Viewers in the United States and around the world. This is new day. It is friday, december 22nd, 6 00 in new york. Chris is off. Bill weir joins me. I predict an interesting show. Per usual. Thats right. Heres our starting line. President trump flying to maralago with a huge legislative win under his belt and looming Government Shutdown off his radar. Now that Congress Passed a spending bill late last night. Before he departs, he will sign the newly passed gop tax plan into law. But russia still hangs heavy over the president. The Deputy Director, Andrew Mccabe, testifying for nine hours on thursday. Sources say he told members of the House Committee about a conversation he had with former fbi director james comey, a conversation that could corroborate comeys claim that he asked for a show of loyalty. On the hill, democrats are fighting back on efforts to discredit robert mueller. They are warning him not to allow the houses russia investigation to shut down. U. S. Ambassador to the United Nations, nikki haley, made good on her threat to take names. After nearly 130 countries voted to con come the u. S. For its recognition of jerusalem as israels capital, haley invited only the 64 countries who didnt vote against the u. S. To a special reception. We have all the angles covered this friday. Lets start with joe johns live at the white house. Good morning, joe. Reporter good morning, bill. The president heads out to maralago on a high note today for the christmas holiday, some indication he will sign the tax bill before he leaves. Still hanging over the administration, though, the russia investigation as the Deputy Director of the fbi spent 16 hours on capitol hill testifying. Fbi Deputy DirectorAndrew Mccabe testifying behind closed doors that former fbi director james comey discussed conversations he had with President Trump, that the president asked him for loyalty days before the president fired him. He asked specifically of loyalty in the context of asking me to stay. My common sense told me whats going on here is hes looking to get something in exchange for granting my request to stay in the job. Reporter but the president has vehemently denied that account. I dont know how that got there because i didnt ask that question. I hardly know the man. Im not going to say i want you to pledge allegiance. Who would do that . Reporter attendees at the hearing described the mood as tense. They grilled mccabe on the clinton mail controversy. Democrats calling into questioning a diversion. The hearing is part of an ongoing republican attempt to divert attention from the real investigation into the collusion between. Trump campaign and the russian government. Reporter now House Minority leader nancy pelosi warning House Speaker paul ryan against letting the house shut down the investigation saying in a letter, democrats are deeply concerned by what she calls the majoritys efforts to curtail the House Intelligence Committees russia probe and its overall failure to address russias meddling in the 2016 election. The russia cloud hanging over the would you say as the president is at odds with much of the world over his controversial decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel, prompting a harsh rebuke at the u. N. They take hundreds of millions of dollars, even billions of dollars, and vote against us. Well, were watching those votes. Let them is vote against us. Well save a lot. We dont care. Reporter 128 countries vote to go approve a resolution demanding the Trump Administration withdraw his decision. 35 abstaining. Nine others voting against it. Even after this direct threat from Ambassador Nikki Haley. We will remember when so many countries come calling us, as they so off do, to pay even more and to use our influence for their benefit. Reporter haley inviting representatives of countries who voted for them, thanking for their friendship to the United States. We learned overnight of a new departure, Rick Dearborn expected to leave early next year. No plans today for a formal end of the year News Conference from the president. But we will see if he takes questions from reporters before he sets on his way to maralago. Bill and alisyn, back to you. That will be interesting, joe. Thanks so much. We have cnn political analyst Ron Brownstein and jeffrey toobin. Nine hours from the Deputy Director of the fbi, Andrew Mccabe. It was a closed door meeting, but a few things leaked out. Lets just remember why this whole thing is an issue. Part of the Mueller Investigation involves obstruction of justice. Did they fire james comey because james comey was not cooperating with him in limiting the russia investigation. One of the key conversation also that comey testified about was his interaction with the president where the president asked him for loyalty which comey said made him feel very uncomfortable because it seemed like a quid pro quo. Give me informatiloyalty on the investigation and ill let you keep your job. Yesterday mccabe said comey told me about that, word for word apparently, right after it happened. Which is a significant corroboration. Also comey said he immediately typed up notes of these conversations with the president , also corroborating his own version of what happened. Its not dispositive truth that comey was telling the truth, but it is certainly another brick that might establish a pattern of behavior on the president. Can i ask one thing the white house refuses to say when the president knew that flynn was lying, right . Right. Is that the timeline that were talking about here . When he had that conversation, the loyalty pledge with mueller or with comey, was it in relation to if he knew then that he would be obstructing justice . It is around the same time. It is all very early. Flynn was only around for a month. And his statement to the fbi was january 24th, four days into the administration. This dinner that the president had with comey was also very early in the administration. So its all happening around the same time. Ron, what do you hear in all of this . Well, i think the Congressional Republicans are playing a dangerous game. I think on the one hand obviously, they have some of them have legitimate beef still, a smoldering dispute with how the fbi handled hillary clinton. But i think in a larger sense what many of them seem to be engaged in is trying to create a context in which any involvement of russia in the 2016 election is only part of a story in which allegedly the senior Law Enforcement officials were agitating against President Trump. Theyre trying to kind of brace the president for any future finding along the lines of what jeff was talking about as obstruction of justice in essence by arguing that comey deserved it. The fbi was maneuvering against him. There are several problems with this. Obviously one is undermining faith in premier federal Law Enforcement institution but even more as an effort in self preservation. They are dealing with the reality of a president who is right around 60 disapproval. Generic congressional ballot is consistently double digits advantaging democrats. And they risk, i think, giving the president the wrong signal there will be political tolerance for him tpaourg bob mueller. That, i think, most republicans recognized that to be a political qaa taft few if that happens. That message is being significantly obscured by conservative talk radio, fox, and now among many of the house republicans. So nancy pelosi is very concerned about what she sees happening on the republican side left me read a portion of the letter she just sent to speaker ryan. Democrats are deeply concerned by the majoritys efforts to curtail the House Intelligence Committee investigation and its overall failure to address russias meddled in the 2016 election. We expect that you will take urgent action to ensure this investigation can continue, and justice can be pursued, unhindered. So hard to know how House Speaker ryan will respond. Another point about the republican attempt to make the fbi look like a democratic, capital d, institution, one thing the people remember during the 2016 campaign is that very shortly before the investigation director comey announced the reopening of Hillary Clintons he mail investigation, which was devastating to her campaign. She believes it cost her. As many people around her do. The idea that the fbi that the did that is going to be a tough sell, i think. Lets turn to the United Nations. Nikki haley, warning, we are taking names. Do not cross us on this vote to condemn the recognition of jerusalem as the israeli capital here. Heres the countries that said, okay, we hear you but well vote against you, including our allies. The united kingdom, japan, germany defied that order. Those voting with the United States, nine little countries. Honduras, guatemala, micronesia. And canada and mexico just abstained. Were staying out of this. Ron brownstein, what do you think the takeaway should be this morning after this . Well, look, there has been a thumbing at the white house since moynahan. It underscores the concern that exists in Foreign Policy leadership that America First translates into america alone. Because as you know, bill, i think it was expected our major allies in the mid east would vote against us because of the regional politics made it impossible not to. But it wasnt only egypt, jordan, saudi arabia. It was most of all of our nato allies, france, germany, japan. It kind of continues this trend. You saw the president s remarks i thought were actually quite revealing when you showed at the beginning of the show saying we dont care basically. That is the impression the world has. And i think here in the u. S. There is an audience for that go it alone. But there are also a lot of americans who are uneasy about the way that this administrations approach to International Affairs leaves us off isolated in the world. Well, look, now we know who our friends are is what nikki haley says. So palau, micronesia will be invited to a party. The cool kids party. So here it is. Nikki haley inviting everybody to a reception to thank you for your friendship to the United States. That is coming up on january 3rd. It wont be packed. They could probably have the whole country of palau come and not just the u. N. Delegation. What is this . Obviously this stands as popular with the evangelical base of President Trump who very much in favor of anything israel wants to do. What does this do for other relations . When it comes to israel and the u. N. , i mean, this is not new to the Trump Administration. The United States standing relatively alone with israel. As ron said, it goes back to Daniel Patrick moynahan saying when he rejected zion eufpl as racism decades ago. That in itself is not unusual. President obama tried to move back into the u. N. Mainstream and was more critical of israel, especially regarding settlements policy. In terms of israel, this is not particularly new. What is new is this very go it alone policy that goes well beyond the United States, knighted nations. And does this tkpheupb United Statess influence around the world. Or as President Trump says, does it strengthen it. This is very satisfying on that level. Alisyn, real quick. Youre saying this divides the American Public along the same lines as a social issue. This kind of defiance among blue collar, rural, older whites at the four corners of the trump coalition. Among the pollers pulling away from him to begin with, particularly millennials and College Educated whites, there is much more support for working internationally as opposed to try to achieve our goals. The same divide we saw under george w. Bush, who did not even go this far. Great context. Ron, jeffrey, thank you very much. Coming up, steve bannon taking shots at President Trump, ivanka and jared in awe new vanity fair interview. Is he seriously eyeing a run for the white house in 2020 . Thats next. Were on a mission to show drip coffee drinkers, its time to wake up to keurig. Wakey wakey rise and shine oh my gosh how are you . Well watch this. I pop that in there. Press brew. Thats it. So rich. I love it. Thats why you should be a keurig man fullbodied. Are you sure youre describing the coffee and not me . Fullbodied. The market. Redict but through good times and bad. At t. Rowe price. Weve helped our investors stay confident for over 75 years. Call us or your advisor. T. 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Heres the cast who is present. You have bill steppian, political director. Cory lieu wae kwr hrcorey le Kellyanne Conway as well. It sounds like lewandowski was saying you messed he everything up. They finally put points on the board. Going into 2018, look what we did, we provided you the biggest tax cut in years. Then you see this is a few weeks after alabama. But the party is still reeling from that loss. They are trying to move forward. There is a push pull happening right now because a lot of people are warning the white house of whats to come in 2018 and that it could be pretty brutal. Ron, thats it. Corey was reportedly sounding the alarm for the midterms. Looking at the poll numbers you looked at so closely and trying to sound the alarm that they are on the right track somehow. Any president is susceptible to the argument from the outside from advisers and friends that your problem, your political problem is your aides are not serving you well. This president is more susceptible to the argument than most. There is something to that in the accepts of the white house being more kay chaotically staf. In alabama, 93 of the people who disapproved of Donald TrumpsJob Performance voted for doug jones. They gave the democrats this extraordinary 18point advantage in the generic ballot, one of the largest i have ever seen in polling. Roughly 85 of the people who disapproved of donald trump said they were intending to vote democratic in 2018. The problem they have politically is not the white house political office. You have a president with a disapproval rating consistently around 60 . Unless that changes, behalf else they do, they will be facing a very rocky 2018 election. Annie, do you think this shines a light on turf battles within the white house as the president i guess has favorites and then they lose favoritism and then he moves around . Oh, yeah. Hope hicks is probably being brought in. She has been a steady presence. Shes young. People thought how is she going to do this. Shes in her late 20s. There she is sitting in on these meetings. Theres a lot of theres revolving door action happening where a lot of people are hinting at the fact that a lot of people will leave in the next year. You have john kelly doing fed checks of sorts to see kind of sniffing around to see who is leaving and who is staying. There is a lot of back biting happening. I think it will continue into the new year. That leads us to this fascinating profile of steve bannon in va