All the time. The arctic blast is gripping the nation, and what does it mean for your new years eve plans. Chad meyers has our forecast. Most of the u. S. Should bundle up for new years eve, and thats not breaking news, but it will be colder, below normal by 30 and 40s degrees. Some windchill factors, 42 degrees below zero. Lets show you what is going on and why this is happening. We have a huge ridge of High Pressure in the west. There it is. Right there. Its coming down and its taking all of this arctic air and shoving it down towards the south, toward the southeast and right through chicago. This is going to be with us all the way through sunday afternoon. Not going to go away anytime soon. New york city, you are still going to be in the teens and 20s, and with the wind its going to feel like zero, especially for the ball drop there in new york city. Chicago, a little colder. You are closer to the flow, to the jet stream that is heading down, and thats close as fargo, north dakota. Fargo on sunday afternoon, your windchill 60 degrees below zero. I dont have words for that except for the numbers. If you are trying to find someplace nice, not only key west where bill weir will be, but even l. A. , temperatures making a run at 80 by friday, and maybe even into saturday. This is the place to be. Gorgeous. Sure is. You really hit the jackpot. Yeah, after Hurricane Irma we thought we would check out how the folks are doing down there. You earned this assignment. And then we watched shushi over deval street. Thats awesome. I hope you join us new years eve. Lets talk about the news of the day. President trump spent his first day attacking the media and fbi. I cant spit it out, but he can in 280 characters or less. Reporter the president says hes back to work after a few days of taking part in christmas festivities and taking aim as the media as well as the fbi on twitter. After a quiet christmas at maralago, President Trump promising to get back to work touting his make America Great again agenda, after complaining hes not getting the credit he deserves after his accomplishments. Trump marking his first christmas in office with attending a latenight Church Service on Christmas Eve. Taking calls with Young Children on the santatracking hotline. And tell conferencing with the troops. I just wanted to wish everybody a very, very Merry Christmas, we say christmas again very loudly. Its my tremendous honor to finally wish america and the world a very Merry Christmas. Despite the fact that president obama used the phrase repeatedly while in office. Hello, everyone, and Merry Christmas. Merry christmas, everybody. Merry christmas, everybody. Trump also spent the Holiday Weekend lashing out again at the countrys top Law Enforcement agency, attacking Andrew Mccabe, and former fbi director, james comey and fbi lawyer, james baker. The president pouncing on reports that mccabe is planning on retiring in march, and going after him about the donations his wife received from a close friend of the clintons. The president has not shied away from attacks from the Justice Department or fbi since taking office, still the white house insists trump has more confidence in the fbi now that he selected the man in charge. Hes very happy with the changes taking place. The criticism coming amid growing questions over the credibility of special counsel Robert Muellers russia probe. If the president continues to try and undermine the legitimacy of the investigation, and if republicans continue to try and help with that, i think that puts us in peril. The president has nothing on his public schedule today, but he is up and he is tweeting. Here is the latest trump tweeted based on the fact that the unfair and unpopular mandate has been terminated that repeals over time obamacare the democrats and republicans will eventually come together and develop a great new health care brand, and the key word in that might be eventually. Okay, sarah. Thank you very much. We have a lot to discuss with cnn political analysts brian carom and april ryan. I have not seen you, brian , in 25 years. We worked together in the 90s, and we were crime reporters. Thats true. Its good to see you fighting the good night in the press Briefing Room where you are speaking truth to power. Hopefully they dont kick me out. I do worry about that. But lets talk about that. April, of course, you are Holding Forth in there as well. Lets talk about what we can expect from the president , if his tweets are any indication. Sarah just read us one. Heres another one he tweeted over christmas. The tax cut reform bill including massive alaska drilling and the highly unpopular individual mandate by the way, Obamacare Signups had historic level sign ups, and dont let the fake news, meaning news he doesnt like, convince you otherwise and our insider polls are strong. April, do you have any sense of what he means by their insider polls, if he is seeing something for real inside the white house than what people are seeing out here with a 35 Approval Rating . Well, first of all, alisyn, happy holidays and Merry Christmas to you and bill. You, too. Lets say this, first of all listening to the tweets the last couple of days sounds like there could have been coal in the president s stocking. But if you look at what the president is saying about his internal polls, i say that seriously because they had the internal polls during the campaign for president and he won. This president does believe a lot in himself when the general public is saying no, but he has pluses, he did have a legislative win, and took him almost a year. He did seat a Supreme Court justice. This president is overseeing a good economy, but that hinges upon a lot of different things. One, we are hearing so many people from even the former Obama Administration that there is residue that he is coasting on from the Obama Administration. Hes not being honest with it, though. Well, we are at a time brian, i got you. We are at a time dont forget that part, april. Anything that could have. We are possibly on the precipice of war. Those polls are talking about a stronghold moment in time because tomorrow could be totally different from today. Yeah, all polls are a snapshot. There may be within the white house people making them feel better and telling him what he wants to hear. I think they play protect with him. From what i get inside that white house Briefing Room, its all theater for them. I said before i rarely believe anything they say except their name and even then im not sure of it. The bottom line, its deflect, defend, distract, and everything that he tweets and everything he goes on is to deflect away from some of the real issues they havent dealt with. He said he brought back Merry Christmas . Please, i have been saying Merry Christmas forever. Its such a nonissue. And then to talk about how he made America Great again and it was good before he got here. Theres not anything that comes out of the mans mouth that is not a deflection or defense or tries to keep us from the real issues at hand. The real issue at hand is the Mueller Investigation and him trying to muddy the waters in the echo chamber by convincing people they have an axe to grind against him. Thats disheartening. Thats a very real issue. North korea, a very real issue. The two issues he really has done something with, he has not funded. The two issues that speak a lot to the American People, the opioid crisis, which he put Kellyanne Conway in charge of. Thats another issue but its not funded. And then he talks about reinvesting in nasa and exploration which appeals to many people, and bush tilted his windmill at that brian, you are overlooking the tax bill that obviously republicans tried for decades to do, and there are Ten Companies that we know of that because of that are giving their employees 1,000 they had a lot of money beforehand and they are timing it just in time. Yeah, they were sitting on profits. Slight of hand and twist of fate. When you are talking about what matters to people around the dining table, its pocket book issues, and if they connect the bonuses with the tax reform, thats a win. How many people are going to see that kind of bonus . Trickle down economics has not proven in the past to work. This is for the moment. Not only that, alisyn, we have to remember that corporations are going to benefit permanently. People will not. When it comes to the pocket book, when you dont see that tax cut happening after 2025, wait a minute, this is for the moment and lets see if it continues. What they are banking on, if they lose the house or senate that the democrats will get the blame. Lets go to jeff flake. This is a guy that did a large profile recently, and this is a guy that should be a star in the republican corner. But because of the way the Republican Party has gone, there are people bragging he couldnt get reelected, and thats why he quit. This guy votes 95 of the time conservative voting. Hes one of the guys, he should be the star of the gop party but because of the fact that he believes in the art of half a loaf and the art of real political discourse, hes a poriah in what is left of the gop and hes right. What april is speaking to about where we are going to be and where is that money going, that guy is speaking exactly to the point, a bunch of old men protepbgti protepbpr protecting themselves and a party on its deathbed. April, we want to play this, its a sample of profiles and courage that comes after you announce your retirement. Heres jeff flake. When you look at some of the audiences cheering for republicans sometimes you look out there and you say those are the spasms of a dying party when you look at the lack of diversity sometimes, and it depends on where you are, obviously, but by and large we are appealing to older white men and they are just, you know, a limited number of them. Anger and resentment are not a governing philosophy. How much of that do you hear from nonretiring republicans whispered in the hallways . Its not whispered anymore. Its shouted. Not only that yes, its marched down the streets. Heres the bottom line. This is a nation that is browning and this is a party that is playing on the people that feel like they are on the fringe who are not part of the system in any kind of way who happen to be white men who happen to have not received a College Education and very fearful that something could be taken away. I will go back to the earlier issue about taxes. Theres another big piece that could hit faster than the election. The pay fors. This tax bill, republicans, be it trump republicans or republicans from other sectors are saying this is not a perfect bill, and part of the reason why its not perfect, how is it going to be paid for . Things could hit the fan with this bill very soon, particularly when they come to the entitlements, basically the poor and the people of color, and typically in washington the axe hits the least of these when there are budgetary problems, and now before the budget people who have real lives who are affected are on the table and they want help. They feel they are not being 1. 5 trillion hole in the budget. How are you going to pay for it . Medicare, medicaid and the poor will pay. Entitlements are next. The richer will get richer and the poorer will get poorer. Thats what flake is speaking to, you have scared cold white men holding on to their cash, and thats not going to change until you have real leadership in an Opposition Party and at least some people in the gop that acknowledge there are other people in the country rather than aging old rich white guys that like rock n roll. It will take a chorus of white men and evangelicals and tea parters to come and say this is wrong. It will take a chorus. And the Mueller Investigation continues. Thats what you got to keep your eye on, alisyn. There you go. Thank you both for all of your reporting. Could President Trumps repeated attacks on the fbi Impact Special counsel Robert Muellers investigation . We will talk about that with a former Campaign Adviser to trump, next. 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Is this the strategy of the Trump Administration now . Its no longer hes not going to fire Robert Mueller, which is what democrats are worried about, its death by a thousand cuts, so by the time mueller releases any finding, its tainted. I said all along the president is not going to fire mueller, and i think the president is taking it upon himself, i think successfully, pointing out the very obvious bias that some members of the investigation and former members of the investigation you have. I think the person there you go. Go ahead . The former members. When you say Robert Mueller has to get control of it, hasnt he . He reassigned the folks. He saw a tweet that seemed to be antitrump and reassigned them and got them off the investigation. Right, text, between two members that were having an affair. And then you have a Senior Member of the investigation sending similar emails to sally yates, the former member of the department of justice and attending Hillary Clintons victory party. You know, its not that mueller has done nothing about it. In fact, he was quick to fire strzok and strzoks lover was reassigned as well. I think the president is highlighting this bias so that the bias stops. Weissman is still there and i dont know why hes still there. Look go ahead . Because he went to Hillary Clintons victory party, he needs to be gone, and then can the investigation move forward . As long as theres no more bias and we are getting to the bottom of that. The problem with strzoks firing, the investigation was stonewalling congress as to why he had been fired. I understand it was politically sensitive and they were trying to play the political game but the problem we have is the fbi appears to be political, inherently biassed and i think the director has done a good job with strzok and he should have been more forthcoming of why he fired strzok, and weissman needs to be gone. Listen, michael, its just absurd on its face to think that the fbi is a deny of lefty liberals. It just doesnt hold water. As you know, the people leading the investigation are republicans and the fbi is a crimefighting organization where i think if you did a poll most people would say they were republicans. Its just not the lefty organization the president is painting it as. I think the people called out like strzok and his lover and wiseman and others are an anomaly. I know a lot of fbi agents former and president who i worked with over the years who were upset that the organization is political and they are upset at the behavior of some in the investigation, and weeding this out is probably the first thing that needs to be done. The former ethics czar said using twitter on Christmas Eve to intimidate a witness, Andrew Mccabe, is not a very christian way to celebrate a holiday, and that does make muellers job easier, and thats a nice thing to do. Merry christmas. And then another tweet, somebody who threatens three key witnesses against him, jim comey, and jim baker, and mccabe. Do you think the president is getting in trouble with the tweets . Of course not. The