The United States is designating north korea as a state sponsor of terrorism. It should have happened a long time ago. It should have happened years ago. In addition to threatening the world by nuclear devastation, north korea has repeatedly supported acts of International Terrorism including assassinations on foreign soil. So let me bring in head of the Woodrow WilsonInternational Center for scholars and former california congresswoman. A pleasure to have you on. Welcome. Thank you, brooke. So designating north korea as a state sponsor of terror. How significant is that . Its a big deal, and its sad that the news is going to move to tweets. This should be the centerpiece of President Trumps day. It was worked on by rex tillerson. Kudos to our secretary of state who worked behind the scenes with all of the countries in the region to support this effort and its clearly justified. Its legal to do this. North korea was on the state sponsor of terrorism list until it was removed in 2008 by president george w. Bush. Its good that its back and the activity that its engageded in that i worry about most is proliferation of missile and possibly Nuclear Technology and theres every reason in the world to think that that has happened and could happen. The congresswoman for people listening, wondering why the heck would President Trump have taken him off the state sponsor list. Why would that be . Well, my understanding at the time was he was hoping that would mack them more friendly. Oops, none of our gestures over three administrations starting with clinton, then bush, then obama to make nice have workeded. So i applaud President Trump for being tough. I think this kind of tough sanctions hopefully will lead to a diplomatic breakthrough. How do you think pyongyang, kim jongun responds to this news . Hes been quiet lately. Very interestingly, when President Trump was in south korea, was there a prediction that he would launch a missile or do something even worse. He didnt. He has arent responded to the provocative tweet and my view is that not only it is as reported, the track to diplomacy going on in some level with the north koreans, probably in new york around the u. N. , but also that hes playing a bigger game or hopefully hes playing a bigger game. The annihilation of his regime and his country is not an outcome he seeks. So you dont attribute kim jonguns reticence or lack of missile action in the last couple of weeks to President Trumps tough rhetoric, congresswoman . Well, i dont think the tweets are helpful, but i think that the trip that President Trump took was successful in some ways. It was not successful on trade. It was not successful on human rights, but he did make north korea his top priority. He talked to all of the countries in the region about north korea and all of them have individually been ratcheting up sanks again sanks sanctions against north korea which have to be considered on a multilateral basis, but i think the north korea strategy that im seeing lately is a very responsible strategy. Lastly, let me just return your attention to the president s actual announcement. He said that north korea has been responsible for assassinations on foreign soil. Now we know about the murder of kim jonguns halfbrother. Are there other killings that the president is referring to here . You know, i cant speak for him. Im sure thats one that he was referring to that was not on north korean soil, but i think the highest priority or the thing we have to focus on most with north korea is proliferation of missile and Nuclear Technology. The third partys possibly terror groups which wouldnt hesitate to use those things if they manage it and think tactical nukes or dirty nukes which would be the catastrophic weapon to transfer to a terror organization. Jane harm aan, thank you so much. Now to the back and forth between the president and lavar ball. This is the outspoken father of liangelo ball, one of the three athletes from ucla who was freed from chinese detention after shoplifting some Louis Vuitton sunglasses when they were over in china. So the president has now tweeted, quoting him, now that the three basketball players are out of china and saved from years in jail lavar ball, the father of liangelo is unaccepting of what i did for his son, and that shoplifting is no big deal. I should have left them in jail. Cnn White House CorrespondentAbby Phillips is with me live on this, so before we even react to what the president just said, lets go to the back story. What did lavar ball say about President Trump . Yeah, brooke, well, this is a really big clash of two massive personalities. Lavar ball taking it all of the way back when his sons returned home essentially said in an interview that he didnt think that President Trump had done anything for him, and President Trump had already made it very clear that he wanted thanks, and he asked for the three basketball players to come out and thank him for what he did to help them. They did that, but lavar ball was very much not on the same page. The president tweeting yesterday the tweet that you just read, but also again this morning tweeting to lavar ball that shoplifting is a very big deal in china as it should be. Five to ten years in jail, but not to the father of lavar ball should have gotten my son out during my next trip to china, instead. China told they were released, very ungrateful. So President Trump not letting this one go and reviving yet another sports feud on social media yet again. In a second tweet, completely unrelated to the ucla basketball players you have the president reviving the nfl anthem protest, this time talking about marshawn lynch, Oakland Raiders player who stood apparently for the Mexican National anthem, but sat for the United States national anthem. The president is very much unhappy about that and wants the nfl to fire him. The nfl actually has not responded to the president s comment and suggestions that they should go ahead and suspend him, but again with all of the stuff going on, north korea, roy moore, taxes this is what the president woke up to this morning. This is a window, perhaps into the president s headspace, but back to, abby, that the ucla tweet, right . I should have left them, whatever it was. Left them in the chinese jail. You think about the broader takeaway from this tweet. The need for President Trump to be thanked, to be praised. I want to jog everyones memory back to howard stern for this. I, actually, think that this is something that its going to be very detrimental to his mental health, too, because he wants to be liked. He wants to be loved. He wants people to cheer for him and all of this hatred and stuff directed toward him its not good for him. Its not good, and its listen, theres a reason every president who leaves the office has gray hair. Do you think howard stern, abby, someone who has known President Trump, donald trump for years and years and years here in new york is on to something . Reporter and weve heard similar comments from other friends of the president over the course of the last several months. President trump is still a very polarizing, political figure. Sure, plenty of his supporters really, really love him, but a lot of folks on the other side do not and weve heard repeatedly from the president that he wants to get more credit for the work that he thinks that hes done. On the ucla players, i think this is a real triumph for him, getting these folks back into the United States. It was something that was a very positive note off of this asia trip, but the desire for praise for an american president doing what is essentially part of the job description, advocating for american citizens who are in trouble abroad is unusual, certainly. But howard stern soundbite, i think it speaks the need for the president and youve been covering him, abby. Yeah. This need to get credit, right . Be thanked. Beloved. And yeah. What you see from a lot of folks who work in his cabinet, you remember a couple of months ago when there was an infamous Cabinet Meeting in which almost every Single Person around the table thanked and praised the president. Its very common. This is definitely something that he wants and hes made that very clear in this situation and several others over the past several months. White house aides always talk about his belief that hes being treated unfairly, that hes not getting the credit that he deserves and in this case, is taking the fight to the father of an American College player who was detained abroad. Nothing is too small for President Trump to engage with on social media. Lets move on and let me ask you about this one comment from the white house, and you know the president has yet to fully weigh in on the Sexual Assault allegations facing the Alabama Senate candidate roy moore. His adviser, Kellyanne Conway was on tv earlier today and she suggested that the white house wants roys vote on the tax bill. Doug in alabama, folks, dont be fooled. Hell be a vote against tax cuts. So vote roy moore . Im telling you, we want the votes in the senate to get this tax bill through. So thats also a stark differentiation from what Kellyanne Conway said a couple of days ago, regarding these accusations and roy moore. So now its all about all right, get him in the senate because we need another no vote or rather a yes vote. Reporter right. The white house is trying to tledz a line here and have it both ways. They dont want to say they dont support roy moore or that they do support roy moore, but by encouraging voters to go out and vote to not vote for his democratic opponent theyre essentially saying theyll vote with us on taxes and at the same time, interestingly, roy moore is such, hes so much against the gop establishment and it is unclear that roy moore would be that reliable of a vote in the senate. At the same time, the white house is not being entirely clear, but President Trumps endorsement stance, when roy moore went on twitter and saying that hes not going to make America Great again. He seems like a great guy, and yesterday the white house legislative director was asked on the sunday morning programs where President Trumps endorsement stood. He would not say whether trump had pulled that endorsement or not. So as we get closer to this actual election day, youre hearing more and more from the white house about the practicality of this. They want that last vote in the senate so that they could get their tax reform bill by the end of this year. They want it by christmas. Its a selfimposed deadline. Abby phillips, thank you so much from the white house. Minute away from the White House Daily briefing. Well take that live. Speaking of roy moore, first of his abusers is breaking her silence giving an emotional account of her experience as a then 14yearold target, hear her story in her own words. Also ahead, Jared Kushners attorneys say his client is a hero in possible russian meddling. Hear why and what he thinks of senate investigators. And breaking news today. A new clue in the desperate search for a missing submarine. Crews detecting sounds they say seem like banging against the hull of a sub. 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Were going to give the American People a huge tax cut for christmas, hopefully that will be a great, big, beautiful christmas present. Great, big, beautiful christmas present, yeah, but one of the republican senators who the president needs to get the tax bill passed caught on a microphone saying this about the president. Come the party of roy moore and donald trump. We already proposed. The president is firing back. Senator jeff flaky with the y, according to the president who is unelectable was caught purposely on mike saying bad things about your favorite president. Hell be a no on tax cuts because his political career anyway is toast. David is a writer for u. S. News and world report. Good to see you. And you. A couple of a sussumptions i the tweet, jeff says no, no, no. I wasnt caught. The most important piece is the assumption of the no vote. Should the president in needing all of the yeses he can get not to say hes a no and saying how we get him. Now jeff flake doesnt have any kwqualms about opposing the president because hes want running for reelection and its a dangerous game for President Trump to play and youve got senator corker. These guys are both conservatives that laid out their main problem with any bill would be that its not deficit neutral, that it adds to the deficit going forward. They couldnt get onboard with that. So i think theyre very, very dicey, and trump is playing with fire, sort of picking at them. Theyre very mad with the president and he takes the littlest thing for them to say, you know what . Hopefully not, theyre obviously voting for whats best for the party, but guys, throw the senators up on the screen because i want you, sir, to go through these and dicey on corker and flake and walk me through these wild cards. Interesting that johnson was the first one out as a no to wisconsin that the state carried. He said he wanted to yes and still could get to yes and a lot of this will depend on what happens in the senate and the house and collins is interesting because these always the most likely no and the most moderate and remember, if they include the repeal of obamacare which is in the senate bill shes definitely going to be a no because she was repealing the obamacare. Corker and flake we touched on just with the personal grudges with the president and then youve got john mccain. Who was the thumbs down on that. Thumbs down on obamacare,