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Let s get started. so there s no doubt about it. thanksgiving a is a great time to look back and take stock of where we are and where we have been. as the new york times s michelle goldberg discussed with us, it s tempting to give into a feeling of despair about the headlines surrounding covid, the economy, even the future of our democracy. but if you stop and remember what things were like this time last year, you gain a different perspective of where we are today. president biden spoke about this recently. watch. this thanksgiving we re all in a very different circumstance. things are a hell of a lot better. as bad as things are in terms of prices hurting families now, trade this thanksgiving for last thanksgiving. so it is a good question, stop and think about it for a moment. would you trade this thanksgiving for last thanksgiving? ahead of thanksgiving last year, the average number of new covid cases was more than double this year s number, and deaths were 65% higher. ....
I m ayman mohyeldin. let s get started. so there s no doubt about it. thanksgiving a is a great time to look back and take stock of where we are and where we have been. as the new york times s michelle goldberg discussed with us, it s tempting to give into a feeling of despair about the headlines surrounding covid, the economy, even the future of our democracy. but if you stop and remember what things were like this time last year, you gain a different perspective of where we are today. president biden spoke about this recently. watch. this thanksgiving we re all in a very different circumstance. things are a hell of a lot better. as bad as things are in terms of prices hurting families now, trade this thanksgiving for last thanksgiving. so it is a good question, stop and think about it for a moment. would you trade this thanksgiving for last thanksgiving? ....
Weekend, the new york times says jeffrey rosen provided closed door testimony to the senate committee about the president s efforts to overthrow the 2020 election. rosen did not respond to the new york times s request for comment on his testimony but the pulitzer prize winning reporter who broke this story gathered details anyway. rosen s testimony is adding to the litany of new revelations about how the expresident and his enablers were attempting to tear down democracy. with each piece of new evidence we are now starting to be able to stitch together a time line the former president s efforts to upsend democracy. let s look at of the right now. on december 23rd, bill barr resigns as attorney general after disputing the expresident s false claims of widespread voter fraud. barr s departure elevates the man next to him, jeffrey rosen to acting attorney general. now, on december 27, just four ....
They painted the actor as the driver of this whole scam and provided police with all they needed to arrest and charge him with a felony. smollett, by the way, was in court today, as you see there. he was pretty stone-faced inside the courtroom, didn t say much, and he was released on $100,000 bond, anderson. being mobbed by reporters as he left. randi, thanks. cnn has just received this statement on smollett s behalf. it reads, and i m quoting, today, we witnessed an organized law enforcement spectacle that has no place in the american league system. the presumption of innocence, a bedrock in the search for justice, was trampled upon at the expense of mr. smollett and, notably, on the eve of a mayoral election. the statement continues, mr. smollett is a young man of impeccable character and integrity who fiercely and solemnly maintains his innocence and feels betrayed by a system that apparently wants to skip due process and proceed directly to sentencing. here to sort through th ....
Mueller s report is expected to be delivered as early as next week, and the president s former lawyer and fixer michael cohen will testify publicly before a congressional committee next week as well. now, if you ve been watching some of this with some level of interest, imagine where the president s head is right now as he prepares to head overseas for another summit with north korea s dictator. new york times white house correspondent. where does stealing the spotlight rank among the sins of the president? there s going to be a lot of focus on michael cohen. there s consistently been frustration among the president s team that major news related to the mueller probe or aspects of the mueller probe tended to drop when he was on a foreign trip. this was predictable that he was going to be away. i m not sure why this date was chosen. it s frustrating to people around the president that there is an aspect of it that makes ....