going to be in london. he s attending this this nato meeting. he s angry because he says the democrats timed this to when he was overseas. it seems like he s much more focused on impeachment than he is on what he s going to be doing in london. well, katy, the president just touched down in london moments ago. and everything that you and jeff are discussing is creating a remarkable split screen for president trump. on the one hand, he is here for these high-stakes foreign policy talks. and on the other hand, he s making it very clear that he has his eye closely on everything that is happening back at home. the intensifying impeachment inquiry. let me read you just a few of his tweets today. katy, sent while he was on his way here to london. in one saying heading to europe to represent our country and fight for the american people while the do-nothing democrats purposely schedule an impeachment hoax hearing on the same date as nato. not nice. in another tweet, katy, claiming the repu
thement rapport that the two had was quite warm. how much do you think the president paid attention to the democratic debates? what does it mean going forward for his political campaign? reporter: i think that he paid very close attention. you saw him speak in a fair amount of detail about the interaction between former vice president joe biden and the issue of bussing. that was notable. why? he had about six bilateral meetings when this was going on. clearly he had one eye on the debates and he was holding the high steaks foreign policy talks. i think he sees senator kamala harris as a threat. thank you for the recap. thep -we bought a house in a neighborhood
to poise is an interesting choice of word by the russian ambassador. here s where we are steve. heightened attentions between the u.s. and russia while the u.s. doesn t have a secretary of state in place. pike pompeo, the president s pick to be the secretary of state, along with his choice of john bolten, our well-phone foreign policy talks, and donald trump sending conflicting messages about the u.s. approach to putin. the president himself is staying silent. as we reported also telling his aids not to talk publicly will be russia polly sshs. steve. jeff thanks for that. courtney standing by at the pent gone. let s talk about that missile test over night.
american people is palpable. my grandchildren do not want to come to new york for christmas which we do every year to visit before christmas because they re worried that there s going to be an incident. and they re less than 10 years old. what does that tell you about a country? we have a poll that 81% of the american people believe an attack is going to happen in this country. i would say this, though. we saw some of the training that they were marching out here in new york city and all of the work, 24/7 that our law enforcement are doing. so i know people may be worried about it but we do want to say thank you to all those people who are spending their holidays trying to keep the rest of us safe. let s talk dr. ben carson for a second if we can. i mentioned that trip to jordan. some critics are saying, hey, he needs to do that to shore up his foreign policy talks. maybe. i like carson, he s a good man. liberals hate him. we are so angry with d.c. as well. we need a strong, honest