next we tour the railroad exhibit at the henry ford museum in dearborn, michigan. curator matt anderson talks about the progression of the rail. he shows us an 1831 steam locomotive and 125 foot allegheny engine that weighs nearly 400 tons. >> my name is matt anderson, i'm curator of transportation. we're here at the museum in dearborn, michigan. we're standing in the midst of railroad exhibit. just as automobiles and airplanes were key technologies of 20th century, railroad was the key trmgs for 19th century. the steam engineer was thought of as equivalent to astronaut today. it's important we have a modest but important collection of railroad vehicles. what we have here are railroad locomotives that tell the story of railroaded in the 1830s up to the early days of electric locomotives in the 1920s. behind me is our earliest example. this is a replica of 1831 locomotive cars used oppose hudson railroad. the replica built in 1982. it in and of itself is historic now. this gives us an idea of steam locomotives and trains looked like when railroads first come out of

in dearborn, 1 out of 3 are arabs, many with roots to the middle east.y of whom are muslim and for some people in america, that simple stat makes this sleepily suburban community the scariest place in america? although when we got there, people were maybe a little more woke than normal. the election had happened just days before we arrived. i didn't know what to expect from the muslims there. especially because moments after trump's acceptance speech, i had received a text from a good friend of mine, zara norbash, a comedian, a muslim and also the co-host of the podcast "good muslim/bad muslim." so tell me what was going through your mind when you decided to text me. it felt like a signal flare. >> i am so devastated. and when i texted you, i was worried. >> yeah. about what specifically? >> about my family. >> yeah. ♪ what's going through your mind? >> i see so much misinformation. >> really? >> like, there's this rhetoric of a standard of muslimness and that's dangerous. and it's also not true. i feel like it needs to be said, there are 1.7 billion mus

kind of like a snow globe in dearborn. say they snow globed the alternative or autonomous vehicle market. trish: i like that. ask you a question, how are people reacting to it? other drivers on the road? do they give you funny looks? what about pedestrians, how are people reacting to this? >> i wish you could see some faces of people. their eyes bug out. they see bob in front seat with camera, with nobody driving. you also see lights, if we have the other camera, you see lights, they are designed to give cues to pedestrians, you know how if you're driving a car, pedestrian in the way, give them a nod or a wave. if you're not in the car you can't do that. trish: i like, it, we're looking at it. it really look like a car seat. i wish we could see more reaction from some of the people. what are the other cars doing? are they gawking at you as you guys go by? >> yeah. we're coming past. around ford they are used to this type of thing. they are testing autonomous vehicles. it is snowing so not the funnest thing to be out pedest

next we tour the railroad exhibit at the henry ford museum in dearborn, michigan. curator matt anderson talks about the progression of the rail. he shows us an 1831 steam locomotive and 125 foot allegheny engine that weighs nearly 400 tons. >> my name is matt anderson, i'm curator of transportation. we're here at the

deputy chief of staff rick dearborn is entering the private sector. the latest in a string of departures and comes amid reports of tensions among the disagreed about a strategy for the midterm elections. they describe a heated exchange between his former campaign manager and political director. >>> well, vice president mike pence has made a surprise visit to afghanistan where he says victory is closer than ever because of progress on the ground there. he offered holiday greetings to u.s. troops and assured them that the trump administration is committed to staying in the fight until the end. >> under president donald trump, the armed forces of the united states will remain engaged in afghanistan until we eliminate the terrorist threat to our homeland, our people once and for all. [ applause ] >> that war is already in its 15th year and pence met with afghan leaders and say they confirm that more senior taliban leaders have been eliminated this year than in all previous years of the war. >>> new sanctions on north korea will be punishments in the wake

seen several white house aides say they're leaving in january, omarosa, rick dearborn.what normal. because you saw so much during the summer, it is notable that six months later, you see recycling again. >> source says 2018 brings full trump. what did this person mean? >> as my colleague mike allen reported overhearing from the white house and some trump associates is that while we have seen trump take a conservative line with republican measures in terms of supreme court appointment and tax legislation, what's coming up in the next year is perhaps an unchanged trump, who is working around him. what he wants is first tariffs, come up likely on china in the next month or so, next couple months, wants a law dealing with border security and is interested in military option for north korea. we are hearing we are uncertain on time line for items to come forward, we hear that aides are more concerned about this than the mueller investigation. >> thank you so much. you have a new piece on the millennials and trump, we will look for that. thank you for joining me. >>> that will

and while she says papadopoulos communicated with bannon, dearborn and flynn later in the campaign, heiscussed russia with them. >> why do you think the white house was so quick to come out and call him a coffee boy or low-level volunteer? >> i think they wanted to disassociate him from the first person who decided to actively cooperate with the government. i suppose this can be quite threatening for some people. >> reporter: she says she was interviewed by the fbi in october. and that a key focus was on london base d mitsud. high told papadopoulos during the campaign that the russians had dirt on hillary clinton, thousands of e-mails. she met papadopoulos in september 2016 through listeninged in because she was working at the london center of international law practice where he had worked earlier in the year. when they met, mitsud was running the center. >> i suppose that the fbi was interested in knowing my connection which makes perfect sense. >> reporter: she says despite that coincidence, she told the fbi she's not a russian spy. >> they ask me if i speak russian, if i know russia

we learned overnight of a new departure, rick dearborn expected to leave early next year. no plans today for a formal end of the year news conference from the president. but we will see if he takes questions from reporters before he sets on his way to mar-a-lago. bill and alisyn, back to you. >> that will be interesting, joe. thanks so much. we have cnn political analyst ron brownstein and jeffrey toobin. nine hours from the deputy director of the fbi, andrew mccabe. it was a closed door meeting, but a few things leaked out. >> let's just remember why this whole thing is an issue. part of the mueller investigation involves obstruction of justice. did they fire james comey because james comey was not cooperating with him in limiting the russia investigation. one of the key conversation also that comey testified about was his interaction with the president where the president asked him for loyalty which comey said made him feel very uncomfortable because it seemed like a quid pro quo. give me informatiloyalty on the investigation and i'll let you keep your job. yesterday mcc

while she says papadopoulos communicated with bannon, dearborn and flynn later in the campaign, he never discussed russia with them. why do you think the white house was so quick to come out and call him a coffee boy or a low-level volunteer? >> i think they wanted to disassociate from the first person who decided to actively cooperate with the government. i suppose this can be quite threatening for some people. >> reporter: she says she was interviewed by the fbi in october and that a key focus was on london-based professor joseph mifsud, suspected of being a link between the trump campaign and russian officials. >> a lot of discussion -- >> reporter: mifsud allegedly told papadopoulos during the campaign that the russians had dirt on hillary clinton. thousands of e-mails. she says she met papadopoulos in september 2016 through linkedin because she was working at the london center of international law practice where he had worked earlier in the year. when they met, mifsud was running the center. >> i suppose that the fbi was interested in knowing my connection with mifsud. which makes p

. >> roger dearborn said he would be leaving the white house in 2018, there have been 20 high-level departuress year. that's a big number, even though a lot of people say they said they would only serve one year. does this create some kind of void? does it create a positive opening? what's going on there? >> it seems characteristic of the trump administration that he is celebrating his biggest legislative achievement with good old-fashioned staff infighting. people say we're going into the second season of "the apprentice" and it's looking more like "the survivor." i don't think it's unusual that he teams up with the staff who make him feel comfortable. you see other aides who weren't supposed to be involved with the white house day to day coming in and causing consternation with kelly and some of the other white house staff. >> if we look at these pictures now, bob costa, it looked like such a kum-ba-ya moment. all those people who were highly critical of him getting a love fest. he got high praise from mitch mcconnell, high praise from paul ryan. he wasn't too happy about steve bannon. take

deputy chief of staff rick dearborn expected to leave early next year. still to plans for the president to give a formal on-the-record end of the year new conference. however, there will be an opportunity or two for him to answer questions from reporters anyway. >> joe, thank you very much. let's discuss it. we want to bring in senior phreult cal analyst ron brownstein and cnn analyst josh green. you're hearing more and more democrats speak out now with some anxiety. they believe the republicans that there is actually a united effort to not only undermine robert mueller but to somehow shutdown the russia investigation. so joe just read for us that portion of nancy pelosi's letter. they are trying to appeal to people like speaker paul ryan to do something to make sure the president can't fire robert mueller. the president has said over and over again he is not planning to fire robert mueller. so where does that leave us? >> the president has said he is not firing robert mueller. but there has been a growing chorus in conservative media and even in portion

rick dearborn is leaving.te house chief of staff to quit and the detecti director of the policy counsel and probably somebody else by the time i finish this sentence. to keep it current, i need to tell you that the donald trump administration has lost, ready? chief of staff. a deputy chief of staff. another. a director of public liaison. omarosa. press secretary. two communications directors, rapid response director. national security adviser.

in video obtained by the jerusalem post and while she says papadopoulos communicated with bannon, dearborner discussed russia with them. >> reporter: why do you think the white house was so quick to come out and call him a coffee boy or low level volunteer? >> i think they wanted to disassociate him from the first person and died to actively cooperate with the governments as opposed this can be quite threatening for some people. >> reporter: she was interviewed by the fbi in october and that a key focus was on be london based professor suspected of being a link between the trump campaign and russian officials. >> a lot of discussion. >> reporter: during the campaign that the russians had dirt on hillary clinton. thousands of e-mails. monjata says she met papadopoulos in 2016 through linked in because she was working at the international law practice where he had worked earlier in the year. when they met, mifsud was running the center. >> i suppose he was interested in knowing my connection and it's quite a strange coincidence that we both worked for the same person. >> reporter: despite th

. >>> another one's leaving many rick dearborn is leave.d the deputy director of the national policy council. probably somebody else by the time i finish this sentence. the donald trump add ming station has lost health and human services secretary chief of staff. a chief of staff. a communications director to the office of public liaison. it was a.omarosa. the advicer to the national security council. director for intelligence programs. deputy chief of staff. director of strategic planning. middle east adviser chief white house strategist. acting u.s. attorney general. national economic council. deputy council. director of the office of ethics and special adviser to the president on regulatory reform. at least 31 high ranking staffers so far. president obama was single digits by this point, but 30%. and we still haven't reached the one year mark. that does it for us tonight. now it's time for the last word.

them -- i want to make sure that we don't forget about our muslim community, whether they are in dearbornnew jersey. i want to make sure we don't forget about the haitians. 58,000 of them, most of them in florida, who have been ordered returned home to haiti. that is an abuse of the inhumane action of president trump. i want to raise those issues and do that -- i believe that the best use of my time, my energy and my leadership is making sure that we defeat donald trump in 2020. juan: i want to ask you terms of what can be a conflict in congress before the end of this onr, on two issues, one is immigration, what you think the prospects are for a clean daca bill to be somehow put into this overall tax bill. and then also -- i'm sorry, the financial on them is bill. of puertothe issue rico. there's been a lot of discussion lately of how congress may actually, in exchange for providing or eight to puerto rico, tighten the control of the financial control board, add more powers to the financial control board that has already been established. on both of those issues, decision has to be made v

report today that an nra member with ties to the kremlin tried to reach out to jeff sessions and rick dearbornto try to set up this meeting. what all this is really showing is that it's part of the kremlin's plan. there was really a three-pronged approach to be able to infiltrate the conservatives and the trump campaign through their kind of pet issues, one of which, of course, is guns. they also tried to do this through veterans rights groups and christian organizations. "the new york times" lays all this out, that as part of a plan to get to trump through channels of people that he knew would be supporting him and to try to set up a back channel for him to communicate with vladimir putin. >> jason, we pieced together where these investigations are heading, and indeed, this "the new york times" report relies on documents that were obtained by senate investigators. how much of their attention is this kind of soft outreach occupying, do you think? >> well, david, it lays out the entire story, as your other guest mentioned, that this was an ongoing process, that you had too many people receiving

another name is rick dearborn. there's an article about how these may have been bungled contacts but contact in coordination with russia was attempted. "the new york times" reporting operative offered trump campaign kremlin connection using nra ties. wow. a conservative operative trumpeting his close ties to the national rifle association and russia told a trump campaign adviser last year that he could arrange a back channel meeting between donald trump and vladimir putin. the russian president, according to an e-mail sent to the trump campaign. that aide is another sitting staffer. the staff has to have a lot of long lunches with lrawyers on k-street. >> they're running out of lawyers not already booked in this case. this is the thing if you look at the way the president talks about world leaders of any nation all over the globe, with the exception of vladimir putin and russia. if you look at 51, i think the count is now, of official contacts with trump campaign or trump administration with russians. it just doesn

been an oval office meeting that day involving, kelly, mike pence, stepian, the president and rick dearborn, a deputy chief of staff. but they were just beginning this at that point. and when i was speaking to white house aides, they would say, look, we've actually devoted a lot of our political resources to the policy programmic aspects to try to work the hill. you have to be able to work both tracks in any white house, but especially in this climate. and they are going into a year where all the forces appear to be against them, with the exception of the economy. but still, the midterms tend to be when the party that is in power gets beaten up. >> and you also have not just the democratic side, you have steve bannon, and the question is is he going to be running warfare against mainstream republicans. mit romney is the perfect example. >> absolutely. at some the white house is going to have to decide, are we going to ban this guy from the white house or what are we doing here, because we can't -- he can't have it both ways, be talking to the president, running against the establishment, ru

kevin served lawrenceburg and dearborn county with pride but his most important priority was his family. he was a loving husband to mary jo for 27 years and proud father of michael. my thoughts and prayers are with the entire lynch family and all those who knew kevin well. congratulations to my good friend, kevin, on a tremendous life well lived. god speed, my friend. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman rom new york seek recognition? >> to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> mr. speaker, it is with great respect that i rise today to recognize the distinguished career of mr. sam pollock on the occasion of his retirement. mr. pollock is retiring after 0 years of dedicated service to the community as editor of their newspaper. having worked for decades in newsrooms throughout the nation, mr. pollock brought many years of experience and proactive leadership to the "daily star." i thank mr. pollock for his commitment to the people of the state of new york

just last week we saw another example of someone from russia reaching out through rick dearborn trying the trump campaign. we saw someone from russia sat next to don jr. there has been shown interactions between russian individuals and the campaign which have consistently, you know, the most significant of which being the trump tower meeting, consistently being brushed away as this doesn't necessarily prove collusion. which it doesn't. which it doesn't. >> it does with a foreign entity. >> when don jr. responds to an e-mail and says if it's what you say, i like it, the first e-mail he got, part of russia's effort to swing the election to you. i'm not a prosecutor, not going to prosecute him for that. but there's a lot of smoke coming out of that gun. >> to follow that up, the collusion thing, right, it has been proven that there has been collusion. the issue is, is this type of collusion illegal? we don't know yet. we don't know. we haven't gotten to the bottom of it yet. i think what is so dangerous about the flynn thing for donald trump is that -- and again this hasn't been proven ye

deputy chief of staff rick dearborn stepping down to work in the private sector.e oversaw the white house political operation which was involved in the endorsement of losing senate candidate roy moore. he has worked for president trump for more than two years, and chief of staff john kelly says it breaks his heart to see him leave. >>> over to australia where the suspect in that melbourne attack is telling police he heard voices. police say the suspect also missed a mental health appointment before ramming his car into a crowd of pedestrians. james longman has more. >> reporter: frenzied chaos on a busy australian street. this mangled wreck, the weapon in what authorities are calling a deliberate act. witnesses say the white suv ran red lights before slamming into pedestrians. >> saw people screaming, running, thinking it was a bomb. >> reporter: injuring 18. one still in critical condition. this man dragged from the suv. officers seen holding him down and slapping him. authorities saying there is so far no link to terrorism. but the suspect was known to police. >

steve: jeff flock live in dearborn. we thank you very much.s up. steve: a little peak at the future. meanwhile, a peak at the headlines. >> good morning to you. let's begin with this story. congressman's al green's attempt to impeach president trump failing miserably. >> donald john trump by causing such harm to the society of the united states is unfit to be president and warrant impeachment. >> the house democrats article of impeachment did not allege president trump committed any crime. instead, argued that he is a disgrace to the presidency, but it failed in a 364-268 vote. top democrats including nancy pelosi tried to stop green saying now is not the time. days after an illegal immigrant found not guilty in the death of kate steinle. that juror now reveals that the fact that the killer had been deported five times was virtually ignored. >> the crime was specified by the prosecutor in this case that was specifying by brandishing i have a weapon. in the trial in the closing arguments, that was the first term we heard the word brandishing du

president trump's deputy chief of staff right dearborn is reportedly set to leave the white house nextear to pursue work in the private sector. that is from the wall street journal. dave is joining us from pennsylvania, democrats line. caller: my whole family has been democrats. my father, his father, right on down. right now, i am planning on changing to republican because this a chance to wor k. chuck schumer and nancy pelosi are loaded. just like obamacare, they don't have it because they are loaded, but they shove it down our throat. now the democrats want to push daca through because they screwed the african-americans, they screwed the spanish people, now they want to go after daca so they can get votes. people are tired because they didn't do nothing. host: thank you. kimberly stress all has this in the wall street journal, now tax reform gets real. be tested. will mark is joining us from michigan. good friday morning. what would you give congress? what grade? caller: if i feel the republicans have the silver bullet to solve the tax-and-spend problem, and the democrats have the s