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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. the d.c. court of appeals is weighing former president trump's case to drop the charges. he's trying to overturn a lower court ruling. joining me is cnn legal analyst joey jackson. tell me, when it comes to this, what happens next? >> good morning. what happens next? >> i think what happens next is we have a dc circuit court, which is an appellate court, of course, evaluating the propriety of whether or not the president has immunity. what that looks like is it is going to be seen on a fast track basis. oral arguments are expected to happen in a couple of weeks, january 9th. briefing has been done. so the d.c. circuit court will evaluate that question. it's an intermediate court and then i would anticipate that whoever wins or loses, there will be a further appeal to the

u.s. supreme court which as you know has rejected the immediate right skipping the intermediate d.c. court. i suspect they will get their hands involved. >> to that point, if and when this returns to the supreme court in weeks and months, what could that mean for the 2024 race? >> yeah, i think it means a lot. i think that, you know, certainly people would want to, voters, may want to assess whether or not, a, the president has immunity, b, if not, whether the president is guilty of these crimes. in our system of justice, danny, you're innocent until proven guilty. trump is no different than anybody else. the critical question comes whether or not he can be tried prior to the election given the fact that now we have another court, right, the dc appellate court, evaluating the decision. in the event that they make a quick decision, does that mean this march date that's set for trial will go forward? highly unlikely. if it's moved back, what time

period will it be moved back? if the supreme court gets it, when will they evaluate it and make a decision. to your question, it's an open question whether the voters will have the ability to evaluate the fwilt or innocence of the person they're vote being for. i think obviously jack smith would like that to happen qui quickly. >> i know we've been talking about this a lot since the end of last week. can you explain exactly how does pushing these cases back on the calendar, how does this actually help form er president trump. >> it's about delay. if you get elected as the united states, you control something called the justice department. to the extent as we look at the calendar there, you are ultimately, that's again having what elections are occurring when, but in the event that this is pushed off and the trial judge in the subversion case, if

that gets pushed from march to april to may to june, if it gets pushed further down the line and he's not tried, let's just say he becomes president, then guess what happens to that case in the event that it hasn't been a adjudicated and a jury hasn't been decided? if he can pardon himself or wipe the case away. i think the analysis for jack smith, if there is going to be a case, he needs to try it before there's an election. if he does not get elected president, it's a different equation. if he does get elected president, danny, the case is unlikely. >> joey jackson, have a merry christmas. thanks always for your analysis. >> appreciate you always. a large storm system bringing rain and snow to the majority of the central u.s. is making its way east and could have a significant impact on post christmas travel conditions. cnn's chad myers joins us. merry christmas.

>> merry christmas. good morning. things look pretty good for today. there's not that many in airplanes. only 9 the 4 have been canceled. even some are in phoenix which are likely not even weather related. the rain is what we're talking about here. driving today, getting to the next place in your location. new orleans had two inches of rainfall yesterday and in some spots around louisiana it is still raining. don't get me wrong, louisiana has been in a horrible drought. they will take two inches of rainy time they will let them. there are blizzard warnings across nebraska, south dakota, kansas. there will be a little ice to the west of minneapolis in those areas where you go to the lakes and do their ice fishing. it hasn't been nearly cold enough for that. there's your rainfall for the next couple of days. could be an inch or two. not so worried about air flow travel today. flying in and out of omaha, lincoln, sioux falls, all of those areas there.

but it's the rainfall that's going to hit the east coast tuesday night and into wednesday. if you are flying on wednesday, it will be a great idea to get that app and see if your plane is leaving. so much rain. airplanes don't like to fly next to each other in that weather. >> thank you very much. let's get back to poppy and phil. it's our racing to the finish line in iowa where the first ballots will be cast in the republican presidential primary. the key moments that could influence the republican primary. those are ahead.

one thing is certain. there is never a dull moment when it comes to politics in america, but even by washington

standards, 2023 has been quite the year. >> he says, you're not going to be a dictator, are you? i said, no, no, no, other than day one. we're closing the border and we're drilling, drilling, drilling. after that i'm not a dictator. >> whether i'm secret or not, i'm a member of this body. i know what history has had and i can lead in any position it is ♪ ♪ happy birthday to you ♪ >> the chair calls this house in recess. >> see what you mean? form er obama administration official and emily know. what a year. >> what a year. >> i feel like 20 this is going to be just like even more. >> twice as much. >> what do you -- >> yeah, it sort of feels like that. 2023 felt like a year when a bunch of chickens came home to roost so that it actually started in '21 and '22.

trump for everything that happened on january 6th now starting to pay the price for that with all of the indictments. economic sentiment in the tank which feels like the last couple of years of inflation and so 2024 is it more of this? i think it's more of the same but also like just the heat of the campaign. frankly, it's going to be ugly. i don't know, you know, that americans are really in the mood for it but they're about to get it regardless. >> emily, what's striking about the montage we just showed, three of those people in the montage in january of 2023 were members of the house of representatives in the republican conference. by the end of this congress none of them will be in congress anymore. the interparty warfare we've seen inside the republican party has been like nothing i've experienced before. >> yeah, me neither. i'll say first and foremost, that super cut, i can't believe that happened in a year. i'm feeling what sarah said. seems like a lot of scene sketing. when you look forward to 2024, the house looks different. they'll have a much slimmer

majority. some of the competitive races including in new york where there are about six competitive seats could go either way, same for california. that's going to be where the money is spent, where the attention is directed. take a look also at the legal calendar that donald trump has versus the primary calendar and i just really wish i could see what that google setup looks like, the colors. because you have the iowa caucuses but then he has the jury deciding what the damages are in the defamation case. you have new hampshire and then another civil trial begins and then you have south carolina and that's the start of this big federal criminal trial into whether he interfered into the 2020 election. it's going to be back to back and nonstop. as much as 2023 felt like non nonstop, 20 this is really when the foot hits the gas peddle. >> a lot of legal drama ahead for president trump in 2024. for biden in 2024, he really needs a new year, doesn't he? he really needs a reset.

his most recent polling numbers are not good at all overall and on the economy. >> yeah, that's right. economic sentiment to go back to it i think is driving so much of this. economists are trying to figure out the economy could be so much wo worse, why do people feel so badly. it's not coming down super fast and prices aren't where people feel like they should be. and people just don't feel sort of good about day to day life generally. the it feels like there's disruption, chaos, it feels like there's a lot of uncertainty. i don't think that's going to change any time soon. that's going to be a big hill for biden to get over with. >> the margin is razor thin. will republicans be in the majority? >> it's hard to say. now mike johnson is the speaker of the house. kevin mccarthy couldn't even last a year and mike johnson is someone who could easily be portrayed as too extremist,

someone with very scary views on abortion, on lgbtq americans and that's really going to hurt some of these more moderate centrist republicans than they know. he's not as strong a fund-raiser as mccarthy was. mccarthy knew how to bring in the millions, especially for the republicans that flipped some blue seats. i don't know if they can hang onto the majority. the margin is so thin that every single seat will count now. >> i have to ask because he was such a defining figure of 2023. what happens to george santos in 2024? >> are you telling me you want a cameo as your christmas gift? >> i'm not going to say no. >> someone asked me recently if he could win elected office again. that answer is pretty definitively no. i don't think he's going to disappear from the conversation. he is pretty master full at social media, at trolling, at making allegations, filing complaints, threatening to file complaints. he'll elbow his way in.

it's our job to make sure if he's not relevant, he stays that way. >> i couldn't agree more. >> emily. thank you. sarah, merry christmas. this year the union workers rose up to fight for their rights. how 2023 completely shaped the labor movement from coast to coast. later, our conversation with college basketball legend, coach k. his name is synonymous with winning on the court. we'll talk about life after the court and winning. >> i have three daughters. >> they hold you down? >> whatever humility i did not have, they try to interject in me over and over.

good morning, everyone. merry christmas. i'm danny freeman. this morning pope francis is delivering his christmas mass from basilica city. he said our hearts are in bethlehem because the message of jesus's birth is being rejected by war. it comes as he has repeatedly called for a cease-fire between israel and hamas. christopher lamb joins us now. what message is the pope sending this christmas? >> i've just listened to the pope's message, his blessing to the city and the world which he does each christmas. it was a very strong anti-war message.

he called on the world to say no to war which he described as an aimless voyage and an inexcusable folly. he also called for an end to the hostilities in israel, palestine calling for an end to the israel-hamas war which he said was leading to an appalling harvest of victims. so the message from the pope is very much one of calling for peace, calling for an end to conflicts around the globe and saying the war and particularly the arms trade must be rejected. >> i understand that cnn is learning that sarah netanyahu, the wife of israel's prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, sent a letter to the pope on saturday requesting his help for the release of israeli hostages held by hamas in gaza. what more are you learning about this letter? >> reporter: well, i can imagine this letter will be taken seriously by the vatican and the vatican diplomats will be working out a response to it. the pope today once again called for the release of hostages,

condemned the th of october attack. the pope has in the past met the families of hostages -- of israeli hostages in the vatican, but i can manage that the vatican will be looking to come up with a response to this letter from sarah netanyahu and for the pope to use every diplomatic lever at his disposal to try and find a way for these hostages to be released. danny? >> chris, thank you so much for taking the time and i just appreciate you sharing on this christmas morning not only the pope's message, but also that perspective that this is more than just the vatican at this point. thank you so much. merry christmas. >> merry christmas. >> now let's get back to poppy and phil. 2023 has without a doubt been the year of the union worker. after months of strikes, the country's auto workers, writers and actors all claimed victories in contract negotiations. >> we have won several astonishing victories.

the result is one of the most stunning contract victories since the sitdown strikes in the 1930s. >> i'm confident based upon what we accomplished at ups we've set the notal for how to get a deal done and a deal done in the best interests of the members and the best interests of working people. >> power concedes nothing without demand. it never has and it never will. >> joining us now for perspective on all of it, she covered all of it all year. cnn business and politics correspondent vanessa jurkevich. how many days did you spent in detroit this year? >> a lot. what a year for the worker. i wonder why you think that is? >> there's a couple reasons. a lot of workers that ended up going on strike, they worked throughout the pandemic. they were the essential workers that kept the -- presumably some of us were at home. they at the same time watched

their companies, kaiser-permanente, general motors, ups make record profits. they were dealing with the high inflation that all of us were dealing with. they had strong heek no, ma'am mick grounds to stand on and then we just played for you the three leaders of the uaw, ups and the actor's union. those were all new leaders of these three unions. it was fresh blood. they would not take no for an answer on these contract deals and in the end all three, ups, the uaw and sag got a lot of what they wanted at the end of the day because they pointed back to the three reasons of why they really felt like their workers deserved so much more in these next contracts. >> one of the big sticking points in both the writers' strike and the actors' strike was artificial intelligence, ai, and the role of ai and compensation for all of that. how do you think that plays in the new year and going forward in labor and tech negotiations?

>> we're in the age of artificial intelligence. companies, businesses, all of us are grappling with what this means. in terms of these negotiations with the actors and the writers and the studios, this was the sticking point. for the actors and the writers, they said that this was an existential threat to their livelihoods. in many ways it was. chatgpt could write scripts. a lot of the studios could use artificial intelligence to recreate actors in the background and the actors and the writers fought tooth and nail to get protections in their contracts. they did at the end of the day, but remember just how fast artificial intelligence is moving. every day this changing, evolving, growing, learning more. so i don't doubt that in the next couple of years we're going to see artificial intelligence talked about in contracts with health care, manufacturing, hospitality, ecommerce. this is just the beginning, and when the actors and the writers negotiate again in a couple of

years, i guarantee you that they're going to be trying to get more protections in place to protect their jobs. the so this will be a key issue going forward in union negotiations. >> with the rise of labor by far the most important stories of the year. you covered every step of it very well. thank you. >> thanks, guys. 2023 was another very busy year for law enforcement, from a 14-day manhunt for a convicted killer that began and ended in a dramatic fashion to the arrest of a suspected serial killer behind some of the gilgo beach murders. they have captured attention and raised questions. with us now is john miller. let's start with the gilgo beach alleged murder. i mean, how long was that a case where they just didn't think that they had leads? and then all of a sudden this. >> so that was an issue of leadership. rodney harrison, a new police commissioner, came into suffolk county and not knowing anything

about the case said one of the things i'm going to do is we're going to solve that case. what he knew was how to solve the case. he brought in the fbi, he brought in the new york state police, he brought in the suffolk county sheriff's office. he sent them all to a place away from their offices to work as a team and said, don't come back until you get this done, and literally within a couple of months 13 years of mystery was unraveled with a suspect. >> donello cabacante. we were sitting on this set when he was captured and got first video of it. the what stood out about that search and the eventual capture? >> what stood out about that search was we think of a fugitive hunt. we think of an urban fugitive hunt and you're in the alleys, streets, you're waiting for someone to pop their head up or make a phone call. in this case, you had an individual who, you know, had great skills in the wilderness, a determination to get away and,

you know, a lot of people looking for him deep in the woods. eventually he was caught but it tells us something about the condition of the prisons and jails. >> prison security, right? >> well, that's right, because what we're seeing is, you know, increased types of these escapes, cava lca nte was the third in a row in pennsylvania that resulted in major manhunts. what's that about? that's about, you know, as police departments are having trouble recruiting officers given the current climate about law enforcement, the people who have even more trouble are the jails and the prisons and they are the first to get their budgets cut. they are the first to not get renovations and physical security updates. staffing is the issue. and as you see funding going down and staffing getting smaller and people working more overtime, you're seeing the holes show in the system literally. >> john miller, quite a year. thank you. >> thanks. >> appreciate it. the holidays can be

challenging for a lot of people across the country, especially with the very real uncertainty in the world today. we're going to talk to faith leaders about how to keep faith alive until the end of the year. is it okay to ever return a christmas gift from your in-laws? i'm going to s say n no. haharry entitin is here e with numbers s ahead.

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the right to live in peace. every human being, whether christian, jew or muslim has the right to live in peace. that was pope francis's message after the israel-hamas war as christians celebrate the birth of jesus. we want to talk about how to keep hope alive. >> we are joined by three faith leaders. father edward beck, rabbi angela buchtal from central synagogue and imam abdul raul the founder of the cordova house. >> merry christmas. >> imma'am, you're on stptimist. >> jesus christ, who is also a prophet was once asked what was the greatest commandment? he said to love the lord, god, with all of your heart, all of

your mind, all of your soul, all of your strength. the second commandment which is equally important from the first is to love your brother as you love yourself. which means that the divine imperative and demand of all human beings is to love our creator and to love our fellow human beings and to love for them what we love for ourselves. this message is universal. almost all religion believes in being kind, being generous and being just. and if our political leaders were able to implement this teaching, all conflicts would cease. >> and it's that -- i'm so glad you brought that up. it's the through line between faith where central elements are the same in each and yet for people looking around right now and looking at the course of the last several months and saying everything seems bad. doesn't seem to be any way to reconcile where different faiths

are, where different ideologies are and different political parties are, what's your message to that? >> we are indeed in a very dark time. we are in the darkest days of the year. it's not a coincidence that every faith career in this short season have celebrations of light. we as a jewish community recently finished our hanukkah celebrations. there is a historical story of military victory of the few over the many. the rabbis wanted a different message. there was only one cruise of oil to rededicate our sanctuary to go back to practice fully as jews with freedom and that wasn't enough. somehow miraculously that light lasted for eight days we needed to celebrate our festival. there's a message, in our dark time, we feel we are plunged in a dark time, we have the power to kindle flame and it's actually every night we're supposed to add an additional

light to that menorah and we rise up and share that light. maybe one of the only commandments of this holiday for us as jews is to publicize the miracle. we've done a good job unfortunately as a society to publicize the hate. let us publicize the light. >> the miracle, the light, the joy, the celebration of christmas morning. can i ask you the question that my kids ask me, and i think most people's kids ask them? then why do such bad things happen? as we sit here on christmas there is so much pain and suffering, particularly right now in the world. can you speak to those who feel hopeless this morning, father? >> i don't think, poppy, we get an answer for the why, but i think the message of christmas is that god enters into it with us and we're not alone in it. what i'm so struck by is that the story of christmas is about

a palestinian jew. how often do you find those words put together. a palestinian jew born into a time when his country was occupied, right? they can't find a place for her to even give birth, his mother. they're homeless. they eventually have to flee as refugees into egypt, no less. i mean, you can't make up the parallels to our current world situation right now. so in some way that is who we believe god becomes. born into that situation and yet that very man jesus says, love one another. love your enemies. there is hope. there is light in the darkness. i'm attesting to that. so somehow that god enters that experience of suffering and that struggle and is actually born into it, that is what is so miraculous about the celebration for me. >> you said something about god

being with us the whole time. a couple weeks ago our pastor said god is closer to you than your breath, and it just struck me so much. and i wonder how you think about that on this christmas morning, that as alone as many people feel, we are not. >> it's an interesting thing you just said about in our breath because when i pray, the meditation is to breathe in that spirit of god and try to pray that it becomes more a part of me. so that the jesus that the imam was talking about is jesus who says love god and love neighbor. i struggle with that. we're struggling right now in our world how you do that. so if you can actually ask it to not be your own breath all the time but you breathe in the spirit of god, that kind of inclusive god, so i think that is a wonderful analogy right there. >> just add that in hebrew the word for breath is the same word for our soul. really we are reinsouled with

the sense of our connection of divinity with every breath. most of the time, our problem is we're not paying enough attention to it. >> the koran said when he created adam from the clay and then he said to the angels, and when i have blown into him from my spirit and fall in frustration to him, so the human soul is created from the divine spirit and, therefore, every human being has within himself or herself part of the dna of god. human beings don't know that we are created in god's image, and the purpose of our spiritual rituals in particular is to teach us and to make us connect to the god -- and we know god from within our own souls. >> key to being -- to recognizing that we each have the breath of didvine is for us not just to own that sense of

divinity but to treat others with the sense of divinity. >> thank you very much. this is a wonderful conversation. >> thank you. merry christmas again. 2023 was defined in many ways by the power of women in culture. concert venues, movies dominated by taylor swift and beyonce. 42 seasons, five national championships and more than 1,000 wins. we sat down with the legendary duke basketball coach mike krzyzewski and his life after basketball. >> do you want a quick story? >> yes, i want all the stories.

there are legends in basketball you know them by one name, jordan, kobe, lbron. and then there are those who are so famous you know them by one letter, k. coach k. coach mike krzyzewski won 1,129 games including five national championships before retiring. i sat down with him to talk about life, coaching wisdom and what is more important than winning. >> it's a pretty cool view and, you know, all the banners and -- >> that's all your national championships. >> five. yeah. final fours, acc championships. >> you're often described by people in profiles of you as the son of a cleaning woman and an elevator operator, but i don't think that's how you would

describe your parents. >> no. my parents were the basis of who me and my brother became. they taught us the dignity of work. i even tell my teams for years, i want you to be as tough as your mother, and just think about your mother. was there ever a day that she didn't show up? did you ever see her sick? did you ever see her tired? i never saw my mom sick or tired. i saw her every day doing everything that she could possibly do to make it nice for me and my brother bill. i didn't appreciate it until later in life. and my dad died when i was a senior at west point. he didn't go by the name krzyzewski, he went by the name cross because he was always afraid of losing his job because there was a lot of ethnic discrimination at that time. i didn't realize all the things that my parents -- >> gave up? >> gave up. >> hid.

your parents didn't even want you guys to learn to speak polish. >> polish, right. >> why? >> i didn't find out this until later? they didn't want us to have an accent because they were afraid -- again, during that time, somebody with a vowel at the end of their name made them looked at differently. they were concerned. >> they were trying to protect you? >> they were trying to protect me and my brother. >> so much so it wasn't on his tombstone until -- >> he was in world war ii as william cross. so when he died and we -- the family -- low income family, the government provides a tomb stone. we weren't able to change it until my mother died. i was fortunate to be inducted into the hall of fame. one of the parts of speech and the most emotional for me is i wish my mom and dad were here tonight -- i'm going to start

crying. to see a krzyzewski go into the hall of fame. it was emotional then. it's emotional now because i recognize just the life they led to make sure me and bill would be taken care of. amazing. >> how much of what you've done and how you've led and carried on this name so proudly, it's so famous. just walked in, the krzyzewski center. >> they couldn't find another name for it so they put one that no one could pronounce. >> i love this picture. >> yeah. that's -- you can tell she's -- >> proud. >> -- proud. been married 53 years to vicky and we knew that it was going to be a partnership. i call it two is better than one if two can act as one. and we were able to act as one. that's my family. whenever we played in the olympics, we brought everybody. >> you did? >> yeah. >> you did a lot of it all together. >> yeah, i have three daughters.

>> they hold you down? >> whatever humility i did not have, they tried to interject in me over and over. so when there used to be family dinners and people would eat together, and i'd be sitting at a table with my four girls and we're playing carolina, maryland, whatever, we just won a big game and we're talking, and nothing is said. >> about your win? >> or about the game. my wife did a great thing, poppy. when all my girls were growing up, we never had anything basketball in the house. the players would come over but there weren't trophies, pictures. >> there was no shrine to coach k in your house? >> there's -- there's no shrine. and there shouldn't be. you know -- >> well, there are in some people's houses. >> now because it's just me and vicky and our dog coach. >> there is a shrine? >> i'm in a basement office -- the lower level and i can put

anything i want in there. so whenever i need my ego boost, i go there and start looking. man, you were really good. no, i don't do that. >> do you ever come stand here alone? >> i do. usually -- not a lot but later at night when all the lights are out there might be a little bit on the national championship banners or whenever you walk in and you feel like you're in a field of dreams. >> this is your field of dreams. >> yeah. or you feel like i better get out of here because the basketball gods are going to play pickup here in a little bit. >> there are stars. there are star players but we've seen in college basketball, in the nba that when you just put a bunch of stars together, it often doesn't work. >> you hear that expression, leave your egos at the door? i hate that expression. >> you do? >> i hate it. >> bring your ego? >> bring everything you've got. bring who you are. the why wouldn't you bring -- why would you leave something you are --

>> to make room for others? >> no, we should make the room bigger. you know, you're not confined by the room. when you bring all the egos in, put them under one umbrella. that's what we did and it said usa on it. and then you develop common ground. you want a quick story? >> yeah. i want all the stories. >> jason kidd, first practice, our captain, hall-of-famer leading a fast break drill. dwyane wade's in one lane, lebron's in another. i bring them together. i know we can't play like this. before i say anything j. kidd says, coach, i'll tone it down. and immediately koby said, no, no, no, we've never played with a talent like you. we'll adapt to you. >> really? >> yes. >> it was one of the great moments in my coaching career where i saw talent say, come on,

talent, give me more. it's like the piano player telling a sax player, go, i can play the piano bigger. all of a sudden, if you can get everyone playing with all their talent, why wouldn't you want talent to maximize? >> yeah. yeah. >> you know? and it doesn't mean you have to give up talent to maximize. and if all that works together, wow. >> how many presidents have you snet all of them in your lifetime? >> yeah. yeah. >> who were in when we won. >> yeah. >> 41, president bush, became a close friend. >> yes. >> this is you and kobe. >> this is u.s. thanks for all the golden moments. this is a great book for me because each player gave their quote. >> can we read what lebron said about you? >> yeah. he allows us to play the game of basketball and go out there and

have fun but at the same time he wants us to be perfect. we should expect perfection and that is what he is about. we like that. we like that kind of challenge. >> yeah. >> read the last line kobe said about you. >> coach k is one of the best coaches of all time, period, no question about it. >> one of the things that i have learned about you is how hard you are on yourself and that there have been moments when you'll actually -- you've looked in the mirror over your career and cursed yourself out. >> we're all better if we're held accountable and how you hold players accountable along the years change but you still have to hold them accountable. >> you've been tough on them, very. >> well, you hold them accountable. and sometimes there's nobody that holds the leader accountable. it's on you. it's -- i did it. i need to change. and it was always not about winning and losing for me, it was about being worthy of winning. >> such a great interview. one of many you've had this year. more next year? >> yes, more to come.

sitting down with coach k was like a christmas gift for me. he's just so wise and i learned a lot that i hope to achieve as well as he has being with him. >> being there is amazing. >> right? we all remember this christmas classic. >> no, that's not it. >> what else can we be for kenny? >> kevin! >> that of course was the holiday hit "home alone." while hopefully none of you forgot your children at home this christmas, you like that feeling the holiday stress you see katheryn o'hara epitomize. >> joining us with a look at the good, not so good, harry enton in full festive garb. >> thank you very much. my girlfriend laura picked this out. >> fancy. >> fun numbers for the holiday before we get into the intense stuff. >> let's start with the fun

numbers. this was a question that phil and i were discussing earlier. poppy, i'd be interested in your insight. do you have a christmas tree in your home? the majority of americans do, interestingly enough, the majority say they have an artificial one. 22% who say they have a real one. the fact that artificial was so high is interesting. i see these people selling christmas trees out on the street in new york. artificial. what's with the artificial? >> what do you think i have? >> in no world does poppy have an artificial tree? >> exactly right. my new co-anchor. >> we are very much in the same place except that we had four children and then it got really, really stressful. we still decorate the tree. >> next year, i'm going to chop it down -- >> that's your minnesota spirit. >> don't you know. >> oh. >> my new york accent couldn't quite participate in that minnesota accent. one of those things that you might watch around the christmas tree is the christmas movie. we obviously saw that tease from

"home alone" and the intro there. "home alone" comes in at 6%. "it's a wonderful life" leads and "a christmas story" leads and elf 6%. i'm a little bit of a grinch at 6% and "christmas vacation". >> and die hard. >> jimmy helps direct on the stage saying is die hard a real christmas movie? >> the answer is, yes, folks, it is. >> this is by far our favorite christmas movie in the house. >> you should watch "die hard." >> i will never. >> it is stressful. >> what causes you the most stress during the holidays? 28% say finding the right gift. finding the right gift. how about traveling at 24%? i avoid the airports at all costs, folks. nothing at no stress at 16%.

17% being with family, that's why you can avoid them. how about cooking at 9%. putting the cookies in are quite the thing. can those pillsbury dough boys rise up. i don't necessarily know. we said finding the right gifts. what happens if you find the wrong gift? what are you supposed to do? i'd be interested. when you get a holiday gift you don't like, do you keep it, return it, regift it? 49% say keep it. i don't like folks that much. i don't feel the social pressure to keep it. 31% regift it. phil, i got something during last year's holiday season maybe i'll bring it in for you and you'll never know the difference. >> i'm thinking in my head, i would watch just like a youtube channel of harry giving holiday life advice. don't like people. don't travel. don't cook. give gifts back. and it's -- >> smile. smile and say thank you very much. >> thank you. working on teaching the kids that.

>> harry enton, love you. happy holidays as well. >> to you as well. 2023 brought no shortage of chaos on campaign trail. we'll break down what politicians made the naughty or nice list.