minute since we had seen that as well. a lot to entertain us in washington. gillian turner in for sandra smith. tensions on the rise now as we fast approach a year of war in ukraine. stand strong. ukraine will never be a victory for russia, never. attack against one is attack against all. john: president biden blasting russian president vladimir putin for his assault on ukraine, but issue was left out of the speech. gillian: the president did not address putin s major nuclear warning to the west out this week, russia is suspending the nuclear arms control with the united states, opening the lid for potential weapons expansion. john: all of this as russian is looking to get a boost from communist china. xi jinping plans to visit moscow in the coming months. beijing wants to play the role of peacemaker. some skeptics wonder if xi might have another agenda and if biden will do anything to stop him. tiktok is here, the ford chinese battery plant is coming, farmland is
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
came out an hour ago and there is say lot of data here and how the former president is responding. so as as you said, we have team combing through hundreds of pages but trump paid a very low amount of income tax in the first and last year of presidency. we re talking about 2017 he paid $750. 2018 and 2019, it was combined $1.1 million in income tax and in 2020 it was $0 and that is important and here is why. we hope the tax returns will show the raw data of the numbers but it is looking at the detailed documents that were providing to give us insight into his businesses. are they really as successful as he has said. and i talked to a number of tax experts who say that $0, that indicates that there might be been some faltering business. he said in 2016 it was smart not to pay taxes when he was talking with hillary clinton about why he wouldn t release them. but is it actually business losses? which is important when you think about the political ramifications of a man who ra
law enforcement sources. the moscow, idaho, police department has announced a news conference for later this afternoon and cnn s veronica miracle joins us from moscow, idaho, right now. veronica, what are we learning at this hour? well, abby, just in the last few minutes josh campbell, lauren and mark morales revealed bryan kohberger, a 28-year-old has been arrested in connection to these murders here. he was arrested according to federal sources in pennsylvania, completely on the other side of the country, thousands of miles away. this arrest comes after seven weeks of painstaking investigation by the moscow police department, the fbi and other agencies who have descended upon this town to try to figure out who could have possibly murdered four students in their sleep, that s according to the coroner here saying those four students were likely murdered in their sleep. some of them showed signs of defensive wounds they tried to fight off the attacker. now we understand th
candidates are crisscrossing the states. and extreme weather from coast to coast in the u.s., from flooding in georgia to deadly wildfires in california. we will have details from the cnn world weather center. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. and we begin in canada where a manhunt is underway for two suspects in connection with a deadly mass stabbing. police in sass katchewan say th attacks killed at least ten people in more than a dozen crime scenes in the province. at least 15 people were taken to hospitals for injuries and leaders of the james smith cree nation have declared a state of emergency. police have identified the two suspects as damien sanderson and myles sanderson. they are considered armed and dangerous. they are in a black nissan rogue with a saskatchewan license plate. we are taking all steps possible to track these individuals and any information that comes in from public or other sources, we are following