Cnn primetime with abby philips starts right now. Objectively american democracy is in perilous condition. The nations politics are poisoned. Truth has become optional. Instead of desired or even required. The republic has of course always faced threats to it even before Rupert Murdoch. But so much of the current state of our democracy can be traced back to the beast of his creation. Good evening everyone. Im abby philip. Rupert murdoch is stepping down as ceo of fox news tonight. His legacy is outrage porn. Partisan red meat. Stoking relentless culture wars. But it all started with what you could argue is a noble vision to create a center right news network to elevate more perspectives that arent based in gotham or in washington. But instead, Stoking Division seemed to become murdochs mission. So did power and so did the money. Fox became a mouth piece for republican administrations, a mouth piece really for donald trump and eventually a vehicle for his baseless conspiracies. It is im
you want to go down to miami to escape the cold but it s only 62 degrees there for a high temp. look at this, the coldest temperature in the last 80 years for christmas eve. yes, in new york, yes, in atlanta, second coldest in chicago, third coldest in miami. it is the first time all four would have a bottom three high temp if this does, in fact, happen. we are talking freezing temperatures up and down the eastern seaboard and even into the midwest. okay. so i live here. yes. i used to live there. yes. and there. yes. and by the lake. yes. when you get that lake-effect snow and the wind coming off the lake, it is crazy and i m going here after christmas. so there you go. you ve got the whole thing covered for me. we have the whole complete don board. i do have a bit of good news are you going to the north pole next? santa will still be able to deliver your presents because it s minus 40 as the average winter temperature in the north poll so don t worry, kids,
is well on his way, even for the jews like me santa will deliver, he will team up with hanukkah harry. i also have bad news for you, the energy bills are going to be sky high because look at the utility gas prices year over year, up 15%, electricity up 14%, depending on how exactly you heat your home. so, look, good news is santa will be able to deliver gifts, the bad news is you re going to pay higher energy prices. i do have one question for you guys, do you prefer would you rather live through a really hot summer or a really cold winter? hot summer. hot summer. we re southerners. it s our nature. when i first moved to the northeast and i went to the beach i was like why is this water so cold? we like bath water. we go to the beach in the summertime n july, which no one else does. i prefer a really cold winter, it s why i went to school in new hampshire. we are pretty equal, slightly more people. really? is that a real choice? you can always put on more layers, you ca
overnight and that s when the stockings and his gifts show ed up but it s all christmas morning now, santa. rachel: when i was a kid we would go to midnight mass and when we come home santa had already come to the house. we knew he already came and then of course we also have three kings day which i was trying to explain and didn t do a good job in my last segment but we have a christmas all over again on january 6, so we do it that way but santa claus changed the way things are done now, with the duffy family, you know, because families come together and traditions change and everything is on christmas morning. will: ours is christmas morning, but santa takes the stockings and delivers them to your room. rachel: really? will: so when you wake up rachel: there s a little something. will: you can t go downstairs to see what s going on. pete: did santa collaborate with
in my biography, i m lucky. i think without the football i would probably be dead or be injail right now. and i m not ashamed to say it because that s a fact, that s the truth. like i say, i had to survive. i m not proud about things i ve done in the past. when my brother died because he was a drug addict, that s when i knew unfortunately, well, fortunately and unfortunately for my brother, i knew i would never touch any drug. but you did deal drugs for a while? i did some marijuana because when my dad left there wasn t any authority. and for my mum to feed because it one point we were 13 kids at home. 13? yeah. i ve got 2a brothers and sisters. my dad never watch tv or use the remote, he was a busy man. and 89 nephews and they all call me santa.