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Things and if they put this out, there may be things in there that they are still looking into. there may be things that they haven't corroborated it and they want to continue to investigation until they get to a point that they know it's true or not true and they don't want to be putting things out and we don't even know that it will be over. politico is digging deeper into how foreign leaders are sizing up the white house. if 2017 was the year they took measure of president trump, 2018 may be the year that they test him. susan joins us with her new piece. my experience with usaa has been e...

>> and this has been the question for a lot of people as you know better than i in the foreign policy community, what happens when there is a so-called real crisis that the president and the country has to respond to? >> well, 2018 may be the year in which we test that. we are headed with a collision with north korea. there is no sign that is diminishing. the president said in his interview yesterday with the "new york times," he thought he had a deal, coin was going to cut off oil exports. it hasn't happened yet t. pentagon is working to prepare military options. so the president will have a ...

Isn't that a broader concern given the level that they played in this? >> kat: i think there's some level of incompetence because if you are literally texting proof of your partiality to your coworker was also your mistress, i don't know how it gets more stupid than that quite honestly. at the same time, you have to not let those very real concerns about bias of some individuals completely make it so that there is no concerns about russian meddling in the election because there are still those concerns. >> lisa: i like to see continued focus on that but we've lost sight of it. i want to get yo...

The momentum is. i can tell you i spend quite a bit of time on the campaign trail going to these so-called expansion states where hillary clinton thought she was going to be able to span the democratic base. 2018 may be an opportunity there. what i heard over and over again for democratic operatives in a lot of states was bemoaning the fact that they did not have the support that they needed to get people to run against republicans even entrenched republicans. if you don't run against him, you're not saying we can run against a democrat. >> you see for the first time in two decades democrats a...

This is the capper because this is, again, the biggest tax cut, biggest reform of all-time. this is something i'm very proud of. great for our country. great for the american people. >> president trump signed his overhaul to the nation's tax code into law today before he left the white house to spend christmas in florida. he says it's the largest tax cut in history. but according to the committee for a responsible federal budget, that on or actually goes to president ronald reagan's 1981 tax cut. he also signed legislation to keep the federal government running for the next few weeks, that bei...