one! well, those aussies, they know how to do their fireworks. they do. too right, as they say. beautiful. yeah, sydney harbour there with the glow. kind of looks like my neighbor s house. i m sure. here s another plus, down there in australia, they are just kicking off summer, so ga-day. welcome to 2023. do you have any big plans tonight? no. it s 12:01, quick cheers and good night, everybody. us, too. cnn this morning continues now. and good morning. it is saturday, december 31st, here in the u.s. we ve still got a bit of time left in this year, happy new year s eve. thanks for waking up with us. i m martin savidge in for boris sanchez. glad to be with you, martin. i m amara walker. thank you so much for joining us. we began this morning with breaking news and sad news to end the year. pope emeritus benedict has died. his health had deteriorated over the last several days prompting pope francis to ask for prayers. for the
a batch of new transcripts. what did donald trump jr. tell the committee? plus, a message from moscow. nearly 70 missiles pierce the ukrainian sky in a massive attack. the target ukraine s energy grid. the objective to force war weary ukrainians to spend the holidays in the pitch black. and the united states revives a covid travel restriction for passengers traveling from china. that s what we re watching this hour. hello, everyone, i m amara walker in for kate bolduan. developing, the january 6th committee releasing deposition transcripts from 19 witnesses, many of them donald trump insiders. now, the list includes the former president s son donald trump jr., kimberly guilfoyle, the former fox anchor and trump jr. s girlfriend. stephanie grisham, alexa farah griffin, stephen miller, a former top adviser, christopher miller, the former acting defense lawyer and paula reid joining us with the latest. what did he tell the committee? a lot of news in this batch of transcri
good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington. the georgia senate campaign that could help decide who takes the senate has been overtaken by a growing scandal for republican candidate herschel walker. the latest twist, more new reporting from the daily beast the unidentified woman accusing walker of pressuring her to have an abortion and paying for it is also the mother of one of his children. nbc news has not verified those allegations. walker again denying it on conservative talk radio today and telling nbc news there s no truth to this or any other daily beast report. the candidate is back on the trail. that s where we find yamiche alcindor in georgia. also joining us, vaughan hillyard and victoria de soto and former florida congressman david jolly. walker will hold this event where you are, yamiche. he will be there later this hour. are we expecting him to address any of the new allegations? good afternoon. i m in a deeply red part of the state. it s here th
master to oversee the review of the mar-a-lago search. to go through the documents to see if any of them were privileged. the judge says she has a preliminary intent to appoint one. today is the deadline for the government to respond to trump s request in writing. there was supposed to be a 20-page limit for this filing. but the department of justice has asked for up to 40 pages. one might infer they have a lot to say. and this file be will be public. so just in terms of page count this could be more than we ve heard from them yet. all this, as the secret service official at the center of the january 6th hearing steps down. more on tony ornato s departure in just a moment. joining me now, maggie haberman helping to lead the coverage of the mar-a-lago search. i m very interested in the filing today. the subject with the special master, i used to write term papers, i never asked them to double the length of the assignment. you certainly don t do that unless there s stuff they w
united front against russia s war. we are live in germany and austria for the updates. this is cnn center with michael holmes. we begin in germany where day two of the g-7 summit gets underway soon. it is a meeting, so far, of course, not surprisingly, being dominated by russia s war on ukraine. missiles hit kyiv. one person killed, six more wounded after a strike hit an apartment building in the capitol. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy is set to address the nation in few hours. [speaking in foreign language] what are these missiles about today? what are yesterday s 62 missiles? for only one saturday? for 24 hours or about? they are about the russian method escalate every time international events take place. they are about determination, about, forexample, the fact that the leaders of the g-7 who gather inside germ no today for a summit have enough common potential to stop russian aggression against ukraine and against europe as a whole. it is possible. ukraine