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Tonight from the heart of times square, this is cnns new years eve live with appearances by usher, ellie golding, kevin hart, patti lupone, Patti Labelle, jean smart, john stamos, jennifer lewis, amy sedaris, tenacious d, nick cannon, ava max, samuel l. Jackson, plus more surprises. And now live from new york city, your hosts, Anderson Cooper and andy cohen. And welcome, everybody, to times square in new york city. Anderson cooper here. Im andy cohen. They brought us back for another year. They ...

♪ tonight from the heart of times square, this is cnns "new years eve live" with appearances by usher, ellie golding, kevin hart, patti lupone, patti labelle, jean smart, john stamos, jennifer lewis, amy sedaris, tenacious d, nick cannon, ava max, samuel l. jackson, plus more surprises. and now live from new york city, your hosts, anderson cooper and andy cohen. >> and welcome, everybody, to times square in new york city. anderson cooper here. >> im andy cohen. >> they brought us b...

Belarusian presidents own staff suggesting that lukashenko intervened after speaking to putin and some sort of deal appears to have been hatched. i dont think we know the entirety of it. it may be that there are going to be significant changes at the head of russias ministry of defense. but even if the ultimate targets of prigozhins march on moscow end up being removed from their jobs, and thats the defense minister showing you, the head of the ukrainian campaign and chief of staff, still theyve...

You want to tell a story about him? >> sebastian is adorable. theres sebastian when he was first born. >> is that what you look like when you sleep? >> yeah, basically, yeah. like you dont know. >> okay. yes. oh, my god. look at that stink eye. wow. >> sebastians great. he just this week crossed some sort of a rube con. he made some sort of leap. hes like a little person all of a sudden. i feel like hes -- >> theres ben meeting sebastian. >> for the first time. >> i brought -- you were in ukrain...

Joining me with more on all of this, cnn national security analyst james clapper. hes the former director of national intelligence and also in that interview we saw this president zelenskyy warned that we could see putin use these tactical nuclear weapons throughout the cold war. the threat of this mutually assured destruction kept moscow in check when it came to nukes. what do you think the u.s. reaction would be now to the use of any nuclear weapons in this situation? whether you call them tac...

Whether it is. im going to read it to you. it now says the president has asked ukraine to fully cooperate with any justice department investigation into the actions of former vice president joe biden and his family in ukraine. justice department investigations. it seems to me that we are already across a rube con, in incredibly dangerous democratic territory. but to the extent the justice department has actually began an investigation of the presidents words against his political rival, that str...

We may decide on articles of impeachment, we may not it remains to be seen. >> the house judiciary committee filed a lawsuit yesterday to get grand jury information from the mueller report. >> meanwhile, the list of democrats calling for a formal impeachment inquiry is growing. take a look at this. more than 101 house democrats and one independent are now on board with that. yet, house leader nancy pelosi not budging. we want to discuss all of this and bring back in daniel lippman of "politico."...

First, three months after hurricane michael hit florida, many residents are struggling to clear debris to allow the rebuilding to begin. volunteers are still there too and making a difference. here is this weeks impact your world. >> there is so much water and so much force it picked the gun safe up, went through the wall. >> im from oregon. im the volunteer member from team rube con. its a disaster recovery organization. we are 70% veterans, 30% civilian. im here doing disaster recovery from hu...

Picture. we think they need to stop nuclear weapons and stop it now. >> so which is it, jeremy, rex tillerson or nikki haley? >> i think the way to square the circle, the difference between these positions is we support denuclearization but were prepared to talk about anything any time without preconditions. i think thats what the secretary of state was trying to convey. the problem is, stephanie, is that each time the secretary of state has gone out there and tried to pursue diplomacy, hes been...

So we crossed a rube con when we became the first -- when this became the first presidency to have the president fired the fbi investigators. he immediately thereafter hosted russian officials in the oval office and gave them incredibly sensitive and damaging intelligence information they were not entitle to have and he hosted them at the oval office at the express personal request of vladimir putin which he says he feels like he couldnt say no to. high perish will he is dead. blooish. enemy int...