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Theyre going to go. theres been rumor after rooumo that theyre going to leave. but i think 2018 might be the year they might be replaced. >> ron, a lot of pollsters are predicting a blue name tsunami 2018. what do you see happening? >> if you look at the last 20 to 25 years, the biggest single factor in midterm elections has been voters assessments of the president. and the last three times that a party has gone into a midterm election with unified control of the house, the senate, and the white...

Impossible. nicholas talbot is a transgender man and an aspiring air force recruit. nicholas, thank you so much, sir, for being here. how soon before you make that call to sign up? >> yeah, thank you so much for having me. im actually currently in touch with an air force recruiter whom ive been working with for a little bit over a year. and im hoping to be on the phone with him first thing tuesday morning. >> so exciting. last july, youll recall the president tweeted this. after consultation wit...

He was staying in touch making sure i was doing the right thing? you working today? yeah, im working. thats what i like to hear, you know. >> does it take an emotional toll? >> absolutely. you can get really burned out doing this. my phone never stops ringing. people are calling scaramuc . what a guy. we have this just in to cnn. a tragedy is unfolded in kosta rica. a plane crash in central america and ten american tourists are dead right now. new images just coming in. it is the wreckage of t...

And happy new year to you. >> happy new year, thank you so much. >> lets stay in touch. coming up, it became a symbol of climate change denial in washington. >> its a snowball. and thats just from outside here. so its very, very cold out. very unseasonable. so mr. president, here, catch this. >> well, nearly three years after senator james inhofe pulled out a snowball on the senate floor to say climate change is a hoax, there is a new tweet from the president making a strikingly similar argume...

What it might mean for the party in 2018, when the indication is that one of the biggest risks to republicans in this election year is the sense among many voters that they are not providing any meaningful check on a president that is, to say the least, volatile and unusual. >> and yet on the other hand, jay, the president in "the new york times" interview that he gave this week on thursday afternoon is saying that because of the russia investigation, its actually had an effect of uniting his ba...

You get taken out as well. but i do respect the president and chief of staff kelly. >> so, ron, who do you think is on the way out in 2018? >> you know, i love the phrase about anthony scaramucci was sent packing. it wasnt clear he was there long enough to unpack in the first place. >> yeah, 11 days. >> i dont know if the -- look, there is no one in the trump orbit who is entirely safe, except for those who share his name, and even they might not be, you know, permanent residents of the white ho...

The ability to break into some of those bad lulue collar and r districts. theyre showing a lot of gains in suburban districts. if they cant do the bad lulue r rural, their path is much more narrow. and there are only a couple of republican seats that are really vulnerable. but nonetheless, all of that said, as long as the presidents approval rating is somewhere around 40%, which is where it is now, you would have to say democrats are at least a 50/50 or thumb on the scale, 50 plus 1, odds of tak...

Must fall. iranian authorities are clamping down now, shutting off most access to social media apps, like instagram. these protests are striking, very different than what we have seen before. they are erupting outside the capital of tehran, as well as in small towns and villages. protesters are openly calling for the overthrow of irans supreme leader, ayatollah k khomeini. earlier today, president trump warned that they are watching. in paris and berlin, it is already 2018. here in the u.s., new...

President with a similar argument. in the east, it could be the coldest new yearsve on record. perhaps we could use a little bit of that good old global warming. today on cnn, anthony scaramucci reacted to the tweet this way. >> i love the presidents sense of humor, but i also think hes saying something else. and i think you guys should ask him directly if hes a climate change denier or not. i think youll be surprised by that answer. i think what hes really saying in that deal, the paris accord,...

Supreme court chief justice john roberts has announced he has called forr an evaluation on ho the judicial branch handles allegations of sexual harassment. in a year-end report, roberts said that recent events had illuminated the depths of sexual harassment in the workplace and he made clear that not even the judicial branch is immune. the announcement comes after a prominent appeals court judge based in san francisco announced his retirement this month after a "washington post" story detailed a...