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rallying around the president elect's new pick for attorney general, pam bondi. >> just hours after trump's first choice, former congressman matt gaetz, announced he was withdrawing his nomination. trump wasted no time picking another fierce loyalist to lead the department of justice. bondi was florida's first female attorney general and she defended trump in his first impeachment trial and like gaetz, she's also pushed to use the doj to go after trump's perceived enemies. listen to this. >> when republicans take back the white house, you know what's going to happen. the department of justice the prosecutors will be prosecuted the bad ones, the investigators will be investigated because the deep state last term for president trump, they were hiding in the shadows, but now they have a spotlight on them and they can all be investigated cnn's kristen holmes is live in west palm beach, florida not far from trump's mar-a-lago estate.

>> kristen, what are you hearing about pam bondi for ag republicans who are somewhat relieved at the choice. >> they believe that she is much more confirmable than matt gaetz ever was. and they're happy that donald trump isn't going to have to expend the same amount of political capital that he would have on matt gaetz if he was going to try and get him confirmed. remember, one of the things that we've been reporting was that some of these allies had informed trump that he was going to have to use an enormous amount of his political capital to get gaetz through a confirmation process, which would likely hurt some of his other nominees, particularly some that are less controversial than gaetz but still controversial, like tulsi gabbard or rfk jr.. and that that played a factor into donald trump's decision to call matt gaetz after he had spoken to a number of senators and essentially confirmed that at that time, gaetz did not have the votes in the senate to be confirmed. now, he told him that he said, my sources tell me that he did not pressure

gaetz to drop out. he just gave him those facts. but here's what gaetz said about part of the reason he withdrew his name and again, while our discussions were going well, i found myself having to do two jobs at one time. >> charlie and you got a front row seat to this i had a full time job explaining to senators that maybe a tweet i sent about them was rash and not reflective of how i would serve as attorney general. and at the same time, i was having to build out the department of justice with the right human talent, the right policy infrastructure, and pam bondi confirmation won't have some of the sharp edges that he says that he had to defend some of his tweets with some of these senators, we were also told that there was a lot of allies, even within the transition team, that there was more information inside of that ethics report. >> that was going to come out.

one thing to note is that he really downplayed gaetz in that interview. the allegations, they're saying it was part of a smear campaign speaker kevin mccarthy, who gaetz had successfully ousted from that position. but another notable moment in that interview, the first interview he's done since withdrawing his name, was that he said that he would not be going back to congress in any capacity. so that was something that we had been waiting to see. obviously, he of congress, but he had been reelected to congress for the 119th session. he now says that he will not be doing that. >> really interesting kristen holmes, thank you so much. live for us from florida and also happening today, the judge overseeing president-elect trump's criminal hush money trial in new york has postponed his sentencing indefinitely. >> judge juan merchan also granted trump's lawyers request to file a motion to dismiss the case and filings are due early next month. cnn's senior legal analyst elie honig joins us now. elie, thanks so much for being with us. what do you make of judge merchan postponing

this indefinitely? and allowing trump's team to file a motion to dismiss well, boris it means that the sentencing is on hold indefinitely and quite possibly for more than that probably never to actually happen, because what they have to do before that is litigate the whole issue of is donald trump immune? >> can a state level prosecution proceed against him while he's president elect and then president? i'm going to spoil the bottom line here. he's not case. he's not going to get sentenced before he becomes president. he's not going to get sentenced while he's president and the d.a. earlier this week actually floated the possibility. they said, we may want to hold open the option of sentencing him after he's done his second term, meaning in 2029. that is not going to happen. that is a ridiculous request legally and practically. so essentially, we're playing out the string here. i think eventually this case will go away. it's just a question of what the niceties will be down the stretch. >> and turning now to trump's pick for ag his new pick, pam

bondi. i wonder what you think about her qualifications, because one of the knocks on gaetz, among obviously the ones that sunk him, were that he wasn't really qualified for the position. so when you look at her record as a prosecutor and as florida's ag, is she qualified to lead the justice department so i think it's important that we draw a distinction between whether someone is qualified. >> on the one hand, and whether someone is sufficiently independent on the other hand, on the first question, is she qualified? unquestionably. she is qualified. she has been a prosecutor for 20 years. she's been the attorney general of florida for eight of those years. and that resume is on par with what we've seen from other attorneys general throughout history. but then there's a separate question about whether she is sufficiently independent. and i think this is where democrats or people who oppose her will focus at the confirmation hearings. she has represented donald trump. she has worked with donald trump. that all is not abnormal. but what i think is abnormal is, first of all,

that she has denied the 2020 election results. i think that's a big problem. and second of all, the clip you played in the beginning of this segment where she said, we're going to prosecute the prosecutors. i think that's a big problem with respect to her independence and her ability to go in there and assess these cases on the merits, which is what the job requires. >> can you expand on that? the idea of having an independent attorney general as the ideal type of candidate for that role yeah. >> so political reality, boris tells us that the president chooses the attorney general. the attorney general is going to be from the same party and the same ideology as the president. we've even had a history of have done legal work for them in the past, or in john f kennedy's example, who were their brothers can't do that now because of nepotism laws but i think the challenge is you do, we do and should expect a certain degree of independence from the attorney general. you need an attorney general. merrick garland is an example. janet reno is an example. we saw some of this even from jeff sessions at

times. who's willing to say this is a necessary move that may not be in the president's best personal or political interest, but that are necessary to preserve rule of law and to preserve doj's institutional independence. it's a fine line. there's no science to it. but i think pam bondi is going to be questioned on that extensively. at her confirmation hearing. >> elie, when you look at the picks now, matt gaetz and now pat bondi, and you do have these questions about independence, how do you see trump's doj shaping up? do you see it as a department of justice, or do you see it as like a department of retribution and personal protection of soon to be president trump i will tell you, brianna, that is the single biggest question that i am going to be watching as we head into this transition and into this next administration. >> it could well be that when we get if pam bondi becomes the attorney general, todd blanche becomes the deputy ag, they do their jobs properly both of them have over a decade of

prosecutorial experience. and if they say, i'm going to preserve the values of doj, i'm going to do the job they may have different policy goals, but then the justice department will be on a good path. on the other hand, if the clip we just saw of pam bondi saying prosecutors if that comes into being, if that actually happens, then there's going to be a huge problem. and i think that will be contrary to everything that doj stands for. >> elie honig, thank you so much for the analysis. appreciate it. thanks, guys. let's discuss with republican congressman jake laturner of kansas, who serves on the oversight committee. congressman, thank you so much for being with us. i want to start with where we left off with elie honig. do you have concerns about the independence of pam bondi? if she were to take on the role of attorney general and be confirmed i do not, as was alluded to with your last guest, pam bondi is absolutely qualified to do this job. >> she was a county prosecutor.

>> she's been attorney general of florida, and i think she's going to get confirmed. >> what i'm going to break some news on cnn today. presidents of both parties, barack obama, joe biden, george w. bush, bill clinton they want people who are qualified that can do the job and who are also loyal to them. >> this is not breaking earth shattering news. >> i think pam bondi is going to of course, have loyalty to the constitution. >> do her job right, and is going to be interested in what donald trump thinks about issues. that's natural and normal in every administration but would you say, congressman, that there's a difference perhaps, between loyalty to someone's ideology, perhaps, or someone's outlook and then loyalty to the point that you would deny reality as is the case with bondi and the 2020 election. >> i think that attorney general bondi needs the opportunity, she deserves the opportunity to have hearings. >> i think she should be confirmed and then let's see how she does her job. >> i highly doubt as your last guest just mentioned, he

mentioned jeff sessions as somebody who stood up to president trump. >> i doubt anyone was saying that on any network that he was going to stand up to president trump when he was nominated to be attorney general during the first trump administration. >> so she is qualified, she deserves to get confirmed. >> and she deserves the opportunity to do the job. >> congressman, what about the decision from matt gaetz to not return to congress? do you think that's the right step well it's a choice for him to make the point i want to make on matt gaetz is that this is not a setback for president trump in any shape, way or form. >> if you go back and you look at president obama when he was making nominations for his cabinet, he had two nominees that had to withdraw for commerce secretary tom daschle had to withdraw as hhs secretary bill clinton attorney general before he landed on janet reno and so and those happened in january and on it is not a setback for president trump it's only been a little over two weeks. but it's important to remind folks that donald trump won every

battleground state. >> he he deserves the opportunity to choose his cabinet. there are of course, going to be bumps along that road. >> but that's all this is, is a bump. i think pam bondi is a good choice. >> i think she'll get confirmed yet. >> congressman, in those previous situations that you cited, there weren't outright threats from democrats to other democrats that they would primary any senator that might go against the will of that president elect or president at the time to confirm someone. and yet here there have been threats from republicans that they would primary anyone who would oppose gaetz. trump himself seemed to put the word out that he favored this pick intensely vance was on capitol hill doing the same. you're not concerned that he's expended some capital trying to get gaetz through and that it's some referendum on how senate republicans may interact with this white house well, it's completely natural that president trump would put his full force behind a nominee.

>> but what what you've seen here is donald trump understands how to count votes. he realized that he didn't have the votes in the senate judiciary committee to get matt gaetz confirmed. and so what did he do he pivoted. and that pivot led to pam bondi, which i think is a good choice. i think this whole thing is is >> president trump won. he made a nomination. the senate gets to confirm he saw trouble ahead in the confirmation hearings. >> and so he made a different choice. and matt gaetz withdrew. >> and so the process worked like it's supposed to. >> it happened really early on. >> i don't think he's lost one bit of ground. >> i think this is this is normal. when you look at previous >> congressman i want to leave this with a personal question for you. you've decided to leave congress at the end of your term, and yet you say that despite dysfunction on capitol hill, you were optimistic why leave if you're optimistic about the future ava, joe maggie and gus, who are 13 down to eight years old in the congressional schedule.

>> just requires a lot of time away from home so i appreciate you asking the question. >> i'm excited about january on a personal level, getting to spend more time with kids, but i love the job. i love representing the people of kansas, and i think that this congress, coming in january 3rd, along with president trump, is going to get a lot of good stuff done that the american people clearly want based upon the election results a couple of weeks ago, we will both be watching closely. >> congressman jake laturner thank you so much for the time thanks for having me. officials in texas just decided whether to teach lessons from the bible to public school students across the state. we're following the latest on today's huge and potentially consequential vote and first, it was the nfl and now other leagues are warning players that their homes could be targeted. we have much more on this disturbing trend and if it seems like eggs are getting more expensive, you're not imagining that. we're going to tell you why prices are surging. still ahead on cnn news central

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>> i can tell you that it was nerve wracking all the way to the last minute with some of the board members making their comments very public against this. >> this curriculum, some of them saying that christianity could be counted hundreds of times in this curriculum. >> but nevertheless, the vote was 8 to 7. now let's listen in to that moment when that vote was taken >> yes. >> seven. no. >> eight. seven. the motion passes. >> bluebonnet will be added to the approved list the state of texas this means that this controversial curriculum can be used by school districts. >> but an important note is that in texas, we have independent school districts, meaning that school districts decide what is taught in the classroom. so this will be part

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comprises just a small part of the product and includes information from multiple faith traditions again, that vote brianna 8 to 7, a very tight vote. but that means that this controversial curriculum is now added to the approved curriculum in the state of texas with that big carrot of $60 per student, per year for school districts. i should add that this curriculum can be used starting in the 2025 2026 school year. brianna. >> all right. interesting rosa flores, thank you for the report for us. >> the nba and nhl are now joining the nfl warning teams that thieves may be targeting the homes of players after a string of burglaries involving pro athletes among them milwaukee bucks forward bobby portis, who posted this surveillance video after a break in at his home earlier this month saying that many of his prized possessions were stolen. cnn's josh campbell is on that story for us. josh, a local law enforcement and the

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going to the fbi. it's not happening in his own words. quote, i have never even given it a thought not happening. so rogers does appear to want the job, seeming to pitch himself today on fox people have lost faith in know it. >> not showing up for a senate hearing they think is there. i mean, that hubris is exactly what people are seeing outside that say, i have lost faith in the fbi. >> somebody like me, i can i can restore that faith. >> we're joined now by retired fbi special agent daniel bruner, who is the president of the bruner sierra group. daniel is mike rogers. correct in his assessment of people losing faith in the fbi thank you for having me on, brianna. >> and you have to understand that you listen to the people. >> yes, i think there are people. >> there's a there's a large voice out there that are they're saying they've lost faith in the fbi. >> but i think a lot of those that loss of faith is based

upon negative conversations and of course, just like anything else, a lot of the negative things that come out about the fbi, you know is not discussing about a large a lot of the triumphs of the fbi without a doubt, any organization is going to have room for improvement. >> i think the fbi needs has got room for improvement of course, i think that there is a change in management, a change in leadership, a change in style is a good thing and you can always bring in new voices, new ideas. i think under the under director wray and deputy director paula bate, i think the fbi has had great direction in the last seven and a half years. but if the changes warranted by president-elect trump, i think bringing in the right people who can make change, but yet not destroy the institution are good ideas. >> well, let's talk about that because, daniel, i wonder what you think about this idea of installing a trump loyalist like kash patel as deputy fbi director who really does not

like the fbi. and we should note that's a position that's normally held by a career agent well the position of the director is a lot of times is is somebody who's been both either at the u.s. >> attorney's office on only the last couple the last few directors. >> louis freeh was the last agent who was previously, excuse me, who was a director who was previously an agent so director comey director mueller and director wray were never agents, but they were involved in law enforcement inside the the department of justice system. so they understand how the fbi works. they understand how the communication works and they understand the system of the fbi. but like i said, it's always there's always room for improvement. and bringing in a new eye to things but bringing in somebody like kash patel who has you know, has vast experience working in the government industry at the pentagon, at the department of justice. but he's never run an organization the size of 35,000 employees. you have to have an

understanding of how the system works, that you come in to change the system he has to understand how it works. and i think bringing in kash patel as the director or the deputy director would be an ill advised move. yet at the same time, people like myself or other fbi former fbi agents were coming on saying that kash patel would not be a good idea. then you have a lot of people out there in the in the twittersphere saying, yeah, then obviously that's the right pick. and ultimately it comes down to president-elect trump. but the bottom line is, no matter what i've spoken to a lot of agents that they will follow, no matter who is put in the leadership position, they will continue to support and defend the constitution of the united states, and they will follow the lawful orders given to them, no matter who the leader is. >> certainly so ill advised. if that's ill advised, what kind of damage could someone like kash patel who has, you know let's let's sort of be generous and say designs in seriously reworking the fbi.

what kind of damage, in your view, could someone like that do well, he has already specifically said that he wants to target certain investigations that the the fbi led or were involved with. >> so you've got these investigations, but you have hundreds if not thousands of other employees that somehow supported those investigations. so he may decide to go after the case. agent, who was the leader of that investigation. and then anybody else involved. you've got thousands staff, other agents, other divisions who may have assisted in that investigation because they were tasked to do that. i need you to write this report. i need you to write this intelligence. those individuals that he has threatened, he will go after anybody that supported those investigations or assisted in those investigations. he could go after these individuals and revoke their security clearance. that seems to be one of the threats that he's been supporting and deciding to completely revamp, you know completely flatten the fbi

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environment. >> so we went down to the national institutes of health to see how they're doing that. take a look at sam's, rusada has been living in this hospital room at the national weeks. >> do you have like, wearables on like tracking everything? >> yes. >> so i do have a couple of these sensors. >> he's not sick. he's a participant in a clinical trial one of the first of its kind, measuring his movement, his blood, his gut microbiome, even the air he breathes all to try to better understand how our health is affected by ultra processed foods. i think your food's coming in and eggs and spinach and yogurt but we don't know that could be processed. >> it could be unprocessed. that's part of the trial. >> ultra processed foods contain additives and ingredients. you wouldn't find in your own kitchen. they were shown in a previous nih study to drive overeating and weight gain according to researcher doctor kevin hall. our ultra

processed foods just junk foods. >> what we often think of as junk foods probably captures a big chunk of the ultra processed foods kind of category but there's a lot of things that people would be surprised that are in the ultra processed foods category and, you know, could potentially be healthy for you. so things like whole grain breads that you might buy from the supermarket most of those are considered ultra processed because of some of the additives and preservatives that are in there, as well as how they're manufactured there's a lot of debate about whether or not all ultra processed foods are bad for you, and that's what this trial is trying to find out. what are the mechanisms what is it about this category of foods that is driving people to overconsume calories doctor hall's team has causing people to overeat. >> some ultra processed foods, their energy density or how many calories are in each gram of food and their hyper contain just the right combinations of salt, sugar fat, and carbs to make us not want to stop eating them

of the food. and they don't just prepare it, they weigh it before it goes up and when it comes back after the participant has eaten each day, participants in the trial are offered a total of 6000 calories and researchers measure how much they choose to eat. the trial is a month long and each week has a different diet minimally processed or different kinds of ultra processed sam was in an ultra processed week during our visit, but one with foods doctor hall doesn't overeat how is that ultra processed it's all based on the ingredients, so the eggs that we used in that omelet, the egg whites, were a liquid egg product so it has ingredients in it that make it ultra processed. >> it's not just egg our yogurts, the pancake sirup that was in the yogurt, those all have ultra processed ingredients in terms of added flavors, added sweeteners. >> the next day, sam would switch to meals that were more energy dense and hyper palatable, the ones expected to lead to overeating.

>> so you can see that these are all foods that they're ultra processed, and you can see that the volume compared to this is quite different as well that is really illustrative. >> i mean, just looking you need two trays of food for this one. and one tray of food for this next diet. when you're getting the same number you're offering at least the same number of calories correct yes. once a week sam spends a full day sealed in this metabolic chamber do you know what they're measuring in there? >> i think they're measuring how much o2 i consume and how much carbon dioxide i release the air he breathes in and out can tell researchers how many calories he's burning and whether they're coming from carbs or fat all help understand what ultra processed foods really do to our bodies. >> by understanding how the food environment actually does shape our metabolic health, we hope to basically improve the food supply in the future

enroll a few more people in this trial. >> and so they're hoping that they may finish it next year and have results by the end of next year or early the year after that and what they're hoping is that they can provide this information to the fda to food policymakers. but also to consumers, so that we can go to the grocery store and feel better equipped to make good choices for ourselves and our families. boris. >> meg, if they're looking for people to sit around and eat all the time, please put my name in. i'd love to join meg tirrell thank you so much. pass it along appreciate that. meg tirrell, thanks so much brianna keilar. >> we can make it a three hour show. now to some of the other headlines we're watching this hour, starting with those major storms that are slamming both coasts. torrential rain pummeling the pacific northwest northern california already swamped with 17in of precipitation. it's triggered a rare level four flood risk and there's more rain on the way. in the meantime, snow is now piling up in parts of the northeast, and a welcome change after weeks of drought and

wildfires. several inches of snow blanketing communities from pennsylvania through new england. also six tourists, including an american have died in laos. authorities suspect methanol poisoning from tainted alcohol. a hostel manager in vang vang, vieng, where the victims were staying, has been detained. this area is a backpacking hotspot. it's known for its nightlife and the u.s. along with several countries, is now urging travelers to be cautious. and a major satellite tv deal imploding directv terminating its agreement to acquire dish tv satellite business. the merger would have combined two pay tv giants totaling 20 million subscribers. directv says the deal wasn't worth the financial risk. both companies are facing headwinds as fewer customers pay for traditional tv and still ahead, some not so excellent news. the price of eggs may leave you why they are getting more expensive next

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a little bit about this is just in time for us. we need eggs for our pumpkin pie. we need it for the eggnog. we need it for all kinds of things. and people are getting ready for the holidays this has been storm as it relates to eggs. >> you have egg prices on the rise for the last two years. you have demand steady. over the last two years you have the avian flu, which has killed millions of egg laying birds, and then of course you have the holiday. so as you mentioned, eggs for about a dozen, $3 and $0.37. it's going to be higher or lower depending on where you live around the country. but that is a 30% increase from last year. and egg production has been down 2.6%. and that is has killed 75 million egg laying birds. just last month, 2.8 million egg laying birds died in utah, oregon and

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