have moisture coming into a lot of these areas, albeit not as much it's on top of what we've already had so because that ground is saturated, it's not going to take much to trigger some flooding in a few spots just over the next several days still looking at at least 1 to 3in more of rainfall along the coastal regions, and snow likely to be measured in feet. looking at an extra 1 to 3ft, ally in the sierras over the next couple of days then fast forward to thanksgiving day itself. you've got some maybe local last minute travel. you're concerned areas are going to stretch from pennsylvania back down into portions of louisiana. that's where you're going to encounter some of the heaviest rain. but then it begs the question, okay, what about the macy's thanksgiving day parade? many folks not only go to see it, but also watch it on tv. the rain is expected to really spread into new york city. once we get into the back half of the day, and especially thursday night. so the question becomes the front end likely is going to be okay but you may start to see some of those isolated showers beginning to pick up towards the

regardless, it's definitely going to be a chilly one with temperatures at the time of the parade only in the upper 30s i'm going to be watching. >> i'll be flying as well. allison chinchar thanks so much! do join cnn for the ultimate party. there will be celebrity appearances, a live view of parades across the country john berman. erica hill host thanksgiving in america starting at 8 a.m.. thanksgiving morning on cnn and streaming on max newsroom. i'm jim sciutto in washington. jessica dean has the weekend off. tonight we are getting new insight into one of the biggest cyber and national security challenges that will be facing the incoming trump administration almost immediately. new york times was the first to report the top telecom executives, including at&t and verizon, were summoned to the white house situation room last night to meet with national security officials to

discuss the scope and scale of what has turned out to be a long running chinese cyber espionage campaign targeting some of the most senior u.s. political figures in this country, including including president-elect trump, senator mark warner, chairman of the senate intelligence committee, is calling it the worst telecom hack in our nation's history. says the hackers are still inside the system by the way, it took a long time to even discover concern and all senators classified briefing is scheduled for congress for after congress returns next month. joining us now is the senior adviser at the center for strategic and international studies, glenn gerstell also served himself long time in the intelligence community i want to tell you, as you read the details of this hack, how concerned are you in one word, very. >> this attack is audacious. it's sophisticated, and it's strategic. >> it isn't necessarily

surprising because we've seen jim china in go after our infrastructure, telecoms valuable assets stealing intellectual property over the years through cyber warfare but this is this is easily the most audacious obviously. >> senator exaggeration described it as the worst telecom hack ever. >> it is of grave concern for our national security. >> it's sophisticated because the chinese were able to figure out apparently some ways to exploit vulnerabilities in our in our telecom system and then most of all, it's strategic because china most. >> and this is we don't know this for sure, but this is what it appears like they wanted to be able to find out which spies, which chinese spies operating in the united states we might be tracking, uh, trying to use our own surveillance mechanisms on those spies here in the united

states. and that's the information they were looking for, among other things, as i read about this, it strikes me you can almost describe it as an infection. >> right. that they've infected the system and it's still there. senator warner has said to really dig the hack out and the hackers out. telecom companies might have to replace entire chunks of their infrastructure. i mean, that takes time. it takes money. i mean i just wonder how quickly this can be rectified know exactly the extent to which the chinese are still in the system and we're not sure exactly how they got in. >> but whatever it is, it doesn't appear that we've been able to successfully close the door and lock all the windows to make sure they can't come in again, so they're probably still in the system. we haven't. it took us a year, apparently, to detect it in the first place. i think we've got to assume that they're still inside our systems, and these telecom systems are sort of old and rickety. so to speak. they

date back to the landline systems of the 1970s and 80. we bolted on a cellular system to it the 2g and 3g systems, the older cellular technologies are known to be vulnerable to something called ss7, the type of signaling technology that's used for text messages. um, so uh, one good thing, perhaps, is that encrypted messages such as messages sent on your iphone to another iphone probably were not caught by this because they're encrypted end to end and signal, that use encrypted communications were not able to be breached. but still, the chinese were able to get an awful lot of information. >> uh a couple targets here. as you mentioned, it seems that they were specifically trying to look look at how much how many chinese spies the u.s. had identified and who they'd missed so that they could of course, you know, keep the folks who have been missed and perhaps get rid of the ones who've been identified or

moved them out. but but it also seems that they were targeting senior politicians, including president elect trump and jd vance so it seems like there's a surveillance aspect to this as well. >> oh it's totally about surveillance, but it's surveillance for a strategic purpose. uh, the chinese have already penetrated other infrastructure in the united states. uh this moving to the communications side enabled them to get some very sophisticated intelligence on the incoming administration which, of course, may be vitally interested in knowing, um, and then also find out a little bit about what do the u.s. intelligence community, what does the fbi know about spies operating on behalf of china inside the united states and the way they were able to do that is to go to the mechanism that the fbi uses when it gets a search warrant to go to the telecom companies and say, give us information about this particular target and they were able to exploit that so the other piece of

this, right. >> and this is something that from my own reporting, is always struck me that there is national security intelligence gathering. and by the way, the u.s. does that too, on china and other countries. but then there's private sector intelligence gathering and china has been most guilty of many in this field in that it goes after private companies, intellectual property, often with with great success. i wrote years ago about how they were able to steal plans for, for instance uh, top weapons systems from private companies. do we think that this kind of penetration would have that intent as exactly what the intent is. >> right now. it sounds like it's strategic intelligence. getting information about the incoming administration and about what our spy agencies know. as i said already, about chinese spies. but clearly espionage for industrial purposes such as the long recognized theft of

intellectual property from u.s. solar panel panel manufacturers, there's a reason china now dominates that field, because they stole the technology. they got it all for free so this is this is a clear pattern on behalf of china. >> it saves you a lot of money when you just steal it. before we go, you used to work for the nsa as their general counsel. can we assume that the u.s. has similar capabilities and perhaps penetration of chinese government? secure systems? >> well, the u.s. government has said that in many respects, china is a peer competitor in terms of espionage. it has very significant capabilities. we're seeing that right now obviously, the u.s. does as well. we get exquisite intelligence about national security threats facing the united states, not only from china, but elsewhere around the world. so it's i don't know that we would necessarily comment the u.s. government hasn't commented on whether we do anything exactly like this, but i can assure you that the united states government has robust capabilities itself

which, of course, complicates this because this isn't an act of war um, it's it's causing grave damages, a grave damage it's a tremendous concern but it isn't something we're going to respond to by sending a missile or have a bomber go anywhere. and that's that's the real problem with this, no question. >> how do you respond glenn gerstell, thanks so much for joining. thank you. and we will be right back you want answers? >> astute political analysis. >> we have questions. how biden said the write off stayed awake. why did trump pull out of 60 minutes? i love pulling out. >> this is the news network. >> have i got news for you tonight at nine on cnn as the people you love get older, their risk of severe flu and covid goes up last year alone, those viruses hospitalized nearly 1 million people 65 and older. >> that's nearly 1 million moms, dads favorite uncles and

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trump's latest picks axios says the next white house may include the, quote, most ideologically diverse cabinet of modern times. >> not all of them are what you'd expect from president trump. rfk jr., who supports abortion rights, would run health and human services, a pro-union centrist, would lead the labor department. a former democrat would be in charge of intelligence and for treasury. someone who worked for years with george soros, a boogeyman for many republicans. cnn's alayna treene is in west palm beach. elena, you've covered this campaign and now this new administration incoming administration for some time. are these choices with that diversity surface choices, or do they reflect a diversity of policy right because the president is quite public pronouncements during the campaign and since envision quite a broad change to government and a rightward shift. so does this does this

diversity matter? i guess is my question or is it just for show i put it this way, jim. >> donald trump has never been an ideologue. he wasn't in his first term. he is not going to be in his second term. but i think what's very clear assembling his cabinet, he's doing so in a way that was very different than from when he was elected in 2016. and that is before he had no experience in washington. he didn't know politics very well. and so he surrounded himself with traditional conservatives, people who had worked in past republican administrations to really help him make choices for him. he has not done that this time around. he has made very clear to his transition team that he is making calling the shots and part of that is he feels that he has been given really the power to do so, thanks to his performance in the election and also to republicans controlling both chambers of congress. now that is that he is putting in some of these entries interesting choices. you mentioned rfk jr., a former democrat. tulsi gabbard, a

former democrat. many other people that were on that list. but that is also part of what he's trying to play into. he wants disrupters really in these different agencies. his number one goal is to break from the establishment, break from traditional norms. and he believes these people will help him do that. but the one thing they all have in common, and the one thing that is very clear in my conversations with those working on this transition, is that all of them are aligned in pushing the maga agenda forward. we will see if that ends up being put into practice, but at least that is what they have been telling donald trump behind the scenes. that is what they have been communicating publicly on television, something that he's been watching very closely while looking at these different candidates. but then the other thing, of course, is loyalty. and all of them have fallen in line behind him. his number one goal is to have people surrounding him who will not push back on what he wants to do with his agenda and who will not say no. he wants to surround himself with yes men and women, and that is who he believes he has around him. so even though you have some of these to many republicans, i should say controversial picks,

they're going to have a very hard time. some of these people, like rfk jr., like tulsi gabbard, getting through their confirmation processes particularly as it relates to traditional conservatives in the senate. donald trump does believe that they will be able to represent him and his agenda. and i would remind you, as well that even though he ran on the republican party ticket, he does believe that he is different from traditional conservatism. and, you know, republican ideology. he believes that what he wants to do is what the people elected him for his policies, not necessarily those of the republican party overall. >> yeah policy, right? it's a maga ideology as opposed to a traditional republican one. alayna treene. thank you. so much. also tonight, the washington post is reporting citing two sources close to trump's transition that trump plans to fire the entire team behind special counsel jack smith, who, you'll remember, brought two federal prosecutions against the president elect. and, by the way found got grand juries to indict the president. multiple times. trump would also use the

doj to investigate his already debunked claims about massive fraud in the 2020 election. all right. so let's dig deeper with cnn legal analyst, former federal prosecutor elie honig lee got a lot of questions for you. um let's start with his plans to fire all these doj lawyers who worked on these federal investigations, who, as i noted went to grand juries, who then looked at the evidence and indicted the president elect. he wants to fire them all. is there any legal basis to do so? can he do that under the current structure of the doj? >> well, the short answer is yes. of course. the president or the attorney general can fire prosecutors from doj or can try to let's remember, the attorney general runs the justice department, whether one likes it or not, the president runs the executive branch. and as much as i personally sympathize and empathize with the rank and file the nonpolitical employees at doj, i was one once. they don't make the rules. now, important to

know first of all, if donald trump goes in there and either himself or has pam bondi his attorney general, assuming she gets through fire, these people that will be breaking a very important bedrock norm of independence at doj typically political appointees, the attorney general u.s. attorneys, they're in play, but not the rank and file. but it's also important to note people can push back if people get fired. some of them have civil service protections. some of them have union contracts. so if there is this mass firing, we may well see some lawsuits challenging those firings which will then have to go through the courts. >> okay. so that's one question. next one, he's talking about firing the fbi director chris wray. simple as just the president saying you're fired so by law, the fbi director is supposed to serve a ten year term. >> and that's done intentionally because the idea is the fbi director is not supposed to serve concomitant with the president, unlike so many other jobs. if donald

trump does fire chris wray, it seems quite clear he will. let's remember first of all, who hired chris wray seven years ago, a guy named donald trump, he will be firing his own appointee from seven years ago. the other thing that's important to note historically, is there have been three fbi directors ever fired by presidents before the end of their ten year term. one was by bill clinton early on in his tenure. that person, a guy named william sessions, had various problems with personal use of fbi property. and then the other two are going to be jim comey and chris wray by donald trump. so this the law says they get ten year terms, but there's really nothing they can do. jim comey didn't resist jim comey didn't sue. i don't think chris wray will either. >> i mean, we say norms, but so many norms have been shredded in the last decade that included by the president elect, i suppose the country is getting used to them. okay. i want to ask about the other part of this washington post reporting that is that trump wants to take the doj to you know, dredge up the false claims about 2020 election being stolen, which by the way,

were already rejected by as you know, his attorney general at the time, bill barr. but he wants to go at it again, which, by the way as well, is a tactic he's used before. you remember, after 2016, he had this commission to investigate just the popular vote in 2016, which he lost later disbanded because they found nothing so how does he use the doj to investigate something that doesn't exist? >> so i think we're going to be saying this quite a bit over the next few years which is it's ridiculous. but they can do it. i mean, the justice department and the attorney general can decide to use their resources to investigate, essentially whatever they want. but i'll tell you right now what the ending is going to be. jim, you already said it. there is no such thing. and doj, by the way, did look at this. as you said, after donald trump won the 2016 election, he appointed this commission. they worked for a long time. they issued this ridiculous nothing of a report. it still sits on the internet now. they didn't find anything. and then bill barr actually tweaked the rules a little bit in a way i didn't think he should have around the

2020 election to expand doj's ability to investigate for election fraud. they did do that before the election. after the election the whole reason bill barr had a falling out with donald trump is because bill barr went to donald trump and said there's nothing there. and then essentially they parted ways. and also, of course, jim remembered there was 60 some lawsuits brought that challenged that whether there was election fraud in the 2020 election, of course, all of them. but one failed. the one didn't that didn't fail. had nothing to do really with the claim of fraud. so it's been covered. but but if they want to go back and waste resources, nobody can stop them. >> well, there is one election. they're not investigating. that's the one they just won. even though many of the same voting methods vote by mail, early voting were all used but different outcome. clearly there was no fraud. i want to ask you about a bigger picture issue which hangs over this right you had a president attempt according to grand jury indictments, to overturn an election. you had a president who took with him to his home a whole host of classified documents. again indicted by a grand jury you have a president

who attempted to overturn the results of the election in georgia in 2020, indicted there that didn't go anywhere for a whole host of reasons, which you and i have talked about. what is the cloud over the justice department and just the legal system that it wasn't able to adjudicate those charges. i mean, it prosecuted, but it didn't bring them to trial for a whole host of reasons delays, et cetera.. what cloud does that leave in terms of credibility? right. the credibility of the u.s. rule of us, rule of law the u.s. justice system yeah, i think there's obviously a lot of blame to go around jim. >> but let me let me point to a couple of things. first of all, the supreme court's immunity decision i don't say it was necessarily right or wrong, but it was certainly very, very broad and gave donald trump a lot of cover in the federal cases that were brought against him. and the state cases. also, we have this long standing doj policy. it goes back to 1973 from the watergate era that says the justice department will not prosecute or try or

imprison the sitting president. that helped donald trump evade the mueller investigation. and that's the reason actually, that the current indictments you just referenced, jim, they're getting thrown out. it wouldn't matter if donald trump fired jack smith or not. jack smith is out of there because of that policy. he knows he cannot continue with the policy. and then if we want to further look sort of on the other side of things tactically to the way prosecutors have handled this, none of these prosecutors and i mean merrick garland and jack smith i mean fani willis and i mean alvin bragg, none of them brought their cases in a timely manner. they all waited until the spring and summer of 2023, two and a half years. jim, i wrote i wrote in my book. i know you know this back in 2022. it's already too late. they've already waited too long anyone who understands how real courtroom criminal cases happen knows that there's no way that you are going to get these cases indicted, get through discovery, get through all the motions and appeals, and tried before the 2024 election, the only one that came in was the hush money case, which is now collapsing anyway.

>> and listen, some of that goes right to the top of the justice department under president biden. merrick garland, elie honig but that's where we are. that's the world we live in thanks so much for joining us. >> thanks, jim. >> still ahead, overseas israeli airstrikes have killed at least 20 people in a residential neighborhood in beirut flattening an apartment building what we're learning about that strike and even in the midst of all this ongoing ceasefire talks between israel and hezbollah were being held hostage. >> that was being led across the embassy compound. people running up to me shouting death to america. >> the iran hostage crisis, how it really happened. tomorrow at nine on cnn deals with any six inch subway. >> subway did what dad six inch sub chips and a drink, all for just $6.99 central

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israel and hezbollah. one strike flattened a residential building in central beirut, killing 20 people, injuring dozens. dozens more, according to lebanese officials. the idf gave no warning or evacuation notice prior to the strike. cnn's nic robertson is in jerusalem following developments. >> reporter jim, this was a no notice strike by the israeli air force in the early hours of saturday morning. eyewitnesses talk about several bunker busting bombs being used. the building reduced to rubble. eight storeys, collapsed. a massive crater. this type of strike is typical of what we've seen in the past. when the idf tries to target a senior hezbollah figure and that appears to be why we've heard from lebanese officials later in the day saying no senior, no senior hezbollah commander was killed in this particular strike. and a number of other strikes in the southern suburbs of beirut. these strikes had warnings given people able to

get out of the buildings and the idf saying they were targeting hezbollah command and control and weapons storage sites. but it does give an indication of the intensity of the fight at the moment, despite the fact that there are ongoing cease fire negotiations as well in the south, the military there hezbollah and the idf facing off in several battles in villages there. at least one of those battles, lasting more than a day. and that's over a strategically important village for hezbollah. a number of israeli casualties as well, from the fight in the south of lebanon evacuated to a hospital inside israel. but the tempo of the fight, the tempo of the airstrikes continuing to be high. jim. >> and the civilian toll continuing to grow. nic robertson in jerusalem there, joining me now is karim sadjadpour. he's a senior fellow at the carnegie endowment for international peace. karim, thanks for joining me on this saturday

thank you. >> jim first, before we get to iran, i wanted to ask you about iran's military tactics, as we're seeing in lebanon, because that's a that's a no knock bomb on a residential building in central beirut. >> no warning. so no chance for civilians to get away, flatten the building kill a couple dozen people. it strikes me that israel is applying now to lebanon. and in recent days and weeks, the standard of military action that we saw in gaza, which has led to so many civilian casualties. basically, if you're close to someone in hezbollah, you could be killed and lebanese hezbollah for four decades has been one of the crown jewels. >> jewels of iran's revolution. >> and it's been totally decimated over the last few months. >> we haven't seen however,

any apparent change in iran's regional strategy. >> they're still committed to replacing israel with palestine and committed to trying to evict america from the region. >> and up until now, the signs we've been getting from the iranian government are simply that they're going to continue to double down in their support for actors, whether it's hezbollah and lebanon or hamas and palestine and committed to rebuilding those groups i wonder if you think that makes war between iran and israel less or more likely. >> there's a piece in foreign affairs this month written by kerry lee which argues that, in effect, now that iran used hezbollah as a means of projecting power, as you well know against israel. but with that removed, that the chances in effect of direct conflict between the two countries is higher. do you agree? >> i think, jim, the great

possibility of conflict between iran and israel at the moment is israel bombing. what is now the command and control of lebanese hezbollah is the iranian embassy in beirut. if israel chooses to bomb the iranian embassy in beirut tehran will be obliged to respond. i think in a pretty major way. i think in my view, that's the highest risk of of of of an iran-israel conflict at the moment despite these attacks. >> and i think what we could describe as an escalation, there are still these ongoing cease fire talks between israel and hezbollah with mediators and the u.s. involved, and some hope that they're moving closer to one. and i wonder, do you share that hope? do you see a cease fire deal as as potentially in the offing you know what i've heard of these

talks is that iran continues to be the spoiler. >> iran doesn't want to compromise while it's perceived to be weak, doesn't want to compromise under of lebanon clearly want a respite from from this terrible conflict. um, but, you know, iran continues to play that spoiling role and the israelis continue to see hezbollah as being very vulnerable and, you know, they want to continue to decimate them while they can. but i do think, jim, that both president biden and president-elect trump want to see an end to these regional conflicts. biden doesn't want to end his presidency on this note, and trump doesn't want to begin his presidency on conflict with the middle east. >> yeah, that is one thing i hear from some in the trump camp that trump believes he can make a deal with iran, just a better one than the obama administration made a way to

put some restrictions on its nuclear program et cetera. and that is part of that. they plan to they plan to increase economic pressure on iran via sanctions and so forth when he gets in. is that a plausible scenario where that pushes iran back to the table and they come to some sort of agreement you know, when trump speaks publicly about iran, i think he presents a very unrealistic understanding of of the iranian government. >> he said that he could bring iran into the abraham accords for example, which is, you know, the compelling iran to normalize relations with israel, which is never going to happen. the iranian regime's identity is premised on opposition to israel's existence. he also says that iran simply cannot have a nuclear weapon but simply opposing iran's nuclear program is no longer, um that's not a sufficient u.s. strategy, given iran's enormous influence

throughout the middle east. there has to be an iran strategy or an iran deal, which also addresses iran's regional ambitions. so it's much more complicated than than trump thinks. and the challenge here is that if he only focuses on financial war, essentially trying to bankrupt iran, they will at some point respond militarily against us allies in the region. saudi arabia and uae. and then the trump administration will likely be forced to enter militarily to defend our regional partners, which they obviously do not want to do. >> iran announced on friday it was activating new advanced centrifuges. i wonder, given the increasing tensions in the region, the direct attacks now between israel and iran and israel's ability, frankly, to to penetrate iran with with these most recent strikes, does that make iran more likely to go nuclear, that it calculates that it needs a nuclear weapon

to survive my view is that as long as this current iranian supreme leader is alive and in power, ayatollah khamenei is 85 years old. >> he's unlikely to cross the nuclear threshold like north korea and detonate a bomb. i think he wants to be a threshold state, but he's not going to turn the screwdriver. i think when he leaves the scene, the danger that iran tries to weaponize its program in my view, increases because after he dies or he's left the scene. what's more likely is an iran which is dominated by the military, by the revolutionary guards and i think they'll likely have bolder nuclear calculations than he does. so i think in the time that he's alive, you know, there's still a possibility of averting a nuclear armed iran with with a lot of coercion and diplomacy alarming to contemplate. >> karim sadjadpour, thanks so much. >> thank you jim.

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enten. all right. we bring you in for the numbers, for the data, for the hard facts, the science let's let's let's run some of them. what are the confirmation odds for some of the more contested names? >> yeah. let's talk about pete hegseth first, jim, because obviously there was the sexual assault allegation that was lobbied up against him. >> and over the last week as that allegation has gained some more press, you can see that the betting markets have significantly gone down on headset's odds. so this is the chance that he gets confirmed as defense secretary. a week ago he had a 77% chance. look at where we stand today. 57%. that's only a little bit better than a coin toss, jim and that's a drop of 20 points over a week and of course, you know, most confirmations idea that you have someone who's just a little bit north of 50% is quite unconventional but as you yourself said earlier this hour, donald trump is quite unconventional, breaking a lot of norms and of course, the idea that you have

only a 57% chance to get through the united states senate for pete hegseth that in itself is is breaking a norm, jim. >> okay. so let's talk about some of the others. rfk jr.. for hhs, tulsi gabbard at dni yeah. >> all right. so let's talk about these two. look, their odds are slightly better than headsets, but not significantly so. all right. so what's the chance that gabbard gets confirmed? look at this just 59%. that's just about 3 in 5. that's nothing. 3 in 5 things don't happen. all of the time. how about rfk jr.. for health and human services secretary. look at that. just 65%. just a 2 in 3 shot. now, i should point out that matt gaetz, who obviously dropped out to be ag, was below 50% before he dropped out in terms of the betting markets. but the bottom line, if there is one thing that we should have learned over the last few years, is that thing is definitely not a sure thing so at this particular point, while individually,

gabbard and rfk jr.. are likely to get confirmed or more likely than not the chance that both of them do. i'm not quite sure that they're north of 50% at this point, and that's quite the thing. given that, you know, trump thinks he has this giant you know, sometimes you run into a brick wall. if you nominate folks who are unconventional. >> yeah. well unconventional. and then there are other questions about qualifications. some other positions. >> the vaccines science and so on. >> all right. so let's talk about something totally different. we've seen politics and sports combine a lot of times before. but this month in a particularly interesting and slightly odd way and that is the trump dance tell us. >> yeah. you know, we've seen a lot of athletes, a lot of male athletes doing the trump dance celebrating. and i want to give you an idea of why that is. and it's just because trump does really well for a republican among young men. look at this. this is trump versus the democrat at 2020. look at this. joe biden won them by 20 points. look at what donald trump he

gained 22 points. he actually won among young men. he is the president to win among young men since get this george w. bush back in 2000. so trump gaining tremendously among young men. and i think that there's some idea out there that it's just young white men that he's doing well with. but take a look here. look at the gains that he had among men 18 to 29 among latino voters. four years ago, joe biden won that group by 29 points. look in the exit poll. my goodness gracious. a 20 point margin for donald trump and even among black voters. jim, age 18 to 29 young men, look at that 67 point margin for biden. kamala harris only won by 54. so trump gaining all over the map with young men all right. >> so we talked about sports and i don't know how many folks at home watching might care about this as much as me. and you because yes, my dad went to columbia. we used to go to columbia football games, and the joke was they always lost. right. um but that's not true today. >> it's not true today jim. my

father went through, took me to. so many columbia lions football games. he watched them when they lost over and over and over again. and today i went and they won their first ivy league title. get this jim, since 1961, if my father were around today, he'd be the happiest person. and if there is a heaven, i know he is looking down right now and just be, oh i'm getting a little emotional. i would just be tremendously happy. i was. all i can say is jim, roar! lions roar. dad, we did it! >> my dad and your dad together. um. it's great to see. >> let's hope they're watching nervous as heck. yes, yes, you can see i was very nervous watching that game today. but they did it. and harvard lost to yale. i've gone to so many games. they finally did it. they finally did it. both our dads are very happy this evening, jim harry enten happy for them. >> happy for you. thanks so much. and we'll be right back

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