From gutting the office of congressional ethics. Thats the office that investigates members of congress. Republicans abruptly dropped the plan hours after trump shamed them on twitter with this with all the congress has to work on, do they really have to make the weakening of the independent ethics watchdog as unfair as it is their numberone act in priority . Focus on tax reform, health care, and so many other things of importance. An aide tells trump and ryan spoke this afternoon after the republicans reversed course. The aide suggesting that the stunning republican backdown one all thanks to trump. This aide said early this morning it became clear we would have a vote problem on the floor with this amendment. Its safe to say trumps tweets probably added to that pressure, but it was already being heavily covered in the press. Interesting they dont seem to want to give him the credit. The controversial plan was a slap in the face to trump ice Campaign Promise to drain the swamp in washington. It also comes on the same day that new members of the house were sworn in, both parties bracing for a major fight over the big policy issue, the first one, the repeal of obamacare. Manu raju was out on capitol hill tonight. Republicans are reversing course on one of their own proposals. This was a selfinflicted wound on day one. Reporter no question, erin. House and Senate Republican leaders and the Trump Transition Team spent hours trying to lay out their plans to make sure they did not run into roadblocks in the opening days of the new congress. As we know on capitol hill, plans could quickly become unraveled. Tonight House Republicans abruptly reversing course. Scrapping a plan to gut a key et ibs watchdog. After an outpouring of criticism from voters and trump, the president elect expressing opposition on twitter, writing, with all that congress has to work on, do they really have to make the weakening of the independent ethics watchdog, as unfair as it may be, their numberone act of priority . Focus on tax reform, health care, and so many other things of far greater importance. Drain the swamp. Less than two hours later House Speaker paul ryan convening an emergency neating where his conference changed course, unanimously voting to keep the Ethics Office intact. Republicans in top districts were concerned by the proposal. This was the wrong message to send at the start of the session, and i agree. Optically how concerned are you about the way this makes the Republican Congress look . Very concerned. I think its a terrible mistake. Reporter the surprise move began monday night when congressman Bob Goodlatte proposed a change to house rules behind closed doors to rein in the office of congressional ethics which was created nearly a decade ago in the aftermath of the jack abramov lobbying scandal. The proposal would have given the very house members who might be investigated greater control over the office of congressional ethics. Critics of the panel say it has overreached in the pursuit of headlines and the gop conference voted 11974 to make the changes. I support it because first of all i think its dupe ka tif but at the least in my view it requires greater oversight than it has. Reporter yet the proposal put republicans in an awkward spot with some refusing to say if they wanted to weaken the panel. Did you vote for that . That was a voice vote. It was not a recorded vote. But frankly i sat there and observed. Reporter now, erin, i asked that congressman three times how he voted monday night on that proposal. He would not say. The reason why he is able to not say is that was a private vote. The question moving forward to a public vote today, how would members vote that and they could endure backlash especially after the outcry that occurred when this issue became public. Of course his seeming shame in wanting to tell you that says a lot about the perception of this in the public eye. Thank you. Jeff, the president is going there tomorrow trying to defend obamacare. The Vice President elect is there to find a way to get rid of obamacare. Of course they wasted no time today trying to get to repeal obamacare despite this other ethic s imbroglio. Reporter the ethics situation is easier than obamacare. Of course it didnt go so well. Obamacare obviously is the most sacred piece of the obama legacy that many republicans want to dismantle immediately here. The reality here is that this point youll be taking things away from people. So there is not yet a consistent approach, a unified approach to what republicans should do. Republican leaders are leaning toward repealing it and then instituting a bit of a time lag so people have time to sort of get their plans in order, delay, but rand paul and others think that is not such a good idea because they believe that would create a vacuum. Tomorrow here on capitol hill, mike pence is going to be presenting the republican plan to republicans behind closed doors, giving them a way forward. President obama will be trying to defend his plan. The reality is his meeting is essentially for show. Just 17 days, not even, left in office here. Few things democrats can do. Republicans want to take it away. Difficult to figure out how that will be done. That is the crucial question. Jeff zeleny, thank you. Out front, lets go to Republican Congressman tom cole, on the rules budget and appropriation committee, a deputy whip. Republican leadership, including paul ryan, were against gutting the Ethics Committee in the way that was efforted today. Trump came out and tweeted within hours, gop rank and file backed off, switched that reversal. Do you give donald trump the credit for turning this around . I think he deserves a lot of the credit. Theres bipartisan concern that the outside Ethics Committee has not worked very well. And has incorrectly accused a lot of members of wrongdoing who were later exonerated. But probably wasnt the right time to do it. President elect Donald Trump Trump reinforced that today and had a big impact. Now, from where you stand, you know, how kid you go on this . Did you support gutting the Ethics Committee the way they suggested . It doesnt gut the Ethics Committee. It reforms it and keeps it in place but it lets you know who your accuser is and says you cant go public until the official Ethics Committee is going to make charges against you. Those are needed reforms and i support those. You would support . I would support changing it and will continue to support changing it. More appropriate time frame, more appropriate way. Thats what the congress wanted to do. Focus on repeal of obamacare, tax reform, regulatory relief. Those are the big issues. Josh earnest came out. There was an outcry over this and why to do it now. The appearance of gutting the committee, the appearance of that did not play well. Josh had this to say about the proposal today. It is revealing the first step taken by Congressional Republicans in the new congress was to vote in secret to gut et ins regulations. If the ethics commit see is dire, why do it in secret. Why only among republicans . It wasnt just republicans. This has been going on for six years. When this was created it was created by a single vote when democrats had overwhelming majority because many of their members were opposed to it. Having watched it operate, it simply is not fair. We had member after member get up who had been wrongly accused, covered in the press, an had to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars, then they get a lit note from the outside Ethics Committee that says youre exonerated, youre right, and nobody covers that. All theyre asking for is due process, know whos accusing you. Theyre under all the ethics rules, under legal obligation. Members have gone to jail. Im not saying this isnt something that needs to be done, but it needs to be done fairly. Why not bipartisan . It appeared to be in secret. It wasnt in secret. Almost all of the reforms were from a Bipartisan Commission that had recommended them in the last congress. This isnt something thats covered every day and people overreacted to that. Members were wise enough to see that and listened to leadership. Good point, well pull back and focus on these other things. Not to get rid of it, but to reform it. I want to ask you about the big policy issue of the day. Health care is the central issue here. You want to repeal and replace obamacare. The senate took the First Official step towards repealing it today. Is there a clear plan that you have with president elect trump on what to replace it with . We havent heard all of his steps. House member head of health and human services. Hes laid out his own set of lesion on this. I think repealing it will be a republicans only exercise. You wont get a lot of democrats to help you in that. When it comes time to replace it, youll have to Work Together across the line particularly in the United States senate. Weve certainly got a common set of ideas that will take some time to get it done, so i think what the senate did today was the right and important first step. And before we go, though, when you say when it gets to the replacing, the republican senator lamar alexander, chairman of the health committee, said it would be a mistake to repeal obamacare before there is a replacement. Senator rand paul seconded that. Do you share that point of view . Its a fair point in the sense this is a collapsing system. It has 9 Million People fewer than it was supposed to. 7. 5 Million People paid fines rather than go into it last year. Its collapsing. Im talking about replacing the appeal. The repeal will come with the time delay so the process will take a considerable period of time. It wont happen all in one fell swoop. You wont repeal and replace on exactly the same day. I dont think thats possible. All right. Probably repeal and delay. Thank you very much. Congressman cole, appreciate your time tonight. Up next, bracing for north koreas response to Donald Trumps threat. Whats kim jonguns next move. Plus, trump side by side with a new years guest who goes by the name joey no socks. Who is he . And a toddler saves his twin brother after a dresser falls on top of him. [ crowd noise ] whoa. [ gears stopping ] when your pain reliever stops working, your whole day stops. Try this. But just one aleve has the strength to stop pain for 12 hours. Tylenol and advil can quit after 6. So live your whole day, not part. With 12 hour aleve. The white house is downplaying an attack by pyongyang after Donald Trumps tweet the white house is trying to dispute that claim saying theres no evidence north Koreas Nuclear capabilities have changed. Of course the estimate would still be for them to have a weapon of that sort in a couple years. Jim sciutto is with us. A lot of concern tonight about north Koreas Nuclear capability and how quickly they are moving. No question. And no question theyre making progress. U. S. Intelligence view is that they have to assume that china has what they call an untested ability to put out a nuke on a warhead and shoot it possibly as far as the u. S. Not to assume that because they dont know for sure and north korea hasnt tested it. But that is definitely north koreas ambition. The trouble is that short of that theres a lot of things that north korea can do to threaten the u. S. And its allies, further missile tests, some aimed at south korea. Other ways to cause trouble, firing artillery at south korean islands close to north korea. This is the concern now, something in that category. A north Korean Defector recently said north korea will try to take advantage of uncertainty during the transition between obama and trump. Do they do that . If so, how . In his tweet as president elect, china, youre not doing it. Full stop. Whats the reaction to this direct criticism from trump . The Foreign Ministry was asked about this today and they said in their words, im paraphrasing a little, they say we dont Pay Attention to the features of foreign leaders communications. We Pay Attention to their policies, saying we dont watch the tweets. We look to see what they do rather than what they say or tweet. Whats interesting about that criticism is that criticism of china is not continue fiped to donald trump. Hes not alone in that. Theres a lot of frustration that china didnt exert enough pressure on north korea to stop its nuclear program, the read being china would rather have a Nuclear North Korea than a collapsed or unified korean peninsula. Thank you. John kirby, spokesman for the state department. Good to have you with me. When you see the president elects tweet, does trumps threat more likely that kim jongun will try to strike america . I think this is a regime in pyongyang that its proven its willing to continue to pursue these kinds of capabilities in the face of growing and galvanizing International Community pressure. So, look, weve seen no indication that they arent serious about developing these programs despite what is already a lot of pressure on them not to do that. That doesnt mean, however, that we can turn our blind eye to it or turn away and well continue to watch it closely. I would say that the sanctions regime thats in place are the most aggressive that weve had in nearly two decades. The International Community continues to work to implement those and well see, sanctions tyke time. Well see what effect they have. One of the Big Questions is what happens if north korea does perfect this missile and what weve seen estimates out there, they could make progress this year, certainly within the four years of the trump administration, that they would have a Nuclear Weapon that would be capable of hitting the west coast of the mainland United States. Those are the forecasts. Obviously thats the sort of thing that would change the world and the game here. Tens of thousands of people on a city like seattle. When i was in korea with the defense secretary, the argument was theres a Missile Defense shield along the western coast of the United States. And that that would protect us. Are we really prepared . Do we know that would work . Well, there are multiple layers of Missile Defense capabilities that we have in that part of the world and so, yes, there are some that are based in the continental states but we also have great Missile Defense capabilities at sea through u. S. Navy assetings as well. So there are multiple layers and levels here we would use to defend against a continental Ballistic Missile that might be launched at the United States. Doesnt mean, however, that we can just rely on defense and not continue to try to pressure pyongyang to do the right thing. Sanctions take time. I understand that. And i understand that the calendar is challenging here as he continues to do you think sanction will work after all these years . I feel like we hear about sanctions after sanctions, whether george w. Bush or barack obama. Yet the one thing thats been constant is that north korea has made more and more progress towards a Nuclear Weapon that could strike america. Hard to predict. Obviously, sanctions have not had the desired effect to date. But the latest are the tough nest 20 years. Sanctions take time. I think we have to work this out and watch how they are implemented. Thats the key. We have seen commitments, public commitments out of china that they will implement these sanctions. That will be the real key. These are tough sanctions and they can have a bite. Whether theyll change his mind and his calculus, we have to watch and see. Trump also tweeted about this. China has been taking out massive amounts of money and wealth from the u. S. In onesided trade but wont help with north korea. Nice. During the campaign of course heres a brief clip. China should solve that problem for us. China should go into north korea. China is totally powerful as it relates to north korea. China has total control, believe me. They shay they dont. They have total control over north korea. And china should solve that problem. China has control, absolute control of north korea. They dont say it, but they do. I would make it disappear. How . Heard worse things, frankly. What do you say there . Is the Obama Administration partly to blame for not getting china to act . China has been acting and china has been supporting sanctions regime particularly this last one that had been in place. They voted for it. They said publicly that they would implement that. It is true, erin, that in the past there has not been uniform enforcement of sanctions going forward. And some of that has fallen on to china. We know that. We have said they will implement it, they will enforce that, and they have incredible influence in pyongyang, more than probably any other country. I think to say they can control pyongyang is not supported by the facts. The fact is that china itself has been and has said this themselves, that they have been frustrated by some of the actions of the north korean dictator. Thank you so much, john kirby. Appreciate your time tonight. My pleasure. Thank you. Next, a billiondollar plant in mexico promising to keep jobs in america. Fords ceo speaks out tonight. And donald trump sharing the stage at maralago with a convicted felon. The man known as joey no socks. Id especially like to congratulate and thank joe, the head of the academy, for the unbelievable job that he does. Eyes open . Good. Because its here. Cue the confetti. Say hi to xiidra, lifitegrast ophthalmic solution. Xiidra is the first prescription eye drop solution approved to treat the signs and symptoms of dry eye. So give your eye doctor a ring, and your eyes just might thank you. One drop in each eye, twice a day. 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New tonight, president elect donald trump facing questions after sharing the stage on new years eve with a convicted felon. Joseph chinke was right next to trump as trump addressed guests at maralago. How long did trump and the man also known as joey no socks go back . Miguel marquez is out front. Joseph chinque, aka joey no socks, convicted in 1989 for art theft, celebrating next to the president elect on new years eve. Thank you very much. Its a great honor. His current lawyer insists the art was legally owned by him, but the new York Supreme Court says joey no socks pled guilty in his and his conviction still stands. He was give an conditional discharge and served no jail time. They go way back. In 2008 they shared a stage at the Miss Universe contest, trump calling him joe. By the way, joe is probably one of the most important men in the hotel industry. Reporter in 2009 trump was given award by joe. Id especially like to congratulate and thank joe, the head of the academy, for the unbelievable job that he does. And last year at trumps maralago new years eve celebration. Thank you very much, joe. Reporter again, joey no socks front and center with donald trump. Last may trump told the Associated Press he didnt know him well and wasnt aware of his conviction. Lets assume donald trump doesnt know who this guy is. Wow. Donald trump is so unaware and doesnt have people around him to warn him that youre standing next to a convicted felon . Reporter david k. Johnson for 30 years covered trumps rough and tumble rise mostly for the new york times. His new book the making of donald trump pulls no punches. I was absolutely shocked that donald trump, president elect, would stand at a public forum next to a convicted felon, who claimed to be connected with john gotti, credibly enough that the new york City Prosecutors Office thought that that was a real connection. Reporter the u. S. Secret service declined to comment on the matter, referring cnn to the Trump Transition Team, which also refused to comment on the relationship between trump and joe. Several maralago members and guests who attended the party tell cnn there was no secret Service Background check prior to it but they did go through metal detectors. Heres in my mind the most fundamental aspect of this. Youve been elected to the most powerful office in the world. All sorts of people want to cozy up to you and there are all sorts of opportunities for people to make money off of some relationship with you. Why would you connect yourself in public with a convicted fell on t fellon . Reporter rooted in the American Academy of hospitality sciences, an organization that over the years trump has been listed as ambassador extraordinai extraordinaire. Donald trump proudly hangs at least 19 awards. Youll notice theyre signed not just by joey no socks, theyre also signed donald j. Trump as chairman of the board. Reporter trumps signature is on some of the award. Its like trump giving himself ayn ward. The secret service says they only physically protect the president elect and the president. They referred us to the Transition Team which did not want to go into detail between joey no socks and donald trump. Miguel, thank you. Lets go straight to it. Jeff lee lord and keith boykin. This is a guy claims a relationship to got toy, convicted felon. Why is trump hanging around with this guy . Clearly he knows him in some capacity. Even though he said he doesnt. He does. Donald trump, first of all, if he meets you for ten minutes hell be a pretty loyal guy. Two, i think with all due respect this is overplayed. The gentleman said why would the president elect will next to somebody. A convicted drug smuggler was there in the Clinton White house posing for a Christmas Party picture with Hillary Clinton shortly after he paid money to al gore for the 2000 race. We can get well into the cia and sharing a misstress with the president of the United States. This isnt even close to this kind of thing. Not even close. Because theyre all hanging out with convicted felons. Just had an election in november where a certain guy named donald trump said he was going to drain the swaump, get rid of the shady business dealings, and now your excuse is everybody does this, its not a problem. No, no, no. Those were politicians he was talking about. Its okay when a billionaire does it. I dont know anything about the guy joey no socks. Joey no socks. But donald trump, and thats the problem. Donald trump is surrounding himself with yes people. He needs better people to give him advice. Somebody should tell him dont neat with convicted felons on new years eve. Dont tweet every day. Dont suck up to russian dictators and ceos who want to curry his favor because somebody says something nice about him. Theres Something Else at the heart of it which is how traump has handled the attention on joey no socks. He said in may he did not know joey no socks very well. Okay. Obviously that piece would show that to not be the case on the surface level. He appeared in a tribute video for him. Let me play what trump said about joey no socks. Id especially like to congratulate and thank joey cinque, the head of the academy, for the unbelievable job that he does. Theres nobody like him. Hes a special guy. Theres just nobody close. Either he speaks that glowingly of somebody he doesnt know at all, which is its own issue, or he knows him. News flash, i personally have spent decades going to events where some political figure will stand up and say glowing things about somebody they hardly know. A special guy. They have speechwriters that do this for them. I just dont even think i mean, were dealing with isis, were tealing with obamacare, dealing i just dont think this is anywhere on the radar. Fundamental honesty matter of whether you ask, do you know somebody and you say i dont know them that well when again and again youre seen with him . He may not know about his thats not possible or plausible. This is why it matters. Its not just joey no socks. Its don king, whos also a convicted felon, the russian immigrant who was another convicted felon whos involved in the trump sojo project. Trump has a history of dealing with shady people and he says he hires and will surround himself with the best people. Theres no evidence of that. We see corruption and pay to play and crookedness, the same stuff he accused other people of engaging in, hes doing that now. I dont see that at all. People see more when the hearings happen because theres plenty of evidence. Look, for example, at general michael flynn, a conspiracy theorist whos been appointed are you saying general flynn is a crook . Im saying hes a conspiracy theorist and trump doesnt pick the best people. He doesnt surround himself with the best people. This is another indication. Why is he meeting with don king and joey no socks and not having Intelligence Briefings . He doesnt have time for Intelligence Briefings. He has time to tweet every day. Thats not so. His lack of seriousness of the job of president. All i can say is we litigated all this kind of stuff in the campaign. Its over, my friend, and i know its a new year and theres a new president elect. Not acting like a president of the United States. You think the president should be associate with the criminals . Of course not. Then its not just of course not. We agree. Thunless hes about to becom attorney general of the United States, i dont think you have to worry. If you held the president of the United States, barack obama, to the same standard, i would feel comfortable about that. Donald trump said he was going to drain the swamp and theres every evidence hes not doing it. I mean, the drain the swamp is about lobbyists and consultants in washington not about criminals . Convicted criminals . I dont think hes player in washington. Thank you both. Next, ford scrapping plans to build a case in mexico. Ford says its Good Business but trump is getting all the credit. And a strange habit of appearing in public half dressed. Is there a method to his seeming madness . Tonight putins onetime top aide speaks out. And my life is basketball. West, but that doesnt stop my afib from leaving me at a higher risk of stroke. Thatd be devastating. I took warfarin for over 15 years. Until i learned more about oncedaily xarelto®. A latestgeneration blood thinner. Then i made the switch. Xarelto® significantly lowers the risk of stroke in people with afib not caused by a heart valve problem. It has similar effectiveness to warfarin. Warfarin interferes with vitamin k and at least six bloodclotting factors. Xarelto® is selective. 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Reporter its a huge cannes place. In part business driven. There has been no love lost between the president elect and ford. They have a long history trading barbs back and forth. At one point the president elect so even said ford was going to fire all of its workers in the United States. That is just not true. I skwd mark fields are you changing this because of trump . It makes sense for our business and we look at all factor including what we view as a more positive u. S. Manufacturing Business Environment under president elect trump and its literally a vote of confidence around some of the progrowth policies that he has been outlining. But this is a trend weve seen. The president elect calls out carrier, gets jobs to stay here, calls out boeing, he gets a cheaper air force one. Calls out Lockheed Martin and they say were going to work with you. There is a concern among some, mark, that this is in essence a form of croney capitalism, that the president can cut deals with companies and they expect favors from the administration in return. First off, we didnt cut a deal with the president elect. We did whats right for our business, first and foremost. Thats what drives us in every business decision we make. We look at a lot of factors, poppy, and one that we see is this more positive u. S. Environment for manufacturing and investment here. Its interesting, poppy, when you pushed him, he said we didnt cut a deal with the president elect. As you point out, you said it would be 40 cheaper to make those cars in mexico. 40 cheaper. Its hard to imagine they would go ahead and reverse a decision like that if not because of Donald Trumps specifically and his threats. Reporter it is indeed, erin. You know, this is a 1. 6 billion plant that theyre just not moving forward with. On top of the fact that it costs them so much less to make cars in mexico. He never said that trump was not part of the decision. He just said trump wasnt the full driver of the decision. An outstanding question is will it cost americans more now to buy their cars that are made here because labor cost is so much higher . Thats certainly a question. At the same point in time, remember, erin, theyre not spending 1. 6 billion in mexico. What theyre spending that the plant in michigan is 700 million so, there is a cost savings there as well. He said demand for small cars is not where it was before so thats another driver for this. But everything in this environment is political. Poppy, thanks. Up next, does Vladimir Putin see himself in trump . A putin insider speaks out. And jeanne moos on how a 2yearold saved the day teaching all parents an important lesson. Managing my moderate to severe crohns disease. I didnt think there was anything else to talk about. But then i realized there was. 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Breaking news. The president elect is not scheduled tomorrow to comment about the russian hacking investigation. He said he would have more to say on it, quote, tuesday or wednesday. This comes as trump faces questions about his ties to Vladimir Putin. Frederik pleitgen is out front. It would be nice if we got along. If we dont, we dont, but it would be nice. Reporter donald trump then a candidate hoping for warmer ties with Vladimir Putin. Now it appear his wish is coming true. He is a brilliant, intelligent person without a doubt. Reporter as president obama all but accuses Vladimir Putin himself of electionrelated hacking in the u. S. , trump is finding an admirer in putin. Translator very excited about trumps election. I think he even had a brief moment of euphoria. Reporter pavlovski was a top putin adviser for ten years until he was dismissed in 2011 for opposing putins controversial third term in office. He says putin has High Expectations for donald trump. Translator putin is expecting an acceptance of russias agenda from the new president trump. Reporter that could include less criticism of russias controversial intervention in syria and more importantly a possible easing of sanctions imposed by the u. S. And europe over the crisis in ukraine. The russian president even seeing a reflection of himself in donald trump, he says. Translator he just likes a strong man, a winner in a situation where no one believed in his victory because thats how it had been with putin himself. Reporter since his election, trump has been careful not to criticize russia or its leader, while blasting china for what he calls onesided trade relations with the u. S. And a lack of support pressuring north korea on its nuke program. That china bashing even helps putin, phe says. Reporter we dont want to find ourselves in one bed with china and trump could help us find a middle way. Reporter both putin and trump have a way of playing to the cameras. Trump with his reality tv career, putin with photos like these showing him braving the outdoors, wrestling tiger, and riding shirtless on a horse. Translator putins character, style, habits are those of a middleclass bourgeois. Hes prone to comfort. He absolutely didnt want to be the man who works 10 to 20 hours a day. Reporter and he tells me he believes right now the kremlin is anxiously waiting to see whether donald trump will follow up on one of the positive things hes been saying about Vladimir Putin once he takes office. Erin . No doubt. Fred, thank you very much. Retired Major General spdr marks. Thanks for being with me. Just hearing this, this is a man who had worked for putin for a long time. He still lives in russia. Hes not saying anything negative about Vladimir Putin but his description about how Vladimir Putin feels about donald trump, very excited he won, a brief moment of euphoria, expecting an acceptance of russias agenda. Does this concern you . It does. A little dangerous, frankly, if the expectation is that the United States with the new president is going to fully embrace Vladimir Putin and what he wants, pew tip, to achieve. Its a good thing that our president elect wants to try to have a better relationship with russia, but lets be frank, this is the Third Administration thats tried to do that. And for a whole bunch of reasons, primarily our focus and deep engagement in the middle east, weve been diverted by putting resources and real attention to this. But bush 43 and president obama and now president elect donald trump would to try to improve that relationship. Im concerned that theres going to be an embrace here and we need to the only way that you improve this relationship is to trust Building Measures that are very, very measured and very precise. Of course well see whether that happens. You know, president obama started with a wonderful new relationship with Vladimir Putin and we see where that ended. But then this former adviser talking to fred says putin sees a lot of himself in donald trump. Vladimir putin loves propaganda pictures of himself. One year he sent everybody in the country a dvd of himself playing judo or Something Like that. Medvedev. Thats right. And now donald trump obviously also has that showmanship about him. Obviously, i dont think well ever see donald trump putting up a picture of himself without his shirt on. Please. But Vladimir Putin saying he likes a strong man, a winner, sees himself in donald trump. Will that flattery blind trump to the truth of putin . I think president elect trump is a bright guy. Lets give him credit for that. He is a bright i would say very intuitive guy. I dont think hes going to be blinded by that. I think what you see is you see these two personalities that might in fact conflate in that they both have excessive, what i would call excessive confidence. And when you act on that confidence, you tend to dismiss what might be contrarian views that are coming in, those whispers in your ear that are essential to good, solid loep leadership. You need to have somebody telling you routinely, hey, president , put your shirt back on. Hey, president elect, lets not try to embrace putin too much. Nobody tells putin to put his shirt back on. Probably not. Thank you very much, general marks. Next, jeanne moos with a story of the 2yearold whos being called a mini superman after saving his twin. You do all this research on a perfect car, then smash it into a tree. Your Insurance Company raises your rates. Maybe you shouldve done more research on them. For drivers with accident forgiveness, Liberty Mutual wont raise your rates due to your first accident. And if you do have an accident, our claims centers are available to assist you 24 7. Call for a free quote today. Liberty stands with you™. Liberty mutual insurance. A 2yearold saves the day, brother of the year. Already . Heres jeanne moos. Reporter when kaylee shof reviewed the video of a chest falling on her twin sons she felt it in her chest. My heart sank. I didnt know what to do. I felt like the worst mom. Reporter but the worst did not happen. 2 1 2yearold bodie got right up while his twin brother brock remained pinned. This ones bodie and this ones brock and theyre super rambunctious. Reporter it was around 8 30 in the morning, the boys and their parents in separate bedrooms in their utah home. We usually hear everything. We didnt hear a cry or a big thud. Reporter for two minutes brodie tried to free his twin, first by pushing then trying to move the dresser from the other side. Then trying to lift it in vain. But finally bodie managed to push the chest far enough for brock to squirm out from under it. Both boys were fine. No bumps or bruises. Online commenters asked and the parents were where . Mom . Dad . Hello . But they heard nothing and we saw in the security monitor that the dresser had fallen after the kids were both safe. They risked online criticism posting the video to demonstrate the dangers of unfastened furniture. The chest of drawers is now bolted to the wall. Of course we in the media are falling all over bodie. How could we not . Tiny hero. A whole new meaning to brotherly love. Many are calling him a real life mini super kid. Bodie took time off from saving his brother to play with an electric bottle warmer and follow the cord. Wrote one commenter, love the way he first clambers over the chest of drawers, further crushing his brother. But someday bodie will puff out his chest, curling about the chest he lifted to rescue his twin bro. Jeanne moos, cnn, new york. Obviously a wonderful ending there but make sure you bolt things. Thanks for joining us. Watch out front anytime, anywhere. Anderson is next. Good evening. Thanks for joining us. Breaking news on president elect trumps delay in unplugging himself from the family interest. Theres new ties to the convicted felon joey no socks. A 180 on house gop plans to gut the watchdogs keeping every member of congress, republicans and democrats honest. That and breaking news on russian efforts to med until the election which is where we begin with late word that a new classified report is about to hit and the measures being taken to make sure that donald trump gets the best possible look at it. Pamela brown