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look into criminal investigations involving the former u.s. president. what he had to say and how it may play out politically is just ahead. plus, buffalo, new york, is digging out from a colossal snowstorm. we'll go live to the weather center for details on where the storm is going next. and there are new details in the killing of four students in idaho. police update what they learned about how two of the victims got home. >> announcer: live from cnn center, this is "cnn newsroom" with laila harrak. donald trump and other republicans are lashing out against the latest move to oversee the criminal investigations he faces. the u.s. justice department has appointed a special counsel to take over two of the most sensitive probes involving the

former president. cnn's evan perez has the details. >> reporter: attorney general merrick garland appointed war crimes prosecutor jack smith to serve as special counsel to oversee two criminal investigations related to donald trump. the decision was triggered in part by the former president's decision in recent days to declare a third run as a presidential candidate. smith most recently worked as a prosecutor in the hague, overseeing kosovo war crimes. he'll take over investigations stemming from the alleged mishandling of classified documents, which the fbi retrieved in a search from trump's mar-a-lago home as well as portions of the january 6th investigation dealing with trump's efforts to impede the transfer of power after the 2020 election. garland said the appointment was intended to show that the investigations will be done with independence. >> based on recent developments, including the former president's announcement that he is a

candidate for president in the next election, and the sitting president's stated intention to be a candidate as well, i have concluded that it is in the public interest to appoint a special counsel. such an appointment underscores the department's commitment to both independence and accountability in particularly sensitive matters. >> reporter: smith is expected to set up an office separate from the justice department with prosecution teams and fbi agents currently handling the investigation reporting directly to him. in a statement, smith said the pace of the investigations will not pause or flag under my watch. i will exercise independent judgment and will move the investigations forward expeditiously and thoroughly to whatever outcome the facts and the law dictate. >> evan perez reporting there from washington. as for mr. trump, he's giving every indication he intends to ignore the new special counsel, calling him, quote, super

radical left. and even though the doj investigations have been going on for months, the former president acted surprised that they are still very active. here's what he told a crowd on friday night at his florida resort. >> this horrendous abuse of power is the latest in a long series of witch hunts. they started a long time ago. i thought the investigation with the document hoax was dying or dead or over, and the investigation into january 6th and my very peaceful and patriotic speech. remember? peaceful and patriotically -- was dead especially after the record setting 40-point loss of liz cheney in the great state of wyoming. i thought it was dead. >> well, naming a special counsel is meant to ensure a criminal probe does not become political. mr. trump playing the victim railed against friday's decision

as the, quote, worst politicization of justice. the white house fired right back. >> i will say this, and i've said this many times before. we do not politicize the department of justice. that is something that the president said during the campaign. that is something the president said in his early days of being in the white house, and that continues to be true. >> some republicans also want the justice department to appoint a special counsel in its investigation into the foreign business dealings of president biden's son, hunter biden. sore john cornyn tweeted that by appointing a counsel in the trump case, the doj admitted there was a conflict of interest, and he says the department must now admit there's also a conflict in the hunter biden probe and that a special counsel should oversee it. joining us now from london this morning is thomas gift, who teaches political science at university college in london. very good day, sir.

as this becomes a special counsel investigation, what are the political ramifications? >> well, laila, i think everything was careening toward the selection of a special prosecutor. the justice department wants to insulate itself from politics as much as possible, and attorney general merrick garland is very much an institutionalist. so unless the doj was just going to drop this case altogether, i think what we saw was the likely move. i do question the timing maybe a bit, less than a week after trump's announcement for 2024, especially if the objective is to obviate the appearance of a politically motivated investigation. i do think to some extent, it plays into trump's hands in the short term, who's already smearing this effort as a witch hunt. and in the long term, if any indictment is handed down, it increases the chances that it would occur in the heat of the 2024 election. but either way, this is going to loom over the trump campaign much like the mueller investigation defined the first two years of trump's presidency. i am skeptical that this will ultimately result in an

indictment, but it was notable to hear former attorney general bill barr say that he actually thought the prospects of that happening were increasingly likely. >> i would like you to elaborate on what this means for the 2024 presidential race. mr. trump reacted. he slammed the special counsel probe as unfair. the white house says it had no special advance notice. it didn't know anything about this. what does it mean for the 2024 presidential race? >> well, i just think that it gives donald trump fodder. i mean his entire campaign last time around was that everyone's out to get me. democrats are out to get me. it's character assassination. it's political witch hunts, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. this is all very familiar rhetoric for donald trump. i think that basically having this special prosecutor just gives him the ammunition that he wants to galvanize the base. i think it plays right into what he wants. in some sense, i don't want to call it a gift to donald trump, but i do think that he can frame

this in a way that is very useful, particularly for talking to his core base of supporters. >> let's look at what's ahead in the next two years. now, with government divided, a republican-controlled house and democrats controlling the senate, will anything get done, or will the next two years be dominated by congressional oversight investigations? >> well, we're certainly going to see a litany of investigations. you know, benghazi times infinity is how it's been described. that's going to cover everything from hunter biden's laptop to the origins of covid-19 to afghanistan to charges of a politically motivated doj. and i do think that some of these probes have the potential to embarrass the white house and its associates even if that's as far as they go. but i think a big open question is how cooperative the administration will be with these investigations. of course we saw the trump white house just totally shut down and refuse to hand over documents, to offer testimony to comply with subpoenas, et cetera. and in the course of those

investigations. that violated really long-standing norms, and so the question now is will the biden white house do the same. but i think in terms of policy, you're right. everything's just going to kind of grind to a halt with republicans taking over the house. it's going to be event very difficult to get any legislation through. >> as you know, young voters came out in force these midterms. will we see that reflected in government? will we see a generational change? >> that's a really good question. i guess we are seeing a leadership change in the house on the democratic side with nancy pelosi stepping down. but, you know, i'm not sure if sort of the -- if you think about sort of the youth vote favoring more progressive policies, if that's really going to happen. you know, the fact that democrats did do better than expected in the midterms, i suspect, will be used by progressives to make the case that their agenda is ascendant,

but to some extent, i think that would be a misreading of what happened. americans weren't buying what many republicans were selling, especially election denialism, but that doesn't mean they're foursquare behind a progressive blueprint for the country either. to my mind, the midterms were more a repudiation of the gop than an endorsement of liberal policies. if the democratic party tries to shift to the left or try to reflect some of these new generational shifts, i'm not sure if it will work because republicans have de facto veto power. but second, i think it risks backfiring because there really is a policy mandate to come out of these elections, i think it's for moderation. >> thomas gift, thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you. georgia's key senate run off election is heating up this weekend. the state's newly re-elected governor, brian kemp, is set to join republican nominee herschel walker on the campaign trail for the first time later today.

while mr. walker, a former football star, finished well behind other statewide republicans like georgia's incumbent u.s. senator raphael warnock got about 36,000 votes more than mr. walker but did not pass the required 50% threshold to avoid the december 6th runoff. in the past 24 hours, a judge decided to allow early voting on the saturday after thanksgiving. the ruling comes after mr. warnock's campaign sued the state for barring voting on that day. the fulton county judge said blocking voting on the saturday after thanksgiving would irreparably harm voters and their candidate of choice. a potentially historic winter storm is pounding parts of the great lakes region. two people in new york's erie county died after suffering cardiac events related to

clearing snow. officials warn the storm could be life-threatening and have called on residents to be prepared. >> right now we do have a travel ban in south buffalo. we have a travel advisory throughout the rest of buffalo. and we're asking people if you don't need to go out, if travel is not necessary, please stay at home so snowplows can do their job. >> while the winter storm has canceled flights, halted traffic on major roadways, and knocked out power as temperatures plunge. paulo sandoval has the story from buffalo, new york. >> yeah, we got some snow. >> reporter: heavy snowfall, thunder, lightning, a potential historic snowstorm is pummeling areas surrounding the great lakes with western new york state in the bull's-eye. >> it's a little deep.

oh, my god. >> reporter: the storm already dumped around four feet of snow south of buffalo, prompting the nfl to move the buffalo bills' sunday game to detroit. high mark stadium left completely covered in white. the storm is expected to hit the city hard on friday night. the national weather service and new york officials warning the snowfall will produce life-threatening conditions into the weekend. >> it can turn very quickly. >> reporter: even with the warning, some people in buffalo don't seem too worried. >> we live in buffalo. it's expected. that's all i could say. >> we've been through this before. to me, it's no big deal, but my family wants everything done. >> reporter: officials reminding people to stay inside and off the roads, saying there is a travel ban in south buffalo with many flights in and out of the region canceled. >> please stay indoors. do not go out unless it is an absolute emergency. >> reporter: national weather service forecasters explain lake-effect snow is fueling this extraordinary storm.

that occurs when cold air blows over warmer lake water, picking up more moisture and leading to higher snow amounts downstream. climate experts warn water temperatures in the great lakes grow increasingly warmer each year, shortening the length of time ice covers the surface during the winter. >> i just want to remind everything that there is a lake effect warning still in effect. this thing is still moving. so we still need to take this seriously. >> reporter: polo sandoval, cnn, buffalo, new york. cnn meteorologist derek van dam joins us now live from the cnn weather center with more on all this. derek. >> laila, these snow totals i'm g about to show you are just mind-boggling, but you've got to see this almost an elevated view time-lapse of a snow squall. this is the lake-effect snow band moving over downtown buffalo earlier on friday, and you can see the extreme whiteout conditions that just basically inundate and take over the city. this is a very narrow band of

heavy snowfall. we're talking three, upwards of five inches per hour within that snow band, but it's only a ten-mile-wide snow band, so dependent on where it's located, that's the location that's getting the heaviest snowfall at that particular time. here's the snowfall totals as promised. that is an incredible amount of snow. we're talking about nearing record-breaking territory for the state of new york. that has to be officialized from the national weather service and analyzed by some of the measuring apparatuses that are ongoing here for all these various locations. nonetheless, that is a significant amount of snow, and it is significantly dangerous, especially for households and businesses there just because of the sheer weight of the snow. we've done the math for you. you can double check my math if you'd like. you can follow me on wetwitter d correct me if i'm wrong. if we're looking at an average square footage of a house, 2,000

square feet or so, you multiply that by four feet of snow average. that equates to nearly 50,000 pounds on top of your roof. that is like having ten suvs piled up on top of your building. that, of course, could lead to some collapse or failed roofs, and that is obviously dangerous, not to mention what's happening on the roadways. we still have over 6 million americans under these winter weather alerts, including michigan. but i'm really focusing our attention downwind of lake erie and lake ontario because this is the area that has been battered for a good part of the past 48 hours. and now that heavy snow band moving directly over the downtown area of buffalo. so they're getting hit very hard right now. this is a three-hour loop, but i want to go back 24 hours because i want you to see almost that fire hose of snow that continues to oscillate north and south depending on the exact direction of the wind. that's what i was talking about,

that narrow, heavy band of snowfall. it is so imperative and so critical where that wind direction is because that determines who sees the whiteout conditions, who sees the heaviest amounts of snow. so the question on everyone's minds, how much more snow is still to come? >> well, we have the potential for over two feet of additional snow through sunday evening across the watertown region to the northern syracuse suburbs. buffalo another foot to foot and a half of additional snowfall for you. >> fire hose of snow. >> yep. >> you said it. thanks so much, derek van dam. the university of idaho says it will hold a candlelight vigil at the end of the month in remembrance of the four students who were killed last weekend. the four are all in their early 20s were found stabbed to death in off-campus housing on sunday in a crime that has left the university's community in shock and grief.

there are no suspects in custody, and the weapon has not been found. police investigating killings now say two of the victims used a, quote, private party to get home. authorities had initially said they had gotten into an uber after leaving a food truck early sunday morning. police say the four victims were likely asleep when they were attacked. investigators report some of the victims had defensive wounds and each was stabbed multiple times. we get more details on the investigation now from cnn's brian todd. >> reporter: critical new information as investigators continue to hunt the killer or killers of four university of idaho students. police now saying where in the house the bodies were discovered. >> i believe the chief provided that information, and i believe it was the top floor and the middle floor, so the third floor and the second floor. >> reporter: scenes of horrific violence described by the latah county coroner. >> i saw lots of blood on the wall. >> reporter: investigators also on friday releasing a map and a timeline of the students'

movements the night they were murdered. ethan chapin and xana kernodle attended a fraternity party from 8:00 to 9:00 p.m. kaylee goncalves and madison mogen were at a sports bar between 10:30 p.m. and 1:00 a.m. police say all four victims were back at the house sometime after 1:45 sunday morning. >> you look for cameras. you look for ring doorbells. you look for anything that you might pick up that shows the movement of these individuals and whether or not was there somebody following them. you know, were they driving? were they walking? >> reporter: police say this was a targeted attack. the four victims stabbed to death inside their shared off-campus home sunday morning. adding to the mystery, there are no named suspects, no murder weapon, and two additional roommates were inside the home at the time of the murders, police say. neither of whom were injured or held hostage. police say the roommates have been fully cooperative but won't say if they're witnesses, suspects, or neither.

the coroner says there were no signs of sexual assault on any of the bodies, but she did give new information on the nature of the wounds of at least one victim. >> there were stab wounds on the hands of at least one of the students that make it appear that it would be defensive wounds. >> reporter: jeffrey kernodle, the father of victim xana kernodle, told a cnn affiliate he believes his daughter fought her killer to the very end. >> bruises, you know, maybe occurred by the knife or whatever. she's a tough kid. >> reporter: but former d.c. and philadelphia police chief charles ramsay says new questions are raised by the indication that at least one victim fought their attacker. >> which means there was noise. this wasn't quiet. i don't know how you could quietly kill four people with a knife and no one in the house would hear anything. and so it's very important that we know more about the roommates. >> reporter: brian todd, cnn, washington. one element of life before the war makes a comeback in the

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dark. a ukrainian energy research center now says power has been restored to almost all consumers. but president volodymyr zelenskyy is striking a different tone, saying supply issues still exist across the country. but he says they'll be fixed. >> translator: we know it is very difficult for people as the occupiers have destroyed everything before fleeing. we will reconnect everything, restore everything. >> meanwhile, ukraine says this is the sign of ordinary life coming back to the newly liberated city of kherson. the first train bound for that city left the capital, kyiv, on friday just a week after a russian pullout from kherson. for more, scott mclean joins us now from london. scott, after the euphoria last weekend over the liberation of kherson, what is the situation now? >> yeah.

that is one sign of life getting back to normal, the train. but in many ways, things are anything but ordinary still in kherson. you mentioned the president volodymyr zelenskyy saying that power cuts continue to be an issue not just in kherson, but across the country, but especially in kherson since the russians destroyed so much of the infrastructure there. he mentioned that his government has opened up these centers people can go to, to get warm briefly, to charge up their cell phones or whatever else and try to get a respite from the cold there. at the same time, you also have in the city war crimes investigators documenting what they say is evidence of torture there. they also say that they've uncovered formore than 60 bodie inside the city. kherson is still very much on the front lines of war. you have the russian positions dug in just across the river dnipro, and you also have the russians lobbing bombs in the direction of kherson as well. we've seen throughout the course of this war when the russians are unable to really move the front lines forward, they seem

content to lob bombs and lob missiles across the front lines, and that is what we've started to see already in that area. as you mentioned, though, the train has returned, and it is difficult to understate just how significant this is. the train is a huge lifeline for people across the country because a large chunk of the population actually doesn't own cars. so the very first train departed kyiv to kherson, carried about 200 passengers. the lights are back on in the kherson train station as well. you'll remember at the outset of the war, there were hordes of people trying desperately to get out of the country, and they were flocking to train stations. that is because they didn't have very many other options to actually get out of the country. it is such a huge lifeline for so many people. it's also one of the primary ways that the ukrainians move supplies around the country, which is why it has been such a big target for russian missile strikes, not just on the front lines but really across the country. meanwhile, the ukrainians say

that fighting is also intensifying in the eastern part of the country. some of the heaviest is around a village right on the front lines in the donetsk region. it has taken an absolute battering over the last few months. it has been fought for very heavily, and yet miraculously, the ukrainians still control it despite recent attacks. a british analysis of the situation on the front lines, laila, predicts that the russians are likely to take a lot of the troops that withdrew from the kherson region and redeploy them to the eastern part of the country, which means things are about to get even tougher in terms of the fighting in that region, laila. >> no letup in fighting there. scott mclean, thank you so much. prospective nato member finland says it's planning to build a fence along its eastern border. the fence will cover about a quarter of the 1,340 kilometers of the border that finland shares with russia. it will have surveillance

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holding hands as they inspect the powerful intercontinental ballistic missile. the launch of the weapon has sparked outrage from leaders around the world, including from officials at an apec meeting in thailand. cnn's will ripley has more. >> reporter: u.s. vice president kamala harris and chinese president xi jinping exchanged brief words on the sidelines of the apec summit in bangkok, talking about the importance of avoiding conflict and encouraging cooperation on issues of global concern. that's according to chinese state media's readout of the brief conversation. one issue that the united states and china are not really cooperating on is the issue of north korea, which has been launching missiles at an unprecedented pace throughout the year, including this icbm launch of what north korea calls a new kind of long-range missile capable of striking, according to the japanese government, pretty much anywhere in the united states and potentially most of the world, excluding some portions of south america. if you look at the possible

trajectory distance of this missile that was tested. the missile test was pretty striking when you look at the photos released by north korean state media on saturday morning. it was rising up over the sunan area. kim jong-un was there with his wife and for the first time, his daughter, believed to be around 9 years old, appearing right alongside her dad as they walked around this gigantic missile, dwarfed by the size of the transporter erector launch vehicle that was used to fire the missile basically more than 3,700 miles or 6,000 kilometers up into space before it splashed down in the waters near japan. had the trajectory been different, the missile could have traveled much farther, the japanese government warns. there has been little in terms of substantive consequences this year with all of these north korean missile launch events, at least 34. north korea claiming to have

launched around 50 ballistic missiles so far this year. that's more than any other year in north korean history. and certainly it comes at a time that there are growing concerns about a seventh underground nuclear test. the fact of the matter is china, which does have the ability to heavily enforce sanctions and put pressure on north korea, from the perspective of the u.s. and its allies, it's simply not doing that. china and russia with veto power are saying all sides need to remain calm even though the u.s. says it's north korea that continues to provoke the situation. will ripley, cnn, bangkok. once hailed at a wunderkind who started the medical testing company theranos at 19, elizabeth holmes is now heading to prison. natasha chen reports. >> reporter: elizabeth holmes was sentenced to 11 years and 3 months in prison as well as three years of supervised release after that. she was fined $400, but a separate date will be set to determine restitution, a possible $800 million. holmes was convicted in january

on four counts of defrauding investors but found not guilty of defrauding patients. she had at one time been an icon in silicon valley for being a young female entrepreneur, starting the company theranos and claiming her technology could use just a few drops of blood to conduct a variety of tests. but that technology didn't work. prosecutors said when faced with failure, she chose fraud. a separate trial earlier this year found theranos' second in command, sunny balwani, guilty on 12 counts of fraud. homes has to turn herself? to custody next april. that may have something to do with the fact she's currently pregnant. her pregnancy and her 1-year-old child with partner billy evans were brought up by some of her supporters when they wrote to the judge stating how one much consider very young children growing up without their mother. there were more than 100 letters written in her support. holmes had a chance to speak for herself on friday before the judge read her sentence. she was emotional in telling the court, quote, the people i tried

to get involved with theranos were the people i loved and respected the most. i am devastated by my failings. her team is expected to appeal her conviction and sentence. back to you. more changes amid the turmoil at twitter. new boss elon musk tweeted a poll asking users to weigh in on whether or not former president donald trump's twitter account should be reactivated. more than 7 million votes have already been recorded. several other controversial accounts that had been banned were restored on friday. well, shaking things up appears to be elon musk's standard operating procedure. cnn's clare sebastian takes a look at his career and his management style. >> i'm really working at the absolute most amount that i can work, from morning till night, seven days a week. >> reporter: speaking from a room which he said had lost power, elon musk detailing the impact of his new power as twitter's owner and ceo.

>> i have too much work on my plate. that is for sure. >> reporter: touting his personal worth ethic, then telling staff at twitter in a memo shortly after, they need to commit to, quote, extremely hard core work or leave, fits a pattern for mufblg. >> in 2018, he told cbs news he had been sleeping in his california factory while trying to fiction production problems. >> it is pushing people to a limit beyond what most of us would consider fair. what he is asking people to accomplish under tight deadlines is something we don't know is technically possible. >> reporter: to stay musk is a culture shock for staff, the half he did not fire, would be an understatement. having mandated 40 hours a week in the office for tesla staff, he has now kans -- allowed employees to work from home forever if they wanted. musk seems to thrive on

disruption, promising to, quote, do a lot of dumb things at twitter in the first few months. some would argue already delivering. >> it's mania mixed with chaos. it's just a -- it's hard to imagine where it goes from here. >> reporter: others argue twitter, a company that took 12 years to turn an annual profit, might benefit from musk's brand of experimentation. >> we have to remember that musk comes from a culture of spacex where he built in the culture there that is acceptable for a $100 million rocket to explode and you can build another one the next day. if you come from that environment, messing up a check mark on wetwitter is not as big deal in their eyes. >> reporter: beyond the chaos, musk is a leader known for his desire to change the world. >> liftoff! >> reporter: and for having some success doing it. >> i think it's very important for there to be an inclusive arena for free speech.

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the start of qatar 2022 is just a day away, and it's set to be a historic world cup, the first ever to be held in the arab world. the fifa president has been addressing journalists for about 45 minutes now. in his opening statements, he expressed support for the lgbtq community and for migrant workers in qatar. the treatment of both groups have been a concern. we'll have more from the news conference ahead. the world cup matches are going to be dry events. the host nation says no beer containing alcohol will be allowed at stadiums. it's a u-turn for qatar, which previously agreed to some beer sales before, after, but not during the matches. cnn's amanda davies has more. >> reporter: another day, another headline, and one that won't win qatar any new fans.

just 48 hours to go until the start of the world cup. a real embarrassment for fifa and one of their biggest sponsors, budweiser. alcohol will not be sold to fans at stadiums. it will be served in hospitality areas and still at the fan fest. but inside the grounds, it will be bud zero. this is a tournament that from the word go has challenged the norms. a world cup awarded in the midst of a corruption scandal. a first-ever winter world cup to be held in the middle east in a muslim country. it is a very different story, this, to the controversies, the concerns we've been talking about in the area of human workers and members of the grant

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negotiators seek a breakthrough on outstanding issues. delegates have been discussing ways to end reliance on fossil fuels and to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees celsius. they've also been debating loss and damage, the idea of compensating poor nations that often suffer the worst consequences of global warming. taylor swift fans just can't shake it off, and neither can she. they're all leaving tear drops on her guitar over the mess with ticketmaster. ♪ it's me, hi ♪ ♪ i'm the problem, it's me ♪ >> taylor swift says that in this case, she's not the problem. it's ticketmaster that's at fault. swift says she's not making excuses for them, that it's truly amazing that 2.4 million people got tickets, but it really annoys here that fans who got tickets felt like they went through a bear attack to get the seats. the mess has sparked a federal

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