Has officially finished. The defense only called two witnesses. And yesterday, rested their case. Former President Trump did not testify in his own defense despite telling the press multiple times he wanted to. You testify in your trial. Yeah, i would testify absolutely. Its a scam. Its a scam. Are you going to testify . Yes. Will you testify . No he wont stop. He the gag is not to testify. Do you plan to testify in court . I probably so. I would like to. I mean i think so. I mean, theres a story of his life, who shocked me can nobodys shocked. It is a guy who said of course i am going to testify, you knew he was not going to testify for a couple reasons. One, he is just a walking perjury machine. Seriously . You got a new Ice Cream Machine that you say makes ice cream. The mcreamy by ninja. And creamy, yeah, well, he is a Ninja Perjury Machine right . You stand in front of it for a couple seconds. I will never look at the creamy the same way. It creates instant perjury and so we all k
time and attention on being president of the united states. so there s that. we ve also just learned president-elect trump will announce or says he s going to announce his secretary of state tomorrow morning. want to bring back our political panel, cnn political analyst, david gregory, author of how s your faith: an unlikely spiritual journey. guy s written a little bit about new things, words for the president-elect s disdain for the truth. cnn political analyst carl bernstein joins us. trump supporter kayleigh mceneny is here. democratic strategist jonathan tecini. trump supporter alice stewart johns us along with radio host and democrat, bill press. this announcement, donald trump tweeting out he s going to announce secretary of state tomorrow. we ve seen such a cavulcade of potential nominees. seems like the exxonmobil ceo rex tillerson is the leading candidate at this point, also raises the questions about what was that stuff about mitt romney, that was for real, was
leading us into iraq under false pretens and telling us, as a people, that there were weapons of mass destruction there was one of the worst blunders in modern american history. all right. that was one of the compelling moments from last night, the first time the democratic candidates went head to head in the cnn debate. it was an introduction to some of the candidates, including former maryland governor martin o malley. what s his take on how last night went? let s ask him, democratic presidential candidate martin o malley johns us now. welcome to new day. thanks a lot. good being with you both. how did it feel up there last night? it felt great to finally have debates for the first time, people viewing from across the country saw there were more than two candidates run for president in the democratic party. i thought it was a great debate. i thought of tone of it was
make sure people have power. this is a situation where a lot of us don t have the control we want to have. reman by your tvs. stay engaged and remain comfortable that everyone is working together on your behalf. mayor steven benjamin, we know you have a busy day. thank you for taking the time with us. thank you, mr. mayor. thank you. another big story breaking this morning, a 225-square mile debris field in the search for the cargo ship el fara. are we any closer to finding the 33 people on board, 28 of them americans? cnn correspondent martin savidge johns us from the cnn center. what do we know. reporter: we have two coast guard cutters that continued searching overnight. they ll be descending on that area, that debris field. this debris field by the way we should point out has a lot of
christine romans joining us with a look at what is ahead on starting point. the surviving boston bombing suspect sits in a 10x10 foot cell, investigators are looking at the life of his late brother tammer lab. u.s. and russian officials working together to figure out what he was doing in russia in 2011 and how an overnight raid there could be connected. former cia officer gary berntsen weighs in on that. then it s six months to the day superstorm sandy slammed into the east coast. we ll talk with a woman who lost her family and her home in that storm. and the president shows off his sense of humor taking shots at himself, the media and republicans at the white house correspondents dinner. john baer who served under president clinton and attended this big event johns us live. thank you very much, christine. michael jackson s life and death will be back in the spotlight today. opening statements in a wrongful