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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 ...

it was about the freedoms of every individual. it was about the role of government. >> damage control for nikki haley after she did everything shy of declining to name slavery as the cause of the civil war. just the latest example of the republicans' mission to erase the difficult parts of american history. also tonight, profiles in cowardice. just as she's facing a tough re-election campaign, lauren boebert announces plans to abandon her constituents and run for office elsewhere. plus, we're just days away from what promises to be a momentous year in politics. we'll preview the ...

appeals court to toss his 2020 election interference case arguing that he was carrying out white house duties at the time and therefore immune to prosecution. this move coming one day after the supreme court declined to rule on the immunity question for now. it is a blow for special counsel jack smith who sought a speedy decision. that trial like trump's three other criminal cases might play out while voters are casting ballots in the 2024 election meaning trump's political future could be determined before the juries decide his criminal fate. also new, trump's team is planning to ...

♪ you're live in the cnn newsroom. i'm jim acosta in washington. we begin with the most important sales pitch in washington this week selling the deal to avoid a catastrophic debt default. the call that was scheduled for two hours ago has not happened yet. a default could be disastrous to the u.s. and that threat still looms ominously. up on capitol hill there are lawmakers from both parties grumbling. passage is not guaranteed at this point. let's go to priscilla alvarez. what is there to make of this biden/mccarthy phone call. do we think that's going to happen any time now? an...

end up winding up doing to our fellow -- >> on one side of the scale is the current situation in venezuela which is quite dire as it is in cuba, right? what would we do to even the scales to get to the point of what we were doing produced an equal amount of desperation, as would be really. >> a quarter of venezuela is gone. staggering, thank you my friend as always. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. on november 4th of 2008 america elected its first black president. senator john mccain had called senator barack obama to concede the race, and as he began to deliver ...