our cameras joined him for the most joyful day of the year inside his jefferson county courthouse inng adoption after adaption. >> everyone on your feet. >> today, we are baking up something sweeter than cookies. forever families. >> we are here with the connor family today. this is frankie and yolando. >> the adoption is granted. [ cheers and applause ] >> it's been a long journey. there's no more back and forth. we love them so much. just happy that they can be happy kids. >> ho, ho, ho. >> ho, ho, ho. >> miss francis. >> are you asking the court to grant this adoption? >> the court will find all the requirements have been met. this is a lovely family. the adoption is granted and rendered. [ applause ] >> ho, ho, ho. >> ho, ho, ho. >> my family means to me everything. today our family is official. i'm just glad that i am able to do it for them. they have given me the opportunity to be a mother because i didn't have any kids. >> it's the best day of the year because we have all these families and all these children, and we're making the homes final and permanent. and it's just a day

. >>> finally this morning, we bring you to jefferson county, texas, where our cameras were rolling ass fficially became a family as santa or i >> hear ye, hear ye, everyone n. get on your feet. >> today we're baking up something sweeter than cookies. forever families. >> we're here with the connor family today. this is frankie connor, and this is yolanda connor, and this is brayden. >> and the adoption is granted and yay! [ applause ] ♪ ♪ >> it's been a long journey. they're ours, and there's no more back and forth. we love them so much. >> ho, ho, ho! >> ho, ho, ho! >> ho, ho, ho! >> ho, ho, ho! [ laughter ] >> are you asking the court to grant their adoption? >> yes. >> the court will find that all the requirements have been met, and this is a lovely family, and the adoption is granted and rendered. yay! ho, ho, ho! >> ho, ho, ho! [ laughter ] >> my family means to me everything. today our family is official. >> it's the best day of the year, because we've got all these families and all these children, and we're making the homes final and permanent, and it's just a day to celebrate.

periods have experienced major um accidents before including one lion air for at 610, a crash in jefferson county, indonesia, on october 2018, resulting in a 118 on kind of possibilities. and just, um, just a couple months later on, march 2019. and if you can, airline airlines flight also crash and ethiopia resulting in a 157 casualties. so these incidents have led to the global grounding off the 737 mx series in march to $1019.00. and this incident. and so we'll add to this case as well. a lighthearted correspondence where they can not be to pull, bringing us up to speed that all right, to gather it. now. busy if he strikes across the enclave cutting that leads to 48 live on site today, according to a local maddox. now this for the it shows the optimized following the attack on gathering of civilians in gather city reports say that the young girl is among the 6 killed and that strike 6 since october last year. over 45000 palestinians have been killed by the hands of the i b s. now for the chair from outside counsel, kamala, one hospital in northern gaza. people are trying to save those one day d

guess who lives in the northern section of my district who hails from jefferson county?an, who's going to be our new border czar. he's got a great plan in place, seal the border, that's what the american people want, send back criminal illegal aliens and help find the 300,000 children that have been human trafficked. stop the control by these cartels and tren de aragua which now has a taken hold in 16 states. that didn't happen under president trump. we're going to stop that. we're pointing to make america safe -- going to make america safe again, and i'm really looking forward to that. tom homan's a great, strong leader for our border, and he's got a law enforcement background, and he's ready to hit the ground running -- jackie: he certainly is ready to go, and he's made that very clear. congresswoman claudia a tenny, great to have you. thank you so much. >> thank you so much. great to be on. jackie: all right. coming up next, the heads of canada and mexico talking to president trump as he threatens tariffs on imported goods over our neighbors' handling of the border. w

guess who lives in the northern section of my district who hails from jefferson county?going to be our new border czar. he's got a great plan in place, seal the border, that's what the american people want, send back criminal illegal aliens and help find the 300,000 children that have been human trafficked. stop the control by these cartels and tren de aragua which now has a taken hold in 16 states. that didn't happen under president trump. we're going to stop that. we're pointing to make america safe -- going to make america safe again, and i'm really looking forward to that. tom homan's a great, strong leader for our border, and he's got a law enforcement background, and he's ready to hit the ground running -- jackie: he certainly is ready to go, and he's made that very clear. congresswoman claudia a tenny, great to have you. thank you so much. >> thank you so much. great to be on. jackie: all right. coming up next, the heads of canada and mexico talking to president trump as he threatens tariffs on imported goods over our neighbors' handling of the border. we're going

they're from the jefferson county school district in louisville. and this year, wave reported that the district was cutting bussing to most magnet and traditional schools because of shortage of bus drivers. transportation delays. so they shot this music video with the help of an organization called hip hop into learning. its founders say their mission is to give kids a platform to use hip hop and music videos to make positive changes in their communities. the real young prodigy's i still see you and they hit where my bus at. i look forward to seeing what you do in 2025. now, to keep up with what we've got coming in the new year, follow me on instagram and tiktok and x and blue sky. if you missed a conversation or a story that we've done, check out cnn.com/vote victor blackwell. first of all, to watch anytime and you can listen to our show as a podcast wherever you get your podcast. thank you for joining me today. i'll see you back here in 2025. saturdays at 8 a.m. starting again on january 11th. enjoy the new year.

jefferson county, georgia, 1% african-american. president trump won that county by one point when it was won by biden by seven points. we are seeing all those affect set up. obviously podcasts. you mentioned joe rogan. nontraditional forms of media. that younger voters gravitate towards and get their media from. elon musk's support reaching different photos. we had an entire field program that was simply geared towards going after low propensity trump leaning voters. maybe they did not participate in the last primary. maybe they did not vote in 2020, but voted for donald trump in 2016. we had a conscious decision we developed during the iowa caucuses to implement a 10 for trump program where, in traditional campaigns, and we took a lot of flak for this, because a lot of people said, you don't have thousands of organizers were tens of thousands of organizers across the country. you don't have thousands of offices, all of which take a tremendous amount of resources, staff, and time. but, what we did have and what donald trump is uniqu

harpers ferry and jefferson county. he began working as a writing teacher and a map and a book agent. brown and structured cook in another raid or the african american. osborn. anderson to become with colonel lewis washington. colonel lewis. washington. the great grand nephew of george washington and the own of lafayette's. originally given to george washington by lafayette, who then gave him to lafayette to washington nephew lewis. washington surrendered. lafayette's to to osborn and to cook, who insist on taking lafayette's pistols, which they did as a way to defend themselves at harpers ferry. theodore parker parker, who a one of the conspirators helping to plan the raid on harpers ferry set in 1849 in the wake of harpers. there will be many white men who will take part with the slaves, parker said in. the speech shortly after the raid. men like lafayette the last century, will give the slave much that was rendered to america by lafayette and the public opinion of an enlightened world will rank these men among its he

jefferson because the last two principles have been sending projects like my son engaged on planetary mining straight to beijing. beijing has now taken plans given to them by public school officials in fairfax county and they've built 27 thomas jefferson. that's the kind of thing that we have to be on guard for in this nation that we're not talking about because it hits us at every level to reinforce again what the chairman said that's happening now and it's already down to the high school level. oren: they have already figured out ways to do that and we're just catching up and responding. chairman, next question. your committee recently ran a tabletop war game that looked at our defense industrial base versus china and found two conclusions i thought were interesting. first, china's on a wartime footing. second, it has degraded u.s. deterrence. i don't know if the conclusion was u.s. deterrence is lost. but given the results of that, how do you view restoring deterrence? what is it you want to see, i don't want to say different but new or in the next four years, what new approach would you like to see? and then what does it take to restore that and compete in the ways we're talking about here? ch

county, a touching, eloquent, unusually personal expression of relief and happiness and his return to his native country. and i think this single passage of his pen captures, encapsulates, encapsulates jefferson's heart, mind and values. i think a beautifully written expression of defining characteristics the tension he felt public service and private, his internal dialectic in the head and the heart, his belief in, the sustaining and redeeming of social harmony, his self belief in his own moral self worth and his tender to avoid self-examination in his personal amphlett of life, his frequent evasion of painful subjects like slavery indian genocide, his neediness for approbation, his fundamental attachment to home land, pham lay as the touchstones of the happy life and his brilliance as a writer using words to sustain the life that he felt most happy with returning to the scenes of my birth and early life, he wrote to the society of those with whom i was raised and who have been ever to me. i receive within express civil pleasure the cordial welcome. you are so good as to give me long absent on duties which the history of a wonderful era made incumbent upon those called to them half a turmoil.