And i m laura jarrett. Welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. This morning a major shift in momentum for vaccine mandates. Both california and new york city will soon require all government workers to be vaccinated or tested weekly. And the justice department now officially weighing in as well finding that no federal law prevents businesses or government agencies from mandating a covid vaccine. Of course some state attorneys general may disagree, but mrk s doctors are on board. I really wish that more businesses would be doing this because otherwise it is hard for those of us for example who are parents of unvaccinated children if we re told that we have to come back to work in person and be sitting shoulder to shoulder with other people who are unvaccinated and we don t know whether they are carrying covid, that is dangerous for us. So this is about protecting people s health and safety. And these vaccine and testing mandates are the direct result of too man
the legal tapper starts right now donald trump might get yet another delay in yet another one of his many criminal trials, the lead starts right now moments ago, the prosecutor in the new york hush money case said he d be okay with it. 30 day delay. this as the former president spent the day in the florida courtroom, his lawyers arguing broad leeway under the presidential records act as a reason to throw out the case. the judge in that case expressing skepticism will explain all of it to you coming up in rodgers response, nfl quarterback aaron rodgers with a new post on twitter today. kind of alluding to the exclusive reporting we broke here on the lead yesterday, that he had privately shared with the least two people we know of deranged conspiracy theories about the 2012 sandy hook school shooting not being real plus space success with a major mishap, the massive spacex starship rocket. that s part of nasa s plans to get back to the moon. while that goes farther and
so long, they have a pretty good sense of what they re going to get asked and what response they should have. that was sarah fisher, senior media reporter and cnn media analyst this morning joining us now. so, sarah, the big moment from today s hearing is when meta ceo mark zuckerberg was pushed by senator josh hawley to turn around and apologize to the families of various victims of nefarious activities that happened on social media. here say is a little excerpt. [ applause ] the things that your families have suffered and this is why we invest so much and efforts to make sure that no one has to go through the types of things that your families have had to suffer. what was your reaction to that? i thought it was very emotional, jake, and it wasn t just him, it was also snapchat ceo evan spiegel who apologized to the families. normally the tension is between the ceos and the members of congress. what made this testimony different was that you had those family memb
donald trump s grand juggling act this week. campaign appearances versus court appearances. more time in court than on the trail. is this foreshadowing what the entire election season could look like? a critical find in the alaska airlines investigation. the missing piece of the aircraft that ripped off a packed boeing 737 max 9 has now been located in a backyard. what the ntsb is saying about the plane s history before the violent explosive event. a new era in moon exploration. an historic launch overnight that will among other things create the most expensive cemetery in the galaxy. i m john berman with sara sidner and kate bolduan. you ve got to watch the report. we trust you. this is the most expensive cemetery. cnn. first this welcome to the last week before the first votes. eight days to the iowa caucuses. and the republican frontrunner, donald trump, is expected to spend more time in court than on the trail. january will be a busy one for every one
plus, day three without water in jackson, mississippi. and the situation is so bad, the hospital does not have air conditioning. but one part of a temporary fix has arrived. welcome to the lead. i m cakasie hunt in for jake tapper. donald trump s legal team is on the clock. they have under four hours to submit their response to a scathing court filing from the department of justice which accused the former president of pushing a, quote, incomplete and inaccurate narrative about the fbi raid at mar-a-lago. the d orc j went on to make an even more damning assertion that it has proof that documents were moved from a storage room at the florida resort and possibly hidden in an effort to obstruct the fbi s investigation. the doj also filing included a signed letter from a trump lawyer swearing no classified documents were left at the former pred s home. that we now know was a lie. given that fbi teams seized more than 100 documents from mar-a-lago during the august search. c