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
recording pressuring michigan election officials not to certify the 2020 election results. overseas, police release body camera video about the shooting in prague that left 14 people dead. back here in the u.s., the humanitarian crisis at the border reaching record levels after a week of never before seen numbers of people crossing into the united states. and we begin this hour with yet another report of detailing former president trump s alleged efforts to halt the certification of the 2020 presidential election. new recordings reportedly detail trump pressuring canvassers in michigan to not certify the state s 2020 election results, which he lost. he reportedly told them, quote, we can t let these people take our country away from us. the detroit news says the recordings were made by someone presen f the conversation, but were obtained by intermediary who was not present. nbc news has not heard or verified the recordings. in response, the trump campaign says, quote, a
People elected joe biden president. Or, you know, they can all elect Hakeem Jeffries to be speaker of the house, he got 216 votes there. Claire mccaskill, thank you as always for your wisdom and thoughts tonight. I appreciate it, my friend. You bet, alex. That is our show for tonight, now its time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. Good evening,. Lawrence. Good evening, alex. I think Hakeem Jeffries may be on his way for setting the record for getting the most votes for speaker, more than anyone else who hasnt been elected speaker. Its unbelievable to see those vote totals when Hakeem Jeffries is the leader on the board. Shocking. Its a sign of the times, lawrence. Well see what the board says tomorrow. Thanks, alex. Have a good show. Thank you. Air force one was wheels up at Andrews Air Force base at 5 52 pm. President biden is now four hours into the ten hour flight to israel, where Air Force One is expected to land about about 11 am local time in israel. A little over an hour
Intensifies. A ground war expected any moment along the gaza has yet to materialize. The fear is there and so is the rampant advice, were told israel will be targeting from multiple sites. Egyptians are showing support, but warning it would have limits, that is to get people out of there. They werent referring to the invasion. Were learning as well, right now, that with all of this going on, turkey is concerned that israels response and our very presence with the gerald r. Ford in the neighborhood will increase the chances for a massacre. Lets go to trey yingst right now in southern israel, what hes seeing amidst the fastmoving developments. Trey. Yeah, neil, good morning. Were following the developments out of the gaza strip and also, along the northern border with israel. Some Significant Developments on the northern border as fighting appears to continue between hezbollah, the lebanese militant group, and also the Israeli Forces on the northern part of the border. I want to take you
By representatives of hamas and islamic which are in operation here. He did not sound conciliatory. Crossfire at the border between lebanon and israel, iranians not conciliatory but at the same time very interesting to see the iranian Supreme Leader saying that iran had nothing to do with the planning of this attack. Everyone is taking pause and looking at what is coming next. Very much uncharted territory. Kim ghattas , thank you so much for joining us. Thanks for watching. Live from israel starts right now. Out front next life from israel, troops massing and no word of the hostages tonight. Israels Prime Minister making the case for spitting hamas out like i. S. I. S. Showing unspeakable pictures of a baby and childrens letter. Russians fight militants hand inhand with the Pistol Pete Retired Israeli General tells us what he witnessed and you will hear is incredible story of taking on the attackers. Rockets said to be fired by hamas, footage from a videogame. Israeli jets bombing gaz