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>> i don't know. if i was going to thank somebody, i would probably thank president xi. >> interview did end on a festive note with lavar ball telling chris to wish mr. trump a happy thanksgiving. whitefish energy halting work on puerto rico's electric grid because it owed more than $83 million by preppa's the island's power authority. in an interview, the ceo tells cnn his company has reached the point where it can no longer sustain operations. >> we came here to try to do something positive for the people of puerto rico and help preppa get back on its feet. our subcontractors do an equal r...

Franken tells cnn he does not remember taking the photo with menz and feels badly that she felt disrespected. all right, 45 minutes past the hour. after 23 head-spinning minutes with cnn's chris cuomo, lavar ball still refused to thank president trump for getting his son and two ucla basketball teammates out of jail after their arrest for shoplifting in china. >> ball had minimized the president's role over the weekend, to which mr. trump responded by tweeting he should have left the players in jail. ball telling cnn he's still not convinced the president helped bring the players home. >> if...

Because of this announcement by donald trump and with these new sanctions that will be imposed, north korea is going to retaliate. we did hear from a state newspaper calling trump a lunatic president who deserves to be finished for his hideous crimes. we don't think this is specifically related to the sanctions, because when pyongyang officially does respond, we know there will be more rhetoric and certainly more threats, further destabilizing the korean peninsula, dave. >> it has been relatively quiet, other than that rhetoric, anna, thank you very much. whitefish halting work on puerto ric...

>> turning to politics now, president-elect donald trump naming dr. ben carson as his pick for secretary of housing and urban developments. meanwhile, mr. trump blasting china in a series of new tweets, breaking deck eights of diplomatic protocol by speaking with taiwan's president. cnn's jessica schneider is live outside of trump tower in new york with more. >> alisyn, we were told that this would be a quiet weekend for the president-elect. but if you count twitter it was anything but. donald trump taking to social media to slam china, calling it a currency manipulator, putting american busin...

You say you're the party of women, but you didn't even get a majority of the female vote. there's a lot of things that you got to take responsibility for i think that's part of the frustration inside the democratic party right now. >> democrats have to be passionate about their candidates. how many people said to you i'm voting for hillary clinton, but i don't love her. how many people said that. that's something for them to examine. >> we'll talk to you tomorrow again. >> van's going to come back he's got a lot to say this town hall is going to raise some eyebrows. the messy truth it airs tom...