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happy holidays, everybody. you are live in the "cnn newsroom." i'm jim acosta in washington. we begin about breaking news. president biden revealing details about his long phone call with benjamin netanyahu. we're following everything at the white house. kevin, what did the president have to say? >> reporter: yeah, he was on the south lawn on his way to camp david, and he said that it was a long phone call with netanyahu that he had earlier today. he said he didn't call for a cease-fire and wanted the talks to remain private. i do think it's interesting, president biden of course is ...

one the supreme court is about to hear a case you might not have heard of, that concerns a benign sounding theory about state legislatures. this case could quite literally and democracy as we know it. there is not been nearly enough conversation about this case, and we are gonna change that this morning. then every politico in the bell when trying to figure out how the republican overreach that landed us in this dystopian row post row reality is going to effect next month's elections. one louisiana candidate is literally embodying the shifting landscape. we're gonna tell you her rema...

-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com and welcome back to our continuing coverage of the chaos in washington, d.c. it has been quite a day and quite a night. first, kevin mccarthy lost his sixth vote to become house speaker. the house adjourned. members then reconvened briefly, only to adjourn until noon tomorrow, with the speaker more upbeat about his chances. why are things looking more upbeat for mccarthy? >> reporter: he's hearing more positive responses from those opponents, the people that have essentially seemed immovable for the past two days. but after a meeting in which m...

♪ ♪ ♪ and welcome back to our continuing coverage of the chaos in washington, d.c.. it has been quite a day in quite a night. first, kevin mccarthy lost his 60 vote to become house speaker. the house then adjourned around temps a deal making. consumed members reconvene briefly, only to adjourn again until noon tomorrow. the would-be speaker announcing more upbeat about his chances. cnn's manu raju first broke that news for us. he joins us again tonight from the capitol. so, why are things looking more upbeat for mccarthy? >> he's hearing some more positive responses from those ...

Israel has confirmed that two american hostages have been released by hamas. Judith and Natalie Raanan, who are mother and daughter, were taken after the hamas attack on israel earlier this month. The groups Telegram Channel says qatar had helped mediate their release, which was done for which was done for humanitarian reasons. President biden says he is overjoyed. Just a few lines to bring you from president macron, whos been speaking in the last few minutes about this. He says he hopes the release of fridays hostages leads to similar operations in the coming days, including for french citize...