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irresponsible behavior is awaiting. >> a senior administration official says the houthis have been given their last warning to stop attacking international ships in the red sea. in a joint statement with 12 other countries, the u.s. warned the houthis to stop attacks or else. joint chiefs chairman brown spoke with his u.k. counterpart about the ongoing attacks on wednesday. on tuesday, the u.s. navy fifth fleet commander, vice admiral brad cooper visited u.s.s. carney and presented combat medals to five sailors for their exceptional performance when the warship shot down 14 houthi attack drones on december 16th in the red sea. the entire crew also received the combat action ribbon. they are holding the galaxy leader, took hostage with a crew from the philippines, bulgaria, mexico and romania. president biden called a meeting

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Special Report With Bret Baier

medals five sailors warship shut down 14 houthi one way attack drones on december 16th. the houthis are still holding the galaxy leader, bermuda flagship which they commandeered on november 19th. the ship now moored off the coast of yes, ma'am member serves as a tourist attraction. visitors are invited to step on u.s. and israeli flags. >> iraqi's prime minister condemned today's drone strike which targeted a senior member of the popular mobilization forces which falls under the iraqi security forces saying it violated the u.s. status of forces agreement pentagon says he was the leader of iranian proxy and it was self-defense. bret? >> bret: jennifer griffin live at the pentagon. jennifer, thank you. ♪ ♪ >> bret: we have now reaction tonight from a bipartisan u.s. congressional delegation that visited parts of israel that were ravaged by the october 7th

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so far referring all questions to the doj today. peter doocy has an inside look at the white house team from the north lawn. hi, peter. >> officials that i've spoken to said we are going to need to get any information about this from either the justice department or from hunter biden's representatives. but i do want to flag something that's a couple years old. i asked president biden, he was then the president-elect about this generally right around the time his transition team announced with the statement that the irs and the u.s. attorney were looking into allegations of tax issues, tax affairs with hunter biden. and i asked president biden, from december 16th of 2020 in wilmington, are you confident your son hunter did nothing wrong. and he said i am confident. worth revisiting because now a special counsel not so sure. we played part of it a little while ago but going on almost

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doubt in their case. brad o'born. they began by attacking his depiction of himself as a bad boyfriend. >> so you are a bad boyfriend, but also innocent? >> correct. >> you hit this young girl? >> no i did not. >> you slapped her? >> no i did not. >> kicked? or >> no, i did not. >> denny's lawyer tried to trip brought up on dates and times. >> you told us earlier today, that you are -- >> you're not trying to get it straight, you are trying to confuse me. >> but, did brad have a motive for killing hannah? for an answer to that question, denny's attorneys were turned to hannah's diaries, reported on the trial. >> page after page of entries, in her own handwriting. you could argue that she was fed up with brad o'born, and was reaching out on the very night she disappeared. >> that has got to be something for a jury to think about. >> it would be, if i was sitting on the panel. >> the diary entrance speaking from her grave, hannah's own words telling jurors who she was thinking about, danny. here on november 11th. again, on december 2nd, and then again on december 16th. in hannah's handwriting, denny. once more, the defense attorney

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CNN Newsroom With Fredricka Whitfield

someone and actually corroborated with two people that, along the trip, but it was in pennsylvania, that on december 16th, that they were at an auto repair shop. this person tells cnn they were getting some work done on the hyundai elantra. that's the white car, and that the suspect -- the defendant, kohberger was talkative, and talked about how he had go to desal university here in pennsylvania, was doing his doctoral work in washington. they want he was a little awkward, communicative. hi father was there, too. and then when this all basically exploded on friday, he recognized him, realized the conversation, and contacted the fbi. so december 16th, in pennsylvania december 17th

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CNN Newsroom With Jim Acosta

believe their son if convicted could be capable of doing this? i think the family support is understandable at this point in time. >> what do you make of the fact that the dad flew out to washington state? they had a cross country drive together. i was told that they were out running errands and talking to a source that met them at an auto shop on december 16th. what do you make of the fact that bryan kohberger seemingly living his life as usual if he allegedly committed the crimes as police say? >> with the father flying out to idaho and then driving back with his son just makes sense because he doesn't have to make that trip by himself. i think that's behavior that a parent would engage in to be

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CNN Newsroom With Jim Acosta

a nearby university? the source i spoke to yesterday chatting with him on december 16th said he made it clear that he was looking at behavioral not procedural crimology. >> we always go in and look for what are they reading? what are they studying? most cases it is not a normal degree program but defenders read up on how to do it better, how to avoid being apprehended, on forensic evidence. that is pretty common but to be in a structured docket ral program i think is interesting. it is not the first time.

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escape. >> it's interesting because i spoke to a source today who claimed to have talked to kohberger and his dad in pennsylvania on december 16th at an auto maintenance shop and this source said they were sitting there, kohberger was awkward but the source didn't suspect anything more. but that, of course, is so chilling to think now that he is the suspect in a quadruple murder. what do you make of the fact that the suspect was out and about in pennsylvania with his white elantra getting it serviced at the shop in the weeks before his arrest? >> this is something they're going to have to dissect as we go forward. here's the thing. people tend to ascribe to multiple murderers and serial killers and things like that, normal human emotion. which is not an appropriate thing. we used to talk in the squad bay if you're thinking like a normal person you're not thinking like the person who did this crime. i have some thoughts that i'll

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missing by her mother. december 16th, fbi joins the investigation. on the 17th, parents are charged with failing to report a disappearance and the 20th of this month, a clip of the last time she was seen. what does this mix tell you and are they looking anywhere beyond the parents here? >> this is really terrible, and they probably aren't looking anywhere beyond the parents here and they really need to start talking to the mother of this child because i'll tell you what, i don't believe a word that has come out of her mother. what mother would not report her daughter missing for three weeks and the excuse, i thought my husband, the stepfather of this child, i thought my husband was going to cause trouble for the family. that's bull, that does not make one bit of sense. authorities really need to see if they can get her talking because either she knows that her daughter, and i hope it's not the case, either knows her daughter is murdered or maybe she was afraid, maybe she did

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1944 brave ukrainian soldiers are doing the same to putin' forces this christmas. ukraine holds its lines an will never surrender >> the battle of the bulge was the next major offensive b adolf hitler's forces on the western front during world war ii winston churchill called it the, quote, greatest american battl of the war the brutal fight lasted grueling six weeks, from december 16th, 1994, to januar 25th, 1945 and a surprise attack in the ardennes region of belgium o day one, the germans massacred hundreds of l.a. troops an civilians. some 40 divisions -- battle fatigued american troop across 85 miles of dense fores and frigid temperatures. hitler's aim was to split th allies and their drive towards

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