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friends. it is wednesday, december 27th, im willie geist. joe and mika have the morning off. a lot to get to including israeli forces shifting military efforts to southern and central gaza with officials warning the war could take many more months. and hours from now, antony blinken and alejandro mayor kas are set to meet with mexican president obrador. plus donald trump continues to claim he should be immune from any prosecution surrounding his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. w...

the british prime minister has sacked the chairman of his party, nadhim zahawi, following an investigation into his tax affairs. mr zahawi says hell continue to support the prime minister from the backbenches and criticised journalists for the way they reported his tax affairs. heres our political correspondent david wallace—lockhart. he arrived in the uk as a young refugee before becoming a successful businessman. he served as the vaccines minister, rising to become chancellor. this...

scenes from the scene of the killing. >> sandra: the first two witnesses took the stand, phil and lori are here to break down the latest developments from the courtroom coming up. but we begin "america reports" with bipartisan outrage boiling over after the senate intelligence committee had denied access to classified documents handled by president biden. former president trump and former vice president mike pence. hello, welcome, everyone. >> john: good to spend friday eve with you. s...

We need to. This is not what we want, not what were looking for. We dont want escalation. Is we dont want a second or third front develop. We dont want to see our forces or our personnel come under fire, but if that happens, were ready for it. Secretary of state Antony Blinken making it clear, the United States will respond to any provocation from iran connected to the israelhamas war. It comes as Israels Defense Forces are expanding air strikes in gaza. Well get the latest with a live report fr...

in gaza, theres no safe place, says the un secretary general. the health care system is collapsing. hospitals have become battlegrounds, and palestinians have no shelter and everything else needed to survive, he says. this was the scene in khan younis in the south yesterday in the aftermath of an israeli airstrike as the military pushes ahead with its war against hamas. hours later, at the un in new york, the secretary general called for a ceasefire and had this warning. there is a hig...

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The retirement age for social security, also raise taxes to bring more money into the program, but one thing that wont work, doing nothing. if the program is left untouched, social security and medicare, according to experts, will run out of cash anyway, leaving the 66 million people who count on a monthly social security check with nothing. the cbo estimates the cost of social security already exceeds the money its bringing in, warning this, the balance in the trust funds will decline to 0 in 2...

Philippines National Task Force Against Covid-19 (NTF) chief implementer and vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. on Sunday assured that the Duterte administration is “relentless” in acquiring Covid-19 vaccines for the Filipino people.

House and part of the problem. which is they dont have either the communications or political infrastructure to deal with these crises. the president tweets and then everybody runs in behind it. and right now you have the complete communications for the white house is to have rudy giuliani go on television and make things worse arguably. he is going to be at some point restricted because hes going to be a center of this investigation. its very hard to have someone whos accused of something out t...

Because tariff or no tariff, the high-end wine will sell. ali, back to you. >> thank you for giving us another slice of the complicated story. president trump has used the growing trade deficit as a reason to propose these implementing tariffs on goods coming in from china. so, i want to talk a little bit about trade deficits. what is a trade deficit? well, its not necessarily a bad thing. lets take a look at it. a trade deficit is really when the value of a countrys imports, what its bringing...