see you in vegas. dana: good to have you back. no charges after a bombshell report finds president biden willfully retained and disclosed classified material. even worse politically it indicates biden s mental state is in decline using blistering words to describe his aptitude, important memory and diminished faculties. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom, i m dana perino. we start back there. bill: happy friday. a long one, huh? bill hemmer, good morning. special counsel report blowing open the national debate about the president s age. special counsel hur recommending against criminal charges in part because a jury might view biden as an elderly man with a poor memory, end quote. dana: even in the mainstream media the reaction has been harsh. they are no longer to ignore the age-old question is biden too old to be on the 2024 ticket? atlantic with a harsh headline. biden s age is now unavoidable. he looks like he is turning into a statue of joe biden. the im
the united states and around the world, i m christine romans. we begin with breaking news on what s now the second biggest bank failure in u.s. history. most of first republic bank is now being bought by jpmorgan chase in a deal arranged by the federal deposit insurance corporation. the fdic. cnn s clare sebastian live in london for us. clare, this deal announced just a short time ago. all weekend, we ve been waiting for word what would happen to first republic. we knew it couldn t continue as a concern here. fdic would have to step in. and you went to bed thinkiing first republic is your bank, it s now jpmorgan chase, right? yeah, christine, all 84 branches of first republic will reopen this morning as branches of jpmorgan. this is different than silicon valley bank which was taken by regulators and stayed there for more than two weeks. this happenmuch more quickly over the weekend with that auction held on sunday. several banks bid it. it seems they reached that deal with
of course big drama on capitol hill as well, as kevin mccarthy finally has the gavel. thanks to all of you for getting up way too early with us on this monday morning. morning joe starts right now. i want to provide an update on our ongoing efforts to expose the tremendous voter fraud and irregularities which took place. there is really strong evidence that something happened, that something was changed in the transmission or inside. all hell is going to break loose tomorrow. all converging and now we re on, as they say, the point of attack. look in the streets of brazil. look at the great patriots in brazil that at a lot of danger to themselves, have come forward in the streets of brazil. f brazl a corrupt president, the forces of fascism, and the mobs that believe the lies. this morning, we re following fast moving developments out of brazil where police have arrested hundreds who attacked the presidential palace and congress. we ll have the latest on the unrest
it up. you got to do what you got to do. thank you. and thank you at home for joining us. i m whitney wild, christine romans coming back on monday. cnn this morning starts right now. good morning, everyone. it is friday, december 30th, don is off today. recovery, though is in sight. we ll see. i think a lot of people will be skeptical, but that is what southwest airlines is saying this morning as they hope to resume regular service today with, quote, minimal disruptions. and airports are still trying to figure out what to do with the piles of unclaimed luggage. we re live at chicago s midway international airport. and vladimir putin and xi jinping holding a meeting. also the house january 6th committee releasing a new batch of transcripts and what we re learning about texts involving donald trump jr. and lindsey graham. a new claim from congressman-elect george santos is putting his own mother s death into question. that s right. this morning we start with sou
one of the best defenses in the country. of course we would be remiss if we didn t mention how most teams would love a trip to the sugar bowl but the alabama crimson tide not one of them. they lost two games this season by a combined four points both on the last play of the game against texnnessee and lsu, so they miss the playoffs. they ll face kansas state tomorrow, some of the georgia fans in our sports department told me to remind you you can t spell sugar bowl without uga. i apologize for that. i ve been to the sugar bowl more times than i can count on two hands. spent a lot of time in new orleans in college. she was so annoyed we were doing the sugar bowl situation in the show. i ll be watching tomorrow. we kickoff at noon, it s fine. actually love nick saban said yesterday this has been one of the most enjoyable nonplayoff bowl preps they have had. that s one way to see it. yeah. coy wire, we ll be watching. roll tide. thank you so much. all right. cnn