extension now. that s a smart move to get the democrats on board. because it is in no one s interest for it not to work. i think they ll get there. sandra: it feels like things are farther apart than we were even a week ago. we go back to that bipartisan meeting at the beginning of last week and i don t know, here we are today and the clock is ticking, jessica. it is ticking. the s-hole comment played a role. when president trump promised the wall he was uninformed and prompted president trump s tweets this morning. that was frankly a very incompetent and damaging thing for kelly to have said. or dishonest. it is not okay for the chief of staff to speak about the president in that way. i think it was a big mistake and he should not have said that. sandra: good to have both of you. strong debate. bill: in a moment the u.n. security council gearing up for a high-stakes meeting on north
house and the senate to democrats. we ll get back to washington in a moment, but let s go out to california where the thomas fire is now the largest wildfire since the 1930s. it began on december 4th. the fire has burned an area larger than new york, washington, san francisco combined combined. it s about 65% contained and 3,000 firefighters we know are fighting these flames. you can see some of the buildings that have been ruined. although weather conditions have improved over the past few days, no rain is expected to help put out that fire. and a headache for people trying to get to their destinations this holiday. the holiday weekend for millions of americans, potentially dangerous. i want to bring in our meteorologist. what are they going to be facing out there. we ve got some that are going to be dealing with potentially flooding rains and others that are going to have to contend with snow and ice. you can see the majority of it is heavy rain as of right now.
investigators for the house intelligence committee at this moment. what will he tell them about contacts with the russians? jonathan turley will tell us about the legal implications for the white house and the new revelations about clinton bias at the f.b.i. bill: in a moment president trump working overtime to push the tax bill over the finish line. if so, what does it look like? what will he get? and what will republicans get? and ultimately is the deadline by christmas going to happen? that s coming up next. president trump: could have gone directly for a vote and we decided let s put it into the conference and come out with something where everything is perfecto and that s what we re going to do. this group of wonderful republican senators is here to discuss the tax bill.
i think part white house failure, part congressional republican failure. there is a lot of think tank guys in capitol hill but they don t speak in practical terms that most people can understand. that s a failure, and the democrats are exploiting it. bill: ron johnson from wisconsin is making that case. go for innovation and that will bring price down. it s happened. it s happened in technology, procedures that are not regulated like procedures or regulator. i will go to see 17 stocks, insurance stocks, hospital stocks all going up. they all had their hand and the writing of this legislation. bill: in a moment, the panel on president trump s latest threat on the syrian leader bashar al-assad. what that is all aboooo. you re searching for something. ..
and obamacare. i think that was absent here. i think part white house failure, part congressional republican failure. there is a lot of think tank guys in capitol hill but they don t speak in practical terms that most people can understand. that s a failure, and the democrats are exploiting it. bill: ron johnson from wisconsin is making that case. go for innovation and that will bring price down. it s happened. it s happened in technology, procedures that are not regulated like procedures or regulator. i will go to see 17 stocks, insurance stocks, hospital stocks all going up. they all had their hand and the writing of this legislation. bill: in a moment, the panel on president trump s latest threat on the syrian leader bashar al-assad. what that is all about coming up next. with shrimp crusted with kettle chips.