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friends. it is wednesday, december 27th, i m willie geist. joe and mika have the morning off. a lot to get to including israeli forces shifting military efforts to southern and central gaza with officials warning the war could take many more months. and hours from now, antony blinken and alejandro mayor kas are set to meet with mexican president obrador. plus donald trump continues to claim he should be immune from any prosecution surrounding his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. we ll have the latest there. also ahead, bus drivers across the country increasingly under attack on the job. we ll dig into an alarming trend and what officials are doing about it. with us this morning, jonathan lemire, susan paige, and retired four star navy admiral james stavridis. good morning to you all. let s begin together with israel expanding the ground invasion in gaza. this as the united states continues to urge israel to protect civilian lives and shift to a more low intensit ....
That s a hard emotional thing to do. do i think it was intentional? maybe yes, maybe no. from what i heard in the christie camp, the thing that really kind of pushed it was his donor base. they were done with him because they saw that haley could make a difference, so if there was a lot of pressure to not go further and drop out before new hampshire, but christie is also can be a salty guy, and i think that s also what you saw, a little bit of anger and perhaps upset that this is where he was at this time. yeah, all right. so meanwhile, vaughn, donald trump seems to be looking past the primary. he suggested last night when he was counterprogramming the debate that he s already select add vp. tell us more about that. reporter: right, i was inside of that hall with donald trump last night at the fox news town hall. we were actually just two mails from where ali and the debate with ron desantis and nikki haley was taking place, but they ....
What christie said about wildstein earlier this year. i have had no contact with david wild scene in a long time. a long time, well before the election. you know, i could probably count on one hand the number of conversations i ve had with david since he worked at the port authority. i did not interact with david. is this just something else that the governor forgot about, steve? well, this is where it gets interesting, where i think it s important to remember we keep calling it a report. that s probably the best shorthand we can use for this. but the way i really look at this is basically, this is the christie camp s defense. yeah thinking was drawn up by his legal team. this is also the lawyers who are representing him as the u.s. committee conducts an investigation, as the legislative committee conducts an investigation. he is simultaneously being represented by the same law firm that conducted this independent ....
Not know who the target is. there s no target letter out there. can i say one more thing on the point you were raising with mark? he s absolutely right that the kind of e-mails we ve been getting from the governor s office is the sort of thing you would usually see in a political operation. but in this case, the new jersey republican party, for example, can t respond. can t put out these sorts of e-mails because it itself has received a subpoena from the state legislature in this investigation. so in many ways, christie camp s hands are tied. they have no outlet. they can t use their political operation to defend themselves, so they re left with the governor s office having to do it and that does raise these questions about use of taxpayer funds for political spin. let me ask you one more on the subpoenas. ....