this is video from robert k. it landed about an hour and a half ago. the weather is a factor. you can see rain pouring down in southern california right now. also want to show you this. it is an instagram picture that you have. you can see what happened here. it appears that plane hyd hydroplaned and hit some sort of soft concrete that is specifically meant to stop planes. it is called the engineered arresting system. it certainly worked this time. you can see the passengers safely getting out of the plane using stairways. there were no reported injuries. a sigh of relief for everyone involved. abc 7 news. >> great information. thanks so much. southwest just responded. southwest flight 278 land safely and rolled to a stop at the end of the runway. no reported injuries among the 112 customers and five crew members. >>> all right. happening now. this is a live picture of texas of the train taking former george h.w. bush to college park, texas. his family boarded a special train that will take bush, as you can see him right there in his casket. in a few minutes we'll have a live

k robert deny earo, ww he would be coming back as such a mega star to crack ond mueller rump.what happens to all those unsold christmas trees, you may be feeling a bit like phoebe from "friends." >> no, no! >> they're alive! art to most of them are put to good use, according to usa today. evenof those trees end up in the chipper, many are turned into mulch. their christmas destiny also depends on the region. louisiana us them to restore coastal marshes, while in illinois they become nesting structures for endangered herons, and san francisco even uses the spare trees to feed their goats. >> we allha knowhappens at the very end of christmas when we see all the christmas tree corps on curbs all across america, right? >> that's ao part of the landscape. wonderfulthe set of a tradition right here at 30 rock. ♪ he 45th annual merry christmas tuba. they usually sit in the back of the orchestra, but they're front and center on sday playing christmas carols for a packed plaz aza. >> about time the tuba got its due. >> it is their day to shine, and they did. >> they're, like, just get

robert: it's not just aboutti russian hty and the ukraine. k it's an excellent question. obviously we donnow the real story here. but it's fair to say that the united states was very sluggish in its response involving the kirktrait and the ukrainian naval ship that were boarded and seized by russia. ouotherries, nato, the e.u. issued statements far stronger than those of the u.s. government. president trump seemed to say, well, there's a problem on both sides. came out and said i don't like this aggression. i don't like it a a it was much after the fact. and it didn't seem to be an issue that motivated to cancel a meeting with putin days later. when he got on the plane too to buenos aires he said he was going to have the meeting one hour later. but he canceled. robert: you would see hisdr ch there in the trump tower, don jr., ivanka, worng with hn business and on the campaign. you read about cohen, his work with mueller, does the famil have exposure here legally and politically? >> i think inde the pre's mind, they do. and that is probably the most important thing. we don

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prosecutors in new yt k have said tesident trump's ex- lawyer michael cohen should serve a substantial jail term over campaign and tax evasion. roberter has been looking at possible ties between the trump campaign and russia and today they released a court position of their own not taking a position on how long mr. cohen 's sentence should be but saying that he had gone to significantly to help the investigation. i'm joined by the president of the constitutional accountability center. thank you very much for helping us wade through these documents. >> qte a lot here. rajini: michael cohen was dald stump's former mr. fix-it and he is talking to inators. do we know how he has been helping them? >> oh boy has he been talking to the investigators. we have two separate memos, one from the local prosecutors in cie southern district of new york and one fasting memo from the specialounsel's team.bob mueller's there are a lot of details in here about exactlymi what ael cohen has been telling federal investigators about present trump, about the investigation, and because he has proded such significant information and continues to provide such

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robert: carl, house democrs takehe majority in january. they must be watching this tonight an they say individual one was involved -- individualg one meanresident trump with this campaign violation.t what does mean next year? minutes kbout 10 before i got my first release from an incoming member of the democratic leadership saying these are incredibly serious charges and we are going to hold the president accountable. and senator dianne feinstein came out with a blistering statement. she's senior democrat on the judiciy committee on the senate saying that this looks like air felonyted -- at the direion of the president. this would have gotten the wheels churning quickly. this is is the kind of things that the democrats would sink their teeth in to. they would like for the deomcrats to dohing about it. but that's not going to happen. there's a road map comingut that are being released. robert: why did michael flynn get -- robert mueller to say he shouldn't go to prison, very lyabsoluime. he's been so helpful and cooperative. what's the difference with flynn? >> first of all,or herated early and often and told the truth. second of all, ine mitig circumstance is that for 33 years he was considered an exemplary intellig

k thp moving with the latest technology." for the pbs newshour i'm jeffrey brown in california's bay area. >> woodruff: as we reported earlier, in a court filing late this evening, special counsel robertller's team detailed how former trump campaign chairman paul manafort lied repeatedly to prosecutors, after manafort had agreed to become a truthful, cooperating witness. william brangham has been going over this latest document, and is back to help fill us in. so what do you see here? >> the important thing, before we get into the filing, is to remember that giving paul manafort -- getting paul manafort to agree to a pledeal and cooperate was a big deal for muelleras team. remember, he wasthe campaign manager at a very crucial part of the trump administration, the very tfledglimp administration at the end of the campaign as well. he was there at the infamous trp tower meeting where don, jr. and jared kushner was there, so he might have a lot ofce informatioral to muelleras investigation. mueller's team earlier this yea was able et him -- guilty pleas against him abounkt fraud, money laundering, lying about his work as a ukranin lobbyist, and as part of that conviction, they got him to

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robert mueller. well, what were those lies about? one is about a shadowy figure known as dr. k. in cypress.this year from paul manafort to an associate saying, yes, you can make contact with a trump administration official. so the question is, why was manafort having that contact allegedly with someone inside the trump administration? is that going to raise more questions about obstruction of justice? allegations of that? again, nothing in the memos about collusion with russia. what we do have in here pete and nicole, is a very interesting point which is that we see and a lot of people in the media seizing on this, that in the cohen document, it suggest that he had contact in november 2015 so very early in the campaign a trusted figure in russia we're are told. we don't have a name or anything like that heard allegations like this before where michael cohen talked to this person in russia allegedly about having political certain guy synergy bn trump campaign. pete: you are burying the lead trump did not follow up. ed: did not follow up like trump tower in russia. nicole: footnote trump did

k "time's" person of the year. >> president trump, "time's" person of the year in 2016. separated families. that heated up. last year's person of the year, vladimir putin, on the list once again. >> robertfosey ford who accused brett kavanaugh of sexual assault when they were teenagers. >> and jamal khashoggi. march for our lives activists, the movement that grew out of a shooting at a parkland, florida, high school. and south korea's president, moon jae-in. and then, last but not least, the duchess of sussex, meghan markle. >> if "today" show producers were voting, it would be meghan markle. >> i agree. i think the wedding was a moment to step away and get wrapped up in a love story. >> she would be the feel-good choice of the year. >> that's where my mind was at. >> would you like to make this decision? can you imagine? >> i would nominate al roker. that would be my nomination. absolutely. >> very odd. >> national treasure. >> very odd. >> we should point out putin was 2007, not last year. >> he's on the list. it's interesting. whether someone was consequential. i think there's good contenders there. >> when do we find out? >> tomorrow. >> i'm glad you asked. we will reveal it first,