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Theres one senior gop congressman who says that its going to feel like a hurricane for republicans. that after a huge victory on tax reform, why are republicans so nervous heading into the 2018 elections. >> plus, the fbi has stopped a terror plot in san francisco. plus, the winter is -- whats the line from game of thrones, winter is here, winter is coming? >> something like that. >> i only watched the first season. >> i only watch cnn. >> okay. heavy rain and snow may hamper thousands of holi...

Of project cassandra. thats a campaign that targeted hezbollah and its alleged drug smuggling. a recent politico report indicated the obama white house hindered the investigation. the report said officials didnt want to threaten the iran nuclear deal. in melbourne, australia, a man accused of plowing his suv into a group of pedestrians on thursday has been charged with 18 counts of attempted murder. the 32-year-old suspect is also facing one count of endangering life. police say he has a histo...

Protect this pedestrians area from vehicle-type attacks. in december of 2016, almost exactly a year ago, australian police did foil what they say was a terror plot inspired by isis, aimed at using improvised explosive devices around that same area running up to the christmas holiday. so those were two important deadly incident, not terror related, another which could have become one, that was foiled in that same vicinity almost a year ago today. >> it has to be said, australian authorities do ha...

Particularly when its with the head of state of russia, this very solicitous tie log thats gone on here, i think in stark contrast against the backdrop of the profound existential threat that russia holds with this count. i would expect that would have gott gotten more prominent billing than it has. the manner in which the presidents conducting business with russia. >> i want to ask you about what he said, versus whats in the plan. the president also spoke specifically about a terror plot that t...

>> jon: british police bust a terror plot. four-minute rested this morning, what had they expected for christmas day. the u.s. blames north korea for the massive cyber attack back in may. what it means for tensions with the kim-regime. >> north korea have acted especially badly for the past decade. many more reported on that. its malicious behavior has become more egregious and it starts with this step of accountability

Nbc peter aaron hicks has more on this. nbc news learned senior fbi officials warned donald trump weeks before he secured the gop nomination. >> my message is things have to change. >> foreign adversaries including russia would likely try to spi and infiltrate his campaign. according to government officials familiar with the matter. both urged to alert the fbi about any suspicious overtures. candidate trump made his own unusual overtures. >> calling nbcs report on the contents of a classified co...

Then this number also shrinks down but still they have a lot to do to have all these people on the radar so ok so weve got that. promising you and i were talking earlier that it seems now we report almost routinely that there are are anti terror raids taking place here in germany particularly here in berlin almost every week police raiding an apartment. is it is the reality here that there are that many attempted attacks being thwarted i mean or should we be go out i mean should we be saying hey...

The problem is, does president trump live up to this document? his team clearly put a lot into this, but a lot of concern about the challenges they see on the horizon. and you have to ask the question, if president trump doesnt see it quite this way, are the folks that wrote this able to keep president trump on track with the goals in this document? or does he freelance on his own? >> and just to point out, trump has also spoken with vladimir putin several times in recent days. so what is he com...

He didnt say. because in the document that the white house published today, its very, very strong and the criticism of russia and what theyre doing and how it says that theyre seeking to weaken american influence in the world. >> very specifically mentioning election interference. >> exactly. thats not what we heard from the president today. in fact, he spoke pretty glowingly of his relationship with putin, referencing that call where putin called to think him for the cia foiling that terror plo...

They made reference to the occupation of crimea by russia in 2014, but we have also seen vladimir put skpin and trump wi trump thanking him for cia intelligence for foiling a planned terror plot in russia. the administration officials said there will not be a direct reference to russian meddling, but a vague reference to the resilience of american democracy. the third and biggest key take away from the speech is if they do not believe that climate change is a national security threat. thats a di...