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>> reporter: before ultimately mentioning the victims, he first tweeted this threat. there is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in california, except that forest management is so poor. remedy now or no more federal payments. now, wolf, all of this is happening as special counsel's russia investigation appears to be entering a new phase. the white house paying very careful attention to that. but house democrats are, as well. as they prepare to take over their majority in january, they are already saying that matt whitaker, the new acting attorney general, will be one o...

Border wall off the table yesterday following what he sees as bad faith negotiations from the white house. the president responded, guess where, twitter, writing, quote, crying chuck schumer fully understands, especially after his humiliating defeat, that if there is no with the, there is no daca. we must have safety and security, together with a strong military, for our great people. with me now is national political reporter for nbc news. i want to start with president trump's quote. so president quote, two days ago, was blaming democrats for shutting down the government. he was saying it wa...

I can't even believe that he did this. i don't know -- i would call on the new chief of staff, who i think is aware of a consequences of the potential consequences of something like this, i would call on him to tell the president not to do that kind of thing again. >> chuck shoochumer calls the president trump's comments reckless. >> we want to bring in military analyst and retired air force colonel cedrick lateen, coming to us via skype. thank you for being with us this morning. just to give us a sense of the president's remarks. you saw his remarks sitting at the table sort of arms crossed s...

This is all the beginning of the very long debate here to dominate the next two years on capitol hill. >> manu, thank you. the senate minority leader chuck shoochumer says the republicans are like the dog that caught the bus and have no idea what to do next. >> the republican plan to cut health care would not make america great again. it would make america sick again and lead to chaos instead of affordable care. republicans would create chaos in the health system because they're stuck between a rock and a hard place and have no idea what to put in place of the affordable care act. they had f...

Merits, but doesn't mean they won't put up a fight or make issues particularly on immigration. discussed senator sessions is a, the tough stand he's taken against comprehensive immigration reform, undocumented immigrants, making their point in that regard, but you'll probably see a contentious confirmation hearing, dianne feinstein now the top democrat on that committee clearly is going probably have very tough questions, but there is that personal friendship. chuck shoochumer noting he's friends with jeff sessions. worked out together in the senate gym. so things like that -- >> that should s...