my girl kerry champion will join me to discuss and this is what i m most excited about. vegan social media star tab that brown is joining me on the cross connection this morning. she will share her latef loves with us and we ll have a jam-packed show. i love tab that. i m team tab. i went to her book signing in brooklyn. we are huge fans. she makes you feel like everything s going to be okay in the world. wonderful. yes. we will hear from her this morning. yes. her energy, i believe her big saying is have a good day, but even if you can t don t you go mess up everybody else s which is something we all need to live by. tiffany cross. i just fan girled. i ll be watching. thanks so much. the cross connection starts at 10:00 a.m. eastern right after this. still to come, democrats in congress are banking on the new year bringing in rights
this package and things like elder care or electric vehicles, qualify as infrastructure. we ve made no progress between the two sides on how to pay for this. the latef republican counter offer dealt mainly with taking money that had been appropriated for the covid relief package, but hasn t yet been spent and redirecting that toward infrastructure. you are pitting democrats biggest legislative achievement against republicans greatest legislative achievement in their mind of the previous congress in terms of the tax cut bill in terms of how to pay for it and when i listen to secretary buttigieg i listen to the white house and they re the ones along with democratic allies who will have to decide when the negotiations are and if they re not fruitful or if they can feel like they can go it alone with democratic votes. let s set aside infrastructure for a second and talk about the hot-button issue which is an effort to establish an independent commission to
condemned atef hateful expressions of intolerance and including african-americans and latinos and others and jonathan allen said the episode exposed the ideological and religious and generational and racial divide within the democrat caucus and at a time they are desperate to demonstrate to the country they are using their new-found majority to govern. here to weigh in, political analysis claire mccaskill. walk you through what has happened in the last week. did democrats specifically leadership handle this correctly? well i think this is hard stuff. let s be real. this congresswoman omar, she said some terrible things. she s a freshman. she needs to get used to the fact that her choice of words matters. so i m angry at her, first and foremost for what she said but she apologized. so then you get to what do you
celebration. we asked how do we decide who gets rescued. i will never leave a fallen comrade to fall into the hands of the enemy. a military touchstone and now a cloud of questions. we don t leave americans behind. that s unequivocal. let s talk, live in the cnn newsroom. good morning. i m carol costello. thank you so much for joining me. breaking news to tell you about at the top of the show. we re just learning this morning a second u.s. military jet has crashed. this time an atef super hornet plummeted into the waters of the california coast. keep in mind this is the second crash of a military jet in less than 24 hours. a hairier jet went down in a california neighborhood just yet. flames and black smoke rose from the wreckage on the streets in
we re working to get more information on this story, but here s what we know so far. more details about a man detained in egypt on tuesday for having firearms in his checked baggage. a government a federal government official speaking on background is telling us the following was found in the man s checked baggage. we re talking about two handguns, five box of ammo, four knives and two empty magazine clips and we re also learning the tsa is telling us that it checked the baggage for explosives. so we re not quite sure, although this may have made it through the screening. we will continue to follow developments on this story and bring you the latef as we get it. you may have to shell out more money for oysters if if you can find them. ever wonder what a four-month supply of oyster shells looks like? take a look at this. it s huge. tons of shells, but unfortunately, production has now come to a screeching halt.