Good morning, everybody. Welcome to squawk box here on cnbc. Im becky quick along with joe kernen. Andrew ross sorkin is in davos for the World Economic forum, good morning, andrew. Good morning, becks, how are you . Great. Were going to have you come back here next time. I dont know. Its cold there. Youre doing a great job. Isnt it colder where you are than it is here . It is, but were inside. Were inside so youre the one who is really toughing things out out there. What was that call that you did to him . Yodel layhehoo. What were the calls they did for you . Ricola oh, yeah. Ricola maybe not. Thats a product, isnt it . It is, but it has the swiss flag thing on it, too. Andrew, those long underwear, how many pairs did they send you . Let us know what were dealing with here. Are you wearing the same crusty pair at this point . No. Ive got different pairs for each day. I have the tommy johnes and they are keeping me very, very warm. I cant believe we talk about long underwear on this s
United states army throughout the world. An absolute privilege to be here with freedom providers. We can never take it for granted. Lets be very clear here. Die hard is great Christmas Movie. Train to Merry Christmas eve to america. Anna fabulous to be here. This was always planned. Pete can you turn up the volume on this . This is my favorite christmas song. This is aaron neville. Its great. Hes got that little waiver in there. You can write a sin as well. We are going to hear your favorite songs as well. Train two and a little bit of news. Merry christmas. Staying thanks for sticking with us. As ive mentioned my big news yesterday at the Washington News first reported and others have subsequently reported the fbi Deputy Director Andrew Mccabe is reportedly set to retire next year. Hes been on capitol hill testifying seven and half hours of testifying reports of conflict team messaging. Tres decent controversy surrounding that appeared apparently made the decision to retire when he ge
Fbi was a crime and that he did not wish to challenge the circumstances under which he was interviewed. Judge sullivan telling flynn, quote, you sold your country out. Can i make a really quick point . Yeah. Remember, it was in the last 24 hours that his lawyers were pushing a different narrative that he didnt understand that it was a crime to lie to the fbi. At least trump has been pushing that narrative pretty hard. Flynns attorneys have pushed that out. Nbc intelligence and National Security reporter ken delanian and justice correspondent Pete Williams are live outside the court. Here on set former u. S. Attorney for Southern District Andrew Goldman and danny cevallos. You put your coffee down, turn your volume up and try to understand what just happened. Ken, for anybody who has just joined us, who hasnt been with us for the twists and turns of this over the last 90 minutes or so, what happens happened and is this a good or bad day for Michael Flynn . Its not clear. The hearing did
In france and in spanish eight nil and win in the favor islands capped off what has been a difficult qualifying campaign. Ive heard gough its good to have you with us we start tonight with what may be the final showdown in the seven year war in syria the United Nations is mourning of a perfect storm if syrian and Russian Forces move in to take the last rebel held province of a blip. Could be the scene of not only another humanitarian disaster the u. N. Fears that it could put major powers such as turkey israel iran russia and the u. S. On a collision course. I demonstration it live against the assad regime in defiance of the looming government offensive whether these people turned out voluntarily or were forced to by rebel fighters is unknown. Propaganda is dominating the calm before the storm on all sides the syrian army displaying its hardware and saying its ready to move in where still observing the other side but when we see something there we fire on anything that moves. For the f
A talk about goal is to facilitate the if the british willing to offer a include the city im led to feel the cold to. Meet you thats why when it comes be it is the tweet to give that came from greater. Danger than you many did in tragedy for me rick this means a all out war and when to put in that medium people out there so in that sense it was sending the right message. Also coming up tonight a record low number of Organ Donations in germany and a controversial opt out plan that could change that. And the movement when a loved one dies these relatives im not in a strong position to make clear decisions please its so easy if they know exactly what the Family Member wanted then this is lived but otherwise it can be very difficult to decide on their own. Or we begin the day with a plea to finally rely on words instead of weapons in the seven year long syrian war today the u. N. Called on the military powers already involved in syria to sit down and talk russia and syria have reportedly s