i'm major garrett. by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> you are looking live at the frozen tundra of lincoln financial field. it is dangerously cold here as the cowboys come into town to take on the philadelphia eagles, who have it all wrapped up for there is still plenty to see here. how do you do on this new year's eve edition off kickof kickoff? >> there's some people tailgating. >> yes, we have a little tailgating going on. >> they're brave out there. >> it's fwrij id but

very concerned about. >> garrett: will hurd? >> national security. as you know i spent nine and half years as under cover officer in the cia you led off the show talking about iran. it's a real threat to the rest 69 world. this is something that we can get together as republicans and democrats and support and work together on. we need to make sure that european allies and germany and france and england are following trump's lead and showing that they support the iranian people. we need to make sure that we're showing the rest of the world what's really happening in iran because iranian government is trying to shut down the internet, trying to stop people from talking because there is a proxy war going on right now between iran and our allies saudi arabia and israel and that can become a hot war. that is going to be dangerous for everybody. we've been focusing a lot on north korea as long as two countries are talking, the fact that we are in direct conversation with north korea something that hasn't been highlighted, proxy war turning into a hot war s

> garrett: welcome back i'm major garrett in for john dickerson.al panel, julie pace is the washington bureau chief for the associated press. ed o'keefe covers congress and politics for the "washington post." and cbs news contributor. also joined by rachel bade and david nakamura white house reporter forethe "washington post" and am i proud graduate of the university of missouri school of journalism. welcome do you all and happy new year. president told "new york times" recently that he thought special counsel robert mueller would be fair. he didn't seem to express given the opportunity all of the hostility some republicans in congress in the late w towards special counsel, his staff, his motives. what does this tell us if anything about where the white house actually is on this and never ending question in washington, where is the russia investigation go. >> for months the president has been hearing from two different camps on bob mueller. he's been hearing from some of his outside visors, people who have been around him for years say that he need

"garrett, garrett." something like that.ed to tell us something, garrett, because we're going to fry your ass in the electric chair." woman: um, excuse me, excuse me. thank you, mr. fleisher. bruce fleisher: thank you for-- is that an objection? that is an objection. bruce fleisher: ok, well then, the question is, is that what they said to you? something like that. i'm going down for murder. you're going down for murder? i'm going to get the death penalty. you're going to get the death penalty? what finally made you give them some information? saying that juliette was confessing in the other room. they told me i was going, i was going to go to jail for murder already, so i ended up confessing. keith morrison: there was no doubt that kopp committed the murder. but maybe the case against christopher wasn't quite so watertight after all. maybe christopher himself could set the record straight. we're calling chris sutton. keith morrison: would jurors listen? coming up. accused of murdering his mother and blinding his father, a s

at this point what do we know about the rejected nominee former congressman scott garrett. well i know a little bit about mr garrett who's a new jersey republican he was on the house financial services committee and so my stuff i followed that he was a really good and thorough member on that committee even though we disagreed on some of the regulatory things as you might imagine but he had a real penchant and personal dislike for the export import bank and he saw it as competing against the private sector now the charter of the bank and it's been confirmed in law says that it shouldn't compete with the private sector is really the lender of last resort for small businesses who can't get funding either funding or guarantees of funding any other way but mr garrett thought that it was really. against capitalism any thought it was some times that the loans were being made as personal favors and so he thinks it's going to say that he his effort was to save capitalism get away from cronyism was his policy and liberation i guess well some republicans voted with democrats including

house. >> garrett, thank you.bout that with our next guest, david huff, former speaker of the house. speaking of paul ryan, we have been showing a split screen, the news conference with house leadership has begun. and there's a lot for paul ryan to speak about. there's steve scalise. we are going to jump in when paul ryan begins to take questions. if i interrupt you, forgive me. dean, let me pick up where garrett left off and i want to talk about the activities over the last 18 hours as demonstrated to you. is the house leaders control over the members tenuous at this point? >> this is no different from the way it's been for the last two or three years. and especially -- >> you know this in your interactions with paul ryan. >> i've had a chance to deal with this for myself. >> is it deja vu watching what is happening? >> every situation is a little different, but there's a lot of thing that is this brings back. but especially when talking about spending and the spending situation where you've got both domestic spe

garrett. mr. garrett: i ahte to -- i hate to be constrained by time. first, i would commend the chief forriminal enhancements certain things. i think we have a criminal justice system that begs reform. we don't necessarily need -- we the to enforce those on books, but enhancement makes real sense. first of all, the guns discussion, i would suggest a federal legislative answer to what should be a state level or local level problem. i'm sympathetic to the arguments made on the panel that indeed localities and states should be empowered to make these decisions. i can assure you, i would not vote in favor of a federal law. it's draconian in its nature. having said that, i have no problem with the locality enforcing restrictions. rabbi cooper, i would correct you and respect where you say lah is not a state actor. they came to be three years after the revolution. >> they are an actor of the state. mr. garrett: no disrespect intended. mr. cohen, you gave a number of prior tothe website -- and after the obama administration. do you remember the numbers at the

of the b & o railroad can be written in three time periods, before garrett, during garrett, and after garrett, and i probably agree with that summation. garrett was a fantastic businessman. he understood how to get things done. he was very demanding. and working with his most able assistant, william prescott smith, master of transportation, they provided the first support for the union war effort in 1859 by sending marines and robert e. lee and jeb stuart to harper's ferry to counteract john brown's raid. they were instrumental in moving troops and supplies to and from washington and in western maryland and then, of course, maintaining the main line of the b & o throughout the war. one of the aspects that made the civil war the first modern war without question was the railroad and its application to moving of supplies and troops. the united states army did not have a component until the civil war when it created the united states military railroad. part of that united states military railroad was the construction corps., commanded by general herman houk. as the war progressed, houk w

before garrett, during garrett, after garrett. he was a fantastic businessman. he understood how to get things done. he was very demanding. working with his most able assistant, william prescott smith, they provided the first support for the union by sending marines and robert eva lee to .arpers ferry to counteract they were instrumental in moving troops and supplies to and from washington. then maintaining the main line of the b&o throughout the war. one of the aspects that make the civil war that the first modern war was that railroad and its application to moving supplies and troops. the u.s. army did not have a component until the civil war when it created the united states military railroad. part of that railroad was the construction corps commanded by hermann howe. given regiments of white crews. they work whatever was handy pair they were not interested in the work. they were short term. they never learned the job very well. there were not interested. at the same time, ask slaves began to pass through union lines. known as contraband, they were allowed to

. >> hi garrett. >> and his brother garrett for being a little excited excited. >> is it. >> the stretch limo in the driver way a dead give away this day was going to be special. >> we get to go on special trip ahh! >> first class day was plan after a disastrous 12 weeks ago. the coins family visit to santa turned sour in the king of prussia mall parking lot after someone wrote this message in lipstick on their suv "ur not handicap". the message was a condition in the gut for a family with a son suffering from baton's disease a rare terminal illness. >> garrett could walk, he could talk. he could read. >> three years ago garrett was a normal kid since then the disease has left him blind and losing his functions. he may not have long to live. that's why this christmas is so important. >> whoa, cool. >> reporter: after hearing the story the valley forge tourism and convention bureau helped a range a day of fun at lego land at the plymouth meeting mall. >> garrett himself since he can see or speak any more, he just loves being around kids and lego land is filled with kids. >> he's liking al

z2nhyz zi0z y2nhyy yi0y autria: good morning, garrett county. snow coming down pretty good right now on i 68 in garrett county, maryland, leading to school delays enclore is closed for the day. does not look like the snow have made it out there just yet. veronica: anything that is not treated this morning really will be icy and slick. cannot stress that enough, talking about road temperatures in the 20's this morning. here is that area of snow in garrett county, maryland, around 219 and 68. we have some other areas coming around, in hagerstown and frederick, maryland, shifting east to germantown. and downy village around laurel, maryland. temperatures today near 40 degrees. we are fine after about 10:00 this morning. st. mary's, calvert county, another chance tomorrow afternoon. julie: this is what we have been talking about hour commute coming from howard county toward the crash. sky track 7 above the scene involving two overturned vehicles, seven vehicles in all. the better bet is to stick with the bw parkway. miles perwing to 41 hour, but 15

i think it's -- i agree where garrett, what he just said. i think republicans are making a gamble right now that because the worst redistributionist elements of this that takes money away from the middle class and gives it to richer people and corporations, the worst of it will not be felt until after 2018. >> right. >> and that in the short term, because everyone's going to -- no one's going to get hit with the tax increase next year. and because their big bet, which is that what we've seen over the last year, which is that the stock market has been up, that gdp growth has been pretty solid, that they're going to get a big boost in business confidence and although most corporations will sit on their profits, they will put enough money back into the economy that they'll be able to point next summer and into next fall, they'll say we had robust growth, jobs are growing, we got a low-income growth here and the market is still soaring. they'll be able to create a kind of gestalt of this is kind of working in some broad sense and will not, the n

thank you so much, garrett. joining us now from washington, national political reporter for nbc news digital, jonathan allen, and "washington post" political columnist dana milbank, former chief of staff for senator jeff manchin, chris kofinis and jonathan del percenti. starting with the home team here, what do you make of the president going after mccabe? and garrett gave a great overview of the two sides of potentially why he might be. >> it's obviously a pattern of the president going after people at the fbi and in our national security complex. it's extraordinarily unusual. i think there are a couple things at work. look, like a college basketball coach working the referees on one level, if you complain enough, maybe you'll get the referees to rule more in your favor. on the other hand, you know, he thought he was going to be exonerated by the mueller investigation or by mccabe or by jim baker or any of the other people he's gone after at the fbi. he wouldn't be seeking to discredit them, or at least that wo

msnbc's garrett haake is here in west palm. garrett, fill us in on what's happening here. i know you've been reporting this out this morning as well. >> reporter: sure. the "washington post" has been if michael flynn were to roll over on the president or other senior administration officials, the "washington post" sources say the response would be to try to discredit him, paint michael flynn as a liar, an untrustworthy person. the white house attorney, john dowd, has been pushing back at this report calling it complete nonsense and more fake news. on the one hand, it would make sense. you've got michael flynn who admitted to the fbi as part of his deal with the special prosecutor's office. on the other hand, you've got comment after sympathetic comment from the president himself all on tape. listen. >> well, i feel badly for general flynn. i feel very badly. he's led a very strong life. >> michael flynn, general flynn, is a wonderful man. i think he's been treated very, very unfairly by the media. >> this man has served for many years. he's a general. he's, in my opinion,

kristen welker, and garrett haake. i would never tell garrett he's free to go, the way things are working out on capitol hill these days. >>> looks like a centerpiece of the tax bill will be dropping the corporate tax rate from 35% to 20%. one of the sells points of the republican plan is that the bill would actually increase wages. >> middle income family estimates show they'll see a pay raise too. this legislation results in 3.1% higher wages for people. that means more take-home pay every month in addition to a tax cut. higher pay, lower taxes. >> problem, i've never figured out how that works. former director of the national economic council under presidents clinton and obama and, gene, i want to know if i'm being fair or not fair. i want to put up a chart. there are lots of chart of median income, ways to look tat. this takes real median household income from the nights? 1967 to 2014 and adjusts it to 2014 -- from the census bureau. it has been relatively flat. a bit of a slope. no question. we lost a lot of groun

rejected hist nominee, scott garrett.ead corporate welfare and was trying to close it down when he was in congress. when his nomination came to a vote, two republican senators joined with the democrats to defeat him. , who served as the chairman of the export-import bank under obama is joining us from miami. good to have you back. for most americans, why would you nominate someone who specifically tried to shut down the institution that you want to try to lead? what happened here? fred: it is baffling. president trump has repeatedly nominated people, whether it is acting head mick mulvaney to run the consumer bureau, scott pruitt, scott garrett, even rick perry. this is really good job of congress and the senate. today, the senate did their job. sendsaid president trump them five nominees and when it specter general we approved. nominees and one inspector on a bipartisan. the committee rejected one member who was not interested in doing the job. actually beginning to work in this case. shery: it is still no head for the e

scott garrett, the candidate, was opposed by the senate panel. white house has already come out with a comment saying it is disappointed in the senate decision. scott garrett will not lead the ex-im bank, the export-import bank. mark: the saudi-led military coalition fighting houthi rebels in yemen said it intercepted a missile over the city of riyadh. a lot explosion was heard and a column of white smoke was seen. rebels said they fired a missile at the palace in the saudi capital. our executive editor for the middle east joins us live from dubai. tell us about this missile. it is not the first recently, is it? reporter: it is not. there have been missiles before on the southern border. in early november, there was a missile that targeted riyadh airport. this seems to be specifically areeted -- the houthis saying themselves -- at the palace where the king was supposed to give his budget speech. it was an expansionary budget. give us the big details. so, as you said, it has been a budget -- expansionary budget increasing spending 6%. they say the

he could read. >> three years old garrett was normal kid.ince then, the disease has left him blind and losing his functions. he may not have long to live. that's why this christmas is so important. >> whoa, cool. >> after hearing the story the valley forge tourism and convention bureau hemmed a range a day of fun at lego land at plymouth meeting mall. >> garrett himself since he can't see or speak any more, he just loves being around kids, and lego land is filled with kids. >> he's liking all the noise and the action for sure. >> the family is opening their story garrett's story will help others understand the challenges of families of those with special needs. >> hopefully whoever did this hopefully they get to see this and get to understand who garrett is, what we do as fami family. >> reporter: garrett may not be able to speak any more, but his story has certainly taught others a big lesson about tolerance. >> now i get to explain to my son there are nice people out there and just because somebody did one bad act there's tons of other peo

>> rick: garrett tenney, a rather noisy white house garrett we appreciate your time. meanwhile on capitol hill republican senators taking a short victory lap after clearing a major huddle on tax reformerly saturday morning but it's not over yet. lawmakers in the house and senate still need to hash out the differences in their separate bills before sending a final draft to the president's desk. the house is expected to get that ball rolling tomorrow with a key vote. senator john barasso says the two chambers are not far apart but admits there is work left to do. >> absolutely there are some changes that still need to be made in in in conference to work these things out and the other big differences are the republican bill in the senate eliminates the mandate of obamacare. it takes obamacare from being a mandatory program to a voluntary program and yes, i like the idea of making the taking away the death tax entirely. >> rick: for more on that critical senate vote in the wee hours of saturday caroline s hivley joins us and the president saying he wants the bill by chris

msnbc's garrett haake is live in florida with us. garrett, great to have you with us. the president not afraid to tackle a wide range of subjects, and he also isn't afraid to call people out on his twitter feed. take us through this publicly one-sided battle between the president and the fbi deputy director andrew mccabe. >> reporter: well, it's unprecedented to see the president of the united states go after so many fbi officials by name to the deputy director andrew mccabe and a top fbi lawyer. the latest tweet from the president this morning appears to be an attempt to quote something he saw on fox news this morning. but still, as has been established in the white house briefing room, tweets from the president are statements from the president of the united states, and he talks about the fbi being tainted in that tweet. that's an organization of thousands of men and women who put their lives on the line at this law enforcement agency. setting that aside, the particular focus of the president appears to be, in this case, as has been the case for the last week or so,

garrett, thanks very much. msnbc's garrett haake on capitol hill.rse, will stay very, very close to this story. >>> following reaction after yesterday's fcc vote to roll back net neutrality rules. some state attorneys generals are planning to file lawsuits over the move and the streaming giant netflix is weighing in. coming up, what options are available to opponents and examine the impact on small businesses. >> 83% of americans support net neutrality and 2 million of the people who supposedly wrote to the fcc to oppose were bogus. many turned out to be dead people. someone stole identities of dead people to help push this through. now we have to hope congress agrees to vote on and reverse it. i just want to say, thank you, president trump. thanks to you and this -- you appointed to run the fcc, big corporations are about to take control of internet. so merry christmas, everybody. >>> what's the secret to turning a no into a yes? do you know how to network like a champ? and when is a good time to have some fun in the office? i'm j.j. ramberg. i've

garrett had voted to eliminate the bank while he was in congress. he doesn't apologize for his opposition when testifying at his confirmation hearing. sort of seems a president wanted a guy there who was going to undo the import/export bank. now what happens? what's the problem with the export/import bank that the president has. >> i'm grateful to garrett for his willingness to serve. i have been through the hearing process. it is a difficult process. my heart goes out to him. he's a good person, it's disappointing but the economic team is going to go back to back we will think about the president's objectives and find another nominee. >> you and i should have that conversation again then about the export import bank, whether we should have one and what it does. >> i'm always at your disposal. >> i appreciate it. kevin hasert is the chairman of the white house council on economic advisors. >>> investigators are sifting through the wreckage of the yesterday's deadly amtrak derailment in washington. details after the break. >>> president trump just tw

garrett, thanks for that. joining me is ned price, former security director and nbc's national security analyst. nbc's national justice reporter julia ainsley and a political analyst. julia, the "washington post" about possible strategy for the president and his team if michael flynn accuses him of wrongdoing. there's a question of how to interpret a report like this. on one end, you might look at this and say isn't that only common sense if he tells prosecutors, look, he did something wrong, who wouldn't say he's lying? >> i think garrett picked up on a very important point in that the trump legal defense team would not want michael flynn to hear at this point that they are going to throw him under the bus. particularly they would rather be dangling the idea of a pardon so that he wouldn't want to expose all the information that he may have learned. again, he worked on the campaign, the transition and in the white house. he wouldn't want to give all that information because he may think, well, these people ar

. >> hi garrett. >> and his brother garrett for being a little excited. >> who is it?limo in the driveway was a dead give away. this day was going to be special. >> we get to go on our special trip. our special trip! >> ahh! >> reporter: the first class day was planned after a disastrous 12 week ago. the coins family visit to santa turned sour in the king of prussia mall parking lot after someone wrote this message in lipstick on their suv. "ur not handicap" the message was a kick in the gut for family with a son suffering from baton's disease a rare terminal illness. >> garrett could walk, he could talk. he could read. >> reporter: three years ago gargarrett was a normal kid. since then the disease has left him blind and losing his functions he may not have long to live. that's why this christmas is so important. >> whoa! cool. >> reporter: after hearing the story the valley forge tourism and convention bureau helped a range day of fun at lego land at plymouth meeting mall. >> garrett himself since he can't see or speak any more, he just loves being around kids and le

garrett today defeated near a party line vote but two republicans. tim scott and mike rounds said his past comments saying he didn't want this import-export bank to exist, that led against him and they set it aside. but congress has to come up with some kind of plan to fund the government by friday. they would like to come up with some idea on chip, the children's insurance program, sometime this week. susan collins has been promise that had her bill with bill nelson to stabilize governments will be dealt with. i think the outstanding one will be daca. the president has said all along they would like to see that wait until january, and it's unclear whether the democrats will try to force their hand in the three and a half days we've got left here to get it figured out. >> let me just say, though, something about the rejection in committee on exiom bank, he wanted to destroy the agency for which he was being nominated. how about scott pruitt for the apa who was confirmed for that agency head even though he's taking it apart piece by piece. and the fac

as garrett mentioned they want to end the year having done something.hey don't want to be home empty-handed for christmas and going into an election year. >> political correspondent sahil kapur, garrett, thanks to both of you. here is the other problem, stephanie, there are broken promises. this was pitched as something and seems to be something else. we're all waiting to see the final version. we want to take a close look at what republicans originally claimed and what has emerged in this close to final version of the bill. claim number one, the bill will not increase the debt. the reality, this is the senate scorekeeper, will push the debt up by at least a trillion dollars more over ten years. by the way, this is one of the more conservative estimates. virtually no one can give us evidence the debt is not going to go up. you may not care about this but the promise was it's not going to increase the debt. it's going to increase the debt. claim two, it was designed to benefit the middle class. corporations get a permanent tax cut, individual tax cuts su

let's bring back msnbc's garrett haake.ct they have a schedule makes it sound like they're confident of passage. what have you learned? >> reporter: they are confident, craig. right now the plan going forward is that the house would vote first on this combined bill on tuesday, and the senate would then take it up afterwards. essentially as soon as they're able. some of that may depend on the health of some of these members of the senate. we talked about the fact that john mccain and thad cochran of mississippi were both out all week last week. again, the scheduling part of this seems to be moving forward with both of these votes happening as early in the week as possible. i know we've been talking about marco rubio's vote all day. i talked to a couple of republican lawmakers since you and i last spoke. the consensus on this seems to be, there is no one i have spoken to on capitol hill today who thinks marco rubio will vote against this bill, but also not enough people, not two people who can come to me and say that the chan

the reputation management point that garrett was making is true. this playbook of saying that it's not just unfair to say i lost the election, it's fair to question every bit of reality around the election, every story that you've heard that might have alleged fraud. i think you are going to see that moore with insurging candidates, with steve bannen in or going out with a net. >> the party's image and roy moore saying election fraud and then questioning the turnout in certain counties, questioning the turnout saying it's unlikely for democratic voters to turn out the way they did in jefferson county where a lot of the voters are minority voters, african-american voters. garrett, that can't help the party's image of being an inclusive party and not just being a party for older, white men. >> no, of course not. there is a racial tinge to these remarks of roy moore and how unlikely the turnout models turned out the way they did. yeah. he was an exceptionally flawed candidate and drove these strange turnout models, not election irregularity other than

on capitol hill, nbc's garrett haake.o start with you on this marco rubio tax vote situation because it seems to me the question is not why would marco rubio now come out publicly and say he wants more funding for this child tax credit because why wouldn't he try to maximize some leverage at this moment. the question is will he really, next week if the vote comes to the floor, have the political guts to vote no? >> well, hallie, if past is prologue, the answer is probably no. marco rubio and mike lee put up an amendment to do exactly this. raise the corporate tax rate a little above 20% and use the money to add to the child tax credit. they put up an amendment to do that during the debate over this senate tax bill before it passed in the first place. when it got voted down they both voted for the final bill. while it's clear he wants to try to maximize his leverage here, and he definitely has leverage to try to use, it's less clear if he's willing to potentially be a vote that sinks this thing. you need to get mike lee or

garrett haake, keep us updated you learn more. thank you. >>> for more on the trump interview at mar-a-lago, let's bring in noelle nikpour and peter emerson. good afternoon to both of you. >> good afternoon. >> hey, sheinelle. >> noelle, let's start with you. a new article in "the washington post" is revealing more details about the circumstances of that interview with "the new york times." it says not a single aide or advisor was present at the table and not a single aide or advisor knew about it in advance. how problematic is that for the white house? >> first of all, you've got to understand mar-a-lago. i've been there several times. it's a fantastic club, it's a beautiful club, and he's relaxed there. he's at home there. i mean he lives there. and there are a lot of staff there. there are a lot of people that are around there. but when donald trump is talking to someone or he's doing something, they'll hold back. i mean he is the king of mar-a-lago. i think what the interview showed is that he was relaxed, he was talking to th

. >> al: so now if you are garrett -- >> cris: you have to kick it. >> al: you would think. remember, too, dan bailey was hit by his own man on a run back. this was earlier. watch. you have wilson's knee into the back of the head. they took him in the medical tent. they have obviously cleared him. he comes in to kick a tie-breaking field goal here. when oakland gets the ball back, they have the one time-out. jerry jones looks on. a 19-yard field goal attempt here. 20-17. so it's a three-point game with 1:44 remaining. >> cris: al, this happened to them earlier in the year. jeff heath had to come in. he kicked two out of three extra points. it didn't come to that this time. for jack del rio, he's pumped. talk about the culture, change there they were with the goal line stand. at least tie it up. some of the key plays here. this was a missed field goal over the top of the upright by tavecchio. you had the hundred yard kick off return by patterson which was negated by a hold. a fake punt by chris jones. off to the races he went. and that culminated with a touchdown on that driv

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msnbc's garrett haake following the president in west palm beach florida. and karen tamalte, national political reporter for "the washington post." before we get to "the post" story, the white house has responded, i understand, garrett, what are they saying? >> in a short but sweet statement from one of the president's attorneys, craig, they're calling this complete nonsense and fake news. pushing back about as hard as they can against "the post" reporting in this case, saying that there's no such strategy under discussion at the white house. it could be any number of reasons why they would say that and perhaps it's true, perhaps they don't want michael flynn thinking he's about to get rolled over on by the white house, should he decide to speak strongly to robert mueller about what he knows or doesn't know. perhaps they'd rather just have this floated out there as a warning to michael flynn. it's also problematic if they do go this route in part because of all the positive and understanding and just good things the president has had to say about michael fl

. >> garrett: the purpose of that national address would be to take note of this moment and put the united states four square on behalf and behind those people protesting in the streets? some have said that would be the wrong thing to do because that would give the regime an enemy to point at, us again. >> that was the obama approach. if i were trump i'd do the exact opposite of obama. he said i don't want to get involved, i don't want to mess up the chance of getting that deal with iran, the deal with iran hasn't worked. the money didn't to go benefit the people, it went to benefit ayatollah and henchmen. the people are not our enemies, eye tola is the enemy of the world. here is what i would do it's

once a normal healthy three-year-old, garrett is now blind, losing his motor skills to a disease thatormally ends in childhood death. >> there's no cure. there's no treatment. >> reporter: then you have this happen to him? >> um-hmm. trying to make memories for my family and that happens. >> reporter: although her car was parked in disabled spot with a league parking placard the family can't understand, can't imagine who would do something owe offensive. it's hard enough raising a child with special needs. now this. >> i just want the person to realize what they did was wrong, and to learn from it montgomery do it again. >> reporter: now upper merion police believe there may have been witnesses who saw this incident yesterday outside nordstrom's about 11:00 o'clock in the morning. they're also looking at surveillance video that may have captured the incident. lucy? >> hopefully it did. thank you much, chris. >>> east germantown route 26 bus hit a woman police say it happened during rush hour right around 5:30 this evening on chew avenue in eastwood lawn street. paramedic took her to t

. >> al: so now if you are garrett -- >> cris: you have to kick it. >> al: you would think. remember, too, dan bailey was hit by his own man on a run back. this was earlier. watch. there is bailey on the ground. you have wilson's knee into the back of the head. they took him in the medical tent. they have obviously cleared him. he comes in to kick a tie-breaking field goal here. when oakland gets the ball back, they have the one time-out. jerry jones looks on. a 19-yard field goal attempt here. 20-17. so it's a three-point game with 1:44 remaining. >> cris: al, this happened to them earlier in the year. jeff heath had to come in. he kicked two out of three extra points. it didn't come to that this time. for jack del rio, he's pumped. talk about the culture, change defensive coordinators. there they were with the goal line stand. at least tie it up. some of the key plays here. this was a missed field goal over the top of the upright by tavecchio. you had the hundred yard kick off return by patterson which was negated by a hold. a fake punt by chris jones. off to the races he

marriage garrett is on the south lawn wait -- major garrett is on the south lawn waiting. >> reporter: welcome to a warm afternoon here in december on the south lawn. you can see republicans behind me republicans in the house and senate, the combined leadership of the two chambers of congress awaiting the president's arrival. here is the president of the united states. ♪[ music ] >> ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states accompanied by the vice president, the speaker of the house, and the senate majority leader. [ applause ] ♪[ music ] >> it will be interesting to see what sort of questions the president takes beyond the tax bill, which is the largest tax overhaul since 1986, $1.5 trillion in total, providing a great deal of tax relief to everyone, including businesses. in the past, presidential predecessors have talked about other accomplishments during the year, whether it's the appointment of supreme court justice gorsuch and others. this is a victory lap that's been taking place for a couple of days now. paul ryan involved, as well. john dickerson is with us as w

garrett, thank you for that. the president preceded that interview by saying, in my opinion, they should come to me on infrastructure which they have come to me on daca, and they should definitely come to me on health care because we can do bipartisan health care, we can do bipartisan infrastructure and we can do bipartisan daca. the president in that "new york times" interview. let's bring in republican and white house reporter ashley parker. ashley, let me start out with you. on some of the headlines generated in this interview, is the president projecting confidence with where this mueller investigation is going? he said there is no collusion. he's not expressing any ill or hostile feelings toward the special counsel and just generally, i think, confidence there. what is the mood around president trump? what is the mood inside the white house when the subject of this investigation is raised? >> the mood inside the white house when this subject is raised is they want absolutely nothing to do with this. the pres

good reporting, thank you, garrett. joining me now, erin del moore and asaid herndon from "the boston globe." good afternoon to both of you. >> hi. >> good afternoon. >> erin, did anything in that "new york times" interview surprise you? >> sure. taken as a whole, there were an overwhelming number of faulse hoods. 24 in a 30-minute interview. that is one false or misleading statement every 75 seconds. it covered the russia investigation all the way to plans for the year ahead. jam packed full of information and misinformation. >> let's kind of take it a step at a time. let's look at "the washington post" who points out 24 false or misleading claims in that interview and goes on, including statements he made about there being collusion between russia and the democrats, that he has the right to do whatever he wants with the justice department and that he knows more about taxes and health care than anyone. erin, does he really believe what he's saying or is this a calculated spin, if you will? >> it is consistent. the pres