i mean, everyone has pretty much acknowledged, except for the russians and the syrians that isis and the insurgence, the rebels, nobody else has the ability to launch a chemical weapon attack from the sky like the syrian regime did. and so i think that this just, you know, basically is a sign that russia does not want to, as it says, you know, hold the syrian regime accountable for everything that it does and really have an equal hand on the on fli conflict here, fred. >> still so much more. anthony bourdain in seattle for this week's parts unknown. he explores the tech industry and the food scene popping up with it. >> seattle, if you're looking for a dump site to dispose of the recently killed victim of your serial killing spree, this would be the perfect environment. >> literally you can hide bodies like a short drive from wherever you are. >> it's been favored by serial killers throughout the ages. also chefs. wow, that's really good. and musicians. >> there's hundreds, thousands of bands here. >> the fact you had us on the show made me realize we've run out of things to -- >> yo

russian and syrian forces are not the only ones beating isis back. u.s. and allied fighters have also been rounding up the cal if i facaliphate and including raqh and mosul. >> as far as what happens in raqqah after isis has been cleared and raqqah is liberated, the raqqah civil council is already established and there are already eager to begin work to restore essential services. >> reporter: like in so many places in rairaq and syria, isi reeked havoc besieging a syrian enclave in the city for around three years. now that the group has been defeated here both russian and u.s. backed groups believe they are in the final stages of crushing the group and ousting its remaining fighters from almost all of syria. fred pleitgen, cnn, london. >>> the u.s. president has slammed the sentence hand down on friday against a u.s. soldier who deserted miss post in 2009. >> bowe bergdahl was taken prisoner by the taliban. for more, here is nick valencia. >> reporter:post in 2009. >> bowe bergdahl was taken prisoner by the taliban. for more, here is nick valencia. >> re

the call came just hours after putin held a face-to-face meeting with syrian dictator bashar al assad. the white house said the call lasted more than an hour, with a focus on syria. >> we had a great call with president putin. we're talking about peace in syria, very important. >> reporter: mr. trump and mr. putin also talked broadly about terrorism and what's happening in afghanistan, ukraine and north korea. including the trump administration's just announced new aggressive moves against the rogue nation. putting it back on the state list of terrorism sponsors and imposing a new round of sanctions. overnight, a north korean state newspaper published a report, warning that trump's moves were hideous crimes committed by the lunatic president. the president leaves washington with a number of topics on the table, including russian interference in the 2016 u.s. election. mr. trump ignored a shouted question on the potential for actual pardons during the annual pardoning of a turkey at the white house, but still found an opportunity to needle previous administration. >> as many of you kno

the syrians were really the only ones who had that air capacity. so more difficult for russia to say it supports any kind of peaceful resolution in which the assad regime is held accountable for these kinds of crimes against humanity which many in the international community have called those chemical weapons attack attacks. >> elise labot, thank you. >>> a report says tax mayors may be picking up the tab for lawyers for trump's business profits. we'll break that down next. and non-24 can make me show up too early... or too late. or make me feel like i'm not really "there." talk to your doctor, and call 844-234-2424. (i wanted him to eat healthy., so i feed jake purina cat chow naturals indoor, a nutritious formula with no artificial flavors. made specifically for indoor cats. purina cat chow. nutrition to build better lives. the markets change... at t. rowe price... our disciplined approach remains. global markets may be uncertain... but you can feel confident in our investment experience around the world. call us or your advisor... t. rowe price.

they want to travel to syrian iraq to join isis. there have been six arrests over the past few years. five of the six being osbeck nationals. they are looking at if there are possible links to other conspiracies in the united states. in that case, back in 2015, that group discussed shooting president obama and discussing the attack on coney island. there's record of them getting involved in jihadi terrorism. there's a bit of a network, even in the united states and there are many who have gone from their home country to syria and iraq. of course, they are going to have to look through all of this. it's not clear whether this individual had direct connections to any foreign fighters overseas or anybody involved in jihadty terrorism. one of the things they are looking at is travel patterns, did he go back home? where has he been and who has he come into contact with, living in new jersey, obviously, not too far away from where some of the individuals in this network were based in brooklyn. but, so far, we are not hearing of direct con

resolution to extend an investigation into syrian use of chemical weapons. the third veto in the last month against the joined membt member. ambassadors from the u.s. and uk tore into russia for protected the syrian regime. >> reporter: russia's veto shows us they have no interest in finding common ground with the rest of this council to find the jem. they will not agree to shine a spot on the use of chemical weapons by the syrian regime. it is as simple and shameful as that. >> this clearly exposes, if it wasn't already obvious, russia's determination to protect their syrian ally, whatever the harm that causes. to the ban on the use of chemical weapons to the wider international system of rules, to russia's own reputation. >> today, it has been more than a week since president trump largely silent on the sexual misconduct allegations against roy moore, listened to what the newest accuser is saying about the gop alabama senate candidate. >> the moment we walked in, it was full-on assault. he was very, very flirtatious. >> plus, the white house says, everyone

the spokesman for the syrian army says. we flew to deir ezzor with the russian military which backs the syrian army when the battle was raging in september. the syrian and russian armies pushed isis back, there are still a lot of isis fighters in the area. that is why take the helicopter is the safest way to get to deir ezzor. deir ezzor was the most important stronghold for isis. right in the agriculture heartland. the demise leading vladimir putin to praise russia and iran role in backing bashar al assad. thanks to our joint efforts with iran and by turkey, the situation regarding the fight against terrorism and in the territory of syria is developing in a positive way, putin, said with the meeting with president rouhani. russian forces are not the only ones beating isis back. u.s. fighters have been routing the terror group from the caliphate it once occupied. including mosul and the self declared capital raqqah. >> as far as what happens in raqqah after isis has been cleared and raqqah is liberated, the raqqah civil cou

both american and syrian opposition. syrian government and even russian capabilities merging in that same area. there are things that need to be done and we see a need to focus against this enemy. they are not gone. >> no question. a lot of troops are still in harm's way as well. >> a lot of u.s. troops stumbling over troops from other nations. >> steve and david, stay with me. stand by because we have more breaking news. more remains of la david johnson have been discovered@site of the deadly ambush in niger. more women coming forward accusing charlie rose of sexual harassment. now as his cohosts react live on the air, rose has been fired by cbs. details on that as well after this. together, great things come in twos. like t-mobile and netflix. right now when you get an unlimited family plan, netflix is included. ho ho ho! t-mobile covers your netflix subscription... best christmas gift ever! ...so you can binge watch all year long. now you're thinking christmas! and now when you buy any of this season's hot new samsung

this time bashar al assad, the syrian president, had a meeting in the southern russian city of sochi with vladamir putin yesterday. it happened on monday local time. but we were only told about it very early this morning. so presumably bashar al assad has already departed and is back in his pal has in damascus by this time that the news report of this meeting kind of emerged. they're shown to be very close, the photograph shows the two men hugging each other, treating each other with a hug. and so they obviously want to put across this idea that there is this close, personal relationship between the two, and in the past there have been tensions between the russian and syrian leadership. and what they discussed, according to the kremlin readout of the meeting, is how the syrian conflict moved from being a military operation, and now focusing on a political solution to the conflict. so it's that point which the two leaders were discussing things. >> very interesting timing. matthew chance joining us from moscow. thank you very much. >>> of course, donald trump, the u.s. president, will

this is the syrian leader who has massacred tens of thousands of his own people. assad and putin presumably discussed the future of syria with assad, despite rebel efforts still in control of his war-ravaged region. president trump talking to president putin after which he had once called a bucher. and who killed more than 80 people. >> it's very disappointing to see. it's disappointing no matter who does it. when you get into the gases, especially that form, it's vicious and violent. and everybody in this room saw it all too many times over the last three or four days, young children dying. babies dying. fathers holding children in their arms that were dead. dead children. there can't be a worse sight, and it shouldn't about allowed. that's a butcher. that's a butcher. >> that's a butcher, he says, to the white house we go. to my colleague aabby philip. what do you know. >> reporter: it's been an hour, that they talked only the phone the white house says. mostly about syria which is such a huge issue in this relationship between the u.s. and russia. mostly becaus

towns that is according to the uk-based syrian observatory for human rights. it reports russian aircraft targeted an isis-held town de. >>> the islamist leader whose group clashed violently with pakistani security forces has all day off a week's long protest. and that comes after news that pakistan's law minister resigned. the protesters accused him of blasphemy and were blocking a key islamabad road. joining us now with the very latest, sophia, the protesters appear to have gotten what they wanted, the resignation of the law minister. this the end of the matter? well, you know, a week back, one would have said that maybe this would be the end of the matter. but the leader of this protest made a press conference, held a press conference earlier today. even though the law minister has resigned, and he has said that they will be dispersing, and we could see crowds dispersing on the ground. he did now issue a new set of demands, which include the government bearing responsibility for all the damages that were incurred, the roads they're demanding all the proteste

but syrian dictator bashar al assad is not expected to go anywhere. in a few hours, russian president vladimir putin is set to host a meeting in sochi of two key power brokers, the presidents of iran and turkey. the three leaders, they all have different interests in syria, but they say they could reach an agreement. meanwhile, earlier mr. putin discussed syria with u.s. president donald trump by phone. >> we had a great call with president putin. we're talking about peace in syria. very important. we're talking about north korea. we had a call that lasted almost an hour and a half. we just put out a release on the call. but we're talking very strongly about bringing peace to syria. we're talking very strongly about north korea and ukraine. >> well, russia is taking the lead on ending the syrian conflict, while the u.s. appears to have been shifted into the back seattle. cnn international correspondent matthew chance joins us now from moscow. matthew, as far as donald trump is concerned, the call with russian president vladimir putin was great. what's

i'm here as a guest of the sabga-abouds, a successful family of lebanese-syrian's. >> mario: look at this, isn't this amazing? >> anthony: beirut. >> mario: yes like beirut. you know arak, would you like arak? >> anthony: with a little ice and some water would be perfect. >> mario: perfect, my drink of choice is grey goose with coconut water. >> anthony: the family story is not an uncommon one. the first members came here during the collapse of the ottoman empire arriving penniless. they worked their way up as textile merchants and branched out to run businesses that sell everything from medical equipment to real estate. >> anthony: and how large is the community now, in trinidad? >> man wearing black shirt: it's a little under 5,000. >> anthony: that's still a fairly small percentage of the --. >> man wearing black shirt: extremely small, actually we're the smallest ethnic group in trinidad. >> mario: but the most powerful, almost the most powerful. >> anthony: it's not bragging. syrian-lebanese merchant class are generally seen as the elite. >> mario: actually i'm very big in the f

syrians don't threaten us. >> well, actually, chris, what the syrians do or what the syrians have done create the engine that in turn creates isis. you just heard me mention who's kind of the winners here in this equation. i haven't mentioned our best friends in the region, the kurds, who are definitely not winners and i haven't mentioned the sunni arabs who make up the majority of the population in syria. they will not be satisfied with this resolution and that dissatisfaction, chris, creates the dynamic that creates isis. in other words, if we don't significantly change the conditions on the ground, we're going to have to go back there, again, sooner or later and kill terrorists one more time. >> i don't know if this is a mark of my age or the repetitiveness of this cycle, but you keep seeing in the war against terror, we go in there with the best fighters in the world. that is the u.s. military, period, objectively. they clear out whatever the situation is. and then the real problems become. and the higher on the military chain of command you go when you get up to someone like you,

agree to my mechanism that might shine a spotlight on the use of chemical weapons by its allies, the syrian regime. it's a simple and shameful as that. >> this third veto in a month clearly exposes russia's determination to protect their syrian ally, whatever the harm that causes. to the ban on the use of chemical weapons, to the wider international system of rules, to russia's own reputation. >> the u.s. and the uk blasting the russian veto in that situation. now, moving on to the lebny prime minister, hariri has arrived in pariser for talks. he abruptly announced his resignation. the prime minister will return to lep non-wednesday and attend independence day celebrations. a lot to talk about here. ben, always a pleasure to have you. let's talk about this. we'll get to the latest, of course. he's in france right now, but we know that hariri will be in lebanon on wednesday. is there an expectation that that will happen, that he will officially resign? >> well, he has hinted that that is one of his options. but at the same time, he gave to future tv from riyadh, he hinted that he might, in f

putin met earlier with the syrian president. the russian president praised him for his work fighting isis and stressed the need for peaceful political solution for the crisis in syria. are we talking about a post civil war settlement? the terms of that? >> reporter: i think that's certainly what vladimir putin, the russian president, wants to put across. he had this unexpected or unscheduled meeting in southern russian. it's only the second time the two figures have met as far as we know face to face since october 2015 just a few weeks after russia embarked on its military intervention in syria, which involved large scale air strikes and turned the tide of the conflict in syria in bah shar's favor. one of the main things they discussed was as a result of that the conflict in syria had changed, this is according to a readout from the kremlin. from military operations to a political solution. so it's in that context that vladimir putin met -- it was under a shroud of sek resi as well. this meeting took place but nobody heard about

, the syrian conflict which has a very strong iranian ground element to it, it's incredibly volatile. >> the saudis fighting the rebels in yemen. they see them as an arm of the iranian revolutionary guard. the same thing with hezbollah in lebanon and all of a sudden over the past few years prime minister hariri steps down saying he's afraid of assassination. >> this comes as an announcement inside saudi arabia. >> he made the announcement in saudi arabia. >> exactly who is in charge, there were all kinds of press questions is this a saudi leadership and they're saying no it's not. what's fascinating from the united states side is throughout the conflict, the u.s. military has been very worried about hezbollah and rising iranian influence in the region. now this is coinciding with regional politics. >> it looks like it's the work of the new crown prince of saudi arabia. the trump administration issued a statement last night supporting the king, supporting the crown prince. total support for the saudis right now. how is that playing? >> right. president trump is very, very supportive of

president putin set up the call to brief president trump as a new effort to end the syrian war. it left close to a half million people dead and it comes after this picture that might sum up what you need to know about how little of a say the united states will have using chemical weapons and a leader who has putin to thank for his very survival. talks will take place tomorrow in sochi, but no american representative will be there despite exhaustive efforts by diplomats aimed at halting the fighting. the presidents of iran and turkey will take part. michelle is here from the state department. we are waiting for a read and trying to get more details from the perspective of the white house and the kremlin. this has to be somewhat of a blow to the administration. >> this is how it has been going and they have been leading the coalition against isis. that's a big part of this. all of these pieces will have to fit together. the question mark as you astutely put out there is that of course vladimir putin wants to be the leader and exert his influence as much as possible. it has been a

syrian leader bashar al assad is not expected to go anywhere. president vladamir putin is taking the lead on the peace negotiations, while the trump administration appears to be taking the back seat. the russian leader spoke by phone about syria to president trump. >> we had a great call with president putin. we're talking about peace in syria, very important. we're talking about north korea. we had a call that lasted almost hour and a half. we just put out a release on the call. but we're talking strongly about bringing peace to syria. we're talking very strongly about north korea, and ukraine. >> let's discuss all of this with the senior reporter for politico. good to see you. the president repeating, you know, as you hear there, we talked about syria. indeed, it was, you know, it was part of the conversation. but the reality is, russia is in the lead here, and the u.s. has been relegated to being effective bystanders when it comes to events on the ground there. talk to me about what that says about this administration, that effectively as a c

right after putin embraced syrian president al assad in russia. does that concern you? >> it's an extraordinarily unfortunate. i think i agree with senator mccain. i think this president thinks putin is our friend and russia is our ally. i'd like to think that he'd be telling mr. putin that assad has to go and working together with a diplomatic solution with our allies we can make that happen. i'd like to think he was working with mr. putin to talk about ukraine and the russian occupation in the east. i'm hoping he's working with him so he tells mr. putin, maybe you will want to stop trading with north korea and help us exert influence to keep north korea from moving forward with its nuclear ambitions. there's a lot of good he can do working with putin but at this point in time he doesn't recognize that russia has a ways to go to reconcile with working with democratic powers. >> and why is the trump administration announcing new sanctions on north korea when it still hasn't implemented the sanctions against russia for its election interference? is this some picking and

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about 40 miles from the syrian border. a few weeks ago they forced the militant group from the last major city in syria though pockets do remain in some areas. >>> white house claims no final decision is made on whether to end a ban on importing elephant hunting trophies. this comes after the administration would allow importing remains. he said higher hunting permit revenue would allow those countries to improve the conservation efforts. importing was banned by president obama in 2014. setting a drop in the african elephant population. we should note the president's son, don jr. and eric, as you can see, are big game huptsdsers. >> a woman speaking out against senator al franken saying he kissed her without her concept. some call for him to resign. hi, i'm mike ditka. and i'm johnny bench. and we've spent our whole lives around professional sports taking hits and catching our fair share of aches and pains. which is why we use blue-emu's pain relief products. blue-emu products; non-greasy, deep-penetrating formula that wor

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. >> they agreed there is no military solution to the syrian conflict and they must push for peace through the u.s. sponsored geneva talks. the white house has yet to confirm any of that. >> our reporters are covering the story from every angle. we have jill dougherty in moscow and ivan watson in hanoi. let's talk with nic robertson. nic, we saw the presidents. trump and putin crossing paths several times. we hear from the kremlin on the joint statement on syria. what more can you tell us about the substance of the statement? >> reporter: george, it is interesting we have not heard anything from the white house about this meeting so far. what we have seen is that when they sort of been in the same room they have shaken hands and few words exchanged. president trump or president putin walking to a photo op. nothing we were aware of. no pull aside. no bilateral meeting. it is odd the white house isn't commenting on what russian state news is saying and the headlines is business as usual if you will. there is an agreement to continue to tackle isis and military deconfliction in the middle eas

now, there are still iraqi forces and syrian forces fighting isis in that border area between the two countries, but it does seem that their days are numbered. however, it is worth pointing out that isis still controls territory in parts of north africa, the egyptian sinai. they do seem to be expanding their area of influence in afghanistan and as we've seen, they're also active in parts of the philippines. so they're down, definitely, in iraq and syria but they're not out. erica? >> an important clarification. ben wedeman, appreciate it. thank you. >>> capitol hill rocked by allegations of sexual assault and inappropriate behavior, the president going after democratic senator al franken but keeping his distance from roy moore. (♪) (♪) it all starts with a wish. the lincoln wish list event is here. sign and drive off in a new lincoln with zero down and a complementary first months payment. duncan just protected his family with a $500,000 life insurance policy. how much do you think it cost him? $100 a month? $75? $50? actually, duncan got his $500,000 for under $28 a month. less t

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discussion with general aheaden, the fact that isis is unable to train large numbers of westerners in syrian attack, you're not going to see something like the paris attack li attack. we're seeing two kinds of attacks, one is enabled. we will certainly investigate to see if that happened here. whether there was some kind of direction by a virtual isis recruiter somewhere in the middle east or perhaps in europe who directed this guy to do this attack, or was he inspired like omar mateen in florida without contacts with isis. those are the questions investigators will be looking at surely. >> paul, we know this attacker is an you see beck national who came to the u.s. in 2010. are any of those jihadist groups in the u.s.? >> they will be looking at travel patterns where he went back there. the two major groups in buk uzbekistan. there are a lot of you see becks that have traveled to syria and iraq to join groups like isis, to join you see beck brigades affiliated the isis and al qaeda. and there's a lot of jihadist propaganda. there was an attack in stockholm this year which killed a number pe

operations taking just hours, the town is located in h the euphrates valley about 40 miles from the syrian border. a few weeks ago they forced the group from its last city. >> all right. 51 minutes past the hour. he tesla still has not woshlged out its production issues with the model 3 but the wp's unveiling a brand new vehicle. an electric big rig. wait until you find out how fast it can go. hey girlfriend, how's your cafe au lait? oh, it's actually... sfx: (short balloon squeal) it's ver... sfx: (balloon squeals) ok can we... sfx: (balloon squeals) i'm being so serious right now... i really want to know how your coffee is. it's... sfx: (balloon squeals) hahahaha, i had a 2nd balloon goodbye! oof, that milk in your coffee was messing with you, wasn't it? yeah. happens to more people than you think. try lactaid, it's real milk, without that annoying lactose. mmm. good right? yeah. lactaid. it's the milk that doesn't mess with you. listen up, heart disease. you too, unnecessary er visits. and hey, unmanaged depression, don't get too comfortable. we're talking to you, cost inefficiencies, a

and they were trying to make deals, solve issues like the syrian civil war. and it doesn't seem that tillerson is focusing on that. he's more about in his office, studying that bureaucratic plan and not wanting him to make the deals that trump wanted him to make as secretary of state. it's very disappointing to foreign policy experts who thought that tillerson could do a better job because he was w e widely louded as a ceo of exxonmobil. >>> security adviser michael flynn no longer sharing information with the president's lawyers which means flynns it's expected could be cooperating with special counsel mueller's investigation or perhaps pleading guilty. when you first heard about that, and based on what you know about it today, let's face it, flynn knows an awful lot of details about that campaign. he sat in meetings. he sat right next to people. do you think what we're seeing, this withholding of information now from the white house, could change what some of these key players may say in the future? say, jared kushner, for instance. knowing that there's som

the president and a lot of key players in the region have been spending a lot of time focusing on the syrian conflict. we saw the president speaking with russian president vladimir putin earlier this week and putin also met with iranian -- the iranian leader ha san rouhani and turkish president erdogan and erdogan this morning speaking with president trump, the turkish foreign minister has given a little bit of a read out of that call and one point of agreement was reached is that the united states is going to now stop funding apparently, according to the turkish foreign minister the y pg, a kurdish militia in syria that the turkish government considers a terrorist organization. let me read you a part of the quote. our is discomfort regarding the provision of weapons to the ypg was concan vaed to mr. trump once again. trump very clearly said he had given instructions to not provide weapons to the ypg. that plan was aimed at helping the united states and its forces in syria recapture raqqah, which is, of course, the de facto capital of isis. raqqah was captured by the noersz october and so no

would immediately stop arming the ypg, that's the kurdish militia fighting isis alongside syrian-backed rebels. back in may, mr. trump promised to provide weapons. >> and turkey has long condemned the ypg which it considers a terrorist group. >> for more than five years, the conflict in syria has shocked and appalled the world. this week, the talk among the leaders of russia, turkey and iran was a finding of peaceful settlement. >> but as our nick paton walsh reports some parts of that war-ravaged country is still not seeing any signs of peace. >> reporter: you may have thought this is over. but it is is not. you may have heard russia, iran and turkey talking about their peace plans. besieg besieged eastern ghouta near the capital. the hunger is so profound it's apparently led to suicide. meals of trash. it means bombs here, relentless over ten days, reported 100 dead. the mortars continuing friday. even the head-long dash to the rescue is deadly itself. you may have heard the starve and surrender, a favorite regime tactic deprived their opponents of the strength to fight on. the bombs

. >> while lashing at "the washington post," this tweet declassified tweets syrian rebels. >> i can guarantee you there are foreign intelligence services that have probably decided to do a little self-editing and said, look, we just don't know what he's going to do. >> they're withholding valuable information from the u.s. out of fear he might tweet. >> i believe that's probably happening. >> can i ask if you voted for him? >> i did. ruluckitantly, but i did vote for him. >> victor is a conservative scholar. and while the president's twitter habit pains him, he's hopeful that it's just trump's art of the deal. >> it's a matter of style. and being unpredictable and mad if it's controlled and it's controlled by sober and juditious people like mattis and mcmaster, tillerson as well, it reminds me sort of -- i don't know if you were old enough to remember, but if nixon dealt with the north vietnamese or yom kipper, it was sort of clear to us that he would go over to nixon and say he's out of control, he may bomb at christmas. who knows what he's capable of. and they said can you calm him down? >>

> while lashing out at the "washington post," this tweet declassified a top secret operation to arm syrian rebels. intentional or not, it's the kind of revelation that makes jaws drop in the capitals of the enemies and allies. >> i can guarantee you that there are lace iaison services work with us who have probably decided to do a little self-editing and have said we just don't know what he's going to do. >> they're withholding valuable information from the u.s. out of fear that he might tweet it. >> i believe that's probably happening. >> can i ask if you voted for him? >> i did. reluctantly, but i did vote for him. >> davis hanson is a conservative historian and scholar. while the president's twitter habit pains him, he's hopeful it is just trump's art of the deal. >> it's a matter of style. and being unpredictable and mad, if it's controlled, and it's controlled by sober and people like mattis and mcmaster, maybe tillerson as well, then it reminds me sort of, i don't know if you're old enough to remember, but when nixon dealt with the veet na mees, but kiss i think jury was the good cop

if you're an isis terrorist, the last thing you do is pose as a syrian ref fees, they get the most attention of any group. two years of extreme vetting for refuge refugees. i'm an ago nnostic about this program, i don't know about the vetting. i presume there is some vetting. does it need to be more intense? maybe. the fact is citizens coming from certain companies spend years trying to get in. if you're coming from afghanistan you're not going to see your family for four years while your visa is processed. there's a pretty robust program in place already. >> the president says more extreme vetting before someone could come into the united states would that stop a terror attack that occurred yesterday in new york? >> well, uzbekistan wasn't on the travel ban list, so that's a very relevant point here. but most counterterrorism professionals believe the system that was in place before was e extremely rigorous, with extremely rigorous vetting of all sorts of people coming into the united states, and these additional measures haven't made much difference. they may have made a political differen

this is coming a day after vladimir putin was meeting in sochi with syrian president bashar al assad. so russia is taking a lead on all things syria here, but the white house says that the president did speak about that. one thing not in the readout from the white house or the kremlin, any talk, jim, of election meddling in last year's race. >> all right. no surprise there. jeff zeleny down in florida. thank you very much. >>> more stunning developments today in the growing wave of sexual harassment allegations. cbs news and pbs have both cut ties with journalist and talk show host charlie rose after the publication of a "washington post" report in which eight women accused him of unwanted sexual advances. rose has admitted what he calls inappropriate behavior. breaking right now on capitol hill, the house ethics committee has begun an investigation of sexual harassment claims against democratic congressman john conyers. he's vehemently denying any wrongdoing while confirming he settled a wrongful dismissal complaint tied to sexual harassment allegations. sunlen, what are you learning

. >> a syrian delegation is in washington today, ready to meet with israel to talk about middle east peace. >> we thought the '90s would be a time of peace. not only was the cold war over, we had won. >> we have before us the opportunity to forge a new world order, a world where the rule of law governs the conduct of nations. >> the world was changing, and it was an exciting time for those who really viewed america as the nation that would embrace globalization. but there were many people who didn't like that changing america. >> in maples, idaho about 40 miles from the canadian border federal marshals are surrounding a cabin, where a fugitive white supremacist named randy weaver is holed up with his family. >> randy weaver was a survivalist who lived out in the mountains with his family at ruby ridge, idaho. weaver was of interest to the bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms because he had links to the aryan nations. and they tried to pressure him to inform on his friends in the movement, and he refused. >> weaver is summoned to court for a weapons charge that involves the selling

israel had done a daring commando raid into syria, they bugged a house where a syrian bomber was talking about how to make computers into laptop bombs. he took this intelligence, the israelis overheard it, and they told the americans about it. at first, they had reservations about sharing it with the americans because the israelis were warned by the cia, by the cia, not to pass information onto the trump administration. the israelis decided -- >> hold on. why did they feel that way? >> israel officials were flabbergasted, go to a meeting at cia headquarters before the inauguration, they're told after the meeting is over, cia officers come up to them, said you know, be careful what you pass onto this administration. we feel the russians have their hooks into trump, into the trump administration, to the national security administration, we don't know where it is going to wienld up. israel's first fear is information they could give to the united states would be passed on to the russians and then onto the iranians. >> why are they specifically concerned about the russians, given this is abo

president would want to meet with king abdullah while he's in washington who has taken in a million syrian refugees in jordan and doing important work in the region. >> he's praised him. >> he's a great friend of the united states. i can only imagine what king abdullah and others think when they hear words coming out of the president about their religion. >> but when the president retweets this video and you hear his press secretary do this double speak and say, it doesn't matter basically it doesn't matter whether it's authentic because the threat is real. i mean, she the downplayed the questions about whether the video was accurate, whether you know, whether the perpetrator was actually muslim or not. downplayed all of that. and preferred to go to the fact that the threat is real. how would you take it if you were abdullah? it is -- it's -- i would say it was shocking but i guess it isn't shocking anymore. but this kind of double speak into but that shows people around him are willing to be compromised by him, as well. >> exactly. >> they're just not serious people who are handling thems

policy on theory, when it comes to syrian kurds has shifted. >> so ben, i want to play for you what trump's original campaign manager, corey lewandowski had to say about this development involving flynn. >> i don't think this goes anywhere than to michael flynn and potentially his son. but people who haven't followed the rules, people like paul manafort, rick gates, mike flynn, if they have done something wrong they should be held accountable. but that's where it ends because the president didn't collude or cooperate with russia in any way, shape or form. >> so it sounds like lewandowski is saying if flynn had something illegal going on, whatever he had going on ends with him. >> that's, that would be tricky. this guy was the national security adviser for the president of the united states at the start of this administration. he was pushing for these sanctions with russia and met with sergei kislyak. and inthat's why he had to leav he lied about it. >> when in reality we learned think did. >> we see tomorrow, jared kushner where he has the undisclosed wikileaks e-mails that we don't know ab

[speaking foreign language] >> reporter: at the syrian center for anti-extremist ideology he was with other isis members, battle hard and fighters and level three detain flees, the northern fighters most from central europe and eastern asia. the wives of the foreigners live in the same compound along with their children. little ammi dah was born in iraq. her mother says she have no idea what they were getting into. she's russian born in ukraine. her husband is from key yaf, a conference in islam and they ended up in telefar where he was assigned with a russian speaking unit. her husband's claimed he's turned away from isis and its twisted beliefs, by behind bars they both say the same thing. he was once a kid that just loved history and geography. he still has the demeanor of a child, one who regrets his actions and very desperately want to be a part of a world that accepts him. the central leaders say it's the isis ideology that is the most dangerous. it's gripped on a person's sigh psyche more frprofound. but, erin the leaders say they have to try. if they don't what hope is there f

some 96% of the country has been declared free of isis and the military has called this town along the syrian border isis' last stronghold. isis has had setbacks. but as their territory has strun shrunk, the number of air strikes has decreased. not quite clear what president trump is referring to in this tweet about a ramped up military action against the terror group. >> okay, ryan brown, let us know when you learn more. >>> also this morning, more fast moving developments in the russia investigation. let's get to jessica schneider with the latest. a little bit more from you on that. but, also, jared kushner. >> reporter: two things on the russian front. we'll start with the new revelations from carter page that he told jeff sessions he was traveling to russia at the height of the campaign. this came out because page was interviewed by the house intelligence committee yesterday for more than six hours. and in that closed door session, he disclosed that he informed sessions of his trip during a group dinner in washington in 2016. carter page saying he mentioned it in passing, and congressman

to have a good relationship with russia, notably for dealing with north korea, for dealing with the syrian ongoing civil war, and for dealing with the ongoing war in ukraine, which the government in ukraine argues russia started in the first place. fredricka? >> all right, ivan watson, thank you so much. we'll check back with you. now to matthew chance, you had a chance to ask putin a question yourself, and what did he say? >> yeah, well, i went to this, fredricka, closed news conference after the apec summit here came to a close. it was for russian journalists only, but because we have russian press accreditation, we were allowed in, as well, and he was specifically asked what was discussed with president trump during the short little encounters that he had throughout the two-day summit. we saw video pictures of them two chatting away quite happily and walking together, but what were they really discussing, well, vladimir putin said at the time, fredricka, said it was security and economic cooperation that was discussed. he said it was almost zero level at the moment and he wanted that to

the president's readout would suggest they are, interested in a real political settlement that gives syrians a voice in their own future. >> i've got less than a minute. we know that north korea was also discussed. we know the president was in the region not too long ago. we know they're slapping additional sanctions on in addition to this state sponsor of terrorism list that happened by the administration, you know, yesterday. what do you think this is all really about? is this about -- obviously it's about north korea but is it also about sort of the third party putting a squeeze on financial institutions, say china and other? 30 seconds. >> i do. i really think that's exactly what this is about. the state sponsor of terrorism list is not going to, even if it does result in sanctions, have much of a practical impact. what i think they're trying to do is make is easier for third party nation states to continue to squeeze north korea, in particular china. china has done a lot and they should get credit for that but they can do more. i think that's what this is about. >> okay. admiral kirby,

wrong there, but let's focus on how we can jointly get assad out into a peaceful resolution of the syrian issue. start helping us on north korea, russia, because it doesn't seem china is doing as much as it should. it's in the interests in the region. and russia was part of the six-party talks on north korea in the past. we try to bring stability to this region right now where all of these meetings, these apec meetings are taking place and russia is a big player, so it would be a significant setback if a meeting doesn't take place. but i think politics are being played, game playing. i see the russians are a little mad that it hasn't been scheduled yet. foreign minister lavrov, who i know, who i served with in the u.n., he's very good at sort of sending these little buzz signals that it's important that a meeting take place. i suspect it will and it should. >> look, there's all of these things happening here at home while the president is abroad. obviously last weekend's texas church shooting, there's all of these -- sexual harassment claims, including one that is now embroiling senate ca

there are many pitfalls there as we all know including about what to do with syrian president bashar al assad and what to do about the competing factions inside syria and how to bring them all together. so there's one other tweet here from the president this morning, he writes, after turkey call i will be heading over to trump national golf club where he is now, jupiter, to play golf quickly with tiger woods and dustin johnson and back to mar-a-lago for talks on bringing even more jobs and companies back to the usa. now, tiger woods, apparently has a house up there in jupiter and our understanding is dustin johnson did, too, until a couple years ago. it is a popular resort, about 25 minutes up the road from mar-a-lago and donald trump owns that too. ana? >> all right. thank you, joe johns, again traveling with the president in florida for us. meantime as congress members prepare to return from their thanksgiving recess, democratic senator al franken has issued a new apology amid the allegations of inappropriate touching saying he, quote, crossed a line for some women and vowing to re

the russian leader made the call after his surprise meeting with the syrian president bashar al assad, a key moscow ally, in the fight against isis. the u.s. and allies in the coalition have opposed assad's role in syria's political future. let's talk about that and go straight to the white house to abby phillips standing by with the latest. do we have any sort of read out yet from that call? >> we don't yet, brooke. a white house official confirmed the call is now over. the first time president putin and trump are speaking since they met in vietnam on the sidelines of apec. the key here to this call is about the future of syria. the interesting thing about vladimir putin's meeting with bashar al assad earlier this week was that what came out of it was talk of a political process, which is something that president trumps has been talking about for many months now for the future of syria. that country has been war torn in a civil war that has left hundreds of thousands dead and putin being such a key ally of assad calling for a political process to move that country forward is somethin