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Change to be a good thing apparently not realizing climate change and weather are not exactly the same thing. he fired off this tweet. in the east, it could be the coldest new years eve on record, perhaps we could use a little bit of that good old global warming that our country was going to pay millions to protect against. president tweets further distancing his climate policy from the vast majority of scientists. he has a habit of linking it to global warming. a white house official did not ...

Frederik pleit in a tweet as bizarre as it was lacking in scientific knowledge, president trump sarcastically suggested climate change to be a good thing apparently not realizing climate change and weather are not the same thing. he fired off this tweet. perhaps we could use a little bit of that good old global warming. our country and not other countries was going to pay trill trillions are dollars to protect against. >> mr. trump has a his itry of linking the temperature in any one place to ...

Anything to it. we know it is. we just want to find out if there was collusion with the trump campaign. >> he refers to dianne feinstein, democratic senator, and he seems to say that shes saying that theres no collusion. if you look at her comments, its more closely that she is saying that it seems like things are pointing in the direction of obstruction of justice. so when you see him, basically using that as something to exonerate himself, what does that tell you about how he views the possibi...

Already, no collusion, none whatsoever. ron, thats interesting, hes sounding a different tone, a more conciliatory tone than his surrogates. >> yeah, the tone may notably change. in that same interview he talks about how members of congress have been strong in pointing out this is a witch hunt, but theres a mixed message below the headline. theres an element of working the ref there, right, in a sense of saying i think he will be fair which is saying i think he will exonerate me and my campaign....

Glimpse of them last week. >> marie: if we are going to have diplomatic talks, which everybody agrees that nobody wants war, i do think that the president should be careful, because they are so sensitive, rex tillerson writes it to very well-crafted op-ed command on and donald trump tweets, and its own masai, who is speaking for the administration? >> katie: the chinese argument argues that they should be speaking directly, we are asking china to do too much when it comes to political influence,...

You? theyre desperate or is this a savvy move? >> well, look, its defense attorney 101 to say that if your opponent here, which michael flynn could be as a cooperating witness, if hes admitted to being a liar and saying he lied to the fbi, thats what hes plead to, its probably worth pointing out hes admitted to being a liar. the white house has pushed back about as aggressively as they can. they put attorney john dowd on the record saying it was nonsense and fake news. if at some point we have m...

Of that could happen today, but today in the congress that you served in, how much of a negative influence, forget the extremes, how much of a negative influence with things like twitter and facebook? >> i have a lot in the book about social media and the impact that that has had. its had a positive impact for some in that you could have people who in the u.s. senate in particular would have been back benchers for many years and have been able to promote themselves. both parties have seen this. ...

Lukewarm response to what should be the companys crown jewel. the iphone x. when announcing the flagship device -- >> it is the biggest leap forward since the original iphone. >> reporter: -- ceo tim cook heaped endless praise on the product. but the company is lowering its first quarter sales forecast. apple has declined request for comment. but a potential cause of waning interest, the $999 price tag. the sticker shock a sticking point for die hard iphone users. >> would you rather pay $1,000 ...

Flynn, love this. talks like a kid. #-year-old. very, very, very bad. like a kids book. congressman. adam schiff. ranking member. reacted to the news. pointing to the presidents past behavior regarding flynn. lets watch. >> the president in the process of firing mike flynn at the same time very defensive of mike flynn. if he was forced to fire quinn because he lied or the lie was exposed. if the president is one of the senior officials knowing of the contact. perhaps, even, supporting this conta...

As you may have heard, we are proud of pointing out every chance we get. we get to work inside the rocker feller plaza. this time of the year is famous for the tree we keep out back. they pulled their money, bought a tree and decorated it with cranberries and paper garland and the occasional fortin ctin . we deal with serious stuff including tragedy way too often and the daily task of covering politics and this presidency. serious stuff. then our concentration as we sit there is broken by a soun...