it is your money this morning. linkedin seeing a boost in users and revenues after a recent wave of lay-offs in the tech and media industries. those lay-offs make up a core part of linkedin's user base. it was downloaded 58,000 times in the world, up 10% from the world before. we're at top of the hour. let's reset. good morning. it is being called brazil's january 6th. the capitol there under siege by protesters who stormed government buildings over false claims a recent presidential election was rigged. we'll take you there live.

in politics, president biden has just made his first visit to the border since taking office. he did not see or meet with any migrants, though. we'll speak to the mayor of el paso about the crisis happening on the ground there in his city and biden's new crackdown on the immigration search. >> in sports, damar hamlin set to be released from the hospital as trib butes pour in. we'll take you exclusively to the field as his teammates speak on the team's thrilling and emotional return. she has been missing for nine days now, and the husband of the massachusetts mother has been arrested, but she's still nowhere to be found. details on the charge and the search straight ahead. in a revealing new interview with cnn's anderson cooper, prince harry says he long believed his mom had faked her death and reveals why he blames camilla for the negative stories about him. anderson will join us live in just moments. "cnn this morning" starts right

now. so we'll begin this morning with that interview. good morning everyone. prince harry with new rev revelations about his fractured relationship with the royals. during an interview with our own anderson cooper on "60 minutes." he talked about the physical altercation he had with his brother over his relationship with meghan. first, i want you to take a listen to this. >> he was shouting at me. i was shouting back at him. it wasn't nice. it wasn't pleasant at all, and he snapped, and he pushed me to the floor. >> he knocked you over? >> he knocked me over. i landed on the dog bowl. >> you cut your back. >> i cut my back. i didn't know it at the time. he apologized afterwards. it was a pretty nasty experience. >> do you speak to william now? do you text? >> currently no. but i look forward to us being

able to find peace. >> how long has it been since you spoke? >> a while. >> do you speak to your dad? >> we haven't spoken for quite a while. not recently. >> can you see a day when you would return as a full-time member of the royal family? >> no. i can't see that happening. >> that was an amazing revelation for me. he also opened up about his decades' long struggle with grief following the death of his mother, princess diana. the interview was the first advance of the publication of his book. the release is on line in the u.s. tonight. joining us our colleague and who did that interview on "60 minutes" of prince harry, anderson cooper. anderson, good morning, good to see you. so many revelations here. my first question is what stood out to you most about this

interview? most revealing to you? >> i read the book. it's 416 pages. it's a very nuanced and detailed portrait of this man's life. i think we all grew up watching him. all of us have seen prince harry and his brother from the time they were born, and we feel like we know who they are. yet, when you read the book, very quickly you realize we don't know that much about what's been going on in the inner life of harry and how he sees himself and his relationship with his brother which he says in the book has been on a different course since the death of their mother. that death is the central event obviously in harry's life. he writes extensively about this. this is a memoir in many ways about grief and loss and the tra jek j trajectory and how it changes one's life. >> it came in full circle. you started the piece with william and harry walking behind

their mother's casket and you ended with them walking behind their grandmother's casket, but how changed a relationship they had. obviously we know, because you put it out publicly in your podcast and talked about, the grief you've gone through with deaths in your own family. i wonder what it's like as someone who lost a parent as a teenager. my dad died a few weeks before princess diana. i remember her death so well. what it was like for you to hear him detail his grief in that way that we've never heard publicly before. >> to me when i read the book, i agreed to do this interview before i had to chance to actually read the book because there were all these security protocols to even get a copy of the book. what jumped out to me is this is a story of grief and loss. it is a huge part of the book, and it infuses a lot of what the way i think prince harry sees what is happening now and his concerns about what is happening now, and i think that idea of

the walk that they took behind their mother's casket which was such a formative -- it is the indelible image from the funeral in early september of 1997, and that walk behind their grandmother's casket. in many ways it was a similar walk in that they were together, but they were apart. they were apart by grief back when harry was 12 and william was 15. harry couldn't cry about it until his mother was actually buried. he couldn't even talk about it really with anyone for much of his life, and he had this sort of magical thinking in the years after she died even up until his early 20s that he thought maybe she was still alive. it's not that he thought she had faked her death. it's just he thought -- it was sort of a magical thinking which occurs with many people who have lost somebody, imagining that maybe they're still out there, thinking you see them in places.

that's something that he believed and he says he had discussions with his brother about as well. >> i think we have that moment in the interview. it really stood out. >> you didn't believe she was dead. >> for a long time. i just refused to accept that she was gone. part of -- she would never do this to us, but also part of maybe this is all part of a plan. >> you really believed that maybe she had decided to disappear for a time. >> for a time and she would call us and we would come and join her. >> how long did you believe that? >> years. many, many years. william and i talked about it as well. he had similar thoughts. >> you write in the book, you say i'd often say it to myself first thing in the morning, maybe this is the day. maybe this is the day she would reappear. >> yeah, hope. i had huge amounts of hope. >> anderson, one thing he told you was he struggled to even talk about it really to other

people, about her death. did you get a sense of why he's talking now and why he gave such an in depth interview to you? >> well, i mean, look, there's a lot of different ways to look at that and a lot of it depends on what you think about prince harry probably and his wife meghan. he will say i have been silent for my entire life. i've had endless stories written about me and people projecting things on to me and saying things about me, and this is an opportunity for me to actually talk about who i am and how i see things and the central roll that my mother's death has played in his life. obviously critics of his will look and say, look, he and his wife have left the royal family. they have been accused of cashing in on their royal titles. they are not just telling their story. they're making accusations against members of the royal family which is part of their story as well, they would say. so obviously people are going to

see it different ways. obviously this is part of a multi-book deal that harry signed with penguin random house. there was the netflix series which details more of the fracture with the royal family and their lives as a couple i. think the book, though -- the focus for most people on the book, obviously, are the revelations of the drama going on be lined the scenes and the accusations back and forth. when you read the book, though, it is very much a memoir of this person's life, and the full arc of their life and really a story of grief and early childhood trauma. >> anderson, before you go -- poppy talked about you losing a family member. i lost my dad, my sister, my grandma. >> in the same year, right? >> it's interesting because you never get those people back, but

he still has his brother in his life. that was the sad part for me, when he said i don't think i'll ever be a member of the royal family again, which translated to me, i don't think i can real this rift. i hope they can. his brother is still here. >> he actually says -- he would make a distinction. the question for him was really a public -- a senior role in the royal family, living in england, working full time for the royal family as he was, that he doesn't see happening. he certainly holds out the possibility of a partial role continued in the royal family. he says that the offer that was made to -- this is not -- this came out in the interview, we didn't include it in the piece, but just for time. but he says that a partial role is still on the table. the original offer which was living overseas for a certain amount of months a year and then fulfilling duties for the royal

family for part time of the year, that is still on the table. there would still need to be a number of conversations and discussions and frank discussions that don't leak out before that would happen. so he holds out. he certainly says he wants a relationship with -- he loves his brother, loves his father. he says he wants a relationship with all of them. obviously that's maybe even more difficult to imagine right now given the revelations he has brought forth. but he says he's not doing it in a hurtful manner, and he very much would like to have a dialogue. >> anderson, thank you. good to see you. appreciate you joining us this morning. we'll be watching tonight. tune in tonight for anderson's full interview, the harry interview begins at 8:00 eastern right here on cnn. i want to turn to brazil this morning where a violent attack on the seat of government is being called their own january 6th.

>> these rioters yoe you see there are supporters of former president bolsonaro. they stormed and vandalized congress, supreme court and presidential palace insisting he was a victim of a liged election. at least 400 people are under arrest this morning. these are the images playing out right now in the capital. troops in the streets. pedro negera is on the ground. tell us what you're seeing in the aftermath of this? >> reporter: hundreds of people are under arrest after the invasion of the three main government buildings here in brazil. supporters of former president squarjair bolsonaro broke into presidential palace, the congressional building and the supreme court building. rioters left behind a trail of

destruction. huge glass windows were broken everywhere, works of art were damaged or also stolen, and they even looted weapons at the presidential palace. at the supreme court the ministers' chairs were ripped off the building. supreme court ordered the governor of brazilia to be temporarily removed. local authorities knew beforehand that the demonstration was under way and did nothing to stop them. hundreds of buses with rioters drove to brazilia over the weekend. the president will spend the day this monday meeting with supreme court justices and state governors to solve the situation. pedro neguira, brazilia, cnn, brazil. >> shows the global impact of things in the u.s. in other places. more than 7,000 nurses at two of the city's largest hospitals are on strike.

this comes after talks over pay and staffing with mt. sinai hospital in manhattan failed overnight. the hospitals have been diverted ambulances to other hospitals, putting elective surgeries on hold, transferring infants out of the neonatal intensive care network. that's what got me, vanessa, when i heard babies were being moved out of the nicu. what's the crux of the impasse here? >> reporter: poppy, the number of nurses in front of mt. sinai have been growing by the hour. we expect there are hundreds out here right now. they span two city blocks from 101st street all the way around the corner, down the street coming up to 99th street. the real issue here with these two hospitals, mt. sinai and

month fewer not reaching a deal stems around safe staffing, this is the ratio of nurses to patients in order to have safe care for these patients. i want to bring in one transplant nurse here. where is he? this is warren. he's a transplant nurse here at mt. sinai. warren, tell me why are you out here this morning? >> we're out here because we're fighting for safer staffing ratios for our patients. we want to make sure we get an equal wage, a fair wage so everyone can feel like we're working for those who care about us. >> what is your concern about the patients right now in the hospital without you today? >> we've been fighting for working under safer conditions. there are laws in place that aren't being enforced anymore. now they're working under conditions that we work under. now we hope these patients would be under safe conditions. we do the best we can every day and we want to make sure they get the best care, not just on days we aren't here.

if something is wrong in the hospital, that's why we're outside the hospital fighting for them. >> thank you, warren. the governor has suggested binding arbitration which would bring in a neutral ash straighter to try to work out a deal between the hospitals and the unions, poppy. but the hospital has agreed to it. the union did not. so they are here out on strike until this deal gets done, poppy. >> vanessa, thank you for that reporting live in new york. kaitlan. the football world is celebrating the remarkable recovery of safety damar hamlin after suffering from cardiac arrest on the field. the bills honored the training staff that saved his life. across the league, players, coaches, executives are showing their support. many of them wearing hamlin's number 31 on a t-shirt. we're learning he could be released from the hospital in a matter of days. his buffalo bills are paying the ultimate tribute to their teammate and brother seconds into the game against new england last night in a way that

hollywood even could not script. >> going to be short. fielded at the 4 by hines. straight up the middle to the 20. cuts it back to the 25. down the right side line to the 40, 50, down to the 35, 30, 20, 10, 5. touchdown nye heme hines. >> hamlin was watching that touchdown. he tweeted as he was watching from his hospital bed. responded with a simple omfg. >> weave received love and support from not only the fans, but every team in the nfl. it was all about 3. all about damar. we were appreciative of that. i don't want that to outshine his moment. i felt like he was with me on that field. the bills quarterback josh allen also got emotional thinking about hamlin in that special moment for number 3. >> i can't remember a play that

touched me like that, i don't think in my life. it's probably number one. i was going around with my teammates going god is real. you can't write that one up any better. i was just told by kevin currens it's been three years and three months since the last kickoff return. pretty cool. >> buffalo won the game 35-23. afterwards cnn's coy wire caught up with the bills offensive lineman dion dawkins about the tough game. >> it was extremely hard. i don't want to sugarcoat it. it was extremely hard. and it still is. because our brother is still not physically here, but the fact that he's in high spirits makes him here. until he physically touches his toes down, then it will be a

full, ah. it's a crazy balance. >> turning to cnn's senior data reporter harry enten looking at this bills victory and their path ahead. obviously everyone is rooting for them in the sense of damar hamlin. what do the numbers look like? >> this morning's number is two. it is two. nye heme hines had not just that opening kickoff return, but had one later on in the game. it's the first time since 2010 that the same player had two kickoff returns for a touchdown in the same game. i can't tell you how excited i was. go, go, go! oh, my goodness gracious. that was a lot of fun after a really tough week. let's sort of talk about that road ahead. okay. so to win the super bowl, what do the bills need to do? they have to win the afc wildcard game at home next week against miami, then have to win the afc divisional game and then the afc championship game in

either buffalo or a neutral site. and then, of course, they'll have to win the super bowl in arizona on february 12th. >> this afc game next weekend. >> this is the easy part of it. the chance of winning the afc wildcard game next week. buffalo with an 81% chance. miami with a 19% chance. keep in mind, the bills have just lost one playoff game at home in their current stadium. so it looks pretty good next week. of course, kaitlan -- >> what happens after that? >> top team's chance of winning the super bowl, you can see here the bills at a 20% chance. that is second to the kansas city chiefs. we really have just this group of top five teams. it's going to be a tough road to go. but the fact is the bills are in this. they have a legitimate shot. we'll see what happens. yesterday showed us i believe fate is on our side. >> i feel like with you rooting for them, it's going to be higher than 20% for the bills. >> if i have any juju, it would

be a dream fulfilled after all the dreams of losing. >> we'll talk about your traditions, harry enten. >> you know why i'm laughing? don is giving me weird side eyes about juju. >> i use whatever words needed to describe what's going on. anything to get my bills over the top, if the bills make the super bowl, don, you and i can go together. >> you can use whatever words you want to use. can i use whatever words i want to use. >> don, let's keep it pg. >> as it refers to you, cra-cra. >> a little bit sometimes. >> in the best way. >> whatever it takes. turning the page here, president biden visited the southern border this weekend for the first time in his presidency. he did not speak with or meet with any migrants. we'll talk to the mayor of el paso next. plus the search is intensifying for a missing mother of three in massachusetts. now her husband is under arrest. liberty mutual. r

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a missing persons investigation, they say the husband was being very cooperative with the investigation. now we know he's been arrested on misleading an investigation. we'll see what comes out in court. it's possible we might get more information as the court date happens. >> why have police suspended their search? >> that's also very unclear. there's no sign of this mother. they have no sign of this mother. she was supposed to board a flied on new year's day. she was last seen by a family member, according to police, on january 1st, leaving at 4:05 in the morning from her home many massachusetts heading for a flight to washington, d.c. police say they got no information she got into a ride share and definitely did not get into a plane and sort of disappeared. as far as investigative leads, they don't really have any right now. they say she has no digital footprint, meaning she didn't spend money on credit cards, hasn't had any communications with anyone. she has her phone actually

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business today, maybe. we'll see what it looks like. republicans are trying to pass the rules package for the new congress which is going to be the first big test for speaker kevin mccarthy. a nightmare ordeal in texas where a man has been charged with aggravated kidnapping for allegedly holding a woman he met on the dating app bumble captive for days and repeatedly assaulting her. president biden is in mexico to meet. one of the topics will be -- it was biden's first tour of the border as president. officials and layer yeah lawmakers accompanied him as he spoke with officers and migrant aid providers. joining us, the el paso mayor. so happy to have you this morning. thank you for joining. when you spoke with the president, it was -- you had a

talk with him, i'm wondering what he said and how he received what you had to say. >> well, we were very thankful he came down here to really talk to the people, we've been dealing with it day in and day out. it really makes a difference. i was telling people that he's very aware of what's going on on the border. he's very aware of what's going on in el paso, but coming down and seeing it with his own eyes really made a big difference. what i did, though, i made a book. in this book i had 62 pictures of what i've seen through my eyes. every morning i go down, and this morning i went down there and looked at the sacrament church area. i would go down at 4:00 in the morning and take pictures. i was able to share these pictures with him because it's something he wouldn't be able to see. for the last 90 days i've shared the pictures i was able to really compile. he looked at them, whether it

was at the airport, at the river. i was able to have a little breakout room with him and go over those pictures with him, it was very impactful. so he can see what challenges our city has been going through. >> one of the challenges has been what the president didn't see. from our reporters on the ground, he didn't come face to face with any of the migrants there. we know there are hundreds of migrants, we've seen them sleeping on the streets of el paso. did he get a sufficient view of the humanitarian crisis aspect of this? >> well, he didn't -- he talked to bishop sites who has been dealing a lot with the migrants. he talked to border patrol and talked to customs and the people really on the street that are hands-on. he talked to the county judge, congressman gonzalez, congresswoman escobar. he talked to everybody that has

been dealing with this and how we can get the people off the street. that was my main concern. how do we work together to get the people off the street and make sure they're not on the street, they're not sleeping on the street and they're not susceptible to the climate out here. >> the white house are reporting from rosa flores, saying he went to a migrant center but there weren't migrants there at the time. i want to show our viewers and play for you, our rosa flores on the ground there while the president was visiting el paso talking to migrants and get your thoughts out of that. here it is. >> i'm in the second ward in downtown el paso. this is a church. you can see there are hundreds of migrants still living on the streets. there's lines for everything. there's lines for food. migrants are getting in line for water. they get in line for toys for their kids. this is the reality on the

ground right now. >> are you concerned that president biden didn't see that reality on the ground for himself, that reality? >> that's what the book was. you couldn't see what i've seen in the last 60 to 90 days. that book really compiled right there where rosa was, i had pictures of that and a little further up the street and down on the river crossing and at the airport, people sleeping at the airport. that was important, that we really had a view of everything that we've been seeing. so he actually was able to see what was going on, what's been going on in el paso. i have gone down there. i was there this morning again. i'm dloun at 10:00, 11:00 at night. i was able to have a one-on-one with him and talk to him about what's been going on in el paso and our needs. he was able to take to the border patrol and ask them what their needs were. i was very impressed because

when he asked what their needs were, he knew what their needs were. he knows what the needs are within our community. but it's important that we get the people off the street and continue to work together as one. >> would you qualify it as a crisis right now in your city? >> absolutely. it's still a crisis, and it will continue to be a crisis until we fix the broken immigration system. the system is broken. it didn't break yesterday. it's not going to get fixed today. it's a process that needs to continue. right now all we have is a band-aid. we've been getting funding from the federal government. they've been really good at giving us funding. that can't continue because we need to fix the broken immigration system. we still as a city need to continue to follow the laws of our country. >> mayor oscar leeser of el paso, thank you for your time. >> thank you. a dangerous situation unfolding out west. the threat of mudslides,

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angeles and san francisco as california's governor gavin newsom warns not to test fate ahead of an intense weather situation all week. president biden approving an emergency declaration has california reels from a relentless parade of cyclones, torrential rain, damaging wind, widespread flooding. more than 400,000 people are without power, some communities ordered to evacuate. more storms are coming with hardly any time for cleanup. camila bernal joining us. i have a very good friend living in san francisco, very, very pregnant, due in a week and was

messaging me about how concerning this is, what's going on right now. >> reporter: poppy, yeah. it's constant rain, and the problem is a lot of people in the bay area and in general in california are not used to this type of rain. it is a storm after another storm with very little time in between. so officials here say you need to be prepared for power outages and you need to be prepared for very dangerous driving conditions. look, the ground is already saturated. when you add more rain, what happens is sinkholes and mudslides, two things that already happened with the last storm. officials here in san francisco are also worried about a communications outage. here is the director of the emergency management program here in san francisco and how she explained it. >> many of the infrastructure for even communications, that's our cell and internet, is under ground. as we get more inundation from the rain, we're seeing more failure around those -- what we call lifeline systems.

>> reporter: we're expecting 3-5 inches of rain over the next five days. again, already the ground is saturated. already there are people having to deal with flooding in their homes. i've seen communities near the ocean having to put sandbags all along their garages and the doors to keep that water away. anyone like your friend who is pregnant, is going to have to think about how a drive to the hospital is going to be or going anywhere really in the bay area and in general in california is going to be dangerous over the next couple of days, poppy. >> that's really scary. we're grateful you're there covering it. thank you. camila bernal live in san francisco. it took kevin mccarthy 15 tries, but he did win the speakership. now it's time to govern. that might be even harder than trying to become speaker. we'll talk to a member of his caucus next. when it doeses, aspen dental is here for you. we offer the custom dental treatments you need, alall under one roof, right nearby. so we e can bring more life to your smile...

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speaker of the 118th congress, kevin mccarthy. [ cheers and applause ] after a bruising fight to get that gavel he is holding there kevin mccarthy is going to face his first test as house speaker today when republicans try to pass the rules package for the 118th congress. this matters because it governs how they are going to operate this session. it could reveal more about those back room deals that mccarthy made with the hardliners, with his critics, in order to get their vote. at least one republican said they do plan to vote against it and protest potential cuts in defense spending. big questions about that. joining us this morning is republican congresswoman nicole meliotsakis of new york. if anything we learned from last week it's that you can't take anything for granted.

so my first question for you is will you vote for this rules package and do you expect that it will pass today? >> first let me say had it not been for a small group of republicans from new york, including myself, we would still be here today without a speaker. we refused to adjourn, we stood up to leadership and said we are not having this anymore, we need to get this figured out when it was down to just those six members who had been holding out. i'm glad that we kept the rolls open, it gave them the time to figure it out and here we are with speaker kevin mccarthy who i did support from the beginning. with regards to the rules package, look, i'm interested in hearing further debate, but i am inclined to support them. i think a lot of the changes are good government reforms that we had long been advocating for. i think members do not want the house to be run the way nancy pelosi ran it where we got bills at the last minute, not having ample time to read them. this would provide us with 72 hours to read legislation, it would provide us with congressional budget office scores on how -- it would impact the cost -- the cost of these

bills would impact inflation, it would require that the bills not be so massive with all sorts of stuff that is unrelated to the issue at hand stuffed into them, but instead they are single-subject bills. it would also require other things like making sure that there is a super majority to increase taxes and it does set us on a path to start -- start paying down our debt and to balance our budget which i think is so incredibly important for the future of this country, $31 trillion is complete unsustainable, this can't continue. look, if we pay for something new, we have to cut it from somewhere and we need to work toward balancing this budget over the next decade. >> congresswoman, you said you are inclined to support them, did you not say you would outright support them. do you think that you have a clear view of what concessions kevin mccarthy agreed to to get the votes of those 20 hardliners? >> well, we have the rules before us. we have had the opportunity, because we require now three days to be able to read them and we have looked them over and, again, they are all good government reforms.

the only thing that actually changed, by the way, these rule conference. kevin mccarthy was very open and honest, transparent, allowing all members to participate in the process on how to improve the way the house operates. and that should be made clear here. the vast majority, all but maybe one, had been negotiated by the entire conference and approved i should say by the entire conference prior to january 3rd, which is why this stalemate that happened last week was unnecessary because it didn't really add anything much more unless there were, as you say, other deals made on the side that we are unaware of. but i trust kevin mccarthy, i think that he was doing what was in the best interest of the entire conference and the bottom line is we need to move forward. there is too many issues facing our nation that we want to get forward and address. look, we plan on passing legislation this week to deal with the border security, to deal with, you know, irs, to deal with other things that are

important prosecutors must prosecute act which is a bill i'm sponsoring and others things. we want to move forward and start governing. >> to get to those you have to pass this rules package first. part of this will include the deals that he made last week, we've seen chip roy and others against kevin mccarthy talk about those changes. one big thing people are looking at is there going to be a showdown over the debt ceiling and what that looks like. do you have concerns about cuts to defense spending? >> sure, and that's not part of the rules, that could be an area that they're discussing which would be interesting, right, because this group of members from the freedom caucus would then be siding with aoc and members of the squad and president biden who have all called for cutting defense spending. so it's not necessarily saying it has to be defense spending, it's just saying we want to start reducing spending and moving us on a path to plans a budget in ten years and start paying down our debt, which is the responsible thing to be doing. >> do you think that kevin mccarthy can make it through

this congress without that motion to vacate being used against him? >> i do. i do get concerned about one or two members who are more interested in being showmen than actual legislators, using it to weaponize against him and the conference. that is a concern. but if kevin is okay with it then we should be moving forward with that. i would say one thing, this will be telling and it will be telling to see whether this exercise will bring the republican conference together more, will it unite us, or will it bring bipartisanship to the house of representatives because there are members, and i would say myself included, that aren't going to tolerate a small handful preventing us from doing the people's business. so we have to do what's responsible, we need to do what's in the best interest of the nation and i'm here to work and not to, you know, play games. >> there are big request he is about what legislating will get done. i want to ask you about brazil and what we're seeing happen there with those anti-democracy riots. i wonder if you are willing to

condemn them and what you're seeing happening in brazil this morning? >> absolutely. i do condemn it. look, we can't support political violence. i understand that these individuals are probably very concerned about brazil going down the path of cuba and venezuela and nicaragua and bolivia, moving more towards a communist dictatorship, as a daughter of a cuban refugee i share those concerns, but political violence is never the answer and so it must be condemned and i hope everyone is united on that front. >> and should republican leaders also condemn it? >> absolutely. look, there is no -- there is no excuse for this type of political violence. >> all right. congresswoman malliotakis, you have a busy day ahead of you. thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you. >> great interview, very clear -- i mean, those last two answers are critically important. >> those are important but also what she said about when it comes to the rules saying that she is inclined to support them,

but there are big questions about the full picture of what it looks like of what kevin mccarthy offered to those hardliners last week. >> there's also some questions about from the democrats as well because she was one of 147 who voted to -- not to certify the election to overturn the election results in 2020 and she has said she's not an election denier but she did, you know, vote with republicans in the house not to certify joe biden's election. it will be interesting to see what happens with this congress and how she -- what she does with the president. >> and they have a very slim majority. >> i'm glad you're back. >> good to be back. >> welcome back. >> thank you. >> "cnn newsroom" starts right after this break. dry skin is sensitive skin, too. and it's natural. treat it that way with aveeno® daily moisture. formulated with nourishing, prebiotic oaoat. it's clinically y proven to moisturize dry skin for 2424 hours. aveeno® hey, man.

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