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she was in the south tower and she made it out, she got caught up in the ash cloud. my mom fought cancer till her death. >> i don't know, what is it becoming? >> there's a line that gets crossed on the level of lies we talked about. we joked about things like the scarf and volleyball championship team. this is a different level. >> hey, everybody. k kaitlan and i are here, poppy is off today. we were talking about george santos, the question is is there no bottom? where does this end? it's one of his most brazen claims, his mom was inside the world trade center able to survive the 9/11 attacks, battling cancer and cnn uncovering evidence she wasn't even in the united states. and this. >> at 4:58 a.m. how to stop a

body from decomposing. >> gruesome google searches and a disturbing shopping list prosecutors laying out explosive evidence as the husband of the missing massachusetts mother, ana walshe, stands accused of murder. let's talk about the u.s. economy, headed towards a cliff? we could hit the debt limit today. we'll break down what that means for you and the serious fallout americans are facing if congress fails to act. we have to begin with this. another day, another apparent george santos lie. new york's new republican congressman claimed that his mother was in the south tower of the world trade center on 9/11 but new immigration records obtained by cnn contradict that claim. good morning, the lies just keep getting worse and worse, what do you know at this moment? >> reporter: they do, don. this is on such a sensitive subject. how and when his mother died. on multiple occasions he claimed

his mother was in the south tower of the world trade center on 9/11 and intimated that led to her death later on in 2016. this was a claim on his campaign website and he repeated many times. here's how he put it in his own words just in the last year. >> my mom was a 9/11 survivor. she was in the south tower. and she made it out. she got caught up in the ash cloud. my mom fought cancer until her death. >> we now know his mother was not in new york and was not even in this country during 9/11, newly uncovered immigration records show his mother was in brazil between 1999 and 2003. representatives for santos did not get back to cnn when asked about this contradiction. santos allegedly stole $3,000 from a go fund me that could have saved a sick dog,

what do you know about that? >> this was a gofundme page that george santos set up for a veteran to help raise funds for a life saving procedure his pit bull needed at the time. the owner of the dog and another veteran are saying they never saw that money, never received the $3,000 that they said was raised for this dog. the veteran said when he tried to access the funds santos was uncooperative giving him the money. they produced text messages, one where they accused him of running a bogus charity. santos tells cnn he has no clue what this veteran is talking about. >> thank you sunlen. the veteran is going to join cnn live in our next hour. today the united states is expected to hit its debt ceiling. the limit stands at $31.4 trillion, here are three things to know about this, why it matters to so many people.

it's not the idea of a fight for washington, it matters christine romans, about what the implications of this -- hitting this today and how much time is left. what does it mean? >> this is a really important moment, really. bauds this is the upper limit of what the u.s. can borrow. and the united states is run on borrowed money. we run deficits and that adds to the national debt. this is a political fight but a main street story here. no question this is a main street story. what will happen next, the u.s. starting today the treasury secretary is going to have to do what we call extraordinary measures. it buys time, four or five months is how much. they can stop some investments which is a point of weakness for the u.s. government. you want to be investing in the right retirement accounts for civil servants, for example, but this will be moving the money around if you will, accounting moves for four or five months until this becomes a crisis that could be a default. >> it buys time but doesn't solve the problem.

>> that's right. the problem is the u.s. borrows so much money and then fights over whether to pay the bills they've spent. i want to be clear here. if you don't raise the debt ceiling you're talking about not paying for what you have spent. new spending is something else. and some of the gop want to put spending restrictions on any kind of rise in the debt limit but if you don't raise the debt ceiling you have to decide which bills to pay. you could default on your debt. that is something that has never happened and can never happen. the reason is u.s. is the gold standard in the global financial system is because we pay our bills on time. or you delay payments to federal workers. you delay social security and veteran benefits. can you imagine a service you're giving an iou to a member of the military because you can't pay your bills? that's a weak position for the u.s. to be operating from. >> this is something that i feel like we always deal with. it's a perennial issue, we've

seen show downs before but i think given the new republican house majority, the fight we saw play out over how to pick a house speaker this is going to be the messiest in a decade. >> the political risk is the worst it's been in a decade. but i spoke to someone this morning who said they always go to the brink and then realize what the risks are and then step back. and the risks are big, talking about job losses, a 401(k) shrinking. higher costs for mortgages. spiking borrowing cost that would add to the national debt which is what we're talking about in the first case. so if you don't handle it right and smartly you make the problem worse. and then it's all a self-fulfilling problem. there's a big discussion, people in financial markets, we just shake our heads about why washington does this. you know better than i do. >> do you want them to get rid of it? >> there are a lot of people

saying they go to the brink on this so many times they should get rid of it. the spending restraint coming in the appropriations process, it comes in the beginning not in the end when you're paying your bills. >> we'll talk to officials about this at the white house later on. christine romans, thank you so much. it's an issue. the wall street journal posts biggest retail sales drop of 2022. and microsoft drops. the tech industry taking another hit. microsoft plans to lay off 10,000 workers they say it's part of a broader move towards cutting costs. vanessa this is another hit to tech jobs. >> another one in the line of tech jobs we've seen from companies. one analyst saying these companies were spending like rock stars in the pandemic and now facing another reality. yesterday we heard from the ceo at the world economic forum and

he put it into perspective, quote no one can defy gravity and gravity here is inflation adjusted economic growth. and a lot of these tech companies are hedging on a potential recession. that's not off the table yet. so microsoft laying off 10,000 workers that's a little less than 5% of the overall company. but they join amazon, lift, coin base, and other major tech companies that have done layoffs in the last couple of months. just in january alone, 37,000 layoffs in tech. that is the largest amount of tech layoffs that we've seen in the last year going back to january 2022, except for one month when huh the major, major companies laying people off in december. but significant, just adding to the toll it's taking on these tech companies. >> vanessa, thank you very much. appreciate that. also today a definitive declaration from president zelenskyy saying that he does

believe ukraine will retake crimea, which, of course, was illegally annexed by russia nearly a decade ago under the obama administration. both russia and ukraine claim ownership over crimea and it's the symbolic battleground in the war. president zelenskyy said crimea is our land and urged western allies to provide him more weaponry to regain what is ours. and now president biden may be willing to do that, according to a new report from "the new york times" this morning they say despite the hard line they have taken in the past, now that line is starting to soften. the united states has always maintained that crimea does belong to ukraine but it comes as the u.s. is set to announce one of the biggest military aid packages to ukraine since the

beginning of the war. it's expected to be worth $2.5 billion and for the first time set to include striker vehicles. alex marquardt is joining us now. tell us exactly what the striker vehicles mean to ukraine and what it's going to do for the forces on the ground who clearly need the help. >> reporter: what is notable in the massive new package is both what is new in it and what is not in it that the ukrainians have been desperately asking for. the new elements are the striker combat vehicles. they are armored vehicles that will allow ukrainian troops to be carried across the battlefield, giving ukrainians a new mechanized capability, particularly when combined with the bradley fighting vehicles which were just committed to ukraine by the united states in the last aid package earlier this month which was and is to this date the biggest military aid package. those two together will allow

ukrainians to go on the offensive to try to take back territory. the striker is lighter and faster than the bradley. but the two together really do give the ukrainians a significant new mechanized capability. >> it comes as there's this remarkable show down between the united states and germany that seems to be percolating here where there is a new german defensive minister over the decisions to send tanks to ukraine. what's the latest with that? >> reporter: they want ukrainian to get tanks they're not sending american tanks because they're too logistically challenging. the most they settled on is the leopard two, made by germany. lloyd austin is in berlin meeting with his counter part to press the germans to send this to ukraine. they said they don't want to be the only ones alone, others are saying we're ready to go with

you. brits have presented a squadron of their tanks. german has to give permission because they're german tanks. senior officials say they're optimistic they can get germany to that point by the end of the week. >> we'll see what secretary austin does. a political stunner out of new zealand. the prime minister said she is stepping down in less than a month. she choked up as she explained her decision saying she doesn't have enough energy for the demands of the job anymore. >> i believe that leading a country is the most privileged job anyone could ever have. but also one of the more challenging. you cannot and should not do it unless you have a full tank plus a bit in reserve for those unexpected challenges. this summer i had hoped to find a way to prepare not just for another year but another two, because that is what this year

requires. i have not been able to do that. and so today i'm announcing that i will not be seeking re-election. and that my term as prime minister will conclude no later than the 7th of february. politicians are human we give all that we can for as long as we can, and then it's time. and for me, it's time. >> ardern was elected in 2017 when she was 30 years old and handled a lot in her five and a half years in office, including a baby. she gave birth a year after she took office. only one other leader in modern times has done that. she was the first to bring her infant to the u.n. assembly hall, just three months old at the time but she chalks it up to

being a working mom. >> obviously this is the norm for women who enter into motherhood. while i hope there will be a day it isn't of comment, currently it is. so i accept that that there will be a time. >> her tenure has seen a lot of challenges, including what she herself called one of new zealand's darkest days when a gunman opened fire at two mosques killing more than 50 people, in the aftermath she refused to speak the killer's name. >> he is a terrorist. he is a criminal. he is an extremist. but he will, when i speak, be nameless. and to others, i implore you, speak the names of those who were lost rather than the name of the man who took them. he may have sought notoriety but we, in new zealand, will give him nothing. not even his name. >> and weeks later she

spearheaded the passage of a bill that banned most semiautomatic weapons. then came the coronavirus pandemic. >> if you're not working in essential services you shouldn't be going out to work. by and large we're very keen that you stay home. that you stay within what we call your bubble, the bubble of people you'll be with for the next four weeks. >> early on, ardern was praised for her go hard and go early approach which played a major role in her 2020 re-election beau she faced backlash as time wore on from people opposed from the mandates. there was a three-week long protest that ended with hurled rocks and fires. another legacy dealing with sexism. last fall she hit back at a reporter who shuggested she onl met with finland's prime minister because they're both women. >> i wonder if anyone asked if

barack obama met with anyone because of similar age? we have a high proportion of men in politics. because two women meet it's not because of the gender. >> she may be an icon to some but her popularity at home has waine wained recently. polls showed her popularity was hovering around 30%. certainly an interesting turn of events. again, it doesn't feel like it was that long ago she was elected. but in that short time, since 2017, she's dealt with a lot. >> been in office for several years and she has dealt with serious challenges. but been one of the world leaders that stood out. faced all of these criticisms and whatnot and had the moment recently with the other pm, the

other young woman and they were talking about what it's like, got the question if they were meeting because they had so much in common. >> wasn't it you're so young -- maybe that was someone else. they were asking her too when she came into office about her age, certain challenges she faced as a woman. >> she was saying no, i'm just a world leader, it's nothing to do with a woman or her age. >> can you believe no one brought their baby, a simple act of bringing your child to work could have such an impact. also this morning here at home, one of the fbi's most troubling discoveries at mar-a-lago were empty folders. so what happened to the documents inside? were there documents inside? former president trump has a new explanation but the question is, does it hold any water. disturbing google searches and a shopping trip to home depot.

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massachusetts mother who vanished two weeks ago. they have not found a body but decided to file a murder charge anyway, based on the evidence they have been able to uncover. as they read that list of what he googled, brian walshe shook his head in court as the prosecutor went through what he was serarching for alleged on hs young son's ipad. jason carroll is live in massachusetts. we don't believe prosecutors have been able to locate a body but have been able to find dna evidence and tools they say he allegedly used to dismember the body. what else did we learn from prosecutors yesterday? >> reporter: key to their case, kaitlan, some of it you mentioned there, will be the alleged internet searches from walsh. searches that included information not only about dna

and divorce but also about decomposing bodies. >> brian walshe dismembered ana walshe -- >> reporter: chilling new details revealed in court by prosecutors describing the evidence against the massachusetts father who allegedly murdered his wife and allegedly tried to cover it up. brian walshe in custody since january 8th when he was charged with misleading investigators for searching for his wife was in court at the arraignment on wednesday and charged with ana walshe's murder. the prosecution laid out some of the disturbing evidence against walshe saying he used his son's ipad to make numerous online searches. >> december googled what's the best state to divorce for a man. on january 1st, he searched how long before a body starts to smell. at 4:58 a.m., how to stop a body

from decomposing. >> reporter: later that morning he googled can identification be made on partial remains and dismemberment and the best ways to dispose of a body. on january 2nd at 12:45 p.m. walshe searched hacksaw, best tool to dismember. at 1:10, can you be charged with murder without a body. the following afternoon the search continued with walshe searching at around 1:00 p.m. what happens to hair on a dead body. police found ten trash bags from a dumpster and trash facility with items including towels, rags, tape, slipper, cleaning agents, a covid-19 vaccination card with ana walshe's name on it. a hacksaw and a hat chet. they discovered personal items, including a portion of a necklace believed to have been worn by ana walshe in several

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♪ a new poll found that president biden's approval rating has not been affected by the classified documents scandal. today biden said in that case there's another 100 documents stashed in the pool house. santos set up a go fund me for the dog's surgery but when it reached $3,000 he closed it and became difficult to contact. santos refused to give him any of the donations saying he would take the money and use it for other dogs. yes, other dogs like max and skipper and rover. you gonna mess with

somebody's dog? have you not heard of john wick? your ass is in trouble! >> we'll speak with that veteran straight ahead about that dog issue, no laughing matter by the way but this morning it appears george santos has been caught in yet another lie. he has claimed that his mother was in the south tower on 9/11, that has been reported for a while, even on his campaign website. here's the problem, immigration records apparently show that is not the case. she wasn't even in the u.s. on a 2003 form seen by cnn, the mother indicated that she hasn't been to america since 1999. she also filed paperwork in brazil in 2001, just months before 9/11 saying her green card had been stolen. it's in addition to a long list of lies from the newly elected congressman. let's discuss with scott jennings and alyssa farah

griffin. they're both here. i'm sure they don't want to get close to this. >> don't want to touch this. >> good morning. >> good morning. one universal rule of politics you don't mess with veterans and dogs. just life. he managed to do both of those things. >> let's talk about the mom issue. what do you make of this? it shows that his mother was not, apparently, in the world trade center on september 11th. that's pretty serious. serious incident for our country and the world. >> i think broadly it speaks to his character. if you're lying about your mom's life, he's also apparently lied about the time she's died through tweets that resurfaced. he's a dishonest person, i'd say a con artist. the gift that keeps giving in that it's funny sometimes. it's serious. from a national security perspective this guy is ripe for adversaries to exploit. when we were going through

government they look into who you lived with, your old roommates, employers to know you're not somebody that can be blackmailed. with elected officials we don't do that. this is a person ripe to be target for blackmail and exploitation and now serving in congress. that's dangerous. this is a person totally unequipped to be there. >> now he's lying about 9/11, he lied about the holocaust, the pulse nightclub shooting. he lied about serious things. i think this is a consistent thing he said about his mother and 9/11. he has removed some of them from his campaign website but as of last night the one about 9/11 is still on there. >> you ever meet someone who lies so much, they begin to not tell the difference. >> this guy, no name scott jennings, trump. go on. >> you know what i mean, you get

the impression he has lived his entire life as someone who makes things up to get through the next few moments if people respond to it, he uses it, if they don't, he picks another thing. it's troubling. if you talk to house republicans, nobody wants to associate with this guy. they treat him like a pariah. >> do they, though? he was just put on a committee. >> two. >> the two worst that nobody wants to be on. >> i don't know if he believes that. i have sources that don't -- >> how would he know what's a terrible committee? >> they stuck him off in the corner. the ethics committee, these prosecutors, these people looking into him, to me i think the minute somebody comes back and says we've validated all these accusations and we can now document without question either he has campaign finance problems or, you know, whatever it happens to be. that will be the trigger for them. >> won't it go from a four

person majority to a three person majority, which is something that kevin mccarthy needs, probably the main reason they're sticking with him. you worked in government, you have been a strategist correct and an adviser. what would your advice be to kevin mccarthy and republicans in washington as it relates to george santos? >> two part plan. one put him in time out, which they've basically done. and two they need to support the ethics committee moving as quickly as possible to document this person's problems so they can use that as the underpinning to toss him out. >> you say get rid of him? >> yes. if the ethics committee said you lied and you may have broken these laws on your campaign finance paperwork, toss him. >> even at this point? >> sure. >> going a step further. if i was kevin mccarthy i would be recruiting in that district for who another credible republican is that could run if this goes to a special election. obviously biden carried it, so

he's worried about a difficult uphill battle. it's not that a republican can't run it, be looking for who that man or woman is and get ready. >> if they don't move on him, they're tossing him out next year in the primaries anyway. this guy is not going to be in congress -- at a maximum two years. >> two years his constituents have this guy representing him. i want to ask you about something else. we were looking at what the former president was arguing yesterday. i covered his classified documents thing closely but it struck out what he is talking about, which is the empty folders that the fbi found when they searched mar-a-lago, i think close to 50 of them, 48 of them. now he's zeroing in on this saying they were a cool keepsake he kept from oval office meetings he would keep just the folder and they would take the documents. is that ever something you saw happen when you were in the white house? >> no. it would be a bizarre thing to do. the purpose of the cover sheet it covers the classified information so the briefer when

they take it back would in all likelihood keep that document. i would assume if you have a cover sheet that meant you had classified information under it. >> typically in a briefing if someone gave the president a classified document with a folder they would take back both. >> yes. that's what's odd about the biden and the trump cases is you really do have somebody come and present it to you, brief it, talk you through it and then take it back. for the president to be holding and collecting in a drawer, classified documents isn't standard. if you keep it in your office it should be a lock box. the oval office is a scif but you still have to have it in a lock box. it doesn't make sense why he's leaning into the cover sheets. >> the president also said i think in his statement he has the folders but if there were any documents they were planted there. >> by the gestapo, his new name for the fbi. >> which is what the swaps are

saying of the left. the republicans must have put that in the garage. i found that the most curious part. you have accusations of planting. none of these were planted, come on. >> what do you make of a former republican president referring to the fbi as the gestapo. not saying gestapo like, calling them the gestapo. >> terrible. >> he learned from the best, this is the new york post saying the new york post now does not like trump and they don't apparently like santos because they're saying santos is too big a liar even for politics. they didn't even bring up the, what is it, qatar -- >> we now know he performed in drag in brazil. >> alleged. >> right. more power to him. that's interesting to see how it fits into the friends in the

freedom caucus that declared a war on drag. >> trump lowered the standard so much for character in politics and george santos is a direct result of that. >> good to see you. early for you. are you awake? >> yes. am i not up to your standards? >> do you miss fighting with me at night? >> i was telling my wife, i miss the 11:30 p.m. boxing matches with you. >> i don't miss it. >> i don't believe you. >> we're going to talk about intermittent fasting. you got me on it, i lost 30 pounds because of you. >> it works. >> i don't know. we'll see. >> alyssa, scott -- >> kaitlan is moving us along. >> thank you both so much. a different kind of mining is bringing a different kind of pollution to north carolina. bill weir spoke to those who are

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nebraska, 17 inches in lynchfield, nebraska, 11 inches in aura, arizona. the storm is expected to move east today. it's a different type of pollution disrupting life for people living in a town in north carolina. crypto mining is to blame for noise pollution. banks of servers running all day, every day, consuming huge amounts of electricity from coal and natural gas mags making a lot of noise. the question is, just how loud is this? people aren't familiar with this kind of crypto mining. >> the volume goes from 55 to maybe 80 decibels in the guy's yard next door to the mine. but it's not the volume it's the con constant. this turned on september '21 and never turned off. >> never. >> that's what the game of

crypto is. these are retirees, long-time landowners there, they heard about crypto but then they heard the sound of crypto and it changes everything in this county. take a look. >> this is the sound of green mountain farm. certified by quiet parks international as one of the most peaceful spots in north carolina. thanks to their rare local enforcement of laws against noise pollution. meanwhile, about 90 minutes away, cherokee county sounds like this. it is stack upon stack of computer servers and the fans needed to cool them. this is what's known as a crypto mine. and it makes the sound of people in san francisco trying to make virtual money. >> how do you describe that noise? >> probably sitting at 65 decibels right now. when it's at 75, 80 decibels,

i'd say a jet engine. a jet engine never leaves. >> reporter: 16 months after the mine fired up without warning, mike put his house up for sale in frustration. >> there would be turkeys out in the field and deer by the hundreds. you don't have that anymore. >> reporter: while tom misses the wildlife. >> you don't sleep at night. >> reporter: phyllis says she feels trapped. >> you can lay your head on the pillow and hear it hum up through the walls. >> reporter: have you thought about moving? >> we're 73 years old. . where are we going to go? >> reporter: imagine a game where the dice have a billion sides and the first person to roll a ten wins. that's crypto mining. and to play the games you need computers, thousands of computers running 24/7, 365. and after china outlawed

counte cryptocurrency and mining, more and more mines popped up like this in appalachia. places where the power is cheap and regulations are either nonexistent or unenforced. but in this deep red pocket. >> they have noise 24/7. what are you going to do to help? >> reporter: the mine has up ended local politics. >> i like to be behind the scenes, and i like to serve, and i knew that we -- we needed to win an election. >> forget the noise -- >> reporter: outrage over the mine helped flip the balance of power in november's county election. >> thom tillis -- >> i do. >> reporter: with the new board of commissioners now asking for federal help in ending american crypto mining.

>> to introduce legislation during the u.s. congress to ban crypto mining operations in the united states of america. >> reporter: when asked over linked in for reaction, chandler song one of the mine's co-owners wrote, oh, boy, they wanted us so bad a year ago. as for the proposed ban, it is unconstitutional to say the least. they made the forbes 30 under 30 list a few years ago and claimed revenues of $20 million. but when asked follow-up questions, song went silent. his mine in murphy has not. so far. but the county attorney is looking for a legal way to shut it down. a cautionary reminder that the next time you hear a place as peaceful as green mountain farm. >> it's torture. >> reporter: chances are someone got loud and fought for it.

there was a brutal winter storm across the south on christmas eve, rolling blackouts, first in tennessee valley history when they started getting plunged in darkness, the first thing they did was check the mine, it was still running. so that's another dose of bad blood in the fight. other counties pushed back against this. if crypto is going to grow the way it has. it might run into resistance like in murphy, north carolina. >> it sounds like you're on a tarmac. >> he's like we have a racetrack there, we hear them friday night it's awesome but at least they stop and we go to bed. >> thank you both. which is a better way to lose weight. intermittent fasting or calorie

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and cardiologist dr. tara narula. i know a lot of people who do this, one may or may not be at the table. >> not me. >> what are the results of the study. >> so many people are fascinated by intermittent intermittent fasting. they took individuals and gave them a mobile app saying we want you to use this to tell us when you wake up, sleep, eat and the size of your meals. so they were able to tell the interval between the first meal of the day and the last. and from all the information they were able to find that it was the size and frequency of eating meals that was associated with a small increase in weight gain but the time interval between your first and last meals did not have any impact on weight gain or loss. so, essentially, from this study you would say that changing the timing of when you're eating or what we talk about as intermittent fasting had no

impact on helping people lose weight. they also did find and we talked about the value of breakfast. you and i eat breakfast early. people who started early in the morning and wait from when they woke up and ate their last meal maybe four or five hours from the time they went to bed. those people tended to not fluctuate in weight as much. so don, are you going to change? >> no. never doubt science, right, or medicine. but i know it works for me. i know it has worked for a lot of people. it may not be -- maybe the intermittent fasting. it causes your stomach to shrink, you get used to not eating and in the time allotted for you to eat, i do 16/8. in the eight hours i find myself not being able to eat all the calories allotted. so therefore i lose weight. so i think it teaches you discipline and i do think it sort of helps in restricting

calories. so it may not work in the way people think it works, it's intermittent fasting but it's also working to restrict the calories. >> there's a lot of research into this, some say yes, it works, some say it doesn't. a lot of research has been done in animals and short term. so is this sustainable over the long term. there are a couple different types you do the 16/8, daily you restrict from say 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. and then you have the period you're not eating at all. so people do alternate days, and some do like a 5/2, eat five days and not two. there are some data that says it helps the cells regenerate, break down fat. so there may be something to it for sure. >> i just want people to know you do eat sometimes. mcdonald's when you do eat. i don't want people to be worried about you. doctor, thank you for sharing that with us. up next we have new cnn

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