we ve been apart from each other for a good while until now. scatter family and friends. create new memories. let s make a special time of every moment we have. get ready. it s about to be a fun time. where everybody s in the same room. it s gonna be a great christmas day. ready, it s about to be a fun time. oh, yeah. [ applause ] bravo. beautifully done. that was jakailin carr singing great christmas as part of the all american christmas concert series. thank you so much for being beinghere this morning. thank you so much. she will performing oh, holy night coming up. rachel: can t wait for that. we never miss a reason for a concert series. christmas certainly qualifies. rachel: oh, holy night qualifies for sure. i love oh, holy night. rachel: me too. moving to some other topics this morning, starting with this. you may have seen this late yesterday, but the president of the university of pennsylvania has resigned, as has the board, the ch
she caves any time the left comes after. nikki is corrupt. i love the attention, fellas, thank you for that. it was knives out for nikki haley at last night s republican debate. will it stop her momentum? the republican front-runner not on the debate stage, instead hitting the campaign trail today, donald trump is expected to be in new york city courtroom. block critical aid to ukraine demanding tougher border policies, in return what president biden said he s now willing to do. cnn this morning starts right now. good morning. so glad you re with us on this thursday. you re probably late up watching the final republican presidential debate of the year, four candidates on that stage, clashing on policy, trading some personal insults as well. nikki haley took the brunt of the attacks from ron desantis and vivek ramaswamy over her big-ticket donations and her foreign policy positions. at one point vivek ramaswamy even holding up a handwritten sign saying nikki eq
in the middle east. john: it comes as we are getting brand-new information about the u.s.s. mason shooting down another drone in the red sea today, the drone fired from the same houthi-controlled area as the ones over the weekend. we will take you to the briefing as soon as it happens. sandra: israel moving into the third phase of ground operations, 138 hostages are still in captivity and hamas has vowed to not release anymore until there is a ceasefire. hello, john, welcome back. john: good to be with you. john roberts in washington, america reports . israel continuing its campaign against hamas hitting the terror group s strongholds in southern gaza overnight. idf engaging in house to house gun battles after entering the second largest city in the strip. sandra: israel s military says it has killed about half of hamas mid level batallion commanders by now and prime minister benjamin netanyahu said moments ago idf forces are encircling the house of a senior hamas le
the same outfits. putin is basically ruthless dictator barbie. all right. good morning. and welcome to morning joe. it s wednesday, december 6th. we ve got a lot to get to this morning, including donald trump s response to questions about his promise to use a possible second term to seek revenge and retribution. we ll show you what he said. plus, republican senator tommy tubervillle finally drops his hold on hundreds of military promotions. but he s trying to spin it as both sides not getting what they want. let that breathe. also ahead, the partisan fight over the senate s foreign aid package. one contentious issue is threaten to sink the bill. we ll have the very latest from capitol hill. along with joe, willie and me, we have the host of way too early jonathan lemire. congressional investigations reporter for the washington post, jackie al mayny and white house editor for politico, sam stein. good to have you all with us this morning. our top story this hour,
a movement the likes of this country has never seen before. iowa represents this country more than any place and also represents tradition. other candidates have like seven people standing in a farm and they are talking and it s a very nice, it s a very nice thing to watch. john: former president trump basking in his status and taking a shot at rivals at a town hall with sean hannity in iowa last night. another jam packed hour, sandra. sandra: indeed, good to be with you. this is america reports . voters will be caucusing, can you believe this, in just six weeks, and the media, it is fair to say, is starting to freak out over the possibility of a second donald trump term. editors at the atlantic magazine dedicating the next issue, what would the world look like under trump. and some are branding the former president a dictator. i sometimes wonder if trump knows the definition of democracy because he might be getting it confused with another d word, meaning dictator.