that was a really profound observation. you got a mean case of the detox blues. don t start a war you know you re going to lose. finally you can now find all of netflix in the same place as all your other entertainment. on xfinity x1. and good morning, i m carol costello. thanks so much for joining me. the death toll climbing in istanbul overnight. turkish state media reports 44 people have now died after saturday s car and suicide bombing. the blast happening after thousands of fans had left a
that was an attempt to influence that election. on a much larger scale what the russians did is very akin to that. okay. carol, real quick, i just wanted to clarify real quick, we have no, and the fbi has no indication that the russians did get in to the rnc system. what they did get into, we re told, is third party organizations that did have some access to rnc data. so that s been a little bit of a misunderstanding over the last few months. we ve repeatedly heard allegations that they did get into the rnc and perhaps sat on that information. right now the investigation is not showing that. okay. so thank you for clarifying. so, jill, we re sitting here and we re talking about this. we re talking about russia possibly influencing an american election. and tipping the scales toward one candidate. so is vladimir putin sitting back and, you know, kind of laughing at the united states? you know i think he s getting back at the united states for
investors this time around are expecting a repeat performance. there s now a 95% chance a rate hike will happen. so that will make things like mortgages, credit cars and car loans more expensive. wall street s really going to be looking to see what the fed wants to do in the future. how often it wants to tighten those races in the coming year. also getting more expensive this holiday season gas prices because of a huge run-up in crude oil. prices topping $54 a barrel for the first time in a year and a half and that will translate into higher gas prices next year. carol? oh. alisyn kosik many thanks. still to come in the newsroom a cnn exclusive with inside war-torn aleppo. an update from the 7-year-old syrian girl whose story captured the world s heart. i am
donald trump, bob gates the former defense secretary and that condoleezza rice has as well. so those are some powerful backers. but there are concerns especially in the wake of this ongoing investigation by the obama administration into exactly what it was russia tried to do during our elections. okay. so jason, all of that s going on because there s maybe going to be a congressional hearing, who knows, but these four very powerful senators want one both democratic and republican. senator mitch mcconnell is supposed to make remarks at the top of the next hour. we suspect he will say, we don t need any congressional investigation. it s nothing new. there s no hard-core evidence, why waste our time? and then donald trump says he might nominate another yet another person with ties to russia. you know, carol, in a historical context, this is called this is how nations, you know, hand off the baton to the next great empire. because when you get domestic leaders who are more concerne
the department of homeland security. carol? all right, jason carroll reporting live from trump tower this morning. so let s head now to capitol hill where senate majority leader mitch mcconnell will hold that news conference at the top of the next hour. manu raju has more on that. good morning. good morning, carol. yeah that news conference designed to talk about what mcconnell wants the house, the 114th congress, his accomplishments, the republicans achieved here. but, it will be dominated with questions about russia and russia s involvement in the elections, and what senator mcconnell knew, and his thoughts about this call for a bipartisan investigation but we do know is senator mcconnell does get top secret intelligence briefings that most members of congress don t because he s a member of the republican, and member of leadership and in september he was briefed by multiple agencies and some democrats in that briefing we are told by a source briefed on the matter wanted to take a