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Border wall funding, an abrupt announcement on withdrawing u.s. troops from syria and possibly afghanistan as well, an unprecedented rebuke and resignation from a respected defense secretary, a stock market having its worst year since the great recession and the president under investigation venting to his acting attorney general about federal prosecutors. thats just this week. >> the news as the meme would say is not great, bob. but, look, a couple things in listening to senator paul earlier, l...

>> mary katharine, this is just this last week, an ongoing government shutdown over the border wall funding, an abrupt announcement on withdrawing u.s. troops from syria and possibly afghanistan as well, an unprecedented rebuke and resignation from a respected defense secretary, a stock market having its worst year since the great recession and the president under investigation venting to his acting attorney general about federal prosecutors. thats just this week. >> the news as the meme would s...

Out. howie: despite that reporting they stalk with the narrative that mattis was quitting in protest. >> perhaps the most of grave and conscious, mattis is leaving due to trumps policies. howie: . obviously he did rebuke the president in his resignation letter. whats your take? gillian: i think both things can be true at once. which was the case with a lot of senior white house officials and cabinet officials who have policy disagreements with the president, they will negotiate and exit. so they...

Gathering on the syrian border in preparation for a ground operation against kurdish fighters in northern syria. the kurds supported the united states over the last four years in the fight against irish. erdogan reportedly promised president trump last week that he would finish off battling isis, clearing the way for the trump administration announcement of the troop withdrawal. despite turkish support of the withdrawal, to row for an attack against kurdish forces u.s. allies such as france saw ...

Previously saying that jim mattis would leave the administration in february, today he accelerated that timeline via tweet. so the president says this. i am pleased to announce that our very talented deputy secretary of defense, patrick shanahan, will assume the title of acting defense secretary january 1st, 2019. patrick has a long list of accomplishmen accomplishmen accomplishments. previously at boeing, he will be great. the president saidutive at boei hes been with the president, mattis resi...

What prompted this? >> reporter: our colleague who covers the pentagon and who has been all over this story today reports that president trump, according to her sources, was upset over this narrative that defense secretary jim mattis, the outgoing defense secretary, was seen as the last adult in the room, this notion that jim mattis was the last member of the cabinet standing who could reign in some of donald trumps more combative and isolationist impulses. this decision also follows the angry t...

The state of texas nor any part of state government or federal government cant take sides and cant punish people for the views they express. so we filed that emergency motion on friday. we were hopeful that in the middle of january we should have a court decision that hopefully, if all works out well, reason states bahia to her job with the school district providing speech pathology services to students. . >> so bahia, let me ask you your experience throughout all of this. walk us through what i...

Administrations asylum ban. is roberts the new swing justice. >> roberts, because of brett kavanaughs confirmation is the new swing justice. there are five justices appointed by republican presidents, four by democrats. we have grown up with the world in which the republican nominated justices have controlled the supreme court, indeed since 1971, so almost for 50 years we have had that happening, but nonetheless, republican nominated jurists like harry blackman with roe v. wade and so many other...

Nominated justices have controlled the supreme court, indeed since 1971, so almost for 50 years we have had that happening, but nonetheless, republican nominated jurists like harry blackman with roe v. wade and so many other examples did vote with the democratic appointees to the court, so todays vote suggests the chief justice is now, yes, that swing vote, at least in this particular case. >> very interesting, doug, in november, chief justice roberts issued a rare rebuke of president trumps cri...

Letter with a stinging rebuke of the president, leaving massive concerns about the future of trumps foreign policy. the russia probe is also hanging over his head. he is lashing out at acting attorney general, matt whitaker. the president saying why didnt he do more to control those that brought the charges against michael cohen. start with the shutdown. 800,000 federal workers are in limbo, days before christmas. suzanne malveaux joins us live from capitol hill. what are we expecting? >> go...