good morning, everyone, and welcome to cnn this morning. it is saturday, december 9th, i m amara walker. i m victor blackwell. thank you for joining you this morning thank you for joining us this morning. it was my birthday and thanksgiving. it s been a couple of weeks. i had to get that out. a federal appeal court has upheld the gag order in trump s election aversion case. who he can and can t talk about and how he is responding to the ruling. hunter biden is facing new criminal charges. what the white house is saying. it was an emotional day for family members of the victims of ethan crumbley. i came within sight. you intended to kill me. the sentencing he and hiss parents are u no facing. the potential impact and the major cities we re walking through the weekend. and major rivalries kick off today. the 124th army/navy game on cnn this morning. we begin with both leading presidential campaigns being forced to deal with legal issues in the run-
and division over the war you rages on college campuses. also good news about the u.s. economy, but why so many don t believe it. elle reeve is in west monroe, louisiana, to understand. and a school shooter hears his ntence, an emotional day for the parents of four students he gunned down. the united states vetoed a u.n. security council resolution, calling for an immediate ceasefire in gaza, citing no mention in the resolution of the attack by hamas. 13 countries voted in favor. the uk abstained. in israel, that country s defense minister said he believes there are signs hamas is, in his words, beginning to break inside gaza. today, an israeli flag was raised in the middle of palestine square in the heart of gaza city in the north. alex marquardt has more on the scale and intensity of the battle. alex joins us now. what evidence, if any, is there to support what he said? reporter: well, anderson, no doubt israel has significantly degraded hamas capabilities. they ha
witnesses in the doj election case, but he is free to attack the special counsel. and israeli raises its flag in gaza city, a highly provocative move. the united states stand alone in vetoing a resolution calls for a ceasefire. plus, grim, that s how one pollster describes his latest findings. young voters, black voters, lgbtq voters all currently giving higher grades to trump than biden. what s going on? i ll ask him. i m john king in for erin burnett. trump silenced, a d.c. court of appeals upholding most of a gag order in the federal 2020 election case. the three judges say trump can no longer target witnesses or single out individuals related to the court proproceedings, writing, some of trump s statements pose a significant and imminent threat to the fair adjudication of the criminal proceeding. trump has repeatedly gone after potential witnesses, calling mike pence delusional, mocking bill barr as slow-thinking and lethargic and he tore into mark meadows, writing,
greetings, everyone. you re watching symone. a major blow to women s rights, to make decisions about our own bodies even when our health is at risk. the texas supreme court blocked, at least for now, a dallas woman s court approved exception to the states abortion ban. kate cox needs emergency reproductive medical care. i ll be talking to her lead attorney about how justice is being delayed, and frankly, it s about to be denied. it isn t even justice? also chaos on capitol hill, not showing any signs of slowing down from a bogus impeachment inquiry both next week to the erosion of norms and civil liberties. led by house republican who rose to first overturn the 2020 presidential election, and talk about speaker mike johnson. followed a would-be dictator donald trump. congressman benny thompson is here to weigh in on what s next. plus, the presidents of harvard, penn and am i t facing major blow back after lawmakers press them to say rhetoric calling for the genocide of jews w
israel releasing video showing weapons found in united relief bags in a school in gaza, ground operations increased to southern gaza as israel says hamas is firing rockets in humanitarian zones set up by the idf. griff jenkins is on assignment. doron katz asher aishah: they demanded an immediate cease-fire. senior foreign affairs correspondent greg plcott has the latest. reporter: we are a mile away from gaza. since we spoke to you we ve witnessed more intense fighting between israel and hamas. artillery and automatic gunfire going into this, up and down the gaza strip, full-scale urban combat the strongest of this war, attention is being paid to the south where it has a stronghold of hamas leaders but here in the north, several pockets of hamas resistance remain. one terror cell where the idf claims to have found hamas weapons stashed away include an ak-47 rifle allegedly hidden in a giant teddy bear. the situation is getting worse by the day, millions out of food and me