trump tower that s now such a controversy in part because he sensed, a, there was nothing coming out of it, and b, maybe he shouldn t be there. the fact that they re now away from washington and away from paris is another indicator that they understand when to be in the spotlight and when to leave it on someone else. michael dantonio, always good to get your insight. thank you. coming up, as questions heat up about don junior s meeting with that russian lawyer, some in the trump camp are pushing back, saying democrats are the ones though blame. we ll fact check that. plus the president in france today saying that most people would have taken the meeting. we re live in paris. stay with us. es it hard to brea. so to breathe better, i go with anoro. go your own way copd tries to say, go this way. i say, i ll go my own way with anoro. go your own way
politics. politics is not the nicest business in the world. but it s very standard where they have information and you take the information. in the case of don, he listened. i guess they talked about as i see it they talked about adoption and some things. adoption wasn t even a part of the campaign. but nothing happened from the meeting. now, the lawyer that went to meeting, i say that she was in the halls of congress also. somebody said that her visa or passport to come into the country was approved by attorney general lynch. now maybe that s wrong. i just heard that a little while ago. i just heard that. she was here because of lynch. my fanl joins me. steve, i m going to start with you and the two main points we heard from the president there, defending this this meeting his son took with the russian lawyer. he said it s standard politics and most people would have taken that meeting. fact check it for us. i don t think that s the case at all. we know in the case when vice pre
record s therefore, available for publication and broadcast. the president talked about a range of topics. that s usually what happens, about his visit to france, about world issues, but on some of the news of the day regarding his son donald trump jr. and the meeting, the president was asked about that, and here is what he said. don is, as many of you know, don, he s a good boy, he s a good kid. he had a meeting approximate. nothing happened with the meeting. it was a shofrt meeting as he told me becausery only heard about it two or three days ago. those are the words of the president of the united states. as he told me the meeting went, it was attended by a couple of other people who one of them left after a few minutes, which is jared, jared kushner, his son-in-law, and senior advisor. the other one was playing with his iphone. he s referring to paul manafort there. don listened out of politeness and realized it wasn t, honestly in a world of politics most people are going to take t
up. we heard about the first one on long island at 6. these don t be collectively coordinated maybe a bizarre coincidence they happened at same time. two fights may have been coordinated on-line individually. the one outside of cleveland, ohio, and aurora town center maul. 500 teens swarmed food court and fighting began when officers became control of situation. one officer was surrounded by really crowd and decision made to shut down the mall and evacuate. five arrests. no police officers were hurt. many were closed for official observance on weekday for christmas. many. mall was one of the few places people could go. people wanted out of the house. people wanted to return the gifts they don t want, looking for after-christmas sales. send it back to you. two words, internet shopping. rob schmitt, thank you very much. eric: well, he wasn t on the ballot but president obama says
we didn t know what was going on. the mall was placed on lockdown for a while. scenes like this lit up social media. there s no word on what might have sparked this trend. tensions are growing between united states and israel after vote condemning the jewish state with settlement and declaring settlement and continuing building illegal. israel insisting that the u.s. government was behind the resolution and the white house has been denying that. embassador john bolton said this, quote, last friday on the eve of hanukkah and christmas, barack obama stabbed israel in the front, the departing president refuse today veto united nations council resolution 2434, settlement policy but clearly intended to tip the peace process toward palestinians, adoption wasn t