to the january 6 investigation. former trump official mark meadows is suing lawmakers to block their subpoenas. we ll tell you the committee s response. the omicron variant of the coronavirus now in 22 states. health experts are predicting a winter surge and urging americans to get their booster shot. and 2two more countries joi the diplomatic boycott of the beijing olympics. we ll have china s reaction. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. it s thursday, december 9th, and we begin with the latest challenge to the january 6 committee s ability to investigate the capitol insurrection. it s an about face by former white house chief of staff mark meadows on testifying. instead, he s suing the house speaker and the committee to block enforcement of his subpoena to appear. donald trump s former top aide is claiming effective privilege, but he s already turned over thousands of pages of documents and has written about conversations wit
from the east and west coast to the midwest, to the south there has been a disturbing rise in violent crime this year. and that s putting liberal policies under the microscope. watch republican congressman dan crenshaw. there is a direct line between death and decay and liberal policies. they are deliberately doing this. they want pros koouts who won t prosecute and let criminals out. the criminals laugh in the back of a police car because they know they ll be out the next day back to committing crimes. this is a problem for people who actually pay taxes and live there and they are ruining america s greatest cities. harris: let s take a quick look at philadelphia where the numbers are horrific. 524 homicides so far this year. that s up 13% from last year. the city of brotherly love as it is called now has the second highest number of homicides for any american cities. chicago has the most. and despite all those numbers, despite the reality of all of that violence, the lib
distract. lawmakers instagram after damning reports on the site s impact on children. you are the new tobacco whether you like it or not. you have got to stop. hillary clinton launched a master class. this was supposed to be the victory speech that i would have delivered. looks like self-pity and how to lose an election. it s beginning to look a lot like christmas everywhere you go ainsley: that is one of our trees inside studio m. brian: that s not on fire. ainsley: right. the one outside has been taken down, the remains of it, and we are going to light another tree during the five tonight and we ll all be here for the tree lighting ceremony. steve: it will be great. cardinal dolan will be here. members of the fire department of new york and the police department who helped apprehend the guy. we will all be there. and it is a big story. it is the cover of the new york post, treeson. grinch sets fire to fox s y all display he is free on bail despite a long rap
here are the ten most very festive, magical, jolly. peaceful. snowy, unwrapped, angelic tales of the holiday. who can forget christmas? are you ready to deck some halls. on an entire evening of christmas specials, starting with the grinch stole christmas. the annual christmas specials were an event. when you first. see that advertisements like. frosty the snowman returns tuesday night. this was on once. if you missed it, you were screwed. mom, mom, can you watch that? can we watch that? mom. on sunday, december 4th. burl ives again tells the exciting news story of rudolph the red-nosed reindeer. i was obsessed with claymation and the rudolph the red-nosed reindeer was like the pinnacle. love. that show tells the story of rudolph based on the song rudolph, who was kind of an outsider. burl ives as the snowman, hermie the elf. remember him? he was sort of the the cast off. i want to be a dentist, you know, but it s a lucrative business given that your boss, santa, gets paid in
here are the ten most very festive, magical, jolly. peaceful. snowy, unwrapped, angelic tales of the holiday. who can forget christmas? are you ready to deck some halls. on an entire evening of christmas specials, starting with the grinch stole christmas. the annual christmas specials were an event. when you first. see that advertisements like. frosty the snowman returns tuesday night. this was on once. if you missed it, you were screwed. mom, mom, can you watch that? can we watch that? mom. on sunday, december 4th. burl ives again tells the exciting news story of rudolph the red-nosed reindeer. i was obsessed with claymation and the rudolph the red-nosed reindeer was like the pinnacle. love. that show tells the story of rudolph based on the song rudolph, who was kind of an outsider. burl ives as the snowman, hermie the elf. remember him? he was sort of the the cast off. i want to be a dentist, you know, but it s a lucrative business given that your boss, santa, gets paid in