Mistakes . Thats true. Paying for them is part of the lesson. Is your son okay with your call . When do you have to learn the lesson . Under the rules of an institution, they represent that institution, and they now have to abide by what the institution standards are. What does your son think about your move of yanking them. They could have kicked them off the team . They could have kicked them off the team . Guess what . They did. They are off the team. They are not practicing. They dont even have a meal card. Its not permanent, though. What is not permanent is permanent. The season will be over by the time they say we will let you play. Guess what, you are not going to let them play but put on a uniform and sit on the bench. What does your son think about being pulled from the team . Were on the same page, trust me. It was going to be one and done anyway. We are not going to sit back and wait for an institution to sell us what we are going to do. They dont have control of my boys future. I dont get where your rightiousness comes from. He got let go by the chinese authorities because the help helped them out, and then the ncaa wants to look at the behavior, and you dont like that they are reviewing the behavior this long. How long does it take to review behavior . They have to think about it. These are serious charges. Multiple thefts. They are pretty dumb if it takes them that long to think. Maybe the time was giving the benefit of the doubt to your son . They were letting time go by to let them play again, and a lot of people would say, how could they let them play . A lot of people dont like that decision. A lot of people dont matter. So what . They are not on staff. Why are we not talking to the people that do like them. It has been months and months. They are supposed to say, they are a week back, let them play now. Let them play now. Disciplinary action is a disciplinary action no matter how long it s. One day, two days, 40 years, and its still a disciplinary action, and for holding the boys out for over a week or whatever, and appal skwraoeu apologizing and they know it was a mistake, and then holding them back five, six months, and you say you are lucky . I would like to be unlucky. You will pull your son out, and hes out. Hes out. Will you reconsider the decision . I am not going to reconsider nothing. Will you send your younger son to ucla . My younger son is going to ucla. What does that have to do with him . Are you worried you will compromise the relationship with your younger son with how you are talking about the university . Like i told you before, you think i am worried, youre wrong. But its not just about you and your business, its about them and their future, right . No, its about me and my boys and their future. Guess who guided them to where they are at now . They have much trust in what i do and say. They are going to follow me even if its wrong for the loyalty i have for my boys. Im not questioning your loyalty to your boys, and you are their father and they have done great up to this point. Up to this point, and they will keep doing it. Cuomo, you know deep down inside this is not right to hold these guys for this long. Thats your opinion. No, i know you on my side, but you aint got to tell nobody, behind closed doors, were cool. You got upset if you was the coach, they would be playing right now. Hey, you commit multiple thefts we have a problem because thats about the whole institution and multiple thefts, we do have a problem. I am not hear to argue what message are you getting out of this . The message i am getting out of this is you made a real big move in the life of a young man. Its a big deal for a developing player and person. That was the biggest move in the world to take care of my boys until now, and they are 90 years old, and if i am living i will take care of them. If they are 90 and you are still alive, thats going to be impressive. Thank you for coming on tv all the way from california this early in the morning. I appreciate your perspective on the show, as always. Thank you, cromo. Were good. Happy holidays if i dont see you and talk to you. Be safe. The best to your boys, your wife and family. Merry christmas. Be well. Thank you. Appreciate it. So from the shoes to the serious stuff about saying ucla should be done with this, it should be nothing. This is a controversial move because hes doing a couple things. One, hes taking a risk on his sons future. I dont know if you follow liangelo ball, hes a strong player, and then you have the development as a person, and lavar saying he suffered enough, and people will not feel that way 100 , and there will be a debate, and this is the latest chapter in a man that courts controversy and takes it on and we have to see whether or not he really sent those shoes 1600 pennsylvania avenue. He did say my name right, once. That is progress. It was quite a 15 minutes. Nothing compared to your sup interview. I hope that means roy moore joins us. I do not think he will join us. I am going back to my other buddy tomorrow, john berman, taking over from here. A man that never had a chance to play for ucla or any school in any sport. I dont know what to do now . Has the argument changed from he didnt do it or it doesnt matter if he did . Good morning, everybody. John berman here this morning. Major new questions about the president s strategy in the russia investigation. Pay attention to what the white house and president s legal team are saying. The president s personal attorney opening question whether any president can be charged with objection of justice. Does that mean his lawyers are conceding the president did try to influence the investigation into flynn, he did it but is it legal . Thats not the argument. Meanwhile, new questions about whether Michael Flynns former deputy lied in senate testimony. We have all of this from washington. Layout the messages we are getting from the president s legal team. Over the weekend we heard from one of the president s lawyers that the president could not be prosecuted for obstruction of justice because hes the commanderinchief, and the chief Law Enforcement officer. Now we are hearing in the past 24 hours or so another lawyer for the white house, one that was brought in to handle the special counsel investigation, ty cobb, he is saying that the facts will exonerate the president , that it doesnt even matter if theres an obstruction, the question of the legality of the obstruction, but the facts will exonerate the president. So they are trying to clean it up. Were still getting mixed messages there. Meanwhile, new questions about the response from another onetime white house insider, kt mcfar hrupd. Explain what happened here. During her senate q a session about her confirmation process, she was asked if she knew of conversations between flynn and kislyak about sanctions. She responded in writing she was, quote, not aware of any of those conversations. We saw in flynns guilty plea in Court Documents, it said a senior principle spoke about the sanctions, and that transition official was kt mcfarland and the ranking democrat on the committee is asking for her to clarify the answer. Did she, in fact, not know anything that she says she did not know about . That will be interesting. Robert mueller filing legal documents saying that manafort violated his bail in the way he did was fascinating. Its a unique situation you dont often see happening in legal cases. The judge said she didnt want anybody to make comments that could precedence the case as it goes forward. What the special counsel filed in Court Documents because manafort was working with a longtime business associate who was russian, and may have links to intelligence agencies to write an op ed in a ukrainian paper to discuss his role in this. The special counsel is saying the judge should not ease bail conditions, which manafort is asking for, and a hearing is set for next week. Thank you so much for your reporting on this. A lot to get to. We appreciate it. We have new developments in a Major Political battle in the russia investigation. Senator chuck grassley, the chairman in the senate, just responded moments ago to suggestions by some of his democratic colleagues that hes not working on this very hard, hes not eager to dive into russian meddling matters. Our senior reporter, manu is on this now. Reporter the top democratic committee, Dianne Feinstein, she said she sent letters and she has not gotten a sign off from the chairman even though as the investigation month ago was at that time moving along in a bipartisan basis. Last night Dianne Feinstein told me this, she said we want him to sign on and i think theres an effort not to go deeply and i did not realize it before but realize it now and we have to find a way to deal with it. I just spoke with chuck grassley, the chairman of the committee, and he said he did not agree with her assessment. He said he is not stalling the investigation, and he said theres a process they go through to determine how to send out letters, and he really downplayed their dispute. I did try to ask if he agrees with feinstein they are building a case for obstruction, and he did not want to comment on that. His spokesman said he did not want to prejudge the outcome of the investigation, and clearly, john, the top two leaders of the committee at odds over the direction over the next several weeks, here, john. That could be significant. All right, i will let you get back to work chasing down more people that dont want to talk to you. Appreciate it. We are getting information about the Counter Intelligence official kicked off the special Councils Team for sending texts that seemed to be antitrump. One change stands out. Whats going on here . Sources tell us the fbis electronic records show that peter changed the key language in comeys statement that cleared Hillary Clinton in any wrong doing, and describing her actions and handling classified materials as grossly negligent and then changing it to extremely careless. We are told this process of drafting the statement was a team effort. We are not saying he was in this all along, but from a political optic standpoint, the statement cleared clinton, combined with the fact that he was dismissed from special counsel muellers team, and he could have been seen as favoring clinton and antitrump, and he gave further credit to those trying to discredit the special counsels work. The new fbi director is trying to boost morale in the fbi. Thats right. My colleague, evan perez, obtained a statement that he sent to the staff, sort of a cheap your chin up, and over the weekend trump was on the tweet storm calling the fbi in taters, and rays statement was there will be tough questions ahead and days ahead, but keep doing your work and keep your head down. John . Terrific reporting. Thank you so much. Joining me now, our panel. Paul, i want to start with you. Theres a discussion about whether or not the president can be charged with obstruction of justice. To me this is a moot point. It does not matter. This issue is not whether or not the president can be charged in a courtroom with anything. Thats not whats going on here. The house of representatives can, if it decides to, it can impeach the president f obstruction. Yes, two sitting president s have been impeached for obstruction of justice, and nixon, and also with clinton. Clearly you can be impeached on this charge. The second issue is could a president be criminally charged while hes sitting . Thats more of a complicated esoteric matter, you have to wait until he is impeached and then he could be charged. One other point, is there any question in your mind that the president s legal team has sent this message that they are perhaps shifting from the defense from he didnt do it to it doesnt matter if he did . I think the president has a problem with his legal team, its when you have multiple lawyers representing you and one is sending one message out and another is sending out a slightly contradictory message. It doesnt seem to be a unified message for the president. But we are hearing what we are hearing and they are definitely saying that perhaps obstruction would not matter, and then this becomes a political issue as do members of congress think obstruction is enough of an offense worthy of impeachment, and listen to this, the 1999 view. There are serious allegations that that occurred, and in america, the Supreme Court and the American People believe no one is above the law. Nobody is above the law. The 1999 version of Jeff Sessions there. Democrats thought nixon was worthy of impeachment, and you can see how it becomes a political argument and to the extent the political lines are starting to be drawn here. Yeah, i think thats what you see trumps lawyers doing, right . They are not at this point making an argument in the court of law, and as you said its a political matter at the end of the day. They are fighting the battle in the court of Public Opinion speaking to the political actors trying to get them on the hypothetical side of the president when and if this matter comes to them so they will have the arguments in their mind. Its the job of a legal team to throw everything at the wall and hope something sticks. You see them planting the seeds for different situations, if it gets to that points, the president s sometimes allies and the Republican Party can fall back on. You can see the feud between feinstein and grassly have run the committee together, and when you see tension there, you start to see maybe the political lines are being drawn. Molly, to that point, this new information about the fbi Counter Intelligence agent, the one that changed the language on the Hillary Clinton memo from grossly negligent to extremely careless, the questions being raised about him, how does it play into the political argument now . I spoke to allies of Robert Mueller who believe if anything this gives the investigation more credibility because when it came to light he did dismiss this person. Theres no question it raises questions about the team around mueller. This has been one of the major attacks on the investigation from people trying to discredit the investigation, and trying to discredit the special counsel saying theres a political bias pointing to things like donations and the team around mueller to say that these people are out to get the president , the whole witch hunt narrative rests on that idea. The extent that activity like this is discovered, it bolsters that viewpoint. Mcfarland in the written testimony to cory booker said she didnt know anything to any conversations that Michael Flynn had to kislyak, the russian ambassador. Is that a lie . Does this put her in legal jeopardy . I think it does. If its correct she was the one that conveyed the instructions to talk to kislyak about the israeli settlement resolution or anything else, the statement would be inaccurate. She will have issues in senate confirmation. Thank you for being with us. Appreciate it. We have breaking news for you this morning. A fastmoving wildfire in Southern California has destroyed 150 buildings and forced 27,000 people from their homes. The santa ana winds are strong. One of the firefighters has been injured battling the blaze, and a evacuee was killed trying to escape the fire. Hours after the president tells roy moore go get em, the rnc gets behind the accused child molester as well and is sending cash. In just a few minutes, we are expecting a major announcement on john conyers on his political future, a case that has sparked a nationwide debate, and a colorado baker who refused to bake a cake for a gay couple now reached the Supreme Court. Even love it. 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Rebecca burke on the latest of who is and who is not backing moore. A shift in the past 24 or 48 hours in the republican view of the Alabama Senate race, and also of roy moore in particular. With the president endorsing moore, as you said, the Republican National committee reached a decision yesterday to go back into this race to support moore, and they told cnn they are transferring money to the alabama Republican Party to support moore in the final week of this race, get money get his message on tv, and get the vote out for him and finish this race strong. Its worth noting not all republicans are lining up republicans. The committee and the campaign arm for Senate Republicans that would usually be involved in the race tells cnn they are staying out of it and are not going to reengage and the chairman, cory gardener, will remain committed to that race. They are saying they are staying out of it, still we are seeing a major shift among republicans on this race. It was a few weeks ago that Senate Majority leader, mitch mcconnell, was stepping aside, and threatening expulsion were he to get the senate seat. The republicans say they believe the women that made the accusations. Thank you very much. New evidence emerging this morning. Explain. Reporter john, debby wessin gibson tells the Washington Post she was in her attic getting her christmas deckations, and she found new evidence that supports that she dated moore when she was 17 and he was 34. Take a listen. It was a graduation greeting card from roy moore. Happy graduation. I wanted to give you this card myself and i know you will be a success in anything you do, roy. I have known roy for many years and i dated him in 1981 and i dated for a brief time and we kissed with my consent and i am sad he says he doesnt know me. Reporter the Moore Campaign said moore already said he knew her and her family but did not recall any of the dates. Had he said he did not know the women he was referring to the women that accused him of sexual assault. When she said she heard moore say he didnt know any of the women, thats when she knew he was lying. Thank you. New this morning under fire for Sexual Harassment claims, congressman john conyers, a democrat expected to address his political future. And at this point, sarah, do we know what conyers is going to say . Hey, good morning, john. You know, we expect this announcement momentarily from the congressman himself. Hes an 88yearold man, and as far as we know hes still in the hospital and flatly has denied the allegations up until this point. This all comes on the heels of a fifth accuser going public just hours ago, last night, lisa bloom, the attorney tweeting an affidavit from a fifth woman that has come forward to allege Sexual Harassment by john conyers. As i said, he so far flatly denied these allegations saying the calls from his colleagues to step down are political attacks and his attorney calling the accuser opportunists, and we did see him lay the ground work for an exit when his attorney tweeted he was discussing the possibilities with congressman conyers and whether or not he could survive in a climate where, as he put them, where false accusations continue to come out. Last night the fifth accuser that came forward, shes the cousin of one of the women who has already spoken out against congressman conyers, alleging Sexual Harassment while she worked for him. The cousins worked together. The details of her affidavit do stand out, john. She talks about how he called them the bigleg girls, and often would slide his hand up their skirts or grope their thighs against their will. She said she witnessed an incident where her cousin was redeyed and clearly in tears because of congressman conyers coming on to her when she believed they were supposed to be just working. All of this happening just a few hours before we expect him to come on to a Michigan Radio station, a gospel Radio Station in the detroit area to make a announce many, and this is the first time we will hear him in his own words since the allegations have treickled out. Will there be consequences for the actions women say he made . Just the same question people are asking about roy moore. Thank you so much. Mitt romney says a roy moore win would be a stain on the Republican Party and the nation. Where do republicans stand on this and how much impact will it have Going Forward . Stay with us. And seamless experience across web and tablet . Do you want 4. 95 commissions for stocks, 0. 50 options contracts . 1. 50 futures contracts . What about a dedicated service team of trading specialists . 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Eight people are nonaccusers and did not accuse moore of any do you believe them . I believe beverly nelsons own attorney doesnt believe her, and thats why she wouldnt release the yearbook. Please answer my question. Do you believe the allegations of any of the eight women, do you believe any of them, yes or no . Your premise is wrong, poppy. I have to call you on it. That was moments ago. My partner, poppy harlow, conducting a master class in trying to get an answer from roy Moore Campaign spokesperson, janet porter, janet porter conducting a master class of her own of not getting any kind of answer, evading the questions. Lets bring on lewis and amy. There was a Major Development overnight, in addition to the president officially endorsing roy moore, the rnc is back in the game now, the Republican Party of the United States is now backing in words and with money this candidate who is accused of molesting a 14yearold girl. They made this decision. What is the near term impact and the longterm impact . Its a really big deal. You saw them scale back in recent weeks, along with a lot of republican support so the fact they are coming to table, America First action, a trump group also coming to the table, and will donate a lot of money in the final week of the campaign and they think they are going to win and it signals they feel confident about it and thats a problem for the democratic party. It may be a problem, though, for the Republican Party long term, because you can see the campaign ads in every cycle Going Forward. Roy moore, the candidate of the Republican Party, republicanbacked roy moore right there. To an extent, aerial, thats the message mitt romney put out, no vote, no majority is worth losing our honor and integrity. And roy moore said mitt romney doesnt care about the truth anymore. Theres an extent and roy moore is right. If there was a bigger loser than Hillary Clinton or the second biggest loser in the last election, it was mitt romney. He came out hard against trump and republicans decided they want donald trump. Thats right. What you see is its about power and not principle. Mitt romney is a lonely voice asking about, what is about principle . Some are saying, well, this aint it, we would rather lie and say we dont believe the women and rather say this is one principle among many, and dont elevate pedestri eleva elevate pedophiles, and so thats the choice the way they framed it in front of voters and the polls suggest, and hes right, they are responding to it. Roy moore is leading the last time i looked. And they are choosing now i am not sure theres a consequence, amy, Going Forward. Is there . Thats the thing. I think they want you know, behind the scenes i am hearing from a lot of republicans, yes, this doesnt look good for us and we should have done something more. I think they do want the vote Going Forward. This is more important to them. They cant see the forest from the trees right now, and democrats, oddly enough, are in a weird situation themselves, and saying we should have done more about conyers and franken and thrown everything towards republicans saying this is on you and were not the party of that, and both parties are going through an odd period. I want to talk about the democrats in just a second, but i guess the bigger issue is not republican or democrat, its what happens when women come forward and make claims, and they are either not believed or they are believed and its not enough or people dont care. None other than billy bush talked about this sort of in an interview, and he was on Stephen Colbert last night, and he was saying donald trump has been lying behind the scenes about the hollywoaccess hollywood t. Last week for some reason came out thats not my voice on the tape. Like i said, you cant say that. That is your voice. I was there and you were there, and thats your voice on the tape. 20 people dont get together and say lets take down a powerful guy together, and i said you are reopening wounds on them, too. Enough is enough. Stop playing around with peoples lives. I get to this question, you know, we have talked about what happened to matt lauer and charlie rose and harvey weinstein, and if more and more women see this, see what happens when you come out and theres no consequence yeah, thats the longterm damage. As a society we have to figure it out, there are spinoff affects, and people wanted to say i dont care how many people accused him of whatever, i want the Supreme Court picks and want him to stick it to the liberals, this and that, and people are entitled to make that choice. There are consequences, however. Consequences go up and down the line, you are talking about somebody that works as a gas station or convenience store, and some people dont have powerful friends in the media to stick up for them, and thats the kind of thing that mitt romney was alluding to, and thats the kind you are talking about your sisters and daughters and friends and people dealing with reallife situations, and conyers will tell us what he wass going to do with his career, and there was talk about retiring and now were not sure. If its retirement and not resignation, hes going out on his own terms, a guy with five accusers, he would be going out on his terms. Politicians held to a different standard. Yeah, thats a problem. Thats why you are hearing a lot of democrats behind the scenes, as i said before, saying we should have done something about it, and been more proactive, and particularly in the conyers case and the franken is a different case, and they are saying we should have made the Republican Party pay for this. These mixed messages on the legal strategy from trump and his personal lawyers on obstruction, and they are saying the president cannot obstruct justice here. Is this a legal argument or is it assuming voters and maybe congress could decide if the president is in trouble . Its move into a political sphere. Thats where it belongs, frankly. You dont go into the white house and snap handcuffs on any president. The tools we have according to the constitution, involve removing him or having an impeachment trial or process to figure out what happened and to determine the magnitude of it. Thats all it amounts to. We are going to have to rely on the tools that we have, the democracy that we have, not the one we wish we had. It would be nice if its simple but its not going to be simple. Every person watching this is going to have to be involved. Good to have you with us, and thank you so much. This is a reporter from a cnn affiliate moments ago. Reporter guys, things have intensified over the last few minutes as i last spoke to you, as we talked about when the sun comes up the winds kick up, too, and we have seen wind busts here, and we have moved further away and we will continue to do so after i am done talking to you. We have so many embers and ash in the air it picks up and can spread the fire elsewhere. As you can see, what is behind me is pretty grim. This is the hospital that we have been talking about all morning long here. The vista delmar health care facility. We are told its an 82bed inpatient and outpatient mental facility here in the area, and it not only has treatment programs for veterans dealing with ptsd. What you dont see around me are firefighters, because they have long since left this area, and they were here after it started, and they realized they could not save this building so they worked hard to save the condos down below, which they were able to do, and unfortunately they had to leave this burning behind as they moved on to try and save other homes elsewhere. You have really seen the progression over the last couple of hours from the twostory standing facility, first the windows, cracking from the heat and then the roof collapses in and now we are seeing the walls physically deteriorate before our eyes, and the awning now burning as it has been standing for sometime despite the fire burning around it, and there are still buildings around the con flex, and we are seeing trees going up as well. Something is creeking behind me. Its an alarming story we will continue to follow throughout the morning, but its important to keep it in perspective, 150 buildings burned, and this is just one of them and that shows you how much destruction has happened since this fire started last night. Guys . We want to tell you we have been watching the video feeds coming in from california, and its a fastmoving fire and has been developing and we will continue to watch it and keep you posted. And then holding off on naming the jerusalem the capital of israel. Well be right back. Our recent online sales success seems a little. Strange . Nk na. Ever since we switched to fedex ground business has been great. Theyre affordable and fast. Maybe too affordable and fast. What if. People arent buying these books online, but they are buying them to protect their secrets . . hi bill. If that is your real name. Its william actually. Hmph affordable, fast fedex ground. 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The Supreme Court watchers camped out hoping to watch the oral arguments today in a case that pits a colorado wedding cake maker against the samesex couple he refused to serve. Heres our Supreme Court reporter. Reporter john, this is a clash between religious freedom and lbgt rights. The case is brought by Jack Phillips he owns Masterpiece Cake shop and he refused to make a cake to honor the marriage of a samesex couple and said it went against his religious beliefs. The couple sued at the lower court and they won. When the court cited colorados antidiscrimination law. Jack phillips has come to the Supreme Court with a free speech argument. He says his cakes are like his artistic expression and colorado cant force him to convey a message that goes against his religious beliefs. And he has the support of the Trump Administration. On the other side, is the couple. They say that this has nothing to do with free speech or cakes. Its about discrimination. All eyes, john, are going to be on Justice Anthony kennedy. Remember, he was the one who wrote the opinion a couple of years ago, clearing the way for samesex marriage, but he also has an expansive view of free speech rights. So thats what well be watching today. John . All right. Ariane at the Supreme Court, thanks so much. U. S. Allies around the world warning the Trump Administration to hold off on any announcement that would recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel. The president of turkey says he considers that move a red line. France and saudi arabia say it would hurt the peace process. Joining us now ian lee, in jerusalem, for us. Ian, what are you hearing . Thats right, john. Weve had a number of key u. S. Allies speak to President Trump, speaks to the u. S. Administration, talking to them about the consequences that could happen if the United States does go forward and move the embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem and recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel. You know, President Trump has worked hard to cultivate better lee relations in the middle east with the leaders here since he took office. Most noticeably with jordan, saudi arabia, and with egypt and all three of those countries have warned the president about Going Forward with this decision. Now israeli officials up until yesterday had been noticeably quiet, but weve heard from the defense minister and as well as the mayor of jerusalem, both have praised and encouraged President Trump to make the move. But it really boils down to, you know, what this will mean. Jerusalem is a very sensitive subject for both israelis and the palestinians. The palestinians see it as the eastern part, as the future site of their capital if they are able to achieve a state. But you also have to look at previous u. S. President s. Every president since 1995, has postponed, has waived this decision because of the possible ramifications of what it could mean in this region. John . All right. 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