. >> stormy daniels' lawyer michael avenatti joins us now. >> joining now is michael avenatti. >> michael joins us now. >> joined me now from los angeles is michael avenatti. >> we want more of the spooning comments. >> he was hard to book. >> he was the belle of the ball, until he wasn't. so the media have seen this coming? >> the nbc put this guy on several times a day to peddle his unsubstantiated claims, but the worst by far was putting michael avenatti on to make the claims of this woman who accused kavanaugh -- >> laura: that's what i want to see. we see these introductions and it's like, really, tell us more about all this unsubstantiated garbage. that's what should go down about the last 12 months. disgusting. are we going to the next one? all right, huck wants to describe this as well. i think michael avenatti is one of those figures who will occasionally pop up like if they have a celebrity hollywood squares may be, he will be the lower right square or something. but i don't see of a michael avenatti having much of a role in public life in the future. >> i think his history is u

michael avenatti joins us now.om los angeles is michael avenatti. >> we want more of the spooning comments they made toward avenatti. >>> he was hard to book >> laura: he was the belle of the ball until he wasn't. should the media have seen this coming with the melt down of avenatti. >> the degree to which they put this guy on t.v. to pedal his claims and develop his presidential delusions was something. the worst by far was putting on avenatti it make the claims of julie swetnick to vouch for this come that accused brett kavanaugh of things. >> laura: that's what i want to see. tell us more about that. oh really, tell us more. all that unsubstantiated garbage. that should go down as one of the biggest black eyes of the media over the past 12 months >>> exactly. >> hubbing wants to describe this as well. governor, i think michael avenatti is just one of those figures who will occasionally pop-up on like if they have a celebrity hollywood squares maybe, he will be the lower right square or something. i don't see ave

in russia. >> her attorney michael avenatti is with us tonight. >> that's michael avenatti, attorney>> michael, it's good to see you. you can learn a lot from an organization from the rubbish it those out. are you a russian incidents troll? >> it's amazing. after the 2016 election i thought we had seen the worst of it. boy, was i wrong about that. once donald trump won, it's like the insanity went on hype per speed and it's gotten progressively worse and worse and worse. the more jawt land dish the accusation the better. in an environment like this you get a crew collar la and like michael avenatti, if you go through that man damage of the ard mat -- go throughthat montal avenatti. when you turn off your b.s. detector off and become a machine for attacking the president. liz: president trump's tweets get people angry. he personally attacks people. it gets people emotional in the media. gq reported that trump radicalized more people than isis. and that michael cohen's phone calls were being recorded when they were not. and it was taken as truth. >> only in the are they on a jihad of t

so michael avenatti says that is what he will do.he other people he says, they are wimps, they are going to get run over by the big heavyweight donald trump. but i think you are going to find that the democrats have a big appetite for somebody who is a fighter, but to me, michael avenatti has just too many deficits going in. he is too much of a target for you guys. >> laura: we talked about, you need a fighter in 2020. weak at that, but you also need someone who comes with some level, i think, of gravitas and experience. who knows where we will be in two years in the economy, certainly hope it's doing well, but you're going up against somebody who has been through the meat grinder of politics over the last six years. and that's not easy. i don't care if you are young and energetic and good looking. you are from texas and you have a cool name, that doesn't mean you have the political talent of barack obama. he had an enormous raw political talent, obama did. and we will see whether beto does. corey, quick close it out. >> i agree, i d

what we learned about beto o'rourke and michael avenatti. ♪ ♪ my hands are shaking and my knees are weak: overnight a big development, bob mueller releasing a memo recommend a lenient sentence for general michael flynn saying the x trump official gave substantial help. carley: does is prove collusion with russia? here to weigh in is attorney and conservative radio talkshow host chantel summers. thank you for waking up with us this morning. donald trump's attorney rudy giuliani said this does not prove any collusion whatsoever but other people point out it is so heavily rejected, how can you tell? >> that is true. it has been heavily redacted but i don't know that it provides evidence of collusion simply because of the fact the collusion was alleged to have occurred during the campaign, and general flynn's actions were said to have occurred after the campaign so it doesn't appear there was collusion during the campaign. rob: the whole point was to see if the russians and donald trump conspired to steal an election. you have flynn talking to sergey twice in the transition about voting down

michael avenatti has got his own problems.ou have the filing last night for michael flynn, also charged with lying to federal investigators. but the fbi deputy director told him to talk to fbi agents without a lawyer and they didn't give him any warning. and mccabe himself is now being looked at and prosecuted potentially for lying to federal investigators. so, there are so many unsavory elements to all of this. michael cohen is just one of them. >> harris: i'm due to sit down with the president at the white house tomorrow for "outnumbered" over time. for all of this news breaking, bret, and you weighing out what you call unsavory characters, our legal experts this hour say that he got a break in the sentencing. i'm wondering how that affects the president, because there has been talk of pardons of people in the circle, so on, so forth. what reporting a hearing in the capital area? >> not that he is in the list of pardons. the look of the president's tweets, that is pretty much kind of evidence. paul manafort is still on the l

not a good day for stormy daniels and michael avenatti. for men.tice that my hips are off the ground. [ engine revving ] and then, i'm gonna pike my hips back into downward dog. [ rhythmic tapping ] hey, the rain stopped. -a bad day on the road still beats a good one off it. -tell me about that dental procedure again! -i can still taste it in my mouth! -progressive helps keep you out there. the >> sean: breaking news, this is a fox news alert. ap is now reporting that general michael flynn has requested probation and community service. earlier today there was also a deadly shooting in france which is now being treated as a terror incident. trace gallagher joins us live in our west coast newsroom tonight for the latest on both of these stories. >> let's begin with the shooting. the attack happened near the stroudsburg famous christmas market which is one of the city's biggest attractions. the same christmas market was the focus of an al qaeda plot back in 2,000, although it remains unclear if the market was targeted this this evening. the gunfire ca

michael avenatti who represents stormy daniels who received a payout from michael cohen spoke after thetencing. >> michael cohen is no hero. he is no patriot. his choice time and time again was to degrade my client. >> reporter: michael cohen once said he would take a bullet for the president and was cooperating with investigators and that's one of the reasons his lausches -- lawyers asked for no jail time. the judge said he deserved a harsh punishment even thoue president trump accused mi cohen of lying and said he thinks he should serve a complete sentence. the suspect who opened fire in france at a popular christmas market. this is a photo identifying the gunman. he's a 29-year-old frenchman with a thick police record for climb krooim -- crimes including armed robbery and monitored as a suspected radical by the french intelligence services. more than 700 security officers are searching for the suspect. the attack left two dead and one brain dead and a dozen people injured in the city of strasbourg. >>> take a look. the mayor of strasbourg had flags lowered to half mars and closed the

stormy daniels says her lawyer, michael avenatti, went against her wishes when he filed a defamationt trump and now she says she wants a full accounting of two crowd funding pages he started. one to pay for her legal defense and safety, another page she claims attributes words to her that she never said. avenatti told nbc news that a number of things she said were, quote, not accurate. he didn't say exactly which things. that's kind of uncool. remember, he deserves due process. right, sven? >> yeah! [ laughter ] greg: god, i love sven. oh, i haven't seen him in a while. we don't talk much. i'm going to tell you, terry, if she had listened to me this never would have happened. by the way, they call me the porn star whisperer. i can speak to them in a secret language. >> children in the audience. >> that was okay. >> again, this is a big eye roll. oh, shocker. we know who he is. we've always known who he is. i actually kind of felt bad for her too. i think we talked about this. i think she got played by all these different people. she will be left out in the cold like the rest of them.

. >> stormy daniels and michael avenatti. >> my attorney and i are committed to making sure that everyone finds out the truth. >> stormy daniels now part of pop culture. >> thank you to everyone. >> michael avenatti, for his highs and lows. >> that statement was misquoted and out of context. >> he's ending the year on a low, but what a year he had. >> there were the authors like michael wolff. bob woodward. >> the michelle obama book. >> yes, michelle obama had a big political year. people are starving for her sort of high-road politics. >> it is not about the leader. the power of our democracy is in us. >> everything she said this year got tons of attention. >> from the world of tech, we have the ongoing saga of elon musk, the ongoing saga of facebook. >> so, how do you sustain a business model in which users don't pay for your service? >> senator, we run ads. >> let's not forget the rescue of the thai soccer team. and we had a royal wedding. we had prince harry choosing an american, meghan markle, as his wife. >> it was so extraordinary. you know, this message, all you need is love, i a

what about the criminal referral submitted to the doj over false testimony by michael avenatti and julie swetnick pretty but i'm not going to let go of that. extortion at the southern border. what folks in the caravan are now demanding of president trum president trump. hint: it's not asylum. raymond arroyo is here to break down the body language inside yesterday's oval office slugfest between president trump and nancy pelosi and chuck schumer. a look at the outrageous new dick cheney movie coming up in "seen and unseen." devin nunes will be here to tell you why the democrats ending corruption probe at the fbi is bad news for the country and what we can do about it. first, immigration truth democrats denied. that's the focus of tonight's angle. congressmen and senators are supposed to be fighting for the american people. their constituents. but when nancy pelosi and chuck schumer pounced on the president in the oval office yesterday, for whom exactly were they fighting? >> we have a disagreement about the wall, whether it's effective or not. not on border security but on the wall. speak

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at number four, it's world's most annoying lawyer and mobster caveman, michael avenatti, who made headlines trump mistress, stormy daniels. now, despite never actually winning a case for his client, michael a. spent 2018 making appearance after appearance pretty much anywhere that would have him. avenatti started the year unknown and ended up on television all the time. and what we tv professionals called a "reverse matt lauer." and the number three michael, it's a 1996 john travolta classic "michael." i watched it 45 times this year. and let me tell you, it does not hold up. ( laughter ) in the number two spot slot, it's former trump attorney michael cohen. yes, he's going to jail for three years, but he might also bring down a president. in my opinion, that would make him the michael jordan of michaels. and that brings us to the moment we've all been waiting for-- the michael of the year. ( clears throat ) ( laughter ) oh, dang, my electric bill was very high this month. but the top michael of 2018 is... "daily show" correspondent michael kosta? ( cheers and applause ) what? that's right.

moments later, michael avenatti, the attorney for one of the women whom cohen arranged to be paid hush money, told reporters cohen "deserved every day of his 36-month sentence" "michael cohen was sentenced today, donald trump is next."do you feel like you were sentenced fairliy?arriving home cohen answered no questions as he shook hands with a supporter. he has about 90 days to prepare for prison.he will also have to come up with two million dollars in penalties. (grant) otisville, the prison where cohen will spend the next three years, has been called one of the cushiest in the country. president trump hasn't said a public word but reportedly told associates in private that cohen is a liar. (anchor1) taking a live look outside-- our sutro camera looking at the golden gate bridge. (anchor 2) time now time now to check on our weather... with chief meteorologist lawrence karnow. lawrence karnow: it was a nice day with cool to mild temperatures today. highs were in the 50s to mid 60s. it will be clear and cold tonight if you're going out. lows tonight will be in the 30s and 40s. patchy de

her attorney, michael avenatti, called the suggested sanctions absurd. >>> "the pittsburgh post-gazetteports a fourth soldier has died from wounds suffered last week in a roadside bomb in afghanistan. 24-year-old sergeant jason mcclary of export, pennsylvania, died sunday at a military hospital in germany. three other service members were killed in the attack, and two were wounded. the taliban claimed responsibility. mcclary leaves behind a wife and two sons. >>> and "usa today" says a classroom assistant at a preschool in hawaii served children pinesol instead of apple juice. she got the container off a cleanup cart and mistook it for juice. she poured it into serving cups, and three children took sips. >> there's a good chance maybe she didn't smell the difference. and luckily the children did. >> paramedics were called, and the kids were okay. officials at kilohana united methodist church preschool say the main classroom teacher was in another room at the time. in a letter to parents, they said they will review procedures and conduct mandatory training with staff. >>> still ahead, ba

michael avenatti should do the show. he needs the money. he can't drive there because they repossessed his car. tyrus: he can talk for two hours and no one will watch anyway. it will be a great night. he'll make great predictions on who is going to win and it will be a great night for the p.c. police. they are going to have to get somebody like they say in my neighborhood who is really thirsty. martin short would be a great choice. but he's too smart to do it. unless you are going to jump in and save the day, joke. greg: i have plans that night. i'm watching the oscars. kat? i'm laughing at my own joke. kat: i know. i would do it. but only for the attention. i mean, i don't get the whole watching the oscars anyway it's basically a party you are not invited to. if someone throws a party and they don't invite me, i say at least there is a window. if i can still watch and tweet about it from afar. that sounds like a fun night. i don't understand it. people showing up thinking they are better than you. look at my expensive clothes and watch me

. ♪ >> lou: some call him the creepy porn lawyer, we just call him michael avenatti.will not run for president in 2020. that should gladden and break the hearts of money. joining us tonight top strategist, former political director, and rawlins. great to see you. let's start with china and the united states. it is almost as if americans now have to raise their hand and asked china, pretty please would you quit stealing from us. whether it's intellectual property or technology. do we have to lose trillions of dollars in economic growth just because you say so? we are in a peculiar position. if president trump hadn't stood up, we would be devastated. >> my sense is that china is very strategic. they know what they are trying to do to us. we have been a week partner to them over the years we have let them steal what they wanted to. the idea that they'll put your name on a board that says you're a bad guy in china is absurd. everything in china's the government. corporations are all in bed together. american people basically want to do their own thing. if you have an in r

stormy daniels's lawyer michael avenatti has a new high profile client. ♪ america!? avenatti joining patricia cuomo's legal team. he was arrested for climbing the statue of liberty protesting immigration policy. avenatti says they both advocate against family separation as a result of the draconian policies of donald trump. she has pleaded not guilty of convicted she faces 18 months in prison. gop lawmakers grilling general motors ceo mary bar a on capitol hill. thousands of americans will be laid off and 5 plants we shut down in 2019. joining me to discuss the company's latest below right before the holidays is a 9-year gm employee fighting for his job, tommy wilco. thank you for joining us. we appreciate it this morning. first of all, tell us how you and your coworkers are doing? how did you get the news initially? >> i had a buddy of mine call me up. he told me what was said in the meeting. i feel like i have seen this come, it started with the third shift on the same day donald trump was inaugurated, that is what i lost my job. the second shift, laid off the sam

. >> michael avenatti says he is not running for the oval office in 2020. yesterday he was saying how his notoriety would make him a better candidate. cnn's president jeff zucker says he's not ruling out running for political office. maybe just a little bit of a conflict of interest since he's running a news organization. does that explain why they have taken that hard left turn over at cnn. robert mueller's russia proper was launched 18 months ago and there is still no end in sight. it's not healthy and why are we giving these prosecutors blank checks? that's next. (roger) being a good father is important to me so being diagnosed with advanced non-small cell lung cancer made me think of all the things that i wanted to teach my kids. (avo) another tru story with keytruda. (roger) my doctor said i could start on keytruda so i did. with each scan things just got better. (avo) in a clinical study, keytruda offered patients a longer life than chemotherapy. and it could be your first treatment. keytruda is for adults with non-small cell lung cancer that has spre

. >> michael avenatti says he is not running for the oval office in 2020. yesterday he was saying how his notoriety would make him a better candidate. cnn's president jeff zucker says he's not ruling out running for political office. maybe just a little bit of a conflict of interest since he's running a news organization. does that explain why they have taken that hard left turn over at cnn. robert mueller's russia proper was launched 18 months ago and there is still no end in sight. it's not healthy and why are we giving these prosecutors blank checks? that's next. >> show me the man and i'll show you the crime. that's the ina news quote from josef stalin's police chief. we are getting word that general flynn will receive his sentencing tonight. of course, you heard of michael cohen. he said he's taking the fifth when it comes to the senate judiciary committee. this just keeps going on and on and on. the cost of this investigation millions of dollars so far. and it has nothing to do with productivity. why has there been no oversight by anyone close to the

the one who did think he is not running in case you care, michael avenatti. he will not run in 2020 at least for now. 26 after the top of the hour, they got what they wanted but paris is still burning, protesters in france say they will keep rioting about a freeze on gas tax hikes to support the climate change agenda. a live look at the russia rotunda where president george hw bush lies in state. the nation gearing up to say their final farewells. presidential historian jane hansen cook will reflect on the legacy of bush 41 up next. >> half past the top of the hour, you are watching "fox and friends first" was a climate policy crashing and burning in france after weeks of violent protests. president macron suspending a price hike designed to combat global warming. benjamin hall has the story is protesters now to keep doing more of this rioting. >> reporter: the french government performs an embarrassing you turn after violent protests against a new carbon tax forces it to back down. the prime minister admitting they would be tough not to take notice. >> this

daniel s lawyer michael avenatti calls the amount absurd and outrageous.of stormy, janice dean is here with today's forecast. rob: stormy dean. >> i haven't heard that before. rob: look at denver at 19. >> with windchill it feels colder than that, cold air sinking as far south as texas, cooler than average for a lot of folks. we had relatively warm temperatures on the east coast, that is going to end, 38 in new york city, past 24 hours, fairly quiet. a couple things we are watching for. lake effect snow, the frontal boundary across florida will bring scattered showers but nothing we can't handle. we have the next storm system moving to the west coast in the next couple days bringing coastal rain and mountain snow across the sierra nevada mountains and that energy will make for our next weather maker across the country. over the central us and possibly a coastal storm as we head into sunday and monday. a couple days to fine-tune the forecast. there is what it looks like across the country, potential for more rain and snow for california and lake effect snow

michael avenatti is now part of her legal team as well. >>> as a possible government shutdown looms, the situation at the border continues to escalate. we have the latest from washington. >> reporter: funding for the federal government runs out at the end of the day friday, and both sides are showing no sign of compromise. republicans are still pushing for a border wall, democrats refusing to fund it. >> what are you for? are you for the constituents, citizens or the government? >> shutting down the government makes no sense. >> reporter: along the southern border, thousands continue to wait in makeshift camps, hoping for a chance to claim asylum in the u.s. many border patrol agents are overwhelmed by the sheer volume of people, and the political uncertainty is making their job even more difficult. we absolutely need a wall. it's called impedence and denial. if someone can run across and disappear into a neighborhood, it's a lot harder to do our job. >> reporter: the president tweeted quote, any time hear a democrat saying you can have good border security without a wall, write them

we know all the allegations against a bill, they didn't say a word about michael avenatti, he wasn'ttt kavanaugh due process or presumption of innocence, and russian collusion, but not if it's hillary's dossier or uranium one and they thought russia was so bad that they would want to join us and get to the bottom of it. >> this isn't about truth, justice or the american way. this is about raw power. that's why it should be so very troubling. i don't think you or anyone else in america truly believes that bill clinton gave a speech that was worth half a million dollars in moscow, while coincidentally, it just so happened that the uranium deal went through and i don't think he's investigating that while he has this incredible unit of democrats that he has assembled do the investigation of russia collusion. the real russia collusion is seemingly going investigating. >> but we are like an island here. bringing up news and information, with evidence which is something they don't have against donald trump. and yet, it penetrates, and it penetrates. and i bet anything mueller will try to us

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teresa yelling after her arrest, she appeared with embattled attorney michael avenatti who is part ofers had to rescue prompting a massive evacuation of 4300 people from the base of lady liberty, protesting family separations at the border, she could face 18 months in prison when sentenced in march. a vote coming as the us envoy to afghanistan meets with taliban officials. and we have never been closer to achieving peace than we are right now. talks in the uae aimed at ending the 17 year war in afghanistan. telegram and willing to directly negotiate with the country's government. and one of the file un meetings, residing at the end of the year, one of the greatest accomplishments she says is her work toward peace with north korea, she said she and the president worked together to get things done. >> the president and i had a great relationship. we respected each other. i wanted to serve the president and the american people the best of my ability. i have done that until december 31st. todd: the president announced a former colleague of us at fox news, heather nauert, as haley's replac

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also attorney michael avenatti ruling out a 2020 bid. stormy daniels' lawyer says he made the decision at the request of his family but remains concerned the democratic party will nominate someone who has no chance of beating president trump. as for whoey are mains in the field, jimmy fallon weighed in. >> the new poll found that the top three democratic contenders for president in 2020 are joe biden, bernie sanders, and beto o'rourke. [ cheers ] biden's got the best experience. bernie's got the best fund-raising. beto's got the best chance of being alive in 2020. >> ba-dum-bump. there will be a big discussion on age if you continue to say the talk -- look, how old is donald trump today? 72? >> 72. four years younger than joe biden. >> they didn't complain when they were in power, but republicans in wisconsin and michigan are trying to strip power from incoming democratic leaders. these folks, they don't have time to go to the post office they have businesses to grow customers to care for lives to get home to they use stamps.com print di

attorney michael avenatti and former massachusetts governor, both decided against running.ds out that they prefer a young candidate which could complicate the early frontrunners plans, 76-year-old joe biden said this week "i think i am the most qualified person in the country to be president." other possible candidates responded politely. >> i think that the price president as many wonderful qualities. elizabeth ward and colleague senator kamala harris are hinting at possible 2020 announcements after the holidays. >> i would be shy about telling anyone. prominent democrats are also not trying to draw a line between people who are here and people who are moving out. president obama's former chief of staff, said recently that you don't usually promote a loser to the top of the party. he is not big on the bus about beto o'rourke. >> bret: it is hard to believe you're back you're ready. thank you peter. next up, the latest on the special counsel investigation. the panel comes back. ♪ ...and i found out that i'ma from the big toe lian. of that sexy italian boot! so this holiday

but they didn't care about keith ellison or michael avenatti. they just cared about the politicizing of these issues. isn't that what they cared about? >> if you are serious about this you would look at the general counsel with the dnc. he advised the dccc. he was involved with hillary clinton, with the campaign, and he was also involved with the panetta group. all of those ties, millions of dollars going overseas to attract this money but you don't even get the sense that anybody is even sniffing into this and it's just -- that is where people i think have lost trust in the justice system because that was fundamentally wrong. it's millions of dollars spent to effect an election by engaging a foreign entity and foreigners to be involved in that campaign. then you hear mark meadows, and he literally was within putin's network, within america. blackmail, money laundering, corruption and kickbacks, bribery. all these things. >> the president could pardon general flynn and he would make a great chief of staff, don't you think? >> sean: [laughs] you

presidential run after he failed to win senate seat in texas in midterm elections, meanwhile michael avenattiuled out 2020 bid at family's request. democrats have trouble connecting with voters. >> one of the reasons with one of retreats was that we democrats know so much and that we have to tell everybody how smart we are. cheryl: adding that democrats adding to brains of voters but not hearts. i heart radio stay classy, anchorman is getting own podcast. [laughter] cheryl: has committed to 2 seasons expected early next year, that is what is happening. lauren: sign me up. former national security michael flynn may be dodging prison time, mueller recommend today federal court that flynn receive lenient and more on what this means attorney david bruno, 19 interviews, david, what is the significance of michael flynn's help. >> certainly tremendous amount. 19 interviews referenced, he's also provided documents and communications and special counsel has stepped up and said, yes, this is an individual that should not be going to jail, it's interesting how this comes full circle because that's what

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michael avenatti predicts the ruling will not survive on appeal.embers of the house judiciary committee grilled ahead of google focusing on bias against conservative invasive data collection. jillian turner reports on the tech giant's time in the hot seat in the congressional hearing. >> lead this company without political bias and work to ensure products continue to operate. >> reporter: google's ceo faced growing in front of the house judiciary committee today, first ever hearing on capitol hill. knowing this might be their only face time with google's for a long time lawmakers owned gigabytes of accusations and questions. anti-conservative bias, any political bias in the workforce will not creep into its search product. >> one question for you. why. why did google configure its features and pay for rides to the poll to get out the latino vote only in key states? >> democrats taking an opposing view, the leading democrat on the committee said political bias at google is no big deal. one democrat even accused google of an anti-liberal bias. >> i p

almost feel like i want to sing "amazing grace," and it's not a jewish thing to sing that, but michael avenatti dropping out. avenatti went to iowa and did not find the support he was looking for. and we know, look, they were at 1% of the vote, and they were looking at the field and saying maybe that support is not out there for us. >> in terms of signs, you are looking at signs related to elizabeth warren. >> she is somebody who obviously has been doing fairly well, or a lot of people like myself have been thinking she fits the profile, right, she's a woman and it's the year of the woman and somebody that appeals to the left, and the last few weeks have not been good for her, so she won re-election by 24 percentage points, which you think would be good, but this is a state hillary clinton won by 27 points, and she was in third place compared to joe biden and bernie sanders. you would think in your home state you would be running ahead. >> the turnout for the midterms enormous. >> absolutely. 51% of people turned out, and that's the first time in the last 100 years that turnout in the mid-term

stormy daniels attorney michael avenatti announced he will not run for president out of respect for hisormer massachusetts governor duval patrick is pulling out of the race, noting the cruelty of our elections process. former vice president biden is still debating, throwing his hat into the ring. earlier this week, he said he is, quote, the most qualified person in the country to be president. joining me right now is cnn political reporter rebecca buck, i got to get used to that, formerly known as rebecca burg. congratulations to you. with this long list of democrats, will we see similar infighting as we did with republicans in 2016? remember, they were like 17, right, candidates in the primary races. >> we could see even more democrats this time. there's a long road ahead still and a lot of people need to make their decisions in the next few months. it is likely to be a very crowded field. that complicates a lot of the mechanics of running for president. if you're a lower tier candidate, if there's a challenge to break through the noise to get your message out there. and of course the

moments later, michael avenatti, the attorney for one of the women whom cohen arranged to be paid hushmoney, told reporters cohen "deserved every day of his 36-month sentence" "michael cohen was sentenced today, donald trump is next."do you feel like you were sentenced fairliy?arriving home cohen answered no questions as he shook hands with a supporter. he has about 90 days to prepare for prison.he will also have to come up with two million dollars in penalties. (pam) an east bay church, known for giving back to the community ... is now asking for help itself. (ken) second baptist church in martinez is dealing with erosion on its property. and it's gotten so bad that the backyard is unwalkable and cracks are starting to show up inside the building.(pam) kron4's michelle kingston is live in martinez tonight to give us a look at the damage. michelle... michellethe backyard of this church is an absolute mess ... and the pastor says they need to raise well over 200- thousand dollars in order to fix it. (mk)pastor ray montgomery, second baptist church"i used to sit here, i used to come on s

michael avenatti has disappointed the world, announcing he won't run for the presidency in 2020.was removing himself from contention as cnn president jeff zucker was declaring he may well leave television some day. >>> up next, the shameless left-wing national media. you probably won't be surprised to know that they have used the funeral of president george h.w. bush, some of them, to attack president trump. >> this is the embodiment of just how different it can be. and that's a message to trump. >> he signed into law the clean air act amendments of 1990, one of the most sweeping environmental statutes ever. >> yeah. >> this president that we have now is trying to unravel everything that he did and obama did. >> under donald trump, the office of the presidency has been debased in a way that is unimaginable. we celebrate george h.w. bush's legacy and fear the next two years of mr. trump's wild white house ride. >> i think prince charles has felt more comfortable in new guinea -- [laughter] than this president felt here today. lou: wow. talk about left-wing elitists. presidential h

like michael avenatti, oprah winfrey.ocratic senators thinking about making a run. >> jessica: what about black and hispanic voters? >> julie: it really is a notoriety contact. and joe biden is well known but kamala harris got a lot of democratic support during the hearings. she could potentially surprise joe biden. if they have some debates, she could do quite well. a lot of people forget that joe biden became the punch line of a lot of jokes in the time that he was in the white house. i think people forget that because they miss obama so much that they want to grab onto whatever is associated with him so they go with joe biden. >> jessica: there is talk that joe biden's politics would be interesting. we will be back with more "outnumbered" in just a moment. >> kennedy: big thanks to james freeman. did you have a good time on the couch? >> james: i didn't even feel outnumbered. i had a great time. >> kennedy: it's new year's day every day on the couch. >> lisa: i think we should put christmas trees up year-round. we will

so long michael avenatti, good-bye former massachusetts governor deval patrick. and the scrutiny is on some of the democrats who eye the upcoming presidential race. example number one, the "neep york times"ted how progressives and minority groups criticized massachusetts senator elizabeth warren for the recent dna test she took and the "boston globe's" editorial page implored her not to run in 2020. example number two, a top aide to senator camilla harris of after nia resigned reports surfaced of a $400,000 harassment settlement involving the aide. and example number three, democrat beto o'rourke, who narrowly lost his senate contest in texas received criticism from multiple progressive journalists for being, well, not progressive tastesfor their so welcome to the big leagues. the presidential vetting process the presidential vetting process is unlike anything these ♪ lean on me, when you're not strong ♪ ♪ and i'll be your friend ♪ ♪ i'll help you carry on ♪ ♪ lean on me. going to extremes for perfect skin? where does it end? new olay whips. while not equal to co

michael avenatti represents adult film actress stormy daniels in her alleged relationship with the presidentenatti was arrested on suspicion of domestic violence and could face misdemeanor charges. >>> another ride sharing app is trying to break into the u.s. >> this one is different. how you can negotiate your fare with the driver. >>> i'm spencer christian. >>> state senator kevin parker scrutinize social media activity and online searching of handgun license applicants, then disqualify those who make violent or hateful posts. the 51-year-old democrat says mass killers like the pittsburgh synagogue shooting suspect often provide warning signs on social media posts. critics says it raises privacy and free speech concerns. >>> more evidence of uber's aggressive push into emerging countries. they announced a mini bus service in cairo, egypt. uber ceo announced the service today. he hopes to add tract egyptians into ride sharing and away from cars on cairo's crowded streets. uber is also investing more than $100 million into its customer support center in cairo. >>> a russian company is taking

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