maria: good sunday morning, everyone, welcome to sunday morning futures. i m maria bartiromo. today republicans dig in leaving for the christmas holiday with plans to double down on their investigation if into president biden amidst brazen defiance from first son hunter blowing off a congressional subpoena and instead trying to set the rules of any deposition congressional a investigators are asking for. coming up, house ways and means committee chairman jason smith with more on the republicans investigation of president biden along with his list of depositions he s pursuing in the new year. then, targeting trump. special counsel jack smith tries to get the 45th president on trial before he can cam pawn for president as campaign for president as the amount of surveillance, propaganda and censorship spikes across merge former department of defense chief of staff kash patel along with alan dershowitz on the soft attacks on america s way of life in plain sight. then, the pr
a sunday morning, welcome to morning futures.m ma i am maria bartiromo. thank you for joining us this morning.ans leaving for the christmas holiday with plans to double down on their investigation if into president biden amidst brazen defiance from first son hunter blowing off a congressional subpoena and instead trying to set the rules of any deposition congressional a investigators are asking for. coming up, house ways and means committee chairman jason smith with more on the republicans investigation of president biden along with his list of depositions he s pursuing in the new year. then, targeting trump. special counsel jack smith tries to get the 45th president on trial before he can cam pawn for president as campaign for president as the amount of surveillance, propaganda and censorship spikes across merge former department of defense chief of staff kash patel along with alan dershowitz on the soft attacks on america s way of life in plain sight. then, the propaga
of the year finish. will: see? pete: there it is. will: andy williams, first round draft pick in the christmas music if extravaganza. pete: we were playing his music in the break. yes, he s ubiquitous. will: per ifly como rachel: classic. will: exactly, ray e hell. pete: but does he have any other hits other than christmas? will: that, i can t say. rachel: he s too young to know that. [laughter] laugh. will: that is like walking through a department store in new york city in a christmas movie, right in that s what s playing. rachel: there s lots of great christmas albums out there. everybody who s a star wants their christmas album to become the next american classic. let s admit, mariah carey does have that classic album. i know it s more modern. will: i m not above that. rachel: the one that i grew up with that i a really love and i think is underappreciated, should get a rerival, is i love his christmas album, harry ebell fonte s christmas album will: nice, good. r
you, andy scholes. thank you very much for being with us. i ll see you tomorrow. and thanks to all of you for joining us. don t go anywhere. cnn this morning starts right now. good morning, everyone. glad you re starting your day with us. here are fife things to know. happening right now, the israeli military carrying out an operation at the besieged hospital in gaza. there are reports of active fire fights inside of that collects. we ll hear from the idf live later this morning. and new hope for a deal to release the hostages. president biden says he believes it s going to happen. also president biden today set to have a high-stakes summit with chinese president xi jinping. the goal to keep tensions from getting any worse. it s up to the senate to prevent a government shutdown before the deadline on friday night. the house passed a short-term measure yesterday. and new overnight, president biden blasting donald trump for calling his enemies vermin. the remark was l
officials tried to overturn elections that were conducted fairly, and then the electoral college, and they don t address it. it is ridiculous that they are trying to campaign finance reform, and this is not dealing with the issues that they are talking about in terms of the stolen elections and januaryth issues. they have a wish list of issues that have been on the wish list for years and this is little to do with the january insurrection issues and the issues that threaten our democracy. but there are issues since january 6th that have passed a number of bills at the state level, if you leave it to the states that restrict the voting for communities particularly of color and make it harder for minorities to have access to vote or harder for them to go ahead to vote, you know, by taking away certain hours that