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>> it is friday, december 27th, right now on cnn this morning, new clues, a second black box recovered in the deadly kazakhstan plane crash. now, investigators are hoping it can determine who may be responsible. plus, this, we need to replace the h-1b lottery system. >> we have to gut that system, restore meritocratic immigration, a major divide erupting. >> two trusted trump advisers spark a debate about immigration and visas, pitting big tech against the maga base in a gop culture war and ready for takeoff. we take a look at what's driving destination wish lists for jetsetters in 2025. it is just after 5 a.m. here on the east coast. let's take a live look right now at beautiful las vegas, man. love it out there. morning, everyone. i'm danny freeman in

for kasie hunt. it is wonderful to have you with us this morning. and we begin with new details about that passenger jet that crashed in kazakhstan on christmas day, killing at least 38 people. authorities recovering a second black box, hoping it will provide more answers about exactly what led to that fatal disaster. earlier this week, a u.s. official telling cnn early indications suggest a russian anti-aircraft system may have downed the plane, adding that it may have been a case of mistaken identity in which poorly trained russian units have fired negligently against ukraine's use of drones. but officials in the region are urging not to speculate about the crash until investigators have wrapped up. cnn's bianna golodryga has more. >> as investigators race to determine the cause of the deadly azerbaijan airlines plane crash, early indications suggest that a russian anti-aircraft system may be responsible, a u.s. official told cnn the aircraft was traveling from the azerbaijani

capital of baku to the russian republic of chechnya when it attempted an emergency landing in kazakhstan. the crash occurred shortly after ukraine fired drones nearby at southern russia, possibly leading russia's defense systems to inadvertently strike the aircraft, the official said. majd kamalmaz video from onboard the flight shows panicked passengers praying and holes visible in the body of the aircraft. the source of the apparent damage has not been confirmed. the airline and russia's federal air transport agency initially told local media. the aircraft crashed after it collided with a flock of birds, an account disputed by ukrainian counter disinformation official andriy kovalenko. russian state media also reported that the plane had been rerouted due to heavy fog around chechnya's capital. several investigations have been opened, including one by a joint commission involving representatives from kazakhstan, azerbaijan

and russia. >> the commission's task is to fully investigate the matter, the causes and all the details of the accident and to inform both me and the people of azerbaijan. >> the kremlin expressed condolences for those impacted by the crash and urged against speculation into the cause. until the investigations have concluded. of the 67 people on board, 29 survived, including two children. authorities said. in azerbaijan, a day of mourning was declared for the dead. some relatives of the survivors remain on edge, waiting for news on loved ones recovery. >> i don't know what to say, honestly. i spoke with my son today. thank god his condition is good. if everything goes well today and tomorrow, he will come to baku. let's see what happens next. >> for many families of the at least 38 people killed in the crash, answers can't come soon enough. bianna golodryga, cnn,

new york. >> just incredible. now, joining me to discuss all of this further, cnn global affairs analyst kim dozier. kim, thank you so much for getting up to help us through this this morning. tell me. big picture here. what would be the significance if it actually does turn out that russia had something to do with this plane crash? >> well, the problem is a new trump administration is about to come in. >> and this is just when moscow is trying to make a good impression and portray itself as a victim of nato aggression, carrying out a war of necessity against ukraine as opposed to invading ukraine back in 2022 and originally in 2014. and it makes it look to the world irresponsible and out of control of its own defense systems. that's one of the reasons that airlines like el al, the israeli airline, have decided not to fly flights into moscow or the grozny area until

they get to the bottom of what caused this crash. >> kim, i want you to listen to what congressman ryan zinke had to say about this whole incident. take a listen. >> this is not the first commercial aircraft that, if the reports are true, that russia did down it. >> if the reports are true, it's not the first one they did. so again, it's a it's a melting pot, a melting pot without an answer. unless we have clear, clearly defined objectives. what's our plan? you know, my position is i don't think ukraine is ready for nato. they'd have to do a massive political reform that they're not willing to do. >> a couple of things that stand out from there, including not the first one they did potentially. just what's your reaction to the congressman's statement? there? >> well, um, zinke is referring to the shootdown of the malaysian flight 17 in 2014 by

russian forces over ukrainian territory, which russia still hasn't admitted to. but the hague has prosecuted, or at least passed sentences against several russian irregulars for that shootdown. so it looks like it's happening again. and congressman zinke also represents part of the republican party shared by incoming national security advisor. um, uh, mike waltz. and also, uh, marco rubio, who has been nominated to be secretary of state, who are very hawkish on russia and think that russia needs to be reined in, pulled back, taught a lesson, and they're going to point to something like this as showing russia's out of control, but they'll be fighting other parts of the party who will also be vying for donald trump's ear, who

believe that russia has been menaced by nato and is within its rights to carry out these kind of activities to protect places like grozny, which was apparently undergoing a ukrainian drone attack at the time that the azeri flight was turned away from landing. >> kim, can you paint a picture here of. of what this potentially says? if this is found out to be, uh, a product of a russian mistake, basically, what does this mean about russia's standing in the world right now? you know, we're in a position where it seems like russia really wants to try and project strength in these hours of the ukraine war. but like you noted, there's a new trump administration coming in. but this this would be a big embarrassment. no. >> well, i mean, moscow has a number of different options. it can lay claim to the accident and blame it on ukrainian aggression over its territory. or it could simply blame it on

ukrainian actors somehow saying that they somehow caused the shootdown, or it could deny it altogether. russia has a seat on one of the main investigation. um, investigation bodies into the crash. so, you know, they can put a finger on the scale and raise enough doubt. that's what they did with the malaysian flight 17, never claiming responsibility for it, but putting out so many different versions of what could have happened that it simply left the public confused, with no blame to cast anywhere in particular, except for western countries that are already in the anti-russian camp. >> all right, all right. that's the standard playbook, it seems, for the russian pr front on the world stage. kim, thank you so much, as always, for breaking it down for us. really appreciate it. this morning. >> thanks, danny. >> and coming up straight ahead on cnn this morning from the path of totality to disastrous wildfires and back to back devastating hurricanes, we're going to take a look back at 2020 for biggest climate and

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which has now been spilling out online. in one corner, you have the doge leaders, elon musk and vivek ramaswamy, who are defending silicon valley for bringing in foreign engineers. in a long post on x, ramaswamy wrote in part the reason top tech companies often hire foreign born and first generation engineers over native americans isn't because of an innate american iq deficit. a lazy and wrong explanation. it's rather a key part of it. coming down to the c word culture, a culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ or the jock over the valedictorian will not produce the best engineers. ramaswamy goes on to blame 90 sitcoms like boy meets world and other media for celebrating average, saying, we need less of this. >> this is me, mr. average. my room here is a a shrine to my mediocre life. >> oh, let's stop right there. >> okay. you don't have a mediocre life. >> there's nothing about me that separates me from anybody

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will build american, we will buy american, and we will hire american. what i want to do and what i will do is you graduate from a college. i think you should get automatically, as part of your diploma, a green card to be able to stay in this country. >> joining me now to discuss all of this, reese gorman, political reporter at notice. and michael snell, congressional reporter for the hill. thank you both for joining me this morning. reese, let's start with you. what do you make of this online argument breaking out into the open between the trump base and the doge bros. >> in this kind of sort of normal maga civil war that we've been seeing just a little bit throughout since the campaign started, people fighting for control. you saw loomer always tends to be in the middle of this. um, she people always came after her, obviously for her kind of 911 denialism and so on and so forth. whenever she went to the 911 and now here they are. she's going after other people. but at the end of the day, i mean, trump himself has said

that he thinks that if you graduate from a u.s. college, that you should get a green card. and i think that's kind of been where the party where he believes that, where he's aligned and that's kind of what ellen and vivek were saying as well, where they're kind of talking about. yeah, like if you graduate and we should give skilled workers green cards. and that's kind of where the infighting started. so i think they are more in line with where trump is than where loomer and them are at the at the current moment. and so i think that's kind of, um, the infighting is just one side just wants no immigration wants complete pause. the other side wants kind of still strict immigration policies. they want to stop illegal immigration and they have really strict policies, but they want to also give green cards to, quote, unquote, skilled workers. and there's kind of seen this fight play out and we'll see where it goes and where kind of trump falls on this. but he has made clear that he does think that if you graduate from u.s. college, you should get a green card. >> michael, was it only a matter of time before these two sides and perspectives clashed? because, again, he matt gaetz saying, we didn't want you to

come and do immigration policy, even though people like ellen, i mean, first buddy very much has a seat at the table. uh, it seems like this was bound to happen at one point or another, right? >> yeah. >> i mean, when you're dealing with such a wide variety of issues and matters, particularly controversial hot button issues, you're going to have some disagreements. >> but something i think this lends to the conversation to, and it's something reese and i and our colleagues up on capitol hill were curious about as well. >> during the government funding drama of previous weeks was how much does elon musk talk for president-elect donald trump? we saw the whole situation with the government funding bill that elon musk first came out against, and that led to president elect donald trump. there was a lot of curiosity among reporters of, should we take elon musk's stance on something to understand that is where donald trump is coming from. and i think that this situation with immigration that we're seeing play out right now, as reese mentioned, this maga civil war lends itself to that conversation of does one thing

elon musk say? does that mean that president elect trump is leaning in that direction or moving towards that direction on that particular issue or topic? now, the the answer to that question remains to be seen. it could be determined on a case by case basis. but this just also leads to the conversation of we're in such an interesting situation right now where we have somebody so prominent like elon musk, who has such a place at the table and such a strong voice in various conversations, despite the fact that, of course, he was not elected president. and we're hearing that from a lot of folks who say, i voted for donald trump for president and not elon musk for president. so this is just the latest example of this fascinating dynamic that we're seeing play out between trump and musk as we enter the trump administration, that we're going to have to continue to keep an eye on because it doesn't look like it's going to subside anytime soon. yeah. >> meanwhile, you say a case by case basis. i'm just amazed that, you know, we're not even at the new year. and we've already seen so many of these cases, and these fissures or interesting moments crop up

already. yeah, we're still, you know, a little bit less than a month out from inauguration day anyway. you know, it's so funny when these sorts of things happens when one person tweets, everyone has to get in on the act. nikki haley also slammed ramaswamy over his comments on american culture, specifically writing, quote, there is nothing wrong with american workers or american culture. all you have to do is look at the border and see how many want what we have. we should be investing and prioritizing in americans, not foreign workers. i mean, not a surprise, i guess that nikki haley doesn't exactly see eye to eye with ramaswamy. we have a site featuring some of their clashes from before. take a listen. >> her own daughter was actually using the app for a long time, so you might want to take care of your family first. leave my daughter out of your voice, your adult daughter. the next generation of americans are using. >> and that's actually the point. >> you have her supporters propping her up. that's fine. here's the truth the easy answer.

>> you're just scum who could forget reese? you know, i think i think there's a question as to where nikki haley and her supporters necessarily fit into the larger republican trump world at the moment. but i mean, it's both to trump's left, both to trump's right. i mean, it seems like the coalition already is seeing some of these fault lines. no. >> yeah. i mean, nikki haley, laura loomer is not the on by 2024 bingo card. that being on the right here. um, and so i think i mean, nikki haley to her credit, has kind of just i mean, she believes what she believes. she says she's not trying. i mean, she's really her political future in the era of the trump republican party is kind of done. i mean, she kind of did herself in. and so she really has to find a way. and she really found her way by just being who she is and saying her policies and that she's not beholden to trying to please trump or please whoever. and you see this, i mean, you see some of the policies she comes out for. trump would never come out for it because they're too moderate. they're a little bit more to the left of trump. and then here we are. she's doing she's siding with the more far

to the right version of the republican party. she's really just kind of and i think it's just a testament to her. she's just not beholden to trying to please anybody because she lost her race for the presidency. she really can't. well, well, i won't say can't, but likely will not be able to get a win in a republican primary in this day and age. and so she's really just is able to speak her mind. but i think as far as like does her word have impact. does she and like in the era of trump. no. i mean, we saw how trump just kind of destroyed every person in the primary. he ran the tables. so clearly people side with him. so i think whether or not i don't necessarily believe that her word is necessarily going to influence a bunch of people, but it is kind of just interesting to see her weighing in on all these issues. >> michael, i'll give you the last word here. i mean, again, we're seeing such unlikely bedfellows. uh, bill de blasio, jared polis also agreeing with musk and ramaswamy. i mean, democrats crossing lines to agree with the doge guys. i mean, is this a preview of

what's to come? >> i think it's certainly possible. again, especially when we're dealing with such a breadth of issues, such a breadth of matters that are so hot. button. i think that this quite possibly is look, we saw this happen sometimes during the first trump administration. it's entirely possible that we see this come the second trump administration have these odd coalitions form. sometimes we see folks on the ultra right and the ultra left join forces and agree with various matters. yes, i think that this is very possibly an example of what we may see in the looming trump administration, but i also expect things to remain very partisan. we're currently in a moment of high partisanship, high ideological differences. we've seen that play out on a number of different occasions, and i don't suspect that will change. but could we potentially see these moments of odd bedfellows going forward? absolutely. we always do, and i suspect that we continue to we will continue to do that going forward. >> rob frehse michael, thank you so much for playing ball on a fun and interesting and new subject. looking forward to more conversations in the new

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>> salad? exactly. i want to go someplace where i can marvel at something. language. gelato. spaghetti. something. >> so if you're looking to travel in the new year, perhaps eat, pray, love style. an array of new opportunities may be waiting just for you. booking.com is dubbing 2025 the year that ushers in new ways of experiencing the world. from millennials rethinking the airport experience to thrill seeking boomers. according to the website, some of 2025 most popular destinations are likely to include. let's see if i can do this. sanya, china. often referred to as china's. hawaii. trieste, italy. and tromso, norway. with travelers set to embrace new trends like nacto tourism, vintage voyaging and much more, these are all shaping the future of travel. joining me now to help explain it all is maddie bogart, a travel expert for rvshare, the world's largest peer to peer rv rental platform. good morning maddie. thank you for helping me understand all of

these new trends for 2025. all right. so i just said booking.com predicting a rise in nacto tourism spending kids inheritance, also known as ski vintage voyaging and the great escape. please can you walk through these? what are they meaning? why they're becoming popular yeah, let's do it. >> thanks for having me. >> i'm excited to talk about 2025 travel. >> it's going to be a big year for travel. >> we're currently in a huge travel boom for the holiday season, with over 119 million people traveling right now between christmas and new years. so 2025 is about to be a big year for travel. and with booking.com kind of highlighting some of those really interesting trends, the first one i'll touch on is narco tourism. so kind of off the back of the eclipse in 2024. last april, a lot of americans got to experience that phenomenon, and they're interested in doing more of that. so the dark skies is something that people want to

see this year and are heading to different destinations that highlight the night sky. my personal recommendation would be big bend national park and west texas. it is an amazing experience and actually dubbed as the darkest place in the u.s., but the u.s. has over 150 dark places where you can see the night sky and the milky way with your bare eye. >> wow. wow. that's amazing. the great escape. can you explain that one to. >> yeah. so of course, people are looking to get out and enjoy. there are, you know, traveling with their families and and that one is really of interest to people who want to experience the local culture. they're looking to shop and enjoy, um, something that is more immersive into the culture and using different experiences through eye travel planning. so when they are looking at

traveling to different destinations like tokyo, tokyo has been at the top of everyone's list for a while and a top destination. but instead of going to the city, maybe you travel outside. when i asked an eye trip planning tool where i should go, hakone was the top place to experience tokyo and japan's natural hot springs and stay in a traditional ryokan. >> you know, it's funny, one of my good friends actually recommended doing a tokyo trip for 2025. that's funny you say that. um, last thing expedia wrote about set jetting. basically, it's a popular trend where two thirds of travelers say movies, streaming services, and tv shows are influencing their travel choices. a 16% increase from last year. what shows and movies are inspiring people to travel? maddie. >> that's right. so they've been tracking this trend since 2022, and it's continued to rise. the shows that people are most interested in traveling for are the yellowstone. it's the final season of yellowstone

this fall, this winter, and people are looking to head out to have that ranch lifestyle experience. most people are heading to montana or wyoming. um, and then another one that has been a huge inspiration to a lot of people is the white lotus. white lotus has filmed in hawaii, but the new season will be in thailand and people are heading towards the islands of thailand to kind of have that same experience that they'll see on the show. >> i figured you were going to say that. i thought you would. uh, i mean, yeah, i a white lotus, that's that's all my travel. i want to go to italy now. i got to go to thailand. uh, watch the new season. everyone coming on, max very, very soon. maddie boatwright, thank you so much for breaking all that down for us. really appreciate it. thanks for having me. and it's time now for sports. the seahawks keep their slim playoff hopes alive without even scoring a touchdown against the bears. don't worry, the bears didn't score a

touchdown either. coy wire has this morning's cnn sports update. how you doing? >> i hope you didn't have any of those players on your fantasy team. danny i had two of them. d.j. moore. >> okay, we did all right. >> good for you. the only player who actually did decently. hey, look, we've had some really exciting thursday night games this season. but if you love offense and high scoring, this was not one of them. the final thursday night game of the year was a snooze fest, but also a defensive slugfest. with the seahawks coming out on top, they sacked bears rookie quarterback caleb williams, a season high seven times. big leonard williams 10th year in the league, got two of them. look at him flexing when the game was on the line late in the fourth, the bears did have a chance to tie or take the lead, but a leaping riq woolen intercepted williams pass to seal seattle's six three win in the lowest scoring game of the year. seahawks coach mike mcdonnell said thursday games are funky and not a lot of time to prep, but a win is a win. his seahawks are nine and seven still in the playoff hunt at this point. >> we don't care how we get

wins, we just want to win games. >> i don't care if it was 5 to 4, we got the dub. but yeah, man, it was a hard fought game. our defense was lights out. they finished it at the end right there. i mean that was big time. >> now on the other end of the scoring spectrum, toledo and pitt set a bowl record six overtimes in the game above sports bowl in detroit. they kept scoring and scoring. toledo's players actually rushed the field two times. danny during extra periods thinking they'd won. well, good thing eventually those rockets did get the win 4846. after scoring a two point conversion that pitt could not match, toledo's defense, making the final game winning stop. head coach jason caldentey gets his third bowl win. pitt ends the season on a six game losing streak after starting the year seven zero. to the nba, where the thunder were looking to rack up a ninth straight win. facing the pacers, and that they did, getting an mvp performance from shai

gilgeous-alexander. last season's runner up was a one man wrecking crew, tying his career high with 45 points to go with seven rebounds and eight assists. okc head coach mark daigneault called his point guard's performance a masterpiece. thunder win one 2114. they now have a three and a half game lead atop the western conference. the atlanta hawks absolutely stunned the chicago bulls with a historic 50 point fourth quarter. chicago was up 21 with a minute to go in the third, but atlanta and trae young came storming back, young scoring 16 of his 27 in the fourth quarter, including that tying three. now, hawks pulled ahead with under two to go look at the huge block by de'andre hunter. he poured in 25 off the bench and with 90s to go, atlanta's jalen johnson gets the steal and finishes with a team high 30 points. hawks win 141, 133 after pulling off a near perfect fourth quarter. finally, before the ball drops

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