Leading politics about the races to watch in the 2020 elections. But first, what a long, strange trip 2019 has been. This summer the president spoke on the phone with the leader of ukraine and asked him for a small favor. And just under five months later, he became the third president in the history of this country to be impeached by the house of representatives. Believe it or not, this year we also saw the release of the mueller report, remember that . A document once seen as the greatest threat to the trump presidency. And while the president battled those investigations, both of which he dismissed as hoaxes and witch hunts, Democratic White House hopefuls battled it out on the campaign trail for the right to take him on this fall. Candidates came and candidates went as the mood of the electorate came into a clear view. What came of it all . A nation starkly divided, the most consequential in decades. Senior White House Reporter for nbc news digital, shannon pettypiece. For Hillary C
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Foggy layer that some of our inland areas are saying and as will mention that look at how chilly it is out there. Redwood city in livermore in the 30s conquered also in the 30s. Oakland, you are very near the 30s right now at 40 degrees as well as you in dublin, north bay temperatures nearing freezing so yes, it is frigid you may want to bundle up with that extra layer if you do happen to be heading into work on this holiday week. Daytime highs this afternoon only rising into the low 50s see i keep that extra layer on hand robin all right. Thank you jon, i want to check in on traffic which is Holiday Light around the bay area. So if you do have some driving to do maybe want to get into San Francisco. No reports of any big trouble spots, its looking good right now just a little bit of a backup in the cash lanes right here at the toll plaza but its a great trip across the upper deck. Its moved through downtown, San Francisco, your trouble free on the central freeway. The james leg, 2. 80
Plans to increase restrictions on vaping out of fear that it could hurt his reelection chances because right now hes polling at 83 among high school dirt bags. [ laughter ] President Trump reportedly screened the joker at the white house this weekend for family and friends. Wow, thats a lot of makeup, said the joker [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause according to a new poll, mayor Pete Buttigieg now has a roughly tenpoint lead over the democratic field in iowa this is going to look amazing on his College Applications [ applause ] trump made an unplanned visit to Walter Reed Medical Center on saturday he tweeted he was there to visit the family of a young man having surgery. And while he was there he said, quote, also began phase one of my yearly physical everything very good [ laughter ] phase one of a physical. That sounded strange so we did some digging and discovered that his annual physical has five phases so lets take a look now at the five phases of Donald Trumps annual physical.
But it can make jews feel that way. Brynn gingras is on the scene in new york. Officials offered details on some of these handwritten journals they found in the suspects home. What can you tell us about that . Its a bit of the evidence that investigators say they found not only in his home, but also in this suspects car. Hes in federal court on those hate crime charges. Let me give you more details about that evidence they uncovered. The journals, there were writings on them, had nazi symbols, writings about adolf hitler, according to investigators, there were internet searching they say they found in his home as recent as the 27th or 28th, rather which was the night before this attack took place. Some of those searches were German Jewish temples near me, for example. If you talk to his family who did give a News Conference not long ago. These are all the ramblings of someone with a mental illness, there was no antisemitism behind this attack. Investigators other than what was in this