joining me amy parns and cnn's brian stelter and karoon demusion. wolff's credibility is in question after many journalists criticized his reporting style over the years and then some readers are finding some errors in the book from spelling mistakes. i even noticed a couple words that were missing and had to fill in the blanks, you know, to title mix-ups, even named appearances by people would say it wasn't them that was present. so how does this potentially impact the credibility of not just the author but even the book altogether? >> the book does suffer from sloppiness. there are some minor errors and you could say there's some major erors, you know, when you say that wilbur ross was nominated for the wrong department, those are fact checking mistakes that should have been caught ahead of time. that said, the errors that have been found, although they weaken wolff's argument, they do not weaken the overarching point of the book, which is -- >> why is that? >> -- that the president is not fit for office. >> and why is that? because people are mak

let me bring back my panel, amy parnes, ryan nobles back with me. this was an interesting duel we just saw between mitch mcconnell and chuck schumer, ryan to you first. chuck schumer really getting the last word, saying that the republicans having the majority in both houses and in the white house, the responsibility squarely falls on the majority to compromise, the democrats offering a compromise, but schumer sayi ing it's the republicans who have failed the nation by allowing the government to shutdown. what does this mean this point forward? >> well, the biggest thing, fred, is that these two speeches by these two leaders aren't a whole heck of a lot different than they were yesterday. so that gives us some indication that the ball hasn't really moved forward at all. to give some context about what senator schumer were talking about, it is true that he and the president did have somewhat of a tentative deal on the table. but when you talk about funding for the wall, this goes back to before the senate minority leader spoke, approximathis goe trus

david chalian is with us along with amy parns and louis. first david i want to ask you in terms of senator hatch, who is retiring, that news broke just before this white house press briefing this afternoon. and of course sarah sanders was asked about the impact of this. and any response from the president what we heard her say was they would be very sad to see are inhatorrin hatch leave any direction who it would be his replacement. >> well, right. she was asked point-blank about romney who now lives in utah and eyeing very much this senate run if indeed hatch announced his retirement. so we expect mitt romney to be very eagerly involved incoming to a decision here about whether or not he's going to jump into this race now that this anticipated moment of hatch's retirement is out there. but you are right sarah huckabee sanders wanted to go no where near that. wanted to stick to the president's worst praising senator hatch both for the tax legislation that just passed that he oversaw in the congress, and for his four decade career up on capi

joining me now is amy parns and nathan gonzalez and cornell brooks. so, cornell, you first. let's start with, you know, the president feeling compelled to tweet, you know, calling out, you know, jay-z's interview last night. why does the president feel like this is a sore spot, that it is important to him to try to take credit for the lowest, you know, rate of unemployment among blacks when there was already a downward trend and that this seems to be an issue that he feels he needs to address in this manner? >> so, let me make two points. one economic, the other moral. with respect to the economic point, it seems that this president suffers from a kind of presidential insecurity relative to his predecessor namely president obama. he misses no occasion to brag in comparison, in contrast to the preceding administration. the reality is the president wants to take credit, principally for not undoing what president obama did. the african-american unemployment rate has been declining for some time. and this president, namely president trump cannot point to any particular policy fo

amy parns, she wrote the book, and also errol louis. so amy, president trump he's entering new year fresh off tax reform. does that give him confidence heading into 2018? is this sort of a reset? >> it gives him a little momentum going in. and republicans needed that. they needed a large win. they hadn't won legislatively. so this kind of gives them a little bit of flrg goienergy go it. but also a lot of legislation happening. a budget problem that needs to be dealt with. there is daca. there is chip. all these things that have to be happen delved right now and that's not an easy way to start 2018 and he's taking a lot of different directions. >> you can plug anything out of that bucket. i'm going to ask about daca because the president tweeted about daca today. that obviously is a priority. we know it's a priority for democrats as well to come up with some kind of protection for these dreamers. and here's what the president wrote today. democrats are doing nothing for daca. just interested in politics. daca acti daca. we are about resul

let's bring in amy parns and amar amanda tarkle. amanda is the washington bureau chief of "the huffington post." i want to start here with a portion of what we just heard from abby. amanda, i'll bring it to you. nothing from mitch mcconnell. unhelpful and unfortunate from paul ryan which i -- are the weakest descriptions of what the president said. and nothing from the vice president who even after the "access hollywood" tape, his running mate who criticized the president's comments. how long can this go on with nothing from the leaders of the party? >> it might go on for a while. i think that's the thing with president trump's comments. it's not the first time he said something like this. he insulted a mexican-american judge saying because of his ethnicity he can't judge fairly. i mean, trump for years was pushing the birther conspiracy against president obama. this stuff is not new. and the reality is he's got to get away with it. and i that i republicans leaders feel like they can either ignore his comments or put out something t