congress including trent franks, john conyers, ruben cuen, and blake faronhold resigned after facing accusations of their own. but in response to accusations about the president s past actions the white house was defiant. that s the big news here, is russian interference in our election system. reporter: the leaders of u.s. intelligence agencies unanimously concluded that russia interfered in the presidential election. but did president trump s campaign help them in their effort? i have nothing to do with russia. reporter: fbi director james comey was leading the investigation until he was fired. now an investigation by special counsel robert mueller is digging deeper. former national security adviser michael flynn pleaded guilty to misleading the fbi and campaign chairman paul manafort was indicted. the is that the intelligence committee questioned donald trump jr. for hours about his meetings with russians in trump tower. is he being forthcoming? there are a lot of legiti
needs to answer. reporter: all this as the president and his supporters playing defense tried to accuse the mueller investigation of bias. those were our top seven political stories of 2017. but with the russia investigation still ongoing and control of the senate at stake, 2018 is sure to present unprecedented political headlines of its own. i m jake tapper. stay tuned. not a white xwrims a whiteout christmas literally. that s what parts of the u.s. midwest and northeast got this year. look at this. erie, pennsylvania where many of you are suffering with heavy snow. now, heavy snow s not rare. however, this year s snowfall has broken records. in three days the city has got more than five feet of snow, and that s more than 1 1/2 meters. meteorologist pedram javaheri joins me now from the world weather center with the details. that is a serious amount of snow. it is. and it s not going anywhere
large is more support for trump is needed from washington. this is part of why we saw a positive reaction from republicans on the tax bill. but they also want to see just more get done. it s not necessarily about this investigation or that investigation or what investigations may come next. they know the tweets sometimes take trump off of where he needs to be. but they re yeah but voters. yeah these aren t helpful but they want to see trump do more. does he enjoy that level of support amongst ordinary republicans, not the ardent you were telling me about when you go back to your state what people are telling you that they are telling their politicians. within the republican party he has very broad support. they re signing up for trump on whatever his issues or his agendas are, that s what they sign up for. it s more about the person than the policy. so donald trump could come out tomorrow with something very different from what he s campaigned on as he s done in the past and they
the russian interference in our election system. reporter: the leaders of u.s. intelligence agencies unanimously concluded that russia interfered in the presidential election. but did president trump s campaign help them in their effort? i have nothing to do with russia. reporter: fbi director james comey was leading the investigation until he was fired. now an investigation by special counsel robert mueller is digging deeper. former national security adviser michael flynn pleaded guilty to misleading the fbi and campaign chairman paul manafort was indicted. the senate intelligence committee questioned donald trump jr. for hours about his meetings with russians in trump tower. is he being forthcoming? there are a lot of legitimate questions that this individual needs to answer. reporter: all this as the president and his supporters playing defense tried to accuse the mueller investigation of bias. those were our top seven political stories of went, but with the russia inv
guilty to misleading the fbi, and paul manafort was indicted. the senate intelligence committee questioned trump jr. for hours, and then accusing the mueller investigation of bias. with the russia investigation still ongoing and control of the senate at stake, 2018 is sure to present unprecedented headlines of it s own. politifact agrees with jake the number one lie of the year, it s a made-up hoax, the russia investigation. let s talk about it, shall we? we have to do the top of the show first. oh, my gosh.