Plus, sex crimes at 30,000 feet. Why are so many reports of Sexual Assault in the skies not being investigated . And good afternoon. Welcome to the lead on this wednesday. Im pamela brown in for my colleague jake tapper. And we begin with our politics lead. And the white houses goals for 2018 starting with an infrastructure bill. In the coming weeks, the Trump Administration is set to unveil a proposal to fix the nations bridges, highways and airports, but could democrats put up a speed bump or even a roadblock . Lets begin with cnns ryan nobles in florida where President Trump is spending the holidays. Ryan, he just checked off a major win with tax reform. Is the white house feeling confident about building bridges with democrats in the new year . Reporter well, pam, there is no doubt that the president and his administration feel they have a degree of momentum behind them after passing that sweeping tax reform bill into law. And he believes that infrastructure could be a very positive agenda item for him going forward, primarily because he thinks he can get democratic buyin. In fact, friday before he left to come here to florida, this is what the president said about a potential infrastructure bill. Infrastructure is by far the easiest. People want it. Republicans and democrats. Were going to have tremendous democrat support on infrastructure, as you know. I could have started with infrastructure. I actually wanted to save the easy one for the one down the road. Reporter so an easy one is how the president described infrastructure, but his plan would be pretty big. This is a look at what white house officials are telling us to expect some time in midjanuary. This is a proposal that could mean 200 billion in federal funding. The goal would be that federal funding would encourage funding at the local level as well. This is even something the president is planning on making one of the primary planks of his state of the Union Address in january. Pam, we should point out that this was a Campaign Promise of the president. At that time, he promised 1 trillion in funding. The question is, can he get democrats to come on board, particularly in an Election Year where democrats may not be encouraged to do anything to help this president . Pam . Yeah, thats a serious consideration. And, ryan, yesterday cnn shot video of the president golfing. Any sign of him doing that again today . Reporter well, this is kind of a silly back and forth thats happening between the news media and the white house. We did have a location on public property where we were able to get a view of the president golfing. It happened twice this week. Today when not just our cameras but from a number of different news organizations showed up in that same spot on public property, a big, mysterious white box van showed up at the same time. In fact, when our photojournalists attempted to move around the van to get a shot, the van moved with them. And then after a very short period of time, the van left. Now, the United States secret service says that they had nothing to do with that van and the Palm Beach Sheriffs Office also saying they have nothing to do with that van, but we can tell you today, pam, we never saw the president on the golf course, even though he was at Trump International golf course for quite awhile this morning. The mystery surrounding that white truck continues. Ryan dmoebls, thanks so much. I want to bring in my panel right now. Rebecca berg, cnn political comment ate mr. Singleton and Weekly Standard editor at large, bill kristol. What do democrats have to gain by working with the president ahead of the midterms in 2018 . I mean, the president seems pretty confident hes going to be able to work with democrats on infrastructure. Do you think its going to be that easy . No, i dont think so. Cnn just reported today that the president s Approval Ratings nationally are at 35 . So why would democrats want to work with the president . Now i think democrats are going to be as objective as they possibly can be about this. You will hear democrats say we want to work on something and i think they will fight Like Health Care on the things they disagree with. On the flip side of this, infrastructure is something that democrats want to fix. Theyve been outspoken about it. The fact that were heading into a midterm be enough to stop democrats from working with the president , rebecca . Well, you have to consider what the final plan is going to look like, pam. You have to assume that anything coming out of a Republican Congress or a Republican House or republican senate, and, of course, the president himself being a republican, republicans are going to want spending cuts to compliment any sort of spending increases on infrastructure. And so democrats its possible would oppose some of those cuts. So with any sort of legislation were talking about in congress, the devil is always in the details. But from a political perspective, i would expect some of these red state democrats, especially on the senate side, joe mansion. In their states, they supported donald trump. Theyre going to be trying to appeal to voters who supported trump. So they want to show theyre willing to work with him as well. I hope rebeccas right, that republicans still care about the deficit and the debt enough to actually insist on spending cuts to pay for the infrastructure but there is no evidence that they trump certainly doesnt care about it. Bright. Trump will cut a deal with democrats and take a lot of republicans along with them. The republicans as it turns out dont care much about the deficit and the debt. I think thats a very bad idea. We have a tax plan that balloons the debt even more. Infrastructure is sort of the conservative politically correct term for stimulus. We had a huge infrastructure plan in 2009. President obama spent hundreds of billions of dollars. We were in the deep recession. Now were growing 3 . Were eight years into a recovery. There is very little case, in my opinion, for spending a huge amount of federal money without at least cutting somewhere else, but no ones going to cut anywhere else. If you remember, lets remember trumps contract with the American Voter he said he would introduce a bill for 1 trillion towards infrastructure within the first 100 days. Now the proposal is 200 billion. Its not realistic. As it relates to republicans and tax cuts, im a republican when george w. Bush was in office, we spent a lot of money, a ridiculous amount of money. I dont think thats going to change under President Trump. I do think there are going to be republicans, perhaps heritage foundation, et cetera, that is going to put pressure on the white house to say, no, if youre going to pass infrastructure, you have to have tax cuts in it spending cuts. Spending cuts, rather. You cant continue to spend money as if there is no limit. The average person, bill, sees that and say, okay, if im at home with a husband and wife and thinking about spending on a monthly basis, they have to figure out where every single dollar is going to go. They expect politicians to do the same. Trump and the democrats are going to get along great spending our money and putting us more into debt. None of bushs deficits were as high as the current deficit today. Paul ryan made his career on entitlement reform because were going to go bankrupt, which we are. The debt is getting too high. Hes given up on that. This is very revealing with a republican president and congress hes not a real republican. You know, think about this, what are we talking about . A big suspending program. Were not talking about entitlement reform. What was the republican issue for 2013, 2014, 2015, twoilkt . Correctly, in my view entitlement reform. Paul ryan is its pragmatism. Its the reality of the situation as Mitch Mcconnell has pointed out the majority in the senate is going to narrow in the next year. Doug jones of alabama. The 49 majority. Everything has been difficult for Senate Republicans with 52 votes. If you look at the situation with 51 votes, everything is going to be that much more difficult. Really quickly before i let you guys go. Trump tweeted it was time to get back to work starting yesterday after christmas, since then hes visited his golf course twice. Look, this makes it 87 days President Trump has spent at his golf properties. A lot of people are on vacation. He has every right to go golfing. This is notable only for trumps own hypocrisy. He criticized obama for golfing, but does it matter . Have people just accepted this is just the way the president operates . The pot calling the kettle black, come on, nothing surprises me from this president anymore. He criticizing everyone else and does the same exactly. It shouldnt be a surprise. People at this point in time said thats trump and trump is going to be trump. Thats trump. Hes going to say hes going back to work and hits the golf course. From my point of view, he does very little damage when hes on the golf course. If he lets h. R. Mcmaster run our Foreign Policy and lets john kelly run the white house and lets, i guess gary cohn run trade and economic policy, thats fine. He should play two or three rounds a day. Take advantage of the good weather. Over the weekend he was golfing and tweeting about andy mccabe retiring. It doesnt keep him on twitter. 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Good to be with you. First off, a white house official said next month the president is going to propose spending, at least 200 billion to fix the nations roads, airports and bridges this is what you said this past may about the nations infrastructure. Lets listen. My bad. We actually have a full screen. You said my colleagues on both sides of the aisle have prioritized rebuilding our nations crumbling infrastructure. We all agree it needs to happen. So in light of what you said back in may, does that mean youll work with the president on supporting this bill . Well, as i heard in your panel, the devil is always in the details. My concern was that was before we spent over 2 trillion for tax cuts for the top 1 . Now youre talking about 200 billion which is not enough to do anything of substantial nature as far at as what our infrastructure needs are and, you know, i think that you look at what the middle class, the working class and poor folks, well, clearly youre going to cut things that are important to them. Like i think they would like to go republicans would like to go after entitlements like medicare and Social Security and medicaid. So ive got to look at the entire package. There is no indication at this point that that is a priority for the republicans in the new year, right . Oh, i think it is. I think one of the things they do and its been their strategy all along is to say theyre reducing government or going to give back the people some money in tax cuts so they can say that the government is broke. So weve got to cut some of the entitlement programs or weve got to cut some of the most, you know, health care. Also with this passed tax bill, 13 million americans who had health care covered may lose it. Weve got problems that regard. So its my responsibility now not just to be looking at whats right in front of me, ive got the responsibility of looking at a broader and Bigger Picture and a lot of it has been shaped by already giving away 2. 5 trillion to the top 1 of americans. So then what would democrats be willing to work on with the president next year . Well, i think that if you look at the president talks about health care. Not repealing and replacing, as he talked about, but we all said there were some fixes we could do to make sure the that the Affordable Care act we want the 24 Million People to have health care. If you talk about regulations of community and small banks so that local business folks, Small Businesses and people can get mortgages and we make sure that some of the regulations that are placed on some of our small and medium sized banks and regional banks that are really based in the communities. If they have unintended consequences from the some of the dodd frank regulations, id be willing to work with them on that. Infrastructure is off the table unless there is more money . Infrastructure, as i just said, on a Bigger Picture there, weve got to look at now based on the fact that we gave 2. 5 trillion basically to the top 1 of americans and corporations, where is the money going to come from . I cannot allow someone to rob peter to pay paul, ive got to make sure we are taking care of the middle class and working class families throughout america. Lets talk about the middle class, the working class, because the tax law the gop tax law under that 91 of the middle class americans are going to get a tax cut next year. Bernie sanders, democrat, your colleague in the senate, said that is a very good thing. Do you agree with him . 80 of the tax cuts that are coming is going to go to the richest 1 . So, yes, if you want to say youre giving them a crumb, and that tax cut expires in ten years. Whereas it does not expire for the major corporations of america. So there is a bait and switch is what im concerned about with how this president has governed over the last year. He baits and then switches. He says one thing and then there is really a different result. And so weve got to be careful. You know, ive said all along that this president is a con man. And weve youve got to see a con man, he gives you something that might sound sweet but you know its going to be bitter in the end. So youve got to pay extra attention to what he does because hes a bait and switch con man and that gives me a concern. All right. Lets talk about some of the rhetoric coming from democrats. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called the gop tax bill armageddon. Some of your colleagues are pushing f pushing for President Trump to be impeached. Do you think the democrats are overplaying their hand with that kind of rhetoric . Look, i think were the greatest country on this planet and think we are going to survive donald trump, but i think for the sake of our institutions we have to hold everybody accountable, including donald trump. So donald trump, i think if he had his way would undermine the basic institutions of america as is indicated by him and other republicans trying to go after the fbi, mr. Mueller and others. So its the institutions that if we allow that to happen would be the destruction of our country. But i have faith in the american people. I have faith that that will not happen. That sooner or later we will stand up to make sure that we preserve the institutions that are so effective and what has made america the country that it is. All right. Congressman gregory meeks, thank you so much. My pleasure. Strong words from a former white house ethics lawyer. He says its time for the new fbi director to stand up to trump or stand down. Well talk to him up next. My experience with usaa has been excellent. They always refer to me as master sergeant. They really appreciate the military family, and it really shows. Weve got auto insurance, homeowners insurance. Had an accident with a vehicle, i actually called usaa before we called the police. Usaa was there handson very quick very prompt. I feel like were being handled as people that actually have a genuine need. Were the webber family and we are usaa members for life. Usaa, get your insurance quote today. Breaking news. President trump speaking at a firehouse in West Palm Beach to firefighters. Lets listen. 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