really was a good candidate for a face transplant and that's what happened. this face transplant was performed at mayo clinic. it took more than 50 hours and involved more than 80 medical professionals and you're right, sarah, what? the medical surgeons did was they took the donor tissue they replaced and reconstructed 85% of derek's face. and here he is with his parents talking about that moment in the hospital when he saw his new face for the first time. >> yeah i do all that work and i look like a person again. it was incredible he says he looked like a person again sarah. >> and now he says his mission is to raise awareness around suicide. he wants other young adults to know if they're ever struggling to reach out for help call that 988 crisis lifeline and he is one of about

50 people around the world to ever have a face transplant. so this is also very fascinating innovative medicine to watch. >> it was a fascinating story. jacqueline howard, thank you so much for bringing that to us. a new hour of cnn cnn news central starts right now general issue. >> if you ask donald trump, a source close to him says trump wants matt gaetz confirmed 100%. he's all in. if you ask the senators whose job it is to confirm the pick, even republicans say they've got questions today and just in russia's defense minister now says ukraine has fired american made russia. biden giving the green light means what now for that long stalled war and the dramatic moment police rescue a man from his burning pickup truck. i'm kate bolduan with john berman and sara sidner.

this is cnn news central appears to be hell bent on getting his highly controversial nominee, matt gaetz, in for attorney general. >> president elect doubling down. now on backing him as republican senators behind the scenes are more and more reportedly expressing doubts about this pick. this is house lawmakers are deciding whether or not to release that ethics report on sexual misconduct allegations involving gaetz. a lawyer for two of the women who testified for that report shared this with cnn's erin burnett last night she testified to the house that representative gaetz did not know her friend's age at the time. >> they had sexual intercourse and when he found out about her age that representative gaetz stopped having sexual intercourse with her, and he

only started the sexual intercourse interactions later on once she turned 18. the testimony before the house was yes, that representative gaetz paid my client both of my clients for sexual favors throughout the summer of 2017, all the way to the beginning of 2019. >> well, all of this as trump is continuing to name new picks, including another fox television host, to run the department of transportation. a lot to talk about here. cnn senior political analyst mark preston is with us now who? mark. all right. we will get to gates in just a bit. but first, on this latest pick for transportation secretary, what are you learning about this? >> well sarah, let's channel john berman here. >> a little bit. >> it is getting real here in washington. donald trump's pick to lead the department of transportation is a former congressman served four terms in congress, representing wisconsin. but more importantly he really came of age during this new era of celebrity,

right in the late 90s, early 2000. sean duffy many people probably remember him from the real world. i believe he was on season six, actually met his wife in one of the spin off series rachel campos-duffy she herself is on fox as well. what's interesting about them is that they have nine children in sean duffy is an incredibly conservative person. uh, his pick, though certainly does seem to fit the mold of what donald trump is trying to do trying to infuse young new life into washington and not just young new life, but people who are really good on television and able to sort of put the message out there right. >> i do want to ask you, though, of course about the gaetz drama. we are now seeing and hearing from sources that donald trump has been making phone calls, making personal appeals to senators and now we're seeing elon musk jump into the middle of this. what can you tell us? >> yeah, i'm not surprised by that. look, we know that elon musk has been right at the side

of night until probably this morning as we're speaking. the reality is right now is that the trump campaign really took a big risk by putting matt gaetz out there. not only is matt gaetz controversial, but he's not well liked in his own political party. we've seen that where we've seen republicans not only in the house but also in the senate have expressed incredible frustration with the fact that matt gaetz has been put up there. but you have to wonder, though, sarah was gaetz put up there with the idea that he would be the sacrificial lamb? because if he is the sacrificial lamb, the reality is pete hegseth, who was another controversial pick to lead the department of defense would he have a better chance of getting through robert kennedy, who trump wants to oversee all of health care in the united states. does he have a better chance of getting through as as a cabinet secretary? if you're able to sacrifice one person, if that is the case donald trump again, has trumped us all. >> mark preston, a way to put it thank you so much. appreciate it john.

>> all right. with us now, cnn senior legal analyst and our mike huckabee bureau chief, elie honig counselor, thanks so much for being with us. you heard the interview with the lawyers for these women who have spoken to the house ethics committee who may or may not release a report. i just want to read a tweet from elon musk, and i want you to put it all in perspective here. elon musk may be the most important advisor to the president elect. he said. as for the accusations against matt gaetz, i consider them worth less than nothing i proven guilty. if ag garland, an unprincipled d-bag, could have secured a conviction against gaetz, he would have. but he knew he could not. case closed. so that is legal scholar elon musk commenting on this. what's the difference between the justice department decision not to press charges and what the house ethics committee has investigated and may produce so colorful language aside, elon musk is

actually not too far off the mark there when he describes what the justice department did and does what doj does and did in the matt gaetz case is they look at all the evidence, they decide, do we have enough to prove this beyond a reasonable doubt to a jury? >> is this a case that needs to be brought and should be brought? and the decision was no, that does not mean they cleared matt gaetz. that does not mean matt gaetz did nothing wrong. but what i think elon musk's tweet is missing is that there's a completely separate political calculation that's going on here, which is can he gain a majority of the senate votes for confirmation to be the attorney general to be the nation's top law enforcement official? that's an entirely different question than should this person be on the other side of the v as a criminal defendant in an ethics committee in the house, isn't necessarily passing judgment on legality they're passing judgment on whether or not someone is fit to serve in the house of representatives, which gaetz no longer is. >> but that's what their investigation is. all about. correct yeah exactly.

>> and to that end, i don't think there's any way matt gaetz outruns these allegations. there's only really two ways for him to get to confirmation either. well, either it's going to sidetrack his confirmation or he's going to get confirmed. despite these allegations. and even if the house chooses to keep its report secret, to keep it under wraps. still, these allegations can come forward. as we started to see with that interview with the lawyer for the witness last night, there's nothing to prevent people from coming forward. there's certainly nothing to prevent the senate from doing a thorough investigation, from digging in, from interviewing witnesses, from even perhaps calling witnesses to testify so either this is going to derail matt gaetz or he's going to get confirmed despite these allegations so today, could be and i could is doing a lot of work there. >> an interesting day in the new york criminal case, the conviction against donald trump for paying hush money and falsifying documents. judge juan merchan may decide what today ellie

attorney's office, the last we heard last >> we need until today to decide what we want to do. so the first thing we're going to do is hear from the manhattan da. they're going to take one of two tacks. either they're going to say, we agree with donald trump that because he's now the president elect this case is over. that's option one. option two is the manhattan da's case may say we disagree with donald trump, even though he is president elect. we want to proceed forward. in that case, it will go to judge merchan. he'll decide whether the case is over because trump is president elect or whether the case carries on. if it carries on then judge merchan is going to decide the immunity ruling. and then, depending how that comes out, maybe proceed to sentencing. but there's a lot of ifs there the manhattan da signaled in its submission last week. it sounded like they tended to view it the way that donald trump's team views it, which is because he's the president elect. it's now over. but we'll see for sure today where the da stands.

>> could this thing be done by close of business today it could be if the d.a. puts in a filing with the with the judge saying, we agree with donald trump's team because he's president elect, this case is over. >> then judge merchan will review that if he agrees with both parties, he could say that's it case closed. we're not getting to the immunity ruling. we're not doing sentencing. that is a real possibility. jon. >> all right. elie honig could be a busy day for you. appreciate it. kate. >> breaking overnight ukraine has made good on their promise fresh off getting the green light to use u.s. weapons to strike deeper into russia ukraine just did that. the new details that are just coming in right now, we have that for you and president biden set to speak. any second now at the g20. his message to world leaders ahead of a second donald trump term and people out, people were out for a day of fun and at a california amusement park, and they got way more than they bargained for. left dangling for hours super size. >> the

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president biden is expected to announce world bank's clean technology fund. this essentially allows developing nations to fund their own clean energy transition in much the same way that president biden's inflation reduction act funded green and clean energy initiatives in the united states. now, officials said that this money will be deposited well before president-elect donald trump takes office. so in that sense, it's irreversible. it's money that's already out the door. but of course, there are other initiatives here. and future targets that could be reversible. and that's what everyone is talking about here in rio. senior administration officials acknowledge that it's going to be up to state and local governments to carry the baton on clean energy, on climate change after president biden leaves office. and they warned that other countries are ready to step in and and assume that mantle and all the manufacturing dollars that go along with it. but this is really the harsh reality of biden's final turn on the

world stage, as he's more or less fading from view with a few brief pull aside meetings with leaders and very brief remarks. no press conferences for president biden for the very first time at one of these major summits during the entire course of his presidency. he'll be on the ground here for a few more hours. but of course, he's going to be leaving, heading back to washington d.c., as these world leaders grapple with what comes next in their relationships with the united states and the relationships with each other. john. >> interesting. no press conference for the only time at these meetings in his presidency. kayla tausche thank you so much for that, kate it is interesting joining us right now to talk much more about this and all the headlines really coming in this morning is global affairs analyst kim dozier. >> and kim, i want to focus in on what we've really learned about coming from the white house. the white house giving the green light to ukraine to use atacms and missiles to go farther into russia firing into

russia. we just learned this morning that russian state media confirms that ukraine did fire long range missiles provided by the united states into russia for the first time. really, it seems ukraine wasting no time after getting that green light. what is your sense of what impact this has on this war? >> well this feels like the biden administration's attempt to checkmate both putin and trump on the way out. >> in terms of putin. >> you know, putin has just signed this updated policy for use of nuclear weapons, saying essentially that if any nuclear armed power enables another power to attack russia. >> read if the u.s. allows ukraine to attack in russia proper then we could possibly use nuclear weapons. >> but with this few weeks to go to an incoming trump administration why would putin do that? >> and jeopardize security writ large and basically waste his ammunition right now by using

nuclear weapons? so that's checkmated and on the trump side of things yes, trump could turn around this policy on january 20th and pull back the permissions and say ukraine, you can no longer use these long range weapons inside russia. but in the interim, what are countries like britain and france going to do? they weren't giving permission for the use of their long range weapons until the u.s. did so. they could now say, hey, you can use our storm shadow systems to help and all of these weapons being enabled at once could help kyiv retain kursk through the trump administration taking office, and then they've got kursk as a bargaining, bargaining chip to trade off for parts of the donbas or maybe even parts of crimea when they sit down with this inevitable negotiation that trump says he's going to organize between moscow and kyiv. >> it is so interesting because

and also add into this kim, one of the reasons, one of the reasons long offered for why the white house did not give this approval sooner, though we know zelenskyy has been asking for this for quite some time. is the risk of pushing this war to escalate further? this morning, as you mentioned, we heard that we now putin has put out this new nuclear doctrine, which could point to escalation. but what do you see in this? do you see this as the white house very clearly just trying to do as you point out, kind of checkmate, both of them box both of trump and putin in as they're heading out the door. or do they just don't think the risk is as risky of escalation anymore? >> well, it's that putin has made these threats from the beginning. and i've spoken to european leaders who've been frustrated with the biden white house saying putin is playing biden playing. national security adviser jake sullivan that he knows as long as he waves the nuclear flag that they will back off. and so now

in the waning days of the administration, they're saying all right, you're not going to you're not going to use them. now so we can we can call you, we can call your bluff but the fact of the matter is, um this only works if trump really wants to solve this in 24 hours. once he comes into office, or in a very brief amount of time. because in the long term, without u.s. support of ukraine, ukraine is going to have to capitulate because europe simply doesn't have the manufacturing capacity to make enough weapons to backfill. what the u.s. is supplying right now. so that's the long term situation that kyiv is looking at. so basically, the biden administration is trying to set the table so that president zelenskyy has as much riding on his side as possible when he sits down to get likely strong armed by trump together with putin. >> one place we know that vladimir putin is not is at this g20 in peru as president

biden is going to be wrapping it up. this is because the international criminal court is currently has an arrest warrant out for um, for vladimir putin over this. what we're exactly talking about ukraine. president biden is wrapping this g20 with what? as a parting message, do you think to world leaders because all the reporting we have been seeing is that world leaders are kind of already looking past him. and looking toward the next occupant of the white house. >> yeah, he seems to be sticking to his message going down with the ship this morning. the white house put out his agreement with brazil on sustainable energy and climate change, things that we all know are going to be reversed come january but he's a messaging, i think, both to the world and to democratic voters back in the states. this is what the democrats stand for and, you know, in three years, trump will be a lame duck. and you're going to have to think

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happened yesterday today, fema administrator deanne criswell will be on capitol hill to testify about disaster relief. and she will be asked whether the agency avoided helping republicans in hard hit areas. that is all because a fema employee was fired earlier this month after being accused of skipping homes that had donald trump campaign signs here's what that worker, though told cnn last night what i'd like for the american even deployed to florida, that this was the work culture there i was on two teams in florida and the first team when i arrived. >> they were implementing avoidance and deescalation, and unfortunately that trend ran with those trump campaign signs. i don't create policy. fema does i just implement it in the field all right. >> joining me now is the mayor of asheville, north carolina, esther manheimer thank you so much. i know there's so much going on in your community, so

much heartbreak and people just trying to figure out how to put their lives back together. i do want to ask you about this, because it has become a flashpoint have you heard from anyone in your community that is concerned that they are not getting help from fema because of their political affiliation absolutely not. >> i'm not hearing that at all here in asheville and western north carolina can i ask you we i mean, i will say i've been i'm sorry. >> go ahead. >> go ahead closely with fema here in our community, and i have my contacts that make themselves available to us. >> and if anybody has any concerns or issues about their claims with fema, i'm able to direct those to folks who are with fema who can help them out. >> can you describe to me right now sort of what is going on in your community? what are the the biggest issues that you are facing? almost two months after hurricane helene hit

all, is that we've come a long way. >> you know, when this all started we had a communications blackout. >> we had no water, we had no power. >> we had you know, we were analog. >> we were listening to the radio. >> that's what the early days were like. >> um, and now we've come a long way. we've got a lot of functionalities restored. >> we finally have um, a restored water system. >> so there are many parts of asheville that are open for business. the famous biltmore estate has reopened um, but we still have areas where we have bridges that are failed and road outages. >> a lot of repair work throughout western north carolina to fix the roadway system. the highway system, um, a lot of landslides that resulted in road damage, things like that. and we have a lot of individuals who've lost their homes and need homes and we have businesses that were either destroyed or they were out of commission for several

weeks now because they didn't have water, who need to get back on their feet. >> what is being done for those people who lost their homes and we're looking at some of the devastation here. we're looking at a roadway that people are trying to clear. we've seen just you know, absolute devastation across asheville what is being done? where are people able to go if their homes have been destroyed temporarily houses people if their home has been destroyed. >> we also in the in the beginning, we had shelters that were open, but now a lot of people are being temporarily housed either in hotels or other housing. but that long term recovery work to help people get back in their homes or build new homes is really going to take some time. that is a that is a slow process. unfortunately and we're in an area that's very popular. we already had a housing shortage. we already had a housing affordable housing crisis so that's that's even more challenging in an area like this i mean, it's a beautiful

place to live and a lot of people want to be here so that that makes it difficult to get people rehoused. >> we did talk to officials sort of immediately after about the length of time that this may take. what is your assessment on how long it might be before things get back to some semblance of normalcy? when it comes to the roads, when it comes to the infrastructure as people try to figure out whether or not they can move back to asheville well, you know, it's interesting. >> it's sort of patchy. it's not like a regular hurricane that might happen on the coast. so, for example, asheville's downtown is bustling again. it's fine. the not damage but then there are other river i'm going to meet governor elect stein, who just got elected governor of north carolina. we're going to be out

of here down in chimney rock and lake lure. these are areas where the one highway in and out is devastated um, a lot of landslides and damage in the more rural areas in asheville. um, so it's it's some of these places it's going to cost a lot of money and take a lot of time to help them fully recover. >> and certainly, you know, places, you know, that are really prone to people coming in to to check it out. as tourists, you know there's a huge loss of money to economically there. mayor esther manheimer, thank you so much for taking the time today as your community tries to not only heal from this, but rebuild and it's good to hear that people can now, you know, not have to boil their water after all these weeks. appreciate your time this morning john all right. >> a $1 million banana. new details on exactly how much a piece of fruit taped to the wall. could go for an auction today. to be fair, maybe it's the duct tape that has buyers. so interested. and new video

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that's cnn senior data reporter harry in here for elon musk. you know, it just i decided that to mix it up a little bit. sure why the heck not? so, harold, talk to me about elon musk's popularity. let's talk about elon musk's popularity. >> let's take a look at his net favorable rating. it's going in the wrong direction, folks. >> it's going in the wrong direction. >> so if you go back to august of 2021, look at that. he was at plus five. net favorable. he buys twitter x goes to minus four minus eight. earlier this year. now he's at minus nine points. it's almost as if he's a politician because pretty much all the politicians in our country have negative net favorability ratings. and now elon musk has gone in the completely wrong direction when it comes to popularity a lot of these dates have to do with when he bought twitter. >> how's twitter doing? since he bought it? >> yeah. so this kind of gets really interesting, right? so let's take a look. u.s. adults who use and these are of course, are some famous or some might say infamous social media clients. look at this facebook instagram, tiktok, twitter x is going in the wrong direction. so u.s. adults who use twitter

x before musk bought it, it was 27%. look at where it's now. it's 21%. it's again going in the wrong direction. and it's very different from the potential other clients. you know, tiktok's up a little bit, instagram's up a little bit, facebook's down. but just a point well within the margin of error. twitter x is unique in that it is actually losing adults who say they are using this particular social media client. >> mr. berman but how is he doing? how is he really doing? yeah, how is he really doing? >> so if you looked at that opening slide, what did it say? it seems like elon musk is losing, but he's actually winning. so the reason one of the big reasons he bought twitter x is because he wanted to make it his own platform, remake it in his own image. and i think this really gets at it. look at this. the party id among those who regularly use x slash twitter for news back in 2022, 65% of those who regularly use twitter for news were democrats just 31% were republicans. look at where we are today. just a completely different picture now. it's basically split between

democrats at 48%, republicans at 47%. and what i should note mr. berman, is this now, this new overall makeup matches the overall electorate far better. and more than that, more than that. john, look at where mr. musk's net worth is today versus where it was just two months ago. he is the richest man in the world by far. two months ago. look at this. his net worth was 252 billion. look at where we are today. 314 billion. he is by far the richest man ever to be on this planet. so yes he's not as popular. yes. twitter slash x perhaps is not as popular, but it's a much different platform, one that more represents elon musk's let's say, political instincts. and he is now a far wealthier man. >> so in your data expertise, is that a lot of money? >> i would say that $314 billion is a lot of money. and i would say that if i could just get 1/314 of that, i would be a very happy man. >> harry. we'll see what we can do. thank you very much for that, kate i think we should

just make we should just continue. >> we should just. i would love to know how you pronounce my name, given how it's completely pronounced differently than it is actually spelled. >> you have to address how you spell your name to begin with, but that's okay. >> keep on moving on. thank you guys. joining us right now is the democratic senator from delaware, chris. not the hardest name to pronounce. thank you so much for that, senator. let's talk. let's move. let's move from elon musk though and talk about the coming administration, the coming second trump administration and about his cabinet picks you are on the judiciary committee. i want to ask you about donald trump's pick for attorney general, matt gaetz. when confirmation hearings begin, what's the first question you would like to ask him will be asked of him probably by our ranking member senator durbin, is congressman gaetz under oath? >> have you violated federal law with regards to sex trafficking, drug use

solicitation? my hunch is that question has been asked and answered, and that's part of why we should get access to the house ethics committee report. either shared confidentially with the senate judiciary committee or released but, kate, there's not a lot of mystery at this point because in recent days, the attorney who represents several of the women who testified under oath that congressman gaetz, former now congressman gaetz, had paid them for sex and that they had witnessed his engaging in sex with a minor, has come out and said that publicly. so i think what we will most likely get if and when we receive the house ethics committee report is more detail about the investigation and the background. but frankly, we should also be asking the second question, what makes you qualified to lead the most important law enforcement agency in our country? that's tasked with keeping the american people safe? and if president elect trump says he wants you to be

attorney general, to go after his political enemies, how will you prioritize keeping americans safe, given that directive from the president elect? >> i want to play you are you also are on the senate ethics committee. the chairman of the senate ethics committee. so, you know both sides of everything that is going on here in terms of the gaetz investigation and how an ethics committee operates and the rules of engagement and the power that they have, and also with your perch on judiciary, i want to play for you what that attorney that you're talking about for the two women who spoke to the house house ethics committee what they said about matt gaetz, speaking to erin burnett last night was, yes, that representative gaetz paid my client both of my clients for sexual favors throughout the summer of 2017, all the way to the beginning of 2019, she testified to the house that as she was walking out to the pool area, she turned to her right and she

witnessed her client. >> i'm sorry, her friend having sex with representative gaetz and her friend at that time was 17. >> that speaks to everything that you were just talking about now has been said publicly. if you run the math, if that girl was 17 in 2017 at that time, i believe that makes matt gaetz 35 years old and definitely a sitting member of congress, giving his tenure. just for some perspective, for folks, you said one of the questions that needs to be asked is what makes you qualified for the job? we know one thing that donald trump said over and over again from the campaign trail was that he was the retribution, and he was going to go after his going to go after his political enemies. and this is what americans voted for. how do you square these two things? >> well kate, i think if you look at exit polls and at what moved people to vote for donald trump as president elect, it was not that he would tear up our department of justice, the rule of law and go after his enemies. it was more than

anything that they want lower prices they want a stronger economy. they want more opportunity. and i'll remind you, president elect trump's victory nationally was not an overwhelming one. it was 1% of the american people. in fact, if about 240,000 people across wisconsin, michigan and pennsylvania had voted for vice president, harris instead of former president trump today we'd be talking about plans for the inaugural balls and vice president harris's cabinet picks. this was a close loss and a key piece of that close loss was the average american believing that donald trump would do a better job on the economy what we're not talking about today kate, is his proposal for double digit tariffs. a new national sales tax on every imported product and what that will do to our economy to inflation and to the prices americans pay. while the nominees he's put forward really look more like a casting call for a reality tv show or a ufc fighting match than a

cabinet. it is distracting us from the most important policy positions. donald trump is developing, which have to do with the economy and the costs for working families and with foreign policy and what he may or may not do with regards to ukraine. >> that's actually that's exactly what i wanted to ask you about because russia now says that ukraine has fired those longer range missiles provided by the united states into russia for the first time. you have supported giving ukraine the green light to hit targets deeper into russia with u.s. weapons. we've talked about that over the last months and months. the white house now signing off on that. is this being done to box in the next administration and make it harder to pull back support for ukraine well, i can't speak to exactly what made this decision final, but i do think that it's urgent that we put ukraine on as strong a footing as we can, both to defend their people against what have been record large waves of drone attacks on civilian infrastructure in ukraine as

they head into another brutal ukrainian winter, and to make sure that we're delivering the financial support for the ukrainian government and the material support for the ukrainians, no one knows exactly what president-elect trump will do when he comes into office, but he has over and over said he would resolve this war in one day. >> that suggests he will be delivering a very hard message to the ukrainians. and so my hope is that they will be in a stronger place to negotiate on the battlefield, when that day comes. >> senator chris always good to have you. thanks for coming in sarah. thank you. >> all right. i'm sure you remember this. a banana duct taped to a wall. well, that work of art, if that's what you want to call it and thousands of others are going up for auction this week in new york. their total value more than a billion dollars. the art industry has struggled in the last few years with declining sales, and now artists and art dealers are hoping for a final

turnaround could donald trump's win and economic momentum entice bidders to come back to the market? cnn's vanessa yurkovich joins me now. i have to say, with people still struggling with prices of their groceries, it's a little bit hard to look at that. where is it that banana on the wall and think that this is going to sell for anything big? well, however it's reportedly going to sell for over $1 million, but there is a billion dollars worth of art that's hitting the auction blocks. >> this season, this month, and that is going to be big for the art world because they are hoping that this year sets records. >> last year, in 2023, sales were down 27%, and the uber rich and wealthy were spending 32% less on artwork. so a lot of folks are now saying, well, wait a minute, now that we know who the president is, are we going to get that trump bump for the uber wealthy? >> because some of his policies and positions in his first term benefited the wealthy, it made

them richer. >> some of this is about tax cuts. so more money for them in the bank. also, interest rates have come down, so there's better financing available for a lot of these folks who want to buy this art. but some of this also is about what is old, is new again what is new is old again. the banana, as you mentioned, it's called the comedian originally went for $150,000, reportedly going to go for 1.5 million. i will tell you though, you're not actually getting a banana and duct tape. you're just getting the instructions also coming to market is empire of light by rene magritte this is going to fetch reportedly $95 million. that will be a new record for this artist. andy warhol's skyscrapers, estimated to go for 500 to $600,000. but there was a lot of drama about this with donald trump. andy warhol writes about this in his diaries, so maybe someone wants a little piece of drama and is going to spend a little bit more on this maybe for what's

to come. we can look at what just sold last night so la grande dame, the cat woman went it was going to go for 5 to 7 million. so that's double double wow. and then monet, one of monet's beautiful water lilies paintings, was reportedly going to go for 60 million. it ended up going this trump bump already working in people's minds? maybe. of course, we cannot predict the future of the economy, but clearly the season is getting off to a good start. and that is what the art world is hoping for right now. >> forgive me i'm stuck on the banana called the comedian because the joke's on the buyer. for $1 million, you're just getting the instructions well, you're in on the joke because you wore beautiful banana yellow today just for this segment. >> just for a mere million dollars. >> you can have this suit. thank you. so >> but sarah it has been suggested for a mere million dollars. could we tape you to the wall? >> yeah, absolutely you can take me to the wall. you can do

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activists have been sentenced to up to ten years in prison. and the city's largest national security trial ever. let's get over to cnn's ivan watson. he's got a lot more on what all has happened. what is the latest here ivan? >> that's right. >> well, you had judges here in hong kong that imposed combined sentences on these 45 defendants that add up to more than two centuries behind bars actually, more than 245 years. so this was a huge court case the 45 were convicted of the crime of conspiracy to commit subversion. they were accused of being part of a scheme to ultimately bring down the hong kong government. what did they actually do? well, back in 2020, they held an unofficial primary. they were trying to get candidates together to contest citywide elections for hong kong's legislature and that, the prosecutors argued

was part of this nefarious scheme a scheme to try to destabilize the government a little bit of context here. i've been living in hong kong for ten years, five, six years ago, there were concerns that the democratic freedoms here were backsliding a little bit under pressure from the chinese national government, since these 45 people were arrested independent newspapers here have all been shut down. the opposition political parties everybody is either arrested or has fled into exile. unions have been disbanded. and you can't even protest in the streets which used to be part of the fabric of this city. in fact, there was one woman outside the courtroom today who tried to hold up a protest sign. she was immediately grabbed by police and put into a police van. so these freedoms disappeared in this city over the course of the past 4 to 5 years. and the roundup of these 45 activists was a big part of

that process. the hong kong government, the chinese national government they argue that this crackdown was necessary to restore stability here. the u.s. consulate has put out a statement condemning these convictions and calling on the chinese government and hong kong authorities to cease politically motivated prosecutions of hong kong citizens and to immediately release all political prisoners. there you go, kate ivan watson in hong kong for us. >> thank you so much, ivan. sara. >> all right. on our radar, sean "diddy" combs will be back in court. today's hearing is about alleged notes that government obtained showing that combs tried to tamper with witnesses from his jail cell. combs attorneys asked the judge to hold a hearing today about how the prosecutors obtained those personal notes, which included attorney client material in a filing, prosecutors said the notes were obtained during a nationwide planned sweep of bureau of

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