the american detained in russia accused of be being a spy. >> my family members have been in contact with the people at the state department and the embassy in moscow, and we have heard they have received an announcement from the russian government that paul has been detained, but they have not yet been able to have consular access with paul. >> they can come over right now or any time. i spent christmas in the white house, and i spent new year's eve now in the white house, and you know, i am here and ready to go. >> the presumptive speak over the house nancy pelosi and charles shum vchumer have propo parts of the bill that would keep the government open, but not part of the wall. >> i have heard that the wall is old fashioned, but it is not old fashioned, but 100% foolproof. we have to have border security, and the wall is part of the border security, the bigs part. >> i don't believe that the

president is going to bend, and the house democrats are smart to separate it out and put the pressure on the senate, but the majority leader of the senate is mitch mcconnell to not put anything on the floor that would not pass. >> how much blood on the hands of the democratic leaders like nancy is pe llosi and chuck schumer before they will help with us the border security or the craving for pow sore much they are willing to accept the loss of american lives. and outgoing acting defense chief patrick shanahan is now acting defense chief after general mattis is out. >> i never said we would rush out. we are bringing the bright young troops home after several years. >> we will enjoy this next year and the following year and four more and everything is going to be so beautiful. so much to get to, but let's

start with this, his innocence is undoubted. that is from the family of a retired u.s. marine owho has been detained in rusrussia, and rejecting the accusations of russia that he is a spy. he is paul wheelen and a former marine from michigan, and the russian security agency released a brief statement saying that he is arrested in an espionage operation, but they did not release any specifics. he could face up to 20 years in prison. and they say that he was in moscow to attend a wedding when they noticed that he was no longer in communication. the with white house is pushing for consular access. the white house says that the russian ministry provided official notification, and the family is expressing deep concern for his safety and concern. joining me on the phone is his twin brother david. thank you for joining us. how are you doing, and how is

your family? >> i think that we are doing the best we can in light of very little information and a rather implausible situation. >> so what do you know? first, let's talk about the basics. why was he in russia? how did you realize something was wrong? >> paul was in russia to help a friend out who was having a wedding in moscow, and so he arrived and had been a part of the wedding party for a day or two prior to the 28th. and in that morning, he had helped out in a tour around the kremlin and his friend had asked him to help, because paul had been to russia before and traveled widely and his work takes him around the globe o. so it was a surprise that evening when there were no more communications are from paul, and nooeither in the united stas where he would have been worried about his dog or from the people

at the wedding with who did not see him. and it was not until monday morning that we understood that he had been detained by the russian government. >> was it by the state department or has someone been assigned to you by the u.s. government to keep you informed on what they know and what they are doing? >> we learned about paul's detention from the online news wires that had republished the russian ministry's announcement about his detention. we have been speaking to the people at the state department since and strong help from the the people at the embassy in moscow, ale though, i'm not really clear on the 72-hour window, but there is a window that has to pass before someone from the consulate can have access to paul. so no one has seen or heard from him. >> and the last numbers of the u.s. tourism of russia was up, and so many people, and thousands who go there every

year and had your brother been there before, and what is going through your mind why him? >> yeah. he has been to russia since 2007, because i have seen a picture of him in front of the kremlin back then when he was on the r&r from a marine serving in iraq and was on r are and r and took the opportunity to go to russia to be a tourist, and so he did. he loves to travel. so i was not surprised at all that he would be confident going to russia. he has a law enforcement background, and the marine background and does corporate security, and aware of the risks for traveling at certain parts of the world, so itner would occur to me that he would have trouble in a large metropolitan area or b, that his background would suggest that he would commit any crime and let alone an espionage crime. >> and so there is absolutely no doubt in your mind that these charges against him are trumped up? >> no doubt. >> and you tweeted that my brother was held by the russian

government as an alleged spy, and while the law library and in focus may remain, you will see messages on topic until we get him safely home. with what is that about? >> i'm a professional law librarian, and i tend to stick very much inside of my lane and talk about the law libraries and the information and how to use it. and so i just wanted to let people know who followed me that they may occasionally see something that is a little bit more personal than i would share on social media. >> understandably so. do you a sense of what you and your family can do? i cannot imagine being thrust into a situation like this. >> i think that it is really difficult. i mean, there's -- it is trite to say that you can use the web and google, but there is a gool of inf google and other sites of what to deal with, but there is no way to assess the quality and

competency of the russian consul, and so we will go by the list, and hopefully paul can find a lawyer to help him through the criminal allegations that russia has alleged. we will continue to work with the congress and with michigan senat senators and michigan representatives and any other, frankly, any other part of the government who can help us to bring paul home. >> and finally, everybody would understand the statement that you put out about how concerned you are for his safety, and anybody would be in your si situation. having said that, does it give you a little bit of comfort knowing what the background is in the military and the extensive travel that he has done, and that he, i don't want to say that he would know how thena gate the situation, but be more knowledgeable than some other people who might find themselves in what would be absolutely a terrifying situation? >> that is absolutely correct. i mean, you can't plan for arbitrary, but for a set of skills to have to try and deal

with this kind of a situation, i think that paul has a superior set of skills to most of us certainly to what i would have had if i were in his situation. so hopefully he won't have to deploy too many of the skills in order to survive and to come home. >> i can imagine that everyone watching this, david, is routing for paul, obviously, and your whole family and thinking of you. we hope that there is a good resolution to this and very, very quick ly. we appreciate you taking the time to talk to us. >> thank you so much for having me. >> i want to bring in bill browder, a champion nfor the magnitsky act, a law used to impose sanctions on human rights and others. and the putin government has accused him of a number of crimes. it is good to get your perspective when we have these, well, what is a horrible situation. this is what you tweeted. the arrest of paul wheelen in

moscow as he was in russia to attend a wedding looks increasing ly as a hostage situation, and all foreign travelers to russia should be aware that anything can happen. the u.s. government should intervene decisively in this case. what are you seeing here? >> it looks like this the fellow was basically plucked out by the putin regime as a hostage. they have a good reason to take a hostage, because the american government has prosecuted mariia butina who has plead guilty and will start to talk to the mueller investigation on russia's influence of the american politics. putin is very upset by that and he needs a bargaining chip for that. and i am afraid for what i can

see in front of me that paul welan is that bargaining chip. >> you say that the united states government should intervene decisively in this ca case. and we have somebody who is also a retired marine. we don't have many details other than what we have heard from his brother, but how should the president respond here? is more at stake here than his safety? >> well sh, he has now become a bargaining chip in my opinion, a geopolitical bargaining chip. it must be made clear to vladimir putin that you cannot just grab americans, put them in jail and accuse them of spying in order to create bargaining chips, and we have leverage in the west to create that message to vladimir putin, and that need t needs to be communicated to him very clearly and decisively. >> because on the other side of what you just said, even if it is about specifically butina and they want to get to her before she has a chance to talk to u.s.

investigators, more generally is putin trying to send a warning shot to trump, leave our citizens alone, because hawe ha access to yours? >> well, what putin sees is that he has a weak hand with butina and others, and he wants to strengthen his hand. it is easy to grab any american in moscow and accuse them of spying and put them in a horrible situation. i feel strongly for the family that, i mean, the uncertain the ti of this must be terrible for the whelan family, and they deser deserve the full support of the u.s. government and the full power of the u.s. government to make it clear that this kind of stuff cannot happen. >> and let me ask you finally though, and i mentioned it when i was talking to the brother that the family put out a statement that they are concerned for his safety and well-being. so what happens next? >> well, a lot of things can happen next. i mean, if, you know, they are going to -- first of all, the russians will make a number of crazy allegations which they'll

say confidently about what mr. whelan has supposedly done. what i can say for sure is that the allegations will be full of lies, because i have seen the allegations they have made against me and others in politically-motivated cases. after that, if there is a very unlucky situation, they may actually start to put pressure on mr. whelan in prison and amount to torture. they do that and i have seen it with colleagues of mine, and so anything could happen in the situation. we have to be aware of it, and we should, the united states government should make it clear that if anything happens to this man, there is going to be hell to pay. >> bill browder, thank you so much, and we ap preepreciate yo coming in on this new year's day. >> thank you. up next, the first day on the the job for the new acting secretary of defense, patrick shanahan says he is looking forward to carrying out president trump's vision, but what exactly does that mean? you are watching "msnbc live." amazon prime video is now on xfinity x1.

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welcome back. new year bring ss a new leader the defense department. patrick shanahan officially takes his position as the acting defense secretary today replacing four-star marine general james mattis. shanahan began the first day with a welcome memo praising the predecessor before saying, qu e quote, i now look forward to working with president trump to carry out his vision alongside strong leaders including the the service secretaries the joint chief of staff, and combatant

command commanders and the the personnel of the office of the secretary of defense. so who is patrick shanahan? well, he studied engineering and management at my.i.t. before joining boeing the second largest u.s. contractor, and then he held senior positions at the aviation giant. and he also served as mattis' deputy director's secretary. but shanahan has no previous background in policy or legislative affairs, and as "the atlantic" pointed out, he has no experience since an oil magnate served as the head of pentagon for several weeks in watergate. just days ago president trump praised him calling him a good buyer of military equipment.

>> mark shanahan is a very good person who can buy, and i want to buy a lot of things, and i don't want the money wasted. >> and joining us is the former secretary of defense for russia, ukraine and eurasia along with you, malcolm, and i want to ask you, he said that general mattis' views are not aligned with trump, and so is that a good thing that shanahan said that he will carry out trump's vision. >> and yes, that is what mattis was implying that he needed somebody on board who would not buck the system the way that mattis was and he needed a good follower. with that said, dwight d. eisenhower, the supreme commander of world war ii and then president of the united stateser warned us to be on the lookout for the military industrial completion, and

shanahan is the premier member of the military industrial complex, and so it a celebration can -- >> so you are saying that is not something to be at the top of the resume of the secretary of defense? >> no, the secretary of defense is the principle civilian war fighter who has to make the men and women systems to come together to prepare the nation for war. this man is a contracting officer. his job is to get money for boeing, and if that is what the president appears to like. >> all right. so one of the first challenges is not insignificant, discern what the president means when it comes to the troop withdrawal in syria. i want to play what donald trump said a couple of weeks ago and then last night. >> our boys, our young women, our men, they are all coming back. they are coming back now. we won. >> i never said that i am going to rush out. we are going to get out, and get

out of syria, and bring in the young great troops home, and bring them home. we are going to do it in a very good way. >> so, he kind of went from now, to, you know, it is going to be taking a little bit more time. is the job, and i don't mean this in any way but as a straight forward way, malcolm, is the job of any defense secretary now to respond to twitter? i mean, that is how president trump operates, or do we know, you know, should we think about what mattis and others have done, delay and be patient? how does shanahan navigate this? >> you know, i am going to defer that question to evelyn, because she worked over there at the pentagon, but this is not the job of the secretary of defense to be dancing around at the end of the string for a president. he or she has to command and keep in order the troops who will be there to defend the nation. >> what do you see, eflen, as the biggest challenge for shanahan? >> well, chris, i should say

that i worked directly for three secretaries of defense and indirectly for secretary gates prior to that, and the biggest issue for any secretary of defense is really dealing with the intraagency process, and helping the president to make the big decisions like how many troops in a given place, and what are they doing? so i actually think that the question of syria, afghanistan, north korea, all of these i issues, and these are the big issues for the secretary of defense, and i think that what it means is that in a case of shanahan, you know, by all accounts, he is an able manager, and the dep t, the deputy secretary does not have foreign experience or national security experience, and so i think that secretary pompeo is going to be taking on a lot more influence in this new arrangement, because the issues that you deal with at

the cabnet level are not ones of procurement necessarily. they are issue about life and death, and using the military as an instrument of u.s. power. >> i want to go through some of the places in the world where we have, you know, pressing matters, and evelyn, i want to start with russia as somebody who ass a s assistans a -- who secretary to the secretary of defense, where do you think that president trump is going to have to do something about paul we whelan being taken? >> chris, i am disturbed by this because it has the scent of the tit-for-tat of the kremlin trying to get leverage over the u.s. over the case of mariia butina, and we don't know exactly what this man is doing, and you know, but if he were an intelligence operative, we would imagine that the russian government would send him back to the united states, and that

is usually what they do, they transfer them back to the u.s. we had a case several years ago when i was in the pentagon where they apprehended an operative at the time identified by the media, and ts a russian operati and so he was turned over by the government and returned to the united states. the fact that they are holding him is disturbing. i don't expect, basically our president, a man who could not stand up to vladimir putin when he lied in hel sin ssinki to st for a u.s. citizen, but i will say about president trump he has been actively interested in fryifry i -- in trying to get hostages freed. >> yes. >> and not allow this man to make a link to the mueller

investigation or the election interference interference. >> and now, i want to look at what you are looking into, malcolm, head g toing into 2019 thinking about vladimir putin and kim jong un talking about the meetings with the president, and people on the staffs have talked about it, and what are you going to be looking at and key things that you are watching for in 2019 with donald trump and the foreign policy? >> i am going to be watching what we have been watching for the last two years, how low can president trump go? how much ob secan he take. and not only is paul whelan taken as a hostage, but a detainee, because when they take a ordinary citizen to be used to allow influence over the president. he wants maria butina are

released. >> malcolm, and evelyn, happy new year, and i look forward to talking to you many times to come. and we are in day 11 in the government shutdown, and when we go live to capitol hill to look into how long this could go on. you are watching msnbc. e watch

this new year's day, there is a lot happening in other news. let's start in russia where dramatic video of an 11-month-old baby boy is found alive after being trapped under the rubble of a collapsed building for 35 hours in the freezing cold has just been released. take a look at this. that apartment building collapsing in an explosion yesterday. there's the baby. officials believe it was caused by a gas leak. a new year's eve stabbing in england is being treated as terrorism. this is the video of police holding down a man accused of attacking three people on a train platform. two victims remain in the hospita hospital, and one has been released. the united states has quit the united nations educational scientific and cultural agency is and more commonly known as

unesco, and israel also left, and both countries claim it is biased against israel. as of today, france is taxing the america's tech giant called a digital tax and it is going to hit advertising and the selling of personal data. france estimates to raise half a billion euros for the public coffers there this year. today, any at tend to end the government shutdown stalemate is meeting this dubious claim by president trump that the biggest part of border security is the wall. that claim despite of what the president has been told, that while in some places more barriers could help, and more manpower and technology and the fixing the loopholes in the law are key. b but it is day 11 of the partial government shutdown. 800,000 federal workers still not getting their paychecks. the house democrats plan to the introduce their proposal of the government when they take over control of the chamber thursday.

while it is unlikely to pass the senate, and it could put pressure on the president who insists on having a wall. >> we have to have border security, and wall is part of border security. i hear so much about the wall is old-fashioned. no, the wall is not old-fashioned, but the wall is 100% foolproof. you are looking at wheel, and you guess the wheel would be old-fashioned but it has been around a long time, the and wall is the only way to do that and the technology and nobody knows more about technology than me, but set the bells and the whistles on the wall. >> and joining me now is garrett haake on capitol hill who has been following the shutdown showdown throughout. so we are starting to see the other kindses of headlines now beyond the 800,000 federal employees, and now we are learning that some of them might sue. some of the gross headlines about the national park bathrooms overflowing with human waste. so let's talk about what the democratic plan is to do, and

did they think that as more of the stories come out, it just builds in their favor for the president to back off on some of this? >> yeah, chris. this is part of the democratic calculus here, and as so much of the shutdown of the weekend and the holidays in between, and as we are back to the proper work week here, you will see the actual effects add up. that is going to be coupled with the democratic plan to make sure that any of the political heat and the political pressure goes to the republicans who still control the senate and the white house. when the democrats get back here thursday, they will pass this two-pronged plan out of the house that they fully fund for the next year 6 of the 7 agencies that needed funding. and they will fund them through 2019, and then a short-term funding measure just for the department of homeland security, and just in terms of the border security for $1.3 billion and none of it for the wall. and at which point the democrats will essentially say, we are here, and we have shown that we can govern and serious about, this and now the ball is in your

court, mitch mcconnell, and are you interested in keeping the government closed over this wall, and what do you and your republican colleagues want to do it? it is not a plan to reopen the government directly, but a planb to increase the pressure on the republicans particularly in the senate to come to a reasonable bargaining position, and position where prams they could split from the president or decide that this fight is just not worth it anymore. >> or redefine the idea of the wall is and that is a matter of semantics and what you heard from john kelly saying in the exit interview, we stopped talking about the concrete wall a long time ago, because the people on the border say other thing are important, and we have heard talks of slats and that stuff, and any sense that there is room for negotiation, and where this is concerned or maybe it is calling the wall something else? >> this is going to heart of the issue for the democrats here, because it is so hard to pindown where the president stands on this, and exactly what he wans.s

take for example this sort of the conciliatory message on fox news as part of the same int interview last night. >> i'm in washington, and i'm ready, will, able in the white house. i am ready to go. they could come over any time, i have spent christmas in the white house and new year's eve new in the white house, and i'm here and ready to go. it is very important and lot of people are looking to get the paycheck, and so i am ready to go any time they want. >> and so that is sure sounding like a president who is ready to make a deal, and that same white house has not reached out to the democratic leadership in weeks a on the other hand real good faith negotiations going on,and they have complained that they don't know where the president stands on the wall. and sometimes it is a concrete structure and sometimes see-through and sometimes slats or a fence and sometimes it is not a wall as john kelly described in the sunday interview or as lindsey graham described, it is a metaphor, and until and unless the democrats believe that the president is

nailed down on one position that he is going to stick to, the democrats don't want to negotiate with a ghost here. they want to know exactly what the president's position is, and until that happens, we are still sort of stuck waiting for the political pressure to continue to mount here. >> nbc's garrett haake, thank you so much. probably one of three people in that entire building today. >> absolutely. >> and we appreciate your reporting. and shocking new video that could prove migrant children have been abuse ed d in the u.s custody, and could criminal charges be filed? you are watching msnbc live. i'm alex trebek here to tell you

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we welcome back. newly uncovered videos of migrant children being shoved and dragged at a shelter in arizona are prompting prosecutors to review whether criminal channels should be filed. in one video provided to msnbc news by arizona's department of health, a man is seen apparently struggling to get a child inside of a room, but then shoving him into the door. the video is blurred. there is no audio. there is another video are where the worker appears to almost be carrying the child into the room before outright dragging the girl on the floor through the doorway. another child is dragged into the room moments later. the maricopa sheriff's office tells msnbc news that it investigated several allegations of child abuse at that facility based on the evidence they had

submitted a case to the county's attorney office for review, and that facility was closed in october. and joining me is the reporter who broke the stor y and published those videos. thank you for the important story, and you reported that children were slapped by workers at the facility, and how did it come to be that the sheriff's office got involved? >> well, the shelter operator southwest key is required to report these kinds of incidents to the federal government and to local police and i believe also to the state health authorities, and so they sort of self-reported it, but it took a while for somebody to review the videos and take some kind of action. >> one of the things that i found shocking besides the abuse, itself, the apparent abuse, and one worker was going about her business doing her hair while another worker is dragging a child into the room.

i thought, my gosh, is this behavior so routine that you are just like going about your business while a kid seems to be abused. what do we know about it? was it a kind of routine way of dealing with kids? >> based on complaints, this appears to be somewhat of a one-off if you would, but there is a lot that we don't know. seeing the video footage would be helpful to know. it is hard to get inside of the shelters to understand what is going on short of some kind of complaint to law enforcement or to their overseers the contract contractor, and the contract administrators in the federal government. >> i mean, the shelter at least was closed in october. so whether it was a one-off or not, and is this a situation where it is simply judged not to be a safe place for kids to be cared are for? >> well, we are not sure exactly why they, the reason for the closure, but it happened weeks after southwest key reported

this to the federal government, and the feds then put a suspension on the facility and then in a couple of weeks later in an agreement with the state health authorities, they agreed to close this shelter and one other, and what is going on at the other one, we are still t trying to find out. >> the sheriff's office told you after reviewing the surveillance video there were no grounds for criminal charges, and did they say why, and then, of course, why it was referred to the county prosecutors? >> initially, they said it did not rise to the standard of child abuse as the law outlines, but the sheriff, himself, paul pinzone and his higher echelon staff reviewed it again and they wanted to reconsider it. they sent it off to prosecutors on monday for the review, and determination if criminal charges are warranted. >> any indication of when we might hear from them about whether or not they decide to go further with this? >> no, yesterday was basically

the very silent day. it will be probably a while for them to take it, but they are getting a whole file that has already been prepared for them. so we will see what the prosecutors do. >> mary jo, thank you for the important reporting and thank you for doing it and taking the time to bring it to us. >> thank you. and much appreciated. and next, what is in store for president trump in 2019? robert mueller's investigation is closing n and could wrap up soon, and we will dig into the russia probe as we awaitt for a final report that could come as soon as february. you watching "msnbc live."

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welcome back. after a 2018 that saw tom people at the highest levels of government convicted or pleading guilty to crimes, the new year is expected to bring new legal troubles for the president under the cloud of the russian investigation. as nbc points tout probe has already led to criminal charges against 33 people, and the government officials and others familiar with the situation tell nbc news that mueller is nearing the end stages of his investigation. a report is expected to be submitted to the justice department as early as mid-february. with me now, former federal prosecutor nelson cunningham, and nbc news analyst danny

cevallos. and nelson, as we head into 2 9 2019, what are you looking to happen in the mueller probe? >> well, we had a break this fall leading up to the the mid-terms when for two months or so, not much happened. the minute that the mid-terms were over, we saw mueller's investigation not only seemingly speeding up, but to practiced eyes tying up loose ends. a number of the long-time cooperating witnesses like michael flynn, papadopoulos, michael cohen, of course, and their sentencings were scheduled. and typically the prosecutors like to wait until the end of the investigations to sentence the co-oprators because they want to keep the pressure on them, and also have the hammer over them in cases they do not tell the truth, they can go to the judge to explain they did not tell the truth. so we saw mueller's

investigation accelerated and it looks to many of us as though the first quarter of the year would be a time that we would see him begin to wrap it up, and put out the final indictments that perhaps the report that we have all before waiting for. >> is that what you see here, danny? >> it is likely, but we have to keep open the possibility that mueller may keep this investigation going on and the strongest pieces of that is the numerous redactions in the court-filed documents and the number of sealed documents and the fact that michael flynn's sentencing was delayed for the explicit purpose for allowing him to continue to cooperate, and i believe that the government attorney said in open court that there is still potential cooperation to be done given that the government when it prosecutes large scale white collar crimes that everything is done, and the case is airtight. while it is possible that mueller could pack up be by february, it is also very

possible that it could go on several months beyond february just given the fact that the white collar investigations take a while, and part two, this is probably the largest white collar our time. >> it's obviously not just the mueller investigation, the southern district. you also have cometic new york attorney general la tisha james who was just sworn into her job late last night. who has been really outspoken about her friends to launch investigations against both trump and his family. according to "the new york times," daniel s. goldman, a fellow at the brennan center for justice said it was unlikely ms. james' remarks could lead to a dismissal of charges against mr. trump but they could put cases in jeopardy because of the appearance of an individualized political vendetta. >> it's a concern. i mean, it's something that the trump team needs to be aware of.

look, something that is really compelling is the fact that mueller's team has been planting seeds and now beanstalks are sprouting from all those investigations. similarly, you have state attorneys general. you have investigations in new jersey that are sprouting up. each of these investigations are starting to sprout. sprout leaves and grow. i think these are all things trump has to be concerned about long after mueller goes home. >> one of the things we've heard repeatedly from supporters of the president is look, this is supposed to be about russia's intervening in the 2016 election that's gone off too far. but isn't it so that in almost every case where certainly here you have a special prosecutor, when you have something as complex as this, it is by nature going to sprout tentacles, go off in different directions. but how unusual is it, the

number of different ways in which we're seeing various investigations go, whether it's into the personal finances, whether it's into what is now the defunct trump charitable organization, as well as the original mandate by robert mueller? >> look, as danny said, these white collar investigations take time and they take a lot of resources. one is complex as this one which, yes, touches on russia, but then russia's influence touched on trump's business activities. it touched on his foundations activities. it touched on his family. it touched on his personal lawyer and payments made to porn stars. all these things are really fairly tightly connected when you step back. compare that to ken starr's investigation, which went on for five years before he even got to monica lewinsky. he investigated land deals in

arkansas. he investigated the suicide of vince foster. he investigated fbi file use at the white house. he investigated the travel office firings. those things had nothing to do except they all lightly touched on bill clinton. what we're seeing mueller doing is much more tightly linked to the activities of donald trump, both during the campaign, his family, his business, his foundation. and then of course claims of obstruction of justice that have sprung up since president trump became president including the firing of jim comey. >> really quickly, what's the first headline we're likely to see, big news out of the mueller investigation this year? >> indictments because that's how mueller speaks. if the report never sees the light of day, we will learn what mueller was up to through his indictments. he puts plenty of detail where plenty of detail isn't necessarily required. >> nelson cunningham, thank you as well, happy new year, both of

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automakers are getting rid of certain models because, well, buyer preference is changing. the world famous volkswagen beatle. seven decades of name recognition. the 2019 model will be the last one, at least for now. that was the color i had, yellow. the volkswagen taura suv will disappear in the u.s. but will remain in foreign markets. and good-bye to the taurus. at one point it was one of the most popular cars in america but now large cars are falling out of favor. ford also eliminating its compact focus as it shifts attention to suvs and trucks. the plug-in hybrided for c max had a strong run but then fizzled. just like the taurus, the chevg r chevrolet impala fell victim to the downfall of large sedans. the chevy cruz was killed off because of plunging compact sedan sales. the plug-in hybrid chevy volt never lived up to sales

expectations. and it doesn't stop there. you'll no longer be able to buy the nissan juke this year. it was kind of quirky. a sub compact crossover. never did well with buyers. and the compact hybrid honda crv is a victim of bad timing. entering the market as hybrid sales were falling. the hiyundai zadara never gaine traction. and say good-bye to the cadillac's ctx, stx and ats. it was hoped the ats would compete with the bmw-3 series. so what's hot? according to car buying site edmonds, but one out of every two vehicles sold in 2019 will be suvs or crossovers. so we hope you find a great deal. thanks for watching. i'm chris jansing in new york. katie tur picks up our coverage. i used to have a beatle, yellow. >> punch buggy, that's my

favorite game to pray wilay wit brother in the car. >> do you even have a car? >> no. >> we're in new york, we don't have cars. >> i was a terror on the road. >> why am i not surprised? >> it was a service for everybody involve to have me move to a city with mass transportation. >> happy new year. >> did you hear my snort? >> i don't know if they heard it. you thought something was funny. i'm sure it was in my stellar delivery. >> it was -- i'd never heard of one of those cars, it was a funny name. >> it is kind of quirky. >> the chevy cruz though is my go-to car. >> rental car? >> yes. >> yes. okay. >> great car, zippy. i'm better on the road now. >> like you, zippy. >> thank you. >> or you used to be. >> i know, now i'm waddling. i'm a slow person now. anyway. i think people are bored. >> happy new year. >> happy new year, chris. hello, everyone. it's 1: