it should we hear this case and they couldn't get one of them roberts i'm not surprised anymore cavanaugh thought would have signed on but here's the thing it's not really about abortion it's about whether or not patients on medicaid have a right to sue when a service is removed and as thomas pointed out in his dissent i guess this means they could sue if you take a doctor away from their program now so that's what this was about it really had nothing to do with abortion per se just whether individual patients have a right to sue if they lose a benefit from medicaid or whatever now having said that i believe clarence thomas i said he hit it on the head and here's what he said planned parenthood because planned parenthood was mentioned in there even though it had nothing to do in this case with abortion it scared the heck i believe add of roberts and it scared the heck for whatever reason had a kavanagh and they wanted nothing to do with that it's a lightning rod a political lightning rod and i think that that's what turned them off and it's very troublesome and worrisome for someone like

justice says neil gorsuch and brett cavanaugh. of open enrollment for obama care coverage for most of the country. supporters of the law worry the court's decision could discourage people from coming forward to sign up. anna. >> arianne, thank you. i want to bring in dr. zeke emmanuel. he is one of the affordable care act architects and the former obama kbhous advisor who is now a cnn contributor. good to have you with us. first, i want to get your reaction to this ruling. >> well, the ruling doesn't make a lot of sense. i think interestingly, even conservative legal scholars think it makes no sense. what the judge said is, look, the mandate with the tax penalty was the core of the affordable care act. the tax penalty has been taken away. the mandate, therefore, has to be taken away, and guess what, if you take away this essential element, the whole bill is unconstitutional. you zplooits not essential to those things that were issued. even after the congress repealed the mandate, the exchanges actually worked really well because o

i want to focus on cavanaugh. what stood out for you, kelsey?cifically for women, because we were already in the middle of this me too conversation. we now have two camps of women, one who want to understand for due process and the rights of those accused and the others that want to #believeallwomen. i think all women lost. sexual assault and harassment is an issue all women should be able to unite around. >> richelle? >> this was like reality tv. we remember senator graham and cam camela harris. people were sitting at home with their popcorn. i think people were educated about how serious sexual assault is. it does not just mean rape. it does mean someone touching you appropriately. it does involve alcohol and we learned a lot about how confirmation hearing worked. i don't think a lot of people used to watch a supreme court justice get confirmed. when you have so much controversy around it, a lot more people are aware of the process. >> jenna, what stood out for you? >> i think there are true victims and false accusations. the winner that came

would it have been better for the gop if cavanaugh failed, the base would have been so mad they would's the money question, michael. i found myself today for the democrats, cavanaugh is worth more alive than dead. >> and roger stone was back about the hillary clinton wikileaks dump. do you think you're about to get in indicted. >> if the decision is made on facts and truth, the answer is no. if this is a political vendetta, anything is possible. >> i also looked at social issues from harvard admissions alleged bias against asian americans to the negative impact of iphones and social media on the next generation's mental health. i really appreciated being able to hold forth on a wide variety of subjects from joy reed's claims her homophobic blog posts were results of hacking to alex jones saying he had the free speech right to call sandy hook a staged event. i asked why roseanne show had gone to number one. and why the brett kavanaugh hearings had more grand standing than evidentiary inquiry. i revealed how i arguably violated pennsylvania law by not voting twice in midterms, and asked

nbc's lucy cavanaugh has the story. >> reporter: in the midst of the south pacific on one of the moste sentinels of easter island have stood guard for centuries. the indigenous people believe the statues carried the spirit of ancestors, but in 1868 one was plundered, shipped to london, installed at the british museum. now easter island's people are begging for its return. even if temporary. >> you have take and keeping him for 150 years. just give us some months, and we can have again. >> reporter: western capitals are full of foreign treasures, like this ancient egyptian of cleopatra's needle, whose twin, stands in new york. egypt wants its artifacts back. >> any artifact that left egypt in an illegal or dubious way should be returned to egypt. >> reporter: greece has long battled britain to return the marbles to the parthanon. in some cases the pressure has worked. france just announced it's giving back 26 pieces of african art seized from former colonies. some argue these prices treasures are safer in the west. in iraq and syria isis obliterated history waging a war on art, forcing

and certainly there were some issues but we did see the democrats use a playbook that they used on cavanaugh the judge in throwing out this you know all the all the sexual allegations so there were a lot of other factors in that race and actually lived in alabama for a while i can tell you this this will senator should be center joan should not get too used to that seat because i'm quite sure that there will be a solid candidate head to head with him that will not have the flaws of judge moore in that he'll be replaced. well with joy of the office christmas card list john william logan a former republican member of the a missouri senate i think spoke a lot international and making the time this festive time thinking it's. ok no story watch we think over the next couple of days will be the syrian military says government forces have entered the northern city of mandate to the request of civilians and kurdish fighters in the area it comes as the kurds try to strengthen the city's defense amid a what could be upcoming turkish offensive and crick considers kurdish fighters to be terrorists full

as lucy cavanaugh lport, coasresorts were packed as massive waves rolled ashore. >> there was nong warin in tnesia. no timo get away because thuae was no eart. authorities believe it was triggered by an undersea landslide at the anakkrakato volcano. >> it would have only take about ten minutes for the tsunami to hit the coast to the west, t around an hou the east. still, very little time to get a warning out. there are no buoys in this particular area for e warnings. >> the tsunami struck around30 9:. it was holiday weekend so the resorts and tourist hotels along the sunda strait in western java would have been packed with people. the tsunami ripped up and down the coast of the islands north and south oo.the volc rescue workers continue to comb rough the rubble for survivors. hundreds of homes, boats and vehicles severely damaged. >> people, they need drinking water, they need tarplins, they need the blankets because some of the people are staying outside their homes and also in the >>shelter. officials expect the number of victims to rise as more information comes in. nbc news, london

. >>> christine blasey ford, who testified to congress about then supreme court nominee brett cavanaugh, breaking her silence tonight for the first time. >>> and the woman swimming alone, suddenly surrounded by killer whales. >>> good evening. and it's great to have you with us here on a wednesday night. we have several dropping stories as we come on, but we begin with the president and two major headlines tonight. his long-time fixer and person attorney, michael cohen, is going to prison. michael cohen, who once said he the yearsrigehis, quote, onald blind loyalty caused him to cover up the dirty deeds of trump. and then, two hours later, the publishers of "the enquirer." what prosecutors say they have admitted to. abc's senior justice correspondent pierre thomas leading us off tonight. >> reporter: michael cohen arriving at court today, clutching the arm of his heartbroken daughter. >> hey, michael! michael! are you afraid? >> reporter: hoping for mercy, he took full responsibility for his crimes. "the personal ones to me," he said, "and those involving the president of the united sta

with the attack on cavanaugh it one. they basically would have said stand out.. these really important constitutional arguments. what the inside negotiations that they thought they were going to side with the liberals. i think what is at stake here is whether the states are going to have this authority they have nothing to do with the abortion. they rule against the private act action here. we know where they would come out. we know where they would come out. and they have a fear that the chief justice roberts for reason of his own. but perhaps the private right to sue was going to establish that. let's fight another day on another issue. what is this tell you. will he be the swing court on this. >> i think he we have already been seen that. in the carpenter case. he is trying to make a consensus they will bring some more liberals onto the decision. if you take one more break. as someone in witness protection, i can't tell you anything about myself. but believe me... i'm not your average consumer. that's why i switched to liberty mutual. they customized my car i

conservative majority yes i'm not making this up you heard me right two conservative justices roberts and cavanaugh just passed on a chance to chip away at roe v wade. i mean first i'm on bundy now cabin on roberts what is this world coming to was rush limbaugh suddenly going to be headlining the women's march how wow keeps on like this we might no longer need to be watching the honks. that's like. it's like. at the bottom. like you that i got. which we. would. welcome aboard the watching i robot and i'm to have a listen joining us today to. discuss the political protests still happening in france and the recent unexpected decisions by justice roberts and cabinets our favorite conservative commentator stephen. good good bye i don't think those hats would fit russia that well you know dan i don't think i'm going to collar for em. so steve you know say what we will about the actions of the protestors some will say they're terrible some will say protest whatever but isn't this kind of one rest of the country like france a long time coming especially after the implementation of you know a real hardcore

sean cavanaugh is the chief administrator of health centers and clinics to build and lead care organizationswhich we also know as aco's, they are focus on primary care. and lina walker is with aarp's health institute where she leads help policy and services researchers. i'm going to start this morning with a few questions i promised the audience will get involved. so if you hear something interesting make a note and we will have microphones to circulate when the time is there. so first, i would like to talk about this major component that allows in a plans which we know cover about a third of medicare beneficiaries to target the nonmedical but health-related benefits for individuals work individual complex care needs. the plans don't have to offer these plans to all enrollees they can target them to the people that might need them. for example, we just heard about the example of the administrator used was the medicare advantage plan might cover the cost for a wheelchair ramp or perhaps low-salt meal delivers for people with hypertension. larry, i know your group just did a report looking at

i think the biggest one would have been getting brett cavanaugh confirmed. including clarence thomas. the president stuck with them through the end. i think it has to be the highlight of this year. the first year since 2005 we would be above 3% gdp growth. i think he has a lot less control over. he gets a lot of credit for the strong economy. he is in a take the foot off that neck of the businessman. he has damaged himself quite a bit from his trade agenda. and i think that has caused a lot more uncertainty in the economy. and they have thrown down those in the second half. that can take a while to heal. what about the setbacks. you get the downside. i think the trade war would be the chief among them. the recent decision. i think that has to be counted among the top setbacks of the year. how little they really accomplished in the last chance. you fought for very hard as i recall. the cost was not a lot of domestic spending. >> they did, but it is a two gear pump. will end up being pretty modest. is there any downside that you see here. or upside. we are liv

that includes cavanaugh -- cavanaugh -- that includes judge kavanaugh.ld not go with that man's recommendations. he is terrible. he does lie. he did say that he gave the soldiers 10% when he was over they. he did not -- when he was over there. he did not give them 10%. how can you believe in a liar? host: what did you about just as gorsuch and that -- justice gorsuch and that nomination? caller: i thought that he was not the person either. that would probably do what we would want to do. we need someone to not be biased. we need someone to be there to represent the people. not just a few. thank you. host: your concerns about the president's use of the truth. this from the washington post fact checker. he has come on to talk about his column. he writes today that trumpet -- that trump averaged 15 false statements a day. he notes that they started the new year of lies on january 2, making false claims about the favorite targets. the tweets that started the year of unprecedented deception during which trump became increasingly unmarred from that -- on morda

i said earlier that mitch mcconnell should fight for this wall as hard as he fought for cavanaugh and actually it's more important in the long-term survival of the country. >> he only needs 51 votes. and that's what the house republicans leaders are talking about. but the challenge i'm being told is that you have republicans like bob corker, bob corker told fox tonight he's retiring from tennessee, he's already driving home from tennessee. we talked to sources inside the white house who tell me, think about it, put yourself in the shoes of president trump. he was told that we will repeal and replace obamacare. he was told that will have wall funding. if you go down the list, and a lot of these priorities, he actually won on that in 2016. and, of president trump standing up against canada and the dairy farmers in congressman duffy's district wouldn't have helped in wisconsin. >> time and again the presidents instincts on these issues, you just took us through a couple of them, were spot on. he was pulled back from his instincts by the experts. i think some of them were foreign policy e

the university professor made headlines when she accused brett cavanaugh of sexual assault when they were teenagers. other notable names include: cabinet,, harris and ryan kugler. >> most people take a dna test hoping to learn more about their ethnicity. some data websites are making peoples information acceptable to law enforcement. for investigators, it could be the break they need to solve a decades-old cold case. amber shows us how the technology is being used and why some say it is raising legal questions.>> i was really angry. >> nicole describes the moment she was finally able to put a face and name to the man who raped her in her home 27 years ago. roy charles appeared in court in september, accused of attacking at least 10 women. >> when he turned around and looked at me, it was a split- second, that was a bone chilling -- i felt like the light was leaving my body. >> she was among the victims who attended the hearing. >> what i saw was if i get out of here, i will kill you. >> for years, she lived with the fear that he would return. >> i hoped every day that i would get the

nbc's lucy cavanaugh is following the latest velopments from london. lucy, what more can you tell us this morning? >> reporter: good morning. there was no warning when the tsunami struck, no gime to away because there was no earthquake. uthorities believe it was an underseaevent. the horrifying moment the tsunami raced ashore was caught on cara. the bd 17 was playing last night when a tsunami wave suddenly hit. sweeping away the stage and people. the lead singer posting this emotional video on instagram saying our bass player and our manager passed away. i ask for prayers for my friends thd dear wife who are still missing. e tsunami struck on saturdayt. no warning, just a wall ofat w slamming into the coast line. by sunrise the scale of the destruction was clear, flattened homes, washed out roads,e res workers trying to get to those etill trapped in the rubble. too lat for too many. indonesia's meterology and physics said it could beaused by under sea landslides. authorities warning residents and tourists in coastal areas around the strait to stay away

i'm joined by nbc's lucy cavanaugh in london.at's happening on the ground there? >> it's dark in indonesia right now in complicates the search-and-rescue effort but emergency crews said bid the military has been working around the clock. it's been a frantic search for survivors as the death toll continues to climb. now this tsunami struck with zero warning on saturday night. there was no time to get away, no warning with because there was no earthquake, that's what usually triggers tsunamis. not in this case. instead, experts believe a volcanic eruption at the anak krakatoa volcano triggered a land is slide. part of the sunda strait collapsed sliding into the sea with enough force to set that you have tsunami wave. it was a full moon at the time. the tides were higher than normal which meant the impact was worse and, look, this was a holiday weekend in indonesia. families traveled to these gorgeous beach side hotels and resorts to spend quality time with one another. it flattened coastal areas, damaged homes, cars, hospitals righ

they have nothing to do with the cousin in brooklyn who did the hexing on cavanaugh.his is another group. >> mark: what do you call someone who belongs to a coven then? >> that's the whole thing. within the witch community, you know you are a witch for these 15 reasons. it is on youtube. there are these wonderful videos. there are witches of instagram and guide books on how to be a proper witch in our society. >> mark: that's like me saying i'm a lesbian hispanic, because that just feels cooler. >> and it's okay. it is totally okay. it is america. it is okay. >> mark: so it is self-identity politics. >> it is fine. it is fine. why not? >> mark: where is all the cultural appropriation come from? >> it has to be respectful. as long as you are not hurting others. as long as you are not disrespectful, which they are saying trump is being disrespectful by saying witch hunt. >> mark: you are saying there is 1.5 million witches who can't do anything witchy like put a spell on you. >> they do witchy things that are not old-fashioned defined witchy things. >> mark: being able

mueller has done -- unlike cavanaugh and star, mueller has done a professional job of not litigating his investigation in the media and public. so we really don't know much about this. but when you see the indictments of manafort and look at his at least temporary period of cooperation, when you see flynn's charge and sentencing coming up and his cooperation, when you look at some of the threads that connect into the trump campaign, it's easy to imagine an indictment of the trump campaign as a corporate entity. and then that would create further activity in the investigation. >> but it doesn't exist any more, that campaign. how do you indict an entity that really, at least for now, doesn't exist? >> well, it existed at the time, and i wouldn't be surprised if there were some lingering corporate presence that could be indicted and you worked through that to get to other people. i think that it's a credible thing for them to be looking at. >> senator whitehouse, thank you so much for joining us. >> glad to be with you. >>> up next, the changing story on the letter of intent for trump t

we've made progress in that respect and make more if we get judge cavanaugh approved because we now willhave five members of the supreme court who believe that the fourth branch of government, the administrative state has gone too far and they've already begun to rein it in. there's something called chevron deference where they give deference to the decisions of agencies on certain issues and we now have five judges who doesn't think this chevron is such a good idea. assuming that we get the most recent nominee confirmed. so i think that the supreme court would be a huge help in this respect bringing us back to what the constitution provides. this administration says it's something that woodrow wilson proposed back in the 1880's and teddy roosevelt began to implement and woodrow wilson after that. we need to take apart the administrative state. it's out of control. even when you're president of the united states, you can't control it. what happened at the end of the obama administration, two kinds of employees in the agencies. political employees and then like a permanent work force and

it is a sad day for our country when people like brett cavanaugh, who worked their butts off with 30 years of public service, one of the most stellar colleagues we ever had and his life is ruined. i hope he can keep his family together and move on, no matter what. bad day. got --ou think he will get on the supreme court? >> i do. >> the fbi was the only hammer holding things -- i think if the vote went through today, it will just give more balance for those people. it will just be more he said she said. who knows? we will see. >> more accusations will come flying out now that we have another week. >> to that point, what you have to do is say -- and the door shut on this day. >> he said to limit the duration and scope. he was clear. he wanted the current allegations. we have ramirez as and the 10 gang rape parties to be considered by the fbi. i thought that was a good move on his part. i'm not going to question his motives. out of all those people on the committee, he is the most interested in arriving at something that repairs the reputation, that restores something to the process. >

i feel like we have also seen collins -- we have seen her kinds of radicalized i think by the cavanaugh experience and she i don't think is going to be as willing to partner with democrats. i think she came away from that fight in less of a mood to deal with them. that's going to be interesting. murkowski is still i think fairly independent. we will see. but mitch mcconnell has a bigger majority this year, this next congress. 53 republicans. and so he has a bit more of a cushion. and won't -- we might not see there those swing roles as important anymore. >> okay. any thoughts, kate? >> no. i think that makes sense. earlier i said mark meadows on the oversight question. it is going to be jim jordan who ient ma. it is going to be an interesting dynamic. you could see them making deals and things coming out that everybody seems to be talking about. you know, climate change and global warming. and i had a little quick chat with amy klobuchar in the senate before the election. and she was saying that one of the things that she noticed was that it wasn't an area where democrats were getting h

saturday night live, having matt damon played david cameron, because of course, matt damon david bret cavanaughome have suggested that someone who hasn't had to strive to mcfall things in the alive, leading is result is that decisions. well, he comes and he sits down on the sofa, and she said to him, you are looking so well rested. and matt damon as david cameron says, yes, i've just been damon as david cameron says, yes, i'vejust been on damon as david cameron says, yes, i've just been on holiday in races. we should try it sometime, take a holiday, at which point, she puts her head in her hands, and says, i would love to, happy seeing what is happening? thanks very much, david cameron. hamer this is beyond 100 days from the bbc. hamer s from the bbc. coming up for viewers on the bbc news channel and bbc world news — who could be the next to step through the trump administration's seemingly ever—revolving staff door? mick mulvaney was appointed acting chief of staff just before the weekend, as interior secretary ryan zinke was told to pack his bags. and no time to stop for dinner — how nearly o

and the cavanaugh hearings. i went to yale! not really. u.s. immigration. the midterm elections.tings. the "me too" movement. the trump russia probe and the parkland school shooting. what among those things do you think really resonated in defining the year? >> i would like to think that the 2006 election defined the year and will define the future because it was the first time american people said enough, this is crackers. and they put in a check against the president. i think actually the issue which is surely going to carry over into next year which will determine his fate is the mueller report and how bad it really is. i think what we've seen towards the end of this year is that there may be some republicans who are more willing to accept it than they otherwise would be. if this chaos continues, you know, you're more willing to believe a report that this guy committed a bunch of crimes, maybe we don't need him. the moment they decide that he is more trouble than he is worth is the moment his presidency is in jeopardy. so this chaos does have a counter -- does have a blowback

for more on the markets, let's bring in kevin divney from russell investment management and karen cavanaughsenior market strategist at voya. kevin, watching the reaction in the futures, which was basically nonexistent to this news from china what did you think of this i thought some sort of trade advancement or advancement in the talks was the last thing the market was hoping for. >> it was. joe made the right point about the dichotomiedichotomies. on the policy front this is good news, but the economic reality is that the big worry out there is how much can the chinese economy decelerate i think also investors get fearful because there's still has underlying tone of what is transparency into the underlying economy. what is the data and how is that reporting? it's maturing. that's part of the struggle here the actual impact of tariffs, it can be material it can be disruptive as a proportion of the economy, it's much smaller than thing a ga than the aggregate i think we've learned the hard way, policy make takes take a long time to man ifest themselvs in the economy there's a camp of market

message from the american people was we don't like what the democrats were doing, we saw that with cavanaugh control, you know, to move the president's agenda, and this was the chance. why they would pass that first bill without the border wall funding when we had the votes in the house is beyond me, when you can do it simply with changing it to a simple majority. ashley: the message from the president is we understand meeting with senate republicans in just about 20 minutes from now. will he say look, go for the nuclear option, even though we have the orrin hatches of the world saying not a good idea? >> i think this is where the president can be persuasive. we have of course, this is the last chance, it's effectively a lame duck control framework of this congress. this would be i think the first congress that would, you know, help along the agenda of the opposing party without doing everything they can to move something that is not even radical. the american people in every poll agree we need to enforce our own laws more strictly but we need that barrier. this is something americans want.

. >> sean cavanaugh, jump in. >> i think we need to move from thinking of telehealth as a deficit to telehealth as a mechanism for delivering other benefits and its origins reflect skepticism about it. we should have moved long past. we are so obsessed with telehealth we are missing these other technologies and we tried to create codes for email and so forth. when i get to 65, lord knows how i will be communicating with my doc but it won't be through a tv screen. that is the big thing. we need to move past that i think. >> this is an example where innovation can inform fee-for-service. i agree with you. one of the pictures of what is telemedicine and the mechanism for calling your doctor and getting health care coverage. it is important, seeing the costs of picking this up more than fee-for-service. you see it added to fee-for-service which is fine. >> i would like to go to the audience. we have mike's. i ask you to tell us quickly who you are and go right to the question was no comments, we are short on time. we will wait for the microphone. >> rich lake, strategic health resources.