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Your family during the holiday, be with them at work. that's does it for us on msnbc live. catch me later on "nbc nightly news." heading over to the white house. >> good morning to you. greg melvin here in new york city. we're following breaking news right now. a little whiplash on wall street. the market is taking another tumble this morning. this one, though, coming a day after the dow's biggest one-point point gain ever. >> too early to say if we're bottoming but a lot of repair work needs to be done to the market itself. president trump back at the white house after that unannounced trip...

Washington helping us make some sense of this. julia, thank you. >> thanks, craig. coming up -- new clues in a mystery case tide to special counsel robert mueller. we're shedding some light on what this case could be all about. jill winebanks is going to join me. before that more of "time" magazine's top photos of 2018. this incredible picture from thousand oaks, california, was taken on november 9th showing a resident running from his home with literally just the clothes on his back. not even shoes. those wildfires erupted in the state last month forcing an estimated 160,000 people to evacu...

Syria and his plan that's could cut afghanistan troop levels in half or pull them out all together. so whone of the big questions about this trip is how the president who show support for the troops serving in iraq, even if he didn't necessarily believe in the mission. here's what president trump had to say. >> under my administration we're winning now. we're not planning to lose slowly like they've been doing for 19 years. we're fighting in areas where we shouldn't be fighting, and spending hundreds of billions of dollars doing it. we w5u79 to fight where it's meaningful, which is basically w...

Picture on a very public plat form. it was clear they were navy s.e.a.l.s and team five, which everybody knows is serving in iraq. which is generally a violation off the op-sec, operational security. that said he can declassify what he wants and it's not a firm and fast rule of never showing faces when they're deployed in a war zone. craig? >> hans nichols for us. thank you for that, sir. let's bring in phil rucker, white house bureau chief of "the washington post." and an army retired officer who served as director of iraq for the national security council during both the bush and obama admin...

A price and sometimes that is also a monetary price. so we're not the suckers of the world. we're no longer the suckers, folks. and people aren't looking at us as suckers. >> douglas, fair to say that the president's world view could be characterized as isolationist? >> certainly he has a different view of how military power is used and the quid pro quo that comes from that. previous presidents tend to see the united states as acting in its interest, even when it helps out others in their countries. this president has a different take on that. >> douglas, it also seems at times that the presid...