proud of their police work. recriminations mixed with belief. still, questions on why police stopped their surveillance of amri a few months ago and flounderred these last few days. amri knifing through borders from germany to france, then italy. all with authorities on high alert. by 9:00 p.m. on thursday, he was in turin, then milan four hours later. ending here at 3:00 a.m. on friday morning. confronted by two police officers outside the train station, first words. police italian, then gun play. the result, a body in a park lot. no i.d. and no cell phone. several hundred euros. u.s. isis released a shaky video of amri pledging allegiance to the group. tourists with conflicted feelings. i am concerned obviously at the same time. i don t feel unsafe. reporter: germany s top prosecutor looking to improve the state s response.
carly fiorina, joe watkins, former white house aide for president george h.w. bush, and rick tyler, msnbc analyst and former spokesman for ted cruz s presidential campaign. great to have you guys this morning. good morning. hi. let s start with you, joe. trump said friday, let it be an arms race. if he wants to do this, he will need a lot of money from congress. how seriously do you take these statements? well, i think there s a difference between messaging and policy, of course. you know, messaging is something that he did successfully during the campaign using twitter to talk to his base and voters. he s doing the same as pinellas county. and obviously it s very difficult from policy which is substantive, of course, costs money, and usually needs the support of congress to enact. so i submit that there s a big difference. donald trump has not yet come to that point.
see his cabinet and see that coming together, i think it s been a positive sign in that direction for conservatives and republicans. now we ll see what he does when he s in office. there s been a lot of tea reading in between that time. i think again it s been positive so far. and we ll see what he does when he s in office. projecting strength abroad, fixing our foreign policy that s been a disaster over the last eight years, capped off by this israel vote, i don t think it could be more damaging than that vote yesterday which is why there s bipartisan condemnation of it. and rick, what s your take on this? well, look, i ve been a skeptic, i remain a skeptic. i agree with sarah that the transition has been really remarkably, going remarkably well in my opinion because of the people that he s choosing. when you look at president putin s letter to incoming president-elect trump which is full of flattery and condemns the democrats and hillary clinton, seemingly to play into donald t
about the republican convention, and there was a lot of hand ringing temperature nobody would go and speak at it, and as it turned out, the republican convention was great and the democratic was the one that was not, and so i think a lot of people will come and show up. we have yet to see who shows up at the inauguration. certainly the number of stars that show up won t be what defines the presidency much donald trump going forward, but i am sure no matter who shows up it s going to be a great parter. the former president, and we only had one that rsvp d? we will see what the others do. you never know. there s lots to consider. there s a chance they will show up, and we will see. thank you so much for being here. appreciate it. thank you. thank you, and marerry
nearly 94 million hitting the road. now we re sitting still. reporter: at e airport so far, a mixed bag. i m glad we ve got a lot of leeway becausehere s flow way if i was even here two hours early, i don t think i d make a flight. as you see, there are no lines. no lines at all. reporter: in newark, new jersey, friday, getting to the airport was a headache for some when an air train got stuck. onepansioner tweeting, one passenger tweeting, hundreds stranded. send help. for other flyers, potentially facing long lines or delayed flights, not a concern. i m not worried. hey, it s the holiday travel. merry christmas. reporter: so you re going to be the smart one and not drive to the airport and park your car. you re going to do something like take an uber or lyft. everybody s doing that today. if you re going to the airport and doing that, just remember, there s going to be a backup with traffic just to get to the