sodas to cereals. we ll go through that debate, joe, you and your diet coke. good morning and welcome to morning joe. well, let me say this, willie. let me say this, okay? yeah, i ve had a few diet coke in my day. five a day. growing up, growing up, i think we all knew three things. number one, of course, willie, we knew you never eat a big dinner before you go swimming, right? just don t do it. sure. number two, never, ever, ever, and mcarthur taught us this, don t get engaged in a ground war in asia. number three, i think we all knew from the first sip of diet coke that we had in 1982, like, we knew it caused cancer. no. you had a sip, you know, this tastes okay, but it is probably going to kill me. let me have another one. seriously, we were sitting around with our pop rocks and everything else, put down our tabs and mr. pibbs, then we pick those up. you drank diet coke, and you knew when you had the first sip, you knew, yeah, this is what killed elvi
merry christmas, everyone! we are so glad you are with us on this special morning. i m poppy hearlow with paul maddingly. this is a special edition of cnn this morning. hope you re having a great holiday with your loved ones. merry christmas. i want to stay on this set forever. isn t it beautiful? it s beautiful. they did a wonderful job. i love all the poinsettias all around. we have a christmas tree and a fire. the iowa caucuses are just three weeks away from today. this morning, we ll highlight the key moments on the campaign trail so far, and how they could shape the final months in the race for the white house. and seasons full of strikes reignite the labor movement in america from hollywood to the motor city, workers won pay raises and new protections. how technology could bring more change to the economy in the year ahead. and coming together this holiday season, as anti-semitism and islamophobia sentiment rises, we ll talk to faith leaders about how we
against sending weapons to russia for the war in ukraine. plus, a newly disputed intelligence report. did a lab accident in wuhan cause the covid pandemic? as house republicans are about to launch a new prime time investigation. and toxic fears. safety concerns spreading far beyond ohio after contaminated waste from that train derailment was shipped out of state without warning. the environmental activist erin brockovich is back with us today. plus, curveball. major league baseball s new rules already changing the outcome of the game. the mlb s dramatic changes to america s favorite past time. good day. tensions with china escalating a beijing accusing the u.s. of quote, fanning the flames in ukraine. china saying the u.s. is using a double standard. arming ukraine while warning china against doing the same. secretary of state blinken and vice president harris had told the world about the possible change in china s policy not to provide lethal aid to putin. national sec
cathedral. this is as you say his first visit here as king. his 40th visit to northern ireland, and his car pulled up, his window was a little bit down, he was behind the barriers, a few feet away and i was so struck by the way that the way the king waved at the crowd before he was even out of the car and he was opened the door and was out and he waved. this is sort of not the way perhaps people have thought of the monarchy in the past, it is somewhat stuffy and a little bit aloof. this was a king connecting with the people of his country. he was met by the lord lieutenant on the steps of the cathedral here. introduced so some other local dignitaries. but even as he walked up those few steps into this old cathedral here, the cathedral that is known for being a cross community cathedral, even as he walked up the steps before he went in, he turned and his queen consort camilla waved again at the crowd before they went in. and it is expected, you are hearing the trumpets playing
wind at their backs. i m john berman, brianna is off, cnn chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins here this morning. wind at their backs, we will see come november, i guess. a little. they re hoping wind at their back this morning. what democrats are looking at the reason they might feel this way is based on the results of special elections here in new york. cnn projects that democrat pat ryan will win the battleground 19th district, a district that joe biden narrowly carried in 2020 but republicans felt very good heading into this special. they were hoping they could flip this. abortion rights became the central issue in this race, democrats made it so, much more on this in just a moment. also in new york congressman jerry nadler easily defeated he is a powerful committee chair he easily defeated powerful committee chair carolyn maloney in a bitter race that really got to the redirstrictin struggles the democrats had in new york. in florida democratic congr