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And not doing enough to end the standoff. Up first, President Trump has a message for democrats. No protection for the dreamers without the border wall and changes to immigration. In a tweet the president said democrats have been told and fully understand there can be no daca without the desperately needed wall without the chain migration and ridiculous lottery system. We must protect our country at all cost. He gave an impromptu interview to the New York Times. The president is spending the holidays at mar a lago. Fill us in on what he told the New York Times. It seems clear over the past couple of days that the president is setting the stage and laying out his priorities and making it clear he is willing to work with democrats in areas where he is not going to budge and talking about the special counsel investigation into his campaigns alleged ties to russia and he is maying it clear that the special counsel is not going to find anything and they need to wrap up the investigation as soon as possible. In the interview that took place yesterday in his golf course with the New York Times, the president talked about a number of topics. When talking about the investigation he said this. It makes the country look very bad and it puts the country in a very bad position so the sooner its worked out, the better it is for the country. One of the interesting points that the president made is an aboutface from where he was in previous interviews is that he thinks Robert Mueller the special counsel will be fair if he treats him fair and ultimately this investigation will exonerate him against wrongdoing. He said there is no collusion. Bryanna, the president making it clear that there is nothing to see here as it relates to his campaigns ties to russia and he wants this investigation wrapped up as soon as possible. He talks about his attorney general, Jeff Sessions. What did he say . It seems as though he is very much smarting about how attorney general Jeff Sessions handled the russia issue and in fact he is very upset that he decided to recuse himself early on in the investigation and compared sessions to one of his predecessors, eric holder, the democratic attorney general. This is what donald trump said. Holder protected president obama. Totally protected him. When you look at the things they did and holder protected the president and i have Great Respect for that, i will be honest. It wasnt specific about what eric holder and how he protected president obama. He talked about the investigation into the irs going after conservative groups, about you he didnt explain the specificity of how holder was protecting him from that. He gets back to the point of loyalty. It continues to be important for donald trump. That was part of his dust up with the former fbi director, james comey. The president asked him for loyaltyy and he couldnt say he would be loyal to him, but his country. He had a lot to say on a lot of topics in florida before he heads back to washington to begin the new year. It is a fascinating interview. A comment by President Trump about his power over the Justice Department in this interview is raising eyebrows in this New York Times interview, the president was asked whether he would reopen the investigation into Hillary Clintons emails and he said i have the absolute right to do what i want with the Justice Department, but for purposes of hopefully thinking im going to be treated fairly, i stayed uninvolved with this particular matter. I want to bring in our panel. Cnn political analyst and cnn political analyst David Drucker. Your reaction to that statement. You know what, if you can hold for one moment, we have pictures of donald trump playing golf with members of the u. S. Coast guard. Lets listen here if he says anything. The man who just told houston to make room. And he said it was for the coast guard. I dont mind waiting. You are going to wait. Thank you though. I just want to thank you. We had a lot of them and i said with a couple of people, this is for you guys. Would a couple of people like to play golf. I had about 50 people raise their hands. About 75 people showed up. Today the course should be closed to tourists. No one can use the course. You can have a turn to see who the best player is. Maybe its the boss. I dont know. We will make a determination as to who the best player is. The media is terrific. Any sports media there . I know you are not sports media there . Any sports media . They will have a coast guard challenge. Enjoy the course, one of the great courses of the world as you know. This is the 17th hole and all of you were watching my shot. Did you see it . The shot and the birdie. I made it. They will say its a triple bogey, but i actually got a birdie. Its an honor to have you at the course and you will come back and we will do this a little bit and the job you did in florida and frankly the job they did in texas saved 16,000 people. Its unheard of. I want to thank you. The coast guard is fantastic. I said come use my course. I didnt know i would be flooded, but thats okay. You guys go have a good time and let me know who won. Is he a tough guy to work for . Horrible. Thank you. Thank you, everybody. Thank you very much. Thank you. All right, President Trump there meeting with members of the u. S. Coast guard. Now you see a woman this there golfing. As a female golfer, i will say go her. They will have a competition, it looks like. I cooperate make everything out. Maybe you can hear the things i didnt. Its unclear whether he will play golf with them or just invited them in a gesture for all of their hard work during the hurricane that hit houston if that may be part of the reason why they are there. I couldnt tell either. This was one of the moments i thought where it was a really nice gesture on the president s part and all president s do things like that, but he was able to use the fact that he owns the course to sort of give back and its probably a thrill for most of them to be able to be invited by the commander in chief when you are in the military. Its a very important and amazing thing. Given this treat. We look at how trump treats his properties quite often, wonder figure money is going into his pocket and its a different situation than we have seen with other president s. This is one case where i think it played well for him. It looked good and it made the people involved ark peer to be having a good time and there is nothing wrong with that once in a while. They seem happy to be there and they are going to have a competition. We will see who wins. They will say we will see who wins. Will they play him hard or let him win . You always let him win. Thats what we hear from people who play with him. We look at the pictures again. Talking about this New York Times interview really fascinating here. He said in response to a question about whether he would order the doj to reopen an investigation into Hillary Clintons emails, he said i have the absolute right to do what i want with the Justice Department, but for purposes of hopefully thinking i am going to be treated fairly, i stayed uninvolved with this particular matter. Your reaction . If the president decides to get involve with this matter which he did in commenting on the campaign trail and tweeted about it. He is not keeping himself above the fray, he will face the blow back that the republicans in congress faced. They are being accused of reraising the issue to distract from the russia investigation and the president s alleged ties with russian officials. If the president decides to do the same at a juncture where the probe may be getting too close for his comfort to himself and the people close to him in his administration, there is going to be political blow back to that. Its a calculation that the president will make. In general you dont want to see a president getting too close to investigations in the Justice Department to try to steer them one way or the other for political reasons. Its true he can hire and fire who he wants of the political appointees and that can shake things up dramatically and affect the russia investigation. If he is saying that he realizes that the optics of this are bad, that is an acknowledgement of something that is just fact. Its not necessarily that he is doing the Justice Department a favor by staying out of the way if he decided to force them to reraise the clinton issue. We know what the reaction will be from the democrats because we are seeing it happen in congress. This assertion David Drucker that i have the absolute right, we have discussed whether he has the ability, but also how it would play if he does something. Is that a reflection how doey see that . I could argue that that seems to be a lack of appreciation for boundaries that are traditional in the u. S. President trump doesnt necessarily understand the boundaries that govern the executive branch. A couple of things that i think are reported, one, the department of justice is not an independent entity. It is accountable to the president who is accountable to the voters. In that sense he has oversight. If he didnt like the job the attorneys are doing or appointees who are influential in how the department runs, the Deputy Attorney general can fire them and replace them. The president as the chief Law Enforcement officer of the United States for the constitution does not have the right to simply prosecute people because he wants to. This is where i suppose he could direct the department of justice to investigate somebody because on a whim he wants to, but he might be able to get away with it because he runs the department. Politically it could be problematic and even legally, there are barriers so we dont have a nixonian president that decides that these lawyers work for me. They dont work for him in the sense that they are his lawyers there to give him cover and prosecute his enemies. They are there to prosecute the laws of the United States. He oversees them so there is accountability through him to the voters. I dont know that given his background and how he looked at government when he came in a little under a year ago if he fully understands all of these things. Thats part of the frustration going back to james comey. He said he thinks he will be treated fairly by special counsel Robert Mueller. We have been seeing from a growing number of members of the Republican Party under cutting Robert Mueller or taking aim at the doj or fbi. The president has as well. How is he going to be treated fairly where he has been trying at every turn to undermine the doj and the fbi . Well, i mean we dont know what he means by treated fairly. His definition is different than muellers definition of fair. It is interesting that he is saying this when at a point that the fever pitch of people calling out mueller being against mueller thinking he should step aside on capitol hi hill, that pitch is rising. To have the president say he will be treated fairly puts a pause on that. What is the next tweet from the president going to be and if there is another plea deal or reports of the next people mueller is looking at or if somebody is interviewed closer to the president. Thats different than we were hearing from trumps lawyers. They believed they would get exoneration from mueller very, very soon. Either trump is sitting in a position where he is feeling good about it or hes making a wise decision to step back for a second and maybe if this ill be treated fairly means ill stop throwing darts for a little bit, thats what they wanted him to do for a long time. The determination of what this means is in the days ahead as we get back to the nonholiday season in washington. As we see what the next steps are because the president reacted to those in realtime in ways that do not always match what he says he is comfortable with. What he says he believes will eventually result which he thinks he is going to be cleared. Thank you so much. David trucker, thank you to you as well. China fired back after trump accuses the nation of allowing oil into north korea. This coming as the president said he has been soft on china. We are live in beijing next. After 100 days in the dark, some Puerto Ricans are celebrating getting back on the grid and others are talking about no power until summer. 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It was a daily Conference Call that the kremlin gives him that show we and other journalists get. They have the impromptu interview that asked what the kremlin felt about these Ongoing Investigations and the kremlin spokesmans response. This is antirussian is his theory, a phrase they use quite a lot. They were perflexed that the Ongoing Investigation and damaging russia relations. Reflecting the sentiment that President Trump himself expresses about those investigations. Its that other thing about how the relationship between the United States and russia is such a disappointment. The main or major disappointment of the year. I think he is very telling because back in january, the kremlin had high hopes that this would turn around the rocky relationship between russia and the United States. Syria and nato and things like that. Its gotten much, much worse. The relationship has done a poor state and is deteriorating. They are intensifying. Thank you so much and in that same New York Times interview, President Trump defended his decision to keep trade active with china, pointing to the threat with north korea saying china is hurting us on trade, but i have been soft on china. The only thing more important to me than trade is war. Despite u. S. Sanctions that prohibit that, now china is responding. Alexander field has the latest from beijing. Alexandra . This is a year of almost constant provocations from pyongyang cutting off the resources they have and cutting off the Revenue Streams that fuel a rogue regime and elicit activities. The key here is to cutoff the flow of oil that runs into north korea. Other cold accusations is that china is allowing the flow of oil to continue. This is the issue they found in november. They suggested a net wwork of o transfers. The media said chinese ships were involved with the vessels in the Illegal Transfers. You have the tweet from President Trump saying that china had been caught red handed. Chinese officials are sharply denying the claims and if there is any evidence of chinese ships or companies. Sis tating, the ebt intitiesl be dealt with. There is evidence of an illegal network and they have seized a ship with hong kong registration leased to a taiwanese company. They took the ship and in october the crew boarded the ship has been involved with the Illegal Transfer of oil to a north korean vessel. The ship remains in custody and proved also still being detained and questioned. Bryanna . Thank you for that. I want to bring in my panel to talk about this. We have National Security analyst and senior fellow at the counsel on foreign relations. Gordon chang is the author of nuclear showdown, north korea takes on the world and a columnist for the daily beast. I want you to comment on reporting we have from barbara star that indications are that north korea may be making some moves towards a Ballistic Missile test after the new year. Instead of a satellite launch which had been an option. It seems like its leaning more towards a missile test. What is it . It would be significant if it were the test of a Thermo Nuclear device over the pacific. An atmospheric test. They said it was going to happen and as you know, a north korean official told one of your correspondents that they should take north koreas threats literally. So clearly this is something that North Koreans are going to do. They may not do it in the next week or so, this is the game changer. Every nation with Nuclear Weapons have done an atmospheric test. You expect they will carry through on the threat for sometime. You are saying an atmospheric test of a Nuclear Weapon. I want to be clear about what you are saying it could be. It potentially could be. Not just or it could be a missile launch. That would be a very different situation if you are talking about an atmospheric test, not an underground test. An atmospheric test of a Nuclear Weapon. Yes. They said they are going to do it and i believe they will and clearly this is something that everyone is looking at. It could be a runofthemill missile test and we dont know until this thing is in the air, but none the less this is the event that will change relations with beijing and russia and the North Koreans themselves of course. What would china do . How would china respond . This is exactly the question. The United States is successfully deterred three generations of the kim family. The question is whether 2017 marks a turning point. You talk to military officials and its a question of russia and how prepared the United States is with military plans against north korea or to counter the north korean threat. So much attention has been elsewhere. Certainly the United States military is prepared for whatever comes, but the war planning is going on even as the likely head of military action is increasing. Can you give us context for an atmospheric test of a Nuclear Weapon if that is a possibility . How real of a possibility do you thinks that and just express how significant that would be. It would be very significant. What happens next . What happens in the first half of 2018 is a real question for u. S. Policy makers. For the United States, the question is how does u. S. Policy go meet the north korean reality and what is north korea aiming to do . There is one word that sums up the kim familys goal and survival. If they think that is required, that is what we will do. There is a lot of discussion today that the militaitary wanto be diplomatic before military might. It they force their hand, they need to say they are prepared to respond. The president said in this interview with the New York Times, china has a tremendous power far greater than anyone knows. China can solve the north korea problem and they are helping us a lot, but not helping us enough. Whats your reaction to that . I think that the president is right that china could solve this. China of course accountses for 92 of north koreas trade. It has been supplying equipment and components and equipment and all sorts of things for the Nuclear Weapons program. The most important thing is confidence to regime elements. If beijing snld it was no longer supporting the program, you would see one way or another this Program Within lets say six months. Probably earlier. North korean officials realize they are there only because china lets them be there. When you have china change its mind, all sorts of things will change that everyone thought to be possible a few weeks ago. China seems more concerned with not destabilizing the region where as the u. S. Is very concerned about the Nuclear Weapons direction. Is there any way for the United States to align china more with objectives or no. That are has been the central question. If survival is the kim regime, this is the goal and then stability is china. They do not want to see 52 card pick up in their neighborhood, but the United States has said it does not want to live with a Nuclear North Korea even though there is a lot of discussion go whether it already is. Return pressure will continue 20 increte. Some of the rhetoric out of the United States is some saying getting the chinese to come out and say lets calm down a little bit. We will do more as the olympics come. Of course its a very good point. Thank you so much to both of you. Really appreciate it and next we are following a string of recent attempts by the president to discredit Robert Muellers investigation. Trump thinks the special counsel will be fair to him. We will ask if his party sees it that way too. President trump has long called the russia investigation a witch hunt and a hoax. They have begun with the top fbi officials guy questioning imparnlity and suggesting they were part of a experience to top is him from becoming president. President trump seems to be cautiously optimistic about the special counsels investigation and telling the New York Times there has been no collusion, but i think he is going to be fair. The he referring to Robert Mueller. Do his counterparts feel the same way. Robert pittinger from north carolina. We do appreciate it. Happy friday to you. Hope you are well. Happy friday. Congressman, when mueller was first appointed, republicans praised his credentials. He is a republican and served the Bush Administration and the bush tenure. Recently we have been hearing republicans raising questions about his investigation taking aim at the doj and the fbi. You are calling for a purge of the fbi and the doj. Where do you stand on Robert Mueller and his investigation. Do you trust him . Well, i dont think that mr. Mueller served himself well in keeping on some folks inside the department of the investigation that he frankly should have been aware of and should have let go of sometime back. I think that affected him and discredited him. I think its important that do you mean peter struck. I want to understand what you are saying. Do you mean peter struck and bruce orr . By the folks you associate yourself with you are considered to be part of them and carry that same mantra. I think its reasonable for any observer as they take a look at this to say, you know, you could have led with above approach quite a bit more. He got rid of struck from the investigation. That was insufficient in your opinion . And mccabe. Andrew mccabe. Thats the problem as well. What about mccabe is a problem to you . I think he allowed much of this to happen inside the department. He was aware of it. I think you got to be above reapproach. If he wants to convey and he wants his legacy in this important is time in our country to demonstrate that he did the right thing and he was never questioned, i think thats what america is counting on. What evidence is there to you that bias has infiltrated the investigation . Well, i think again you look at the association of people. You look at the individuals who are alongside of him and you have a number of people of course who have been very supportive of mrs. Clinton and her campaigns and maybe that plays out in the benefit for the president at the end of the day when hes cleared and there is no wrongdoing we can say certainly it wasnt political because many of the folks were major contributors to mrs. Clinton. You are more concerned there could be an infiltration of bias, but it doesnt sound like you are saying there is anything definitively thaw are aware of. Remember leon ja war ski . A very principled man. He led an investigation and america trusted what he had to say. There was nothing that hung on to anything he was a part of that you ever questioned. I think thats the importance of the role that mr. Mueller has that he has allowed himself to be trapped with other individuals that are associated with him or work for him. Directly or indirectly. That affects his reputation. But its a reputational i want to be clear because you are a member of congress you are privy to details that the public is not. You are not aware of specific evidence that there is an infiltration of bias that has substandly affected this investigation. Its just a concern it could . You would have to have an investigation into that . By every appearance, they said there are a number of people on the side that certainly demonstrated significant bias. What are do you want investigated . What part do you think should be investigated . At the end of the day, what role they played and what was their objective . What interest did they have . In what . Which part . Im saying what do you want to investigate . Are you talking about Hillary Clinton or donald trump . What case are you talking about . What is the question that you would have pertaining to what work they have done specifically. Sure. Yes, maam. The association of the individuals as i said who are involved with mr. Mueller. Where their perspective came from. What they did and what they conveyed, what they emailed out, what the relationships were. I think this all becomes relevant. Okay and so beyond the emails and the texts which i think you had a chance to see, right . Some of these emails and texts that you have seen from within the agency . Sure. Is there something more you want investigated . Well, what you have is what you see as of today. Is there more out there that needs to be reviewed. I dont know that. I want mr. Mueller to always head high. Ja war ski was a democrat, but highly regard and highly respected as he completed his assignment. I think the American People want to be able to trust mr. Mueller, but many people from the left and the democrats as well have spoken out with concerns about the role he has had and the associations he had that affected his reputation. Already, congressman Robert Pittinger from north carolina. A very happy new year to you and your family. Well be right back. You might take something for your heart. Or joints. But do you take something for your brain. With an ingredient originally found in jellyfish, prevagen is the number one selling brainhealth supplement in drug stores nationwide. Prevagen. The name to remember. G new cars. Youre smart. You already knew that. But its also great for finding the perfect used car. Youll see what a fair price is, and you can connect with a truecar certified dealer. Now youre even smarter. This is truecar. Earlier this year President Trump said he planned to bar transgender people from serving in the military, but the pentagon is opening up the ranks. The question is whether or not the Trump Administration will try to stop it. I have the Supreme Court reporter here and the clock is ticking. People are going to be able to apply on january 1st. I talked to man from ohio yesterday and he is excited, but nervous. He has reason to be nervous. This thing is still really tangled up in the courts. So far a little background. The Obama Administration allowed transgender people to serve openly. They put a future date and trump came in and reversed the policies and set out the august memo saying he didnt want them to serve. The court so far has frozen key parts of that memo and said look, we will let that january 1st deadline stand. Thats where we are now. Do you think that the government is going to appeal this or all indications no . Right now they are not saying if they will appeal. We are talking about next week. They would go to the Supreme Court and the dod is still looking into this. So far they have not said they are going to appeal. Is you so much. Cnn is on the ground in puerto rico now as power is being restored in one town. 100 days after Hurricane Maria ravaged the island. Why many still will be without power for months. Next. Whoooo. When it comes to travel, i sweat the details. Late checkout. Downalternative pillows. And of course, price. Tripadvisor helps you book a. Hotel without breaking a sweat. Because we now instantly. Search over 200 booking sites. To find you the lowest price. On the hotel you want. Dont sweat your booking. Tripadvisor. The latest reviews. The lowest prices. Ohhhhhh, ou guess what i just got . Uh i used to be spellbound hello again. I used to be spellbound hi. I used to be spellbound thats a big phone. In your arms. [screams] ah, my phone. 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Not enough to turn the lights back on for all 38,000 people. Its always been known for its agricultural. Now its known for that area where Hurricane Maria came in with 155mileperhour winds knocking out electricity 2i immediately. The mayor says he doesnt know when power will be restored sew believes they were the first to deal with maria and they could be the last. Mayor was born and raised in these mountains near the coast. He calls maria monster that destroyed them. Hes saying the urban area could get power very soon, but this area, the mountainous area, it could be summer before they see it. Which take note, summer is when the Hurricane Season begins. Miles away from town, high up in the mountains where the power lines are harder to fix, sheryl dejesus has very little hope her home will be back to soon. It rushed in and ruined more than furniture, it ruined her life. For now new paint is all she can afford to fix any of it. Translator she has no idea when she will get power back. Im asking her if she thinks it will be soon. Reporter without power, cheryl and her children lost more than the lights. Translator without power, they dont have water. Reporter the mayor says the problem constant bureaucratic delays. For a month they had power workers here, but not enough materials to actually carry out the work. [ applause ] mayor calls this a start. He says they need more generators, power polls, cables. The army corps of engineers admits stemming from other natural disasters is part of the reason it took so long to get back to people like ida. She doesnt have to wash clothes by hand anymore. Back in town ida will spend the night in a home overjoyed. Power is the best Christmas Gift they could ask for. But fo but for the families up in the mountains, the sun sets on another night as they wait for their gift to arrive. Leyla santiago joining us now from puerto rico. Its so heart warming to see folks who are so happy to finally be getting their utilities back. But tell us more about people who will not possibly have power until the summer. I mean, its almost unfathomable that u. S. Territory could have power out for more than a year. Reporter right. The family you heard from, the two children havent had power from before powerful irma, so hitting 115 days without power. And u. S. Army corps of engineers it could be may until they have any sort of power in the more remote areas. But brianna, just in the last hour the governor has announced he would like the u. S. Army corps of engineers to expand its capacity. And now asking for 1,000 to 1,500 more workers, more utility workers from the states on this island working to restore power in puerto rico. All right. Leyla santiago, in san juan, thank you for that report. Well take a report and well be right back. Resolution 1 binge more. Join the uncarrier, and get four unlimited lines for only forty bucks each. Plus, netflix for the whole family. On us. So, they get their shows. 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Th that is it for me t for international anna. And ana cabrera starts right now. Hello on this friday. Thanks for being here. Im ana cabrera. Brooke baldwin is off today. President trump spotted golfing again at his club in florida. This time he invited 60 members of the u. S. Coast guard to join him on the links. This is on the heels of a can dade interview. President trump discussing the russia investigation with the New York Times saying he expects special counsel Robert Mueller will treat him fairly. But he says the investigation and the president s words, quote, make the country look very bad. The president insisting there was,