a not so perfect phone call, former president trump recorded pressuring michigan canvassers to not certify the vote in 2020. what he said and the new details according to the detroit news, just moments from now, we ll get to that. and new video from the southern border of the united states, a mother and her crying child struggling to cross the rio grande river, the texas national guard this morning is denying claims that it ignored her calls for help. and the peak holiday travel rush is under way. i don t have to tell you, millions of americans hitting the road for the holidays, and the airports, what you must know to save yourself. i m sara sidner run. as fast as you can. with kate bolduan, john berman, hopefully loving life right now, this is cnn news central. we begin with this, new reporting have surfaced of former president donald trump pressuring election workers, this time in michigan, a swing state, as you know, in his bid to overturn legitimate results
cochran and the tea party-bacedd candidate mcdaniel. and it turned dirty when pictures of cochran s bed-ridden wife turned up. what impact there? well, it has dominated the pages here, but it is going to be unclear in the final day how is it going to break here. it is clear that many people have gotten more disgusted with the race over that, but on the ther han other hand, it has energized some supporters of mcdaniel who say it is unfair attack. and one reason that some people are getting involved in the race is because they view it as unfair attack by established republicans on somebody who had tea party support. so mcdaniel has moved away from the sort of trying to litigate it in public for a long time when his campaign was in the