we are back with john avlon and carrie lockhart. the acting attorney general was notified that this was about to happen beforehand, he was told of the michael cohen plea deal and he was told this was about to happen, and we know he was told and he didn't stop it. does that mean the fears of matt whitaker interfering with the mueller investigation, are they somewhat delayed this morning? >> i don't think so. there's a few reasons why. first of all that would be consistent with the special counsel's regulations. on one hand it cuts against the president's argue that the special counsel is some rogue entity going off into far corners, because that shows that even with matt whitaker in place with the acting attorney generals office, and the unprecedented way in which he stepped into that position that the special counsel is still going forward with the appropriate procedures. the justice department has not been transparent with what whitaker's role is, and so i don't think it's 100% clear whether or not the special counsel is still goin

. >>> i want to bring in our cnn analysts, david gregory and john avlon and anna maria. you have dealt with this issue for years and years. we just saw the border looking peaceful, albeit, at 3:00 a.m. behind miguel marquez. yesterday not peaceful at all. how do you assess what has happened over the last 24 hours? >> i would say we have to look at what happened in the last month and a half when the caravan first came into mexico, when they crossed into the tkpwau wa tkpw border. caravans that come into mexico happen frequently, once or twice a week and most of the time the caravans are a political statement to attract attention both to the media that there's a dire situation in central america and as they cross through mexico, these migrants run a lot of risks. what is interesting about this group is that -- that's makes it different from the other caravans from prior years, and it's politically savvy and knows when to make a statement and knows when to cross. yesterday, the images we see right now were planned and there's an intention to make a statement that will be re

let's get a check from john avlon. welcome to the program. what does this say about all the indicators that we ought to look at and about the state of the country right now? >> it says the country is divided particularly around urban and rural lives. democrats picking up big seats that republicans considered safe in the outskirts of kansas city, oklahoma city. charleston, south carolina. that is a big deal. you are seeing those demographic changes taking place. turnout was extraordinary. 115 million votes compared to 88 million in the last midterm which was a 70 year low. so real surge in voting. and that is good for democracy. democrats did not achieve a deep blue wave but picked up powerful seats. democrats were defending ten seats and some of those are still out as we speak. but able to pick off people in missouri and indiana. distrac democrats will be able to hold president trump accountable through congress. >> let's take that before we go onto the republican strength. because they do hold and increase their majority in the senate. every

i have john avlon with me, our senior cnn political analyst. and for people who are not paying as close attention on friday, this is incredibly significant. not just on shrinking glaciers and warming oceans. but run through really the meat and potatoes in this climate report. >> this is a major report. hundreds of scientists, dozens of agencies working for president trump utterly contradicting his beliefs, which are utterly unscientific, regarding climate change. basically saying this problem is real, it is here, and it's going to have a massive impact on the country and our economy as well as lives over the course of this decade. so just a couple of top lines. >> sure. >> it may be that the president pays the most attention to the money. we have a 10% projected decline in gdp by the end of the century if this is not dealt with. that's the trajectory we're on. this is not just sort of lost wages, but higher temperatures, crumbling infrastructure, the impact of higher temperatures and the sort of wildfires we've seen and rising sea levels. also,

analyst john avlon compared trump's rhetoric to attend news during the reign of terror and revolutionary fronts the enemy of the people is a phrase you generally hear from u.s. presidents but it was used during the french revolution by radicals to describe their enemies who they often accused of get this spreading false news to divide or trouble the people we have to differentiate between blame and responsibility here what we have with the american media the corporate media in the united states is a failure of responsibility they are not generating the hate the racism the division a lot of that is indeed coming from the white house and some of president trump's more extreme republican supporters the problem is that the american media rather than defusing that rather than reporting accurately and quiet and calmly and educating people is inflating it into basically a circus atmosphere to get more ratings that's where we have a failure of responsibility they aren't creating it they are just fanning it so it becomes worse. fourteen h.s. where inmates city u.s. juvenile detention center have

put out the flame the response from america's mainstream outlets wasn't long coming to an alice john avlon a compact trying to stretch a coteau attendings tearing the reign of terror. from. the enemy of the people is a phrase you generally hear from u.s. presidents but it was used during the french revolution radicals to describe their enemies who they often accused of get this spreading false news to divide or trouble the people you know the average american you know they don't read a lot of news we know that the it's connected to the trust and i think that this is trust it runs deep in lots of different ways and i think at the local level especially because some people see their neighborhoods or their issues or their concerns not either covered in the press and local news is really suffering because they don't have the resources that they once did but also at the national level down there and i think they're seeing that if they have a conservative perspective or if they're coming from a marginalized population that they're either ignored or sometimes just turned turned away i don't remem

john berman is off and john avlon joins me. great to have you here. >> i did. how was yours? >> delicious. >>> we begin with breaking news because there was another night of gun violence in america. this time on thanksgiving. you can see terrified shoppers here having to run for safety. >> police say two p

we want to bring in phil mudd and john avlon. phil, did the trail just get more clear for you? >> it did. there's a couple pieces we have known for months, and we knew what the russians were up to including intelligence, and we had the outlines of interests in the trump circle, roger stone, for example, and we're in the holidays, and we all like puzzles -- >> i do in the summer. >> we are clarifying the information about how the interaction with wikileaks was happening. for the final pieces we need a couple questions answers. number one, obviously roger stone is denying this, is it true? the bigger question, if people affiliated with the campaign were talking to julian assange, did they get anything more than we are getting dirt? i want to know did you get anything and when did you know about it? >> yeah. pete 109, this is part of the filing that so bothered the legal team, and corsi said an associate roger stone was understood to be in regular contact with senior members of the trump campaign, including donald trump. you have mueller's team making a direct connection between p

we have a lot to discuss, john avlon and there are those that might suggest, however, i think when you take a giant step back, what you are seeing here is a big consistent theme. we are seeing very clearly now where the special counsel is focused, to wit, he is very focused on whether the president knew about it or was told about it. he is collecting evidence to this effect and evidence might lead nowhere but he is trying to get it on finally the president is freaked out about it and his legal team is also. we saw that when he was agitated and on twitter when he begins and ends about the mueller investigation. aurba, are we starting to see mueller closing in and maybe wrapping up? >> he's definitely closing in on what his mandate is about, which is to explore the links of any coordination between russia and members of the campaign and russia's efforts to interfere. when he has gotten to stone and corsi, and stone who is noted as being infrequent contact with the president you are starting to see what collusion would look like in his inner circle and if stone was communicating with the

john berman is off and john avlon joins me. great to have you here. hope you had a great thanksgiving? >> i did. how was yours? >> delicious. >>> we begin with breaking news because there was another night of gun violence in america. this time on thanksgiving. you can see terrified shoppers here having to run for safety. >> police say two people were shot, including a 12-year-old girl. authorities say armed police officers inside the mall confronted the gunman within seconds, shooting and killing him. alabama's largest mall is set to re-open in just minutes. we have the breaking details. >> reporter: john, it is a little bit surreal to be quite honest. the parking lot is starting to fill up, and there are people lining up waiting to get in. just eight hours ago a man was killed inside the mall after gunfire erupted. many are saying thankfully there were extra people onhand with the officers for the black friday crowds. instead they probably made this a lot less deadly than it could have been. >> let's go! >> everybody out! >> reporter: chaos erupting

we have john avlon with us. >> berman, it is election day in america.t and vote, keep an eye on the results. always the thing we have here is the number 37. average number of house seats where the president's party loe loses if he is below 50% approval. he is way below 50%. democrats need 23 seats to gain control of the house. on the plus side for the president, unemployment at a near 50-year low. it could be a tsunami wave of an election. that is looking unlikely. next up is ten. the senate seats democrats are defending that trump won in 2016. they are trying to flip arizona, texas and tennessee. the balance of power for republicans which is a steeper climb for democrats. who will decide the closest races? independent voters. keep your eye on this number. 16%. that is the average swing of voters to the opposition party in the last three midterms. 2014, 2016. that is the number of pivot counties that won in 2016 that obama won twice before. that is the real battleground map. notice the cluster in the midwest. iowa, wisconsin and michigan. democrats are

joan walsh, and john avlon, our senior political analyst. john, let me start with you. it is pretty pathetic that florida has so many issues, but we put that aside for a moment because this is an automatic trigger here. this is law, this isn't corruption by anybody, this is an automatic trigger. there's no evidence of fraud. there's no evidence found by rick scott's own team of fraud. what's going on? >> the president is using fact-free fear mongering and rick scott is following suit. the tone comes from the top. the fact that the president is leading this way and rick scott's own administration cannot back up the governor's claims is really troubling because it's an intentional attempt to disrupt our democratic norms. this is an automatic recount. scott is actually in pretty good position at the end of the day. >> 12,500 show it's clean from a historical perspective. >> yeah. so on the one hand you've got florida men engaged in lawsuit palooza. on the other hand, what the president did this morning is something very different. by saying that no recount was possible, by

cnn political analyst, john avenue r avalo avlon with a ral ae teality che. >> the afternoon of blackration released a 1,600-page report produced by hundreds of scientists and it was not supposed to come out in december, and that's a news dump when powerful people don't want you to pay attention to something. it completely contradicts the science challenge beliefs of our commander-in-chief. here's a quick refresher. trump called climate change a hoax and based on faulty science and manipulated data, and last wednesday he repeated a rift, tweeting whatever happened to global warming? trump's agencies and own scientists completely disagree him on this. the affects of the worst climate change are already beginning. this is the new normal with, quote, growing challenges to human health and safety and quality of life and rate of economic growth. it's that last bit that might get trump's attention, money. the worst effects will be seen in lost labor, extreme temperatures and crumbling infrastructure. worst case, it could strip away 10% of the nation's gdp over the next 80 years. and from fl