top of a brand new hour. i m victor blackwell. i m alisyn camerota, thank you for joining us on this special holiday edition of cnn newsroom. we begin with the ongoing threat to democracy unfolding in realtime. donald trump still trying to sell his big lie that the 2020 election was somehow stolen from him thousand he was defeated by joe biden. it s not just his rabid supporters going along with this lie, it s also top establishment republicans. seven-term senator chuck grassley standing side by side with the losing ex-president on stage at a des moines rally on saturday. and trump s former chief strategist steve bannon is defying the house select committee investigating the january 6th election. he says he won t cooperate. just how aggressive will the committee be in his search for the truth. here s one of the two gop members on the panel. it gets to a point we re stone walling, and we re not serious. there s contempt things you can file. you can do it through congres
morning. morning joe starts right now. it s the top of the hour. welcome to morning joe. it is tuesday, january 2nd. happy new year, everybody. israel s ground offensive in gaza is entering a new phase. the israeli military has plans to pull back some troops and shift to more localized operations. we re going to go through that development and the escalating tensions in the red sea. plus, a damning, new report on the intelligence failures by the israeli military. new york times investigation found there was no battle plan for a massive hamas invasion that they were warned about. also ahead, a look at the long to-do list for congress in 2024 with several crucial items that were simply not addressed late last year. plus, the supreme court has a tight timeline to rule on what would be one of the most consequential cases involving the presidency. we ll get expert, legal analysis on the issue of removing donald trump from the ballot in two states. are there going
a new phase-in israel s ground offensive in gaza. the israeli military has plans to pull back some troops and shift to more localized operations. we ll go through that development and the escalating tensions in the red sea. also ahead, a look at the very long to-do list for congress in 2024 with several crucial items that were not addressed late last year. plus, the supreme court has a tight time line to rule on the most consequential case involving the presidency since the year 2000 decision that sent george w. bush to the white house. good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, january 2, 2024. happy new year, everyone. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day, week, and yes year with us. it is going to be an extraordinarily busy year. we re so grateful that you re with us. we begin this morning overseas where the israeli military is planning to withdraw some of its troops from gaza. reservists from at least two brigades will be sent home t
they can help you get started with your idea. call now 800-710-0020. well, good evening, everyone. i m laura coats, and this is cnn tonight. we re talking about $30 billion, the amount it took to rescue the latest bank now in trouble. several contributed billions each to keep first republic afloat, which tells you just how seriously they cake all of this. what about every day americans bearing the brunt of say interest rates going up. is the little guy getting ignored through all of this? plus, it is the video you cannot look away from. this footage of a russian fighter jet forcing down an american drone over the black sea. what is going on in the new battlegrounds in the skies? and are confrontations like this more likely now with unmanned objects? also, banks failing, the market in turmoil, drones forced out of the sky and now this, everyone. seaweed. a massive blob of seaweed thousands of miles long, if that s even possible, over ten million tons of it floating around
good evening and welcome to the source. i m kaitlan collins. tonight, two more hostages have been free. 17 days after they were kidnapped by hamas. we ve just obtained new video of the two israeli women who were released, taken to a medical center in tel aviv tonight. they are 79-year-old nurit cooper, who you can see here, and 85-year-old yocheved lifshitz. they were both kidnapped with their husbands from the kibbutz nir oz near gaza on that deadly day. their husbands, i should note, were not released tonight and do remain captives of hamas. these women were released to the red cross at the rafah crossing between egypt and gaza. this happened just in the last several hours. this news comes three days after the release of judith and natalie raanan. that was last friday. now they are expected to be back on their way to the united states this week. over 200 hostages do still remain in gaza tonight, a number that we do know includes american citizens. cnn has now learned