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. of all places, it snows there

all the time. >> the arctic blast is gripping the nation, and what does it mean for your new year's eve plans. chad meyers has our forecast. >> most of the u.s. should bundle up for new year's eve, and that's not breaking news, but it will be colder, below normal by 30 and 40s degrees. some windchill factors, 42 degrees below zero. let's show you what is going on and why this is happening. we have a huge ridge of high pressure in the west. there it is. right there. it's coming down and it's taking all of this arctic air and shoving it down towards the south, toward the southeast and right through chicago. this is going to be with us all the way through sunday afternoon. not going to go away anytime soon. new york city, you are still going to be in the teens and 20s, and with the wind it's going to feel like zero, especially for the ball drop there in new york city. chicago, a little colder.

you are closer to the flow, to the jet stream that is heading down, and that's close as fargo, north dakota. fargo on sunday afternoon, your windchill 60 degrees below zero. i don't have words for that except for the numbers. if you are trying to find someplace nice, not only key west where bill weir will be, but even l.a., temperatures making a run at 80 by friday, and maybe even into saturday. this is the place to be. >> gorgeous. >> sure is. you really hit the jackpot. >> yeah, after hurricane irma we thought we would check out how the folks are doing down there. >> you earned this assignment. >> and then we watched "shushi" over deval street. >> that's awesome. >> i hope you join us new year's eve. let's talk about the news of the day. president trump spent his first

day attacking the media and fbi. i can't spit it out, but he can in 280 characters or less. >> reporter: the president says he's back to work after a few days of taking part in christmas festivities and taking aim as the media as well as the fbi 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, after complaining he's not getting the credit he deserves after his accomplishments. trump marking his first christmas in office with attending a late-night church service on christmas eve. taking calls with young children on the santa-tracking hotline. and tell conferencing with the troops. >> i just wanted to wish

everybody a very, very merry christmas, we say christmas again very loudly. >> it's my tremendous honor to finally wish america and the world a very merry christmas. >> despite the fact that president obama used the phrase repeatedly while in office. >> hello, everyone, and merry christmas. >> merry christmas, everybody. >> merry christmas, everybody. >> trump also spent the holiday weekend lashing out again at the country's top law enforcement agency, attacking andrew mccabe, and former fbi director, james comey and fbi lawyer, james baker. the president pouncing on reports that mccabe is planning on retiring in march, and going after him about the donations his wife received from a close friend of the clintons. the president has not shied away from attacks from the justice

department or fbi since taking office, still the white house insists trump has more confidence in the fbi now that he selected the man in charge. >> he's very happy with the changes taking place. >> the criticism coming amid growing questions over the credibility of special counsel robert mueller's russia probe. >> if the president continues to try and undermine the legitimacy of the investigation, and if republicans continue to try and help with that, i think that puts us in peril. >> the president has nothing on his public schedule today, but he is up and he is tweeting. here is the latest trump tweeted based on the fact that the unfair and unpopular mandate has been terminated that repeals over time obamacare the democrats and republicans will eventually come together and develop a great new health care

brand, and the key word in that might be eventually. >> okay, sarah. thank you very much. we have a lot to discuss with cnn political analysts brian carom and april ryan. i have not seen you, brian , in 25 years. we worked together in the '90s, and we were crime reporters. >> that's true. >> it's good to see you fighting the good night in the press briefing room where you are speaking truth to power. >> hopefully they don't kick me out. >> i do worry about that. but let's talk about that. april, of course, you are holding forth in there as well. let's talk about what we can expect from the president, if his tweets are any indication. sarah just read us one. here's another one he tweeted over christmas. the tax cut reform bill

including massive alaska drilling and the highly unpopular individual mandate -- by the way, obamacare signups had historic level sign ups, and don't let the fake news, meaning news he doesn't like, convince you otherwise and our insider polls are strong. april, do you have any sense of what he means by their insider polls, if he is seeing something for real inside the white house than what people are seeing out here with a 35% approval rating? >> well, first of all, alisyn, happy holidays and merry christmas to you and bill. >> you, too. >> let's say this, first of all listening to the tweets the last couple of days sounds like there could have been coal in the president's stocking. but if you look at what the president is saying about his internal polls, i say that seriously because they had the

internal polls during the campaign for president and he won. this president does believe a lot in himself when the general public is saying no, but he has pluses, he did have a legislative win, and took him almost a year. he did seat a supreme court justice. this president is overseeing a good economy, but that hinges upon a lot of different things. one, we are hearing so many people from even the former obama administration that there is residue that he is coasting on from the obama administration. >> he's not being honest with it, though. >> well, we are at a time -- brian, i got you. we are at a time -- >> don't forget that part, april. >> -- anything that could have. we are possibly on the precipice of war. those polls are talking about a

stronghold moment in time because tomorrow could be totally different from today. >> yeah, all polls are a snapshot. >> there may be within the white house people making them feel better and telling him what he wants to hear. >> i think they play protect with him. from what i get inside that white house briefing room, it's all theater for them. i said before i rarely believe anything they say except their name and even then i'm not sure of it. the bottom line, it's deflect, defend, distract, and everything that he tweets and everything he goes on is to deflect away from some of the real issues they haven't dealt with. he said he brought back merry christmas? please, i have been saying merry christmas forever. it's such a nonissue. and then to talk about how he made america great again and it was good before he got here. there's not anything that comes out of the man's mouth that is not a deflection or defense or

tries to keep us from the real issues at hand. the real issue at hand is the mueller investigation and him trying to muddy the waters in the echo chamber by convincing people they have an axe to grind against him. that's disheartening. that's a very real issue. north korea, a very real issue. the two issues he really has done something with, he has not funded. the two issues that speak a lot to the american people, the opioid crisis, which he put kellyanne conway in charge of. that's another issue but it's not funded. and then he talks about reinvesting in nasa and exploration which appeals to many people, and bush tilted his windmill at that -- >> brian, you are overlooking the tax bill that obviously republicans tried for decades to do, and there are ten companies that we know of that because of that are giving their employees $1,000 -- >> they had a lot of money

beforehand and they are timing it just in time. >> yeah, they were sitting on profits. >> slight of hand and twist of fate. >> when you are talking about what matters to people around the dining table, it's pocket book issues, and if they connect the bonuses with the tax reform, that's a win. >> how many people are going to see that kind of bonus? trickle down economics has not proven in the past to work. this is for the moment. not only that, alisyn, we have to remember that corporations are going to benefit permanently. people will not. when it comes to the pocket book, when you don't see that tax cut happening after 2025, wait a minute, this is for the moment and let's see if it continues. >> what they are banking on, if they lose the house or senate that the democrats will get the blame. let's go to jeff flake. this is a guy that did a large profile recently, and this is a guy that should be a star in the republican corner. but because of the way the

republican party has gone, there are people bragging he couldn't get re-elected, and that's why he quit. this guy votes 95% of the time conservative voting. he's one of the guys, he should be the star of the gop party but because of the fact that he believes in the art of half a loaf and the art of real political discourse, he's a poriah in what is left of the gop and he's right. what april is speaking to about where we are going to be and where is that money going, that guy is speaking exactly to the point, a bunch of old men protepbgti protepbpr protecting themselves and a party on its deathbed. >> april, we want to play this, it's a sample of profiles and courage that comes after you announce your retirement. here's jeff flake. >> 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 are appealing to older white men and they are just, you know, a limited number of them. anger and resentment are not a governing philosophy. >> how much of that do you hear from nonretiring republicans whispered in the hallways? >> it's not whispered anymore. >> it's shouted. >> not only that -- yes, it's marched down the streets. here's the bottom line. this is a nation that is browning and this is a party that is playing on the people that feel like they are on the fringe who are not part of the system in any kind of way who happen to be white men who happen to have not received a college education and very fearful that something could be taken away.

i will go back to the earlier issue about taxes. there's another big piece that could hit faster than the election. the pay fors. this tax bill, republicans, be it trump republicans or republicans from other sectors are saying this is not a perfect bill, and part of the reason why it's not perfect, how is it going to be paid for? things could hit the fan with this bill very soon, particularly when they come to the entitlements, basically the poor and the people of color, and typically in washington the axe hits the least of these when there are budgetary problems, and now before the budget people who have real lives who are affected are on the table and they want help. they feel they are not being -- >> $1.5 trillion hole in the budget. >> how are you going to pay for

it? >> medicare, medicaid and the poor will pay. >> entitlements are next. >> the richer will get richer and the poorer will get poorer. that's what flake is speaking to, you have scared cold white men holding on to their cash, and that's not going to change until you have real leadership in an opposition party and at least some people in the gop that acknowledge there are other people in the country rather than aging old rich white guys that like rock 'n' roll. >> it will take a chorus of white men and evangelicals and tea parters to come and say this is wrong. it will take a chorus. >> and the mueller investigation continues. that's what you got to keep your eye on, alisyn. >> there you go. thank you both for all of your reporting.

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president trump taking aim at top officials in the fbi in a series of tweets over the holiday weekend. the president and republicans argue the fbi is politically biassed. joining us now is former trump

campaign adviser, michael kau paout yo. is this the strategy of the trump administration now? it's no longer he's not going to fire robert mueller, which is what democrats are worried about, it's death by a thousand cuts, so by the time mueller releases any finding, it's tainted. >> i said all along the president is not going to fire mueller, and i think the president is taking it upon himself, i think successfully, pointing out the very obvious bias that some members of the investigation and former members of the investigation you have. i think the person -- >> there you go. >> go ahead? >> the former members. when you say robert mueller has to get control of it, hasn't he? he reassigned the folks. he saw a tweet that seemed to be anti-trump and reassigned them

and got them off the investigation. >> right, text, between two members that were having an affair. and then you have a senior member of the investigation sending similar e-mails to sally yates, the former member of the department of justice and attending hillary clinton's victory party. you know, it's not that mueller has done nothing about it. in fact, he was quick to fire strzok and strzok's lover was reassigned as well. i think the president is highlighting this bias so that the bias stops. weissman is still there and i don't know why he's still there. >> look -- >> go ahead? >> because he went to hillary clinton's victory party, he needs to be gone, and then can the investigation move forward? >> as long as there's no more bias and we are getting to the bottom of that.

the problem with strzok's firing, the investigation was stonewalling congress as to why he had been fired. i understand it was politically sensitive and they were trying to play the political game but the problem we have is the fbi appears to be political, inherently biassed and i think the director has done a good job with strzok and he should have been more forthcoming of why he fired strzok, and weissman needs to be gone. >> listen, michael, it's just absurd on its face to think that the fbi is a deny of lefty liberals. it just doesn't hold water. as you know, the people leading the investigation are republicans and the fbi is a crime-fighting organization where i think if you did a poll most people would say they were republicans. it's just not the lefty organization the president is painting it as. >> i think the people called out like strzok and his lover and

wiseman and others are an anomaly. i know a lot of fbi agents former and president who i worked with over the years who were upset that the organization is political and they are upset at the behavior of some in the investigation, and weeding this out is probably the first thing that needs to be done. >> the former ethics czar said using twitter on christmas eve to intimidate a witness, andrew mccabe, is not a very christian way to celebrate a holiday, and that does make mueller's job easier, and that's a nice thing to do. merry christmas. and then another tweet, somebody who threatens three key witnesses against him, jim comey, and jim baker, and mccabe.

do you think the president is getting in trouble with the tweets? >> of course not. >> the president is trying to intimidate these folks? >> of course he's not. as far as i am concerned, we remember the text between strzok and his lover talking about an insurance policy discussed in mccabe's office, and as far as i am concerned the president's tweets are insurance for the american people that the law enforcement agency remains unbiassed. >> that's not what he's saying. he's going after these people personally, and you don't think it could have a chilling affect or could in the eyes of the law? >> he's not going after them personally, but professionally. he's talking about what they are doing at work. >> he's making up nicknames for them that seem to suggest their character. this is an investigation and the

president is inserting himself into the middle of the investigation. >> which is nothing different than what has gone on with the ken starr investigation. this is politics as usual. i know that's disappointing for some people, but the president is highlighting the bias to the american people for a good reason. if there's going to be an investigation, it must be unbiassed and i believe director mueller has done something about it but needs to do more. >> you think because andrew mccabe's wife had political as s -- aspirations that mccabe can't do his job? >> i think it's crazy that the fbi's wife -- it would keep mccabe from touching anything to

do with president trump, anything at all. it's not just fine. the american people understand when your wife runs for office and she gets most of her donations from a political class that is a highly partisan, it's something that needs to be looked at. >> so if a woman -- if the wife has political aspirations that renders her husband incapable of doing his job? >> listen, all of us out there are working couples, wife and husband, we understand our careers impact each other. this was about as partisan as you can get. running in a party and gathering donations from somebody indirectly and directly who was under federal investigation by the organization where her husband works. it stinks, alisyn. >> you agree with the president in other words, andrew mccabe is

incapable of being impartial? >> i think mccabe needs to be challenged on his impartiality and i think the president is doing that and i appreciate those tweets and i consider them an insurance policy for america. >> always interesting to get your perspective. thank you. >> thanks, alisyn. and warning colleagues of looming signs the gop could be in deep trouble. will becoming the party of trump cost them in the primaries? that's a debate you do not want to miss, coming up. (drumsticks click)

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senator jeff flake and charlie dent are two republicans about to enter their final year in office and they have a final warning for their own party, unless serious changes are made in 2018 they could be headed for disaster. >> 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, and it depends on where you are, obviously, but by and

large we are appealing to older white men and there are a limited number of them. >> you will run into a headwind. you have to be prepared for the worst and hope for the best, and be prepared for the worst because this could be a really tough year. >> let's discuss this with ana tph tphau -- >> thank you, trump, that we have been able to say christmas. >> we are all waiting for the ken burns documentary on christmas and the battle over fruit cake. what do you think of senator flake's comments that your party is in the death rattle? >> a politician that realized he could not win in his own state and the polls showed he was in

trouble, and i think it's funny when you see politicians as flake that come out as some sort of senior statesman that is letting us know the warning signs he sees coming when he did not see the same warning signs on his own seat in congress. i think the party has left flake more than it has left donald trump as he tries to imply here. the bottom line, it's always tougher for a president in a mid election win. flake should have paid more attention at home and maybe he would not be sitting here trying to be some sort of, you know, storyteller about the future when he couldn't even figure it out in his own race. >> ana, what about that argument that this is a guy on his way out the door and the party left him? >> maybe it was just two isolated cases, but it's not.

we are having a exodus of republicans deciding not to run again, and some people have been in leadership, and my friend, she won by 20 plus points, and yet there are some people who can't stomach what washington has become and can't stomach what the republican party of 2018-2017 looks like and don't want to be part of it, and there are others like ben says could have not won, and there are others who have realized this party maybe no longer represents them and realizes the party has changed and transformed. the republican party under trump is a different party than what many of us grew up with under reagan and bush, and don't feel comfortable in those shoes. i think there's a lot of things going on and it would be folly

not to pay some attention to the warning signs, it's less to me about what flake or dent is saying but more about the results in pennsylvania and virginia and in other states that are, you know, showing a clear warning sign for republicans that it's time to really recalibrate. >> as we look back on the year that was people tend to get nostalgic, and we have a list and politifact named the fly of the year and that's the president's claim that the russian interference story is made up, a hoax, a witch hunt and this is on the president's mind this morning as he watches his favorite show, "fox & friends", and he just tweeted dossier is bogus. the fbi cannot voluntaerify cla. ben, even his supporters say it

would be smart not to conflight the two, two things can exist at the same time. yes, the russians did interfere, and everybody in the intelligence community believes they did but the trump campaign didn't collude with that particular effort there. he can't help himself, though, can he? >> look, you did a better job explaining that than most have done in the media to say it's clear that there's not collusion that has been shown in any capacity between the trump campaign and the russians. everybody that has got in trouble and has been indicted should have been indicted for the record, and manafort, it was business dealings that happened a decade ago and did not have anything to do with the trump campaign itself. there has been an obsession over the last year by many to not distinguish but to admit and be honest, clearly we are spending a lot of taxpayer dollars to

investigate the collusion, and clearly nobody has been indicted for collusion and even democrats on capitol hill say they see no collusion between trump and the white house, and if you just described it the president wouldn't have to tweet, but if you ask the average guy down the street christmas shopping if he believes in collusion, he would say yes because they read into the headlines. >> ana, the president just can't let this thing go about the fake dossier. how do you see this year playing out in terms of the investigation? is he going to kill it death by 1,000 cuts and by the time we see the findings the base won't pay attention. >> first of all, i don't know how the people from politifact were able to come up with one

lie of the year after what we have had the past 365 days. to me, donald trump is like a half crazed donkey fighting battles in his head, and he's very good at laying the ground work in his base and planting seeds of doubt within his base. i think he will continue the battle. what we have seen with trump consistently is he does not let go of things, he's like a dog with a bone whether it's illegal immigrants voting in the elections or crooked hillary. you name it and he has recurring themes to which he goes to over and over and over again. that's not going to change this year. i do think that he's going to be watching the elections very closely because if the house goes democrat or the senate goes

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time for the five things to know for your "new day." number one president trump says he's ready to get back to work from his mar-a-lago estate today. this after attacking the fbi and press over the weekend. a scare for passengers on a jetblue flight from boston. nobody was hurt. russian officials banning an

opposition leader from running against putin, he says it's political and he plans to appeal. the eldest daughter of eric gardener is in a medically induced coma this morning after suffering a heart attack. since her father's death she has become an activist against officers abusing their power. and then a package sent to steve mnuchin over the weekend, and the psychologist says it was a response to the republican tax overhaul that he says was bull blank. >> it kind of upset the neighborhood. >> yeah, that's an unwelcomed christmas gift. >> for more on the five things to know, go to cnn.com. a blistering editorial is slamming orrin hatch for his

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president trump is selling his tax plan to the people pointing to several corporations now offering bonuses or wage increases to their employees after this first legislative win was signed into law. so will the tax cuts trickle down to all americans? let's get to the bottom line with our political director, david chalian. let's put up on the screen, these are just like nine or ten companies that we know of that are giving $1,000 bonuses, most of these, to, you know, thousands of their employees, sometimes in the case of at&t hundreds of thousands. wells fargo is boosting their wage to $15 an hour. all of these companies could have done it the day before the tax overhaul or last year, they have been sitting on record profits, however they used the tax plan as the impetus to do

it, and for 2018 for the midterms, when people see an extra thousand dollars in their wallet -- >> yeah, if you are getting the wage increase you will feel better about what you have in your pocket and what you can spend on your family, and that should bode well for the party in power. the question is, is that enough, those companies and employees, is that widespread enough where people feel good enough and does it, indeed, counteract the tradeoffs, increase in the deficits or other priorities as people head to the voting booths. you said trump is selling the tax plan. as you know, before he left the white house before mar-a-lago, he said he doesn't have to sell it, it will sell itself. that's the bet republicans are making. the answer is we don't know, alisyn, we don't know, will this

work, this trickle down theory. we have history to guide us it always doesn't work to the intended affect, but we are not sure how it will work this year and that's the big bet republicans have placed and what we are going to see as the year unfolds ahead of us, if indeed people are feeling better about the economy. >> we are going to hope for the best but report the truth, and i want to talk about utah for a second. an interesting story happening as the salt lake tribune releases a article that says orrin hatch, it's time for him to go, having finally caught the great white whale of tax reform, and if he doesn't call it a career the voters should evened it for him, and i heard this when i was covering the bears story, and deep red republicans saying it might be time for him

to go. what kind of dynamic is happening in washington around the lion of the senate? >> if orrin hatch does retire it's not in play for the democrats, so it's not going to affect the balance of power, and he was standing last week praising president trump, perhaps as one of the greatest presidents of all-time. that is not how utahens who are diehard republicans for the most part, many of them, feel about donald trump. we saw a resistance to trump among the core base in utah throughout 2016. there was a third-party candidate that ran well in utah against the president there. there's not been a lot of love lost between utah republicans and donald trump. what you are seeing in the editorial they are trying to

harness the reaction they heard from the hometown about hatch's attachment to trump. and mitt romney is waiting in the wings if indeed orrin hatch decides to retire, and mitt romney has been discussing the possible of a run and donald trump does not look forward to that. >> a democrat may not take that seat but mitt romney is not a trump supporter by any stretch. >> is this more of an identity crisis that the republican party seems to be going through right now as evidenced by flake and dent, where they said over the weekend where they said it's not the party they feel they knew or are part of, and donald trump has shaken up the whole system. >> no doubt about that. you are right. it was not just a blip in 2016 where we saw a rift, an identity

crisis in the republican party, and we saw it continue throughout 2017 as the president was serving his first year and it's going to play out through much of 2018. there is a divide in the party. jeff flake and charlie dent, arizona and pennsylvania are not utah, right? there are rich opportunity for democrats in pennsylvania and arizona to try and make hey of the fact that there's a rift inside the republican party. >> our latest poll on the 2018 midterms, which party are you likely to vote for, democrats 56% and republicans 38. that's a pretty big gap, isn't it? >> it's huge. historically, it's huge. we will see if the democrats can maintain that kind of sort of unprecedented edge throughout the entire election year, and one would imagine that could narrow. but even if that number was an eight-point gap, that would be significant for the democrats here. there's a wave coming and the

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it's so great. >> so good. that is wonderful. what a great holiday christmas moment there. i will see you tomorrow. >> yeah, if you let me back in, i'm here. >> fantastic to be with you. time for cnn "newsroom" with pamela brown. good morning to you. i am pamela brown in for john and poppy this morning. a lot going on already. the president says he's back to work in mar-a-lago and that apparently means he's back to taking aim at the fbi on twitter, of course, repeating the message the agency was tainted and there's no trump russia collusion. so once again, repeated attacks, sarah marie? >> yeah, that's right. we were expecting the president to turn today to more pressing issues perhaps on his agenda, perhaps his legislative agenda and he did send a