Here next. And closing in. Michael flynn stopped sharing information with trumps legal team. I would be concerned if i were perhaps in the white house. Is flynn ready to flip . Former u. S. Attorney weighs in on that. Plus, irritated democrats. An ad Campaign Calls for trumps impeachment. This president is a clear and present danger. And the democratic mega donor behind it doesnt care if the party wants him to stop. Its not some place i think we should go. Playing into the president s hands . Well ask him live. Hello. Im dana bash in for jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is stuffed. This morning, President Trump is wrapping up his thanksgiving break at his maralago home in florida. He played with pros tiger woods and jack nicolas. This afternoon, the president returned right here to washington where hes facing what might be the busiest real estate most defining month of his first year in office with no major legislative accomplishments to date, President Trump and Congressional Republicans are now racing to pass tax reform before the end of the year. Complicating matters, the Controversial Senate election in alabama on december 12th and theres also a looming Government Shutdown. If congress is not able to pass the spending bill by midnight on december 8th. Lets get right to two leading members of the u. S. Senate, republican senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and the number two democrat in the senate, dick durbin of illinois. Gentlemen, thank you so much for joining me this weekend. I want to start with taxes. Senator graham, first to you, President Trump has promised tax reform by christmas. Right. Some of your colleagues, senator corker, senator flake, for example, theyve expressed concerns that this bill is going to make a bigger hole in the deficit than there is now. Are republicans going to have the votes by the end of the month . I think so. What they are concerned about is the personal tax cuts expire in 2025 and thats a bit of a gimmick but well get there because failure is not an option when it comes to cutting taxes. The fate of the party is in our hands as well as that of the economy. The economy needs a tax cut and the Republican Party needs to deliver. So i think well get there. Senator durbin, the tax bill would double the standard deduction for it would double to 24,000 for a married couple and increase the Child Tax Credit to 2,000 per child. Those provisions would help working families, would they not . For the rest of the story, though, theres a real problem. A trillion and a half added to the deficit, threatening medicare and social security, tax breaks for the wealthiest people in america and the biggest corporations. Meanwhile, the tax breaks for working families, half of them will see a tax increase, half a tax break. Those disappear, as senator graham just mentioned. The tax cuts for wealthy people are permanent. Thats why people are skeptical about this tax plan. Gentlemen, i want to turn to something that is looming. Unless congress acts, the federal government is going to run out of money in less than two weeks. Senator durbin, members of your party are threatening to not vote for the bill unless they protect dreamer children who were brought to the u. S. Illegally by their parents. Is this contingent on finding a legislative solution for dreamers . There are a number of things we have to do by the end of the year. We heard on an earlier program right here on your network that we face the end of the Childrens Health insurance program. The Community Health care clinic program, thats also expired. But we believe, senator graham and i do, that we have a fixable priority in the dream act. A bipartisan solution to this problem to make sure that these young people have a chance to earn their way into citizenship. We can do this and we can get it done before the end of the year. Will that be a demand . Will you demand that that gets done in order to get your vote on funding the government . Let me tell you, im not prepared to go home for the holidays until we get our work done. Is that a yes . Ill just leave it at that. I just want to make sure our viewers know what were talking about. It sounds like youre willing to risk veterans benefits, pay for workers around the holiday in order to get a daca fix. Heres the read that you should have. Weve done precious little this year in the United States senate. You know that, dana. You follow this day to day. Now we have three or four weeks to get real work done. We believe the dream act, we can put together a Bipartisan Coalition to pass it and make that part of the end of the year effort. Senator graham, your fellow republican senator tom cotton said that republicans have definitely ruled out attaching d daca to the spending bill, period, end of story. You and senator durbin do have Bipartisan Legislation to protect dreamers. What is the hold up . The way i look at the end of the year bill is a chance to do good for the country as a whole starting by funding the Defense Department more adequately. Im not going to vote for a spending bill that doesnt dramatically increase defense spending and im willing to increase the nih, the corps of engineers, the fbi, cia. We need Border Security. So theres a deal to be done. Dicks right about this. For the dream act, i think you could get Strong Border security and a break in chain migration. If you can put those three things together and put it on the end of the Year Spending bill, that would be a heck of an accomplishment for 2017. Senator durbin, would you go with that, if the Republican Leadership agrees to put in protection for dreamers, would you go to Border Security and migration . When it comes to Border Security, we signed up for that. Senator shchumer said that monts ago. When it comes to chain migration, bottom line, ive spoken to senator cotton about this, is when these dreamers become citizens, they are not going to be secondclass citizens. They are going to have the same rights as others in the United States. Thats something that the even senator cotton and i agree on. Senator graham, do you think a Government Shutdown is possible over this daca issue . In congress, anythings possible. I think it would be sad to miss this opportunity. The president has talked very warmly about the dream act kids. Everybody believes the militarys in the world of hurt. John mccain points out that the training accidents are no accidents because weve underfunded the military for so long. Everybody believes we need more Border Security. I think most people believe we need to go from chain migration, familybased immigration to meritbased immigration and most want to give the dream act kids a more certain life. Lets do it in december for the good of the country and lets take care of a lot of problems at one time to show the country we actually can function. Im rather excited about the possibilities of legislating in december. Another thing, senator graham, coming up in december is a special election in alabama and this week President Trump seemed to offer support for the Alabama Senate candidate roy moore, the republican, who is being accused by four women, including a 14yearold girl at the time, of sexual assault. Didnt rule out campaigning for him and senator graham, just this morning, the president sent a tweet on this issue. He said, the last thing we need in alabama and the u. S. Senate is a Schumer Pelosi puppet who is bad for the military and bad for our Second Amendment and wants to raise taxes to the sky. Jones would be a disaster. Jones being the democratic candidate. Youve called on moore to step aside and said that he should be dealt with severely. Do you think the Republican Party leader, the president of the United States, should be telling voters to support roy moore . Well, thats a political decision by the president. Hes definitely trying to throw a lifeline to roy moore. From a Republican Point of view, i dont see i dont know what winning looks like for roy moore. If he wins, you get the baggage of him winning and it becomes a story every day about whether or not you believe the women or roy moore. If you lose, you give the senate seat to a democrat. The moral of the story is, dont nominate somebody like roy moore who could actually lose a seat that any other republican could win and from a party perspective, weve got to long long term, not short term. What i would tell President Trump, if you think winning with roy moore is going to be easy for the Republican Party, youre mistaken. So yes or no, is the president making a mistake here . Thats up to him. Im not going down the road hes going. Thats up to the president. Senator durbin, i want to ask you about multiple women now coming out and accuses your Democratic Senate colleague al franken of groping. Franken released a statement saying that he crossed a line, he said that he understands that this is a problem and that hes sorry. Now that more women have come forward, should franken resign . Al franken has acknowledged what he did was wrong and it was wrong. Hes also submitted his whole case to the Senate Ethics committee. I think that was the right thing to do. Lets have a hearing, an investigation. Lets let this reach whatever conclusion its going to reach but through a due process. That to me makes sense. Other who is have tried to run away through charges, you have to say al franken has chased it and hes done it in a responsible way. A couple of quick questions for you both top of the news. Senator graham, you have been very outspoken about the need for sanctions against russia in response to meddling in the u. S. Election. The president signed a bill that was passed in a bipartisan way in august. The deadline to impose those sanctions came and went. The administration appears to be dragging its feet. What are you going to do about it . Push him to impose sanctions. Russia is up to no good throughout the entire world. 982, 972 i think was the vote in the senate. The house was supportive of russia interfering in our election and they need to pay the price so i would urge the administration to impose the sanctions passed by the congress because if you dont, youre creating a problem for yourself at a time that you need to focus on solving problems. Theres confusion about who is running the Consumer Financial protection bureau. Mick mulvaney was appointed by President Trump. Who do you think is in charge . You can turn to dodd and frank, the cosponsors of the legislation and ive read the provision. It says when the director steps aside, the Deputy Director shall be in charge of the agency. Not may. Shall be in charge. Theres an effort by Mick Mulvaney to take away their power. Remember, this was the agency that fined wells fargo 100 million for defrauding the people who were creating phony accounts. Its a watch dog agency. Wall street hates it like the devil hates holy water and the statute is specific. Its clear and it says that the deputy shall take over. Senator graham, finally, who do you think is in charge of the Consumer Protection agency . I think the president s own good ground here to appoint somebody under the vacancy statute. In terms of the agency, its the most out of control, unaccountable federal agency in washington. Really no oversight at all. They can get into everybodys business. I dont think they added a much at all to the Consumer Protection. They added a a lot to increasing pp costs that has no, sir thing to with the financial collapse. We ended on a bipartisan note there but we appreciate the two of you coming on together. It was a great discussion. Thanks very much and happy thanksgiving. Thank you. Is former National Security adviser Michael Flynn working on a deal with Robert Mueller and should the white house be worried . Former u. S. Attorney Preet Bharara is here. Plus, now that thanksgiving is over, the president is ready to make christmas great again. 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Lets plan for income that lasts all our years in retirement. Prudential. Bring your challenges. Welcome back to state of the union. Im dana bash. A source says Michael Flynn had notified President Trumps legal team that they are no longer able to discuss special counsel Robert Muellers russia investigation. This first reported by the New York Times could indicate that flynn is cooperating with prosecutors or negotiating a deal. President trumps legal team is pushing back saying, no one should draw a conclusion that this means anything about general flynn cooperating against the president. Here to discuss this is former u. S. Attorney Preet Bharara. You said, if youre dead to rights, flipping on the prosecution is the only sane, rationale move and if you can provide substantial assistance higher up in the food chain. What did you mean by that . The Trump Lawyers are correct in a sense that no one can draw a final conclusion as to what has happened because its happening hirnd closed doors. On the other hand, the cost benefit analysis, if theres a lot of evidence of having committed a crime, its exactly this. That if youre dead to rights and a lot of the reporting suggests that Michael Flynn has a consider bible amount of exposure based on his dealings with russia and not disclosing some of those dealings and, even more significantly, some of the dealings hes had with turkey and arrangement he had for official action he might have as National Security adviser after the inauguration and if all of that is true, he has considerable legal liability, the way to get him off the hook, not only himself but his son who is involved in some of this, the only way to do that is to assist with the prosecution. It doesnt mean that hes withdrawn from the Defense Agreement that that will happen but my view is based on how things used to operate in my office and the way the world works, that theres a substantial likelihood that there are discussions with regard to cooperating. That could fall apart because hes trying to protect and minimize and the prosecutors decided not to sign him up to a deal but the likelihood is that that is what they are talking about. Lets assume that there is a deal in the works if not already, how much further up the food chain can the prosecutors go with flynn . Its unclear but obviously the prosecutors are looking at everything. Some of the things that we know about include the dealings with turkey, as we discussed, but the other things that are going on here are has to do with traction. Michael flynn was being investigated by the fbi but he was fired by the president of the United States after about 23 or 24 days and we also know that soon after that the president of the United States, if you believe jim comey, and i think a lot of people do, told jim comey to back off on the flynn investigation. So theres a potential and then when he didnt back off on the investigation, jim comey was fired by the president. So we dont know what Michael Flynn knows with respect to that request by the president to jim comey. If Michael Flynn and the president had a conversation in which im only hypothasizing here, where Michael Flynn says, mr. President , can you help me out and make this investigation go away or the president offered to do so, that gets you a little further along to an issue of obstruction. So the kinds of things that Michael Flynn can talk about include conversations he had with the president , not only about turkey but also about his the president s interactions with jim comey, the firing of jim comey. And by the way, all sorts of things that we may not know about, including other cabinet officials and members of the president s family who also serve in some capacity for the president and they can include the president himself. I want to caution everybody that this is speculation but its based on how the process has tended to work in the past. And just to sort of button it up, if you are President Trump right now, knowing that this is your former National Security adviser, somebody who you spend a lot of time with during your campaign, how worried are you that Michael Flynn is cutting a deal . It depends on what the president has done and what the president s conversations with Michael Flynn and others has been but if youve done bad things, then you should be very worried. Okay. Thank you so much, Preet Bharara, thank you for your expertise and experience. Appreciate it. Thanks. Hes given millions but tom steyers ad Campaign Calling for President Trumps impeachment. Democrats say its not helpful. Tom steyer is next. And talk to each other. [laughing] natures bounty lutein blue. Because youre better off healthy. Master precise skinny™ liner from maybelline new york. Our first always sharp, waterproof gel liner. Allday wear for precise eye looks. Sleek. Defined. On point. Maybellines master precise skinny™. Make it happen. Maybelline new york whats going on . Oh hey thats it . Yeah. Everybody two seconds dear sebastian, after careful consideration of your application, it is with great pleasure that we offer our congratulations on your acceptance. 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People in congress and his own administration know that this president is a clear and present danger who is mentally unstable and armed with Nuclear Weapons and they do nothing. That was billionaire democratic mega donor tom steyer, a former Hedge Fund Manager that President Trump has called, quote, wacky and totally unhinged. The president isnt the only one not loving all of this talk about impeachment. Neither are democrats. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi says thats not where the party should be going right now. Joining me now from his home state of california is tom steyer. Mr. Stir, thank you so much for joining me this morning. You have become perhaps the loudest voice calling for impeachment. The constitution sets the grounds for impeachment as treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors. Which has the president violated . Good morning, dana. I would say its clear that he has violated the constitution in the sense that hes violated his trust with the American People through obstructing justice by firing the head of the fbi mr. Comey for what he said explicitly was over the russia investigation. He has been taking in contradiction of the emoluments clause, taking money from foreign governments almost since the very first day that he took office. I dont think theres any question that he has, in fact, met that standard for impeachment but the important thing is not that he met the standard but its very important and urgent that we get him out of office. But the special office, Robert Mueller and other committees are in the middle of their investigations, investigations that President Trump calls a witch hunt. Arent you playing into the president s message by calling for impeachment even before these investigations are complete . As i said, an impeachment is actually a process where the house puts him up for a trial in the senate. So in fact to have him impeached means that in a public way the senate goes through all of the evidence right in front of the American People. And the fact of the matter is, we know from what he said publicly that hes violated the constitution and hes subject to impeachment. There will be inevitably were in favor of the mueller investigation, god bless him for what hes doing, but the fact of the matter is this president has performed in a lawless way throughout the campaign and throughout his presidency and hes an urgent threat to the American People. So to sit here and wait doing absolutely nothing is the wrong thing to do. The American People want this man impeached. I want to read to you what president obamas former chief strategist David Axelrod tweeted. He said the following. Isn steyer impeachment ads seem toll me more of a vanity project than a call to action. It will be as damaging to our democracy as the degradation that donald trump has inflicted on it. What some of your fellow democrats are saying is that youre using the spector of impeachment to build your own political brand. Your response . I think that the people in washington, d. C. , and the political establishment cant accept the idea that the American People are supposed to have their own voice. And what were doing is providing a venue for americans to add their voices together to change the conversation, the dysfunctional conversation in washington, d. C. Thats what were doing. And so, in fact, what were trying to do is let the peoples voice be heard, which is exactly what our organization has always done, to go for more democracy. It doesnt surprise me that political elites want to close off the American People and make sure that they remain in control. Mr. Steyer, youre from california and youve said that youre considering running against the democratic senator diane fine sign w Dianne Feinstein who is up for reelection next year. Youre calling for impeachment. She has called for patience on that issue. Would you do a better job as senator from california . I havent said im considering running. What i have said is i have not ruled it out. Is there a difference . I actually think there is but i dont want to split hairs with you on that subject. I think the main point is this. What were trying to do and what we would encourage senator feinstein to do, too, is to actually look at whats going on on the ground and to listen to the American People. Anyone who goes out and i do this all the time and listens to normal working people, know that they think that theres a real problem in washington, d. C. , that it is not responsive to their needs and there is something wrong with this administration that is dangerous to their health and safety on a daily basis and, in fact, we should be acting so i urge senator feinstein to be much more urgent in the need for change than she is right now. Briefly, where are you in your process of not ruling out a run for the senate . I dont need to rule it out. The fact of the matter is, right now are you going to run . Do you think theres any chance that youre going to run . I dont need to rule it out and i havent had time to think about it. The fact of the matter is, im spending all of my time making sure the petition gets as broad a listen as possible and, in addition, we are a huge Grassroots Organization registering, engaging and mobilizing voters around the country. So i have a more than fulltime job without running for any specific office. I have to ask you about the other thing that you have done politically. And that is, raise a lot of money, give a lot of money. You have said that the Democratic Party needs to get behind Bernie Sanders and his policies but at the top of his agenda is limiting the influence of big money in politics. You were the biggest donor in the 2016 election of giving over 91 million to democrats. Are you a part of the problem that Bernie Sanders is working to fix . First of all, im absolutely in favor of changing the way that money is used in politics and i think it is a huge problem and i think it should be changed. Let me make two points. One, we try and do this in as transparent a way as possible, which is why im on your show right now, why i say everything that were doing straightforwardly so people can look at me and gauge where im telling the truth and why im doing it. And secondly, when you talk about spending that money, that money is spent ongoing door to door and having citizens talk to citizens about the issues of the day. Its spent registering over a Million People in 2016 to make sure we get the broadest democracy. Its going on to 370 College Campuses to talk to young people about the issues, to engage them so that they will involve themselves and see the importance of the political process. In facts, what our organization does is try to make sure every underrepresented group gets registered, engaged and gets its voice in politics. So, in fact, we are trying to make the democracy as broad and strong as possible. If you want to change the way money works in politics, were all behind you and working with the system that we have right now as transparently and trait forwardly as possible. Tom steyer, thank you so much for joining me this morning. Appreciate it. Thanks, dana. And President Trump just this morning is signaling support for roy moore in the Alabama Senate race despite several women accusing moore of inappropriate behavior and sexual assault. Thats next. 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That was President Trump earlier this week seeming to support gop candidate roy moore but this morning the president has been tweeting about it from palm beach and well see what he does when he gets back to the white house but already this morning he said the last thing we need in alabama and the u. S. Senate is a Schumer Pelosi puppet, bad for our Second Amendment and wants to raise taxes to the sky. Jones would be a disaster. Welcome to our panel. David urban, you helped get President Trump erectlected in state of alabama. Do you think this push is a good one . I think the only thing worse than doug jones is roy moore. I think it will be a disaster for the midterms and the party will continue to try to move and separate itself. I think what hes alleged to have done, still obviously alleged to have done will have to be proved in a court of law but this is a political contest. This is politics. When youre explaining, youre losing. I think this is a loser for the Republican Party. I think the that the governor should have postponed the election and its well within our purview to do so and can solve it very quickly. So its better to have doug jones than roy moore . I think doug jones would become republican doug jones. Senator manchin used to be called a blue dog democrat in this town and i think before we switch parties. Im speechless. I think trump will have to say would it be news if you break with trump . Huge. Exactly. I think trumps decided he might as well just be for him. Hes not going to get anything by distinguishing at this point. I wouldnt be surprised if they get tax reform through. Thursday they are likely to vote. Looks like they might get it through the senate. I suspect trump will be inclined to campaign for moore and campaign against jones. Look at this vote, 5149. If you want to have conservative policies, you cant afford to have a democrat like doug jones. Im just saying, trump has decided hes all in and might as well try to pull it out. This is the cancer of our country right now because when donald trump says that doug jones is soft on crime, its the antithesis. Were talking about somebody who has a track record of actually being a law and order individual who has that on his resume. Running against somebody who is, again i use this word again, the antithesis to all of that. Roy moore is accused of being a predator. Were not talking about somebody sexually harassing somebody, as wrong as that may be. Were talking about somebody preying on 14yearold girls, allegedly. So when youre talking about these predatory behavior, the fact that the president is putting his mantel behind that is even more troubling. Any republican wont do in this case and to choose the morality that daughter even his own daughter said that theres a special place in hell for anybody who preys on children. Were talking about the accusation of a 14yearold girl and he makes light of it saying that some of these allegations were 40 years ago. Well, news flash for the president , when people are in pain like that and women and men who have gone through that type of trauma, you cant put a timeline on when they reveal that trauma but to say to the United States of america that he would rather have someone like moore in there just for political expediency, really is the wrong message to send. Heres a question. I very much agree with that. Trumps played his card. What do the republicans do . What does Mitch Mcconnell do . Jeff flake has said i would vote for doug jones if i were in alabama. Most of the republicans have said im separating myself. We will separate ourselves. I think the interesting question to ask of all republican senators later this week is, okay, where do you stand . Are you willing to break roy moore go ahead. Let him finish. Roy moore won a primary. Lets talk about the state of the Republican Party. I mean, roy moore beat a sitting United States senator. Luther strange wasnt somebody who just came along. He was actually the United States senator. And roy moore just didnt become a problem. I mean, roy moore doesnt think muslims should be able to serve in the United States congress. Roy moore thinks that homosexuality should be illegalized. He was the defactor republic defacto president. You should not let david duke be a republican state senator. The president is trying to play what he thinks is smart politics and making this about the democrat. Bakari mentioned that, among the other things that doug jones we dont hear a lot about him because roy moore has been the story, that hes successfully prosecuted two members of the kkk for the infamous bombing back in the 60s. Is that dog going to hunt . Listen, i think as bill said, im a supporter of the president 99. 9 of the time. I break with him on this instance. I think that judge moore is not a great candidate here, to say the least. I think that the Republican Party would be better off having this you know, having the democrat come in. I would say that, again, just like senator manchin, and other blue dog democrats, they vote with the Republican Party a lot. Theres an opportunity to win that seat back in a few years and it will go back to the Republican Party. I think its going to be a big problem for the republican brand, as bill points out correctly, what if youre Mitch Mcconnell and the other senators, he wins. Do you seat him, not seat him . You have to take a stand. Does expelling him even matter . This is a bigger problem than just the republican brand. We see all of these Sexual Exploitations, and that is being light here, that is coming out from all sectors. This is about the type of country that we are and for the voters in alabama to separate partisanship from what is the right thing to do on behalf of girls and woman nen in this cou, that any grown 30yearold man preying on 14yearold girls, somebody who is not your physical, mental equal, what does that say about you . What is the measure of the man that would even prey or even approach a 14yearold girl . This is not just about moore. This is about a crisis in this country when it comes to Sexual Exploitation of girls and women that has been acceptable. So when we draw anything from this, its that this kind of behavior cannot be awarded and cannot stand and we have to take a firm position, republican or democrat, and not make this about partisan politics. This is about women and girls and men and boys who have been sexually exploited. Were going to have to leave it there. Thank you all for that discussion. Really fascinating and enlightening what were going to see coming down the pike this week. Forget seasons greetings and happy holidays, President Trump is vowing to take on the war on christmas. Were getting near that beautiful christmas ceaseason t people dont talk about anymore. 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The Holiday Season is here, and this year forget about wishing someone a happy hanukkah, kwanzaa or festivus. It is the trump administration. It is all about christmas. tis the season, a time for good tidings and cheer and, of course, for President Trump to fulfill one of his Favorite Campaign promises. Were saying Merry Christmas again. Reporter making christmas great again. Youll be saying Merry Christmas again when you go shopping. Believe me. They have been downplaying that little beautiful phrase. Youre going to be saying Merry Christmas again. Reporter it is beginning to look a lot like christmas. Even if you dont celebrate. I have friends that arent christian, they like to say Merry Christmas. They love it. Everybody loves it. Reporter Everybody Loves it. And for the president , theres Nothing Better than the jolly old man himself. How dreary would be the world if there were no santa claus. Im santa claus. Let me see for myself. Go ahead. Reporter perhaps trumps fond feelings for december 25th stems from his childhood in queens. My mother would put beautiful presents under and we would get up in the morning and she would say, no, no, it is too early. We would get up at 2 00 in the morning. Reporter the Republican National committee is giving one lucky trump supporter the chance to detective halls with President Trump himself. Santas coming to town. Santa reporter what might be under the tree, santa trump has a special gift. A big, beautiful Christmas Present in the form of a tremendous tax cut. Reporter of course, if its too foggy for air force one, santa has other options. You know rudolph youre so bright wont you guide my freaking sleigh tonight reporter remember, it is not seasonings greetings or happy holidays, its Merry Christmas. Rudolph, youre fired. Blitzen, youre fired and coming up, almost a year into the trump presidency, why did donald trump win . Fareed zakaria digs in next. 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