want to short were my name from lawrence to larry. my grandfather always did that because i m the third. don t ever let them call you larry, we named you lawrence. ainsley: that s the problem you have nine or 10 month to name your kid and you sit in the hospital room holding your baby debating what you are going to call your child because you start thinking if you name your child this beautiful long name lawrence or r. people going to shorten it and if they do, what are they going to call him and what s it going to rhyme with. exactly. same amount of sill pals. ainsley: i love the name lawrence there was a kid in my neighborhood named lawrence and now he is grown and has kids. he dropped a brick on my toe and yes, when i was little. answered brought me pudding pops. lawrence: lawrence is good people. ainsley: you are forgiven. to a 5-year-old a box of pudding pops is all you have to do. steve: it would bug you if i call you larry all longer. lawrence: don t do it. ainsley:
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and staff sickness causes disruption on the railways. in her first christmas broadcast since the death of prince philip, the queen is expected to give a very personal address tomorrow. and coming up, i can t say my name a revealing look at what it s like to live with a stammer. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. a glimmer of christmas hope may be on offer from new cononavirus data, suggesting that the omicron variant may be less likely to lead to serious illness than the delta variant. that s according to a uk senior health official. but drjenny harries from the uk health security agency warned it definitely isn t yet at the point where we could downgrade the serious threat of omicron and that more data is needed, particularly about the impact on elderly and more vulnerable patients. it comes as 200,000 first, second or booster appointments are being made available over the festive period across england as people are urged to getjabbed.
general merrick garland. so the proverbial ball is in his court. speaking of court, after several losses former president trump got his first minor court victory in his effort to keep documents and other records about january 6th hidden. and then something truly jaw dropping. new audio of trump defending what should be the indefensible, chants to hang or assassinate his then vice president. were you worried about him during that siege? were you worried about his safety is. no. i thought he was well protected and heard he was in good shape. no. i heard he was in very good shape. but no you heard the chants. those were terrible. the people were angry. hang mike pence. it s common sense, john, it s common sense that you re supposed to protect if you know a vote is fraudulent how can you pass on a fraudulent vote to congress. common sense? we ll talk about that in just a moment. first cnn is covering all the legal developments today. first, what happens next wit
he was found guilty of fraud and money laundering last year. before his firm s collapse in 2022, the former billionaire became a celebrity atop a crypto empire. prosecutors said he raided customer accounts for bribes, illegal political donations and risky investments. our business correspondent michelle fleury has more. thejudge had to decide the judge had to decide a couple of things and took into account age, losses involved an impact on the victims and also the message of the tarrant and he settled on 25 years for sam bankman fried, sending him to prison for that time. it was less than lawyers who had been prosecuting the case had asked for you wanted 40 15 years and by contrast lawyers for mr bankman fried said he should get less than seven years. judge lewis kaplan decided that splitting the difference somewhere in the middle was the way to go. the judge clearly thought that although mr bankman fried has autism, as he said in court, sometimes he can be a bit socially awk