"cnn this morning" starts right now. ♪ viva lafrance and god bless america. >> that champagne looks good. good morning, everyone. that was president biden hosting french president macron at the white house, using the first state dinner of his presidency to honor america's oldest ally. and look who showed up, john legend, his wife. >> colbert. >> did you notice anyone else? >> jennifer garner. >> the sunglasses never come off, even at the white house. >> was that tim cook?

>> kevin mccarthy was there. he was asked about the gop investigations. >> many, many others. we'll tell you all about that straight ahead. so we have a lot to get to. but this is just in. new cnn polls out of georgia. who has a narrow lead this morning. we'll tell you. gas prices are down, lower today than they were the day that russia invaded ukraine. we'll tell you what's behind the dip with our pete muntean standing by. also -- >> elon musk who you called a few -- you called him, quote, a national treasure and he's saying there is not enough free speech on twitter and i'm changing it. are you worried at all about how he's running twitter? >> that answer ahead. one of the biggest names in silicone valley, reed hoffman joins on elon musk and the state

of tech. first, brand new cnn polling on next week's critical runoff election in georgia. take a look at this. incumbent democrat raphael warnock, clinging to a four-point lead over his republican challenger herschel walker. the polling reveals that voters and many supporters have serious questions about walker's honesty, integrity and qualifications for his job. among the doubters the former president of the united states, barack obama. he campaigned for warnock yesterday and used a rambling speech by walker to hammer the point home. listen to this. >> the other night i was watching this movie, i was watching this movie called fright night, sleep night, some type of night. it was about vampires. i found out a werewolf can kill a vampire. did you know that?

>> mr. walker has been talking about issues that are of great importance to the people of georgia. like whether it's better to be a vampire or a werewolf. this is a debate that i must confess i once had myself. when i was 7. then i grew up. as far as i'm concerned, he can be anything he wants to be. except for a united states senator. when you spend more time thinking about horror movie fantasies than you do thinking about the people you want to represent, that says something about your priorities. >> that's a lot there. let's bring in our senior data reporter, harry inton. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> we have the polling out of georgia. the senate runoff there.

just four days out. what do you have? >> let's start with the top line that you mentioned. we have raphael warnock with a 52 to 48% lead. i'll tell you this much. this race is still within the margin of error. the margin of error is a little less than four points the margin here is four points. but you have to double that to understand the margin between the candidates. this is a narrow advantage but a larger lead than warnock had in the general election where he got more votes than herschel walker did but only about a point. let's dig deeper, right, to understand why it is that raphael warnock has the lead. which candidate is well qualified? raphael warnock 52%, herschel walker 47%. has good judgment raphael warnock 42%, herschel walker 27%. would represent the state of --

has good judgment, 50% for raphael warnock and herschel walker 33%. >> why is herschel walker staying so close? >> look at the candidate qu qualities but the biggest factor, candidate issue positions 57%. candidate character 42%. raphael warnock is winning the vast majority of these vote voters who say character. but look at the ones that say issues are the biggest factor. these voters favor herschel walker by a 64% to 35% margin. basically the fundamentals. the high inflation, joe biden's unpopularity are keeping the race close because the voters may not love herschel walker but they prefer him to raphael warnock because they don't like raphael warnock. it's not necessarily about loving herschel walker. >> thank you very much. stick around, a little bit later

in the show i want you to pay attention to this. ahead i spoke to georgia voters who were team walker and team warnock and one who was still undecided at this stage. we'll tell you what they say about the state of the race right now. >> there is a lot going on in this morning in washington. waiting for the release of the november jobs report, most economists expect a slow down in hiring. big news overnight, a freight rail strak haike has be averted. the senate passed a bill to block a strike. that bill now goes to the president's desk for his signature. the senate rejected to provide rail workers with seven additional days of paid sick leave. that was a sticking point, senator bernie sanders and others pushed for that, that vote was 62-43. six republicans voted for the

sick leave measure. democrat, joe manchin of west virginia was the only one in his party to vote against it. ahead we'll talk to a rail worker who said president biden turned his back on his main union workforce and let them down. this morning gas prices are down, way down, lower than where they were before russia invaded ukraine ten months ago. pete muntean is live at a gas station in alexandria, virginia. i was surprised with this headline, what do you know? >> reporter: me too. we've done shot after shot about prices going up. the national average now $3.45. according to triple a. think about february 24th when we saw russia invade ukraine, the average $3.54. so we are below that milestone that created uncertainty in the global market. we were worried about supplies

coming from russia and europe. those fears were retlatively unfounded. we've seen the price of gasoline go down 13 cents in the last week. still concern about china's covid policies what opec could do, causing oil to go up and gas prices to go up. so we have to wait and see. think about where we were on june 14th when we saw the all-time high for a gallon of regular gas. the national average was $5.01. we've seen it go down $1.50 since. 30%. it's almost hard to believe. >> a reason to think because those opec cuts haven't been fully ingested into the market yet, they're big cuts. is there a reason to believe prices will continue to go down or is this temporary? >> reporter: it seems the analysts think the prices go down in the short term.

gas buddy said we could see $3.28 or $3.20 by the end of the year. the strategic petroleum reserve helped this in a big way as well. although analysts say this is bigger than one president, this is still a global market, so there's a lot on uncertainty. we have to wait and see. >> if you're counting on relief from your student loans you might have to wait longer to see if it's going to happen. the supreme court has decided that president biden's debt forgiveness program is going to stay blocked for now but the oral arguments on the case are set for february. that's a fast track coming from the supreme court. but it does mean that a decision likely won't come down until june. that leaves millions in limbo, waiting to see if their student loans are going to be forgiven. as a reminder, president biden's program would offer up to $20,000 of debt relief to the millions of those who qualify but the plan has been plagued by

lawsuits since it was announced from the white house. about 26 million people applied for the program by the time it was frozen. that prompted the white house to stop taking applications. so far no debt has been cancelled. overnight, president biden rolled out the red carpet for his first state dinner hosting french president, emmanuel macron and his wife bridgett. >> today we're still united by the greatest of causes, democracy, liberty, equality, opportunity and freedom. we stand together against oppression and injustice. we stick up for one another in our democratic values to which washington and lafayette dedicated their lives. >> look at the fancy folks there. the event drawing big names from the entertainment industry, fashion, politics, business. here with all the details cnn white house correspondent kate bennett who was at last night's

big event. she previewed the menu yesterday and now she's going to tell us what it was like. what did you see? what stood out to you? >> reporter: when that toast was happening it was almost 10:00 p.m. president joe biden tends to not run on time, so it was a very late evening. in fact, president macron made a joke saying i hope everyone enjoyed their dinner and no one was served first course. earlier in the evening julia louise dreyfuss brought her son as her date. and chrissy tiegan was there, pregnant with their third child. and jennifer garland brought her daughter violet. ana winter. application ceo tim cook was there. lots of business leaders were

there last night for sure. but certainly it was more star-studded than we've seen in recent years. the previous administration was not exactly aligned with main stream hollywood. so it was definitely a change. another change, more politicians. we saw one there. there were republicans at this democratic state dinner. kevin mccarthy, susan collins, steve scalise, and, of course, nancy pelosi was there. the outgoing speaker. she said she was happy to pass the baton there to hakeem jeffries who is replacing her. overall, the night was great. people enjoyed themselves. this was the first biden state dinner for the administration, about 400 guests were seated for dinner. john baptiste played on the piano. but it was certainly a very festive evening. you know, guests were ferried from the white house down to the tent in heated trollies. it was a lovely evening.

>> it's rare for one to not happen this long. covid obviously delayed it. it is interesting to see kevin mccarthy there, people may be wondering why he was invited. not used to seeing kevin mccarthy at the white house, but he actually got asked about the gop majority in january and the investigations they plan to pursue, including into president biden's family. >> reporter: exactly. he was asked about that. he didn't respond. he said, i'm here with my mother. he didn't say anything about that. but i will say this, kaitlan, i was inside the tent during the toast he and his mother were seated to the far end of one table. he did not applaud, clap during president biden's toast. you know, it was probably a challenging room for him to sit in for all of five hours and enjoy that dinner. >> kate bennett, thank you. >> thank you. also new this morning, kanye

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were taken from his mar-a-lago home and seized by the fbi. a few months ago a judge had appointed a special master to review the documents rejecting the department of justice's argument that the president can't claim executive privilege after leaving office. this is a huge blow for trump and his attorneys and what they were pursuing here. >> exactly. and a big win for the special counsel jack smith because this removes an obstacle into his investigation of the mishandling of government records. the job was to review the thousands of documents found at trump's home and decide what was potentially privileged and should be kept from investigators that process slowed down the entire case. the decision to get rid of the special master was made by a panel of three judges all gop appointees, two by trump

himself. on one hand the court acknowledged it's extraordinary for a warrant to be executed at the home of a former president but they say that's not enough for a court to interfere with an ongoing investigation. it wrote, we cannot write a rule that allows any subject of a search warrant to block government investigations, nor can we write a rule that allows only former presidents to do so. trump's team is weighing weather to appeal this ruling. >> we're learning that a judge ordered two top white house attorneys to testify before the grand jury. what can you tell us about this? >> it's pat cipollone and his deputy. they both previously appeared before the grand jury investigating trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election. when they testified they declined to answer questions citing executive and attorney/client privilege. they've been the subject of an ongoing legal fight and the judge has now rejected them as

the judge rejected similar claims by other top witnesses, including vice president mike pence. the trump team is expected to appeal this ruling. >> if you're haear aging about special counsel, the two lawyers having to testify. what does this mean overall. >> reporter: it was another bad day in court for him. but you know he may lose a lot of battles but when it comes to the legal investigations he tends to win the war. and one of the tactics is to stone wall and delay investigations. if both of these decisions are ultimately upheld it will help the special counsel move faster, but it doesn't mean too much for the ultimate outcome for these investigations. >> i was talking to trump people yesterday waiting to see if they're going to appeal the decision to the supreme court when it comes to the special master. not clear yet.

paula reid thank you for that update. an important story now and i hope you take a moment and pay attention to this. elon musk suspending kanye west from twitter overnight? why, he tweeted a swastika wrapped inside the star of david, we are not going to show you the image because it is hateful. nor will we show you the deranged clip of west praising hitler and saying he loves nazis on a show run by alex jones, alex jones is a conspiracist who is ordered to pay millions for his lies about the sandy hook shooting. but two things that are noteworthy. first, house republicans removing a tweet from two months ago in which they praised west, musk, and donald trump in the same tweet. since then, west, of course, has spent weeks on a parade of racist and anti-semitic rants and losing his billionaire

status as a result. musk spent $44 billion to take over a company, spending his time attacking and insulting people, tweeting out misinformation and images used by racists. and the second noteworthy thing this morning, is that all three of these men seen here engaged in this anti-semitic conversation. they have connections to donald trump. in fact, two of them, sitting right there, a holocaust denier, white supremacist and anti-semite had dinner with the former president a week ago, inside his home, a place currently under federal investigation. and as cnn reports, trump at one point during the dinner said that he liked the white nationalist, a reminder for you. 6 million jews were killed in the holocaust by hitlers and nazis. and kanye west has 19 million

instagram followers, 32 million twitter followers, more than there are jews in the world. hardly a voice without -- it is hate in the main stream. >> don, thank you very much for that. ahead, president biden confirming he will sit down for talks with russian president vladimir putin but there is one major condition, here it is. plus this. >> that sent a jolt throughout the world cup. another power house is out as the u.s. is preparing for tomorrow's match against the netherlands. it's a knockout round. we have former star kayla carr joining us to talk about america's chances.

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welcome back to "cnn this morning." here is what is coming up for us. we have an update, u.s. men's soccer player, christian pulisic speaking out on his injury. chilling new body camera video shows tense moments in a mass shooting in october that left five people dead. we'll take you this morning inside of that shootout. a crisis in silicone valley with widespread layoffs in tech. i spoke with one of the bknown founders in silicone valley, that is next. quote no onesies what is happening behind closed doors that from harry and meghan. what the couple is revealing now. this is the heart stopping goal by christian pulisic. it gave the u.s. men's soccer

team over iran. he put his body on the line to score that goal. since then american soccer fans have been singularly focused on his health. this is what he told reporters about how he's doing? >> it's a pelvic contusion. you know, it's not a euphemism it's what it sounds like. >> at the same time, it's not. i didn't get like hit in the balls. i'm all right. it was very painful and it just -- you know, that bone is there for a reason, to protect you i think and i hit it well. it was sore. but like i said, i'm getting better. >> tomorrow the united states is going to take on netherlands in a win or go home match. if america wins they'll play the winner of the australia/argentina match. in an extraordinary finale, japan eliminating germany in a stunning 2-1 victory, they beat

spain, knocked germany out. what fans can expect headed into tomorrow's match. we'll bring in our analyst and host, kaylan carr. tell us what to expect? >> anything can happen. for the u.s. we have all eyes right now focused on christian pulisic and his health and availability. i expect to see him start. i can't imagine a scenario he doesn't come on the pitch. in the same press conference, they asked him, hey, you finally had your moment because we missed the last world cup and he the crucial goal to send us through. he said, i hope this wasn't my moment. >> i love that. >> we'll play it the next hour so great. >> we hope there's more ahead. >> it's him and josh sergeant, they're day to day. >> right. >> what happens if they don't play? what does that mean? >> it's a couple options here. i think especially on the winger position. you can see brendan aaronson

coming in, came in at halftime for christian pulisic. geo reign is another guy we looked at. i think there's options upfront but i expect to see christian there from the start. >> the u.s. is going to win tomorrow -- >> fingers crossed. >> -- then what happens? what do they need to do to win the whole she bang. >> a lot. >> it's tough to get ahead of yourself here. the fact this is the youngest team in the world cup, the starting line up is the youngest team. the captain, tyler adams who i saw growing up here with the red bulls and now is the star and captain of the team, heartbeat of the team. now america is getting a chance to learn about these guys. i think the personality of the group. they'll embrace being underdogs against netherlands, it's a big task. you have virgil van dyke one of

the best defenders in the world. if you goat past that, no problem, you have potentially lionel messi and argentina waiting for you in his last world cup. >> yesterday, japan upsetting spain, knocking germany out. this changed what everyone thought the end of the world cup was going to look like. >> if you came into the tournament, looked at the group, spain and germany, two power houses they're going through. nothing is going to stop them from going through. but japan had something to say, beat both of them. took a controversial call whether the ball was fully over the line or not. but i think the tournament has had some big surprises. the u.s. lost to japan before the tournament and everyone was like we're going to struggle. it doesn't look so bad now looking back at it. this japan team is quality. >> 90 to 1 the u.s. takes it all. >> why you got to be debbie downer this morning?

>> i'm saying there's a chance. i'm not donny downer. there's a chance. as we were saying in the break it's good to have an underdog att attitude. >> that suit it is team. the bigger mission is to grow the sport here. the fact the team is capturing the attention of the world in some ways and changing perception of american soccer. we saw the women's side capture the attention of the world and win the world cup. >> a few times they won the world cup. >> yes. >> the next world cup is coming here, 2026, the u.s., canada, and mexico. the idea this young team would be in their prime, that would be fantastic. i love the optimism. don we have to bring you to the team. >> i'm there. >> we'll be watching tomorrow. >> thaunk you. a major defeat for former

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welcome back to "cnn this morning." new this morning, police in raleigh, north carolina are

releasing chilling no body cam video from officer's three hour shootout and stand off with a 15-year-old mass shooting suspect. the footage begins after the attack which left five people dead. ryan young joins us now with the latest. good morning to you, ryan. what do we see on the new body cam video? >> reporter: it's chilling. you have to think this entire community asking a lot of questions still. still no motive provided and when you think about the victims in this case. you had two women in their neighborhood, someone else on a jogging trail and an officer going to work. so many questions left unanswered and hopefully this video shows how dangerous it was for officers trying to bring the suspect into custody. police releasing dramatic body cam footage from the october 13th shooting in raleigh, south carolina. a 15-year-old boy allegedly killed five people including his

older brother and an off-duty police officer. k-9 officers tracked him down while he was barricaded inside a barn-like building in the woods according to police body cam video. >> back further. >> where is he hit? >> right knee. >> put a tourniquet on. >> reporter: at one point in the video an officer is struck by gun fire while multiple officers fire back. other officers applying a tourniquet to his leg. after firing shots, raleigh officers made a perimeter around the building before going in. investigators say the suspect had a shotgun and shells nearby him. the suspect has not been charged, however the waid county district attorney said her office intends to charge the 15-year-old as an adult. in a statement obtained by wtvd in october, the suspect's

parents say they don't understand why this happened. writing, quote, there were never any indications or warning signs that their son was capable of doing anything like this. don me and my team walked the neighborhood after that shooting. we were talking to neighbors for at least two days afterwards. they were still in shock because nothing like this happened in their neighborhood. they were baffled by the lack of information they were getting. one of the questions right now is why hasn't that teen faced any charges since he survived the shooting. how it's been explained to me is that he first has to get well enough to stand in court so he can be charged then as an adult. but this happened back in october so you can understand why some folks are still frustrated about why this is taking so long. >> ryan young, thank you very much. still ahead. what is going on with all of these layoffs in silicone valley? the co-founder of linked in, reid hoffman, joins us with his take next. plus this.

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a wave of widespread layoffs in the tech industry, big companies like meta, formerly facebook, twitter, amazon, all announcing significant job cuts in the past few weeks. we wanted to know what is happening in silicone valley. so i sat down with someone who knows silicone valley better than pretty much anyone, reid hoffman, cofounded linked in, a partner at gray lock and recently launched an artificial intelligence startup called inflection. here's that conversation. >> reid, thanks for the time. >> great to be here with you poppy. >> what is happening in silicone valley? it seems this is quite a moment of crisis. why? >> well, you know, those of us who are a little older have

lived through the bear markets and retractions before. there's still a lot of energy in technology it's just that each entity and company as opposed to doing everything we have to to do a few things well and that's better for the industry, society. obviously there's a lot of pain, layoffs are never a good thing. but i think that's what's going through. i don't think this is like a for whom the bell tolls moment. it's a refocussing moment. >> you were one of the first investors in facebook. do you think looking at it now, it is a net positive for the world and society and truth? or not. >> so i think -- well, truth is a little bit more complicated, i think it's a net positive. i know that's a little bit of a contrarian thing to say these days. part of the reason we think that, we focus on well there's these vaccine deniers and people

spouting crazy theories and pizza gate, look at that, that's crazy. qanon, crazy. but on the other hand there's tons of people sharing like here's my daily life experience, i'm staying connected with my family and friends and the rest. when you have over a billion people using it, all of this good social fabric goes unreported. i think there's information flow there that flows in a good way despite the fact that one can pull up examples just like one can pull up examples out of the internet, that's crazy, that's terrible. so i think it is on the net positive. >> people are dying from the crazy. some people are dying from the crazy. qanon conspiracy theories have led to actual violence. >> yeah. 100% think that's a problem. and it needs work. but by the way, people are dying from driving on highways too.

we don't say stop driving on highway. >> except companies like facebook are making money off of this. >> then again you say people are selling cars. i think the -- look, i'm not trying so say there are no issues and it can't be improved. what i am saying is, the fact that it is generally thought of as kind of a -- a kind of den of complete disaster is kind of like highlighting the fact that there was a drunk driver on the highway that caused an accident. saying there goes the whole highway system. >> how do you make it better and safer for when my kids are old enough to get on the platforms, they're more protected? >> i think there's two or three variables p one is to say, i think one of the legitimate criticisms of social media because they're pursuing engagements and clicks and time, it tends to orient towards agitation, towards division, towards anger, fear, towards

disregard. and you say, okay, let's try to create like the tuning of the algorithms, the tuning of what's going on to contain that sum. obviously some anger or disregard is important. you say, you know, a manufacturer is putting lead in children's toys you say i should be angry. but like try to do that generally. i also think that freedom of reach and freedom of speech are not the same thing. i should be able to say the moon is made out of blue cheese or the holocaust never happened, both of which are crazy town statements but that doesn't mean it should necessarily be spread. when there is kind of things that are going on that have, you know, kind of damage, especially, for example, things that would lead to violence or lead to kind of, you know, anything that has like significant human suffering and has this kind of truth

coefficient, well, you can figure out. this is part of the genius of technology, tune that down some. doesn't mean zero errors, but you can make it less. that's what i think we should be focused on. >> can we talk about that as related to elon musk, who you called a few years ago -- you called him, quote, a national treasure and he's saying there is not enough free speech on twitter and i'm changing it. are you worried at all about how he's running twitter? >> the short answer is yes. elon is a national treasure. reinvented the space industry. brought in the new satellite industry, the industry that helped ukraine. revolutionized the auto industry for bringing back electric vehicles and making that greening of the world important. all of which is important treasures. those are engineering problems. when you get to twitter, that's a human problem. a problem of how do people work

together and people are messy. they don't fit in a simple engineering system, it's just a freedom of speech question, is an overly simplistic thing. >> you co-founded a company all about artificial intelligence called inflection. is it going to make life better or is ai going to takeaway our jobs and replace us? >> we haven't revealed the product yet. our hope is to make our lives better, actually, in fact, with ai, the robots, terminators coming for your lives, not your lives, they're coming for your jobs. it's like technology is like an amplification. i think that's what we're going to see in ai. >> tiktok, this week the governor of south dakota banned ticking to be from all government devices because of

security devices. your firm is a shareholder in tiktok's owner, bytedance, which is through your investment, and there are major concerns not just from her, but from high ranking members of both parties that don't think tiktok is safe to operate in the united states because of the data and the accessibility of the chinese government. do you believe tiktok operating in the u.s. is a national security concern? >> i don't think today it's a national security concern. but i don't discount the issue that we should pay attention to that it could evolve to do that. look, if you look at it today, a bunch of people creating short form videos, mostly entertainment, some learning, et cetera. but on the other hand say they were doing a map and understood where everyone was, and understood, you know, like they used it to influence by outside foreign agent our political -- what's going on in politics, those kinds of things. those kinds of things would be

future concerns. i don't think those concerns are present today. but i think the question and how to navigate those future concerns it's a good thing to bring up the question. i think banning it today is a political move to grand stand given that there is no current like activity threat. >> we're going to end on something you're not expecting. you gave a commencement address at vanderbilt a few months ago, not on big tech, what any of us would expect but a commencement address on friendship. >> i'm a linked in guy, i'm not going to tell you otherwise. your network is important. but more than that, friends will be absolutely central to your sense of happiness, connection, and meaning. >> why? >> well, you know, these moments, commencements, are these special moments in people's lives by which they go i'm emerging from university, i'm now kind of heading out to society. i'm going to have a -- you know,

i'm going to do work, have a life, a family, do all of these things. what's the most important things you learn in order to do that? i think part of what makes all of our lives so kind of impactful, meaningful, capable is our friendships. life is a team sport we go through it with our friends. i think focussing on that is really important. >> unexpected advice from a tech mobile. reid hoffman thank you for that conversation. formula one has just cancelled next year's chinese grand prix due to covid as protests over the restrictions have been sweeping the nation. we'll have details for you ahead. harrison ford headed back to the silver green in his iconic role as indiana jones. see what they did to hide his age. >> i didn't know that was an option. >> get back.

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