very committed to getting things passed we'll have a very good relationship as you know with steve benen steve's been a friend of mine for a long time i like steve a lot. bannan also helped push both the president's populism and his attacks on news organizations their corporatist globalist media that are adamantly opposed adamantly opposed. to economic nationalist agenda like donald trump. but after a series of staff shake ups and public embarrassments trump for an instant in the white house to an end after a mere seven months is now following the publication of an incendiary book bannan trump have suddenly become sworn enemies trading barbs over the media. given how fervently readers of breitbart have supported trump the cracks in this relationship could spell trouble. and a short while ago trump spoke about bannon and that new book i did i did it again and i did the band and betrayed you mr president anyway we should have steve and it will be a great battle so these are the changes to a pretty quick thank you all very much. thank you i don't. i don't that's just a disturbing thank you are let'

very committed to getting things passed we'll have a very good relationship as you know with steve benen steve's been a friend of mine for a long time i like steve a lot. bannan also helped push both the president's populism and his attacks on news organizations their corporatist globalist media that are adamantly opposed adamantly opposed. to an economic nationalist agenda like donald trump. but after a series of staff shake ups and public embarrassment. and in stanton the white house to an end after a mere seven months now following the publication of an incendiary book bannon trump have suddenly become sworn enemies trading barbs over the media given how fervently readers of breitbart have supported trump the cracks in this relationship could spell trouble. well for more on this now i'm joined by our correspondent in washington carson phenomena good evening to you karsten so beyond this being a broken political bromance why does this public falling out between trump and bain and why does it matter it matters because even though many conservatives distancing themselves from ben and siding with

very committed to getting things passed we'll have a very good relationship as you know with steve benen steve's been a friend of mine for a long time i like steve a lot. bannan also helped push both the president's populism and his attacks on news organizations their corporatist globalist media that are adamantly opposed adamantly opposed. to an economic nationalist agenda like donald trump. but after a series of staff shake ups and public embarrassments trump brought an instant in the white house to an end after a mere seven months. now following the publication of an incendiary book ben and then trump have suddenly become sworn enemies trading barbs over the media. given how fervently readers of breitbart have supported trump the cracks in this relationship could spell trouble. and for more on whether or not that is indeed the case i am joined by having reka head of the program of u.s. and transatlantic relations at the german council on foreign relations here in berlin thanks so much for being with us you know strong language as we've heard from both these two no surprise i mean they're real

celebrating their closeness steve is very committed he's a friend of mine and he's very committed to getting things passed we'll have a very good relationship as you know with steve benen steve's been a friend of mine for a long time i like steve a lot man and also helped push both the president's populism and his attacks on news organizations their corporatist globalist media that are adamantly opposed adamantly opposed. to an economic nationalist agenda like donald trump. but after a series of staff shake ups and public embarrassment trump brought an instant in the white house to an end after a mere seven months. is now following the publication of an incendiary book bannan trump have suddenly become sworn enemies trading barbs over the media. given how fervently readers of breitbart have supported trump the cracks in this relationship could spell trouble. and a short while ago trump spoke about ben and that new book i did i didn't get a t.v. and it betrayed you mr president anywhere he had steve and i don't really know me a great medalist so obviously changes to pretty quick thank you all very much. they cry don't talk. i don't talk that's just a disturbing thank you. are l

he's very committed to getting things we'll have a very good relationship as you know with steve benen steve's been a friend of mine for a long time i like steve a lot man and also helped push both the president's populism and his attacks on news organizations there corporatist globalist media that are adamantly opposed to merely opposed. to economic nationalist agenda like donald trump. but after a series of staff shake ups and public embarrassments trump for an instant in the white house to an end after a mere seven months. now following the publication of an incendiary book bannon trump have suddenly become sworn enemies trading barbs over the media. given how fervently readers of breitbart have supported trump the cracks in this relationship could spell trouble. well excerpts of this book have everyone talking here to discuss the fall out with me on the set is to how he is a senior fellow and director of the europe program at the german marshall fund we're great we're very happy that you're here where to begin i mean is this rift a permanent rift yeah i mean this is pretty prominent i mean

has plenty of the latter i think this is for his ideas and his ideas are bigger than steve benen according to steve benen bigger even than donald trump so he's willing to burn any bridge in order to get where he needs what he believes he the country needs to go i think he is a dangerous enemy even more than he's a useful our i don't think president trump can eliminate steve benen fully even if he will no longer embrace him the way he once did. well the commotion over the new book on the top administration diverted attention away from the president's recent policy push on thursday the attorney general reversed an obama era policy on marijuana that kept federal authorities from cracking down on states where recreational use of pot is legal the government also proposed new rules allowing small businesses on the self employed to band together to buy health insurance it's another attempt to rollback obama's signature health care law trump is also moving to expand offshore oil drilling hundred new five year plan ninety percent of the nation's reserves would be open up to private companies including water

has plenty of the latter i think this is for his ideas and his ideas are bigger than steve benen according to steve benen bigger even than donald trump so he's willing to burn any bridge in order to get where he is what he believes he's the con. needs to go i think he's a dangerous enemy even more than he's a useful ally i don't think president trump can alienate steve benen fully even if he will no longer embrace him the way he once did. an explosion in the afghan capital risk of at least eleven people and wounded twenty five others eisel has claimed responsibility for that which targeted security personnel the police were carrying out an anti drugs operation when the blast happened. good has more now from kabul a suicide bomber detonated his explosives among the crowd of protesters on thursday now the protesters were demanding their business is to be open afghan police have been greeting businesses in shops in kabul but ny area where these shops are reported to be selling illicit substances like alcohol which is banned in afghanistan these shop owners were demanding their shop being opened the af

has this sort of information then i would say that the white house should be wore it i mean steve is steve benen has lost his influence but he was a very important figure in the white house during the trial campaign and he was advising for example president on how to deal with the miller investigation so who he could tell the president was coper a team with the probe or actively trying to block it if he wants he could reveal a lot i think but the question is whether he's going to do it i would assume if he wants to make a comeback to win back his conservative donors he will be very careful choosing his words and before we run out of time alexander january twentieth marks one year of the trump presidency you've been there the entire time what condition would you see our profession is in after a year of president wrong. you know at the beginning of this year i was trying to my main goal was to trying to explain what president would like to achieve and why and it's sort of changed during the course of this time not because we as journalists wanted to change but because of president trump his contro

has plenty of the latter i think this is for his ideas and his ideas are bigger than steve benen according to steve benen bigger even than donald trump so he's willing to burn any bridge in order to get where he needs where he believes the country needs to go now of course it's impossible to do that if you have no political allies and that's the problem he's facing right now i mean you mentioned that basically what drives him are his ideas i mean are those ideas now compatible with donald trump i mean i know they're having a very public international spat right now but do you think that ultimately he will keep on supporting a trump presidency yes i believe that his support for the term presidency remains even as he is acutely worried that. if the democrats control gain control of the house as many people think they they can they will initiate proceedings to have a president from peru move from office i believe he's worried for the trump presidency but he remains fundamentally loyal to president trump because he is the best vessel out there for him to carry out his ideas if jeb bush were president b

steve bannon. the president's new battle with former chief strategist steve benen could create tensions with his base steve benen really helped represent a lot of the voters across the country who felt angry and disenfranchised and supported the president wanted and now the president is saying that you've been is out of his mind that he didn't have a lot of influence either in the white house or in the campaign but steve grant who was never an establishment republican he was never part of that group on capitol hill that has run the country for so long a lot of mainstream republicans on capitol hill and elsewhere will be delighted to see the president distancing himself from steve been and that wing of the party bedded has been waging a war against incumbent republicans across the country as we head towards the midterms. the white house is defending trump's tweet about the size of his nuclear button on tuesday transform the north korean leader that is a nuclear button is a much bigger and more powerful and that his button works. i don't think that it's tontine to stand up for the people of this country i th

steve benen. the president's new battle with former chief strategist steve benen could create tensions with his base steve benen really helped represent a lot of voters across the country who felt angry and disenfranchised and supported the president and now the president is saying that you've been is out of his mind that he didn't have a lot of influence either in the white house or in the campaign but steve was never an establishment republican he was never part of that group on capitol hill that has run the country for so long a lot of mainstream republicans on capitol hill and elsewhere will be delighted to see the president distancing himself from steve benen and that wing of the party bed it has been waging a war against incumbent republicans across the country as we head towards the midterms where the book has revealed more insight into trump's first year and office one of the biggest claims is that he never expected to beat hillary clinton well hassan donald trump jr is closer to saying that his father looked as though he'd seen a ghost on election night while trump publicly claimed more people at

steve benen siding with the president steve benen still reprints the ideology of at least parts of donald trump's base so as long as bannon is the head of the right wing conservative news platform he can still do some harm with the things he knows with the followers that he still has and of course donald trump has survived the worst scandals than this one but ultimately i think this will have neither trump nor ben and this is set definitely demagoging for both of them and according to this new book donald trump was shocked and when he won even he didn't want to win that's what we're being told i mean what does this mean if trump wants to maintain his base support as we move towards those november midterm elections. well to be honest i'm not quite sure about this particular statement of the book because seeing donald trump to me it seems that at least part of an always wants to win out of principle but what seems possible or likely is that he didn't really expect to win and this is not only in the book but it's also what we've heard from reports about the final phase of his campaign up to the day of the election he didn't really seem to think that he could do it well basically most people didn't think that was possible and still it happens the problem for donald trump with all this is that for the for the past year he has been playing to his base most of the time he hasn't tried to woo democrats or independents or moderates so in all opinion polls his approval ratings are pretty low and historic low compared to other presidents after a year in office and so this could mean trouble for him in the midterm elections in november because if the democrats win one or both chambers of congress his presidency might be effectively over and there is speculation that there could be a bloodbath in november for republicans in those elections i mean how realistic is that it does point well there is no guarantee for that obviously it's still eleven months to go and eleven months is an eternity in politics especially in the age of trump where there's a new sensation every day or every hour and so we don't know how it goes but if this trend continues that his approval ratings are so low that democratic base energized moderates independents staying away from trump then yes that could happen you might say this is wishful thinking by the democrats but actually a number of conservative strategists and analysts also think that this could be a democratic tsunami really. our correspondent carson phenomenal the story for us tonight in washington karsten thank you. here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world so-called islamic state has claimed responsibility for a suicide attack in kabul that left at least eleven people dead and many more injured afghanistan officials say the attacker bloom's a crowd of police and protesters at least six policemen were among those killed the death toll in a south african train crash has risen to eighteen that's according to the head of the state owned rail service fire engulfed several of the express passenger trains carriages after it smashed into a truck about two hundred kilometers south of johannesburg the country's transport minister says more than two hundred sixty people were injured. well tonight the race is on to find a fix for computer chips around the world big defects could affect billions of computers another device is fitted with chips which were made by the manufacturers intel a.m.d. and our him now security researchers discovered the problem some time ago but the news has only just been made public and intel is still being about it here's what we know so far. the intel security fool could allow cars to obtain access to passwords encryption keys and the sensitive data the newly announced vulnerability could affect every processor released since one thousand nine hundred ninety five of the moment there's no way for users to detect a breach which leaves no trace in traditional log files some security experts are calling it the worst floor of a phone by the computer industry. it's probably not a problem with security gaps is that the processor is the core of the computer it's what the operating system runs on that means when the process there is affected and the hacker takes advantage of that flow they have access to everything. desktops notebooks tablets smartphones they all run on intel chips and they're all affected the problem may be even bigger than initially reported in a statement intel's recent reports that these exploits are caused by a bug or a flaw and are unique to intel products are incorrect based on the analysis to date many types of computing devices with many different vendors processors and operating systems are susceptible to these exploits. researches who discovered the security gaps a computer is powered by and also effected the claim that he has denied software updates will be released to help protect against security gaps these could cause computers to run more slowly with some estimates indicating a dip of up to thirty percent but intel says that ordinary users are likely to see a performance hit of no more than two percent. let's try to make some sense of this and to do that walker from the tech magazine motherboard dortch lang joins me now here at the big table it's good to see you happy new year so how big of a threat is this and affecting all of us it is affecting all of us the threat this the actual attack probably won't be but we're talking about a hardware block here that enables two different type of types of attack one is what the research is done meltdown which can and able malicious hackers to read your memory well in your computer the other is where most serious and also much harder to patch than the first one it's called specter and it's means that perfectly fine epa cations are being used to exchange data and read out each other's data without as if you know when that happening right exactly and it's completely invisible in the locked data and that means that this particular attack is not actually it's like you know with as has been exploited we can under attack not even know it. exactly so ok if that's the case then what will it take to get rid of the problem and protect or are in of our systems and computers yeah so the first patches are already out at least for meltdown and big cloud computing services like apple amazon google have already patched form meltdown for that first and lighter of attacks for the second one it will take a lot of time to catch this when you see. consumers that doesn't know they have to do anything sometimes you don't notice sometimes it's a background for example on for android of systems they have already installed without even knowing. been so quiet about this well intel has also has a disclosure agreement with other companies and because first reports came out the security researchers from google made a premature disclosure that is actually not really i mean implicit super happy about it because it's a business model and of course the stocks plunge but in the end the chips that enable these spectra techs the harder it techs will eventually have to be replaced because it's a major design flaw the attacks can be fixed and repaired by several software updates but in the end not every type of attack can be prevented you know we've said here many times talking about stories very similar to this is a new year the risk assessments for twenty eight teen include cyber attacks as being in the top five. it's only january fourth we're talking about this again is this going to be a year if you look in the crystal ball i mean is this just the beginning of what's going to be a very turbulent year it is yeah and that's i mean i think it's important not to scare consumers too much and to be scared to type even a letter into their computer of would be the wrong idea but what security searches always say is a month and repeatedly say is whenever there's updates available please don't be afraid of brake. can anything do install the update and please don't click on any links that look suspicious in any e-mails because for all there's a text first of all a person has to have access to a computer and this happens by something like an outgoing link that you don't trust and we just hope that those updates do not make our phones and computers run more slowly but that's a different story will only be a little just a little bit of a right there is a lock as always thank you very much like. let's take a look at the timeline of events in this case now the two flaws were discovered in june twenty seventh intel c.e.o. sold off as many shares as he could could in november twenty seventh a move which saw him gain some twenty five million dollars in profits now of course the majority all the other shareholders did not find out about these for was in till yesterday so it certainly raises some questions that well let's put those questions to our financial correspondent yes quarter on wall street who's following this story for us could the c.e.o. of intel face charges of trading on insider knowledge here. it's certainly an interesting timing when he sold his shares because that was obviously after the company got aware of the flaws but before the news broke out to the public i can personally not really imagine that it's a case of insider trading because that would be like the the most obvious kind of insider trading because we've seen in wall street history but that doesn't mean that the f.c.c. won't have a closer look at that and then on top of it that this see all of entailed sold all but two hundred fifty thousand office shares also does not show a lot of confidence from the c.e.o. into his own firm because those two hundred fifty thousand shares that pretty much the minimum that is c.e.o. is supposed to hold off his own company's sux. and what does this mean for intel because we're talking about chips which is just everywhere. well if we talk about the loss in general it's certainly not helpful and one of the big concerns is that maybe intel might lose market share to some of its competitors and for a second consecutive day intel is the worst performer in the doll jones industrial average by far having that said it's not that easy for customers to replace one semiconductor was another we're talking not ten fifteen years ago where theoretically it wasn't such a big deal to a switch from intel and say to advanced micro devices to me conductors we're talking about chips or semiconductors that are pretty specialized customized and are not that easy to being replaced but it's certainly not helpful and that's why intel is the biggest loser in the dow jones and talking about the doll jones we reached a new milestone today for the first time ever new chips cross the twenty five thousand point mark it's the seventh thousand point mark that we've crossed since the presidential elections so besides intel a pretty bright trading sort of environment here on wall street. almost right thanks for that now the u.s. doesn't take second venting sanctions lightly as a top turkish bank has recently discovered a u.s. court has found a minute or two that the former deputy c.e.o. of turkish state owned bank guilty of helping iran would billions of dollars to evade u.s. sanctions the foreign ministry branded the trial as unfair and a quote shameful. the former deputy c.e.o. of turkish bunkhouse bank mehmet attila faces several years in prison he was found guilty of helping iranians circumvent u.s. sanctions involving oil deals worth billions the ruling was partly based on the testimony of a witness allegedly turkish president. had only one signed off on the bank is illegal business will no surprise the turkish government has criticised the ruling saying in no uncertain terms that it's politically motivated it's a scandalous ruling and a scandalous process there's no other way of seeing it it was clear from the start that the court case was only there to get mixed up in turkey's internal affairs. the court ruling could have far reaching consequences for the turkish economy other banks in the country are also suspected of doing business with iran's oil sector that means they could find themselves cut off from the u.s. financial markets something that would hurt any major bank. now oil prices all trading at a three yard you chicken says that iran's oil supply could be limited by on rest in the country unless a radiant output of over two million barrels a day is not presently under threat and it's a process added to i'm seventy on the market where we'll take comes as oil cartel opec extends production caps in an effort to lighten the market. lived right now is take a look at what will be occupying the russian electorate ahead of voting that brant this one is what room to take a look at happy new year happy new lease in his seat you know let's go to russia now where presidential elections will take place use in march observers expect president vladimir putin to easily win another term in office despite growing opposition our moscow bureau chief yuri rashad are now on the stakes for russia in the new year. twenty eighteen it will be a special year. first is his predictable victory in the presidential election then the food bowl world cup in russia. but it also involves risks especially in foreign affairs. the middle east and syria. prominent example of russia attempt to reposition itself on the build stage just a few weeks ago putin announced russia's withdrawal from syria but even if the military mission was successful achieving a political solution with partners whose individual goals are often radically different might prove to be a more difficult task the so-called syria peace congress planned for the end of january in such is the best example of this syrian opposition groups have canceled their but dissipation because of a cold russian aggressor committed to war crimes. and here how do people in russia see putin syria policy it was a great victory for russia good though why not the war lasted too long it was time to pull out now we don't have to pay as much in tax. most of those who we asked to were in favor of withdrawing russian troops over they called of the withdrawal the most important foreign policy event of the past year russians are tire it and say pump and brands are all well and good but it wouldn't be bad for the government to turn it down russia's economic problems coast in part by western sanctions will remain largely unresolved even in twenty eighteen. nevertheless is and to will remain as the country's most popular politician in twenty eighteen and he expects a victory in march why because the kremlin promises stability and muzzles anyone who questions is their promises the only serious challenge off and alex seen of ali was not allowed to run for president he has. already announced his plans to appeal the decision. politically russia is already starting to heat up and it probably won't cool down after the election is a camel and can only hope that this iteration in the country will remain stable until june so that russia can finally score some political press as the host of the don't stop. and there was a very rich other reporting from moscow well as we just heard putin's main challenger alexina of all the has been barred from running in the election but several other candidates are standing including a well known t.v. host zinnia zope chaat now her candidacy is expected to increase voter turnout and her advisor vitale sclera rolls joins me tonight from moscow there you are to tell the welcome to the show thank you for taking the time to talk with the this evening i want to start with the big picture about elections and politics in russia is it possible to even expect a fair and free presidential election in russia in march i don't think it's possible quite frankly nobody can lead you to my eyes this election and i believe there's election is it's a big farce so i wouldn't be helping a lot of excitement or a lot of change and political future in russia so if it's a big political fars then explain to us the role of zenia zob jock why is she decided basically to run knowing she's going to lose. well look i believe in a situation in political landscape belief or in political situation we are here in russia you don't have that much of a choice what would be the difference just to skip the action and just stay as as it is i believe every attempt every chance to try to reach out to voters try to push their agenda try to pull the kremlin and every single attempt to talk to the waters and explain why this government is failing president putin cannot stay in power for eighteen years and not not developing the country i believe we should take any ability to seriously and take this opportunity and try to do the best so it doesn't mean that we go away and it doesn't mean though that we have to stay home and do nothing ok well i mean that is certainly an admirable position to have what happens after the election when mr putin if he has been reelected what will you say what was what were you say the impact of zinnias kanda dizzy will have been on russian politics. look i think no matter what happens. if they reach out to one hundred thousands or millions of people in russia it's great if we send one more candidates challenging putin is great if the scent of woman the youngest candidate in the history of russia in the election is great i believe if we have an end of the day a result plot form for a new candidate to run more they'd more of volunteers in that a base it's all great i believe the micro see is not born odd want to lection so it's a long process and i see this election and i say this attempt to run for office and shell has put in as a part of a long term game let's talk a little bit about any kind of rush is she if people have heard about her they've heard about her being a socialite turned t.v. host what are her political credential i mean why would you tell the russian voter that she is qualified to be the next president. well i don't think it's the question is who is the most qualified to be seen in this country so many apparently qualified candidates and look at this country great is that right no i don't think the question is of qualification i believe what is more important to create. a situation or environment where everybody can run where qualified people can be heard when people can can take part in elections and we are so far away from it and i believe the kremlin is trying on purpose created this bacon this is the situation where nobody can run for office and and i don't think we are able to talk about qualification in the election where is everything far so we trying to do the best of course we would be great if not only could run for office but but we don't have this situation and i believe we have to work with what we have. definitely going to stay on this story and we're going to follow this india and please come back on the show as we get closer to the election and let's see what happens the tele the campaign advisor for so joining us tonight from russia thank you for telling your watching news of the record. e-coli out of africa. the price of the beauty. intensity of feeling cold donkey traders are. the reason the chinese beauty products extract it from their hide what needs to be done to stop the scroll to save from arms to the band on their back out of his ego at africa in sixty minutes on d. w. . when i'm traveling to be comfortable. but i also want to stay up to date on the latest news events. and d.-w. makes that part of travelling. just because it's available and thousands of hotels resorts and cruise ships worldwide. or have you found the diamond signing in the subject that shares the w. in your room you could win a great prize or two d. w. dot com travel quiz. they make a 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steve benen. that's right steve bannon is now saying he's sorry he was quoted in that book criticizing people in the trump campaign including donald trump jr according to the book as saying they were treasonous and unpatriotic for meeting with officials who said they represented the russian government will no ban and says he was not ever intending to include donald trump jr in that group that he was talking about paul mann a fort a senior campaign aide campaign manager for trump campaign and that metaphor should have known better because he was a seasoned diplomat however bennett has not denied making those statements he just as he wasn't saying that about donald trump jr he said donald trump jr is a patriot and a good man now the trumpet ministration has brought a lot of people out to speak on the president's behalf despite the fact that he has spoken valuable ie on his own behalf one of those was corey lewandowsky former campaign manager this is what he had to say about bennett that's what steve said that he knows he owes donald trump e.o.'s don't trump jr he owes jerry coaching the entire family an apology if that's what he said if that's what he said then shame on steve bannon because that is so out of bounds to accuse somebody of treason is so out of line and so out of character for a guy like steve bannon that i have a hard time believing what wolf wrote but if that's what steve said then shame on steve. you know he wasn't the only trump administration official or person tied with the drug administration who has spoken on the president's behalf this weekend mike pompei o the cia director nikki haley the u.s. ambassador to the united nations and white house aide steven miller all went on the television today to talk on those sunday talk shows about what the president about the president's point of view on this book and. it could not be clear that the white house is obsessed with responding to this book. our john thanks very much they join hundred reporting there from washi

steve benen has violated that in the view of the president ultimately this break up is bad for both people steve benen still has some influence over at least part of donald trump's base through his right wing news platform right by it's the same time though also the stature of steve benen is diminished because all the other right wing news media have been distancing themselves from ben and they have sided with the president's already a number of politicians have rejected indorsements from ben and even the republican donors like rebecca mercer has said they would no longer support ben and so this is also bad for him now carson this is i mean appears to be a very sensational book this has all the ingredients of a soap opera with insults flying back and forth a lot of drama but the most glaring accusation is bana's description of a meeting between the chum campaign and a russian lawyer described as treasonous how could that affect the ongoing investigation into the campaigns the ties to russia and the trump presidency do they have to take this into account. well i don't think there's anything in this book that. doesn't already know he's looking into these things many of the things that i described in the book have been known to have been described by other journalis

steve benen was quoted as saying that he expects the miller investigation to focus on money laundering soft course i would assume that mr willow but the miller would like to know wherever steve benen was just talking or whether he has actually have he has knowledge of what he was talking about mr mueller of course would like to do something that you've already done and you have met steve berry and you've interviewed him in fact that interview was part of your new documentary on the first year of the trump presidency which is airing right now here on d w we've got a clip from your talk with ben and let's take a look. and on has left breitbart and when i met him he seemed to be enjoying this conflict has struck me as dana and self-absorbed. the institution of the media is just another average figure in fact i think news is the least bit the nickel i call the opposition party. that's actually not true but information today is part of political warfare. all right you know again i'm going to say kudos to you for telling him we're not politicians as if you had forgotten that but alexander let me ask you what when through your mind immediately following that exchange with mr ban you know i thought well he likes to fight he really likes his crusade against other so-called mainstream media he when you question his use he is sort of getting in there are throwing punches and tha

steve benen could create tensions with his base steve benen really helped represent a lot of the voters across the country who felt angry and disenfranchised and supported the president wanted and now the president is saying that you've been is out of his mind that he didn't have a lot of influence either in the white house or in the campaign but steve benen was never an establishment republican he was never part of that group on capitol hill that has run the country for so long a lot of mainstream republicans on capitol hill and elsewhere will be delighted to see the president distancing himself from steve benen and that wing of the party bed and has been waging a war against incumbent republicans across the country as we head towards the midterms the white house is defending trump's tweet about the size of its nuclear button on tuesday the president warned the north korean leader that it's nuclear button is much bigger and more powerful and that his button works i don't think that it's tontine to stand up for the people of this country i think what's dangerous is to ignore the continued threats if the previous administration had done anything and dealt with north korea dealt with iran instead of sitting behind doing nothing we wouldn't have to clean up their mess now south korea says it is coordinating with the u.s. how to propose

letter to steve bannon threatening him shows that they are worried very worried about the comments as steve benen is making and this book it is also very important fair to point out that steve benen talks in this book about this meeting with the russian lawyer in june two thousand and sixteen that means in the middle of the presidential elections and this is a meeting that donald trump has been denying as several times and it is also very important part of the russia fair and conducted by robert muller so it could affect very much donald trump. this is a midterm election year in the u.s. but the democrats don't seem to have gone all we have talk over this book why. well feel this is clearly a conflict between republicans so i can imagine that democrats are just sitting watching and probably smiling because these are two different parts of the republican party who are right now in a quite deep conflict i would say how alina cho boy in washington. now to some of the other stories making news around the world residents of a shanty town in the congolese capital kinshasa are picking up the pieces after at least forty four people died in mudslides interventional rainstorms or say

steve bannon saying was forced out of the white house on social media he said essentially that steve bennett had lost his mind well certainly the relationship has unraveled that could be some incentive for steve benen to do some talking as well to this is certainly frustrating the white house given the fact that the investigation continues one that they have said repeatedly will be wrapped up by thanksgiving will be wrapped up by christmas well it's still ongoing so there's that and also to there is the fact that the president is still frustrated this is is going he is recently as this morning was tweeting in fact calling this investigation once again a hoax and also name calling the journalist covering it basically once again saying that those who reported the story were simply part of the fake news media oracularly things very much they can be like a reporter from washington the. u.s. so calling for calm of your problem because of and politician was shot dead president described the killing of a live event which as an act of terrorism at a meeting in brussels between kosovo and serbia was brutally cold all for news of the shooting in britain as its report the yellow forensic markers show where al

to sell this really boring and untruthful book he was sloppy steve benen who cried when he got fired and begged for his job now sloppy steve has been dumped like a dog by almost everyone too bad breitbart chief executive larry saul of said in a statement on the website that bannon was quote a valued part of our legacy and we will always be grateful for his contributions. french actress catherine deneuve has criticized the me too movement for going too far as saying men should feel free to make advances to word women well in an open letter published in france of war and of a new puritanism as a result of the recent surge of sexual harassment scandals the actress is among one hundred women including.

did not take them in and i believe john the triumphal the chief of stuff steve benen has been talking a day. that's right steve benen has sent out a note to the new service axios saying after several days of being criticized for some of the things he said in that book he called donald trump jr unpatriotic and he said his actions were treasonous in meeting with russian officials and now he said he has expressed regret and he says donald trump jr is a patriot and a good man he says my support is also unwavering for the president and his agenda and he has lost a financial backers over this and a lot of political supporters there's been a split in the republican party between the banon ites and trump and the more conventional republicans so that has cost ben and ben and is now expressing regret for that but the white house has also dispatched a number of people to talk on trump's behalf for the sunday talk shows they've just patch cia director mike pompei out nikki haley the u.s. ambassador to the united nations former campaign director corey lewandowsky and white house aide steven miller all of whom challenge the

exist look at this guy's past and watch what happens to him and sloppy steve a new nickname for his longtime strategist steve benen who was quoted extensively in the book where he alleges the president himself met with russian operatives during the campaign if true that could lead to charges of collusion as for the assertion that trump didn't let wolf into the white house somebody cleared him and he was often seen hanging around the west wing this is a president who despises being called stupid now reportedly being called that by everyone close to him by a very intelligent very so far no one has denied making those statements if they do wolf says he has the tapes to prove it making it likely what is already described as an erratic leader and a chaotic white house will be much more so in the days and weeks ahead pedicle hane al jazeera washington now the. the u.n. security council is due to hold a special session to discuss recent protests in iran the u.s. is accusing terrine of stifling the voices of its people let's go straight to my cairo correspondent who joins us live now from the united nations in new york mi

steve bennett are not really flattering for trump and i think trump had enough. since being sacked steve benen did appear before this did appear to have been loyal to the trump course so this this latest falling out must be all the more dramatic for the us. yeah absolutely it is a major shift and we don't see how this works out i mean there is a civil war going on within the republican party the old establishment the old conservative establishment against a more nationalist populist wing which is of course led by the on the trump who has basically taken over the party and then does steve benen who is definitely one. of those people who want a more nationalist and more populist agenda still and he will continue to do that he will be supporting candidates to the very rights of the political spectrum in the upcoming midterm elections or the election process within the republican party before that so. yeah this is a major thing because now some parts of this nationalist movement might actually position against trump so we'll see how that works out in the two thousand and eighteen bits of elections custom phenomenon in washington thank you to ron that now and after nearly a week of rioting deaths and arrests on the streets the general in charge of the country's revolution because it has announced what he called the end of sedition general mohammad ali jafari declared that many of those arrested had received training from counter revolutionaries and that firm action would be taken against them general jet fighters remarks came as iranian state media showed footage of pro-go

steve bannon the head of the release of a new bombshell book the president said the following steve benen has nothing to do with me or my presidency when he was fired he not only lost his job he lost his mind now the president disavowed bannan after it emerged that his book attacked donald trump jr for a twenty sixth meeting with a group of russians bannon wrote the following even if you thought that this was not treasonous or unpatriotic or bad and i happen to think that it is all of that you should have called the f.b.i. immediately the u.s. media say the trumps lawyers have sent a cease and desist letter to bannon accusing him of violating a non-disclosure agreement and epping full an epic falling out between these two former allies what could it mean for the trump presidency on the russian investigators more on that in just a moment but first a look at how the ban and trump relationship collapsed with friends like these who needs enemies it may feel like ages ago but it hasn't been that long since president donald trump and his former chief strategist steve benen were thick as thieves. toward the end of the two thousand and sixteen presidential campaign bannon left his post as executive chairman of the right wing web site breitbart news to join the trump campaign he was the embodiment of all the issues that energize the trump base nationalism and time a great an economic deregulation despite accusations of racism and xenophobia benon helped build the wave of populism but trump it unleashed trump became president and bannon became a kingmaker. bannon took on the role as chief strategist and senior counselor to the president he was seen as a primary architect of trump's nationalist agenda the president was not shy about celebrating their closeness is very committed and friend of mine and he's very committed to getting things passed we'll have a very good relationship as you know with the bennett steve's been a friend of mine for a long time i like steve a lot man and also helped push both the president's populism and his attacks on news or

steve benen that shows just how angry donald trump must be and what if steve bannon that the books not been released yet why is he allowing this material to go public which could damage a man that he helped to become president. steve bannon is very vain and very full of himself he things is the smartest guy around he has shown that time and again in interviews that he has given and so basically he's been his own worst enemy many times pretty much like donald trump in some other respects so steve benen of course knew that these quotes would be used for this book by michael wolff fire and fury but he didn't release them in the way i think he just once again tried to present himself in the good lights and didn't mind painting donald trump in the white house in a very negative light and i think you might have crossed the line here this time because a phenomenon in washington thank you. now when it comes to relations between the united states and north korea the new year began pretty much the way the old one ended with verbal sparring between the two countries north korea's kim jong un used these new year's address to boast about the nuclear button on his table ready to launch strikes at the united states declaring tha

steve benen so that just shows how angry donald trump is once again also his spokeswoman in a press conference sad that steve benen is not that important that donald trump's base is not affected i don't think that's true in the way the white house and on trump are not playing to to trying to downplay the role of steve bannon is ridiculous he might not have been the mosque the mine that some in the media have described him but definitely he played a role in the campaign he played a role after that and he still talked to president trump even after he left the white house and he certainly played a role in the fact that donald trump eventually supported roy moon bamma the conservative candidate who was accused of sexual misconduct would then last that safe seats for the republicans and a democrat won so all this played a role and until now steve benen definitely had some influence on donald trump and the white house and as you say that investigation is ongoing how damaging is this likely to be for the trump presidency. it is going to be damaging because simply because steve benen is clearly. still powerful he is the head of a bright box which is right wing information platform and he is in that position still he can use broad bots to fight against the president and he might do that even though sarah se

steve bannon was involved in many meetings the president signed off on including steve benen as a member of the national security council president referred to bad and this was shortly before his firing as mr ban and i will tell you that that raised some have goals. here let's delve a little bit further because we're talking live on the show by media legal analyst line nolo always good to have you on the program we've gotten used to how can we trump harshly criticizing his opponents but this is a little different what do you think is the most striking thing about this latest outburst. the usual miss the absolute predictability of this here's a simple rule if you don't go after trump he doesn't bother you go after him in any way insult him criticize him take him to task and he's on you with a death grip you've never seen never seen perhaps maybe openly in the history of of the american presidency but it is trumping exactly what's even more funny there's a read all the people online trying to read the tea leaves and to psychoanalyze him what is this about how could he do this to ban and how. trump doesn't care do you i'm sure do i say i use this term rhetorical or do does everyone remember what trump has really been through to get where he is now does anybody think for a moment that this little momentary kerfuffle with steve bannon regarding something he obviously said a while back because it's in the book right now that trump is losing any sleep over this does anybody think that anybody in the drug administration cares one i ota about this i mean it what it does is it throws the mainstream media the washington press corps and the mainstream media news troops and throws them into disarray which trump thrives on and after he's done with bannon he's going to say something about france or italy or or some of his neighbor has someone this is his pattern does anybody not pay attention trump arrives on this he loves this just how the influential allies i mean can you do you think that bonding actually was there because when you listen as you mention to the mainstream media it seems as if he was pivotal. while there he there saying that and he was by the way i mean he was he was a very poor but he came in after i believe it when the primary and certainly he said a lot of things that might have helped the preside

steve a new nickname for his longtime strategist steve benen who was quoted extensively in the book where he alleges the president himself met with russian operatives during the campaign if true that could lead to charges of collusion as for the assertion that trump didn't let wolf into the white house somebody cleared him and he was often seen hanging around the west wing this is a president who despises being called stupid now reportedly being called that by everyone close to him by a very intelligent very serious so far no one has denied making those statements if they do wolf says he has the tapes to prove it making it likely what is already described as an erratic leader and a chaotic white house will be much more so in the days and weeks ahead. live now to patsy who i know is in possession of a copy of this book what do we know about the revelations fathi well you know handily it has an index so i haven't been able to read very much so be honest with you we just got it and actually the bookstore sold out within thirty minutes i don't know if that's happening across the country but it certainly is all the talk of washington one of the things that is noteworthy is the talks about the president's trip to saudi arabia remember he went there and and had a meeting with all of the different arab states now the author here michael wolff goes into detail about how the saudis used imagery of the president and the king through a huge gala in his honor to try and sway him and the trip by saying that they would promise to buy hundreds of billions of dollars worth of military hardware well apparently according to wolf going into this the trump said that they were going to do a lot more then than they had actually promised but he was bragging to friends that the saudis had promised to build a military complex for the united states in saudi arabia that would in his words supplant and replace the u.s. central command headquarters in qatar now obviously that announcement was not made that didn't happen it's unlikely that the president realizes that the saudis had kicked u.s. troops out of their country which is part of the reason why they are in qatar it also says that they bragged about helping the crown prince mohammed bin solomon known as m.d.s. basically take power in the quote in the book is we put our men on top b.s. basically saying that they helped take part in a coup right so fascinating insight into. you know that policy and trumps relationship and the relationship of his aides with the figure is what kind of an impact is this likely to have particularly with trump's of porsches . well that is going to be the big question so i've been watching the president's favorite channel and what most of his base watch is the conservative fox news channel here in the united states there aren't giving it a lot of coverage believe they're focusing mostly on the idea that the f.b.i. is going to launch an investigation into hillary clinton. when they did speak about it in the show that we know the president loves to watch they talked about this being just media madness and so it's if they downplay it like they have been it's unlikely that these supporters are going to want to rush out it and buy it because if you try to buy it i am going to take you about a month before you get it you know usually the president who has had let's face it more scandals more controversies broken more norms than any president in modern u.s. history these things don't stick to him he's beyond teflon as they like to say in politics and i think part of the reason and so political scientists will tell you it's because he says it's fake news you just don't trust it the camp they're making it up and so far that's worked for him his supporters whenever you talk to them and say what about this they say oh that's fake news we simply don't believe it thank you very much in washington d.c. well i'm not joined by max how divine geo politics reporter online news organization quartz joins me in the studio now thanks very much for coming in do you agree with the point that patty was making at the end that that president despite these revelations is likely to retain the support that he already has in the u.s. because this effectively confirms what we already know and just reinforces existing fault lines in u.s. politics completely agree i mean we have seen the narrative come out so i mean this is more explosive than we've seen so far but we've seen these stories come out from the very beginning of his presidency and so far all they've done is been met with a mixture it's in horror by liberals with his opponents and his proponents really look into i mean the british thing we have to ask is whether members of congress are going to suddenly change their views in trouble the public views on trump because of this so far i haven't seen anyone come up with a big reaction i don't expect them to. the depiction of president trump in this book is consistent with what we already know of him how my explosive and insulting revelations from these are from friends from former aides and members of staff people who obviously view him with some contempt how might that impact president trum scorn duct and behavior. i mean i don't think it's going to change his behavior all that much i mean we haven't really seen his behavior change for any significant period of tool during his presidency and i think a slightly different point the really interesting thing that came out of this was bannon's comments about the russian investigation being all about money laundering i think that's the one point that can trump. because you know they've said all along that russia is a lot of smoke no fire is not coming from anything but the thing is started looking into his into his money and his finances and there's a potential he could start uncovering criminal things that are completely unrelated to the russian investigation but that's the point where it becomes difficult for g.o.p. politicians to carry on supporting him for a figure like bannan to be quoted on the record saying that's a problem that's where it could become an issue and baton is a very important figure in this transform as chief strategist and you mentioned that meeting he makes scathing remarks about the meeting between the president's son and a group of russians during the twenty sixteen presidential campaign just to put this into perspective because he used different words he said treasonous he said unpatriotic how serious is this allegation of money laundering i mean the allegation of i mean well so what what we know is the trump got hundreds of millions of dollars from deutsche bank between two thousand and ten two thousand and fifteen during that same period roughly so if your bank was conducting a massive money laundering operation for the russians out of moscow and since been fined for that we have no idea if that is connect if any of the money from was getting from that was connected to russia he was certainly getting money in an unorthodox way from deutsche bank a lot of questions open up on that we know there's been many. potentially corrupt things in his previous career. so the question is and we know the. special counsel mother has asked to subpoena documents from that your. we're not sure exactly what they are so the question is what those documents are what they show he can start he can reveal things that are not necessarily related to russia but that show that potentially show that trump has been corrupt and then it becomes a political decision as to whether members of congress want to know someone we have a proven money trail of money laundering if this were all true obviously if they want to come and support in the person yeah that could be a significant turning point but one that hasn't materialized yet thank you very much maxed out on it watching the news hour live from london much more to tell you about the truce village preparing to host the first high level talks in two years between north and south korea. i'm going hey in northern thailand home to many ethnic minority groups many people living in these hills who've lived here for generations but still can't officially call thailand home. and in sport maria sharapova is promising start to the new year. joe will be here with that story in march from. russia has called for closed door talks ahead of the u.n. meeting on iran on friday the u.n. security council is having a special session to discuss recent protests in iran with the u.s. accusing to iran of stifling the voices of its people but iranian leaders say larger pro-government rallies suggest otherwise reports from to her on. another day of pro-government rallies in iran seemingly part of a two pronged approach to keep detractors off the streets a large show of public support and a heavy police presence across the country with critics inside and outside iran predicting the downfall of the islamic republic the government is determined to publicly project the power of the state. at friday prayers in the capital to her own a senior cleric reminded people of iran's real enemies who he says are behind the unrest in the country it's say announced this is what is happening saudi arabia gave the money the us did the planning it was coordinated from us control very means and have gotten weapons are being transferred little by little to iran they wanted to finish is in february that was the plan but he also sympathized with public demands for better economic conditions it terror are thought to have the protests was right those who lost their money and it's not too long protest for them people are saying death to high prices we're saying not to what people are saying should be heard people's rights shouldn't be missed in the middle of this mess. meanwhile what was essentially a leaderless protest movement with competing demands seems to have fizzled out but on social media sites people are still sharing week old videos of anti-government demonstrations. protests last week were the boldest challenge for rod stablished that in nearly a decade but crowd size is only ever numbered in the thousands in contrast in two thousand and nine more than a million people came out into the streets to protest the reelection of president mahmoud ahmadinejad but for now activists who oppose the government have been sidelined by much larger crowds who support. up to one on mike hanna is following developments at the united nations he joins us now in like it was of course u.s. ambassador nikki haley who called for an emergency meeting but does she have support from other council members. well that's something we're going to find out within the next hour because there is a meeting called just over an hour's time called by russia which is will be a closed meeting no doubt they are attempting at the last moment to persuade her not to move this into public discussion in the security council should they fail the security council will then open the proceedings they will then it is likely be a procedural vote which russia will demand path what this means is that nikki haley needs to get nine of the fifteen members to agree to discuss this matter in the security council the issue of iran has not been on the agenda a number of council members even those that may support her in the call for discussions are very uncomfortable about this being a public discussion at this stage russia has made very clear its position that what's happening in iran is an internal domestic matter we'll see within the next hour or so how many other of the council members agree with russia or are prepared to grit their teeth in some cases and go with the united states in holding discussions on iran yes because the general sense coming from the u.n. is that this is an internal iranian matter as opposed to one that has serious implications for global security what are the expectations in terms of action on iran that. well there's unlikely to be any action whatsoever arising out of this meeting there is no resolution there will be no formal vote at the end of it should it go ahead should nikki haley get those nine votes but it's very interesting to note that the first mention that nikki haley made of pressing for a security council meeting on iran came at a news conference back on tuesday that very morning there'd been a breakfast stop the five permanent members the monthly breakfast she had made no mention of the matter then she also made no mention of the matter while the security council was discussing what aspects it was going to be looking at during the month of january so the whole issue of iran came completely out of the blue for many of the members which adds to that sense of disquiet as i say even among those traditional allies who may go ahead and back nikki haley in that procedural vote that we'll be seeing at the top of the security council meeting in just over two hours all right thank you very much mike hanna looking ahead to that meeting in a couple of hours twenty eight hundred g.m.t. after more than two years of silence north korea and south korea are ready to reopen direct lines of communication choose days face to face talks will focus initially on the north's participation in next month's winter olympics in the south but officials in seoul say discussions are expected to move on to what they describe as other areas of common interest laura slowly reports in a few days the truce village of pinewood or the demilitarized zone that separates north and south korea will be a hive of activity representatives from the two countries will hold high level talks here for the first time in more than two years earlier this week north korean leader kim jong il is shit at dialogue in his new year's day address four days later his government agreed to hold talks the announcement came just hours after the u.s. and south korea agreed to postpone annual military drills for the defense these have long been regarded as provocative by pyongyang. the leaders agreed not to conduct south korea yes joint military drills. and to do their best to use sure the security of the olympics. next week's discussions will center on north korea's participation in the upcoming winter olympics as well as generally improving and to create relations but officials here in south korea are also hoping the negotiations will eventually lead to north korea returning to international talks on its nuclear program even so president cautiously optimistic saying we should refrain from making premature judgement or expectation. the japanese defense minister also sounded a lot of caution but. north korea goes through phases of apparent dialogue and provocations you know but either way north korea is continuing its nuclear and missile development we have no intention of weakening our warning and surveillance that. it is new year's day speech said north korea would meditate its nuclear weapons program and even called for the mass production of deployment of nuclear warheads and this house. from the conservative perspective in north korea trying to buy time the majority seems to believe the north korea is trying to finalize its technical development to to achieve operational i.c.b.m. so you know as us the cia has announced before they are talking about two or three month time in terms of finalizing the i.c.b.m. system and it looks like this is a perfect action on their side you know to buy time. last year north korea test fired three to continental ballistic missiles or i.c.b.m.'s including one that it's capable of reaching the u.s. mainland ready hope the upcoming talks would be the best option for now of deescalate the crisis on the korean peninsula largely al jazeera so. well joining me now from washington d.c. is greg scarlett toy you executive director of the committee of human rights in north korea thanks very much for speaking to us so these are the first official talks between north and south korea in over two years i think a positive development but is it a breakthrough. this is certainly not a breakthrough but a positive development it is certainly a positive development that a direct line has been reopened and the talks are scheduled what does that reveal about the intentions of the regime of kim kim jong un. the regime's fundamental strategic objective has not changed this regime is very keen on its own survival it read gods its nuclear and ballistic missile programs as key to exit cubing that fundamental strategic objective so that fundamental strategic stance has not changed that said. twenty eighteen is an important ear for the came regime the ninth of september twenty eight hundred is the seventieth anniversary of the establishment of the d.p. r. k. the democratic people's republic of korea in his new year speech than claimed success on the nuclear and missile front perhaps at this stage is interested in securing some solid korean assistance that might enable him to claim success on the economic front as well and thus enable him to claim the success of his policy line of developing simle taney asli the economy and nuclear weapons so what he really wants from this economic concessions will the south be receptive to that. there is one problem here and that very serious problem is the sanctions regime based on the un security council resolutions that aim to prevent and stop the development and proliferation of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles by north korea of course. would be interested in the resumption of korean copper ration at the case on industrial complex over the long run even south korea would be interested in resuming in a korean economic operation the big problem here is that such. call peroration would basically go against the current sanctions regime that has been that staking a bite out of the north korean regime this is a sanctions regime that is working and the south koreans have been fully. how then do you break out of that cycle. well. basically if one takes a look at what the united states is doing in direct coordination with our allies in south korea japan and elsewhere the united states is applying the military element of national power by deploying passes to the region by reinforcing confidence in strategic alliances with south korea with japan these are all efforts that are meant to prevent a war not to provoke one on the economic front we have implemented we have been implementing for the past few months an enhanced sanctions regime that's more effective so while exerting this type of pressure through the application of fundamental elements of national power of course if we see a window of opportunity for diplomacy we should take that window of opportunity however this must be realistic diplomacy based on a full understanding of the auto lack of diplomatic credibility that north korea has we have to remember that the regime of north korea has rescinded and violated each and every international agreement it has exceeded to for example enjoy naturally housley as you well have to see how this diplomatic of the chair from north korea unfolds and possibly even develops but for now thank you very much greg sky in washington d.c. pleasures one. united nations humanitarian chief says yemen could become the worst humanitarian disaster in fifty years the war is having a devastating impact in yemen with wise fried food shortages and a major outbreak of cholera as fighting continues in many parts of the country stephanie decker reports. forced to live out in the open these yemeni families of escape the fighting new border with. saudi arabia now they have to bear the elements on the streets of who data their daily routine now for everyone to see this war has displaced hundreds of thousands of people. i came from we ran for our lives now we sleep on the floor no mattresses or blankets and it is really cold we have no income outrigger are suffering if any of us fall sick we can't afford treatment our condition is really terrible needless to say we are living in fear this war now almost into its third year is all about regional politics and control the consequence of that has created what the un calls the world's worst humanitarian crisis the situation in yemen today right now to the population of the country looks like the apocalypse we need to scale up our response the cholera outbreak is probably the worst the world has ever seen with a million suspected cases of the under twenty seventeen this terrible news demick of diptheria a bacterial disease which should be completely preventable by immunization as already affected it's up to five hundred people with dozens and dozens of deaths in the last few weeks that is going to spread like wildfire and aid agencies are not able to access the majority of those in need them xanana we had to escape the war our life has turned upside down we can't afford a decent meal we're now begging to eat and feed our children were living in the streets on charity. some basic supplies are getting through a blanket to keep warm it is winter now and temperatures drop at night and a fire offers little comfort these people face an uncertain future with no idea when they can go back home what will be left of it once they do stephanie decker al-jazeera. well i watch in any. respect the rule of law the french president is called his turkish counterpart at that meeting in paris. that mia called in the army to contain a deadly outbreak of cholera. and in support bositis youngest fans benefit from an annual tradition shall have that story and much more. have had some rather lively stolz across the eastern side of the mediterranean sea circulation had the power of life for us has been bringing some very heavy right in it's a very windy conditions as well that will clear through will dry up as we go on through the next couple days i am pleased to say by rate at around sixteen degrees celsius just about getting up into double figures there it's run a little more cloud just around the southern end of the caspian for most of us it shouldn't be too bad over the next day out see much to see want to see wintry flowers into northern iraq as we go through sunday behind that the sunshine which is in the sunshine stretches across the raven peninsula chiles of want to see showers just around the southern end of the red sea but for most it's going to be fine settled and sunny temperatures here and getting up to twenty five or twenty six degrees over the next couple of days after southern africa slahi find it right we come across into madagascar and here we do have a tropical cyclone eva still bringing some very wet since some very windy weather in across the region widespread disruption here i think some pasta the eastern side of madagascar we'll see damaging winds and of course the flooding rains we're looking at two hundred three millimeters of rain for some and that will cause widespread problems for the country. june nineteenth sixty seventh six days that redrew the map of the middle east this record of the victory of the israeli army in that war was the greatest tragedy of the history of the fifty years later al-jazeera explores the events leading to the war and its consequences which are still felt today we tried everything to the united nations and try to make. contacts through different countries and it was clear that all this was to do all of the war in june at this time discover a wealth of award winning programming from around the world they need more and find professionals a top priority is to model ways that will generations to study find powerful documentary debates and discussions as prime minister you do need to be critical of all massaging in all sex is a challenge your perceptions the contours of this story are shaped by the interests of the countries involved only on al-jazeera. welcome back to watching the news outlets update on the stories making headlines the author of a controversial book on donald trump says the u.s. president has no credibility and his staff say he is like a child michael rules fire inferi inside the trump white house has gone on sale only despite the president's attempts to hold publication. u.n. security council is preparing to hold a special session to discuss anti-government protests in iran united states has called for the talks after accusing iran of suppressing dissent government supporters in iran though have been holding counter demonstrations for a day. the u.s. humanitarian chief says that yemen could endure the worst humanitarian disaster in fifty years the u.n. has released more funding to try to prevent hundreds of thousands of people dying through famine and disease after three years of war in the country. now and all the stories are following french president want his turkish counterpart that democracies must respect the rule of law during a meeting between the two leaders in paris visit to france was russia first since the failed twenty sixteen who one of only a handful to europe it was confronted by a dozen human rights protesters who were attempting to block his arrival to the ne safe. said recent developments in turkey did not allow any progress on its. turkey's group or law europe always tells us that the judiciary must be of the well in turkey. but that they make their own decisions independently. terrorists just not just happen to look for those who support them. they prime it. they nourish tara. i really do believe that we have a challenge which is wonderful leaders but also modern democracies democracy must be strong against terrorism because the legitimacy of the state means it must protect its citizens but at the same time democracies must respect the rule of law of action there is that ash about i was at that showing is conference and has more . well this was an opportunity for these two leaders to talk about the many pressing regional issues in the middle east they talked about syria they talked about iraq and jerusalem with president michel reaffirming his commitment to a two state solution for the israelis and the palestinians that was something the turkish president said he appreciated very much but there was a real focus on turkey's relationship with the european union because it really has deteriorated over the past two years the e.u. criticizes turkey over its poor human rights record especially after that twenty sixteen failed coup the european union saying that ankara has really come down too hard on what it sees as political opponents with tens of thousands of people arrested and sacked now turkey is a member is a candidate for membership i should say all of the european union but the exertion talks have been on hold for the last two years so this was the turkish president's attempt to try and mend those relations he has come to visit the french president because france is one of turkey's main allies of the moment and there is no doubt that the turkish president as relations with the u.s. become more fragile and the situation in the middle east is also fragile he is looking for support elsewhere person mark or also raise the issue of human rights that is something very important to the french public there were protests here today against the turkish president coming to france before president markov he says he is very pragmatic he does not believe that that should necessarily get in the way of turkey having a good relationship with france and turkey cooperating on issues such as controlling illegal migration to europe and the fight against what president calls terrorism. the u.n. has condemned a recent series of death sentences in egypt with twenty people reportedly executed there in the past ten days the human rights office says death sentences should not be used to combat what they call terrorism and also expressed concern at the use of military courts to try civilians. i was seriously concerned that in all of these cases jew process and fair trial guarantees do not appear to be followed as military courts typically deny defendants rights accorded by civilian courts reports also indicated the prisoners who were executed may have been subjected to initial inforced disappearance and torture before being tried or now moving to zimbabwe where the new president has ruled out forming a coalition government with the opposition amisom and i made the statement after visiting opposition leader morgan tsvangirai is suffering from colon cancer at his home but i will came to power in november after forcing out longtime leader robert mugabe the first change of presidents in more than four decades has led to renewed hopes of a return to democratic norms. but it's really really. in. the medical it's. going forward do you see any prospects of it do you mean for us the good. people someone will be what it. really. good. pakistan has responded angrily to the us a suspension of military assistance to as. pakistan's foreign ministers told the wall street journal that the white house isn't acting like an ally or shit and has got millions of dollars worth of aid to the country on tuesday it blames the government for failing to take action against taliban fighters targeting u.s. troops in neighboring afghanistan or political analyst eric president says pakistan has already been shifting towards closer ties with china. but china is a very you know there's a partnership which is called strategic cooperative partnership with china we are building everything from the fighter aircraft to the seat back to the major investment of sixty billion dollars that is making an august there it's everything is happening on the basis of partnership but been bogged down in china so basically this strategic direction has already shifted from washington to bidding it's just that there is a certain mindset still in islam about that maybe we still need to be connected with washington and maybe at a limited level so was as the time goes by and if the u.s. sanctions going to new i think august on the united states might lose pakistan for for a long time to go well now to zambia where a major military operation has been launched contain a cholera outbreak that has killed more than fifty people in just over three months the un has lent it support providing two million vaccines in beds for sixteen hundred people again be has more. extreme measures to contain a national health crisis this is a barricade in zambia's capital lusaka street says pitching in to help the military close off one of the city's crowded marketplaces that have become a breeding ground for cholera before the unsettling season there were this petition that ready to terminate but he called it in season he's getting. deeper into a period where it would be crowded waters in several places the government decided it's needed discredited airports and get in the military the outbreak began at the end of september with bacteria showing up in shallow wells into densely populated areas on the outskirts of usaca the wells were filled in but not before the disease spread to the city moved in two thousand people have been infected in just over three months color is a bacterial disease. usually spread through contaminated water it preys on the most vulnerable the frail and weak but even the healthy are at risk left untreated it can kill within hours with the backing of the un zambia has launched a color a vaccination campaign set up treatment centers and closed off some public spaces church gatherings in the at the same time as in areas where the epicenter was. much part. and the lists as has been provided by our colleagues from the command center and not allowed funeral gatherings and not allowed public gatherings and not on. the ban extends to schools due to resume classes this week and two restaurants where health workers have found contaminated food the government says it's confident the outbreak can be contained within the next few weeks but spreading the message of proper hygiene and sanitation may take longer than that victoria gates and the al-jazeera. the eastern united states are in the grip of a phrasing went to stone system known by meteorologists as a bomb cyclon these are the areas saying the west of the temperature has no reaching as far south as florida national weather service says warmer temperatures one arrive until the beginning of next week at least sixteen deaths have now been blamed on the storms with millions of people facing disruption. has mall. a large chunk of north america was already in a deep freeze now the northeast coast is being hit particularly hard from a winter blizzard massachusetts bearing the brunt of it blowing snow made printer white out conditions along the coastal regions of the state there was icy flooding . in the seaside town of scituate massachusetts boats were seen floating in icy waters all of the northeast of the u.s. was hit with what meteorologists were loosely calling a snow hurricane it closed many schools and government offices in new york heavy snow and particularly high winds nearly brought the city to a halt and by afternoon most businesses had closed up for the day the mayor declared a winter storm emergency and he asked residents to stay indoors. this is a serious serious storm between the very low temperature the strong winds the driving snow everyone should take this one very seriously and take precautions that conditions brought airports to a standstill thousands of flights canceled in the northeast leaving travelers either queuing up to rebook or stranded unsure of when they might be able to fly appetite was canceled and we never got any information it would be canceled. or delayed and we're not sure it would be on the plan to see further south in georgia water bottles were no match for the cold the their site. temperatures this low are highly unusual this is the first time five years have seen so cold in ice as much but back up in the northeast the situation could get worse overnight the governor of massachusetts saying friday likely won't be any better a foot of snow wasn't in the forecast predicts digit temperatures to move in on friday the storm hit hard with temperatures now expected to dip down again to minus twenty degrees celsius and below there seems little chance of much melting away good rules on bo new york german right wing politician yens meyer says he will apologize to the son of former tennis star bar specker for a racist slur on social media whilst also blaming it on one of his staff members it comes a day off to no a back o's mother is of african-american descent filed a criminal complaint against meyer the politician says the back a tweet was written by one of his assistants at the anti immigration alternative for germany party who has since been disciplined at least four hundred thousand people in thailand are considered stateless with no registered citizenship many of the members of ethnic minorities living on the country's borders it's a problem the thai government wants results by two thousand and twenty four why in a report from the my tongue district. in the hills of northern thailand there are a million people whose lives have been hanging in the balance for years people in this village in chiang mai province belong to the aka ethnic group whose ancestors migrated around the region centuries ago facing persecution along the way. those living here now have been in thailand for generations but many still don't have type paperwork the village chief says he was the last person here to be granted citizenship sixteen years ago. and in the past i only had a car that identified me as a highlander but now i have a tiny nationality car i'm very happy when i have money i can buy everything i want i can buy a house a car i'm glad. those things remain a dream for so many others like hmong tong d who was born in thailand to parents from me and my eight years ago he won a paper plane throwing competition and was granted a temporary passport to represent thailand at a competition in japan the government at the time promised he would be granted permanent status upon his return he's now twenty and is still stateless he works part time in a drone shop in teaches stateless children how to fly them. i feel very sad because people promised they would give me time nationality they were senior people and had promised me when i was just a little boy but they broke their promise. last year the military government valid to grant time nationality to another eighty thousand people but that would still leave hundreds of thousands if not more waiting there are many challenges facing stateless people in thailand they have to ask for permission before leaving their village they have difficulty accessing proper education or employment and can often become victims of corrupt government officials trying to take advantage of their vulnerability. in fact in the last few years many people have had their id cards revoked after it was found they had paid bribes for them at this small government office alone four thousand corrupt cases were uncovered the government sent in more staff to resolve the problems but those in charge say the workload is huge. this is a very delicate job and it can slide into corruption therefore we have to be careful that's why we can only process two nationality cases per day and i'm a good for people waiting it's not just a case of having an id card it's a matter of dignity pride and a sense of belonging after generations of uncertainty when hey al jazeera made ten district thailand. tokyo's world famous fish market has held its last new year's auction in its historic site the sale of a bluefin tuna more than three hundred twenty thousand dollars suki g market is being relocated as part of the city's we development at of the two thousand and twenty eight games and a hoax that has more. to get taken allegedly stroll down a supermarket aisle this is how competitive shoppers buy. auction house in downtown tokyo is the world's largest fish market where tourists mix with michelin starred chefs hoping to reel in a worthy catch. this shoppers snagged the prize attraction pain over three hundred twenty thousand dollars for a four hundred five kilos premium pacific bluefin tuna this big fish was paraded through the market not an easy task considering where you see equivalent of a grand piano this market has been here for over eighty years and it's expected to close its doors and move to a different site as part of the city's redevelopment of the twenty twenty and pick ups some say that's the reason for this year's high prices but there was an air of excitement of the auction and i expect that the fish market will grow livelier as the year goes on although i feel some concern for the market's relocation i'd like to enjoy the moment too. despite the excitement here activist awarning bluefin tuna numbers are dwindling there is an international push to have the fish registered as an endangered species the japanese government wants pino regulations on pacific bluefin for fishermen who exceed the sec quota. it's hoped these new international controls will help the bluefin tuna numbers saw to record levels in fifteen years' time and as this take a landmark gets ready to move to a different site two kilometers away on a manmade island the traders here hope their good fortunes continue. their me with the news hour still to come. thank. you. the hands off approach the obama administration took to enforcing federal laws on the cannabis of a suspect that is changing under president trumps government state is a valid to fight any moves against what's become a multi-billion dollar industry and hashtag i am explains this pivot and policy. the trump administration ignited outrage in the six states and the district of columbia where americans have the right to use marijuana for recreational purposes the whole concept of the interdiction of marijuana at any point in time and the prosecution persecution of those who take marijuana is absurd and this is the where alcohol is condoned to advertise part of the n.f.l. on thursday the department of justice allowed prosecutors to enforce federal law which bans the sale and use of marijuana it was a departure from the approach taken during the obama years which largely left the states alone the president believes in enforcing federal law that would be as top priority the pivot in policy has renewed the debate over the rights of states and the federal government's authority we will not be bullied by an administration that seems obsessed with this man stealing things that are actually working with these greedy. denouncement came days after a law allowing the recreational use of marijuana went into effect in california it's the sixth largest economy in the world and it's spec to become the economic engine for the multibillion dollar cannabis in. history in the united states some business owners say attaining marijuana has shifted from the drug dealer on the street to a regulated pharmacy and there is no going back you don't invest one hundred fifty million dollars into legal cannabis and operate in three states when you react to the news of the day so we were taking the long term on this and we think the long term on this has really changed some predict that the department of justice won't have the resources to specifically target marijuana americans are already grappling with an opioid epidemic which the trump administration has designated a public health emergency or in the middle of an opioid crisis right now that is killing more young americans than any other cause of death so it's kind of difficult for me to see how a u.s. attorney would decide to use their discretion to go after can of us instead of opioids the number of states where americans can legally use marijuana for recreation is growing people in massachusetts and maine are waiting for laws to go into effect natasha guinea al-jazeera is bought now with joe. maryam beg you very much while i'm on have clinched the biggest prize in middle eastern football they beat the united arab emirates in the final of the gulf cup it was an evening of heartbreak for the u.a.e. in kuwait city their biggest star omar abdel-rahman missed the penalty that would have handed them the trophy in the ninetieth minutes it remain ill nell off to a regular and injury time meaning it went to a penalty shootout where the same man abdul rahman missed his penalty again made no mistakes stepping up to clinch their first gulf cup since two thousand and nine and the first trophy on the dutchman pim verbeek who took charge last year. mama's will be missing from liverpool's line up as they face everton in the third round of the f.a. cup in the next few hours injury has been cited but the game comes less than twenty four hours after he was crowned africa's best footballer santa sanchez reports. that mohamed salah cutoff a memorable year in the best way possible the twenty five year old liverpool star in joining the spotlight as he beat his teammate saudia manet and. to be named african football's player of the year. where you're. standing to attention the moment would come a trophy well deserved for the egyptian he wanted by a landslide one hundred eighteen votes which were partially decided by the fans at a ceremony in ghana. played a big role in egypt's qualification for the world cup helping them to qualify for the first time in twenty eight years he's also already scored twenty three goals for liverpool that the than no doubt justifying the teams to sedition to break the club's transfer record buying him from roma and despite his achievements so far he says it's just the beginning since he came in spring. in my mind i want to be the best player ever in egypt in the history so i know what i want i know how to do it i'm working hard every day and proving myself so that's what i want so i think i'm going where i'm doing we'll at the moment so we're going to see even in the future this one the next one and next one to add to the momentous occasion also becomes only the second dejection to win the gong off to mahmoud the tape in nineteen eighty three tatyana sanchez is there. serena williams will not defend her title at this year's australian open the twenty three time grand slam winner says she's simply not ready to compete for the title williams gave birth in september and returned to the court in an exhibition match last week is the first time since two thousand and eleven that she'll miss the australian open this will come as a blow to the organizers as andy murray has also withdrawn while rafael nadal and novak djokovic who are currently doubtful for the tournament in melbourne. the current world number one simona halep has reached her first finals this season the two thousand and fifteen champion beat her remaining in compassionate and rena beggar in shands and china on friday straight to trieste six one six ball was the school. will face the defending champion catarina senior kovar in the final of the czech had to deal with five time grand slam champion maria sharapova in friday's semi sharper and sharper i've only played a tournament in two thousand and seventeen after returning from a fifteen month suspension for taking a banned substance as she was beaten in three sets. germany's reached their first hopman cup final in twenty three years they'll face switzerland in the deciding tie of the mixed team event in perth and won her singles match and teamed up with alexander's vera in the doubles to give germany a two one win over hosts australia no place with her as roger federer and benches for the trophy on saturday. that was a familiar story on day two of the fifth and final ashes test in sydney with australia on top again against england the english were two hundred thirty three for five overnight but the home side were able to bowl them out for three hundred and forty six pack cummins taking four wickets and then the all the batsmen took charge as man khwaja is on ninety one not outs and steve smith was on beat and on forty four the australians are one hundred ninety three the tube. in cape town south africa facing india in the traditional new year's test at unions and there was no shortage of wikis on day one south africa were bowled out for two hundred ninety six but then india lost both of their opens late in the day along with captain very kohli to close on twenty eight for three spanish football giants boss owner of cats to a new tradition they open their doors to thousands of supporters for friday's session which is usually off limits their spanish league season will resume after the winter break on sunday basso are nine points clear at the top of the standings the club's fans who couldn't make it to the training though what forgotten with lino messi and louis suarez visiting a children's hospital in boston. now america's best figure skaters are fighting for a place at next month's winter olympics in pyongyang chang and while it's a sport known for its elegance and gr

exist look at this guy's past and watch what happens to him and sloppy steve a new nickname for his longtime strategist steve benen who was quoted extensively in the book where he alleges the president himself met with russian operatives during the campaign if true that could lead to charges of collusion as for the assertion that trump didn't let wolf into the white house somebody cleared him and he was often seen hanging around the west wing this is a president who despises being called stupid now reportedly being called that by everyone close to him by a very intelligent very serious so far no one has denied making those statements if they do wolf says he has the tapes to prove it making it likely what is already described as an erratic leader and a chaotic white house will be much more so in the days and weeks ahead. al-jazeera washington well. things are happening at the u.n. security council in new york now that it's one hundred it's a matter of who see as you can see the external to the united nations and also the u.n. security council president at this time i think he said he of the gender so let's listen t

steve bannon is very apologetic today why has he changed his tune. well steve benen is arguing that a number of the quotes attributed to him were inaccurate but the cynical might argue that steve benen is making his post trumpeted ministration career out of his connection to president trump certainly the breitbart organization of which he is the head relies very early very heavily on funding from supporters of president from so certainly the sun playing on steve abandons mine very strongly the fact that if he does not attempt to publicly reiterate his support for president trump he could be losing a lot of donor money in the months ahead from washington d.c. mike hanna thank you egypt has denied pressuring t.v. hosts to back the u.s. president's recognition of jerusalem as the capital of israel the new york times is reportedly phone recordings of a senior intelligence officer telling hosts to play down opposition to donald trump's move it's been released in the wake of an arab league meeting about the creation of a palestinian state mohammed john john reports now from ramallah in the occupied west bank. one month after donald trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as the capi

steve benen got in trouble for touch saying the it was tree that treasonous trump tower meeting right steve admitted in his apologies walk back he hates russia too little what do you have a thing here is how it you know i like it i i'll let you keep going after our short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion look at him from this memo stay with our. join me every post on the alex sullivan show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics. business i'm show business i'll see you then. years ago i traveled across the united states exploring america's deadly love affair with. a bad guy trying to get to one of my family members he would have better a lot better and i think it's fair and hurting when i buy my babies says my book was published in the year two thousand more than the hoff a million americans have been killed by firearms in the u.s. going out is thought to me as i did this is a middle school we go through drills and we put ourselves in real scenarios it was interesting to see who actually got hit. and i just saw i did to return to the subject to track down each gun owner who i'd met and photographed those years ago i don't know that but we are not. close we will remember who you were when you don't. see the teacher. what did you not through ten you. made. love to know he. said. claiming to know somebody did that to. alex you speak french. most of. the. song is busy. across europe municipalities are taking their water supply back from private companies to me. alone events like going against elsewhere so they can find private companies to take over the utilities any part of. this is. the quote them out of it for you that of the left. locals are ready to stand up for the basic human rights of access to water that's about water but it's also over much more and more it's about the hurt and the redistribution of. downwards we want to. welcome back to cross talk where all things are considered computable to remind you we're discussing the release of the memo. ok let me go back to lee in washington i want to ask all three of you the same question here i mean the mother investigation goes on with the release of this memo does that nullify his investigation or you know lowering its importance here and see if there's going to be depending on what it is i mean we've all heard a lot of different rumors you know it's a little snippets here i think we all have a pretty good idea what it is and it would seem to neg ate the whole russia gate narrative even though as james has pointed out on the program the damage has already been done ok they can walk away from this in the damage has already done so i'll go to leave first is this nullify the mother investigation go ahead well it won't here's why what they're talking about the stuff happened before moeller was on the investigation but there's a wider point that this has not been about russia election interference or russian hacking for ever moer immediately went on a fishing expedition with thing and that is one hundred percent clear there is no what temp for instance if you're legitimately trying to find it collusion right you look for a quid pro quo. where's the where's the the what did trump offer where's the investigation into what trump was getting back for this supposin election interference in other words that's what you'd have to do every prosecutor knows that or mohler knows that too the reason he's going far afield the reason why would he interview. even steve bannon right why would he look into this one and keep magnitsky act. corp the reason why is this is a dish information campaign one of the people who people on the left and right need to watch out for here is a guy bill browder bill browder has been pushing this anti russian narrative and he is key to this whole thing and he is fooled both the left and the right and i gotta say that k. but everybody knows they just know that i think that you're absolutely right but you're really broadening out here ok i want to make sure we blundered because you have a deep knowledge of it just like ha does and james as well yeah i mean let's maybe i should rephrase my question what about the perception of the taliban of this investigation once we find out all of the highest echelons of the f.b.i. the d.o.j. have weaponized their position against their political opposition which i've said before and i'll say it again turns the us into a banana republic ok go ahead ha what trump must do and i believe w

a number of obstacles to steve benen testifying which really angered the house intelligence committee on both sides of the aisle and right now everyone wants to hear from steve benen we know that there's not only an investigation underway in the house there's also you know robert muller's an investigation that the special counsel we know that he has issued a grand jury subpoena for bad and we just we just learned about this apparently it happened last week. this is of course the investigation between trump's you know associates and russia possible connections to address if he refused to speak to lawmakers in the house can he refuse to speak to muller under this grand jury executive privilege does not apply to grand jury clear criminal investigation so he will be forced as you know reports are coming out to disclose all information any and all information to the grand jury and of course he was not there for that one incident of potential collusion that we're aware of the june twenty sixth meeting between. don jr and to tell you about some of the sky which also included jared push there and others all men afford but he was there so he wasn't there for the alle

steve benen over there and just in last couple of weeks in the in the fire and fury book there's been some very explicit things that steve bannon said about trump so a lot of infighting a lot of palace intrigue and trump of course has to figure out how he gets his team together and pulling together in order to actually have more legislative accomplishments because frankly this first year has been a lot of controversy but very little to show for let's talk about polling trunk has low approval ratings depending on the week it's generally around forty percent when you look ahead to the midterm elections do you think republicans should be concerned about their seats so midterm elections of course no. general elections i mean turnout is entirely different but i think if we just take the special elections that have been taking place throughout this year the momentum and the excitement is on the democratic side so we've seen state elections and senate elections and alabama where democrats have absolutely no business of winning so a lot of people are showing up in those midterm elections which might be an indicator that democrats have the momentum in order to take back congress when it comes to the november elections do you think the republicans would hold trump to account if that happened if they lost a significant number of seats in midterm elections or do you think they're determined to work together no matter what i mean if we don't look too far ahead but look back on this first year republicans have fallen lockstep everything shall pass so i mean you can say chuck has done some things that have at least been out of the ordinary but paul ryan mitch mcconnell republicans in congress have not hold combo i mean there has been absolutely no limits on charm they have pretty much done whatever he says so i'm looking at republicans to take more responsibility and actually be a check and balance also on trump but again republicans are pretty much in lockstep with trump and i don't see a change in the near future. people didn't expect trump to be elected generally a lot of people didn't think he would last a year can we expect him to last the term i mean after last year i think a lot of us should get out of the prediction business and not look a membership but i will say there's so many questions the investigation of. the f.b.i. we don't see what's happening there yet but that's probably going to come let's take the word of steve benen his former chief strategist who gives him a thirty percent chance to finish out his term so let's see where that is going thirty percent is not it's not nothing certainly not as she has been alarmed as a political strategist thanks for being with us thank you dana. well as we've heard trump's approval ratings continue to be quite low depending on the day generally around forty percent but for the most part trump's supporters continue to stand behind him just before christmas to debbie reporters crisscrossed the country speaking with trump voters across the nation about how they think their candidate is doing now that he's in office. a christmas tree dedicated to president donald trump this but we're not a trump tower we're in the middle of new hampshire at lugar gee all those house this year's christmas tree is a symbol of his increased support for a president who has constantly been criticized by the media worldwide i would say that's false and fake news mr trump has accomplish

steve benen over there and just some last couple of weeks in the in the fire and fury book there's been some very explicit things that steve bannon said about trump so a lot of infighting a lot of palace intrigue and trump of course has to figure out how he gets this team together and pulling together in order to actually have more legislative accomplishments because frankly this first year has been a lot of controversy but very little to show for let's talk about polling trump has low approval ratings depending on the week it's generally around forty percent when you look ahead to the midterm elections do you think republicans should be concerned about their seats so midterm elect. as of course no general elections i mean turnout is entirely different but i think if we just take the special elections that have been taking place throughout this year the momentum and the excitement is on the democratic side so we've seen state elections and senate elections and alabama where democrats have absolutely no business of winning so a lot of people are showing up in those midterm elections which might be an indicator that democrats have the momentum in order to take back congress when it comes to the november elections do you think the republicans would hold trump to account if that happened if they lost a significant number of seats in midterm elections or do you think they're determined to work together no matter what i mean if we don't look too far ahead but look back on this first year republicans have fallen lockstep everything shall pass so i mean you can say chuck has done some things that have at least been out of the ordinary but paul ryan mitch mcconnell republicans in congress have not hold combo i mean there has been absolutely no limits on charm they have pretty much done whatever he says so i'm looking at republicans to take more responsibility and actually be a check and balance also on trump but again republicans are pretty much in lockstep with trump and i don't see a change in the near future. people didn't expect trump to be elected generally a lot of people didn't think he would last year can we expect him to last the term i mean after last year i think a lot of us should get out of the prediction business and not a membership but i will say there's so many questions the investigation of. the f.b.i. we don't see what's happening there yet but that's probably going to come let's take the word of steve benen his former chief strategist who gives him a thirty percent chance to finish out his term so let's see where that is going thirty percent is not nothing should certainly not show he's been alarmed as a political strategist thanks for being with us thank you dana. welcome to business news and funny for char it's d. economy stupid that was holbrooke clinton won the us presidency in one thousand nine hundred ninety two not knowing that it's him donald trump who were drawn on the very same idea over two decades later against his wife hillary but trump didn't only run he also won one year into his presidency let's have a look at how trump performed what is good for business as he said he would be well he quickly created some top jobs for sure in his administration one of them went to rex tillerson the former c.e.o. of exxon mobil became secretary of state and just weeks ago president trump opened up formerly protected waters along the east and west coast for drowning big business for