >> merry christmas. >> taking calls with young children on the santa-tracking hotline.

>> what do you think santa is going to bring you? >> 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 m mccabe, former fbi director, james comey, and james bark. the president pouncing on reports that mccabe is planning to retire in march, going after the fbi deputy on donations that his wife donated to a super pac.

the president hasn't shied away from attacks on the justice department or the fbi since taking office. still, the white house insists 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 now running the fub. he's very pleased with the changes that are taking place. >> 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 undermine the legitimacy of that investigation and if republicans continue to try to help with that, i think that puts us in peril. >> reporter: the president does not have any events on his public schedule today, but he's already up and tweeting, offering what appears to be a pretty rosy prediction for a bipartisan health care plan. here is what he said, based on the fact that the very unfair and unpopular individual mandate has been terminated, as part of

our tax cut bill, which essentially repeals over time obamacare, the democrats and republicans will eventually come together and develop a great new health care plan, eventually may be the key word in that tweet. back to you guys. >> okay, sara, thank you very much. let's bring in our conversation with a.b. stoddard, associate editor of real clear politics and cnn political analyst, david drucker. so the president spent the christmas weekend sending out a beautiful christmas card in the form of tweets. >> i just realized, he's celebrating festivus, right? it's the airing of the grievances, right? >> thank you, that's what's happening. so here's exhibit "a" for you, and it's rife with some factual errors, so i'll try to fact check it in realtime. the fake news -- meaning news i don't like -- refuses to talk about how big and how strong our base is. incorrect. we do talk about that all the time.

i interview these folks regularly. they show fake polls -- meaning polls where i have historically low numbers -- just like they report fake news -- news he doesn't like. despite only negative reporting -- that's false -- we are doing well. nobody is going to beat us. that remains to be seen. make america great again. so a.b., to the president's point, he does want to talk about how well he's done and his first year has had some real accomplishments and, you know, he has notched a lot of the bucket list, including, we'll just start with the tax bill. >> oh, absolutely. and i think the fact that they ended the year on their biggest high note after, obviously, the confirmation of neil gorsuch to the supreme court, language in the tax reform bill permits t s drilling in the arctic national wildlife refuge, something republicans have been fighting for going back decades, and

under previous republican majorities, were unable to pass. so if you combine that with deregulation, undoing a lot of obama-era rules, businesses are happy, the economy is doing well, and they finally, as a team, can say that they function and work together and govern to do something so big, to change the tax code in such a short time, something that hasn't been done in 30 years. so this is all something that they can be bragging about. the thing is, with the president, as he often will step on those messages, by talking about the fbi or other people that he's frustrated, instead of just talking about the positive. >> yeah, we are seeing that. >> yeah, david, it's interesting when he speaks primarily to the supporters. it's an us and them idea. that's not going to change time soon. >> like, never. >> never, ever. it's never going to change.

i thought, alisyn, that tweet that you brought up to dissect for us, and was entertaining as well as educational, was very n apropos, because it kind of depose to the difference between what the president and his supporters say they see and what the real data is. and what even people that work for the president that sport him understand to be the case. and we never quite know with the president, whether he's just driving a message or whether he actually believes some of the things he says in these tweets. but what we do know that the data shows that republicans are in a very difficult place politically. the polling is not fake. occasionally, it is wrong. but most of these polls are snapshots in time and they are accurate. and the president's own advisers have been arguing about what they're supposed to do about this. there's a lot of complaints, from supporters of his outside

the white house, that his political operation inside the white house is not up to the task of trying to deal with. but i think the bigger question here is, the president is going to want to be very involved in the 2018 midterms. he sees is himself as an asset, but if you talk to republicans on the hill, were going to be on the ballot, they're very concerned that the president is not going to be very helpful to them. and one of the big reasons is that the house majority could depend on what happens in these republican-leaning suburbs where the president is hurting with college-educated voters, he's hurting with female voters, and a lot of these voters may end up seeing the value of the tax cuts, but for now they're very skeptical of the tax overhaul. and so i think the question then is, does the president actually understand the reality of this? or does he not? if he doesn't, that means he'll be pushing his team and supporters in a direction that may not be very helpful to his party in 2018.

and that's why i think a lot of this, how we sort of parse his comments really matter. >> and then you have some republicans who are already -- who are retiring, who are now really speaking out about it. >> both charlie dent and jeff flake came out. and dent was saying, we need to brace for the worst. we can lose the house. and jeff flake had really strong comments this sunday. take a listen to this. >> when you look at some of the audiences cheering for republicans sometimes, you look out there and you say, those are the spasms of a dying party. when you look at the lack of diversity, sometimes. and it depends on where you are, obviously. but by and large, we're appealing to older, white men. and there are just a limited number of them. and anger and resentment are not a governing philosophy. >> a.b., it's so interesting. when you hear these guys going offscript. the jeff flakes and charlie dent who are not doing that sort of

, oh, you're such a wonderful president, from guys who are not retiring, but how is this going to work? >> they're obviously not going to be friends with donald trump in their final months in office. they've made that calculation and they're trying to do what they can to salvage what's left of the republican party. and obviously, as you know, there are several republican parties right now. there are certainly two, if not more. and what they say is correct. jeff flake used to be with his very good friend, mike pence, who's now vice president, an absolute pain in the neck fiscal conservative whose vote was very difficult to get on the house side when it came to budget time. he was sort of the original, you know, just a hard-right conservative. the fact that he is seen as some kind of sellout because he's

not, you know, to trump is what mark is talking about. mark dent of south carolina, he's now going to be challenged by someone because he's not sufficiently loyal, which means complimentary, of president trump. he is also a fiscal conservative and was considered, you know, way to the right of everybody going back decades. so the whole party just -- the whole -- the basis for the party, all their principles, have kind of splintered away. they fight about everything now. except for the magic of tax reform. they can't come together on obamacare. they can't come together on immigration. they can't come together on a lot of these national security questions and spending questions. but they really are sitting here, saying in a lot of these primary races, you have got to be onboard with president trump or we're coming after you. it's going to be a very tough year for republicans. >> and it's also, i saw a tug-of-war of the soul, whether or not to suck up to this president, we saw it after the tax bill, the parade of praise by the likes of mike pence and

paul ryan. but there are those like jeff flake that are there. but the president obviously, if you read his tweets, needs credit. he needs to be given some accolades for his accomplishments. so, david, i'm sure people on the hill are playing that game. >> well, look, i think they are, look. what congressional republicans would like nothing maneuver is to be able to take what they were able to do with the tax overhaul, which was for once come together without the president beating them over the head. in fact, he really pulled his weight this time. and to have that spill over into next year, when the party was in the most turmoil in 2017 was in the summer when the president spent most of his time beating up congressional republicans, beating up their own health care bill that they were all trying to get done. you saw a much different approach on tax reform, and i think that it paid dividends and

by feeding him all of this praise, i think they're trying to set the table for him to see what is possible when they can function as a team. i don't know that it's going to work as well in 2018, but that's a lot of it. and look, the danger for republicans going forward is that if they have a bad night on election day 2018, it's the pragmatists and the people that are not as trump, if you will, that will end up losing. >> okay, guys, thank you very much. great to talk to you, a.b. stoddard and david drucker. so congress facing an ambitious to-do list for the new year. will democrats help the president accomplish his agenda? we'll ask democratic congresswoman, debbie dingell, she's here next. your insurance company raises your rates. maybe you should've done more research on them. for drivers with accident forgiveness, liberty mutual won't raise your rates due to your first accident.

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president trump says he is not getting enough credit for his big wins this year. but congress still has a lengthy to-do list for next year. will democrats work with the president to compromise on his agenda? joining us now to answer this and more is democratic congresswoman, debbie dingel of

michigan. good morning, congresswomen. >> gardening, alisyn, how are you? >> good to see you. how's your husband? john dingell, he took a fall. how's he doing? >> he's okay. he's still in the hospital. i've been there for a weaek. he's feisty. giving every doctor and every therapist a hard time. so that gives me relief. >> it sure sounds like he's feisty. she says, if you're lucky enough to make it to 91 years old, pay attention to where you're walking.fall and ended up hangig out here at g.w. hospital with a bum leg. feeling good though, particularly i'm glad i'm not a horse. he said, i'm glad i'm not a horse, you might shoot me. >> how did he fall? >> he was just getting out of the car and is very stubborn and won't let anyone help him.

it keeps me real every single day. >> that is the silver laining. we wish him our best. please give him our thoughts for a speedy recovery there. >> thank you. >> in the meantime, let me play for you what the president's legislative director said he wants for the coming year. it sounds like at the top of their list for agenda is infrastructure and he hopes you democrats will get onboard. so listen to this. >> both democrats and republicans say their infrastructure is crumbling and we need to fix it. the big question remains, will democrats put politics aside and actually work with us? they need to meet us halfway. >> okay, will you work with them on infrastructure? >> you know, i've been very clear from the beginning that i will work with donald trump on anything that helps the working men and women of my district. so, yes, i'll work with him on infrastructure, if he'll work with us. >> on what? what are your demands? >> well, i don't even call them demands. i call them helping the working men and women in this country. he came into michigan win told you he could win.

he talked about trade and pension deals. first of all, we've got daca. he agrees with us on daca. did you see these kids in washington with tears? they've been in this country their whole life. republicans and democrats, many republicans and democrats agree, we have to do something. i've got men and women in my district is that spent a lifetime paying into pension plans that are suddenly in retirement and scared to death that they're not going to have a safe and secure retirement. he promised them during a campaign that he would do something about that. okay, we don't agree on health care, but i certainly don't believe that this man wants to see 13 million people suddenly not have saaccess to health car. i can't tell you what it's been like being in the hospital, alisyn. at 3:00 a.m., a mother came into me, her child in the hospital, and just wanted help. and was scared to death. this is not a political war of words. we are dealing with real people's lives. in every one of these issues we're talking about. >> and so infrastructure at the top of your list?

if that's what the president has on his agenda? >> i hope that his number one issue is doing something about the promises that he's made. we've got to extend the budget and do things about pensions and about daca and about health care promises made to susan collins. but then, as we move into what we need to do, we've been needing to do something about infrastructure for decades. we've got an aging infrastructure with potholes and highways that aren't working and bridges that are in trouble. we need to do something together to fix our infrastructure if we're going to stay competitive as a nation. >> listen, the president thinks that he is fulfilling his campaign promises, that he got the tax -- you know, overhaul done, after decades of republicans not being able to do that. they have repealed the individual mandate. these were things that he promised to do. so, are you -- >> but he also said that every american should have access to affordable, quality health care. you know, you should see the facebook postings i'm getting right now. a man who has cancer, who can't

afford anything on the health insurance market, which is now going to go up because of this bill that passed, because we didn't do the fix that we promised susan collins. and he said, my deductible the $6,500, do we go ahead and buy it knowing that we don't how to do it. i don't think there's anything of us who think that somebody who's in this country that's sick shouldn't be able to afford their medicine or the treatment. why aren't we working together to do something about making medicine affordable for every american? so, yes, fracture infrastructur but there's a whole group of people who aren't looking at these as republican issues or democratic issues. there are issues that matter in america, and we've got to work together for working men and women in this country. >> you know, just ever since the tax reform was announced or the tax overhaul, whatever you want to call it, there have been this whole slew of companies that have come forward in saying, guess what! we're going to give out bonuses now to our employees.

i have a partial list in front of me and there's nine companies on here from at&t to boeing to comcast, bank of america, sin clair, wells fargo, pnc, there's all kinds of companies who say they're going to give $1,000 worth of bonuses to their hundreds of thousands of employees. one is -- fifth bank corp. is going to boost the minimum wage to $15 an hour. obviously, they could have done this before the tax overhaul was announced. they were sitting on profits, but they didn't! they did it when the tax overhaul was announced. and i'm wondering if you as a democrat are worried about the wind in their sails. people vote with their pocketbooks. if you get a $1,000 bonus, you're voting for donald trump again. >> i've always said, i keep saying the same thing. next election is going to be about the economy, jobs, trade deals. i'm never going to complain that any working man or woman gets an extra boost in their income. but i think a lot of people are still worried. the nonpartisan tax policy institute says that 86 million working families are actually

going to see an increase in taxes at some point. >> areas from now. years from now. well after the midterms. so could this cover republicans through the midterms? >> we'll have to see what the real world is next year. we'll have to talk about issues that deliver for working men and women. but they're still waiting to see something happen on trade. i've got to tell you, the number of people in my district that are scared to death about their pensions, it's a lot of things. it's good they got $1,000, but why didn't it dgo into their bae salary? i was happy to hear that someone raised the minimum wage to $15. why aren't all these ore companies raising the base pay of all of these companies? >> i will never, ever take a shot at someone getting an increase in pay of any kind. these are the heart and souls of these companies. how much more are the executives going to get in their bonuses. how are they going to do it? this tax bill gave an incentive

for corporations to locate overseas. are companies beginning to come back home or are they going to locate overseas? let's see what the reality of this tax bill is. short-term, i'm always happy if someone sees a benefit. because we want working men and women to have it. but 81% of the people -- of -- or 81% of benefit of this tax bill is going to billionaires. >> congresswoman debbie deingel thank you very much. all right, alisyn, more sanctions and saber rattling out of north korea after this holiday weekend. and they call this latest round of u.n. actions against them, quote, an act of war. we'll have the latest on the threat, next. feel the power of theraflu expressmax.

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well, while you were enjoying presents and turkey, the u.n. security council approved tough new sanctions against north korea in response to its latest missile test. north korea says those sanctions are, quote, an act of war and called any idea it would give up its nuclear weapons a pipe dream. meanwhile, secretary of state rex tillerson, is still trying to get the reclusive nation to

the negotiating table. joining me now, gordon chang, a "daily beast" columnist, author of north korea takes on the world and retired general, anthony tada, author of "direct fire," his latest album out today. thank you for being with us, belated merry christmas. so let's start with you, gordon, on what these sanctions are. i'm trying to wrap my head around it. it cuts imports of gas and diesel by almost 90%. exports of metals to north korea, countries hosting north korea, migrants have to repatriate them within two years. in the grand scope of all of these sanctions over the years, where does this one stand? >> well, this one, which is tenth set of u.n. sanctions, is the most severe. and the most important aspect of these sanctions are the cutoff

or the capping of refined petroleum products and crude oil to north korea. but they don't really go far enough. and that's going to be the issue here. the north koreans say that this constitutes a blockade of north korea, no, it doesn't. because still a lot of trade is permitted with north korea. and probably, we do need to go to a blockade for a couple of reasons. first of all, we need to deny kim jong-un the resources to launch missiles and to detonate nukes. and also, we've got to stop him from selling weapons around the world. he sells missiles, for instance, to iran. you know, he gets about $2.5 billion to $3 billion each year from the iranians for their various forms of cooperation. we need to cut all of that off. and these u.n. sanctions, as far as they go, they don't do that. >> general, when it comes to a blockade, you need china's help on that. and they must kind of like that buffer on their south flank, right? >> both china and russia like that buffer. and they like poking us in the eye, as well. and so, from a geopolitical

standpoint, china and russia both enjoy having north korea in there, poking us in the eye and keeping us off balance and keeping us focused, expending resources and treasure. but on the sanctions, the larger story is, we've had three 15-0 votes. and typically, china and russia, if they agree with us, they'll abstain. and here they are voting yes. and so that is an important point in the whole sanctions story. and i agree with what gordon said, that they need to go further. and we're leaving ourselves a little bit of room each time to tighten the -- torque down on the sanctions a little bit more to bring them to the table. there's back-room negotiations happening. and you've heard everybody say that we would rather negotiate our way through this thing than fight a war. but, you know, you listen to secretary mattis at the 82nd airborne division this weekend, and he's saying, you know, your readiness is what matters. your readiness, there's storm

clouds brewing over the korean peninsula. >> expound on that. he was talking very specifically about -- >> well, you know, i'd spent a lot of time in the 82nd airborne division. elite troops there, a great war-fighting division, part of the 18th airborne corps, rapid response sends a signal that our secretary of state is at ft. bragg, over the holidays, talking to the troops, as we are looking at the diplomatic, the informational, the economic elements of power, well, you've got to role in the military element of power as well, and that's what secretary mattis is doing. >> this secretary's attention, gordon, to this issue is one thing. but when it comes to military options, we keep hearing, there are none. that seoul is so close and at such risk. what are the options? >> well, there are a couple of options. one of them are strikes. and some people believe, i don't necessarily agree with this, but some people believe that we can strike north korea and there will be no retaliation.

also, as i mentioned, we do need to stop north korea and ships on the high seas, because we've got to inspect them for weapons. the u.n. security council sanctions, the ones that were adopted friday, don't give us that authority. but i believe we actually have that authority already, because the north koreans, on various occasions, both this decade and last decade, have abrogated the korean war armistice. so in my view, there's no longer an agreement not to use force. so we can inspect ships on the high seas. but there are a lot of things we can do short of the use of force to disarm north korea peacefully. and we're not pursuing them with the same vigor that i thought that we were three or four months ago. >> why do you think that is? >> well, with i think it's because it's politically easier to talk about going to war than it is to impose costs on north korea's backers. the general talked about china and russia. and he's absolutely right about that. they love to poke us in the eye.

and they're supporting the north korean economy. and they're doing it surreptitiously. so, for instance, this month, a north korean vessel, which was -- which is sanctioned, was actually shown in china, turning on its transponder, in a port near shanghai. and that's a real indication that the chinese are not enforcing these sanctions. >> when it comes to inspecting ships and aggravating the situation, could that lead to tensions on the seas, do you think? >> of course. and that's a risk that i think we're willing to take. because we have such a powerful navy. our navy is so good, and our military is so good, that i believe that we have the confidence, the training, and the readiness. and that's really what the secretary of defense was talking about this weekend, with the rapid reaction corps and the 82nd airborne division. >> meanwhile, secretary of state is still trying to get somebody to the table. i hope it's happening back-channel why. gentlemen, thank you so much. congratulations on the book.

we're taking some of these to afghanistan? >> we're signing at barnes ask& noble today and shipping them off my website, signed copies to uso bagram at pat tillman center. if they go to ajtata.com, we can send books over to the troops. >> a belated gift. coming up next, a royal christmas lesson. alisyn? >> yes, indeed, phil. it's very exciting. prince harry's fiancee, meghan mark markle, at the annual holiday celebration. how meghan's sister-in-law helped her out with a few traditions, watch this, next. ♪ ♪ give a little bit ♪

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his name is alexei navalny. he was barred after the election commission said he had an embezzlement charge and conviction in the past, that's why he's not allowed to run in the election. navalny himself says he believes all of this is politically motivated. the conviction and him not being allowed to run in the election. he says he believes that vladimir putin is afraid to run against him and that he could beat putin in an election. the polls, of course, showing that vladimir putin has an approval rating of about 85%. but the opposition is saying, look, that's because putin's just not allowing anyone to run against him. all of this could be quite troublesome, though, for alexei navalny. he's called for a boycott of the election and we were able to get in touch with the kremlin a little earlier and they said, him calling for that boycott, we'll take a look at that and see if charges can be pressed against him for that. calling for people not to vote is also something that can get you in trouble here.

>> and protestere ers and police crashing in peru. fujimori has been moved to a hospital, apparently being treated for low pressure and an irregular heartbeat. the current president denies that the pardon is part of a deal to avoid his own impeachment over corruption charges. guatemala plans to move its embassy in israel to jerusalem. the central american nation is the first country to announce it will follow president trump's move of the u.s. embassy that was announced earlier this month. israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, praised this news and zp suggests other nations follow suit. a topless female protester was detained at the vatican monday for attempting to steal a statue of baby jesus from the vatican's nativity scene. it happened as thousands gathered in st. paeeter's squar. the woman was protesting the

catholic church's ban on portion and condemnation of contraception. she did not succeed in stealing baby jesus, as you can see. >> i'm not spruceurprised. you cannot do that. meanwhile, prince harry and meghan markle rewriting british tradition. meghan markle is the first person not yet married into the royal family to be invited to their traditional christmas church services. she also pulled off her first curtesy to the queen. very big day. tell us how it went. >> reporter: it went very well, indeed. she had good reviews. hundreds of people turned out to sandringham to get just a glimpse of meghan markle. and we are seeing something of a meghan markle effect across the uk. everything she wears sells out in mere moments. now, you may have seen in her engagement photo last week, she wore a very lovely couture dr z dress. it was terribly estimated. it's estimated it cost some $76,000, which is double the

average salary here in the uk, but you will be pleased to know, alisyn, that the outfit yesterday was a little more reasonable. we had a coat that was a camel coat by a canadian brand, which was priced at some $1,300. sold out online already. the stewart wiseman boots spotted by plobloggers were som $650. the chloe handbag the last time i look was still available online, but god knows whether it will sell out fairly soon. and at $1,400, it's not cheap. >> now, why aren't you mentioning the hat? i'm interested in this brown mushroom cap. not that it's not beautiful. >> reporter: the hat! >> yes, where did she get that? >> the hat is very beautiful! we think it was by phillip tracy, but we're not quite sure. that is what all the bloggers thought, was it was a couture hat. so i don't think it's something we can go out and get at a snip wurv , unfortunately.

it did receive some unkind attention, some people on twitter suggesting that it looked a little bit like the happy poo emoji. >> okay, wow! i didn't see that coming. >> but in the best possible way. >> thank you very much for that. >> reporter: but in the best possible way. >> thank you very much for that full fashion report. >> i thought we were going to get a lesson in curtesying and we talked about -- >> the emoji poo. cnn's jake tapper takes a look back, our seven biggest stories in politics, next. and respond 60 times faster. it lets you know where your data lives, down to the very server. it keeps your insights from prying eyes, so they're used by no one else but you. it. is. the cloud. the ibm cloud. the cloud that's designed for your data. ai ready. secure to the core. the ibm cloud is the cloud for business. yours.

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recognize it when you were in the middle of it, but this year will go down in the history books as unrecognizable. cnn's jake tapper has the seven biggest political stories of 2017.

>> gather round, family and friends. you will be talking about 2017 for generations to come. the first year of the trump presidency shattered cultures of status quo. i seem to recall something about russia, and here are, in our view, the top seven political stories of 2017. president trump signed executive orders banning entry that sparked disagreement among the courts. >> we will take our case as far as it needs to go including all the way up to the supreme court. >> the administration ended the daca program. >> the daca policy produced by the last administration could

not be sustained. >> the fate of the so-called d.r.e.a.m.ers was left in the hands of congress. >> hopefully congress will be able to help them and do it properly. >> mr. president, i will not be complacent or silent. >> in 2017, some republicans went rogue openly displaying distain for the president of their party. >> critics such as jeff flake of arizona and bob koecorker of tennessee announced they would not return to the senate. both will remain in office until november, working with republican senators, john mccain, and ben sasse and gardener. >> we're going to get a health bill passed and get health care taken care of in this country. >> republicans tried to repeal obamacare, and removed the bill

and regrouped and were left reeling after repeat defeats. the most dramatic, courtesy of republican, john mccain. >> we promised to repeal and replace obamacare and we failed. >> the gop had no major legislative victory all year until december. a $1.5 million gop bill, no democratic support. a white supremacist rally in charlottesville virginia began with a orch-litmarch arounda confederate monument, and one of the white house supremacist ran his car into a crowd, killing a female. passionate demonstrations filled

the streets and nationwide symbols of the confederacy were vandalized or officially removed. it was more than a catchphrase, just catch sean spicer or scaramucci, or steve bannon, or michael flynn, and, of course -- >> why do you believe you were fired? >> because of the russia investigation. >> the trump administration had more than a dozen firings and firings in 2017. allegations that roy moore sexually assaulted teen girls. >> i am leaving while a man who has bragged on tape about his history of sexual assault sits

in the oval office. >> fellow democrats forced senator al franken to announce his resignation after several women said he acted inappropriately. several others in congress, including trent franks and blake farenthold announced retirements after facing accusations of his own. but of the president's past actions, the white house was defiant. >> that's the big news is the russian interference. >> did president trump's campaign help russia in their effort? >> i have nothing to do with russia. >> comey was leading the investigation until he was fired. now an investigation by special counsel robert mueller is digging deeper. former national security adviser, michael flynn, pleaded

guilty to misleading the fbi, and paul manafort was indicted. the senate intelligence committee questioned trump jr. for hours, and then accusing the mueller investigation of bias. with the russia investigation still ongoing and control of the senate at stake, 2018 is sure to present unprecedented headlines of it's own. >> politifact agrees with jake the number one lie of the year, it's a made-up hoax, the russia investigation. >> let's talk about it, shall we? >> we have to do the top of the show first. >> oh, my gosh.

>> let me guide you through this. let's get to the news. >> well done. >> merry christmas. we say christmas again very proudly. >> trump says he deserves more credit than he is getting. >> you are seeing one man that said one thing during the campaign and his actions are different. >> it's critically important that we respect the independence of the fbi. he's making the point 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 spazams of a dying party. >> we were straight and all of a sudden it starreded fishtailing. >> a jetblue jet hits a patch of ice. >> we skid and ended up in a snow bank. >> this is "new day," with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. >> and now we start the hour. good morning, it's tuesday,

december 26th, 8:00 in the east. bill weir joins me. >> she's new on the set. >> thank god you are here to show me how to do this. listen to this, we begin with a scare for holiday travellers in boston. a jetblue flight skidded off the runway last night. >> passengers say the plane started fishtailing and spinning after apparently hitting a patch of ice that happened after a winter storm dumped several inches of snow in that area. >> good morning, bill. this landing did not go as planned. snow and ice in boston made travel very complicated for people getting to their tkesatiotke destinations on christmas night. it was flying from savannah, georgia, and it skid off of the taxi way after touchdown and happened at boston's logan airport last night.

let's hear from some of the passengers that were onboard. >> we were straight and then 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. >> we spun and ended newspaper a snow bank. >> jetblue says there were no injuries. passengers were bussed to the terminals. we know the runways were briefly shut down at the airport yesterday because they had quite a bit of snow in the area. keeping tabs on how things are looking there at boston logan this morning, we are starting to see more delays but that happens as service and operations start to pick up throughout the morning, but overall nationwide if you are flying things don't look too bad. >> you would think boston logan would know how to de-ice the runway.