hello, and welcome to inside politics. i m abby phillip in washington. nine pages, our first glimpse at the final report from the georgia grand jury investigating former president trump, has landed. two lines are guaranteed to send witnesses who went under oath into a legal panic. plus, the president gets his physical and it underlines an uncomfortable question for mr. biden and for the democratic party. is 80 too old to run again? and today, new details in the michigan state rampage. the students who were wounded, they are improving, but they re not out of the woods yet. and the gunman who took his life as officers closed in. and this the shooter had two handguns on his person when he was located. those handguns are both .9 millimeter and he also had additional magazines and ammunition on his person. our investigative team did work on our federal atf partners to trace those weapons and we have learned that they were purchased legally by the shooter but not register
it up. you got to do what you got to do. thank you. and thank you at home for joining us. i m whitney wild, christine romans coming back on monday. cnn this morning starts right now. good morning, everyone. it is friday, december 30th, don is off today. recovery, though is in sight. we ll see. i think a lot of people will be skeptical, but that is what southwest airlines is saying this morning as they hope to resume regular service today with, quote, minimal disruptions. and airports are still trying to figure out what to do with the piles of unclaimed luggage. we re live at chicago s midway international airport. and vladimir putin and xi jinping holding a meeting. also the house january 6th committee releasing a new batch of transcripts and what we re learning about texts involving donald trump jr. and lindsey graham. a new claim from congressman-elect george santos is putting his own mother s death into question. that s right. this morning we start with sou
so i asked nick akerman in the last hour have trump boxed himself in by making that claim, or least his representatives speaking on television. look you can t have your cake and eat it. that s how the special master responded to teen trump harry. his excuse for not handing over that evidence. this is candidate trump s lawyers, that s what they put forward, so how do you think that is sitting with the former president? you know, the former president has wanted to say this in the public sphere. he hasn t wanted to say it in court where you make a false statement, that s a separate crime. i think he is as always completely brazen and indifferent about saying any old thing when he s talking on the hustings, but not in court. look, the courts overall have done a pretty good job all the way through. it takes a while to get to them, they re not perfect but most of the time you really gotta come with the goods or lose. and that s what happened today. a conservative reagan appoint
himself in by making that claim, or least his representatives speaking on television. look you can t have your cake and eat it. that s how the special master responded to teen trump harry. his excuse for not handing over that evidence. this is candidate trump s lawyers, that s what they put forward, so how do you think that is sitting with the former president? you know, the former president has wanted to say this in the public sphere. he hasn t wanted to say it in court where you make a false statement, that s a separate crime. i think he is as always completely brazen and indifferent about saying any old thing when he s talking on the hustings, but not in court. look, the courts overall have done a pretty good job all the way through. it takes a while to get to them, they re not perfect but most of the time you really gotta come with the goods or lose. and that s what happened today. a conservative reagan appointee but a solid judge just said, i m a judge, one side has ev
point in the last midterms, 2018. but some people are making up their minds and locking in their votes even as candidates try to close the deal or make their case in these high stakes debates. dr. oz has never done one single issue towards crime. he uses it as a photo pop. he shows up and pretends to care. joe biden with the almost 100% support of senator masto have passed policies that are killing the american dream in las vegas. we have the best governor in the whole country. so you re a desantis fan. absolutely. i don t know anybody really that likes charlie. the fact of the matter is, his policy have made our economy worse. for me, the most important issue of course is the economy. the economy, the inflation, gas prices. as promised, we get right to it. democratic strategist, cohost of the politics war room podcast, veteran of many a campaign, perhaps too many campaigns some would say. you have been around the block. welcome back. a lot of blocks out the