ephemeral legislation. yeah. that went from being the word of the day a couple days ago, to now i think it s the word of the week. ephemeral or malodorous, it s one of the two. it s still early. we have a couple hours ahead. maybe we can find another one. meanwhile, the florida governor is seizing on a potential weakness in trump s third presidential bid. we ll show you what he had to say about that, and how he responded to questions about his last name. is it desantis, is it december desantis? did he answer it? he did, and it was unrevealing. huh. republicans are still upset with kevin mccarthy over the debt ceiling deal. wah. one calling for a day of reckoning. are you kidding me? it is a day of reckoning for the extremists, who thought that they were going to be able to hold, not only congress and kevin mccarthy and the president hostage, but also hold the united states economy hostage. they weren t able to do it. these guys struck a deal, and struck a
really distressing details, unfortunately, coming out about the train crash, potentially three trains involved, at least one of them a passenger train, and we can take a look at some of the pitcher is of the aftermath. this is people on the side thereof and overturned train trying to help people and get people out. it happened in the evening, and right now, it is on midnight, early hours of the morning there. lots of people taken to hospital. in terms of the numbers you ve always got to be cautious, of course, but afp news agency saying 50 dead, 400-500 course, but afp news agency saying 50 dead, 400 500 potentially injured. so a huge scale of this. let s show you where it is. we can show you the map. this is the location in india of odisha, just a little earlier we heard from the chief official there, but also we have heard from our south asia editor, sunak anbarasan ethirajan who gave us a the latest. the officials are now saying that multiple trains were involved in this c
economists say this one should not hurt the economy. joining me now is cnbc senior analyst, congressional continue, julie tsirkin, and nbc news white house correspondent, al allie raffa. i want to read a few notable things. jason fuhrman, the former deputy director of obama s national council says the fed will be happy. the economy needs cooling off and this takes pressure off interest rates in accomplishing cooling off. a jpmorgan chase analyst says the agreement could function as the equivalent of a quarter point increase in interest rates in terms of helping to restrain inflation, and ben harris, a former deputy treasury secretary says the most important impact is the stability that comes with having a deal. markets can function knowing that we don t have a cataclysmic debt ceiling crisis looming anymore. so, ron, explain that to us. explain what they re talking about. so katy, i m going to take answer number three as the most accurate one. i just think avoiding a debt
let s take a look at the week s top stories. we re following new reporting involving the investigation into former president donald trump. classify top humans that he took with him when he left the white house. multiple sources tell cnn that federal prosecutors have obtained the 2021 audio recording of trump acknowledging that he kept classified pentagon documents about a possible attack on iran after leaving the white house. the existence of the recording undercuts trump s primary defense that he declassified all the documents that he brought with him from the white house to mar-a-lago. cnn reports that july 2021 meeting was held at trump s golf club in new jersey, with two people working on the autobiography of trump s former chief of staff, mark meadows, as well as trump pays, including communication specialist, margot martin, who as the guardian reports, regularly taped trump s conversations with authors to make sure they re accurately recounting his remarks. so really,
we can go with the more accurate polish version, or how about the ukrainian spelling and pronunciation? the polish version probably closer to my roots. of course, i m not the only one with name pronunciation on the brain these days. florida governor ron desantis kicked off his presidential run last week, perhaps the only thing more confusing than trying to watch the campaign launch on twitter spaces was hearing the candidate s last name. i m ron desantis and i m running for president to lead our great american comeback. come again. the same day that governor desantis released that video, he appeared on fox news and he said this. anybody that s so inclined to help us, i would love to have your support at rondesantis.com. this was low-hanging fruit for the trump campaign. i m ron desantis. this is governor ron desantis. hello, this is governor ron desantis, wishing everyone a merry christmas. who knew the long versus short version of a vowel could cause all this