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From any other morning show anchors. i was telling him what gayle king said to me and quoting gayle who said something very nice. she said, you never get used to the hours because they are, i won t say the word this early in the morning. idi, but one of the best jobs in television because it s an honor to have people wake up with you. i agree with you, people in their homes. a funny moment. actually did a shot on television. of what? tequila. espresso? cull on! tequila. in honor of cnn. if you can t drink on cnn on new year s eve you can drink on my show so we did a shot. of course, probably giving it to our boss, which was his exec tib producer not so long ago. there s that. i ll watch it all tonight. not with the kids. cnn this morning continues right now. ....
Appreciate it. also this morning, the would us is closely watching the protests unfolding across china because of covid lockdowns. president biden and hits team are carefully weighing how to respond. they re reacting cautiously to the scenes like this one that have been playing out. cnn s reporter live at the white house. mj, notable the administration is focused on the substance of china s zero covid policy xi jinping is trying to impose? reporter: publicly the white house is treading carefully showing caution talking about these events and these events taking place now not only just in china but have spread even to the united states with protests on certain college campuses, for example, here. two things that the white house made clear is that, one, it generally supports any people s right to generally protest and, ....
Top of the hour. good morning! so glad to have you here. we re glad to be in your homes this early in the morning. we have a lot of news to get to from threats of imprisonment to torture. why the families of iranian soccer players could place consequences if they don t fall in line against the match today against the u.s. also a cnn exclusive with bank of america brian moynihan. in studio to talk about what s happening with the economy, a rail strike coming, economy and a lot ahead with him. and i sat down with brian kemp yesterday. keeping herschel walker at an arm s length. what s different this time around. two big cnn interviews to get to but we begin with soccer and a geopolitical stand off. talk about pressure s when the u.s. and iran play their highly ....
Anticipated match at the world cup this afternoon, the iranian players will be competing under extreme duress. cnn learned warned by their government to behave, or their families will be tortured and imprisoned. last week the iranian players refused to sing their national anthem before a match against england. we re live in istanbul. hello, thank you for joining us. what are you learning about these threats? reporter: well, don, what we understand from a security source who s involved in the security of the world cup and who has been monitoring the movements of security agents from the regime who are in doha for the games, after that first match, as you mentioned, when the team didn t sing the national anthem. seen as a sign of support for protesters back home, quite an embarrassment really for the regime and humiliation. we understand from the source is after that game the players met ....
Now to a cnn exclusive. talking about congress preparing to act to avert this rail shutdown. president biden warning if that happened, it would devastate the economy if we had a strike like that. joining me to talk about this and a lot more is bank of america s brian moynihan, chairman and ceo, one of the biggest banks in the world. you know where the economy is headed. get into all of that and we appreciate you coming in to cnn this morning. first of all, congratulations on your new show to you and your colleagues. thank you, things like the rail strike or the war in ukraine and, know, what happens in china, shutdowns, all sort of things that can really derail the economy and everybody knows that. we ve been dealing with it for quite a period of time. if you look at the core economy, hour team has a, a mild recession predicted middle of 2023. and coming back out of it later in 2023. now, that was predicted to happen this year earlier this year. there was going to be a real slowdow ....