viewers. for you cnn "newsroom" is next. for our u.s. viewers, "new day" continues right now. >> i could have started with infrastructure. i actually wanted to save the easy one for the one down the road. >> he could begin to change the conversation. >> i'm hoping there will be a bipartisan fix that comes sooner rather than later. >> the president is getting us to focus on the dossier. >> the presses's tweets are an insurance policy. >> this is about as bad as i have seen. >> it just keeps coming. >> this is "new day" with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. >> good morning, everyone. welcome to your "new day". bill weir is busy studying the

notes, i see. >> cramming. >> great to have you here. president trump will kick off the new year with a big push on infrastructure. will democrats help him deliver on this agenda item. >> republicans and democrats will come together on a deal for health care. and a revealing new interview with president trump's predecessor, mr. obama sitting down with prince harry to talk politics and life after the white house. we begin with abby phillip in west palm beach, florida. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, bill. well, the president is fresh off that big tax cut victory and looking toward another campaign promise hoping to work on infrastructure come january. the white house tells us they will unveil a major infrastructure proposal toward the middle of the month and make it a big part of the president's state of the union address

before the nation and both he houses of congress before january. it will look like $200 billion on spending over the next 10 years on infrastructure projects. it will hopefully spur $800 billion in private sector money toward infrastructure projects as well is. despite the fact that some democrats have in the past expressed openness in working with the president on this one, they are already seeing $200 billion is simply not enough money to achieve what they're hoping to do as far as infrastructure is concerned. and as far as bipartisanship, the white house is looking at health care again. according to the president in a tweet yesterday, he thinks after it was repealed in the tax cut bill, he can go back to the bargaining table with democrats and work on an overall health care plan. so far there is no evidence yet that any such effort is under way. but according to the president, he'd like to get back to the negotiating table with democrats

at the beginning of the year next year. bill and alisyn. >> >> abby, thank you very much. great to see both of you. so, david, is infrastructure the issue that can get both sides to the bargaining table to work on at the beginning of this coming year, or is the situation, you know, just too poisoned for that to happen? >> if the president was going to hold something for election year and thinking that could be the thing he could get done, i think infrastructure was the right choice. the atmosphere is far too topblgic. can he get republicans on capitol hill on board? they have for years resisted

spending government money on infrastructure projects even though they argue it would create jobs. these are the same arguments that president trump has been making. i think there will be a lot of resistance for infrastructure spending for the tax bill. i think that will be a big challenge. you will have the issue with democrats simply not agreeing with what is president is trying to do. finally, alisyn, i don't think they will go out of their way to help the president achieve something in an election year unless he makes a lot of concessions to them. hovering over a lot of this is they have to come to terms on a long term spending bill, spending on children's health care. there is the daca situation they have to solve. so there is a lot.

you can't criticize him for trying to get something done. there is a six-month window here. if they don't get it done by the end of july, everything becomes about the election. then it's all over. >> selena, much connects with 35% of trump supporters out ther there. ed reality of a much lower number now, how do you think that will resonate with his base? >> i mean, that's the question we don't know the answer to. i know in tpra structure is important. a lot of them live in the midwest where the topography with hills and valleys and rivers. a lot of those infrastructure places are crumbling, right? roads are in disrepair.

without solid infrastructure, companies don't want to come in and invest in their cities and towns. those are very critical. to what david said, democrats aren't going to let it help him on something like this. they are going to want to have something to fight him over. and giving him a win on infrastructui infrastructure in iowa, wisconsin, minnesota where trump won democratic congressional districts. they're not going to want to sacrifice those seats when th they -- when 40 seats could flip. >> she knows what he's talking about with all the bridges in pittsbur pittsburgh. a lot of rivers to get over. david, what does health care look like in 2018?

the president keeps saying he is basically for all intents and purposes killed obamacare. not true. but the individual mandate has gone away. so what now? >> the repeal is a big victory for republicans who obviously have failed on on maybe the biggest campaign promise they ever offered. and i think republicans are going to try to do more on that. maybe they can come to the table and get something done. whether he believes that, who knows. we may see legislation to stabilize the affordable care act. that's been negotiated by senators alexander and murray to deal the with the cost-sharing subsidies making it affordable under the obamacare program. but that is about yet you will also see the c.h.i.p. program

renewed over the next 30 to 60 days. in terms of dealing with health care reform in which you will have bipartisan support to remake the obamacare program into something else, it is not something democrats will participate in both for philosophical reasons and for political reasons. republicans now own health care. democrats are not going to help them out unless they were to is receive so many concessions that you have republicans on capitol hill walking away. >> yeah. it's interesting. pieces in the taoeufpls and post today talking about how public health care has grown ironically. look at the incomes. the number of uninsured has gone down from 19 to 12.5%. and then the number of folks who are getting some form of government care, whether it's the v.a. or medicaid expansion has gone up from 11.5%.

so when it comes to the base and folks in pennsylvania, wisconsin, iowa, does the individual mandate help trump's case? are they seeing that penalty as a tax? >> yes. actually, they d. in all my reporting in the past few years since obamacare became law, the individual mandate was something that most voters that i talked about, whether they voted obama or ropl in the past or trump last year, they didn't like the mandate. they felt it was a tax. they felt it was illegal, something that government should not be able to do. in particular, small businesses. they believe that people have their ability to make their own decisions and in charge of their own health care plan. and that did not sit well with voters. >> thank you both very much. great to get your perspectives. former president barack obama

opening up about life after the white house. and how he feels about social media today. all this in a rare interview with prince harry. ana is live in london with more. tell us about this conversation >> reporter: well, it was the first interview president obama has done since he left office. that in itself was interesting. here's what he said. >> the question i think really has to do with how do we harness this technology in a way that allows a multiplicity of voices, diversity of views but doesn't lead to a balance canization of our society but rather continues to promote ways of finding ground. i'm not sure congress can legislate that. all of us in leadership have to

find ways to recreate a common space on the internet. one of the dangers of the internet is that people can have entirely different realities. >> it wasn't all serious politics. there was some personal stuff, a lightning round. how did that go? >> reporter: it was so good. they have such good chemistry. obama said he doesn't miss early morning starts. he misses the motorcade when it comes to traffic. the best for last. >> harry or william? >> william right now. >> "titanic" or the bodyguard. >> "titanic". >> suits or the good wife. >> suits, obviously. >> great grounds. >> cigarettes or gum. >> gum now, baby. >> white house or bumming ham

palace. >> white house just because buckingham palace looks like it would take a long time to mow. a lot of upkeep. >> queen or the queen. >> the queen. >> buckingham palace does have a lot of upkeep, right? they know each other so well. they have become friends over the years now which is why when prince harry was asked questions himself he was asked a question we all want to know the answer to. >> enough to invite him to your wedding? >> i don't know about that. we haven't put the invites or the guest lists together yet. >> such a diplomatic side step. >> it is so fun to hear them off script. the question or queen.

>> the wave versus bohemian rhapsody. ana, you were explaining unlike william's wedding, harry's is not. the idea of inviting obama and not trump is not as acute? >> it really is. this is not a state wedding. this is not the prince william kate middleton wedding. heads of state will not be invited. president trump doesn't really know the royal family at all. you would have to invite merkel, macron. >> there you go. very interesting to see how these invitations unfold. thank you very much for bringing us that. >> i bet it would still stink -- stick in president trump's crawl. >> and stink. even if i don't get an invite, i'm going. >> she's crashing.

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christmas. >> i did. i hope you did as well. is it the deep state? >> what is of concern is not the rank and file, it is is all the strange pieces of information that have come out the last couple of months about current leadership and certainly former leadership, leadership under the obama administration. and there is i think honest and real concern that the fbi somehow got dragged into the political process. i hope it ends up being -- the fact that it ends up being they were not. but i do think people have to at least satisfy themselves on what happened there. >> let's talk about that. so andrew mccabe, james comey, the germ counsel jim bakker, they are the deep state? >> i don't like using the phrase deep state. they have to at least explain what they did on issues like the dossier, what they did on starting the investigation as early as a year ago on the trump

campaign. they ought to explain whether the dossier was used to get a fisa warrant. i think the answers they gave of dodging answers and saying we can't talk while the ig investigation is going on, has heightened the concerns that people have about those real specific policies. >> just to remind people, that is the infamous dossier which contains salacious details which cnn has never reported or corroborated. but much of the dossier has been corroborated. >> i don't agree with that, alisyn. >> this is our reporting. this is what crime fighting agencies have said. that the fbi would not have just taken a dossier to the fisa court and used that, they had to

corroborate it themselves. that's how they operate. >> i would hope that's what happened, alisyn. all they had to do was explain that's the case. >> do you not believe that's the case? >> they have refused to answer that question. rosenstein and wray were asked specific questions about the dossier, and they dodged it. >> they didn't want to disclose it in an open hearing. >> okay. well, look, as i said, i am not one who wants to assume something nefarious went on. but i want my concerns cleared up because the fbi is too significant an asset to this country to allow the uncertainty of its intentions to continue. >> just so we're clear, at the moment, do you agree with donald trump that the fbi is tainted?

>> i agree there are questions that have to be answered about the past and current leadership in the fbi. >> and do you feel that the fbi is somehow some sort of hive of liberal leaders that are trying to bring down the president? >> i agree that there is some evidence that there were some strange things happening there. and i think the fbi leadership should come back with answers. >> such as what? >> failure to answer questions that have created the concern. answer the questions and provide the information. i think a lot of this will go away. >> and what do you think is the weird stuff? >> i think the e-mails, the texting between fbi leadership on attacking trump. >> right. they were reassigned. let's take it one at a time. you're talking about peter strup

and the woman. has that been handled to your liking? >> no, it hasn't. i think the fact that the fbi leadership refused to answer a simple question. did you pay for any of the dossier? they refused to answer that. that creates doubt. i think the fact that within the fbi there is there was some indication they were investigating trump. all of those questions have to be answered. i'm not saying they don't have the answers. i'm saying they should give the answer. >> it does seem to be what president trump and many republicans are hanging their hat on. they want to know what that is. that obviously raises eyebrows.

do you think president trump's attacks on the fbi, calling them tainted, is that appropriate for a president? it does undermine their work. >> i think the president made very clear what his position is addressed the graduating class of the fbi members and underscored the fact that he considers them tremendous assets to the country. >> do you think robert mueller's investigation is legitimate? >>. >> i think any investigation is legitimate. i think mueller ought to wrap it up. in a whole year he has failed to provide a single cintilla of evidence that there was any substance of a concern about -- >> there have been four indictments and two guilty pleas. >> on issues completely unrelated to the russia investigation. >> well, it was about lying.

>> on issues of personal failures of mr. manafort and issues of a personal failure of general flynn. >> robert mueller hasn't had the investigation for a year. it's been less than a year. during that time there have been four indictments and two guilty pleas. and now we understand michael flynn is cooperating. you think that is it? it should be case closed or there will be more that comes out? >> if there's more to come out, mueller should put it out. if there is no more, he should wrap it up. >> can he take a few more months? >> he probably will. >> all right. governor john sununu, always great to get your perspective. thank you so much for joining us on "new day". >> thanks so much, alisyn. >> are president trump's twitter attacks helping robert mueller make his case? - [narrator] imagine a shirt that actually makes

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tweet insults at the fbi. this weekend he tweeted how can andrew mccabe the man in charge along with leaking james comey of the phony hillary clinton investigation, including her 33,000 illegally deleted e-mails be given $700,000 by clinton puppets during the investigation? richard painter responded using twitter on christmas eve to intimidate a witness, mccabe, in a criminal investigation is not a christian way to celebrate the holiday but it makes mr. mueller's job easier and that's a nice thing to do. merry christmas . he joins us now. good morning. belated merry christmas to you. >> good morning. >> let me ask about the idea that, yes, he is being dismissive. yes, he is sort of attacking the ability of these men to do their jobs. but does it go beyond the bar of

tampering with a witness? does he create legal -- >> well, in and of -- yes. in and of itself i don't think this tweet would lead to a criminal charge in and of itself. but the problem is that this is part of a pattern of the president injecting himself into the russia investigation. first by asking director comey of the fbi for loyalty, pressuring director comey not to go after general flynn and to drop the russia investigation, and then firing director comey. and then repeated attempts to figure out a way to curb the mueller investigation and repeated attacks on the deputy director of the fbi. if this tweet were combined with any other actions by the president or people working for him to retaliate against mccabe

in his capacity as deputy director of the fbi, then you could get to the point where there was witness intimidation. we don't know what's been going on behind the scenes. i have to say this is an incriminating tweet. it shows the state of mind. so if there are people working for president trump were taking action against mr. mccabe, he could be in hot water. it was a very, very stupid thing for him to do to tweet that out. >> and the emollients clause. jimmy carter got rid of his peanut farm to avoid any impropriety. nixon divested of his holdings as well. president trump spent 111 days at a property bearing his name.

you tried to sue some clients who claims unfair advantage. but a federal judge appointed by clinton threw that case out. what is your reaction to losing that? is and is that fight over now? >> we are going to appeal. we do not agree with it. the judge did not rule on the emollients clause. anybody who holds a position of trust in the united states government not to accept any profits or benefits from foreign governments. the judge did not rule on that. the judge said our organization was not an appropriate player for the lawsuit. that ruling we're going to appeal. one brought by member of congress, one by the attorneys general in separate courts, those suits are proceeding as

well. this is a matter yet to be resolved by the courts. whether the president is in compliance with the constitution or of the constitution. it is critically important to congress play its roll. out in minnesota where i live a lot of people were very upset with the fact that congress, people are supposed to be representing us in congress and are doing absolutely nothing to make sure that the president complies with the constitution. we shouldn't have to run into court to litigate against the president. congress should be doing its job, but they're not. >> when it comes to the president actually enriching himself, the "washington post" has reported interestingly enough of the 25 galas and others scheduled for mar-a-lago in the palm beach social season, 19 left they canceled because of

the polarizing nature of this investigation. in the end, it may turn out that his brand has turned more toxic since gaining the presidency. do you think he and his family are enriching themselves through that office? >> out here in middle america there is not much going on in the palm beach social scene. he enriches himself through his sources of financing. it is who is lending him money. we have no idea who is lending him money. new york bankers back in the 1990s got mad because he wasn't paying them back. so he is borrowing large amounts of money from somewhere, a foreign country. we need to find out whether he

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pennsylvania natural guard put on active duty as bone chilling cold and record-breaking snow pummel the northeast. the disaster emergency declared in erie, pennsylvania, loot at

it there, after five feet of snow buries the city with more on the way. cnn meteorologist chad myers joins us now with incredible pictures. what are you seeing, chad? >> it is still snowing. it has snowed 99.5 inches so far this december. blizzard conditions walloping erie, pennsylvania with record-breaking snowfall. more than five feet falling in just three days. on christmas day alone, 34 inches of snow blanketed the city. this time lapse video capturing the treacherous whiteout conditions. t the severity catching many off guard. >> this is a little too early compared to what we normally get. this is a february snow. >> the city declaring a snow emergency tuesday. they are warning them to stay off the dangerous and impassable roads. >> all of a sudden it's gotten really, really bad. >> this is about as bad as i have seen.

>> crews working around the clock. some getting stuck as they try to clear the roadways. >> it is hard to keep up with this amount of snow. >> cars buried under a wall of snow. residents spending hours to try to just dig out. >> all i could do is laugh. you know, it's a little ridiculous. >> others having a little fun. >> my dad is cross country skiing around the neighborhood. >> the snow pummeling northern states across the u.s. in washington state, the icy conditions wreaking havoc on slippery roadways. in upstate new york, snow blankets the region, complicating holiday travel. >> i could only do about 20 miles per hour. >> you couldn't see in front of the truck at all. >> in the midwest, a one-two punch. with frigid temperatures dropping below zero after the snow fell. in minnesota, sea slope rising from lake superior as the bitter cold snap set in. the windchill in fargo, north dakota reaching a bone chilling

40 below zero. >> won't get used to it. it's too cold. >> congratulations, fargo. you're now up to 29 below from where you were yesterday. it's going to stay cold, for the next few days. this could linger through january 4th or 5th. we're in a pattern now. cold in the east, warm in the west. yes, it's almost record warmth in the west. we just don't see it here whatsoever. so what are we going to see for the next couple of days. we see temperatures briefly warming and then getting cold again. and even, andy cohen and anderson cooper are having a windchill factor at zero or below for new year's eve. bundle up if you're going anywhere in the eastern u.s. if you're with 700 million people in times square, it doesn't really matter. >> oh, god. i'm supposed to go skiing in vermont this weekend and i don't want to anymore now that i see this. me no liky.

>> sharpen your edges. >> thanks, chad. other "news now", former trump campaign manager corey lewandowski is being investigated after a singer accused him of sexual assault. joy villa posting this on twitter saying it was taken seconds before he slapped her on the bottom. lewandowski has not responded. a british court sentences a woman three years for carrying painkillers for her husband. she had nearly 300 pills of a pain killer which is legally prescribed as a medication but it is illegal for a private citizen to sell in egypt. she said she was carrying it for her egyptian husband who suffers from back pain. she plans to appeal. president trump was back on the golf course despite repeatedly railing against president trump for golfing too

much in office. so who is the better golfer? jeanne moos fills us in >> reporter: golf digest called him the golfer in chief. because he used to slam president obama. >> he played more golf last year than tiger woods. >> reporter: trump is getting heat because he himself has been doing so much golfing. >> he's the tiger woods of hypocrisy. >> reporter: before he was president, trump posted tweets like can you believe with all the problems and difficulties facing the u.s. president obama spent the day playing golf. >> because i'm going to be working for you. i'm not going to have time to go play golf. believe me. >> reporter: hard to believe president trump seems to have played golf -- we say seems because the white house avoids talking about it. as a cbs reporter tweeted, white house press aide wouldn't say whether potus blade golf. he may have hit a few balls.

they have resorted to poring over photographs like this looking for tell tail signs. aha! he's wearing a golf glove. trump said it is best for a president to play with other leaders. >> i would not have made certain deals if it weren't for golf. big deals. >> the president gave japan's prime minister a pat on the shoulder. golf diplomacy. >> helped foster deeper relationships in southeast asia. >> reporter: so who is the better golfer, obama or trump? "golf digest "calls trump the better golfer. there's ivanka in a press billowing like marilyn monroe and high heels instead of golf shoes. with the president sneaking off we're going to need a little birdie to tell us when he's gone

golfy. >> president trump for the birdie. >> reporter: jean where moos, cnn, new york. >> golf is one of those games that reveals a lot about one's character. >> does it? >> it is not how you hit the ball. it is is how you behave. you have to police yourself. oscar tdela ohioey says he's a cheater. he will drive his cart onto the green. >> that's bad? >> that's bad. but there is no way to know that because he won't allow cameras to follow him around. trump/obama, 18 holes, televised. >> he's not going to like this segment. >> an unprecedented year in weather. several powerful hurricanes and ferocious wildfires and the memorable solar eclipse. a look back at the top seven weather stories of 2017 next.

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first year, but it's also faced one natural disaster after another. >> who can forget that spectacular show in the sky snow turning day into night, bringing millions of people together. >> that was very cool. >> chad myers has the top seven weather and climate stories of the past year. ♪ >> it was an incredible year of extremes. 2017 produced 15 give billion dollar weather disasters. here are the top seven weather and climate events of 2017. number seven, every acre of california was in drought. nearly two thirds of the state was classified exceptional. tens of millions of trees died, creating concern for a major wildfire season ahead. rain and show las returned with a vengeance to california in the fall of 2016, and continued through the spring of this year.

by april, governor brown officially declared the drought over. the heavy rain and melting snow was beneficial to most, but for some it became too much of a good thing. in february the oroville dam was in danger. the dam was shore up and the disaster was narrowly avoided. number six, the eclipse of the century, august 21st, millions stopped what they were doing and witnessed something that hadn't happened in almost a century. those lucky enough to be in the past of totality all the way from oregon to south carolina, plunged into darkness for just a couple minutes, but millions drove ours those the amazing show. >> oh, my god! look at the corona. the corona is crazy. number five, on earth day

2016, countries around the world came together to sign an historic agreement. but in one of the most significant moves in his first year in office, the united states will cease all implementation of the non-binding paris accord. >> president trump pulled out of the deal. the u.s. is the second biggest emitest of fossil gases, only behind china and is the only country in the world not part of the agreement. the death toll from the wildfires has now climbed to 29. hundreds reported missing. california wildfires are number four on the list. in october northern california was hit with deadly wildfires, the worst damage and highest death troll occurred in wine country. >> entire neighborhoods have been reduced to ashes. >> there's no words. it's a nightmare, a real-life

nightmare. >> the fast-moving fires killed dozens and destroyed thousands of structure. in for him rage has erupted. >> santa ana winds spread these large fires. >> they embers fly toward houses that haven't burned yet. >> in the foothill areas of ventura, california, this home completely lost. >> 20 homes that we can count are burned to the ground. >> the thomas fire alone in ventura county scorched an area biggest than boston and new york city combined and will likely continue to burn into 2018. 2017 our hurricane drought ended abruptly. irma, maria, harvey brought death and destruction from the islands of the caribbean right through the florida keys, and up the gulf coast. it's not like we didn't have major hurricanes in the atlantic or the caribbean, they just never hit the u.s.

but with these, many are still picking up the pieces or even waiting for help. hurricane irma has made the turn, it is moving up the west coast. >> irma is number three on our list. the storm sent many jaw-dropping reports. it was the strongest atlanta-based hurricane ever recorded outside of the gulf ko and caribbean. it spend three days as a cat 5, with winds that approached at times 200 miles per hour. it brought its fury to florida on september 10th, starting with a direct hit on the lower keys, then flooding miami, landing again near naples, where our crew experienced being in the eye of the storm. >> these gusts are the real deal. >> over 6 million people ordered to evacuate along the projected path, impacted at least nine states in the southeast, leaving a trail of destruction and

millions without power. >> it's the most devastating storm either in a century or quite frankly in middle eastern history. at number two, hurricane maria. this devastating storm reached category 5 strength and hit the small island of dominiqua on september 17th. the storm that made a direct hit on puerto rico, touch one of the strongest storms to ever hit the island. >> i've been trying to find the words. ferocious doesn't even seem to be enough on how this storm has intensified. >> 100% of the island was without power. even months later, power is still out to many. cnn it investigated and found out that the death toll has been vastly underreported. >> it seems every hour i keep say it gets worse, and yet every hour it does seem to get worse. and number one this year,

harvey is stagger form the number are heart-wrenching. it could be the most expensive natural disaster in u.s. history. it made landfall at a category 4 just north of corpus christi, but the damage just began. houston was especially heart hit with flooding. parts of the metro area saw almost 50 inches of ranl. >> we've been at it since 10:00 a.m. in the morning. >> paramedics and volunteers carrying her through the floodwaters. >> and 27 trillion gallons of rain fell on texas and louisiana over just six days. >> so i covered harvey in houston, and that is the most searing memory, of just entire neighborhoods, you know, flooded, and that neighborhood right there, i had gone out with the caging navy, because we were

trying to get into some marooned neighborhoods because people hadn't left to see if they were okay. and sure enough, we found people. there were people who obviously weathered the storm, stayed behind, and the water had filled up their house five feet. that was just eye opening and tragic. yours was a whole different ball of wax in the keys. >> key largo during the storm and down to the keys for the recovery. puerto rico a couple trips there. what i take away every time we talk about it, the 5 million family who have applied for fema disaster relief know when the wind dies and sun comes out and smoke clears, that's just the beginning then this slow motion, years-long disaster. >> because they have to rebuild. >> when you realize how much of your life is gone, then the psychological toll takes on. so we tend to cover the storm, you know for the drammic pictures, but so many souls will

be hurting for so long, and this could be the new normal, if you believe the climate scientists, this is what happens on a hotter planet. >> it's hard to imagine it would be for that stronger than that. meanwhile, we're following a lot of news this morning, so let's get to it. >> you see the president roll out an infrastructure plan in january. >> yes, i'll work with him if he'll work with us. >> and any work on health care will have to be bipartisan. >> we still have the whole obamacare. >> the president tries to discredit an fbi investigation. >> i would like to see the directors of those agencies purge it. >> these tweets are really a distraction. >> we share the same kind of mind-set. >> president obama sitting down with a rare interview with prince