they by potentially reinforcing this image of extremism that hurt republicans so much through purple states. there are others, but for me those are the biggest known unknowns for 2024. and that last one is a great question because you have heard republicans, you know, they have been basically chomping at the bit to take over the majority for obvious reasons. but with such a small majority, you negotiation i heard from republicans who say, we re concerned about what these investigations look like and what path this goes down and do we look like we have a strategy that we have it together or we don t know who is going to be the house speaker next week when the new congress takes over. good point. ron, thank you very, very much. thank you, guys. happy holidays. thank you. cnn this morning continues right now. good morning. it is 8:00 a.m. eastern. we re so glad you re with us. it is december 27th. welcome to cnn this morning. all right, so we will begin with
string of legislative success for the biden white house. so will it push midterm voters to the polls? and are celebrity candidates including mehmet oz threatening mitch mcconnell s hopes to retake the senate. the january 6th committee confirming it is requesting a trove of alex jones text messages sent at trial. and what actress anne heche said on her podcast before crashing her car into a home, causing it to burst into flames. all right. i m just going to keep going here. democrats in array, a string of legislative success, much of it bipartisan has the white house hoping it is gaining momentum heading into the midterms. the inflation reduction act, it passed the senate and now heads to the house for a vote as early as friday. this represents the largest investment to combat the climate crisis in u.s. history, $369 billion. major health care provisions include allowing medicare to negotiate the prices of some drugs, something that will take a few years to kick in,
wander and to wonder in this life, to still have a child-like sense of the possible. and i this we ve lost that. and think what i m saying to people is, is that you ve got to get back in touch with you. because a happy mika, a happy sofia and a happy katty, means everything else in our life is happier. spouses, children, our relationships are richer because we re fulfilled and most of us just are not. we just drudge along, we re exhausted, we re tired, and we just accept our fate in life and we have to stop that. sofia nelson, thank you so much. the new book is be the one you need, 21 life lessons i learned taking care of everyone but me. and she has a new piece about the book up on know your value.com right now. and katty kay, thank you as well. starting super early this morning. we really appreciate it. it is now the top of our fourth hour of morning joe. 9:00 a.m. on the east coast, 6:00 a.m. out west. we have at lot to get to this hour including the last-minute he
pelosi s visit to taiwan. man, did that anger china and seeing the self-governing independent democratic island nation as its own territory. and the response beijing launched military drills in the taiwan strait and they will have more drills coming up. but the defiance of american officials against china demonstrating yet again this country s commitment to democracy and the government in they taipei. alexandria hoff. alex: although china announced more drills, china show of force hasn t let up since exercise of force. china launched 25 fighter jets per day for two weeks following nancy pelosi s visit. part of this delegation, democrat senator ed marky joined by house democrat john geramendi and represent don beyer by virginia and delegate from american samoa, they reported landed 7:00 p.m. local time today. taiwan s minister foreign affairs accompanied photos, quote, we thank the light-minded u.s. lawmakers for support. lawmakers have visited taiwan in recent history without
mar-a-lago, florida home. and what potential crimes are being investigated. agents say they recovered 11 sets of classified documents, at least one was marked as top secret/sci which is one of the highest levels of classification. the warrant also reveals some of the potential crimes officials are looking at including violations of the espionage act, obstruction of justice and criminal handling of government records. at this point, no charges have been filed. cnn s evan perez is live for us with details on this. evan, what more are you learning about what was seized by the fbi? reporter: good morning, fredericka. you re highlighting the most important part of this and what the fbi found when they went into mar-a-lago to retrieve these 20 boxes. the top item, obviously, are these documents that were labeled as ts/sci. this is among the most tightly guarded secrets of the u.s. government. these are things that in order to view them you have to go to special rooms that are des