some republicans want medicare and social security sunset. let me give you anybody who doubts that contact my office. i ll give you a copy i ll give you a cop yf of the proposal. oh, yeah. it was on last night. good morning, everyone. here we are in washington, d.c. live on capitol hill this morning. some republicans jeering and booing and heckling the president. but biden punched back during last night s heated state of the union. we ll break down the key take aways. and we re going to speak to lawmakers on both sides of the aisle who were there. plus this. children rescued from the rubble but countless people remain trapped and buried alive. more than 48 hours after the catastrophic earthquake in turkey and sear yachlt we ll take you for the search for survivors. the death toll is near 11,000. also, we have updates in memphis. the five police officers charged with murdering tyre nichols have now been accused of beating up another young black man just days before. we l
they by potentially reinforcing this image of extremism that hurt republicans so much through purple states. there are others, but for me those are the biggest known unknowns for 2024. and that last one is a great question because you have heard republicans, you know, they have been basically chomping at the bit to take over the majority for obvious reasons. but with such a small majority, you negotiation i heard from republicans who say, we re concerned about what these investigations look like and what path this goes down and do we look like we have a strategy that we have it together or we don t know who is going to be the house speaker next week when the new congress takes over. good point. ron, thank you very, very much. thank you, guys. happy holidays. thank you. cnn this morning continues right now. good morning. it is 8:00 a.m. eastern. we re so glad you re with us. it is december 27th. welcome to cnn this morning. all right, so we will begin with
people were genuinely freaked out inside the west wing. people who are now downplaying the hearings, they were freaked out that day because of what the committee laid out last night. nothing that he saw changed trump s perspective of what happened. they were shocked when they heard that, shocked it exists, that the recordings of it existed, and it was just some of the compelling testimony we heard last night. and in some cases laid out some new details. also words from the former president himself, including he said, mike pence let me down. those were the last five words that an aide heard trump say that day, before he left the west wing to go to the residence for the night. nothing about the attack, according to the committee, just his grievances with mike pence. here is a review of some of the hearing s most notable moments. the president wanted to lead 10,000 people to the capitol. i think that was enough grounds for us to are you aware of any phone call by the p
announcing his retirement after 20 seasons in the nfl. fox & friends first starts right now. good morning, you are watching fox & friends first on this monday morning, i m benjamin hall in for todd piro. jillian: i m jillian mele. good to see you this morning. i don t think many people are surprised by the drew brees announcement. did you follow him. he s a name that is well-known over here, 15 years, 20 years in total. so yeah, only a few football names are well-known here and he is certainly one of them. jillian: that says a lot right there. let s begin with a fox news alert. a chicago police officer is not the face in a precinct parking lot. the 26 veteran of the department was grazed on the chin. he was later released from the hospital. no arrests have been made. detectives are looking into whether the sergeant was targeted. he is the 13th officer to be shot at or shot this year. today, a rendell gas station will descend upon the mexican border as an influx of ill