it is not the tweet. a suggest that matt whitaker may be sharing some information since he's now overseeing the mueller investigation, maybe sharing it with someone who is the subject of the investigation. >> and if we get evidence of that, i will be first. but we don't have the evidence. >> senator, we appreciate, as always, your perspective. thanks so much. >> happy thanksgiving to you and john. >> thanks so much. you too. >>> he is said to take over in just a few weeks, and he says his first subpoena will be for the acting attorney general matt whitaker. so what does he want to ask him first? that's next. stock and bond index fundsfidely with lower expense ratios than comparable vanguard funds. and we're now offering zero expense ratio index funds. that's value you'll only find at fidelity. ♪ one thing leads another (engine roaring) (horn honking) okay, okay, okay... (clatter) ( ♪ ) feeling unsure? oh... (nervous yelp) what if you had some help? introducing the new 2019 ford edge with the confidence of

have eye on his tweets. democrat andrew gillum who withdrew his concession and talked a little bit about that. take a listen. >> i also have to say what has also changed since election night have been the chorus of voices from the president of the united states, the junior senator of the state of florida, and the governor of the state of florida. a chorus calling for the ending of the countying in this process. what i do know is that we don't just get the opportunity to stop counting votes because we don't like the direction at which the vote tally is headed. that is not democratic and that is certainly not the american way. >> reporter: there has certainly been questions of competence here in broward county and also in palm beach county when it comes to how long it's taking them to count these votes. their organization. but as of right now, the secretary of state's office here in florida, that is a republican appointee and the department of law enforcement say no evidence of criminal activity but that hasn'

>> guest: no, i'm afraid if he stops tweeting i realize that there are some tweets that maybe i wish he didn't tweet but he doesn't ask me for, but i'm afraid if he would stop tweeting he would lose connection with the american people. there are a lot of people that really relate to him because of his tweets. they see the human side of him that maybe even the human frailty, and i think that also the media is sadly just can't report everything about him so he wants something to just can't report everything about him so if he wants something to be communicated whether it is economic news or something that the leftha leanig cable networks. no, sometimes i laugh out loud when i read his tweets. >> host: you are on. >> caller: is a beautiful woman how can you support a man who is a womanizer and trashes women all the time? >> caller: >> guest: i know he has a past -- people who have lived hollywood billionaire, there's a lot of people out there in the world who have lived a life tracert implant that maybe they are not proud of. i am not proud of every decision i've made in my younger life

we go a man called paul fisher tweeted. rather james would tweeted at paul fisher that his signal for help in trying to find his mother has worked and that they've located her she's been rescued she's fine so this was james was actually telling paul there on twitter hey be found your family member exactly through his massive network on twitter these two million people who are then using their networks so that's how the whole thing actually functions but then it starts become kind of coming to political one of the people that contacted this network an actress called alyssa milano who i didn't know this until recently but she was in who's the boss and melrose twit place is what many people would call a she's very left wing she's you know an activist in many different things and altering up to movement even i think role of that yeah not the normal kind of ally of somebody like james puts now she contacted that network and got information about how she could move her family and her five horses to safety if we can bring up the n

actor andrew neil deletes the controversial tweet about a female journalist, has the controversial tweet about a femalejournalist, has the bbc the controversial tweet about a female journalist, has the bbc got a problem with its presenters on social media? problem with its presenters on social media 7 first, problem with its presenters on social media? first, i wake up i drama in westminster began with the challenge for journalists. drama in westminster began with the challenge forjournalists. it drama in westminster began with the challenge for journalists. it was clear that something important was about to happen, but no one quite knew what that was. this was high political correspondence chris mason responded on monday morning's brea kfast. responded on monday morning's breakfast. 50, where are we in this brexit process? people like me are paid to have insight and foresight and hindsight about these things and be able to project where we are going to go. to be quite honest, looking at things right now i don't have the foggiest idea what happened in the coming weeks. will the prime min

host: one of the things, from one of his tweets on saturday was a series of tweets saturday about italking about how quickly the fires can expand in some cases 80 to 100 acres a minute and people don't evacuate quickly they risk being overtaken. the president encouraging people to listen to evacuation orders from state and local officials. some of the newspaper coverage about these fires today, the , allre here from usa today that is left of the rock house restaurant as you look at that picture and some of the numbers compiled by usa today, there are wildfires burning in the state, three considered major. we focus on two of them this morning in particular the camp fire north of the capital city has become the most destructive fire in state history charring 109,000 acres. of the 6700 and 13 structures up liberated,uctures of the death toll now stands at 29, tying it for the most in state history. the numbers expected to go up. here are some of the front pages from california papers. this is the fresno, the headline with the governor calling for a disaster declaration as those wildfire

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trump not limiting the tweet risk to just equity. just thinking to equities. going across assets. -- it seems i can the morning we are going to see a pickup in oil prices. see the 10th straight day of losses and debbie ti crude for oil. we did have the opec meeting over the weekend and saudi arabia did come out and say they would be willing to cut output or exports. like he said when president trump came out and tweeted that he hopes opec and saudi arabia don't cut output that oil prices should be low because of the amount of supply without their. -- we were talking about this earlier, we should definitely get the tweet risk index. we have indices for everything on the bloomberg. thank you so much. goldman sachs shares tumbling the most in seven years and to the lowest in two years after the bank said it could face significant fines linked to the malaysia scandal. plea on friday and the shares are reacting. >> reacting in a big way. past two days they are down by 11% and this is there biggest fall since 2010. hop into the bloomberg terminal. i wanted to show y

he's tweeting about it every day. we'll find out in the not too distant future whether or not robert mueller's got any more there than he had before, particularly after the president submitted those written answers to him. >> dana: lots to chew on there. we'll let you go get working on that. we will bring in bret baeir. you and i used to be in that briefing room together. i thought there was some interesting news made about a possible meeting with china and a deal that could be made. listen to larry kudlow on this. >> president said there's a good possibility that we can make a deal. and he is open to it. but on the other hand, if the conditions i mentioned are not met and not dealt with, president said, look, he's perfectly happy to stand on his tariff policies. >> dana: would love to get your take on that. >> i think showing a little leg there, saying what could happen in this meeting with president xi in argentina and on the si sidelines of the g-20. all indications are china wants a deal. they want to get to a fin

that tweet was at 8:45 a.m. this morning which is interesting because just two hours later at 10:45 a.m. the republican national committee sent out a fund raising e-mail under the president's name and it reads please make an immediate triple match contribution to fully fund our grass roots recount fund. the rnc is saying send money for the recount that the president says he wants to end right now. in any case, that's not how things work in florida. on election night none of the overseas ballots, many from service members had been counted. the deadline for them is this friday. on lelection night no one but t pundits called races. they do not certify weeks and sometimes months. the vote counting alone in 2014 and '16, it went on for days. it's not stopping the governor or president trump for alleging wrong doing. what they are not doing is backing up their claims? >> do you have any hard evidence that there was fraud or is fraud going on and if so by whom? >> we have specific election laws to try to prevent fraud.

he did this morning in his tweets. to say that the president hasn't threatened the special counsel is not only logically dubious. it's just dead wrong and untrue. >> so he blocked the vote. yesterday senator mitch mcconnell blocked a vote on the latest attempt to protect the investigation. so president trump is also doing some damage control with veterans. after he was roundly criticized for cancelling a planned visit to an american military cemetery in france on saturday, he canceled it due to the rain. and doing nothing to mark veteran's day on monday. he's also a commander in chief who has not yet made a trip to visit troops stationed overseas as his predecessors have done. so today he and the first lady dropped by the marine barracks in washington to meet with dozens of marines. and then the president addressed veterans and their families at the white house. >> to everyone here today who has served our country in uniform and to every veteran and military family across our land, i want to express the eternal gratitu

you heard melissa talk about the tweet. let's look at what it said. president trump still on air force one said, president macron of france has just suggested that europe build its own military in order to protect itself from the u.s., china, and russia. very insulting, but perhaps europe should first pay its fair share of nato which the u.s. subsidizes greatly. so the president there saying this is a very insulting comment that macron made. of course, macron made the comment because president trump made the decision to withdraw from the imf treaty, that nuclear arms control pact that president ronald reagan signed with russia in the 1980s. and in his interview, macron said that who he believes is the greatest victim of that decision by president trump is europe and its security. that's why he made the remarks about making a more robust european military. but president trump clearly took offense to that and is tweeting and brought in something he's long been bothered by which is nato defense spending. we saw this in brussels when he argued with severa

we did, however, just see this tweet from the maryland congressman who just tweeted "i am currently atcal in bethesda where we have been told there is an active shooter. i am currently safe in a conference room with approximately 40 others. let's go to shimon prokupecz, who is making calls here. what more do we know? >> all we know is a building on this campus at the walter reed medical center in bethesda, maryland, there's a building on lockdown. people are in offices. we have no reports of any injuries, no reports of any shots being fired but something has led police to be concerned here. they have placed the building in lockdown. they have told people to shelter in place as they try and go through and see if they're dealing with an active shooter or something else perhaps that may have caused concern. we don't know exactly what led to all of this. it could be that someone may have heard something or saw something, so police here took action. we're told that the local officials at the montgomery county police are assisting the watter reed offici walter reed officials in the search. i

tweeted this forecast, showing unhealthy range. air quality is expected to improve to moderate tomorrow. we will see and let you know. >>> one of the premier high school marching band competitions in northern california canceled because of the poor air quality. it was supposed to happen today at james logan high in union city. moved to modesto because of the poor air quality but then conditions in modesto deteriorated too, forced to call off fundraiser, tfundraiser, tfa be outside. food didn't go to waste. >> we have fresh food, great community, let's have a block party and continue to raise money. >> 32 high schools set to perform. logan depends on the event to raise $40,000 to fund travel expenses, buy equipment and pay technical staff. >>> two people found dead. evacuations as hill and woolsey fires rage out of control. l.a. coroner officials trying to determine the identities of the victims in the badly burned car in malibu. firefighters took a chance to shore up lines but reprieve is short-lived. >> winds are not blowing but t

that tweet there.resident macron of france just suggested europe build up its own military in order to protect itself from the u.s., china and russia. clearly saying that perhaps if europe should first pay its fair share of nato which the u.s. subsidizes greatly. that set the stage for the first talks this morning, meeting one on one. that very awkward interaction where there's no warmth between the two leaders, even though typically there's back slapping. president trump once remarked in the oval office he thought president macron was perfect. that's not what we saw this morning. instead it was a stiffer interaction, much more wooden, between the two leaders. now, we are told by sources they did discuss those comments during the bilateral meeting later one on one and with their staffs and tried to clear the air there. this afternoon, president trump is supposed to visit a cemetery where americans are buried after world war i. instead, the white house cancelled that, citing bad weather in paris because

he did tweet he's not meeting with vladamir putin at this g20 summit in argentina, and tweeted some book reviews of some books written by conservative authors that he likes, and invited the chair of the rnc to stay on for another term. but silence at this point on the twitter, we should point, about cohen or the russia investigation. >> wait a minute, sorry. on the way to the g20 meeting, he was tweeting book recommendations? >> reporter: uh, yes. he was tweeting various recommendations of books from conservative authors. some appearing on fox news, that he's suggesting to his twitter followers that they read. sort of a surreal thing for him to be getting involved with, when he just called his former personal attorney a liar on the south lawn of the white house. >> yesterday, the president said a pardon wasn't off the table for paul manafort. what about michaelcoen? >> reporter: i think it's safe to say that's not coming. we should point out, lanny davis, who is an attorney for michael cohen, said previously, and did so over the summer, that michael cohen does not want a pardon from pres

he wakes up early to tweet that he calls on kocongress to fund e border wall. congress that troops at the border will use lethal force against the migrants if they need to. >> they were starting fistfights all over the streets, and these are not like normal innocent people, and you talk to them and they start a fistfight. i don't want that in the country. if they have to they will be be using the lethal force. >> are they? >> well, i have giveren the okay, but i hope they don't have to. >> and he has threatened to close down the entire border. and joining us is kristen welker and julian ansley and paul butler and also clint watts, fo former fbi agent and national security analyst. and kristen, what is happening down there that the president is so focused on the border? >> well, katy, this is clearly an issue is important to the president's base, and he is digging in on this as he is heading into the new year with the democrats having control of the house. and today, president trump is sort of digging in on the demand for border legislation, and take a look at a

why does that warrant a tweet from the president, many tweets, trying to go after special counsel? the findings of the investigation are too important for our national security and well-being for democratic institutions to be halted or watered down. mr. mueller must be able to preserve the work he has done, and about completing this very thorough investigation and for his findings to be made public. this legislation has been proposed to ensure this outcome, s. 2644, the special counsel independence and integrity act serves one purpose. that is to protect the integrity of the special counsel's investigation and to prevent the executive branch from inappropriately interfering in an independent investigation in the future. this legislation passed out of the judiciary committee in a bipartisan manner nearly eight months ago. it's been awaiting action on the senate floor ever since. it passed on may 26. since that time the judiciary committee has been busy, and we've been busy here on the senate floor. we've processed more than 50 judges and passed them here on the senate floor. that's

he is tweeting about it this morning.pardon for paul manafort saying, quote, it was never discussed, but i wouldn't take it off the table. why would i take it off the table? manafort was convicted of eight felonies. >> ruminated is one way to put it. obsessing over, freaking out over one could go with. cnn has new details about how president trump answered written questions about robert mueller. the president told mueller, quote, to the best of his recollection, to the best of his recollection, he did not know about the trump tower meeting before it happened, the one where campaign officials were promised dirt on hillary clinton and to the best of his recollection robert stone never told him about wikileaks and the hacked e-mails. the special counsel has been looking at phone logs of late night conversations between then candidate trump and roger stone. joining us now legal analyst jeffrey toobin, josh green and jonathan martin. jonathan, a national political correspondent at "the new york times." let's start with the par

tweet, but he doesn't ask me first. [laughter] but i'm afraid if he stops tweeting, he would lose his connection with the american people. there are a lot of people that really relate to him because of his tweets. they see the human side of him that, maybe even the human frailty, the really human side of him from those. and i think also the media, sadly, just can't report everything about him. so if he wants something to be communicated whether it's good economic news that just gets glossed over by some of the more left-leaning cable networks or whatever, i think it's important that he has that communication tool. so it doesn't matter what i think, because he's going to do what he wanteds to do. but, no -- wants to do. i personally a lot of times laugh out loud when i read his tweets. [laughter] >> host: lori's in plano, texas. you're on with gina loudon. >> caller: hi. as a beautiful woman, how can you support a man who's a womanizer and trashes women all the time? >> guest: yeah, i don't -- i certainly know that he ha

he tweeted. the white house called the lid, meaning the president would have no events today. now in comparison in past administrations the presidents or vice presidents spoke. vice president mike pence went to arlington and yesterday the va secretary went. mr. trump was in france to commemorate the 1enth anniversary of the end of world war i and attended a number of ceremonies with allies but declined to go to the cemetery where many ally veterans were buried. the white house saying the president didn't go because of scheduling and difficulties caused by the weather. colonel peters, wonder what you made of the president canceling that trip. >> well, people have been agonizing about why didn't he go, was it really about the weather? i think the short answer is he didn't feel like it. he wasn't in the mood. didn't want to get his bufont hairdo wet. the marines buried in that cemetery, they went through far worse weather than that. they endured poison gas, trench life, bombardments, seeing their fr

when i look at the words of the tweet. but you're looking at something else. you're looking at the size of the whole lying system. what do the numbers tell us? >> i took a few things from this period. one i think that the sheer frequency tells us that the president and his team knew that he could not win this election campaigning honestly. it turns out he couldn't win it even campaigning dishonestly but he knew he couldn't do it telling the truth. trump's lying is often him going off script, him ad-libbing, deviating from his prepared text. this was a strategic decision to lie as a campaign strategy. i think it was also interesting what he was lying about. of these 815 in the 31 days leading up to the mid-terms 201 of them had to do with the immigration. these were massive -- massive fabrications. this was him saying democrats are going to abolish the borders. democrats are going to let illegal immigrants vote in this election. he was making stuff up to scare his base and it turned out it didn't work. >> you mentioned a lo

>> for many months george conway has been tweeting and tweeting a storm of antitrump.ning me now is ben terrace who wrote the tur iic piece she works for trump, he can't stand him. trrs this is life with kelly ann and george conway and sally quin. i'll begin with you. he wept kwh trump was elected in a good way but had a change of heart. >> i don't think the was just one breaking point. he was actually the person that introduced kelly ann to donald trump way back when. but things went off the rails pretty quickly and even though he was kin sidering joining and bieng a member of the department of justice, it quickly unravelled that comey firing and investigations and i think he saw somebody he couldn't fully put his support behind. >> i'd like sally to react. the conways, like the rest of the country have been jolted by the trump presidency. they love each other, exasperated by each other. there are a lot of american couples like that only one of them doesn't work for the president of the united states. >>. >> one of the things he you do is refer them to famous couple.

i thank you are tweeted unfairly and you are tweeted very unfairly because you have somebody interrupting you and if they don't listen to the rules and relations we will end up back in court and we will win but more poorly we will just leave. then you won't be very happy. we do get good ratings. >> [inaudible] >> decorum. you can't take the three questions or four questions and stand up and not sit down. you have to practice decorum. you were there and you understand and you understand that we want total freedom of the press is more important to me than anybody would believe but you have to act with respect in the white house and what i see the ways were setting up what we requested and always first amendment but that's the way it is. we always have the option of leaving. we feel that things are being tweeted properly and the other media and other press room will not be happy but i've instructed my people when they are not tweeted properly you have the right to just leave, anytime you want. >> [inaudible] >> china wants to make a deal. china wants to make a deal. they sent a list of thing

trump's tweet and how he may have taketen out of context? >> reporter: for now they've refused to make any comment. weeb arer reached out repeatedly since the tweet was made and that's what we're likely to get from the french president himself in front of those cameras. but there's a sense there's been a misunderstanding thop part of the american president. trrs the quotes that emmanuel macron made, it's something he said repeatedly that given the aggression on the part of russia and the fact that former alliances that had for so long insured nato country's security seemed to be tested in part by the american president, it's important for them to build up their defense forces. this is nothing new. it was just taken out of context by the american president with that tweet. >> we're looking at videos and speaking right now. >> translator: i'm very delighted to host president trump again after our discussion in brussels, paris and that particular of course on the occasion the 14th of ojuly, 2017. and my visit to washington, new york at the u.n.

airplane, four twemore tweets. what does it say to you? >> it shows the president is not listening to the advice of his lawyers to stop tweeting and stop personally attacking robert mueller. he's personally shown it's getting under his skin. when asked about it, he said, no, it's not the way. he made a point to say to the lawyers that his lawyers didn't prep him and he wrote the answers to the questions all by himself. i have to point out to you, dara, this is the role of lawyers. any american would want a luier's advice if they were facing questions. the fact that he's leaving no daylight there, he's really boxing himself in on whatever he wrote. >> it will certainly be interesting to see what he did right. the judge has ordered the white house to restore the press pass of cnn's jim acosta. here's how the president reacted in a fox sunday interview. take a listen. >> we're doing that. we going to write them up right now. it's not a big deal. and if he miss dehaev. you can't keep asking questions. knob believes in the first amendment more

the use of all caps, the frequency of tweets, the time of day of a tweet all indicates the regrettable action. >> how does he know or where has he heard that they, the mueller investigators, are screaming and shouting at people horribly threatening them to come up with the answers they want. one, i doubt that's true. you and i both worked with robert mueller and i've never heard him scream or shout at anybody. but we talked yesterday at this hour about witness tampering. do you think trump is requesting read outs from people's sessions with mueller and his investigators? >> yeah. so you've keyed in on the same thing i keyed in on which is where is this coming from, if it's true. who is providing trump this information that i'm getting yelled at in my interviews with the special counsel teenl and what does that mean? again, people say they're being hollered at, yelled at because they've been in positions of power. they aren't used to people being firm, getting in their face. if you are in an fbi interview and aren't cooperating and have facts counter to reality, then you're going to fac

was also tweets from him on election night in the morning after. guest: the president tweeting and he said out loud at that press conference last wednesday that he thinks nancy pelosi , at leastthe speaker post-midterms, trump believes she earned it and he said wednesday she has been out there battling. i think -- was on the campaign trail a very different message from president trump about potential speaker pelosi, you said she was the leader of this andrt to install socialism to throw open the borders, which of course, he thinks automatically brings rampant crime. i suspect that was going on here is the president would love speaker pelosi as he begins to run for reelection. foil andybe his top issues in that top spot in the house, which is one of the most powerful positions in all of washington, she is going to be on fox news, she's even be out there every day and he is in between about her for two years and he wants her in that position, it will be a central part of israel election campaign. four still, maryland next, joe, good morning. i want t

so the president tweeting a lot today en route to buenos aires. >> he did tweet he's not going to be meeting with vladimir putin down at this g-20 summit in argentina and also tweeted some book reviews of some books written by conservative authors, and invited the chair of the rnc to stay on for another term. but silence at this point on the twitter we should point out about cohen or the russia investigation. >> wait a minute, sorry, so on the way to the g-20 meeting he was tweeting book recommendations? >> yes. he was tweeting various recommendations of books from conservative auth, some appearing on fox news that he's suggesting to his twitter followers that they read, sort of a surreal thing for him to be getting involved in when he just called his former personal attorney a liar before helping down here to argentina. >> yesterday the president said a pardon for paul manafort wasn't off the table. i'm going to venture a guess that today a pardon for michael cohen isn't near the table. >> i don't think it's on the table, near the oval office. i think it's safe to say that's not com

. >> he tweeted that mr. macron made a, quote, very insulting suggestion that europe's military should be built up to counter the actions of the u.s., china and russia. president trump was referencing remarks that president macron made earlier this week. a senior french official says mr. macron will likely respond to mr. trump's tweet when they meet in the next hour and we'll cover that live. but let's bring in our reporters. >> melissa, run us through what happened. what exactly did macron say that set off donald trump? >> reporter: well, this is something that emmanuel macron has been talking about for quite a while, the need to better coordinate european armies. the idea that better coordination might be a good idea. it is because he couched it on tuesday in terms of the need for greater self-reliance on the part of europe in the face of not quite crumbling alliances yet, but certainly historical alliances built of course after the wars that we are marking here this weekend to maintain an architecture of s

let's talk about those tweets for a moment.you think the president should be worried if he's seeing what's happening in the papadopoulos situation? >> i don't know that the president is necessarily capable of worrying. right now, if i were mr. papadopoulos, i don't think he understands that just because he's been sentenced that he is insulated and can only be looking at 14 days because based upon those tweets, he has admitted to having committed perjury because when he went before the judge and entered a plea of guilty, he was sworn under oath, and the judge, i can assure you said, mr. papadopoulos, think carefully, because anything you say from this point forward, if you're lying, you will go to jail for perjury. those tweets are an admission that he lied to the judge when he admitted lying to the fbi. >> so you're saying he could actually be in deeper trouble than he was to begin with. >> he could be in a whole world of hurt and if i were him right now, i would make a motion for a stay of my surrender date because he's got on

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he continues to tweet. robert mueller, my opinion, will ask so he can say i gave the complete investigation. you did not avail yourself of that. that's fine with me. i got statements from cooperating witnesses. when you have flynn and manafort and gates and cohen and weisselberg and now we have began cooperating. what president is going to let -- what lawyer is going to let speak like that? >> do you think mueller's got enough, not asking questions like this? there are some key questions. do you think mueller's got what he needs? >> more than enough based on his interviews and his grand jury appearances. together with the president's tweets. let's remember every tweet the president issues is some indication of his motive and intent. we wonder if any tweet can be used against you in a court of law. i agree with robert that this was really an exercise in showing the american people he has every opportunity and declined to do so. now, talking about judges and the judiciary as the possibility exists of some sor

want to get them quite a presidential tweeted. us elections on all apparently within reach of the kremlin's long digital new research claims that russian hackers have been whipping up religious strife in britain where there was a spike in and see islamic tweets at around the time of two terror attacks and twenty seventeen the saudis says the u.k. was caught up in a russian operations against the us although it also notes that the number of tweets allegedly made by russia was relatively speaking quite low with total of eighty three thousand which is a fraction of the five hundred million tweets posted on twitter each and every day the report was unable to state with certainty exactly how many troll accounts were active or how representative they were so truly is. according to the study to come a flash the covert operation russian trolls would begin by tweeting about fitness and exercise when opening new accounts stephen morris from the english democrats party believes the timing of the studies release is no accident. we know i can

late last week but he has been tweeting to hold up in the white house for much of the morning here inwashington and certainly the white house is defending the president pushing back on some of his comments as donald trump has he has repeatedly insisted that when he refers to himself as a nationalist he's talking about having pride in the united staes this is no way a sort of a nod to a rise in white nationalism nationalism here in the united states or around the world in fact that's what his economic advisor larry kudlow said on the grounds of the white house in the last couple of hours saying when the president uses the word nationalism he's always talking about it in economic terms saying that the president is simply looking after u.s. interests when he says he is a nationalist and that is the key point to underscore that the president did in fact take a jab at the fact that french or rather there are tariffs put on u.s. wines in france by the french government so certainly this is the point that the white house is trying to make all right kimberly thanks for that kimberly how could

about florida well the president didn't accept exempt california from his tweet storm either he tweeted that the wildfires were entirely the fault of california's democratic government state government which practiced he said poor forest management so one of the senior democratic congressman from california ted lew tweeted back dear mr president what is wrong with you he said people who have suffered from disasters deserve help and support and sympathy and he also noted. that almost the entire the forest land in california is belongs to the federal government therefore is not the responsibility of the state and further pointing out that president trumps budget cuts funds for forest management so the president has weighed in in his own inimitable batter on the california wildfires sparking again quite a bit of criticism rob just briefly if you will they've also been finds in the north of the state as well what more can you tell us a terrible fires up there with the multiple loss of life the town of paradise completely incinerated many people trapped as they were trying to leave burned to

i mean, i think we all take the presidential tweets as gospel at our own risk. he tends to be very quick to say all sorts of things, sometimes perfectly consistent, sometimes not. but i can't think of a federal prosecutor that would try to build a case around that tweet and say, no matter what the history, no matter what the kind of political or moral blame you might have for the president is, to try to build a legal case for federal obstruction on his kind of ruminations like that seems pretty farfetched to me. >> okay, but to the point, though, let me say it because obviously the reason that you have the incoming judiciary chairman, and obviously that's a pretty significant person, because he would oversee any impeachment proceedings, saying that this is as close as it gets to obstruction is because it wasn't just to the "new york post," right? he said that actually right before the "new york post." it's because of the pattern. let me play it. >> and one of the reasons i respect paul manafort so much is he went through that trial. you know, they're making up s

tweet the show @theleadcnn. our coverage continues right now on cnn. thanks for watching. >>> happening now, russia probe rants. after days of going over special counsel robert mueller's written questions about collusion, president trump explodes calling the russia investigation a total mess and illegal and describes mueller's team as thugs. hand recount. the deadline passes for florida counties to retabulate votes in the still undecided ratses for senator and governor with one of the largest counties unable to do it in time. the mission, a grim search underway for fire victims in northern california where hundreds of people are unaccounted for, even as the flames continue to ravage the region. >>> and not on speaker's terms. house democratic leader nancy pelosi faces growing opposition to taking back the speaker's gavel with 17 members of her own party signing a pledge not to vote for her. i'm wolf blither. you're in "the situation room." >> tonight cnn has learned that president trump and his lawyers have huddled for three consecutive days reviewing

this morning, president trump tweeted yesterday about california's wildfires.tead of offering sympathy to the victims, the president threatened to take away the state's funding "billions of dollars are given each year with so many lives lost because of growth mismanagement of the forest. remedy now or no more fed payments." governor-elect newsom fired back, lives lost and entire towns burned to the ground. this is not a time for partisanship." san francisco firefighters wrote the president a letter criticizing his comments, 15 hours after his original tweet, the president tweeted messages of condolences for the fire victims and urged anyone in the path of a wildfire to be safe and evacuate. >>> now to the other major fire we're tracking, the woolsey fire terrorizing southern california, where two people have been killed. the flames have burned more than 83,000 acres with more than 150,000 people still under evacuation orders. now malibu is the latest city to feel the wrath. "today in the bay's" damian trujillo has this overnight report. from ventura county. >>

let's take the last two parts of that tweet. it goes back to something you said earlier which is that president trump is threatening to shut down the entire southern boarde border. something that would be controversial and difficult to do. then he's saying fund that wall. that's about another threat that the president is making. a threat to partially shut down the government when spending fight come to a head in about two weeks. what does he want? he wants $5 billion to fund his border wall. democrats, what do they want? they want legislation that will protect special counsel robert m mueller. will the president get that $5 billion? it's going to be tough. he sees this as his last best chance to get that type of dollar figure to fund his border wall. democrats take control in the new year. already you have republicans out over the weekend and over the holiday saying they don't think that's a good idea. that's not what they want to do. that's not what their constituents want. it's not clear that he has the backing of a large majo

he is tweeting about something different. tweeting about michael cohen and about special counsel robert mueller's investigation. calling it once again a witch hunt. this tweet really is telling us more publicly about what is going on behind the scenes. according to the source, the president has been in a terrible mood over the last day or so as this news from the mueller investigation has come out. he is distracted according to our sources going into an incredibly consequential g20 with world leaders. president trump has so much on the agenda here with issues on trade and the meeting with president putin which was supposed to be saturday morning. shortly after cohen's guilty plea, president trump announced that the meeting would be canceled. he said it was because of the situation in ukraine. at the same time, he didn't condemn russia. he said he looked forward to meeting with putin at another time. it remains to be seen how much all of this domestic turmoil is really overshadowing these meetings here at the g20. president tr

what he tweeted again like he tweeted last week. >> that was janelle wayans for us. you can watch chuck todd on meet the press tomorrow morning right after this newscast. >>> there has been an outpouring of support. donations piling up in the chico walmart. now they're saying its too much. the county says it can't take in any more item tweeting thanks to the generosity of the community we have enough donated items for evacuees. the best way they say to support fire victims now is money. information on how you can help is at the top of our twitter page. be sure to find us @nbc bay area. >>> shifting gears a little bit after a week to forget. the warriors are facing more bad news ahead of tonight's game in dallas. sports is next. for the warrior -- it gets a little more rough tonight. the team will be without draymond green when they take o >>> it gets more rough tonight. the team will be without green when they take on the mavericks in dallas. the warriors star will miss the game because of a lingering toe injury, not a good week for dray monday coming off his suspens

this is going to be a big one, i was reading the wrong tweet. one more point, we're almost out of time. tonight, a montana federal district court judge, unobama appointee, put a temporary hold on the keystone pipeline saying the justification for it was incomplete. i didn't have to ask for the judge was and i knew it wasn't t obama appointee. it's going to go to the ninth circuit. shannon bream and the "fox news @ night" team will never read that the wrong tweet. >> shannon: it might happen. we were never at a loss to imagine what's going to happen, the ninth circuit were going to watch. >> laura: you are so great, you are the best and i can't wait for you to unpack this for us and i'm going to be watching your show tonight. >> shannon: thank you. hello, welcome to "fox news @ night" in washington and we begin with a fox news alert. days after voting ends, we are following late-breaking details on a handful of critical undecided races. ballots are still being counted and tonight a stunning turn of events in arizona, it's deja vu in florida, two

i was reminded look at those tweets. back in the date occupy movement and tea party movement agreed on one thing, how much we loatd and despised corporate cronyism. when you see amazon getting multi-billion dollar tax breaks, my libertarian streak doesn't sit well with me. as deirdre mentioned, the 238 cities and regions in north america, they gave amazon all their future infrastructure plans and land use plans, the incredible amount of data amazon has now, i am stunned. blake: do you think this was a bidding process or do you think at the end of the day, jeff bezos said new york and d.c., the financial and political capitals. >> those cities can get their data back. they should have negotiated to get their data back. if you don't give a million dollars or close to a billion dollars in breaks for companies they will go elsewhere. to give the term the art of the deal. they will get a billion in tax breaks and invest $5 billion or more in crystal city. and we'll have transportation upgrades, housing developments, airport u

here is his tweet. there is no reason for these massive deadly and costly forest fires in california, except that forest management is so poor. billions of dollars are given each year, with so many lives lost, all because of gross mismanagement of the forests. remedy now, or no more fed payments. the president and first lady melania trump left the palace after having lunch with their french counterparts, french frez emanuel macon earlier today, and scheduled to honor military sacrifice in world war one but canceled a trip to a wreath playing ceremony 50 miles outside paris, and couldn't fly because of bad weather. and other heads of state made the short journey via car as did chief of staff john kelly. where does that leave us? white house correspondent jim acosta has more on how the president is being received over there. >> well, ana, so far, i think the president is being received well. i think some people are making the point we're seeing this across social media all day long, the president may be f

i want to show you the tweets among them, he tweeted trying to steal two big elections in florida, wewatching closely. of course, everyone is watching his tweets closely as well. that includes gubernatorial candidate andrew gillum who is currently down in the results, but, you know, this recount, we will see thousand that all shakes out. here is what he had to say when he talked yesterday and said he is taking back his previous concession. >> i also have to say what has also changed since election night have been the chorus of voices from the president of the united states, the junior senator of the state of florida, and the governor of the state of florida. a chorus calling for the -- of the county in this process. what i do know is that we don't just get the opportunity to stop counting votes because we don't like the direction at which the vote tally is headed. that is not democratic and that is certainly not the american way. >> reporter: so now this recount starts and here in broward county, there have certainly been legitimate questions of competence, but state law enforcement h