steve: how tall are you? 6 8 , woe. ted was in the nba for, what 15 years? he really did a great job. brian: have a program you go right from the league. ainsley: stright fox news. brian: here for 10 years. ainsley: ted, did you play basketball? yes. how did that work out for you, ted? i m here. [laughter] brian: fantastic. ainsley: we glad you are. ted is one of the nicest guys. how many years have you been here, ted? 15. steve: welcome back to ted talk. [laughter] brian: very inspirational. steve: today is one week before christmas eve. ainsley: gosh. steve: so thank you very much for joining us and at the end of today s telecast, we re actually putting together our year end where you see all the stuff that s going to be coming up. brian: not today. steve: one day soon. brian: got to keep people off balance. not tell you exactly when. just be ready, fire up your vcr. steve: 8:00 last night. brian: tell us what s on. steve: meanwhile, let s talk about something that
went that far. plus, the high stakes arguments at the supreme court, the smoke signals from the justices and what it could mean for colorado s bid to ban donald trump from the ballot. also ahead, trump s nevada win, his march toward the gop nomination, and how long can nikki haley hang in the race? we made it to friday, thank you for joining us. it s 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. we begin with a defiant president biden firing back against blistering accusations in a special counsel report. robert hur writing in a 340 page report that while there was, quote, evidence that president biden willfully retained and disclosed classified materials, there wasn t enough evidence to charge the president and prove beyond reasonable doubt his guilt adding that a jury would likely see him as a sympathetic, well-meaning man with a poor memory. even suggesting the president didn t know the date his son beau died, prompting this response in an impromptu news
iowa countdown. with a week to go, gop candidates barnstorm iowa. there is a new day in america. without chaos. i m running for your issues. pretend we re one point down. and battle for democracy. facing political head winds, president biden hits the campaign trail with an allout focus on donald trump. democracy is on the ballot. as trump tried to flip the script. joe biden is a threat to democracy. will the strategy work. mike pence will join me from tel aviv, israel. and then congressman james clyburn. plus health scare. lloyd austin facing criticism for waiting days to tell the president and the public he s in the intensive care unit. how serious was his illness and why was it kept secret? hello, i m jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is once again just shaking our heads. we re eight days from the iowa caucus, one day past the january 6 attack on the capitol and donald trump is dominating the political conversation in the only way he
to avoid a monday default, simple majority needed in the house and senate. this is a two-year deal, that is hope, dream and handshake you will commit to spending caps. nobody gets everything they want in negotiation. take two trillion savings. ashley: lucas tomlinson has more from washington. good morning. lucas: good morning. more time to watch more racing. debt ceiling deal only passed by a single vote, it needs 218 to pass. speaker mccarthy is confident it will. see where things stand. one democrat, aoc and third of know ares are against the bill. here is some speaking out against it. sending one person into a room with another person and no cameras and they come out and say up or down, take it or leave it, that is not a good process. this is about increasing the credit card for prospective spending. this bill is smoke and mirrors, never are we talking about interest on existing debt. 32 trillion, one trillion is 30 billion. lucas: americans are over trilli
speech when it happens. and andrzej duda bringing the president to the capital amid the ongoing war next to his country. and as i told president zelenskyy when we spoke in kyiv yesterday, ki proudly say that our support for ukraine remains unwavering. this is hours after vladimir putin delivered his own state of the union, state of the nation speech trying to blame the u.s. somehow for the war in ukraine and you remember of course, it is russia who invaded country a year ago today. and russia would suspend their participation in the new start nuclear weapons treaty as it is known, and russia is already not in compliance and the question is what this means going forward and will russia perhaps break the limit on nuclear warheads set by that treaty, and we begin in warsaw where president biden is going to speak. phil mattingly is there, and cnn national correspondent is there in hkharkiv, and this is not to be a response to putin s speech, and what is the president s mess