>> thanks very much for joining us. we begin with a world on edge and global tensions on the rise right now. president trump begins a 2018 facing a host of international challenges. in iran, protesters are out in force for a 6th straight day. iran's supreme leader blames the enemies for stirring up violence. president trump expressed support for the protesters and he warns that iran that the u.s. is watching. noert korea may be trying to

drive a wedge between washington and seoul. kim jong un is keeping up his harsh rhetoric while extending an olive branch to south korea. he raised the possibility of sending a delegation to the winter olympics in south korea next month. they are welcoming the idea and calling if are high level talks. a move by israel deals a potential blow to the two-state solution. the parliament passed a law making it harder to negotiate any part of jerusalem. this comes on the heels of the decision by president trump to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital. and pakistan fires back. president trump said the u.s. foolishly gave the country $33 billion in recent years to fight terrorism and got nothing in return. pakistan's foreign minster said president trump should hire an auditor to see who is lying. all that coming up. let's get the latest on the unrest in iran. the death toll on day six 4z

prison to 20 and iran is blaming enemies for the violence. they also blasted president trump for support of the protesters he called the president's tweets "useless and offensive." let's go to the senior correspondent monitoring the developments from london. is president trump's support likely to resonate with the protesters? what's the potential impact? >> the danger is possibly that he must play into the device to discredit the protests. they began the many anticipated about social economic political grievances and they kept going now. the problem being the violence has increased, nearly doubling the death toll on one instance out of police stations. they are seeing pictures of the six of the who died overnight died there. that perhaps caused some of the more hard line rhetoric and particularly you heard from iran's supreme leader.

or a man wgives daily commentar. he said the enemy is waiting for an opportunity for a flaw through which they can enter. he means the united states and a lot of the rhetoric from them suggest that somehow these protests are being permitted by the united states. that's not something we have seen much open evidence of this point, but remarkably just in the last hours or so, a senior state department official said yes, we are communicating with people in iran through social media sites and facebook and twitter in farcy. they can access the sites using secure networks, if you like. the dimomentacy is saying the message we want to encourage the protesters to continue to fight what's right and open up iran. now that's all over decades been globally and uncertain how wise that is in iran. given the capacity for that to

be cited to say these protests, often young people angry at the lack of economic opportunity are somehow foreign agents. there is no purposeful street level evidence out of this point, but we had a statement for the most senior diplomat suggesting that that's what the u.s. is open to admit is happening. confusion here. the key point, there is no leader for the protests. it seems at this point they are pretty grass roots. the question is what happens next. there is no figure head that they can negotiate with even with more moderate elements. >> very dramatic elements unfolding. thanks very much. at the same time north korea right now issuing a dire warning for the united states. the north korean leader kim jong un setting the tone for the new year of relations with the united states in his new year's address. listen. par are america will never be able to provoke war or attack us. the entire continent of america

is within reach of our nuclear attack. they must never forget the nuclear button is placed on my desk at all times. they must realize correctly that this is not a threat, but reality. >> north korea keeps up the threatening rhetoric, they are reeving out to south korea with kim jong un saying he wouldn't rule out sending athletes to the olympic games being hosted by south korea next month. now south korea has eagerly responded. paula joins us from seoul. paula? >> wolf, we are hearing positive signs from south korea to that suggestion and offer from north korea that there should be talks between the two koreas. we are hearing from the unification minster that he is suggesting a date for when they could talk. he is suggesting january 9th, next tuesday and saying there should be senior level talks between the north and south

korean officials at the border village in the d militarized zone. they haven't had a response from north korea, but they are saying it's necessary to do it quickly and have it high level very quickly as well. it's only a month left to go before the pyeongchang winter olympics. south korea wants north korea to be part of that. that's what he suggested that he is willing to send a delegation. this is something that seoul is very excited about. they have billed this olympics as the peace olympics. to have north korea is part of it is something that the president said all along. he wants. it's interesting that we are seeing this very different two sides to kim jong un and whether he is looking ahead to deal with other countries. a year ago. we heard that kim jong un and certainly north korean officials were looking for a potentially new relationship with the new

trump administration, but now we are hearing just nuclear defiance when it comes to the united states and the overtures are only towards south korea. clearly north korea feeling that last year there was a bad relationship between the two countries and bad relationship between the two leaders as well. they are looking at it. >> in seoul, south korea. president trump is tweeting about all the developments saying sanctions and other pressures are beginning to have a big a.m. pact on north korea. soldiers are fleeing to south korea. rocket man wants ta talk to south korea for the first time. perhaps that is good news and perhaps not. we shall see. joining us is the managing director at the washington institute of former senior director at security counsel. also with us, the former secretary of state heather conley geist. thank you very much for joining

us. is north korea trying to drive some sort of wedge between the united states and south korea by reaching out in this dramatic way? >> i think they are using the opportunity at the olympics. the government is anxious to have a success olympics and i think the ankzs are in fact starting to weigh in on the north korean regime. they want to use it as an opening. if they can divide the u.s., that's a benefit, but the sanctions are impacting and they want to drive a wedge between the u.s. and south korea. >> for they can entice the north koreans to get involved and make sure there is no violence and no confrontation that would be successful. it comes at a time when we heard the former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff say this. listen. >> we are actually closer in my view to a nuclear war with north korea and in that region than we

have ever been. i just don't see how -- i don't see the opportunities to solve this diplomatically at this particular point. >> do you agree? >> that's far oust reach at this stage and think he is right about the chances of war being heightened. the reason for this is less the rhetoric on either side and more the fact that now the united states is having to confront for the first time the prospect of a nuclear chipped icbm that can reach the united states. that is prompting difficult discussions within the government. >> do you agree? >> what i'm concerned about is we are not searching for other tools to help reduce growing potential conflict. michael is right. north korea now has acquired the reach and technology to impact the united states. this is when you dive into all of your tools. the sanctions are tools and you

try to find the opportunities to bring down tensions to get into verifiable dialogue with north korea. it seems that we are not there right now. >> let's talk about iran and these developments on day six of the demonstrations that are going on, some people have dined in the demonstrations and many others have been arrested. the government in tehran said president trump's tweets are useless and offensive. what should the trump administration be doing? >> i think the response has been a good response. i think we should speak out, but we need to also organize an international response. we want our allies in europe and elsewhere to speak out with us. it will be much more effective. we want them to warn the regime about the consequences of cracking down on the protesters and render a direct 88. not directly from the government, but the west in general i think needs to be 47ing the protesters to maintain

their ability to receive information and the people of iran to receive information. their ability to coordinate and so forth. >> what are they are clearly trying to do from the president on down is differentiate the response now to these demonstrations in iran and other cities as well. what they call the silence in the obama administration with massive demonstrations and the u.s. stayed out. >> there was criticism of the lack after the green movement in 2009. it was a very fine line to be balanced. this is for the iranian people to decide. we don't want to encourage saying it's about the iranian people and making sure our values are in place. the right of assembly and peaceful protest. if we make this about ourselves then we in some ways make that revolution something else. they need to keep it on the iranian people and not give them

expectations that we can't move. if the u.s. have been more assertive. >> statements are not going to do much, but the statements have more than one audience. when the president speaks out, it's a signal that is a priority and something we should focus on. number two, it's a message to allies. >> thanks very much for am coming in. fresh off signing tax reform into law, the president setting sights on new battles in congress. we will talk about his to do list coming up and plus, did a night of drunken gossip spark

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fresh off his victory on tax reform, president trump has work cut out for him as he gets to work on a substantial 2018 agenda topping the to do list, the president said there will be no deal. the democrats on daca. the dreamers without support for funding his border wall with mexico. he is going to have to find a way to move it forward. it will be the same with a government funding bill where he will need some support from democrats. he has to battle the deficit hawks in his own party and the individual mandate gone from obamacare. president trump needs to find a way and the political will to extend health care reform and fulfill one of his biggest campaign promises. sarah murray is joining us right now. huge challenge for the president and congress as well. how does he hope to get all of

this done in the next few weeks? >> it is a huge challenge for any president. certainly for president trump who has such low approval ratings and democrats wouldn't necessarily be willing to cooperate with him and you saw him on twitter this morning. he is not exactly woos them publicly and taking swipes on twitter even though he knows he will need to win over some democrats to get through the list of priorities. that's not to say the two sides are not talking. they are. the president's top staffers, mark short who is the head of legislative affairs and the budget director are going to head to capitol hill tomorrow and meeting with leaders and president trump will be in camp david and huddle with leaders as well. those could be key in trying to figure out what issues there is a path forward on. they need to strike a government spending deal. the notion that there may be a broader deal on immigration could be harder to come to. we have seen mitch mcconnell

saying good luck to these folk who is are working on it which is a bipartisan group of law maker that vowed to bring something to the floor. can they strike a deal? it is hard to see bipartisanship as in very short supply in 2017. we will see if it's different this year. >> you are standing by for the white house press briefing coming up later as well. thanks to sarah murray at the white house. let's go deep or what's ahead for the president. the cnn political analyst for the washington examiner. david, thanks for joining us. let's talk about daca. the president now in that tweet over the past few days saying yes, he will support allowing the dreamers to stay, but he wants funding for the border wall. >> the president has leverage and it's a matter of how firm he will be. it's a decision for the democrats. the wall they can support a lot of border security measures. the wall is one of the things that their base really dislikes

and really dislike this republican president more than past republican presidents. so they are going to have to decide whether or not they are willing to anger the far left corners of their base to do a deal that will protect the dreamers, but could put their own stamp on funding for a border wall. >> it's a big issue indeed. another area where the president thinks he can get bipartisan cooperation is infrastructure development. building new roads and bridges and airports and railroads. is there a serious opportunity for bipartisan cooperation and funding that hundreds of billions of dollars and maybe a trillion dollars needed to rebuild america? >> 2018 is an election year. democrats have an opportunity to win back a lot of seats and sarah was discussing and the president continued to go after democrats and has not let up. the conditions for a bipartisan deal are not really there. the president when it comes to infrastructure is going to have to try to see to corral

republican who is in the past have been very hesitant to invest a lot of money and have been concerned about the debt and the deficit. they talked a lot of that, but they did tax reform anyway. after doing tax reform and compromising and taking a lot of tough votes, the president will have his work cut out for him because the republicans are going to be asking a lot of questions when it comes to spending money as opposed to cutting taxes and the government's trust. >> you have been doing a lot of reporting on trade. major trade issues especially with china have to be decided fairly soon. he was relatively nice the first year, not so nice the past few days. he is geeing tough. >> we have been waiting for the president since he took office almost a year ago to see how much of his tough trade rhetoric we saw on the campaign trail was going to show itself in the

white house. we are getting inkling that is the president is thinking about pulling the u.s. out of nafta. they have been very difficult with mexico and canada and we know he is thinking about getting tough with china on trade. that has a little bit to do with whether or not he is happy. when it comes to helping the u.s. with the north korea crisis. the larger question with trade is how much push back the president might get from as we think of the trump country. those parts of the country that are heavily dependent on trade even though their manufacturing bases have been hurt and whether or not the president is going to hear from his business base and others who support him and generally support his agenda and are concerned that messing with nafta could cause a problem for the u.s. economy and hurt the growth we expect from tax cuts. over the break, there was an interesting tweet from john cornyn, the minority whip from

texas and protectionism or anything like that would help the economy. >> he has major decisions and the president is going to make them fairly soon. thanks very much. helping us. there is a new report that suggests one of the president's former campaign advisers who pled guilty actually helped launch the russia investigation after a night of drunken gossip with an australian diplomat. the commercial aviation industry didn't have one death last year and now president trump is taking credit. we will fact check. you know what's awesome? gig-speed internet.

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new yorker. congratulations working for the new yorker. let's talk about nunez's actions. he is the chairman of the committee and basically for all practical purposes, he removed himself from the russia investigation. >> i think you need to go back in time and look at it about a year ago when they started surfacing about the relationship between trump and russia. nunez was out there putting out that there was concern about obama administration officials unmasking the u.s. official who is were involved in these communications and suggesting that that was inappropriate. he now appears to be shifting attention towards lookinga at the fbi and whether or not their approach to the clinton e-mail investigation is appropriate. he is attacking them and obviously you see trump falling suit in his tweets which is obviously something that is raising concern among veterans of the fbi and the justice

department should they be doing this. >> should democrats be worried he is trying to short circuit or undermine the mueller investigation. you have heard the concerns. >> if you look at the polling, you realize that the confidence in mueller is not necessarily that strong. they think this is a voterability they can push in order to cast doubt about whatever mueller might decide to bring in the end against people higher than the people he has gone after. >> nunez told cnn it's not a secret that we have an investigation into the doj department of justice. he wantings to know what that so-called steel dossier played in launching the entire investigation. >> right. chris steel is the former british intelligence officer who was investigating with the money with the clinton campaign. he was investigating whether or not there were appropriate or inappropriate ties between trump

and the russians. he was preparing reports for fusion bps providing those to a lawyer. they see this again as an opportunity to discredit that information by caving it as political. around the same time steel was producing these reports and providing them to the fbi and others, there were other pieces of intelligence coming in. the australians and the british were adding to the fbi's view that there was something to look at here. >> you are comparing the explosive report that one of the campaign foreign policy advisers george papadopoulos was drinking and meeting with a diplomat in london and bragging that there was going to be russians that had dirt on hillary clinton and that dirt was released. >> right.

that was a conversation that takes place in may and not for two months later. you can imagine that the australian representative diplomat in london was listening to george papadopoulos. this young man who is clearly bragging about information he has. does he take him seriously initially or think this is not a serious thing? one would suggest based on the fact that the australians don't immediately notify the americans. after all australia is a partner of the united states. we share the most sensitive inteligence with the australi s australians. they share with us. normally there shouldn't be any barrier to hairing. in this case there was a delay. the delay was probably if i had to estimate had to do with them not really taking it seriously at first. >> is there any indication that any one of the trump campaign

alerted the fbi or other authority that is the russians had this kind of information? >> not that i'm aware of. i'm not aware of anything like that. >> the first that the fbi may have learned was through the australian connection? >> honestly i don't know which was the first. these things were all happening roughly at the same period of time. the release of the e-mails and the dnc in june disclosing that it believed that the servers were hacked by the russians. huh another campaign adviser along with george, a guy named carter page who did a trip to moscow that attracted the attention of the fbi. we know that in 2016 as far as we know, as far as "the washington post" knew and reported and as far as cnn reported that the only fisa, this is a special court order that was issued associated with a trump associate during 2016

was carter page, not george papadopoulos. that raises the question, why didn't the fbi go up in the term? why didn't they listen it george? that doesn't mean they doesn't decide later to pay more close attention to george. >> doing excellent reporting for us. thanks very much. good luck with the new magazine assignment. great magazine. the president's son in law in charge of peace talks and a new move by israel with any two-state solution apparently more difficult. what was jared kushner's role here. not one person was killed in 2017 on the jet flights making it one of the safest years ever. does president trump deserve credit? we will check his claims.

>> president trump taking credit for a banner year in commercial aviation with no air travel deaths and aircraft in 2017. since taking office i have been very strict on commercial aviation. good news. it was just reported there were zero deaths, the best and safest

year on record. tom forman has been checking into this claim. does the president deserve credit? >> like a lot of his tweets, a squadron of question marks come flying in. what he was talking about was a worldwide statistic about this lack of commercial airline deaths out there. in the u.s. it's a different matter. take a look at the clarification we got a short while ago. they made a point and we can look at the numbers. or we can go to the graphic. president trump raised the bar for the aviation safety and security. last year the president announced an initiative to modernize air traffic control and under his leadership there has been this progress. the department of homeland security enhanced measures to ensure safer air travel. that's the clarification from the white house. you are talking about a worldwide figure. in the u.s., we have been almost a decade without a fatality

related to a u.s. commercial passenger flight crash in this country. it has been going on for quite sometime. if you look at the numbers, scheduled passenger flights in 2016, almost 10 million. there have been a lot of flights and the last fatal official r commercial airline flight of a passenger jet operated bo i a u.s. company was 2009. for him to say something he has done made the difference does not seem clear. the clarification has more to do with what's going to happen in the future and not necessarily as part of what happened last year. does he deserve credit? he's taking credit but the evidence doesn't suggest there was a change that changed much since we haven't had the fatalities in a number of years. >> that are is great news. all of the 10 million flight. >> even the continuation of that record is a good thing. you should all be happy about that, but to suggest there has been a change that meat it

better, there is no evidence of that. >> whether the president can claim credit or not, the fact that there were no fatalities in 2017 is worth noting. what played a in the safest years on record? >> wolf, the thing about aviation is that and the rules are written in blood. that's a grim expression. that's what we have done as time has gone on and as beings have occurred, there is a scrupulous effort to go through the accidents and figure out what happened and fix it. the last one, the buffalo crash of 2009 and the air crash, one of the things that came out was

concerned about fatigue and training for the crew members. there was positive action in the wake of that, including changing the number of hours required from flying on regional air liners. when the there is no factual evidence to support that. that was a global report first of all and aviation has an amazing way of improving itself overtime. really sort of separate from regulation. >> what else needs to be done to make sure that airline safety improves this year and every year. >> you always have to follow the money, wolf. it's just like any reporter will tell you when you cover the story. the key to focus are airlines in good financial health.

making sure they are not cutting corners on maintenance and stripping for the pilots and going right to the edge of their performance capacity as far as the human beings themselves. the amount of rest time they hav have. the rules that are set up and the other governing bodies are the minimums. and true safe flying invites the airlines to do a little better than that. the major airlines in the united states certainly have done that. the regionals are doing better since that 2009 crash. as long as they are paying attention and understanding despite the human tragedy is one thing, it's not good for business when you have a crash. these things tend to get better overtime. that's what we have seen throughout the history of

aviation. it is by far the safest mode of transport human beings have devised. >> here's what worries a lot of experts. the threat of terrorism, specifically in recent months and maybe the past year or so. deep concern over batteries and electronic devices. are those the biggest potential areas of concern down the road? >> it is a huge concern. the batteries and the electronic devices, we have a system that is good at the frondent. as you and i fly and we take off the shoes and we have the electronic scan in a specific way. the baggage is scanned very thorou thoroughly. what we see time and again are vulnerabilities on the backdoor of the airport. the people who work around the planes. access to the back side. it's not the level of skraut gee

you have as passengers. and that's an area that we need to focus on. >> the terrorism threat is a worrisome threat. thanks very much for joining us. >> president trump said the dreamers will fall in love with republicans. take a look at the live pictures from the briefing room. the press secretary getting ready to face her first briefing and moments away from that. lot lots of questions. stay with us. e with the grandkis every minute counts. and you don't have time for a cracked windshield. that's why we show you exactly when we'll be there. saving you time, so you can keep saving the world.

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u.s. ambassador to nikki haley speaking out about the latest demonstrations in iran. >> all these brigades have come out to the streets. they have come out against the leader. political prisoners must be freed. freedom and iranian republic. neither gaza nor lebanon only for iran. let go of syria.

think of us. we will die, but we will take iran back. don't be afraid. we are all together. in reference to the supreme leader, feel some shame. let go of the country. those are not my words. those are not the words of the united states. those are the words of the brave people of iran. now the iranian dictatorship is trying to do what it always does which is to say that the profit pro tests were designed by iran's enemies. we all know that's complete nonsense. the demonstrations are completely spontaneous. they are virtually in every city in iran. this is the precise picture of a long oppressed people rising up against their dictators. the international community has a role to play on this. the freedoms that are enshrined

in the united nations charter are under attack in iran. dozens have already been killed. hundreds have been arrested. if the iranian dictatorship's history is any guide, we can expect more outrageous abuses in the days to come. the un must speak out and the days ahead, we will be calling for an emergency session the people of iran are crying out for freedom. all freedom loving people must stand with their cause. the international community made the mistake of failing to do that in 2009. we must not make that mistake again. on a second matter, the crisis in north korea will continue to have our attention in 2018. we finished december with our third strong sanctions resolution of last year. that was a great achievement. but there is more to do to

ensure full implementation of the security council resolutions. as we hear reports that north korea might be preparing for another missile test, i hope that does not happen. but if it does, we must bring even more measures to bear on the north korean regime. the civilized world must remain united and vigilant against the rogue statement's development of a nuclear arsenal. we will never accept a nuclear north korea. one more item i want to mention. you have all heard that president trump's comments made about pakistan. the administration is withholding $255 million in assistance to 'pakistan. there are clear reasons for this. pakistan has played a double game for years. they work with us as times, and they also harbor the terrorists

that attack our groups. that game is not with our administration. the president is willing to go to great lengths to stop all funding from pakistan as they continue to harbor and support terr terrorism. and that brings me to my final point. the pakistan aide itch sue not connected with the vote to jerusalem. it is connected to pack stan harboring the terrorists. however, as i said in december, we won't forget the jerusalem vote. to that end tomorrow night we are having a reception for the countries who chose not to oppose the u.s. position. this is great sign of u.s. friendship and i look forward to tomorrow evening. we hope to see more of this in 2018. the united states has asked to do a huge amount around the world, and we are happy to do that, but we expect to be treated respectfully in return. i wish all of you a good 2018.

and i'll take a couple of questions. >> thank you, ambassador. which u.n. body in new york do you want to handle iran? and to do what? >> i think right now we'll have conversations with the security council and see what we need to do to have an emergency session. one way or the other we will have a meeting on what is happening in iran with the protests and their fight for freedom. >> thank you, ambassador, margaret with voice of america. ambassador, in light of the protests, is there any unilateral action united states plans to take insurance iran? and also here at the security council to you plan to hold iran accountable on another front perhaps through the yemen sanctions committee for the missiles that they fired into saudi arabia, you had that presentation last night? >> right. no unilateral plans at this time that have come from the administration. what i can tell you is we are

absolutely going to move forward on the missiles. you will see us look at resolution 2231 carefully and see what needs to be changed so that we can put a stop to the radium testing of ballistic missiles. yes? >> joseph cline, canada free press. will the u.s. remain the releaf agency for palestine pushed by the palestinians and palestine u.s. threat to unleash quote all the weapons we have in the u.n. close quote. >> i think the president has basically said he doentd want to give any additional funding or stop funding until the palestinians are agreeing to come back to the negotiation table. and what we saw with the resolution was not helpful to the situation. we are trying to move for a peace process, but if that doept happen the president is not

going to continue to fund that situation. >> yes? >> thank you, madam ambassador. my name is abdul from arabic daly. now, you so strong when it comes to freedom and digty of the iranian people but you have different meaning of freedom when it comes to the palestinian people who have been brutalized for over 50 years of occupation. the second quell related to it, what made you believe that you are on the right side of history when you stood alone in the security council against 14 members of this committee? and 128 countries you only found countries like now next to you. what made you believe that you are on the right side of history? thank you very much. >> i stood proudly even if i was the only hand in the security council to fight for the will of the people of the united states. they wanted to see the embassy moved to jerusalem. and we followed through with that.

we very much still want to have a peace process. nothing changes with that. the palestinians now have to show their world that they want to come to the table. as of now they are not coming to the table but ask for aide. we are not giving the aide. we want to make sure they come to the table and move forward with the peace process. one last question. yes? >> thank you, ambassador. can i ask you regarding north korea, as you heard reports about south korea proposing talks with north korea. can you give us your reaction to that? and about the talks, does it affect any of your policies putting pressure on north korea? >> we won't take any of the talks seriously if they don't do something to ban all nuclear weapons in north korea. we consider this to be a very reckless regime. we don't think we need a band-aid and we don't think we need to smile and take a picture. we think we need to have them stop nuclear weapons and stop it now. but north korea can talk with anyone they want, but u.s. won't

acknowledge it until they agree to ban the nuclear weapons that they have. thank you very much. >> nikki haley, u.s. ambassador to united nations, speaking out on latest issues, jerusalem decision by trump to recognize jerusalem as capitol. one of our senior writers is here. she's spokesperson on national security and her stock seems to be going up. >> it actually has. this has part of ascent we have seen of nikki haley since she was governor of south carolina to her tone her he striking. she said all freedom loving people must stand. different tact that we heard from the president. >> yeah, strong words on iran, north korea, pakistan, and jerusalem. we will stay on top of this. much more coverage coming up. white house press secretary by the way getting ready to face

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hello i'm ana cabrera in for brooke baldwin. the first white house briefing of 2018 set to begin as the president starts the new year with packed agenda. plenty of tweets this morning all before lunchtime. in fact, he's been commenting on everything from dreamers to the "new york times" to airline safety to north korea. obviously a lot on his mind. but what specifically will be on his plate for the first full day at the white house? let's go to senior