this is the abuse live from berlin could there be a new arend nuclear deal a little mutual training party toast a manly handshake. and trump hitting it off at the white house then it's down to business with president truong talking about a possible new arayan deal also coming up. new fears uprising anti semitism in germany the leader of the nation's jewish community warning jews to avoid wearing the kept the traditional skull cap in major german cities. and albania at the crossroads prayers for the e.u. access talks prime minister in iran tells us about his hopes for his nation. i'm brian thomas thanks so much for being with us at the white house the american and french presidents made a public display of friendship at a state dinner last night but behind all the camaraderie president trump offering few concessions to his french guests well where does that leave the arend nuclear deal we're talking about that after this report. the pomp and ceremony at the white house french president emmanuel mccall is on the first state visit by a foreign leader under the presidency of donald trump. the

as we head through wednesday up until 7:00, it's the same en t say aa arend east bay will get it during evening orurs. n we'l el bay. storm concerns not many. flooding on roads may be some ther ling during wednesday into thursday. here isha overall good commute september-of-exceexcept valley slow and go. 205 split, that's been picked up. this is just residual slow traffic now. we do have about -- we'll check on drive times in just a second. those lanes have been cleared. so here we go. tracy to dublin, ouch, already an hour almost and that is really early for not even being 5:00 a.m. yet. westbound 4 antchionicely. if your drive takes you from san rafael to san francisco still under 20 minutes. check back with that nasty altamont commute in a bit. number one train running on schedule. >>> dramatic crash between motorcycle and car caught on camera. you'll see a silver mazda suddenly swerves into the path of motorcycle in tampa bay and t road. authorities say two drivers had been gesturing to each other before the crash. investigators now treating the accident as an act of road rage. the

director james comey's books hasn't come out yet but some things arend inry. the boss in complete control, he writes and sums it up by saying the forest fire, tough words, that is the trump presidency. plosive. >> it's a skating crs-examination of not only trump's character but his ethics and he portray trump as congenital liar, as someone who creates a web of alternative reelt around him and tries to wrap people, including comey as the f.b.i. director in it. people who are lking for something for articles of impeachment are going to be disappointed. there's not a ream smoking gun, i don't think. robert: it's fueling a lot of anger with the president.da he's also raging against former f.b.i. deputy director andrew mccabe. the in thor general came out th a pet -- pretty critical report of mccabe.'s ying mccabe with comey. >> that's right. it actually sai that mccabe would have lied to comey or misled comey about some of the details around t clinton investigation but the prosecute perspective is tyi these two -- president is tying these two people b togetherause

and a couple arends are in then the kid from mountain view comes through for the mariners.uy ever to not get his teams the first three runs of the season, the giants trail until finally, breaking 0, 17 streak for the giants. he makes a good contact a couple of times today. it was a two run shot. this is the bottom of the 8th inning. after the game, he keeps it positive talking about his powerful second baseman. >> it is impressive on what joe is doing. his home runs are the first three runs. >> i was say 60. that is what it is looking like. i will not cut him short. >> when the opportunity presents itself i will take my shot here and there. >> meanwhile, in oakland, it was christmas carol quiet as in silent night. less than 10,000 fans out there again, but the fans made the play of the night. that woman gets the ball and held onto her cell phone while she made that sensational catch. texas was up 2-0. there goes joey gallo he does one thing very well is hit the ball over the wall, that is his second 3- 0 lead. chad was working five innings he had six strikeouts. he loses it

office has received much attention as the house has debated how to best ensure members arend the held accountable for employee rights violated under their employeesmaking sure know and understand their rights and have access to a dispute resolution process that is fair and easy to navigate. the house has taken action in three ways. we passed house resolution 630, which makes workplace rights training mandatory for all employees and established the office of employee advocacy and the house passed comprehensive congressional accountability reform that continues to be debated in the senate. the implementation of the two past house resolutions has been the responsibility of the chief administrative officer. has required close coordination with the office of compliance. with all the attention the office of compliance has received over the last year, their profile has been raised. the teenager will digit -- they havecrease seen a triple digit percentage increase -- as a result of the omnibus, the office of compliance's jurisdiction has been expanded to include claims submitted by employees

the first question, since you arend libertarian, all libertarians are smart and i thought this throughou a philosophical question.ve doesn't a country have a right to know all it can, or carry stroller, about the people it admits? >> of course. libertarians support vetting immigrants and travelers who come to the united states. one of the reasons why i did this analysis, the study of vetting failures is that president trump actually required inum his first executie orderhe, that the government undertake a study of vetting failures. it failed to dong so. in light of that failure, i undertook this study and it shows that vetting failures are extremely rare, one in every 29 million visa or status approval is for a person who has terrorist inclinations, goes on to commit a terrorist offense, including sending small amounts of money overseas to terrorist organizations. that is 84% lower than the rate before 9/11. that shows that vetting can result in improvements and without bands or nationalities nationalities -- >> tucker: sure. we are not going for improvements, are we? we are going for

with that in our diplomatic arsenal, how will it change the conversation about arend?es a great deal. what was the conversation one year ago with north korea? there wasn't one. i think the president, maybe others would sit back and say president trump you are being too harsh, they would not be at the table today if he didn't speak the truth. what others respect him and show the success he's having, bringing france and with us and others and going in and out alone into syria in standing up to vladimir putin, i think this is making the world a safer place. >> harris: and about the last hour and 15 minutes or so we learned something that's really important with the process of getting our next secretary of state. one of one of those democrats republicans have been talking with, joe manchin of west virginia has confirmed he will vote for the confirmation of secretary of state mike pompeo. why is that critical? >> that is critical because those who would not vote for pompeo are just playing politics and why would you play politics, here's mike pompeo, graduating first in his

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mary: you can never look at who you arending on trying to higher and for what type of jobs. have to do more internal training, because we are not able to get the talent we need in all of the roles we need. training programs, isering a balanced approach important, it, nation of wages and benefits, as well as other benefits beyond just health care , to attract talent. david: your taxes are going down. what will you do with that money? mary: because of the nature of even thoughions -- we are a fortune 500 company, we are -- have only been in existence for the last four years. to that point, we have had net havee losses as we invested in building a foundation for the future of the company. so we do not have those benefits today, but we expect to have them in the future. our approach, whenever we have cash in the business, is to have a balanced approach at paying down debt, investing in the future of the company, and providing value to our shareholders. alix: i want a rounded out with potential risk -- trucking. what kind of backlog and bottlenecks are you seeing? industry hascki

morrison and the quote remains valid and binding precedent also think it's important to remember we arend not dealing with the independent counsel statute. this is a much more modest statute and we to adopt the resolution offered it would remove and guts damon that includes provisions on transparency. i urge all my coats to vote against this amendment. >> i ask unanimous consent. >> senator hatch. any senator sasse and senator booker. >> unanimous consentia to put te scalia opinion in morrison in the record. i think it would be disastrouss for the nation to fire more and would be politically suicidal for the president,al and yet the scalia opinion many of the seal that were bound by it. i think this bill is unconstitutional, but protecting mole is a great instinct and it would be politically disastrous for the president to act. but if i could ask unanimous consent -- >> without objection, so ordered. senator booker. >> i want to correct for the record ion consult with senator coons h and emit he urged his colleagues to vote no on -- [inaudible] >> i'm so sorry to my ranking member. i cons