Im Ayman Mohyeldin, we begin though with President Trump lashing out on christmas night, questioning whether the house even has the authority to impeach him. The president tweeted last night, why should crazy nancy pelosi, just because she has a slight majority in the house be allowed to impeach the president of the United States . Here he is on camera on Christmas Eve after a Video Conference with u. S. Troops. She hates the republican party. She hates all of the people that voted for me. And the republican party. She doing a tremendous disservice to the country. And shes not doing a good job. And some people think that shes, she doesnt know what she is doing. Were in a very good position. Ultimately, that decision is going to be made by Mitch Mcconnell, and he will make it, he has the right to do whatever he want, he is the head of the senate. Meanwhile, one key republican senator Lisa Murkowski of alaska says she is quote disturbed over Mitch Mcconnells promise to be in quote total
united nations over britain s plans to send a warship and a submarine to the falkland islands, which argentina calls maldivas. and the results are in, and there s. an unexpected clean sweep for rick santorum. santorum is celebrating after winning three state contests on tuesday. the former pennsylvania senator won the colorado and minnesota caucuses and the nonbinding missouri primary. those are the headlines. i m monita rajpal. world business today starts right now. good morning from cnn london, i m nina del santos. and from cnn hong kong, this is world business today. the top stories on wednesday, january 8th. ratings agency s&p downgrades sony after a triple whammy of economic challenges. the question is are their exporters now losing out to their south korean rivals? a license to print money. why more american towns are minting their own currencies. and europe s football clubs used to attract all the top talent in international football, but as brazil s ec