congress. merrick garland answered questions about everything from gun violence to tech giants to child labor and much more. he gave an early sign that he would not go into detail about some of the justice department s most politically fraught investigations. that includes the classified dork found at the home of current and former president it requires as much as possible we speak to our work and our filings in court so we do not jeopardize the viability of our investigations and the civil liberties of our citizens. as expected, the attorney general received his toughest questions from republicans. texas senator ted cruz slammed garland for failing to arrest any protester opposed to the overturning of roe v. wade who demonstrated outside the homes of some supreme court justices. in my judgment, the department of justice has been politicized to the greatest extent i ve ever seen. i vigorously disagree. i believe the men and women of the department pursue their wor
just one term. the race is largely seen at the barometer on how americans feel about crime. a democratic who ran on tougher crime laws will advance to the runoff. paul valles will face cook county commissioner brandon johnson. cnn s omar jimenez joins us from chicago. we knew this would be a tough battle for lightfoot. this recally was surprising, 17. reporter: i talked to mayor lightfoot halfway through her term. she said people don t feel safe. literally nothing else matters. this election felt very much like the embodiment of that. she was the city s first black woman to be elected mayor. the first openly gay mayor as well. now she s set to become the first full-term incumbent in 40 years not to win re-election as
and we still have an air quality problem particularly downwind from this fire burning out of control. get back to my graphics and talk a bit about what s to come. today we have a critical fire weather danger across elements of new mexico. we have dry conditions, wind gusting and the national weather service understands they ve hoisted a red flag warn. we get into the nitty-gritty. you can see the wind will pick up through the course of day and once again through the weekend and into recally next week. kim? busy for you keeping an eye on all those stories there. our break news coverage of the war in ukraine continues on new day with christie paul and alex m m marquardt. you re watching cnn.
know, they re vaccinated, but it does appear that behavior i don t recally things are very different right now, right? because there is more protection out there. but it seems like a weary america is done with staying home. that is absolutely for sure. so now it s going to affect very dramatically, especially this week, our service professions, right. so you just had that great interview about, you know, plane flights being canceled, same thing with hospitals. so our staff are also tired. they ve also been, you know, getting exposed to covid and getting covid. thankfully we re not seeing severe disease for the most part in people that are vaccinated. but we still want them to come to work, and that s really difficult right now. so, what about nooew year s eve? i mean, friday night, new york city will have the celebration in times square, fewer people, i
u.s./mexico border. according to three u.s. officials, internal debate and a failure to share information hampered agencies abilities to handle the 28,000 migrants who arrived in texas last month. this conflicts with messaging out of the white house with secretary mayorkas saying this weeks ago. i don t think we expected the repedity of the increase that occurred. joining me is national security and justice correspondent julia ainsley. julia, thank you. also with me an immigration attorney and telemundo legal analyst. julia, let me begin with you. what does your reporting show this internal debate within the administration was all about? it shows as recally as july, there s a lot of intelligence to figure out what might be coming