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the trump administration lost it during their final days in office. we have exclusive reporting. a terror plot thwarted in europe. terror suspects arrested accused of acting on behalf of hamas but now we're learning four more suspects are still at large. i'm kate bolduan with sari sidner and john berman. this is "cnn news central." we begin with a cnn exclusive. highly classified intelligence went missing in the final hours of the trump administration and it's still missing. cnn has learned that the intelligence which is related to russian election interference in the u.s. was so secret that it was kept in a binder inside of a safe within another safe. that safe was kept at cia headquarters, but at the end of the trump administration that binder was brought to the white house as part of an effort to

declassify documents related to the fbi's investigation. then the binder went missing. joining me now to discuss it further former director of communications for u.s. national intelligence shawn turner and cnn national security analyst peter bergen. i guess first and foremost, how could something like in that was so secret, that was inside of the cia go missing and still be missing these many years later? >> yeah, sara, that's the million dollar question. i got to tell you, it's really unfortunate we are once again talking about highly classified secret documents being, you know, being lost out there, but there is something additional to this particular reporting. these are not just any documents. we're talking about raw intelligence in this binder. that means that this is information, intelligence information that has not been analyzed. it has not been processed.

it has not been looked at so that the viewer of this intelligence knows what they're seeing. that is what concerns me. when we talk about redacting raw intelligence, you can redact selectively so that intelligence says or gives an impression that you want it to give, and so i'm really concerned about the effort to get this information and to redact this information to release it because it is not the kind of information that has been looked at by analysts, been processed so that we all understand what it's actually telling us. >> apparently according to our reporting, a bunch of aides were looking at this, as well. all right, sources told cnn, peter, that the binder contained as you heard from shawn turner raw intelligence, the u.s. and its nato allies collected it on russians and russian agents including sources and methods that informed the u.s. government's assessment that russian president vladimir putin sought to help trump win the 2016 election. can you give us a sense, what is

raw intelligence and what kind of damage could documents like these do in the hands of an enemy to the united states? >> as shawn said raw intelligence could be, you know, a lot of different things but what i'm interested here, sara, is 12 military intelligence off officers were indicted for their role in interfering in the 2016 election. and, you know, if based on what cnn is reporting, clearly the intelligence community in the united states came to the assessment that russians had interfered with the 2016 election principally by getting into the democratic national committee's email system, the clinton campaign system in an effort to damage hillary clinton's campaign. the trump administration and trump himself clearly felt that some information that had been collected might actually be helpful to his cause, and sort

of undermine the idea that putin was trying to damage clinton. the indictment which is public record is very clear that 12 russian military intelligence officers did interfere in the election and my assumption is, much of the information this this missing binder is related to this indictment, which is a public record, and related to the giu, the russian military intelligence. >> i am -- it's -- it shakes you thinking about what might be in there and who might have ahold of it but to you, mr. turner, how can a document like this even be considered for declassification with raw intelligence in it? >> yeah, that's what is perplexing here. typically you take this information and you have analysts look at this information and the information, a particular piece of information might give you a sense of what's happening but you need to validate that

information, that raw intelligence with other raw intelligence that might paint a picture, i mean, this raw intelligence is a bunch of puzzle pieces and professional analysts put the pieces together to paint a picture, create a story here, and so, you know, the idea that this information would be selectively redacted and released, it's all about what it tells the reader, what it tells the viewer, so, you know, raw intelligence is not the kind of thing that we distribute to the public. it's not the kind of thing that you want to have out there in the hands of untrained analysts and what i'm really concerned about, not only the fact it can be made into a picture by someone who doesn't know what they're doing, but also the fact that it often reveals a lot about our sources and methods. that is how we collect that information, and that should not be in the hands of untrained individuals. >> lives could literally be at stake. shawn turner, peter bergen, thank you both for coming on the show this morning and going through that with me.

john. >> all right, we have breaking news from the campaign trail, an important development, cnn's political director david chalian joins us. so what is this news just in? >> hey, i'm joining you from des moines, iowa, john, and we just learned from nikki haley's campaign they put out a press release that she has accepted the cnn debate invitation to take part in a debate just five days before republican caucusgoers head to the caucuses in iowa so on january 10th ron desantis has already accepted. nikki haley has now accepted. this will be the debate to take place basically on the eve of the iowa caucuses and the third candidate who has qualified thus far, john, though the qualification window remains open until the beginning of january is donald trump. he has not yet stated nor has his campaign whether or not they will attend the debate but when nikki haley announced her accepting of the debate invitation in the statement from the campaign, they urged donald

trump to not avoid this debate. as you know, he hasn't debated in any of the debates to date this cycle and urged him to also come on the debate stage on january 10th on cnn. >> you know, of course, donald trump has not attended any debate and each time he doesn't go he seems to do better in the polls, but at a minimum, david, this is shaping up for what could be nikki haley and ron desantis, you know, a two-person debate which is something i think a lot of republicans in and of themselves want to see. >> yeah, i mean, as you know, we've seen the debate stage shrink and shrink when the committee was sanctioning the debate process with each successive debate, they raised the threshold. now the rnc is not in the business of organizing these debates any longer. they sort of opened it up to news organizations and others to host debates and allow the candidates to accept any invitation that made sense to them, and so our criteria for

this debate was that you had to get 10% in at least three national and/or iowa polls. one of those polls need to be you need 10% support among likely republican iowa caucusgoers. so you're right. at this moment of time, just desantis, trump and haley have qualified. if trump continues with the strategy not to appear, this is shaping up to be a haley versus desantis two-person debate. we'll see if chris christie or vivek ramaswamy or others can meet this threshold before the window closes but a two-person debate will be the smallest debate of the cycle thus far and obviously has its own dynamic to it. >> yeah, and, again, it could change. vivek ramaswamy or chris christie could qualify. it's haley and desantis for now, and the stakes for them, david, heading into iowa as this would be really almost on the eve of the iowa caucuses, the stakes

for each slightly different. can you explain? >> i think that's a fair characterization, john, because as you know, desantis is 100% all in on iowa. it's almost an iowa or bust. now, he's in mvp new hampshire today and his campaign wouldn't agree with that characterization, but he has invested everything here toward all 99 counties, has the endorsement of the republican governor, kim reynolds and a big evangelical leader here and has made this the place where he plans to launch his campaign into a new phase if he can getting much more traction against donald trump than the polls show. nikki haley is spreading the wealth a little bit. she obviously has campaigned here but is also very focused on new hampshire where independents can participate. that's been a key group for her. she just got the governor's endorsement there, chris sununu this week and obviously a former south carolina governor, so she's got that, another early

state in this process in her back pocket. now, i just want to say, donald trump is leading in all of these states right now that i've just mentioned and so the strategy for haley or desantis here is to emerge as the one that stays last standing in this battle to try and thwart donald trump from the nation. a "des moines register" poll came out with trump with 51%, 19% for desantis and 16% for haley so trump has a big lead. haley and desantis may not need the same kind of result here to fuel their candidacy forward out of iowa, but they're both playing here and this would be the first time we see them side by side, the two of them on the stage, if that's what ends up happening on january 10th. >> as for donald trump himself, reporters do note he is talking more now about nikki haley. what should that tell us?

>> yeah, the way he's talking about nikki haley as he said in iowa this week is, where's the surge? he sort of questioned whether or not she's actually surging the way that the media narrative around her candidacy would seem to suggest, in fact, that "des moines register" poll showed her at the same 16% support level she was in their october survey. we have seen a little more growth from her in new hampshire, but he's questioning whether or not she's actually a contender and obviously he wouldn't be mentioning her at all if she wasn't having some traction in this race. she has gotten some very high-profile donors on board. she got the koch network, sort of grassroots organization to help with foot soldiers on the ground and just got sununu's endorsement. she clearly is having traction and that's catching donald trump's eye and the thing about

the trump campaign, john, while they are very focused on a potential general election matchup with joe biden, they have not taken their eye off of making sure that despite the polls showing him well out in front that they don't take a nomination for granted and so they are still making sure to jab, if you will, and frame and contrast with desantis and haley. >> again, the breaking news, former south carolina governor nikki haley has agreed to the cnn debate, which is january 10th in iowa. ron desantis has already agreed to that. right now they are the two candidates that qualified along with donald trump. will donald trump choose to attend as his first debate. this will be interesting either way. david chalian, our thanks to you. kate. >> coming up for us, accused of planning a hamas-inspired terror attack in europe, three people now formally arrested appearing in a german court today. prosecutors are calling them

long-standing members of hamas. what more we're learning about this thwarted terror plot is next. mortgage rates are falling. gas prices falling. the dow near an all-time high. why are so many americans still sour on the economy? a new look at the numbers. chuck schumer says get back to work keeping the session going next week over ukraine aid and border funding and border security. are talks actually picking up steam, or is this something else? we'll be back.

so, new this morning, israel approved the entry of humanitarian aid at a crossing at its border with gaza. this is in addition to the aid coming in through the rafah crossing. this comes as president biden's national security adviser, jake sullivan, who is currently in the region, urged a more precise targeting of hamas leaders in what it hopes is israel's next phase of the war. cnn's chief national security correspondent alex marquardt is in jerusalem this morning. alex, what's the latest? >> reporter: well, john, before we get to sullivan's visit, i want to note we just had some rocket fire from gaza coming over here towards jerusalem, the iron dome, as it often does, responded intercepting what we believe to be around half a dozen rockets. now, jerusalem has seen several round rockets fired at it although they've been relatively

rare and heard cheers with a lot of palestinian residents here speaking to the growing support, the increase in support for hamas among palestinian citizens since this war began in gaza back on october 7th. now, we don't know where jake sullivan was at that exact moment. he's been in both israel and the west campaign, but if you heard those sirens you got a taste for the war which has gripped this region for more than two months now. sullivan making clear that he did not come to israel to tell israel what to do in their war. he says that he was here to ask hard questions, and he talked a lot about this transition from what he calls a more intense phase of the fighting, more -- a heavier phase of this fighting to a lower intensity phase. he said that that transition is going to happen at some point, right now what we're sees is the higher intensity with this heavy bombing, the fierce fighting between hamas and idf troops and

then the transition will go to a lower-intensity phase. here's more of what he had to say about that looming inflection point. take a listen. >> we are now in the middle of a high-intensity phase with ongoing ground operations, military operations in both the northern half and the southern half of gaza, but there will be a transition to another phase of the war, one that is focused in more precise ways on targeting the leadership. we're not here to tell anybody, you must do x, you must do y. this is our perspective as your partner, as your friend. this is the best way to achieve your strategic and tactical goals. >> reporter: so sullivan saying we're not going to tell you to do but here's what we think you should do and certainly a hope from the biden administration that they move into that transition phase in the near future as john kirby said yesterday, perhaps in the coming weeks, but certainly not months.

at the same time, john, the biden administration welcoming this news from israel that israel will now for the first time since the war broke out allow aid to go directly from israel into gaza through that crossing. i was there the other day. israel has been inspecting trucks but sending those trucks back into egypt to go into gaza through the rafah crossing. the rafah crossing cannot handle 200 trucks a day, which is what they're hoping to get into gaza, so good news for those people in gaza suffering so much, that very soon aid will be going directly from israel into gaza through that crossing, john. >> all right, alex marquardt for us in jerusalem. this is tough diplomacy. grueling diplomacy, kate, and you can see it in jake sullivan's face. >> you really can and getting a window into how far the threat from hamas is reaching that was sparked by october 7th and, and now we're learning if you go to germany, terror suspects are being formally charged.

germany's federal prosecutor saying they were long-standing members of hamas and had participated in hamas operations abroad. this is after a slew of arrests we brought to you yesterday throughout europe and still there's news out of denmark today that four additional terror suspects are still at large. cnn's fred brpleitgen has more l raising the same question, fred, which is how big could this plot be. >> reporter: well, it certainly seems as it could be pretty big and a flurry of activity going on in central europe, denmark and germany and the netherlands, as well. the danish authorities said, look, the raids they've been caughting and, of course, one of their arrests in the netherlands wasn't in denmark itself has nothing to do with the raids taking place in germany. all of this is happening independent of one another, but the raids took place on the same day, and both of them netted

suspects in the countries where the raids happen but then also in the netherlands as well. the danish authorities coming out and saying there are four additional suspects who they say have been formally arrested in absentia but who are still on the run and could see additional raids taking place in denmark or possibly in other places in europe over the next couple of days. one of the things we always have to remind our viewers in the u.s. of is the fact that europe has a lot of very small countries and not any borders between the countries so it is easy for suspects, for instance, to be in denmark, get to germany quickly and holland quickly and other places, as well, so the danes so far have not talked formally about a hamas plot, however the israeli intelligence service did come out, both the shin bet and mossad and say it was a foiled plot due to the

raids that took place in denmark and took place at the same time with those four suspects now formally having been arrested. one of them, of course, is also in the netherlands, and the germans are saying they're trying to extradite that person but if you look at what happened, it's certainly that shines a spotlight on the way that hamas seems to have been operating here in europe. one of the things that we have to keep in mind is that hamas wasn't formally banned in many european countries until after the october 7th attacks. germany has now done that but it seems as though they've been stockpiling weapons in this country and looking for those weapons to try to conduct attacks here in europe, kate. >> clearly much more to come on this. fred, thank you for the update. sara. >> thanks, kate. signs of a stroj economy but most folks not feeling it. gas prices, though, fell again, 35 cents lower than months ago. the markets have been hitting record highs. the boom just in time for christmas. also, a georgia middle school

teacher arrested over an alarming threat. the shocking comments he allegedly made to a muslim student. we will talk all about that coming up.

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with inflation. just 24% of americans say yes. the vast majority, 77% said no in a recent cbs news poll. 76%. income has got to be probably the worst of all the metrics when judging how the economy is going. the change in disposable income from the first year of a president's term to now, look at biden, negative growth, negative. we've actually seen incomes come down relative to inflation. minus 2.7%. the average president since jfk, look at that, a big jump of 4.5% in their income. now, obviously there was a lot going on in that first year, we were pumping money into the economy, the government was, but how about the last few months. take a look at the last six months, that change in disposable income. we see growth but it's very small, just 0.2%. the average six months since 1960, look at that, much higher, five times as high.

even as incomes are going up a little bit they're still not getting anywhere near the type of growth we generally get. >> they turned around heading in the right direction, not as quickly as some are expecting. what else, harry. >> i think the other thing that's been going on over the last decades is the median weekly wages and salary. since prepandemic, down 1%. since the first year of biden's first term, look at this, down 1%. since last quarter, no growth at all. 0%. this is a metric that hasn't moved and it's struggled moving over the last few decades but when you combine it with incomes not growing at the rate we're used to that's a big part of the reason why americans are not feeling the growth. >> from this is an improvement if it keeps heading in the direction, whether they feel it or not, who knows? we'll have to wait and see. at this point economists are saying one thing. americans are saying another, and the incomes are a big reason why americans are not feeling the oomph that others think they should be. >> with an encore performance,

harry, thank you. >> berman and enten, a winning combination. the senate is delaying its holiday recess to stay in washington, d.c. and work out a deal on immigration and aid to ukraine and israel. senate majority leader chuck schumer vowing to take up a vote next week, quote, no matter what, but some lawmakers are skeptical it can be done in such a short period of time. lauren fox is joining us now from capitol hill. is it possible for congress to get this done next week? >> well, we have a lot of questions, right, as to whether or not a hard-fought deal on immigration can actually come together in the next several days. republicans are extremely skeptical that that is going to be possible in this moment. first they would have to get some kind of agreement in principle then would have to turn that agreement into legislative text. that takes time and there's the huge question of whether or not the house of representatives would even come back if the senate actually got to an

agreement. here's what one of the lead senate negotiators, cirstea con kerstin cinema and whether he's made any. >> james, myself and others have all been communicating with speaker johnson. i've got a great relationship with him, like him a whole lot and know he is working through a lot of challenges of his own right now, and we'll be ready for this challenge when the senate is ready to send him something. >> but has he given any assu assurances? >> i'm not going to share any information about private communications with you. i know that's no surprise. >> politically this is a difficult moment for both republicans and democrats, in part because the base on both sides may not be happy with an agreement that comes together here in the next several days, if one can be found, but shows you it will have to come in the middle and there's no guarantee

they will get there despite the fact that negotiators are expected to start meeting today into the weekend and see if they'll find some middle ground. >> the fact that president biden is signaling that he is willing to make some major concessions, we will see, lauren fox. thank you so much for your reporting. kate. >> we will see. that is literally the only thing that we can be certain of that we don't know and maybe we'll know. joining me now for someone to bring us insight, john bresnahan. good to see you, bres. can you gut check me on some of this? do you think another week could get the senate there? >> i don't know. i mean, it's tough. i think they really have to thread the needle here. now, they're talking this morning. we heard that homeland secretary mayorkas and white house officials are meeting with senators today, senators involved in the talks and the leadership and some of the

senators on both sides of the aisle, they've started and had meetings today already, but i don't know if they can get there. like every time if they give to something to republicans, you know, the progressives get upset. if they lean too far toward the progressives, you know, the republicans get upset. i think it's a very, very difficult thing they're trying to do. this is why immigration -- we haven't -- this is why immigration is so messed up. the political compromises are so hard to reach. >> exactly. you have a problem enough if we focus on the senate of senate democrats and senate republicans coming together around an immigration bill. that's a huge ask, but doesn't it seem like it's hard for senate republicans and house republicans to get on the same page here? >> oh, yeah, i mean, they're not on the same page on spending. government spending, this is an even more dicey issue, and let's

not forget, let's factor in trump here and the presidential primary. they're going to start -- republican voters are going to start voting in the primaries -- in the iowa caucus january 15th. new hampshire primary is january 23rd. let's for argument sake say the senate gets a deal with the white house, you know, by the time congress gets, you know, really working on this, it will be january. trump if he is the nominee and looks like he's going to be right now, he will have an opinion on this. you know, there's -- this will be directly involved in republican presidential politics. there's no -- i'll caution this, there is no way that senate republicans are going to walk out on a legend a deal that they know -- they don't know where speaker johnson or trump will be. they want to win their majority in 2024. they have a good chance to do it. i just think the politics for them are just super dicey. >> so, i don't know if this is a

counterpoint or another factor. i was thinking about the massive defense policy bill and how that shook out and wondering if that could be something of a model here, bres. months of negotiating, extreme left and extreme right kind of holding very different demands, generally speaking, the middle-ish prevailed in the end, and it passed. can that happen here, or is the x factor, immigration, just so hard? >> i mean, look, i don't know if that is a good model. they've done the defense authorization bill every year since 1961 and are used to it. the committees in the house and senate, they have a constituency in there that will do this, you know, every year and have kind of a corps, the defense hawks on both sides of the aisle, democrats and republicans so

there's a base for them to build on. i'm not sure i see that here. you're kind of having a top down deal that's being done, you also have to throw in the ukraine angle in here. i mean, this is the reason the white house is doing this, biden is even talking is to unlock billions of dollars of new aid for ukraine, and that's increasingly unpopular with republicans. so, i mean, if they are to make concessions on immigration that they may not necessarily love and then you have ukraine money on it and on top of that, i mean, i have a hard time seeing the hard right, the hardliners in the republican party, the loudest part of the party making concessions here and going along with anything. >> yeah, i mean, stand by to see what, if anything, they can accomplish in the extra week schumer says they'll be sticking around. thank you. just in, a rare public appearance by former first lady melania trump. you just missed her. that's her walking out that door

right there. she literally just left. so rare she's gone already. the location of it all, though, was seconds ago notable. cnn's kristen holmes following this for us. so, where was she, and what was she doing? >> this is an uncharacteristicly personal speech from the former first lady. we never see her and i've been covering donald trump this entire campaign and only has been out once when he made his announcement, often behind closed doors and talked about her immigration process and her path to becoming a naturalised citizen. take a listen to some of what she said. >> all our lives we cross thresholds, and obstacles often stand in the way of our goals. we persevere as we understand that conquering them will provide great access to personal development, fulfillment and

even eventually self-realization. >> there was also something else she said that i found to be remarkable and this was it, my personal experience of traversing the challenges of the immigration process opened my eyes to the harsh realities people face including you for trying to become a u.s. citizen, and then, of course, there are the nuances of understanding united states immigration laws. the reason why this is so remarkable, it comes at a time when former president trump is pledging that if re-elected he would make that process even harder. you could actually hear her walk through all of the hoops that she had to jump through and how she was lucky in certain circumstances to become a naturalised citizen. so, it almost appears in juxtaposition to what her husband has been saying out on the campaign trail. i will note as you mention the national archives does have significance here, as well. part of the reason that donald trump has been indicted stemmed from the national archives who

asked the department of justice to open investigations into donald trump's handling of classified documents after he left office. that subsequently led to an indictment of donald trump. we expect that trial to likely be in may, but, again, this was a pretty unique experience here and listening to her when you see him on the campaign trail, that was striking. >> yeah, juxtapositions galore, one might say. kristen holmes, thank you very much. sara. still to come, a stunning incident in central georgia. a middle school teacher is accused of threatening to behead a muslim student. she said she was offended by his israeli flag. that's coming up.

. all right. this morning a teacher in georgia is facing charges after allegedly threatening to behead a student. multiple witnesses told authorities that benjamin reese threatened a 13-year-old muslim student who said she was offended by an israeli flag hanging in the classroom. diane gallagher is with us. walk us through what happened here. >> reporter: yeah. what we will talk about, john, is a small sample of the violent and profane threats that multiple staff and faculty members say they and their students heard a teacher shouting at three young girls in the hallway of their middle school last week. 51-year-old benjamin reese is a

7th grade social studies teacher at warner robins middle school. he was arrested and charged with making terroristic threats to children in the third degree. he's bonded out of jail, but we haven't been able to determine if he has an attorney to make a comment on his behalf. there is a detailed incident report from a sheriffs deputy who was on duty at the school at the time where multiple adults and several students who were in ear shot of this say they heard reese shouting profane remarks at three young girls in the hallway. i can't go into all of them. but i will say some of them say, quote, she is a stupid mother fer and i will cut her f'ing head off for disrespecting my jewish flag. he talked about slitting her throat and kicking her ass. according to this incident report, one of them a 13-year-old muslim girl who tells me is half palestinian. she said she spoke with reese,

said she found the flag offensive and said that that's when he began calling her anti-semitic and began chasing them out of the classroom, following them and yelling at them those threats. now the school district says he has not been back on campus since the incident on december 7th. and says that safety is the top priority of their students there inside that school district. >> all right. these are extremely troubling allegations. diane gallagher, keep us posted on all of us. thank you very much. coming for us, lead in cinnamon apple pouchs has made dozens of children sick. why an fda official says it may have been an intentional act. we'll be right back.

the lead contamination that's been detected in some cinnamon apple sauce pouchs may have been put there intentional according to an fda official interviewed in a new report from "politico." that apple sauce sickened dozens of young children. jacqueline howard is joining us with more on this. this is disturbing. how does this change the fda's investigation into this lead contamination that was in these apple sauce pauchs? >> yeah. well, if the fda can confirm this was an intentional act, that would definitely escalate things. what we do from an exclusive interview in "politico," fda's commissioner for human foods jim jones said this, quote, we're still in the midst of or investigation. but so far all of the signals we're getting lead to an intentional act on the part of someone in the supply chain, and we're trying to sort of figure

that out, end quote. we also know that the fda is conducting an on site inspection at a facility located in ecuador. the reason why someone might intentionally contaminate these apple sauce pouchs, we do know they are sold by weight. adding metal can make them heavier. the fda says it has received at least 65 reports of adverse events linked to these contaminated products. all of the reports sadly have been in children, so this is something to watch very closely, sara. >> certainly parents will need to play close attention to this. i also just want to say, it is nice to see there is a commissioner for human foods. didn't know that until today, jacqueline howard. thank you so much. all right, kate? >> coming up for us, the mysterious case of the missing binder containing highly classified intelligence on russia. the last time it was seen and the theories of where it could all be now years later. cnn exclusive coming up.