greetings, everyone. you re watching symone, the house is adjourned for the rest of the year. not they don t have urgent work to do it like working on an aid package for israel, ukraine, and southern border security. but they did vote for a baseless impeachment inquiry of president biden. the republican priority actually, why is that? well we will ask congressman tim burchett of tennessee, and then rudy giuliani s lies about two election workers, what they have finally cost him. the jury verdict, 100 $48 million in damages for defamation. no surprise, giuliani called it absurd and he vows to appeal. how is that gonna go for him? we will dig into it with one of our legal gurus. she is feeling good from her head to her shoes, honey. i sat down with the queen of rock and soul, patty la belle. we talked about her amazing career, and businesses and even that crazy christmas tree lighting video that goes viral every year. you want to stick around for this. i am symone sanders-tow
democrats, senate republicans a time to work through the weekend in an effort to reach a framework agreement. our republican colleagues who have said action on the border is so urgent should have no problem with continuing to work next week. senate majority leader chuck schumer calling republicans bluff on border security. he s delaying the upper chamber s recess in hopes of hammering out a deal on foreign aid, which includes critical funding on ukraine. meanwhile, the biden administration put more pressure on the israeli prime minister to scale back the country s ground war in gaza. we ll have the latest developments from the middle east. also ahead how the biden campaign is trying to capitalize on the impeachment inquiry into the president. hey, everybody. good morning to you. and welcome to way too early on this friday, december 15th. i m yasmin vossoughian, in for jonathan lemire. there are signs this morning on a potential deal on immigration reform, which could pa
Russia with a new push to the white house to try to get paul whelan home. And nasa is set to speak about at the new report about ufos and how the government will study sightings in the future. Im sara sidner with john berman. Kate bolduan is on assignment. This is cnn news central. All right. Breaking news out of Fulton County, georgia. And by the way, you are looking at live pictures from inside of the courtroom before judge George Mcafee and the subversion court case. And now, two of the defendants are about to appear before the judge. You are seeing the live pictures there before our eyes, but donald trump and the rest of the codefendants will be tried separately and later. We will get to zach cohen, and the details of what we are learning so far, zach. Yeah, john, the top line is that donald trump will not be starting his trial in georgia in five weeks alongside at least two of the codefendants Sidney Powell and ken chesebro and trump and two others who said they dont want a speedy
is expected to climb even higher as night continues to grind on there in morocco. sam kiley joins us from morocco. i think perhaps you saw the ceiling above you giving way just a touch. how are things where you re at? reporter: well, jim, you put your finger on what everybody here is most afraid of here in the medina in the old city of marrakech. an environment that certainly not in living memory and for many people, not even in the history books has any recollection of being worried about an earthquake. here you have the direct results of it. it is the collapse of a roof, that blank space there is the night sky above it. you have a roof, a floor, two ceilings, all collapsed down on to the ground here where i m standing. if you look at these buildings, we re in these very narrow streets, these very, very narrow streets. all of these buildings have enormous cracks down the side. the concern obviously is, if any of these cracks give way as a result of future tremors, then the
right now on ana cabrera reports, breaking news at a courthouse in washington, rudy giuliani no longer set to testify today in his own defense in the defamation case brought by two election workers. why did the man once known as america s mayor decide not to take the stand? plus, donald trump s fed in pause. will this force the judge to change the trial date? also ahead, the house voting to launch an impeachment inquiry, so why now after a year of investigation resulting in no evidence of wrongdoing by president biden? and later, the return of vladimir putin s hours long year-end news conference, the first since the invasion of ukraine. his new admissions about the war and what he said about a potential prisoner swap with the u.s. good morning, thanks for being here. it is 10:00 eastern, i m ana cabrera reporting from new york, and we begin with breaking news from washington. in major reversal, rudy giuliani will not take the stand in his defamation trial. he wa