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>> call one 800 859 2400. that's one 800 859 2400. >> this is cnn breaking news. >> we begin this hour with breaking news out of germany, where there are reports that a car has driven into a group of people at a christmas market. german media has confirmed that at least one person there has died, and the driver is now in custody. >> we have cnn's fred pleitgen, who is on the phone with us. and, fred, you had. described some video that was being shown on social media. i do want to let our viewers know that cnn has verified some video. we are not showing it at this point in time, but it shows the moment that a black car drives directly through a crowd of people. it it is a large crowd of people, and it looks like a tremendous amount of damage is done as this car goes straight in between rows of market stalls. it's horrific, quite frankly, fred, to watch. >> yeah, it certainly is.

you're absolutely right. it's a it's a the car plowed through there very quickly. it's a large crowd of people and it's also large and very jam packed crowd of people because they are in between those market stalls, as one would be in that christmas, in that christmas market. there's not much space in those aisles for people to try and jump away. so a lot of those people, very much soft targets as that as that car was plowing through. the authorities now are increasingly speaking of an attack that has not been made fully official yet. we know that the governor of that state is currently on the scene there, looking at things we do right now, know that at least one person has been confirmed to have been killed. several people have been confirmed to have been injured. we saw also from some of the video of the aftermath that the emergency responders, the first responders, were still tending to people. obviously, the police right now will be securing that area there. and of course, also maybe already in the first stages of interrogating that driver to find out exactly what sort of motivations could have been behind all of this. and, you know, one of the things that we've been mentioning again is

that the security for christmas markets, which is which is a gigantic industry here in germany, every town has one. they are always a big event, and especially on a friday night, they're especially jam packed in cities like magdeburg, which is the capital of that state. the security of those christmas markets has been on the agenda in german politics throughout the entire christmas season. and how to improve it. of course, in 2016, there was a horrific attack against one of the main christmas markets in the capital city of berlin, where a dozen people were killed back then. and since then, concept for the security and for the safety of christmas markets have been a huge deal here in germany, with barriers being put up, some of them that can be lowered and set up again if there's deliveries. but it definitely has been something that's been on the political agenda here. and so certainly right now where i'm already seeing on german media people asking questions about how something like that could happen again after that horrific attack that happened in 2016. obviously, for the authorities that are on the

ground right now, in the immediate aftermath, they're trying to save lives at the moment. and on that video that we've been seeing, there's obviously a lot of ambulances that are on the scene right now. and the authorities have obviously said that that christmas market was immediately shut down. >> brianna and fred, if you could tell us about magdeburg, about this area specifically what it's like and its significance in all of this. >> well, magdeburg, magdeburg is a very large city in in what used to be east germany, but it's west of berlin. it's about, i would say, about two, maybe a 2.5 hour drive west of berlin. it's the capital city of that state, which is called saxony-anhalt. and so therefore, you know, it's a fairly large city with obviously a fairly large christmas market. and the christmas markets there in that state are quite well known. the ones that are in magdeburg are known for being very beautiful and certainly attract a lot of people, especially on a friday evening. you know, around the time when all of this was happening in the late

afternoon, early evening, when especially a lot of families would have been at that christmas market? of course, we know that it is. it is the last friday before christmas day. and so therefore a lot of people do their shopping at these christmas markets, buy little gifts. and i think we've seen from that video just how many people were there on this evening. so certainly that would come as no surprise. and certainly anybody who would want to target that christmas market would know that as well. the authorities, of course, also would have known that that would have been the time to strike such a christmas market, because that's the time when it is a very packed and um, and so therefore that was one of the reasons that we know that in the run up to all of this, security was supposed to be tight that christmas markets across the country um, and certainly it's been something that a lot of politicians have been talking about here. >> yeah. and we certainly see why, fred, if you could stand by for us, let's go ahead and bring in our richard quest, who is monitoring the news as we are getting it in. and this is

developing at least one person dead here, richard. it is hard watching this video that has not yet been cleared but has been verified to not see how the damage here may not balloon. i think that will be the expectation of certainly the authorities there. this is it is horrific. what we have seen. >> yes. and having had the misfortune to see the original video, closed circuit television video, which of course were not showing and one wouldn't expect to you. you are absolutely right. the number of people who are likely to have died here is probably going to rise, because i think the graphic way to put it, you see the car barrel into this narrow alleyway of stalls at this christmas market and people literally go flying. pardon the phrase, like skittles, that that is the horror of, of of what has taken

place. now, the reason that fred was talking about the christmas markets in germany in in austria, in all the german speaking countries. but of course, that's grown everybody of our viewers here in the u.s., everybody now knows of a cute market with stalls selling pumpkin wine and christmas knickknacks, baubles and the like that has simply grown as a christmas tradition. if we think of new york, you think of madison square gardens, you think of downtown, you think of rockefeller. all of these places that have christmas markets. now, here's the point, though. we have known for a long time, ever since berlin back in 2014, we have no 16. we have known the potential for these gathering places at festivities to be a target, and that is why security has usually been ramped up. i was

in lisbon two weeks ago at a christmas market massive security to prevent. exactly. excuse me, this sort of thing. if i look back over the last 5 to 7 years, you see numerous occasions where vehicles, everything from a car to a truck to a to to a massive lorry has been used in some way as a as a weapon of attack. we don't know that is the case here, but it's certainly looking very likely richard, please stand by. >> thank you for that perspective. let's bring in cnn's senior law enforcement analyst and former fbi deputy director andrew mccabe. andy, just give us your initial thoughts. seeing this news about a car driving, plowing through people at a christmas market yeah, boris, it's absolutely tragic. >> and even more so, i think, because there is such a deep history of exactly this kind of attack, particularly in

germany, as as frederick was mentioning in his earlier interview. obviously, 2016 is the one that most people think of. the first big christmas market attack in germany, probably the first major mass casualty terrorist attack in germany in 50 years. before that. so it really set the kind of, um, the standard in terms of the germans response to this sort of soft target. attack framework. then we had another 1 in 2018, in strasbourg, in which five people died. and then just earlier this month, there is some reporting that german authorities made an arrest of an individual who was plotting an attack on a christmas market in germany. so, you know, we know that this is a persistent target for extremists, for terrorist attacks, for all the reasons that we've been discussing massive crowds, especially as you get closer and closer to christmas. um, they're very hard to secure. you have to,

you know, they are by definition, outdoor open air markets with huge crowds, lots of stalls, people packed very tightly into a limited amount of space. so they're like really ripe for um, people, terrorists who don't have either the technology or the ability or the access to weapons and explosives. anyone can get access to a vehicle to just cause mass carnage. and so that's that's what we've seen again and again in germany. i think it's also important to remember that these markets are a distinctive piece of german culture. so they attract, um, people who would want to do bad things from a broad spectrum of ideologies. so people who are, are, are acting out, attacking kind of the concept of german, the german nation and their political position in the world. maybe their their participation in the fight against i.s.i.s. and al qaeda or things like immigration policy, which remains very

volatile in germany. um, and so there's there's there's a lot of potential actors in threat actors in this space. um, and this is a target that, again, we've seen time and time again, there's no reason to think that it would fall from this sort of attention. >> and, andy, if you could, they've arrested the driver at this point. so that that means they have the driver in custody. what are authorities doing right now? >> well, no doubt they're trying to talk to him. right. so your first question in responding to any sort of terrorist attack is, is this the only attack vector? are there other operatives out there that we need to worry about? and and to answer that question, you want to get access to the person involved. you hopefully your legal structure and, uh, is, uh, encourages and allows a period of questioning. um, and you want to ask questions like, who

did you plan this with? who did you talk to about it? who knew about what you were doing? if you where were you trained? if so, where was there anyone else in training with you? did you travel to, in this case, germany, to commit this attack? did you travel with anyone else? was there anyone else? did you see anyone else kind of traveling the same route for the same purpose? so it's it's all the very standard questions that authorities ask suspects in the wake of any terrorist attack. now, the the hard part is having the legal authority and the opportunity to ask questions and having someone who is compliant and agreeable enough that they're willing to answer questions. i know it seems crazy, but oftentimes people involved in terrorist attacks do speak freely to investigators in the aftermath. they want the world to know what they did and why they did it, so that that's something that investigators can take advantage of to mine

some critical pieces of intelligence that shed some light on other threats that may be related to this one. >> andy mccabe, thank you so much. if you could stand by for us, we are following this breaking news. a car has plowed into a large crowd at a christmas market in germany. the damage is significant. so far, at least one person dead. we are digging in for more information. we'll have more when we get back. >> andy. take a seat, anderson. look at this. you're wet. disheveled. there's debris hitting you. we need to be ready for new year's eve maybe you are ready. >> new year's eve, live with anderson and andy. live coverage starts at eight. >> now's the time to go back in time and shine a light on the family journey that led to you detailed dna results inspiring family history, memberships. now's the time to save at ancestry.

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german media says that at least one person has died, and the driver of the vehicle has apparently been arrested. >> a video that cnn has verified but is not airing right now, shows a black car speeding through the market, hitting multiple people. you can see debris and bodies in its path in the wake of it, as well as the car just continues on even after it is so clearly evident what is happening. and this is why authorities are talking about an attack and not an accident here. we're told that this christmas market has about 140 stalls. it's pretty sizable. it has an ice rink. there's a ferris wheel, there's a children's play area. we have cnn's fred pleitgen on the phone with us. fred, tell us what you're learning. >> hi there. brianna. well, the latest information that that we're getting, both from german media and also from the authorities, that apparently this attack, as many are now calling it, um, started at around 7 p.m. local time. so

that would be around 1 p.m. eastern u.s. time, and that apparently the car that plowed through the christmas market appears to have been a black bmw. and, you know, we were talking about that surveillance camera video. horrendous of that car just really racing through that crowd of people and just knocking people over as it went through. obviously with those stalls being fairly close to one another, very difficult for people to try and get out of the way, although you can see that, that they were trying. the authorities are saying that the driver has been arrested. it's unclear whether or not he's being interrogated. some of the numbers that are coming in now seem to show that this is just as devastating as it looks on that surveillance camera video. um, we're still talking about or we're still getting information about. one person had to be killed. but now authorities are speaking of up to 80 people possibly being injured, 60 to 80 people being injured. and certainly we saw on some of the video that was coming through the amount of ambulances that have rushed there to the scene. no doubt that in the city of magdeburg, which is a significant sized

city, it's a very large city in the capital of that state. this would be a mass casualty event. right now, with obviously all the hospitals there calling in all of their doctors and any other personnel that they would need to try and come to terms with this, with these 60 to 80 people. now, the authorities speaking about having been injured, you mentioned that it was over 140 stalls at that christmas market. that christmas market is actually one of the main ones, if not the main one in magdeburg. it's near the city hall of of that town. and so right square in the city center of magdeburg. certainly a place that would have been jam packed at 7 p.m. on a friday, exactly the time that many families, and in general, many people would have been doing the sort of last christmas shopping that one would want to do at at christmas markets of this type. guys. >> yeah, the last friday before christmas. and fred, if you could stand by for us, we do have some new video just in of

the aftermath and it appears to show somebody being taken into custody. you can see someone lying down there on the ground. it is not clear at this point. if it is the suspect, but this is what the video is showing of someone being taken into custody here. we're going to try to get more information exactly about what we are seeing in this here to talk with us now about what we're seeing out of germany as emergency services are staying up to 80 people hurt as a car has plowed through this christmas market. we have democratic congressman robert garcia of california. he is also a member of the homeland security committee. what is your reaction to what you're seeing here? >> i mean, honestly, the images i think that we're seeing are pretty horrific. >> there's a lot of video going around, some of it very, very disturbing. >> so i think people need to be warned that there are some images that are, i think, really hard to see. but clearly it appears that this is some type of attack. i think obviously there's a lot of information that we don't know

yet, but for someone to be going that speed so deliberately, as the video shows, i think is very concerning, and i think we'll learn in the hours ahead what, what, what law enforcement are in on the ground is learning. but we also need to be cautious here in the united states. and you can rest assured that those discussions are also happening about that. >> congressman, there are christmas markets all over the united states, including two that i can think of here in the nation's capital. and as far as i've seen, at least one of them had ample security around it. one of them that i think you saw, brianna, didn't have quite the security that you would think might prevent something like this. i do wonder what your message is to folks around the united states who are watching this, considering that they may be at risk. >> two things, i think. one, i was mayor of my city for eight years, long beach, california, right before i got to congress just two years ago. and i can promise you that police chiefs and mayors right now, at this very moment across the country, are making assessments about similar markets that they might have in their community. so

that is already happening. we're going to be discussing things for with our police chief back home as well. but police chief and law enforcement, that's happening at the local level everywhere. so people should know that that coordination is happening at the same time. i'm department of homeland security, i'm sure fbi and other agencies are already working with our national and international partners who are essentially folks that we have to communicate with on a consistent basis with these types of threats, especially if there is some type of domestic terrorism that's involved which which we don't know yet. of course, those things are really important. and so i think that the homeland security will be engaged, our agencies will be engaged, and they'll be engaged with our local partners here as well. >> this is there have also been other attacks that have been thwarted. just one earlier this month, just looking off of politico's reporting here, there was a bavarian christmas market in augsburg where an attack was foiled. there was a 37 year old suspect from iraq who had photographed the market, who there had been that

leakage. he had told someone. german authorities said that he was planning on doing something at the market or attacking the market, and this led to them being able to stop this attack. but there was also an attack in 2018 that killed five people. it was, i'm sorry, 2018 that killed five people, was linked to i.s.i.s.. and of course, there was the 2016 attack, which is the one everyone thinks of. i think in germany where there was it was a huge truck. it was so much damage. so many people who died, um, this is one of those things that becomes a series of moments for people in germany. this this has the the ability to change things in a country like germany. >> i think that's right. i mean, i mean, obviously, i mean, the people of the united states are thinking about our allies and our friends in germany, and clearly there is going to be some horrific devastation out of this attack.

and certainly we're going to we will we would of course, assist the, the, um, the german people and the government in any way necessary, especially if there is an opportunity to have sharing of intelligence which, which, which might be the case in this scenario. but i would also just remind us that what's really important right now is that we get the information we actually we don't know yet what actually happened. we don't know how many casualties there may be there. we know there's one reported, we understand and we don't know the motive. and so i think it's important that we kind of wait for the information. and as important that folks and authorities here in the united states are preparing actively for these types of scenarios, and that cities and mayors are doing their job and homeland security on our side is doing what we need to do here in congress. >> and certainly the last thing you want to do in a situation like this is speculate as to a motive. when you don't have pertinent information from officials. i should also let our viewers know that these are live images coming in from the scene right now in magdeburg, germany. yet when we saw a

similar incident unfold in 2016, it wound up being tied to terrorism, jihadi terrorism specifically. it was part of a rash of similar attacks in europe and across the world, including here in the united states at the time, including one in southern california. i do wonder what your assessment is of the risk of this kind of terrorism at this moment. at the same time as we're seeing the united states take out an i.s.i.s. leader in syria? >> i think it's important first, again, to say that we don't know exactly what the motive is. in this case. i think we have to be prepared for attacks. we, the united states, has been attacked in the past. other countries and allies have been attacked, of course. so all of that has to be on the table. but i can rest assured that our agencies here on the ground are working with our allies in germany, sharing information. we're going to get whatever information that we need to secure our folks back here at home. we're going to do, and we've got to be very cautious moving forward. the most important thing right now is to think about these types of spaces across the country. here in the united states, and make sure that they

are secure. they are in some ways soft targets. clearly, these are spaces where there's a lot of people out celebrating and enjoying the holidays. we see these markets every in every city. you go to. they're they're active, there's families, there's children. so we've got to be very, very careful and think about ways of securing these spaces in ways that actually make sense. >> yeah. this one in particular had a ferris wheel, a children's play area. this is attracting certainly a family audience and just people enjoying the friday before christmas. before we let you go, we had initially had you here to talk about what we're seeing on capitol hill as this news broke out of germany. i just want to ask you about what was looking like a shutdown, because speaker johnson is now saying, as of about an hour ago, there is not going to be a government shutdown. what do you think? are you going to vote on any part of the deal? as you have seen it outlined? >> well, i think what's important to first note is we had a bipartisan deal and a deal that was negotiated by mike johnson and and hakeem jeffries that was on the table yesterday until elon musk decided to reassert his power

over the republican party and donald trump. and once elon trump got involved, that made the deal fall apart. and i think it's really unfortunate that the richest man in the world is trying to interject so that working class people will not get a paycheck across this country because the government would shut down right around the holidays. and i think that's a really important note as far as the deal on the table. um, we literally just saw it come out. i think our, our leader jeffries is right now meeting with speaker johnson. they're negotiating the details. we have not seen any text. the most important thing for us is that that debt limit ceiling is off the table. as a part of this debate. that was a way, as we all know, for donald trump to be able to take essentially whatever he'd like and create these huge tax cut programs for the very wealthy and billionaires in this country. if that's off the table, that's a good sign. but we don't know the text. so we've got to wait to see what hakeem jeffries does in that negotiation. >> the debt ceiling, as you know, was created as a way to keep government from spending too much and to sort of rein in

government spending. i do wonder if there's any part of this deal that was imploded that you saw as government waste, because on the substance of what musk and trump are talking about, there were things in there like outlining 40% of fema spending, being for the covid pandemic. and so, so at the root of what they're talking about, the substance of what they're talking about, the issue of government spending. is there something that you're glad to be parted with and hope to not see again? >> i support the deal that was negotiated. i mean, we're talking about $100 billion in in disaster aid, which was the centerpiece of that package for states like florida and north carolina and my home state of california. we're talking about we're talking about incredible money to support our farmers. and so the overall package and the vast majority of the resources was going to those pieces of the bill. and so i think it's very unfortunate that that bipartisan deal was discarded. and more importantly, let's not forget that at midnight tonight, the government will

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i'm hanako montgomery in tokyo and this is cnn. >> we are following right now some breaking news out of germany where a car has driven into a large group of people who were gathered at a christmas market. a quite large christmas market there in magdeburg. german media says that at least one person has died. emergency services are saying that up to 80 people are injured at this count. at this point, based on cctv footage from the market that we have seen and verified but are not showing, it is incredibly graphic. those numbers will almost certainly go up. this video that again we are not airing at the moment, shows a black car speeding through a large crowd of people and in its wake you can see debris.

you can see bodies on the ground. >> the driver of that black car is said to be under arrest, and this new video appears to show someone being taken into custody not far from the scene, though at this point it is not clear if that is the suspect. you can see multiple police yelling and surrounding this person as they lay down flat on the ground. different video then shows that person being led away. that is the footage from overhead. again, not far from the scene in magdeburg. we have cnn's fred pleitgen on the phone with us. fred, what are you hearing about what happened hi there. >> boris. well, the latest information that we have and this is coming both from german media and also from the authorities as well, is that apparently this incident, as they put it, started at around 7 p.m. local time. 704, i think is the exact time. that's about 1:01 p.m. eastern u.s. time, and that this bmw is a black bmw apparently just plowed very fast, as we saw on some of that

surveillance camera video through a large crowd of people in that christmas park. you can see people trying to jump out of the way, but very difficult to do because of course, those market stalls are very close to one another. the aisles are quite narrow, so just extremely difficult for people to get out of the way. and indeed the latest numbers are that the police is saying that at least one person has been killed and up to 80 people have been injured. so just to show how devastating all of that is, we know that the local hospitals in magdeburg and in the surrounding area of magdeburg, it's a pretty big urban area actually. they are all gearing up for what they know is a mass casualty events. there are dozens of ambulances that we've seen there in the surrounding area, trying to get to the scene, trying to help people. obviously, with so many people injured, that is a huge task for the authorities that that are on the scene there. we have heard some of the authorities speaking about an attack. not everybody has. the chancellor of germany, olaf schultz, he's come out and offered his

thoughts and prayers for all of those who were affected by all of this. and he also says that it looks like a terrible scene that is unfolding on the ground there. of course, one of the things that we've been speaking to as this incident unfolded and as we've been covering it, is the fact that the security of christmas markets in germany has been a major political issue in this country, and obviously also a major security issue in the country, as well as the whole christmas market industry is gigantic, and it's really a national pastime here in this country that is known to have become more dangerous since 2016, when there was a large scale attack on one of the main christmas markets of the city of berlin, with about a dozen people that were killed then. so this is known to have been an issue in germany. this is something that the authorities have been gearing up for. and we know that a couple of months ago, one person was arrested near augsburg for allegedly planning an attack on the christmas market there. so the german authorities certainly were on alert for something. nevertheless, this does appear to be a large scale incident

that took place there in magdeburg, guys. >> yeah, and we are still fred. we don't we don't know the motive. we have to be clear about that. at this point in time, we're looking to learn more information, which hopefully we will soon. but this is something that is it's such a tradition there in germany. it's really sort of, i think a symbol of something very german that people are doing at the holidays. this you can't you can't ignore the timing of this. right? which is 7 p.m. on the friday before christmas, and you have officials talking about this as an attack because it is also such a target rich environment and also the timing of when this happened, as they are questioning someone they have in is they have in custody right now. fred. >> yeah, absolutely. and i think that you're absolutely right to point out is that this is really a german national pastime to go to these christmas markets. and on a 7

p.m. on, on a friday, you obviously have a lot of people who are shopping there for the last sort of christmas presents on the last friday before christmas. but of course, also a lot of people who are just coming off work who want to drink some mulled wine and just be with their friends. so this is definitely would have been the time that that market would have been absolutely packed with something where you're absolutely right. this is one of the most german things i can think of to do on a friday night or on a friday evening during christmas time fred, please stand by. >> let's go back to cnn anchor and correspondent richard quest. richard, fred was just speaking to the tradition and the symbolism of a christmas market. the importance of it in german culture. also a clear, soft target for someone wanting to create this sort of harm. >> yes, absolutely. and in some ways a soft target, but one that shouldn't have been that soft. i was just looking back. it is what, since 2016? it was

december the 19th, so we're only one day off that anniversary when the berlin attack took place. and that attack, along with nice, that really opened our eyes to the potential of these sorts of attacks on, if you will, soft targets. but since then, the security apparatus has andrew mccabe was saying, has been put in place that these should not be that soft in a sense, particularly on the friday night before christmas, when there would have been throngs of never mind just shoppers, but just people going to have a to have a good time and to put this into a wider context. still, germany at the moment is in the middle of a political crisis. it has got, of course, the government of olaf schulz has just collapsed. there will be elections taking place in february, and it is once again

the far right that looks to stand to make gains and we are just learning, as you mentioned, that, richard, that the german chancellor, olaf scholz, put out a statement this evening saying that his thoughts are with the victims of the incident at the magdeburg christmas market. >> he says, quote, my thoughts are with the victims and their families. we are at their side and at the side of the people of magdeburg. my thanks go to the dedicated rescue workers in these anxious hours. richard, thank you so much for your perspective. please stand by. we have to take a quick break as we follow this breaking news out of germany. at least one person dead, up to 80 injured after a driver plows into a crowd at a christmas market from creating memories to finding the perfect gift. >> let us make this holiday

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is a substantially sized city in the capital of that german state as well. so this christmas market is very large and at this point in time would have also been very full. and that's why the authorities are saying one of the reasons why it was so packed and why they're now speaking of about 60 to 80 people who have been injured and who are now getting treated, we know that all the hospitals in that area have been put on high alert and obviously are already working on what they're calling a mass casualty event with a lot of ambulances racing to the scene, a lot of ambulances already at the scene. at this point in time, politicians or and the authorities not speaking about a possible motive. yet we know that the german interior minister has come out and said and pledged support for the authorities in magdeburg to try and come to terms with all of this. obviously, the german federal authorities now also moving in with any sort of assets that they might have in terms of search and rescue choppers, in terms of ambulances and other things as well, trying to cope with what

is a huge incident that took place there in in magdeburg. the police are saying that the area and this is something that just came out a couple of minutes ago, the area there is widely cordoned off at this point in time. obviously, the christmas market is no longer functioning as increasing parts of the city. the center of magdeburg now also, of course, being filled with with the authorities, with tents to try and tend to the people who have been injured. the german authorities now really coming in in force to come to terms with that incident. >> yeah, an enormous crime scene you might imagine there as investigators begin to do their work. fred pleitgen, thank you so much for the update. we're going to continue to follow this breaking news out of germany. stay with cnn. we'll be right back. >> new year's eve live with anderson and andy. live coverage starts at eight on cnn when you're the leader in disaster cleanup and restoration, how do you make like it never even happened happen? >> let it rain, randy woo

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forth several times this morning and into the afternoon about how they wanted to approach this. but where things stand right now is they are eyeing putting a bill on the floor that would include a spending bill until march 14th. farm aid, disaster aid, and that they would vote on it under the suspension of the rules. and what essentially that means is it requires two thirds majority of the house. that means two things. they have to make sure that democrats are supportive of it in order to get their votes on this package. and it's going to be a huge question whether or not they can maintain a majority of their conference on a vote like that. we know that one of the steps in this process was going to be mike johnson needed to have a conversation with donald trump and his team about what was in this package, whether they were supportive of it because what it does not include is an increase in the debt ceiling that had been an 11th hour request from donald trump. and while house republicans tried to do that on the floor last night, they failed. democrats

voting largely against it. and then you had the fact that there were more than 30 republicans who voted against that plan, perhaps a nod to the incoming president, that they tried their best, but they were unable to get that plan across the finish line. we are still waiting to know when that vote will actually happen, and it's worth pointing out that even if the house is able to move their bill tonight, it still has to go through the united states senate, where any one member could really slow this process down. i just talked to senator john cornyn, the republican whip, who made clear that what they are learning about this process over the last 48 hours is how to not do things next year. >> we'll see if that is the case, and we'll see how donald trump reacts to potentially not having that debt ceiling suspended that he so badly wanted. lauren fox, thank you so much for the update from capitol hill. a lot of breaking news to track not only here in the united states on capitol hill, but overseas as well. with this tragic news of an attack at a christmas market in germany. we're going to head over to the lead with jake

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