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and cnn has learned one reason why cnn's steve contorno has that reporting so why steve well, john, for starters, he is moving quickly because he is more comfortable with how washington works versus his first time in office. >> and he feels more emboldened by the electoral college victory and the size of it that he had just a few weeks ago. but there's other key factor at play here, and that is that donald trump is essentially going to be a lame duck from the moment he takes office he will be a one term president. and on top of that, they can only guarantee that they're going to have control of the house and the senate for the first two years that he is in office. so what i am hearing is that as fast as donald trump has maneuvered during this transition, you can expect that speed to continue from the moment he takes office in january. in fact, one longtime trump adviser and a lobbyist who is close to many of trump's cabinet picks, brian ballard. he told me quote, everyone understands we have a two year window with a majority in the house and senate. who knows what happens after that. an

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joining me now is cnn military analyst lieutenant general mark hertling and cnn political and national security analyst david sanger. welcome to you both. general, let me start with you and this this statement from putin also that he says russia now has the right to use weapons against countries that allowed ukraine to use theirs to attack russian facilities. is this bluster? i mean the u.s. andnow. should this be considered any different than statements he's made over the last year plus of this war it's a little worse than the statements he's made in the past, victor. >> and i'd say it is certainly bluster because mr. putin is in very bad shape. the state of russia, the federation of russia, is in very bad economic and military shape, right now. after almost three years of war. and what i would say is he knows he has not made very smart decisions since the start of this conflict, but he knows involving potentially attacking other countries that have been attacking other countries that have been supplying ukraine with weapons and ammunition would only lead to more disaster to him if na

that's one ( 800) 269-9522. >> i'm elizabeth wagmeister in los angeles and this is cnn tonight cnn has learned that a prominent and polarizing aide to president elect donald trump has been the subject of an internal investigation. >> cnn's sara murray is on this story for us. so sara, lay out for us what you've learned about boris epshteyn and the transition. >> well, this is an internal investigation that lawyers for donald trump conducted because there were concerns and allegations about boris epstein's activities and essentially concerns that he was trying to gain financially from his influence over donald trump and others in donald trump's orbit. so we learned about this investigation. me, kristen holmes, kate sullivan from half a dozen sources familiar with the matter. it's not a criminal investigation, but it was looking at instances where epstein allegedly requested payment for things like taking, you know, the name of someone who wanted a post in the incoming administration. and promoting that name around mar-a-lago or with trump. and we learned about one instance where he actu

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only here on cnn.nating insights and all sorts of things, especially on big cases like this one, when they're grabbing headlines. laura. so good to have you back. thanks, jake. thank you for being here. so this was a illinois supreme court justice, elizabeth rockford, wrote what would be more unjust than the resolution of any one criminal case would be holding a holding from this court that the state was not bound to honor agreements upon which people have detrimentally relied. so this about a contract essentially, this all comes down to whether a deal really is a deal. >> remember initially they chose not to prosecute him. >> they had a latin term, nolle prosequi which essentially means not wanting to prosecute. as part of that $10,000 forfeit of his bond hours of community service. and that was the only punishment that was important. later, based on that, he relied he fulfilled those obligations and then they said, you know what? never mind. >> we're now going to still prosecute you. >> double jeopar

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cnn has more on this. the trumpeting is already preparing these executive orders on energy and climate . what is the white house doing now the biden white house doing to protect the measures it is enacted? >> sources have said that president elect trump plans to have these executive orders, populations willing to energy and environment like withdrawing from the purse climate agreement or trying to shrink the size of national monuments to open up more drilling on public lands. the biden administration is well aware that they can't protect everything that will be out of their control. trump and try to take them back. what they are trying to do is shore up their existing initiatives, try to get more climate grants and awards out the door , also, they worked really hard to finalize rules and regulations much earlier in the year so that they wouldn't be, congress couldn't question them, closer in those final weeks if they had rolled them out after the election. just on wednesday they actually announced that the

ever i'm pete muntean at reagan national airport this is cnn you're in the cnn newsroom, and i'm jessica dean in new york. >> we begin this hour with major developments in the middle east as rebel forces in syria taking control of much of the city of aleppo in a surprise advance, fighters entering the city overnight for the first time since 2016, waving opposition flags and yelling god is great in arabic! those rebel forces seen today patrolling the streets of aleppo, where a 24 hour curfew is now in effect. as cnn's ben wedeman reports for us, the surprise attack is putting pressure on president bashar al assad to respond. reporter the facade of government power in aleppo was poster thin friday evening. >> rebels stomp on pictures of syrian president bashar al assad. just a few days ago, they were far away from syria's second city. now they control some of aleppo's most iconic landmarks like the vast central saadallah al-jabiri square and the city's ancient citadel. eight years ago, opponents of the damascus regime left aleppo in defeat. bust out to nearby rebel held idlib province. now

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. >>> you are on the cnn newsroom. i am pamela brown in washington and we begin tonight with a cnn projection for cnn now projects that donald trump will win the state of arizona. this is the last race of the presidential race for cnn to call and gives a final total of 312 electoral votes. elena joins us live from palm beach, florida, with more on this. you might hear that and say, well, we already know that trump is president-elect, but arizona, it is interesting, because he lost of course, to biden, right, in 2020, by less than 11,000 votes but i believe it was the thinnest margin. between the two. i think it is a reflection of how he was able to gain ground this time around, and he is already planning his next administration, who will be in it and not. >> that is absolutely right, pamela. obviously donald trump had won the race and waiting for arizona was not going to make the difference in the overall scheme of who was going to be in the oval office, come the end of january. but, it doesn't really show the way that

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cnn's gloria pazmino reports. >> that's right. any parent wants to hear that there is a tasteless smell less chemical in the water that they use to bathe and feed their children with. but that is exactly what residents in syracuse are going through right now. now it started back in august after the city's water department sent notices to some residents to let them know that there had been elevated lead levels found at some homes throughout the city. now, the notice said that water samples taken from 104 homes found that 27 of them. so more than a quarter came back with lead levels above the limit for tap water that are set by the epa. now, since then the city has gone back to retest some of these homes. and officials have said that some of the tests were administered erroneously and that the water is safe to drink. but residents in the city remain skeptical and want the city to take action. >> a lot of people still don't even know that there's a lead in drinking water problem in the city. we need a declaration that will let people

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cnn's paula hancocks is live in abu dhabi. paula, these strikes are continuing as details for a cease fire are being ironed out um, does this derail that process because since we have proposal being a viable option, we've really seen an escalation in the in the violence and certainly we've seen an increase in the ground operation on the israeli side. >> the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, spoke about that just yesterday and said they were expanding it because in southern lebanon, along the border, he says that they have discovered what he called an underground strip. speaking of the underground tunnel network that we know hezbollah has in that area, saying that they are every single day discovering more of it. it is massive and at the very least they have to destroy that before they can start to move tens of thousands of of israeli residents back to northern israel. so what we're hearing from the israeli side is not really a suggestion that this cease fire is imminent. but what we did hear from the u.s. envoy amos

cnn contributor kristin fisher is following the mission for us and cnn's kristen holmes is tracking the politics of it all with president-elect trump joining elon musk at the launch site. i want to bring in kristin fisher. she's here with me in the situation room. so, kristin, what happens next? >> well, wolf, right now we are just moments away from starship splashing down in the indian ocean. and what you can see here is earth. these are clouds beneath the starship. and what's so remarkable about this? two things. every other starship launch that we've seen and starship reentry has been at night so for the first time, we're getting to see this at daytime. but what really stands out, wolf, is this is the first time that we are ever able to watch a spacecraft reenter the earth's atmosphere and return to earth, all live in high quality video and that's thanks to starlink terminals that are mounted on starship. so really, a a tour de force by spacex showing what they're capable of here. first with the spacex the starship launch and now with starlink providing us these awesome live images.

cnn's gloria pazmino joins us. gloria, he has been forced by the courts to turn this over in order to pay these women, these two poll workers. he defamed. what more can you tell us that's right. >> you're talking about shaye moss and ruby freeman. and as you might remember, jessica, they're the two women who sued rudy giuliani for defamation and now they are collecting on this payment $148 million. after rudy giuliani accused them of tampering with the election in georgia and trying to rig the election, which we now know is not true. they successfully sued him and now they are trying to collect their payment. now, yesterday, friday was a crucial deadline for rudy giuliani, who to start turning over some of these belongings including a luxury watch collection, a ring a couple of bank accounts. and he had not done this. he had delayed for several weeks. and finally, yesterday, we saw that, um, one of his assistants was actually finally shipping the watches. now, this is only going to be a small amount towards the he'

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cnn. west palm beach, florida a long running chinese cyber espionage campaign could become one of the biggest national security challenges facing the incoming trump administration. >> national security officials met with u.s. telecom executives at the white house on friday to share information on the chinese spy efforts. the spy campaign has targeted the phone calls and text messages of senior u.s. officials and some telecom networks are having trouble removing the hackers. senator mark warner, calling it the worst telecom hack in u.s. history. the senior figures targeted are in both the republican and the democratic parties and the fbi notified fewer than 150 victims. cnn political and national security analyst david sanger spoke with us earlier about it the american telecommunications system is this hodgepodge of old and new equipment. >> some of it 40 years old much of it uncatchable. and the chinese did a brilliant job of working the seams, getting inside it and then heading for the cr

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thank you so much. >> cnn has a major major projection to bring you right now cnn projects. kamala harris is the winner of the highly contested and hugely important commonwealth of pennsylvania commonwealth of the commonwealth of pennsylvania. now with its 19 electoral votes hotly contested, is kamala harris will win let's go to the electoral map now. look at that kamala harris, only ten electoral votes away from the president. she has 260. donald trump has 215. kamala harris is within spitting distance of the presidency she's not quite there yet she's not quite there yet. well i mean, john king, uh what else has to happen here she's at 260 electoral votes. give us give us a reasonable scenario for how she becomes the president. or conversely how she doesn't. right. well, there are a lot of paths for her to become the president now. and donald trump's paths are getting even more narrow. but let's give donald trump for all intents and purposes, i don't know if i can do that. the second district of maine, i guess i can't. oh, i have to click the plus button. okay, here we go.