welcome to cnn this morning. it is sunday, december 17th. i m amara walker. i m omar jimenez in for victor blackwell. look, we are looking at a lot of things, watching a lot of things. namely, the biden campaign are accusing donald trump of parroting adolf hitler after the former president made disturbing comments about immigrants at a rally. senators are working on big immigration changes as they try to reach a deal on ukraine funding. severe weather impacted millions at the start of last-minute christmas shopping and holiday travel. and in israel the idf facing scrutiny after soldiers accidentally killed israeli hostages in gaza. prime minister benjamin netanyahu acknowledges international pressure but adds, we are in a war for our existence. and could not just rocks, but hot rocks that glow brighter than the sun be the key to helping us end our dependence on fossil fuels? we will look at the new innovative way to address the climate crisis ahead on cnn this morn
accused donald trump of partying adolf hitler. what s your reaction and how you and other republicans feel? 76% of the american people, not donald trump, believe the border is broke snoon what about that language? the poisoning the blood? i m worried about an outcome. you have endorsed president trump. are you comfortable with him using words like that? you know, we re talking about language. i could care less what language people use as long as we get it right. that s republican senator lindsey graham refusing to condemn donald trump s use of hitler rhetoric during his campaign rallies. we ll have more of the president s disturbing comments just ahead. plus an update from capitol hill on foreign aid packages. the funding is being held up by gop demands for stricter immigration policies. plus, we ll go through the biden administration s latest push to urge israel to scale back its war on gaza. good morning and welcome to way too early on this monday, dece
there s a verdict. the jury in donald trump s civil rape case deliberated for just about three hours. the judge announced he will read the verdict at 3:00 p.m. it is 3:00 p.m. the lawyers are in the room. the judge is in the room. the jury is in the room. so any moment now we will hear from they decided. six men and three women were charged with that deciding. one, did donald trump rape carroll and did he defame her when he said she was lying. if so, how much money does carroll deserve to be fairly and adequately compensated for her injuries? in closing arguments, her attorney told the jury donald trump didn t show up because he knew he did it. trump s attorney said trump didn t testify because there was nothing to testify to. he said the whole story was an unbelievable work of fiction. kaplin said carroll was exactly donald trump s type and she played the video deposition where trump mistook carroll for his ex-wife, marla maples. he said she couldn t give a date to when the
austin johnson with a spot-on impersonation of donald trump, and interrupting the last supper nearly a week after trump s historic arraign marraignment, s showing more americans agree with the charges. up 5% this week. his former attorney general is predicting another indictment for the former president we ll get into that straight ahead. we re also going to dig into the competing rulings from federal judges on a commonly used drug for medical abortions. the impact on women s health care and the political impact on the republican party by the way, mika, you know let s just say, it s not good. based on conversations we ve had with friends and others that have voted for donald trump, this is really it s more bad political news, obviously, for women s rights, but especially for republicans i ve got to say, i was really taken, and i ve been taken over the last week especially, of people who have been trump supporters for a long time. yeah. who you start talk
east coast that means you still have time. the kids are still asleep or maybe even your spouse. you still have time it is april 1. you have time to pull off a prank, it is april fools for they got me at 4:30 a.m. this morning, walked into my office and this is what i found, an office full of lipstick the the shots put into context, bloomsbury could not walk could not take a step could not sit down. our producer, ariel, was standing in the side of my office in the video tape me. [laughter] i worked out 20 seconds before he noticed her standing there. is a lot of hard work for interns yesterday. working hard blowing up balloons. there he is in the corner it s not really april fools but you were fools. he was a groggy reaction. a while, it was 4:30 a.m. i come in, come to the building a good floor beneath this for the coffee machine to get a coffee we do not have a coffee machine on her floor. put a coffee maker in your office. and then i come up i ve not even even had m