here with me now is really time to time opinion columnist ellzey and former assistant special prosecutor nick akerman and michael cohen, donald trump s former fixer. guys, great to have you here. oh, i have to talk about your book, michael. you re also the author of revenge, how donald trump weaponize the u.s. department of justice against his critics. he s also the host of the podcast mea culpa. okay, we re pasture accomplishments, michael. now we can get to the segment. so lying to the grand jury. that sounds serious. it s absolutely serious. so now what? i think is gonna be an indictment coming out fairly shortly. i think you re going to see donald trump indicted. you re going to see a number of other people indicted that are involved in this whole plot in georgia. really? you think donald trump is going to be indicted? what clued into having? they re looking at the judge s opinion that came out, at least his first one, he talked about the fact that he wasn t
good day. i m chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. as president biden gears up for one of the biggest speeches of his political career, can he use tomorrow night s state of the union address to address growing unease among his fellow democrats and drum out growing criticism from republicans over his handling of that chinese spy balloon? brand new polls show president biden isn t the only one facing discontent within his own party. donald trump is, too. the big difference, the dozen or so republicans who appear to be lining up to take trump on. will the bae hive make out better than the swiftys did? with sales about to get under way, the pressure is on ticketmaster to make sure it doesn t crash like it did in november. will today s test impact calls from washington to break up the country. we have a lot to get to. we start with the enormous political stakes in tomorrow night s state of the union address, a speech that will be watched by millions
and a warm welcome it our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world. i m paula newton. ahead for us here on cnn newsroom, the race to find survivors in turkey and syria. experts warn time is running out as cold weather heightens the danger. another object shot down off the coast of the united states. details still murky, but u.s. president biden is calling the operation a success. and brazilian president da silva meets with the u.s. president. we ll have part two of christiane amanpour exclusive interview with brazil s leader. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with paula newton. more than 24,000 people are now confirmed dead in turkey and syria five days after a powerful earthquake absolutely devastated those countries. in turkey, emergency crews continue digging through the rubble with their bare hands if they have to, hoping to find yet another survivor. on friday, they rescued a mother and daughter who had been tr
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
being here with us tonight. the remember when donald trump and his allies were very, very concerned about the mishandling of classified information? it was the thing they cared about almost more than anything else. much of trump s presidential campaign was premised on the idea that his opponent could not be trusted, because she mishandled classified information. in fact, trump s campaign was so concerned about the proper handling of government documents, they believed hillary clinton should go to jail. if i win, i am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation. it s just awfully good that someone with the temperament of donald trump is not in charge of the law in our country. because he would be in jail. should hillary clinton be in jail? yes or no, mayor giuliani? you know her. you are a prosecutor. if i did what she did, i would be in jail. if i did a tent a tenth of what she did, i would be in jail today.