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
hey, everybody. welcome back. it is 11:00 a.m. in the east. i m yasmin vossoughian back for a second hour here. we re following the breaking news out of michigan that is putting pressure on the u.s. supreme court this morning. the state supreme court rejecting a case to remove trump from the 2024 ballot, just a week after a ruling by the colorado supreme court removing him from the ballot in that state. want to bring in nbc news correspondent vaughn hillyard, carol lam, and former republican congressman from florida david jolly as well. vaughn, if you will, walk us through this ruling out of michigan. it is most notable the supreme court, we should understand, is not actually taking up the appeal from the litigants. instead, they denied to hear any arguments and to take up the case. but by doing so, they are all but affirming the lower court s decision, which in the state of michigan is to not disqualify donald trump from the ballot, like the state of colorado did. on the p
thanks for having me. it s a pleasure to have you on the show, mr bennett. i want to take your mind back to those dark days of october in israel, after hamas s barbaric attack on southern israel of october 7. a few days later, joe biden visited your country and he said this to israelis. he said, while you feel the rage, do not be consumed by it. after 9/11, he said, we in the us were enraged. while we sought justice, we also made mistakes. do you think israel has paid heed to those words from joe biden? i think the operation that we re conducting is not about rage and it s not about what happened. it s about preventing it from happening again. you see, there s a huge difference between 9/11 and october 7th. afghanistan is far away from the united states. gaza is on our doorstep. and hamas, the terror organisation that executed this horrible attack, tells us point blank, we re going to do it again and again. so we have really no choice but to eradicate it. close to 20
scotland and further south through the night followed by a heavy showers and it will not be a cold or frosty night, so temperatures in double figures in the south would colder towards the northern isles but it will be the winds that will be the focus tomorrow, with gust widely 50 60 and maybe as high as 80 towards the northern isles, enough towards the northern isles, enough to cause significant disruption to travel. blustery wherever you are and we have cloud and a patchy like rain in the south, pushing further south, and then sunny spells and squally showers moving in from the north and even a bit of snow over the highest ground of scotland, blown in on the really strong north westerly winds, and temperatures between five and aberdeen and maybe 12 in london. it is mild but we still have the mild and windy weather with us on friday so patchy rain pushing east, a bit of snow over the highest ground, of scotland on friday, and another blustery day but not quite those strong di
world. i m christine romans. we begin with this senseless tragedy in louisville, kentucky , a 25 year old bank employee opening fire at his workplace, live streaming his own attack that killed four people in minutes. one of the nine others hurt in the early moments later died of those injuries. cnn s omar jimenez has more from louisville. in just moments. four people were killed in nine others injured at this bank in louisville, kentucky. officers were on scene within three minutes. the suspect shot at officers. we then returned fire and stop that threat. police revealing the shooter was an employee at the bank and had livestreamed the attack. suspect was live framing. and unfortunately, that s that s tragic. to know that that incident was out there and captured enforcement source telling cnn the shooter had also learned he was going to be fired and wrote a note to his parents and a friend indicating he was going to shoot at the bank. among those injured in the attack. two po