vlad. >> chip reid. thank you very much.g in tonight's "evening news feed." one of vladamir putin's fearest critics calling for a boycott of the presidential election in march. he was barred today from running. he has past convection for fraud. many have called that an act of political retribution. pope francis warned the wind of war are blowing around the world. he called for a two-state solution between israelis and palestinians and prayed for an end to the crisis in north korea. >> service members are spending christmas in harm's way. the war in afghanistan, raging since 2001 the longest in american history. americans are deployed in iraq, syria and many other hot spots. in what has become an annual tradition, some sent holiday greetings from overseas. >> merry christmas, happy new year. africa. hey, double deuce! >> merry christmas, happy new year from san antonio up to dallas. >> want to give a shout out to my family. >> happy new year! >> merry christmas, and happy new year! ♪ ♪ ding-dong >> we are 1483 transportation

vlad? jamie yuccas, thank you very much. in northern california, a grove of redwoods that has stood tall for 1,000 years is now threatened by an onslaught of tourists. don't ask where this grove is. state park officials won't say. but john blackstone was give an private tour. >> what a place to work. >> it's not a bad office. >> reporter: entering the redwood forest is like stepping back in time, among all the towering trees. the exact location of the tallest, named "the grove of titans," has long been kept secret to help preserve them. >> term management philosophy is we're not going to tell people. we're still not telling people. >> reporter: brett silver has agreed to lead me to the titans, home to some of the largest trees in the world. this is not an official trail? >> no. this is one created by people searching for the titans. >> reporter: someone posted the g.p.s. location on social media. thousands searched for the second rat grove. calling it "the grove of the titan," "the secret grove," that enhanced the hunt. >> p

vlad? >> duthiers: jim, thank you very much.sident trump has been sending out christmas greetings from his florida resort, some warm, some decidedly chilly. chip reid is traveling with the president. an reporter: president and first lady melania trump attended a christmas eve service at the same episcopalian church in palm beach where they were married in 2005. >> merry christmas. >> reporter: today, though, he remained behind the walls of his mar-a-lago estate, delivering his christmas video message by tweet. >> in the season of joy, we he renew the bonds love and goodwill. >> reporter: but there was not much love or goodwill in his tweets over the weekend when he f.ed them to attack his enemies, including f.b.i. director andrew atcabe, who had a major role in the investigation of hillary clinton's emails. the president believes mccabe was biased in clinton's favor decause mccabe's wife, a democrat, received a large ontribution from a clinton ally when she ran for office in virginia in 2015. in a tweet sunday, the president cla

my open custom-made, shirtless vlad. >> vladimir calendar. >> wow.t we. so i got you some of that grape that i stomped. >> that you stomped with your bare, i came equipped. >> no, no, this is an american. >> no really, i couldn't possibly. i don't want to put you out. >> are you sure? just try. just a little bit. just a little bit. mm. does it have like an aged cheese -- >> merry christmas. i'm guessing based on the last time i brought sriracha to you that you probably ran out. >> yes. >> and you seemed to like it a lot. so my next gift for you, there you go, buddy. you can drink the whole thing. >> a whole jug of sriracha? >> and i thought you might need a chaser for that, so here you go. >> a vat of pepto? i didn't really like sriracha that much. >> it looked like you did. >> i have a legit gift for you. can you tell i wrapped it. every day diane is here, she's like oh, can i get some hot water, can i get hot water? >> this is so cool. >> use the app and you can set the temperature of your water and it keeps it there. >> how do we get the "world ne

vlad. >> president trump sending christmas greetings from his florida resort., some decidedly chilly. chip reid is traveling with the president. president and first lady melania trump attended christmas eve service at episcopal church where they were married in 2005. >> merry christmas. >> today he remained behind the walls of his mar a lago estate delivering his christmas video message, by tweet. in the season of joy we renew the bonds of love and goodwill. >> there was not much love or goodwill in his tweets over the weekend when he used them to attack perceived enemies including fbi deputy director andrew mccabe who had a major role in the investigation of hillary clinton's e-mails. the president believes mccabe was biased in clinton's favor because mccabe's wife, democrat, received a large contribution from a clinton ally when he ran for office in virginia. in 2015. in a tweet sunday, the president claimed mccabe's wife got the money from a clinton puppet, and accused mccabe of using allegedly his fbi official e-mail account to promote her campaign. mr. tru

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vlad? >> so heartbreaking for the parents there.saudi arabia are pressing for their freedom and they're beginning to get it. holly williams has been in the kingdom for the past week. she has seen the change first hand as women train in gym, get set to drive, and become more integrated, but there are still limits. holly williams in jeddah, saudi arabia, showing us how society is changing. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. there are many big challenges including a male guardian system which means they need a male's permission to travel overseas or get married, but things here are beginning to shift. if you think that saudi arabian women are all oppressed, shrouded, and weak, you probably need to see this. >> they're not victims. we are not victims. we are strong. >> reporter: she runs the fight like a girl boxing gym in jeddah. she has a passion for combat sports. are you pushing for total equality? >> i mean as much -- yes. that would be great. but is there total equality for men and women around the world? not yet. so hopeful

vlad?thank you very much. >>> republican roy moore is suing to stop alabama from certifying that he lost this month's senate race. he claims there is enough evidence of potential fraud to change the deduction. moore challenged jones. he passed a lie detector test proving allegations of sexual misconduct are false. he said in a statement this is not a democratic or republican issue azams a matter of integri should matter to everyone. >>> police in georgia are who is potentially dangerous. he used a metal rod to break through his jail yesterday. he fled through a security fence and took a van and fled to his home state of north carolina. police found the van there and used blood hound s and helicopters to find him. he's supposed to start a five-year sentence today. >>> nippon airways turns their plane around when they found an american who was not supposed to be on board. the tsa said he had another s similar ticket for another flight. it's raised a lot of questions. >> a.n.a. says regulatory

reports they were last seen at a pawnshop only amplifies that concern, vlad. >> meg oliver, thank your the parents there. we really -- our hearts go out to them. >>> women in saudi arabia are pressing for their freedom and they're beginning to get it. holly williams has been in the king to madom for the past week. she's seeing the change as women train in gyms, get set to drive and become more integrated. but there are still limits. holly williams in jeddah, saudi arabia, to show us how society is changing. holly, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. saudi women face some very big challenges, including the male guardianship system, which means they need a male relative's permission to travel overseas or get married. but things here are beginning to shift. if you think that saudi arabia women are all oppressed, shrouded and weak, you probably need to see this. >> we're not victims. we are not victims. we are strong. >> reporter: hallah runs the fight like a girl boxing gym in jeddah. she has a passion for combat sports. are you pushing for total equality? >> i mean, as much -- yes,

vlad? >> chip f chip. >>> democrat doug jones will be sworn in wednesday as r.alabam state election officials certified jones' victory r moo nearly 22,000 votes earlier this manth. a last alabama's secretary of state found no evidence of that. twit work with colleagues on both sides of the aisle to getgton b >>> apple is apologizing after admitting a software update deliberately slowed some iphones. it's donen shoulddowns in the iphone as a side effect, other apps run slower. of you feel apple has let you down. we apologize. we have never anything to intentionally shorten the life of any apple df phones. dan ackerman is a section editor at cnet. great to have you athee. this is confusing. explain how this all went down.. what apple did was come up with an unreasonable solution to a problem that's not easy to fix. batteries that we r everythi, older, they can't give out the energy at the sam when you have apps on your phones that want to do people f on their older phones, the onat hpened to

it comes from russian president vlad p imposes new sanctions on north korean officials. here's chief white house correspondent hallie jackson. >> reporter: in the drama with north korea, tonight a new twist. this one produced by putin. moscow is now offering to insert itself into potential talks between the u.s. and rogue regime. quote russia is ready if both sides need it and want it said the spokesman for the russian president. >> russia does not carry a lot of weight in this realm but it would be to his advantage, particularly with presidential election coming up, to be seen as international statesman. >> reporter: vladimir putin who is campaigning today for election he seems sure to win, one of his rivals blocked from running by the government, has been pushing for talks soon. message his foreign minister reiterated to secretary of state rex tillerson today. >> should be resolved through diplomatic means. >> reporter: what are the actually happen? just this weekend north korea called new u.n. sanctions against it an act of war. and this morning u.s. slapped its own s

vlad acting like he has elections. oh my word, that's so funny.ave you seen the russian presidential ballot, it's like putin, putin again or prison. that's what it is. it is also funny to think that there are russian voters who are going to vote for putin until they got banned from the olympics or that people just like i don't know about putin any more. next year i will vote for jill stein. but you know who i feel bad for, i feel bad for the innocent russian athletes. right. because they have to be some who didn't dope or didn't want to dope. and they just dedicated their lives to training for the olympic. the good news is they can still go but not the way that they were hoping. >> individual athletes with no doping history can apply to compete but as olympic athletes from russia. no anthems will be played at ceremonies if they win. >> russian athletes who test clean can compete in february's pyeongchang gains with a neutral uniform. >> trevor: oh, that's cold, man. they can't even represent their country? like what, they are just going to have to

didn't happen, but hypothetically, if an -- candidate trump called vladimir putin and said, "hey, vlad i want to be president, you wonder get rid of sanctions, anything of the become president nicest is, you have a person in office to help you with sanctions," that would be a terrible thing but it wouldn't be a crime. collusion itself is not a crime. rajini: going back to michael flynn and his statement that he released today, he said one of the reasons he was cooperating with for his family. is there any suggestion he may have done this to perhaps protect his son? alan: oh, more than a suggestion. of course he did it to protect the son. i think we can assume the deal was that his son would not be -- fathers do that all the time. it also makes him a less credible witness. any good terminal defense attorney would say, ladies and ury, heen of the ju would do anything to protect his son. he would make up stories to create evidence to a better deal for his son. he is a worthless witness, but perhaps a valuable source of information by which mueller could go and get more credible witnesses

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vlad? >> chip reid for us. thank you, chip. >>> democrat doug jones will be sworn in wednesday as alabama's newest senator. state election officials certified jones' victory yesterday. he beat republican roy moore by nearly 22,000 votes earlier this month. the judge rejected a last manufacture ben. alabama's secretary of state found no evidence of that. jones said on twitter he will work with colleagues on both sides of the aisle to get washington back on track. >>> apple is apologizing after admitting a software update deliberately slowed some iphones. it's done to prevent sudden shoulddowns in the iphone 6, but as a side effect, other apps run slower. they said, we know some of you feel apple has let you down. we apologize. we have never and would never do anything to intentionally shorten the life of any apple product. apple is discounting the cost of battery replacements on certain phones. dan ackerman is a section editor at cnet. great to have you at the table. this is confusing. explain how this all went

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. >> reporter: good morning to you, vlad. it is indeed historic.o heavy snowfalls but they've not seen anything like this. look at this house behind me. you can see it is actually covered up to the door steps and that's pretty much the same story for just about every home along this block. you hope they teamed up and went to miami for a week or so. already the storm has dropped more than 62 inches of snow erie. it is shattering state and local records. they got more snow, listen to this guys, from this one snowstorm than places like minneapolis, chicago and boston receive in an average year. there could be more to come. a lake-effect snow warning remants in effer remains in effect until later this afternoon. temperatures will remain low into the new year and wind chills could dip as low as six degrees below zero. officials are calling on additional snowplows and getting extra help from the national guard just to deal with this mess here. i said it earlier, it is beautiful but it is, indeed, one big mess. if you have to get out, be careful and be sa

vlad, good morning. >> good morning.ded guilty in march to stealing from the federal government and bribing a judge in a $550 million social security fraud case. but before he could be sentenced authorities say he cut off his ankle monitor and ran. >> reporter: a honduran s.w.a.t. team captured eric hahn as he came out of a restaurant. police were reportedly given his location after he connected to the wi-fi. he was known in lexington, kentucky, for billboards touting him as mr. social security. >> when he represents you, there will be no fear. >> reporter: he faced a maximum sentence of 12 years for bribing a doctor and judge to approve disability claims based on fake medical evidence. the fraud reached into the hundreds of millions of dollars, mostly affecting his clients in the impoverished parts of virginia and kentucky who then had to fight to try to keep their disability checks. a lawyer representing some of the 1,500 clients spoke with cbs news by phone. >> we've always been convinced that he hoarded lots of cash,

communists and tortured and given a life sentence so there's no love lost between me and colonels like vlad. so the president says i would like to have better relationships with them but right now it doesn't look very likely. and then he closeed by saying, if that is the case, so be it. thus spoke the pragmatics. that's the president. he is a melding of patriotism and pragmaticism and we'll continue to deal with that nation as a problem nation not a strategic threat because they're losing 600,000 people per year more are dying per year in russia than are being born. they have severe internal problems and it has one basic resource. natural energy. it's not a strategic player in terms of other countries but it's a spoiler and in the last eight years it has exploited the lack of leadership shown by president obama and the regime of vladimir putin must be understood as anti-status quo actor. most nations in the world we like to think are status quo. they want to cooperate and want all boat tos float at the same rate. some nations don't. this is one of the biggest problems that we deposit good f

. >> stephen: adding, "obviously, yours truly excepted." ( laughter ) i got your back, vlad.our back. and he's already working to put his small government plan in place. >> we have undertaken a historic effort to massively reduce job- crushing regulations, creating a deregulation task force inside of every government agency. >> yes, a new task force in every government agency. we are going to reduce government by adding people to the government. ( laughter ) it's like-- ( cheers and applause ) it's like how the key to not getting hung over is just to never stop drinking. ( laughter ) ( applause ) might find out tonight. of course, trump immediately boasted about his executive orders. >> we have placed a hiring freeze on nonmilitary and nonessential federal workers. >> stephen: nonessential federal workers-- so kellyanne conway is out? is she-- just gone? ( cheers and applause ) you'll be missed. and trump kept on with the boasting. >> we have withdrawn the united states from the job-killing trans-pacific partnership. >> stephen: yes, the trans- pacific partnership is just one

. >> vlad, thanks. >>> overnight we learned that dick enberg has died. his 60-year career could be summed up with his simple catch phrase. >> oh, the heck with it. i'm going to say it anyway. oh, my. >> it's all over. it's all over. muhammad ali. >> oh, my. >> u.s. open champion, how does that feel? >> i just got an "oh, my" friday dick enberg. how about that. >> he brought knowledge to his play to the grand slam tennis, nfl, major league baseball, college basketball, boxing, he even hosted game shows and appeared in movies. enberg's family says he collapsed at his california home yesterday waiting to take a flight to boston. dick enberg was 82. >> he had such a great career. his daughter said they knew something was wrong when he didn't show up in boston. they found his bags packed at home. he was so alive. >> we're going to miss that voice. >> boy, people really loved him very much. >>> ford's ceo is apologizing after a "new york times" investigation revealed decades of sexual harassment at two factories. ahead, "times" jodi kantor will >> boy, people

. >> reporter: vlad, good morning to you. it is indeed historic.s, but they have never seen anything like this. you can see it's covered up to the doorstep. story for about every home along this block. already this storm has dropped more than 62 inches of snow on erie. that snow is shattered state and local records. erie got more snow, listen toe this, guys, from this one storm than places like minneapolis, chicago, and boston received in an average year and there could be more to come. a lake-effect snow warning remains in effect until later this and temperatures are expected to remain. they'll be below into the new year and windchills could dip as low as 6 degrees below zero. so officials are calling on additional snow plows and they're getting extra help from the national guard just to deal with this mess here. i said it earlier. it's beautiful, but it is indeed one big mess. so if you have to get out. be careful and be safe. >> demarco, thank you. you stay warm >>> american and intelligence officials say rush tampered with the 2016 elections. n

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he gave vlad sld a cal-- vladim putin a call. don't fideutsche is with us. senator at large lee gallagher, columnist and associate editor for the washington post david ignacious and white house reporter for usa today heidi pryzbilla. mika has the morning you a. joe, i want to go to a piece in the washington post titled newtonian physics. -- and joe, we have tim ryan, congressman tim ryan coming on in a few minutes. the democratic party is energized by what happened in virginia and now the other day if alabama. >> well, you look at everything that's happening right now and it is a clear reaction to everything that donald trump and his republican enablers have done over the past year or two. and we're talking about alabama. we're talking about virginia. you can talk about the fact that 7% republicans have lost 7% of their membership in terms of women, 5% overall, some people actually leaving the party. we always talked about state legislative seats lost under barack obama. well, there had been 14 switches from democratic, from republican to democratic seats si