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As many headlines as her boundless talent. cnn's laila santiago is in los angeles for us tonight with more on this very tragic story. laila, thank you for joining us. what do we know of the circumstances surrounding miss reynolds' death? >> don, so much has happened in just the last six hours. we started following this around 1:00 local time when we were told that the fire department was transporting her from the family's home to the hospital in fair to serious condition. she had been complaining about some sort of a breathing problem. at the time when we reached out to her son, he simply said...

What kind of precedent does that set? >> you know how we keep talking about unprecedented here at cnn, and it is unprecedented, but it's a combination, don, of two things. one, donald trump is who he is and he's not following all the rules. he likes to shake things up a little bit and the other part of it is, you know, the nemedia cycle. every day we're covering everything in the transition, i think things get magnified a little bit. in foreign affairs it gets very dangerous as we're seeing in israel, wie in seeing with russ. putin, netanyahu saying i don't care what the u.s. government says n...

Has done damage to the friendship and the relationship between israel and the united states. don? >> sunlen, i probably could have answered my own question. the answer to that question is, it's don king, what do you expe expect? thank you very much, sunlen. we appreciate it. i want to bring in cnn presidential historian douglas brinkley, analyst rebecca berg and political commentator, david swerdlick. my goodness, does the news ever stop? we have debbie reynolds, israel today, carrie fisher. so, let's talk about this, douglas. interesting that you met with the president-elect today at mar-a-la...

Candidates, and the republicans at their debates are trying to out-wing one another, and talking about kicking immigrants out of the country, and talking about taking the access to health care away from the women, and opposing equal pay for equal work, and that is what we need to talk the bt, and she is entitled as others to their opinion, but we have a women's leadership forum that our leaders will be at, and a democratic forum -- >> those are not debates, and just discussions, and the point that she is make, and she has made it on kr cnn this morning, she is one of five vice chairs and you a...

Shinseki to resign. the secretary says he has no plans to do that. he's reaching out to veterans in an effort to regain their trust now. cnn's michelle kosinski live at the white house. what's the latest? >> reporter: tough talks flow from capitol hill. house speaker john boehner saying we haven't just let these veterans down. we have let them die saying the allegations are appalling, that they point to the systemic failure of the agency and that somebody needs to be held accountable. he hasn't called for the resignation of eric shinseki. he says he's getting a little clo closer. others 0, as ...