cnn news not with abby phillip starts right now. comments from the president that made his own staffers go yikes. that s tonight on news night. good evening, i m abby philip in new york. tonight, what you might call the law of political suspects. every action has it s equal, opposite reaction. president joe biden has now essentially confirmed that he is running for one race, and or bronzer, because of one man and one man only. donald trump. those remarks came at and off camera fund-raiser in boston, and they are jaw-dropping, if only for their clarity and their simplicity. if trump wasn t running, he says, i m not sure i d be running. but we can t let him win. the biden campaign was caught off guard, according to sources. yikes, was how one top campaign adviser reacted when he learned what biden had said. now, that remarks are short to create some headaches in the days ahead and to renew some conversations that are ongoing about president biden s age. moments ago, tru
no more insight on this week s billboard hot 100 chart isn t from the senior, actually, from this decade, or the decade from where that. it s actually twice my age and then some. in fact, if it were person it would be old enough to collect social security. as the holidays near though, it s it s probably when you ve been hearing a lot. brenda leaves, rocking around the christmas tree is making history, 65 years after it was released. now, breaking the record for the longest time to debut between, debuting and reaching number one. this achievement, fueled by a music video and tiktok campaign from lee, who recorded the song when she was just 13 years old. she is now 78, and celebrating this milestone, as she turns 79 next week. a nice early happy birthday to her. the song is set to break the record, that also is a christmas classic, of course, a lot of christmas music around here for the next several weeks. i want to thank you so much are joining us tonight, cnn
if donald trump wasn t running for the white house. we re breaking down the stark revelation about biden s decision making and what it says about the state of the 2024 presidential race. also breaking. after republican senator tommy tuberville finally backs down on his nearly year long blockade of u.s. military promotions, hundreds of nominees have been confirmed tonight. and the israeli military is claiming new advances across gaza. new video showing the frantic search for survivors in the rubble over the israeli strike as the u.n. chief warns conditions in gaza are apocalyptic. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. this is cnn breaking news. we begin with the breaking news on the 2024 race for the white house. president biden offering a very candid assessment of how donald trump influenced his decision to seek a second term. cnn s senior white house reporter is in boston for us and that s
look, he is. i mean, he is a guy who runs a country that is a communist country that s based on a form of government totally different than ours. president biden s last answer there might have been a bit awkward but true after what was otherwise a productive meeting yesterday with chinese president xi jinping. we ll have more from their first face-to-face talks in a year. i will say, mika. yeah? i know i don t interrupt, but i will in this case. that clip is burying the lead. what do we got? oh, well yeah. we had a meeting that i thought went extraordinarily well. fortunately, we have the wise man here who can tell us and the wise woman who can tell us what they think. oh, good. i, for one, loved hearing what was said there, and i love the fact that they understand that the united states and china, whether either side likes it or not, is we re going to be, in effect, running a large part of the planet over the next half century, as far as the economy, the
the nation s capitol on high alert as tens of thousands rally against anti-semitism in washington, d.c. is and as attacks on jews and tensions over the israel-hamas war soar. plus desperation in gaza as hospitals go without life-saving supplies. doctors frantically move ing newborn babies out of the nicu in gaza s largest hospital as oxygen runs out. what israel says it has offered to help. and a clean shot to the kidneys, republican congressman tim burchett accusing recently deposed kevin mccarthy of elbowing him in the back. kevin mccarthy denying it. what is undenial, we re three days away from a potential government shutdown. we re following these major developing stories and many more, all coming in right here to cnn news central. the push to free hostages held by hamas is picking up today. just a short time ago, president biden said he believes a deal would free hostages in gaza is going to happen. a senior u.s. official tells cnn that israel and hamas are inch