jeff: jeff hunt. lemonis: hi, jeff, how are you? are you the owner? jeff: yes, sir. lemonis: nice to meet you. jeff: my son, taylor. taylor: taylor. lemonis: taylor, how are you? taylor: doing well. nice to meet you, marcus. lemonis: you're looking sharp today. taylor: thanks. i dressed up. lemonis: this is interesting. i wanted to get, like, a chance to just look around for a minute. look, if i had to describe this store in one word, it would be "barren." there are no accessories for sale, no point-of-purchase system, and zero food. it's almost like they did the absolute bare minimum and then said, "yeah, this is good enough." why'd you do a tea business? jeff: i just thought there was a need, you know. obviously, it was starbucks. i just feel that it's only in the upper 1% type malls and areas in our country, and i felt there was a need to bring it to the regular mother of four. lemonis: and so what is your relationship, the two of you? jeff: i'm still a dad first and a boss second. lemonis: how old are you? taylor: 23. jeff: 40. lemonis: so, he was born when you w

thank you, people are starting to see and understand what this witch hunt is all about. jeff sessions should be ashamed of himself for allowing this total hoax to get started in

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investigating hunt and plans to interview everyone involved that night, even if another team picks up hunt, jeffder the league's personal conduct policy, hunt faces a six-game suspension. >> okay, jericka, thank you very much. still ahead here tonight, what an autopsy found after police shot the wrong man at an alabama mall. when you humble yourself under the mighty hand of god, in due time he will exalt you. hi, i'm joel osteen. i'm excited about being with you every week. i hope you'll tune in. you'll be inspired, you'll be encouraged. i'm looking forward to seeing you right here. you are fully loaded and completely equipped for the race that's been designed for you. >>> the family of a black man who was mistakenly shot to death by a police officer at an alabama mall thanksgiving night said today a private autopsy shows e.j. bradford was shot from behind three times. police initially thought bradford was the man who had fired the shots at the mall. another suspect has since been arrested. >>> new video released today shows the moment a small plane crashed in fort lauderdale saturday. the plane

joining me nbc news white house correspondent jeff ben amphetaminbennett, kac kacie hunt. what is the latest on capitol hill? what's the indication of where senators will all fall? are all the republicans in line to say yes to this adjusted cr? >> reporter: not right now. the vote is still open on the senate floor because, as we know, on wednesday night everyone thought this was on a glade path. many senators left washington. many who are from western states, we are waiting for them to travel back. some won't be here until dinner time. the motion to proceed to this house bill, it only immediates a simple majority. the question will be are there enough republicans to prevent it from going forward on this step. there may be. bob corker is thinking about it. he hasn't voted yet. senator flake voted no already. we're watching a couple others. even if they do manage to start debate on this process, there's not the 60 votes they would need in the next phase to get this through. it's going to fail at some point. it's just a matter of when it fails. at that point there doesn't see

the president adding thank you, people are starting to see and understand what this witch hunt is all about. jeff sessions should be ashamed of himself for allowing this total hoax to get started in the first place. while the chance had been left open, shep, that the president might sit down with robert mueller from what i have heard from successive outside attorneys working for the president, going back to november of last year, seems highly doubtful to me that they would let him sit down with him. >> shepard: we'll talk about that with the judge in just a moment. another shakeup of the administration over the weekend. right, john? >> ryan zinke just finished a meeting with the president. he was here at the white house 1:45 to meet with the president in the oval office. he tweeted out over the weekend, the president tweeted out, that he's stepping down, ryan zinke can see the writing on the wall that he's been embattled since the beginning, travel on private plains and ended up in this land deal in montana that involved the ceo of halliburton. zinke said he was trying to build a sledding park an

whitaker who has consistently criticize president trump for what he considers to be a witch hunt and asked jeffou talked about inappropriateness of mary rowe being talked about by the authorities as being guilty of the number of crimes come about never being indicted. again, does that apply to james comey's public report of hillary clinton and do you think it impacted the election at all? >> it is unfortunately very typical that presidents often appoint people who have been very critical in their campaign. mitchell who was the campaign manager for ronald reagan. and it is campaign very typical for presidents to do this. the great line that jack kennedy had, they said how can you appoint your brother and he said i thought you needed some legal experience. [laughter] all the cabinet officers are political. the fact is also that the attorney general is particularly critical in terms of administering the laws of the anded states in a fair way the attorney general is someone who has been the campaign manager. it obviously raises flags. it is why the senate should pay -- whoevero whoever the attorney

or pleaded guilty to crimes related to the special counsel investigation as jeff sessions stepped down. >> it's a witch huntmay be first president to face the prospect of jail time. >> reporter: the biggest political story wasn't president trump in trouble but brett kavanaugh confirmed to the supreme court. >> i believed he was going to rape me. >> reporter: accusing kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her when they were teens. >> with what degree of certainty do you believe brett kavanaugh assaulted you? >> 100%. >> i have never done. this has been a calculated political hit. >> reporter: the senate voted him in. >> brett kavanaugh is now justice kavanaugh. >> make no mistake, tonight is a major political win for this president. >> reporter: from the lower courts where republicans are reshaping the federal judiciary to the highest, a conservative shift that will affect a generation of americans for decades to come. 2018, a year for the history books with 2019 a new chapter ahead. hallie jackson, nbc news, washington. >> tonight, stay with us because nbc lester holt will help lower the new year's ball in time

people are starting to see and understand what this witch hunt is all about. jeff sessions, wow, should be ashamed of himself for allowing this total hoax to get started in the first place. tough words there for the former a.g., sandra. >> sandra: so what is the likelihood, kevin, that the general gets a full pardon from the president? >> well, i would be careful in how i framed this because i think the white house is trying to be very careful to not tip its hand. i don't think there is any doubt there is a sense here in washington and in particular at the white house that flynn may have gotten a raw deal. so if the question is will he be pardoned by the president, if you are putting money across the table and out in las vegas i would say it's a fair bet. that said, the president wants to be tight lipped about that prospect. i've talked to white house officials and they're being tight lipped. they want to see how things turn out tomorrow, which would seem to be good advice. >> sandra: kevin corke at the white house kicking things off on a monday morning. thank you.

>> jason: it has been a witch hunt from day one. we appreciate jeffot to move on. coming up, outgoing secretary of defense mattis gives one last christmas message to the troops. stay with us. ♪ ♪ >> jason: welcome back to this special edition of "hannity," trump versus the establishment. as secretary of defense, james mattis prepares to leave office, he has one last inspiring message for the troops serving overseas during christmas. it take a look. >> since washington crossed the delaware in christmas of 1776, american troops have missed holidays at home to defend our experiment in democracy. to all of you lads and glasses holding the line in 2018, on land, at sea, or in the air, thanks for keeping the faith. merry christmas, and may god hold you safe. >> jason: and sir, we thank you for your 40 plus years of service to this nation get unfortunately, that is all the time we have left this evening. if you haven't already, be sure to check out my book, "the deep state, how an army of bureaucrats protected barack obama and is working to destroy this befo

hunt. and once again, blaming good old jeff sessions, of all people,

jeff sessions stepped down. >> it's a disgraceful situation. it's a witch hunt he may be the first president in quite some time to face the prospect of jail time. >> still the biggest political story of the year doesn't donald trump in trouble but president trump triumphant as brett kavanaugh was confirmed to the supreme court after an emotional and explosive confirmation hearing. >> i believed he was going to rape me. >> christine blasey ford accusing kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her when they were teens? >> with what degree of certainty do you believe brett kavanaugh assaulted you? >> 100%. >> this effort has been a calculated and orchestrated political hit. >> ultimately the senate voted him in. brett kavanaugh is now justice kavanaugh. >> tonight is a major political win for this president. >> from the lower courts where republicans are resharing the political judiciary to the highest, a conservative shift that will effect a generation of americans to come. 2018 a year for the history books with 2019, a new chapter ahead. hallie jackson, nbc news, washin

hunt. and once again, blaming good old jeff sessions, of all people, for allowing this total hoax to get started one point president trump referred to his long-time fixer and personal lawyer michael cohen as a rat. tweeting, remember, michael cohen only became a rat after the fbi did something which was absolutely unthinkable, and it hurt up until the witch-hunt was illegally started, they broke into a attorney's office. this comes on the heels of a rough week for trump and his family. trump is under scrutiny now on six different fronts. according to reports, the trump campaign, the trump transition, the trump inauguration, the trump administration, the trump organization, and the trump foundation are all being probed for things ranging from campaign finance violations to accounting fraud. over the weekend another one of president trump's cabinet members was forced to resign under a cloud of ethics inquiries, setting another record for the president who has the most cabinet replacements by i first-term president in 100 years. if this were not enough, president trump and the republican trolled co

hunt is all about. here's the interesting thing, david. jeff sessions should be ashamed of himself for allowing this total hoax to get started in the first place. jeff sessions who still, even though he left or got fired from the position of attorney general, expressed loyalty to the president in very comments he's made publicly, but let's talk a little about general flynn for a moment and now that we have these new tweets from the president. are you expecting general flynn to give the special counsel team more information between now and his sentencing comes tuesday? >> well, i'm not sure he's going to be giving anything much in the next 48 hours, but according to filings that mueller has already submitted, he's been highly cooperative on a number of issues, some that were redacted, that were blacked out, so we don't quite know what they were. one of the things he was cited for cooperation on was investigating the trump/russia campaign connections if there are any and what's there. when trump is out tlrhere, thes tweets you just showed me, it

justice department in october 2017, echoing the president's words of witch hunt and speculating how any replacemench former ag jeff sessions might try to shut it down. >> i can see where jeff sessions is replaced with a recess appointment and the attorney general doesn't fire mueller but reduces his budget so low that the investigation grinds to a halt. >> reporter: rosenstein who rarely talks about the mueller probe offers words of assurance that the president sun tainted. >> bob mueller or rod rosenstein or matt whitaker or bill barr, that investigation is going to be handled appropriately by the department of justice. >> reporter: now that matthew whitaker has officially decided not to recuse, it's expected he'll be briefed on the mueller probe since he was never updated during the ethics review process. jake, we do know that whitaker was given a heads up just before the president's former personal attorney michael cohen pleaded guilty up in new york a few weeks ago. >> jessica schneider, thanks so much. >>> trump says we've defeated isis one minute and next he says other countries will need to fight isis inste

hunt. we're going to take steps to protect it. this week, senator jeffwill, once again, join me on the floor of the senate, asking for a vote on our mueller protection bill. and i'm sadly confident it will get blocked and it won't get a vote as it should. >> this is beyond mueller. this is about the fbi. >> that's right. >> republicans don't feel the need to talk about a fundamental principle and the fourth amendment, and protecting the search and seizure tenets? >> i can't speak for them. when we have private conversations most of my colleagues recognize this is not healthy, not good. but they're so happy with what they're getting out of the trump administration in terms of deregulation, tax cuts, two new justices to the supreme court, that they're willing to let him, as they say, ramble on, on twitter. they pay attention to the policy accomplishments not twitter rants. having the president say and do things like this on twitter is fundamentally cor fundamentally corrosive. >> the criminal justice reform you believe he'll sign that today? >> we'll take

jeff sessions. matthew whitaker is a guy that went on cable television and lambasted the robert mueller investigation. called it a witch hunt used the words that the president is fond of using. now he's the acting attorney general. he's refused to recuse himself. should it come as any surprise that donald trump would tell him that he's unhappy with the sdny investigation? or should it be more of a surprise that he wouldn't tell matthew whitaker that he was unhappy with the sdny investigation? >> i don't think it's surprising at all. i think that the president's response reads exactly the way david suggests. he's saying it's not a smart question because obviously the answer is the president intends to hire somebody that will be helpful to him. the question is if you're matthew whitaker in that position and you want to remain in a place where you're consistent with the law and you're not eventually prosecuted yourself, how is it that you don't fulfill the requests of the president? because while the president be prosecuted under the justice department guidelines, there's no such opinion about the acting attorney general. and

probe has a, quote/unquote, witch-h t witch-hunt, it was his way of expressing that people would be upset, and hi wouldn't be the only one talking against it. >>> jeff mason, stay with us if you will. i want more people to join the conversation. jeff tooken maggy hab g g gy -- toobin and others. the idea that people would revolt -- we don't have neil just yet. maggie, the president is saying he's not worried about impeachment. >> no. i don't think it's gnawing at him every second of the day, but it's consistent with him, to never admit any sense of security or worry or fear of defeat. but he is concerned about this. he is aware it's a very real possibility. democrats have made clear it's a very real possibility. i agree with jeff it is something he does believe. i don't think he's trying to foment violence. he has used language like this over and over and over again with the chance of trump being denied a nomination, or depending on how, you know, various outcomes of state races would go, state primaries, so forth. he has said that people will revolt or some version of that. i think he does believe this, and i think he has a fair point that he was d

hunt was illegally started. they broke into an attorney's office. why didn't they break into the dnc to get the server or crooked's office? and this one slamming his former attorney general jeffessions. jeff sessions should be ashamd of himself for allowing this total hoax to get started in the

hunt was illegally started. they broke into an attorney's office. why didn't they break into the dnc to get the server or crooked's office? and this one slamming his former attorney general jeff sessions. jeff sessions should be ashamd of himself for allowing this total hoax to get started in the first place. our colleague joe scarborough with the astute observation that it's mind-blowing to see a republican president call for a break-in of dnc headquarters. and rudy giuliani changing his story once again. not claiming that the payoff scheme that yielded a guilty plea from michael cohen and a nonprosecution agreement from the parent company of the national enquirer didn't happen but saying that he's arguing in the alternative, whatever that means. watch this. >> according both to cohen and to pecker, again, he's the head of -- or was the head of the national enquirer, they say they were in a meeting with donald trump. >> chris, chris -- >> in the summer of 2016 in which they discussed the payment to karen mcdougal. >> we're talking about something that doesn't matter. whether it happen or didn't happen, it's not illegal. >> but you're -- you're moving shelves around on me. ei