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the belief among democrats that a horrible political climate is improving some. plus, a high stakes trip. multiple officials now tell cnn the house speaker nancy pelosi will touch down in taiwan, ignoring dramatic warnings from china. and this week, democrats promised to put a vets bill back on the floor a second time. that after republican rejection prompts angry viral protests. we begin the hour, though, with death and devastation and sadness in kentucky. more heavy rain coming tonight and adding to the already historic and destructive flooding. at least 30 people are dead, includi...

President dialed back. >> you saw clearly he attacked fox news over this pause he wasn't -- you know, for all that fox news is supportive of his agenda, once they read it -- >> and his campaign, his campaign is trying, understandably. they look at the unemployment rate. african-american employment is down. latino unemployment is down. he is not going to win the black vote, hispanic vote. they are trying on the margins to improve his standings. and then he does things like this time after time after time. the 2020 democratic field jumped in on this. she is speaking for the rest of the candidate...

Dramatic action of denouncing this. he could have dialed back. >> could have cut the money for other economies. >> if he was serious, he could have said let's find a new standard. >> he could have said i don't want to pay for you to find ways to be greener. find your own way. >> panel, we will talk about it through the program. we are following breaking news on another front. the high stakes battle over president trump's halted travel ban is going to head to the highest court in the land. will the supreme court give the president the win against the immigration issue he wants? we have laura ...

>> any moment now, we could get the justice department's response to a federal judge's ruling that blocks president trump's travel ban. >> that judge temporarily filed the order that keeps people predominantly coming from seven countries into the us. initially, the white house called the decision outrageous. but later, dialed back the language, omitting that word. saying the doj would file an emergency stay at the earliest time possible. now, u.s. customs and border protection is working to reinstate previously cancelled travel visas. and ordered airlines beginning admitting people trying to c...

Ultimately nobody shot anyone and the alerts got dialed back, but phew. the president's talking about nuclear weapons is nothing to mess around with, not even if you're obviously joking.s talkin nuclear weapons is nothing to mess around with, not even if you're obviously joking. yesterday just before noon, apropos of we don't know yet what, the president-elect announced via itter what appears to be a 180-degree u-turn in weapons policy. the united states must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes. that would appear...