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day november 27th. >> right now on cnn this morning designed to be a permanent cessation of hostilities ceasefire reached how a deal between israel and lebanon is ending. fighting with hezbollah for now and the political atmosphere was pretty brutal. >> and that's not an excuse. >> soul searching. the leaders of kamala harris's campaign reflect on what led to their defeat. plus, airport slowdown, how a shortage of air traffic controllers could impact your holiday plans all right. 5 a.m. here on the east coast. a live look at the washington monument on this busy pre-thanksgiving travel wednesday. reagan national airport is behind there somewhere. those planes will start taking off pretty soon. good morning everyone. i'm kasie hunt. it's wonderful to

have you with us. we're now entering the ninth hour of a cease fire between israel and the lebanese group hezbollah. the u.s. backed deal ends a 13 month conflict on israel's northern border that spirals spiraled into an all out war with the terror group. some residents in southern beirut waved hezbollah flags earlier this morning, celebrating the end of hostilities. israeli forces moved into southern lebanon to push back hezbollah fighters. a few months ago forcing evacuations of towns and villages near israel's border. this morning, some of those residents have begun to return despite a warning from the idf that their evacuation orders do remain in effect. and in a sign of how fragile this deal is idf forces reporting they opened fire on several vehicles approaching a restricted area just a few hours ago. last night, israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu, hailing the cease fire as a victory and now hezbollah is no longer and it will help us with the task of

bringing our hostages back we were attacked in seven fronts, and we retaliated. >> we are changing the face of the middle east. >> so what is in the deal? it calls for a 60 day pause in fighting that negotiators hope will lead to a lasting peace. in those two months, hezbollah fighters are supposed to retreat at least 25 miles away from lebanon's border with israel. similarly, israeli troops are expected to withdraw from lebanese territory and under the deal lebanon's government, along with u.n. peacekeeping troops, will monitor the movement of hezbollah. on tuesday president biden hailed the deal, hoping it leads to a similar agreement between israel and hamas just as the lebanese people deserve a future of security and prosperity. >> so do the people of gaza. they too deserve an end to the fighting and displacement. the people of gaza have been through hell over the coming

days. the united states will make another push with turkey. egypt qatar, israel and others to achieve a ceasefire in gaza with the hostages released at the end of the war without hamas in power, that becomes possible. >> all right. joining us now to discuss all these developments, avi mayer the former editor in chief of the jerusalem post. avi, good morning to you. thank you so much for being here. how do you think we got to this point and can you dig in a little bit to obviously, president biden out there yesterday talking about this deal, taking credit for it. but there are some questions as well about how the impending arrival of donald trump to the white house on january 20th here in the u.s. impacted what we're seeing where you are well, casey, good morning. >> i would say that israelis are hopeful, but not particularly optimistic that this will end up being a viable cease fire. we've been here before the second lebanon war

that ended in 2006. also concluded with a cease fire. and we know that of course, hezbollah spent the past 18 years rearming and transforming southern lebanon into an armed garrison from which to attack israel, as it has done for the past year. and so that is exactly how we got to where we are. you know this has been a war that has been ongoing, and it's devastated civilians on both sides of the border as a result of hezbollah's bombardments and israel's need to defend its citizens. and so what will be key at this point will be the enforcement. will we, in fact, see that there are monitors put in place to ensure that hezbollah does not return to the southern part of lebanon, does not transform it back into an armed garrison from which to attack israel. and are the residents of northern israel able to finally return to their homes? we know that israeli officials are not at this point calling on the residents of northern israel to return home. they know that at the point that we're at right now, the situation is still so fragile that they can't do that in good conscience. we hope that perhaps two months down the line will be in that position,

and people will start being able to come home. >> yeah, you say that right now. the situation is very fragile. and what would you say are the biggest risks that are presented right now in terms of this potentially falling apart well, the most i think profound risk is that hezbollah will violate it as it has time and time again, that they will continue to bring in arms from iran via syria, that they will then transform the villages and towns of southern lebanon into an armed garrison as they have done for the past 18 years. >> and well before, and that israel will, in fact, not be permitted to respond, even though it has been assured that it will have that ability. israel, i think is quite adamant that it will have the ability to respond to any violation of the cease fire, including, of course, attacks on israeli towns and villages. but also hezbollah attempts to rearm in that part of the country. we have to see if indeed that is maintained and if this is a significantly different situation than that which was presented to us at

the end of the war in 2006. >> avi, what impact or relation, if any does this cease fire and this portion of the conflict have on what's going on in gaza and the war between israel and hamas well, that was one of the points that the prime minister made in his address last night that, in fact, we have managed they have managed to bifurcate this war and it is no longer a united front between hezbollah and hamas. >> but in fact hezbollah is now laying down its arms supposedly. and hamas may indeed follow in suit. and we know that, in fact, today hamas is saying that it is willing to soften its position and perhaps reach an accommodation with israel that would see the release of the remaining hostages and a cessation of hostilities in gaza, which would seem to be a confirmation that, in fact, this tactic seems to have worked. we can only hope that that's indeed what will happen in the weeks and months ahead. >> do you get the sense that benjamin netanyahu would be ready to move forward with a hostage release deal and a cease fire, if possible i think there's a great deal of eagerness in israel to bring

this war to a close. >> it's been 14 months of absolute devastation on both sides of the border, on all sides of israel's borders, quite frankly. this is i think, a time when israelis need a rest. i think we have been sort of mobilized for this war for so long. the entire country has been mobilized and devastated in so many different ways. i think the prime minister is interested in bringing this, this war to a close. the question is under what terms? i think there are those who have suggested that the prime minister has been waiting for donald trump's entry to the white house, to perhaps seek more favorable terms to israel. but if that can be achieved right now by hamas softening its stance and in fact expressing any eagerness or even willingness to reach an accommodation, i think they'll find a willing partner on the israeli side as well. >> interesting. okay avi, mayor for us this morning. avi, always grateful to have you. thank you so much for being here. >> thank you. >> all right. straight ahead here on cnn this morning, a peek behind the scenes. former german chancellor angela merkel's tell all about what it's really like to deal with donald trump and

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and vladimir putin. the russian leader was well aware of merkel's fear of dogs since she was bitten by 1 in 1995, so putin brought one with him during a meeting with the german chancellor in 2007. in an excerpt obtained by politico excuse me, merkel writes this quote, i interpreted putin's facial expressions to mean that he was enjoying the situation. did he just want to see how a person in distress reacts? was it a small demonstration of power? i thought just i just thought, stay calm, concentrate on the photographers. it will pass. merkel says she also found her interactions with donald trump so challenging that she sought advice from pope francis on how to deal with him. in another moment shared by politico, she writes trump judged everything from the perspective of the property entrepreneur. he had been before politics. for him, all countries were in competition with each other in which the success of one was the failure of the other he did not believe that the prosperity

of all could be increased through cooperation. let's go live to london and bring in cnn's max foster. max, good morning to you. thank you so much for being here. really fascinating. i mean, merkel was just such an incredibly powerful figure, of course, for so long on the world stage and she's pretty candid about what it was like to deal with people like putin and donald trump. >> yeah, and you've got to think that donald trump and angela merkel had completely different world views. you know, this idea of competition that donald trump has and just the the quote that you gave out there is opposite to how she believes, you know, she believes in the european project countries working together nato. and she describes in the book how a lot of those ideas come out of the fact that she was brought up in eastern europe and she saw the european union and nato as peace projects whereas now she sees them under threat. and donald trump is really at the forefront of that. but there was an interesting moment in it where she describes meeting him

for the first time officially and she got really flustered because he refused to shake her hand and she sort of reprimands herself and the quote she puts in there, um, she assumed the u.s. president would be someone completely normal so it's really interesting to see how they clashed, but how also the insights into his character and why he does what he does uh, that's fascinating. >> i have to say maybe she may have been the only one who thought that, um max. i want to show there's this moment where you can kind of see angela merkel react to something that donald trump is doing, where he is. he's talking about another world leader, as they're all kind of gathered together. this was back in 2019. let's watch this moment and we'll talk about it next. >> and honestly with trudeau, he's a nice guy. i find him to be a very nice guy but, you know, the truth is that i called him out on the fact that he's not paying 2%. and i

guess he's not very happy about it so you could only see her face kind of there at the beginning where he says, well, he's two faced. >> he's like insulting justin trudeau. um it's very clear she and there were other moments, you know, over time where you could see the feelings or it felt like you could see the the feelings on her face. like when bush, you know, rubbed her back. she tries to dispel that as well but but a really kind of interesting window into how she thinks, um yeah. >> she's such a principled principled character. she was this towering figure. many people still look up to her as the ultimate sort of liberal figure. and these two clashed against each other, and she had to redefine a lot of her worldviews with the context of someone like donald trump in the frame. but i do think she, the insight she gives is that, you know we often talk about donald trump being a transactional leader so we think of a negotiation. so he goes into a deal, he gets something out of it they get something out of it. what she's saying is that actually it's more about winning for

him. he doesn't think that both sides can get what they want. you have to be the winning side. and i think that does inform other world leaders currently because you can go into a conversation with donald trump. and in that context, you have to to get something out of it. you have to allow him to win. so you think to yourself, i want to get this out of it. focus on that. but he needs to get what he wants out of it as well, and he needs to come out on top. and you do see some of the relationships that are very successful with him working in that way and when it comes to the, you know these strongmen that he's famous for admiring he's being tested and you know, until someone wins, he's going to continue with that relationship. so i do think she gives a good context on him yeah. >> it's really fascinating. all right. max foster for us this morning. max always great to see you. thank you for being here. thank you casey. all right. still coming up here on cnn this morning. it has been three weeks. only three weeks since kamala harris lost to donald trump. but now her team is speaking out about what they

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morning. hey. >> happy wednesday and happy thanksgiving eve. casey. you know, i understand that snow can bring headaches to the airline industry, but i want to bring you this beautiful, beautiful shot coming out of steamboat springs colorado. these are roads i've walked many times. this is such a beautiful part of the country and they are getting some snow right now. and this is all part of a larger storm system that's going to move east and impact our weather along the east coast as well. but let's just take a moment. start on a positive note because hey, this is beautiful. and we're heading into the meteorological winter, which starts on december 1st. and we'll take what we can get. there's the snow across the state of colorado. there are some potential impacts there to denver international airport, but the majority of it staying west into the foothills and the rocky mountains. but that moisture is going to stream eastward and eventually evolve into a larger storm on the east coast. so let's talk about the airports for today. potential delays cincinnati, nashville. as the storm system and its energy moves into the region that will be more of a rainmaker, potentially some snow mixing in. but watch how the system

evolves over the next 12 to 24 hours. this is going to deepen and strengthen and bring rainfall to the coastal cities so that i-95 corridor but inland. notice that is snowfall and it could be heavy at times. this is for late thursday and into the day on friday, the lake effect snow machine will certainly kick in, will be measuring snowfall on feet in some of those downwind locations just a heads up. we do have some winter storm watches. this is valid for friday. many of the higher elevations of northern new england, again away from the coast. and then casey, the coldest air of the season, settles in behind it. right on cue that's the frigid air that will settle in across the great lakes all the way to the east coast. we could see below freezing temperatures all the way down to the gulf coast by the first half of next week. so be prepared. get those winter coats out. >> it's time. all right. very helpful. derek van dam thank you. we will see you next hour on this thanksgiving eve. thank you. all right. still ahead here on cnn this morning this year's thanksgiving travel period going to be one of the busiest ever. but a key faa shortage could impact your

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her campaign team, sat down for a wide ranging interview with pod save america's dan pfeiffer. he, of course, is a former senior adviser to barack obama, and they addressed what they think went wrong for democrats this cycle. of course, one major difficulty they had just 107 days and they said that that impacted decisions like the number of interviews harris could do. trump, on the other hand, made it part of his campaign to appear across popular podcasts one of the things i like about doing a show like this, can you imagine kamala doing this show? >> i could imagine her doing laying. she'd be laying on the floor. >> she was supposed to do it and she might still do it. >> and i hope she does. she's not going to. i will talk to her like a human being. i will try she did this kind of an interview with you. i hope she does because it would be a mess. she'd be laying on the floor comatose. you'd be saying, call in the medics harris's team addressed whether harris should have gone on joe rogan's podcast and tried to explain why it never

happened yeah, there's a lot of intrigue around this. >> a lot of theories. it's. it's pretty simple. we wanted to do it. we had discussions with joe rogan's team. they were great. they wanted us to come on we wanted to come on. we tried to get a date to to make it work. and ultimately we just weren't able to find a date. but it, you know, didn't ultimately impact the outcome one way or the other all right. >> joining us now to discuss washington correspondent for spectrum news one, kevin fry and washington correspondent for the atlanta journal-constitution. tia mitchell welcome to both of you. great to see you so trying to explain kind of what went wrong here for them. it's interesting to hear them try to say, well, this is why we didn't do this. one particular thing. she seems stephanie cutter there, who was, of course, a longtime political hand here in washington, played a critical role in the harris campaign. what do you make of her explanation, kevin? i mean, look, it seems like the overarching theme of all of

this goes back to one, as you mentioned the the short timeline that they had to operate within. >> i think part of their explanation when it came to the joe rogan was, they said they tried to look at maybe doing it while she was in texas for the reproductive rights rally. and then trump was actually on at the same exact time, and thus they couldn't do it because of that. but they they kind of kept going back to these familiar themes of short timeline. had to introduce her because people didn't know her. contrary to popular belief, and then also at the same time had to remind people of why trump was bad, which they said the polling was moving in the wrong direction for them and had been for some time. so they had to combat that at the same time. >> yeah, i think it was really interesting that they kept coming back to the choices they had to make and yes, they didn't have a lot of time. yes, there was a lot for them to do during that time but i think at the end of the day, choices were made so they made choices about what podcast they would and wouldn't do. they made choices about what media interviews they would and wouldn't do. and now, in hindsight, they can say, well,

was that the right formula? but i think, i think we can't take the eye off the fact that they made deliberate choices. if she wanted to make time to do joe rogan, she could have. but something else could have fallen off and and maybe it wouldn't have moved the needle. but that's really what we're talking about at this point. >> yeah. so stephanie cutter also talked a little bit about her relationship with joe biden, because of course, this was one of those when she did start doing interviews, she didn't necessarily answer the question of how are you different from president biden in a way that made people feel like she would be a break from the past? here's what stephanie cutter had to say about that on the the biden question. >> we of course got that everywhere we went. and we knew what the data was. we knew we had to show her as her own person and point to the future and not try to rehash the past but she also felt that she was part of the administration. and

unless we said something like, well, i would have handled the border completely differently, we were never going to satisfy anybody. so why should she look back and pick out cherry, pick some things that she would have done differently when she was part of it? and she also she had tremendous loyalty to president biden. >> i mean, it's illuminating. tia. >> it is. and i think that was kind of when you read between the lines of of of what she didn't say during that interview that's why. but i think there could have been a better answer in real time. i think she could have made it clear that she is ready to be her own person. should she have been elected president without throwing joe biden under the bus, or even undermining some of the decisions he made but instead, her answer kind of fell flat and it came across that she didn't, that she hadn't thought about what she would do differently should she be president. i'm not saying

she she didn't, but i'm saying the answer didn't convey that. the answer, unfortunately conveyed the message that she would be in lockstep in more of the same. and that didn't play when his approval ratings were way down. and a lot of people felt that the biden-harris four years made their lives worse off. >> yeah. no so one of the other elements to all of this is that there was some reporting in the wake of the campaign that some of the concern about, say joe rogan or other things may have come from either liberal interest groups or people working inside the campaign. younger staffers, james carville, he of you know, profane mouth often, as well as the creator of the tagline, it's the economy stupid, weighed in on some of this yesterday, unsolicited. i would imagine. but let's watch what carville said the vice president was thinking about going on joe rogan's show, and a lot of the younger progressive staffers pitched a

hissy fit. >> if i were running a 2028 campaign and i had some little snot nosed 23 year old saying i'm going to resign if you don't do this, not only would i fired it on the spot, i would find out who hired them and fire that person on the spot i'm really not interested in your uninformed, stupid opinion as to whether you go on joe rogan or not so of course, again, the profane profanity that carville uses there, but the point he's making is an interesting one. >> and honestly, it plays into the cultural war argument overall. you know, the democrats are more interested in this than they are in winning. right? >> and i mean, this comes, of course, as you also are coming off of months of the protests on college campuses and democrats struggling to figure out how to navigate that without offending half of the country at the same time, um one of the things i think some would probably push back and say, carville, is, you know he

won in the 1990s, it is now 20, 20, 24, but it does play into this whole conversation that they were touching on in this podcast about how do you get to people now, especially folks that are not fully engaged? it seems, joe rogan was one of the gateways for that especially when you saw less engaged, less likely to vote. folks actually head out to the polls for trump and it seems, at least from the recrimination point of view, that's one of the frustrations with this. >> yeah. and briefly, tia, i do want to just play what david plouffe as well as quentin folks had to say about that the trans ad right, that we've spent a lot of time talking about it, that basically just candidly says kamala harris is for gay them. donald trump is for you. a very simple message. here's what they had to say about that obviously, it was a very effective ad at the end. >> i ultimately don't believe that it was about the issue of trans. i think that it made her seem out of touch. um and it was sort of a pseudo economic ad underneath it. >> at the end of the day, we were spending a lot of time

with voters in these battleground states, both quantitatively and quantitatively. >> and this trans ad was not driving vote so it makes me wonder if they were asking about trans as the issue but that what quentin folks was describing there was really what was going on that, that it was much bigger than just that issue. >> and also quentin made the point that the ads were really targeting men, mainly black and latino men so it kind of gets at some of the kind of social divisions cultural war divisions, as well. but it did. it made it seem you know, she's not for she's for they them she's not for you making it seem like trump is the one who's going to look out for you. and make your life better. while kamala harris is focused on this kind of culture issue, that that doesn't speak to your own lived experience and i do agree that it's not necessarily that that particular issue was a driver, but the deeper messaging it got, again, it got to key demographics. it got to the economic issue and it got to the culture war. basically all

in one tagline. that's what made it so effective. and again, yes, they talked about the fact that they didn't get asked enough and they had a good answer but they didn't get to spread that message. again, choices were made they chose not to directly respond to that ad. >> and again, the best political messages are the simplest ones over and over and over again, we find that tia mitchell kevin frye, thank you both for being here on this thanksgiving eve. i appreciate it. all right. coming up next, it is on track to be one of the busiest thanksgiving travel seasons ever. but air traffic controllers staffing shortages could cause major headaches. if you are trying to fly. plus, the lakers losing their first ever nba cup. we'll have that. and more on the bleacher report coming up next watch cnn's coverage of thanksgiving parades around the country with special appearances by chef bobby flay t.i., andy grammer and more.

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to two separate collisions in a single day this week at boston's logan airport, cnn transportation analyst mary schiavo joins us now with more mary, good morning to you. how bad is this shortage and what impact does it have on air travel well, any air traffic control shortage is bad. >> but this one is particularly bad because it's been so long ongoing. >> you know, the faa still goes back and blames it on covid, but it's their fault they stopped training and hiring during covid. and of course, if they didn't have new controllers coming in the pipeline for training, obviously they knew that in a, you know, a year or two, they'd have a shortage. and that's what's occurring now. they say there were 3000 short this this year but they hired 1800. now your math and my math says, yeah, that's not enough. but the faa says they met their goal. and so that's the frustrations that the airlines and travelers share so this flow control where they

intentionally slow things down obviously puts more space between aircraft. i mean, flying is space and time. and you've got to have enough time between the aircraft to have separation. so that's why they're intentionally slowing things down the airlines are frustrated travelers will be very frustrated but they have to count on luck. they better hope that the weather doesn't doesn't add delays and trouble. then on top of this, because that will be a meltdown. the traffic is dramatically up so mary what can you tell people about the safety of travel right now? >> and if there is anything that they can or should be doing differently? >> well first of all, cooperate with the tsa. we haven't mentioned the tsa. they are going to screen more passengers than they have on the 4th of july. over that weekend. it was a record. this weekend will top that. so, you know, leave the gravy at home if you can. but you know i'm in a couple hours. i'm going to be out there in that mess too. and so i'm obviously going to be patient

and follow all the rules but in terms of the safety, as long as they keep the separation between aircraft, because that's their job keeping aircraft apart from each other, you know, everything's good and everything's safe. the increases have happened on at the airport runway incursions planes colliding into each other on the runways. et cetera. and that has been more prevalent at certain airports. the faa says they're going to have special watch. you know, they're going to be on special alert for that. but again, that requires having enough staffing in the actual towers, not necessarily the facilities that direct you. the tracon, when you're flying through the air so if people want to feel good at one point, as soon as you're up in the air after you take off you're in the safest part of your flight so the collisions have been happening on the ground at the airport so once you're at cruise you can take a snooze and then you can feel relaxed, but it's going to be if if weather compounds this, it will be a terrible

traveling experience, which i hope it doesn't because i'm going to be out there in just a few hours. >> okay, well, i hope your day goes smoothly. i hope all of everyone who's watching many of them are probably actually at the airport right now. although if you've gotten there already, you're probably in good shape. i don't i don't know about you, but i always like to take the first flight out of the day if possible, because it's like the least likely to get delayed anyway mary. thank you. happy thanksgiving, i appreciate it okay. >> thank you. >> let's turn now to sports. the suns handing the lakers their first ever loss in the nba cup last night carolyn manno has this morning's bleacher report. carolyn good morning. good morning. so casey the lakers went undefeated. but it was the first edition of the in-season tournament a year ago the suns proving to be too much this time around thanks in large part to the return of the big three in phoenix. devin booker welcoming back his partners kevin durant and bradley beal, who were both sidelined with calf strains and both look really sharp. durant nice little three on the break. drives the lane for the slam. >> he had 23 and so did beal who actually ran down lebron for the block at one point.

>> this trio combining for 72 points in a 127 100 win. >> and it's the second straight game the lakers have been blown out. >> kevin durant says he's happy to be back on the floor. >> phoenix suns no great. >> no great orange floor gave me some energy. >> our crowd gave us some energy. i was good to come back here on the home floor against a great team like that, you know. so we needed this win giannis antetokounmpo a late scratch for the bucks because of swelling in his left knee. >> but that didn't stop his team from continuing their fine run of form. fellow superstar dame lillard picking up the slack scoring 37, dishing out 12 dimes. milwaukee held off a late miami charge to win 106 103. and after a dreadful two and eight start, they actually won seven of their last eight. they're now back to 500 on the young season. let's go to college hoops now. top ranked kansas battling 11th ranked duke midway through the second half. hunter dickinson malik brown getting tangled up fighting for a rebound. both fell to the ground with dickinson actually kicking

brown in the head. not sure if the intent was truly there, but dickinson did get a flagrant two foul. he was ejected from the game, and a little over a minute later, dukes high flying freshman cooper flagg soaring above the defense and emphatic dunk to tie it at 61. but the jayhawks, too tough in this game. >> zeke mayo runner in the lane to give kansas the lead that they never relinquished. >> so kansas wins by three to improve to six zero. >> now with wins over both duke and north carolina and a big shakeup in the latter half of the college football playoff bracket. >> tennessee smu, arizona state are in alabama, ole miss, byu are out. the vols are projected to get a massive rematch with georgia in the first round at this point. indiana staying in despite their blowout loss at ohio state, they would face big ten rival penn state. could we see more chaos this weekend, though absolutely. a huge slate of rivalry games. arizona state is going to head to the big 12 title game if they can win at arizona. ohio state can clinch a spot in the big ten title game against oregon if they

beat their arch rivals michigan and texas, and texas a&m facing off for a spot in the sec title game and the winner of that game will face georgia. so turkey hopefully safe travel football, it's all happening and it could be a very explosive weekend. >> it is all happening and i usually love i usually love that rivalry game. i'm a little nervous about it. this weekend. i'm as a michigan fan. i don't you know, i don't i don't know how it's going to go this time around but you know, as a michigan fan, it was always the lions and then the the rivalry game in recent in recent years. so, you know i'm used to teams that we watch losing on thanksgiving weekend. but what are you going to do things to be thankful for. >> yeah we do plenty of other things i'm thankful for you. >> have a wonderful thanksgiving. we'll see you soon. all right. straight ahead here on cnn this morning. trump's new border czar visits texas. how he's already butting heads with local leaders who are trying to block his plans for mass deportation.

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