merry christmas, everyone. we are so glad that you are with us on this special morning. i m poppy harlow with phil mattingly. hope you re having a great holiday with your loved ones. merry christmas. i want to stay on the set. isn t it beautiful? they did a wonderful job. i know. we have a christmas tree. a fire. you re going to see it all here. we have some news. the iowa caucuses are three weeks away from today. we will highlight the key moments on the campaign and how they could shape the final months in the race for the white house. seasons full of strikes reignite the labor movement in america, from hollywood to the motor city. workers won pay raises and new protections. how technology could bring more change in the year ahead. as anti-semitism and islamophobia sentiment rises, we ll talk with faith leaders how we can find common ground. first, let s get a check on the morning s headlines. good morning, everyone. merry christmas. i m danny freeman. the
merry christmas, everyone! we are so glad you are with us on this special morning. i m poppy hearlow with paul maddingly. this is a special edition of cnn this morning. hope you re having a great holiday with your loved ones. merry christmas. i want to stay on this set forever. isn t it beautiful? it s beautiful. they did a wonderful job. i love all the poinsettias all around. we have a christmas tree and a fire. the iowa caucuses are just three weeks away from today. this morning, we ll highlight the key moments on the campaign trail so far, and how they could shape the final months in the race for the white house. and seasons full of strikes reignite the labor movement in america from hollywood to the motor city, workers won pay raises and new protections. how technology could bring more change to the economy in the year ahead. and coming together this holiday season, as anti-semitism and islamophobia sentiment rises, we ll talk to faith leaders about how we
welcome back to who s talking. it not every week we can use the word legend but tonight, both of our guests meet that bar started with required duke basketball coach k opens up about the ncaa s problem. why he never went to the pros. and he answers the question every march madness fan wants to know. who do you see in the final four and you cannot say duke? and later, the man behind the music for some of the biggest movies in history. why jaws and star wars and ind indiana jones . the very simple unstoppable arhythmic structure, da, da, da, da. we have two things in common. do i get a hint? i find cooking really hard and stressful. do you feel your life is in danger? the love of my mother is what brought me here. what was the worst investment? there is a long list of really bad ones. with march madness around the corner, we go one on one with coach k. m mike with an impressive record with five national championships, three olympic golds, and the
welcome to this special 8:00 hour of the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington and we begin this hour with an emotional anniversary of a pivotal moment in american history. on a busy weekend when the race for the white house was taking shape. president joe biden was in selma, alabama, today for the anniversary of bloody sunday, and a speech before some of the country s most prominent civil rights leaders. while outside washington, a very different scene in a very different speech, as former president donald trump spoke to the conservative political action conference, vowing retribution in his words. and earlier today in california, the politician who could be trump s biggest rival for the gop nomination in 2024, florida governor ron desantis, speaking at the ronald reagan library. but we begin in selma, alabama, with arlette saenz. arlette, what can you tell us? jim, president biden used the anniversary of bloody sunday as an historic moment in civil rights history,
to look at the evidence. look at where this is headed in our special report for you. we start with one reason this looms large. mike pence is not just another witness. he s not just a high-ranking official in the attempted coup conspiracy. this is very important. we touched on it last night briefly. the coup plotters viewed pence as their desired mvp, their needed collaborator, they attempted co-conspirator. the remedy was for vice president pence to remand those votes back to the states. the vice president s got a lot of power, and that s very important to recognize. vz we to assume that this is going to be a climatic bat that will s going to take place this week about the very question of the constitutionally of the electoral count act of 1877? that depends on the courage of those involved. vice president mike pence? yes. if mike pence does the right thing, we win the election. this is from one of the top constitutional lawyers in our country. he has the absolut