if he were in mar-a-lago.re's no negotiations going on, on christmas eve or christmas. i saw nancy pelosi on a flight to san francisco last night. congressional leadership isn't even in town. i don't think much is going to be done while he's here. but ella void the bad optics of being on a nice vacation home while the rest of the government is shut down without pay. >> julia, very briefly, only a few more seconds. what is your final word, thoughts on this ends. >> it's going to be lengthy. definitely longer than thursday. >> thursday? >> yes. >> melanie, do you agree? >> i think it goes to january 3rd when pelosi takes over. >> both from the hill, thank you for joining us this morning. >>> i'm morgan radford. that will do it for me. thank you for watching. at the top of the hour, it's up with kristen welker filling in for david gura. but first, your business is next. minimums and fees. they seem to be the very foundation of your typical bank. capital one is anything but typical. that's why we designed capital

mar-a-lago crowd. >> they speak with v.a.ials or fly them down to meet with them to go over things. and they have a hand in basically all manner of policy and personnel decisions that have been coming out of the v.a. for the past year and a half. >> still with me joy reid, eddie gloud and christina greer. donald trump and his crew, these idiots in the government, they don't know what they're doing. this guy, this doctor in my club, he can do it, which is sort of part of the way they view the whole federal bureaucracy. and also the fact this was going on -- everyone in the v.a. knew about it. it was going on for months before propublica, great credit, broke the story. the v.a. has real issues and you have actual taxpayer funded public servants answering to the private club members of the president having to fly down to mar-a-lago to talk to them. >> this is the ultimate sort of way the koch brothers fantasy of the way the world should work. the masters of the universe, everyone must come to them, including government itself, m

it was mar-a-lago's expense, a for profit club. instead of the for profit club paying for the thing it had done, here's the charity to save donald trump's business some money. >> mr. lieu, what can congress do besides expose? what do you do next? where is this all going to end? can you kick him out of the presidency over this? >> well, democrats do get subpoena power in january and by the way let me also thank david for ekts posing this in the first place and the washington post. that's why we have all of these investigations and the prosecution going on. so one thing i think that the public should take away from this is it may be hard for some people to think that donald trump engaged in criminal behavior in leap to carry over into 2016 that trump may have violated all sorts of other laws to help himself and enrich himself. >> could this be an article of impeachment? >> it could. but it's one of our gravest responsibilities in congress. it should never be our first option. we need to wait for special counsel mueller's investigatio

the president wakes up at the white house this morning not traveling to mar-a-lago for the holidays as planned because of his government shutdown. that government shutdown he claimed he would take credit for

the same thing with mar-a-lago. but with respect to the mueller investigation, from what the unredacted part of the flynn -- of the flynn sentencing report we saw, there are other investigations going on, aside from just the straight russian interference investigation that we don't know about yet. we don't know if this is something that mueller is already looking into. >> well, susan, i want to play for you, the irony in all of this is, of course, candidate donald trump was excoriating the clintons on a pay to play scheme quite a bit. take a listen. >> it's called pay for play. pay for play. pay for play. pay for play. pay for play. really, really bad, and illegal. 100% illegal. pay for play. >> if you are outraged by the clinton foundation, and plenty of people i think legitimately were, because it was a question of, what are you doing here, you're at least hanging out a sign for foreign governments to try to influence then secretary of state clinton. what is the difference? >> there isn't. because both are based o

he was planning to go to mar-a-lago for more than two weeks, i think. am sure he's missing his friends and family there right now. >> will the president be blamed for this shutdown? >> absolutely. i want to push back a bit on brian and say that i do think that this shutdown could have long-term consequences for %-p who last week set out this moment as a huge inflection point for presidency he's on the record to say this is my last opportunity to get the wall funded and fulfill my promise to the american people. again, if he does not and the base revolts, that's based on a promise that trump set up himself. i spoken to an administration official, don, who was on the campaign told me today he almost regrets supporting the president because so much of his desire to get involved in the administration say about what you will was based on his promise to secure the southern border. if that bleeds into his base and more republicans ahead of 2020. this has a disasterous effect for the campaign. >> thank you, all, phil, and kaitlyn, get your sleep now. you are go

it's her issue, and she's not at mar-a-lago but the white house and will be for the new year. >> what do you think about the democrats aiming at pelosi here? >> it's an i temd. 47% of the people in the country blaming president trump. richard, you remember when president trump said he wouldn't blame the democrats for the shutdown. he would be proud and. he's on record now saying a shutds down saying it's hard for the wows now try to turn the tables. >> one of the reasons that nbc is hearing as to why chuck schumer did not agree with the number is because the president -- this has been said on both sides didn't say it publicly. had he said it publicly, that potentially they could have gotten past go. >> right. and right now they're at a stalemate. to erin's point, the situation is right now -- i mean if this thing goes untail january 22nd, it becomes the longest partial shutdown in hichtd. the impact that has, just hearing in washington in the dmv area, you can't even calculated it because you've got these mom and pop shops and restaurants all across the city where lawmakers and their

remember, he went to mar-a-lago, met with the president at that time. we are unclear about who conveyed that message to michael cohen. we know he came away early on thinking, i'm in a good spot. i'll be protected. we then know that everything kind of fell apart after the raid on his office. first, the president was still supportive of them, but then he went on "fox and friends," and the president said, well, he only did a little legal work for me. then michael cohen knew that he would no longer have the president at his back. >> evan, what's the response been from the president's legal team? >> well, anderson, rudy giuliani told pamela brown tonight the president of the united states never indicated anything to michael or anyone else about getting a pardon. the pardons are off the table, he said. it is not a limitation on his power in the future to pardon in any case. a little bit of a mixed message there from rudy giuliani, as often happens. in one sentence, he's saying pardons are off the table, but the president still has that ultimate power to pardo

president trump is scheduled to travel to mar-a-lago today for a two-week break. house says he will not travel if there is a shutdown. if there is that portiartial shutdown, the state department is among one of the agencies effected. some essential employees would be required to work, but pay withheld until the shutdown is over. 180,000 would be paced on leave without pay. that is nasa and the national park service. right before the holidays. there are concerns about what a shutdown might do to the already rattled financial markets. >>> the last thing that wall street needs is a partial shutdown. fear had a real gripping effect on the markets this week. dow dropping 464 points on thursday. the average closed below 23,000 for the first time since october of 2017. we are going back in time. the nasdaq lost 1.6%. just avoiding closing in the first bear market since the great recession. the s&p tumbling 1.6%. we're seeing investors rattled by the fed reserve's decision to raise rates despite evidence of slowing economic growth. woi worries of the supply glut. crude pl

david pecker would do events at mar-a-lago.ald trump spoke about pecker when he received an honorary doctorate at pace university. they do these things for each other. i don't think they spent a tremendous amount of time just sort of on the porch at mar-a-lago hanging out and having -- not a beer because donald trump doesn't drink but the point is they have been in close contact for a long, long, long time. so i do think he's useful. the way it was described to me by former staffers at ami was that pecker really understands on an institutional level how michael cohen and donald trump operated, particularly in this sphere. and it's one that, you know, you talked about on your previous segment but it's really significant to say that in august 2015 they sat down and said not only will we catch and kill stories that could hurt your chances, but we'll let you know about anything that might be coming. we'll sort of be your in-house research arm, oppo research. >> and what else might they have, all these questions i'm sure prosecutors

buying a painting to hang at mar-a-lago, paying those legal bills.his is a foundation that was supposed to be donald trump's foundation, the guy who says he's a billionaire, it has $1.7 million left. hasn't given anything away since 2008, according to "the washington post." the biggest donation ever was $264,000 to central park in 1989. >> well, and obviously, i don't speak for the trump foundation or the organization, but the lawyer that was representing the foundation today pointed out since its founding, it's giving away $9 million total, including over $8 million of donald trump's money personally that he contributed to this foundation. and he's actually been trying to shut down this foundation since he was elected president. he announced that he intended to fold it after the election in 2016. it's actually been held open by -- because of the new york attorney general's office. they've held this open. that money had not been able to be distributed and now it can be and we can put a wrap on this. >> so -- but i mean, back to these issues. i mean,

he hasn't made any plans to go down to mar-a-lago at this point.e may miss the annual mar-a-lago new year's party. bert: what about the federal employees? what's their reality at this moment? >> the last couple of days, i've ben tweeting with many federal employees. right now, it's the worst case scenario for most feral employees. they could miss the next paycheck, january 11t we got some news. coast guard employees were active duty -- there were some news they might be missing their rdycheck. the coast gold me there's an update that they will get that paycheck on monday. that's a big deal. overall, i talked to people who have delayed surgeries because they're worried g notting enough money to pay for co-pays. nobody's missing mortgage payments yet. but they're nervous that could happen in the next couple of weeks. >> throws the stories that will start to change this snversation as people m paychecks, people who live month -- paycheck toayeck, month to month, those are the stories that mediae people l us are going to start to tell. we're going to f

he's gone back to mar-a-lago to be with her son, who is there. do you think that leans that the president, who has been in washington because of the shutdown, will end up in florida if >> my guess is he would always likely end up in florida. but he's said to a number of people he doesn't feel like he can do that, given the shutdown. we'll see if he sticks to that. they have that big party every year that he likes going to in mar-a-lago. he was looking forward to this trip. i think he's been looking forward to it less in recent weeks, because i think it's going to mean a ton of interfacing and answering questions that he doesn't have the answers to. but he does like having a break, and he does like going down there. i will say in all the various venues i've seen him in, mar-a-lago is where he's seen the most happiest and contented. my money is that he get there is at some point, but who knows? >> david, is there any reason not to go other than the perception? >> i don't think so. there's nothing going to happen that he can work out there. i think

he canceled his trip to mar-a-lago. >> yeah. he wants to go. at the same time, i don't think that going to mar-a-lago is as fun for him as it used to be. he was always seen as this wizard and now people ask these questions that he can't give answers to or people want something from the president that he discovered he can't do. i think it doesn't hold quite the same over. i would be surprised if he midss the n the new years party that he throws every year there. i could see him going down for a short amount of time. the calculation is the trip for iraq makes it a little bit easier for him to take a vacation. >> the president attacking the fed chair. but then we have reporting yesterday that he is willing to meet with the fed chair in the next, i guess, week or two in 2019. was the mess saage getting thro to him. was that the sense that attacking the fed chair is certainly not helping the markets? >> i think it is a sign that people around the president are desperately trying to calm the markets. i don't think it would change anything. a meeting

and they should just be mar-a-lago. [ laughter ] [ applause ] president -- president trump coeeted todayt the inner workings of speciasel robert mueller's russia investigation are a total mess. and i don't know, mess isn't the word that comes to mind when i o at robert mueller. [ laughter ] oks like he parts his hair with a protractor. [ laughter ]kf for brt, he counts out exactly 100 corn flakes. he looks like when he goes to sleep at night, he makes the bed again from the inside. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] senate majority leader mitch mcconnell published an fo op-ed fonews this week, calling for bipartisanship in congress. so the same guy who stole a supreme court seat from merrick garland wants bipartisanship. can you believe the balls on that guy's neck? [ laught ] [ chrs and applause ] thanksgiving is one week away. so if you like dry, tasteless, white meat, say hello to gop's incoming freshman clas [ laughter ] [ applause ] nea company in wisconsin g attention this week after they gave all of their employees handguns as christmas presents well, that is appalling. they gav

the secret service has paid $50,000 for tents for the secret service for them at this mar-a-lago new year's eve party. will president trump go? i assume he will want to go. how will things look the next day when there are images of the president in black tie talking to people who paid $200,000 a year for access to the president while people are out of work. this is a dynamic situation. and there is no exit for the president. he's already begging for a fig leaf. $5 billion doesn't build a wall is just an excuse. there will be a second offer. give us $2.5 billion. eventually give us $1.3. at that point democrats will say do they want to give the president cover and maybe for a lot of reasons they'll want to do that and proclaim it a victory or they won't and make him eat it. there's only one way this ends. trump backs down, no wall. >> david frumm, annie karni, ben rhodes, that you for being with us. >> and coming up, it looks like both sides are digging in for a protracted sh protracted battle on this shut down. is it destined to go into 2019. >>> some big surprise events in north car

and i went to mar-a-lago.[ laughter ] and they needed someone for the 4th. >> seth: gotcha. >> he -- trump almost canceled actually. >> seth: oh, really? >> cause there was -- it was raining 300 miles away. and he panicked, you know [ laughter ] it's like the wicked witch in the "wizard of oz," afraid of water. >> seth: yeah. >> but you know what's amazing, you know, mar-a-lago is -- that's quite -- that's a white club. >> seth: yeah. >> whoa. i mean, an average member makes you look like a member of the wu-tang clan. >> seth: really? that white? >> that white. sarah huckabee was there. >> seth: oh really? you met sarah -- >> i call her huck. >> seth: you call her huck. you're that close. >> you know what's fascinating with sarah? >> seth: what's that? >> if you take her frown, which you mainly see, and turn it upside down, it's still a frown. >> seth: it's still a frown. [ laughter ] [ applause ] >> unbelievable. ted cruz was there. >> seth: oh wow, ted cruz was there? >> not for long. he just came out and sa

it's clear that he's communicating with someone at mar-a-lago, aides to the president perhaps about what the story is, what the conversations were with russians, what the story was. so, you know, that's the big question. we have obviously seen that in the cohen affair, for instance, this idea cohen at least alleging it was the president who was directing him. was that the case here? we don't know. the president obviously hasn't said anything bad about flynn, he basically defends him, saying that he was entrapped by the fbi, that document tells a different story. it will be interesting to see what the president's reaction is after today once we get this sentence handed down, maybe it will be zero months in jail, maybe it will be three, who knows, but it will be interesting to watch his twitter account. >> it could be zero jail time plus stern words or very admonishing words from the judge saying lying is really, really bad. i wouldn't be surprised to see something like that, would you? >> no, except we now have a wild card. the judge is known for occasionally going after the government an

learned today the president will stay in washington through new year's instead of going to his mar-a-lago club in florida. but that does not signal there is necessarily a breakthrough, right? >> reporter: right. that's the case and how it appears right now, dana. of course, we're going to see how things unfold over the next several days, but the president was supposed to spend christmas at mar-a-lago and new year's. they hold a big new year's party there. he was planning to attend, but democrats and republicans remain very far apart on these negotiations. now we know that president trump will be spending new year's here as this shutdown drags on. as rain poured on washington friday, president trump unleashed a tweetstorm, threatening to close the southern border with mexico. the president writing, the united states loses so much money on trade with mexico under nafta, over $75 billion a year that he would consider closing the southern border, quote, a profit-making operation. repeating, either we build, finish the wall or we close the border. the tweets coming as the partial government sh

that's rig trump will travel to his mar-a-lago resort tomorrow or as more commonly known, the winterremlin. [ laughter ] "the new york times" has published a profile on duke freshman and nba prospect zion williamson who has the school's highest measured vertical leap of 45 inch while the lowest measured vertical leap is still held by new jersey vernor phil murphy. [ cheers and applause ] >> seth: that wasn't really a joke about basketball again. president trump used the wrong form of the word, "there" this morning when tweeting about his recent decision to pull s. troops out of syria. which means it's definitely possible he meant to pull our troo out of serbia. [ laughter ] three nasa astronauts returned to earth today after more than six months aboard the international space station. said the astronauts, "he's still in office?" pope francis said this week tha christ not about presents and is about listening to the silent voice of god. said his secret santa, "what the hell, man? i got you an ipad." researchers are comparing short-thinnepilot whales living off the coast of hawaii to h

vonnie: is there anyway he can spin this before he leaves for mar-a-lago to keep the government open put off the decision on the border wall funding? it will especially bad for him if he goes down to his estate in coastal florida with a bunch of federal workers furloughed or required to work for no pay over christmas. one agency that would be shut down is tsa, but a lot of those employees are essential and they would stay on their jobs and simply not be paid. that makes it even more likely they would wind up punting on this at the end of the week. i think he does want to go on vacation. vonnie: went to minor shutdowns, but the last major shutdown was 2013. what about personnel changes? what can we expect in the next five days? he is walkingke iszinke isr -- zin walking out the door. rosstin nielsen and wilbur are both in a bit of trouble. we don't know exactly why the ,resident has turned on ross but it could be simply he doesn't like what he sees visually in the commerce secretary who is old and looks distracted at times. vonnie: that is bloomberg's alex wayne. approach,rading as we

if there is no agreement, presidt trump will cancelis planned holiday vacation at mar-a-lago. he will stay here at the white house. the two sides are not close this at all. >>> three quarters of the federal government has beengh funded thrext september. but a shutdown could leave employees of several key agencies in limbo. in all, more than 800,000 would be affected. like agencies like homeland security, transportation and d.o.j. before the half of those would be senthome. the others would be forced to stay and work without pay. we've seen this play out before. there's usually back pay but that's not guaranteed and it can take ahile t get the system up and running. with holidays on the horizon, it would take a toll on scheduled wod lenoau b beavseec allowed t theirs. and essential plees would have theirs cancelled if they have on work through the shutdown. meantime, social security would keep issuing their checks. dicaid and medicare should be able to continue as well. >> if the government shuts down tonight. here it is especially tough. news4 continues our covage with what a

president trump will spend thanksgiving at his mar-a-lago resort in florida.e's going to go around the table and make everyone say why they're thankful for him. [ laughter ] that's right. president trump will spend thanksgiving at his mar-a-lago resort in florida. and if you're curious what melania is making, a run for it! [ laughter ] [ applause ] after president trump called a judge who ruled against his asylum policy "an obama judge," chief justice john roberts today defended federal judges and said quote, "we do not have obama judges or trump judges, bush judges or clinton judges." they do however have two judges appointed by grover cleveland. [ laughter ] [ applause ] lawyers for president trump said yesterday that they have provided special counsel robert mueller's team with written answers to questions in the russia investigation. and i don't think the answers are going to help his case. [ laughter ] [ applause ] "the washington post" has published a profile on a soviet era intimacy book known as "the socialist kama sutra." the way it works is everybody

the president reportedly "will spend 16 days at mar-a-lago during the holidays." this is fun. coincidentally, richard nixon went to mar-a-lago a month before he resigned the presidency. ( cheers and applause ) oh, please. oh, history, oh, history, please repeat yourself. we didau )no he'll have a new chief of staff: budget director and chef from the pizza box, mick mulvaney. mulvaney's predecessor, general john kelly, tried to rein in trump, but according to politico, mulvaney doesn't plan to try. "i am honored to be the new zookeeper. as my first official act, unlock all the cages! let's get the lions high and rub steak sauce on the penguins." ( cheers and applause ) sources -- sources -- i could go for some penguin. sources close to mulvaney say he intends to give trump more leeway to act as he chooses-- a recognition that trying to control trump is a futile approach. so, i'd like to point out that what we've seen in the last year and half is trump being controlled. ( laughter ) what's he going to be like now? (as trump) : "i was wrong. there are not fine people on both side

the president will stay in washington for new year's eve instead of jetting off to mar a lago. he is marooned in the white house, blame gamesmanship and threatening to close the southern border if he doesn't get the wall money he wants. the white house is taking active measures to shirk responsible and shift it to representative, nancy pelosi who is likely to be the next speaker of the house. >> she is unwilling to actually do anything until she gets her speakership. >> this comes down to mrs. pelosi's speaker should. left to his own devices, the senate democrats would cut a deal, but they are protecting mrs. pelosi. she doesn't have the votes and if she cuts a deal before election on january 3rd, she is at risk of losing her speakership. we are in this for the long haul. >> phil mattingly is on capitol hill. you have been there for the last couple of days. it looks empty there behind you. i don't know what you can report this morning because there doesn't appear to be anything happening on the hill. >> other than every single reason you listed as to why things are not going we

. >> press secretary servicenter said the president trump will not travel to mar-a-lago for the holidays if the government shuts down. more than 800,000 federal workers will be furloughed or forced to work without pay if the deal is not reached tonight. >>> the san francisco police officer is a bank robbery is due back in court. 44-year-old rain daugherty will learn if he will be granted bill. prosecutor said he robbed a bank in sunset district last month. he made off with about $90,000. official said his crimes extend further than that. he is implicated in earlier texting scandal, doherty is now facing criminal charges in san mateo county is will. the da said he still more than $24,000 from an elderly man in burlington last year. >> we have accused him of committing felony elder abuse by stealing from a person who was suffering from alzheimer's and dementia. in september 2017, over a three month period he made well over 30 different withdrawals from the atm without the permission of the victim. that card had not been used before by the victim. >> doherty is facing up to five years in pr

. >> the foundation paid out $100,000 to settle legal claims against the mar-a-lago resort. it paid $10,000 for a painting of trump to hang at a another resort. the lawsuit seeks to ban him and his children from roles. in a june tweets, donald trump blamed the suit on democrats and vowed not to settle it. pervasiveeflected the bias against them. the investigation could result in further penalties against him and his children and is likely to pay -- to play a part in his campaign. >> madagascar is voting in the runoff presidential election. two former presidents are facing off in a bitter battle for power. in --ng of belgium to ray to weigh in on whether to accept the resignation of charles michel. the business news with steve and carol. you are going to start in italy. >> the commission has confirmed it has accepted rome's revised spending plan for next year. the deficit would have risen to 2.4% of gdp. the government submitted a fresh spending framework which will reduce the deficit. argued theent spending was necessary to revive the country's economy. restored rome needed

tickets for tonight's event at mar-a-lago are $650 for members of the club and $1,000 for nonmembers. latest on the government shutdown as both sides appear to be digging in. >>> and countdown to 2019 as the first cities prepare to ring in the new year. this is a live look at sydney, australia. a live look at sydney, australia. ♪ [ dog snoring ] baxter. it's bedtime. peace of mind should never be out of reach. [ voice command beep ] xfinity home. xfinity home connects you to total home security you can control from anywhere on any device. and it protects you with 24/7 professional monitoring. i guess we're sleeping here tonight. xfinity home. simple. easy. awesome. call, go online or demo in an xfinity store today. >>> we've got to move way from the blame game, blaming the president, blaming the democrats, pelosi and schumer and others and get back to doing what we're sent there to do, to fund the government. >> this morning the shutdown stalemate continues on capitol hill with just days to go before the start of a new congress. neither side appears to be budging on the president's bo

does that mean the president will head down to mar-a-lago or do we know?ng official just yet. the white house is told us earlier today that the earliest the president could potentially go to florida is tomorrow. but again, nothing set in stone yet. he was supposedly originally go down on friday. rbc that did not happen. there would be lunch in the white house in his words a large group concerning border security. we have asked of names but have not heard anything official just yet. we have not seen a marine outside the west wing so for today. typically, if the president is working in the oval office a marine stands guard outside. he tweeted that there in the warehouse working hard. they are working with democrats on desperately need border security, gang, trafficking and war. the white house says they believe the president is in a position of power and following through on a major campaign promise. >> i am deftly not going to negotiate with you guys from this chair and i'm definitely not going to get ahead with the president will or won't do. but what he h

why did he get his marching orders from a transitional officials at mar-a-lago? those are still questions, brian, that i don't think we don't know the answers to >> we give it a good ride and thanks to joyce vance, jeremy bash, and frank figliuzzi. >>> coming up, more on michael flynn's day in court. why the president remains loyal to one of his earliest supporters. we'll talk about that some more. >>> later, president trump and his children forced to shut down their foundation. why new york attorney general is calling its closure a victory for the rule of law. "the 11th hour" just getting started on a tuesday night. this isn't just any moving day. this is moving day with the best in-home wifi experience and millions of wifi hotspots to help you stay connected. and this is moving day with reliable service appointments in a two-hour window so you're up and running in no time. show me decorating shows. this is staying connected with xfinity to make moving... simple. easy. awesome. stay connected while you move with the best wifi experience and two-hour appointment

not just donald trump who often apologize traveling to his mar-a-lago estate over the holidays. president, in fact, his wife melania trump is expected to come back to washington as well and they expect to see the shutdown through the christmas holiday because the senate will not return to a formal session until thursday and that is because we are dealing with a stalemate here in washington. both sides not budging at all in their demands. the democrats on capitol hill asking for a clean resolution that would keep the government open until the first week in february, while the president insisted he gets some level of funding for border security which would extend to the construction of that wall on the southern border. initially the president wanted $5 billion to begin that process and they made some progress in negotiations. we are told that vice president, mike pence, the director of the budget office and the incoming chief of staff mick mulvaney telling senators over the weekend they would be willing to negotiate $2.5 billion for that wall but the senate democrats turned that n

you don't think the mar-a-lago optics will -- you think that's a problem? i think you are being -- >> yeah. >> there's no reason for the democrats to do anything on this other than wait for the -- >> but the democrats and the republicans could get together and probably will get together and send him something, and then it's the president's decision whether he signs it or holds his nose or vetoes it and sends it back. it's not the republicans against the democrats or a blame game that goes on, the president has already decided i will take the blame for this and he has no support on the hill. >> but he does have steven miller. >> a quick note, the shutdown does not affect robert mueller. i have done it. he will keep going. >> i don't think -- i would not sever the shut down from what is happening in the mueller investigation. the president may need the circus of it all to draw attention of what could happen in just the next five days. i did that for you. >> thank you. are we wrapping? >> yes. >> thank you. >>> and webster's has the word of the year. that's ne

president trump celebrated christmas morning at mar-a-lago and this as we entered day four of a partialernment shutdown. he is now the first president to spend december 25th at the white house since president clinton did in 2000. abby philip joins me now with more on his schedule today and abby, i believe melania came back last night. he's no longer alone in the white house as he was tweeting about yesterday. >> that's right, jim. a bit of a change of plans for president trump and the first family. melania trump did return home just shortly after president trump tweeted i'm all alone here. poor me. but this is because of a government shutdown, a partial government shutdown that began more than three days ago and so far there is no sign that any progress has been made, meaning that president trump is going to be here for the foreseeable future and last night he and the first lady went out. they celebrated mass at the national cathedral, the midnight mass on christmas eve and president trump also spoke to children who called in to the norad santa tracker, annual tradition here at the whit

i think that's how trump named mar-a-lago.stands for "make america rich again, lying, and grifting, obviously." ( cheers and applause ) "mara-- mar-a-lago." now, in happier news, we might be getting a report soon from robert mueller, because his team has told-- ( cheers and applause ) mueller's team has told defense lawyers that they're "tying up loose ends" in their investigation. with any luck, "loose ends" is their code name for don jr. ( applause ) and today we learned more about former trump lawyer, michael cohen, seen here loving life. ( laughter ) now, all month-- about a month now, right? everybody's been saying that cohen made a plea deal with robert mueller. but we just learned that, in a daredevil move that would make evel knievel's sphincter snap shut, cohen, in fact, pleaded guilty without first obtaining a traditional ironclad deal under which the government would commit to seeking leniency." well-played, player. ( laughter ) "okay, okay, i'm putting my cards on the table. as you can see, i got nothing, and i'm b

the president is scheduled to leave for christmas vacation this week in florida. 16 days in mar-a-lago. >>> a damning report claiming silicon valley may have done the bear minimum to help the senate russia investigation. the report commissioned from an online intel firm. social media companies could have done a better job providing data about russian accounts that posed as americans. "the washington post" has a separate report for the intel committee. it finds the russians used every major social media platform to influence voters to elect president trump and worked harder to support him once in office. >> in the meantime, president trump's attorney rudy giuliani says his client may have been involved in the conversations about trump tower moscow significantly later than previously known. the president's former personal attorney michael cohen claimed those talks ended in january of 2016 before the primaries. and when cohen pleaded guilty to lying to congress, he said those talks lasted through june. now the talks could have lasted longer through the campaign. >> did president trump kno

the president will go to mar-a-lago even if the government is shut down.now you can talk about how watching the sausage be made has always been not pretty, however, the lack of clarity from the president did trip up mitch mcconnell. do you agree? >> alisyn, i think the process has been broke all the way around and i think the administration deserves some of the blame for that, too. when you say the president flipped on this he has been an advocate for the border for sometime -- >> well, his tweet suggested he was going along with what had happened with what mitch mcconnell had put together. >> let me suggest something else that would be helpful to the administration. there's another option you could pass, the funding for the other bills and leave the cr for the homeland security. he needs to advocate. when joel says it's a pr stunt, the reality is that the career officials for border patrol say this is what they want. it's not a wall from sea to shining sea. the administration says it's talking point at the president's rallies, and there's lot of good reas

had conferred with another presidential transition official who was with other team members at mar-a-lagolorida about what to communicate before speaking to kislyak, that he then requested russia not escalate in response to the sanctions when talking to kislyak and that after he reported back the s substance of the call to officials at mar-a-lago. >> two of michael flynn's business soassociated have been charged. a cofounder of the flynn intel group and a turkish national were charged monday with conspiracy to act as agents of a foreign government shutdown. kian also served on president trump's transition team in the division related to the office of the director of national intelligence. federal prosecutors said the scheme tasrgeted the removal ofa turkish clerk living in the united states. kian and flynn held weekly calls with their occturkish contact. flynn, who is not charged with illegally lobbying in this new indictment, even published an op-ed on election day 2016 attacking gulen as an extremist without disclosing his own business ties. >> fox news analyst andrew napolitano is layi

one of the big questions for this president is does he want to delay his departure down to mar-a-lago to deal with the government shutdown, one that he told the democratic leaders, chuck schumer and nancy pelosi, he would own if this government shuts down. so the president at this point ho doesn't play a lot of three dimensional chess had it comes to politics in this city, he likes to tweet and see what happens next, he's going to have to determine whether or not he's been telling his voters and his base for some time now he was going to deliver on. >> it seems like the white house isn't giving a direct answer whether the president is willing to delay his trip over a government shutdown. >> thank you very much. joining me is former republican congressman and cnn political commentator charlie dent. bottom line, what are your former colleagues thinking right now? >> well, this is simply insanity. bottom line is this. it shouldn't be so hard. there are 12 appropriations bills. five are signed into law. six of the seven left are teed up. they should pass the six appropriations bill as is

why did he get his marching orders from a transitional officials at mar-a-lago? those are still questions, brian, that i don't think we don't know the answers to >> we give it a good ride and thanks to joyce vance, jeremy bash, and frank figliuzzi. >>> coming up, more on michael flynn's day in court. why the president remains loyal to one of his earliest supporters. we'll talk about that some more. >>> later, president trump and his children forced to shut down their foundation.mp why new york attorney general is calling its closure a victory for the rule of law. "the 11th hour" just getting started on a tuesday night. >>> when i met donald trump about a year ago, the first question i asked him was are you serious? and i'm going to tell you, folks, he is deadly serious about the future of our country. >> this guy, he is a tough, smart, uses good common sense, he's got a street savviness in him. >>> lock her up. that's right. yep, that's right, lock her up. >> that was the preguilty plea michael flynn at the convention for donald trump. flynn was one of the presid

errol, not in mar-a-lago as you may have expected of the good morning. >> reporter: good morning.he sudden departure of james mattis was met with widespread concern from both parties and president trump's decision to pull troops out of syria is also being met with criticism from both president trump's and the united states closest allies of the at the heart of the issue here is the president's implications that troops are unnecessary because isis in syria is decimated some many republicans in congress disagree with but in a call with the turkish president, withdraw of the roughly 2,000 troops would be slow and highly coordinated. he also said erdogan, quote, has very strongly informed me that he will eradicate whatever is left of isis in syria. our troops are coming home. that decision has angered several foreign policy officials including brett mcgurg. a crucial role. he resigned one day after mattis, although the president surprisingly claimed he didn't even know him nearly two years into his administration. now with those officials gone, what we know is that those overseeing th

president is going to mar-a-lago on friday. a couple of days. we shall see. strap in. >> up next, the president makes a big decision on syria after he promised an update on the fight on isis. that was 18 months ago. >> going very well in the fight against isis as general mattis explained and a news conference in about two weeks to let everybody know how well we're doing. well, how are the massage chairs working out for everyone? i dunno. i'm still a little stressed about buying our new house. well, it's a good thing we don't have to worry about homeowners insurance. geico can help with that. we can get homeowners insurance help from geico? well, sure. and they could save us a bunch too. mmhmm? i'm starting to feel better already. get to know geico and see how much you could save on homeowners and condo insurance. >>> stunning news today. the u.s. military role against isis. defense official saying the pentagon is preparing for rapid withdrawal of all u.s. forces in syria. the president tweeting this morning, quote, we have defeated isis in syria. my only reas

he's driven a lot of rf knew to mar-a-lago. early in the administration when the state department posted a mar-a-lago ad, basically? they had to pull it down because they recognized that crossed a line. we had kellyanne conway telling people they should buy ivanka trump's clothing. this is an administration that has built itself on self-dealing. and we don't understand that, i don't think we understand the administration. >> we're going to come back here in just a moment and look back at the john edwards defense. that's coming up. >> never liked him. i never trusted him. i always thought he was a sleaze bag, frankly. a lot of people say and a lot of very good lawyers tell me that the government doesn't have a very good case. >> donald trump in 2012 calling edwards a sleaze bag for cheating on his wife and slamming the case against the former senator. john edwards eventually was acquitted of using funds to pay off his mistress. i'm ray and i quit smoking with chantix. smoking. it dictates your day. i didn't like something having

foundation also allegedly paid for a six-foot-tall portrayed of trump painted during a gala at mar-a-lagond another $10,000 for a painting of himself at another charity gala. >> he used it to buy things he should have paid for with his own money. >> reporter: the attorney . >> reporter: the attorney general's lawsuit charge them of persistently illegal conduct. >> that includes allegedly using foundation money to hold a campaign rally disguised as a charity i vent before the all important iowa caucuses. it found so little oversight on the foundation's spending that its board of directors hadn't met until 1999 and the foundation's treasurer wasn't aware he was on the board. about that tim tebow artwork, his charity purchased, they say they will have to sell off three physical possessions, including tebow's signed paintings. trump reportedly paid $42,000 for them using foundation money and says they're now worth $975 combined based on an irs filing. john. >> thanks so much. joining me from the exempt division marks owen and former czar, ambassador, i want to start with you. you have been sa

i'm not interested in xi going back to mar-a-lago.illsbury. >> they are afraid of president trump. >> laura: they should be. it's more important than cohen or flynn or any of the rest of it. mike pillsbury, thanks so much. the arbiter is next. two lawyers make a case on two different issues. you will not want to miss it. stay there. some only call when they have something to sell. fisher calls regularly so you stay informed. and while some advisors are happy to earn commissions whether you do well or not. fisher investments fees are structured so we do better when you do better. maybe that's why most of our clients come from other money managers. fisher investments. clearly better money management. kayla: our dad was in the hospital. josh: because of smoking. but we still had to have a cigarette. had to. kayla: do you know how hard it is to smoke in a hospital? by the time we could, we were like... what are we doing? kayla: it was time for nicodermcq. the nicodermcq patch with unique extended release technology helps prevent your urge

there are people in washington that don't have mar-a-lago residences to go to.s around the country to go to. they're depending upon the paychecks. but the president doesn't want to do it. hiding behind border security, build the wall, while people are in peril. so too, as you relate to the immigration policy itself, and you look at children, and you look at ripping kids away from their mothers, and you look at ripping children and children dying. the fact of the matter is, it's about politics. the legal implications are slow and coming. why? because it's about a court action. it's about taking the president to court. and while you do that, you have people who are affected. i think at the end of the day, you know, let's give george bush his props and give him the credit he's due. and i remember during that inauguration in 1989, he said something very compelling, jim. and that was you may not have voted for me, but i want to be your president too. 20 years later, in 2008, barack obama, the same thing. i want to be your president too. it's about the president's bas

just as normal as this conversation the president had from mar-a-lago last year, when he was calling children on christmas eve. >> what else do you want for christmas? what? oh, that's good. they're very hot. you know, they're selling very well. i think santa is going to get that for you, i predict. santa will get that for you. >>> around 9:15 p.m. on december 6th, a 7-year-old guatamalan girl and her father turned themselves into border officials. they were in custody in a remote facility before taken to a larger facfacility. she died of dehydration and exhaustion a day later. the first impulse in a functioning person upon hearing this is despair, grief, and empathy. those traits are largely absent in the current leadership of homeland security. instead, they have spent much of the time blaming the girl's father. >> yeah, it is heart wrenching, is what it is. my heart goes out to the family. all of dhs. you know, this is just a very sad example of the dangers of this journey. this family chose to cross illegally. what happened here was they were about 90 miles away from where we cou