good morning, everyone. it is christmas. i m phil mattingly with poppy harlow. thank you for joining us on this special edition of cnn this morning. we hope you are having a wonderful christmas morning. merry, merry christmas. best day of the year i think for our kids. definitely for the kids. little stressful for the parents. this is the point where you start to relax a little bit hopefully. it was a busy night for santa and the kids. we ll go through his naughty and nice list. it was also a big year for women, the year for barbie, taylor swift, beyonce, any way you spin it, powerful women left a remarkable impression on 2023. we ll take a look at that impact. robert kraft has been spearheading an effort to counter hate. we ll speak to kraft and why he says despite a rise in anti-semetic attacks, americans want to do the right thing. the top stories of the day. good morning. merry christmas. i m danny freeman. this morning israeli prime minister benjamin ne
deal reached with kevin mccarthy to raise the nation s debt limit. here is what the president had to say. i m about to go in and call mccarthy now, make sure all the ts are cross and the is are dotted. a few on capitol hill have expressed some skepticism that the bill will have enough support to pass. today, speaker mccarthy told reporters that he is confident there will be enough votes to get through his chamber. to take you back to where we started, back to february 1. sat down with the president. i said, let s work together to raise the debt ceiling but curb the amount of spending. cut red tape. get work requirements to help people get back into work. i think this agreement frames all of that from limit, save, grow. it doesn t get everything everybody wanted. i think it s a positive bill. we did a conference call with our conference. over 95% were excited about what they see. they get the text today. look, in every single negotiation, when it comes to the debt ceilin
we ve already produced there is a pattern across the globe of joe biden s family receiving money from foreign nationals. there is a pattern here that would suggest this allegation is more than credible and it is way past time for the f.b.i. to determine whether or not they need to move forward with an investigation. dana: the f.b.i. s refusal and allegations made in the document coming as president biden s 2024 campaign kicks off, very quietly. david spunt is live at the justice department with more. a story that is escalating quickly, no question about that. we know f.b.i. director christopher wray and house oversight chair james comer are scheduled to speak in a few hours early afternoon in this highly-anticipated phone call. comer claims he is being stonewalled by the f.b.i. but the f.b.i. is saying listen, we will cooperate with you but you have to give us a little bit more time to give you a specific reason for why we re not going to just hand over a document to cong
the tape from donald trump discussing a very sensitive military document could be a game-over moment for the ex-president in the classified documents investigation. it s a recording that not only significantly increases trump s legal exposure. but it also blows a gaping hole through many of the defenses that team trump has been peddling in public in the case. the ex-president s lawyer jim trusty went on cnn last night, playing defense in the wake of the bombshell news first reported by cnn of the tape s existence. and repeated a line that will be familiar to anyone who s been following this case. will trump display documents at will or as trump puts it even by just thinking about it. what i will tell you is there is no doubt as commander in chief when the president left washington, d.c. for mar-a-lago, he was actually still president, when he left with boxes that he brought he was the command in chief. there s no doubt he had the authority as commander in chief to be classi
she s missing. we can t find her. that s all she kept saying. everything changed from there on out. and it just got uglier and uglier. a loving mother one day, just disappears. her heart was there. she wasn t home. blood. we all know, there s something very wrong here. nobody, no evidence. and no suspects. no arrests. the ex husband and the ex-boyfriend both had alibis. then, lightning strikes again. i drove into the driveway. someone s been shot. how often are a mother and daughter killed at the same house? who would steal so much from the one family? was she afraid of him? she was afraid of him. i just found out there are investigating me again. motive validated everything in this case. miles away, buried in the sand. lay one place of the puzzle. i know where she s at. period. the rest of the mystery. hiding away in a woman s heart. she couldn t keep it inside anymore. the killer thought his secret was safe. he was wrong. this is, a