joey: here we go, starting the third hour this morning. carley and i had to take a double take to see if that was behind us, that is how good the graphics are. we thought you had a fireplace. maybe i m letting the cat out of the bag. that is a graphic. carley and i both had to look back. carley: i was like, when did they hang that ball in the building. they changed it to a bowtie pattern. griff: interesting new year s eve in new york. the weather looks like it will be warm. we got rain today and yesterday and all week long pro-palestinian protesters disrupting the airport and fifth avenue. and see if they show up for new year s eve, it could be something. carley: do you remember when it rained, we were hosting the pre-show. it was raining so hard that the teleprompter broke 30 seconds before the show started and we had to ad lib. griff: we were 8:00 to 10:00 p.m. joey: that is where you want to be, people are not overboard and you get to go ring in the new yea
this happens in her classroom no less. she s six. she s terrified. because the person that was advocating for her got hurt. she got hurt. a very emotional town hall in virginia after a 6-year-old brings a gun to school and shoots his teacher. the family of that child speaking out this morning. first this morning, ukrainian president zelenskyy is making another desperate plea for more weapons before it s too late. there are signs russia is regrouping and preparing to launch another major offensive. cnn has learned this morning that cia director bill burns flew to kyiv in recent days for a secret meeting with president zelenskyy to brief him on what the u.s. believes putin is planning to do. this morning, defense secretary lloyd austin is in germany to huddle with others. president zelenskyy spoke at that meeting. he said thanks, but he needs tanks. terror does not allow for discussion. the terror which burns city after city, and i can thank you hundreds of times but hu
for alec baldwin and the charges in this case will come before the end of the month. we ll be watching and you ll be reporting. thank you. so did prosecutors go too far with the charges? in our next hour, jennifer rogers and ken bellkin are going to lay out their case for and against baldwin. also this morning at least 54 people have died in peru after a wave of violent protests, fuelled by poor living conditions, inequality, with angry workers calling for the resignation of the president. one southern city clashes broke out between protesters and police near an airport and suspended flights. the weeks of protests have been sparked by the impeachment and removal of the nation s former left wing president. this morning the family of the 6-year-old boy who shot his teacher in virginia speaking
father. how common are these type of things, ken? because they seem bizarre to me. it s fairly common. in the state of new york where i practice, and we call it guardianship not conservatorship, there are judges that have consumers that are solely dedicate today these cases that are working five days a week and the reality is, there are times when family members act predatory, they see a weakness in a family member that has assets and they go for it. i ve had to defend several people alleged to be incapacitated from situations like this, it s very sad. neil: do you think she ll eventually be freed? i think there s so much public pressure on this, that i think they re going to have no choice, but to let her go, so long as she files the paper work. neil: it s amazing. comes down to the paper work. thank you for this. things got messy for the trump
trump organization if the allegations are true. neil: yeah, i also wonder, ken, if it were any other organization that didn t have the name trump in it, would this have ever been filed? there s a serious issue, i think of selective prosecution. again, this goes back to the politically nature of this, and prosecutors, they maybe under political pressure themselves to go after a particular person or organization. they need to keep the measure true, the balance true and try to resist all those, but it s it looks, as i say, as if the prosecutor easily could have gone civilly, right, not threaten people with jail, but get the money back for new york and the united states and the city of new york and so forth. but he s playing very he, the prosecutor, is playing very hardball. not money ball, but hardball. neil: got it. ken starr, thank you very, very