Learning. Thank you. Really to share as you. Thank thank you so much for being with us this afternoon. And it is such a delight for me to be able to talk with my colleague and very good friend phil rucker and i am going to start out by telling you a story about phil rucker and i am going to tell this story and so why isnt phil telling this story . Because hes too much of a gentleman to tell this story because it makes me look really bad. Election night 2016. Phil had been out with trump quite a bit and he kept saying, you know, somethings going on out there. And i had written a story over the weekend saying, well, theres this little tiny eye of a needle that donald trump could get through. You know, michigan and parts of it. But i didnt really believe it. So its Election Night. I am supposed to be writing the lead off for the Washington Post. The next day. It is 830 a Election Night and i am 80 inches. Its into america elect its first woman president. So phil shows up at my office and
Thank you so much for being with us this afternoon. And it is such a delight for me to be able to talk with my colleague and very good friend phil rucker and i am going to start out by telling you a story i am going to tell this story and so why isnt phil telling this story . Because hes too much of a gentleman to tell this story because it makes me look really bad. Election night 2016. Phil had been out with trump quite a bit and he kept saying, you know, somethings going on out there. And i had written a story over the weekend saying, well, theres this little tiny eye of a needle that donald trump could get through. You know, michigan and parts of it. But i didnt really believe it. So its Election Night. I am supposed to be writing the lead off for the Washington Post. The next day. It is 830 a Election Night and i am 80 inches. Its into america elect its first woman president. So phil shows up at my office and he says karen, did you see what just happened in florida . And i said, ph
75 in san jose. 72 today in napa. Ill show you more spots you may be headed to in the forecast coming up. Mike is checking on the bay bridge approach. Thats right. We had an earlier crash overnight. Then a traffic break. Right now, the sensors light. For much of the morning, an easy drive because of the holiday approaching. Here, approaching the bay bridge, we have no more slowing. Thats cleared up. The earlier crash and traffic break. No more closures and no more problems getding to the bay bridge from the San Francisco side. From the east bay, the sensors look clear. A quick look. The sensors show cash lanes backing up because of one cash lane toll plaza. One that is not yet there at the toll plaza. Back to you. Thank you very much. Breaking news we are covering this morning. A u. S. Navy aircraft crashed in the pacific. Theres an intense search for three crew members who are missing. The Navy Announced eight crew members have been rescued. The aircraft crashed just before 10 00 p. M
Peace process. The president s announcement could have serious ripple effects on the world even the pope is weighing in recognition of jerusalem is the news from the president of the United States. This marks a departer from democratic demonstrations of the past here they continued to keep the embassy in tel aviv not moving into the touchy question of what the status of jerusalem ought to be the administration will not move to jerusalem immediately they said the process will be kicked off by the president of the United States. It could take some period of time, possibly years before an embassy is built in jerusalem and the site located and security put in place and the Embassy Opens and begins functioning in jerusalem the president is expected to recognize that it is the capital and that is expected to touch off reaction among palestinians who very much view East Jerusalem as the capital of a palestinian state. We will see what the president has to say here at the white house in a coup
But the organization of american states is calling for a new election, and the Opposition Party is calling for nationwide protests today. Well go to tegucigalpa to speak withth the spokesperson of the alliance against thehe dictatorship. Then to President Trumps tax plan. Pres. Trump this is going to be one of the great gifts to ththe middle income people of this country that theyve ever gotten for christmas. Amy a Christmas Gift for the middle class or for President Trumps family and the lawmakers whose votes he was courting . Well look at how tennessee senator bob corkers abruptly changed his mind and announced his support for trumps tax plan after the addition of a lastminute provision that would personally enrich him. Then after the fcc votes to repeal the landmark Net Neutrality rules, what is next in the fight for a free and open internet . All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The republicancontrolle