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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 ....
court. yesterday the state supreme court ruled that the former president should be barred from holding office under the constitution s so-called insurrection clause. however state justices have agreed to pause their decision until january 4, meaning donald trump has time to appeal, which he said that he will do at the u.s. supreme court, quote, swiftly. so how much of a shot does he have of reversing it? the use of this little known civil war era provision is unprecedented, and yesterday s decision was also not unanimous. so we ll dig into the dissenting opinions and how they could play out. but also prominent supporters and opponents of the former president are expressing their opinion. most significant, president biden who just said there is, quote, no question trump assumed an insurrection. the ruling does not apply outside of colorado. lawsuits challenging donald trump s candidacy have been filed in more than 25 states. this ahead of 2024. and have so far failed in ....
supreme court, that donald trump is constitutionally disqualified from being on the ballot in the ste primary. the opinion pulls no punches. quote, president trump incited and encouraged the use of violence and lawless action to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power. the tenor of president trump s messages to hisupporters in exshorting him to had an option to fight back. the cavalry was coming to find. here s where the colorado state supreme court went further, reversing the lower court s finding that donald trump doesn t qualify as a, quote, ofce under section 3 of the 14th amendment. section 3 of the 14th amendment is a civil war era amendment to the united states taken an eat from various state and offices. it rules that the founding officers backed that up, writing americans have referred to the president as an officer from the days of the founding fathers. this is seismic. this is unprecedented,nd this is very, very likely destined to go before the supreme cou ....
again. and so i don t want to be in the prediction business with something as heavy as that. what i will say is that my meeting with the director of the masad last night, we met for more than twice the expected 45 minutes because we had a very detailed conversation about how to move forward to secure the release of the hostages. ultimately that will be something that we have to work in a very sensitive way between the u.s. and israel, working with qatar, with egypt, with other actors. and so i will leave that conversation where it belongs in those sensitive channels. but i will just say this has seized the attention from the very first day the president of the united states and every other senior member of his team and just this week the president met with the families of the american hostages to reaffirm for them that we re going to do everything in our power working with our israeli counterparts to ensure every hostage comes home safely and i ll leave it at that for t ....
the bar is very low when it comes to that. he is just doing side quests at this point. good morning, everyone. sorry for those tunes. welcome to cnn this morning. i m amara walker. yeah, better tunes from us later on. i m omar jimenez in for victor blackwell. we have a lot to get to this morning. we begin with president biden s campaign calling out donald trump for, quote, parroting adolf hitler in comments the former president made in new hampshire saturday. trump quoted russian president vladimir putin calling biden a threat to democracy and doubled down on anti-immigration rhetoric saying immigrants, are, quote, poisoning the blood of our country. and that comes as the senate and biden administration continue to negotiate on border policy changes to pass a supplemental funding package for aid to ukraine and israel. now, on saturday senators wrapped up in-person meetings on capitol hill saying while there isn t an agreement yet, they are making progress. s ....