321321 today. >> tulsi gabbard is still united states army. she commands the reserve unit here in oklahoma and missouri. she is a true patriot of the united states. >> he never commanded a unit. he never commanded a company, let alone battalions brigades, or whole armies. he was a platoon leader. he does not have the experience to run an organization of that size. >> the question here is not whether the brothers killed their parents. they have admitted to doing so, but have said that they did it in self-defense. >> it's not something you ever think that happened to you you see on the news. you know, it happens in spain globally. i had to move everything upstairs and everything that we have sentimental value to. it's really sad >> this is cnn newsroom with

max foster and christina macfarlane hello. >> and a warm welcome to our viewers joining us from around the world. i'm max foster. it is monday november the 25th, 9 a.m. here in london, 4 a.m. in washington, d.c. where the thanksgiving holiday week is starting with a pretty clear picture of donald trump's cabinet picks. now republicans are bracing for long confirmation battles ahead especially for the president elect's more controversial choices like the nominee for secretary of defense, pete hegseth, who faces allegations of sexual assault. democratic senator and combat veteran tammy duckworth has questioned hicks's qualifications to lead the u.s. department of defense he never commanded a unit. >> he never commanded a company, let alone battalions, brigades or whole armies. he was a platoon leader he served at a very low level in the military, and we're talking about an organization that is 3 million servicemen and women and civilians, and a budget of

over $900 billion. he does not have the experience to run an organization of that size. >> meanwhile duckworth called trump's pick to lead the intelligence community unqualified saying former democrat tulsi gabbard has no intelligence background. duckworth also says gabbard is compromised because of what she says are troubling relationships with russia and syria. but oklahoma's republican senator is dismissing criticism of gabbard. >> there's no document, there's no background there for her to see, for anyone to see, she is she is a true patriot of the united states. and there is no reason why the democrats are going after her other than the fact they're upset that she left their woke party. >> well cnn's alayna treene has more on this. >> well president-elect donald trump has moved very quickly to fill out his cabinet. he only has a few more names left to announce. but now really the attention is turning to how he is going to get these different candidates through their confirmation processes, particularly the ones that we

know are more controversial and that are causing some consternation up on capitol hill and that includes tulsi gabbard who many senators questioned her position on surveillance, and also her deep distrust of some of the agencies that she'll be overseeing. there's also rfk jr.. who has passed comments supporting abortion access may not sit well with a lot of the staunchly anti-abortion senators that will be dealing with his confirmation process. there's also pete hegseth who's donald trump's pick to lead the pentagon. he has been dogged by a recent sexual assault allegation, but also a lot of people raising questions of whether or not he has the credentials for that role so all of this together is what i know the trump transition team is going to be focusing on very heavily between now and inauguration day as they prepare all of these different people to go through the senate process. now, we did hear some members address this today. i do want you to take a listen to what republican senator markwayne mullin of the deep red state of oklahoma said in

trying to address some of this, this isn't a new administration coming in. >> and so when people are criticizing his picks the president has done this job before. he knows exactly what he needs. he knows who he wants to put in those positions. that's why he's been able to move fast, because he knows he has four years to reach the to reach the mandate that the american people said they want the government going in a different direction. and these nominations, he's putting forth are actually going to deliver that for him. >> now, what mullen said there, i think is pretty significant. and it does align with what i'm hearing in my conversations with those working with the trump transition team, which is donald trump chose these people even though he knew they were controversial for a reason. he wants disruptors, people who will go into these different agencies and buck the establishment and really try and go in a different way, break from traditional norms. that was his goal in these selections. and that is why we've seen him publicly put pressure. donald trump himself on many of these senators and encouraging them to support

him. now, one key thing to keep in mind as well, though is that we do know that senate republicans have a backbone that even though republicans have control of the house and the senate, we did see them weigh in very publicly about matt gaetz. i mean, donald trump was all in on matt gaetz. we had been told and really wanted him for his attorney general pick, but it was clear from his meetings with senators and the conversations they were having that he was not going to get the number of votes he needed to get through the senate. and ultimately, gaetz withdrew and so that is definitely weighing on the back of a lot of people's minds at mar-a-lago. and something they're going to continue to be working toward as they ready all of these different selections for those hearings. alayna treene, cnn west palm beach, florida a developing story out of lithuania, a cargo plane flying from germany crashed just outside the vilnius airport at about 5:30 a.m. >> local time. you can see the plane in this video. here is the tiny dot at the top of the

screen before it disappears behind the building. this is the moment when it skidded into a house and burst into flames you can see thick, dark smoke arising there. in this video you can see the plane's engine next to the house. it crashed into. local authorities say one crew member was killed, but remarkably, three others on board, including the pilot survived the crash. so did the 12 people who live in the house. it slammed into the plane was a swift air aircraft operating under contract for dhl according to the logistics company emergency workers and firefighters are still on the scene now an israeli official says there's been significant progress made in talks aimed at reaching a ceasefire. a deal the ceasefire deal between israel and hezbollah. though the official didn't say uh, official did say there are still disagreements, rather that have to be settled despite the talks. there's been no end to the strikes across the

border on sunday night, the israel defense forces said they struck 12 hezbollah command centers in beirut's southern suburbs lebanese officials say dozens were killed in attacks across the country over the weekend. and since mid-september lebanon's health ministry says israeli strikes have killed more than 3000 people in israel. at least seven people were injured after the military says hezbollah fired around 250 projectiles from lebanon on sunday, some of them as you can see here, intercepted by israel's air defenses meanwhile, in iran, a senior adviser to supreme leader ayatollah ayatollah ali khamenei says tehran is preparing to respond to recent strikes by israel. cnn's paula hancocks joins me now. paula, let's start with the ceasefire talks in lebanon well max, everyone was speaking to at this point says that it does appear to be close. >> we heard from the israeli ambassador to the united states

michael herzog. he was speaking to israel army radio and said that it could happen within days. he also, though pointed out that israel does reserve the freedom to act if they feel that they need to. meaning, if they believe that the ceasefire proposal is being or the ceasefire is being violated then they want to be able to to act against hezbollah now, up until this point, that appears to be a sticking point in in hezbollah's mind so it appears as though they are in the final, uh the final throes of trying to put this cease fire proposal together. but that could well be one of the quite significant sticking points. now, we did have one regional source as well, telling us that they believed that they were very close, closer than they have ever been, but not yet fully formed with this this deal. now, what we are also seeing on the ground is what we often see just before a

ceasefire is announced. and that is both sides pushing an escalating the amount of military activity that they are carrying out. we heard from the israeli defense force that some hezbollah. that's among the highest that we have seen since october eighth of of last year. and we've also seen significant airstrikes from israel into the southern suburbs of of beirut and, and southern lebanon as well. a grim milestone being crossed in lebanon with more than 3000 now having been killed uptick in, uh in violence between the two sides started now we are also, as you mentioned there, max, hearing from a senior adviser to the supreme leader in iran, ali larijani, and he has said that there will be a response, as we have heard, to

just last month and he has said that it will be aimed at restoring deterrence, that the military authorities in tehran are currently trying to hammer out a deal and a plan that will try and restore that deterrence. now we had heard from the supreme leader shortly after the the late october strike by israel that the response would be teeth breaking. now, in that response from israel which was a retaliation to an october first strike by tehran, we did see israel targeting the aerial defense systems in iran. we also saw missile manufacturing sites being struck and the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu later admitted that a component of the nuclear program was also taken out, but not giving any more details than that. so this is what we are expecting at

this point. there was no details. understandably on on timing or exactly what that retaliation would look like but that is something that we are hearing once again, tehran saying there will be a response to israel. max. >> paula, thank you so much for that. now the white house is condemning the killing of an israeli rabbi in the united arab emirates, calling it an horrific crime against those who stand for peace, tolerance and coexistence. authorities in the uae have arrested three people in connection with the death of rabbi zvi kogan, who had been filmed by a friend days before his murder. kogan had been missing since thursday and on sunday, the uae interior ministry confirmed his body had been discovered. israel says he was killed in an anti-semitic act of terror. >> the israel behold the state of israel will use every means to bring the murderers and their dispatches to justice

none of them will escape accountability. >> i greatly appreciate the cooperation with the murder. together we will strengthen our ties in the face of attempts by the axis of evil to harm our peace relations middle east and in ukraine will feature prominently in the g7 foreign ministers meeting today, which is in central italy the delegations will discuss those wars along with indo-pacific security and the ongoing security >> ukraine's foreign minister will attend meetings on tuesday. us secretary of state antony blinken arrived in italy on sunday. it will be his last g7 summit before the trump administration takes over at the white house in january. donald trump's choice to be the next us national security adviser says the president elect is concerned about recent developments between russia and ukraine. congressman mike waltz told fox news that mr. trump is

focused on setting up negotiations to end the conflict. >> the president elect has been very concerned it's all going. president trump has been very clear about the need to end this conflict and so what we're need to be discussing is who's at that table whether it's an agreement, an armistice, how to get both sides to the table. and then what's the framework of a deal clare sebastian joins me here in london. >> well, he just outlined all the problems here, deciding who's around the table, getting them to the table. i mean, this is not something that's going to be done in 24 hours, as trump has suggested. >> well, and especially not given what we saw last week which was a clearly a new chapter opening up in this war, russia firing that medium range ballistic missile at dnipro on thursday, signaling they're willing to bring in this new class of weapons into the conflict, whose range massively, you know dwarfs the range of the western long range missiles that are now being allowed to be used on russian

soil by ukraine's allies. so i think that is part of the concern for ukraine. right. when you hear those comments from mike waltz, on the one hand, he's saying that he wants to end the war, that trump wants to get a deal. ukraine is still not at all clear how that would happen, how he would bring the two parties to the table. and obviously the concern is it would lead to some kind of freezing of the conflict in place, some kind of capitulation in ukraine. does not like to be seen on an equal footing with russia when it comes to negotiations. but on the other hand, he did say, look for those adversaries who are out there who think this is a time of opportunity. they're wrong, he says he's met with jake sullivan, who's the current nsa, and they are speaking with one voice. and of course zelenskyy's tack. since the election has been to say, look, we're ready to work with trump. we want to hear his proposals, and we do want to end the war in 2025. so i think they're looking at this in a sort of nuanced way at this point um, you know, a lot of the commentary and some of the media does suggest that, um, trump isn't necessarily on ukraine's side. >> but if we look at the evidence, he's been pretty

supportive over the years. >> yeah, it's not it's just not clear at this point. right. zelenskyy said that he had a call with him over the summer, and he was very supportive. obviously, the rhetoric toughened and in particular it toughened when zelenskyy was in the united states in september and he started using that phrase about zelenskyy being the greatest salesman. he comes to the u.s. and goes back with 100 billion every time. and paraphrasing but. right, but but but i think it was sort of said in a derogatory sense. and of course we know that jd vance, his running mate, has openly opposed aid for ukraine. so this was very unnerving to ukraine. but obviously now that he's won, they have to work with him and and i think it really puts extra pressure on meetings like we're seeing today at the g7 meeting, the foreign minister going there to try to make his case. >> blinken has obviously been a towering force in all of these different conflicts. but, you know, his power has gone away now. what do you think he's going to try and get from the meeting? >> so i think clearly the biden administration is trying to frontload as much aid as it can to buy ukraine as much time as it can to tide it over in case the next administration pulls

back. and we don't know. right now who the next secretary of state is going to be it has to go through congress and all of that but, you know, there are concerns that they might reduce aid so i think that's one thing. the second thing that we're looking out for from this meeting is any progress on dispersing that $50 billion loan to ukraine that's backed by those russian sovereign assets? the g7 has agreed. the various different parties have agreed their contributions to it. and we had expected that that would come by the end of the year, that financially would put ukraine on a much surer footing going into the next us administration. >> clare sebastian thank you the turkey might be the least of concerns when it comes to this week's thanksgiving holiday. still ahead of the weather could put some travel plans in jeopardy and the dire warning from a us senator over a chinese cyber attack that targeted top political figures including donald trump, plus the menendez brothers are preparing for a court hearing today where a judge could kick start their path to release from prison

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system we're watching. that's the one that moved into the west coast now starting to overspread into the rockies and eventually into the central portion of the country. once we get towards wednesday this is going to have mostly rain here as the temperatures won't quite be cold enough for snow. you're really going to have to go pretty far north to get the snow into the mix. but by overnight wednesday and into thursday, those temperatures starting to creep down in some areas, allowing a few more spots to get some snow or even a rain snow mix. heavy rain at times possible across the tennessee valley even cities like nashville, atlanta and knoxville could have rain in the forecast then by midday thursday, you're looking at more of that moisture over spreading into the northeast and into the mid-atlantic. so any last minute travel or local travel on thanksgiving day itself, the biggest concerns are going to be the northeast stretching all the way down into the gulf coast, where you're going to have the bulk of that really heavy moisture. so then the question becomes, okay, what about the famous macy's day parade? here's the thing. we've got that rain coming in the heaviest will hold off until the afternoon

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>> i'm max foster. if you're just joining us here are some of today's top stories. a cargo plane flying from germany crashed in lithuania just outside the vilnius airport at about 5:30 a.m. local time. authorities say one crew member was killed, but three others on that flight, including the pilot, actually survived. emergency workers and firefighters are on the scene in hawkins county tennessee, residents are being allowed to due to a building fire involving unknown chemicals. the fire is burning about 60 miles northeast of knoxville, and in just a few hours, g7 foreign ministers will be meeting in central italy. this comes as the fighting in the middle east and ukraine intensifies. us secretary of state antony blinken is attending the meetings. we'll go to cnn's fred pleitgen now in moscow. fred, we're still seeing russian troops being sent to the front lines and more rhetoric as well from the kremlin yeah you're absolutely

right. >> and first of all, in great numbers russians are still going to the front lines. but also, as far as the rhetoric is concerned, the spokesman for the kremlin, dmitri peskov, at several stages during the weekend, said that the russians actually believe that they are reacting to escalation coming from the west, obviously, meaning the use of atacms missiles by the ukrainians of course, other western supplied missiles as well. and this was quite interesting because this morning the deputy foreign minister came out and seemed to indirectly threaten that there could be a military response against western countries as well, saying that russia has, as he put it legitimate security interests that it is willing to ensure, as he also put it by any means. now, all this comes as we've seen over the weekend, really the front lines heating up all across the ukraine, where the russians apparently now also on the southern front on the offensive as well. here's what we're learning the three year mark, more and more russians are signing up to

fight vladimir putin, saying more than in and around ukraine 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 governments believe the attrition rate among russian forces is significant and ukraine say more than 11,000 north korean troops are now also on moscow's side mostly in russia's kursk region still fighting in ukraine. she won't say where but acknowledges for him it's tough to honore gatera. he went through a lot of moments. he doesn't like to talk about she says. but i found out by chance i think he's a true hero continue to condemn russia's president, urging him to withdraw from ukraine immediately. but this week, instead, a major escalation allowed ukraine to use longer distance u.s. and uk supplied

missiles to strike deep inside russia putin hit back with a 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 parliamentarian backing putin up 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 now the battles continue to escalate and the losses continue to mount. as vladimir putin warns, the war is increasingly becoming a struggle between russia and the west and

certainly it seems as though battles have been escalating through the entire course of the weekend. max. the russians now saying that they're putting on the full court press in their own kursk region, of course they're trying to push ukrainian forces out of there. but also, if we look at the region in the east of ukraine, the pokrovsk region, the russians certainly exerting a lot of pressure on the ukrainian forces there. and one of the things that we've been hearing earlier this morning is that the frontline that apparently has been dormant for quite a while right now, also heating up in the south of the country. that, of course, was where in the summer of 2023, the ukrainians conducted their own counteroffensive, which didn't yield very much in the way of territory, but certainly put some pressure on the russians at that time max, when that missile, the intermediate missile you were talking about in the report was first fired, you know, we didn't fully understand what it meant but a few days on, how would you contextualize that? >> what does it mean? >> yeah i think for the russians it's extremely important and it's quite interesting to have seen the messaging around all of this throughout the entire course of the weekend, because there

wasn't very much talk about it after it happened in the west. but certainly it was a big missile, of course, called resnick. the russian saying it's a new type of intermediate range ballistic missile. but we can see some of the things on our screen of some of those projectiles that struck the city of dnipro. and certainly that missile has massive capability. also nuclear capability as well, even though the russians are saying they're using it in a non-nuclear configuration. and the russians are saying that this was a direct message from russian president vladimir putin after the ukrainians were granted the possibility to use those atacms us supplied surface to surface missiles, and of course, also the uk supplied storm shadows that the russians are very serious about not wanting that to happen and are sending a clear message that this is something that could change the very nature of the conflict to one that is directly between the west and russia. and certainly the use of these weapons. i think the russians trying to show the capabilities that they could unleash. it was also interesting to see, because we were monitoring all this very closely. on friday evening as

well. max, when the russian president vladimir putin came out very late on friday saying that the russians would continue to test such weapons it is, of course, still in an experimental stage, and that they would continue to test them on the battlefield that, of course, some pretty tough news for the ukrainians, max. yeah, absolutely. >> fred pleitgen, thank you have been drinking water with added fluoride. it's been hailed as one of the greatest health achievements of the 20th century by the cdc. but donald trump's pick to lead the health and human services department robert kennedy jr. has said he wants to remove fluoride on day one. cnn's nick watt has more on the debate over fluoride in several western towns. >> children rarely got tooth decay. why their drinking water contained fluoride ever since we started putting a trace of fluoride in the water there

have been those who say we really shouldn't. >> they were criticized, they were ridiculed. >> they were called conspiracy theorists. >> they were called tinfoil hatters in 1964, doctor strangelove, this was the sign that had gone bananas. >> you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face, but fluoride skepticism is now mainstream. >> according to a new york times headline and a washington post columnist who now thinks it's not an entirely crazy idea because this recent government report finds, with moderate confidence that higher more than double the dose in our water, are consistently associated with lower iq in children more studies are needed. and because a federal judge recently ruled there is an unreasonable risk of such injury, a risk sufficient to require the epa to engage with

a regulatory response and because rfk jr. was just tapped to lead the department of health and human services, i'm going to let him go wild on health and on fluoride. >> it causes lost iq. >> it causes neurodevelopmental injuries worth noting rfk jr. has also said this. >> there's no vaccine that is, you know, safe and effective not true. and this covid 19 is targeted to attack caucasians and and and black people also not true. the cdc still touts fluoridation as one of the ten greatest public health achievements of the 20th century. >> at least 25% fewer cavities. and as a clinician, i will tell you that it is more like 50%. >> if you look into it, you'll realize very quickly that the science is not on the cdc side. >> you have contact with any people who have been sort of definitively harmed by this by

fluoride as a child and have suffered neurological impairment. >> it's hard to tell if if that you know that person with a neurological disorder was it was exclusively caused by fluoride they'll take the science and cherry pick tidbits out of it, take and mix in their opinions, throw it in a blender, and then pour it out over an unsuspecting public. >> we don't know that it causes harm, but we don't know that it definitely doesn't. >> you don't know that it doesn't cause great hair. >> after nearly 80 years of this kind of debate now might be a turning point. inauguration day says rfk. the trump white house will advise all u.s. water systems to water. >> i'm going to give them good information about the science, and i think that fluoride will disappear. >> so rfk jr. and his side of the debate, they're fine with fluoride in toothpaste that's topically applied. and it's not dosing everybody like it is in the water. and you know, it's a couple of months before he even

takes his new job, before he starts his new job. and rfk jr. is already having an influence past couple of weeks over a dozen municipalities have voted to stop fluoridating their water. i listened in to the debate in winter haven, florida rfk's junior's name came up numerous times and they voted in favor of stopping putting fluoride in their water nick watt, cnn, los angeles. >> the chairman of the u.s. senate intelligence committee mark warner, says the u.s. is now witnessing the worst telecom hack in the nation's history. people briefed on the matter tell cnn that chinese hackers have been spying on some of the most senior figures in both the democratic and republican parties. and all senators briefing on the situation is now scheduled for lingus is following the latest developments u.s. >> officials on friday summoned top telecommunications

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a judge today as they fight to be released from prison decades after being convicted of killing their parents. >> the case has drawn renewed public interest since the release of a hit netflix show this year, with growing support for lyle and erik menendez from celebrities. cnn's camila bernal has more this status hearing is the latest step in the brothers bid to freedom, after the los angeles county district attorney recommended their resentencing. >> it is the first time that we'll see them in nearly 30 years after they were convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the killing of their parents, and it is nearly 30 years later that this judge will also decide what happens, whether they appear in person or virtually. it is likely that they will appear virtually, and it is a hearing that will start at 10:30 a.m. at a van nuys courtroom here in the los angeles area. the judge also setting very strict rules around what happens in this hearing. there will be no cameras and no cell phone. in

fact, the cell phones will be sealed in bags journalists will be allowed to attend, but only 16 members of the public will be allowed in that courtroom. and they will get their seats via a lottery. there is huge attention and interest in this case especially after a 2023 docu series on peacock where a member of the boy band menudo also alleged that he was a victim of sexual abuse by jose menendez, the father of the two brothers, so that along with a letter that eric menendez wrote before the killings describing the sexual abuse is what the defense team says should be used and is why they are asking a court to reconsider the sentence and the conviction. and so the district attorney here in los angeles agreed with the defense. the problem for the defense is that that district attorney was essentially voted out of office. nathan hochman, the incoming district attorney here in los angeles, sees this case a little bit different. here's

what he told us now as to whether or not i'm going to support that particular motion or not. >> you got to do the hard work to make that decision. you got to review thoroughly the facts and the law. you need to actually speak to the prosecutors, speak to law enforcement officers, speak to the defense counsel and speak to any victim family members as well. only after i do all that work will i be in a position to weigh in on the menendez case, because then i'm not only going to weigh in on it, i'll have to defend that decision in court. >> and the question here is not whether the brothers killed their parents. they have admitted to doing so, but have said that they did it in self-defense. after years of sexual abuse and emotional and physical abuse, the prosecution at the time argued that this was premeditated and that the brothers did this for the money and because they wanted their parents money. so again, we'll have to wait and see what the judge on monday decides to do. but there is also another

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