Mounting charges all related to his work with trump after the 2020 election. Giuliani says his legal troubles have left him out of cash. And the death toll is rising in hawaii surpassing 100. President biden will travel to maui soon once his visit will not interrupt the Recovery Efforts on the ground. And the family from The Blind Side is pushing back on claims from retired nfl star michael oher that they withheld millions of dollars from him. They claim he would plant a negative story about them in the press unless they paid him 15 million. In just one month, messi has his team reaching new heights. He stored his ninth goal in six games after a victory over Philadelphia Union and miami now heads to the cup final. Hes good. Hes very good. Cnn this morning starts right now. I want to take my kids to miami just to go take them to see messi. You should use my Expert Analysis that i just gave you that hes good at soccer. Thank you for that, phil mattingly. This morning we are tracking seve
Branding of the program. We can go with the more accurate polish version or how about the ukrainian spelling and pronunciation . The polish version probably closer to my roots. Im not the only one with name pronunciation on the brain these days. Florida Governor Ron Desantis kicked off his president ial run last week. Perhaps the only thing more confusing than trying to launch the campaign was hearing the candidates last name. Come again. The same day he released that video, he appeared on fox news and said this. Anybody thats so inclined to help us, i would love to have your support. This was lowhanging fruit for the trump campaign. Im ron desantis. This is Governor Ron Desantis. Wishing everyone a merry christmas. Who knew the long versus short version of a vowel could cause all this political calamity. The governor seemed unphased when asked what the final word on how to pronounce his name. He said this. This is ridiculous. The way to pronounce my last anytime, winner. While a name
Start . With its the debt ceiling, do i go into the president ial politics, the candidates in the gop field . Do i look at the investigation, the Special Counsel investigation . What do i start . With you tell me. I will tell you that point, the rnc, first debate is this august . Like, are we there already . When did that happen . We are there, we are officially there, my friend. Have a good show. Welcome back, we must. You good to see you, enjoy the rest of your evening off. Good evening, welcome to ayman tonight. Warning, there are tapes, new reporting on the incriminating trump reporting about a classified document he had in his possession, after he left the white house. And then, the Porcelain Candidate. That is around desantis is being described after refusing to engage with reporters. But how long can he hide in his safe space . And republican rollback, the latest gop trend is loosening Child Labor Laws. I will speak to democratic senator John Hickenlooper, one of the most outspo
we re going through a similar dance right now after the president s son pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor tax charges drawing a chorus of conservative criticism for a sweet settlement that includes only probation, but now we come to the irs whistleblowers who have been all but ignored by the press and, of course, we have to be cautious about unproven claims. but the new york times, to its credit, broke with the pack by saying it confirmed independently based on a source that a second unnamed irs official claims david weiss, the u.s. attorney in delaware, asked, the oj for special powers to the doj for special powers to pursue the case outside the state and was turned down. whistleblower gary shapley has said he was not the sole decision maker in the case and that he was constrained in the probe. you convinced looking back at this now that this was an effort to protect president biden and his family? there were definitely hindrances that aye never seen before in my 14
the lead starts right now. a city center in eastern ukraine rocked by a missile strike. why this target and why now. cnn is live on the scene. plus contrasting claims. what persuaded prigozhin, the wagner boss to stop his apparent revolt in russia. the leader in belarus has his version. and while vladimir putin puts his own spin on what went down. erin burnett is leading or coverage tonight in eastern ukraine into and donald trump lashing out after a cnn exclusive audio of the president talking about classified documents. welcome to the lead, everyone. i m bianna golodryga in for jake tapper. we start with the world lead and breaking news from eastern ukraine. at least two massive russian strikes in the kramatorsk region. one where three people were killed including a child. an eyewitness tells cnn s team on the ground they ve seen up to a dozen people pulled from the rubble after days of turmoil inside of russia. following an aetempted armed rebel group led by prig