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texts the last place hannah was seen was at this train station in downtown los angeles. >> family members say they've seen footage of her on the train with someone they don't recognize. and leaving the train station with that same person they've now posted fliers all over the area in hopes that someone recognizes hannah. the lapd now sharing this poster seeking help in their search for kobayashi. >> hannah, you are loved you're missed. yeah we're here for you us that after seeing the state of hannah on that surveillance video from the train station, they are concerned for her well-being. >> they wouldn't go into any further details because they don't want to jeopardize the investigation. but we did reach out to the lapd. they couldn't give us an interview. they did say they are investing in this case, investigating rather in this case. and also the fbi is now involved. >> jim veronica miracle, thank
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you so much. and the news continues right here on cnn viewers joining us from the united states. >> and all around the world. >> i'm christina macfarlane ahead on cnn newsroom. >> donald trump releasing a flurry of cabinet level and other nominations including another media personality a hedge fund manager and a coauthor of project 2025 a new round of deadly strikes in beirut collapsing buildings and burying people in the rubble. plus, a young girl's suicide leading one country to consider banning social media for kids. we'll examine the arguments for and against the new legislation >> this is cnn newsroom with christina macfarlane
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from donald trump has >> as we head to the final weekend before the u.s. thanksgiving holiday. among them is trump's anticipated pick for treasury secretary scott bessent. experts say he is a safe choice, but trump has also chosen a more controversial figure from his first term to lead the office of management and budget. cnn's elena trinh has more. reporter. >> well president elect donald trump made nine new announcements friday evening for top roles in his second term, including some of the biggest cabinet roles we had been waiting to see. and that includes scott bessent, a billionaire hedge fund manager being named to run the treasury department. and this is really ended. what has been a two week battle behind the scenes at mar-a-lago. one of the most contentious fights, we're told that had played out for a role in his second term. part of that is because one of donald trump's transition chairs howard lutnick, had wanted this role for himself. he ended up getting the top role at the commerce department. however, this really became a protracted
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battle behind the scenes now. one reason, though, we're told, that donald trump liked scott bessent, which i should note he had actually been in the running for. and donald trump's top pick roughly two weeks ago, before all of that happened behind the scenes. but he is a name that many people on wall street know well. he is well liked in the business world, and many people on donald trump's transition team were also pushing for him and trying to get through to donald trump that he would be the right pick especially because keep in mind, donald trump, throughout his time on the campaign trail, made a lot of economic promises, including his vow to impose widespread tariffs. this is going to be something that is going to be confronted with on day one. if he is confirmed into this role now another big role we learned about on friday evening was who would be leading his budget office. and that is going to be russell vought vote also was in the top job in donald trump's white house budget office in his first term, but he's also been very close to trump in the
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years since. if you have an idea of loyalty russell vought is a picture of that. now. he has had some controversial opinions in the past as well. he was a key architect of project 2025, something that the trump team had vowed repeatedly that they didn't want anything to do with russ vought had also worked. he was the lead person at one of these key policy shops in washington, dc, in the years after he had left donald trump's first white house and that policy shop was really viewed by many in donald trump's orbit as being the key place where people would be shaping policy. and donald trump's future agenda if he were to be elected again in 2024. back to you. >> well, you may remember donald trump spent months on the campaign trail trying to distance himself from the controversial heritage foundation's project 2025. >> i have nothing to do with project 2025 that's out there. >> i haven't read it. i don't want to read it purposely. i'm not going to read it. this was a group of people that got
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together. they came up with some ideas. i guess some good, some bad. but it makes no difference. i have nothing to do but now he's filling his cabinet with some of the top contributors to the 900 page political playbook, which some regard as a conservative blueprint for the new administration, namely tom homan for border czar john ratcliffe for cia director he also picked russell vought to lead the budget office brendan carr to chair the fcc and stephen miller for deputy chief of staff vote, was a coauthor for the project 2025. >> he was recorded on an undercover interview back in august, explaining how he hoped the project would influence trump's second administration. >> so, you know, we've got about 350 different documents that are regulations and things of that nature that are we're planning for the next year, next administration. >> we're always going off of if donald trump was head of this agency what would he do with it? what has he said? yeah. and then what do we know from the first term? and that's how we've been
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approaching this. he's very supportive of what we do and know that we have all manner of things that we do that's, you know, even unrelated to project 2025. >> well, cnn found at least 140 people who worked in the first trump administration had a hand in creating the project. extensive manifesto for overhauling the executive branch. and now we know at least selected to return in cabinet positions. sources tell cnn trump's pick to lead the intelligence community, tulsi gabbard was briefly placed on a tsa watch list earlier this year. it appears gabbard's overseas travel patterns and foreign connections triggered a government algorithm, which usually leads to additional security screening by air marshals before flights. but gabbard was quickly removed from the list after she publicly claimed she had been added to a, quote, secret terror watch list the harris, biden administration have added me to a secret domestic terror
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watch list. >> she has labeled me a domestic terrorist, put me on a secret domestic terror watch list. i was added to a secret domestic terror watch list called quiet skies. my government has put me on a terror watch list well, the tsa says gabbard was placed on a little known list called quiet skies which they say is most definitely not a terror watch list to discuss all of this with me is thomas joseph, director of the center of us politics at university college london. >> good to see you again, thomas let's begin with the flurry of late trump picks we saw on friday. multiple trump picks just to get your sense. first, what did you make of selections like billionaire hedge fund manager scott bessent for treasury secretary and controversially, russell vought, one of the key authors of project 2025? well thanks so much for having me, christina. >> it's great to be with you. i think when you talk about all of these appointments, there's one word again that defines the trump selections, and that's loyalty or maybe more
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specifically, fealty. you know trump really perceives that the main mistake he made during his first administration was relying too much on washington insiders inside the beltway, officials who had spent their entire careers in washington. of course, many of those officials ultimately abandoned him. and so susie wiles, who is trump's incoming chief of staff, is determined to run a more disciplined white house and to put individuals in key cabinet positions that are going to do largely what trump says. i do think that the percent choice in particular for secretary was one that was a little bit more establishment, a little bit more kind of traditional, one that wouldn't surprise people much like matt gaetz did, or pete hegseth or some of these other kind of more controversial names but perhaps one that is raising eyebrows as we say, as russell vought, one of the key authors of project 2025. >> and it appears there are actually a number of trump picks so far who in some way are aligned to project 2025. so i just want to take a moment to remind our viewers of what
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trump himself was saying about that during the campaign trail. have a listen. >> like some on the right, severe right came up with this project 25 and i don't even know i mean, some of them, i know who they are, but they're very, very conservative just like you have this sort of the opposite of the radical left. okay. you have the radical left and you have the radical right they are extreme. i mean, they're seriously extreme, but i don't know anything about it. i don't want to know anything about it so i guess, thomas, we're seeing here trump's real ties to project 2025 being laid bare with some of his picks. >> but the question is, how far do you think he will go in adopting project 2025 proposals? >> well, you certainly understand why donald trump didn't want to attach himself to project 2025 during the campaign because it took a number of right wing positions, like on abortion, for example, where trump was trying to tack more toward the center in a
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general election. but i think that this does raise real questions about the extent to which this is going to be a blueprint for the trump administration i still think that trump is more transactional than ideological and so many of the kind of more right wing positions that have been espoused in this document, which, again, was written by many of trump's associates or former trump associates and the heritage foundation, which is a republican or right leaning think tank. um, you know, i think ultimately, you know, there are going to be some things that trump takes, some that he doesn't. i think when it comes to tax cuts, for example deregulation, all of those are included in project 2025. and i think that there will be top of mind in trump's first 100 days. >> yeah, but there are some issues on which they diverge. of course abortion being one of them. it will be interesting to see if there's any shift in ground on that. in his new administration. now, with gaetz out there are still some controversial picks left in. we were just mentioning there thomas tulsi gabbard gabbard, who was briefly named on a tsa
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watch list just yesterday which is kind of adding concern around someone who is going to be in charge of national intelligence, someone who we already know has held strong views over backing comments from president putin in the past, bashar al-assad of syria i mean, how is she being viewed within the senate at this point what is what are your thoughts around her selection, whether she would make make it through? >> well that's a big question with tulsi gabbard, because you know, she used to be a democrat. she's obviously shifted very significantly. and some of her comments, particularly as they relate to vladimir putin, i think do raise eyebrows. add to that the fact that she has no intelligence experience and is going to be expected to sort of lead a national intelligence of the united states is a real question mark. this is where we come to recess appointments, you know, will trump use them? they are constitutional but they were designed when congress met less frequently and the president needed to fill spots on an emergency basis. but still given some of trump's selections, he may
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choose to go down that route. and i think it's particularly the case for ones that, you know are quite controversial. >> yeah and just briefly, the other trump pick that had a sexual assault allegation against him, as well as matt gaetz, was pete hegseth um, i'm curious as to whether the l emboldened to do the same with pete hegseth. what's your feeling on that? >> i think that pete hegseth is maybe a little bit less controversial than matt gaetz, but still, this is all relative i mean, there's controversial, then there's off the wall controversial. i would categorize matt gaetz as off the wall controversial. pete hegseth is still a very unorthodox choice, you know, of course, he's been a fox news anchor very, uh involved in trump's first administration, was kind of lobbying behind the scenes for uh, u.s. service members who have been accused or convicted of war crimes talked to trump on his show fox and friends. trump would tweet back at him so i'm not sure if
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this is an individual that republicans on capitol hill in particular would be willing to push back. i mean, maybe some of the more establishment old guard would say this is just not our pick. we need someone who's a bit more really coming in with a mandate, and i think it's going to be a bruising struggle and a dilemma for gop politicians especially given that many republicans on capitol hill, you know, don't want to challenge what they perceive as just this juggernaut of trump coming into his second term with sort of a, you know, a groundswell of support behind him thomas gift always great to have your analysis. >> appreciate it. thank you. >> thanks, christina now, the judge in donald trump's criminal hush money trial in new york has postponed sentencing indefinitely. >> judge juan mission was also granting trump's request to file a motion to dismiss the case prosecutors have a week to respond. trump was convicted in may on 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up
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hush money payments to adult film star stormy daniels, and although the district attorney has said the conviction should stand, a source says his office are open to a four year pause on the case until trump leaves office trump's spokesperson calls the decision a decisive win for the president elect crews are searching for survivors from an israeli strike that hit a residential building. this is the scene in the center of the lebanese capital lebanon's civil defense says at least 11 people were killed and 23 were wounded israel did not issue a warning strike before this, a warning before this strike. and in another attack, one building was flattened. take a look issued an evacuation warning to people in this neighborhood.
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there are no reports of deaths or injuries from this strike. meanwhile, there's outrage in israel over the international criminal court's arrest warrant for benjamin netanyahu, the israeli prime minister and his former defense minister are accused of war crimes in gaza. cnn's paula hancocks is joining us live. paula, talk to us more about this attack in central beirut and a densely populated area. what more are you learning yeah cristina, this was in the the bastar area as you say, it is a densely populated area and it is crucially in central beirut more and more often now. we are seeing is a israeli airstrikes targeting the central part before it had been largely focused on the the hezbollah stronghold of the southern suburbs of beirut. but more and more often we are seeing these more central strikes. now, this particular one, we understand, according to the the ministry of health, at this point that at least 11 have been killed,
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dozens have been wounded, and we can see from images after the the strike took place that there are ongoing efforts to try and find more survivors or more victims in the rubble itself. now, we have asked the israeli military about this targets at this point, they have not publicly commented as to what the target was. we do understand, though, that there was no evacuation order that was issued before this particular strike. now, we also know of another strike among many, in fact, but another worth mentioning this was in the eastern lebanon. this is in the baalbek area and we understand that the director general of dar amal, dar al amal, excuse me university was killed along with six of his colleagues. now we understand from lebanese officials there that they were staying in a residence close to the university and the hospital
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itself. the idf says at this point that they are looking into the report, so we're waiting for a response of that as well. the response we have heard in previous instances from the israeli military is that they are targeting hezbollah infrastructure. they're targeting weapons caches and hezbollah personnel as well. the idf saying that since october 8th of last year, when hezbollah started firing rockets into israel after the october 7th hamas attack that some 16,000 rockets have been fired from lebanon. we've heard from the ministry of health, though, that they have condemned what they call the continuous attacks that do target health workers and facilities, calling on the international community to intervene. now we're seeing strikes elsewhere as well as as as launches into israel. and this is all coming at a time when there is potentially a ceasefire deal that is close
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between israel and hezbollah. we certainly heard a lot more of it about 3 or 4 days ago, when the u.s. envoy, amos hochstein was in beirut. he then traveled to israel, where he said that the deal was within our grasp, but it was ultimately the decision of the parties and certainly at the same time as these ceasefire talks are ongoing behind the scenes, more at the moment rather than publicly, there is this escalation in violence on both sides. christina. all right paula hancocks there live from abu dhabi. thank you paula. all right. still to come, russian president vladimir putin is ramping up his threats to the west while boasting about his military's new experimental missile and cnn gets rare access to an event in moscow honoring mothers of russian soldiers. how they feel about the conflict raging in ukraine. that's just ahead
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mass producing the new system but a military analyst tells cnn that western air defenses would be able to shoot down warheads from moscow's new missile the kremlin says thursday's strike is in response to the, quote, reckless decisions of western countries that supply weapons to european conflict grow. nato and ukraine are reportedly planning to hold an emergency meeting on tuesday to discuss moscow's strike. meanwhile, ukraine's air force says it shot down 64 russian drones after more than 100 were launched on friday. four of the drones were intercepted over the center of ukraine and the northeastern regions. well, putin continues to send thousands of russian troops to the front lines. and the mothers of those soldiers rarely are heard from throughout this conflict, but they are now speaking out to cnn. fred pleitgen reports from moscow to entering its fourth year, more and more russians are signing up to fight vladimir
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putin, saying more than 700,000 are currently stationed in and around ukraine but he got rare access to an event in moscow honoring the mothers of russian soldiers battling in what the kremlin still calls its special military operation. >> mothers whose sons are fighting have been killed or injured oksana medvedeva son yegor, was severely wounded on the battlefield earlier this year the nerves had to be sewn back together she says. he also had surgery on his jaw, but it still has not recovered properly. he's still being treated. i am proud of my son that he is such a hero making significant battlefield gains recently, they appear to come at a heavy price. moscow doesn't publish casualty figures, but western
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new intermediate range ballistic missile capable of delivering devastating nuclear warheads, and he threatened to hit u.s. assets as well. >> we should we consider ourselves entitled to use our weapons against the military objects of those countries that allow their weapons to be used against our objects, he said pinky webb back at the event. >> for the soldiers mothers, a russian parlia country and we've been patient for a very long time, she said. but in the case of mass deaths of our people if the collective west does not sober up we should proceed to more decisive actions. we can no longer lose any of our men but for continue to mount. as vladimir putin warns the war is increasingly becoming a struggle between russia and the west. fred pleitgen, cnn moscow when we come back, the tragic suicide of an australian
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at least 23 others are injured according to lebanon's civil defense. the israeli defense forces did not issue an evacuation order for the area and has yet to comment on the strike. donald trump sentencing hearing in his hush money trial in new york has been postponed indefinitely. judge juan merchan granted trump's request to file a motion to dismiss the case, setting a deadline for december 2nd. the president elect posting a flurry of cabinet nominations adding to his already colorful list of candidates. the nominees include hedge fund manager scott bennett and secretary of the treasury secretary. fox news medical contributor doctor jeanette nesheiwat as u.s. surgeon general and russell vought coauthor of project 2025. as head of the office of management and budget at the texas school board, has approved a new optional curriculum allowing bible based learning materials to be taught in the state's kindergarten through fifth grade classes. on friday, board members voted in
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a narrow majority to retain christian infused educational content developed by the texas education agency. the approval vote was met with immediate backlash and is likely to face legal challenges ahead. opponents of the curriculum argue the material violates the constitution's separation of church and state, erodes religious freedom, and heavily favors christianity over other religions. others have cited that though the curriculum is optional many districts may be pressured to adopt it due to their reliance on state run financial incentive programs. now, the suicide of a 12 year old girl in australia shines a light on a countrywide fight to limit social media. but while some say it's a momentous step others say a broadband may go too far. details now from cnn's hanako montgomery for all the positive connections, the joy social media can create, it can also quickly strip it away destroy it forever. >> i will miss your hugs, your
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kisses, your laugh, your beautiful beautiful smile. >> in september, 12 year old australian girl charlotte o'brien took her own life after years being bullied on social media. her parents quickly joined a political fight to protect children from online harm. the australian government says the best way to do that is to ban anyone under 16 from using social media. >> social media is doing social harm to our young australians and i am calling time on it. the safety and mental health of our young people has to be a priority. >> under new legislation introduced to australia's parliament, there would be consequences for social media companies caught systematically breaching the age restriction and other safety measures. fines reaching tens of millions of dollars. but children or parents won't be punished for
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breaking the new rules. instead, the government says the ban will help moms and dads to say no to young people who want to stay online. >> yeah, so being autistic, i have a really really hard time connecting with others and being, you know doing that online makes it a lot easier. >> some experts to say that a catch all approach may not be helpful, even though the age is really fundamentally important that we need to get right what we're talking about when we say we're going to introduce a ban by age, is that it negates the fact that young people have very, very different levels of maturity. but advocates of the ban point to age limits on alcohol gambling and smoking arguing social media can be equally damaging for those too young to use it. hanako montgomery cnn well, we're joined now by sunita bose. >> she's the managing director of digital industry group
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incorporated. sunita, thank you so much for your time this morning. i feel like everyone, especially parents worldwide, are following this with anticipation to see if this ban is going to be enacted, because of course, it will potentially set a precedent here. you have called this proposed ban a 20th century response to a 21st century problem. just explain for me what you meant by that thanks for having me on the program. >> this ban has certainly provoked a national conversation in australia, and it sounds like internationally as well. it has been polarizing. we've heard a range of views like you covered in your report. we've heard from around 100 experts here in australia who have written to prime minister albanese to warn about the unintended consequences of this ban. the challenge with something like this is that young people are determined to get online, and the focus should be keeping them safe when they are online.
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that's a 21st century response as opposed to just working to keep them off the internet, where many have raised that there are unintended safety consequences working with the mainstream digital industry, i get a vantage point into the extensive safety work that they are doing on their services and there's a risk that young people wanting to connect with others online will will move to less safe less regulated parts of the internet. >> yeah and as our report was pointing out, you know, a catch all approach might not be the best solution here. however, the central idea of this ban and propelling this reform forward is that there is a link between social media and declining mental health. how severe is that link well, there are a range of studies and what we haven't seen is a clear link we've actually had a number of mental health experts here in australia warning about the mental health harms that
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will come from a ban like this. >> reach out which is a well-known mental health organization, actually warns that 73% of young people use social media to find mental health support. we've also had experts warn that this is particularly important for more disadvantaged youth. for those in more regional areas, for lgbtqi youth who really rely on online spaces to form social connections and find community okay, so then if this isn't the right way to tackle this, this problem what is the right way and whose responsibility should it be the focus must be on online safety, and the responsibility does lie with the online platforms. as well as governments community and a whole of society approach. but certainly there is a key responsibility on the online platforms and working directly with them. there is a range of work that they are undertaking
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to keep all people, including young people, safe online. in australia we have very robust online safety laws that play an important role in ensuring that that work continues. and and there's also reform efforts here in australia to make sure that that act keeps pace with emerging technologies but do you think there should be controlled within an age limit? >> i mean, i know 16 has been selected here if they were, if those reforms to be made in the way that you suggest, is it not still important to have an age limit imposed? and i speak really as a, you know, a mother of two young girls, i would have thought it would be better for my children to not have access to social media, you know, sooner rather than later, just purely because they're not equipped to deal with it as a mother of two myself, i relate to this idea. >> and what's really important to remember here is that we're not making a rule for a specific household we're making a rule for a nation. what we
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are seeing is a lot of mainstream services are doing are creating a lot of specific protections for young people. we're even seeing some companies come up with team specific versions of their services. so that work is happening within the industry but there needs to be a broader approach that looks beyond just what happens on the surface, but also how we empower young people and teenagers, because what we're really talking about here is that 13 to 16 age group, because right now, the norm is for for social media services to be for for those who are over 13, um is really equipping those young adolescents with the skills to safely navigate an online world can social media platforms be trusted to enact these reforms? >> i mean, there's been some suggestion in the past that they are resistant, that they're being forced into this. you know by through the use of these massive fines. um
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do you, do you expect them to respond and react in the way that you you hope this legislation has been released on thursday and there there are swift moves to have this be be law within within a week what we haven't seen in australia is a really extensive consultation process to air the many different views like you've you've had in your report around, around this approach, but certainly once this is australian law, all companies will need to comply. yeah. and we will wait to see the results of of that bill. uh, sunita bose, we appreciate your thoughts from sydney. thank you. >> thanks very much for having me. >> now russian missile strikes and threats have put ukraine's capital on high alert but one ukrainian lawmaker says he won't be intimidated. he joins us next who should be the cnn hero of the year? >> we in now cast up to ten votes a day, every day. visit cnnheroes.com this holiday.
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in kyiv on wednesday. >> this incident was a false alarm. ukraine says it was part of a russian psychological attack spreading false warnings of a massive attack. russia has recently increased overnight strikes in kyiv and added to the tension thursday's launch of a new medium range ballistic missile at ukraine's dnipro region. on friday, ukraine's parliament was closed because of the threats of missiles. but one parliament member says they won't be intimidated i'm near the parliament of ukraine right now. >> it's 10:00 in the morning. i should be here for parliamentary meeting fortunately, it's canceled today, but i want to tell to everybody we are not afraid here of putin or his missiles, of his oreshnik and all this blah blah, blah. and he's bluffing we are not afraid. we
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stand tall. and that is our address to the whole world well, that was alexei goncharenko, who you just saw in that video, and he is joining us now live from kyiv. >> thank you for your time. that was of course, a very defiant message that you had there to russia outstanding. outside of parliament yesterday. but, you know, the ukrainians must be getting worn down by this constant threat of escalation. what impact is that having on ukrainians there? and also in the capital where you are yeah putin tries to attack ukraine in all ways also psychologically and that was a special operation from him with these new ballistic missile, how they attacked how they spread this message how they send a message to americans that they're going to do this. >> american embassy was closed. and all this definitely causes some tension on people. so that's why i think it was
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important to show that we are not afraid, like it was in february 2022, march 2023. we worked in the parliament when russians were 20km from the parliament and could attack it by artillery. even so, yeah, it is a tension. it is a psychological attack from putin. but i want to assure you that ukrainians are concerned, but not but are not panicking and are not afraid. we know with whom we deal and we we continue fighting nevertheless. >> i mean putin is adding to those tensions day by day. just yesterday he threatened to continue using these experimental ballistic missiles, follow through on the threats? you say you know him, so well, or are you viewing this as a bluff, as a means to exert pressure on your allies no, it's definitely bluffing. >> and why he is doing this. now, it's clear that we are moving to some negotiations. president elect donald trump said that he will arrange such
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negotiations. putin all is ready for this ukrainian president also. last days changed his rhetoric in more for negotiations speaking about possible negotiations and possible diplomatic solution. so we're moving to negotiations. and now russia tries to take a better, stronger position at the table of negotiations. that's why they are doing this. they will i think next two months before inauguration of mr. trump, as the new president of the united states will be very tough. they will try to move on the ground in the eastern part of ukraine they will attack our energy infrastructure. they will make psychological attacks like this. they will try to threaten the world with a nuclear weapons and so on. but you should be assured, first of all, that russia is also very exhausted nevertheless, what putin tries to show he is exhausted and russian economy
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is exhausted and russian army is exhausted. but he will these two months he will use this time to put as much pressure both on ukraine and on our allies as possible. >> and in that time, your focus will switch to securing more of what you need in order to combat, if not threats then actual attacks like we saw on on thursday. we know that your defense minister is meant to be speaking to allies to secure new defense systems. is that what the meeting with nato will be about when you meet on tuesday definitely weaponry is the most important thing, and we hope to receive more and we are very thankful for all the support we are receiving. >> but again, these two months are really decisive so in the time when putin tries to press to pressure us, all of us we need also to to exhaust him. so that's the moment the moment when everything which could be given to ukraine should be given. and also, one more thing still, president biden is an
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administration i urge him and ask administration of president biden to impose more sanctions on russia. first of all, on the energy sector like it was done recently with gazprom bank. but we need more and he has power to do this. i think it's very important now to answer on these attacks from putin by pressuring him all right. >> alexei goncharenko, we appreciate your time. thank you thank you very much. now, after the break, a big and timely turnaround for the philadelphia 70 sixers. plus, the latest from the nfl and the formula one circuit. cnn's sports with andy scholes is next what a next level clean swish with the whoa of listerine. >> it kills 99.9% of bad breath germs for five times more cleaning power than brushing and flossing alone. >> get a next level clean listerine. >> feel the whoa. >> look at this one under eye bag. >> it's gone. >> there's this side and this
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bright spot so far for the team has been rookie jared mccain. the 16th overall pick. getting hot in the fourth quarter scored 14 of his 30 points in the period. sixers rallied to beat the nets 113 to 98. lots of teams right now just kicking themselves for passing on mccain. he scored 20 points in seven straight games and right now is the clear frontrunner to win the rookie of the year. >> the rookie, of course i mean, i set goals every single time, every single new season i have every day i set a goal for myself. >> so this season, i just wanted to be consistent with my work and trust it throughout the whole way. so rookie of the year is definitely one of my goals. >> all right. rockets rookie reid shepard also having himself a nice night. look at that pass. he saved the ball and throws it perfectly behind his back up the court to tariq hassan for the slam. rockets blew out the blazers in that one 116 to 88. houston won seven of eight. they're now 12 and five on the season. all right. we saw the 16th pick in the draft. and then the third pick in shepard. how about next
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year's number one overall pick cooper flagg the 17 year old duke freshman. just dominating once again. he had a game high 24 points for the blue devils, leading duke to a road win over 17th ranked arizona. flagg doesn't turn 18 until december 21st. safe to say no one's going to pass on him. all right. elsewhere, formula one under the bright lights of the las vegas strip this weekend, max verstappen inching a bit closer to his fourth straight drivers championship after really struggling in the first day of practice in las vegas on thursday. verstappen, able to turn it around for qualifying friday night. he'll start sunday's race fifth. max currently holds a 62 point lead at the top over his friend and rival lando norris, who will start sixth. all max need to do on saturday is not lose two points to norris and he'll win the title. all right. finally brutal news for the 49ers ahead of their huge matchup against the packers on sunday. quarterback brock purdy has been ruled out with a right shoulder injury. star defensive lineman joey bosa also is going to miss the game with injuries. the niners just five and five
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on the season and they need a win in a bad way on sunday against the packers. and you know christina the niners they lost in the super bowl to the chiefs back in february. and sometimes when you lose the super bowl it's called the super bowl hangover. you have a really bad season the next year and that seems to be exactly what's happening to the 49ers. >> it certainly does seem that way. and just looking at the vegas grand prix as you were previewing for us there. and you know, i never did get there on my time in sports. still a big regret, but we're expecting verstappen to seal the deal this weekend. >> it seems like it's heading that way. yeah you know we'll see. we'll see. maybe we can get an upset. but you know it's hard to bet against it. >> all right andy great to see you. all right. meanwhile jason kelce and his wife are expecting their fourth daughter. the philadelphia eagles offensive lineman retired recently from the nfl. his wife, kylie, posted a photo on instagram announcing the addition to their family. the couple married in 2018 and have three daughters. the spotlight
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