friends. it is wednesday, december 27th, i m willie geist. joe and mika have the morning off. a lot to get to including israeli forces shifting military efforts to southern and central gaza with officials warning the war could take many more months. and hours from now, antony blinken and alejandro mayor kas are set to meet with mexican president obrador. plus donald trump continues to claim he should be immune from any prosecution surrounding his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. we ll have the latest there. also ahead, bus drivers across the country increasingly under attack on the job. we ll dig into an alarming trend and what officials are doing about it. with us this morning, jonathan lemire, susan paige, and retired four star navy admiral james stavridis. good morning to you all. let s begin together with israel expanding the ground invasion in gaza. this as the united states continues to urge israel to protect civilian lives and shift to a more low intensity oper
about this agreement. but his primary audience is actually going to be that undecided swing voter in the middle, and really try to sell it to that voter. right, and chris hayes, this is a strange thing for biden. is that the fundamentals of the economy are good, and yet people feel bad. and so he s constantly in this position of trying to sell reality to people who are sort of defying reality with their sort of feel, their sort of feelings about things. to lawrence s point, i was a little surprised, precisely for the reason you enunciated. okay, we nade it. like not a speech giving occasion, but i think what it s going to be, to your point, it s going to be about the biden economy. i do think, look, inflation has been bad for lots of people. it has eaten into real gains. people also had a higher level of personal disposable income and that s come down as the sort of recovery has happened, as that money has sort of been spent down. there s a lot of reasons people do feel u
president for now. lawyers for donald trump vowing to fight the colorado supreme court ruling that could keep him off the ballot in 2024. where this fight goes now and how fast. and here s not a surprise, trump s republican rivals are rushing to defend him after this unprecedented ruling. we re in iowa as the candidates storm the campaign trail with less than a month to make their cases to voters before the caucuses. and new images from inside the tunnels built by hamas. the new york times reporter who was taken inside is our guest. i m kate bolduan with sara sidner. john berman is off today. this is cnn news central. this morning donald trump is vowing to fight back after being booted from the ballot in colorado. last night in a stunning decision the colorado supreme court ruled the former president is not eligible to be a presidential candidate in 2024 because he, quote, engaged in insurrection citing the 14th amendment. the majority opinion came to the conc
former president donald trump and did it just open the flood gates for more candidates to dive in. welcome, everybody. i m neil cavuto. first to jacqui heinrich at the white house on the back and forth of infrastructure amid a backdrop of controversies. jacqui? hi, neil. with this new divided control of congress, passing new legislation is going to be much more difficult for the president than it was when democrats controlled both chambers. ahead of any 2024 announcement, which could come sometime after the state of the union, the president hasn t been laying out an agenda other than promoting bills that he signed in to law like he did in baltimore, touting the trillion dollar infrastructure law. he talked about a tunnel that would be replaced and completed about a decade from now. it will have up to four tracks total allowing trains there to move at more than 100 miles an hour. this is 150-year-old tunnel. you wonder how in the hell it s still standing. we re going to in
asking the questions this time about the campaign, and its finances. our saturday night panel is going to weigh in on that. and the worst of the week, will it be trump s former secretary of state, mark pompeo or social media giant meta? i will explain when i m in let s get started. let s get started. we begin this hour with the breaking news on the tragic death of 29 year old tyre nichols at the hands of police in memphis, tennessee. there are demonstrations again tonight, we have seen this across the nation after friday s release of four harrowing videos of the deadly police assault. this comes as the memphis police department announced that it has permanently deactivated its so-called scorpion unit. that is a group of five of the officers involved in tyre nichols s death were members of. those officers have already been fired by the police department, and they are now charged with his murder. it is an important first step towards nichols and his family. but that is, it