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miguel joins us live this hour to discuss what this means for higher learning in america. and breaking news out of moscow. cnn has new reporting on the top russian general who appears to be missing after the mutiny. documents indicating he was a secret vip member of the wagner mercenary group behind the rebellion. and the former school deputy who failed to confront the park l parkland shooter is found not guilty. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. ...

good. >> i will take that into my new year. mark, appreciate it, my friend. thank you. >> take care. and "cnn this morning" continues right now. good morning. welcome to "cnn this morning." 8:00 a.m. on the east coast. republican candidates crisscrossing iowa. nikki haley, ron desantis and donald trump all holding events in the hawkeye state today and they arent holding back against each other. defense secretary lloyd austin condemning recent attacks on commercial ships in the re...

pushing heavy rain and wind into cities that are vulnerable with flooding. after the path wiped out floridas west coast leaving parts of the state swamped, draining vital resources, emergency rooms forced to turn away patients, in the states costliest hurricane on record. plus, putin makes his land grab official, the biggest annexation and absorb in europe, as protesters here leave their mark vandalizing the russian consulate. welcome to "the lead," im jake tapper, hurricane ian maki...

again. where do you start? >> ian is one of the biggest storms ever to hit florida. one of the biggest tests yet for its ambitious governor. >> the impacts of this storm are historic. can democrats keep control of the senate? the answer may come down to pennsylvania. >> do you want the 51st vote in the senate? send me to washington, d.c. >> with his lead narrowing, can john fetterman fight off attacks he is soft on crime? ginni thomas tells the january 6 committee she thinks the el...

justice clarence thomas where he writes, quote, in future cases, we should reconsider all of this courts substantive due process precedents, including griswold, lawrence, and obergefell. he is talking about reconsidering decisions on gay rights and the right to contraception. joining me now inside the growing protests, nbcs julia ainsley. josh letterman is at the white house where the president just spoke and barbara mcquaid former u.s. attorney and msnbc analyst. julia, ive watched th...

Nosedive? its 47% now in the wake of all of those things joan mentioned. >> yeah. trust in institutions has been degrading throughout this country for the last several years anyway. but the level that people dont trust the court now -- a lot of that came after the dobbs decision, too. the fact that they did overturn that. republicans for so long have been saying that they do not want an activist court, they dont want a court that length late -- legislates from the bench. but what this court show...

Appointee. the three justices on the left are all democratic appointees. what i would say to the statements by the chief, especially, he is in denial about whats happening. the american public isnt saying we dont trust you because we dont like your ruling. they are say, we ing, we are se you rolling back precedent. there are a lot of ambivalence out there, its just the way the court is doing it. >> i want to mark the history of this past week. t a huge moment for the country, a black woman sit...

The justice says one result of todays decision is certain. the curtailment of womens rights and of their status as free and equal citizens. and what this decision means is that you no longer have a right to an abortion in any of the 50 states if a state legislature wants to take that away from you, put you in jail or put those who assist you in obtaining an abortion in jail, they can do so. this is a complete flip from 50 years of a guaranteed constitutional right to women. it is as grave and dr...