happy holidays, everybody. you are live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin about breaking news. president biden revealing details about his long phone call with benjamin netanyahu. we re following everything at the white house. kevin, what did the president have to say? reporter: yeah, he was on the south lawn on his way to camp david, and he said that it was a long phone call with netanyahu that he had earlier today. he said he didn t call for a cease-fire and wanted the talks to remain private. i do think it s interesting, president biden of course is someone who believes very strongly that all of the advice, all of the recommendations that he can provide to the israelis is best delivered behind closed doors. he thinks that s the most effective way to sort of apply pressure on israel to to alter its war plans. certainly the backdrop to this phone call has been this parade of american officials who have been traveling to israel over the last se
emily: colorado supreme court has made historic and unprecedented decision to remove former president donald trump from the ballot. it appears deep blue california is making moves to potentially follow suit with lieutenant governor saying every legal option must be explored. hello, this is outnumbered, i m emily compagno. joining me today, co-host of the bottom line, dagen mcdowell. fox news contributor tammy bruce, former state department spokesperson morgan ortagus and retired nypd inspector, attorney and founder of ops desk.org, paul mauro. a potential trump challenge as do-or-die issue, writing in a letter to secretary of state, i urge you to explore every legal option to remove former president donald trump from california s 2024 presidential primary ballot. this is a dire matter, she writes, that puts at stake the sanctity of our constitution and democracy. adding to the drama, california trump challenge may only be getting started, legal efforts to disqualify him i
high interest rates are real bad for people who are buying stuff they don t pay for right away. that s my ba-humbug. thanks for joining us. i m christine romans. cnn this morning starts right now. it s friday. friday. we love our jobs but it is friday. i think i love friday. tgif. we made it guys. we made it. we made it. good morning, everyone. don lemon here. poppy harlow, kaitlan collins and it is friday and we are happy to be here but we re happy that it s friday and we get a couple days off, because next week is going to be a marathon. we have a lot going on next week. wait until you see how long we re on television. we have cots behind us we re going to be sleeping on. it s going to be a busy week. it is. and leading into next week there is an oprah size endorsement we have to talk about. it s in pennsylvania s senate race. will it make a difference? big one. hours from now thousands of twitter employees will learn if they are fired through email. wha
power block. how comfortable are you with ebenezer scrooge being a plurality? ba humbug! , no not literally scrooge because he is british and dead, but people like scrooge. analysts call this group double haters. they matter a lot, not just because there are more of them, but they can be decisive. in 2016, double haters, who didn t like either trump or hillary clinton, and that was a favored donald trump, a big part of his win. double haters. the french existentialist said hell is other people. it s like sartre is the swing vote. not literally because he is french and dead. according to the last quinnipiac poll, biden is currently winning the double hater vote. so what does that mean? joining us now in the spirit of
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