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♪ ♪ good monday morning everyone. we're so glad you could join us on cnn this morning. it is november 28th, and there is lots to get to this morning. tomorrow u.s.-iran world cup match has somehow become a high-stakes political showdown on the world stage with the iranians demanding the american team be thrown out of the competition. donald trump under fire after dining at mar-a-lago with kanye west and a white nationalist, also a holocaust denier. we have the former president reacting to the backlash he is getting for that dinner. also, the january 6th committee is actively discussing what to include in its final report expected to focus on more than just former president trump. we will explain. >> politics and sports on a geopolitical collision course in

qatar. the u.s. and iran play a consequential soccer match tomorrow in the world cup. if the u.s. team loses, well, they go home. but before the game even begins, iran wants the americans to be thrown out of the competition for altering the iranian flag on its social media platforms. cnn sports anchor carolyn manno is live for us in atlanta. national security correspondent kylie atwood joining us from the state department. good morning to both of you. carolyn, i'll start with you. how is this impacting the showdown between the u.s. and iran. >> reporter: the players were not coupled about the post. it has certainly added an intensity to a match that is already going to be really difficult for the united states to win. that's not to say that the players aren't in favor of the decision to show support for the women of iran. the men's team has publicly supported a number of causes they felt passionately about in the past. it is worth noting that this decision didn't come from them.

u.s. soccer told cnn they always planned to go back to the original flag. they called it a one-time change. the stakes are very high here, as you know, don. no subtleties are going to be missed. everything that the united states says and does is going to be used as ammunition. right now iran is calling for fifa to suspend them from the tournament. whether or not fifa decides to respond, that's still very much in question. they haven't publicly said anything yet. they haven't, in fact, confirmed that fifa -- that iran has decided to ask for this formally. we'll have to it wah and see. it's made everything a lot more difficult, that's for sure. >> kylie, a question for you, how has the u.s. government responded to this escalating situation? have they said anything? >> the state department spokesperson said there was no coordination between this decision by u.s. soccer and the u.s. government. it's important to note that they aren't coming out and criticizing this department.

i want to read what a spokesperson said, we look forward to a peaceful and competitive match on the field. the united states continues to find ways to support the iranian people in the face of state-sponsored violence against women and a brutal crackdown against peaceful protesters. it's significant there, the spokesperson not coming out and saying this was the wrong decision, but making it very clear that the u.s. government didn't coordinate with u.s. soccer on this. it's important to note that the secretary of state has been critical in some part about some of the decisions surrounding the games. just last week being critical of fifa because they said they would be doling out these yellow cards to players wearing that one love armband that represents diversity and inclusion. the u.s. does have a his i have of saying when they want to be critical in this case. in this case they're saying we are supporting u.s. soccer and look forward to the match. >> ckylee, carolyn, thank you.

this morning president trump is attempting to distance himself after having a white nationalist and holocaust denier as a dinner guest at his private mar-a-lago club. he says nick fuentes was a guest of his guest, kanye west. but also saying he found him, quote, very interesting. sunlen serfaty is on the story. trump has put out multiple statements on this, but yet to denounce the statements from fuentes, these very well documented bigoted statements from him. >> that's absolutely right. the former president is trying to distance himself from this controversial dinner claiming he didn't know who nick fuentes was and he wasn't aware he was going to join them for dinner. very importantly here, trump is not disavowing the racism and anti-semitism of fuentes or kanye west's recent anti-semitic

remarks. former president donald trump's newly launched bid for the white house facing criticism after he hosted a known white nationalist, nick fuentes, who was a guest of rapper kanye west at mar-a-lago. >> i don't think it's a good idea for a leader that's setting an example for the country or the party to meet with a vowed racist or anti-semite. >> reporter: west's recent anti-semitic remarks caused companies he was affiliated with including adidas to dog him from their brands. fuentes is a 24-year-old holocaust denier who espouses racist rhetoric on his podcast. >> nick fuentes is a racist, an anti-semite and someone who revels in just saying hateful bigoted things about jews and other minorities. >> reporter: fuentes was also on the grounds of the capitol on january 6th, prompting the house select committee investigating the capitol attack to issue fuentes a subpoena in january.

>> it's incredibly poor judgment. i think ever since the election in 2020, i think the president has descended deeper into the heart of darkness. >> reporter: on friday trump denied knowing fuentes writing west unexpectedly showed up with three friends who i knew nothing about. the dinner was quick and uneventful. >> so trump is really impressed with nick fuentes, and nick fue fuentes, unlike so many lawyers and so many people he was left with in his 2020 campaign, he's actually a loyalist. >> reporter: a source says that trump found fuentes, quote, very interesting, particularly his ability to rattle off statistics and his knowledge of trump world. at one point during the dinner trump declared he liked fuentes. west, who reserntly launched his own presidential bid asked trump to join his 2024 campaign ticket as his vice president. president joe biden who is still weighing whether he will seek

re-election in 2024 responded to the dinner from nantucket over the weekend. >> mr. president, what do you think of donald trump having dinner with a white nationalist? what do you think of that, sir? >> you don't want to hear what i think. >> it was trump's willingness to sympathize with white nationalists that was a major factor convincing biden to launch a 2020 presidential campaign in the first place. during his campaign announcement then, biden you'll recall rebuked trump's response to charlottesville when he said then there were very fine people on both sides and biden framed, as you remember, the 2020 race as a battle for the soul of this nation. >> sunlen, thank you. biden weighing in, but we haven't seen republican leaders weighing in. >> that's a good point. with us is contributing writer for "the atlantic" and donie o'sullivan. i think kaitlyn makes an

excellent point, where are republican leaders in this. often, what you don't say is often as important as what you do say. the president said a lot on true social. not included anywhere in there was any apology, any recognition of how wrong this is. he may not have known fuentes before. he new kanye, what kanye said, the anti-semitic remarks. he knows now what fuentes stands for and has said and yet nothing. what does the silence tell you? >> it's not something new. we know trump is incapable of condemning people who praise him. we've seen this over and over again since 2016. that in practice means he launders his most ugly ly sycophants. he won't say i disagree with them. he sort of things, a, he needs them and, b, condemning people on your team, even if they're bad people, is a sucker's game.

that's something he never wants to be playing with. some of his supporters like that because he never backs down. >> i always learned as a child you are who you surround yourself with. that was a lesson to me as a child. he is surrounding himself with these people -- the "wall street journal" editorial board says, what is worse, that mr. trump hasn't admitted his mistake in hosting the men or distancing himself from the odious views of mr. fuentes, instead portrays himself as an innocent who was taken advantage of by mr. west. >> at what point after being president are you no longer the innocent and have to take responsibility for your actions? clearly for him that point is never. a lot of people looking at this say you should know better. again, he can't do this. he's never been able to do this. sometimes i think we see a moment like this and people are particularly shocked. he has been having these weird

inconvenient moments since he started politics, since he entered the political arena, and people know what he is. at a certain point, they make a decision -- >> what does it say when there is a pattern. >> excuse me. do they know who he is? >> i do. i think some people like seeing their leader not back down. the media, the press, the liberals, jews, some people say, oh, you did this terrible thing, you met with this person. he says i will never apologize, never denounce my own supporters no matter who they are. for some people that's an appealing strong-man quality. on the other hand, people who are critical and making a decision between different camps look at that and say maybe that's not something i want in my leader, that shows a certain lack of maturity and lack of leadership. >> i covered trump day in and day out for five years, covering him for this day. i think you're totally right in

the sense that he doesn't like to criticize people who praise him. the reporting from this dinner is that fuentes knows how to appeal to trump in the fact of saying, you're not surrounded by loyalists, you're surrounded by people working against you. that's something that appeals to the inner part of trump. one thing you picked up on, donie, fuentes has asked people he's met with before not to condemn him. do you think that could be playing a role in trump's response here? >> fuentes gave an interview a few years back -- we should just say this is not coming out of nowhere. fuentes was running around outside cpac when we were there two years ago in orlando. most americans may not known his name. he's a known quantity within the trump base. listening back on a podcast two years ago he spoke about republican politicians. fuentes said i didn't ask them to come out and praise me publicly. i know i can be toxic in that way for the mainstream.

all i ask is that they do not disavow me. that's specifically what trump is doing here. >> what else about fuentes sticks out to you? the other part of this is, it's well documented everything he said. it's not like any kind of secret. >> just a surreal situation to think kanye, fuentes and trump at this meal. what i will say is that fuentes, as the stars all start to align, right now he's banned off most of the major social media platforms. twitter under elon musk may very well bring him back online. so that's just another element in all of this. >> that was my question to you. that's why i said do they know who he is. perhaps they do, which begs the question, why aren't more people speaking out? this is david duke 2.0. david duke? denounce proud boys? stand back and stand by. if they do know who he is, what does that say about them if they

are saying this is okay or they're silenced, as you said, poppy, is speaking volumes. >> fuentes is popular among certain people, not despite his anti-semitism and racism but because of it. this is so central to all the other qanon stuff and everything else. >> i think the point you made, kaitlan is so important, where is republican leadership in this now and let's hope there's no denouncing there is today. we'll talk about dana asa hutchinson, republican from arkansas, who came out and condemned this. look at the republican officials who condemned it. former secretary of state mike pompeo said we stand with the jewish people. he didn't mention trump. david friedman, former ambassador to israel said even a social visit from an anti-semite like kanye west and human scum like fuentes is unacceptable.

and the republican jewish coalition came out and said all political leaders need to reject messages of hate and refuse to meet with kanye and fuentes. that's what all of those republican leaders, but not in congress, are saying. what do we need to hear from allies of the former president in congress? >> i think it would be nice, i think the jewish community would appreciate republicans and congress coming out and forthrightly condemning something like this. i think, also, words are only so much. at a certain point there has to be action inside the republican party to say here is where the lines are. frankly, i don't think we're going to see that. if you look at, say, the republican new house majority, you have someone like marjorie taylor greene who is going to have more influence and get back on committee. she shook hands with nick fuentes and spoke at a conference with him, which is actually far more grave than what trump did, by his own explanation, i don't know this guy. she knows who he is and refused

to apologize. she's about to have more authority in congress, not less. >> by trump sharing a meal with him, do you worry about how it legitimizes nick fuentes. >> more of the ideas he expresses that people with powerful positions or influence can sit down and brush off those sorts of encounters and not say this sticks to me in a way that i'm uncomfortable with. when trump says i don't care enough to denounce this sort of thing, then other people say, well, it's probably not such a big deal. i keep bringing it back to 2016. during the 2016 election there was a long-standing white supremacist in california who somehow ended up as a trump electorment when they interviewed him, he said, well, when i used to say the things you said, they'd say you're a nazi, a racist, a white supremacist. now they say, oh, you're just like trump. it didn't mean they agreed with him but suddenly became part of the conversation in a normalized way than before. we're seeing the unfurling of

this over six years. it's the natural consequence of where things started, where they ended up. >> it's hard to believe. >> one final point, somebody to watch on this is kevin mccarthy. when greene was involved with this guy a few months back, he came out and denounced it. what's he going to say now given it's trump? >> we talk about what republicans have not said. when something happens that they -- that is politically expedient for them, immediately there's a statement that is put out, immediately. someone dies, i'm so sorry this person died. when the former president meets with a white nationalist and a holocaust denier, and we're wondering, when are they going to do it? maybe they will do it. let's see what they say. why haven't they said it already? the other issue is, look, he should have known, and if he didn't know who nick fuentes was, that is an even bigger

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what's going to be in this? >> good morning, don. with just a few weeks left before the committee expires, members are still debating exactly how they want to present what they have found. this investigation has been going on for nearly two years. we got a glimpse of their work during those dramatic hearings this summer. the committee also has five teams that each looked into a specific aspect of the attack. they have interviewed roughly 1,000 witnesses, analyzed tens of thousands of documents. it's clearly going to be impossible to include everything. so we're seeing some tensions behind the scenes about this spill out into public view. this also happened with public hearings when some people thought the committee was focusing too much on trump. yesterday representative adam schiff was on with our dana bash. he says he wants the report to be as broad and inclusive as possible. he was also clearly trying to project a unified front and tamp down reports of divisions within the committee saying that kind of thing is just not helpful.

this report, whatever it ends up being is expected by the end of the year. >> will we learn more about the involvement of lawmakers on 1/6? >> reporter: that's a big question. representative cheney said it will include information about members who ultimately refused to cooperate with investigators. earlier this year the committee took an extraordinary step of sending subpoenas to republicans after they refused to cooperate voluntarily. investigators never got to talk to them. but the committee did include some evidence about those lawmakers in the public hearings. these unprecedented moves will likely reverberate as republicans take over the house shortly. and asked whether he would comply with a gop subpoena in the new congress, schiff said he'll have to consider the validity of that subpoena. validity doing a lot of work in that sentence. don? >> paula, thank you very much. the current chair of the house intelligence committee, adam schiff, is disputing the

report from "the washington post" that staffers from the committee are angry with republican liz cheney for focusing so much of the report on trump. they're worried, according to the post, findings unrelated to trump won't become public in the final report. this is what schiff told dana bash yesterday. >> i would like to see our report be as broad and inclusive as possible. we are discussing among the members what belongs in the body of the report, what belongs in the ap.disease of the report, what's beyond the scope of our vision, and we'll reach those decisions in a collaborative manner. i think her role in the committee has been indispensable. i have tremendous respect for her and adam king zinger. they've shown backbone. dana, obviously it's not helpful to adam schiff, liz cheney torques the committee overall, to see the tensions spilling out into the public.

i wonder what you made of his answer and the concerns they have about whether or not this is going to be too much focused on trump and not the other findings they've done with their investigative work. >> first of all, can we just take a step back and note that the story and the discussion, it was a remarkable "washington post" story over the weekend. but it's about whether democrats are concerned that a january 6th report will be too focused on donald trump. that gives you a sense of where this committee is, particularly when it comes to the two -- the only two republicans on the committee, liz cheney and adam kinzinger. what it says is that this is not something we've seen from this committee. usually when there are committees investigating or even frankly commissions, they are done in an evenly balanced bipartisan way or at least close to it. that's not the case for various reasons, the most important

reason is that kevin mccarthy didn't want to put more republicans -- actually any republicans on this committee. because of that, what we have seen throughout the public hearings and even beforehand in the investigation is a pretty united front. now that they're getting towards the end and they want the report to be sort of reflective and ful fulsome, at least committee staffers, that's why you're seeing the tensions play out. it's pretty remarkable. you're right adam schiff was trying to tamp that down, present a unified front. >> dana, since we have you, i want to ask you about the interview you did yesterday on "state of the union" with governor of arkansas, asa hutchinson, likely a 2024 presidential contender. kaitlan was noting earlier, the real silence from current republican leadership about the dinner between trump and nick

fuentes and kanye west. you asked him about it. >> i don't think it's a good idea for a leader setting an example for the country or the party to meet with a vowed racist or anti-semite. it's very troubling and it shouldn't happen and we need to avoid those kind of empowering the extremes. when you meet with people, you empower. that's what you have to avoid. you want to diminish their strength, not empower them. >> good for them. will kevin mccarthy echo that? will other republican leaders in congress echo that? >> that's a great question. so far, and it's really important to note, that that has not happened. representative comer was on "meet the press" yesterday. he was asked about it. he did denounce the notion of meeting with characters like these two, but that's it. and the fact that this is unique -- you heard asa hutchinson, he was very strong

yesterday. chris christie, another potential 2024 contender and a couple of others, the governor of the state of florida who is probably the most talked about for president in 2024, he's not said anything. florida is where mar-a-lago is. and so the sound of silence, it largely is deafening which is why it was remarkable and shouldn't have been remarkable to hear asa hutchinson lean into the fact that this was absolutely wrong, absolutely wrong and kind of noting the fact that it's unfortunate that it has to be commented on. but yet he wanted to comment on it because it is important to tamp down on meeting with anybody and empowering people who are so vehemently full of hate, anti-semitic and also full of conspiracy theories in the fact that they're meeting with a former president and a contender

for the next time. it's pretty unfortunate and, again, the fact that no -- most other people who are leaders in the gop are not saying so is very telling. >> don't we do it every time, dana? we sit back and say when is this person or let's see what they say. and usually they don't say anything. they wait for the next news cycle? >> yes, it's true. let's just sort of talk turkey here, to go back to thanksgiving. >> pun intended. >> kevin mccarthy right now, we know where he is with his political situation. he is in about as tenuous a situation as he can be when it comes to getting enough votes to be speaker of the house, and he needs the former president to be in his corner. so if he comes out and says something and makes him mad, there is a very good chance that

kevin mccarthy will lose the votes he needs to be speaker of the house. that is a reality right now. >> sad. >> he might not even have those votes as it stands now. we'll see the political calculations in all of this. >> and what matters more? doing what's right or not. >> thanks for the turkey talk. >> making us hungry here. >> thank you, dana, and great interviews yesterday. all right. coming up, the secrets of super agers. these are people at least 80 years old with the memories as sharp as those who are decades younger? we'll talk with an expert about what's going right and wrong with our aging process. >> what about me whoho can't remember anything?

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all right. so as more gen xers and baby boomers age, there are more americans living alone. let's ask our cnn senior data reporter harry enten. is it about being lonely?

>> if we look at the data, what do we see at this particular point? let's take a look at one-person households. this is a newly released census bureau, finds 29% of households are one-person households. look how much higher than 1966 when it was just 13%. the question is are there any bad side effects from that potentially? i think we can get an idea from this. you mentioned, poppy, loneliness. always or often lonely in the last year. i've broken this down by age and whether you live alone or with somebody. it turns out that both of these factors play a role in loneliness. when you live alone and younger, under the age of 50, 39% of those had a feeling of feeling lonely either always or often last year. compare that to living with somebody, just 25%. look at age 50 and older, if you live alone, 21% of those folks either always or often felt lonely. living with someone it was 11%.

look, living alone doesn't necessarily mean you're more lonely, it exacerbates the risk. if you live alone you're more likely to feel lonely. here is another key factor as we're talking about age and we're obviously an aging society, gen xers and boomers aging up. older americans, when they live alone, they're less likely to feel financially comfortable. when they live alone, less likely to do community work. when they live alone, they're less likely to talk with grandkids weekly. as we're an aging society and more and more of us are living alone, these risks, they tend to go up when you do live alone. >> what about our friendships? how are we doing on that front? >> you could, of course, live alone and not necessarily be lonely because you have a lot of friends. how many close friends do you have not including relatives? in 2021, zero, 12%, that's way up from 3% in 1990. five or more, now it's just 38%

in 2021. look at 1990. it was 63%. we're not only living alone in larger numbers, in fact, we have fewer friends perhaps because we're looking down at our phones instead of talking with people. >> i think the lesson here is to call your grandparents. >> and your friends! why do people think it's weird when i call them. they're like, hello? i call people. >> when people call you think it's bad news. >> it's better than texting, it's more personal. it takes more time. >> you can call me any time you want, poppy. >> i'm the opposite of that study. i loved living with someone. i loved living alone. >> tim, calling tim. >> you, my friend, are an outlier in many ways. >> that is the truest thing you have ever said. >> that is the line of the morning. >> that's right. i have no comeback for it.

you're exactly right. thanks, harry. the fight against alzheimer's shows many factors can contribute to cognitive decline. one study is focused on learning mao about how some people stay graciously and stay sharp past their '80s. a new cnn digital report details the work that researchers at northwestern are doing to understand more about super agers, those are elderly people with brains as sharp as 20s and 30s -- i should say 20 or 30 years younger. joining me, emily urgalski, a cognitive neuro scientist who developed the process. we're so happy you could join us. thank you very much. good morning to you. the big ge here, do these people do anything, i want to know, to keep sharp, to keep young, to help their memories, or is it just kind of who they are? >> good morning.

thanks for having me today. that's the million-dollar question. what are the factors that allow super agers to maintain this performance? one thing we do see related to your last segment is super agers tend to endorse stronger relationships with others. so they like to stay connected. they're trying to avoid that social isolation and loneliness that you were just speaking of. >> emily, a big part of this, when i was looking at your project and what it looks like, the difference is not just in intelligence here. it's not just if you're a smarter person, a higher iq, that you're more likely to be a super ager. it's really about those other factors. >> that's right. so we're looking at multiple factors here to understand what might contribute to the super aging thenotype. how is it that they're socially active? what do their brains look like? can we measure their biological age in addition to knowing their chronologic age.

in general we see the super agers tend to be more youthful. they look younger. their brains look a little more like 50 to 60-year-olds than they do like their 80-plus-year-old peers. >> one of the other traits i saw here that was interesting to me. they tend to be positive, right? so optimists, and social butterfly, not homebodies. true? >> the super agers in general tend to be very busy. some of them are still working. others have picked up a second career later in life and others are volunteering. so they're busy folks, and we're really appreciative they take time out of their day to come and spend time with us so we can learn more about their secrets. >> you said it's only 10%. so there are no curmudgeons among the group? >> there's all kinds of personalities that walk through our doors. but we see that really less than

10% of people who think they have outstanding memory performance end up meeting criteria. we really think this is a realive li rare group, but that's important because it can teach us about specialized factors and features that might be helpful for avoiding disease and disability and extending health span. so we want to live long and well. >> can you make yourself one of these people? these people are naturally that way. can you say i'm going to do all of these things and all of a sudden turn into a super ager? >> the goal is we're starting to think about risk factors for super agers instead of risk factors for alzheimer's disease. this study is going to help us identify -- this program is going to help us identify those factors that are really important. some of them may be modifiable where others may be the things that we're born with. we don't have any choice over the parents and the genetics

that we have, but we do have a lot of other choice in our biologic aging. >> absolutely fascinating, emily. thank you for your work on this and thank you for bringing it to our audience this morning. you can read more about super agers on cnn.com. this just in, air travel for thanksgiving hit a new pandemic-era record. according to the tsa more than 2.5 million people including yours truly passed through the nation's airports yesterday, surpassing the previous high watermark. poor weather conditions in the northeast yesterday caused over 1,000 flight delays. just a few dozen actual cancellations as airlines have been plaguing them over the summer travel rush. also for the first time in the 180 year history the women in the philharmonic just made history against the men. we will break down what that historic milestone looks like. that's next. because your lives are forever entwined.

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that is the new york philharmonic, the oldest symphony orchestra in the u.s. and for the first time women outnumber men in the group 45 to 44, it's a big leap forward from its founding in 1842 when women were not allowed to join at all. "the new york times" reports that, quote, the orchestra's new female majority could prove fleeting, though, as it still has 16 vacancies because of a hold on auditions during the pandemic. it's also important to note that the new york philharmonic is still lacking when it comes to women holding leadership positions, quote, the orchestra has never had a female musical director and there is a glaring lack of black and latino members. >> does the conductor have the tie-breaking vote like the congress? >> i have no idea. >> don is filibustering because he doesn't want to talk about what we are talking about next. rivalry weekend in college

football, several shakeups over the weekend that will shape eventually what the college football playoffs look like. if you weren't watching on saturday like i was, michigan beat ohio state to score a second straight win over the buckeyes, it was a huge win for michigan. of course, south carolina beating in state rival clemson ending the tiger's chances at a spot in the college bowl playoff. lsu much to don's sadness will not be playing for the national championship, either, after they ended their regular season with a loss to tacexas a & m. there is a still still chance for alabama. i was leaving breakfast after i left alabama and overhearing some of the old guys in the diner say do you think we have a chance? >> come on. hold out hop. >> i think lsu still has a chance, but who am i? >> lsu definitely does not have a chance. "cnn newsroom" starts right after this break.

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