important, because once you get rid of that charismatic leader and we have seen that if they're not put in check with people like charles manson and marshall applewhite and david koresh, it will snowball out of control until you have not only the deaths of innocent people. as la soto is accused of right here, but the deaths of the members themselves. very often these things end in a cult suicide. >> we've got about 20s left here. so very quickly, if you could get one question answered, either about lasota or this cult, what would it be? >> i think it is the war they have on rationalism. and keep in mind, this is a group of highly intelligent computer scientists, some of whom have been shunned by society. so this idea that there's two hemispheres in the brain and they're at war with each other, good versus evil, is the seduction for these members. we'd love to talk to these members and find out what the appeal is of this theory to them

in particular, and see if we could figure out what that common thread is that's attracting them to the zizians. >> all right. casey, jordan, i think this discussion will continue. thank you so much for being with us. a new hour of cnn news central starts right now. >> president trump calls ukraine's president zelenskyy a dictator without elections, while referring to himself as a king. on social media, an angry shift in tone towards ukraine as he cozies up to russia and a hostage exchange of the dead, hamas turns over the bodies of four hostages, including two children who became the face of hamas cruelty. on october 7th, as it now agrees to turn over more hostages and frozen over bitter temperatures, bite across america. what you need to know if you live down south and are prepared for brutal winter weather, i'm sara sidner with kate bolduan and john berman. this cnn news central.

>> and we are standing by this hour for news out of ukraine, where president trump's ukraine envoy, keith kellogg, is on the ground meeting with ukrainian president zelenskyy. the sit down now, all the more important after what sarah was talking about off the top after president trump made a flurry of unfounded false accusations targeting zelenskyy. trump calling zelenskyy a dictator. now, multiple times at the same time, remaining completely silent on the real dictator involved in the negotiations, vladimir putin. and this is after donald trump tried to say that ukraine started the war with russia, rather than russia's full scale invasion starting in. these are russian talking points. and the kremlin today is applauding donald trump, saying that they, quote, absolutely agree with the u.s. administration. also happening amid this war of words is the actual war. overnight, ukrainian forces say a barrage of russian drones struck several cities, including kyiv. cnn's alayna treene is at the white house.

let's start there this hour, because, elena, you just had the opportunity to speak with the president's national security adviser. what is he telling you? >> that's right, i did. i had the opportunity to catch up with michael waltz moments ago this morning, and i asked him, because, of course, the next turn of the wheel today about all of this, about these negotiations, about the president's criticisms of zelenskyy, all of that is now going to be coming up soon as well. momentarily, we're going to see general keith kellogg meet with zelenskyy directly in kyiv. now, i asked walt, what is kellogg's main message for for zelenskyy today i want you to take a listen to what he told me. what do you think is the main message kellogg needs to deliver to zelenskyy today? after all of the back and forth yesterday? >> let's tone down. >> the rhetoric. >> and sign the economic opportunity sign. the deal. >> is that kellogg's directive today is to get him to sign the deal. >> well, he's out there talking to him about a number of things, but that would be i think that would be a tremendous step

forward. >> so, kate, there you heard walt tell me that one of the key priorities in a tremendous step forward would be convincing zelenskyy to sign this rare earth minerals deal. and just to break that down for you, this is really a deal that the united states has been trying to work on, to have ukraine give a percentage of their rare mineral earths and the profits of that to the united states. we actually know that the treasury secretary, scott bessent, went to kyiv recently to meet with zelenskyy and tried to convince him to sign this deal. zelenskyy said yesterday that he had rejected that deal because it was asking for 50% of the rare earth minerals. the proceeds from that. he said that was a nonstarter and not in the in ukraine's best interest, but that he would continue talking about this. the reason that deal is so important, though, i know i'm getting a little into the weeds here, is because one of the key issues and complaints that the president has had even before he took office was that he has been very skeptical of the aid that the united states has been sending to ukraine. we've heard him even yesterday when he gave that speech and

gave those remarks in miami yesterday evening, trump brought this up saying that he wants to continue pushing for this. he wants to essentially get something out of this deal that the united states has had in providing ukraine with funding. all to say, i mean, this comes as, of course, they are still trying to figure out an off ramp to the war. and as we've really seen, the president's commentary potentially jeopardizing some of these talks, as you mentioned, he called zelenskyy a dictator. he argued that he's not having elections in ukraine. just to point a little quick fact check on that. yes. they haven't had elections because soon after russia invaded ukraine illegally, they zelenskyy declared martial law, which essentially prevented them from having elections. that is something that is common. we saw the united kingdom, for example, do that during world war two. but all to say, to give you just a little insight into my conversations with white house officials and trump administration officials behind the scenes. a lot of this has been brewing for days now. the president has personally been

frustrated with zelenskyy for some of the commentary and criticism he has been making. i was told it hit an inflection point yesterday when zelenskyy said trump lives in a disinformation space. that's really when we began to see this taunting from the president, all to say, we have to see how these conversations in kyiv go between kellogg and zelenskyy and what the next step on this could be. kate? >> yeah, it's good to see you. thank you so much for starting us off. sara. from virginia, gerry connolly. he is the ranking member on the house oversight committee and the house foreign affairs committee. thank you, sir, so much for coming in this early morning with us. look, let's talk about what we just heard from alayna treene and what she's talking about vis a vis what trump has said about zelenskyy. on the one hand, donald trump now being very aggressive, calling ukraine's president a dictator, while at the same time referring to himself as a king on social media. what is happening here?

>> um, i. think president trump is unmoored. uh, i think, uh, we are seeing his bromance with vladimir putin in full bloom. uh, and it's very dangerous and reckless. uh, if there's a dictator in all of this, it is vladimir putin. we just remembered the one year anniversary of the death of his political opponent adversary, whom he jailed in siberia. alexei navalny. uh, i had the opportunity to meet with navalny's widow the day he died. and i'll never forget the pain and the. and the sorrow all of us felt with her and the death of her husband. this is a guy, vladimir putin, who, you know, essentially puts his, uh, his opponents outside hotel windows. uh, if you want to find a dictator, it's not zelenskyy, it's vladimir putin. and trump knows that. so it's really troubling that he's going to make his bed with vladimir

putin. uh, and all of the trouble that's going to flow from that. >> when you speak of the trouble, are we seeing a real shift in u.s. policy now where trump is signaling that he wants to be friends with russia and not with traditional allies in europe, for example? is that how you're reading this? >> yes. i was at the munich security conference last week. we met with president zelenskyy and a number of other nato european allies. i think there's deep consternation and anger among our european allies at this abrupt discontinuity in american foreign policy. suddenly embracing putin and questioning the validity or the value of relationships that are long standing for the united states. uh, across the atlantic. so, uh, i think this is going to create huge problems as we move forward. we need our allies and

a host of things not only in, uh, deterring russian aggression, cyber aggression and kinetic aggression on the battlefield, but we also need them for cooperation on immigration, on terrorism, on crime, on, uh, on economic policy, on trade and investment, uh, to create this kind of discontinuity in our relationships, uh, across the, across the pond, as they put it. uh, i think it's only going to redound to the, uh, detriment of american consumers and american voters. >> all right, i want to shift gears here. you were on the house oversight and accountability subcommittee on cybersecurity, information technology, and government innovation. and you said at the time, when you were on that committee, that the u.s. government needs to get on the ball and modernize its i.t. systems and use things such as a.i. to help root out waste and save the american people some money. this sounds very much like what elon musk and doge are pushing to do as well. do you

agree with doge and what it is doing in principle so far? >> no, i don't think they're anything alike. uh, one is taking a pruning knife and carefully cutting out the fat, the waste and fraud and abuse where you can find it. the current modus operandi of elon musk is a wrecking ball. he doesn't care what he's destroying, nor does he understand what he's destroying. you know, the american people rely on their government. and when you create this kind of chaos and turmoil by, uh, a wrecking ball approach to, quote, government efficiency, unquote, that's not achieving efficiency, that's just, you know, destroying things in your path in the hopes that it doesn't do as much damage as it does. good. that is not a policy. that is not something i think i have anything in common with. and i really decry it because it's creating havoc and going to create real harm for

american people who rely on government services. >> i want to ask you about the reliance on some of the things that americans expect and have paid into. uh, we heard from from elon musk when he was sitting down beside the president in his latest interview about us not being able to pay for social security. uh, and what he called your health issues, i.e., medicare. here's what he said about the deficit and the ability for america to continue with these programs. >> if we don't solve. >> the deficit, there won't be money for. >> medical care. >> there won't be money. >> for social security. we either solve. >> the deficit. >> or we will be doing. is paying debt. >> nobody. >> so it's got to be solved. >> or there's no medical care. >> there's no social security, there's. >> no nothing that's. >> got to. >> be solved. it's not optional. america will. >> go bankrupt if. >> this is not done. that's why i'm here. >> so while musk is decrying the

deficit and saying that america is not going to be able to pay for things like social security, he is also floating an idea of giving americans taxpayers $5,000 in refunds for everything that doge has managed to save. what do you hear here? do you hear that he is looking at potentially stopping social security? >> uh, i certainly hear it. an inferred threat to social security. and of course, the fallacy of this argument is they never look at revenue. they only look at expenditures. if you want to save social security, it's a fairly easy fix. you know, raise the income threshold subject to withholding tax. and you can extend social security by 40 or 50 years. easy. um, and of course, he doesn't want to talk about that. he only wants to talk about the expenditure commitment. that's not how he runs his own company at tesla. he hasn't announced that whatever the price of tesla is today, it will never change. it will never increase the cost to a consumer for our product. no

company runs that way, and the government can't run that way either. so yeah, i hear a threat and i hear a threat based on a false platform of we're only looking at spending. >> congressman gerry connolly, thank you so much for coming on this morning. we really appreciate your time. >> my pleasure sarah. thank you. >> all right john. >> all right. breaking overnight for the first time, hamas released the bodies of deceased hostages to israel. among them the youngest captive in the terror attack at just nine months old. a brand new cnn poll shows president trump's approval rating underwater. three other polls see him slipping in the first month in warnings of an economic slowdown from the country's largest retail. >> maria torres-springer. >> it's the news. >> welcome back. >> but it's also kind. >> of not the news. >> we don't. >> fact check. >> you do. >> we don't care. >> man. >> why sell the. >> information on this show so

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fate of the bibas family. the images are seared in people's mind of that moment that shiri shielding with her arms. her two young sons, kefir and ariel, trying to protect them as hamas was taken away, the absolute fear that video seared into people's minds here, a roller coaster of emotion over the last 503 days since they were taken. the fate of them, the fate of the husband that was released just a few weeks ago. all of that and emotional as well, because the community, the kibbutz that they came from, nir oz, was one of the hardest hit, the most hostages taken from there, more than 70, 117 people killed or taken hostage from there. the only community that the idf did not get to before hamas and the other groups had left. they felt very alone. so at all those levels, the country grieving for them today and feeling that pain. so many people out on the streets and the bodies, as we've been

saying, being taken to a medical institute for forensic analysis. and we've heard now from oded lifshitz family saying, and let me read you the statement, because we've just got it in here saying that they now have a positive confirmation that his body was returned by hamas, saying 503 agonizing days of uncertainty have come to an end. and we hoped and prayed so much for a different outcome. our family's healing process will begin now and will not end until the last hostage is returned. and i was speaking with one of oded's daughters at the weekend just a few days ago, and even then she was telling me they were holding out hope that they were believing and hoping that he could come back alive. they've held out that hope against all the negative information that's been out there. and i think today for them, for the country, it's just

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and around the world, that we're starting to see more of these outbreaks. >> and so what does this mean for all of us? joining us right now is doctor michael mina, vaccine expert, epidemiologist and former harvard professor. it's good to see you again, doctor. i was reading, i always do read a lot of what you're putting on social media. and i was reading you talk, you were writing about this, and you think these numbers that we're seeing that they could grow exponentially even into the thousands. i mean, do you see this as a tip of the iceberg? >> i do. >> and that's. because right now what we're. >> seeing is. >> one bubble of individuals. >> who are have a very low vaccination rate. >> but measles is. >> so infectious that as the different pockets. >> of unvaccinated. >> or under vaccinated individuals. grow across the united states, eventually those pockets where we could think of them as bubbles start to merge with each other. so then you actually start getting transmission from one to. >> the. >> next, and you can get really explosive growth of the cases across the united states. and it's actually something we saw in europe about 8 or 10 years

ago, where cases grew into the tens of thousands very, very quickly. >> that it should it should scare everyone hearing that number because that that impacts entire communities. and i notice you say under vaccinated, because this is a big question that people have, which is for adults, older adults that are are vaccinated have been vaccinated. children who have been vaccinated. is this growing outbreak endangering them as well? >> yeah. so if you've been vaccinated, you generally are very, very, very highly protected. however, what we're seeing in texas and what we've known can happen is that even some people with vaccines can still get breakthrough infections. these might be people either who are immunocompromised or maybe people who have gone so long since their vaccine because many people got it as a baby and they might now be in their 50s or 60. uh, that is, those individuals may start to become susceptible.

so even if you've been vaccinated, uh, it's important to take caution. and if you're concerned, there's actually tests that can be done to understand. do you have the protective levels of what we call antibodies or immune protection to actually help ensure that you won't get exposed and infected if you are, in fact, in one of these communities, for example, where measles is now spreading. >> you also said that measles can be a canary in a coal mine in terms of vaccines, and we're talking about other potential dangers. why? and what else does this mean? we should be be worried about. >> yeah. so we we think about measles as, uh, as you say, canary in the coal mine. and that is because it is so infectious that it ends up giving us a very early signal when there are communities where the concentration of people without vaccines is starting to get to, you know, five, six, 7% of the community, we start to

see measles come about. and if those numbers keep going up in terms of unvaccinated, we'll start to see things like rubella or or mumps and a number of vaccine preventable diseases that we are so lucky not to have to think about. we just heard that physicians say that she's never diagnosed a case of measles, which would be 99.9% of physicians in america have never diagnosed a case of measles because it's been eliminated. and now we have to start worrying about these. so as measles comes back, it should always be seen as an early warning sign that other viruses are going to be in tow. >> and real quick, i mean, the number we know vaccine hesitancy has been on the rise. the number of people getting their children vaccinated has been on the decline. and a lot of this is driven by very misguided and false and anti-vax ideas and movement. but still it is happening. how do you turn the tide, doctor? >> yeah, i think the most important thing is, is for

physicians, public health experts, other folks who are advising parents to really understand what's underlying this. yes, there's misinformation, but more than anything, this people don't get their kids vaccinated, not because of any malicious intent, but because they love and are fearful of various things for their kids. so i think the most important thing is for physicians and others in a place of decision making and guidance for for their patients to really work harder to understand why their patient is choosing not to get vaccinated and don't dismiss them as vaccine anti-vaxxers and things like this. but to to really understand that it's coming from a place of love for their kids. and, and that's at least the foundation we have to start working on. we have to communicate better in an era of disease elimination, it makes sense for parents to start questioning, well, why should i get my kid the measles vaccine? there's no measles. well, we have to be able to give them the big picture that if they stop

getting the vaccine as a population, there will be measles again. and these are the consequences and really work to to speak with empathy, which i think is often lost when we're talking about vaccines for parents. >> yeah. and and taking the lead from doctors who know and are the experts in this area as where we need to be leaning more on. doctor, it's good to see you again. thank you. >> so important conversation. thank you. kate. what americans are now saying about the job president donald trump is doing so far, officially a month into the job and a split in the republican party after president trump's change on his tone when it comes to ukraine, quote, we will use every lever and every vote, regardless of the personal or political consequences. it is legacy defining. we will discuss ahead. >> the whole story with anderson cooper is. >> a. five time. >> emmy winner for long form journalism.

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like. >> the other polls that are out. >> let's not make a mistake. >> the last. >> day in. >> change has been the. >> worst day. >> of. >> polling for donald trump. during his entire. second term in office. what am i talking about here? take a look at trump's net approval rating. >> cnn. >> you see it on this side of the screen minus five. gallup minus six. ipsos minus seven. quinnipiac minus four. negative. negative. negative. >> negative. >> underwater. underwater. underwater. underwater. these four polls, all of them tell a consistent story. and that is trump is on the negative side of the ledger. his net approval is negative. he is underwater like the little mermaid. >> all right. what are the changes since the beginning of his term? january. >> right. >> all right. >> so we don't have a cnn poll to compare, but we do have the other three pollsters that we can look at. trump's net approval rating, the change since january. look at this. gallup down five points. quinnipiac down seven points. ipsos down 13 points. they pulled right at the beginning of his presidency. so not a big surprise that that shows the worst. the worst change for donald trump. but the bottom line is this across the four new

polls that we have, all of them have trump in net negative approval rating. and the three in which we have a trend line, we see donald trump heading in the wrong direction. swimming upstream. >> you might say, what is driving this? like? what is making people so upset? >> yeah. you know, one of donald trump's great strengths during his first term, one of donald trump's great strengths during the 2024 campaign was the economy. the idea that donald trump could fix the economy. this was one of donald trump's great strengths. now it's one of his great weaknesses. what am i talking about? trump's net approval rating. you go back to his first term. february 2017. ipsos. he was at plus 16 points on his net approval. quinnipiac plus six. look at where he is now in ipsos. he's eight points underwater on the economy. quinnipiac four points under on the economy. i honestly never thought i'd see the day in which donald trump would be polling so poor on the economy. but that day is here. as i said last week, inflation ate the joe biden presidency alive. and right now it is very much the

case that donald trump is in danger of inflation eating his presidency alive because his net approval ratings on the economy are under water. >> i just have one last question. what's this for? >> what's this for? if i wanted to say. >> something. >> if i wanted to do math, if i wanted to write my name, if i wanted to do whatever. this is what we have the blackboard here for. and i can say, harry, plus. sarah. >> your girlfriend and my husband will be very annoyed. okay. thank you so much, harry. and i should never have asked. >> there you. >> go, john. >> that wasn't me standing there today. all right. with us now, cnn political commentator. maria cardona and shermichael singleton. i want to put up one of the graphics harry showed there. certainly not the last one, because the trend line over the first month in these three polls, gallup, quinnipiac and ipsos. presidents losing ground over the first month. the question is why? maria, what's the warning sign here? >> the warning sign. >> john, is.

>> that everything that donald trump has done from the moment he. >> got elected. >> and then came into office. >> is doing. >> the opposite of what he promised the american people. he would do everything that he has done has actually brought inflation back up, doing nothing to bring down the cost of. >> groceries. >> gas and rent. >> which is. >> what a lot. >> of those voters. >> the non. >> maga voters. >> who voted for him in november, gave him that trust that he was going to bring down their costs, that he was going to fix inflation, that, in his own words, he would make sure that eggs are cheaper the first day he is in office. >> and in. >> fact, what we are seeing is completely the opposite. and to harry's point, the economy was the number one issue for the majority of voters in november. and right now, what you are seeing is that donald trump is actually what has been a huge betrayal of the american people, of what he promised them and what he is actually doing, the

tariffs, the mass deportations, the focusing on every other thing other than the economy is exploding inflation and making things a lot more, more expensive, much more expensive for families. and that's not what they bargained for. and you're seeing it now in the polls. >> and again, those three polls are showing slippage over a one month period. the cnn poll showed that americans, an overwhelming number of americans, think that he's not doing enough to push prices down in part of politics, is is performative, is performance, is to look like you're trying? yeah. do you feel the president looks the president looks like he's trying to bring prices down right now. or does he look like he's doing other things? so john, it's interesting, right? >> because when you look. at some data. >> i think it was. >> about 70%. >> of americans at least. >> two weeks ago, said. that donald trump is doing everything that he. >> campaigned on. yet when you look at that same poll. as some of. >> the polling data that harry. >> mentioned. >> when you asked the question

about. >> inflationary costs. cost of living. >> you did see some slight. >> dips two. >> weeks ago. >> now those. dips continue. >> to increase. >> two weeks ago. >> 57% of 18 to. >> 34. >> year. olds said that they approved. >> of trump. today, that's around 41%. >> 30% of black. >> voters said that they had approved. now that's down to, i believe, 23%. so so you are seeing. >> some dips. >> my advice to. >> the president would. >> be you have to begin to tackle. >> and address inflation immediately. people agree on immigration. i think some would. agree somewhat on some of his stances on foreign policy. but that number one issue for most people, the number one issue that. >> i would. >> argue is why he got elected. >> is the economy. >> and as. >> soon as he can focus more so on that. i think there's an opportunity, john, for those numbers to begin to shift. and i'll just add quickly. yesterday, trump mentioned potentially giving out maybe a $5,000 stimulus via savings from doge if he actually were to move. forward with that and we can afford it. >> i think that could. >> also be a boost that the president would need. >> there's an issue for another time that could be inflationary,

which could be the very problem that he has right now. he's facing point. but but that's that's a discussion for another time here. sure. michael you know i want to you've been a republican for a long time. and some of the things that the president has been saying the last few days doesn't sound like any republican that i've heard over the last 20 years saying that that vladimir zelenskyy is a dictator, that ukraine started the war when russia invaded them. and we're starting to see a few republicans speak out against this. mike pence did, he said, mr. president, ukraine did not start this war. nikki haley speaking out. these are classic russian talking points. she said exactly what putin wants. in just a few minutes ago, we heard from brian fitzpatrick, a republican member of congress, someone who is actually in office right now. and he wrote this extensive, long, long tweet so people could see, i think, his thinking on this. and to explain it, you know, it'd be too long for me to read all of it here. but what he says is there's an outcome determinative number of members in the u.s. congress, from bh parties and in both chambers who are ready, willing and able to do whatever it takes to prevent

communist dictator vladimir putin from being rewarded for this illegal invasion. it just goes on here. we're starting to see republicans get angry about the language that the president is using. shermichael will we see more stand up? >> it depends. >> i think pence and haley aren't. >> really a factor. >> as it pertains to trump. if we begin to see john more members in the house and in the senate sort of come forward and say, mr. president, i think we should reassess our long term strategy here. i think that may have some impact. >> i agree. >> with the president that we don't want to be involved in long term, never ending wars that could cost taxpayers an unlimited amount of money. however, i am not willing to cede any ground to vladimir putin. i'm really concerned about the strengthening partnership and relationship between russia and china, specifically with china being the leader as they are our greatest international adversary at this moment, i would argue i would also caution the president

to be somewhat concerned if we see some ground to putin. does that give permission to xi jinping to potentially invade taiwan? and if he were to do so, then what will the stance be from the united states? so so again, i agree with the president. let's end this. but also i would say let's not give any ground to vladimir putin. he is not our friend. he's our adversary. >> he has given all the rhetorical ground to vladimir putin in a certain way already, to the extent that a key russian official this morning said, if you had told him, a u.s. official would say the things that trump has been saying three months ago, he would have laughed. so. so, murray, we've got 30s left here. democrats, what do you want to see them doing on ukraine? >> i want them to continue to speak up about the importance of supporting ukraine. and, you know, it's so ironic. republicans love to talk about their hero, ronald reagan. ronald reagan is not just turning over in his grave. he's doing flips because of what's going on right now. donald trump's way of saying things,

his rhetoric, his positioning is nothing less than what the words and what the actions would be of a russian asset, john. and that is incredibly concerning, incredibly dangerous and incredibly embarrassing for the president of the united states on the world stage. what he did when he was in europe was nothing less than essentially offering ukraine on a silver platter to putin. and i think moving forward, we need more republicans speaking out, joining with democrats to underscore our american values, protect ukraine, which is our democracy, and not cede anything more to the dictator and to the murderer and criminal that is vladimir putin. >> well, some trump supporters say it's a negotiating tactic. let's see. how we got we got shermichael. we got we got to go. but i do appreciate the time. >> the sitting president, a russian asset. i would say, look, republicans should go to the president. >> what he's acting like. >> shermichael robust case for why we should support ukraine

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>> welcome back. >> have i. >> got news for you? new saturday on cnn. >> the trump administration will not be allowed to end birthright citizenship for immigrant children for now. a federal appeals court has just declined trump's emergency request to immediately lift a nationwide block on his executive order ending the policy, which has been considered settled law since the supreme court ruled on it in 1898. it is the first time an appeals court has weighed in on one of the several lawsuits challenging trump's moves on this. this decision likely sets now sets this fight up to head to the u.s. supreme court for a final decision. the former head of the royal spanish football federation, luis rubiales, has now been found guilty of sexual assault by spain's high court. this stems from what we described as the kiss seen around the world after the 2023 world cup championship, when he forcibly kissed the star player jennifer hermoso on the field after the win. it sparked protests across spain and

prosecutors they were seeking a two and a half year prison sentence over it. but the spanish high court ruled that he should just face a fine, instead ordering that he pay $11,000. rubiales is also banned from communicating with her or going within roughly 600ft of her. and this morning, a new warning from america's biggest retailer and a consumer consumer spending bellwether. well, walmart said today that strong holiday sales propelled its revenue to another annual record. the company also warns that it expects sales and profit growth to slow in the coming year in 2025, as inflation ticks back up and donald trump's tariffs set in. and walmart is projecting walmart's projected slowdown is also a signal to the rest of the retail industry that 2025 is going to be a rocky one. in an interview with cnbc, the cfo says this there there is far from certainty in the geopolitical landscape. walmart shares have dropped on the news today. sarah. >> all right. something else

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