Clients and he denied ever sending giuliani to ukraine on his behalf. The president s efforts to separate himself from giuliani is starting to sound awfully similar to his relationship with another personal lawyer, Michael Cohen. Which very quickly went south. Take a listen. Michael cohen is a very talented lawyer. Rudy giuliani is a great lawyer. I always like michael. Rudy is a great gentleman. Well, you have to ask that to rudy. They got cohen totally unrelated to the campaign. Im not involved. Rudy has other clients other than me. Our Kaitlan Collins is in west palm beach. We heard from the president now saying that he doesnt know what giuliani was doing in ukraine, even though we do know he was there for the president. Do we have a sense today of how the white house is reacting to this news that giuliani was look for other deals. Reporter well, alex, they havent said anything publicly but far long time now white house officials have really tried to put some distance between themselves and Rudy Giuliani because he caused problems for them time and time again even before the impeachment inquiry got started the hush money payments the president made, comments that Rudy Giuliani would go on cable news and make and of course those extensive interviews he so frequently gave. So essentially they have never thought that Rudy Giuliani was helpful to what theyre trying to do inside the white house, but of course hes something that they have had to deal with time and time again because he and the president are close. And hes made that clear over the last few days. You have seen the president essentially trying to put some distance between the two of them, saying he didnt know what Rudy Giuliani was up to in ukraine. You said Rudy Giuliani respond to that, not only making that joke, as he calls it, about having insurance on the president , also saying he speaks to the president often and makes pretty clear they talk on a regular basis. So right now no comment on that. But the question is what the president does here. Ever since those two associates of giulianis were arrested, the president saying he didnt know them and now hes trying to say he didnt know what Rudy Giuliani was doing in ukraine and he wasnt the one who sent them there to seek out those investigations on his behalf, even though you can read the president s own words where he is telling people to work with giuliani when it came to ukraine. So far we know that giuliani is not representing the president. According to white house officials he is still his attorney. Whether or not that changes, its certainly something the president is keeping his eye on, what is happening not only with this story about what he was doing with that then top prosecutor but also now that we have those reports that federal prosecutors are looking into giulianis consulting bisz. Alex . That is a very important point. In that transcript between the phone call between president s trump and zelensky, President Trump specifically asking zelensky to work with Rudy Giuliani. Kaitlan collins in west palm beach. Thanks very much. Yep, three times. Here with me now to discuss all of that and more are abby phillips, cnn political correspondent, rinado and former federal prosecutor and doug hyde. Thank you all for joining me on this thanksgiving. Happy thanksgiving to all of you. Happy thanksgiving. Abby, i want to start with you. Bouncing off of what kaitlyn was saying, how do you see the president s attitude changing towards giuliani . Does this new reporting in the post and the times, does it make the president more likely, do you think to distance himself from giuliani . Absolutely. I mean, weve already seen the president trying to do that as kaitlyn said for several weeks now. And the ways in which this really parallels what happened with Michael Cohen is that the president is aware at this point that there is this on going inquiry into giulianis consulting business, that federal prosecutors are looking into what he was doing in terms of that business. And similarly, around the time that the president started distancing himself from Michael Cohen, his former personal attorney, was when it became clear that Michael Cohen was also under federal investigation. So, you know, its not clear to me if the president is fully aware of everything that was going on. But hes aware enough to know that at this point he wants to have very little to do with the part of this that could become a part of this criminal investigation and also giuliani himself points out that the reason that he may not have pursued some of these deals, these hundreds of millions of dollars worth of deals with ukrainian officials at around that time, is because he knew it looked bad. The president is also aware that this kind of double dipping that giuliani was apparently interested in doing also looked bad. And the president clearly wants to try to step back from some of that. Even if hes not fully aware of all of the details of what was going on. I think we just dont know yet how many how much exactly he knows about what giuliani has been up to. Doug, if the president continues down this path and he continues to distance himself from giuliani, does this give republicans a scapegoat . Could this be effective, even though we know as we have been saying that giuliani was in ewe kran on behalf of the president . For republicans this could be the ultimate scapegoat. Theres an old phrase in washington you serve at the pleasure of. Thats no more true than for donald trump than it is for thats more true for donald trump than it is for anyone else. What we have seen so often with trump is that you are a great and trusted and valued aide, very publicly until the minute youre not. Michael cohen learned that and we can go through countless examples of people who have learned that but more specifically for rudy, look at what happened with Michael Cohen. One thing im hearing from a lot of republicans and i think would make sense to a lot of viewers, we have seen so many interviews Rudy Giuliani where we scratched our head. This isnt just a political problem. Hes put himself in more legal jeopardy. If hes going to be thrown under the bus, he may be thrown under a very long bus that goes back and forth over him. I want to ask you about that, that legal jeopardy that he may be in. We know that federal prosecutors are looking into giulianis business dealings. Of course we know two of his associates have been indicted. How hot is the water that hes in right now . Its scalding. Realistically, if you are dealing with people who are under federal indictment, receiving large quantities of money from them and you are doing business with them, youre in potentially in very hot water anybody, no matter who you are. You are going to be seriously looked at by the feds. And we have seen evidence that they are devoting substantial resources to investigating mr. Giuliani. So if hes not the target of their investigation or a target meaning somebody who will be indicted, hes somebody they want to try to build a case to indictment. And theres a laundry list of charges that they are looking at him for. If i was mr. Giulianis lawyer, i would tell him to expect an indictment. I want to hit on another topic that of gordon sondland, the u. S. Ambassador to the european union. There are new questions about his credibility this morning. He told ukraine that they would have to carry out investigations into the bidens, into the 2016 election, in order to get that military aid from the Trump Administration. Now the Washington Post has this headline, witness testimony and records raise questions about trumps account of no quid pro quo call. Now, that piece claims that no other witness testimony or documents corroborate sondlands description of the september 9th call that he had that he said he had with the president. That call is a key part of the president s defense that no quid pro quo took place. Abby, on that call, sondland says that trump told him tell zelensky, tell president zelensky to do the right thing. Abby, do you think that this new reporting moves the needle at all considering the wealth, the magnitude of all the other testimony that we heard . Well, you know, i do think it raises more credibility about sondland as a witness, who has been trying to straddle this line between not offending the president or not incriminating the president too much but also trying to clear his name after it became very clear that he wasnt telling the truth about certain incidents that other witnesses had testified to. But i also think that we got to keep in mind here that that call based on the reporting that we have had just in the last week, it happened long after President Trump was aware that there were that there was a whistleblower complaint that was raised about the with holding of aid. At the time the president said sondland had this call with him knew that people were complaining that there was a possible quid pro quo happening in this situation. So, this call has always been a minimal importance because just because the president says hes not doing a quid pro quo, doesnt mean thats not actually what was happening. And so whether or not the call happened probably doesnt change the facts as we know it. But it certainly does kind of discount sondland even further as a reliable witness for either side in this investigation. Multiple witnesses said eight days prior on september 1st, sondland told a top zelensky aid, unless zelensky launched those investigations they would not be getting that aid. I want to hit one more topic before i let you all go. Were still getting more rulings regarding whether the former white house lawyer don mcgahn will have to testify in congress. A Federal District judge yesterday he issued a stay on an order for mcgahn to comply with the white house impeachment subpoena. Renato, the president has lost a series of cases in court, but how much does this ruling play into his hands because essentially it does delay everything. Well, thats right. Look, the president has taken positions that are, you know, really not within the mainstream of american legal reasoning. I would view them as delay tactics. Theyre not serious legal positions in my view. And thats why we have seen loss after loss after loss, but the point here is just to delay. And i think it has had success along those lines. Its probably going to delay mcgahn until after the impeachment inquiry and the impeachment process is complete. And thats really the only goal there even if, as the judge noted, the position is being taken by President Trump. Folks, we have to leave it there. Thank you very much and happy thanksgiving. Coming up, it was touch and go there for a minute, but the balloons made it into the air for the famous macys thanksgiving day parade. 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It was also a reminder that the president has very little understanding of what it means to be in the military, to fight ethically or to be governed by uniform set of rules and practices. This comes as top military officials worry about a moral problem festering in the pentagon and growing increasingly frustrated with the president s sporadic and contradictory decision making. Our Barbara Starr has that reporting. Joining me now from the pentagon. Barba barbara, is proudly, famously apolitical. How has this Eddy Gallagher affair made things worse . Well, it has really brought this festering problem to the forefront, alex. You know, the military is a reflection of american society, obviously. There are many troops out there who do support the president , who believe very much believe that he is looking after them, getting them increased funding. Getting them out of wars, that sort of thing. So he has support within the military. But he also has, as you might expect, a lot of people who are very concerned about that erratic and sporadic decision making. And it really is the Top Commander es who are beginning to worry. The gallagher case put the president into what should have been, they feel, a military justice review handled by the military. They saw no reason for the president to intervene, especially when it became very publicly clear that fox news and this is fact, not opinion, fox news was very much in his ear trying to urge him to intervene in these cases. So, what you have now secretary spencer spelling it out, the need for uniform application, steady command and control, steady orders. You might recall some weeks back the president tweeted that u. S. Troops were killing machines, trained to be killing machines, and of course the u. S. Military feels that is exactly not what they are. They want to see some discipline return to this process. A lot of worry that the president will continue to do this. Alex . Barbara, terrific reporting. You can read a lot more from Barbara Starr on cnn. Com. Barbara starr at the pentagon, thanks very much. Sure. Joining me to discuss this further is mart hurtling, a cnn military analyst and former commanding general of the u. S. Army in europe. Thank you for joining me on this thanksgiving. Happy thanksgiving, alex. And to you. I want to start with a quote of yours that you actually gave to barbara in her piece on cnn. Com in which you talk about the current state of the u. S. Military. And you wrote, it may not break but it sure the hell is being bent by this and increasingly becoming brittle. So how dire do you view this situation . Well, i wouldnt put it in the dire category, alex, but i would put it in the challenging category. Why i say that is because the military is a profession. Secretary spencer said the other day, it is the profession of arms. When ever you define a profession, there are certain tenants that go along with that. They have an ethos and set of values they abide by, certainly all branchs of the military have that. Another tenant of professionalism is they are required to discipline or even dismiss their own when they violate the standards of the profession. And thats what were seeing right now with President Trumps involvement in this action against the two sailers and the navy s. E. A. L. He is trying to insert himself in professional norms where professionals are supposed to be the ones that discipline and dismiss others. Certainly thats a part of the challenge that were seeing. But another part, too, is the fact that understanding of what goes on in the military. For someone as an outsider, certainly im not saying all president s should be required to serve in the military, i dont say that. But they should allow those who are serving, who are controlling the military, to pass information on how soldiers, sailers, airmen and marines should be dealt with in terms of these kinds of actions. Thats whats troubling to me. Its actually bringing some challenges to the civilian military relationship thats always existed in our country. General, i want to get back to what Richard Spencer the ousted secretary of the navy wrote in this really remarkable oped. He writes american bs need to know that 99. 9 of our uniformed members always have, always are and always will make the right decision. Our allies need to know that we remain a force for good and to please bear with us as we move through this moment in time. This moment in time, obviously, not so subtle dig at the trump presidency. It does sound like this too shall pass. How reassuring is that line, that oped to our allies reading that, to american citizens and to members of the military . Well, it certainly was a candid oped that the secretary wrote. And the fact that he ended it that way was interesting to me truthfully, alex, because i still talk to colleagues from other nations who i used to serve with, who we used to partner and engage with and build Theater Security cooperations or even allied forces for combat. And every time i do question or have a conversation, they, in fact, question me about this. Is this the new norm. And sometimes you find yourself saying, hang on. We will get back to our institutions and our democratic resolve. We just have were going through a little bit of a tail spin right now and well get back to it. But, alex, ill be honest with you and its one of the things i told barbara, im getting a lot of queries from highranking officials in other governments that are asking me whats going on in the military . The military is a very adaptable organization. They can do things that theyre asked to do. But sometimes some of our National Security policies that get into the National Military strategy are being challenged right now by some of the actions taken by the president and his administration. And after spencer was fired, the president said that he had been thinking about doing it for some time and talked about spencer being part of this deep state in the navy. How do comments like that go down with Senior Pentagon leadership . Well, i dont think they go down well with anyone. Im not sure how the deep state is defined. If its defined by people who raise their hand and swear an oath to defend the constitution and live by values and under the rule of law, then color me a part of the deep state. I keep hearing that term used by a bunch of people who are new to government. I dont know what it means. Just because you may have a different approach or different ideas, thats what we come together as a nation to do. Out of many one eplural bus union. There is times for people to come together and find the best ideas. In my view, alex, this deep state is theres no such thing as a deep state, so i dont know what the president is talking about on that. And general, you were a commander in europe. We now have new reporting from our ryan brown at the pentagon the Trump Administration is cutting or planning to cut its contribution to natos direct budget. How many of an impact is that going to have on nato operations and perhaps more importantly on those allies attitudes towards the u. S. . Well, not getting into a math lesson, alex, but whats interesting is each nation in europe is supposed to spend 2 of their gdp on nato budget issues. Right. Now, this is part of the direct force. Its very different than the nay voe budget rit large. Pu 2 of our contributions from our gdp would be much larger than what were providing to the direct force. Some would say, hey, were already giving 22 from the United States to that direct force. That seems like a lot when you think about the fact that theres 29 nato members, but, in fact, our requirement if were abiding by the 2 the president keeps talking about is much higher than 22 . This in and of itself doesnt concern me as much, but it may be a harbinger of things to come. We have to watch this closely because the Nato Alliance has been extremely successful for the last 70 years. And extremely strained in recent days. I want to ask you about one more thing that you have talked about in the past, these calls that the president makes to serving troops overseas. Later today he is set to speak with members of the military. I understand on a conference call. In years past, he has gone into politics. He has talked about this strength of the economy. He has attacked federal judges for ruling on immigration, not subjects you might expect a president to talk about serving troops. What you hoping to hear today from the president . Are you optimistic that hell stay on message . Im always optimistic, alex. But truthfully, what i would be concerned about is if none of his advisers said, didnt say, stay away from the politics. Those men and women who wear the uniform, who serve especially those who are deployed or who are serving overseas right now, they want to just hear great job. You guys are doing you guys and gals are doing terrific in terms of defending our nation and our ideals. Bringing politics into it is never a good thing because, you know, the militaries of the United States draw from all segments of society. There are certainly some Trump Supporters and some trump nonsupporters within the military. Stay apolitical. Talk about their job and what theyre doing to support and defend the constitution. That would make for great calls. But im not optimistic that thats what the president will do because he hasnt done it for the last two years. All right. General hurtling, thanks as always for your expertise and happy thanksgiving. You as well, alex. 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Bringing blackouts, white outs and flash floods that could last through the holiday weekend. Keeping track of it all is cnn meteorologist chad meyers. What are you keeping an eye on today and through the weekend . You never like a colorful weather map. When you have to use too many colors, theres too many things going on, rain, snow, ice, wind, snowstorm going to develop in the plains, Northern Plains going to pick up a foot of snow or more, and then that snow gets to new york and new england for your drive home on sunday. So, lets get to it. The biggest story right now is probably not in the plains. Its how bad the weather is in l. A. Right now. And its just a mess. Rain everywhere. Snow in the mountains, about 3,000 feet and higher. Its all snow. Some of the passes are closed. The grapevine is closed. We still have these watches and warnings for the next couple of hours and in some spots here across the parts of colorado for the next couple days because the storm is going to develop. Here is how it happens. Rain and wind in the southwest right now. Moisture in the eastern part of that, but they will get together and move up toward the northeast. This is going to become a snow event for nebraska, kansas, oklahoma, maybe even maybe not so much oklahoma on the backside of it, but certainly up on the north side with north dakota and south dakota. The issue is when we get to 6 00 a. M. On sunday and youre trying to get home across the turnpike into pennsylvania, its going to be icy. And then the rest of the day, new england, new york snowy and icy, too. A slow get home sunday for sure. Try to get home on saturday if you can. Alex . Thank you very much. Still ahead, china is vowing to retaliate after President Trump signed a new law backing the protesters in hong kong. 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I want to start with these new bills. In fact, there are two of them. One looks at sanctions for people who violate human rights. The other at what can be sold to Hong Kong Police. So, what is it actually mean in concrete terms for those people out on the streets, and do you think that it means that the president is on their side . Well, certainly the president made clear he had hesitations about signing this bill. He did not commit to signing it until it was put in front of him and had such an overwhelming bipartisan vote in both the house and the senate that he really had no choice, alex. If he had vetoed this, the veto almost certainly would have been overridden. Similar to the reason he had to sign a russia sanctions bill back in 2017. So faced with the inevitable, he signed it and then seemed to try to split the difference in his comments. Saying, that xi jinping was a good friend. Im not sure how friendship impinges on what xis record is in regards to human rights. Of course thats what matters to pth. Also saying he wanted an amicable solution to this. It has a symbolic value. The Chinese Government will be hesitant to go do something particularly violent if they know these are the sanctions that were threatened even before major crackdown. But, the president s got great latitude in this about whether or not he would actually designate anybody to be a human rights violator. And i dont think the Hong Kong Police were terribly reliant on u. S. Equipment for their tear gas and rubber bullets. The president saying he signed these bills as a sign of respect for president xi. Im not sure hes taking it that way. But david, i want to move on to another topic, one of your many areas of expertise, north korea, reportedly firing two project e projectiles into the sea this morning. Rather alarmingly south koreas military said they came from a super large caliber multiple rocket launcher. Now, david, as you know, this is the 14th weapon test of the year. Is there anything to be read into the symbolism of this happening on a big u. S. National holiday, north korea sending a message on the Nuclear Talks from for all intents and purposes are stalled . They are stalled, alex. And i think that the importance here is probably less our thanksgiving holiday than the approach of north koreas own deadline, the end of the year. They have said repeatedly that if there was not significant progress on the Nuclear Talks by december 31st, they would return to some kind of significant action. They have not never quite said what that would be. But the guessing within u. S. Intelligence is that it would be an end to this period of short range tests, which while concerning to the south koreans arent really a violation of anything the north committed to. But instead, a return to a testing of an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile or some kind of long range missile that would once again put us back to where we were before the president held this singapore summit this june of 2018. And that is to say, proving that the North Koreans could reach the United States. And i think that could create a pretty good size crisis just as the president s dealing with all these impeachment issues. David, i want to get your thoughts on another troubling issue. New reporting from the Washington Post about an official who spread fringe conspiracy theories working at the state department as a senior adviser, his name is frank wuco. He pushed conspiracy theories that the cia director john brennan converted to islam and eric holder had been a member of the black panthers. Now, john hudson at the Washington Post reported that wuco once suggested dropping Nuclear Bombs on afghanistan after 9 11 and now works in arms control at the state department. So, what does that tell us about the state Department Today under President Trump and secretary pompeo . Well, its a great question, alex. This official had previously worked in the department of homeland security, i believe. And some of his comments were revealed that including by cnn. I think the bigger question about the state department that this raises, alex, is what does it say about a state department that today can recall an official like or denounce the testimony of some of its most experienced leaders and then turn around and have the same hiring system hire somebody with these kinds of views. Im not worried very much about his influence within the arms control world. State departments Arms Control Office is not very busy right now because weve been withdrawing from more arms control deals than we have been negotiating reentry to, but you know, this is a state department that doesnt feel compelled under secretary pompeo to explain why it relieved the Ukraine Ambassador job or why it would hire somebody like this . David sanger, los of topics. Thank you for your time and happy thanksgiving. Happy thanksgiving. Great to be with you, alex. Thank you. Coming up, climatetologyists are issuing a new dire warning that the new earth climate is in a state of planetary emergency. What researchers say must now be done to prevent irreversible damage. You have a clear plan to cover the essentials in retirement, as well as all the things you want to do. And on the way, youll get timely investment help to keep you on the right track, without the unnecessary fees you might expect from so many financial firms. 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Scientists now fearing that the earths climate is nearing a, quote, global Tipping Point. One of the people who has witnessed the dramatic effects of the Climate Crisis up close is arwa damon who went to the arctic. Reporter we saw how the ice sheet is shrinking at an alarming rate. You have the warming of the air temperatures which are melting the ice from the top, but now you seem to have an increased warming signal from underneath. So the sea ice is being compromised from both sides. Reporter its almost inconceivable, but we have declared war on our planet through the poisons we have released into land, water, and the atmosphere. Assaulting Mother Nature on multiple fronts. Arwa joins me now from istanbul. This is the latest in a stream of really profoundly worrying reports on our climate. What else does this one say . Reporter this one is really trying to stress and under score the reality that we dont have time at this stage. What theyre talking about with these Tipping Points, a Tipping Point is basically defined as an area or event that once we reach that point, there is no turning back. There is no way to actually reverse the effects of what this Climate Crisis has done in that area. They have identified about nine of them from the ice sheet in the arctic down to the antarctic to the perma frost in russia to areas in north america. They have also highlighted how none of these areas, when they reach the Tipping Point does that happen in isolation. They have to deal with the direct effect of that and nothing else. There are constant changes that are happening. The areas are reaching those Tipping Points or, in fact, going beyond them. The atlantic current. Its the current that takes heat from the south to the north. Thats slowing down. That has dramatic effects on the earths overall climate. Were not talking about, you know, the crazy weather events we are seeing or the droughts were hearing about. We are talking about something that researchers are warning we have not yet seen. Thats how drastic they exfepec the situation to be if we dont do something now. Thank you for breaking that down. We know youll stay on the story. Still ahead, thousands of people are under mandatory Evacuation Orders and spending thanksgiving away from home after a series of explosions at a Chemical Plant in texas. Were live there with an update. A stampede unleashed 55 years ago. Built for freedom, power and rebellion. And just when you think you know where theyre going. They do something unexpected. Something that moves us all forward and holds nothing back. The allelectric mustang mache. The newest member of the family. The allelectric mustang mache. Montez sweat. Is he right for old spice . Montezs name is sweat. Hes also a powerful defenseman in the nfl. Old spice is a powerful sweat defense in the nfl. Is he right for old spice . Yeah. Little things can be a big deal. 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Thousands of residents are spending thanksgiving away from their homes. Ed lavendera joins us now. We are looking at the pictures now. Whats the situation as it stands . Reporter it has been almost 34 hours, alex, since the explosion occurred setting off this fire thats been raging for some time. Investigators and firefighters there on the scene say they are trying to contain the fire from spreading to other tanks con ta containing volatile chemicals and keep the fire from spreading. They are waiting for the chemicals to burn out so they can finish extinguishing the fire. For the residents in the immediate area, a fourmile radius around the plant is under a mandatory evacuation. Even yesterday afternoon there was a second explosion. Tense times there in texas. Our thoughts are with the residents there. Ed, thank you very much. That will do it for me. Thank you very much for joining me. Have a very happy thanksgiving. Inside politics with ni nia Malika Henderson starts now. Welcome to a special thanksgiving edition of inside politics. Im nia henderson in for john king. Two key features in the impeachment inquiry including the president s lawyer facing new credibility questions. A new military leader is calling out the commander in chief. And we hope you can take a moment away from politics to be thankful on this holiday and enjoy the clowns, even though theyre scary. People dressed up like butter. Thats what people do on thanksgiving apparently. And giant balloons. If you eat turkey today you dont have to go to school tomorrow