forces in yemen. search and rescue efforts are underway for two navy seals lost at sea during that mission. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom, i m dana perino. bill: good morning. last dance here in des moines, right? we re the last show out of here. i m bill hemmer. navy commanders boarding a smuggling ship in the sea finding cruise missiles. the same type used by the houthis to launch a series of attacks on ships in the red sea that disresults global trade. wall street journal reports shell is now the latest company to say we aren t going to go that way. we ll stop shipments through the red sea fearing a further escalation of attacks by the houthi rebels. dana: complex raid seizing the weapons took place last thursday while austin was still in the hospital and now released and working from home for a while. griff jenkins is live at the pentagon with an update on all this for us. good morning, griff. good morning, dana. the secretary will have a very busy
ready to fight. they kicked donald trump off the republican primary ballot and the former president says he will fight back. i m harris faulkner, you are in the faulkner focus. colorado s highest court claims donald trump violated the 14th amendment by inciting an insurrection. that decision is unprecedented and it just so happens to fall along party lines. it s the first time section three of the 14th amendment has ever been used to disqualify the presidential candidate. critics and legal analysts point out trump has never been charged or convicted of anything in connection with the january 6th capitol hill riot. trump s campaign with this. democrat party leaders are in a state of paranoia over the growing dominant lead president trump has amassed in the polls. backlash was fast and furious. it is a strikingly anti-democratic holding. in my view, the court is dead wrong. this court just handed partisans on both sides the ultimate tool to try to shortcut elections. and it
along with congressman byron donal accountas and john james i roy and republican conference confchair, at least the phonic. now, coming up, we will dove headfirst into the republican agenda from investigations to oversight to the abuse ofg power to removing fang fang s boyfriend from the intel. committee. weamittee. special look at the u. penn biden center for diplomacyo engagement made possible, itt appears, by the communist party of china.y afte now in 2014, shortly after acade establishing the academic center all in biden s name and appointing appointing the former vice president to lead the new department, 50 former million dollars in anonymous donations from china magically just poured right into the coffers. and the coffers. watchdog demanded that these sketchy donationsnd be investigated out of national security concerns. and now lndo and behold, breaking this week, a trove of top secret classified documents, including sensitive compartmented information from the oba
going to hear about it. and you re going to hear about mine. first up, joe , biden calling for unity. our politics has gotten so angry, so mean, so partisan, and too often we see each other s enemies. i sincerely hope this holiday, this holiday season will drain the poison that has infected our politics and set us against one another. but let me remind you, this is the man who accused half of the people in this country of being semi fascist and says our country is steeped in racism. that s the guy who wants to have this big kumbaya moment now that christmas is here in santa is watching. but then, of course, there are his policies, which basically sent our economy into the toilet. all the indications that we see would point to a recession sometime within the first three to six months of next year. i think the greater risk is that at some point during 2020 three , the economy will head towards recession. so recession is very much likely in the coming 12 to 18 months.
Stuck in the mud. Some 70,000 people stranded at burning man. Heavy rain stranding them in nevadas desert while roads are expected to be reopened today. Were following the latest. Plus President Biden sticking with a familiar playbook, talking up the state of the u. S. Economy and shoring up union support. But is it working . New polling showing the economy could be the biggest threat to his reelection. And a leadership shakeup. Ukrainian president zelenskyy dismisses his Defense Minister and says its time for new approaches in the war with russia. What that could mean for the counteroffensive. Were following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. Soon a mass exodus out of the mud. Organizers of The Burning Man Festival in nevada say they hope that in just a couple of hours tens of thousands of people whove been stranded in the desert can begin to drive out. For days now festivalgoers have been trapped in treacherous ankledeep mud adv