new york, city christmas. ainsley: there is the all-american christmas tree out on the fox square. we were here late last night lighting the christmas tree. patriotic, all red, white and blue. cardinal dolan a rabbi here and minister. it was really special. steve: it absolutely was. as you look at it. this year, just like last year, it is fireproof. something else that we are doing a little different is we turned the light off at midnight now. because what we have found, apparently, is it draws people throughout the night. so, they turned it off at midnight and turn it right back on at 6:00 a.m. and we just turned it on so you can get a good look because it feels like thehoods right now 3 # degrees in new york city. brian: that s where i just learned something already, steve. i thought this was mayor adams demanding everybody shut down the lights to save money. shutting down library wrears and closing down museums. i just was wondering if this was part of the budget c
any moment president biden will meet with the mexico president on the final day of the apec summit in san francisco. while tensions rise between countries over the record amounts of migrants crossing the southern border, border officials warn mexico has handed over their side of the border to the drug cartels. sandra: one issue he is likely to press on, cracking down on deadly fentanyl trafficking, killed more than 70,000 americans last year alone. we are monitoring that meeting for you. we ll bring you the news from it as it comes in. john: that may be just the beginning. anti-israel activists calling for a day of action today as anger grows among the democratic base over president biden s support for israel and rejection of a ceasefire in gaza. hello, i m john roberts in washington. sandra, good to be with you this afternoon. sandra: sandra smith in new york. far left protestors from coast to coast are set to take to the streets in what they are calling a shut down fo
news. the new house speaker just cleared a very significant hurdle, getting his plan to avoid a government shutdown approved with the help of democrats. at the same time, anger amongst some house republicans is clearly boiling over with one gop lawmaker accusing another of elbowing him in the back. we re following the rapidly worsening health care crisis in war-torn gaza. the united nations says there s now only one working hospital left in the north as fighting rages and civilians are dying. thousands of americans rally in washington, showing their support for israel and its war against hamas, as anti-semitism is surging in the u.s. and around the world. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. this is cnn breaking news. let s get straight to the breaking news out of washington. the house of representatives voting tonight to keep the federal government open until at least early next year, as t
northern gaza from the air. the american official tells cnn negotiators are working towards an agreement involving with what they call the days long pause in the fighting. in exchange, hostages would be freed on a rolling basis starting with women and children over a period of days. that same official, however, added that many details remain unresolved in negotiations could stall or break down at any point. also today comments by secretary of state antony blinken getting attention. secretary of state blinken more directly raised concerns about the death toll on gaza and push for more in the way of humanitarian aid. beyond the daily pauses and fighting to it allow civilians to get out of harms way or get aid that israel announced yesterday. far too many palestinians have been killed. far too many have suffered these past weeks. we want to do everything possible to prevent harm to them and to maximize the assistance that gets to them. robertson starts us off with some of th
coming up this weekend, don trump s on the campaign trail as the 2024 republican front runner, but i wonder, he will be on trial. expected to take a stand in the civil fraud case in new york. first it seemed like the least of trump s legal worries, but this case has proven to be quite explosive. we have another hour of velshi right now. and good morning, it is sided eight of him to the fourth. i m ali velshi. we begin this morning with a split screen image that perfectly represents this moment of american politics with democracy hanging in the balance. donald trump on the campaign trail and on trial. on one side we have a disgraced twice impeached multiple indicted former president raging at the system at the walls close in on him. on the other, a seemingly untouchable front runner for the republican nomination giving his supporters and the rest of the country a pretty good preview of what his return of power is going to look like. and the eyes of the maga base, trump