. >> i'm alison kosik sitting in for christine romans. it is christmas island, which is the first place to welcome in 2019. we will watch with champagne on the side. >> that line moves west across the globe. >>> president trump may be hedging on his timeline to pull u.s. troops out of syria after meeting with the president on sunday. lindsey graham is suggesting the president has a better understanding and agreed to reevaluate. graham characterized the president's pullout as an obama-like mistake. >> 2,000 troops are supposed to leave syria in the coming weeks and months. mr. graham says the president is not pausing completely, but committed to a fresh assessment to see what happens on the ground in syria. >> i think we are in a pause situation where we are reevaluating the best way to achieve the president's objective of having people pay more and do more. after discussions with the president and general dunford, i have never felt better about where we're headed. we're slowing things down in a smart way. the goal is the same. to leave sy

i'm alison kosik sitting in for christine romans. i was eluding to the fact if the weather will cooperate. >> i'm alex marquardt. happy new year's eve. great to close out the 2018 with you. >> this is great. >> we are going to start with president trump who may be hedging on his timeline to pull all u.s. troops out of syria. republican senator lindsey graham has a better understanding of the stakes in syria. graham characterized the pullout as an obama-like mistake. >> 2,000 troops are supposed to leave syria in the coming weeks and months. mr. graham says the president is not pausing completely, but committed to a fresh assessment to see what happens on the ground in syria. >> i think we are in a pause situation where we are reevaluating the best way to an achieve the president's objective of having people pay more and do more. after discussions with the president and general dunford, i am never better on where we are headed. the goal is the same. to leave syria and make sure isis never comes back. our partners are taken care of and

>> reporter: that's a good question, alison.ings that was said this morning is you can't expect to pay less in taxes and get more out of the government. it doesn't work that way. so one of the things they're talking about is to further tax the internet giants like google, amazon and facebook. the finance ministry says the companies have used european rules to pay 14% less tax than the medium and small business owners here. that is one of the things they will do is go out and look for other sources of tax revenue in 2019. at the same time, the people on the street, to get them off the street, they will expect concrete measures from the speech tonight. some of the things talked about is an abolishment to some extent of property taxes and a bonus of 1,000 euro or more for people for assistance in buying power. just an outright gift to every french person. it is those things, but they are costly with the budget. >> we will see if emmanuel macron can calm the anger we are seeing on the streets. jim, thank you. >>> ahead, they are cal

i'm alison kosik. >> thanks for being here.o quit anything, this was the breaking point. >> the deizaticision to design nightmare. i made my decision clear. any measure must include border security. >> it will not get him his wall. >> this is "new day" with alisyn camerota and john berman. >> welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. this is "new day." it's friday, december 21st, 6:00 here in new york. america is less safe this morning. that's the sentiment i heard overnight from republican lawmakers, and that's the reaction to the resignation of mattis who quit in protest. add to that a looming shut down, and the "washington post" notes that this december 21st will be the darkest day of the year. the headlines in the papers from the "new york times," upheaval in washington from the washington post, a tailspin under siege. on the surface general mattis quit because of the decision to with draw half of the forces from afghanistan, and he thinks the president is

>> reporter: good morning, alison.rt with the fact this is america's longest running foreign conflict. 17 years. it is not doing well. according to the afghan president, 29,000 afghan police and soldiers have been killed since 2015 in the war. here are some statistics from the general for afghanistan. the afghan government only controls 55% of districts around the country and only about 65% of the population. going further, there are the afghan military which is about 11% below the target strength due to desertion and casualties and 12% of afghan districts are in the hands of afghan insurgents. taliban and isis on the ground in afghanistan. military open efficientfficials stalemate. the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, joseph dunford said he was recommending against a drawdown as recently as december 6th. president trump's own appointee to run u.s. central command said two days before that that if you drew down u.s. troops precipitously in afghanistan, if a few thousand foreign troops that advise, train and assis

alison. >> thank you. fred pleitgen, thank you. >>> james comey calling out for donald trump's defeat in 2020. the former fbi director interviewed on stage at new york's famed 92nd street y. he practically begged democrats to set aside differences and nominate a candidate who is best to beat trump. >> all of us should use every breath we have to make sure the lying stops on january 20th, 2021. >> those comments coming after the president tweeted without evidence that comey lied to the house judiciary committee 245 times last week. the former fbi director answered questions mostly about hillary clinton's e-mails friday. >> according to the transcripts, comey was asked by jerry nadler if he was best friends with robert mueller as president trump claims. comey responds i am not. i admire the heck out of the man, but i don't know his phone number. i've never been to his house. i don't know his children's names. i had a meal once alone with him once in a restaurant. nadler said i will not ask if you hugged or k

>> reporter: alison, this is just getting under way. the marathon press conference that putin holds at the end of every year. we expect it to run three or four hours. he is just in his introductory remar remarks. this decision by trump has been met with consternation, but not for putin. the foreign affairs ministry leader 15said this is an importt story and real prospect for a political settlement. the russians have been backing the regime of bashar al assad. they have been saying for months they don't believe the u.s. has a legal basis to stay in syria after the defeat of isis. they are sure to welcome it. >> can things get better for putin at this point? >> reporter: it is fair to say this press conference that putin hosts is a big summing up. he has been cramming for this for several days. this caps a year where he hosted the world cup in russia. like you mentioned, new sanctions imposed on russia, but lifting of sanctions connected to one oligarch close to putin. he is ending the year on a high note, alison. >> it is making people s

later that afternoon, i tell alison. well, aboriginal people don't hold grudges.kills, she works as a bridge between the elders, the government and the tourism operators. today is dancing in a welcome ceremony for visitors here for a cultural festival. on stage is tilly, with her all—female schoolgirls drumming group. it's an event that showcases indigenous culture from across australia, for a mixed audience. renowned australian indigenous country music singer troy cassar—daley is a regular performer here. what it does is bring people from the outside and helps immerse them in some cultural things they'll never see in sydney, black and white people should all come here and carry a bit of the spirit home. i mean, touch your foot over there near uluru and take a bit of that feeling with you, it's not hard to feel it, it's a great place. and then, as night falls, a new way of stories being told is revealed. indigenous australian fashion brands using material with the paintings that tell the ancient stories of the creation time. led by australia's leading indigenous m

thank you forjoining us, alison.f no—confidence, launched by the labour leader today, i presume that something you support, but it's not going to come to anything, it's not to throw theresa may out of government or overthrow the government. what is the point? surely you and your colleagues have much more important things to get on with, like trying to find a way out of the eu successfully? u nfortu nately i of the eu successfully? unfortunately i don't think anyone really has confidence in theresa may or the government any more. last week, we had the tory mps demonstrating that are 100 of them don't have confidence in their own leader. this week we have theresa may coming back to the house of commons, really giving us the same speech she has given, you know, every monday, as if it is groundhog day. theresa may is they are, saying basically "it is my deal or no other options." the house of commons is quite clear there is not a majority for radial, and that is why the vote was pulled. what we need now is plan b. we nee

i'm gonna meet alison, jim's 50/50 partner. want to find out how this store is doing. >> the big pine key store. >> big pine. hello. >> hey, how you doing? >> how are you? i'm marcus. >> david. >> nice to meet you. >> nice to meet you. >> i'm alison. >> nice to meet you. >> it's an honor to meet you. >> nice to meet you. so what makes this location different from the one that i was at earlier on greene street? >> this store is a small percentage of our business, but we also do all of our shipping here. >> how much business will this store do, this location right here, a year? >> retail sales as opposed to the whole company? 10, 12%. >> okay. so what will i find in here? i mean, pretty much the same kind of stuff we saw at the other place? >> this has pretty much the same stuff. >> so you--how many pies do you make a year? >> 40,000. >> do you make pies in this-- >> we do not make pies in this location. we only make pies in our greene street location. and this is our shipping area where david packs up our packages to ship. these

on strike and you can just scroll down and see the people who are posting this their self protests alison talk to us about how this movement got started what brought people to the streets. so actually if you see the words written on the people's palms it says emergency situation or state of emergency is the strike and the demonstrations that took place on tuesday were an outcry of rage over the inaction of prime minister benjamin and tony i was government to the fact that femicide the number of women murdered by domestic partners by husbands by close family members jumped more than thirty percent in the last year last year it was seventeen and this year which isn't quite over yet has been has risen to twenty four and so part of the demonstrations was having twenty four minutes of silence in memory of those women and the outrage was sparked first of all by the murder of two young girls thirteen year old and a sixteen year old an arab citizen of israel and refugee asylum seeker from from eritrea who were both killed on the same day which just happened to be the day after the international d

cnn business correspondent alison kosik is at the stock exchange with much more on this. alison, is president trump directly affecting the markets with what he's talking about here? >> reporter: i'll tell you this much, kate, president trump certainly not instilling any confidence in the stock market. first you heard that report over the weekend where the president questioned if he has the legal authority to fire jay powell because he blames the fed chair for the market meltdown. and the tweet you just showed a short time ago, blaming the fed, that actually caused the dow to accelerate its losses. it made the shortened trading session today anything but sweet. then you had treasury secretary steve mnuchin's phone call to big bank ceos over the weekend, that didn't hit the market in a friendly fashion either, proof of that are the red arrows and the dow closing at its lowest level since september of last year. a source family with these calls told cnn that these ceos were totally baffled by the move that came out of nowhere, with mnuchin asking if the banks see i illiquidi

alison, thank you very much. —— they wa nted alison, thank you very much. —— they wanted to spend theirreet in central london. enough around today? absolutely. you can see the crowds around me. it has got busier and busier today. judging from this, the tradition of boxing day sales is alive and well. yes, the west end shops are reporting they have been very busy. i 10:30am, it was noticeable that footfall was noticeably up from last year. up 1596, noticeably up from last year. up 15%, we think. we were here this morning and there were people who had been queueing for the 6am next sale. they had been here since two in the morning. we had spoken from international shoppers, tempted by the weaker pound. they had been spending their money. that is contrast with the national picture thatis contrast with the national picture that is being reported by national a nalyst that is being reported by national analyst today that actually says footfall has gone down from last year, to 4.2%. that is the third row in the year that has happened. over thatis in the year that has happened. over that is a s

other allies are not quite convinced, alison. france has agreed this is not over and there is still a fight against isis. more importantly, what does this do within the context of the broader fight of extremism? everyone we are talking to on the ground and diplomatically across europe is saying the same thing. what the president has done is telegraph to isis that the u.s. is not in it in the long term. he telegraphed to american allies that the u.s. is not in it in the long term. >> senator lindsey graham saying i think it is disastrous to our national security. nima, thank you. >>> could be just a coincidence, but president trump is giving russia two big gifts in the same day. pulling troops out of syria and lifting sanctions on major russian firms controlled by friends of vladimir putin. the united states is also sanctioning 15 russian intelligence agents for interference in the 2016 election. this morning, vladimir putin is holding the end of the year news conference. let's go live to moscow and bring in cnn's chief nathan hod

on strike and you can just scroll down and see the people who are posting this their self protests alison talk to us about how this movement got started what brought people to the streets. so actually if you see the words written on the people's palms it says emergency situation or state of emergency. the strike and the demonstrations that took place on tuesday were an outcry of rage over the inaction of prime minister benjamin attorney i was government to the fact that femicide the number of women murdered by domestic partners by husbands by close family members jumped more than thirty percent in the last year last year it was seventeen and this year which isn't quite over yet has been has risen to twenty four and so part of the demonstrations was having twenty four minutes of silence in memory of those women and the outrage was sparked first of all by the murder of two young girls thirteen year old and a sixteen year old an arab citizen of israel and refugee asylum seeker from from eritrea who were both killed on the same day which just happened to be the day after the international day

cnn's alison kosik is live at the new york stock exchange. alison, why the selloff?dramatic move to the down side, especially when you look at the dow. the market is reassessing what came out of the meeting between china's presidents xi and president trump in argentina. there is growing doubt the ongoing trade war between the u.s. and china is going to end any time soon. despite the white house speaking positively about meetings at the g20, there is this realization now in the financial markets that nothing comes cheap. and there is no deal. and even president trump's series of tweets this afternoon, that really tried to explain the trade negotiations, those, jake, actually caused even more uncertainty that fuelled the selloff. not helping, president trump-appointed robert lighthizer, could end up leading to a bitter contest. >> alison, thank you so much. >>> to our politics lead and what could be one of the biggest weeks so far in the russia investigation with major moves from the special counsel expected on three high-profile former advisers to president trump. mic

so for now, it's christmas come early for cindy and alison.nalists, the families have to stay on their toes, because the trump administration is challenging asylum because they're not getting funding on the wall. >> i hope she didn't watch that report because alison would find out what the gift is. >> she'll find out tomorrow. >> thank you so much. >>> still ahead, hundreds are dead and more missing after a devastating tsunami takes an indonesian island by surprise. smoking with chantix. smoking. it dictates your day. i didn't like something having control over me. i wanted to stop. the thing is i didn't know how. chantix, along with support, helps you quit smoking. chantix reduced my urge to smoke to the point that i could quit. when you try to quit smoking, with or without chantix, you may have nicotine withdrawal symptoms. some people had changes in behavior or thinking, aggression, hostility, agitation, depressed mood, or suicidal thoughts or actions with chantix. serious side effects may include seizures, new or worse heart or blood vesse

alison, thank you so much. secretary steve mnuchin make this curious call to bank leaders? let's go to our white house correspondent boris sanchez for some answers. boris, what are you hearing? any possibility that the president asked him to make those calls, put out that statement? >> reporter: no clarity on that just yet, dana. but what is clear and what we've heard from sources is that the president is frustrated with the economy and specifically with his treasury secretary, steve mnuchin. we've heard that the president has openly and broadly complained that mnuchin is not doing enough to stabilize the markets. president trump, as you know, dana, has staked so much of hs z reputation, so much of his branding on a roaring american economy. and watching the numbers this december has clearly made him upset. perhaps what we saw this weekend was steve mnuchin try to compensate, try to make up for those diminishing numbers and perhaps overcompensate on that call you were just discussing with alison. one source fam

cnn's alison kosik is at the new york stock exchange. that was some wild day that you had to cover there today on wall street. >> reporter: a wild session it was. stocks staging a huge comeback, the dow eration the 600-point decline closing up 260 points, almost a 900-point swing a day after the dow made history jumping more than 1,000 points. the trading session marked by heavy volatility as has been the month of december. the dow has actually made triple-digit moves in 12 of the month's 18 trading sessions. the year-end gyrations come after heavy stock losses in the market overall. the dow is down thousand of points from its october peak. the nasdaq not far from a bear market. that's a 20% drop from a recent high. year-end positioning, repositioning is responsible for a lot of volatility we're seeing as investors are squaring their books as they close out the year, but once the calendar changes from 2018 to 2019, investors are going to be look for clarity and certainty on a number of issues including how many times the federal reserve

on strike and you can just scroll down and see the people who are posting this their self protests alison talk to us about how this movement got started what brought people to the streets. so actually if you see the words written on the people's palms it says emergency situation or state of emergency is the strike and the demonstrations that took place on tuesday were an outcry of rage over the inaction of prime minister benjamin and tony i was government to the fact that femicide the number of women murdered by domestic partners by husbands by close family members jumped more than thirty percent in the last year last year it was seventeen and this year which isn't quite over yet has been has risen to twenty four and so part of the demonstrations was having twenty four minutes of silence in memory of those women and the outrage was sparked first of all by the murder of two young girls thirteen year old and a sixteen year old an arab citizen of israel and refugee asylum seeker from from eritrea who were both killed on the same day which just happened to be the day after the international d

. >> like so many of the volunteers that day, alison rockwell wasn't a relative.he was looking for nique, her >> a body, and a vital clue. >> the telling factor was, the bottoms of her feet were clean. >> what did that mean? when "dateline extra" continues. >>> welcome back. where was nique leili? the suburban mom had been missing for a week when friends and family put together a search team. volunteers combed through the neighborhood hoping for any sign of her. then, a heart-breaking discovery in the woods not far from nique's home would turn the area into an active crime scene. here again is dennis murphy with "the house on sidney's cove." >> at first, it was the unnatural way the leaves were clumped that attracted attention. then, it was the hair. >> and i hear a scream from the woods. >> you hear a scream. >> yeah. and i tore off running into the woods. and then, when i got into the woods, her coworker alison was there, and she said, oh my god, it's her. we found her. there is her hair. >> how awful for you. >> yeah. >> nique leili's sister amy and her friend

alison grande has the story.. dr. charles cobbs/neurosurgeon "frankly, it was the last thing i had in my mind when i went in to operate on what i thought was a typical brain tumor."dr. charles cobbs is a neurosurgeon at swedish medical center.he operated on a 69 year-old woman who was suffering from seizures. he removed a brain tumor that was the size of a dime and sent a sample to a pathologist at johns hopkins for a second opinion.dr. charles cobbs/neurosurgeon"he thought it looked suspicious for amoeba infection. i was pretty much shocked because i'd never seen that before."the woman's condition quickly worsened, and when he did a second surgery.dr. charles cobbs/neurosurgeon"it had grown from about dime sized to about the size of a baseball at that point."he said amoeba eat brain tissue.the woman told doctors she used a neti pot on a regular basis.dr. charles cobbs/neurosurgeon"she had not been boiling water or using sterile water or using sterile saline. she had been using water that had been put through a filter

. >>> november 9, 2018, a day that alison and robby will remember forever. the scene was set. their friends and family gathered around. >> oh, my goodness, they have a gorgeous outdoor chimney. >> it's cold enough to have a fire. >> things will quickly heat up. the venue was amazing, as was her dress. but first, they have to continue getting ready for their fairy tale wedding. >> alice, you make me want to be the best me. you're always there for me even when you don't know who you are. you're my rock. you make me so happy. and i am so #blessed to be able to call you my wife. >> robby sent alison this beautiful notoriety before their first book, and he explained how anxious he is to see her walking down the first aisle. here she comes. >> i want nothing more in this world than you and your happiness. >> she tapped him on the shoulder, he turns around. >> oh, hi, baby. >> snow on his jacket? >> yeah, they don't expect the snow, but the photographers worked it in perfectly. they made it seem even more beautiful. >> here they are at the altar exchanging their vows. can we just get

alison kosik is at the stock market now. the market often finishes with rally, but this is not a typical december. >> reporter: it certainly not a typical december. even with the gains this week, it looks like december will go down as the worst performing month for stocks since 1931. that was during the great depression. hold that in your hat for a bit. as for today, we've been watching stocks struggle to found direction. at the moment, a triple-digit gain for the dow. anything can happen. we have seen sentiment change on a dime, we saw that yesterday when we saw the 900-point swing for the dow. there's a lot weighing on wall street as far as that cloud of uncertainty, an economic slowdown. some of the recent fed moves worrying wall street as well, unresolved trade situation between the u.s. and china is another worry. then the uncertainty in washington, not just policy-wise, not just the government shutdown but whether or not fed chair jay powell can keep his job in the next year. so these worries are keeping wall street on

alison, this is a lot for these communities.>> and some of these towns overachieved in what was expected. look at lubbock, texas, for example. they ended up with over 10 inches yesterday. south carolina already picking up more than a foot and it's still snowing there. tenness tennessee, virginia and georgia seeing the amount tick back up. north carolina, virginia, kentucky, georgia is where most of the moisture is. you can see heavy rain to the south, but take a look. say nashville, especially the northern suburbs, you're getting that wintry mix, freezing rain, where snow is more heavily focused on places like virginia as well as north carolina. but here's a tighter look at nashville. the city proper still right now looking at rain. off to the north, you're looking at areas coming down with heavy sleet or very thick rain in some places and that will make areas very slick. places like raleigh, greensboro looking at snow right now, and in some cases it's coming down heavily. charlotte, this all depends where you are. in the northe

i'm dave briggs. >> i'm alison kosik. 30 minutes past the hour. york times" reporting that hackers infiltrated the european union's diplomatic network, monitoring communications for years. the messages were discovered by the cybersecurity firm area one. cnn has not reviewed the documents yet, but they exposed the biggest, most serious concerns of countries around the world. what's in these documents, these messages, and who broke into the eu's diplomatic system? cnn's samuel burke joining us live from london. i would say this is the closest thing we can get to being a fly on the wall, to hearing what our leaders are really talking about. >> reporter: exactly. gives insight into the methods that president trump has been using since he took office. and we can actually hear what world leaders feel when they walk away from some of these extraordinary meetings. let me just put up on the screen some of the major sensitive topics that we see in these cables, according to this "new york times" report. starting with president trump's negotiations with chin

our correspondent alison freeman is at the metro centre in gateshead. alison, how is trading there?s getting quieter but it seems to have got busier. we had a look round the shops this morning, there were some queues for the cosmetics stores but the queues started in gateshead at three o'clock this morning, when around 1200 people waited for that legendary next sale. some of the other storage decided to open up earlier when they realise there was such a crowd of people here. an issue of science is that it has been good. next has had a bumper day. it has not been a brilliant year for the high street. we know the chain house of fraser has had a terrible time. we know mike ashley has bought them out. this store is going to close. it is a massive shame. it has been years since 1986. initial signs are good here. we have spoken to people today and they said they are spending money on themselves, when they have been buying presents for christmas, and coming to get a bargain in the flesh and not on mine. first signs are that it has been a good day. it is always easy to be sceptical when the

alison, thank you very much.e partial government shutdown, the third shutdown this year for president trump and it's hitting 800,000 government workers hard during these holidays. 420,000 of them are expected to work without pay during the shutdowns. that includes the tsa agents manning airports right now during this very busy travel time. the other 380,000 workers are furloughed, meaning they're on leave without pay. let's get straight to cnn's senior congressional correspondent, manu raju. and manu, the president is in washington because of the shutdown. he tweeted that he's home alone, parentheses, poor me. but negotiations seem to be at a standstill, despite the fact that he's here. what's going on? >> they're virtually going nowhere at the moment. the last time they had a face-to-face meeting was on saturday between vice president mike pence, chuck schumer, and that did not go particularly well. pence came and offered $2.5 billion to deal with the border wall on the southern border along with border security

>> alison kosik in new york. thank you for that. reporting and insights, margaret with bloomberg, john with politico, damian with "the washington post" and kim with "the washington post." damian, i want to start with you. obviously, the markets have endured the worst december since the great depression but they don't tell us everything about what's happening in the economy. so when you look at this drop, what does it tell you about where things stand with the economy at large? >> great question. i think we've seen really strong jobs numbers and gdp kbroet. the economy has been growing strong for the past year. on the one hand, maybe we can endure this 4,000 or 5,000 but what we have to watch is this is going to affect consumer behavior, right? if people say, hey, i don't have as much money as i thought i did a few months ago, we're not going on that vacation or not going to redo the kitchen, you see this affect a lot more people and that's the kind of stuff to play out in the next couple of weeks. >> do the president's words have an

cnn's alison kosik joins me now.lison, a treasury chief calling banks to say, hey, you've still got enough money to lend is normally the kind of thing you do in the midst of a free-fall. so you see it happen now. how did that impact the market? >> spooks the market. and then you've got president trump himself trying to, quote, calm the market. that backfired. i'm talking about when president trump tweeted during the trading session, blaming the market meltdown on the federal reserve. it actually accelerated the selloff during this four-hour trading session. we saw this tweet come around 10:45, and the dow was on an upswing. then that tweet came through. we saw the dow slide again, plunging all the way 650 points by the time the bell rang at 1:00 this afternoon. it also comes after you said, after treasure secretary steve mnuchin called six of the country's biggest ceos. the ceos said the calls came out of left field, they were puzzling and unnecessary. mnuchin's statement saying banks have ample liquidity for lending

alison holt, bbc news, portsmouth.ing organisation after an undercover bbc wales investigation revealed its online recruitment tactics, which urge followers to spread hate in communities. police believe the group — system resistance network — operates largely underground, grooming and recruiting young people for what it calls a white revolution. wyre davies reports. the small mid—wales village which, unbeknown to locals, was harbouring a hardened neo—nazi. a far right extremist who also happen to be a serving soldier in the british army. by the time police caught up with mikko vehvilainen, discovering a cache of weapons and extreme right—wing material, he was making plans to turn his new home here in llansilin into a haven for white supremacists. police uncovered secret online conversations between vehvilainen and other extreme far right supporters. in one he offered to let them use his home for meetings and said welsh villages like this one, with relatively cheap properties for sale, were ripe for turning into nationa

cnn's alison kosik at the new york stock exchange.ell us about this very quick turn-around, alison. >> jim, the bargain hunters in full force for an incredible rebound for the dow, making its biggest single-day point day in history, coming after its wor christmas eve. some have said the selling over the past couple of months was just overdone. you look at it since its october peak, the dow has lost 5,000 points. some people have been questioning why since all the economic data in the u.s. really doesn't point to a looming recession. but what has undercut confidence are the political risks and impact of president trump's tweets and statements attacking fed chairman jay powell. they have actually moved the markets. it's been a catalyst driving them down. it's undermined confidence and although today was just a massive day for the dow, trump's unpredictable nature that continues to be a threat to the stability of the market. the question now becomes, can this upside momentum continue or is this going to be just a oneoff? it's also going

dave and alison? >> kaitlan collins at the white house. thanks. >>> blunt and forceful words in court for michael flynn. quote, i am not hiding my disgust. that's what the judge said before delaying sentencing for michael flynn lying to the fbi. at sullivan's urging, the former national security adviser asked to postpone, flynn wants more time to cooperate with investigators. >> special counsel robert mueller's team suggested little to no prison time for flynn, but sullivan's frustration, it was evident in that courtroom. his voice growing harsh as he vilified flynn. the judge ordered flynn to stay within 50 miles of washington and surrender his passport in january. >>> cnn has obtained a document showing president trump sign aid letter of intonight move forward with -- intent to move forward with negotiations to build a trump tower in moscow of the letter is dated october 28th, 2015, and bears the president's signature. asked on sunday about the letter, mr. trump's lawyer, rudy giuliani, incorrectly told our dana bash it had not been sign

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alison, the 1,000-point question. how did this happen?nd really coming as some investors have been saying that the selling we've been seeing over the past couple of months has been overdone. you look at the dow, it's lost more than 5,000 points since its peak in october. so some are questioning, why should the dow be losing this much since economic data in the u.s. doesn't point to a looming recession? but the reality is, the political risks in the market, they have actually heightened and affected confidence in the market. i'm talking about president trump's tweets and statements where he's been attacking fed chairman jay powell. they moved the markets lower. they drove them down and undermined confidence. and will continue to, because it's an unpredictable nature, continues to be a threat to the stability of the market. clearly, volatility is key here. we saw the market plunge 650 points on monday. now surging over 1,000 points. it's anybody's guess where the market goes tomorrow. dana? >> if only we could guess, alison. >> if only. >>

on strike and you can just scroll down and see the people who are posting this their self protests alison talk to us about how this movement got started what brought people to the streets. so actually if you see the words written on the people's palms it says emergency situation or state of emergency is the strike and the demonstrations that took place on tuesday were an outcry of rage over the inaction of prime minister benjamin and tony i was government to the fact that femicide the number of women murdered by domestic partners by husbands by close family members jumped more than thirty percent in the last year last year it was seventeen and this year which isn't quite over yet has been has risen to twenty four and so part of the demonstrations was having twenty four minutes of silence in memory of those women and the outrage was sparked first of all by the murder of two young girls thirteen year old and a sixteen year old an arab citizen of israel and refugee asylum seeker from from eritrea who were both killed on the same day which just happened to be the day after the international d

alison holt, bbc news.a speech at the united nation's climate change talks in poland today — the most critical meeting since the 2015 paris agreement. sir david will be representing the un's "people's seat", an initiative which gave citizens around the world the opportunity to send their messages to leaders via social media. his speech will be made up of some of those comments. we will be their live a little bit later on. —— there. the head of mi6 will warn russia "not to underestimate our ca pabilities" in a rare speech today. alex younger will describe how the intelligence service exposed those behind the novichok poisoning in salisbury, when a former russian spy and his daughter were targeted. in his talk at st andrew's university, aimed at recruiting more younger people, he'll warn that britain's enemies view themselves as being in a state of "perpetual confrontation" with the uk. police in new york have tracked down a british couple who lost an engagement ring down a drain, thanks to people sharing the

alison kosik, thank you so much. >>> other breaking news. it's a friday that could knock the wind out of the president trump presidency. robert mueller's next reveal at any moment, involving two trump figures you may know most along with michael flynn about trump campaign and business ties to russians. first, michael cohen, the man whose main job was to clean up donald trump's messes, any second now between now and 5:00 p.m. eastern time, mueller is expected to submit his recommendation on how much prison time he thinks cohen deserves after pleading guilty to lying to congress to back up president trump's lies about having no business ties to russia. and speaking of lies, mueller by midnight must explain to a judge what the president's former campaign chair, paul manafort, lied about. lies that resulted in mueller shredding the manafort plea agreement. this is all happening as president trump announces his choice for the next attorney general, also known as robert mueller's new boss. and as cnn is breaking stories about the encroaching muell

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cnn's alison kosik is at the new york stock exchange. you heard the bell right there.lly trading higher earlier today but then the trump administration seemed to send conflicting messages about the state of the trade war? >> reporter: exactly. that closing bell can't some soon enough with the kind of week we've had on wall street. and those conflicting messages coming out of the white house about the unresolved trade issues between the u.s. and china, that is exactly what spooked the markets today. we had economic adviser larry kudlow coming out with a positive tone on cnbc and then trade adviser, peter navarro warning there would be higher tariffs if these trade issues aren't resolved in 90 days. so all of that conflict really increased the anxiety and juiced the volatility today in the

alison, thank you so much. >>> meanwhile, here in washington, the outlook is less positive. at least for some in the trump administration. a source close to the white house tells cnn that the president has grown frustrated with his treasury secretary steve mnuchin and not the only one. the president has, as we discussed, very publicly been fuming over fed chair jerome powell, somebody he appointed and there's now a chance the two men could meet in the new year. let's bring in cnn white house reporter sarah westwood live at the white house. sarah, it's not a new storyline for the president to take his frustrations on events out on people and personnel close to him but the fed chair, we've heard over the last several days, his administration officialls try to rein in on th notion he could fire powell. >> the president has long been blaming the federal reserve and his pick to run it, jerome powell. he's claimed in the past the fed has gone crazy by powell's decision to raise interest rates multiple times throughout his administration claiming powell did it too quickly, that tha

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alison kosik is tracking all of the changes.a bit of a surprise that the the markets would be doing so well given financial eve. >> maybe it's because the president hasn't tweeted about the market. the dow still has a lot of ground to make up. just in the month of december, the dow has shed thousands of points. you can see the volatility, even with these green arrows the concerns are still there, of higher interest rates, of the unresolved trade situation, glowing economic growth and now a new one, political risk. this is now part of the play book here on wall street. when in the past president trump's tweets and statements used to be background noise, now driving the markets down, undermining confidence. trump's unpredictable nature continues to be an underlying threat to the stability of the market. ryan? >> alison kosik live at the new york stock exchange, thank you. back to our breaking news, more on president trump's surprise visit to iraq. we'll have more on that when we come back. your brain changes as you get older. but

christine romans is with us, as is business correspondent alison at the new york stock exchange.the markets here, how are they responding to the president's attacks on his treasury secretary, et cetera? >> well, the initial response is what we saw on monday where we saw that massive plunge in the dow. we saw that more than 2% move in the s&p 500 that helps it move into bear market territory. that's a 20% or more drop that is certainly identified as detectable in the market. the question is will some of that downside seep back into the market because the reality is political risk is a part of the trade now. it is a part of the play book here on wall street. i'm talking about president trump's tweet and the administration's move. calling up all those ceos and asking if they had enough liquidity. >> we know the president likes to find scapegoats. the fact is the market is falling for a whole host of reasons out of the control of the treasury secretary. what's happening? >> well, it is interesting because the president says the only thing wrong with the market is the fed. that's just

. >> lacey alison was not planning to vote until a woman showed up with an application. >> you filled no, she filled it out and said she was going to bring it back for me to sign. i never saw her again. >> alison, turns out had the woman's number, and she was friends with a woman that signed 42 of the suspected ballots. >> lisa, this is drew griffin with cnn and i am recording this call. can you tell us what is going on with the absentee ballots? >> i have no comment. thank you. >> another woman that signed 30 ballots told cnn affiliate that dallas paid her between $75 and $100 to harvest balance kwruploe handed them into dallas. >> i don't know what happened to them after i dropped them off. >> besides the multiple witnesses signatures, there are also absentee ballots that were never returned in a neighboring county, officials say that's suspicious too. >> reporter: guys, regardless of how the criminal investigation turns out, the board of elections here in raleigh, the state board of elections has a decision to make. they need to certify the election and put the republican in congre