dome to watch a clippers game you can buy beer at the clippers game with just your face and your age and your payment, you could check in at a doctor's office with your face. you're r your appointment. what i see as the ultimate check in at the doctor's office is it's your insurance card that's verified and validated and then it is also your copay and your credit card. >> becker had no idea when she started venturing into trying to make doctor's visits a more seamless experience that it would become searingly personal. you were running a company. you were a mom to three kids, and obviously you're a wife. what happens to your family? >> my husband has also been an incredible part of this journey. he was with us the day we bought clear in bankruptcy, helping advise and push and then he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in january of 22, trying to navigate the

health care system. you're telling me is borderline impossible. and i don't use the word impossible. and so, yeah, i'm hell bent on changing it. >> but her husband would never get the chance to experience the change. pancreatic cancer took his life. >> it's a battle that we lost in august of 23, and losing your best friend and my kids losing an incredible dad has been hard. but also teaches you to have enormous gratitude. to look for the joy in life. you know one of my favorite quotes by shimon peres, which is optimists and pessimists die the same way, but they live very differently and in speaking to her, she was so candid about what how difficult it was for her to be doing all these things as a ceo and a mom. >> after her husband died. but she also said she really has a

lot of gratitude and she wanted to give some advice to people who face challenges and who are considered underdogs, which is what she considered herself. and she tried to take this company out of bankruptcy and grew it to a $6 billion company. she says, in case you like this, let the haters be your motivators. so i'll leave you with that you can see more on cnn.com and stay tuned as we share more game changers, the people on the cutting edge of their industries. a new hour of cnn news central starts right now is in as donald trump's new pick for attorney general. >> what sent gaetz's chances to sum up allegations and controversy that had not been publicly vetted. the same can be said about donald trump's pick to head up the defense department now, and how gaetz's exit impacts that. so a wisconsin man is, quote, unquote, alive and well, but where exactly is

faking his own death and fleeing the country? he's now talking to investigators. and could it really be the cheapest meal you'll have all year? that is what one grocery store ceo is saying about thanksgiving. this time around. and he's talking to cnn. i'm kate bolduan with sara sidner. john is out today. this is cnn news central thanksgiving meal in a second. >> this morning, though there's a new pick for attorney general as president-elect donald trump's transition suffers its first swap out. pam bondi florida's now taken the spot of embattled ex congressman matt gaetz, which so far appears to be bringing a collective sigh of relief for some gop senators. but will gates's downfall be the only one? there are new concerns and a focus now. this morning over other

controversial picks with four key cabinet positions still left to fill. cnn's alayna treene is covering it all for us, as she does every morning. just hours after gates withdrew, trump then announced pam bondi will be his florida ag. so she has some experience, unlike gates. what? what was happening though behind the scenes because there was jaw dropping news yesterday it was. >> and look donald trump wasted no time in making sure that he had someone very quickly to fill the spots that gates left open. look behind the scenes. there was a lot going on. i would say that even though we know and we have reported now for several days ever since he picked matt gaetz, originally to be his attorney general, there was a lot of concern about whether or not he could actually get confirmed by the senate. and that was really reiterated when he went to the hill on wednesday with the vice president elect jd vance met with senators. it became very clear, and the writing was on the wall in those meetings, i'm told that he was not going

to have the numbers he needed to get through. that, i'm told, was communicated with the former president and now president elect, and he ended up calling matt gaetz on thursday morning to tell him that. but let him make the decision. then, of course, later we did see gaetz. and, you know say publicly that he was withdrawing his name from consideration. he also called up donald trump and jd vance separately to inform them of the news. however, the attorney general is still the most important role to donald trump. he really wants a legal attack dog by his side and someone who will be loyal to him, and that is why he quickly pushed all the other decisions he still has on his plate to the side, to make sure he could fill the absence that gaetz left with that role. the reason i'm told he chose pam bondi is one. he's known her for a long time. they have a great relationship. he considers her one of his favorite lawyers, but she also knows other people close to him as well, including susie wiles and a lot of people who i spoke with last night working on the transition, told me that they believe that she should have an easier time getting confirmed

than gates did you know, we're also looking at and i know you've been doing some reporting on this is that a shakeup at the fbi? >> donald trump having his eyes laser focused on that as well. what's happening that's right. >> and look i mean if you think back to the end of donald trump's first term, it was clear i remember i had reported at the time that he wanted to fire the fbi director, christopher wray, and install someone more loyal to him in >> lived by and will allow to go through that process. so what we're told in our colleague, kaitlin and collins reported some of this as

mike rogers colonies and also former fbi agent to potentially be at the helm of the fbi and then have someone like kash patel, a loyalist, a firebrand, potentially be the deputy director. >> these decisions have not been made, but that's sort of where things stand right now at mar-a-lago. >> sara alayna treene, thanks for keeping it straight for us. we appreciate it. >> kate joining us right now to talk about this and much more democratic congressman adam smith, he's the top democrat on the house armed services committee. it's good to see you. thanks for being here. thanks for having me. nice to have you here in person. um the senate armed services committee is the first to be vetting donald trump's pick to be defense secretary. pete hegseth as you know is someone who has served and has been ranking in chair when it comes to house armed services for quite some time. what question would you have for him? >> well, i mean, up front character and credibility matter. and i think ultimately that's what we learned with the matt gaetz pick. i mean, in this era and obviously president-elect trump has been through a whole lot. there's a lot of questions about that.

and i think there's a tendency to think well, i guess nothing matters anymore. but what matt gaetz tells us, it does. okay. you have to have a certain amount of credibility in the history that you have leading up to that affects that. and the same thing is going to be true of pete hegseth. you know, he does have, you know, the sexual assault allegation that he has to answer to i think that credibility issue is going to be number one. and then two, does he have the experience and the background to do the job? he has not been in a decision making position on any sort of national security matter. yes. he served served in combat and that certainly impacts it. but running the pentagon has to do with a lot of relationships, a lot of decisions that he literally has no experience in doing. so i think senators will want to know, do you know how to run this place? i mean, forget what policy you want to implement. do you know the basics of how to run this institution? that is the world's largest bureaucracy? >> another pick i want to ask you about is tulsi gabbard for director of national intelligence. you know her you served with her. she served on

our armed services. right. yeah. um, i want to you have questions. i think you called it dangerous. her selection and we heard from democratic senator sheldon whitehouse who said something similar. i want to i want to play for you. what he also said about her selection this who smells to other intelligence agencies, like someone who will compromise their sources and methods and be far too cozy with russia and other adversaries, then they're going to hold back information that could be really critical to our success. >> i think that is very well set. and look there are several layers to concern. first, have the same concern. she has no experience in the intel community doesn't understand it. but some of the things she said when she met with assad and basically repeated his world view on putin she's pushed these russian talking points about how, you know, russia believes that ukraine started the war, which is insane. okay. >> she also has a long history. cnn has new reporting of

questioning intelligence and our intelligence agencies. >> absolutely. yes. so i think it is a dangerous pick. but look, there's a thing laying over the top of this donald trump wants to blow it up. he wants to blow up the pentagon. he wants to blow up the justice department. he wants to blow up the intel community. and it seems many times like he wants to do that. so it will do his personal bidding. and that's a huge problem. and whether it's tulsi gabbard or matt gaetz or pam bondi or whoever it is whatever their qualifications are with the country really needs to be worried about what does donald trump intend to do with the department of defense and the justice department and the intel community will they continue to serve our nation's interests or will they serve a more narrow set of interests specific to trump and what will he do about ukraine is also a question. >> this is something that you and i have talked about every time you've been on in the last couple of the last two years. what do you think is a realistic possibility of the united states? it's not something you you would you want to continue obviously supporting ukraine and its

efforts against the russian invasion. what do you think is the realistic possibility of the u.s. pulling support for ukraine? let me start. >> i think it's very realistic. and look, i was very worried about the rhetoric coming out of donald trump and jd vance and a lot of other republicans. it was like, you know we're not we're not pro russia. we just want to get to a peace agreement. you don't get to a peace agreement if you don't support ukraine if we had not passed that supplemental that we passed last april, which, by the way was four months too late and put ukraine in a deep hole because of where donald trump was coming from they lose. all right. putin's not going to stop unless you're able to stop him negotiate a peace. it's not negotiating a peace if ukraine is destroyed by russia, there has to be a sovereign, democratic ukraine. there's not going to be if we don't continue to help them defend themselves. >> one thing we also know that donald trump has promised coming in is he's this you can't call it a department because it's not a department. it's a project to bring about government efficiency run by

elon musk and vivek ramaswamy and root out waste. it was just announced yesterday, marjorie taylor green is going to chair a new oversight subcommittee in congress that's going to work in conjunction with musk and ramaswamy on this government efficiency project. what do you think this subcommittee will accomplish? >> not a lot. and let me just say, i think, you know, bill clinton and al gore had reinventing government. i mean, when he was president and they went in and they tried to say, how can we make this more efficient? that's great. i've seen no evidence that marjorie taylor greene has really any understanding of how government functions and when elon musk says he can cut $2 trillion out of the budget, 60% of the budget is social security medicare and medicaid. and he's also saying, i'm not going to cut anything trump has said he's not going to cut anything out of that. so where's that money? yeah, exactly. i don't want to drag us, as they say. they said there would be no math. so now we're getting into math here. but you got a $6.5 trillion budget. you're not going to touch 60% of it. you're down to a little over 2 trillion. so what you're going to cut 80%

of everything else. defense is about $1 trillion. so now you're down to 1.7 trillion that you're going to cut 2 trillion out of. the math doesn't add up. the instinct to want to make government more efficient. yes let's do it. there's a thousand different ways to do that. but to come in and think that you could slash it like he slashed twitter, okay, you know, people want their medicare checks they want their social security checks. i think we want to continue to defend this country so even if you cut all the stuff, you know, republicans don't think education matters. all that doesn't even get you there. even if you cut every last penny of that. and by the way, even education is important because it helps fund poor school districts. it's what the federal government does to try to give people opportunity. so i think they're going to run headlong into reality you are much better with math on the fly than i am. >> i'm just going to say that straight up. >> i don't remember names though it's okay. >> i once called you adam schiff which was one of the i will never, ever forget that. thank you. thank you thanks for coming in. it's really nice to have you in studio. coming up for us will elementary school

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now, let me start with the facts here. because what's happening today is the state board of education is voting on a menu of curriculum for the state of texas public schools one item on that menu is a curriculum developed called bluebonnet learning. it was created by the texas education agency and not without controversy there are many critics of this curriculum who say that it's infused with biblical teachings, that it leans too much on christianity and does not include other religions. there's been a lot of protest and comment on both sides of this issue, with some people saying public schools should not be safe, saying public schools should not be sunday schools and some people say that there's nothing wrong with biblical teachings being infused into public school classrooms here are some of those voices. take a listen you see i'm jewish. >> i believe my grandkids should share our family's

religion. i need from teaching them to be christians. >> these biblical references do not constitute an establishment of religion. instead, they serve as good examples of what we hope we all are respectful helpful, and brave defending this curriculum, issuing a statement saying, quote, religious source material comprises just a small part of the product and includes information from multiple faith traditions such as islam, christianity judaism, greek and roman polytheism, and native american religious traditions and sarah, like you mentioned, the vote is today, but i have to say in texas school districts are independent. >> they will have the final say on what is taught in those classrooms. >> sarah, certainly there is a monetary enhancement that if they do adopt it, they can get

somewhere between, what, 40 and $60 per student with schools that are trash. sorry cash strapped, that could be a big encouragement as well. i know that's part of your reporting. rosa flores, thank you so much appreciate it. kate. >> so this story. the wisconsin man who faked his death and fled overseas, he left his family with a whole lot of questions. and now authorities say ryan borgwardt is alive and well, revealing to them how and why he fled, but not revealing still where he is now. cnn's whitney wild has more. >> good evening it's ryan borgwardt. i'm in my apartment. i am safe >> ryan borgwardt speaking barely above a whisper in this video he says was recorded november 11th. these are his first comments since disappearing in august. police now believe the husband and

father of three is alive and living in eastern europe, with no plans to come back to the u.s., though green lake wisconsin sheriff mark pardoll says borgwardt talks to investigators regularly. >> our biggest concern that we had was that he was safe and well we asked him a number of questions that pertain to him and his family that he would only know and then we asked him for a video of himself. >> the search for borgwardt began this summer after he failed to return home from a day of kayaking and fishing. law enforcement found his capsized kayak car and other belongings, but no trace of him. >> while we might have stopped the search on green lake, that didn't stop our search continuing to look for life the green lake county sheriff now says he planned an elaborate escape. >> borgwardt told investigators he paddled his kayak and a child sized boat out into the lake overturned the kayak and dumped his phone in the water, paddled the inflatable boat to

shore, got out an e-bike and rode through the night to madison. there, he boarded a bus, went on to detroit, and eventually crossed into canada and hopped on a plane to europe. >> in our communications we are expressing the importance of his decision to return home clean up the mess that he has created, a digital forensic search of borgward's laptop revealed that he replaced the hard drive and cleared his browser history. >> on the day of the disappearance, pardoll says investigators found that the 44 year old moved funds to a foreign bank, changed his email communicated with a woman in uzbekistan, purchased airline cards and took out a $375,000 life insurance policy in january. now that borgwardt has been found alive, law enforcement is laying out potential charges. >> the information that the green lake county has at this point leads us to an obstructing charge kate, this

is a pretty complicated story. >> it was also a very expensive search. this search went on for seven weeks, and it required high end equipment. a lot of overtime for law enforcement. so what sheriff mark pardoll also said kate was that he could be on the hook for restitution. that could be between 35,000 and $40,000 at least. and that doesn't even include the cost incurred by a nonprofit, which helped in that search as well. >> kate, i mean, it's still just hard to wrap your mind around all of it, but good to finally be getting some answers, i think, is maybe where we can land on this one. but still more to come. great to see you, whitney. thank you so much. really, really appreciate it. so also coming up for us still, this morning the nfl is releasing a new warning to players that their homes may be at risk after a string of recent burglaries targeting professional athletes. and it may be part of a bigger, bigger crime ring. we'll tell you more about that. and a delivery company is

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revealed that the fee was just a stunt to attract employees who would really appreciate the opportunity christmas was the return of the mcrib, you're a lucky person. mcdonald's fan favorite sandwich returns for a limited time starting december third to ring in the saucy favorite. the fast food giant also announced that for the first time ever, fans will be able to buy the sauce themselves, releasing a whole lot of mcrib sauce, a half gallon jug of the iconic condiment the jug will be available for just a limited time only. kate, i'm sure you're all over that all about it emphasis on all. >> thank you so much. okay. this morning the university of texas system is moving to offer free tuition to students from families earning $100,000 or less a year. ut's board of regents approved the promise. plus program, as it's called, to make higher education more accessible and affordable it's set to start next fall, and it

would be huge for so many families but how are they pulling it off? why are they doing it and why now? joining us right now is james milliken. he's chancellor for the university of texas system. thank you so much for being here this initiative is the largest no cost tuition program in the state of texas, is one of the largest in the country how many students is this going to help and why are you guys taking this big step >> well, thanks for having me on and able to talk about this program, which we're very excited about. our board unanimously passed this yesterday. one of the greatest things i think we've done to provide affordable access for higher education, for so many, we calculate that about 7 million texas families could qualify for the free tuition program and maybe about 60 plus thousand students would be able to enroll if it were in place right now. so we expect that

additional students will apply when they see that this is available. >> and i would assume i mean, i guess i shouldn't assume, but how do you all think that this is going to impact enrollment next year and beyond well, we hope enrollment grows. >> we're at record enrollment now. you know, our our mission is about educating as many texans as we can. and so the more we can do to provide access to an affordable education for texans and ensure that they can stay in college e because they can afford it and then launch careers, that's success for us. so if we can offer clarity in our messaging, higher education and the financing of it can be complicated for people particularly if no one in your family has gone to college so the kind of clarity this offered, if you're at $100,000 family income or below, you will pay zero tuition and zero mandatory fees at the

university of texas system at any of our nine undergraduate campuses that kind of clarity, i think we believe, will help people realize that college is possible people are going to hear this. >> people people in texas are going to hear families are going to hear this and going to say thank god yes. but there is there is pushback on this a group of current and incoming texas lawmakers sent a letter to the board of regents on thursday, questioning the constitutionality of the plan and i have to say, one of the republican state lawmakers who wants to fight this now had a doozy his name is brian harrison. let me read this. he wrote, nothing is free. this outrageous abuse of power by unelected executive branch bureaucrats makes higher education in texas more socialist than california, a decision this consequential should only be made by the legislature. if you liked biden's unconstitutional loan forgiveness program you'll love

this. and he goes on to say there must be consequences ut's budget must be cut and bureaucrats should be fired. how do you respond to that opportunity to talk to the representatives and others about this program this is funded make sure that everybody understands it completely. >> it's not funded with with tax dollars. it's not a reallocation of funds within the university. it's not a waiver of of tuition. so we are not forgoing that that revenue this is funded with funds that the board of regents has available under the texas constitution to invest in educational programs for the university of texas system. that's the funding source there is no higher priority that our board has than making college affordable and expanding access to as many texans as we can. that's our

mission and that's what this achieves and we look forward to talking to people about it. >> so maybe there needs to be some more education for the lawmakers involved to understand really what this what this big move makes what this you know, the city and the thing that is unsaid. and i have this conversation with from the secretary of the department of education on down with people when we talk about how to pay for college is why is college so expensive and how do you know some of the this is an can be an amazing program for these families, but is it a band-aid across the bigger problem which is how do you bring the cost of tuition just down for everyone? how do you do it well, to start with, let's just, um, level set. >> um, most people attend public universities in this country. 70% of the degrees awarded are from public universities and there's a great difference between the level of tuition at public universities and some of the

elite private universities that we may be more apt to read about. so there's a there's a significant difference there but one of the things we know from research is that people tend to overestimate the cost of public higher education particularly if they're first generation students. their families haven't had experience with it, and they tend to underestimate the amount of financial aid available. so this is a generous financial aid program, but it's also one that's done with a very high level of clarity. uh, people can completely get this that if my adjusted gross income is below $100,000, their tuition is zero. and mandatory fees are zero. it's that kind of clarity that we hope will encourage more people to think seriously about attending college. to do so and persist and graduate. >> one big step, that one big school system is making today.

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