good. i will take that into my new year. mark, appreciate it, my friend. thank you. take care. and cnn this morning continues right now. good morning. welcome to cnn this morning. 8:00 a.m. on the east coast. republican candidates crisscrossing iowa. nikki haley, ron desantis and donald trump all holding events in the hawkeye state today and they aren t holding back against each other. defense secretary lloyd austin condemning recent attacks on commercial ships in the red sea by iranian backed u.s. forces. we will dig into what the plans look like ahead. a woman in iowa enduring a heartbreaking miscarriage 22 weeks into her pregnancy. she is facing a criminal probe. she says she was misled by police. and new this morning, donald trump s super pac launching its first attack ad against nikki haley after a recent polling showed her chipping away at his big lead in new hampshire. that s a crucial early voting state. and this that s right. high-tech haley broke
Far as of the aid package would be a major shift and some members of his party are livid. Today does a deal as a House Democrat i say exchange ukrainian lives for Asylum Seekers lives . A member of the committee who says shes a hell no on what the white house is considering is with us. Plus she calls it palestinian rights. A middle School Teacher is being kept out of classroom over an email signature that included a controversial phrase. That teacher is here to explain her intent and her Dis Discrimination complaint. Plus a 10yearold boy arrested for relieving himself in public when he couldnt find a accbathroom. Youll hear from the boy ask his mother who says this wept too far. Im Victor Blackwell. Lets start the show. A growing number offed a vo caughts are furious over concessions that pooud is considering to secure aid for ukraine. The white house urgency to get that money has put democrats in an uncomfortable position. They may have to support policies they once criticize d when p
a man whose father and grandfather that were killed in a bombing in gaza can t communicate from ckhan yunis because of a blackout. we have new details in the hunt for the hamas leader. putin speaking out for the first time about reports he has a body double, taking it on, as a series of questions flashes across a screen during putin s annual press conference. why are so many people in russia poor? who is behind the scathing questions? she may be the only republican woman in the presidential race, but are women voters buying what nikki haley is selling? that s our special story. so let s go outfront. good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, the breaking news, a blackout. gaza s communications network nonexistent. as of tonight, there is a near total blackout in gaza. no way to get a message in or out. just before the show, we tried to speak with a palestinian man who was in gaza. now, when we first heard from him this morning, he was able to share with us so
r.f.k. jr. would like to see debates, but joe says no. hiding biden again teachers union boss, randi weingarten expecting to get grilled. teachers should have been back to work as soon as possible. aaron rodgers bids fare well to green bay. we are all excited to add someone of his character and ability.ndability.and ability. brian: that is billy joel singing uptown girl and it is appropriate. billy joel would have named it longer island, the indians would have or native americans, whatever we re calling them now. this was not written about christie mcpherson, it was written about elle mcpherson. ainsley: i was at a concert and christie brinkley was there on the front row and they shined the spotlight on her. she was in front of the stage on the end on the corner. and i love christie brinkley, as a child, i thought she was see gorgeous, still is. brian: whatever moisturizer she is using is working. ainsley: there are some ladies you want to know who the
trump knew that and we know it from the contents of hunter biden s laptop. but joe biden, as you may h recall, did not even respond. that s russian disinformation, he said. and then he went on the offense. disi your tax returns, biden. demand it. show us your tax returns. and of course, trump refused. biden, by contrast, already set up a website called joe biden .com to showcase his own recent tax returns because he had nothing to hide. unlike donald trump, you coulduo trusu t joe biden. m that was the message. now, whyy ar are we telling yout this tonight? why are we dredging up history when we re doing it? because two years later, the roles have reversed in a bewildering and pretty remarkable and kind ofwa hilarious way. so wey. now have donald trump s tax returns. house democrats grab them law and precedent and privacy be privacy and they release i them to the public becausead donald trump is orange and bad and has no protections under the bill of rights. so now that w