will bring out both the best and worst in us. and television has been that. they don t pay me enough to deal with animals like this. people are no longer embarrassed to admit they watch television. we have seen the news, and it is us. slowly but surely, the 1970s are disappearing. the 1980s will be upon us. and what a decade it is coming up. happy new year! as we began the 80s in the television world, the landscape was on any given evening, 9 out of 10 people watching only one of three networks. more than 30 million people are addicted to it. social critics are mystified by its success. what is it? it s television s primetime prairie potboiler dallas. a move like that will destroy all of ewing oil and ruin our family name! i assure you, a thought like that never crossed my mind. brother or no brother, whatever it takes, i ll stop you from destroying ewing oil. dallas really did establish new ground in terms of a weekly one-hour show that literally c
president biden: no. todd: griff jenkins is in washington with the latest from the president s trip. griff. griff: good morning, carley and todd. joe biden s first trip to asia ends just moments from now. you are looking live at air force one, waiting to get wheels up from tokyo, just after 6 p.m. there. caps swing through south korea and japan intended to highlight a new economic pact. as you saw, the president leaves major questions looming over the u.s. policy toward taiwan, which the white house was forced to walk back in a statement and defense secretary austin tried to clean up yesterday. our one china policy has not changed. he reiterated that policy and our commitment to peace and stability across the taiwan strait. griff: not the first time the white house has had to clarify for the president, drawing harsh criticism from china s leaders and earlier this morning in one of the president s last public events, biden was hammered with questions over whether he
now the pentagon is also responding and doing some cleanup on this story today for the president as well. we ll take you there as well to hear what they have to say. a shocker in the johnny depp trial. they ll call super model kate moss to the state. we ll get you up to speed on what is going on there. first up on the story today, we go to the d.c. courtroom where there were more fireworks in the john durham case against hillary clinton s campaign later. we have covered this whole story. he ran the fbi s counter intelligence division where they did crossfire hurricane in 2016. that was prior to the election. his note that he wrote during some important meetings could be crucial to the evidence in this case. former federal prosecutor trey gowdy standing by with what he makes of what s going on. first to david spunt live at the courthouse in d.c. where all the action is taking place. hi, david. hi, martha. yeah, a lot of action going on. and bill prestep is the big ticket.
cultural center. that s the ex-motion you saw a few moments ago actually seeing it right now. president zelenskyy calling this absolute evil. also, ukraine s last stand in mariupol appears to be over. the remaining fighters at the steal steel plant surrendered. it would be putin s biggest win yet in this brutal war. russians dropped insend dare munitions on a village near kharkiv. reporter: putin would choke the light and life out of here. we are driving into the smoke of an incendiary munitions attack, we re told here, against this civilian village. homes, fields, even the air itself torched. vera says she saw it staurling from the sky and her neighbor hit. reporter: the incendiary munition which burns hot through everything in its path came after heavy normal shelling which makes you question, like so much here, exactly why russia needed to heat fire on top of heavy explosive. it hit just ten minutes ago, this man said, pointing the way. some left bewildered. others i
oklahoma itself enacted two weeks ago. no, this new law awaiting republican governor kevin sits signature would outlaw abortions from fertilization, meaning when the sperm combines with the egg. there are exceptions for certain medical emergencies or if the pregnancy was a result of rape or incest. even then there are tons of questions as to how those exceptions would work in practice. for example, would you just have to report a sexual assault to law enforcement, or would there have to be an actual prosecution of an assault to terminate that pregnancy? and not only would this oklahoma law ban abortions from fertilization, it would also allow private citizens to sue abortion providers or anyone who aids and abets an abortion. it s really modelled on the texas law, is it not? pledged to sign every single piece of legislation that limits abortion that might reach his desk. that means this law could go into affect in days, hours, or minutes immediately after he signs. reaction o