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simply the best. the lead starts right now. what s love got to do got to do with it remembering an entertainment legend. tina turner dead at the age of 83. plus, ron desantis bucking the trend. less than two hours to go before the florida republican using twitter and elon musk to launch his campaign for president. coming up, how donald trump, the front-runner, is responding to desantis unconventional approach. and we re not going to default. we re going to solve this problem. oh, really? how s that fwgoing to happen. only eight days until the u.s. possible default. negotiators on both sides go back to the drawing board to try to avoid economic catastrophe. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with sad news in our pop culture lead. music legend, tina turner, has died at the sage of 83. a post on her verified facebook account says today we saw good-bye to a dear friend who leaves us her greatest work. her music. tina, we will miss you dearly. you re
train on the job. that s the new approach for this new shortage. airlines need to hire 610,000 new mechanics globally in total over the next 20 years. united calls the program cele celebrate, and does it by have been people apresentition in-house. there s 6,000 on top of that through traditional hiring means. this is so critical, who has not waited on a plane from the airlines because of a mechanical issue? remember, airlines got smaller over the pandemic. united sell that calibrate is thei theically, to train on your own, $50,000. if you apresentics, you maybe $24 to $52 an hour, you get paid the entire time. there s so many labor shortages, we ve been telling you about pilots. they have the avian academy, airlines are trying to tackle this issue, especially with the holidays on the horizon. we know staffing issues have created a lot of delays. pete muntean, thank you. also the top of the hour, i m bianna golodryga, victor is off today. the federal reserve is racing in
security adviser, highly involved in international priorities from the trump/kim summits to china policy. will be impossible to dismiss as a low level staffer. and steve bannon s contempt of congress trial, the former white house senior adviser is charged with defying subpoenas from the january 6th committee, for months. we begin with new information we re learning about the former trump national security official, who will testify in thursday s january 6th primetime hearing. cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider joins us now. high level, one of the most senior trump administration officials to resign in the wake of january 6th. what more do we know about what s going ting to happen on thursday? we know the two former officials will be testifying, not only pottinger, but matthews, both resigning shortly after january 6th. matthew pottinger was the deputy national security adviser and we re told at the time of his resignation that he stepped down in response to trump
traffic stop. an investigation is under way into why two oakland tennessee police officers chased brandon callaway into his own home, after he allegedly ran a stop sign. the officers beat him bloody with a baton and tased him, and all of this caught on cell phone video obtained by cnn from callaway s girlfriend. and we do want to warn you, what you re about to watch is disturbing. stop, stop! stop hitting him. stop. stop it. stop it. stop it. stop. stop. stop. stop it why are you hitting him? he has no weapon? he has no weapon, sir. there s no weapon. you re being aggressive. i have all of this on video. i need to report you. don t put your hands on me. do not put your hands on me. i need to call my mom. i need to call his mom. stop. stop. stop resisting. stop resisting. stop. stop. get on the ground. get on the ground. all right, cnn naddo romero is here now and you spoke with brandon callaway about what happen. what did he say? this is such a hard time for him because