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"cnn this morning" starts right now. well, good morning, everyone, i'm poppy harlow with phil mattingly in new york. a lot to get to. specifically politics. pre-christmas campaign push lands in iowa today. donald trump, ron desantis and nikki haley all holding events there, sharpening their closing messages and attacks against one another this morning. a new signal the trump campaign is concerned about one candcand candidate's growing momentum. abbott signing a controversial bill making illegal immigration a state crime that will allow texas police to make mass arrests. the prote...

administration. >> kentucky, the kentucky legislature overrode the governor's veto, a bill that restricts aspects of trans youth, gender affirming care and the use of bathrooms. i know the white house released a proclamation for trans day on visibility. there's a march happening tomorrow to commemorate this day, also to protest these types of bills that are continuing to be passed in advanced in legislatures across the country. what is the white house's message to these lawmakers that are passing these bills and those taking to the streets to protest them. >> we support peaceful prot...

>> the president signed the safer communities act, right? this summer. a bipartisan piece of legislation. even when we celebrated signing -- when the president celebrated signing that into law, he said we need to build on that and do more. so yes, we need to do more. we know what needs to happen. banning assault weapons is one of the clearest ways -- that's what the data shows us -- that we can get weapons of war off of the streets. that's what we're asking for. >> you just said the majority of americans support banning -- >> martha: we're going to keep a close eye on this. peter doocy is in t...

Union, we all take it very seriously. no one totally understands what mr. putin's intentions are here. but we don't want to underestimate what he may do. the one thing that the ukranians did remind us and sometimes we forget, they have been at war with russia since 2014. the russians still occupy territory in crimea and they have been fighting a war off and on with the russians. and talking to everyday ukranian citizens, they seem resolute, but they have no intention of going back to the days under the soviet union. they have tasted freedom and they want to continue moving towards a more democ...

Weeks and we're still 2 years from getting out of this country. what happens between now and then and the american appetite to even learn and be informed about what's taking place in afghanistan? >> well, we're in a very trickty position obviously. i mean the numbers, remember are 20,000 u.s. killed and wounded. 85,000 u.s. troops we're 800 miles from the ocean. we're in a strategic withdrawal under pressure. we're doing it in an atmosphere in which the american people have written this war off. two- two-thirds of them do not support it. it's been running us $10 billion a month. so i think tha...