chris jansing reports. at this hour, donald trump s republican rivals not sounding much like rivals after he s kicked off the ballot in colorado. what they re saying including the candidate pledging to withdraw from the state s contest if trump can t compete too. pressure mounting on israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. his tense meetings with the families of hostages and where negotiations stand right now to bring them home. plus, the threat is far from over as a volcano continues erupting in iceland, what it means for thousands of people forced to evacuate right before the holiday. and it s the most wonderful time of the year, unless maybe you re headed to the airport. the record-breaking travel as families head home for the holidays. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. we start with donald trump s republican opponents rallying around after the colorado ruling. nbc s vaughn hillyard is following that for us. what are they sayin
top of the hour now on cnn newsroom. i m john berman. this morning president biden reassuring americans that the u.s. banking system remains safe. this despite the failure of two significant banks within 48 hours. silicon valley bank and signature bank have now been taken over by federal regulators. all customers who had deposits in these banks can rest assured. rest assured they ll be protected and they ll have access to their money as of today. that includes small businesses across the country that bank there and need to make payroll, pay their bills and stay open for business. no losses this is an important point. no losses will be borne by the taxpayers. the president emphasized the customers will be fully protected while the bank s managers and investors will be held accountable. he also outlined the emergency measures his administration took to protect the bank s customers. cnn s priscilla alvarez is with us. look, a lot of this is trying to ease the anxiety
i d scalp. it no i wouldn t i would literally use it because what an extraordinary hearing, i want to return to normalcy to see here a judge say, no. this case, you guys have not been arguing very well. that s a substack s right? it can t be declassified if you re not arguing it s declassified. i just got so many aspects of what transpired are worthy of analysis of discussion, because there was a lot packed in there, and we re getting great indication of where the special master may be heading in all of this. and we re gonna have that discussion because what i would do with that ticket is give it to andrew weissmann, but andrew weissmann doesn t need my help because he was actually there. he used to work in that courthouse. he s gonna be with us leading off tonight, and so we have the guy in the room, the guy i want in the room for the sessions. but there s two tickets, i want the other ticket. i desperately want to be there. thank you. alex you are in good hands lawr
determine the future control of the upper chamber. that debate tonight, just a few moments ago, actually, between the incumbent democratic senator from georgia, reverend raphael warnock, and republican candidate, herschel walker, is the thing that could tip the scales. the stakes were already high headed into this debate, by the way, it s the only debate that candidates will participate in. for a race that could determine which party controls the senate. in other, words a lot of people have a lot of interest in how this debate went down. especially because, for the past few weeks, we have endured, seemingly, and this barrage of stories about the republican candidate in particular, herschel walker. there have been reports about domestic abuse allegations, having secret children, paying for an ex girlfriend to have an abortion because he wasn t ready to be a father, that the ex girlfriend was also the mother of one of secrets children, and had to press walker to pay for the abo
i think another 999 in the cast of thousands, and there s one reason why it hope it s not the last hearing. i really enjoy that hearing coverage with you on the nights after they ve had one of these hearings so i m looking for the more than just wednesday night thank you for saying that, i feel a little bit guilty, in saying that, but there are very few nights, the collection of some debate some things of that, for all of us get to be together like in the same dugout, you know what i mean? instead of just hosting our individual hours, i find it so rewarding, so interesting, i find it super intellectually stimulating i really, really like, it some looking forward to. it will get to watch me learn stuff on tv, when i m listening to everybody else speaking, because everybody captures something. everybody there, will grab something that i didn t, grabbed or agency that, way i hadn t framed that way, or wasn t taking notes fast enough. so it s informative, it s been informat