. >> ticktock, ticktock, ticktock.ke you predicting things on this show so come back and do it again. >>> "a.m. joy" has been your home for the wide reaping russia investigation that has engulfed donald trump and the russia investigation. it started in 2016 and continued for the entire 2017 season. i get the feeling that it's also going to be around in 2018. next up, number three on our top stories countdown, russia gate. >> u.s. intelligence chiefs report that russian president vladimir putin directed a, quote, influence campaign targeting the u.s. presidential election. >> if putin likes donald trump, guess what, folks, that's called an asset, not a liability. >> the senate intelligence committee announced late friday that it will investigate russia's alleged interference in the presidential election. >> what i can confirm having spoken to him about it is that those conversations that happen to occur around the time that the united states took action to expel diplomats had nothing whatsoever to do with those sanction

ticktock. reconvenes january 10 and don't know which party controls the chamber. for anybody who can't predict, fact remains that democrats erased republican's 32-seat majority in virginia house and literally within one vote of ending republican control first time in nearly two decades. one heck of a bellwether. but before the democratic sweep and democrat elected in alabama, there was senate district 40 in florida. september. didn't capture a huge amount of attention. even if democrat won, republicans still in charge of everything. but bellwether. republican-held seat not competitive in years but district had gone for hillary clinton in presidential election by more than 15 points. if they could flip that seat, maybe others like virginia and others in districts that went for clinton and in 2018. democrat who won is annette taddeo. important for a number of reasons. democrats are hoping her win is predictive for 2018 and democrats can learn from victories like hers to flip more seats. talking about races to watch in 2018 and what democrats learned in 2017 in a mom

tickto tickto ticktock, victor, what's it going to be?ing happy hour. >> the truth is, what a cop is taught is, you know, if the guy says "i want a lawyer," you know, and the cop says, i always wanted to bang marilyn monroe. you know, i never got to bang marilyn monroe and you ain't getting a lawyer. now, that isn't what always happens, but it's been known to happen. a soul pays the price for that sort of thing. >> the exposure to that reality grinds characters, you know, like stones. >> paeople were able to recognie in sipowitz a spirit which spun against the way it drove. it was the portrayal of a soul very much in conflict with itself. in his irreconcilable complexities, we came close to experiencing a character as a member of our family. there was an old woman who lived in a shoe. she had so many children she had to buy lots of groceries. while she was shopping for organic fruits and veggies, burglars broke into her shoe. they stole her kids' mountain bikes and tablets along with her new juice press. luckily the geico insurance agency

explanation for facts like hope hicks being interviewed for two days by mueller's team for a very detailed ticktock. it's the pattern, the mosaic that barbara was talking about. if you can show that the president knew, likely knew, should have known at the time that he pressed comey can you see your way clear not to going after -- not to go after flynn, that he was aware that flynn had committed a federal crime by lying and was probably or certainly under investigation for it. boy, that gets you a long ways away from the innocent explanation of gee, i don't like how comey was managing the fbi. morale is lousy. to the corrupt intent of i better not let them go after my friend, whether it's for personal reasons or because he's going to rollover on me. the last thing i'll say in that regard, and i know barbara and her prosecutors did this a lot. flynn got a very sweet deal from bob mueller. he's only getting that kind of a package given the nature of his offenses if he's going to testify up the ladder on somebody else. i did this for 20 years. you don't get a deal like that when you've done the things