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"cnn this morning" starts right now. well, good morning, everyone, im poppy harlow with phil mattingly in new york. a lot to get to. specifically politics. pre-christmas campaign push lands in iowa today. donald trump, ron desantis and nikki haley all holding events there, sharpening their closing messages and attacks against one another this morning. a new signal the trump campaign is concerned about one candcand candidates growing momentum. abbott signing a controversial bill mak...

administration. >> kentucky, the kentucky legislature overrode the governors veto, a bill that restricts aspects of trans youth, gender affirming care and the use of bathrooms. i know the white house released a proclamation for trans day on visibility. theres a march happening tomorrow to commemorate this day, also to protest these types of bills that are continuing to be passed in advanced in legislatures across the country. what is the white houses message to these lawmakers that are...

>> the president signed the safer communities act, right? this summer. a bipartisan piece of legislation. even when we celebrated signing -- when the president celebrated signing that into law, he said we need to build on that and do more. so yes, we need to do more. we know what needs to happen. banning assault weapons is one of the clearest ways -- thats what the data shows us -- that we can get weapons of war off of the streets. thats what were asking for. >> you just said the majority of ame...

Union, we all take it very seriously. no one totally understands what mr. putins intentions are here. but we dont want to underestimate what he may do. the one thing that the ukranians did remind us and sometimes we forget, they have been at war with russia since 2014. the russians still occupy territory in crimea and they have been fighting a war off and on with the russians. and talking to everyday ukranian citizens, they seem resolute, but they have no intention of going back to the days unde...

Weeks and were still 2 years from getting out of this country. what happens between now and then and the american appetite to even learn and be informed about whats taking place in afghanistan? >> well, were in a very trickty position obviously. i mean the numbers, remember are 20,000 u.s. killed and wounded. 85,000 u.s. troops were 800 miles from the ocean. were in a strategic withdrawal under pressure. were doing it in an atmosphere in which the american people have written this war off. two- ...