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panama canal be returned to the united states of america. >> donald trump delivered what his campaign called a rally style speech. >> police have arrested a suspect in the burning death of a woman who was on a new york subway car. >> one of the most depraved crimes one person could possibly commit. >> the house ethics committee had a secret vote to release its report into the conduct of former rep matt gaetz. >> maybe i'll just run for marco rubio's vacant seat in the united states senate. >> good morning to you. to viewers joining us in the united states and around the world and streaming on cnn. max, i'm richard quest. today is monday. it's december the 23rd, 9:00 in the morning in london, two in the morning in phoenix, arizona, where the

u.s. president elect donald trump took to the stage. it was his first rally style speech since winning the election. and as he took a victory lap and previewed what lies ahead when he returns to the white house four weeks from now. donald trump spoke at sunday at an event in phoenix. it was put on by the conservative group turning point usa. the president elect touched on a wide range of issues, from tiktok to the panama canal, and pushed back on suggestions that the billionaire elon musk was acting as the de facto president. mr. trump also vowed to keep his campaign promises and take action on day one. when it comes to the border and immigration. donald trump said his speech was just a small preview of the common sense revolution that begins on january the 20th. it was a long speech with many parts in it. cnn steve contorno reports from west palm beach in florida

speaking from arizona on sunday, donald trump delivered what his campaign called a rally style speech in front of a friendly conservative audience, his first since winning election last month. >> and it was certainly reminiscent of many of the campaign speeches that he delivered over the past two years, with a heavy focus on immigration and his plans for the us-mexico border. he did, however, tread some new ground, saying that he was open to allowing tiktok, the chinese social media company, to continue to operate in the united states. he also considered taking back control of the panama canal, and suggested that he would meet early in his term with russian president vladimir vladimir putin about the ukraine war. he also pushed back against democrats criticism that he has allowed billionaire elon musk to become the day facto leader of his party and the country. take a listen to what he said there on a new kick russia, russia. >> russia. ukraine, ukraine,

ukraine. all the different hoaxes. and the new one is president trump has ceded the presidency to elon musk. no, no, that's not happening. no, he's not going to be president that i can tell you. and i'm safe. you know why he can't be? he wasn't born in this country. >> during his remarks on saturday, donald trump also signaled a show of support for many of his controversial picks for his incoming administration. he stood by robert f kennedy jr. and his plan to, quote, make america healthy again. he also gave a show of support for pete hegseth, his pick to lead the pentagon as defense secretary, as well as tulsi gabbard, his choice for director of national intelligence. >> but to get wokeness out of our military and restore the unquestioned strength and fighting spirit of the american armed forces, i have appointed

pete hegseth to be our next secretary of defense he's going to be great to make our intelligence community respected even more. i don't even think the word even is right, because we had some bad years with these people. but i've nominated tulsi gabbard as our director of national intelligence. >> one thing trump did not mention the chaotic end to congress's 2024 session, where trump nearly caused a government shutdown with his 11th hour demands to push off a debt ceiling vote beyond 2024, many of trump's allies, also speaking at the conference, threatened republicans that if they continue to stand in his way, they could find themselves with primary challenges. steve contorno, cnn, west palm beach, florida now mr. trump's referenced the panama canal during his speech on sunday came only a day after he made similar comments on social media. >> he told his supporters in

arizona that he'd consider retaking control of the canal, as he accused panama of charging fees that he called ridiculous and highly unfair. >> it was given to panama and to the people of panama, but it has provisions. you've got to treat us fairly, and they haven't treated us fairly. if the principles, both moral and legal of this magnanimous gesture of giving are not followed, then we will demand that the panama canal be returned to the united states of america in full, quickly and without question. i'm not going to stand for it now. >> as you might expect, those comments sparked a swift reaction from panama's president josé raúl mulino. he made it clear his country will remain in control of the canal coy wire. >> i want to express that every square meter of the panama canal and its adjacent areas

belong to panama and will continue to belong to panama. the sovereignty and independence of our country are not negotiable meanwhile, donald trump has revived his interest in obtaining greenland from denmark. >> it was a preoccupation that first arose in his white hat, first white house term. now it's resurfaced. on sunday night, donald trump announced he'd selected paypal co-founder ken howery to serve as his ambassador to denmark, the danish prime minister previously called the suggestion that greenland could be purchased absurd. in the past week, donald trump has somewhat playfully but repeatedly taunted the canadian prime minister with suggestions that the u.s. could absorb canada as its 51st state. we are hours away from the opening bell in new york as u.s. markets prepare for a controlled week, a contract week. i beg your pardon? with the christmas holiday and the christmas comeback after a week

of disaster. maureen brainard-barnes on friday, at the end of a turbulent session of week of sessions which had a dramatic drop of 1100 points, the longest losing streak that we've seen in more than 50 years. ten days of losses and the news that the feds only got two rate cuts penciled in in 2025. but they are dependent, data dependent. the markets rallied and ended on a high note on friday. the unknowns are there, and it's too early to predict what. of course, the tariffs, the immigration and all the other things that donald trump has in line as he prepares to enter the white house. iran patel is a senior fellow at the claremont graduate university drucker school of management. and with me now. good to see you, sir. look, this is interesting because we know economic orthodoxy says things like immigration, tariffs, et

cetera. should push up inflation. and to some extent that is what the fed is responding to by taking out some of the cuts that they had intended to last year, which makes donald trump's job a little more difficult. >> does. and i think, you know, we look at the u.s. economy, richard, it's not the same economy that it was ten years ago or even two years ago. and what i mean by that, it has to evolve. so we see the market, you know, kind of looking at some of the wins that we've seen. but the long term necessary, what president trump elect has to come in to do right now, he's got to not just create short term gains, but long term gains. and the fed is here to try to come back combat that at the same time. so we're kind of at a crossroads right now where there's a lot of policy that needs to be done in a short period of time to set up the u.s. economy to back and evolve to where it wants to be. >> okay. so by that, what do you mean? we've had an infrastructure bill that started to put in place quite

dramatic changes. so what policies to which are you referring well, the first one that comes right off is obviously america first. >> right. and i think when you think of america first, that the u.s. needs to kind of bring back the economy, jobs back home and create more manufacturing jobs. i mean, that is something that, you know, trump has decided to wanting to do. i think the second piece to that is not just the talent piece, but you think about the manufacturing, you think about technology, you think of a.i., you think of kind of the not just the regulations, but how do you evolve and grow that. and that ties into some of this rhetoric when it comes to the global trade, you know, not say war yet, but these kind of conversations, are you evolving the u.s. economy to keep up with the rest of the world? because we are so interlocked and even more so than before? >> okay. but i'm not entirely clear where you're standing in terms of some of those policies. do you believe that the tariff, the tariff attack that he's going to have, will

long term be beneficial for the u.s. economy, or, as many economists believe, that traditional orthodoxy it's going to harm? where do you stand on that? rand? >> well, i based on what he's done the last four years. so my assumption is he's used it as a negotiation tactic. so if i think of that, he's not going to hold well, my assumption is he's not going to hold the tariff for a long period of time. that has a really detrimental effect to the u.s. economy. however, we don't know that. you and i just said you said two, you don't know what's going to happen. but if you see his first term, there has been some cases where he has locked back in looking for that negotiating tactic. so long term, yes. if you hold the tariff, the economists, as we all say, it's going to make an impact. but in the short term, i think it's going to be very interesting. >> but there's going to be this battle between fiscal and monetary policy, whether intended or otherwise. jerome powell made it quite clear at the last press conference that his goal is his dual mandate. now, if inflation is already

hardening, or at least the trajectory has slowed, and there is now an underpinning somewhere around about 2.5 to 2.7%. if fuel goes on the fire from monetary policy, powell has to act. do you see a conflict between monetary and fiscal policy next year? >> percent, based on what we're seeing right now, and we already cut back to two cut rate cuts. and i think the inflation data hasn't really been that clear. and i think that's why i think, you know, when trump goes into office, the rhetoric may change a little bit in the first second quarter. should the markets, including the outlook when consumer prices are increasing, things get more expensive. you can't you have to assume that he's not going to, um, have those threats to go through those policy making aspect. so we, you know, the first quarter, there's nothing there's no slam dunk here, richard, that it is going to have to wait and see what the data looks like. and, you know, the fed already in their last meeting is already providing that saying, you know, we're not there yet. >> grateful to have you with us, sir. i'm grateful you're up late. well, it's late evening in california. it's

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history of making troubling social media posts that grew increasingly dark and threatening before the attack. and apparently the germans were alerted to this. now, in berlin, i'm joined by mar-a-lago kufner, the chief editor political editor at deutsche welle. good to see you. hopefully you can hear me. and now this has really, you know, the tragedy is unimaginable for those who are involved. but the fact it now takes on a political aspect with the afd deciding to chime in and sort of seems to make a bad situation worse it does. >> and in a sense, we've been here before. ahead of regional elections, there was a knife attack in solingen in august, and that sparked instantly, once again, a migration debate. but this case is different because the perpetrator doesn't fit the kind of category of an islamist

motivated attacker. he also didn't come in 2015 during that migration wave. and what clearly happened here is that the security authorities and police did not connect the dots, because this is a man, as you mentioned, who's previously convicted for threatening violent acts more than a decade ago. and he's somewhat infamous within the exile circles of having harassed people and having threatened these acts many times over. he was on the police radar, and they simply didn't find him at home. which is why the last time the police wanted to visit him, they didn't act so in a sense where bearing in mind the political crisis that germany is in at the moment, where is the blame game going? >> first of all, obviously you've got the question of the immigration and the whole political issues, but but you've also got the lack of security at the magdeburg

christmas market. is. is it heading in schultz's direction? local authorities. give me an overview. >> yes. well, i mean, it's very fast. won't matter because we have elections coming up in february. as you rightly pointed out. and they head this heads in olaf schultz's direction. also, his interior minister nancy faeser from his social democrat party, who now is pushing for implementing new laws which frankly wouldn't have made any difference here. not necessarily because the authorities didn't act. but she's in charge of the police, and this is offering the far right alternative for germany. the afd, who is holding this gathering in magdeburg today, yet again, an opportunity to say, look, the established parties aren't really guaranteeing your security. time for a change. that is the case. the narrative. they are now trying to spin. and of course, it does help that someone like elon musk is

jumping onto this. and certainly, you know, tweeting saying that the afd needs to save germany and he keeps posting articles which are frankly void of any kind of factual basis. but it doesn't matter. and this is the reality. this election campaign is suddenly finding itself in. >> right. so so let's just as you took me exactly where i wanted to go, the the tweet by musk, the traditional political parties have failed. the afd is the only hope. and does this help or harm the the overall political position? i can never work out in germany, for example, is musk considered a hero or a villain? is his contribution welcomed or dismissed well, it's certainly welcomed by alice weidel, who is the chancellor candidate of the far right alternative for germany party. >> but as you point out, he's

not a popular man here in germany. he's not going to get instant traction at the polling booth for the far right alternative for germany. but it gives them what they're not getting from other parties, which is political validation, because all other parties here in germany have vowed not to work together with the far right afd, which, according to the polling, is currently the second strongest political force here in pull the strands together and just how much of a crisis, bearing in mind the parlous state of the eu economy, ecb cutting rates. >> et cetera. et cetera. what is would you describe the level of crisis in germany at the moment? >> mm economically it would be a seven in terms of political i'd say it's a six on a scale of ten. if you ask me like that, i, you know, pulling these threads together, it's a, it's a country that feels very

insecure because what it has drawn strength from in the past is currently under threat, which is the strength of the economy. and you have a real shakeup and a fragmentation of the political spectrum here. but this is not necessarily just simply going to play into the hands of the alternative for germany. it could also bolster the chances of friedrich merz, a name that's worth remembering at this point in time, because he is currently leading the polls with his conservative cdu party, formerly known as angela merkel's party varela. >> we've talked a lot about crises and this, that and the other. but please, i'd be deeply remiss if i didn't wish you and your family. season's greetings and we could put all this behind us, hopefully for a day or two over christmas. thank you for taking the time to join us. thank you, i appreciate it. >> you're so welcome. >> now to southern brazil. the surveillance camera, which captured the fireball from the

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promoting the islamization of the country. police in new york have arrested a suspect accused of killing a female subway passenger by setting her on fire. authorities do not believe the two knew each other and say they didn't interact before the attack. at a speech to conservative activists in arizona, president elect trump has pushed back on attacks from democrats who have referred to elon musk as president musk. donald trump said he would consider retaking control of the panama canal. panama's president responded, saying the independence of his country is not negotiable. donald trump's pick for border czar also fired up the crowd at that same conservative conference. he pushed for an aggressive crackdown on immigration. now, it appears tom homan plans is to go into sanctuary cities and prosecute anyone hiding undocumented migrants from law enforcement. he says illegal immigrants who have committed crimes will be the priority,

but they won't be the only ones that the agents are looking to arrest it's all saying a whole bunch of agents into your community and we'll find the bad guy. >> and when we find the bad guy, he's probably going to be with others. others that aren't a priority apprehension. but guess what? they're getting arrested too. so i'm going to get exactly what you don't want. more arrests in your communities. i don't want to do that. i'd much rather be safe with the agents. arrest the guy in the county jail, but they don't let us in fine. you're not going to stop us. we'll go to the community and we will find him. you're not going to stop us. put all the roadblocks up. roadblocks you want. it's not going to work. we're going to do this now. >> mr. trump's former pick for the u.s. attorney general, matt gaetz, claims that his bid for the job was thwarted by anti-trump forces in the senate. and now sources are saying a house ethics committee report on gaetz's conduct will be released in the coming hours. cnn's brian abel has more. >> it was earlier this week

when we learned that the house ethics committee had a secret vote to release its report into the conduct of former rep matt gaetz. >> and now we know when. multiple sources telling cnn the report will be released monday. >> the release is a stark reversal by the committee, which just last month voted to shelve the report after gaetz resigned from congress once he became president elect. donald trump's pick for attorney general. gaetz withdrew himself from consideration of that role after trump called him to say gaetz didn't have the votes in the senate to get confirmed. this report concludes a years long probe by the ethics committee into numerous allegations against gaetz, including whether he engaged in sexual misconduct with a minor, whether he paid for sex, used illicit drugs, shared inappropriate images or videos on the house floor and more. gaetz has strongly denied all the allegations and has said the committee's investigation is a witch hunt, saying this on

x after reports of the committee's decision to release this report, he said, quote, the biden garland doj spent years reviewing allegations that i committed various crimes. i was charged with nothing, fully exonerated. the post went on to say it's embarrassing, though not criminal, that i probably partied womanized drank and smoked more than i should have earlier in life. i live a different life now. we should note that it is rare for an ethics report to be released after a member has left congress, though it has happened on a couple of occasions in the past. gaetz has said he has no plans of returning to the house next year. as a result, house speaker mike johnson called the report a moot point and advocated for it to not be released. but here's what gaetz said sunday at a conservative conference. >> and some of you throughout this conference have even given me a few suggestions. my fellow floridians have asked me to. i, the governor's mansion in tallahassee, maybe special

counsel to go after the insider trading for my former colleagues in congress. it seems i may not have had enough support in the united states senate. maybe i'll just run for marco rubio's vacant seat in the united states senate and join some of those folks. >> rubio's seat is vacant after being picked to be trump's secretary of state, and the exact timing of when this ethics report will be released monday is still unknown. brian abel, cnn washington. >> several members of the same family have been killed in an israeli airstrike in central gaza on saturday, according to the hospital, who says at least 11 people died when the house was targeted. we've reached out for comment from israel's military. now, overall, gaza's health ministry is saying more than 45,000 palestinians have been killed since israel's offensive started last year. we

can't independently confirm that number. the humanitarian crisis across gaza is worsening, with food prices rising dramatically. these are the videos of the chaos at an ngo facility in central gaza. people are pushing their way just to get a meal. one woman said she was there to get food for her children. she said the situation would be unbearable without such assistance. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu, speaking out after houthi rebels fired a missile at tel aviv this weekend, according to israeli military, several attempts to shoot it down failed. the prime minister says israeli forces will continue to target houthis in yemen in the same way they've dealt with other iranian proxies. the u.s. has launched a series of strikes against houthis, part of an ongoing effort to shut them down and their military operations in the region boltzmann has reacted forcefully against the terror

arms of iran's evil axis. >> so we will act against the houthis. only in this case, we are not acting alone. the u.s. and other countries see the houthis as a threat not only to international shipping, but to the international order. therefore, we will act forcefully with determination and sophistication. i tell you, even if it takes time, the result will be the same result as against the other terror arms. >> jordan's foreign ministers in damascus, where he's conducting extensive negotiations and discussions with the country's de facto leader. this is according to reporting by jordanian state television ahmad al-sharaa, also known as abu mohammad al-julani, led the group of rebels that ousted the syrian president bashar al assad earlier this month. he held a news conference with turkey's foreign minister in damascus on sunday. apparently, they said, all weapons in the country will now be controlled by the state we will not by any means allow for arms outside the control of

the state, whether from revolutionary factions or factions in the sdf areas. >> we need to close this chapter as quickly as possible, because the presence of rogue arms in the country is what leads to chaos and unstable security president elect trump has said the u.s. >> should not get involved in the situation in syria. he wrote, when it all happened, this is not our fight. let it play out. but what does that mean? after all? i spoke to jasmine el-gamal and former middle east adviser at the pentagon, and she says it won't be that easy for donald trump to just ignore what's unfolding there. >> this is one of the things that we've seen time and again with the u.s. administration saying, this is not our fight. we need to get out of the middle east. the middle east is quiet. and yet time and again they end up being dragged back in. because actually, what happens in the middle east does affect u.s. interests, and it does affect u.s. allies. so donald trump may very well want to stay out of this. but the

fact is, at the very least, at a bare minimum, we have 40,000 i.s.i.s. fighters, women and children who are in syria. there's a u.s. counter-isis mission in the northeast of the country, and they're going to be looking at that situation and trying to figure out how do you make it so that these, uh, these i.s.i.s. fighters don't pose a threat to u.s. interests and allies? and that's just at a bare minimum. >> right? but, you see, this is the this is the difficulty. that is the lowest thread. you like the lowest bar ensure that things don't get worse. but is there an opportunity here because it seems as if the leaders are saying, look, we want an islamic sort of state, but nothing like afghanistan. we want to be accepted by you. give us a bit of room to breathe, and we can be all get on. or am i just being naive? >> no, you're not being naive

at all. i mean, absolutely the leader of rts, which is now the de facto ruler, basically, the transitional government, if you will, in damascus. they have been saying all the all the right things, all the things that international actors, european countries, the u.s. regional countries have been wanting to hear from them. they're talking about respect for minorities. they're talking about not wanting to fight with their neighbors. they're talking about syrians rebuilding syria for syrians. you've seen a long list of foreign dignitaries going into damascus, having meetings with ahmad al-sharaa, as you said, who was formerly known by his nom de guerre, abu al-jolani. and and so you're seeing what you're seeing is something that analysts that foreign, foreign actors have long wanted to see out of the middle east, which is someone actually saying pragmatic things that

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with its cement seal removed and keys retrieved, the door is now ready to be opened for 2025, which will allow pilgrims to pass through and receive forgiveness for their sins. known as an indulgence after this moment, the pilgrim encounters the mother of god, the masterpiece of michelangelo. the pieta, which was attacked in 1972, has had its protective glass upgraded for the jubilee and this is the work of the pilgrim? >> no. >> okay. the pilgrims. yes, yes. wow. >> the in front of us. the baldacchino of the bernini. this altar is the center of the eucharistic celebration. but also it's a very important because there is the tomb of saint peter. >> can we see that now? >> yes. >> access to the tomb of saint peter, the church's first pope, is usually only possible with special permission. but as

part of jubilee plans to boost engagement, it and the holy door will be viewable via webcam. live streams. >> this is the devotion of every pilgrim saint peter's has also launched a new magazine and even partnered with microsoft to create an a.i. >> generated digital twin of the basilica that allows pilgrims who can't be there in person and others to explore every detail which could be useful as the work to maintain saint peter's is ongoing. a special structure has been set up to restore its ceiling using techniques from the renaissance period. >> now we are in front of the monument of bernini inside there is the oldest chair of saint peter, the doors symbolizes the holy spirit in the church. so the holy spirit leads the church. >> yes, it's not just a museum church, it's a living church.

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