leading voice. i think you will continue to hear from people like john mccain. we heard from him yesterday despite his illness on the iran protest. i am so thankful for his continued leadership. i think you will continue to hear from lindsey graham and bob corker and john kasich. i'm not sure that there is one voice that you can appoint as the voice of moderate republicans. >> scott, your thoughts on that? >> you know, i expect a lot of unity out of the republican party. i think we started seeing it in december. you saw the republicans rally around the president's tax reform package. he is standing up there with mitch mcconnell and paul ryan. i think what you will see the party do is try to unify. there may be days where they have problems with this, that and the other. they know that political unity may be the key to survival. the generic ballot is bad showing unity in purpose and on results may be the way the republicans can stave off the democrats. i don't know that we will see factions on the moderate side. i think we will see unity and try to sell the president's agenda. >>

folks like flake and, god forbid, likely senator mccain and others may not be there in the senate and corker. and then it comes town to the facts. and -- down to the facts. at the end of the day, if the facts are merely debate about obstruction, i think you're going to have a fight over whether the special counsel ran a fair investigation, whether what they found is a high crime and misdemeanor, and that's not going to be helpful for a lot of the policy we're talking about we'd like to see and will certainly roil the elections. dana: mo, do the democrats -- have they ceded too much ground on policy while they focused on russia, and is there a vulnerability there if they have a litmus test to call for impeachment such as tom steyer has recommended? >> to the latter question, yes. i don't think democrats should be pursuing all impeachment strategy, and i think that can be incredibly counterproductive at this point, especially at this point. now, if the investigation plays out and we get a lot more information that starts pointing towards the direction of high crimes and misdemeanors, th

own rallies. just moments ago, senator john mccain voiced his support for the anti-government demonstrators, sending out this tweet, quote, the u.s. stands with the brave protesters who yearn for freedom, peace and an end to corruption in iran. nic robertson has been following the latest developments for us from london. nic, this is very different than the countergovernment protests that we saw just a few years nation 2009. what stands out to you? >> well, we know that there are these issues that are driving some anti-government protesters to the streets. inflation is running at about 8%. unemployment's up to about 12%. food prices, because of shortages, are going up. so there are conditions. some of these anti-government rallies started out with people with economic chants. now they've morphed some of those -- some of the chants have now become of a more political nature. there's an element here, whoever got these people out on the streets with one message, another message is coming out. they are spread out across iran. these are the biggest protests since 2009. the deputy go

down biggest 2017 trump defeat, failure to repeal and replace obamacare. john mccain's dramatic no vote sealed its fate. but republicans were split on how to fulfill their obamacare repeal promise. one that helped them win control of government. that loss made president trump and hill republicans quest for tax reform a political life or death mission. must pass legislation. >> tax cuts and jobs act as amended is passed. >> and it worked. >> people are going to be very, very happy. they're going to get tremendous, tremendous tax cuts. >> whether most americans, especially working class trump voters, will see that as a win, to be determined. and finally, the most important trump moment of 2017. firing fbi director james comey. sacking comey while he was investigating potential 2016 trump collusion caused a political earthquake with aftershocks still rattling the president. >> we'll see what happens. >> not the least of which, comey's revelation that he kept detailed memos documenting meetings with the president which comey asked a friend to leak to the press. >> i asked a friend of m

. including republicans like marco rubio and john mccain. we'll have to see if russia issues a response. >> and also the same from north korea who is sending a ballistic missile test. and we're waiting to hear from kim jong-un tomorrow in his new year's day pledge as well. >> reporter: that's right, christi, i think when it comes to the north korea issue, we may see the white house take a more soft approach with that. of course, the president has been very critical of north korea. but we do know that the pentagon said they're going to handle the situation with north korea much more discreetly. that could mean they come out not who harshly with the latest round of provocations from the regime. >> ryan nobles, appreciate it. >>> joining me now arwa damon in istanbul, errol louis, and lynn swede, washington bureau chief for the sun-times. good morning, all of you. arwa, specifically what we're seeing in iran, giver us an idea of the scope we're seeing and the impetus for the protests. we also get this strongly worded response moments ago from iran's ministry of foreign affairs in

immigrationt system. i think as p!k+r!le. i >> brian: to be honest, even if you may not agree, mccain,omw if he is not in illinois, we we, anywhere. senator, i want to move to one of president trump is 101 tweets in the last couple of days. one of them t said, in an interview within yourç times, which wasfew impromptu, and his spot in florida, i think robert mueller do a doç fair job, hont job.b. he is confident he will do a goo good job on the investigation. that is from a legal perspective it makes you happy, to criticize robert mueller's not a good thing to do, necessary legally. do you believe is pursuing this from youç he' know, now you hoa what you know? >>on i believe he is. i believe he is the right guy to have been chosen. happened, and a fair minded way. he is not looking at the dossier, thatis is not his charter. i have spent time in the last couple ofç days after a lot of fighting with the department oft justice to get the background on the dossier, and this is what i can tell your viewers. i am very disturbed about what the department ofç justice with dossier we ne

keating five are john mccain and democrats alan cranston, john glenn, donald riegle and dennis deconcini. they reportedly received a total of $1.3 million in donations. edwin gray says the senators tried to subvert the regulatory process. >> i was told to come alone. i did. >> did you find that unusual? >> absolutely. never happened before. the whole time i was in washington, i never saw that. >> no witnesses? >> no, no witnesses. deniability. perfectly built into the meeting. >> they said they wanted us to not take the enforcement action against lincoln savings. the only thing that got them to back off is when we finally said, we're making criminal referrals. you're going to bat for criminals. >> now awaiting trial on charges of criminal fraud, keating has refused to testify to the senate. >> was there something wrong with five senators meeting? yes, it's a bad appearance. but the real question is, did john mccain abuse his office? the evidence indicates clearly no. >> the keating five became a symbol of the '80s because it's a group of distinguished u.s. senators accused of t

me for a few months. he worked for reagan. firm worked for john mccain. bob dole, many republicans for far longer than me. and you're talking about what paul was many years ago bf i f heard of him. talk to me about what you think this strategy is here because we don't know that manafort has flipped, that he's talking. we don't know like we know with flynn that he is cooperating. >> i think he's trying to remain friendly with manafort. you're right. it doesn't look like manafort is cooperating at this point. and he's still on trump's side. but i think what trump is leaving out that's most conspicuous is he knew manafort's partner, roger stone, quite well for 20 years. during the whole time he's mentioned him. so i don't think paul manafort is the mystery man and that he's pretending, plus, he was there at the crucial time in his campaign when he secured the nomination. and that's a big role. >> it is a big role. any way you cut it. gentlemen, have a great new year's. thanks for being here. >> thank you, poppy. >> so the president ends the year where he began. preconsumed with his pr

to flynn the entire time. >> that was funny. i like the paul that worked for reagan. >> and mccain. >> so this is one of my favorite quotes from your paper and the interview that he got. this is about how much the republicans love him. number one, i have unbelievably great relationships with 97% of the republican senators. i love them and they love me. fact check, karl. go. >> i will say that the relationship has been much improved by the tax bill. everyone loved the out come there and he had terrible relations with some of the republicans, but the president has shown this real capacity to look past anything that's happened before and just focus on the immediate and mitch mcconnell even said at the end, well, i have gotten to like the tweeting which he is really -- as usual it's overstated and we will see how 2018 works. i think you will probably see a little less love from some of the republicans on the hill. >> i think you are seeing the difference between love and fear. this is a situation where some of this is fear. the republican party i do feel is embracing the president. pol

mccain killing the gop promise to repeal and replace obamacare. but in the climate of less regulations and prospect of higher interests rates mega deals littered the landscape. broad come targeting quaul com. cvs trying to acquire aetna and at&t fighting the government trying to own time warner. the good and bad of technology was on display. artificial intelligence and robotics taking major leaps forward. hackers making their mark, too. a huge breach of the very power equifax was supposed to protect. 150 million americans data stolen prompting national outrage from congressional investigation. all in all a great year for technology as well. amazon and google, apple marking the 10th anniversary of the iphone. they have sold more than 1 1/4 billion iphones in the last decade. then there was a scandal decades in the making rocking nearly every industry in america, sexual harassment from the slew of high profile people to major media figures like matt lauer, bill o'rielly and charlie rose and boy's club culture in silicon valley taking down several executives. powerful men losing positions

reagan and john mccain and bob dole. he was not their campaign chairman, he had different roles, but it was interesting trying to separate himself from that. >> he's downplayed paul manafort, and he downplayed in the same interview, tkurb witnesses, and he tries to control what he sees as the facts in every situation. he suggests he either doesn't know people or this didn't happen or no collusion. he gets hung up, sort of over and over again, on this kind of distancing. with regard to paul manafort, you know, i covered that campaign. manafort and trump were working side by side for months, and trump went to manafort essentially to save him in a way when he felt -- and the trump family felt like cory lou be lewandowski was taking the campaign to a different place. sometimes he feels he's hiring the best people that will represent him, and he doesn't do a lot of personal vetting of people, and he tells himself, i didn't know what he was doing in ukraine. >> when it comes to the justice department and the attorney general, you had him expressing his disappointment that his own attorney

for john mccain, bob dole. you talk about what paul was many years ago before i ever heard of him. if we flipped it around and if hillary clinton's campaign manage with an ankle bracelet on, already pled guilty and was cooperating, i have a feeling there would be a different tone. >> maybe. who knows. republicans don't like to investigate hillary clinton. it gives them no joy whatsoever. this is situational politics a lot its best. they want to distance himself from paul monfort. for the first time in that whole effort they brought in a real professional. paul manafort has a shady background, which we have all learned. but he was the first person who really knew how to run something. he was crucial to president trump, then candidate trump making sure he won the delegates that he needed. if the tables were turned, actually, we don't even have to turn the tables because republicans are busy investigating hillary clinton. and she lost. >> there you two. >> he did say he would attract the best people, right? you can't have it both ways. chris, tkaeufdavid, thank you. >>> he thinks special

ticket to tokyo with a different airline. senator mccain's on learning his fate for disrupting a pro trump rally, sentenced to a year probation and ordered to pay $236 in fines, police say he was one of several protesters who disrupted the rally at the minnesota state capital earlier this year and resisted arrest. todd: donald trump taking on fake newsies that is spread by reporters networks during his presidency and his campaign. what was the worst reporting of the year. the white house correspondent for the washington examiner joins us now. good to see you and we will kick it off with number one from abc's brian ross. remember this on the mike flynn guilty plea? >> full cooperation to the mueller team, prepared to testify against donald trump, members of the trump family and others in the white house, prepared to testify donald trump as candidate donald trump ordered him -- contradicts all donald trump has said at this point. >> that word candidate. >> reporter: we learned after the fact that donald trump was the president-elect at the time he made this request, not a candidate

everyone was very supportive of that. and senator john mccain obviously dealing with his cancer diagnosis and whenever he returned to the floor he returned for a very controversial vote on procedures on the obamacare vote but he received a bipartisan applause, and there's a lot of infighting and a lot of party san ship in wogt. think that it w think that really nice that was recognized. first lady melania trump visited children's hospital in arome. there were a lot of low moments in 2017 but some real moments of light as well. >> thank you for that. we needed that. thank you. >>> happy new year to you. >> happy new year. >> it is good to remember there were some great moments. do come back for us. >> i would love to. >> thanks for coming. >> happy new year. >>> ahead, horrific news right here in new york city. >> this is the worst fire tragedy we have seen in this city in at least a quarter century. >> just awful news out of the bronx, 12 dead including a 1-year-old as a fire rages through a bronx apartment building. we're live next. (burke) at farmers, we've seen almost everyth

nunes it is issuing a to david came creamer, with ties to senator mccain. joining us now with reaction, florida a attorney general pam bondi, i put the extra i in there, and the legal analyst gregg jarrett. pam, first to you, looking at this as somebody from the attorney general, with a lot of high-profile cases when you get these questions about who has ties to what, a compendium of questionable information practices tweets, what do you do when you are at the top of this? >> well, he is doing exactlyou what he should do, and i'm proud of what he did. i start out by saying, as a career prosecutor my entire career and attorney general of the third largest state of country, there are about 40,000 great men and women of the fbi throughout this country, and there are a few bad ones in the justice department who are making the rest look bad. and that is not fair to the great men and women risking their lives every day. strzok should not be in hr, he should be fired. we have james baker allegations, we have all of these things, sol the intelligence committee, they have to take it upon themse

dossier, yet the house intelligence committee has subpoenaed john mccain's associate. his name is david kramer. seeking more information on the sources behind the dossier, kramer met with the dossier's author, christopher steele, the big investigator with the great reputation. that happened at mccain's request. and then transferred documents, to mccain that were handed over to the fbi, at which time the fbi says, oh, i got these already. mollie hemingway is a senior editor at "the federalist."bi tom bevan isn't. he's cofounder of real w clear politics, and they both join us. mollie, when we talk about this dossier, why is that of interest to figure out how mccain got it and why his associate gave it to him? >> there is a lot of interest in the role that john mccain played in getting the dossier to the fbi. we now know that the fbi had the dossier months prior to that and it was handed over in installments as it was being collected. which is pretty interesting if not scandalous information in and of itself. this guy came in, the mccain t aide came in and was not willing to tell who

subpoenaed john mccain's associate. seeking more information on the sources behind the dossier, kramer met with the dossiers author, christopher steele, the investigator with a great reputation, happened at mccain's word quest. and handed over to the fbi, at which time they said, we got this already, mollie hemingway is a senior editor. cofounder of real clear politics, they join us. when we talk about this dossier, why is that of interest to figure out how mccain got it and by his associate gave it to him? >> there is a lot of interest in the role that john mccain played to getting the dossier to the fbi. we know that the fbi had the dossier prior to that and handed over in installments as it was being collected, that's pretty interesting if not scandalous information in its self. this guy came in, the mccain aide came in and was not willing to tell who the sources were coming he knows who the sources were in some cases, but not willing to say who they were. that is interesting, in some cases we already know who some of the sources were and what is the harm in sharing it? why is he protec

senator john mccain who claims he knows the identity of the sources of the unverified trump dossier but he won't reveal their names. former press secretary to vice president mike pence, thank you so much for talking to us. how important is it to reveal these identities? >> we need to get to the bottom of this democrat funded dossier that was used possibly to launch this entire fake russia probe. we know it was opposition research that is a sprawling investigation which has still you have to prove collusion between the trump campaign and russia. >> julie: the team is reportedly expanding its investigation, looking into the trump campaign efforts to reach out to swing voters, related to efforts from trying to influence voters. what else is mueller looking for here? is he pulling at straws? >> the democratic national committee is light years behind the republicans in terms of its fund-raising operations, they probably do want to look under the hood. but even in some of the stories, there is still no evidence of collusion at any level with the russians in terms of this investigation and

senator john mccain applauded and called for more of. >> that's right. >> on north korea, tillerson once again taking the line on diplomacy as the top diplomat does and said the door is open to negotiations but the wording he used i thought was interesting. he said the regime, the kim regime, must earn its way back to the negotiating table. what did you make of that language? >> you remember a couple of weeks ago the secretary got in a little bit of hot water when he talked about, you know, talks without preconditions and so he wasn't talking according to his aides about official nuclear negotiations. he was talking about just trying to get, you know, some kind of dialogue with the north koreans going about the future possibility of talks. i think when he says earn its way back to the table you have seen so many missile tests, so many nuclear antics, several nuclear tests, a lot of rhetoric from the north koreans. i think what the administration would like to see is a prolonged period of quiet, no north korean antics, no missile tests before north korea can sit down at the table. ul

of john mccain subpoenaed over connections to the fake trump dossier, the intelligence committee demanding answers from mccain institute staffer david kramer with firsthand knowledge of the bogus report. according to court records kramer met with the author hired by fusion gps to write the salacious dossier that helped start the fbi russian probe. roy more still not giving up weeks after alabama's special senate election. his campaign filing a complaint alleging voter fraud and calling certification of the declared winner democrat doug jones. the complaint says he successfully completed a polygraph test claiming the multiple sexual misconduct allegations made against him are false. the state board is scheduled to meet today to certify the result even though he has not yet conceded. >> the happiest place on earth after being left in the dark, massive power outage stranding riders during one of the park's busiest weeks. >> small world, the lights go up. >> the idea of a power failure affecting your day. >> people had to be escorted off a dozen right after 20 minutes but the good ne

john mccain subpoenaed over connections to the fake trump dossier, the house intelligence committee demanding answers from mccain and david kramer about his firsthand knowledge of the bogus report. according to support records, hired by fusion gps to run the dossier that helped kickstart fbi russian probe, a lot broking this morning throughout the day. in the meantime donald trump ending 2017 a high note visiting the nation's heroes in west palm beach fire 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

attention of joe biden and senator john mccain. h-uppercase-letter hearts and minds and it turned out to be a joke all along, just a big hoax. the problem with that is not just that it hurts the school makes the school look bad, it also hurts victims who actually go through these kinds of things in the future because it makes people less likely to believe and say that last one was a hoax and kind of data, which is completely unfair. >> pete: at the air force academy. university of michigan student was convicted of salt dome i felt the reporting a hate crime after claiming she was attacked for wearing a solidarity pin. she later admitted to using the pen to scratch herself and she said she faked the attack. a surgeon hate crimes after the election of trump and because she became upset during a women's literature class. there some ferocious women's literature class. >> has a lot going on here. i've never been so upset and a class that he needed to scratch myself with a pen and then report to a belief that a trump supporter did it. absolutely awful. but she's getting punished. she has to go

mccain. cramer then gave the dossier to senator mccain when he returned to the u.s. and byron also reporting that during a december interview with he said he knew the russian sources still used in the dossier, key point, but refused to name them. also, tonight congressional republicans continue to call out the bias in the russia investigation. congressman andy biggs penned an op-ed for "u.s.a. today" with the title "mr. mueller, end the witch-hunt."." and joining us now, that aforementioned congressman andy biggs joining me. congressman, great to see you. >> thanks, david. good to be with you. >> david: let's dive right into this. the timeline matters here in the travel to collect the information to bring it back to the united states. hand it off. so, with the new subpoena and the subpoena powers of devin nunes, do we see connecting the dots as a part of the strategy? >> well, i think so. chairman devin nunez is doing a great job by issuing that subpoena and demanding answers and we in congress have to keep ratcheting this up because we know there is bias. we know there is conflict

that the uproar came because we have individuals who ran for president like john mccain, like mitt romney. we did not see this type of uproar to leave. this is a woman yet she did not win the vote. yes, we know she is not the president of the united states. to use such language and say take up knitting. she is the first female to run for office. then, to say, to take up knitting? she has both a body of work and she doesn't have to be president but you can continue to extend her political realm. >> mark: what killed her? is it the fact that in the midst of this book to her, harvey weinstein and charlie rose and matt lauer came along, and recast her husband and their marriage and a new light. is that part of the problem here? >> i don't think that necessarily killed her because she didn't win the vote. it didn't help her by any means. especially that photo going around of her and harvey weinstein looking chummy and comfortable. that didn't help her. h again, to sit there and say she should take up knitting when she has done a lot inho the political realm is not -- it doesn't make any

david kremer who is a former state department employer with ties to senator john mccain and accord dog york, kremer traveled to london in november of 2016 to meet with then dossier author christopher steele. cramer then gave the dossier to senator mccain when he returned to the u.s. byron also reporting that during a december interview with house investigations kremer said he knew the russian sources still used in the dossier key point but refuse to name them. also tonight congressional republicans continue to call out the bias in the russia investigation. congressman andy biggs penned an op-ed for "u.s.a. today" with the title mr. end the witch-hunt. and joining us now that aforementioned congressman andy biges joining me. congressman, great to see you. >> thanks, david. good to be with you. >> david: let's dive right into this. the time line matters here in the travel to to collect the information to bring it back to the united states. hand it off. so, with the new subpoena and subpoena powers of devon nunez, do we see connecting the dots as a part of this strategy? >> well, i th

individuals who alan for president like john mccain, like mitt romney. we did not see this type of warfare. this is a woman yet she did not win the vote. yes we know she is not the president of the united states. to use such language and say take up knitting. she is the first female to run for office. she has built a boat of work and she doesn't have to be president but she can extend her political. in the midst of this book tour harvey weinstein and harvey and cast her husband and marriage in a new light. is that part of the problem here? >> i don't think that necessarily killed her because she didn't win the vote. it didn't help her by any means. especially that photo going around of her and harvey weinstein looking chummy and comfortable. that didn't help her. again, to sit there and say she should take up knitting when she has done a lot in the political realm is not -- it doesn't make any sense at all. >> mark: do you regret that your party, progressive party wants to shatter the glass ceiling canada, new zealand, germany, on and on have done. but it chose the wife of the prev

senators john mccain, ben sase and corey gardner. >> we're going to get a a health bill passed. we're going to get health care taken care of in this country. >> republicans tried to repeal and replace obamacare, received insufficient support, removed the bill, re-group and were left reeling after repeat defeats. >> motion is not agreed to. >> the most dra mmatic, courtes of republican, john mccain. >> promise to repeal and replace obamacare and we failed. >> the gop had no major legislative victory all year until december. >> merry christmas, america. >> a $1.5 trillion plan passed with a partial repeal of obamacare, handwritten edits and no democratic support. a white supremacist rally in charlottesville, virginia, began with a torch lit march around a confederate monument. one of these white supremacists rammed his car into a crowd, killing a 32-year-old woman. the president initially failed to call out the white supremacists. >> i think there's blame on both sides. >> ooen strong conservatives condemned it. >> it was a moral disgrace. >> passionate demonstrations filled the

. that's also dangerous. >> the president is adept at social media. running against senator mccain in 2008, it was his use of facebook that put him over the top with younger voters. isn't it hypocritical for him to be attacking the president? >> well, he didn't attack the at any rate. -- the president. the internet can have horrible things said about all of us. it happens all the time. it makes people listen to what they already believe. nothing he said is controversial. i think he is concerned about discourse and dialogue. part of the internet like twitter don't help it. >> it's not supposed to help it. the internet is not supposed to be sanitary and serene. >> i would not know. >> being threatened is not good. >> maybe that has to do with the kind of discourse you engage it. i find the digital realm to be satisfy. >> absolutely. this is the same song he's been singing for years and years president barack obama wanted to go back to the days of three networks telling his story. it always bogarted him. fox news would stick in his craw.thered him. fox news would stick in his craw. >> it

, you know, so on and so forth, getting a lot of pressure from republicans like john mccain and lindsay dprey g. where do things stand big picture now? we know that obviously bashar assad is still there. he's getting help from the russian who is want him to stay there. >> well, the u.s. presence is drawing down. and since you haven't seen in the headlines many reports of an isis-inspired attack in europe or the united states, that also means the importance of the area draws down. you have the u.s. military saying that there are fewer than a thousand fighters now in iraq and syria. that's partly based on intelligence, partly guesstimate, and maybe partly wishful thinking. >> but it doesn't mean it's anymore safe or peaceful or stable. >> absolutely. and we know from intelligence that a lot of those isis fighters, they knew a year ago they were going to be driven out, and the top leadership and the brain trust of isis simply migranted to other parts of africa and the middle east to fight another day. just like al qaeda and iraq did before them. so it might be off the front pages r

that miracles do happen. >> another lawmaker, senator john mccain announcing his brain cancer diagnosis. the president's response to deadly clashes in charlottesville, virginia, dividing the nation. >> president trump: there is blame on both sides. >> as wanting to end the daca program leaving it up to congress to extend it. fears over the nuclear conflict with north korea escalating amid the back and forth between that regime and the trump administration. >> president trump: the united states has great strength and patience. but if it is forced to defend itself or its allies we will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea. >> the president inserted himself into the debate over protests during the national anthem. personally attacking nfl players who chose not to stand while the national anthem was played. >> president trump: wouldn't you love to see one of these nfl owners when somebody disrespects our flag say get that son of a [bleep] off the field right now. >> republicans fell short on repealing and replacing obamacare and democrats made gains in off-year electi

republican senators john mccain, ben sasse, and cory gardner, who have expressed condemnation of trump at different times as well. >> we're going to get a health bill passed. we're going to get health care taken care of in this country. >> reporter: republicans tried to repeal and replace obamacare. received insufficient support. removed the bill. regrouped and were left reeling after repeat defeats. >> the motion is not agreed to. >> reporter: the most dramatic courtesy of republican john mccain. >> we promised to repeal and replace obamacare and we failed. >> reporter: the gop had no major legislative victory all year until december. >> merry christmas, america. >> reporter: a $1.5 trillion gop tax plan passed with a partial repeal of obamacare, handwritten et cetera, and absolutely no democratic support. a white supremacist rally in charlottesville, virginia began way torch-lit march around a confederate monument. one of these white supremacists rammed his car into a crowd, killing 32-year-old heather heyer. the president initially failed to call out the white supremacists. >> i thi

vote margin that we have lost the alabama seat, and two senators who are not well, mccain and cochran for the likelihood is that you will not get there entitlement entitlemn the senate. i would argue that in structure, that might get some bipartisan support, daca will basically be the immigration reform part of it, a lot develop a year. we still have a big budget deficit. >> katie: going into the 2018 elections, as you know, elections change agendas on capitol hill. it daca something really something that president trump wants him to go for, considering his base is against it? >> the truth is, he has to get something on the other side. he can't give them daca, without some immigration reform. i stepped towards a wall. one thing trump has done is he's kept his promises. this was a big promise by the promise was not to keep daca, it was to build a wall. the democrats have to get something. one of the things that happens -- i ran the congressional committee at the white house -- in the next month, members of congress are going to go back home and started doing polling. they are g

time machine. it's 2008 and the john mccain for president campaign prepares a dossier using a former british spy and using intelligence gathered on senator obama by israeli intelligence. that information, that dossier, is passed off to the bush justice department and/or fbi, and they use this dossier to not only wiretap senator obama, but to launch an investigation on senator obama. the outrage would be deafening. they would be calling for john mccain to not only be impeached, but be given the death penalty. the deafening silence by the establishment media, and the fact that it's more than deafening silence, they are actually going along with the talking points on supposed russian collusion, based on a dossier and their entire case is built on a house of cards. >> david: we'll stay on the facts here, gregg. let me go back to you on this. who can be charged? in the end, whether it's the scenario that niger used, or more to the reality of what's happening now. you talk about how you cannot produce fraudulent documents to a court or a judge could hold you in contempt. who can be charged

mccain. ♪ >> trish: finally tonight, an nfl player writes a letter to john mccain for christmas. arizona cardinals wide receiver writing attribute and thank you to the 81-year-old who is battling brain cancer. fitzgerald writes, that while he is not a political guy, he has developed so much admiration for mccain over the years. when i think about christmas, and i think about john mccain, i think about giving. the sacrifices john mccain has made further our country and the men and women he has served within the military are incredible. and a prisoner of war in vietnam he missed six christmases with his family back home and suffered unbelievable hardship, today my friend, senator john mccain finds himself in a battle. at this time it is of cancer. and the treatment he is undergoing is exhausting. i will wish him a merry christmas today and i pray that he lives in another 20 years. senator mccain is expected back in washington after the holiday holidays. we will see you back here tomorrow night at 7:00 p.m., and you can catch me every weekday at 2:00 on "the intelligence report" on

deadline. senator mccain and i have sent letters to the administration. we intend to very closely monitor the next deadline, which is in january. we expect the administration to carry out the law. it's mandatory sanctions. if russia doesn't change its behavior and has not changed its behavior, the administration is required to impose sanctions and we'll be watching very closely to make sure that's done. >> trump administration officials said they're taking time to make sure there are no negative side effects. that they're tailoring the sanctions and being very specific. do you take officials at their word or do you think the delay has to do with president trump and the fact that he doesn't say bad things about russia and signed these sanctions reluctantly? >> well, we know mr. putin. mr. putin will push the envelope as far as he possibly can. if he feels like he can do more belligerent activities, more aggressive activities and there is no cost to it, he'll do that. so it's important that the united states provide the international leadership to make it clear to mr. putin we will

, wide receiver for the arizona cardinals wrote an amazing letter to john mccain thinking him for his service. travel to vietnam and went to the prison where john mccain was held. raising awareness for our military servicemen and women on talking about senator mccain's scary diagnosis. really beautiful. very powerful letter. >> got to go. mike emanuel filling intimate >> more sanctions for north korea as a russia offers to host peace talks. very big numbers from retailers for the christmas shopping season. this is "special report" ." good evening. i mike emanuel in for bret baier. action on two fronts regarding north korea. the u.s. laughing sanctions and russia says it's ready and waiting to mediate talks between the u.s. and the kim jong un regime.

republican senators john mccain, ben sasse and cordy corey gardner who have expressed condemnation of trump at different times as well. >> we're going to get a health bill passed. we're going to get health care taken care of in this country. >> reporter: republicans tried to repeal and replace obamacare, received insufficient support, removed the bill, regrouped and were left reeling after repeat defeat. >> the motion is not agreed to. >> reporter: the most dramatic courtesy of republican john mccain. >> we promised to repeal and replace obamacare and we failed. >> reporter: the gop had no major legislative victory all year until december. >> merry christmas, america. >> reporter: a $1.35 trillion gop tax plan passed with a partial repeal of obamacare handwritten edits and absolutely no democratic support. a white supremacist rally in charlottesville, virginia, began with a torch-lit march around a confederate monument. one of these white supremacists rammed his car into a crowd, killing 32-year-old heather high-er. -the president initially failed to call out the white supremacists. >

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dramatic was john mccain. >> he promised to repeal and replace obamacare. they had no major legislative victory all year until december. a $1.5 trillion tax plan passed with a partial repeal of obamacare, handwritten edits and no democratic support. a white is you premist rally in charlottesville, virginia began with a torch-lit march around a confederate monument. one of the white supremacists rammed his car into a crowd, killing 32-year-old heather heyer. the president initially failed to call out the white supremacists. >> there is blame on both sides. >> strong conservatives condemned his response. >> what are trump did today was a moral disgrace. >> passionate demonstrations filled the streets and nationwide symbols were vandalized or officially removed. it was more than a catch phrase. just ask sean spicer or communications director anthony scaramucci or reince priebus or steve bannon or michael flynn and of course -- >> why do you believe you were fired? >> i take his word that i was fired because of the russia investigation. >> he had more than a dozen resignations, firings and

touching tribute to senator john mccain. arizona cardinals wide receiver larry fitzgerald writing a letter in "sports illustrated" offering courage and prayers. senator mccain fights a tough battle with brain cancer. fitzgerald writes, i will wish them a merry christmas today, and i pray he has another 20 years. i know this come as soon as my boys are of age, i will tell them stories about the quality of the man i've got to know. i will tell them senator john mccain will be revered and respected for his as long as the united states has a place in this world and his legacy will outlive us all. >> a new demand from north kore north korea, the rogue nation challenging the u.s. the claim that kim jong-un's government was behind wannacry. if you remember, that's a cyber attack that affected hundreds of thousands of computers worldwide. retired four-star general robert nadler, commander of the u.s. atlantic fleet. he is also commander in chief of nato's with atlantic command. they's to see you. the u.s. does not make those claims lightly. when it says a country conducted a attack, what yo

working with republican senators john mccain, ben sasse, and cory gardner who expressed disdain of trump, as well. >> we'll get health care passed, we'll get health care taken care of in this country. >> reporter: republicans tried to repeal and replace obamacare, received insufficient, removed the bill, regrouped, and were left reeling after repeat defeats. >> the motion is not agreed to. >> reporter: the most dramatic courtesy of john mccain. >> we promised and failed. >> reporter: the gop had no major legislative victory all year until december. >> merry christmas, america. >> reporter: a $1.5 trillion gop tax plan passed with a partial repeal of obamacare, handwritten edits, and absolutely no democratic support. a white supremacist rally in charlottesville, virginia, began with a torching of a monument. one white supremacist ran his car into a crowd, killing 32-year-old heather heyer. the president failed to call out the white supremacists. >> i think there's blame on both sides -- >> reporter: even strong conservatives condemned his response. >> what trump did today was a moral disg

christmas yesterday. >> rick: a heartwarming tribute to arizona senator john mccain from a hometown football star. whoooo. looking for a hotel that fits... ...your budget? tripadvisor now searches over... ...200 sites to find you the... ...hotel you want at the lowest price. grazi, gino! find a price that fits. tripadvisor. >> julie: it was a rare white christmas in seattle. they woke up to several inches of snow on christmas day. the national weather service say it's only the seventh time in seattle had measurable christmas snow. >> it's rare in seattle to have any snow. in other places like -- i don't know, antarctica it snows the whole year round. >> this is pretty magical. snow on christmas eve and a white christmas. >> julie: meantime it does snow in antarctica. millions of americans saw a white christmas. chicago, no stranger to snow saw several inches fall. >> rick: fox news alert. president trump's lawyer standing by his predictions for the russian investigation. he says the portion of the probe about the president will wrap up quickly. he is looking forward to its conclusio

. >> in mid july we learned john mccain had undergone a procedure to remove bleeding above his eye, and a tumor, the most aggressive type of brain cancer and it's the same type of tumor that beau biden and ted kennedy had. five months out he recently spent time in the hospital for side effects of the ongoing cancer therapy, but he's a fighter and lawmaker and we will keep a close eye on him in 2018. and in 2017, hurricane maria killed at least 58 people and leaving millions of american citizens without electricity and water. when i arrived on the island i saw destruction and sensed despair. there's no power, no water, she's a diabetic with no insulin and she has an infection that could threaten her life and no ambulance will take her to the hospital. that's what is happening here. the stories wreaked havoc on the u.s. island as well. hurricane irma in florida. on the campaign trail yesterday president trump promised to -- >> repeal and replace obamacare. >> once in office, though, trump found easier said than done. house and senate versions of health reform bills failed to make it throu

mccain, and ben sasse and gardener. >> we're going to get a health bill passed and get health care taken care of in this country. >> republicans tried to repeal obamacare, and removed the bill and regrouped and were left reeling after repeat defeats. the most dramatic, courtesy of republican, john mccain. >> we promised to repeal and replace obamacare and we failed. >> the gop had no major legislative victory all year until december. a $1.5 million gop bill, no democratic support. a white supremacist rally in charlottesville virginia began with a orch-litmarch arounda confederate monument, and one of the white house supremacist ran his car into a crowd, killing a female. passionate demonstrations filled the streets and nationwide symbols of the confederacy were vandalized or officially removed. it was more than a catchphrase, just catch sean spicer or scaramucci, or steve bannon, or michael flynn, and, of course -- >> why do you believe you were fired? >> because of the russia investigation. >> the trump administration had more than a dozen firings and firings in 2017. allegations that

tribute from larry fitzgerald to senator john mccain. fitzgerald plays in the senator's home state and visited vietnam where mccabe was tortured. he offered holiday wishes and prayers that mccain lives another 20 years, adding as soon as my boys are of age i'll tell them stories about the quality of man i've gotten to know. i'll tell them senator john mccain will be revered and respected for as long as the united states of america has a place in this world. if only politicians could follow fitzgerald's lead and give praise to a man who deserves it. >> absolutely. we do wish him well. >> election chaos gripping russia this morning. a top critic of vladimir putin won't be allowed to challenge him. now the opposition is calling for a boycott. we are live in moscow. ♪ (christmas marching band music) (drumsticks click) jack and jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water. all because of a burst water pipe in their house that ruined the hardwood floors in their kitchen. luckily the geico insurance agency had helped them with homeowners insurance and the inside of their house was rep