predetermined before that. >> the president is now on the tarmac at the palm beach international airport which happens to be in westinternational airport. let's see if we hear what he says. >> it's hard because of the engines of the plane. still pretty loud and a crowd is receiving the president. he is just wearing a little suit when he left wash he was wearing an overkoechlt much colder here in washington than in palm beach. he will spend the christmas holiday and new year's down there when they get back to washington. it's interesting. when he was in the oval office signing the legislation and the bills into law earlier including the tax cuts, he made a point of saying he has a lot of work to do and pointed out north korea and he pointed out the middle east. there is a lot of issues on his plate. >> absolutely. no president even when they are on vacation really goes on vacation. they are president 24-7. he will bring a team with him and stay in touch with secure communications as needed. clearly the crisis in north korea is not going to take a holiday for us. neither are the tensions in the mideast. i was encoura

the name to remember. >>> we are back live from west palm beach, florida. where the president is spending his holiday week at mar-a-lago. we are in west palm as you can see a shot of some of the boats on the water there. a gorgeous morning here in florida. not quite the same scene in puerto rico, facing a health crisis months after getting battered by hurricanes irma and mostly maria. you've got this state where we are right now, florida, providing a safehaven for some of the victims. it's estimated about 200,000 people came here in the first couple of months after hurricane maria with relief centers really working to help those folks out. you've also got questions now about how many people have actually been killed in puerto rico. there is a concern that that number has been under reported and that possibly more than a thousand people have died. one of the biggest challenges, the most imminent and urging challenges right now is trying to get power back to everybody at the island, especially those who live in rural islands. i want to bring in correspondent f

i feel a little guilty sitting in west palm beach. know you're seeing something different there in chicago. >> reporter: hey there, hallie. good morning to you. chicago is known as the windy city. unfortunately, today, not living up to that nickname. we've got about 5 or 6 miles an hour winds at my back from the southwest which helped to keep the windchill above zero. we're about 10, 11 degrees. windchill maybe 2, 3, 4 degrees. the arctic blast is huge covering the tier of the lower 48. it's expected to stay this cold through the new year and into the middle if not the end of next week. folks will have to bundle up for the next five or six days. when you talk about whether this cold drives past style, hence, i have to explain why this hat matches nothing i'm wearing. at least i'm warm. hypothermia sets in quickly. a lot of times people don't realize how fast it can set in on exposed skin. i should be wearing a full face mask. we're trying to get through this and get back inside. you mentioned the temperatures in minnesota, hallie. two

the lowest prices. >>> well, here we are in west palm beach winding down 2017. year that gave us donald trump, total eclipse, and a megaphone. here are some of the biggest headlines of the year. watch. >> 2017. a year of tremendous change and disruption. that began with a peaceful transfer of power. >> i donald john trump do solemnly swear -- this american carnage stops right here and stops right now. >> donald trump became president of a deeply divided nation. a country that couldn't even agree on how many people were there that day. >> photographs of the proceedings were framed in a way to minimize the enormous support that gathered. >> but a year of unrest is just getting started. by february many believed we might be on the brink of war after north korea lobbed a missile over the sea of japan. >> the first global crisis for president trump. >> they will be met with fire and fury. >> by the end of the year, the north koreans had successfully tested a missile that could reach anywhere in the u.s. terrorists continued to wage their war. cars and trucks becoming

. >> harris: let's take a look, the president moments ago touching down arriving in west palm beach,hours after signing the tax reform bill into law. that's not president trump's only accomplishment this year. he said he has scored dozens of major achievements in his first year in office, making good on campaign promises and restoring respect of the united states. we are going to watch at this, sometimes the president comes down the stairs, he will talk a little bit. the white house tells the "washington examiner" it slashed at least 11 major obama legacy items. the president talked about his success, watch. >> a lot of people say he needed this because he's had no legislative wins. if you look at the va accountability act in so many other bills, having to do with the military, having to do with -- we have more legislative victories than any other president, not including this but this is the capper because this is the biggest tax cut, biggest reform of all time. >> harris: we will keep a close eye and a screen up to see the president of the united states as he comes down, meanwhile

president trump west palm beach, florida. holiday there at mar-a-lago, his estate. the president posing for some selfies, working the rope line on the tarmac as he nears the end of his first year in office. president trump finds his popularity, though, remaining quite low. the latest poll has the president's approval rating the lowest of any modern president at the end of his first year in office. 41%. just 41% say they approve of the job the president is doing. 56% say they disapprove. i want to bring in john meacham, presidential historian, msnbc contributor. we heard you say earlier, john, we know that the presidency hasn't changed donald trump. what we do not know if if trump changed the presidency. how might he change the office itself, john? >> i think there are two things that come to mind. one is tactical and one is strategic. i have a feeling anyone who follows trump in the office is probably going to have to have an authentic seeming voice. we're talking about politics. voice on social media. i think people have bec

jeff bennett is in west palm beach. jeff, with a good saturday morning to you. you have election day there just three days away in alabama. how important was the president's endorsement? >> good morning, alex. it was huge for roy moore. the white house has reviewed polling data that shows roy moore with a small but steady lead. he long under performed with republican voters in alabama. he said he would not campaign for roy moore in alabama. last night he did the next best thing, went to pensacola, made a case against the democrat in that case saying doug jones would be a rubber stump. and he tweeted echoing that sentiment. he said jones will always vote against what with must do for our country the the president has long dropped all pretenses about caring too much about the allegations with roy moore when he was in his 30s. he needs and wants a republican to hold that senate seat. take a look at what he said last night. >> how many people here are from the great state of alabama? whoa! the future of this country cannot afford to lose a seat in a very, very close

that's down in west palm beach traveling with the president. >>> president says in "the new york times" there was no collusion between russia and his campaign. but he did say democrats were guilty. told michael smith i think it's turning to the democrats because there was collusion. there was collusion with the russians and democrats, starting with the dossier but going into so many other elements, and podesta. the president also wondered what happened to, referring to him as the pakistani guy, and also brought up hillary clinton email server. now joining me to talk about this. frank, let me start with you here, i want to go back to that quotation i read about the role of the president and the justice department, absolute determinism. how did you react to what you read there? >> well, i'm from the school that says that it was great that we heard the president's unvarnished believes for 30 straight minutes. because there is tremendous insight into his thought process here. so he apparently views himself as the head of law enforcement for the united states. the head of the justice depart

he did show up yesterday at the west palm beach fire and rescue squad. he met with first responders there, fielded some questions for them and talked about 2017 in review. talked up his tax law and said it's going to boost economic growth. >> the tax cut bill is something. wait till it kicks in. little did we know, at&t, comcast, wells fargo are giving thousands to their employees and nobody saw that happening right away. that happened early. now what is happening is many of the companies have following suit. so the country is really shifting big. >> democrats oppose the tax law. they say it's a give-away to wealthy and corporations at the expense of the national debt. beyond that, the president talked up some of the other provisions in the tax law. the first being that the obamacare individual mandate that requirement that nearly every american have health insurance. the tax law eliminates that. it also opens up the arctic national refuge in alaska for oil drilling, rick. >> rick: rick, i understand the president took a swipe at china. >> he did. part o

now joining us from west palm beach. "the new york times" as failing. tell us more about this interview. >> reporter: well,en

president trump met with first responders yesterday at west palm beach fire and rescue. he is in florida vacationing at his estate. [applause] [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] i just want to thank you for all the things you do. people don't appreciate it like they should but we appreciate it. again, thank you very much. fantastic job and if you have any questions, let's talk about it, okay. this is real power over here. [laughter] any questions? ahead. [inaudible] >> we are setting records and stuff. [inaudible] were doing well. the stocks are doing well, 401ks are doing well. a lot of countrie companies coming back into the country we love which is what we care about. that tax cut bill is something kicking in, little did we know so many companies are now giving thousands of dollars to their employees and nobody saw that happening right away but that happened early. now what's happening is many other companies are following suit. the country is really a big beautif

air force one is standing by just down the road of west palm beach airport and later this afternoon weect president trump and staff, motorcade from palm beach at the winter white house over to the airport and then fly north getting the president back to washington and his official residence the white house this evening. back to you. >> there will be lots of snow waiting for him when he gets back to washington. thanks, phil. [laughter] >> for sure. leland: we are less than 90 hours from knowing the outcome of what has become one to have most incredible and surprising senate races in american history. democrat doug jones and republican judge roy moore are focusing on now on getting out their voters especially their core constituencies. peter doocy with the jones camp and jonathan sierre in montgomery we could say roy moore but he hasn't been doing public events, with the latest on roy moore, jonathan. >> he has been keeping a very low profile. he's planning a rally with steve bannon on monday, this would be the third time that the former white house chief strategists has joined moore out

david wright is in west palm beach tonight. >> reporter: as his first year in office quickly winds down, president trump appears to be in a jovial mood. >> this is the 17th hole and all of you were watching my shot. right? did you see it? the shot and the birdie. and i made it! >> reporter: back at the clubhouse, sitting down with a "new york times" reporter, even the ongoing russia investigation doesn't seem to bother trump. the president assured the reporter 16 times in a 30 minute interview that there was no collusion between his campaign and the russians. gone were his recent snipes at the integrity of fbi investigators. >> it's a shame what happened with the fbi. >> reporter: instead the president said -- repeatedly -- that he thinks special counsel bob mueller's investigation will be fair. trump did, however, say he thinks the investigation "makes the country look very bad and it puts the country in a very bad position." for months now, it's been a white house talking point that mueller should wrap up his investigation by the end of the year, or shortly thereafter. >> i don't know

that's nearly a third of his presidency. >> and kenneth moton is live tonight from west palm beach. the president also tweeting today about obamacare and how it has initially been replaced, but key parts of it are still intact. >> reporter: that's right, tom. essentially repealed is a claim the president has been continuously making since he signed the new tax law, which does eliminate that individual mandate requiring health insurance, but yes, key parts of the affordable care ability are still in effect. 9 million people signed up this year, and there's work happening, at least in the senate, to stabilize the markets to keep premiums from rising. tom? >> kenneth moton, thank you. >>> the trump administration taking credit for roughly 5% cut in the united nations budget. nikki haley saying they negotiated a $285 million cut to the main 2018-2019 budget. the move comes after tough talk about member nations paying their share and amid tensions over trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel. the u.s. will still pay 22% of the total budget. >>> next tonight, the

. >> in west palm beach where the president is right now. thank you so much, sir. at this time the president is talking about memphis. take a listen. >> among those we honor are the christian pastors who started the civil rights movement, in their own preaches like martin luther king, a man we have studied and watched and add mired for my entire world. that we are all made in the imache of o image of our lord. >> take a look at this image. standing by john lewis at his side. john lewis refusing to share the stage with president trump. lewis along with tom son of mississippi said this. president and hurt full policies are insult to the people portrayed in the civil rights museum. the white house disagreed calling the absence unfortunate. here are some comments he made so far. then we'll get reaction from our panel. >> i'm building a wall, okay, i'm building a wall. i'm trying to keep business out of mexico. mexico is fine. >> he's ha mexican american. >> he's a middle east mexican heritage and he's very proud of it. >> look at how much african-american communities h

the president did just speak to the west palm beach fire and rescue station. he spoke about the tax reform law. mostly the president has opinion communicating with americans over twitter on this holiday break. that's something that his predecessor, president obama, mentioned in that interview with prince harry and the bbc warning world leaders about their social media use. >> all of us in leadership have to find ways in which we can recreate a common space on the internet. one of the dangers of the internet is that people can have entirely different realities. they can be just cocooned in information that reinforces their current biases. it's also harder to be as on noxious and cruel in person as people can be anonymously on the internet. >> president trump's use of social media has often been criticized, whether it's pressuring cabinet members publicly or goding leaders. the president has said it's modern day presidential to use twitter and he made the argument on twitter. >> trish: of course. thanks so much, rich. should a former president be criticizing a s

we'll post pictures of our west palm beach road show. in the meantime, i'll turn you over to my colleague ali velshi with today's weather report. your control room, 22 in new york. 78 in west balm. >> i heard you say benevolently because you're there for nbc you get to bring us along with you. those of us in frigid clims don't feel like we're with you. it is 22 in new york city right now. it's 78 where you are. if you give me 26 of your degrees, you'd be at 52. then i'd be at 52 and we'd be at the same temperature. >> ali, throw on some hawaiian music, turn the lights on in your office and put on a jacket. it'll feel the same way. >> hallie, you have a fantastic balmy, warm, rest of your morning. hallie jackson for us in west palm beach. good morning, everyone. stephanie's off today. it's wednesday, december 27th. let's get started. >> he tweeted a great year for companies and jobs as he talks taxes on his working holiday in south florida. >> back on twitter with a new year prediction. all signs are that businesses are looking good for ne

in the meantime donald trump ending 2017 a high note visiting the nation's heroes in west palm beach re station while touting his accomplishments and firing back at his predecessor. griff jenkins joins us with more on this. >> reporter: welcome back, the president spending final days of 2017 in west palm beach fire station number 2, firefighters, paramedics and first responders and delivered a report card on his own administration's accomplishments. >> 84 times since november 18th. that is something to be proud of. stopping ridiculous regulations and proud of that. >> addressing a member of things, next us legislative agenda, the russia probe, president obama's news, and comparing the day he was inaugurated on january 20th, '30,000 isis fighters with swath of territory in iraq and the area, since last week, 1000 firefighters, isis fighters left but the former president obama hasn't remained silent. in an interview he took aim at donald trump without mentioning him by name and making it clear he was referring to donald trump. >> one of the dangers of the internet is people can have ent

on his first full day of holiday vacation at his mar-a-lago resort and he cruised down here to west palm beachn a high after delivering on his promise of tax cuts for christmas. a fist-pumping president trump in sunny florida greeted to a warm reception in west palm beach. >> best president ever! >> reporter: the president shaking hands, kissing babies apparently feeling good after his first major legislative victory. >> so this is the bill right now. >> reporter: before leaving washington, trump in the oval office signing that $1.5 trillion tax bill into law. >> and i consider this very much a bill for the middle class and a bill for jobs. >> reporter: democrats disagree, not one supporting the major tax overhaul. >> this has been a year of lost opportunities, squandered opportunities. we've always been open to working with the president when we believe it benefits the american people. >> reporter: tax changes already in the works. the irs sent out a notice that new 2018 withholding guidelines on the way and taxpayers will begin seeing the changes in their paychecks as early as february. but

west palm beach, florida. >> we broke it 84 times this year. stock market hit a new high 84 times since we won the election on november 8th of last year. so that's something you can all be proud of. the stock market goes up, that effects everybody, not just you think of the rich, you think of the factories. it effects everybody. >> mike: stocks were up after a slow day on wall street. the dow gained 2. the s&p 500 finished ahead 2. nasdaq was plus 3. it has been a quiet day on social media for the president so far. but he has been busy during the christmas weekend. tonight the last man to sit in the oval office is talking about the tweeting habits of world leaders while naming no one in particular. correspondent hitch edson is outside the winter white house tonight in west palm beach, florida. good evening, rich. >> good evening, mike. and president trump emerged for the first time since this weekend just a few hours ago. this president, like others, has embraced the television cameras as a way to communicate. though his use of twitter is uniqu

we are in west palm beach where the president is spending the holidays. >> president trump today on his trump international golf course through the trees in his signature hat the president promised to be back at work today. he is also back on twitter swonding to the infamous dossier tweeting that it is bogus. saying the fbi cannot verify claims of dossier and russia-trump collusion. fbi tainted. it is unclear what role if anything the dossier has played in the broader russian investigation. >> it's a shame what's happened with the fbi. >> here in mara lago taking aim at deputy director mccabe accusing him of bias during the campaign. -- the president asking on twitter how mccabe could be given $700,000 by clinton puppets. the president attacking fbi leadership. >> he is making a point we need to make no bias and there is serious concerns whether there was or was not. >> this is the bill right here we're very proud of it. >> trump still riding high after signing g.o.p. tax cut into law. and this tweet -- tonight the president reaching a new milestone. he spent more than 100 day 24z year

and i should say that it has cooled off to a very brisk 72 degrees here in west palm beach tonight. little bit chilly tonight. but we're finding a way to manage. meanwhile, the president talking about those cold temperatures in the northeast, tweeting about an hour ago. quote, in the east, it could be the coldest new year's eve on record. perhaps we could use a little bit of that good old global warming that our country but not other countries is going to pay trillions of dollars to protect against. bundle up. now, the white house not offering us any context to this tweet. we assume it's the president talking about the united states' decision to pull out of the paris climate accord. not 100% sure about the scientific accuracy of the president's tweet here tonight, comparing global warming to those cold temperatures in the northeast, but this is the president again taking on another controversial issue and doing it through his twitter feed, john. >> scientists will flat-out tell you that's not how dplrglobal warming works, but that aside, the president made a lot of other news today,

palm beach. air force one is back at the west palm beach international airport and the president is back at morrowived from mississippi. greeting had the jackson mississippi airport, governor phil bryant who invited trump for the ceremony. also there senator roger wicker and child severs. civil rights activists and brother of the man who died at the hands during a struggle. the president took an abbreviated tour of the brand- new museum which takes visitors through mississippi's history during the segregated and 50s and 60s touched on the of the president's speech. >> this is an incredible tribute not only to the state, mississippi, a state that i love, a state where i have had great success, this is a tribute to our nation at the highest level. >> reporter: last night in pensacola trump held a rally, reminiscent of last year's campaign trail and being 20 miles east of alabama, he again urged alabamians to vote for accused sex offender roy moore. >> this country, the future of this country, cannot afford to lose a seat in the very very close united states senate. we can't afford it folks, we can't

rich edson is traveling with the president, he joins us live in west palm beach, florida. speak of the president denied multiple times throughout this 30 minute interview that his 2016 campaign colluded at all with the russian government. according to "the new york times" he said "my base is stronger than it's ever been. great congressmen in particular. the congressmen have been unbelievable in pointing out what a witch hunt the whole thing is. i think it's been proven that there is no collusion. the president added that this investigation makes the country united states in a very bad position. that treated fairly, i've stayed on involved with this particular matter." he spoke at length about his election victory, saying it was his strategy that defeated hillary clinton, not any help from the russian government. the white house just confirms that the president on the golf course today has invited some service members, we are hoping to see some video of that shortly, about 60 coast guard service members were invited and confirmed to in tournament. >> julie: thank you so muc

the president is in west palm beach. covering the doug jones campaign, we will start with kaylee hartung covering roy moore who has no events scheduled today. nothing since tuesday. kaylie, what is moore's campaign doing in the final stretch to get out the vote? >> as a member of moore's staff told me, if moore had it this way, there would be no get out the vote effort on a suspected because it's the lord's day. the more he has let go of that. today launching out of this field office, people will be going door-to-door for the moore campaign, but the thought is they will be doing it between 1:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. local after folks have gotten home from the morning church service and before they head to an evening service. making phone calls is not the priority. they want to get face-to-face with voters. when i asked about the plan for this campaign tomorrow on monday the day before election day, the strategists i talked to said he was not comfortable sharing the details they are in the process of working out because he d

kenneth moten, abc news, west palm beach, florida. >>> and one of the president's critics is warningthe rhetoric could split the party. jeff flake saying that protectionism could cause the party permanent damage. the senator is concerned the republican's tone is drive away voters. >> if he continues on the path that he's on, that that's going to leave a huge swath of voters looking for something else. he's probably inviting a republican challenge as well, but certainly, a independent challenge. >> so you're saying you're running. flake is one of two republican senators not seeking reelection. when asked if he has eyes on the presidency, he said a run in 2020 isn't in his plans, but he's not ruling it out. so maybe. >>> overseas, a potential challenger to vladimir putin is now a step closer to joining russia's presidential race. the opposition leader, alexi navalny has filed papers for his candidacy. however, a past criminal conviction means the kremlin will decide if he will be able to run. he is seen as a legitimate challenger to putin. some argue his prosecution years ago was polit

. >> president trump in a visit in west palm beach florida to think them for their service. trump also talking up its accomplishment during his administration so far including the recently passed gop tax bill. >> we decide that anybody who broke the record saying if we get this subsidy legislation included in war and the repeal. turning to the stock market record-setting performance for mar-a-lago in the winter white house. >> if you call the financial service person, they are busy. the irs came out with a last-minute notice that could actually hurt tax filers trying to get a jump on 2018 taxes this year to save on the cap that comes into place. >> former and not, blake irving. >> homeowners are rushing to prepay property tax bill for next year. just on the road from us at the white house throughout the day in fairfax county, virginia the government building, lines are forming as taxpayers want to pay their 2018 tax bill now before the new tax code it's next week because the state and local income tax and property tax deduction of $10,000 total. the calculation here is very

made unannounced stop at west palm beach fire house yesterday. spoke to first responders and repeated debunk claim about his record. >> had a lot of legislation pass. saying that if we got this one done, we would have succeeded with legislation, but i believe you have to ask those folks. i think they know the real answer. we have more legislation pass, including the record was harry truman. that's a long time ago. >> most recent analysis says that statement is just not true. examination of congressional data by npr found trump in last place in the number of bills signed going back to jimmy carter. even rough estimate from the harry truman library says trump is 150 bills behind the 33 president at this point. npr looked at significance of legislation trump has signed and found more than a third modify existing program. 16 repeal a rule or regulation and more with short-term or less consequential impacts. only three relate to new policy, including sanctions against russia and last week's tax bill. >> don't let the facts get in the way of a good sto

bill keating is in west palm beach, florida.hil, 60-degrees is not too cold for a few rounds of golf after all? >> no. it actually it's in the 50's right now but south florida woke up to a fridged temperature and president trump is down the street golfing with republican senator lindsey graham of south carolina aside from hitting the ball down the fairway, tax reform legislation as well as fully funding all of the president's priorities and then they'll go back, at least the president will to mar-a-lago, winter white house for a few more rounds and for the usual morning the president is hitting twitter page tweeting this, things are going really well for our economy, fake news spend as little time as possible discussing. stock market hit another record high, unemployment is now to 17-year low and companies have coming back to the usa. really good news and much more to come followed by this tweet, getting closer and closer on the tax cut bill, shaping up even better than projected. house and senate working very hard and smart and

in all fairness, but a lot of the regulations -- >> kennedy: live out from west palm beach. it tell us all about it, rich. >> well, they are looking at infrastructure, and we believe that is may be coming out in the early part of next year. exactly how the federal government may find that, republicans are still trying to find out how to fund about, how much money they are going to spend, what kind of regulatory issues will be there. there is also a question about whether republicans will sign off on it and whether democrats are going to want to help the republicans with a legislative victories, and what is an election year. they say that they do want to get these issues done. the president has already task congress, requiring nearly every american to have health insurance, but there are still issues with the exchanges, and republicans have still been trying to repeal and replace obamacare. that's effort that they unsuccessfully tried earlier last year. there is also immigration. the congress also has been trying to find a wheel to deal with that the dreamers, those who were

we have a live report from west palm beach.ongressional leaders from both parties are scheduled to meet with top white house officials wednesday. will they be able to find common ground on spending and immigration? .. eric: fox news alert. breaking situation in denver in douglas county, colorado or five shared deputies were shot this morning, one family was killed. two other civilians we were told were shot and injured by the same suspects. this all happened early this morning the deputies responded to a domestic disturbance call at an apartment complex. police say the suspect was shot in the suspect is now believed to be dead or the hospital where two people were taken at treatment as the people suffered noncritical injuries. they were sued for patients but they were not released their conditions at this hour. we of course will update you on this tragic story as news develops later on today. arthel: busy week ahead in washington the shore holiday break. president trump enjoying some time off as it is florida state in mar-a-lag

. >> let's talk it over now with white house correspondent sara murray who is at west palm beach now.lo to you. how much money does trump want to spend on infrastructure, enough to woo democrats? >> despite the 1 trillion claim, they are looking at 200 billion in federal money, and hope states will pony up another 800 billion, pretry to reach the $1 trillion mark over all. that number is going to be enough to win over democrats? they are certainly looking for a larger amount of federal investment here, don. >> yeah, what are you standing on a runway, sarah? is that a plane or truck? yeah, there are some planes overhead here. >> all right. just seeing. sarah, what might dems, what do they have to gain from working with the president on this? i mean, just months before the 2018 midterm election, what do they have to gain? >> reporter: well, that's a great question. look, the white house wants to be able to gain traction for this before the president state of the union at the end of the january. obviously you have president trump out there saying he thinks it can be a bipartisan push. bu

rich edson is at west palm beach on what we can expect math.ow does the >> it's a working vacation, he had a golfing quartet today. before he left for the trump international, he did offer a tweet, based on the fact that very unfair and unpopular individual mandate has been terminated as part as our

now joining us from west palm beach. sara murray, we know he often taunts "the new york times" as failing. tell us more about this interview. >> reporter: well, apparently he got over that last night. but impromptu interview. "new york times" reporter apparently reported to the club by chris ruddy, ceo of news max and friend of president trump. and on today here's what he had to say. >> it certainly wasn't the plan. michael was a guest of mine with a couple of other people, including andrew stein, former president of manhattan, and the president enjoyed his conversation with michael. and they did an interview of quite a lengthy interview, but you know the president is a guy who likes to speak his mind and he doesn't necessarily follow protocols all the time. >> reporter: and it was a lengthy interview, indeed. in addition to talking at length about the russian investigation saying the president won't call fr an end to it, but he believes in fact that robert mueller will treat him fairly, the president talked a little bit

david right has the story from west palm beach. >> trump has made more than 60 visits to golf coursesowns since taking the oath of office. the white house usually refuses to say if he picks up his clubs. friday, no sensitivity. >> it's the 16th hole. >> as his first year in office winds to a close, trump is gearing up for 2018, including a reshuffle of his political team at the west wing. >> we need a republic in the house. we need a republic in the senate. >> the white house is easy to avoid a repeat of debacles. in alabama, the first candidate -- >> luther strange is our man. he was defeated in the primary by roy moore helped by trump's mastermind. trump jumped on the moore bandwagon even after moore was accused of sexual assault. >> get out and vote for roy moore. >> moore's defeat became a defeat for trump too. some say the gop losseses in alabama and virginia underscore there is a hole left by steve bannon's departure. >> much more to come on "action news." a loved one was gunned down last year. they are asking for help. >> the eagle game against the cowboys may not matter to som

phil is in west palm beach. is this president and for the night? >> he is and he is still tweeting. ng the washington post but congratulation the army, air force one landing in west palm beach this afternoon for mississippi. getting the president to the winter white house for the opening kickoff of today's army-navy classic. the final score by the way was army 14 and maybe 13. aboard air force one he told them he would be rooting for both teams give very politically correct for the man that hates political correctness. in jackson mississippi had toward the brand-new $100 million civil rights museum. a spotlight everything as intended. protesters there because donald trump is there. and several civil rights activists boycotted this and the presidents speech piercing his only made race relations worse. in a 10 minute dedication speech, the president praised the new museum and the people featured in it. >> the civil rights museum records the oppression, cruelty and injustice inflicted for the african-american community. the fight to end slavery, to break down jim crow, to end segregatio

palm beach. however, air force one is now back at the west palm beach airport, and president trump is now back atm beach having landed in the 2:00 hour from mississippi. and greeting him on tarmac in jackson, mississippi, at the airport were governor phil bryant who invited trump for today's opening ceremony of the mississippi civil rights museum, also there senator roger wicker and charles evers, civil rights activist and brother of medgar evers who fought and died at the hands of klansmen during the struggle. the president took an abbreviated tour of the brand new $100 million museum which takes visitors through mississippi's tumultuous history including slavery as well as the segregated and jim crow '50s and '60s touched on in the president's speech. >> this is an incredible tribute not only to the state of mississippi finish a state that i love, a state where i've had great success -- this is a tribute the our nation at the highest level. >> reporter: last night in pensacola trump held a packed make america great again rally, very reminiscent of last year's campaign trail. and being just 20 m

ryan nobles, cnn, west palm beach florida. >>> so with these latest tweets about the russian dossier,e wanted to look into what is fact and fiction. >> reporter: the president has tweeted that the russian dossier is "bogus" but that's not entirely accurate. it is true that the most salacious allegations contained in the dossier have not been verified. but the broad assertion that russia waged a campaign to interfere in the u.s. election in 2016, that is now accepted as fact by the u.s. intelligence community. and it is important to note that u.s. law enforcement and intelligence officials, they did their own work separate and apart from the dossier that supported their findings that russia tried to meddle in favor of president trump. plus, cnn reported earlier this year that other aspects of the dossier, like communications between senior russian officials and other russians mentioned in memos, those are did take place well. and sources say the fbi used the dossier as part of the justification to secretly monitor carter page. the president also claimed on twit they are the dossier was

president trump spent part of his morning at his international golf club in west palm beach.oday marked his 86th day at one of his golf properties. 341 so far in office. trump spent years attacking president obama. tweeting in 2014, can you believe that, with all of the problems and difficulties facing the u.s. president obama spent a day playing gov. worse than carter. >> i'm going to fight for every american in every last part of this nation. we have a president who doesn't fight. he goes out and plays golf. >> i love work. i'm not a vacation guy. like obama. flies in a 747. >> i promise you i will not be taking any long vacations if i take any at all. there's no time for vacations. we're not going to be big on vacations. >> i mean, it's tough not to say he didn't walk into any criticism he's getting now. >> he's in the rough as they say. at the same time i don't think it was wrong for president obama to be going out and playing golf. it is the most stressful job on the planet. i think if anything democrats should be happy when president trump plays golf because that means

let's bringing in ryan nobles who is live in west palm beach near president trump's mar-a-lago estate. ryan, tell us what we know about the proposal and also whether it's going to be as easy as the president is saying it will be. >> as we know, nothing is as easy as presidents make it out to be in washington. highway there are democrats who have interest in infrastructure upgrades and federal investment in infrastructure, there probably aren't as many fiscal hawks on the republican side who would like to see a bill like this pushed through. it will require bipartisan support. this is what we know about the plan. we know the president plans to unveil it sometime in mid-january. it will be the focus of his state of the union address. he's looking rights now at somewhere in the range of $200 billion in investments in infrastructure upgrades. this was a campaign promise. on the campaign, he prosed as much as $1 trillion in investments. the white house is hoping the $200 billion buy-in by the federal government will lead to investments at state and local governments adding as much as $800

. >> reporter: good morning from west palm beach, florida, where the president is spending his holiday week and there were no public events on the president's schedule on tuesday so the only way we really know what he was thinking about is looking at his twitter feed and the president did have a lot to say about a number of topics including the investigation by robert mueller and the special counsel. he said quote, wow, fox and friends talking about a show on fox, the dossier is bogus. fbi cannot after all this time verify claims in dossier of russia, trump collusion, fbi tainted and they used this crooked hillary pile of garbage as the basis for going after the trump campaign. this tweet another example of the president attempting to discredit robert mueller and his investigation. the tweet not exactly accurate. while the fbi did use portions of the dossier which they did confirm were accurate it is by no means the basis of the investigation. our cameras exclusively caught him on the golf course. he was at trump international golf course for about five hours on tuesday. this was the p

. >> all this happening not far from where we are in west palm beach with the lawn mawers starting up at the start of the show. thank you for talking loud over those. i want to get your reaction from th this, he talked about the absolute right to do what he wants with the justice department. but for purposes of hopefully thinking i'm boing to be treated fairly, i have stayed unininvolved with this particular matter. but you talked about hillary clinton and the e-mail investigation. what was your sense of what the said he had an absolute right. >> this is an argument that he plays with -- as the chief executive officer, as the head of the executive branch, he can do what me he likes. the legal argument to get out of that being problematic is the fact that as the president, he could end an investigation. he can tell the fbi director who is part of the executive branch, hey, let's not do that. >> he could potentially take steps to fire the special counsel. >> that's within the elective branch. this is a legal argument to say obstruction is not an issue for the president. >> obviously, yo