And the Vice President takes a hike after nfl players take a knee. But his move to leave the colts game has lawmakers throwing a flag at who is paying for pences brief and costly trip, questioning was this staged . Good morning, everyone. Welcome to early start. Im dave briggs. And you, my friend . Im christine romans. 3 00 a. M. In the east. Capping off an extraordinary volley of personal insults, influential republican senator bob corker now the first senator to go public with what many in gop have been saying privately for months. In an interview snd sunday with the New York Times, about 9 00 p. M. , the chairman of the Senate ForeignRelations Committee accused President Trump of treating his office like a reality show with reckless threats that could set america, quote, on the path to world war iii. Corker said he is alarmed by a president who acts like he is doing the apprentice or something, and telling the times he concerns me. He would have to concern anyone who cares about our country. The verbal combat escalating sunday when the president launched a twitter tirade against corker. Tweeting the retired republican senator doesnt have the guts to run again after the president supposedly denied corkers request for endorsement. That claim denied. Its a shame the white house has become an adult daycare center. Someone obviously missed their shift this morning. Its been retweet in order than 100,000 times by the way. The trouble between the senator and the president has been brewing for weeks, underscored by this remark from corker last week. I think secretary tillerson, secretary mattis, and chief of staff kelly are those people that helped separate our country from chaos. This after corker three weeks ago questioned the president s stability and competence after he assigned blame for the violence in charlottesville to, quote, both sides. Senator corkers vote will be critical for many of the president s legislative goals. Look, he calls him the retired senator, but he is here through 2018. Right. There is a very slim number of wiggle room for the president. He is going to need him on tax reform and Foreign Policy like the iran nuclear deal, and on tax reform, corker is one of the few fiscal conservatives left that actually doesnt want to add to the deficit. So on tax reform, that matters. Secretary of state, if he fires rex tillerson, guess who leads the confirmation hearing for the new secretary of state . Bob corker. The Foreign Relations committee. This is far from done, folks. The white house meanwhile unveiled its wish list for a deal to protect young undocumented grirjts socalled dre dreamers. Tough border and security measures the white house says it wants include provisions that would make it harder for unaccompanied minors to enter the country illegally. Money for the president s border wall. Action targeting visitors overstaying their visas, and expediting removal of undocumented immigrants here illegally. President trump announced he planned to end the dreamer era program but give congress a sixmonth window to act. Democratic house leader nancy pelosi, Senate LeaderChuck Schumer reached a tentative framework on a dreamers deal last month. A democratic staffer says the key to whether that deal survives will be how hard the white house pushes on this wish list you. Hear some democrats say this is essentially Holding Dreamers hostage to the president s other restrictionist immigration agenda. Stopped short of a veto threat. Should be interesting. Pelosi and schumer releasing a statement sunday saying we told the president at our meeting that we were open to reasonable Border Security measures along side the dream act. But this list goes so far beyond what is reasonable, this proposal fails to represent any attempt at compromise. If the president is serious about protecting the dreamers, his staff has not made a goodfaith effort to do. So. Criticisms that mike pence used the colts game. The president abruptly left after some players knelt during the National Anthem and shed did not want to dignify that demonstration. After he left trump tweeted he had asked pence to leave if anyone kneeled. Almost guaranteed someone would take a neil. Especially since the 49ers players issued a statement a week earlier say thanksgiving would keep using their platform to make a statement. The 49ers is the only platfoone keep doing it. Eric reid took a knee during the anthem. Last time he has been to the colts game was four years ago. So this looks like a pr stunt to me. A man with power comes to the game, tweaks a couple of things out and leaves the game with an attempt to thwart our efforts. Pence actually tweeted out a photo from three years ago. Not a tweet from this game. Thats how eric reid knows that. Pences move not sitting well with lawmakers. Democratic senator schatz said wait, thats not an inexpensive thing to do. Adam schiff from california tweeted after all the scandals involving unnecessarily expensive travel how much taxpayer money was wasted on this stunt . The answer based on cnn estimates is more than 242,000. That is not a good cost for advanced personnel, secret service or support on the ground. Some costs will be reimbursed by the Republican National committee because pence then attended a political event in los angeles. Wait, thats in indianapolis to los angeles. In a statement, pences office defended the trip saying he was not going miss the las vegas memorial on saturday, adding that if pence did not go to indiana for the colts game he would have flown back will to d. C. For the evening. This also raised the questions why fly from las vegas to washington saturday just to fly back to l. A. On sunday . The nfl had no comment on the Vice President s actions. Missed a heck of a football game. Overtime win by the colts. Meanwhile in north korea President Trump adding to a growing list of cryptic messages without offer anything concrete answers. Over the weekend he tweeted that decades of diplomacy has failed, adding that only within thing will work. The president added this. Well, youll figure that out pretty soon. This after the president said last week we are in the, quote, calm before the storm. Again, refusing to elaborate. Joining us now live from seoul, south korea, alexander field. Does anyone care anymore . Do they really believe this matters . Look, david, even the white house cant clarify what these remarks mean. Dont expect the blue house here in seoul, south korea have any more insight into this for leaders in beijing, pyongyang, tokyo to understand what the president is getting at. But youre correct they wont be surprised by Something Like this. They are used to a barrage of threats from the president. Most of the threats coming from twitter. Some suggesting a twopronged approach. It was just about last week when the secretary of state was out here talking about opening up channels of communication with pyongyang. Only to have the president seemingly undercut him by telling the secretary of state on twitter to save his breath. That only one thing would work essentially, im paraphrasing there when it comes to dealing with north korea. This always raises concerns in the region because the tension in this region has really been on a knifepoint for the last couple of months. Look, beijing understands what President Trump is saying when they issue these kinds of threats. They know the president is looking directly at them to continue to exercise any leverage that they have given the economic relationship that they share with north korea over that regime. Pyongyang takes these threats and usually matches them in a ratcheting upwards sort of war of words. But for south korea, the stakes remain increasingly high. And this does rattle nerves to some extent here. They do have to worry about the possibility of a military option. They want to know that theyre on the same page with the u. S. And that the alliance is strong. But more than that, they really worry that the war of words could result in some kind of mistake that could have a very deadly impact right here in south korea. Thats why you continue to hear Officials Say here that what theyre doing during the tense times is upping their defenses against the possibility of missiles from north korea, the other threats that regime poses. And theyve also called on the u. S. To help resolve the tension here, saying they need to Work Together in order to avoid conflict, in order to avoid a mistake. Dave . Concerning. Alex, thank you. All right. More now on the rapid fall from grace of media mogul Harvey Weinstein. He has been fired from the film company he cofounded. The action comes days after a New York Times investigation revealed incidents, multiple incidents of alleged Sexual Harassment spanning decades. The board of directors at the Weinstein Company released a statement saying the decision was made in light of new information about misconduct by weinstein. Some clients have said they may stop working with the company if weinstein is still associated with it. So far no immediate comment from weinstein. A lot of discussion over the weekend about his sort of apology. His explanation when this New York Times story came to light where he said he came of age in business in the 60s and 70s when this sort of behavior was more acceptable. And again and again, im listening to my father and my fathers friends and my colleagues with their parents and fathers saying wait, in what universe was it acceptable . My father came up in business in the 60s and 70s. I guarantee you he is not chasing people around desks. Its maybe this old madmen view of what things were like. But his apology, his explanation really fell short. Democrats now lining up to donate political donations to womens groups. Yeah. The singer on stage when shots rang out in las vegas wont go quietly. We heard 40. And we hurt with you. But you can be sure that were going to walk through these tough times together every step of the way. More of Jason Aldeans message to victims and americans from his surprise appearance and his tribute to tom petty on saturday night live. Hi, im the internet you know whats difficult . Adulting. Tj get a job hi, guys. Im back. Time to slay heals, heals, heals yes youuuu no, i have a long time girlfriend. Mom i need my macaroni you know whats easy . Building your website with godaddy. Pick a domain name. Choose a design. You can build a website in under an hour. Yeah whoo yes get your domain today and get a free trial of gocentral. Build a better website in under an hour. In of the strips flashing lights went dark from 10 05 to 10 16 one week to the minute after the shots rang out. As to the investigation, police now believe they know the significance of the note with handwritten numbers on it found in the shooters room. A Law Enforcement source tells cnn the numbers are calculations for the distance and trajectory from the gunmans 32nd floor window to the audience at the music concert he was targeting below. He must have done the calculations or gone online or something to figure it out of what his altitude was going to be on how high up he was, how far out the crowd was going to be, and at that distance what the drop of his bullet was going to be. He hadnt written out the calculations. All he had written out was the final numbers. Police still trying to work out the gunmans motive. They searched his home in mesquite, nevada. Over the weekend officials released some of the personal effects left behind in the chaos of the attack and began returning them to their rightful own ertz. Battle lines over gun regulation drawn clearer over the weekend. Republican congressman Steve Scalise who himself was seriously injured in a shooting back in june, he says there is no need for new laws. Just better enforcement of current ones. There are already limits on the gun ownership. But frankly, lets go out and enforce those laws. Dont try to put new laws in place that dont fix these problems. They only make it harder for lawabiding citizens to own a gun. Even democratic senator Dianne Feinstein acknowledges no legislative fix could have stopped the las vegas massacre. But she told cbs regulations arent going to do it. We need a law. At the center of the debate, the socalled bump stocks, the device that allowed the vegas shooter to turn his semiautomatic weapon into one that fired like a fully automatic weapon. Democrats are pushing congress to pass a law banning bump stocks. Republicans, not to mention the nra, want the bureau of alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives, the atf to consider tweaking a regulation to ban the devices. The issue of gun violence taken up by saturday night live as well. The investigation into the tragedy in las vegas this week has sparked a larger debate in america between people who want common sense gun control and people who are wrong. This shouldnt be a partisan issue. The guy had 47 guns. No one should own 47 of anything. If you own 47 cats, you are not a responsible pet owner. Youre a crazy cat lady. This guy bought 33 of his guns in the past year, and that didnt set off any kind of alert . If i buy 100 worth of chikfila, i get a text message from my bank that says did you just purchase 100 of chikfila . Please, call and tell thus is fraud. Why is it so hard to get gun control in this country . I mean, who are these delicate snowflakes that we cant just tell no, youre not allowed to have 40 guns anymore, earl. From now on, you can have one gun, max, and six bullets. If you cant hit what youre shooting with six bullets, then you dont need to be shooting at it. Learn karate or use your words. Also on saturday night live, Country Music star jason aldean, who was performing in las vegas as the attack started. In a world that keeps pushing me around, going to stand my ground and i wont back down hey, baby if you werent a fan of his before, you ought to be now. Aldine opened his snl appearance with his rendition of tom pettys song i wont back down. Tom pettys death last week overshadowed by the las vegas mass sker. Aldine gave an emotional tribute to the victims as well. We hurt for you and we hurt with you. You can be sure that were going to walk through these tough times together every step of the way. Because when america is at its best, our bond and our spirit, its unbreakable. Aldine flew back to nevada sunday, visiting the University Medical center to sit with the victims of the shooting. I cant imagine how emotional that must be for him and his family. All those people enjoying his music, his art when this happened. It changed his life forever. The next time he guess on stage will be a moment hell never forget. He is tied to those people forever. What a great job by him. Coming up, can these giant floating balloons, is this the solution to puerto ricos cell phone problem . The u. S. Government thinks so. Well tell you how, next. All right. Americas about solving problems, folks. Here is one attempt. Giant floating balloons could bring internet and cell service back to puerto rico. Right now about 80 of the island lacks cell service. Hurricane maria wiped out the infrastructure. So the fcc is using the innovative approach to restore connectivity. Its issuing an experimental license to x, a moon shot company run by google. X uses giant balloons as floating cell towers. Its called project loon. It sends balloons 12 miles in the air. From there they connect with ontheground telecommunications systems. And the project works. It helped peru provide coverage after the country flooded earlier this year. One difference, loon conducted tests in peru for months before going online there. In puerto rico theyre at square one. Theyre making solid progress in puerto rico. Declined to give a time frame. But one of those great examples of companies with the government trying to find a solution. Outstanding. All right. The southeast in recovery mode this morning after nate weakened into a tropical depression late sunday night. The storm making landfall as a category 1 hurricane over the weekend, causing some destruction and flooding. Initially it hit Southeast Louisiana saturday before making a second landfall near biloxi, mississippi hours later. Wow, look at that. Massive flooding. Mobile really got nailed. Nate knocked out power to 67,000 homes across the gulf, most of them in alabama. Fortunately, no deaths or injuries are reported here on the mainland, although there were scores of deaths in the caribbean before nate came ashored. Mud slides. The National Hurricane center has discontinued all warnings and advisories as nate loses steam here. But im telling you, a stormweary country nervously watched this thing this weekend. For people looking at that loss of property, its still a long road. No more. Republican senator bob corker not shying away after a twitter attack from the president. After calling the white house an adult daycare center, corker says the president s actions could lead to world war iii. My business was going nowhere. So i built this kickin new website with godaddy. 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