When the president is refocusing on his agenda. The white house said he would be spending some time thinking about how he wants to move forward with congress, with a number of legislative agenda items on that list including infrastructure, including what to do about the dreamers. The president was tweet being an entire different agenda item this morning, referring to health care and saying that somewhere down the line, eventually it may be republicans and democrats will come together for a health care solution. Obviously we havent seen a lot of bipartisanship so far on capitol hill. Maybe 2018 will be a new year. As for now, the last weve seen of President Trump, he was headed to his golf course here in maralago. Maybe the work will come later, pam. All right. Thank you very much. Live from west palm beach, florida. For more lets bring in cnn senior congressional correspondent, manu raju. All right, lets do some Fact Checking here. The president tweeting, as sara broke down for us, that the dossier is garbage and that it basically was the basis for the Trump Campaign russia investigation. Break down what do we know, and what are we still learning about the trump dossier . Pam, the dossier has been the subject of intense interest for gop critics of the investigation so far. There are elements that are true. The most salacious allegations have not been verified, but its brought assertion that russia waged a campaign to interfere in the election is accepted as fact by the u. S. Intelligence committee. Cnn also reported earlier this year that u. S. Investigators corroborated some aspects of the dossier, specifically that some of the communications among foreign nationals mentioned in d take place. The did take place. The most salacious have not been verified, but the broad assertion certainly has been accepted as fact. Now, in addition, the fbi has used the investigation, but used the dossier, but its not the basis of its own investigation. Has also used that dossier as part of its justification to secretly monitor that Trump CampaignForeign Policy adviser, carter page. The fbi has its own investigation. Indeed, none of the four charges in the Mueller Probe actually referenced the dossier. Now, earlier this year, we did report that some of these allegations have been have been, in fact, verified. Pam, republicans on capitol hill have raised significant concerns because of the revelation that the dossier was effectively paid for by a law firm retained by the dnc and the clinton campaign. So gop lawmakers have been trying to learn more about that matter. So expect them to raise more concerns and dig deeper into this in 2018, pam. All right. Manu raju, thank you very much. And joining me now, ron brownstein, cnn senior political analyst and Senior Editor for the atlantic. Paris dinard, commentator and former director of black outreach in the george w. Bush administration, and michael nutter, cnn political contributor and former mayor of philadelphia. Gentlemen, great to see you. Thanks for coming on. Good morning. Good morning, pam. Good morning. Lets start with you. Here we are, day after christmas. President trump said he wants to get back to work at maralago, focus on his legislative agenda. Yet here he is tweeting about the dossier and calling the fbi tainted. Why . This is the work. Look, i have felt for, you know, many months that for his portion of the presidency, his conception of the presidency, is to wage these personal and political conflicts against an unending series of targets. That i think is what he delivers above all to his base. The sense that he is fighting against all of these forces, that he is trying to convince them are holding him down. Whether its cultural elites, coastal elites, the media, forces inside of government. I mean, this is the fight. And the paradox here is that for the broader electorate, i think this is the biggest problem that he faces. Why is his Approval Rating stuck below 40 with the economy doing so well . It is largely because of the way he comports himself as president and the sense of perpetual conflict. I talked to one strategist in alabama who was talking about how important it was for doug jones to play off of that idea, that he would be someone who would work together. I think republicans on the hill who are trying to look away from this behavior are really walking into a dark alley in terms of what voters are looking for in 2018. Paris, do you agree . Do you agree that this behavior, tweeting about things like the dossier, the fbi is what is hurting the president and his Approval Ratings and could hurt republicans in the midterms . Absolutely not. I think the American People know exactly the type of man that the president is. He is a man who speaks directly to the American People without the filter of different media sources that tend to not focus on the positive things hes doing. His twitter account is something that he uses, and it is an effective tool, the president believes why is he randomly tweeting about the dozens way and the fbi the morning after christmas . By the way, we have been focusing on his accomplishments in this show. Go ahead. I wasnt talking about this show, pam. I think youre doing an excellent job today. I think that what the president is doing is focusing on the things that are both good and bad with the administration. Something that is bad is the dossier. Let me translate everything that manu tried to say there is no russia collusion, the fbi special investigator mueller did not have anything in his initial findings that tied the Trump Campaign or the Trump White House to russia. So no, no, hold on. Sorry, paris. I have to jump in here. He was saying that they havent none of these charges stemmed from the dossier. He did not say that there is no evidence of possible collusion between the campaign and russia. I just speaking for my colleague, i heard him. He didnt say that. Well, ill say it. And ill go on to say that in this country, youre innocent until proven guilty. If you look at the media, if you look at what liberals are trying to do, theyre trying to say the president , the white house, and the Trump Campaign are guilty. Guilty of nothing. You are innocent. There have been no charges, no charges, no proof, no evidence of any collusion. And that is what the president is frustrated with, especially when you see some of the things that are coming out from the fbi investigators, some have tweeted ant antitrump, the major donors to the clinton campaign. The fact that you see some emails that have been received that werent done in a proper channel. So the president is right to go ahead and put this in the forefront of the American People that he believes that this is a distraction, not just to the president but to the American People. We should move forward and look to things that are going on with respect to russia. Were trying to say that the Trump Campaign had something to do with concluding with russia, rather than focusing on, say, was there any collusion between the president and we should tell you that special counsel muellers investigation is focused on many aspects, but also whether the russians in the Trump Campaign, whether there was coordination. Do you think that, mayor nutter, he has a point that some of these texts from the find agents showing political bias and the Campaign Contributions is taintsitaints i taint is tainting the investigation. Does he have a point . No. Other than his Blood Pressure being up this morning, thats straight out of the usual talking points. My Blood Pressure is just fine, mayor. Hey, paris . Hey, paris . Happy holidays to you. My Blood Pressures fine. Merry christmas to you. Dont talk about my health. My Blood Pressures fine. Finish your point. Calm down, brother. Dont brother, calm down me. Dont talk about somebodys health. My Blood Pressure is not high. Finish your point if you have one. Mayor nutter, lets focus on the point you were trying to make here he doesnt have one. Four people have been indicted. One was the National Security director. One was the Campaign Chairman for a variety of things. Thats one. Special counsel muellers investigation is nowhere near over. And continues on its proper course. Third, the president , as usual, in his unfocus and undisciplined way, is still obsessed about things that took place in the past. And one might say, as usual, he doth protest too much. The bottom line is he has the lowest Approval Rating of anyone in modern times. At some point, hell actually accept that he did win the election. He has to govern and not just talk to people who like him. And so thats what really governing is all about. Thats what happens after you get elected. Not staying focused on battling every old fight from a year or two ago, and thats why the Approval Rating is in the dump. I want to talk about another tweet from the president , ron. He tweeted saying based on the fact that the unfair and unpopular mandate has been terminated as part of our tax cut bill which essentially repeals over time obamacare, the democrats and republicans will come together and develop a great new health care plan. Mitch mcconnell told the npr that the senate will be moving on from repealing obamacare. Lets listen to what he said we obviously were unable to completely repeal and replace with the 5248 senate. Well have to look at the 5149 senate, but i think well move to other issues. Where does the obamacare fight go from here, ron . First of all, there are two great ironies from that tweet. In 2008 president obama as a candidates maybe mayor nutter remembers ran against the individual mandate. Hillary clinton was the one who support it. He believed it was not necessary to make the Health Care System work, that people would come in just from the carrot in effect, the subsidies. He was convinced that ultimately you need the individual mandate to bring in younger, healthier people on the margin of whether to buy health insurance. The big losers in removing the mandate are older people with Greater Health needs who needs more younger people in the system to keep down the overall premiums. Whats the irony there . Right now, younger people vote predominantly democratic. Those who will be relieved of the mandate here. Majority of Donald Trumps votes came from whites over 45, 60 of whites over 45 voted for donald trump. Particularly when you get the interior midwestern states that decided the election. Many of the people that will be hurt by higher premiums that will come from withdrawing the individual mandate are donald trump voters. They are the people who put him into office. It is unlikely i think that they can go back at obamacare because whats left are the subsidies, insurance mandates, and the medicaid expansion. And all of those proved very politically difficult to remove. The last one in particular because so Many Republican governors rallied behind it. We are left with this very strange set of policies now where the administration is and the Republican Congress has taken out a pin, no doubt, from obamacare. One that may largely hurt their own voters. And of course everything they do in a year pamela . Go ahead, mayor nutter. Just, i mean, you would think after the disaster of a couple of times by the republicans for full repeal and replace politically, now going into 2018, you would think the last thing they would to do is go back to the disaster of early 2017. I think leader mcconnell is trying to give the president some indication that, why were going to move on, maybe to some things that democrats and republicans can agree on like infrastructure and other things that Americans Care about and put more people back to work. And the president said he hopes there will be a bipartisan effort to focus on infrastructure. Paris, i want to give the final word to you. Sure. Go ahead. Look, the president is is going to do something that is positive for the American People. When you look at repealing obamacare. He wants to do this because he campaigned on it, but he knows at the end of the day that its a bad policy, and its going to hurt more people in the long run than its going to help. The reason he wants to have it done is because there are parts of it that are bad. There are parts that are beneficial to people like like the preexisting condition which he would not take out. We have got to get to the bottom of this. For the senate at the end of the day, the senate failed to act. The house repealed it. The senate failed to act. Senate has got to do something for the American People that is going to make a difference, especially with obamacare. The fact that the Senate Majority leader is saying this is not surprising because they didnt have the will to do the right thing from the beginning. To go back and to improve and make something better, a disastrous plan, obamacare, is not a bad thing, its a good thing. Just really quickly, ron, very quickly, so they repealed the individual mandate. Whats going to happen to health care now . I mean, isnt that a crucial part of obamacare . Whats going to happen now . People have to understand there were two components of obamacare. One was expanding medicaid which is unaffected by the change in the individual mandate. That was where most people ended up getting coverage. The individual mandate has to do with the individual insurance market. As i said, the longterm effect of pulling this out will presumably be to have fewer younger, healthier people in the system. It will tilt more toward sicker people. Premiums will go up in the individual market. The paradox is that it will go up for older people with more health needs who tend to be republican voters, particularly in the states that decided the election. And thats where we will be a year from now heading into the 2018 election. Republicans in congress will be dealing with big premium increases in states that will be critical battlegrounds in the 2018 election. That was the bed they had chosen to make. Weve got to wrap up. But it is worth noting, though, that enrollment is still high. Obamacare, i think Something Like 8. 8 almost nine million. With even more limited time frame to enroll. Thank you all, ron, paris paris and things going up thank you all. Got to wrap it there. Thanks. Ready to mediate. Now russia says it wants to help deescalate tensions between the u. S. And north korea. Were live from moscow. And the president says dems and republicans will come together on health care. Really . Well ask a democratic lawmaker. Plus, just plain scary. Snow and ice sends jetblue passengers a frightening ride. Resolution 1 binge more. Join the uncarrier, and get four unlimited lines for forty bucks each. With netflix included. Watch however you want. On your phone, tablet, or tv. Lets rock this joint . Nausea, heartburn, indigestion, upset stomach, diarrhea nausea, heartburn, indigestion, upset stomach, diarrhea heres pepto bismol ah. Nausea, heartburn, indigestion, upset stomach, diarrhea south korea has a new plan to respond to threats from north korea. Theyre setting up an entire department to follow the regimes every move. And this announcement comes as russia is offering to mediate talks between the u. S. And north korea if both sides can agree to talk. Thats the big question. For more were joined by Cnn International correspondent fred pleitgen. Fred . Reporter yeah, two questions really. On the one hand, do the two sides really want to talk . The bigger question, do the two sides really want to talk through the russians . Certainly the russians say they are offering it up, and they say in the past they have relaid messages from washington to pyongyang. Sergei lavrov, the Russian Foreign minister, saying in one instance the americans allegedly said that they were willing to deescalate the situation by stop something military maneuvers. He also says that later the maneuvers did take place. The russians are saying, look, they could mediate in all of this. They also said in the form of lavrov that they believe anybody who is sane would not want some bigger conflict on the korean peninsula. The russians really have a mixed interest in all this. On the one hand, of course, when they say things like this, they are somewhat poking the United States. There was also heavy criticism of u. S. Policies while lavrov was saying this. On the other hand, of course, they also dont want a bigger confrontation on the korean peninsula. The russians have a direct border with north korea. They do have a decent amount of crossborder traffic. I was on that border a couple of months ago. So they have people going across, they have goods good kroog. That goods going across. Thats not something they want to jeopardize. They certainly wouldnt want a large movement of people crossing the border if there was a large military confrontation between the u. S. And north korea. If its real or legit, its something people have to decide. And retired Lieutenant Colonel rick francona, military analyst, and Global Affairs analyst Kimberly Dozier joining us. Kimberly, do you think that the u. S. And north korea will meet with russian mediating . How likely is that . Is it a good idea . From the u. S. Point of view, it is ceding this key diplomatic space to moscow. From the kremlins point of view, they have not