pathetic joke it is. the pepper master in chief donald trump has directed the sycophants to target joe biden as part of an effort to undermine president biden s re-election. good morning, everyone. i m phil mattingly in new york. erica hill joins me. poppy is off today. republicans in the house are focusing on impeachment unanimously launching a formal impeachment inquiry into president biden despite many acknowledging there is no proof of high crimes and misdemeanors. and donald trump, a judge temporarily pausing that 2020 election interference case. how long could the delay last and what could it mean for the 2024 election. and inside gaza. reporting independently from the war zone. what our clarissa ward saw with her own eyes. this hour of cnn this morning starts right now. we begin this hour with a cnn exclusive. u.s. intel says nearly half of the 29,000 bombs dropped on gaza have been so-called dumb bombs. they are not precisions guided and posing a greater ris
decide whether to restrict abortion pills, a decision that could come down in the final months of the race for president. good day to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m kasie hunt. it is thursday, december 14. and it is 5:00 a.m. here in washington where republicans are now under pressure to show results after the house voted narrowly to authorize an impeachment inquiry against president biden. the move came just hours after hunter biden defied a congressional subpoena for closed door testimony saying he is only willing to testify publicly into the investigation into his father. republicans do not want an open process where americans can see their tactics. expose their baseless inquiry or hear what i have to say. republicans will move to hold him in contempt. and president biden accuses republicans of wasting time to a baseless stunt. dan touted the . the house loss nohas now spo i think clearly with every single republican voting in favor of mov
school now. because in a way, we have all become law students. how could all of this legal trouble just maybe fade away? i will explain to you, but don t worry. no pop quiz. no socratic method. that s all coming up. but first, i want to look at what we have learned just in the past few hours. first, kenneth chesbro coming back to maybe haunt the former president. he is the ex-pro trump lawyer whose claim to fame is helping to cook up the fake elector s plot and who pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy in the election interference case. well now, he is talking to investigators in michigan, nevada, wisconsin as well as georgia. if we were in an old time gangster movie, you could say he was singing like a canary. this is what he told michigan prosecutors about a photo op gone wrong in the oval office way back in december of 2020. i ended up explaining that arizona was still hypothetically possible. it was i think clear in a way that maybe hadn t been before that we had un
formally launch their impeachment inquiry into president biden will they move now to hold his son in contempt. markets soaring, the dow reaches a new high. retail numbers in, beating expectations, stock furthers up again. how high can it do? i m john berman with kate bolduan and sara sidner, this is cnn news news central. just moments ago we watched as rudy giuliani arrived at court in washington d.c. after saying he intends to take the stand in his defamation damages trial. in a move to counter emotional claims from two election workers who say his lies and conspiracy theories after the 2020 presidential election turned their lives upside down. over the past two days, the court heard gut wrenching testimony from former pole workers. they described how giuliani s lies spawned a flood of racist messages and even death threats that forced them to leave their jobs and home, cost them some friends and made them feel so unsafe they were afraid ton even use their own names. ka
this is bbc news. the headlines. the us national security adviser visits tel aviv with a warning over civilian casualties as israel continues with its bombardment. french police say they found a 17 year old british boy who disappeared in spain six years ago. and the father, stepmother and uncle of the child who died in england pleaded not guilty to her murder. more on all of those stories but first let s look at the sports centre. the europa league group stages come to a close later and there is a reunion with an old friend for the liverpool boss. his team are in brussels. liverpool have already won their group so he and the opposing manager were born in stuttgart so a chance for a catch up over a beer. i stuttgart so a chance for a catch-up over a beer- over a beer. i am happy that it is auoin over a beer. i am happy that it is going well over a beer. i am happy that it is going well from over a beer. i am happy that it is going well from here, over a beer. i am happy