>> just been told we have had cameras on us while we were having this conversation the whole time. thanks very much for joining us. >> good night. 2017 is almost gone. that will be welcome news for many americans. this year has seen the beginning of donald trump's grip on the white house. a never ending russia investigation. an attack on obamacare. an effort to rewrite the entire tax code. a resurgence of the ku klux klan. the birth of a resistance. natural disasters and international embarrassmenembar. today, we give you the a.m. joy top ten stories of 2017. we start with the revolving door known as the trump administration. >> who will succeed and who will fail and who will be the

apprentice? >> tonight, it's time for the trump administration to begin to purge the sabatores. >> he fired preet bharara. >> you are fired. get out of here. >> the attorney general or the deputy attorney general has an obligation to follow the law and the constitution and to give their independent legal advice to the president. >> we had a monday night massacre. sally yates, a person of great integrity, who follows the law, was fired by the president. >> donald trump fired acting attorney general sally yates on monday after she refused to enforce the executive order barring immigrants from seven majority muslim countries. >> mike pence went out and told a story that was not true.

the information is that flynn lied to him. if flynn didn't lie to him, that's even more serious. if he did lie to him, the question is, why. >> he seems to be the person who makes donald trump the most nervous. he didn't want to fire him. trump tweeted, i had to fire general flynn because he lied to the vice-president and the fbi. he has pled guilty to those lies. it's a shame because his actions during the transition were lawful. there was nothing to hide! there are three little letters in that tweet that make it markedly different from the reason he gave for ousting flynn in february. fbi. >> when you are fired, you are fired on tv and publically. >> a u.s. president made history. firing the fbi director who was leading one of the key investigations into what is arguably the biggest scandal in american history. the former fbi director gave a public account of feeling

pressured by the president to, quote, let the flynn investigation go. >> i believe the firing of fbi director comey is obstruction of justice, because the president essentially admitted he fired comey because of the russia probe. >> you are fired. get out of here. >> the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration period. >> sean spicer, say it isn't so. spicer is getting off the trump train. at one point, he was reduced to petty theft when he had to take a mini-fridge the junior staffers refused to give up. >> you are testing me, big guy. >> we miss you melissa. >> i think he has some of the best political instincts in the world and perhaps history. >> the newest member of trump world, anthony scaramucci. apparently his nickname is the mooch. >> first, it's the greatest honor and privilege of my life

to be with you this morning. the greatest instincts in all of broadcasting. >> thank you. >> anthony scaramucci is what trump thinks he sees when he looks in the mirror. he is rich. his suits fit. a paranoid schizophrenic. he tendered his resignation tuesday under duress. >> the president has a right to change directions. the president has a right to hit a reset bull ton. >> tomorrow the first day on job for john kelly. >> i think that kelly is going to demand to be the gatekeeper and real chief of staff. >> what does is that when the lion is out of the gate? the president of the united states, not his staff, is the problem.

>> you are all fired. all four are fired. >> the new york post described this week as survivor. white house edition. today we learned anthony scaramucci is out after less than a week on the job. it comes a few days after he told the new yorkers in an obscenity filled rant that he wanted to fire everybody on the communication team and start over. he becomes the latest to be voted off the island in the trump reality show. steve bannon has left the white house and returned to the extent he left to breitbart. which he built into the self-proclaimed platform of the alt-right. >> the white house wasn't big enough for those two egos. bannon is out. he is going to attack. think what he can legitimately say now. >> you are fired. >> tom price resigned on friday after racking up $400,000 in taxpayer funded jet travel. since may. as tallied by a political investigation. price apologized and said he would reimburse the american people. only not really. the white house is short one

director of communications in its office of public liaison following the departure. >> i'm sure she will sell that story. >> there's one bug questiig que washington. is trump working on a pink slip for robert mueller. >> you are fired. get out of here. >> the chaos in the trump administration came as americans faced serious challenges, including one of the biggest hurricane seasons on record. trump's inadequate response to the damage in the u.s. virgin islands and puerto rico created an unnatural disaster. number nine on our countdown of the top stories of 2017. here is how we recovered the disaster response. >> if anybody out there is listening to us, we are dieing. and you are killing us with the inefficiency. and the bureaucracy. >> after that desperate plea for

help, donald trump responded early this morning by attacking her on twitter. the mayor of san juan joins me now. the president of the united states woke up early this morning with you on his mind. the mayor of san juan he says referring to you, who is complementary a few days ago has been told by the democrats you must be nasty to trump. did anyone tell you to go out yesterday and to name donald trump as you are making your pleas for help? >> actually, i was asking for help. i wasn't saying anything nasty about the president. this isn't about me. this is about lives that are being lost if things do not get done properly real quickly. >> what do you make of trump adding to the attack, essentially saying people of puerto rico want everything done for them by the federal government, implying that these american citizens are just too lazy to do it themselves and are waiting for help? >> again, it's atrocious.

the idea that this is not a conversation that he was having when it comes to texas or florida. he is lumping puerto ricans into that narrative that he has built of anti-immigrant. >> i hate to tell you puerto rico, but you have thrown our budget out of whack. we have spent a lot of money on puerto rico. nice to see you. >> it's not about politics. >> thank you. thank you, everybody. >> there was this moment when the two of you interacted. he didn't seem to even respond to you. >> i said it's about saving lives. it's not about politics. he didn't respond. this was a pr 17 minute meeting. there was no exchange with anybody, none of the mayors. this terrible aview of him throwing paper towels and provisions at people, it's really -- it does not embody the spirit of the american nation.

>> the response has included several scandals in terms of the way the recovery effort was sort of directed. you already had the chief of puerto rico's power authority resign under fire. the white fish energy contract overbid a no bid contract to rebuild power lines. >> it's shockening and maddening and part of the reason we're here today. puerto ricans are resilient and they work hard. if given a fair shot, they will come back and will rebuild our island. we haven't seen anything close to a fair shot yet. >> i left texas and i left florida and i left louisiana and i went to puerto rico. i met with the president of the virgin islands. these are people that are incredible people. they have suffered gravely. >> trump forgetting that he is the president of the u.s. virgin islands only highlights how overlooked the territory has been. not just with the recent hurricanes, plural, but in the

overall scope of american politics. earlier i traveled to st. thomas and st. john and i found a place struggling to get on its feet. >> i never seen it before. >> the strongest hurricane i ever experience. >> irma was a huge category. >> the hurricane is gone but it's still gnaw at us. >> the story of hurricane maria has been about puerto rico, the devastation, suffering and inadequate federal response. there's a second story. it took place here on the u.s. virgin islands, which was hit by not one but two category five hurricanes. this is the contents of someone's life. this is their clothes, everything. you can see there's the hallway. we're going into their bedroom, bathroom. someone's kitchen. you will see some of the tea cups and stuff here. >> it's amazing. everything is disintegrated. >> this was one of the places where there was a fatality because this wall blew out and the woman was sucked out.

the hurricane has lots of tornadoes inside. people are unaware of. it pulled her. >> my god. >> about 150,000 people. it really hasn't gotten the attention. what do you own that up to? >> i want to say it's the news cycle. i'd like to think that that's the reason why. americans' attention spans are pretty short. i hear a lot of people on the islands thinking that it's because we're people of color. >> do you think the president should come? >> listen, i would -- it would be a sign of respect to us for the president to come. but more than him coming, i just want him to do the right thing by the people of the virgin islands. >> the devastation that americans have to face after these hurricanes will last decades. coming up, the number eight story on our list will affect the lives of every american. that story is next. (vo) more "doing chores for mom" per roll

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these people by definition are working, they are poor, they don't have the money to buy insurance. so how would giving them more choices help them if they don't have the money to buy any of the choices? >> first of all, i would question whether they are all working. secondly -- >> if you are at 138% of the poverty rate -- >> they are going to be able to use them to buy insurance. >> how would a person who is -- >> we're giving tax credits for them to buy insurance. >> let me stop again. the two driving missions for republicans over the last eight years have been to destroy obamacare and permanently change the tax code. in 2017, they almost achieved everything they dreamed of. that's our eighth biggest story of the year. take a look. >> i am also calling on this congress to repeal and replace obamacare. with reforms that expand choice, increase access, lower costs and at the same time provide better health care. >> how exactly will republicans

fill a tall order? who knows. the republicans insist they do have a plan of their own to repeal and replace obamacare like they have been saying for years. they are keeping it a secret for now. house republicans are reportedly rewriting their draft replacement bill this week in a basement room of the capitol with no democrats, no senators and no members of the public allowed. >> you can see under this plan, the plan that the house is expected to vote on this week, some americans will be worse off? >> that's not the plan. that's part of the plan. >> that's what they will be voting on. >> you have to put in place the entire plan. >> mark your calendars, thursday is the day house republicans plan to vote on the american health care act. trumpcare as it's called in the common parlance, which would repeal and replace much of obamacare. as the white house tries to woo republican votes, many are grappling with the fear of losing their health insurance. >> the president gave his all. he did everything he could to

help people see the opportunity that we have with this bill. he has been fantastic. still, we have to do better and we will. >> confident in speaker ryan's leadership and his ability to get this done? >> he worked very hard. a lot of different groups. he has a lot of factions. there's been a long history of liking and disliking even within the republican party, long before i got here. >> donald trump and paul ryan were singing each other's praises after failing to pass the gop health care bill. how much longer will this last? >> moving from an opposition party to a governing party comes with growing pains. we're feeling those growing pains today. >> republicans have spent 30, 40 years trying to replace this image of callousness toward the poor, of callousness toward the elderly with this idea of compassionate conservatism. that was whisked away. there was a cruelty to this that

was apparent to republican voters who were shocked. >> welcome to the beginning of the end of obamacare. >> you are the best. >> mr. president, they all voted for the bill. >> congratulations on a job well done. >> this was the scene on thursday after house republicans voted to take away health care from up to 24 million americans and raise premiums on seniors. after they voted to leave it up to the states to decide whether to guarantee that your pre-existing conditions will be covered. after they voted to block medicaid recipients from getting care at planned parenthood clinic clinics. after they voted to cut $880 billion out of medicaid which provides care to the poor, elderly and funding special education. after they voted to do all of that while giving a tax cut of approximately $200,000 each to

the wealthiest .1% of the americans. it was a celebration. this is how protesters greeted the congressmen on their way to the rose garden beer party. >> shame on you. shame on you. >> 217 members of congress all republicans voted for this bill. these are their names. my tireless producers reached out to every one of them to ask them to join us today. not a single one agreed. this was the scene outside senate majority leader mitch mcconnell's office on thursday after he revealed the republicans new health bill. a small handful of senate men concocted in secret. republicans are calling it an obamacare repeal bill. it devastates medicaid, the largest health care program in

the country, in exchange for a massive tax cut for the rich. >> they should have approved health care last night, but you can't have everything. boy oh, boy. they have been working on that one for seven years. can you believe that? >> in one of the most jaw dropping political moments since the election of donald trump, the republican plan to destroy obamacare failed in dramatic fashion in the wee hours friday. along with every one of the senate's democrats, three republican senators rejected the so-called skinny repeal. much of the media applause has gone to the the surprise vote of john mccain. the other two republicans, susan collins and lisa murkowski arguably had a tougher time voting their consciences despite threats from fellow lawmakers and the administration. don't forget the activists and ordinary citizens who fought for the right to their healthcare. they put it all on the line and won. at least for now. >> i don't want to you steel my mantra. my mantra is, tax reform.

tax reform. >> paul ryan and the republican party are bending over backwards to achieve tax reform. most americans already know who stands to gain. 60% say it will help the wealthy. 69% say it will help large corporations. >> the thing that's stunning, anything for middle income people is trickle down hope. no hard benefit. >> this is not tax reform. this is just craziness. these people are nuts that are trying do this stuff. they believe their own crazy stuff. >> on this vote, yes is 51. no is 49. the tax cuts and jobs act as amended is passed. >> there's a reason why republicans, many of whom did not want donald trump to be their presidential nominee, dutifully, enthusiastically lined up behind him anyway. there's a reason why they have been perfectly calm, even zen about trump ever since. even in the face of questions about his grip on reality.

there's a reason that republicans don't seem to care whether trump got into power with the help of a foreign power and they support him no matter how much he degrades the office of the presidency. last night we saw the reason. when the senate passed a bill raising taxes on working americans in order to cut taxes for the rich and corporations. last night the american people saw for themselves there's only one thing republicans actually care about, the holy grail of republicans like house speaker paul ryan ever since they cracked off their first copy of atlas shrug. >> the bargain was always, we will look the other way. we will rationalize and defend as long as we get tax cuts. >> the dead of night, they decided to horse trade on the backs of the middle class and poor people. for what? >> tax reform. tax reform. tax reform. >> it's the largest -- i always

say the most massive. but it's the largest tax cut in the history of our country. >> today's passage of the partisan tax bill official lly cements the republican party of the party of the wealthy and the party of big corporations. >> do you think the tax bill will help republicans win the house? >> let them think that. >> stay tuned to 2018. with donald trump in the white house, republicans will never stop trying to kill obamacare and change the tax code to favor the wealthy. up next, at number seven on our top ten countdown, trump on the world stage. what could possibly go wrong? stay with us. ( ♪ ) ♪ one is the only number

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korean golfers are some of the best on earth. in fact -- and you know what i'm going to say -- the women's u.s. open was held this year at trump national golf club in

bedminster, new jersey. and it just happened to be won by a great korean golfer. >> in 2017, we found out how an international business mogul would run america. the seventh biggest story of the year is trump on the world stage. >> drive them out. drive them out. of your places of worship. drive them out of your communities. drive them out of your holy land. and drive them out of this earth. >> donald trump today delivered a speech in saudi arabia to 50 representatives of muslim majority countries calling on them to fight terrorism in their countries and although he did mention islamic extremists and islamic terror, the president did not use the phrase radical islamic terrorism. which is interesting considering what he said as a candidate.

>> anyone who cannot condemn the hate, oppression and violence of radical islam lacks the moral clarity to serve as our president. >> it's great to have trump lecture muslims. >> donald trump had what the folks at slate called his first big boy trip. he took his national rhetoric on the road on a nine day world tour that concludes today in italy. of course, it was the bigly best trip ever. >> just so you understand, i never mentioned the word or the

name. never mentioned it. >> congratulations. >> thank you very much. >> despite all that absolute awesomeness, somehow it's not viewed as a success. perhaps for no reason more than what he failed to say at nato headquarters in brussels while standing beside the new 9/11 and article 5 memorial, a tribute to the lives lost and to nato invoking article 5 for the first and only time ever in its history in support of us. despite that not so subtle reminder of how vital nato's mutual defense pledge is, trump

did not do what other every american president has done since nato's inception, give a full public full throated and unequivocal endorsement of that agreement. that is a problem bigly. >> i'm dumfounded. i can barely say anything. the trip to nato was an absolute positive disaster. i'm saying that as a former war fighter, vladimir putin won on that trip. >> he also shoved the representative from montinegro who joined nato. we have the video of that. shoved him out of the way, which is weird. >> the incompetence goes so deeply, it's astounding. >> they say it was russia. why won't you agree with them and say it was? >> let me just start off by saying, i heard it was 17 agencies. that's a lot. do we even have that many? you were invaded yet again, this

time by nazi germany and the soviet union from the east. that's trouble. the fundamental question of our time is whether the west has the will to survive. >> donald trump wraps up his second big appearance on the world stage today. amid the expected trump gaffs, the main event was his first official meeting with vladimir putin after this unanswered question. >> today we finally acknowledge the obvious, that jerusalem is israel's capital. >> trump announced his plan to relocate the u.s. embassy to jerusalem upending decades of u.s. foreign policy and drawing criticism sfrom parts of the world that are usually not in agreement, the vatican, turkey, jordan and more who believe the

move will lead to massive unrest in the region. the status of jerusalem is the most contentious issue. the city contains sites that are sacred to jews, christians and muslims. >> this has been our goal from israel's first day. president trump, thank you for today's historic decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital. >> there's no clearer picture of the u.s. having cleanly taken sides than what you just saw. >> there's no more peace process. the peace process has been dead for a while. >> this is a serious mistake the trump administration has a high bar to overcome if they're arguing that this step was taken in pursuit of advancing the peace process or advancing stability in the region. >> god bless you, god bless israel, god bless the palestinians and god bless the united states. thank you very much. >> coming up, trump and his

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the fake media is trying to silence us. but we will not let them. because the people know the truth. the fake media tried to stop us from going to the white house. but i'm president and they're

not. >> welcome back. the man who put his hand on the bible and promised to protect the u.s. constitution has spent a good chunk of his time attacking the freedom of the press. the number six story in our countdown, trump's war on the media. >> this was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration period, both in person and around the globe. we know that 420,000 people used the d.c. metro public transit yesterday, which compares to 317,000 that used it for president obama. >> according to the d.c. metro, 570,557 people took trips on the system throughout the entire day on inauguration day. the system saw 1.1 million trips on the same day in 2009. in other words, mr. spicer, not the largest number of people who

viewed an inaugural period. not even close. >> these attempts to lessen the enthusiasm of the inauguration are shameful and wrong. >> he is sending out the people that are supposed to be the face of the administration, the trusted voiced to lie and to lie with alavenom. >> don't be so overly dramatic about it. you are saying it's a falsehood. they're giving sean spicer, our press secretary, gave alternative facts to that. >> wait a minute, alternative facts? alternative facts are -- they were not true. look, alternative facts are not facts. they're falsehoods. >> if you would lie to our faces about something that is as ultimately trivial as how many people watched your boss' inaugur inaugural, how are we supposed to trust you when you give an important statement about the national security? how are we supposed to trust anything you say at all? >> what i'm seeing here is a

propaganda purchase. this is straight out of the russian playbook, the authoritarian playplaybook. if anyone in the u.s. intelligence community were to behave or speak in the way this administration is doing, they would have their security pulle. they wouldn't be allowed back. we have names for these people. pathological liars. >> as you know, i have a running war with the media. they are among the most dishonest human beings on earth. >> seem to hate the media or love and covet? >> he love hates. a lot of his tweets are based on what he is watching on cable television. see that? that is donald trump when he was a character on tv performing on wwe. he has retweeted a gif of himself doing that. the tweet simply says, fraud news, cnn, fnn, which means fox

news network. what is that? >> it's insanity. >> am i going to include who? >> are you going to include the congressional black caucus? >> i would. you want to set up the meeting? do you want to set up the meeting? are they friends of yours? set up meeting. >> i know some of them. >> let's go. set up a meetmeeting. i would love to meet with the congressional black caucus. >> they did request a meeting with the president. white house didn't respond. that was not facilitated by april ryan who doesn't actually do that as part of her reporting job. >> i was shocked. everything else kind of paled after that. i wanted to let it be known that that is not what i do. >> your organization -- >> you are attacking our organization. >> your organization -- >> can you give us a chance to ask a question? >> she's asking a question. >> can you give us -- >> don't be rude. don't be rude. >> can you give us a question?

>> i'm not going to give you a question. >> this is anticipate administration that pushes back on the press, trying to destroy the fourth estate. trump does it because he is injured, he is insulted. so he lashes out. >> a few days ago i called the fake news the enemy of the people. and they are. they are the enemy of the people. >> a lot of the media is the opposition. they're so biased and it's a disgrace. >> esquire is reporting the trump administration may evict the press from the white house. they are the opposition party, a senior official says, unnamed. i want them out of the building. we are taking back the press room. >> i said today, let's not ever do any more press briefings. you don't have them. unless i have them every two weeks and i do it myself, we don't have them. i think it's a good idea. >> donald trump's administration has silenced a channel of communication between the president and the people. by ensuring nearly all press briefings this week would

beneath seen nor heard in a live broadcast. >> when you deal with moving the press out of the white house, we are built into the framework of this nation. >> the media is trying to attack our administration because they know we are following through on pledges that we made and they're not happy about it. the fake media is trying to silence us. but we will not let them. because the people know the truth. the fake media tried to stop us from going to the white house. but i'm president and they're not. >> at one point he says that russia, if you are listening, i want you to find those e-mails. i raised my hand thinking, is he serious, does he really want a foreign government to look into the e-mails, to hack into the e-mails of not just hillary clinton but anybody in this

country? why would he want a foreign government getting involved in our politics? it didn't make sense. i pushed him on it thinking if he is joking about it, at least he can say, i'm joking or i'm being hyperbolic. he stood his ground. i said, does it give you pause? he said, no it does not give me pause. then he told me to be quiet. >> i feel as if we are in a crisis in this country, a crisis of pretty much unprecedented proportions in a lot of ways. i think it's incumbent upon us -- you forgive the cliche, speak truth to power. >> news outlets go on day and day and cite unnamed sources, use stories without sources. >> we're here to ask you questions. you are here to provide answers. what you did is inflammatory to people all over the country who look at it and say, once again, the president is right and everybody else out here is fake media. everybody in this room is only trying to do their job. >> you have russia. if the president puts russian

salad dressing on his salad, that's a russian connection. every single person -- i appreciate your agenda here. the reality is -- hold on. at some point report the facts. i'm sorry that that disgusts you. you are shaking your head. stop shaking your head again. >> i apologize if things got heated. you did make some pretty rough insinuations. thank you. thank you. i will hand it over to sarah. that went exactly as planned. that's what sarah was hoping would happen. >> you have some great networks. i must tell you, fox has treated me fairly. fox. >> he promotes fox because fox promotes him. he slams cnn because cnn won't promote him. you have sean hannity is the flavor flav. he literately is his hype man every night, every night, every night. >> how good is hannity?

how good is hannity? he is a great guy. he is an honest guy. >> he is not just using his stroking of the media to build his own media, he wants there to be state run media. he tunes into television. he flips to cnn, moves to fox and friends for comfort. >> fox and friends in the morning is the best show. it's the absolute most honest show. it's a show i watch. >> it's like a drug for him. he can't get the mainstream media because obviously they won't respect him. therefore, he goes to the things he can control, tabloid journalism or twitter account. trump gets his drug. bannon gets the goal of doing away with mainstream media. >> up next, the real reason donald trump attacks america's favorite sport. more top ten stories right after

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wouldn't you love to see one of these nfl owners when somebody disrespects our flag to

say, get that son of a bitch off the field right now. out. he's fired. fired! >> long before donald trump ever moved into the white house, colin kaepernick had america talking with his nfl protests. even though kaepernick has not played a down of football in 2017, donald trump has done his best to keep this story alive. here's number five on our count down. trump tackles the nfl. tonight i'm taking a knee for america. [ cheers and applause ] >> but not just one knee, i'm taking both knees. >> several members of the nfl, the nba and other celebrities and entertainers are uniting

around a statement that has been a source of controversy for more than a year now. taking a knee during the national anthem to protest police brutality. last night it was stevie wonder, and at this moment in london the baltimore ravens are facing off against the jacksonville jaguars. after several players joined the protests that colin kaepernick started last year and took a knee, all of this was sparked by comments from donald trump made on friday night. >> wouldn't you love to see one of these nfl owners when somebody disrespects our flag to say, get that son of a bitch off the field right now, out. he's fired. he's fired! >> this has nothing to do with football. this has everything to do with power and control and keeping these players in their place. >> america owes colin kaepernick an apology this morning and the nfl owes him a job. you made the point, joy, i guess if he had beaten up his wife or girlfriend he would still be playing. given the double standard in the

nfl. >> colin kaepernick was taking a knee before donald trump got elected. steph curry recognizes that going to the white house just validates and normalizes this president. jamel hill being excellent as she usually is and telling the country is that our president sympathizes with white supremacists. this president is incapable of functioning under criticism. >> he supports whites, because he supports those at charlottesville as nice and fine people, but if you have a peaceful protest, you need to get fired and get thrown off the field. >> this president is denigrating our discourse and setting new low standards for all kinds of people in a way that, frankly, will endure with us and lurk in places we can't even see for much longer than he's even alive. >> this administration is doing the work of white supremacy, so whether or not we want to call them white supremacists is, you know, irrelevant really. i think it's about the fact that they are doing the work, and this is part of the work. it's about delegitimizing protests of what is going on in this country and so, you know,

if you can make it about the flag, you can make it about things that you're generally supposed to agree with, then, you know, it becomes something different. >> yeah. >> and a lot of people unfortunately because it's low information media, whatever, they are buying into it. >> houston texans owner rob mcnair offered the latest carefully worded mia culpa. after his warning to fellow nfl owners against, quote, inmates running the prison. >> although collin kaepernick is yet to be signed by any nfl team, reports of police brutality remain intact, if anything, it's grown. this week's gq magazine named kaepernick citizen of the year. >> if you're more enraged about a quiet, peaceful protest during a segment of an nfl game that most people don't even watch, if you're more upset about that than you are about police brutality and americans getting killed by police officers, then you are part of the problem. i look at what colin kaepernick did and the movement he has

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you know, for the moment all we can say is that we are heart broken. i am heart broken for matt. he is my dear, dear friend and my partner and he is being left by many people here, and i am heart broken by the brave colleague who came forward to tell her story and any other women who have their own stories to tell. and we are grappling with a dilemma that so many people have faced these past few weeks. how do you reconcile your love for someone with the revelation that they have behaved that way? >> one of the lasting legacies of 2017 will be a new chapter in the fight against sexual harassment. this year powerful television hosts were fired and producers,

actors, and politicians lost their jobs for sexually harassing women. victims are standing up like never before and saying enough. as we count down "a.m. joy's" top ten stories of 2017, our number 4 story is the me too movement. >> it was at that time where he turned to me and embraced me and gave me a kiss on the lips. >> when we entered the room he grabbed each of us tightly in a hug and kissed each one of us without asking permission. >> he then grabbed my shoulder and began kissing me again very aggressively and placed his hand on my breast. >> one of the women who accused donald trump of sexual misconduct last year is suing him for calling her a liar. >> i'm just sitting there minding my business and he walks past and says, hey, hot chocolate. >> that was one of the latest women to come forward with sexual harassment accusations against bill o'reilly that led fox news to put him on permanent vacation this week. unfortunately at fox news they marginalize women and they debase women, they devalued women, they demeaned women.

it is unacceptable and so this is just the beginning. >> "the new york times" dropped a bombshell report with women going on the record about decades of sexual harassment accusations against megaproducer harvey weinstein. now we're starting to see women coming forward because once a few women come forward then you start to get the flood of stories. the same thing did happen with donald trump. i think we forget who these women are. i want to go through with the trump accusers, you know, the bbc, daily news, "huffington post "and others have tallied then, mimi laconin, kristen anderson, jessica leads. temple taggart mctowel. ivana trump has made allegations which she retracted later. do we have like a triple standard here that if it's the president it's okay but if it's harvey weinstein we're rightfully mortified? >> we're at a point, i've spoken

to so many women this week, who are pissed off. we don't want to be treated that way. >> on saturday another bombshell was dropped. the paper reported that last january bill o'reilly, then the network's top rated host, struck a $32 million agreement with a long-time new york annual -- long-time net work analist to settle allegations of misconduct. whatever right wing media would have you believe, it's because sexual harassment is about abuse of power and not because of partisan politics. harvey weinstein, you now have at least 58 accused, 56 accusers. bill o'reilly has seven accusations, bill cosby more than 50. but sitting right there in the middle of that little full screen we've got is donald trump. >> the fact of the matter is is that the gop put a self-proclaimed and self-admitted sexual assaulter in the white house. i mean, this is something -- i don't understand how our culture can change when the president of the united states is just as bad as weinstein and o'reilly.

>> you were really the first high profile woman to come forward with allegations of sexual harassment at fox against roger ales. how difficult and complicated is it it come forward when the attacks on you are not just about what happened to you but saying you're a traitor. you're a traitor for all of us with what you're saying. >> coming forward with something like this is an excruciating choice for women. it's not something that you decide to do overnight. courage is a building process. one of the things i like to talk about in the book is how we can give that gift of courage to young people so at least they have the foundation, but to make a decision like this, biggest professional decision of my life. >> this week #metoo proliferated on social media as millions of women shared their stories of surviving sexual assault and harassment. amid the allegations of disgraced movie mogul, harvey weinstein. the metoo movement began a decade ago when tyranna burk listened as one of her campers said she was being abused at home.

we were reminded of the more than 100 women including members of the national and olympic gymnastics teams who have accused gymnastics doctor larry nasser of abuse. when gold medal gymnast, mckayla moroney tweeted a metoo story of her own. >> alabama's roy moore is denying accusations of sexual misconduct. he is not dropping out of the race. this is moore's first public appearance since the washington post told the story of a woman who says moore initiated sexual contact with her when she was a 14-year-old girl. and he was a 32-year-old assistant prosecutor. >> i am not shocked by donald trump. he's an ass. i'm not shocked by roy moore. he's a loud mouth, gun toting fool. what i am shocked by is the complicity, enabling what these people are doing. in the presidency of donald trump who himself would be in jail in most states if he had been caught grabbing a woman by the crotch without her permission, that is called

criminal assault. >> as a pastor, as a leader, my first goal if an accuser came to me to be ministered and to be counselled is to first discover what do we need to do to start the healing process within that individual. >> but roy moore isn't asking for redemption or healing. he's denying he did it. >> we're not talking about roy moore. >> yes, we are. that's what i have you booked on to talk about. >> we're talking about the accuser, because it's all connected. we need to be asking ourselves, joy, between roy moore and the accusers, who is more credible? a person that has had years of experience, years of walking upright publicly. >> you don't find these women credible? >> these new nine women -- >> they're only new because they're not public figures. you're telling me you don't find -- you find roy moore more credible than them? >> i love you so much, but you got to let me finish. >> the idea that we're going to discredit these women because they don't have the prominence of roy moore, that is how roy

moore and harvey weinstein and all the rest of these predators have been able to get away with it for so long, because they were in a position of power and the women were afraid of social and professional and cultural consequences. >> some republican lawmakers have been asked to address the allegations against senate candidate roy moore. their response has become a now family refrain. what about al franken? >> i think in one case specifically senator franken has admitted wrongdoing and the president hasn't. i think that's a clear distinction. >> franken admits it and roy moore denies it. so i do think that puts them in two different categories. >> today i am announcing that in the coming weeks i will be resigning as a member of the united states senate. i, of all people, am aware that there is some irony in the fact that i am leaving while a man who has bragged on tape about his history of sexual assault sits in the oval office.

>> this week charlie rose, formerly of the charlie rose show and cbs this morning became the latest name added to a growing list of famous powerful men accused of social misconduct. director comey also said that while they have no proof, we assess that it is possible that hostile actors gained access to secret clinton's personal e-mail accounts. you were communicating on highly sensitive topics. why wasn't it more than a mistake? why wasn't it disqualifying? >> after matt lauer hosted a live primetime commander in chief forum for nbc news last september during the presidential campaign, there was widespread criticism accusing lauer of treating hillary clinton unfairly, interrupting her and grilling her about her e-mails while treating donald trump with kid gloves and failing to fact check his lie about opposing the iraq war. clinton was among the critics who believed his performance was sexist. this week she was asked about lauer, who was fired as host of the "today" show after a woman

colleague made a detailed complaint accusing him of inappropriate sexual behavior. clinton's response, quote, every day i believe more in karma. now matt lauer did, indeed, help shape the narrative during the most contentious presidential race in history. as did charlie rose, and certain certain certain certainlymark halperin, ben thrush, bill o'reilly, men on the ever expanding list of giants in the media who are facing allegations of sexual misconduct. most of these men have been fired. thrush has been suspended. though those are positive steps, given that other men accused of the behavior continue to have titles and are running for office, hint, hint, those actions beg the question, did their allegedly troubled history with women affect the outcome of the 2017 election? >> they lead an infrastructure in which undermining and degrading women could be carted off as locker room talk. and that's all part of the things we were willing to accept. and the idea that men who knew that there were skeletons in their closet refused to come down hard when other skeletons

were exposed is significant. hillary clinton's loss and the loss of every woman who has been pushed out of a job and made to feel entim dated in a world where this is made to be okay. coming up, the story "a.m. joy" has been on since 2016. that's next. well, like most of you, i just bought a house.

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over 300 people would have had to have been involved in processing all the information that would go into, as naier called it, which is correct, hybrid warfare, which is warfare against political institutions, people, systems using information warfare propaganda in everything, and wikileaks was a critical component of that. assange could quickly turn state's evidence against the trump administration if he knows the lengths to winning himself. >> ticktock, ticktock, ticktock. it stays interesting. we like you predicting things on this show so come back and do it again. "a.m. joy" has been your home for the latest in the wide-reaching russia investigation that has engulfed donald trump and the russia investigation. it started in 2016 and continued for the entire 2017 season. i get the feeling that it's also going to be around in 2018. next up, number three on our top stories countdown, russia gate. >> u.s. intelligence chiefs released a report that concluded

that russian president, vladimir putin directed a, quote, influence campaign targeting the u.s. presidential election. >> if putin likes donald trump, guess what, folks, that's called an asset, not a liability. >> the senate intelligence committee announced late friday that it will investigate russia's alleged interference in the presidential election. >> what i can confirm having spoken to him about it is that those conversations that happened to occur around the time that the united states took action to expel diplomats had nothing whatsoever to do with those sanctions. >> this week in an explosive news story "the washington post" reports that nine, nine current and former u.s. senior officials have confirmed sanctions against russia were in fact the topic of discussion between flynn and the ambassador. >> what's the old saying, the cover up is the crime. >> "the new york times" piece said trump campaign aides had repeated contact with russian intelligence. >> this is going to be the greatest scandal in american history. this is benedict arnold territory.

>> political fallout continues over sessions' misleading testimony about the meetings with top russian diplomats in washington. >> why? why were these people in communication with moscow or the representatives of moscow at all? >> fbi director jim comey will be testifying at a house intelligence committee on russian interference in the 2016 elections. >> the fbi, as part of our counterintelligence mission, is investigating the russian government's efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, and that includes investigating the nature of any links between individuals associated with the trump campaign and the russian government and whether there was any coordination between the campaign and russia's efforts. >> well, i'm going to tell you right now, i know who's going to break. general flynn is going to --

most likely going to find himself before a federal court and he's going to have to defend himself. >> thursday wall street journal dropped a bombshell that flynn is shopping around and offered to be interviewed by the fbi and by the house and senate intelligence committees in exchange for immunity from prosecution. remember that dossier with the explosive allegations about trump's ties to russia, which we've been reminding you is unsubstantiated? well, according to cnn, the fbi used the claims in the dossier to surveil carter page. >> i honestly do not understand why the white house is covering up for michael flynn. i don't get it. after the president fired him for lying. >> let me say hearing this story today was the first i heard of it. >> you'd have to be a straight up idiot to not -- to not realize that he's registered as a foreign agent or the staff would have to be totally incompetent for him to be able to not be aware of the situation that arose. >> this is something we are going to be looking into a lot

further, ticktock, ticktock. >> regardless of recommendation, i was going to fire comey knowing there was no good time to do it. and, in fact, when i decided to just do it, i said to myself, i said, you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made up story. >> donald trump has now openly admitted that his firing of the fbi director jim comey right in the middle of an investigation into the trump campaign's possible collusion with russia was for exactly the reason you think, to make the investigation go away. >> i did it with a range. i think he asked for the dinner. he wanted to stay on as the fbi head. >> close comey associates told the "new york times" and nbc news a very different version of that dinner. it was the president, they say, asking -- making requests that comey, specifically, prejudice his personal loyalty to trump. trump's very words, actions and tweets have put him at odds with intelligence agency since the

november election. that's why when news broke that he may have shared highly classified information with a russian foreign minister and the russian ambassador, sergey kislyak, thought to be a russian spy, it did nothing but strain an already fraught relationship. jared kushner and russia's ambassador to washington discussed the possibility of setting up a secret and secure communications channel between trump's team and the kremlin. >> when you tie all of this in, carter page, michael flynn, jared kushner, jeff sessions, every one of them has one nexus and that nexus is sergei kislyack. the russian ambassador to the united states. every one of these people tried to hide their connections to him. >> he did say under oath that you told him to let the flynn -- you said you hoped the flynn investigation you could -- he could let go. >> i didn't say that. >> so he lied about that? >> well, i didn't say that. i mean, i will tell you i didn't say that. >> did he ask you to pledge -- >> and there would be nothing wrong if i did say it according to everybody that i've read today, but i did not say that.

>> plainly and simply, the former fbi director gave a public account of being pressured by the president to, quote, let the flynn investigation go and suggested that his firing was part of an effort to change the way the russia investigation was being conducted. >> kicking superior officers out of the oval office, looking the fbi director in the eye and saying, i hope you let this go. i was honestly concerned that he might lie about the nature of our meeting so i thought it really important to document. >> director comey's testimony where he basically calls donald trump a liar makes it crystal clear, donald trump's presidency is a cancer on this nation and perhaps the only hope from that cancer spreading is the nation's oncologist, special counsel robert mueller. >> mueller is now investigating whether donald trump obstructed justice. rather than let his lawyer speak for him, trump tweeted. i am being investigated for firing the fbi director by the man who told me to fire the fbi director! witch hunt. this week "the wall street journal" reported strongest evidence yet of possible

collusion, detailing how a gop operative, the now deceased peter w. smith launched a quest to obtain e-mails he believed were stolen from hillary clinton's private server while implying that he was connected to michael flynn. >> it shows you both, a, how good the russians are at manipulating people and, b, it shows you how susceptible -- >> right. >> -- the man in the white house is to that manipulation. >> here it is. i'm more than happy to be transparent and more than happy to cooperate with with everyone. >> as far as this incident occurred, this is all of it. >> this is everything. >> that was most certainly not everything because on friday we learned that there was still a lot about the june 2016 meeting with a kremlin connected lawyer that we had not yet seen. it turns out that that lawyer natalia veselnitskaya, wasn't the only russian in the room in donald junior's e-mail correspondence. what he and the trump campaign were promised in those e-mails was some official documents and information that would incriminate hillary clinton,

information that is part of russia and its government support for mr. trump. an extraordinary offer purported to be from the russian government but which apparently raised no red flags for donald trump jr. who replied, if it's what you say, i love it. >> this actually meets the standard of conspiracy because you don't have to rob a bank, right, to actually plan to rob a bank and take the money. >> let me be clear, i never had meetings with russian operatives or russian intermediaries about the trump campaign. >> the new revelations, if true, contradict the various explanations that sessions has offered about the content of those conversations. special counsel robert mueller is now tapping multiple grand juries in his investigation of russia's interference in our election. news of a recent fbi raid on one of paul manafort's homes had donald trump trying to put daylight between himself and his one-time campaign chief.

in that july 26th raid fbi agents seized documents related to special counsel robert mueller's sprawling russia investigation. >> i own nothing in russia. i have no loans in russia. i don't have any deals in russia. >> and in a last russiagate revelations this week we learned that trump's business was still trying to make that deal with russia for a trump tower in moscow happen at the same time that he was running for president of the united states. >> that's the million dollar question you ask. the outcomes razor here, the simple thing for everyone to think about is the explanation for why this is occurring is does it line donald trump's wallet? >> special counsel robert mueller now has a draft of the original letter that trump wrote firing comey which offers an unvarnished view of trump's motive. trump poured all of his rage into a letter filled with, quote, his unfettered thoughts which he dictated to adviser steven miller and which they

said was a screed. >> by the way, folks, just in case you're curious, no, russia did not help me. okay. russia. >> donald trump sure seems pretty keen to distance himself from russia. maybe because special counsel robert mueller has requested a large swath of documents from the white house. at the same time, zeroing in on trump's former campaign chairman paul manafort who according to "the washington post" offered private briefings to russian billionaire in july of 2016. >> this is just the beginning of the tip of the iceberg. >> yeah. >> as the next year goes by, maybe in the next six months we're going to start seeing indictments. we're going to start seeing people actually having to pay for the things that they've done. >> ladies and gentlemen, we have an indictment. special counsel robert mueller's office will issue its first

indictment in the russia investigation. >> federal investigators have enough evidence to bring charges in the investigation of trump's former national security adviser, michael flynn, and his son. >> lock him up. lock him up. >> he has been caught, and mueller has done what i've always known he would do, starting to connect the dots and bring them in. >> we'll see what happens. >> after donald trump answered that question for reporters yesterday morning, we all saw what happened. trump tweeted, i had to fire general flynn because he lied to the vice president and the fbi. now there are three little letters in that tweet that make it markedly different from the reason he gave for ousting flynn in february. fbi. >> this is an incriminating tweet. what it suggests is that president trump knew that there was an fbi investigation at the time that he went to comey, then director of the fbi, and said, can you give him a break? >> in january while donald trump was delivering his inaugural

address, his then national security adviser, michael flynn, was texting a business associate with assurances that u.s. policy toward russia was as good as reversed. >> i call on my republican colleagues to join me in firing bob mueller. >> the hunt for something, anything has become a white whale not only for fox news hosts but also as the washington post reported this week for republican lawmakers and activists. all of them engaged in what the post describes as a multi-front attack with one clear goal, to impede mueller's investigation, dismiss any finding that's unfavorable to trump or build a case for trump to make a nixonian attempt to fire mueller outride. >> this is insane. do i have to be the one that comes out and tells the american public he takes away the fundamental ability for us to police ourselves and to police a president of the united states, he has done the ultimate obstruction in justice. he is dismantling the constitution, and it cannot stand. >> this is serious stuff and you

really need to start thinking about it because a lot of people across this world live with governments like this for decades. in the united states we have mechanisms that are supposed to be able to protect us. we need to start using them. up next, in 2017 racism showed its ugly face in broad daylight in an american city. more "a.m. joy" next. ♪ [vo] progress is an unstoppable force. the season of audi sales event is here. audi will cover your first

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>> will not replace us. jews will not replace us. >> did you get that? >> go. >> in 2017, the white supremacy movement felt emboldened by a new president. that movement referred its ugly head in charlottesville, virginia, on august 12th, and some of the fireworks started right here on "a.m. joy." >> i was invited in to give a speech to that regard, and as we were closing down -- i've got to go. i've got to go. i've got to go. >> oh, my goodness, i don't know what is happening here. i don't know what just happened there with our guest but i --

we're going to try to find out what happened and she was standing at the location where it looks like now violence has broken out among the crowd. violent clashes are underway in charlottesville, virginia, as counter protesters confront white nationalist in a, quote, unite the right rally. >> marching down the market street is the neonazis, the traditionalist workers' party which is a neofascist organization. and the klu klux klan. they tried to enter the park and they assaulted clergy, and they assaulted local peace activists. >> you had people who are white nationalists from the alt right throwing all kinds of things towards the counter protesters. the counter protesters in turn were throwing things back. >> the most serious thing happened when a driver plowed a

car into a crowd of peacefully marching counter protesters, killing one person and injuring 19 others. several witnesses say they believe it was intentional. >> this is a sad day in america, and i'm afraid that there will be many more because of the hate rhetoric that we have unleashed in this country. >> this is the republican party right now that's on display. donald trump's republican party. >> we are not the party of fish -- fascism in america. we are going to have to reject this. >> the head of our country is donald j. trump and until he steps up and speaks out and calls this what it is, it is racism, it is anti-semitism pure and simple and he condemns it in no uncertain terms, he is condoning it. >> you had some very bad people in that group, but you also had people that were very fine people on both sides. >> donald trump is a terrible human being. he is taking this white house so

far into the gutter, so far into the darkness that even lucifer wants to fumigate. >> you had many people in that group other than neonazis and white nationalists, okay? and the press has treated them absolutely unfairly. >> his response to that demonstration last week in charlottesville was monstrous. the reason why he's been treated like a monster is because of the way he responded to an american crisis was a monstrosity. >> he watched neonazis, white supremists, white nationalists salute the nazi flag in his name. they were saying that we are keeping donald trump's promise and he thinks that these are fine people. he went -- he stood behind the podium with the seal of the presidency, of the white house, and he continued to enable them, he encouraged them, he defended them. this is the type of president that we have currently in the oval office.

>> we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides, on many sides. >> there's no way to defend the neonazis. >> but donald trump did. he defended them. he said there were fine people among those people who were chanting you will not replace us. jews will not replace us. he said among that group of young men who said jews will not replace us there were fine people. do you think there were fine people in that group? >> those folks that provide cover for people who are invested in the confederacy, neonazis, white supremacists, those folks reject the constitution. they reject equality as one of the basic tenants of america. >> one of the reasons donald trump cannot properly respond to what was an obvious, you know, proper response from an american president is the people in his government. who's writing the talking points that he was looking down and reading from? he has people like steven miller claimed as a mentee by richard

spencer, who is an avowed open white nationalist. he has steve bannon, who read breitbart.com where they self-describe as the home of the alt right. that is who is in his government. sebastian gorka, who wore the medal of a nazi organization. he is being paid by the taxpayers in the government. he is surrounded by these people. the idea that the president of the united states cannot unambiguously denounce naziism is extraordinary. next up, our number one story. you do not want to miss it.

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the donald trump era has a growing number of americans saying enough is enough. in a year with no shortage of stories, from health care, the nfl, me too, russia gate. our number one story of the year, the resistance. >> today the resistance will be televised live from washington, d.c., where more than 200,000 people are expected to gather to join the women's march on washington. the crowd may even top the one that gathered for trump's inauguration. >> there's a reason why women are out. i'm sitting here and i'm watching thousands and thousands of women stream by. and in 281 cities around the world, on seven continents, including antarctica, women are protesting today. >> you have your hat. >> i know. i'm at this march. >> can you get lisa's hat on camera.

let's get a shot of the hat. >> i'm all in. >> this is actually the symbol of the march. this is what women are wearing. >> i am so excited. >> this is an outpouring of energy and true democracy like i have never seen in my very long life. >> we will not go from being a nation of immigrants to a nation of ignorance. >> d.c. officials told the associated press that 500,000 people marched through the streets of the capitol and organizers of the women's march say that more than 650 sister marches took place around the world. >> women are always going to pull things off. everyone questions us, people doubted us. we have this saying that you either have a seat at the table or you're on the menu. so we're either going to be an agenda item or we're going to set the agenda, and the purpose was for us to come to the table to set the agenda. i think that was very clear. >> we believe in science.

we know that climate change is real. we also believe that immigration makes us a stronger country. we will not build a stupid wall! >> donald trump signed an executive order banning immigrants and visa holders from libya, sudan, somalia, syria, iraq, iran, and yemen for 90 days with syrian refugees banned indefinitely. now it should be noted that while trump's ban covers these countries, which have produced exactly zero people linked to terrorist attacks that have killed americans between 1975 and 2015, the ban does not cover countries like turkey, egypt, united arab emirates and saudi arabia, countries with whom the trump family does business and whose citizens have been linked to terrorist attacks that killed americans, including 15 of the 19 9/11 attackers who were saudis. >> what we are doing is creating

a base for terrorists that didn't exist last night. and when we do that, what we do is we push intelligent, educated, clever people into believing that the united states does not stand for the morals of that building right behind me there, independence hall, and that what we stand for is a form of racism and segregation and bigotry that osama bin laden and baghdadi and other terrorist leaders have been saying for years. >> what's happening in the united states of america right now is not normal, and if you're alarmed, you have every reason to be alarmed. the day after donald trump signed an executive order temporarily banning all refugees from the united states and immigrants from seven muslim majority countries, people gathered at airports around the country, dulles, jfk, o'hare, logan, seatac just to name a few to demand the release of the immigrants who were detained when the executive order went into effect. for mr. khan, trump's attack on

muslims and immigrants is acutely personal. his son, a naturalized american muslim, was killed in combat in iraq in 2004 and gold star father khan joins me now. >> joy, i am so saddened for my country, for my nation, for the country and nation for which we have fought. we continue to defend. i invite donald trump and his racist and his islamophobe and his un-american culture to go to the arlington cemetery and go to section 60, face all of the tombstones there, and if they have any shame, any shame they should refrain from this unamerican activity. >> today the resistance is rising up to demand that donald trump release his tax returns with protests in cities all across the country. >> i really do believe in the power of the people, and i think

it's very important for us to resist and to demand. he must show his taxes. every president since nixon has shown their taxes, and i think the people have a right to know. >> mr. president, what's your decision on daca, mr. president? >> thank you very much. >> a decision on daca? >> sometime today or over the weekend we'll have a decision. >> should d.r.e.a.m.ers be worried? >> we love the d.r.e.a.m.ers. we love everybody. thank you very much. >> i want to talk to you about the 800,000 americans who may soon be at risk of deportation. the d.r.e.a.m.ers. undocumented immigrants who came to this country as children under the age of 16. for many of whom america is the only country they know. this tuesday donald trump is expected to announce whether he'll end the obama era program allowing these d.r.e.a.m.ers to remain in the u.s., a program known as deferred action for childhood arrival or daca for short. i want to put up for our audience so you understand how you qualify for daca because

donald trump has made this sort of distinction, we only want to deport people who are, quote, criminal. you have to have come to the u.s. before your 16th birthday. you have to be under the age of 31 as of june 15, 2012. you have to have continually resided in the u.s. since june 15, 2007. you have to be in school, have a diploma or ged or a veteran. you have to have no felonies or significant misdemeanor convictions and you have to be deemed not a threat to national security or public safety. if you look at who these folks are, median age is 25 years old. median age of arrival was 6 years old. 91.4% of them are employed and of those, 56% were not employed before daca, meaning they got jobs because of daca. >> so basically they're american kids, right? like we see in romero. i'm on the phone with him, he's like -- i get emotional because he's like, what did i do? like what did i do? i'm like, look, i'm an american

citizen. why am i upset about this? i can't believe i'm getting emotional, but it's because, in fact, these kids represent the best, right? they represent the total best. >> democrats are eyeing the 2018 mid terms with renewed optimism after tuesday's elections gave them reason for hope for the first time in an entire year. ralph northam's victory in the virginia gubernatorial race gave them a big rise. they picked up 15 seats. and there are a number of historic firsts for women, people of color and transgender candidates, none of which means that it's time for democrats to pop the champaign cork yet because it remains to be seen if they continue to ride that wave right into 2018. >> i have always believed that the people of alabama had more in common than to divide us. >> this week the state of alabama took a stand and dodged a bullet. rejecting republican roy moore, the trump endorsed accused child

molester and the horse he rode in on. sorry, sassy. instead, a majority chose doug jones, the first democrat the state will send to the united states senate in 25 years. and a man who made a name for himself prosecuting the kkk members who bombed that church in 1963, killing four black girls. the stunning epic victory for jones and his party was largely responding to sexual misconduct allegations against roy moore. make no mistake, the outcome was the latest example of the political power of black voters as well as the effectiveness of local activists who mobilized voting efforts and won. we here at "a.m. joy" could not bring you all of these stories without the wonderful guests who join me on a weekly basis. here's a look at some of the members of the "a.m. joy" family. ♪

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fake news. >> congratulations, mr. president. >> i am outraged. >> i hope there are tapes. >> this trump and russia thing is a made-up story. >> we're getting nothing done. >> violated my body. >> it was disgusting. >> he mashed his lips against my face. >> 2017 has been an unbelievable year. the most outrageous, the most surprising and exhausting. the greatest number of have you seen this events we've ever seen.