>> tonight on the first live final five on 2018. name a topic that the president has probably tweeted in the last four hours and that is bragging about the size of his nuclear button. is mitt romney prepared to run now that or oncoming traffic hatch is saying goodbye this is the final five. let's do this. it's time to go. if you thought maybe president trump's new year's resolution might be the tweetless, it's a good chance that was your resolution for him and not your own because we have more than a dozen tweets today from a range of topics everything from north korea, the border, patrolling

hillary clinton playing the hits . we don't have enough time to break down all the tweets today. but let's get the crooked hillary one out today. the president wrote hum a and dean has been charged with foreign agents. jail, the state justice department must finally act, also on comey or others. if you're very conus tood by all of this. here's the background this is going back to the clinton e-mail investigation. remember that? i think we all do. last week the state departmnt release e-mails found on the laptop on the hmm a's and dean's strange husband anthony weiner who is in jail now. they were the e-mails uncovered during during the final weeks of the presidential election. the fbi decided accident rise to the level of criminality. the president has long suggested she got preferential treatment. the wholesaler reference was comparing

navy salor who pled guilty to passing took. devoid several devices after learning he was on vacation. the president finds some of those actions very disturbing and he thinks that we need to make sure if there is an issue that it's looked at, but if there was anything beyond that i would refer you to the department of justice. obviously he doesn't believe the entire justice department is part of that. one of the things that the president has done is appoint christopher ray at the fbi because he wants to change the culture of that agency and he thinks he's the right person to do that. by the way, sanders also said the president wanted to make it clear he doesn't think anyone should be above the law. let's talk about foreign policy because the president had a lot of tweets on that front as well. ument tweeted his support forth anti

calling the regime brutal and corrupt and warned that the us is watching. protests are being stirred up by his country's enemies which is shorthand for the united states. the trump administration is calling on iran to unblock instagram and other social media sites not for the cat pictures or the other pictures. but for other issues the white house was very careful today. we support them giving basic rights to the people of iran and we support them topping being a states sponsor of terror and we want to see those actions take place. president trump also focused on the money the us has spent on other countries and pakistan is giving save haven to terrorists. and it's not only pakistan we pay bills of dollars to for nothing. as an example we pay the palestinians hundreds of millions of

and get no appreciation or respect. they don't want to negotiation a long overdue piece treaty. israel for that would have to pay more, but with the palestinians no longer willing to talk piece why should we make any of these future payments to em this. that 830 character twitter thing not working for the president. the president has acknowledged the mid east piece process is stalled which is surprising because we all thought jared was going to take care of that. the status of jeruseleum. a palestinian and president said he will not accept any piece plan following the president's recognizing just so we're clear russ lem and move the impasse bass i there. as for pakistan un ambassador nikki haley says a lot of cash is cut of on. the administration is

assistance to pakistan. pakistan has played a double game for years. they work with us at times and they also harbor the terrorists that attack our troops in afghanistan. that game is not acceptable to this administration. we expect far more cooperation from park stand in the fight against terrorism. >> of course we can't talk foreign policy without mentioning north korea. a lot of tweets today from the president on the subject. let me present you with the latest one. this one came out just a couple of hours ago. kim young hundred just stated that the nuclear button is on his desk at all times. please inform him that i, too, have a nuclear button, but it is a much bigger and more powerful one than his and my button works. right now we're talking about buttons. i don't want to be around when they start talking about the size of their missiles. the north sending a delegation to the winter

korea next month. nikki haley says that is nowhere near enough . we won't take any of the talk seriously if they don't do something to ban all nuclear weapons in north korea. we consider this to be a very reckless regime. we don't think we need a band-aid and we don't think we need to smile and take a picture. north korea can talk with anyone they want, but the u s is not going to recognize it or acknowledge it until they agree to ban the nuclear weapons that they have. nikki haley, they're arting it very clearly, at least the us position on those. it would mark the first formula dialogue between korea since december of 2015. when asked today, there is no final conversation about the. after more than 40 years or oncoming traffic hatch of utah is hanging it up. oron hatch also

pittsburgh. today he announced he will not be running for an eighth term and will retire after his current term ends in january. hatch is the longest serving senator. he's been a senator longer than i've been alive. i'm 37. the do you was in the 800s, the very first star war movie premiered and tonight is the tonight way back in 1977 after such a long career how did hatch know now is the time to re tire, nor. >> i've got more bills passed than everybody on this committee put together. this bull crap really gets old. that's not it guys, wrong bite. that was him last monthment he was talking about the tax bill. i would imagine, though, that's how anyone would feel after 40 years in the senate. this

actual video he put out announcing his retirement. every good fighter knows when to hang up the gloves and for me that time is soon approaching. i like the bull crap comment. that would be a much more force ful way of riding onto the senate. the president tweeted his appreciation of hatch writing congratulations to senator oron hatch on an incredible kreemplet he's been been a tree supporter. he is my friend and he will be greatly missed in the united states national. with hatch stepping a side that could open the door for mitt romney to run. the 2012 doesn't have such a strong relationship with the president ment remember that dinner together when rom any was supposedly considered to be secretary of statement of rom any would start the race as the front runner. this may be a glue because thi

any changed the location on his twitter account. it went from massachusetts, a couple hours later holiday, utah. i don't know where holiday, utah is, but we know it's not in massachusetts and that's kind of a big tell. that's the big story today at least when it comes to the united states national. he's the guy who was the governor of massachusetts running in utah. his father george was the governor of utah today it was al franken's last day in the senate much the minnesota democrat of course re signed over sexual misconduct allegations. franken has not announced what he plans to do next. but he wants to remain in the public eye. tina smith also a democrat will be sworn in tomorrow. there's talk that michelle back man may be running in that race whenever they that race. house transportation committee chair bill schuster, pennsylvania republican joining a growing list of gop members of congress who are steppg

in 2018. schuster wants to devote his final year of pushing for the infrastructure bill. new year's resolution are still going strong, right? two days in. what's yours? talk amongst yourselves at home. in 017 the billing goal for the trump administrations was tax reform. give them credit because it seemed like a very ambition timetable. the president said he wanted a bill by christmas, a the look of people laughed and you can imagine so because the republican congress didn't necessarily carry out president 's bidding when he wanted to repeal obamacare in the middle of the summer. there were people who said you can't do it. he got it signed. today the white house was asked about the first priority on the lindsay watts for 2018 and it sounds like the president plans to multitask. the president was elected because of his ambition agenda and his desire to get a lot of things done. we're going to focus on that. the things that you listed are certainly go to be big priorities for us in 208. a loft the meetings that

leader high pressure will help determine what the best strategy is on each of those individual areas. but those are certainly welfare reform, infrastructure, responsible immigration will all be top priorities. with it being a new year it is almost a ward season and president trump plans to kick things off with the first award show of the year . he's trying to beat out the golden globes. he tweeted tonight -- this music is great, guys. i will be announcing the most dishonest and media awards on monday 5:00 o'clock because that's basically what that reads verbatim. from the particular fake news media. meryl streep is going to win, meryl streep always wins. what can be done about it. a guy who is in the dead center of the political

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>> welcome back. with so much attention paid to the political extremes in america. it is very easy to forget the center. alt man, a three time congressman of pennsylvania. pole wristization , how it divided america and what can we can do about it. up from sunny florida . great to see you. thanks for having me on. first things first, we're here in d.c did you miss d.c.? >> i police the city and the region of d.c. we lived there when i was younger and of course i worked there as a congressman it's a great place to live. a

necessarily miss the congress all that much, but d.c. is a wonderful place. we mentioned that you served for three terms you were caught up in restrght ing. you were primaried by another congressman and that's how you exited politics. when you look back at that, is there anything in your mind that you miss about the political process, seeing d.c. the way it is right now? >> i don't miss the fundraising, which is awful and i don't miss the negativity. as i talk in the book the people that you encounter on a dilly basis are the political active, usually extreme types and on both sides they're not usually the nice eggs people to be around, especially when you're in the center. i loved the friend ships i made, i loved trying to help people, someone come up to you in a grocery store. i miss that part. i don't miss the negativity and the

it was natural journal said you were pretty much dead center when you look at the political spectrum from left to right. you served as a democrat. when you look at the state of the democratic party right now, are they too extreme or are they finding themselves somewhere else in. >> most people in the country regular folks want a congress that can accommodate each other and get along and compromise and get things done. the problem is on both republican and the democratic side we're electing people who represent the extreme s of the two parties. they're not representative of the country as a whole, believe you, but they are representative of the partisans that show up especially in closed primaries and determine who the candidates are going to be. so i think they're out of step with the country and that's why congress is so unpopular. the district you represented was a swath of

of rural parts, a very conservative parts. you defeat ed an incumbent republican congress woman. i believe that was zero six. >> yep. the district changed? they redid thed there. i know president obama said he would like to address redistricting. is that something that could help reform the american political process. >> my book is about partisanship and polarization and having lost my seat because of jerry man derrick stantoning i went it into with that's a big problem. i researched over the course of two years. it turns out jerry man derrick stantoning is not as much of the problem as i thought it it was. it's definitely a symptom, but the real problem is the partisans and the pole riced ded nature of our primaries . even if you drew the district in a 50/50 way, half republican and half democrat it's more

even in that scenario you would end up with candidates from the treatments in the even election and that doesn't solve the poll artic airization program. we had chuck sue mere and nancy pelosi and i know a the look of democrats who are running for congress you'll have the rep senator say jason autism meyer is the candidate. is a nancy pelosi figure harmful to democrats down the road? it's harmful to democrats trying to win in contested purple swing seats like that. so in a district i represented that was basically half republican and half democrat, conservative democrats, yeah, it's a big problem when the leader is view ed as a san francisco liberal. there are areas of country where she's very popular , certainly western pennsylvania is not one of them looking into 2018 if the democrats have any hope

to have to win back some of those seats. when you have somebody as poll rising a figure as former speaker nancy pelosi, now leader pelosi it's going to be a problem in a the look of the district. it can cost them control of the house. this is jason alt meyer. it is good to see you and happy new year. happy new year, great talking to you. enjoy the sun in florida while we freeze here in d.c. back after the break here on final five. ♪ ♪ ♪ there are two types of people in the world.

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remember roy moore it seems like so long ago, the candidate still has not conceded the race by the way. i want to take you back before the night before the special election wr when roy moore's wife kay large audience said this. fake news would tell you that we don't car

i i tell you all this because i've seen it all, i just want to set the record straight while they're here. (applause). one of our attorneys is a jew. well , by the way, there were never any mainstream media reports about there being some discord between the jewish community and roy moore. watching the examiner track down the question that roy moore's wife talked about. he is a long time friend of doug jones who beat moore. defense their son against drug charges. he's tote the examiner that he's known jones for more than 30 years. k ayla moore didn't say we had an attorney who supported us who happened to be a jewish guy. whatever. could there be a return of the mooch.

former white house anthony scaramucci who follows me on twitter. thank, mooch has been bragging to those close to him that president trump wants him back in the white house. he left after the infamous interview with the new yorker. i have my fingers crossed that he's coming back. happy new year. it's been a while. it has. christie, he would be a never ending treasurer troaf. it would be hilarious if the president hired him back and then fired him after five days. here's the thing about scaramucci. he was chair massic , he was willing to take questions from everyone, even cn n which at that point had run a story that was total crap that he had to recant and they fired two guys from it. he made a real impression from that

though, and that was the problem . we apparently learned that he was good at yoga. he's made the rounds on the talk show s. there are other late night shows on tv? i didn't know that. they're not as good do you have a new year's resolution? a. do you do that in. >> no. i'm going to keep crush ing it all year. christie, crushing it in 018. yep. >> speaking of crushing things, apparently the new year's resolution to get if it is also popular on the hill. we spotted the sign for the weight watchers es program inside the capital. it is the senate weight loss program. it is a 12 -week program for weight watchers. tomorrow is the last day to sign up. the sign also says it cost 156 bucks for 12 weeks. i got to tell tu, you know

it. it's a good program, but you got to stick to it. if you don't stick to it, i don't work it's a lot more than 156 bucks for 12 weeks. are you really going to take skiette advice from me, no, clearly not. who is sleeping soundly and who is tossing and turning we're going to tell you as we crush it when we come back on the final five.

iml you n ambassador nikki haley is sound asleep. taking hard lines against those who oppose the us decision to move the embassy to just so we're clear russ lem. today calling for swift action for protestors who are against the iran and government. the way in which she delivers it is rooted in some kind of reality. another round of tweeting reaching absurd levels of mine is bigger than yours. a lot of you have sounded off of on facebook do you think i'm headed for war. p i had that answer i would be in a secure

somewhere. let's hope forth best. north korea has rattled for years and years and years, some things never change. we're back here tomorrow at 11:30. make it a good one.

announcer: today on "tmz" -- >> we are two days in. we already have our first villain for 2018. >> i don't feel very good. >> you never have stood next to a dead guy? >> logan paul is one of the most famous youtube star. he's under fire for posting a dead body of a suicide in japan. >> some of the biggest celebrities in hollywood are calling him a scumbag. aaron paul is calling him a scumbag. piers morgan is calling him a scumbag. it's only january 2nd and we have the trash human being of the year. >> jennifer lopez and alex rodriguez are ready to take on 2018 together. they're out in l.a. working out. we have video of them. they were doing burpees and then they were also throwing medicine balls. pbut it's kind of funny because a-rod look like he's out of shape. >> come on! [laughter] >> holly holm is possibly the