can. joing me now is a international student stuck in ukraine. i hope you can hear me. ijust want to ask where you are at the mainbe, it has actually been really difficult. we have been here for the past ten days and on the 11th day hoping and wishing for the government to help us. the previous days weren t that difficult but after that things drastically change for us and getting. essential supplies including the military hiding water supplies. recently for the past three or four days the water supply has been cut and there is also electricity that might be cut at any time and phones are not charged can t even call people.
whole ball game. reporter: with all of the friction, the president has semd pelosi s invitation to deliver the state of the union in early february, but that could be messy if the impeachment trial is still under way. jim acosta, cnn, the white house. let s talk about all of this. it s quite the potpourri. joing me now to discuss, rachel bade, a congressional reporter for the washington post and david swerdlick, an assistant editor for the washington post and cnn political commentator. good to see you both. david, what do you make of the way the president has attacked christianity today over that op-ed. good morning, fred. early happy hannukah. you can imagine that the president is upset about this. he did not want to be impeached. he did not want to see those headlines thursday morning in the washington post, the new york times and other newspapers saying trump impeached. that being said, he is now sort
message. this was the whole problem with john kelly. they didn t come out immediately and have a unified message. we have seen all sorts of different things. even on showed while they are all backing john kelly is messaging is a little bit different. the white house can t get behind the same message especially with something this big and this important. all right. thank you so much for joing me, ladies. i appreciate it. thank you. he accused the president of sexual misconduct. she ll give us her take on how the white house the rob porter scandal. you can switch and save. you can switch and save hassle. [vacuuming sound] and when you switch to esurance, you can save time, worry, hassle and yup, money. in fact, drivers who switched from geico to esurance saved hundreds.
for an administration that has only been in office for six months. guys, thank you very much. thank you, casey. joing me now is a former white house chief of staff for president george w. bush, also an nbc political analyst. we re keeping your busy today? yes, i think general i think he knows it, the president knows it, will the leadership mablg a dirns? and i m optimistic, it will. i want to see how general kelly would encounter those scenarios. they are saying they re not doing their job on twitter or
that putin s goal was to hurt clinton and help trump. his partisan stance causing friction with democrats and republicans and the intelligence community. joing me now is jamil jaffer. and he is an add law professor at george hasten university. thanks so much for getting out in the snow there in washington, d.c. thanks for having me. what is your reaction to trump down playing the role? even that the dnc didn t do enough to protect itself. i think president-elect trump is right, organization os like the dnc has to protect themselves better in a world in