that from this morning as sara sanders was reporting, the president said mitch used the nuclear option and get it done. our country is counting on you,

let me read you something else the president said or sara sanders said about this yesterday.t asked every one of his cabinet secretaries to look for funding and give the president to ability to fulfill his constitutional obligation to protect the american people by having a secure border. she's basically saying they will look for funding for the wall elsewhere in the government. first off, i'm not sure how appropriations in government funding work. actually, i know it is not how it works. secondly, that's not mexico. that's not mexico paying for the wall, is it? >> no. the president will make the point about the new nafta. i'm not sure how that all works out in terms of that. but, no, i don't think there was any reality that mexico was going to write a check. but i am for border security. i think it needs to be appropriated by congress to do. the president ran on it. he won on it. so i think it will be right to give it to him. here's where i go from there. let's secure the border but fix the broader immigration system. the left doesn't want to give us the law. we don't want t

sara sanders brushing off a filing from mueller insisting the government's filing in mr. manafort's case is absolutely nothing about the president. it says even less about collusion and is devoted almost entirely to lobbying related issues. not true. the media is trying to create a story where there isn't one. however, the president taking a similar approach saying, totally clears the president. thank you. and point of fact, this is the first time we have seen prosecutors directly accuse the president of the united states of being involved in criminal activity. it happened for the first time in michael cohen's sentencing memo from the southern district of new york tonight. cuomo's court is in session. the idea from sara sanders that there is nothing to see here in any of this, none of it is irrelevant to the president, your take? >> are you taking to me? >> always first. >> yes. i mean, there is so many things here that have to do with the president. you have already discussed at length with neal and michael in the last segment about basically a direct implication that th

. >> sara sanders tambiÉn se pronunciÓ, lo que acabamos de escuchar, el presidente ha exigido esa participaciÓnecepcionados de que eso pase. >> la mÁs conservadora de los republicanos-- recaudar fondos a travÉs de go fund me que quiere ayudar al presidente para conseguir los fondos para construir el muro. dice que son demasiados los estadounidenses que son asesinados por los inmigrantes que ademÁs-- el objetivo es llegar a los$12,000,000. ademÁs, este hombre aparte en las redes sociales decÍa que si cada uno de los 60,000,000 de estadounidenses que votaron por el presidente trump hicieran una donaciÓn de $80 llegarÍan a ese rÉcord para poder construir el muro. >> es increÍble. solamente esta maÑana se veÍa que llegaban a 1,000,000. han pasado menos de 24 horas y yahan llegado a 6,000,000. es increÍble el poder de las redes sociales. >> la pregunta essi finalmente llegan al lÍmite, quÉ va a pasar con todo ese dinero, no?e que trump no consultÓ la decisiÓn ni siquiera con sus jefes militares y que la retirada le dejarÍa el camino libre a rusia para dominar en siria y aumentar su influencia en el

in a white house from one crisis to the next just two days earlier white house press secretary sara sanders said wasn't just walking out the door in the relationship would continue over the next couple of months and then came the resignation of brett mcgurk as the u.s. envoy overseeing the battle against isis and the man the president once affectionately called mad dog mattis was out the door john hendren washington. president spoke with president trump on sunday says the two discussed a slow and highly coordinated withdrawal of u.s. troops from syria but the u.s. navy is already changing the battleground reports from the turkey syria border. turkish military reinforcements are being sent deep into syria to the front lines north of the city of the message turkey is sending is that it's ready to use force if not handed over to what it calls its rightful owners the turkish deployment followed reports that the syrian army planned to move in there will be a vacuum once the u.s. begins with drawing its troops from areas across northeastern syria controlled by the syrian kurdish armed groups. the

that from this morning as sara sanders was reporting, the president said mitch used the nuclear option and get it done. our country is counting on you, and one tweet out, there's a 10:30 meeting as the shut down looms, two people familiar with the invite, that nuclear option the president is talking about would change the senate's rules to make it easier to pass the latest house and approved spending bill provides in excess of $5 billion in funds for the wall at the u.s.-mexico border. yesterday at the farm bill signing, president trump spoke about border security. >> ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states, donald j. trump, vice-president mike pence, and the secretary of the department of agriculture, sonny perdue. [applaus [applause] >> thank you very much. thank you. thank you very much. please. that was from the emmys. i sang green acres and received a very nice award that night. that was really great. so we had that, somebody had that, i said put it on. not too much of it, but put it on. congratulations well, it's great to be here, we have a lot of big things happ

sara sanders is reacting to whether the inauguration committee misspent funds. >> that doesn't have anything to do with the president or first lady. the biggest thing the president did in his inauguration was to come here and raise his hand and take the oath of office. the president was focused on the transition during that time and not on any of the planning. >>> today is the last day to sign up for the affordable health care. the land mark decision remains in place after a federal judge struck it down yesterday as understand constitutional. it's expected to be appealed. >>> here's nbc news white house correspondent kelly o'donnell with the details. >> good morning, dara. with a tweet the president ended speculation one of the big guessing games around town about who would be the neck chief of staff. one of the most important positions in all of washington. president trump has decided to pull from the office of management and budget the director there, mick mulvaney. officials tell me he will serve in an acting role. when i asked because that suggests it might be temporary, he said there's

. >> sara sanders said they want to see what congress can pass, but in the meantime they're considering other options. >> he has looked for every one of his secretaries to look for funding that can be used to protect our borders. >> democrats are nixing that idea too. >> they need congressional approval, they're not getting it for the wall, plain and simple. >> if no deal is reached, 420,000 federal employees would have to work through the ho without pay. anher 380,000 employees would be furloughed. and if friday's deadline is missed, this would be the third government shutdown this year. anyone sending or waiting on holiday gifts, the u.s. postal service wouldn't be affected by a shutdown because it's an independent agency. >> that's a little bit good news. thanks a lot, marc. >>> a sweeping criminal justice reform bill is on its way to the house after the senate approved it last night. the bipartisan was 87-12. it gives judges more decision correction when sentencing some drug offenders and boosts prisoner rehabilitation efforts. also it reduces life sentences for some drug offenders

where he's going to be meeting with some more american servicemen and white house press secretary sara sanders told reporters that in fact trump did speak by telephone with the iraqi prime minister adil lob the while he was at the base in out side of baghdad she didn't give any details on what they discussed although she did say that trump extended an invitation to all the to visit the white house at some point in the future and the prime minister accepted that the second point is that sanders described in general terms the meeting that trump had with his generals at the airbase in iraq saying quote the generals and president trump came up with a powerful plan that will allow us to continue on a path to two. victory unquote that's of course in reference to ongoing efforts against eisel which have been called into question by president trump's decision to withdraw u.s. troops that were supporting syrian fighters who are trying to completely eradicate the remaining. fighters from that organization all right ron brownstein to well as we mentioned donald trump didn't need anyone from the iraqi lea

attempt to persuade the president to reverse his decision on syria white house press secretary sara sanders denied suggestions that trump had asked not just to resign secretary mabus has served the president and with the president for two years they have a good relationship i've seen up close and personal on a number of occasions and again they agree to disagree at times but that doesn't mean you can't have a good relationship with somebody he was laying out the reasons that he was stepping down from his post and. beyond that i think it's absurd to try to question me when we're together for jeez you know. meanwhile president trump has also ordered the pentagon to make plans to withdraw half of the fourteen thousand american troops in afghanistan and unnamed official said they could be home by summer u.s. troops deployed to afghanistan after the september eleventh attacks in two thousand and one since then twenty four hundred u.s. soldiers have died fighting the taliban in america's longest war. or more now we're joined here in the studio by middle east analyst mark is calling from the germa

sara sanders was asked if it was done for putin, after all put sin happy. the russian media is report thanksgiving is a gift to the russians. listen to what she said. >> cheer the president's decision to leave syria, and james mad -- mattis will be leaving the administration. >> look, the idea that putin is happy about this is ridiculous. he is not. this puts a greater emphasis, and makes them have to do something, and do more in the region t puts them at a greater risk. that is silly. >> is it just silly? >> you know, the idea of pulling out troops from syria, reducing the troops in afghanistan is not a crazy idea. it is something over time we should be working toward. the way it was handled was completely crazy and russia is a beneficiary. in the case of syria, we abandoned the kurds, the latest betrayal of the kurds in a hundred years of such betrayals t speaks to a larger sense of chaos, and undermining of our commitments, i think this was the last straw for mattis. for mattis, the larger issue was the way that president was systematically undermining w

. >> sara sanders was absolute right.nothing to do with president trump or the administration. during transition the president had one focus. to come into office, set up the office and right the wrongs of the barack obama administration. he did just that. >> the inaugural committee says they know nothing about the investigation and there they're not aware of any pending investigation and have no contract with prosecutors. the u.s. attorney's office for the southern district of new york declined comment and wouldn't confirm details from the new york times or the wallstreet journal. dane a back to you. >> dana: no comment. no comment. thank you, doug. the death toll is rising in the wake of the christmas market attack in france. a fourth person has died after tuesday's shooting. this coming less than 24 hours after police track down the suspected gunman killing him in a late night shootout. kurdish fighters backed by the u.s. say they have retaken the last major strong hold there. now turkey who supports the syrian presiden

united states committed a federal crime that's going to be problematic now his press secretary sara sanders has said that there was nothing new that has come out of any of these cases that is not well known they've continued to disparage cohen but there's more information that is likely to come out the national security adviser the former national security adviser for trump michael flynn is also cooperating with prosecutors we don't know what's going to come out of that but we do know that he's talked to them nineteen times and that they have recommended no jail sentence because he's been so cooperative that is definitely bad news for president trump and it is clear from all that we have learned that the contacts with russia between russia and the campaign re much deeper than the trumpet ministration had portrayed so trump is going to have a difficult time fending all of this off john hundred thank you very much indeed. here in the u.k. a vote of confidence is underway on the leadership of to reason may m.p.'s from her own ruling conservative party started voting just over an hour ago on wh

a fellow by the name of andrew feinberg of breakfast media shouting at secretary sara sander as he walked away from the podium at the conclusion of the briefing. well, they complain when she doesn't hold a briefing, they are unprofessional when she does. and there you have it. joining us now former regal white house political director, ed rollins. great to have you here. >> thank you. lou: let's not bother with that nonsense in the briefing room. let's turn to mike flynn who now has to wait until march 3th, five delays now in his sentencing. finally they had it where they wanted it, the mueller special counsel's office. and the judge went just a tad rogue i guess is the expression. >> you don't control federal judges unfortunately. this was a case where the prosecutor and the defense all came in with a recommendation of go home and live a good life. and poor general flynn tonight has to be sitting there seeing my life in ruins and not knowing what the consequences are. the judge saying to him, i don't care what they're going to say, i'm going to put you in jail. lou: the result of this --

tras conocerse los resultados de la autopsia la secretaria de prensa de la casa blanca, sara sanders, pasaron la noche con frÍo y sin comer. en tucson se volviÓ a habilitar un motel para que las familias pasarÁ la noche tambiÉn una iglesia tuvo que abrir de nuevo para recibir a familias de guatemala y honduras. >> nos llamaron hoy y nos dijeron que iban a llevar 70 personas a la estaciÓn del autobÚs otra vez. decidimos abrir otra vez para dar un espacio. oscar: mÁs de 6000 migrantes han sido liberados desde octubre pasado. activistas dicen que la liberaciÓn es mÁs rápida. >> es bueno que los estÉn liberando rÁpidamente para que los niÑos no se enfermen dentro de las instalaciones de ellos. oscar: en el paso, texas, cientos han sido deliberados en la estaciÓn del autobÚs. se pronostican malas temperaturas en los prÓximos dÍas. por interÉs de guatemala y honduras se encuentran en este lugar para recibir a mÁs inmigrantes en caso de que ice los venga a dejar y asÍ darles abrigo como tambiÉn asistencia. fÉlix: el presunto asesino de un policÍa en california pasado y la primera de muchas n

sara sanders repeated from the white house podium the president's claim. have a listen. >> fbi broke standard protocol in the way they came in and ambushed general flynn and the way they questioned him and the way they encouraged him not to have white house counsel's office present. >> that claim about the ambush is belied by the fact of the 302s, a record of those interviews. why does the white house stick by that claim? >> it is also belied by common sense, right? this is a three-star general who heads up intelligence for the military. he is someone who knows that lying to the fbi is a crime. this shouldn't be a surprising situation for him when he finds himself in it. but, look, the white house, as they have for months at this point is fighting a political battle. in some ways politically it is their right to do so. impeachment is a political fight that happens in congress and is determined by the votes of first the house and then the senate. so it is really important from the white house's point of view to undercut the mueller investigation at every tu

in the meantime, you have a white house spokesperson sara sanders talking about these incidents in the wake of two children dying within the past month. take a look at that. >> we are doing everything in our capacity to make sure that when people do come that they're taken care of so that we don't have these type of instances. in many cases they show up extremely dehydrated without food and they're seeing a doctor for the very first time in their lives, both adults and children. >> reporter: and we're also gaining some new insight as to why the eight-year-old boy and his father made the journey in the first place. the boy's mother speaking out saying her husband wanted to find work and they just wanted a better education for their son. one thing she also said is they were under the impression that when you bring a child across the border that you would have better access into the u.s. in other words, you would have a better chance at gaining entry into the united states, which is going to be exhibit a for critics of u.s. immigration policy who say that the policy incent vises people ch

. >> the white house has committed he will stay here and sara sanders basically reiterated that this morning, but it is a real question. how long is he going to want to sit in the white house to sort of wring his hands about the situations, not being able to go where he wants to go. there will be parts of this government where people are working on furlough, parts of homeland security where people will be working on furlough. it can't go on forever. he understands the politics of this are bad. he understands that the bad politics of ending the filibuster are not only bad in the long term but the near term. it will help protect him from having to pass legislation when nancy pelosi takes over in january. the president is in a bind here. everyone is expecting that vote, which only requires 50 votes at noon today to fail. they don't think it's going to go forward. so that's going to basically put the president back at square one. >> okay. as we're never supposed to say, time will tell. abbie, josh, john, thank you very much. many senators are already back home for the holidays, but with

sara sanders said the president was open to alternative funding for his border wall, but she and the president suggested they're waiting to see what the president can come up'r with. >> we have other ways that we can get to that 5 billion that they will work with congress if they w make sure that we get a bill passed that provides not just these funding for the wall but there's adi piece of legislation that's been pushed around that democrats actually voted 26-5 out of committee that provides 26 -- roughly $26 billion in border security, including 1.6 billion for the wall. that's somethingn that we woul be able to support as longs as we can come that with other fundingit resources to help us g to the 5 billion. with we want to see what the senate cano pass. they've thrown out a lot of ideas. >> the shutdown? >> see what happens. >> well, you say that, but -- >> too early to say. >> despite the optimism from the white house, the senate's republican and democratic leaders still seem divided on striking a deal to oo void is a shutdown. >> to put a finer point on that, are you convinced

and now sara sander, the press secretary, released a statement in response to this, saying it has nothing to do with the president, and that the media is making up a story. pamela brown, cnn, washington. >> thank you, pamela. >>> just a recap for you here, just some of people who have been convicted, or pleaded guilty, since trump took office. his former attorney, his former campaign chairman, paul manafort, as we just discussed. his former national security adviser michael flynn. his former deputy campaign chairman, and his former campaign adviser. before most of these people even face charge, the man originally looking into some of their alleged crimes, fired. but now james comey has returned to capitol hill, testifying behind closed doors. >>> we have details. and just in to cnn, a data set. president trump chief of staff john kelly is on his way out. when he is leaving just ahead. >>> and bracing for bad weather a nasty winter storm targets the southeast. where the storm is headed. when we come back. you're live in the cnn newsroom. because energy touches so many industries, it suppor

white house press secretary sara sanders issued this statement that said, quote, the government's filing in mr. mandel man's case is absolutely nothing about the president, it says even less about collusion. it is devoted almost entirely to lobbying related issues and i'll add long before paul manafort ever met donald trump. and also breaking today, two separate sentencing memos were filed against one time trump attorney michael cohen. first the southern district of new york completely rejecting cohen's pleas for leniency adding that a substantial term of imprisonment is warranted. cohen's decision to plead guilty rather than seek a pardon gone does not make him a her hero. the prosecutor's recommended only a slight reduction to the suggested five year prison sentence. the next memo from the special counsel, that focused on cohen admitting that he lied under oath to the federal government writing the sentence imposed should reflect the fact that lying to federal prosecutor's has real consequences. the one thing these two filings have in common, nothing to do with russia or collusion at a

antalking to sara sanders at the white house she said the president didn't want a long drawnout traitionone who he clearly disagrees with, who wrote a resignation letter that was pretty damning of the president and his policies. and then you also have theil possy that mattis would be like a good-bye tour, receiving love and support with the president watching and potentially even being called to testify before cress. so president trump according to sanders said, hey, i like this guy who is the deputy let'ske him the acting defense secretary. it is not - just to be clear it is not normal for there to be an acting defse secretary. typically, defense secretaries wait until their replacement confirmed, this is a very big, important position in the federal government. >> yes, we are on our fifth cabinet level position now that will have an acting secretary, ei thaobviously not particularly normaher. you know, it seemed this week as if we hit this ne pace with republicans, with republicans in the senate, particularly, many whom came out over the weekend, expressing dismay about mattis's depart

sara sanders saying the president and the first lady making the trip starting last night, christmas nightes at a time when trump's middle east policy is in flux as americans back home are dealing with a government shutdown. it has been 111 hours since parts of the government closed the doors with nearly 800,000 workers are not getting paid even though half are working anyway. we got word from congressman mark meadows. he sees no sign of the president backing down from his demand from funding for a border wall. they are misreading him and the president backing that up a short time ago telling reporters traveling with him to iraq that he is prepared to wait whatever it takes in order to get border security. let's start with the white house with noobc news. we have seen reports coming in from a small group of reporters who are traveling with the president. what are the headlines so far? >> the president appears to be up and away. he spent three hours on the ground in western

pasties said that michael cohen is a weak man his press secretary sara sanders is nothing has come out in any of these disclosures or hearings it's anything new but president trump has got to be concerned about what happened today it is possible that he may be listening to his lawyers for a change and not saying anything in response to this to avoid the legal repercussions but we'll keep watching that twitter account and let you know if that changes thanks so much indeed john hendren now the two warring sides in yemen considering four draft agreements with the united nations as peace negotiations in sweden near their end the u.n. document detail options for a political framework the reopening of some thought the status of the port city of her data and yemen's economic situation the two parties the saudi supported government and the iran backed rebels are expected to give their responses to the u.n. agreements on thursday your inspector general antonio terror's is planning to address the closing session. the director of the cia has briefed leading politicians in the u.s. house of repres

sara sanders their our north american reporter is there our north america reporter anthony zurcher isat we heard from the judge, how are they taking this? exactly, and whatever michael flynn is saying has nothing to do with the president. she stressed that point very hard. the reality is michael flynn was a close adviser to the president during the campaign, also was the first national security adviser, so it's rather difficult for donna trump to distance themselves from michael flynn. and if you read the sentencing recommendations, it outlines all of the ways in this investigation into possible collusion between russia and the truck campaign. now that the sentencing has been pushed back its not going to go away though. just remind you that michael flynn has top security clearance the white house, and was operating on issues of national security at the same time he was doing what? he was serving as an unregistered agent of the turkish government according to the turkish government according to the special counsel office as well as having contact with russia government officials multip

. >> [inaudible] >> others working on -- and that from this morning as sara sanders was reporting, theresident said mitch used the nuclear option and get it done. our country is counting on you, and one tweet out, there's a 10:30 meeting as the shut down looms, two people familiar with the invite, that nuclear option the president is talking about would change the senate's rules to make it easier to pass the latest house and approved spending bill provides in excess of $5 billion in funds for the wall at the u.s.-mexico border. yesterday at the farm bill signing, president trump spoke about border security. >> ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states, donald j. trump, vice-president mike pence, and the secretary of the department of agriculture, sonny perdue.

white house press secretary sara sanders says that it says nothing about the president and less aboutollusion and devoted almost entirely to lobbying related issues. on mr. cohen, sanders says the filing tells us nothing of value that wasn't already known. she says cohen has repeatedly lied. the president's personal attorney rudy guiliani tells the memos are a complete exoneration of the president and guiliani says he and the rest of the president's outside legal counsel are happy about the memos and guiliani's view proves the special counsel has nothing on the president. some legal experts disagree. >> i wouldn't be celebrating if, if i was at the white house. it's clear that they have implicated the president in the two-campaign finance violations that cohen pled guilty to and will be sentenced on. they have the president basically directing cohen to commit these offenses. so, you know, these are two felonies that this guy pled guilty to and they have the president directing it. >> others argue that the legal issues here are simply more nuanced. >> the legal issues, whether a presid

a vote is there some sort of compromise here and looking at the language, carl, you note that sara sanderseet only includ the term border security and not the wall is there some sort of compromise that does not include the wall will the president accept that the president is issuing a defensive tweet here on china. apparently responding to jonah mattis issuing the resignation yesterday, nobody had been tougher on china than i have the president is blaming on fake news >> eamon javers, thank you very much >> let's head to the bond pit right now. rick santelli is joining us in the cme group in chicago >> yes, they are perking up a little bit but they're still in the negative column both for the day and the week being a friday, i always like to go through this. two-yr note yield, down. tens, down on 3 on 11. the 30-yr bond, down 5 and down 14 you can see that implied in the net changes day and week is a real flatten bias. we all understand when we had closing bell conversations with kevin hassett, he thinks that the yield curve, the in version, its wiggles don't mean much because of manipulat

pleasewomen sara huck abe sanders, the white house press secretary. thank you so much for joining us at women rule. i'm going to get right to the news of the day. we're also going to discuss how sara has put her personal stamp on the job and how she's juggled the demands of a punc high profile literally non-stop job with raising a young family. sara has three kids under the age of 6, so not too much going on in her life. let me start with -- so i want to start with some of the events that unfolded today well most of us were here. the president had i think spirited would be a good way to describe it, meeting with chuck schumer and nancy pelosi and indicated that he is willing to shut down the government over a funding a border wall. does the white house think that this is a winning political issue. >> sarah: thank you for having me it's an honor to be with you. and a different type of format than we get to engage in the white house, i'm grateful to be here with these people. when it comes to the meeting that took place today i would describe as producti

on tuesday, white house press secretary sara huckabee sanders said the administration is looking at all potential funding sources, suggesting the white house is looking for a way to end the standoff and avoid a shutdown. president trump tweeting this morning on the matter, saying local mexico is paying indirectly for the wall to the new u.s. mca. the replacements for nafta! far more money coming to the u.s. because of the tremendous dangers at the border including large-scale critical and drug inflow, the united states military will build the wall!" >> they could get wall money from nafta or some other part of the government. >> they need congressional approval. they are not getting it for the wall. plain and simple. >> reporter: it's possible congress could pass a temporary spending resolution, approving government funding at its current level without a booth for border security until february 8th. but it is unclear if the president will sign it. >> he has a responsibility to keep the government moving forward, and he has a response ability to get border security. >> reporter: without