>> your final five nievment the president says party uncounty is what will get the tax reform done in less than lee weeks. the president's decision on moving the us embassy in israel could have some big implications for piece in the middle east. the special council is not look ing into the president's finances and they're talking about cake at the supreme court let's do this. the president has proms promised a big beautiful beautiful christmas present in the form of tax re form. today he was rallies to

the same page. there are some major differences they have to work out to get to the final version. today at the white house the president met up with families that he says will benefit from the gop's tax plan thank you very much. we have four great families, middle classy guess at a certain point you're going to be making so much money you're not going to know what to do with it perhaps we have four terrific families. some of them have had difficulty , taxes are too high. i want to thank all of you for being here. you're in the oval office and some day you might be president. you never know. that's a. q. looking president. in addition to meeting a future president, the current president also sat down with republican members of congress to talk about tax reform and with christmas less than three weeks away there's not a whole lot of time to talk about the differences, but the president is

unity. i think it's going to go pretty quickly. there's a great spirit like i've never seen before. a lot of people have said they've never seen before, the unity. did you look who was sitting next to the president, jeff flake. he was the guy who gave a scathing speech on the senate floor calling out president. in that same speech flake said he's not running for reelection and he's again breaking with the president over roy moore. first, take a listen to what president trump said about roy moore today. i think he's going to do very well. we don't want to have a liberal democrat in alabama, believe we we want stropg borders. we want stopping crime. we want the things we represent and we certainly don't want to have a liberal democrat that's controlled by nancy pelosi and controlled

flake doesn't agree with the president. flake cut a check to roy moore's opponent. i cut the check for dewing jones wroting in the memo line country over party. he's endorsing the democrat, help me out heemplet despite sexual misconduct allegations involving teenagers, roy moore is still looking like dewing jones is trying everything he can to convince voters he's the better candidates. in addition to slamming moore other the sexual misconduct allegations he was focusing on the big issues here, moore's wardrobe. my record as a prosecutor speaks for itself. i'm a sporter of the second amendment. when you see me with a gun, folks, i'll be climbing

turkey blind, not pransing around on a stage in a cowboy suit. (applause) jones is referring to it's this dandy look from roy moore. he pulled out a pistol on stage during a campaign rally last month to emphasize his own love of the second amendments. >> another politician accused of sexual misconduct announced his resignation or as democratic congressman john conyers says he's retiring, not resigning. you don't normally retire in the middle of your term. conyers says no he's not retiring because all of the pressure to resign. he says it's because of his poor health which is because of the media attention in regards to the scandal. conyers called into a talk show to make the announcement. whatever they are, they're not accurate or they're not true. my legacy can't be

ed in any way by what we're going through now. this, too, shall pass. >> conyers says he hopes his children will endorse his leg legacy. donees endorsed his son to replace him in congress. his 27 year old son has never run for political office tomorrow president trump set to announce his intentions for us embassy in justice department rhys lum. he'll sign a waiver to delay re locating the city to tell intravenous. declaring jeruseleum the can't toll will complicate piece talks. it is the wholly sit for muslims, christians and justice departments. they want. the state department is telling government staff to avoid jeruseleum's old city. today the white house made

made up his mind on the issue. i'm not going to ahead of the president's remarks that he'll make tomorrow. he did speak with a number of leaders this morning and he's going to continue to have conversations with relevance stakeholders, but ultimately he'll make what he feels is the best decision for the united states. the 1995 a jeruseleum embassy act is supposed to be moved to jeruseleum but every president has waived the l policy every six months keeping it in tell intravenous. the us will be moving to jeruseleum just not immediate limit if you're not understanding really why this is a big deal we'll take it to the ground west bank. this is what they had to say. if mr. trump take it it will affect the whole middle east because i believe jeruseleum, it's important for a lieutenant of people all over the world, muslims and and arabs

moving the embassy. it's issue one of the most important topic in the israeli pal stin and conflict. i think president trump making jeruseleum the capital is amazing because the whole state of israel flourishes from jeruseleum, from the city of of jeruseleum and to have jer rouse lem be named the can't toll of such a wonderful state is the number one option. >> in his phone calls with world leaders president trump is reportedly making a case that's settling the issue over the american embassy quo actually speed up the piece process by resolving what has been a pretty contentious issue. this is the first press briefing since the bombshell that michael flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi. you can imagine that's what a lot of the questions were focused on. yesterday the president said that he felt very badly for general flynn.

he consider pardoning him? i'm in the aware if that has come up , any process or decision on that front. you haven't talked about it? i haven't canned the president whether or not he would do that. >> i think before we start discussing the pardons for individuals we should see, you know, what happens in specific cases. the white house also said reports that the special counsel's team subpoenaed the president's financial records are false according to e-mails obtained by fox news, the trump transition team knew michael flynn was in regular contact with the russian president sir gay, but he did not reveal his full extent of the conversations . when you talk about those financial records, the reports came fredericksburg out from reuters and they say they're standing by the reports, but the white house is denying it. let's talk cake right now maybe a little bit more than

a gay couple and of course the cake finally made it to the supreme court. the baker turned away the couple saying same sex marriage violates his beliefs. both the baker and the couple spoke outside the court today. i'm here at the supreme court today because i respectfully declined to create a custom cake that would sell ambulate a few of marriage in direct conflict with my faith core teachings on marriage. i offered to sell the two gentlemen suing me anything else in my shop or create a de sign on a cake for any other occasion. for that decision, which was guided by an established set of religious beliefs i've endured a five-year court battle. so our reception planner suggested to us that we use master piece cake shop because she had used them in the past. we looked online and thought their cakes looked good so we made an appointment and we went in. we had a

of ideas and concepts, but we never even got a chance to open that binder. as soon as we sat down with the owner, he asked who the cake was for. we told him it was for us. and immediately he informed us he would not make a cake for a same sex wedding. >> it could be a while before we learned which side the court will urn of learn. justice neil gor itch causing some waves on his first couple months on the bench. he said i have yet to have a wedding cake that i'd say tasted great. up you next we're going to talk more about the supreme court case, the bigger implement is thats it has for religious liberties, anti discrimination laws, when the final five comes back after this .

>> you don't mess with america. is it religious liberty or discrimination? that's the question before the supreme court as justices hear arguments today in the case of a colorado baker who refused to sell a wedding cake to a gay couple. jack phillips, the baker says not doing that is not in line with his beliefs. colorado civil rights commission says not so fast and that's how this whole thing ended up in court today. he's up late with me. evan, hod ' think we would be talking about a cake on the supreme court. >>reporter: here we are and boy are people talking about it. this was a situation where you had people lined up outside of the supreme court waiting to get in. what was the mood and what was the sentiment outside. i was walking around sunday evening and i saw people camped out ready to spend the night. i'm very passionate with people on both sides. they had aclu. they actually had

loud music. i heard the music. >> continue. and then the other side, the pro jack phillips case , lawmakers came out and gave statements in support of religious liberty. it's very fired up just wanted to see that this case that has been five years in the making heard in the highest court in h the land. jack phillips said this is going through courts for years. this is the first big case pertaining to lgbt rights that legalized gay marriage. the oh berger feld decision and now it looks like he's going to be swing vote for this one as well. you have four justices that you are right leaning and four justices that are right leaning. he's also a big proponent of the first amendment. he doesn't want to bridge our freedom speech

does the first amendment go to protect freedom of religion where it doesn't disimnate against someone else. the whole issue of religious freedom came into american quongs in a few years ago, a guy by the name of mike pence backed the bill, signed the bill into law and that was one of the reasons that when you had donald trump on the ballot, not necessarily a conservative traditionally, mike pence certainly was and that really ghot a lot of people, a lot of christian conservatives on board with candidate trump at the time. you're absolutely right about that. when i talked to voters during the 2016 presidential election, the supreme court was the number one thing that they said is we need to vote for donald trump because we need to have a pro republican supreme court. the same thing on the other side, people really wanted hillary clinton to be in office but they wanted to have the supreme court pick. when donald trump

itch it was a validation of a lot of conservatives who wanted to have a judge on the panel for a critical case such as this. anthony ken disi there was some talk that maybe he would be the next supreme court justice to re tire at this point. we don't really know at this point. >> we really don't know. >> both sides would be girding for balt. justice kennedy he is 81 years old now. he would be the next one to retire, justice kennedy has bent person that has been deciding these critical cases. everyone is looking at what he said today and what he aid was you have a place -- you have something here that would really -- that could possibly violate the first amendment and he kind of gave arguments for both sides. i think everyone took away depending on their particular beliefs

away as a victory of what justice kennedy said today. there was always some sort of -- some view of how the case panned out. it looked like it it was going to one way and it went down another way. so we'll have to wait for the decision to come back. good to see you. we're back after this on the final five. that's good. lica misses you. i'm over it though. (laughter) that's fine. i miss her more than you anyway. ♪ ♪ ♪ hey, my window is closing. yeah that's okay. alright miles. i love you. (phone hangs up) ♪ ♪ ♪ yeah i love you too. ♪ ♪ ♪

apparently russia likes to cheat in competitions other than elections. the russian team has been banned from the upcoming winter olympics because of doapg . russian government officials will be forbidden from attending the games. the russian flag won't be part of the ceremony. some of the country's athletes will be able to complete but they will have to satisfy strict conditions to show that they've had a doapg free background. vad is not

adduce queuesed the us interfering on their election. more on this later. there is a new profile out about vice-president pence that is giving us a little bit of a glimpse into his life going all the way back to his college days . the art to go along with the story from the at labtic is really something and it's title god's plan for mike pence. pence is denying much of the articles when he was ready to re place trump after the access hollywood. atlantic says pence told on his frat brothers for having a keg on his frat's party . he says he denies most of the story here. but there's a little nugget about mike pen pence's history in college. are we going to move on or do we have c

>> i'm right here. hello. >> hi, jim. this is called spontaneously you checking in with us. i think pence must have been super fun in college. >> really popular. i'm actually surprised that he was even in a practice ternt. >> you know what, that was a different time, too. that was just sort of expected of you that you would join a fraternity . my campus, most college campuses are dry anymore , aren't they? >> dry the dorms and everything i think that disevment the official policy is that they're dry. if you're going to run for office and say you're tough on crime i feel like that's -- >> he is not afraid to let the lay the smack down even when it hurts him personally. the article said his frat brothers were not big fans at a him. but the add mrlings at the school loved

offered him a job after graduation. >> now i'm going to have to read that a. >> energy secretary recollect perry is on a trip to saudi arabia right now and from some of the photos it looks like he's living his best life. the minister of energy exposed post ed these photos on social media. you have another one where he's dressed up and hold ing a sword because of course he would. those pictures are amazing, but what we're about to show you may be the best of the bunch. this quo be perry's match.com or the cover of a new soft rock album. let's take a look. thre is. rick perry. enjoying life, toes in the sand, the sun softly setting in the background. the hits of rick perry coming soon to i tune s. look, this is the

keep that keeps us interesting in some of these instances. i can you to bear with us. everybody's favorite sports large audience valleys staying in the headlines. he did another interview with cnn because we know how well the last one went. he was talking about his son pulling out of school at ucla to get ready with the draft. large audience val said he sent a gift to the white house. i sent him a pair of zo 12s. >> you sent the president a pair of sneakers. >> red, white and blue to show him that we're patriotic to ease him up a little bit. and didn't get a thank you. i'm not going to dress it out. >> you can tell how interested chris comb ohio is in that whole exchange. now that the year is coming to a close twitter is taking a look back at the most

president obama made the top nine including this one he made in response to the charlottesville. no one is born hating another person because of his background or religion. the tweet was retweeted 1.7 million times. president trump accident make the top ten retweet list but he was the most tweeted about world leader. sorry, angela merkel. his most retweet ed was from back in july. president trump superimposed on his head retweeted from the poad us account, receiving more than 636,000 retweets. the most re tweeted in 2017 nothing to do with politics. it has something to do about chicken nuggets. carter wilkinson asked wendys how much he needed to get free newing et cetera. he got

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announcer: today on "tmz" -- harvey: got to love jay-z and beyonce. they can have fun, mock the famous elevator video. >> happy birthday, jay, for real. >> he allowed for a photo-op to happen. they held the door as it kept trying to close. harvey: oh, my god. >> she should have mimicked solange. harvey: beyonce didn't do that. >> beyonce's doing the same thing in this picture that she did in the video, absolutely nothing. [laughter] >> rita ora, conor mcgregor cozying up with each other, and rita ora actually said date night with conor mcgregor. she's getting killed on social media right now because conor mcgregor has a baby -- had a baby in may. harvey: why is that on her? >> people are like you have a steak at home. why go with hamburger? [laughter] >> meghan markle a