news national political reporter and coauthor of the book on the hillary clinton campaign, an kelsey snell back with us, congressional reporter for npr jonathan, the backlash, i want to deal with two dramatic readings here. number one, ms. ann coulter tonight on twitter good news for george herbert walker bush. as of today, he is no longer the biggest wimp ever to serve as president of the united states man, that just filled the air with ice crystals like that breath mint commercial number two, from politico, president nancy pelosi, who runs the country now, said a second former white house official. we went from indefinite shutdown to down payment to cave, all within a span of 24 hours. that official said that trump's core supporters and former aides are furious and melting down jonathan, when that quote comes from somebody on the home team, you got troubles >> absolutely, brian it's totally right there is a complete capitulation there should be some sort of visual representation to the walls of jericho falling down. like president trump's border wall today this is a cave by the president

kelsey snell, congressional reporter for npr. and sam stein, politics editor for the daily beast. we welcome all three back to our broadcast for a thursday night. so, kelsey, this is your beat specifically. how fraught is this as the president figures out how to deal with a person familiar to him, just not in this title? nancy pelosi is now speaker pelosi. >> yeah, this is possibly the strangest shutdown that i have ever covered because typically when we're at a situation where they are at an impasse, these efforts scurrying around the capital, the principals are meeting, the star are meeting. this time it feels different because both sides are really dug in. you heard pelosi say the wall is an immorality. i think that is a really important thing to hear when you're thinking about where democrats are on this. because when you're talking about a word like morality, it's very different than just, say, a policy platform or a political space. it's making it a core belief about who democrats believe themselves to be. i think the president might not be hearing that word, and might not b

snelling was a republican, i was a democrat, so he was not including me in the cabinet. so i knew basically very little about what was going on. it was during a recession. the banks were in trouble. i had to be briefed on that. i had to be briefed on just about every department. the state, snelling was a well-known person who was in his fifth term. i was lieutenant governor. but nobody knows -- they knew the name but that's about it. people don't really know who the -- people are scared. so i had a lot of work to do. after about a week and a half of trying to right the ship, i found myself alone in my office and i thought, you know, you never expected this. what do you want to do with this? and i wrote down four or five things that i felt were really important. and the reason i'm telling this story, almost finished here, is that jim hunt, the governor of north carolina for 16 years in two separate shifts, once told me that, he look at me in that way and said, you know, 90% of what we do is urgent. 10%'s important. if you think about it, that's something that's worth thin

benny snell became the all-time leading rusher. how about a football, they win 27 minus, 27-24. >> he breaks the tackle and breaks another tackle. down the sideline.fitzgerald se with his 21st 100 yard rushing game. the bulldogs were out. and eight yard touchdown. 24-19, iowa. a key play. fitzgerald, he had it and that would've been the go-ahead touchdown. right into the hands of jake your face. iowa wins 27-22. and the sugar bowl is going on right now. we will have all of that for you tonight at 10:00. >>> thank you for being with us. our next newscast have a great night. we will see you tonight at 10:00 and 11:00 everyone. all right, that's the last servo. behold the mobile omnidirectional neutralization and termination eradicator. or... all: monte. featuring one articulated razor-sharp killing saw, one polycarbonate grinding and flipping wheel, steel-armor plate exoskeleton top and bottom, and enough horsepower to drive a 110 pounds of mechanized death from zero to holy crap in 4.8 seconds. is it wrong to say i love our killer r

so, two, from virginia apps, is its okay for politicians to be two-face snelled is its acceptable for politician to have a private stance on issues? secretary clinton, your two minutes, as i recall, that was something i said about abraham lincoln, after having seen the wonderful stephen spielberg movie called "lincoln" am master class watching president lincoln get the congress to approve the 1st amendment. and -- the 13th amendment. its was primped and strategic and i was making the point that it is hard sometimes to get the congress to do what you want to do, and you have to keep working at it, and, yes, president lincoln was trying to convince some people -- he used some arguments, convincing other people, used other arguments. that was a great -- i thought a great display of presidential leadership. >> let's talk about what is really going on here, martha, because our intelligence community just came out and said in the last few days, that the kremlin, meaning putin and the russian government, are directing the attacks, the hacking, on american accounts to influence our election,

heavy rain in the mother load areas and some of it is heavy rain before you hit snelle.the weather advisory through the day goes until tonight. around the 5000 or 500 foot 5500 foot level eventually will get snow. most is above lake level. 10 to 16 inches of snow. that is the other low. this other low is funneling and colder and unstable air fund the favoring areas north of the golden gate. this one favoring south of the golden gate. units the embedded with that some areas are picking up two inches of rain. very steady. delta lake county and mendocino county. 54 temperatures that will not change because we are under cloudy skies. the next system, the forecast models have been wrestling. gfs has been maintaining it. the others have been diving at the. think it is starting to lead more towards our direction friday night into saturday morning. i think the beat goes on into next week. we have rain today off and on and another system friday and another sunday. if the gfs is right, 2, 2, 2, 2- 3. that is a wedge pattern for next week. the 50s and 60s, hang my head in that. but

the snell of it all. >> you have needles and blood-stained clothing in the streets.t can't be safe for anyone. >> increase of poverty, drugs, needles and feces. how do you think of that? >> it's crazy. i see needle and feces. >> crack and the homelessness, has not become the new normal in san francisco? >> absolutely. >> nancy pelosi.e representative of the area. do you blame her for the issues? >> nancy pelosi has done a pretty fine job to date. you know, i would vote for her. >> she has been in office for over 20 years.'l does she have some responsibility? >> in that case i'll say yes. >> nancy pelosi is your leader in the area.a. how do you feel of her leadership? >> she is great and strong and fantastic negotiator. i think she gets a bad rap because she is a woman. >> what about leadership, nancy pelosi is the leader here. she is about to become speaker of the house. do you feel of her leadership?de >> she is old blood. we need new blood in there. >> i definitely don't feel good about her leadership. i don't think that she is being, i think she is status quo. >>

from real clear politics, doug thornell former dnc senior adviser, npr congressional reporter kelsey snell. i do want to begin with the fbi agents association warning. that is a big deal. >> it's a huge deal. they're talking about the safety of the nation. this is a very big and important deal. they're talking about the fact that people are getting less safe. we're hearing that from the tsa agents who are wondering what happens to hiring, to keeping people on these jobs fundamental again to safety. that is a really biggest calationing. > a.b., that's a presidential priority. donald trump talks about wanting to make america safe again, a line we've heard from him again and again and yet you have the shutdown that seems to be according to the fbi agents association having the opposite effect. >> the state department had to cancel a border security conference. the irony is lost on the president because according to the reporting out of the "wall street journal" this morning, he thinks he's winning this standoff and is going to wait out the democrats. this is affecting trump voters in trump co

snelling would like to laugh but he was republican and have significant towhee is not included the cabinet so i knew basically the was going on. then i had to be, it was during a recession. the banks were in trouble and i to be briefed on that and just but every department. this date, he was a well-known person who is in his fifth term and i was lieutenant governor but nobody, they knew the name but that's about it. people are scared. i had a lot of work to do. after about a week and half of trying to right the ship, i found myself alone in my office and i thought you never expected this. what you want to do with this? and i wrote down four or five things that if that were really important. the reason i'm telling the story, i'm almost finished here, is about jim hunt who was the governor of north carolina for 16 years in two separate shifts once told me that, he looked at me in that way, you look and he said you know, , 90% of what weo is urgent. 10% is important. think about it, that something that's worth thinking about for anybody in the room or anywhere else. that we spend 90% of our t

>> i had this conversation and that i missed the days where we would get cold front coming in and snelle. it will start tomorrow morning first and 3 systems. after that the mylett models favor southern california. johnny says good morning from el sobrante. 41. a pretty picture. we appreciated. and also we can get a little colder than that with cottages partly cloudy and inverness with a high of 56. that sounds perfect. the high clouds and more sun to the south and called to the north. cool and mild mostly cloudy and the wind picks and. morning wind and rain saturday turning colder with possible thundershowers saturday afternoon with the cold and unstable air moves in. finally something not an atmospheric river. it is a cold front. that means we see lowering the levels. and winter storm warning 5 a.m. saturday. eventually the snow level will get down 400-3500 feet over the weekend and above the 7000 foot level to the safety feet would not surprise me. the system is a ways away. it is slowing down that will be the wind and rain producer saturday. once that opens the door the next system wi