And obama backer. Hes a navy s. E. A. L. Wouldnt it be nice if we got him sooner than that . Hes an outspoken critic of trump. He said trump had embarrassed and humiliated the u. S. And back in february of last year he called trumps attacks against the media, quote, the greatest threat to democracy, but craven is now responding to the latest comments. He tells cnn i did not back Hillary Clinton or anyone else. I am a fan of president obama and president george w. Bush. Both of whom i worked for. I admire all president s regardless of their political party, who uphold the dignity of the office and who use that office to bring the nation together in challenging times. I stand by my comment that the president s attack on the media is the greatest threat to our democracy in my lifetime. When you undermine the peoples right to free press and freedom of speech and expression, then you threaten the constitution and all for which it stands. Defenders are going to say the president is simply hitting back, but this isnt the first time the president had a controversy with a military commander or member. Thats right. It comes at an interesting time. Hes drawing criticism for skipping a trip to arlington Memorial Cemetery on veterans day. Hes known for fighting back against criticism, even when it comes from members of the military or military families. Heres a list of awkward moments hes had with military members or their families. During the 2016 campaign he drew criticism for referring to john mccain for not being a war hero because he was captured during the conflict. He also dismissed the kahn family after they spoke out against him at the Democratic National convention. He had a spat with another gold star family. Disagreed with him over the content of a phone call he had with johnsons widow. President trump has not made the customary trip to visit troops overseas battling in war zones, something which is a common practice, almost a basic requirement of being commander in chief. As for skipping the trip to Arlington National cemetery last week, President Trump told fox news thats something that he regrets. Listen to this. I should have done that. I was extremely busy on calls. We do a lot of calling. This was veterans day. I probably, you know, in retrospect i should have. And i did last year and i will virtually every year, but we had come in very late at night and i had just left literally the American Cemetery in paris, and i probably assumed that was fine and i was extremely busy because of affairs of state, doing other things. Now i reached out to the white house to find out if they had any additional insight or statements on this feud between President Trump and the admiral, no response from the white. Of course were all watching twitter to see if the president has anything more to say tonight. We have reached out to the white house for a statement. So while we wait, i want to get a military perspective with us. First, just your reaction to the president s remarks about mccraven. Its unfortunate that the president would say that. A lot of folks had the great honor to work with him. Hes a gifted leader and incredibly honorable guy. I can tell you in history, democratic republics dont collapse based on external threats. They collapse within. And they become higher and more mighty than they should be. Its important that we take a chill pill and breathe through our nose and open ourselves up for criticism and external voices. Its imperative that we do that. Thats my greatest concern. Cnn has called the oped in august that i referenced earlier a stunning rebuke. Trump has embarrassed us in the eyes of our children, humiliated us on the world stage. Did he cross the line in his criticism of the commander in chief and is the president simply just hitting back . Clearly the president is, as they say a counterpuncher, but as the president of the United States, im not sure why you would counterpunch. Frankly, nobody is at your size, you pick on somebody your own size. Youre the president of the United States, theres nobody else out there who is your own size and i would not offer a judgment of his exercise of free speech rights. Not at all. When you think about the nature of this criticism, it has to do with one of the most successful raids that our military ever put together. All of this has to come together. This is an amazingly precise, very tightly coordinated. He allowed these incredible men and women to exercise. We went after bin laden and he was killed. Thats if phenomenal. Why are we discussing that . I dont get it. Is he out of touch when it says it would have been nice if the u. S. Had gotten him sooner . Of course it would have been nice. But dont think for a second having been involved in the hunts for bin laden in terms of the intelligence building up to our comment, this is very tough, difficult, demanding work. The operational arms of the military and intelligence and held back in terms of going after bin laden. We didnt have the right intelligence at the right time. Were the forces ready . Absolutely. Did we have the right intelligence . We didnt. He has gone after gold star families and referred to the military as being in shambles at some point. Do you feel like this president supports the military . I would say he does support the military. Every time you embrace the military, theres ways to do it. You can do it very privately in personal moments, generally with grieving family members, you dont need to put a spotlight on that at all but theres some things that you can do that are easy wins and easy victories for the president to stand in front of the military in a very public arena and say thank you. Why he done do that more overtly, i dont know. I cant get into his head about this. Retired major general, spider marks, good to see you. Thank you for your service and thanks for being with us tonight. I want to play more with this fox news interview with the president because trump talked about special counsel Robert Mueller. He plans to submit his answers to muellers written questions this week and he claims getting through them was no big deal. Im preparing written answers. Im the one doing the answer. Theyre writing what i tell them to write. Are they going to be submitted . At some point very soon. I have completed them. So you are submitting. It wasnt a big deal. By the way, it wasnt a big deal. The questions were asked and answered. They acted like i had meetings, i got the questions, i responded. We wrote them out. I read them once. I read them a second time, we made some changes. Thats it. Theyre very simple. I want to start with you. The president says answering these questions wasnt a big deal. He called it simple. Were you surprised . Well, i dont believe him but not surprised that hed say that. I think these were difficult questions that required a lot of work by his attorneys over a long period of time to get to the point where they had a narrative that they felt comfortable with that they could write down and the president could atest to. Daniel, what do you know about the process that went into answering the questions . We dont know everything inside the room, but we can assume that the lawyers writing the answers with the president , that they were going over them with a fine toothed comb and trying to answer them so they wouldnt get follow ups and that muellers team would not dismiss the answers as not really answering the question and they might have to subpoena him. This has been such a long process in terms of trump wanting to talk to mueller and yet his lawyer is saying if he did he would get in a perjury trap. That it would be very hard for him to tell the truth. In may, the president said he would love to sit down with mueller, but in this new fox interview he said hes finished. There wont be a sit down. Do you think mueller will be satisfied with written answers . Its a good question and i dont know the answers. What we see is a president thats finally listening to his attorneys who have advised him not to do this. Whether or not mueller accepts the representation by his lawyers that any questions that involve the transition period or post inauguration or executive privilege and therefore the president has a right not to answer them, that if he wants an answer, he should subpoena them and theyll fight it out in court. But the president is trying to stand on executive privilege and put it to mueller to say i dare you, in a sense, to seek a subpoena against me and well see whether acting attorney general whitaker approves it. Right because the president hand picked. He appointed this acting attorney general and he talked about him in his interview this morning as well. Did you know before you appointed him that he had that record and was so critical of Robert Mueller . I did not know that. I did not know that he took views on the Mueller Investigation as such. If whitaker decides to limit or curtail the Mueller Investigation, are you okay with that . Look. Its going to be up to him. Hes very well aware politically. Hes astute politically. Hes a smart person and respected person, hes going to do whats right. Was this an accurate statement from the president . Because we know the president pass over multiple officials that would have been a more Natural Choice to appoint whitaker. Yeah and after he appointed him he said he didnt even know who he picked. He didnt even know the acting ag. So this is a guy that trump hs s enjoyed watching on fox before he was in doj as chief of staff for jeff sessions. He enjoyed watching him defend himself and don brought him in for a Job Interview to be part of the defense team in the white house to defend the president. And for trump to say its up to whitaker. Trump has tried to interfere in the investigation in the past and considered firing mueller, so that may not be accurate either. Do you trust whitaker to let mueller do his job . Well, Matt Whitaker made a lot of statements saying he thinks the Mueller Investigation has gone too far and that a subpoena isnt warranted and he made all the of these statements when he didnt have full transparency into the evidence. Whether he changes his legal mind about it, well have to see. But i do think that the appointment was, at least a bad decision politically. And rosenstein should have been appointed after he fired sessions. We have to give matt a chance. If he doesnt do it, theres a sense that he hasnt done that, when the democrats take over the house judiciary committee, you can be assured that he will be there under oath testifying about this. So theres a lot of traps here for whitaker if he doesnt play it correct legally. He was saying whitaker will be one of the first people they call before their committee when they have the majority in january. Good to have you with us. The destruction is unimaginable and wildfires are still burning across california. 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The physical things are replaceable but the lives are not. 79 people so far are confirmed dead across the state. Paul, those victims i just mentioned, theyre on the minds of so many people around this nation but especially there among the people who will be gathering for a vigil coming up shortly. Tell us about that. Youre actually right. The people in this area and i know that many neighborhoods portray themselves as being close knit and tight but this is a neighborhood thats hung together like you cant believe and i have an example of it. Theyll have the vigil soon, but in this parking lot, a man named izzy taylor that is a member of a pool or Billiards League got all of his people together and they started cooking for all the refugees. Hes here. His girlfriend just had a baby, a day ago i believe, and as is fitting for this story, the babys name is destiny. What prompted you to m codocome here and give so much of yourself when your girlfriend is having a baby. Paradise is a real dear town to me. I have been a chico resident and my girlfriends mother lost her home and my landlord lost his home and numerous of my teammates and opponents lost their home. Its a huge catastrophe and i have been given the time to be able to do that, due to my boss committing suicide and passing two weeks ago. So im over here with no job volunteering my time with my friends and family. Snowballed, my truck bed full of donations and snowballed to this, barbecue. Its lasted 7 days now. Just the outpouring of generosity has been amazing. We have been feeding many families. Its just heartwarming. I cant stop what im doing after feeding so many residents and so many people that i dont know and just seeing smiles on their faces and being able to accept donations to make them even smile for another day is just heartwarming and overwhelming. We should note, walmart has told you dont have to leave right now. Theyre asking everyone else to leave, but were feeding so many people. I havent been given the formal, told to leave. So im going to stay here until they Say Something along with sexy panda which were collaborating together which is allowing me to stay here for the number of days i have, despite me having a baby in the hospital, i have a crew here running my thing while im at the hospital with my girl. And im just spending a few hours a day here, keeping my little barbecue going with my friends and family. Its been overwhelming. The outpouring of generosity. My mom here and my girl here. All the way up to two days before she was due. She was helping serve. Now shes in the hospital delivering and taking care of my kid. Ill be there here in a minute, but its just overwhelming. Well, everybody that just heard this, im thanking you for all of them because what you have done is phenomenal. Congratulations you proud papa and kudos to you for your selflessness. Back to you. It all started with some friends in a Billiards League. And he has somebody in the hospital having a baby and hes still doing his part to help the greater good there. Thank you for your on going reporting sharing those important stories for us. If it seems theyre bigger and more frequent, you are right. Tom is in our Severe Weather center for us and whats happening outwest thats causing such intense fires right now . You could make an argument that theres a difference between forest fires and wildfires. The only numbers we want to see are the containment numbers that are going up but were seeing more scorched land. Unfortunately a larger number of large fires. Lets go back into the 70s and the 80s here. The number of large fires for the decade of the 80s for the western u. S. Was roughly 140 a year. And then into the 90s with an increase of drought and temperature, 160 on average. Between 2000 and 2012, were up to 250. With the heat continuing to build, with the drought continuing to build, i wouldnt be surprised if this number is over 300 or 340. Theres a direct correlation between the number of large fires and the increase in the temperatures outwest and in california. A report coming out, of course on Climate Change in california said by the end of the century if we do nothing with our green house gases, we could see a 77 increase of scorched land. Just this year alone, and well go back a couple, four of the last five summers were the hottest on record in california. 4 to 6 inch deficit right now. If we would have had the rain, we wouldnt have had this fire most likely. I want to pull up norway for you. Its almost all forest with lak lakes, but this is the number of days they have snow on the grou ground. They had the worst wildfires in history because their temperatures instead of 60s and 70s were in the upper 90s and they were dealing with extreme drought. An article in the l. A. Times today is now staying in the santa monica mountains. It could take 20 years to get the vegetation to grow back. When you look at a half inch of rain, that will stop the spread of the fires. Two inches can put it out. One wave after another coming in. This week beginning wednesday and thursday, waves of moisture move in but it may be a bad thing. We like to get rainfall but we do not want to see 2, 3, 4, and 5 inches of rain in this area. Want the mountain snow, but we dont want to see into these mud flows and debris that could pick up with this much rain coming in this week alone beginning wednesday and thursday. Something i want to clarify. You mentioned norway, i think you meant to say finland when you were comparing the president s comments. Didnt want our viewers to be confused there. We knew what you were talking about. Thanks so much. Its that time of year again. Black friday is just around the corner. Kicking off the Holiday Shopping season. So how is wall street looking ahead of the holidays . Cnns chief Business Correspondent has the break down, christine. Hi, ana. Investors maybe grateful for the short week on wall street. The market is closed thursday for thanksgiving and friday is a half day. Last week was volatile for stocks. Concerns about the tech sector and worries about a global slow down all weighed on the market. Existing home sales have fallen for six straight months. This week well find out if they slipped again in october. Economic concerns aside, retailers are feeling pretty positive about the Holiday Shopping outlook. The season kicks off at the end of the week with black friday. The National Retail federation predicts holiday sales will rise more than 4 from a year ago thanks to strong consumer confidence, low unemployment and rising wages. A recount in florida is over and democratic incumbent senator bill nelson has now conceded to governor rick scott. 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Scott won the race by a little more than 10,000 votes. Senator nelson acknowledged defeat and took a swipe at President Trump without naming h him directly. We have to move beyond a politics that aims not just to defeat, but to destroy, where truth is treated as disposable. And free press assaults the enemy of the people. Theres been a gathering darkness in our politics in recent years, my hope today can be found in the words of john f. Kennedy who said, civility can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future. Governor scott, now senator elect released a statement saying we must do whatever americans have always done. Come together for the good of our state and our country. My focus will not be on looking backward, but on doing exactly what i ran on, making washington work. I know change is never popular in washington and that im just one person, but we have to start somewhere. Now lets go coasttocoast. To california in an area that Ronald Reagan often said was where good republicans go to die. Orange county. Democrats have now run the table there. Having captured every congressional seat in what had been the last reliably red state. Why is this erosion of gop support in Orange County so striking . Its just stunning. You think of Orange County as being the place that launched Ronald Reagans career, political career. It was also the birth of the conservative movement that really began in Orange County with the John Burch Society and conservative activists that drove antitax measures and antiimmigration measures. So this is a stunning transformation. A lot of democrats said that they hoped if there was a blue wave in california, or in america, this year, that it would have started in california. And indeed, they managed to flip all of those seats by very close margins. Those were the races being counted to the very end along with florida and a really chilling day for republicans over to blue territory. Past election day and as the focus of the country has really been on the florida race recently and a lot of complaints of how long it was taking. Weve been watching the numbers trickle in from california. Why does it take so long for the races to be called in those districts . Basically, we did have a lot more voters coming out for the midterms this year as we saw all over the country. A lot of College Educated voters turning out, that they were angry about donald trump, but many of those people cast their ballots by mail and, you know, often turn them in right at the last minute. So the counting took a long time and the margins were so close that many news organizations, including cnn were very cautious right up until the end in calling these races. So but a big day for democrats and republicans believe that had donald trump not be in the white house, they would have done a lot better in Orange County, and they still have a glimmer of hope Going Forward that they might be able to recapture some of those seats if more of the moderate republican wing is able to rise in reaction to donald trump. I want to take a look at the bigger picture. Democrats have now picked up 37 seats in the house. Theres still three house races left to be called, but what is this going to mean for the democrats ability to push forward their agenda . Well, they have a very a difficult hand to play here in the sense that yes, they have now taken the majority in the house, but obviously, the senate is still very divided. The country is very divided. So you have seen the democrats including nancy pelosi, say theyre going to push forward with the investigations that they wanted to do once they were in the majority, but also, try to reach across the aisle because 2020 is knocking on the door. Its not as far away as everyone thinks. They will have to bring in moderates and independents if they hope to retake the white house. So well have to see how carefully they play that hand. Youre not hearing the word impeachment a lot. I think its more republicans that were talking about. He was definitely trying to distance himself and his party from that word impeach. Thank you. We appreciate it. Coming up, President Trump officially endorsing a bipartisan bill for Prison Reform. Ill talk to one of the cosponsors of the bill. Congressman jeffreys is here with us. Next. Youre live in the cnn newsroom. If youre on medicare,. Weve got big news. This year,. Unitedhealthcare Medicare Advantage plans. 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This legislation has been a pet project of his soninlaw and Senior AdviserJared Kushner and this would shorten mandatory minimum sentences for some nonviolent offenders. It would eliminate a regulation triggering sentences for firearms related crimes and address disparities between crack and powder cocaine convictions among other things. Now the house overwhelmingly passed a narrower version of the bill in may, but it still faces a tougher road in the senate. One of the most vocal critics is also one of the president s allies. He says this is a misguided effort to let serious felons out of prison early even calling it a jailbreak that would endanger communities. The president supports this. He wants to work across the aisle on this. Whats your reaction . Well, his support is a positive step. We have a mass incarceration epidemic in the United States of america. Today theres 2. 2 million. We encars rate more people than any other country in the world. Its a stain on our society and time to do something about it and in a bipartisan way. You said this bill will transform lives. Its an end to the beginning. It will do two things. One, theres the Prison Reform aspect of it that was initially passed in may by a strong bipartisan majority of the house of representatives, and thats designed to make sure that we can successfully reenter currently incarcerated individuals into society with the skills, the training, the education, with the vocational support, with the Substance Abuse treatment necessary to make sure that when they are released back into society they can become productive citizens and save taxpayer dollars. Then theres the sentencing reform aspect of the revised First Step Act as being would reduce some of the harsh unnecessarily punitive mandatory minimums and lock them up, throw away the key, type of sentencing provisions that have gotten us into the overcriminalization mess were in right now. Mitch mcconnell is telling the president they may not have time to bring this bill up for a vote this year. What is your take on that . Is gridlock going to get in the way. Its a very unfortunate statement by mitch mcconnell. The only person in washington d. C. Right now that believes theres not enough time to deal with this criminal Justice Reform bill is mitch mcconnell. The chairman of the House Senate Judiciary committee believes theres more than enough time. Speaker ryan agrees theres more than enough time for us to address it. We should find the time to begin to break the back of the Prison Industrial Complex in america. This could be a break through bipartisan moment. Even the president is supporting this. As you point out, other republicans have come on board, but there is what we heard from senator tom cotton. He even wrote in a tweet, if its finalized and ready for a vote, why offer to keep changing it . You also have democrats urging more changes saying it doesnt go far enough. How do you reconcile that . We think the bill is in a sweet spot and that brings together a substantial number of democrats and republicans, progressives and conservatives. People on the left and the right. Advocacy groups in the Civil Rights Community as well as the coke brothers and the heritage foundation, theyre all supporting the need for criminal Justice Reform and in the process save taxpayer dollars. Do you think you could get your democrats on board, then . Those that want to see more changes . Do you think theyre willing to compromise . Absolutely. I had very productive conversations with my democratic colleagues. When we passed the First Step Act in may in the house, 70 of the House Democratic caucus including all the leadership, the chairman of the cbc, the chairman of the congressional hispanic caucus, very important progressives along with more moderate members of the House Democratic caucus all supported the bill. So we have a Great Foundation and now that its being strengthened in the senate in the bipartisan way im confident that the overwhelming majority of democrats will support that version. Congressman jefferies, thank you so much. Now to your children and vaping. Kids, middle cool schoolers addicted to nicotine. What can be done about it . Dr. Gupta is next. Live in the cnn newsroom. Dad oh, hey guys mom on speakerphone hi son on speakerphone dad, i two goals today vo getting to a comfortable retirement doesnt have to be an uncomfortable thought. See how lincoln can help. Booking a flight doesnt have to be expensive. Just go to priceline. 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Ana, when these ecigarettes hit the market, it wasnt clear the impact on young people. But trends got everyones attention, especially at the fda. Nearly 80 increase in use among high schoolers, nearly 50 among middle schoolers. These are numbers that nobody wanted to hear. And i think that is the real issue. These ecigs, maybe theres mounting evidence they can help people stop smoking as a Smoking Cessation tool, but theyre also encouraging people to start ecigs and transition to real cigarettes, thats a big problem. Scott gotly, the commissioner of the fda, we talked to him about it. We know some proportion of kids who initiate nicotine through an ecigarette are going to migrate. Theres Something Else i want to add to that. And that is that 90 of people who become lifelong smokers start before the age of 18. 95 start before the age of 21. Only 1 start after the age of 26. The point, ana, is that thats a really vulnerable time. People start these things around that age, the likelihood they will continue to do it is much higher. Heres what the fda is proposing specifically. No surprise given the data, restrict sales of flavored ecigarettes overall, ban Menthol Cigarettes and flavored cigars, and probahibit marketin to teens. They want to make it less attractive to teens by the flavors. Its got to go through a whole Comment Period and well see how this shakes out. The president taking on the man who led the mission to kill osama bin laden. Dont miss an all new episode of this is life with lisa ling at 10 00 p. M. Eastern here on cnn. The best are back. Applebees bigger, bolder grill combos. Now thats eatin good in the neighborhood. Youre live in the cnn newsroom. Im ana cabrera in new york. In the process, the president slamming a venerated Navy Seal Commander who had raised concerns about his rhetoric the heres the extraordinary change with fox news anchor chris wallace. 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