georgia bulldogs edges out ohio state here in atlanta. i m pamela brown in washington. you are live in the cnn newsroom on this holiday. happy new year. we begin tonight with a major development in the idaho murder investigation. for the first time we re hearing from the parents the suspect in the case, bryan kohberger. he s facing four counts of first-degree murder. jean casarez is in pennsylvania where kohberger remains in isolation at the correctional facility. what are the parents saying? well, pamela, they have released a statement and i want to read this to you. the attorney for bryan kohberger, jason labar, tells me that when he was arrested friday morning and the family is telling him about 3:00 in the morning, but brian labar tells me what happened was they wept to the front door and that bryan s father actually answered the door. it was law enforcement. we know it was the fbi. we know it was pennsylvania state police. it was in the middle of the night. we al
2021. the contents of which we reported on last week. on the tape lindsay graham predicts a backlash against donald trump and the entire stop the steal movement in light of the horrific violence on january 6th. take a listen. we ll actually come out of this thing stronger. moments like this reset. people will calm down. people will say i don t want to be associated with that. this is a group within a group. what this does, there will be a rallying effect for a while in the country that says we re better than this. biden will help that, right? totally. he ll be maybe the best person to have, right? i mean, how mad can you get at joe biden? joe biden will be the best person to have. of course, lindsay graham s prediction there that there would be a post-january 6th moment of national unity, one that would include the republicans, at least didn t come close to happening because of, frankly, lindsay graham. instead of turning the disgraced ex-president and allies into p
department. no more updates at this hour, pamela. they re telling us they have made no arrests, but they have detained several people. they re only calling them witnesses right now, not persons of interest, but they say they re gathering information as this investigation continues. pamela? nadia romero, thank you. coming up in the cnn newsroom on this first day of 2023, joe biden and mitch mcconnell don t see eye to eye on much, so why is the president taking the stage this week with his republican adversary. outgoing republican in congress says not only should former president trump be charged with crimes but if prosecutors do nothing, he fears for the future of the nation. and two college football games for the ages. did you watch these games? wow. fans could not have asked for more than what they got with the semifinals here, setting up a title match that no one saw coming. you re not that into saving money. cuz. cuz you paid too m much for those glasses. next time, go to
talking about racism. just to be clear, i wasn t saying they are silent on policy, they think having a republican president is in their ideological best interest in the long run. they continue to think trump is a vehicle for advancing their policy agenda, even as he says these horrible things. i obviously agree with you. the only answer to the question at this point seems to me is they are morally bankrupt and politically myoptic. to your point that trump is doing extraordinary long-term damage to the brand of the republican party to the image of the republican party with all right-minded tolerant people, certainly millennials who look at the republican party and say, boy, these guys are willing to tolerate a race woift says racist things on a regular basis from the oval office. i think the republican party is not for me anymore. i guess paul ryan and mitch mcconnell don t see that.
dialogue of some kind that the white house is having at the highest levels with north korea s leader. admiral stavridis, obviously, there was a back and forth with rex tillerson, through statements, rex tillerson talking about keeping diplomatic channels opened. the president denigrating his own secretary of state saying time and time again, don t waste your time, rex, this is going nowhere. now we have the president saying he has a great relationship with kim jong-un, a pan he insulted for the past year-and-a-half or year. can you can you enlighten us on what s going on? have you heard of any diplomatic back-and-forths between the president and kim jong-un? absolutely not. and i have a lot of conversations with people in washington. you know the least charitable version of this would be that the president has a new