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biden made the announcement yesterday going back on a big promise that he made not to do it. and it means that hunter will no longer be sentenced later. this month on federal tax and gun convictions, and it spares him from any chance of going to prison, which was certainly a possibility. it also grants hunter biden clemency from other federal crimes that he may have committed during a ten year period. in a statement, biden explained no reasonable person who looks at the facts of hunter's cases can reach any other conclusion than hunter was singled out only because he's my son and that is wrong. here with us now we have cnn chief legal affairs correspondent paula reid. paula was this a surprise? no. >> absolutely not. i've been covering hunter biden's legal issues for several years now, and there was no way that president joe biden was going to allow his only living son to go to federal prison for cases that biden believes are, quote selective and unfair. >> i was there for every day of hunter biden's delaware case rows and rows of that courtroom

were filled with biden family members, including the first lady. it was clear that they were there to support him. they felt that the case was unfair, and his lawyers thought there was a chance they could convince the jury of that as well. we spoke to at least one juror who did ultimately convict hunter. they said that they believe the case was, quote, a waste of taxpayer money. but the prosecutors proved it beyond a reasonable doubt but of course, hunter faced a second case in los angeles and just hours before that trial was supposed to start, he entered a sort of unusual plea deal where he pleaded guilty to all the charges he faced. he was looking at a possible sentence of up to 17 years in prison. hefty fines surpassing $1 million. you don't enter a plea deal like that unless you are confident you were going to get some form of clemency. so this is only surprising to people who have not been paying attention to the facts of this case. and the support hunter has received from his family and the david weiss, who is a special counsel prosecuting hunter biden, has now reacted. that's right. in a filing, he

sort of firing back at some of the president's statements about the nature of the case here. weiss is trying to defend his work. he says that quote in announcing this pardon yesterday, president biden said his son was selectively and unfairly prosecuted. but weiss said there was, quote, none. and never has been any evidence of vindictive or selective prosecution in this case. they also accurately point out that two judges previously rejected hunter's claim that he was selectively prosecuted. this is significant because it's weiss's first statement since these pardons were announced. not surprising that he is trying to defend his case and the work of his team. yeah, certainly. >> paula reid, thank you for taking us through that for us president-elect donald trump for his part, is seizing on president biden's decision to pardon his son and he's trying to equate it to those convicted of crimes from the january 6th attack on the capitol. >> cnn's kristen holmes is live for us in west palm beach, florida, not far from trump's mar a lago estate. kristen, what are you hearing from inside trump world today yeah, i mean, these two things

are not equal obviously, but donald trump and his team are seizing on this opportunity to kind of hammer home this idea that president joe biden said over and over again that he would not pardon his son hunter, that he would not get involved in this process. >> and then, of course, obviously what we saw over the weekend transpired. now donald trump is trying to link this in some way to those rioters on january 6th. this is what he posted. does the pardon given by joe to hunter include the six hostages who have now been imprisoned for years such an abuse and miscarriage of justice? unclear if he's talking about the abuse in miscarriage of justice being the pardoning of hunter or the people who are currently in jail for what they did on january 6th. but one thing to note here it seems as though donald trump is going to try to use this pardoning as an excuse for whatever he does with those people who participated in january 6th. one thing to note they are not hostages. the people who are in jail were people who were prosecuted to the law because of their actions however, donald trump

has long promised that this was something he was going to do in terms of pardoning these people who participated in january 6th. so it's unsurprising if he actually does it. we're still trying to get details on what that looks like but now it seems as though he's kind of saying for tat, which is not exactly what we had heard originally. >> and kristen we're also hearing that there's been zero contact between the state department and the trump transition team yeah, this came from a spokesperson at the state department who essentially said that after the trump team signed this transition statement, this document that we've been waiting for them to sign, that there was still no conversation between the state department and the trump transition team. >> what they had been expecting this being the state department, is that trump's team would tell them who the agency review team was. they would appoint an agency review team, and that would be the team on the ground. that kind of worked to make sure there was a smooth transition. as of now the state department is saying essentially they don't even know. they don't believe that they've appointed this agency review team. and if they

have, the agency review team has not reached out to the state department, it's not that surprising given what we have seen across the federal government across the administration. they took forever to sign this document in the first place. and we have seen over and over again, essentially this kind of disregard for the traditional transition process. we'll be keeping close tabs on it, though, because we know that obviously some of this has to happen before donald trump takes office in order to ensure this transfer of power. >> kristen holmes, live for us in west palm beach thank you so much, brianna. >> let's talk about this now with democratic congressman dan goldman of new york. he is on the oversight and accountability committee. he was also lead counsel in donald trump's first impeachment trial, where trump was accused of improperly pressuring ukraine's president to open an investigation into joe and hunter biden. congressman, first, your reaction to biden's pardon of hunter well look, i the one thing i certainly agree with is that this was an improperly

politicized prosecution. >> those two charges, as i know from ten years as a prosecutor in the department of justice, are almost never, if ever charged against a defendant in a standalone indictment. and the reason why they were charged is because republicans in congress improperly tried to intervene in an ongoing prosecution to to scuttle a plea agreement that hunter biden and david weiss had entered into. the plea agreement was unusual because of donald trump's threats of retribution and hunter biden's understandable concern that if donald trump won that his department of justice would come after hunter for other crimes that he wasn't charged with but was investigated for. so the president is exactly right that if not, if his name were hunter smith and not hunter biden, he would not be charged with this and that. that is not a proper outcome

here. that's not a proper use of our rule of law. i wish the president had not stated after the plea agreement fell through, that he would not pardon hunter biden because it is discouraging that he has now gone back on his word on that. but the merits of the pardon and the reasons for it are legitimate, especially as you look at who donald trump is nominating people like matt gaetz pam bondi kash patel all of whom have threatened retribution against hunter biden and others. >> okay. i mean, you went out on a limb by backing up biden when he said that there would not be a pardon in july of 2023, just after that plea deal fell through. this is what you said. i want to watch do you think a pardon for his son would be a mistake yes. >> and i don't think there's any chance that president biden is going to do that unlike his

predecessor, who pardoned all of his friends and anyone who had any access to him. and i think you see that in this case where he kept on and merrick garland kept on a trump appointed u.s. attorney to investigate the president's son. if there is not an indication of the independence of the department of justice beyond that, i don't know what what we could look for i mean, what does that feel like watching yourself back then reassuring people that biden was not going to issue a pardon for his son yeah and i think that if that plea agreement and that plea deal had gone through there would be no pardon. >> that was a satisfactory outcome already fallen, that only was sorry. >> well, when you reacted, this was when the deal had fallen through. and i hear what you're saying about the kh patel appointment, but you know you took him at his word so what

does that feel like, knowing that he's gone back on it well as i said, i'm disappointed that after the plea fell through and it became clear about why it did including republican congressional intervention in this case, which made this case very unique and very different from any other case. >> i think that we all perhaps i should have as well recognized that this is not the normal prosecution. i said many times that if hunter biden were not hunter biden, he would never be charged with these crimes. and when you start to see what donald trump is planning to do with his department of justice and with his fbi and the degree to which hunter biden has already been shamelessly attacked as a private citizen by republicans i certainly understand why the president felt like this

miscarriage of justice should not carry forward, and that he should not be at risk of retributive prosecution for political reasons which is not the proper way to execute our rule of law. >> do you think that president biden's pardon of his son may actually put some pressure on some senate republicans, who have concerns about kash patel being fbi director, that it may actually pressure them to confirm him i don't really see how one thing would would have anything to do with the other. >> i find it pretty ironic and hypocritical that so many republicans have seemed to find the rule of law to joe biden's pardoning of hunter and are happily ignorant of the rule of law when it comes to donald trump and everything that he has done. but kash patel is a

danger because he's unqualified and because he is out for revenge. on behalf of donald trump. and that is not who we should have leading what should be a nonpartisan apolitical fbi that has a ten year term for a reason so that it is not in line with the political process so kash patel is a danger, separate and apart from anything having to do with hunter biden's pardon. but it is yet another example of how donald trump is a danger to our rule of law and why joe biden felt compelled to pardon hunter. >> i guess there's a question of i mean, listen, the things you are alleging, a lot of people will will agree with you on that. there are even some republicans who may agree with your uh your ideas there about donald trump. the norms that

he's broken and the question then becomes, do you respond to the breaking of norms by either breaking other norms or by breaking your promise and which is certainly in this case, something biden did? so what do you say to that? >> yeah. and that's why i am i don't think that. and you haven't heard me say that, joe biden is justified in pardoning hunter biden because donald trump pardoned roger stone, who had incriminating information about him and paul manafort and charlie kushner. and, you know, the list goes on. that's not why it's okay, in my view, for joe biden to to then to pardon him what you said about kash patel or we've seen perhaps what trump wants from his law enforcement arm, having picked matt gaetz. >> obviously that didn't work

out for him. but then pam bondi someone who's very loyal to him and whose independence has been questioned is it then your belief that the justice department, i mean, the law enforcement, federal law enforcement, should americans have faith in federal law enforcement now because it seems that this decision has brought that into question i think what it brings it into question is the nominees that donald trump has put forward, matt gaetz pam bondi kash patel tulsi gabbard. >> these are not people who are going to implement the rule of law. they are they have been picked to weaponize the federal government against donald trump's enemies and his adversaries. and that is that is the risk to the rule of law. and that is why joe biden used his authority to protect his son. >> and what you're saying then and i hear i hear your argument

then it sounds like you're saying, yes, that americans cannot have faith in federal law enforcement as it is implemented by these picks that trump is making. i mean, is that a fair representation of your opinion on this i think it's yet to be seen and certainly i'm not going to put the cart before the horse, but based on the statements that people like matt gaetz pam bondi kash patel and donald trump himself have made over the last couple of years, they have been very explicit about their desire to weaponize the department of justice for their own political purposes. >> i don't give a single bit of credit to this bs coming from republicans that joe biden and the biden administration has weaponized the department of justice. we had an entire subcommittee for two years on this, and they didn't show one example where there was any weaponization this is

projection, and it is a distraction. the reality is that donald trump tried to ten times or more weaponize the department of justice in his first administration, and he is now putting loyalists in the critical positions at the department of justice who will absolutely weaponize it. even more so, the risk we have is under a trump presidency, that of the department of justice being weaponized not at all under a biden administration. and we we including the media, cannot give any credit to that bogus argument congressman dan goldman, we appreciate you joining us. >> thank you so much thank you. and still to come, syria's government is carrying out airstrikes on rebel positions after rebels overtook a significant amount of territory including the country's second biggest city. how the violence could affect the entire region. plus violent protests rocked georgia after the government suspends talks to join the european union and later why

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policies. >> while turning away from the west. cnn's seb shukla is joining us now on this. seb, tell us how it got to this point well, brianna, what we're seeing for the fifth night in a row now, actually on the streets of tbilisi, are further protests and clashes between those protesters who were hurling fireworks at the police. >> but the response from the police is to fire tear gas and water cannon at them it was all started by the georgian dream. the government of georgia saying on thursday. last thursday that it wanted to pause its discussions on joining the european union, something which is actually enshrined in georgia's constitution. all of that resulted in the scenes that we are now seeing but what we what we've started to see within georgian politics now is also a real fight and battle of wits. and who will outlast this? the president of georgia has said, who is outgoing and she

finishes at the end of the year, has said, i'm not going anywhere and the eu has called for a called the. the elections, which are held in october, unfair and not free in any way and called for a rerun. all of this obviously taking place on the doorstep of russia who are obviously watching what goes on in its former in the former soviet state very, very closely. i want to read you the statement from president putin's spokesperson that came this afternoon. we've seen similar events in a number of countries, probably the most direct parallel is the events of maidan in ukraine. all signs of attempting to carry out an orange revolution that is a reference to the 2004 revolution that took place in ukraine that ended with the supreme court overturning a presidential election there in favor of a more pro-western president, viktor yushchenko against a pro-putin president

there. in viktor yanukovych. brianna, it's a very testing and difficult time for georgia, but the people, 80% of whom want to be become a part of the european union, are making their feelings known. brianna, these are live pictures that you are looking at here from tbilisi where you can see that people are gathered on the streets. >> there's a huge police presence. seb, thank you so much for the report. we'll continue to keep an eye on this. >> boris another intensifying situation we're following closely is unfolding right now in northern syria. syrian and russian jets are stepping up. airstrikes in the region retaliation after syrian rebels launched a surprise attack and seized control of large areas including much of the country's second largest city of aleppo. rescue workers inside northern syria report that the government and russian airstrikes have killed dozens of civilians. at least 44 by the latest count. let's discuss with josh rogan. he's a columnist for the washington post. josh, thanks

so much for being with us. it's kind of astounding, given that for the better part of the last decade, this conflict has been on ice. >> 14 years ago, the syrian people protested for basic freedom, democracy and human rights. and 14 years ago, the assad regime started bombing them. and 14 years later, they're still bombing them with their russian friends. yet the syrian people keep fighting and the circumstances have changed. the details have changed, but not their basic mission, which is to throw off the regime that's been bombing them and their families and their homes for 14 years. and what's happening today, they're trying to take back their homes. and the syrians and the russians are bombing them again. and, you know, this just shows you that whoever says assad is the stable one, whoever says the russians are going to bring peace to syria, it's not going to happen because the syrian people actually don't want to live on their knees. >> how much is the timing of this related to some of bashar al assad's allies in russia? and iran being caught up in their own conflicts? >> sure. this is part of a geopolitical chess match, and what we see here is that most

of these groups are supported by turkey, and turkey is making a move against their other two actors, russia and iran. now, turkey would like to have millions of syrians go back to syria. they won't go back under assad because assad's killing them all. they'd also like to actually get a deal with the russians and the iranians. but the russians and iranians aren't playing ball. so they made a move to take over territory with the guys that they have on their payroll and that's what they've done. they've taken over a big part of syria. and now the question is, will the assad regime be able to hold its ground, if not will the russians and the iranians come to the table and can we chart a future for syria that is not just bombing and bombing and bombing we don't know. >> you also managed to speak with a source inside aleppo earlier today. what did they share with you? >> that's right. i spoke to the head bishop, the archbishop of aleppo, his name is hannah galuf. he's the top catholic in all of syria and he said a couple of things. he said listen, there's a lot of propaganda out there saying that the islamists are going to take over syria. if assad falls and they're going to kill all the minorities, including the christians, don't believe it.

okay? the rebels want a pluralistic syria and he said, we don't know what's going to happen after assad, but there can be no peace in syria until assad is gone. and then let the syrians figure it out, figure it out, give them a little bit of credit. don't tell them that they're only option is assad, who's a psychopathic mass murderer, because that's insulting to them. give them a little credit for what they can do to build a pluralistic country that has freedom and human rights. after assad leaves. but don't tell them they have to live under this mass murdering dictator. >> you published an op ed last year that was critical of the biden administration for inaction essentially not not doing much when it comes to syria i wonder how you think the approach in an incoming trump administration should be different, right now. >> the biden administration had a theory oh, it's quiet. so therefore it's stable. and we didn't see large scale fighting therefore everything is fine. well, that turned out to be totally wrong. it wasn't stable and the quiet was just people getting bombed so they couldn't speak up. and now they're speaking up and with the trump administration, has the chance to do is to reset

that frame and the way they can do that is by engaging with turks who are our allies, by the way, and confronting iran. and we see that already we see the trump administration wants to confront iran. here's a good place to do it. you know the syrian regime is the friends of hezbollah friends of the iranians and if you want to reduce the power of hezbollah and iran, it would be good to support the syrian people, struggle for freedom and dignity. i don't know if that's what they're going to do, but they have a chance to do that in just a few weeks. >> how do you think his nomination of tulsi gabbard as director of national intelligence not not tied immediately to foreign policy, but nevertheless a member of his cabinet, someone who's been effusive in praise of bashar al assad. right. how does she play role? it's a complicating factor, to be sure, because not just tulsi gabbard, but rfk jr.. >> they think assad is the better one. they think that the u.s. interests are served by keeping assad there. and they think all the rebels are terrorists. now neither of those things is true, but you can imagine in a trump cabinet that they would have an important voice. so they're going to be telling president-elect trump, hey, let's support assad, okay? and then you'll have other people like marco rubio and mike

walters saying, oh, no that's crazy. you know, because he's a mass murdering dictator and the people don't want to live under a mass murdering dictator. and i don't know which way trump is going to go. i hope he sides with the people who realize that assad is the problem, not the solution and that there could be no stability, much less peace in syria. as long as assad and the russians are bombing everybody, one of many foreign policy issues just in that region alone, that the new administration is going to have to contend with. >> josh rogan thanks so much for the analysis. anytime. up next, a new healthy trend that might promote some good habits. why? some are voluntarily monitoring their blood sugar levels in real time. we'll discuss can't fool myself. >> it was the most exciting time in the world. >> his life has truly joyful moments and some really difficult moments. you only come across an artist like luther vandross once in a lifetime. >> luther. never too much new year's day on cnn and harbor freight. >> we do business differently from the other guys. we design and test our own tools and sell

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app on your phone. the idea is that you can see your glucose reactions to different foods, to exercise, to sleep, to stress. and maybe that can help you make decisions that can make you healthier. so as i tried this one of the first things i experienced that surprised me was anxiety i started seeing my reaction to eating an apple or something like that, and seeing the glucose go up relatively quickly. you can see my graph there it's the second little purple increase and i was being encouraged by the app to try to avoid those kinds of increases. and so i started trying to game the system and eat a string cheese first, or hard boil an egg. and i had several episodes of of hunger that my husband had to experience of me waiting for eggs to be ready so i wouldn't spike my glucose. that is not how these are recommended to be used, but i have talked with several experts who say that could be a worry. if you're somebody who might be anxious around food, or particularly have any history of eating disorders, maybe this is not something you should try for other people. it can provide interesting insights. you know, i talked to doctor sanjay gupta, our

colleague, and he says he has seen some spikes from certain foods that's made him want to avoid them. so it can be helpful. but you've got to know yourself before you do it. >> brianna yeah, shout out to your husband i love that. so what does it say about whether it is, like, really beneficial for people who do not have diabetes? obviously, as you mentioned, there are some certain groups who maybe this isn't ideal. you don't want this to be something you're getting obsessive about, but how could this help yeah. >> so people have very strong opinions about this, but there's a big gulf in terms of what different sides of medicine. think about how useful this is for people without diabetes. some say absolutely. you want to avoid those larger increases in glucose. you want to avoid those long increases in glucose. others say, well, if it's in the healthy range, what does that matter? it doesn't make you more likely to get type two diabetes later in life. and the data just don't seem to be in on that yet so it's fairly early. it can be an interesting experiment, but it's also important to note these costs about $89 per

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clashes between fans and security, followed by a stampede as people rushed to escape the stadium. the country's information minister said in a statement that investigations are underway into the cause of the catastrophe, and this just in to cnn. a south carolina woman pleading guilty to driving under the influence after killing a bride and seriously injuring her groom as they were leaving their wedding reception. the judge is expected to sentence jamie lee komorowski shortly. it's a trial that was scheduled to start tomorrow. let's go to cnn's ryan young, who's been following the case. ryan, tell us about this yeah, brianna, there's a team of us watching this trial as we speak, just trying to see what happens next. >> the testimony has been just super emotional. all of us have been watching closely. i can tell you. let's look back at april. this is when this happened in april of 2023. this family had just gotten married. it was 10:00 at night. they were in a golf cart and all of a sudden a car slammed into the back of the golf cart and it kills the bride. the emotion in

court was so tough, so hard to listen to. take a listen to the husband, mark hutchison, talk about the moment where he kissed his wife, his bride on the forehead before this accident he died. >> that night so she had to go alone i saw you coming you had jumped off the golf cart so you would only run me over and pray to god that you'd miss that golf cart we did not get hit. >> we got rammed through at 65mph. there's no way any form of us any three of us, should be alive. all four of us should have died that night but i'm a firm believer of sam saved us that's who she is and she took

one for all of us that take me, save me. he's got the guilt with that. that i live with every single second of every day is unbearable yeah. >> brianna. samantha miller was killed in that crash. i know the audio was a little muffled there as he was crying in court, but one of the things that we took away from this is they had a wonderful celebration, a wonderful celebration of love. and as they were in the back of that golf cart, they were slammed into at 65mph, only one person died. that was samantha. the three others did survive. now arc is still going through a lot of trauma and he's obviously in a lot of pain, and he's still getting physical therapy. but as you can imagine this is really tore the family apart. listen to samantha's father talk about the pain that he deals with on a day to day basis, and the fact that he can't make sense oany of this for the rest of my life. >> i'm going to hate you. >> and when i arrive in hell and you come th' on

the door for you yeah. >> tough sound. jamie lee kuransky is being charged with dui again we thought this trial was going to start tomorrow. we now know she pled guilty. this is ongoing as we speak. so as soon as we find out sentencing will of course, tell you all about it. but just imagine the emotion all these family members ended up driving up on that scene of that wreck after she was slammed into and killed so viciously back in april of 2023. brianna, that was horrible. >> i remember when it happened ryan young, thank you so much. we'll be right back sunday on cnn. >> it's a night that's good for the soul. >> join anderson cooper and laura coates for cnn heroes, an all star tribute. >> thank you guys. meet the honorees and celebrate their life changing achievements. they're ordinary people doing extraordinary things. then find out who will be named the cnn hero of the year. >> it's really incredible. >> plus don't miss a special tribute to this year's legacy

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after all the turkey and football, a trip to the local movie theater was a popular option this weekend, and that led to some box office records being shattered. >> disney's moana two, universal's wicked and paramount's gladiator two pulled off a holiday trifecta. the three blockbusters led the five day opening weekend record to pull in $420 million. since sunday. that destroyed 2018 record of 315.6 million. moana two set the record for the highest grossing five day opening, surpassing last year's the super mario bros movie. >> yeah, i saw that last one and i'll be seeing moana two soon. i'm sure. so, you know, it's that time of year boris, when dictionary websites tell us what the word of the year is or in this case, words, plural. oxford university press is the latest. they picked a word that has no riz. it's definitely not demure, but maybe it's a bit brat. >> we're talking about brain rot. of course, oxford defines it as the supposed deterioration of a person's

mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as the result of overconsumption of material now, particularly online content considered to be trivial or unchallenging. apparently, the use of brain rot went up 230% this year. i'm not sure how they track that exactly, but it did beat out these other top five finalists. slop dynamic pricing, romantic law, and of course, the word you previously mentioned demure brain. >> now i get it because one of my kids used it and i thought, what is he talking about? brain rot? i guess the kids are just scrolling endless scrolling. is that what i think someone at school used it, but you can see how it makes sense. don't you think that it rots your brain? we always say like, don't watch the tv your parents probably said that it will rot your brain well, full circle here. >> tv outside of cnn news central one through 4 p.m. monday through friday, and of course, the lead with jake tapper. >> thanks so much for joining us today