The senate. That could also involve some other members of the president s legal team. And trump is also considering putting some of his fiercest defenders in the house on that team to present a minority response to whatever the Democratic House members lay out in terms of their argument for the articles of impeachment. As you mentioned, President Trump is growing increasingly agitated about this extended state of limbo surrounding his senate trial. He is eager to get his symbolic day in court. He does not just want to be acquitted by the senate, he wants to be vindicated. And so he has been looking forward to his senate trial. But while trump is growing impatient, Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell is expressing ambivalence saying this week hes not anxious to get this process rolling. And Speaker Nancy Pelosi is showing no signs of budging in her position of withholding the articles of impeachment from the senate. That has obviously frustrated the president as hes about halfway through his trip to maralago here. Hes been firing off missives on an almost daily basis at speaker pelosi, tweeting just recently, so interesting to see nancy pelosi demanding fairness from Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell when she presided over the most unfair hearing in the history of the United States congress. Now, pelosi, of course, is withholding those articles until she feels comfortable that Senate Republicans in her eyes are going to hold what she and democrats would consider a fair trial. Democrats want to have witnesses, they want more document collection. She fired back on twitter writing the facts are clear and every witness told the same story, despite the president s attempts to cover it up. President trump abused his power for his own personal gain. Defendourdemocracy. Of course the president is surrounded by a rotating cast of white house aides. There is more expected to join him in the coming days so maybe there will be more discussion about what the white house strategy will look like on the back half of this trip to maralago. Sarah westwood for us there in south florida. Thank you. Whats getting attention isnt just what the president is tweeting, its who hes retweeting. And some of these arent really even people. Hes retweeted bots and fan accounts of a Conspiracy Group qanon. Brian stelter joins us now. Brian, were not going to show the tweets because we dont want to aid in the spread of that junk. But the president has been on a bit of a tear recently. Yeah, misinformation and disinformation coming from the president of the United States from his twitter feed. This is not brand new, hes been doing it for years but it is still galling and still shocking. Frankly it is unpresident ial to see dozens of these kinds of posts, antidemocrat, antiwhistleblower, all of this content that would offend anybody who believes in the basic principles of our democracy. Let me give an example of what hes been sharing. For the first time late on friday night he posted the alleged name, unsubstantiated name of the Intelligence Community whistleblower. Now, hes posted more than 100 times about the alleged whistleblower but never actually published what he may think is the name of this person. But thats what he did late on friday night, sharing a random twitter users post that contained this name. Now, of course cnn and other news outlets do not know the identity of the whistleblower and are not speculating about the persons identity but clearly the president of the United States wants that to be happening. Apparently overnight he unshared, unretweeted that post along with dozens of other tweets, antidemocrat, protrump messages, comparing democrats to rats, calling nancy pelosi crazy. Let me show you what one of the whistleblowers lawyers said overnight in response to the president s unhinged tweets. He said i guarantee you republicans will wanting whistleblowers during the next Democrat Administration whenever that may be. They likely wont have many given their continual attacks on the integrity of the lawful whistleblower system. He actually called out senator Chuck Grassley specifically saying why isnt grassley speaking out because grassley has been such a defender of the whistleblower system for so many years. But this is the president s many tweets of the conspiratorial posts overnight, calling out the whistleblower, trying to claim he knows the identity when in fact he does not nor do Media Outlets that is the most noteworthy. But citing qanon accounts, citing conspiracy theories. It shows that the president s sources of information are often very unreliable sources. Brian, are you surprised that the president deleted some of those tweets . I mean its curious. Its unusual, isnt it . It is. Its kind liesk of like we know president doesnt drink, but its the kind of thing that if you have too much at night and then have regrets in the morning, thats what it reminds me of when you see someone going online in the morning and deleting what they did the night before. Again, the president is sober but it makes you wonder what was he thinking late friday night, 11 00 p. M. , midnight, sharing these memes and messages. Many of these accounts are semi or totally anonymous with handles like trump girl or pet lovers for trump. Some of these accounts show signs of being run by spam operations, bot operations. Others are actual american individuals who really support the president. But you get into this kind of swamp of social media where these are random accounts suddenly being promoted by the most powerful person in the world and it makes you wonder where hes getting this information and why he seems to need to share these kinds of really hateful messages toward democrats, really positive messages for him. I would argue its a sign of weakness, not a sign of strength on the president s part. All righty. Brian stelter, thank you so much for coming in this morning. Thanks. Good to have you, as always. This morning the faa and ntsb will continue their investigation after a tour helicopter crashed on the Hawaiian Island of kauai yesterday. Theres still one person unaccounted for this morning. The debris was found in a remote area of a state park. Cnns Josh Campbell has more for us from hawaii. Reporter the search for the location where a tourism helicopter went down here in hawaii with seven people onboard is now over. A search team has identified the location of the wreckage. The crash site in a remote area inside a state park in the northwest section of the island of kauai. This tourism helicopter was one of many that you typically see here in hawaii, a popular attraction that allows tourists the ability to look inside volcanos and water falls to get a sense of the landscape and wildlife. A routine tourist excursion ending in tragedy. This all began on thursday afternoon. The coast guard, the u. S. Navy as well as kauai fire and rescue were alerted after the tourism helicopter failed to return to base at its allotted time. That report launched a massive search and rescue effort involving multiple agencies throughout the night working 16 hours by sea, air and land. As far as the cause of this incident, that remains under investigation. 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A government Spokesman SaysUniversity Students are among the victims. That location has been targeted before. Police in new york are increasing their presence in several brooklyn neighborhoods. This week alone there were at least a half dozen possible antisemitic incidents. Lets get to cnns polo sandoval. Mayor bill de blasio said police will increase visits to houses of worship. Yeah, they certainly want to make sure the Community Feels safe, especially as theyre coming together to celebrate hannukah and the numbers are deeply disturbing because they average about one a day during last week. This is video released by the nypd just this morning of an incident on Christmas Day during the overnight hours. In that video you see a gentleman in traditionally jewish religious attire being approached by an individual and getting hit. Another video was released of an incident that took place wednesday showing another individual in religious attire getting approached from behind and hit. Investigators releasing this footage to get some leads. These possible antisemitic inciden incidents, a woman slapped some telling investigators she did it because they were jewish. Another incident investigators are following up on included an individual walking into a religious establishment and saying that he would shoot and kill multiple people inside. Investigators working to track him down this morning. So whats actually behind this . We turned to the antidefamation league, spoke to them about what are some of the potential factors. They said there are neighborhood tensions where jewish families have thrived. Those tensions caused by rising housing prices. Also some of the suspects in these cases could potentially suffer from mental illness. Lastly, old stereotypes are resurfacing. This is what the regional director of this group had to say. We know this is not white supremacy. Theres issues of white supremacy, theres been charlottesville and poway, pittsburgh, thats not this. We are dealing with other minority groups that are unfortunately attacking a single minority group. Reporter this is one of the Many Organizations tracking these cases. It seems every day brings a new one so investigators are out in full force. Police, the nypd, are visiting with people at synagogues trying to make sure that people feel safe, especially as jewish families throughout new york are gathering to celebrate hannukah. Yeah, the timing here cannot be ignored. Thank you so much. Polo sandoval, appreciate it. Former Vice President joe biden says that he will not be part of a distraction. He says he will not comply with a subpoena if one comes to testify in an impeachment trial. Youre going to hear his reasoning. thud crash grunting whistle play it cool and escape heartburn fast with tums chewy bites cooling sensation. Tum tututum tums laso you can enjoy it even ifst youre sensitive. Se. Cooling sensation. Yet some say it isnt real milk. 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They wrote of your petition that it includes 474 signatures of dubious authenticity where the signature appeared to be written in handwriting that was substantially the same as handwriting from multiple petition entries appearing on the same petition sheet. So lets start here. Did someone from your campaign forge signatures, falsify anything on that petition . And whats the effort to try to figure that out . Well, first of all, of course there are no forged or madeup signatures. Were going to sort out what our options are. It is a peculiar outcome, i must say, because there were two candidates who had not announced at the point when the state party chair submitted names of candidates for the ballot. One was included, mayor bloomberg, and one was not, my own. So theres something that smells funny there, but we submitted more than enough signatures by the deadline and well have to sort out what our options are Going Forward. This is clearly a setback, but its not going to stop us. The people of michigan wanting me on the ballot. The people of the other states where we are competing have been very, very warm in their welcome and were building our team and building our campaign to be competitive. You said something smells odd there. Are you cuttisuggesting that ths something foul going on in michigan . Well, i want to understand that. I think it is strange that the way the process works there, the state party chair writes to the secretary of state, if i understand it correctly, saying who should be on the ballot, who are the Democratic Candidates for the ballot . Two candidates had not announced at that point, myself and mayor bloomberg. They included mayor bloomberg who announced after i did, but not me. So that is something were trying to sort out. There hasnt really been a good enough explanation. We were the only ones as a result who had to go get signatures. We got more than enough signatures, and now we have this decision, preliminary or otherwise, out of the secretary of state. We have to sort that out. Lets turn now to the pending impeachment trial in the senate because it too is looming over the 2020 race. Senators bernie sanders, elizabeth warren, amy klobuchar, cory booker, michael bennet, would serve as jurors in the trial. Joining me now howard franklin, a democratic strategist and republican strategist alice stewart. Howard, let me start with you. The Vice President told the Des Moines Register yesterday that he would not comply if hes subpoenaed to testify during the senate trial. He says he doesnt want to be part of the distraction. Im paraphrasing there. Whats your thought on that . Well, i think its important to note that he has not been called to testify. There have been no witnesses called to testify by Mitch Mcconnell and by the senate for this particular trial. I think he does want to get out in front of the discussion about whether or not he would or wouldnt. I think he makes a valid point of someone whos taught constitutional law and has for a number of years that any actual attempts to call him would rest on showing that he evidence to do with this. I dont think anybody is alleging that joe biden has anything to do with the collusion or the trial that the president is facing. But thats up to the members of the senate, right . After months of hearing from members of the house that subpoenas are not optional, that these people who are subpoenaed must show, now a former senator, former president of the senate, a candidate for the presidency will say im not showing up, doesnt matter if you speep you me or not. I think thats a political message and i think that may be telegraphing to the senate heres what i expect. But i think this is a nonissue until an actual subpoena is issued. If one were issued, i think he would have to reconsider his position. From an american citizen standpoint, we should all get to the bottom and get the answers on both sides. I would like to hear from joe biden and his son