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Andrea, your beat is the national security here at nbc. hawaiians were woken up in the morning to this alarming thing. it turned out to be the mistake of somebody in hawaiis state emergency management. but there are a lot of -- thousands of people who took it very seriously and, understandably so, but, boy, this is a wake-up call to when we live in the nuclear age, the speed of communications and the atmosphere. >> it really is. its so frightening. many of us knew pretty early on that this was n...

Christopher wray, mueller, the special prosecutor -- hes a republican, as well. so what is the president driving at? >> the president might be referring to some of these investigations that were seeing on capitol hill, wolf. and of course, republicans in control of congress have allowed those investigations to continue, especially the senate intelligence committee investigation, which is viewed by most people as the most bipartisan of these committees. the most serious of these investigations th...

Work that morning with her 19-year old son christopher. the two of them raced home to the scene and met up with her older son michael. >> theyre both there, so your mother and christopher are there? >> yeah, they pulled up together at the same time, with columbia county officer. we all walk around back to kays house, and my mom, she sounds very distraught. shes -- shes screamin kays name. >> she shows up at her house while you were all in the backyard there? >> right. they show up on scene and -...

Steve had very little to do with our historic victory. yet steve had everything to do with the loss of a senate seat in alabama held for more than 30 years by republicans. steve doesnt represent my base. hes only in it for himself. technically alabama republicans held that seat for 20ish years, not 30ish years, but -- that really was the official tenor of the white house response today to this new barn burner of a book from michael wolff, in which steve bannon says some not very nice things abou...

We have to have democratic involvement. >> so, is this just classic paul ryan, just made a career out of understandably wanting to fix the entitlement system and mitch mcconnell coming in as a practical realist? >> leif it to the majority leader to bring his patented anvil, quietly, calmly, perhaps understated on to the head of the grander ambitions of perhaps his colleagues in the house. look, when you talk to senate republicans who are deeply involved in this process and are looking forward to...

Should, indeed, resign. a complicated situation and one that will likely receive greater focus because, as early as this week, you have white house legal team meeting with robert mueller one-on-one to discuss the next steps in this investigation. cnn, at the white house. >> a lot to talk about. amy green is a researcher of political science and professor in paris. thanks for talking with us. a lot of twists and turns leading up to the holidays. first of all, the trump administration trying to un...

>> good to see you, chris. >> merry christmas to you and your family if i dont see you again. >> thank you. >> you are not voting but if you were, would roy moore get your call? >> i dont think its even a close call. this is an accused serial child molester. >> the president of the united states says you are cuckoo, that you have to vote for roy moore, not doug jones. he has denied the allegations and he is right for the state of alabama. do you disagree with the president? >> you have the right...

Come out strongly. and he has surrogates, folks like senator cory booker and former massachusetts governor deval patrick coming out there this weekend to try to stump up that support, which so far has been pretty luke-warm. it wasnt helped by a campaign flyer that he put out that was really seen as, understandably so, as kind of pandering to racists or being racists and sort of missing the mark, which he himself admitted. its a turnout game. at this point, thats what were looking for over the ne...

Ways. i guess theyre giving it the effort. >> yeah. anybody that believes that in 50 or whatever minutes the president speaks he doesnt mentioned the name roy moore, i would like to take that action. highly unlikely he will fail to mention roy moore in his speech tonight. understandably. look, i can understand that. on the one hand, you want to support him. on the other hand you dont want the picture with him. if hes elected and comes to washington, theyll have plenty pictures together. >> shepa...

You cant make us do it. i was asked for a legal opinion by the governors agency, that does our background checks, what do we do with this? understandably, without the fbi doing the background checks, there is no way to move forward with a ballot initiative. >> tucker: so, in effect, this would mean no background checks? >> on this particular area of private sales for guns, there is no way to move forward. its important to know that the way they wrote this was intentional.te in our state, if they...