good morning, everyone. it is christmas. i m phil mattingly with poppy harlow. thank you for joining us on this special edition of cnn this morning. we hope you are having a wonderful christmas morning. merry, merry christmas. best day of the year i think for our kids. definitely for the kids. little stressful for the parents. this is the point where you start to relax a little bit hopefully. it was a busy night for santa and the kids. we ll go through his naughty and nice list. it was also a big year for women, the year for barbie, taylor swift, beyonce, any way you spin it, powerful women left a remarkable impression on 2023. we ll take a look at that impact. robert kraft has been spearheading an effort to counter hate. we ll speak to kraft and why he says despite a rise in anti-semetic attacks, americans want to do the right thing. the top stories of the day. good morning. merry christmas. i m danny freeman. this morning israeli prime minister benjamin ne
who endured to make it in hollywood. but she made headlines instead, when she vanished. one day she was gone, her pets were gone. i knew that something had happened. did something drive her away? or maybe someone? there was that old friend. turned enemy. they seem to be very panacea about hating each other. there was the new kid, young, handsome, a man of mystery. he said i m not what people think i am. and i thought, i wonder what that means? i told her this could end up killing you. a brother and sister desperate to learn the truth. it s just chilling for me to think about that. hello, and welcome to dateline. she was a woman who lived life on her own terms. brittany tavar, was generous, opening her life to anyone she thought needed help. whether that meant pets are people. but after, she disappeared without a trace, her family discovered that her nature exposure to more danger than she realized. here is keith morrison with, the stranger. they
he is 80. polling shows 65% of voters believe he s too old to effectively serve another four years and renewing scrutiny around the dnc not holding primary debates with jack dorsey tweeting this. open the democrat primaries and debates. this isn t fair to anyone. let s bring in our panel. joe concha, columnist at the mess messenger. juan williams and lee carter. welcome to you all. joe, to you first. it seems like the media says the gop is pouncing on joe biden s fall. let s play a little montage and get your response. okay. his age is an issue here. the republicans immediately jumped on this. they blasted it all over social media. givening voters concerns, this is not an image that his critics are pouncing on. this is not pouncing, this is relevant to this campaign. poll after poll shows that people are concerned about joe biden s age. as you said, other polls showing 2/3s of voters saying that they don t believe he has the physical or mental fitness or the the job
donald trump and those around him have seen the fbi as a threat. they have taken a blow torch to try to tear down that threat. it s really unfortunate, the motion that the fbi is some sort of leftist cabal. it s crazy. martha: devin nunes that now works for trump media is here. first to the justice correspondent david spunt. good afternoon. trace, good afternoon. we re talking about what is called an fd 1023 form that is a standard form that fbi agents use to write down allegations during an interview. congressman comer, chair of the house oversight committee and senator chuck grassley want a specific 1023 form they say contains an allegation that then vice president biden accepted a bribe for a policy change. they have asked for it multiple times in a subpoena. they actually asked for the physical document. both held a phone call with fbi director christopher wray at 1:30 this afternoon. we re told that fbi director christopher wray offered to allow both men and perhaps
the orioles. the highlight of the show for me. i like the squirrel. we will see you tomorrow. thanks so much for joining us this morning. cnn news central starts right now. look at that beautiful day out there. i love that shot of the hudson. finally making it official, florida governor ron desantis is set to launch his presidential bid today. how he changes the race as the republican field expands and what does elon musk have to do with it? shelter now. a stark warning as a typhoon packing wind gusts over 100 miles per hour barrels into land. a look at the devastation as the worst of it is hitting right now. the mar-a-lago documents case reaches a critical moment. donald trump s lawyers demand a meeting with the attorney general as the special counsel closes in on a decision about whether to charge. this is cnn news central. let the games begin. the one competitor that donald trump appears to be most focused on is about to jump in the race. florida governor