laura: ron christie, thanks. ron: great to see you. laura: in bangladesh, pope francis has called on world leaders to take decisive measures to address the myanmar refugee crisis, although he again avoided using the word "rohingya," as he did in his visit to myanmar. however, the pope did refer to the plight of thousands of refugees who fled rakhine state. this report from dhaka. reporter: he is the third pope to visit bangladesh and the first in more than 30 years. pope francis was greeted at the airport by the president and given a grand welcome in a country that has a tiny catholic population. he flew in from myanmar, on a visit that has been overshadowed by the rohingya crisis. all eyes were on whether he would talk about the issue more openly than he did in myanmar. during this speech at the home of bangladesh's president, he did not use the term "rohingya," but talked about the influx of refugees from myanmar's rakhine state that this country has been dealing with. pope francis: the international community must take decisive meas

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rajini: ok, ron christie, thanks for now. ron: good to see you.rajini: in other news from around the world, german police have evacuated a christmas market after a suspicious parcel was found nearby. they found that the package contained an improvised nail bomb. security has been beefed up at christmas markets across germany after 20 people were killed in a terrorist attack on a market last year. it is up to ireland to decide whether britain's latest offer on brexit is acceptable, according to the president of the european council. at a joint news conference in dublin, he said europe was fully behind ireland's insistence that there should be no hard border with the u.k. after britain leaves the eu. the subject could prevent brexit negotiations for moving onto the next phase two weeks from now. for the first time during his trip to asia, pope francis used the word "rohingya" after meeting with refugees in bangladesh. just days ago, he avoided the term during a visit to myanmar, where the government does not recognize the group by their ethnic ident

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. >> ron klain, a big surprise. the self-admitted sexual assaulted endorses the accused child molester, and the accused child molester loses. i thought that's the way that equation was supposed to come out, and it did. >> i think it's a huge loss for trump, for the reasons just stated, for the obviously loss of a senate seat and putting the senate in play in 2018. but i think most of all for the reason i just mentioned. i think the fact that roy moore was a predator was not a factor that kept trump from endorsing him. he thought today he would be able to say, see, the voters decided this doesn't matter. see, shut up, stop talking about the women who are accusing me. the voters put a child molester in the senate. and instead of putting this to rest, the rebuke that we got, that that movement got, that idea, trump idea got, and the sixth most republican state in the country is a wake-up call. this me too movement has huge momentum, even in red states and there's a reckoning coming for president trump on this issue. >>

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. >> ron klain, a big surprise.f-admitted sexual assaulted endorses the accused child molester, and the accused child molester loses. i thought that's the way that equation was supposed to come out, and it did. >> i think it's a huge loss for trump, for the reasons just stated, for the obviously loss of a senate seat and putting the senate in play in 2018. but i think most of all for the reason i just mentioned. i think the fact that roy moore was a predator was not a factor that kept trump from endorsing him. he thought today he would be able to say, see, the voters decided this doesn't matter. see, shut up, stop talking about the women who are accusing me. the voters put a child molester in the senate. and instead of putting this to rest, the rebuke that we got, that that movement got, that idea, trump idea got, and the sixth most republican state in the country is a wake-up call. this me too movement has huge momentum, even in red states and there's a reckoning coming for president trump on this issue. >> we now

katty: ron christie, thank you. the results will come in in a few hours time, and republicans in washington will be watching very closely. the prospect of roy moore, who says he is antiestablishment, openly feuding with senior members of the republican party -- the prospect of him arriving in congress and capitol hill and having to work alongside republicans frankly terrifies a

katty: ron christie, thank you. the results will come in in a few hours time, and republicans in washington will be watching very closely. the prospect of roy moore, who says he is antiestablishment, openly feuding with senior members of the republican party -- the prospect of him arriving in congress and capitol hill and having to work alongside republicans frankly terrifies a lot of the republican establishment. will they be able to work with him? will he tame himself? roy moore supporters i've spoken to say that is absolutely why they are voting for him, that he will not be tamed. now, the president says roy moore will vote with him on everything. let's see if the president is right. laura: katty kay there in alabama. what a race. in other news from around the world, changing weather is allowing firefighters to make progress against wildfires raging in southern california. the current blaze is larger than new york city, and extremely dry conditions have made controlling the flames difficult. more than 800 buildin

right in front of ron, chocolate covered jalapenos. mike? ron? taste test here. oh, i like that.o you like it? >> is it fiery? are you tasting fire? >> is your tongue on fire? do you need an extinguisher? >> medic! all right. i think they survived it. let's goter now. >> i thought we needed a defibrillator. >> this is from mueller's. a little investigation here. chocolate covered onions. and i wonder white now, who you would give a chocolate-covered onion to. >> someone you don't want to be around. >> this is the 21st generation coal. you're going for it? >> only because you're daring me. >> it gets a nod from ron. mike's passing. >> i'm passing. >> mike's giving a pass. >> hard pass. pasadena. >> oh! >> not good? >> oh, no. reversal of fortune coming paula's way. >> i don't think my husband is coming near me for a week. >> neither are vampires. oh, that's garlic. okay, we know popcorn, right? chocolate-covered popcorn. something special in here for mike. mike taylor. try it out. ron claiborne, if you're still with us. >> i ate more jalapeno. >> what are you tasting? >> tastes li

ron klain, former chief of staff to ron biden and senior aid to president obama. and daniel dale, the washington correspondent for the toronto star. your reaction to what general kelly had to say today? >> lawrence, i think we saw today, it was reiterated that general kelly is cut from a different cloth that his white house counterparts. he entered that office as man of integrity and character i would say. and i think we have seen his white house counterparts take advantage of that, of him. rather than have president trump go out and apologize. and just as you said, rather than have president trump go out and say i apologize if i said the wrong thing during a very difficult gut-wrenching conversation. that's on me, they put general kelly on the podium to speak both in very specific as well as in abstract terms about the most heart-wrenching, gut-wrenching experience i'm sure he has ever endured and anyone who has ever endured something like this has gone through. rather than have the president go out and make that very simple apology, they put this man front and c

heather: all right, let's get to ron, ron, do you disagree? yeah, hillary clinton ran on raising taxes on the same people and on raising spending to the point where they would be higher deficits. this is the issue, is that there is -- there is a real point here, is that the senate bill does raise taxes on tens of millions of americans, a republican bill should raise taxes on no one. house bill is a little bit better. the problem can be easily fixed. large corporate tax cut and not have the biggest ever but still have a pretty big one and make sure that every individual person gets a tax cut, the way you do that is making sure state and local deductions stay there in some form even if you cap it at 15,000 or 20,000, right now i have a 9-month-old, i'm getting a tack cut. i know tons of people who are getting tax increases from the senate bill if that's the one that passes. the house bill needs to be advanced and then the salt deduction needs to be put in there in entirety, could be capped. that's the way you fix it. the corporate rate could be

democratic senator ron wyden of oregon is joining us. key member of the intelligence and budget committees. senator, thanks so much for joining us. >> thank you, wolf. >> to remind viewers, republicans have 52 senators, the democrats have 48. the vice president breaks the tie in favor of the republicans. you're close, none of the democrats are going to vote for it, what do you see happening? >> i think this debate is far from over. the fact is i heard somebody mention it's sort of scrambled, that is one serious understatement. and the fact of the matter is this bill is wildly unpopular. a new poll came out here just in the last day, people understand that this is a betrayal of the middle class. and in fact, the tax breaks in the senate bill for the multinational corporations are permanent, the ones for the working people are temporary, and by the way, if marco rubio extracts the concession that may be a very good one, are we going to shorten the bill that's already temporary for the middle class to pay for it so the middle class people w

i'm ron allen in new york at msnbc world headquarters. it's 7:00 in the east, 4:00 out west, an here's what's happening. that massive tax plan comes one step closer to reality. republicans say they have the votes to pass it, but what does it all mean for you in. >> i think it's going to do very, very well. >> where are all the benefits going? the vast majority are going to the wealthy. >>> also, president trump trashes the fbi and the russia investigation, and he's not ruling out giving a pardon to national security adviser michael flynn. >> have you ever tried a jury trial? >> i have not. >> civil? >> no. >> criminal? >> no. >> and that extremely embarrassing hearing for one of president trump's court nominees, who was up for a lifetime appointment as a federal judge. >>> congress is about to approve a massive tax bill and give president trump his first big legislative victory. he calls it a christmas present, 1100 pages long. but how does it really affect you? speaker paul ryan says the house will vote tuesday. the senate could follow a

. >>> let's get it over to ron claiborne. what what's popping?> good morning to you, mary and adrienne and my friend, robert. good morning, again. i got the news for you in washington, we're going to begin with the trump administration approving the sale of anti-tank weapons including javelin missiles to ukraine. the state department anewsing the decision late friday night saying it's part of a u.s. effort to help ukraine defend itself against russian-backed separatists and russia saying if the united states, quote, in a certain sense crossed the line and american weapons can lead to remain indifferent. >>> in pennsylvania, residents of bethlehem warned to shelter in place during a nine-hour standoff friday between a gunman and police. police say the 36-year-old suspect shot his mother outside her home then barricaded himself inside her home firing shots at police. the suspect shot himself. both he and his mother died in that incident. >>> a violent dispute between former co-workers at green bay's lambeau field football stadium, officers say a st

we have cnn political analyst ron brownstein and jeffrey toobin. nine hours from the deputy director of the fbi, andrew mccabe. it was a closed door meeting, but a few things leaked out. >> let's just remember why this whole thing is an issue. part of the mueller investigation involves obstruction of justice. did they fire james comey because james comey was not cooperating with him in limiting the russia investigation. one of the key conversation also that comey testified about was his interaction with the president where the president asked him for loyalty which comey said made him feel very uncomfortable because it seemed like a quid pro quo. give me informatiloyalty on the investigation and i'll let you keep your job. yesterday mccabe said comey told me about that, word for word apparently, right after it happened. which is a significant corroboration. also comey said he immediately typed up notes of these conversations with the president, also corroborating his own version of what happened. it's not dispositive truth that comey was telling the

you know, as ron was describing, this was really a perfect storm for doug jones. everything that needed to happen, happened, but at the same time, this is ruby red alabama. and we're still seeing this result. it's very close, but we're still seeing this result and we've seen a lot of special elections where democrats have come quite close, but ultimately fell short. we've seen the governor's races so even if they overread the election results i think democrats are really going to be bowied by this win. they're going to look at the map as more in play. this was a turnout victory which is very important for democrats spshl especially as they lost some states that have traditionally gone blue and you mentioned that in arizona those are vulnerable seats for democrats but we cannot lose sight in 2018 of how many vulnerable democrats are up for re-election in really red state and so those democrats are now going to look at this victory and think, if doug jones can win in ruby red alabama, if i can tailor my message to my state, if i can turn out the voting subgroups may

ron mott has our report. >> reporter: 51-year-old amen amenamine took on state and local officers in harrisburg on a shooting spree. >> no doubt he was directly targeting police officers. >> reporter: investigators say he began his string of shootings, first firing on a capital police officer then again on a pennsylvania state trooper. later at a third location, the gunman engaged in a shootout with harrisburg police, using two nine millimeter handguns. afterward, the bomb squad was called in when a device was found near el mofty's body. >> he was not afraid to fire at different what you enforcement officers. we have no idea what the motivation was at this point. the fortunate thing is, no one was seriously injured. >> authorities say he recently travelled to the middle east and are investigating if he has ties to terrorism. tonight, fbi and local law enforcement are looking for clues as to what could have fueled the shooter's dangerous attack. ron mott, nbc news. >>> the death toll has reached more than 150 with nearly 300 people missing after a powerful storm sweeps through the phi

>> ron allen for us in jerusalem. ron, thank you. >>> now with the growing number of sexual allegations being hurled at minnesota senator al franken, a staed lawmakers are now demanding that the democrat resign. that i y. onslaught onfollowing anotha misc accusing franken of attempting to forcibly kiss her three e franken, according to politico, then reportedly telling the woman, quote, it's my right a rtainer. for more we go toc's tracie potts ws capitol hill. tracie, good morning. r: good morning. the tide is turning against franken among his own colleagues now. 35 democts they step down resign. and this groundswell happened after that seventh accuser came forward on wednesday. in a tweet, franken's office says no decision has been made, that he is talking with his family. he'll make an announcement in d.c. tomorrow. that today. but reports of a final decision at that point they said are inaccurate. as for that seventh cu ports, f te it's categorically not. and that he would claim right as an entertainer to forc he

thank you. >> ron, thank you for the update and thanks to the team. i just want to make sure that i am understanding -- when we talk about june 1st for a.c. transit, sfmta will be there ahead of that and looking through the pop-up and the first bus -- i mean we have the five fulton on december 26th, and something in march for meaningful operation and i wanted to see how that all gets tied together with the pop-up and with security and making sure that it's all lining up at the same time. because if i look at the charts there's some gaps and so, you know, i want to make sure that when muni starts running, at least the signage is up and the advertising may not be running at that time, but it's just great to see all of this stuff laid out and i just want to make sure that there are no gaps as we call it a softd opening versus full operation. >> yeah, no, i think that the intent is to make it as active as possible. you know, some of those streams of activity have different -- different things pushing them and different constraints that are independent and

joining me now is ron insana, cnbc contributor, and ron, good morning. >> good morning. >> how significant is this gesture? >> well, i think if this were to spread wildly and like wildfire, if you will, across corporate america it would be significant insofar as the capital spending that a lot of companies are announcing new investment in plant and equipment for which there is a large tax break, dara. that could be important. i was talking to my colleague melissa lee the other day. every $1,000 spent creates -- i'm sorry, every billion dollars spent creates 7,000 jobs when you're talking about new plant and equipment investment. so if a lot of companies take advantage of this tax break for investment, particularly in the coming year, it could have an impact on jobs. >> and do you think there's a reason to believe that a lot of companies will take advantage of this? >> yeah, it's a big write-down. you're able to write off the whole capital investment in the first year. so that is effectively going to reduce your tax bill, your effective tax rate will fall below the 21% marginal rate where w

congressman ron paul told us the level of transparency isn't surprising but i didn't know there was a thousand troops in niger you heard senator graham there he didn't know we had a thousand troops in the air did you know i did not get well i'm fortunately we don't like surprises it's sort of the routine especially with the new administration because the president has stated that he wants to keep everything under his best under his vest because he doesn't want people to know and he believes that's proper policy but it's not good good law because the constitution says he's not a lot of send troops around the world without the people in the congress knowing about it is because it's very difficult especially if they say well this is secret we can't let the people know we can't let the enemy know where our troops are so they put the american people in the category of the enemy because we're not a lot of know and so it's really a government out of control but it's what's the what this reflects is a foreign policy that there are institute ron paul institute disagrees with we don't think it'

nbc's ron allen is in jerusalem with more. ron, the anticipated announcement is already drying ire from arab leaders and they cannot be taking this well. >> reporter: that's putting mildly, philip. they are reacting with herrer and this is confirming some of their worst fears that the trump administration is going to side with the israelis on this issue and every other issue in the peace process. we know that u.s. citizens have been warned to stay away from places like the old city where i am. we know that the israeli security forces are on a higher state of alert. we know u.s. diplomatic posts in the region have been told for several days now to prepare for unrest. we understand that there are already some reports from the west bank of clashes between protesters and israeli security forces. unclear what the scale of that is yet. we also understand there's been a call for three days of rage, three days of popular protests in the palestinian communities to try and push back against this decision. >>> now, for the last few days,

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trish: to me, that's the issue, ron. all this -- he's disputing the allegations, you could leave that to the side for the moment and say this is a man who didn't follow the law and did not uphold the law, and ned and i talk about sanctuary cities and how ridiculous it is that the politicians think that they can ignore federal law, and ron, is that what it's going to come down to, at least in your head, in terms of why he doesn't deserve this position? >> i think it's a question about morality, and a question of ethics. these allegations have swirled around the judge for many, many years now, these women who have come forth and actually spoken on the record sound credible to me, and why would she seek the high office of going to the united states senate when we have this climate in washington, d.c. right now where it appears a lot of people have ethics and morality problems and hand an issue where none of the other 99 members of that body i believe want to serve with him. you're going to have a situation, the ethics commi

with us to discuss, cnn's senior political analyst and senior editor at "the atlantic," ron brownstein, and "time" magazine contributor, jane newton small. ron, one would hope the investigation into foreign interference in our democratic election process would be a bipartisan issue. why this effort from nunes? >> i think we're long past that point, ana, in the house. the house investigation has been kind of swept up in the adolescence partisanship that defines everything else in the house for many months now. and i don't think many people outside of it have been looking for that, as a central point of understanding about what happened in 2016 and what might be done going forward to reduce the risk. so i think this is just an extension of that. i think what's fascinating is how nunes is really kind of making himself into one of the champions of this drum beat from conservatives outside of congress, arguing that republicans should go on a full-scale offensive against the fbi and the investigation. as you point out, there are many other republicans who aren't easy with that, both on a kin

ron zino helped out for years.ped in. >> i feel today like i'm honoring ron zino. he was the original santa here for years. i have giant shoes to fill. i'm just doing my best right now. it's been a wonderful day. >> a lot of people are trying to find out if santa is going to run into any rain. >> the indications is there's not much in the way of rain coming into the forecast. not for the forseable future. as we look out to the forseable day which looks very nice out there tonight. overnight lows we'll see them mostly in the mid-30, 40-degree range. sunrise tomorrow morning at 7:18 a.m. on your saturday morning. looks like a good weekend. there are those red flag warnings for all the bay area hills. winds will pick up tonight, peak saturday morning. the purple color is the stronger winds. this is tomorrow afternoon. and till about sunday morning then the colors and the winds begin to ease up. all because of the come by -- combinations to the soáult. and later in the week, by sunday there'll be northernly winds. it'l

ron and steve both will talk to the electrical. talking about the fisk, the assistance, and in that picture that is a rosaden person pulling wire. bus storage facility is progressing well. they are on schedule to deliver summer of 2018. working through the concrete challenges. they'll have some bridge pours that will be happening. they did have some impacts from the wildfires up in napa, their particular rebar sub was up there. fortunately, only two-week impact and their facility was ok. they were in the evacuation for two weeks, so that sucked up, what, what float they had, but still on schedule now and progressing well with no impacts. we did have one recordable noted on this schedule. it was a fisk employee that happened to strain a knee as he was walking down a step, so that was the extent of that recordable. and we have surpassed 4.2 million craft hours on the project with over 700 workers still on the job. so with that, i'll turn it over to ron for budget and contingency and beyond. >> thanks, dennis. always nice to see the g

nbc's ron mott has this report. >> reporter: it was a holiday cruise that end tragically for this family, mom and son killed in a bus crash in mexico. 78-year-old grandmother also loss. father and 15-year-old davie injured and hospitalized. in all, eight americans are among the dozen who died. another 18 hurt when a bus taking tourists to visit mayan ruins overturned. today, mexican officials began processing we hick lar manslaughter against the bus driver. a state prosecutor said preliminary findings indicate excessive speed and the driver's negligence caused the crash. >> my heart goes out to all these people who lost loved ones. >> reporter: the bus was part of a fleet transporting visitors from two florida-based cruise ships. according to witnesses this happened on a clear day. cruise passengers often take excursions like this one. booked through the cruise ship company, but run by independent contractors. tonight, no new comment from the bus company about the driver or the reported cause. their representatives along with royal caribbean saying they're all they can do to help their g

congressman ron paul told us the level of transparency is unsurprising but i didn't know there was a thousand troops in niger you heard senator graham there he didn't know we had a thousand troops uneasier did you know i didn't know it well i'm fortunately we don't get like surprises it's sort of the routine especially with the new administration because the president has stated that he wants to keep everything under. the best vets because he doesn't want people to know and he believes that's proper policy but it's not good good law because the constitution says he's not a lot of send troops around the world without the people in the congress knowing about it is we get very difficult especially if they say well this is a secret we can't let the people know we can't let the enemy know where our troops are meanwhile as many as forty four thousand american troops are stationed across the world and not being tracked by the pentagon according to the u.s. military in all stars and stripes and it claims to you that around three hundred thousand u.s. personnel are operating in more than one

andre, what do you make of what ron just said? i mean, the president's approval ratings are pretty low. congress isn't looking like it's in any better shape. how nervous are you as a republican for 2018? >> well, i actually think ron hit it well, but i'm not nervous at all. quite frankly, i'd like to see a whole bunch on both sides lose because i believe in term limits. i'd like new ideas. i am so sick of the people that go up and make their entire life serving in congress. look, i was one of those guys that went in as a novice into politics and went with the intent to serve a few years and the next thing i know, i became a cog in the wheel and had been there too long after 14 years, even though i went in as a very young man. you change, the office changes you, and we need a change in washington. that being said, the president has done a good of delivering, but i do think the republicans are going to have to work better at making that resinate with the voter that they are making their lives better. and they've got to work on that.