Thats to be expected. The alternative, however, is simply untenable. At home, another four years of Donald Trumps chaotic leadership, this time focused on advancing the dangerous goals of project 2025 will hurt real, everyday people and waken our sacred institutions. Richard, which are the reasons who have not stood up yet, who served in the Trump Administration, who could actually make a difference in terms of persuading those very few, unpersuadable voters who are left . And do you expect any more of them to stand up between now and november . I mean, theres the former Vice President who has, shall we say, a certain physical and political incentive to stand up, given how he was do you think hes going to do it . No. Look, i think if people were going to stand up, theyve had now, shall we say, several years to do it. Several people simply have not. Disagree with me or not, but how much of a difference will it make . Its certainly not going to shake trumps base. Im not sure many of thes
this hour, we re tracking a deadly winter storm. temperatures plummeting to life-threatening lows on this christmas holiday. more than 55 million people remain under windchill alerts this morning. right now, blizzard conditions across the great lakes. at least 26 people have died from the arctic blast across eight states. in hard-hit erie county, new york, roads remain impassable after two straight days of snowfall. a very dangerous situation, driving bans still in place. this was the first time in buffalo fire history that they were unable to respond to calls. i want to remind everybody, there was a period, hours straight in which we could not send out emergency service crews. we could not send out department of public works crews, because it was too dangerous. bitter cold icing over the christmas celebrations in the midwest, east coast, and southeast this morning. even florida is feeling the chill. much of the state experiencing its coldest christmas since 1983. power o
The Palestinian People at large a hope for a Better Future so maybe they wont turn against israel and certainly broadening the conflict is very dangerous. The Israeli Military is not as strong as it should be at this point for various reasons most of them political. Thank you very, very much. Thanks, wolf. Hello everyone. Thank you so much for joining us. Im Fredricka Whitfield in atlanta alongside wolf blitzer in washington. Well get back to you in a moment, wolf. Lets start with our continuing coverage of israel at war. New fighting today inside gaza. Israel Defense Forces say they clashed with hamas fighters marking only the second confirmed israeli operation in the enclave since the beginning of this war. Beyond that skirmish it has been another bloody day across the gaza strip. Israeli air strikes ripping through the enclave with deadly results. The grim reality of this war seen on some of its most vulnerable. Video obtained by cnn showing the lifeless bodies of a toddler and thre
not just prosecutors but to the defense. and now they can start contacting witnesses, maybe developing a defense, strategies. prosecutors don t really love that, and so that s a way where really the politician could get in the way of merrick garland and jack smith. you make a great point, politicians getting in the way. this is something the former president s legal team has argued by making these referrals as politicians into an investigation. but the attorney general has tried to make it apolitical. you really do run the risk of, especially in the court of public opinion, making this look political, don t you, potentially? oh, yeah. but you can t persuade the unpersuadable. you re talking about you have the maga world. it doesn t matter what you tell them, they re going to be loyal to donald trump. so they re off the table. but there are some segment of americans who you can reach, and that s why i think a report is important. that s what the committee has
be persuaded? what is the answer in your mind? there s about one-third of the party that are unpersuadable trump die hard, and that leaves two-thirds that are gettable. the middle third, and maybe another third of the party that liked marco rubio, liked normal republicans and would like to go back to old school pretrump republicans, and that middle is very conservative. in order to win them over, and let s call them the trump maybes, and people that like trump but might move forward, and you will have to do all the things that hurt republicans in the mid-term, cruelty, dabbling in conspiracies, and so that damages you for the general election. i think this is the great conundrum somebody like ron desantis is in, and he s in the okay place right now, because it s the idea of desantis versus trump, and people like chris