let's bring in a.b.ard, associate editor for real clear politics, and cnn analyst, david drucker. david, your paper, "the examiner," has some new reporting on this infrastructure plan. how big and what do you know? >> well, first of all, i think there are young americans all over the place going, stereoinstructionstereo instructions, i have to idea what you're talking about. >> you're right, you're right. >> although the battery on my iphone isn't doing so well. i think the president would like to take this tax reform bill and roll it into momentum for infrastructure. but republicans do not like to spend the kind of money it takes to fund the kind of infrastructure bill the president would like to enact, especially after they've had to play a lot of accounting games with a tax overhaul bill. they think the tax overhaul bill will end up working out just fine, but it's still a lot of games to play with the numbers. and if they're going to get help from democrats in the senate, which they would need, becaus

let's bring back john avlon and a.b. stoddard. back pushing him towards the door? >> there is a divestiture issue that is leaving tillerson in his seat. it is is ativan teenage kwrous for him to leave blond. so he continues to say he is doing just fine. he often describes it as a very difficult job. he's happy to keep on with this job. >> he has to stay for financial reasons. >> which is why he wanted to stay a year. he didn't want to be booted out december 2017. so when he gets to this year mark in january, i can pretty much -- i'm betting my house that tillerson will not be secretary of state in february. >> that is a short tenure. like alexander haig. is that relevant at all to him? >> i think it is very clear he was left alone to do his job. he didn't have to answer to reporters. he didn't have to answer to a west wing of a trump white house and jared kushner being de facto secretary of state. he's fed up. they're fed up with him. it is a disservice to us. around the world, every head of government, adversary or ally knows thi

it will be done on on time. >> a.b., what is the simple math.at is the margin of error what has to happen for it to pass? >> cochran said he can come for the vote. so they would be down to 51 minus mccain. then, you know, i guess they have a buffer of one. vice president pence is coming to break the tie. >> nobody wants to be that one now. >> that's been part of the political calculus. they would have stood up corker, collins and cohn. >> so interestingly, a.b., putin called president trump. they have spoken now twice in three days. what are we to make of this? >> there's been a lot of thanking going on. i can't remember a time when the u.s. and russian governments have gotten along so well. and the things that he said at his press conference last week, the way he spoke about trump's leadership and everything going gang busters in the stock market and going over so well here and americans shouldn't question their own system or government and everything. i found those comments staggering. i cannot believe we are at a place where vladimir putin is

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remember, this is -- a.b. touched on this but this is based on the theory of the case, and this is based on the idea that cutting the tax rate for corporate america will lead them to reinvest, and it will trickle down to the workers and jump-start the economy, and it could and that's the way they get around -- the rosiest prediction is this adds a trillion to the deficit, and the idea is the economy would out grow that, and it could but it might not. what you see at long is this is donald trump's republican party. deficits went out the window when donald trump won the election, and there was less concern and it was let's get money back to the people and let's do the tax cut for the corporations and the people. let's say the romney had won, the deficit would have been front and center. there's no question as to a contradiction between paul ryan s sir kau 2010 and today. >> what did allow republicans to pull off this feat of being able to do this in three months? this had taken decades, and in three months after

they're embracing, "a.b." for anne boleyn. "a.b." it's beautiful.h, and now it's changed to english. "wishing myself, especially of an evening"-- hmm, hmm, hmm! "in my sweetheart's arms. "written in the hand "of him that was, is, "and shall be yours by his will, h.r." worsley: in his desire for anne, henry was promising himself to her. this lost letter was nothing short of a marriage proposal. [bells pealing] what's extraordinary about these letters is that henry is making a promise he couldn't possibly keep; he was already married. they also reveal that henry and anne hadn't had sex yet. anne was doing what nobody had done before. she was refusing the king. he saw into, sometimes interpreted this as tricksy, girly behavior on anne's part, but i prefer to think that she had a bold strategy here. anne is impressive to us because she often acts like a modern person, like somebody with ambitions, who knew where she was going, and i prefer to think that anne made henry wait because she wanted to be queen of england. but there already was a hugely popula

thank you, a.b., and gregory. thank you. >>> deputy attorney general rosenstein defending robert mueller and the russia investigation. he told a committee there's no cause to fire the counsel. >> rosenstein was unwavering in his support of the special counsel and his team throughout that hours long contentious hearing, where republicans were pointing to anti-trump messages between fbi agent peter strzok and lisa page during the primaries. they released hundreds of those messages this week. two were from march 2016. they show lisa page, the fbi attorney, saying god, trump is a loathe some human. so because of this republicans want a second special counsel appointed to investigate since strzok was on the russia probe until he was removed this summer when the text messages were revealed. he did play a leading role in the hillary clinton e-mail investigation, and rosenstein is saying the inspector on that is sufficient for now and he said robert mueller himself will not be fired. >> have you seen good cause to fire sp

a.b. stoddard, real clear politics. host of "no labels radio" on sirius xm. needham, chief executive officer at heritage action for america. welcome. hope you had a very merry christmas. thoughts on where we are with north korea after hearing a sampling of the sound. >> we have known all year, known for a long time there's not a lot of good options. i think it's a little bit misleading to say there's no more options for the united states economically. the real economic options we've had with north korea always involves secondary sections. that means going after other entities doing business with north koreans. the chairman of the house armed services and foreign affairs committee, excuse me. given a list of 12 chinese banks we should be putting section secondary sanctions on. putting true economic pressure on the north koreans, the type we had on iran. we're going to have to look at chinese banks, especially those 12 chairman royce has put forward. >> mike: treasury secretary steven mnuchin saying treasury is targeting leaders of north korea's ballistic missi

stoddard, temperature -- david drug ker, a.b. stole ddard, thank you ver much. >>> there was a big warn from president obama about social media. that was the top line that came out. though president trump wasn't named in this, so have a listen what president obama had to say about social media. >> the question i think really has to do with how do we harness this technology in a way that allows a multiplicity of voices, a lows a diversity of views, but doesn't lead to a balkanization of our society, but rather continues to promote weighing of finding common ground. i'm not sure government can legislate that, but what i do believe is all of us in leadership have to find ways in which we can re-create a common indication on the internet. one of the dangers of the internet is people can have entirely different realities. they can be just cocooned in information that reinforces their current biases. >> that was obviously the serious stuff. the two guys also had some fun with a lightning round. tell us about that. >> they had so much f

great to talk to you, a.b. stoddard and david drucker. >>> so congress facing an ambitious to-do list for the new year. will democrats help the president accomplish his agenda? we'll ask democratic congresswoman, debbie dingell, she's here next. your insurance company raises your rates. maybe you should've done more research on them. for drivers with accident forgiveness, liberty mutual won't raise your rates due to your first accident. switch and you could save $782 on home and auto insurance. call for a free quote today. liberty stands with you™. liberty mutual insurance. ♪ ♪ give a little bit ♪ ♪ give a little bit... -hello. ♪ give a little bit... ♪ ... of your love to me oh, haha. ♪ there's so much that we need to share ♪ ♪ so send a smile and show that you care ♪ ♪ i'll give a little bit of my love to you ♪ >>> president trump says he is not getting enough credit for his big wins this year. but congress still has a lengthy to-do list for next year. will democrats work with the president to compromise on hi

. >>> joining us to discuss all of this, david and a.b. stoddard. the president admitted something yesterday that the public suspected. in all the polls, the public felt this favored corporations over the middle class and this was designed as a corporate tax cut, and that was really a crowning achievement and the purpose of it and the president seemed to reinforce that yesterday. let me play for you what he said. >> our plan also lowers the tax on american business from 35% all the way down to 21%. that's probably the biggest factor in the plan, we become competitive all over the world. our companies won't be leaving our country any longer because our tax burden is so high because we are down to the lower end of the spectrum opposed to being the highest. >> that's probably the biggest factor and the crowning achievement they would say and it's a bit off script and message from the way lawmakers were trying to sell it in the past couple of weeks. >> look, i do think that the reason the republicans are focusing on this is because there has been for ye

here with more, a.b. stoddard and emily schuetz stutzman. welcome to both of you.mily, do you think al franken should have had to resign? >> i do. there were mountain claims against him. ed was becoming impossible for him to do his job. we need to err on the side of believing women. what he did, we don't know, but he admits there was some element that there was an appropriate conduct. we do here there are women in his office that always felt safe, nevertheless, it was time for him to resign. i think it was perfectly fair for him to dry contrast with the potential incoming senator from alabama, roy moore. the fact that the public and for the same kind of thing from him and the rnc has gone back into that race with regard that he has mounting claims against him, he was going after teenage girl girls. >> martha: anyone who gets accused and i read there was a discussion among some of the women on the democratic side, senators who said if there's seven, if there is eight, then we get together and say he must go. there is a crowd mentality, pushing out an elected officia

i will disagree with a.b. a little bit.n destroy people's lives, not even on a conviction but on charges. in washington, d.c., it's very easy to get an indictment against a republican. really easy. what you see here is people who have a lot of power, fbi agents who have a lot of power, and he goes question of did obama politicize the fbi in a way to try to harm the ultimate political opponent which was the republican nominee taking on his hand chosen democratic nominee. i think there are real questions that need to be answered. this is beyond smoke on the idea of james comey and what obama did during the election. general flynn worked for president obama. obama fired him and then eventually the obama administration had a role in spying on general flynn. that might have all been right and good but this is also nixonian and scary. this email may be -- movie there are antecedents to those pronouns that are fine. i think we have to know, or the fbi really walks out of this with the same reputation they walked into it with. i th

a.b. stoddard is here from real clear politics. chuck collier used to say here years ago, your job is to keep all the balls in the air and recognize when there's one that doesn't belong in the air. every day now as we look at distractions and real things, we're trying to figure out what is a distraction and what is real thing. have you thought about today's news in that context? >> so interesting, shep. we're bombarded these days throughout 2017 with drama. the idea that he will not announce another six month waiver to put the embassy in jerusalem but announce that he will allow this to go forward is a controversial thing that could cause violence, perhaps endanger our troops in certain locations around the world, threaten alliances with certain of our partners in the middle east. >> shepard: saudi arabia and jordan. >> its going to be a consequential move. it's certainly a promise he wanted to keep by why this month after continuing to sign the waivers? probably because there's a lot of really negative news out there. >> among the

. >> cris: well, they have thrown a.b. a ton of passes this year.s i think two drops on the season. out of 115 targets. something like that. just a remarkable, remarkable season. >> al: leads the league in receptions and in receiving yards. putting up big numbers again tonight. roethlisberger. has that deflected. at the line of scrimmage. second down with 4:48 remaining in the fourth. bell and brown from scrim scrimmage. tune in and look at that graphic. if you are a ravens fan you think you're getting killed. >> cris: especially if you've watched your offense all year. but this is back-to-back games now. tonight, 38, 44 last week. >> al: mm-hmm. dump pass again to bell. bell, tried to get to the 20 yard line, which would be a first down. and it is. meanwhile, roethlisberger tonight has thrown for 435 yards. 39 of 57. first down at the 20. clock ticking down to 4:15. roethlisberger. over the middle. this time it's eli rogers. and he is close to a first down. they'll spot the ball at the 10 yard line. or just shy of it. so they don't pick up the firs

. >> cris: well, they have thrown a.b. a ton of passes this year.s i think two drops on the season. out of 115 targets. something like that. just a remarkable, remarkable season. >> al: leads the league in receptions and in receiving yards. putting up big numbers again tonight. roethlisberger. has that deflected. at the line of scrimmage. second down with 4:48 remaining in the fourth. bell and brown from scrim scrimmage. tune in and look at that graphic. if you are a ravens fan you think you're getting killed. >> cris: especially if you've watched your offense all year. but this is back-to-back games now. tonight, 38, 44 last week. >> al: mm-hmm. dump pass again to bell. bell, tried to get to the 20 yard line, which would be a first down. and it is. meanwhile, roethlisberger tonight has thrown for 435 yards. 39 of 57. first down at the 20. clock ticking down to 4:15. roethlisberger. over the middle. this time it's eli rogers. and he is close to a first down. they'll spot the ball at the 10 yard line. or just shy of it. so they don't pick up the firs

robin birol robin is a democratic strategist and former obama campaign regional field director or an a.b. let's start with your reaction to the senate race in alabama i will say something very interesting who would have ever predicted that a democrat winning election in alabama to the senate on his election night victory speech would quote martin luther king jr. well that is wonderful to quote martin luther king jr it shows how much progress we we've made but who would ever guess that doug jones would when lots of republicans that they saw more as a deeply flawed feely flawed candidate you saw republican leadership come out against him senate senate majority leader mitch mcconnell he if mr moore had been elected was planning an ethics can. city investigation my short hot take on this is that republicans dodged a bullet that they didn't have roy moore coming to the senate to dog them between now twenty eight thousand and twenty twenty not only with these allegations of you know cruising shopping malls and sexually assaulting teenage underage girls but also that we know judge moore to be a

what i just want to show people a picture of where people are coming from how they're going for the a.b.'s. in three major regions across the african continent where they're actually going from far west across to the far east all heading north and that journey takes them from libya very often what has happened in the last few years that has made that journey even more perilous and for there to be even more cases of slavery. i think what's happened is that libya. is ungoverned states in all you know in effect and there are it's a small population it's five million people the same number of people come from the small island that i come from from maryland but it's a huge country the size of france bigger. so what's happened is that the economy has become a migrant economy people are essentially exploiting the migrants as they come through full of hope that they're going to come to some realize dream in europe but the minute they step off the bus or more to the point of drugs or truck their dream turns into a nightmare and so long before they reach the ocean those you're showing here these

however it turns out, a.b., it's going to take us a couple years to gauge how effective this tax plan is. this is a victory because no matter how you look at this, it will sweep the republicans towards 2018 in a pretty strong way. >> they're concerned, trace, that it won't. i think they were very certain this fall that if they did not pass tax reform after a failure to repeal obamacare, that they would be in serious peril in the mid-term elections. they're not so sure that this is going to be an appreciable jolt to the economy, that the leaders are talking about, the speaker, that voters will feel and really be excited about heading into the polls in november. they certainly prefer a victory than not. but it's getting very bad polling and hoping that that -- that the effects of this, the reception of this will be more positive than it's looking now. the president certainly overpromised about a middle class miracle and then last week even a few days ago saying there's a tremendous benefit to the middle class. republicans are really hoping to feel that way in august when their minds are

. >> final word from you on a different topic, a.b.ture is going to be easy. maybe not. >> the problem are not only after all of the long year of calling democrats obstructionists and losers trying to come to the table to work with them after getting through deadlines on legalization for dreamers and everything else, the problem is division with their own republican ranks, people conservative republicans who don't want to pay for this on top of deficit funded tax cuts. >> so many obstacles. thank you so much. we appreciate you both being here. coming up, infrastructure. immigration, welfare reform. are republicans all on the same page when it comes to their priorities for 2018. >>> the base of our party is so pleased with the president right now. imagine where we'll be next november as we see our economy continue to grow under the great policies coming from republicans. >> rnc chair ron na romney mcdaniel talking about accomplishments by the president and republican leaders in congress. cnn's phil mattingly is at the magic wall to expl

a.b. that is before mr. bezos took over from amazon. the poor are often pay more, have a black or brown tax added to them, and it isn't self-destruction, it is the destruction they are encouraged to commit, the harry carey emotionally and culturally that is fostered by a system that has sent them the signal they are disposable and dehumanization carries on in america. he talked about 1968 in the riots. what lasted that? economic inequality. what lasted that? thanks not investing in communities. what led to that? metropolitan roofing was quickly put down, black people were sent off to white schools for a while. there was a resistance of my kind versus the other kind. stop a lot of violence, whites against blacks. you are looking at 1968, the end of the process. look at how white violets has shaped so much of the year of race in america and the possibility of existing in society. i was in detroit in 1967 when the urban rebellion occurred. off?id like people go because police brutality was listening.body was the police were occupying force

let's bring in cnn political analyst, joshua green, and associate for real clear politics, a.b. stoddard. what is the take on this defense from the president's legal team that he can't be guilty of obstruction of justice? >> you heard the senate intel chairman saying he disagrees with that assessment, and i'm not a lawyer, and different experts were weighing in as to whether you could be charged with obstruction in the legal system, and that aside, the fact that we are even talking about this shows that he faces legal exposure, and that alone is bad. we don't know yet whether or not this tweet was real about the president knowing that michael flynn lied to the fbi. with all of these different lies, basically, we need to find out whether or not it was actually only a logan act, a potential logan act violation -- >> the private citizen representing the president of the united states. >> nobody has been prosecuted for this? would he lie to the fbi over that? something we all knew was on every page of every paper. i don't think we know the full story of when the president knew about

when you have the elderly, they may not having their families living with them and you cannot do an a.b. bus because we thought about that and we asked about that for the b.r.t. and because street cars cannot pass each other, that doesn't work and my stop at ninth and gary was eliminated although there's three schools in the area and a public library within half a block so the reason was to speed up the buses by one minute but now the b.r.t. goes in to the center lane that you have to have the islands and the buses can't go around each other so i have no local service that's what is going to happen to these people and really local service is being eliminated so the buses can maintain that one or two minute improvement so i stand with the people who don't want elimination because they're trying to do it to the richmond next. please hold your applause. we have no more public comment cards do i have anybody else for comment public. come up now or i will close public comment. public comment is closed. all right what i'd like to do is i want to take these in turn so we're going to start, mr.

a.b., roy moore's own words, i do not know any of these women.certainly made a difference to that woman, debby gibson who says, you know, it's -- she has that card. >> it changed back and forth. they're not formal dates. he knows some of them. he remembers that she was a good fo girl. they make it murky enough i guess they're saying it was about those who have accused him and come out with these allegations, but he's made it murky enough starting with his interview with sean hannity weeks ago that -- anyway, look, the piece was incredibly well-reported. these are credible accusations. they're all on the record and you're really asking people to believe that mitch mcconnell got together with the "washington post" in a secret kabul with loads of cash and found all of these women who don't know each other and asked them to come up with fake stories? that said, a lot of voters say even if the stories are true, we're foelty at peace. he's not a democrat. integrity doesn't matter. it's all about tribalism. >> i believe these women. i believe the volume

i want to bring in the panel, asha rangappa, a.b. stoddard, michael caputo, ana navarro, robby mook, and alice stewart. okay, this president -- the argument that, first of all, that the president's tweet, that the lawyer said he wrote it, that it was poorly worded, and that the president cannot be charged with obstruction of justice. i assume he's speaking, as our legal analyst said last week -- or in the last hour, they're speaking legally, not necessarily that political charges can't be brought up to congress. >> right, congress can bring impeachment proceedings and that's not -- that's separate from the legal issue. but the legal issue can be dispensed with. the founding fathers in the declaration of independence, one of the charges they levied against king george iii was that he was obstructing the administration of justice. and then we fought a war to get rid of a tyrant who thought he was above the law. so, clearly, the way that the constitution is written now assumes that the president is not above the law and is subject to th

a.b. stoddard is focusing on development that is interesting as gel out. you remember jill stein? she has been sort of moved into this. they want documentation and records from her to find out what she knew and when she knew it. who she was talking to. keep in mind a lot of trump surrogates were in russia around the same time she was. it is unfortunately over my head but fortunately not over ab stoddard's head. what are we looking at here? >> jill stein was at this event held by rt in russia that lieutenant-general michael flynn was at where michael minute was pictured next to russian president vladmir putin and jill stein has a lot of friendly connections to the russians and rt russian television. they're looking at whether or not she was the recipient of some kind of either, you know, unwitting collusion benefited in her campaign support and ultimate vote total from perhaps social media messages that the russians might pushed to help her, or support her, and whether or not, again, a lot of this collusion which is not a crime, people need to know. it means you either showed an in

. >> thanks, a.b. >>> as we get ready to kick off 2018 with a big party, we have the best cures just boston with a look at the latest hangover remedies. doctor, good morning to you. happy early new year's. >> hi, dan. >> just walk us through before we start here on the cures, what happens to the body when we're hung over? >> well, dan, you know, medically we don't totally understand what causes a hangover, but we definitely understand that feeling, very unpleasant. the leading theory is dehydration, electrolyte abnormalities. there can be some gast gastrointestinal disturbances,ns low blood sugar. obviously your sleep is disrupted when you take in too much alcohol. all of this adds up to not a good feeling. >> yeah, you just basically described college for me. so if you wake up on january 1st and you realize you have overdone it, what is the number one thing to do? >> call me. i will make a house call. number two, hydration, hydration, hydration. there's been some theories that for every 250 milliliters of mixed alcohol that you consume, your body loses a liter of free water. so i ca

. >> ask the people waiting in line in dupage county to prepay property taxes a.b., a pleasure to talkappy new year. >> thanks. >> back to mike santelli. >> thank you very much for a good discussion on fixed income all around time now for a closer look at oil and metals prices. >> oil prices haven't been able to get a boost after breaking $60 a barrel earlier this week the oil is still on track for a positive month higher by 4% as we wait to see when the libyan pipeline that exploded goes back online the estimate is still for repairs to finish by next week meantime, copper continues its march higher on track for 16 straight positive sessions on pace for its best year since 2010, up 30% here in 2017 on the back of upbeat chinese data. that's been the main catalyst. the move in copper helping the broader markets in latin america. check out argentina and brazil stock markets there seeing new highs on the back of this move in copper. gold meantime, hitting a one-month high the next level to watch on the technical side according to traders is $1300 lastly, natural gas prices spiking on the