while x is located some 2000 miles away. plus israeli prime minister benjamin is in gaza with troops today battling the fight is far from over. israel ramps up the strikes against hamas. donald trump is asking a court to grant him absolute immunity. the case is legal team is making to get the interference charges thrown out.i m kate baldwin with sarah s nightmare. john is off today. this is a very christmas cnn news central. this morning big news out of russia.opposition leader and chief hooton critic alexa has been found after disappearing for two weeks. the head of the anticorruption foundation says diwali is now in a colony in the pafar reache of western siberia thousands of miles from the jail he was known to be. he was movmoved from the detent center in moscow serving a 19 year sentence. where following the developments. we are getting more information from the team regarding his current location but as he mentioned this is a moment of relief for supporters and legal
paper. it is that easy to find. charges against libyan militia leader. though he s been on major news outlets he s not been taken into custody. steve: his name has been out there for awhile. i get the red line that the president drew with regard to chemical weapons. i get that. but isn t killing one of our ambassadors a red line as well? where s the payback? where s the justice? brian: the i.r.s. is serving up new regulations that could kill tips. details coming your way. some say it s next. gretchen: it s been on the streets for nearly 50 years but this morning big news about an iconic bus. did the partridge family have that one? brian: i m not sure. here, try this. mm, ok! ching! i like the fact that there s lots of different tastes going on. mmmm! breakfast i m very impressed.
again, this morning big news out of the sports world. penn state football coach joe paterno dead today at the age of 85. and it is the end of gabby giffords political career, at least for now. on this video posted on her website, the arizona lawmaker revealed that she plans to resign from congress later this week. giffords said she will concentrate instead on of course recovering from those wounds she suffered in that assassination attempt a little more than a year ago in tucson. i don t think anyone was really surprised that she s stepping down per se. but she became such a symbol of resilience and recovery here. you hate to see her career end on that kind of note. but she s doing what s in the best interests of her health and her family. and she said she did not want to resume that position if she wasn t 100%. she s going to be rehabbing at a very prestigious houston rehabilitation institute beginning probably this week. and they haven t ruled out a potential return in the futur