that's the kind john tower wants. he understands that. it's what he wants and the only way it can happen, when it's all said and done, there's no doubt in my mind of the next secretary of defense will be john tower of texas. >> there's no doubt in my mind that when all is said and done, the next secretary of defense will be john tower. senator dole had good reason to believe that. after all, at that point, no cabinet nominee had been rejected by the senate since dwight eisenhower in 1959. but then something unexpected happened. among the people called to testify at tower's hearing was a conservative activist named paul wyrick. why rick was an influential conservative who would end up reshaping the republican party. you might think about him as the steve bannon of his day, if steve bannon were a lot more productive with his hours. paul wyrick established the heritage foundation, which decades later published the project 2025 agenda. so it was a shock when paul wyrick got up to testify at john tower's confirmation hearing and said this -- >

and if they do, do they stand a better chance than john tower? joining me is garrett graft and susan glasser. i'm eager to get your thoughts on what is a fairly kinetic situation here. susan, you have studied and reported on trump up close. i wonder how you think trump's own attitudes and ideas about addiction and alcoholism might be factoring in to the weakening support here for his defense secretary pick? >> first of all, we should say trump has obviously chosen max mallly confrontational nominees for some of these key positions in the government. fbi director kash patel. the national intelligence. those are very radical choices. what is interesting is that the conversation here is not about the radical and extreme views they espouse. it is not about the agenda but whether certain personal behaviors are outskirt liers so that might be the qualifier. if this were anything other than trump's washington i would say the signs are he will never make it to a vote. but trump has chosen the path of confrontation. he doesn't like to back down from a fig

the parallels of the types of allegations that were enough to sink john tower, unthinkable thing, and it never before happened in history, the parallels between the types of allegations against tower for secretary of defense and the types of allegations that are out there against pete hegseth again for secretary of defense, it's just -- i mean doesn't sound like an echo of history. it's just a rerun. >> it turns out richard nixon and john tower were born too soon. richard nixon could have survived the presidency if he had done all those things in 2020, 2022 and john tower could have been confirmed if he had just been nominated by donald trump in donald trump's second presidency, but the really astonishing thing about tower is he was the easiest possible person to confirm because he was the chairman of the senate committee that has jurisdiction over his confirmation as secretary of defense. i went through one of those when bill clinton was elected. he chose lloyd benson, chairman of the senate finance committee to be his treasury secretary, well, finance confirms the treasury secretary

and if they do, do they stand a better chance than john tower? joining me now is journalist and historian garret graf, also with me susan at "the new yorker." great to have you both. i'm eager to get your thoughts on what is a fairly kinetic situation here. susan, you've studied and reported on trump and his inner sanctum up close. i kind of wonder how trump's attitudes and on addictions and alcoholism is factoring in here on his pick? >> that's a really important point you raise. first of all, we should say trump has obviously chosen mack. confrontational nominees for some of these key positions in the government. you know, fbi director you mentioned, kash patel, hegseth, and the defense department tulsi gabbard, the national intelligent. those are very radical choices. and what's interesting is that the conversation here is not about the radical and extreme views that they espouse. it's not about the -- the agenda to essentially blow up large swaths of the national security apparatus of this country, but whether certain personal behaviors are s

that was proven by john tower in 1989 i think with mr. hegseth it may be proven again. >> john tower was fully qualified on paper to be secretary of defense except for the drinking. that was the problem. the entire problem. >> with hegseth, the thing that is added, in addition to the sexual misconduct and the drinking, she also describes the veterans organization that he was put in charge of by 2007, within a year, they were effectively bankrupt to the point where had to be taken over and incorporated into a different organization. to do that when you are an organization between 5 to 10 employees and take that as you are application to become a leader of an organization with 3 million employees, it doesn't extrapolate well. >> and there is that passage in the middle where she shows the organization is half $1 million in debt and there are $75,000 on credit cards and pete hegseth said two things. it is my fault and i don't know how i did this. that is not a good answer for secretary of defense for anything. >> the follow-up when that is on

bush, newly elected president, nominated this man, john tower, to be his secretary of defense. john tower was then accused of womanizing and drunkenness on a scale significantly smaller than this. john tower then made history by becoming the first cabinet nominee the senate had ever rejected from a newly elected president. when pete hegseth was announced as trump's choice for defense secretary, the trump transition team was apparently completely unaware of the rape allegations that had been leveled against him in california. they apparently were unaware of all this stuff as well. and you know, that's why vetting is a good idea. i've got to say that's why journalism is too. joining us now is jane mayer, chief washington correspondent at "the new yorker" magazine. did i get that the other way around, or is there anything else from your reporting you want our audience to understand in terms of what you learned about mr. hegseth? >> well, thanks so much. thanks, you did a great summary. and the one thing i would say that is also clear from this report is that we gave a spokesman, a

john tower squared. m sec def. you look at joni ernst, who is, you know, she's a vet, she's been a champion of women in the military. she's talked about sexual abuse. >> right. >> in the military. you go down the list of things and then the financial -- he took an organization that was bringing in $8.7 million a year and drove it down to $18 a year. and then did the same -- and then you go to the new yorker piece with all of the whistleblower complaints. these are all things that senators are going to hear in what would be a dreadfully ugly senate confirmation hearing. >> yeah. and it's like with matt gaetz, they don't want to have the hearing. they want to kill it in the crib and never have to cast or record a vote in committee or on the floor because they don't want to have to vote against trump's appointee. classic trump, he names hegseth because he's a guy on tv that trump likes and that's the long and short of it, and then the hot potato gets tossed in the lawmakers of his own parties whose voters lo

. >> a problem with alcohol, excessive drinking, was enough to tank the john tower nomination that ied back in 1979. rather 1989. john tower the first cab nelgts -- cabinet nominee in that case to be taken down because the chairman of the armed services committee sam nun said you could not have an alcohol problem and be trusted with the nation's defense, nuclear weapons and all the other issues involved. we're in two wars right now, for instance. ashley, the cumulative effect of trump's controversial picks like hegseth, kash patel, tulsi gabbard, they may not get the full scrutiny because the republican senators at least seem to be, you know, rushing to their defense and there are no background checks, no fbi screening checks that would have captured a lot of this before they were named. >> well, there's that challenge. there's also the challenge of senate relationships are not going to want to block all of -- they frankly don't want to have to vote against any of trump's nominees and certainly not all of them. on the one hand, i want to be clear trump did not nominate this group of

that was john tower in 1989 over issues of womanizing and drunkenness. and i asked cramer about that. the fact that that standard was set back in 1989 compared to the allegations similar allegations that hegseth is facing now john tower was rejected over claims of womanizing and drunkenness houthis face similar allegations. the standards now just changed. >> well, i don't think there's much question that that the tolerance for certain things has changed, but i would say, manu, in many respects grace abounds all the more and i think that's not such a bad thing. that's what i mean. i love a good redemption story, and i hope that's what, what pete has but there are several other senators who are still concerned, including senator joni ernst, who said that she wants to have a thorough, frank conversation with pete hegseth when they meet later this week and senator susan collins of maine, who told me that she wants a thorough fbi background check again over all these allegations before she would consider how she'll vote. wolf, i want you to stand by. i want t

because of his drinking problem and that was john tower in 1989. this is really not a partisan issue even. it's a bipartisan concern in the past as it was in 1989. it's a competency issue and a national security issue. i think that is why even people on the republican side of the ledger are very worried about this, rightfully so. >> jane mayer and jeff, both doing great reporting that i recommend you check out. thank you both. >>> still ahead, the list of enemies in the new alarms over the loyalist trump wants to install at the fbi, next. he fb >>> one of the things we've been trying to do is distinguish between what you may call normal nominations from the trump administration and in the choices you might expect from any republican president. senator marco rubio for secretary of state, okay. the four alarm fire picks like matt gaetz for attorney general who withdrew his nomination when it looked like he would not get the votes. a new one worse than matt gaetz, it's the worst one yet. over the weekend, trump announced he wants kash patel to lead th

bush nominated john tower, senator from texas for secretary of defense. defense intellectual, someone who deeply understood defense, unlike the current nominee. it emerged that tower had a drinking problem and when he was drinking too much he would make himself a nuisance or worse to women around him. and for that reason his nomination collapsed in 1989. you don't want to think that our moral standards have declined so much that you can say let's take all the drinking, all the sex pesting, subtract any knowledge of defense, subtract any leadership and there is your next secretary of defense for the 21st century. >> you know, ed luce, the colleagues -- his colleagues at fox news have been concerned for some time, and even before -- even before we got this nbc story -- >> and just clearly word is he's very popular there. >> i was going to say, again -- >> very well-liked. >> these are not people that are like wishing to do him harm at fox news. he apparently is very popular at fox news. and that said, at the same time very concerned about the fact that he w

they remind me in some ways of the conduct that saying john towers nomination to be secretary of defense back in the first george hw bush presidency. it goes beyond not only the allegations of potential alcohol abuse in the workplace, but real questions about his ability to manage even two relatively small veterans organizations, to step into the pentagon job, the largest, most powerful military bureaucracy in the world. this does not suggest he has the qualifications to do so and more importantly, it raises the questions, what is going on with the trump administration to be in terms of fitting these candidates? what did trump know, if anything, but these allegations in addition to the allegations of alleged sexual us that previously had been disclosed about this nominee? you've got to wonder, isn't this why we have background checks and vetting of nominees for high office in the first place? >> andrew, hegseth met with tommy tuberville, sort of a donald trump superfan. what are senate republican saying tonight about hegseth? >> they are still giving trump the benefit of the doubt and by

john tower back in '89, this was george herbert walker's choice to be dod chair and it was a democratic they downed that nomination because of things like public intoxication, relations with women, relationships with defense contractors. so he went down because of ethics, right? so now you're facing somebody who to olivia's point could be a national security risk. i mean, you've got elon musk threatening to go after colonel vinman who has honorably served in the military because he spoke negatively about donald trump. he is accusing him of being on the payroll of oligarchs saying he committed treason and will pay the appropriate penalty. you should take that threat seriously because elon controls donald trump. how would we look to the rest of the world if we have elon musk, a now duly elected member of congress, colonel vinman has been elected to congress and they have this in the background which they can google. >> you and olivia are spot on. i'll just paint a picture here. the tank is where the joint chiefs of staff and the secretary of defense meet to discuss matters of extraordinar

i was very involved covering the john tower failed nomination by george bush because of the chairmanmittee's concerns about his alleged alcoholism. >> indeed. famously president trump nt himself does not consume alcohol. by all reports is not enamored of those who can't control themselves. i think this will be another drip in the faucet of concern about this nominee. it kind of began as you will recall with allegations of sexual assault. those were never fully put to rest. more recently over the weekend, a release of an email from his mother to him about his character and abuse of women. these are a number of dripping concerns. and ngnow add to it the most recent report you are alluding to. i think it is a nomination in trouble not just on the character issues but as you said, andrea, let's face it, the people in the office of the secretary of defense have their hand on their nuclear codes and are managing a budget of $900 billion. you need people of real stature and experience. secretary bob gates i would put in the mix, a democrat. secretary panetta, former chief of staff f to the

those are the kinds of things that have sunk a defense nominee before going back to john tower in therge h.w. bush administration who did not win senate confirmation because of similar allegations. but there's also a very broad sense that hegseth's agenda for the pentagon would represent a dramatic rupture in how defense secretaries have approached the pentagon. there's real concerns about that. it's certainly a question about donald trump and his presidency. what kind of vetting went on here? what's the decision making? this is already the second nominee for one of the most senior positions in the u.s. government who was apparently appointed without even the most basic background check. this is a pretty remarkable thing. you can be sure our adversaries around the world are looking at this in almost amazement i would say. it seems like the kind of own goal, you know, that our adversaries dream of us making. we'll see what happens. it doesn't look good for hegseth. >> we got new reporting that trump's team has finally given the green light for the fbi background checks for some of thes

that was john tower in 1989. >> yeah. >> and so, this is really not a partisan issue, even.ipartisan concern in the past, as it was in 1989. it is a competency issue, and it is a national security issue. and i think that is why even people on the republican side of the ledger are very worried about this, and rightfully so. >> we are going to stay on this, jane mayer, jeff charlotte, both doing great reporting that i recommend you check out. thank you, both. >> thanks so much. >>> still ahead, the list of enemies and the new alarms over the loyalist trump wants to install at the fbi. that is next. there's news, and there's good news. like thousands of patients receiving free life changing surgeries, from volunteer doctors and nurses on hospital ships. all made possible by donations. we love good news. with dexcom g7, managing your diabetes just got easier. so, what's your glucose number right now? good thing you don't need to fingerstick. how's all that food affect your glucose? oh, the answers on your phone. what if you're heading low at night? [phone beeps] wow, it can aler

that's when george bush's pick of john tower to serve as defense secretary was defeated amid allegations of womanizing and drunkenness. hexorthodes faced similar allegations. the standards now just changed. >> well, i don't think there's much question that the tolerance for certain things has changed, but i would say manu, in many respects grace abounds all the more and i think that's not such a bad thing. >> one of the big questions that senators have is what is contained in a whistleblower report that was reported by the new yorker magazine, detailing allegations of misconduct that occurred while pete hegseth was running a veterans organization. roger wicker, who's going to chair the senate armed services committee next year, which will be in charge of considering hex's nomination told me, quote, i'm sure we'll see it. when i asked him if he wanted to see that whistleblower report as many other republican senators and democrats are curious about the contents underscoring the challenges that hex has ahead manu raju cnn, capitol hill well, donald trump's pick to lead the u.s. >> drug enf

i mean, look john tower got rejected back in 1989, right? he went to the senate. they voted him down. you got him in in 1994 who withdrew. and then just recently, shanahan in 2019. that was just five years ago. right. he withdrew as well. so the bottom line is pete hegseth, obviously we don't know what's going to happen. the bettors think that he's going to fail or withdraw his name. and there is a history of that happening. just because you get nominated, it doesn't mean you're going to get confirmed. there are at least three examples in just the last 35 years of people who were nominated. in fact, did not end up becoming confirmed by the united states senate. >> so if he says nomination doesn't go through, if it fails, if he withdraws, or he goes to confirmation and he doesn't get confirmed, what is the appetite? what's the view right now on a recess appointment? if trump wants to go that route yeah, right. >> like if he knows that you know pete hegseth is going to fail in the united states senate or believes that he will, you know this whole this whole idea, oh

that's when george bush's pick of john tower to serve as defense secretary was defeated amid allegations of womanizing and drunkenness. hexorthodes faced similar allegations. the standards now just changed. >> well, i don't think there's much question that the tolerance for certain things has changed, but i would say, manu, in many respects grace abounds all the more and i think that's not such a bad thing and i was part of that new yorker investigation. >> it detailed a whistleblower report outlining allegations of misconduct against pete hegseth. i just caught up with the chairman the incoming republican chairman of the senate armed services committee, roger wicker. i asked him, aaron, if he wants to see that report, and he told me, i'm sure i will see it, aaron. >> and that's going to be very important, right? i mean, there's so many, so many layers to the questions that they have. this is not just about one incident of alleged sexual assault mismanagement, other issues as well. i want to go to kristen holmes live from west palm beach florida, because kristen, when it comes to the iss

that was john tower over allegations of womanizing and also excessive drinking, including drunkenness. and kramer told me, yes the standards have evolved. and he says grace abounds, and he wants to see if if hegseth is, in fact is a different person going forward. >> jake and grace abounds. but neera tanden couldn't get confirmed as omb director because of a couple nasty tweets. so i'm not sure if the grace is evenly applied, but okay. manu raju, thanks so much now to cnn's kristen holmes in west palm beach florida. kristen, what are you hearing from your sources? how is president-elect trump feeling about the hegseth nomination well, jake, they're watching this very closely. >> they're watching the meetings on the hill and donald trump himself is talking to senators. he's having his team talk to senators to see how they are reading hegseth. just a reminder of what actually happened with matt gaetz when donald trump ended up calling him and telling him he didn't have the votes. that came from conversations that trump himself was having with senators the big question is whether or not

uh, john tower was rejected as first president bush's secretary of defense, uh, nominee, despite being in the senate for 24 years because of a pattern of of impersonal, uh, you know, intemperance with alcohol and women, uh, and and it does go to question about whether someone can be compromised. it's also whether their experience leads them to be able to manage the world's largest bureaucracy in a dangerous time. and there's a world of difference between a jim mattis, who was trump's first pick to be secretary, and pete hegseth. and it is reasonable for united states senators who care about national security. i would hope to try to keep a broader perspective in mind than simply partisan. feel. >> freedom of the press took a hit on capitol hill on tuesday. senate republicans blocked a democratic effort to pass a bipartisan bill giving journalists more protections under federal law. donald trump called on republicans last month to kill the bill, known as the press act, which stands for protect reporters for exploitative state spying. it would prevent the government from forcing journalis

uh, john tower was rejected as first president bush's secretary of defense, uh, nominee, despite being in the senate for 24 years because of a pattern of of impersonal, uh, you know, intemperance with alcohol and women. uh, and and it does go to question about whether someone can be compromised. it's also whether their experience leads them to be able to manage the world's largest bureaucracy in a dangerous time. and there's a world of difference between a jim mattis, who was trump's first pick to be secdef and pete hegseth. and it is reasonable for united states senators who care about national security. i would hope to try to keep a broader perspective in mind than simply partisan field. >> yeah, kerry, i saw you. >> i was in earlier because she said not to be compromised. and you're talking about partisan. i you guys can tell me you would know more than i did. i don't i never was under the impression that i mean, honestly truly that he was going to have a hard time. i like that there's some pushback, this facade of pushback and questioning whether or not he is eligible for said job.

bush tried to make john tower his secretary of defense, similar accusations, womanizing alcoholism, defensewere maybe a little bit dodgy. and so forth. and what the senate did was just draw it out. they had fbi actually doing background checks, and it just went on week after week after week, and it became clear that he didn't have the support. they forced it to a vote anyway. and he was not approved here's one thing. this this president has done a complete paradigm shift on how he makes picks he was very clear. i remember riding with him on his plane one night, coming back from michigan, and he and he said, you know, when i got elected, i had only been to washington dc like 9 or 10 times in my life and i was dependent upon people i barely knew, telling me to hire other people i didn't know. and i found out that i either didn't like them, didn't trust them or they weren't as good as everybody told me. now i'm going to hire people i know i trust, i believe are going to do what i want to do. and frankly, he's earned that right in my opinion. >> i mean, that's that's about a presidency that is

i believe the first presidential nominee to be rejected by the senate was actually john tower in 1989consent, but i think it was a much smoother process. we now have a situation in which even relatively low level assistant secretary, uncontroversial positions can take a year or more. >> okay. >> i think absolutely, of course, the senators need to do their role and the senate has a vital role that needs to be respected, but i also think especially in an era of real danger when the american people have given the president a very clear mandate for change, i think he deserves to have, you know, sort of a presumption of moving forward. obviously if somebody has really something that people didn't know about, et cetera, et cetera, that's fully within the rights. i'm just -- i'm not making a kind of constitutional point, i'm making a common sense point. like the president should be able to make his government work efficiently and effectively. in other parts of the world prime ministers make their picks. there needs to be a balance here. >> it's his own party is my point. if the party chooses

we went over in 1989 to here with the official had to say about john tower, a texas senator and the chairf the armed services committee. he could barely peek over the top of some lecterns. he was prone to drunkenness and chasing secretaries around desks. tower gave a hard liquor and drink only white wine. we just stared at the official. he was trying to bargain with us over the type of alcohol tower could drink. we were nonplussed to find yourselves as the arbiters of behavior and pulled into a negotiation session. what if the official said in a desperate bid he had only had one glass of wine? the senate rejected tower's nomination, the first time since 1959 the chamber refused to consent to a president's cabinet nominee. it was shocking how clubby the senate was. some senators had alcohol on their breath. bush learned what donald trump will learn with pete hegseth. sometimes you have to cut your losses." maureen dowd writing in the new york times today. brandon in florida, republican. caller: for now we can't drink alcohol. if you drink alcohol, you can't be defense secretary? secretary

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john: here's what a democrat who is on the finance committee said. >> the american people understand that the democratic party, they exist in their ivory towers that e so far removed from reality. these cultural -- these ridiculous wars are not what americans care about. >> john: the transgender issue and sports is this big, but in terms of getting votes out, it was huge. >> anita: they say it affects a small percentage of people, but when you renounce distinctions, that affects everybody. we are starting to see how these viewpoints were dominating the democratic party, and i think she makes a great point there appear they are not communicating with average americans. they are in an echo chamber. they have been helped by the corporate media complex that riles them up, but they see the same corporate media complex that she was democrats and was enough to bring democrats across the finish line for decades is now it's all so far out of touch with the average american that they are all being -- they are all just being ignored. >> john: a lot of american voters rejected with the democratic party was doing in terms of shaming them. if you do not share th

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you know, providing you create the grain, including the towers and i so so i think they raise the high challenge id, she becomes then, you know, john. so now that i know might continue, and that's the rate they support on what is also interesting is, you know, the defense name is a time defense and it is also gonna support it. so if we find ourselves in situation whenever you use that sort of our, our brand coordination as happened during the time. so then i think we can see this supporting system. so i'm, i'm not so worried. i wouldn't be so worried about that. i think that the general problem is, what was the united states do one good thing provide continued support, because at the moment in europe, we're not able to come back for what the americans i provide. and i just thought i'd make one time i did what to ask her about that if be with a suspends, it's age to you cry next year. do you see europe and countries that by germany being able to fill the vacuum as always, hockey, i think there is a note that europeans can do is they have 2 bedrooms. so, a couple of years ago when the war broke out of, you know, we could have seen mu

off the line and we'll be creating a grain including the towers and so, so i think there is a high challenge that if she becomes then you know, john. so now that i know might continue on that, so your rates and they support on what is also interesting is you know, the defense maintenance and defense and it is also gonna support it. so if we find ourselves in situation whenever you use that sort of our brand coordination as happened during the time. so i'm just about to say, i think we can see this and support the same so on. i'm not so worried. i'm going to be so worried about that. i think that the general problem is what was the united states do one good thing, provide a continued support because at the moment in europe, we're not able to compact for what they marries on. so i provide any of my, just what i may want i did want to ask you about that. if be with a suspends it's age to ukraine, next year. do you see europe and countries that by germany being able to fill the vacuum as always, hockey, i think there is a note that europeans can do on these. they have 2 bedrooms. so, a couple of years ago when the war broke out within

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john spencer, who you see here. but it was only for display and was not reinstalled in the tower today. a stalwart replacement still ticks made for the 1876 centennial by the seth thomas factory in connecticut. so edward stretches public clock for 13 years until passing the job to his more famous philadelphia colleague david rittenhouse. another recent fenimore home in book focuses on this famous philadel finn. and as you can see, this was probably not only a prominent, prestigious position, but everybody in the whole city would know if you messed up because that was the clock they were looking at and listening. so there was probably some stress involved in maintaining the public clock of the city. so these books that you've been seeing are all in my personal horological now numbering more than 1000 volumes. i call this a good start. edward was described as a reading and he probably had a significant library himself, although his friend franklin reportedly had the largest personal library in the north american colonies. whether or not edward had as many horology books as i do, and at th

john. >> all right. we're talking about our weather forecast right now. here's a live look at coit towerr camera here in san francisco will see what's happening outside clouds looking kind interesting today. kathy trafton here now have forecast. so we i sit and just right there on the building exit actually perfect. you know what we're seeing big changes in the weather right now. temperatures are running in the 50's and 60's. that's as many as 11 degrees cooler than they were yesterday at this hour. so we're seeing a drop in temperatures. also, we have pretty lousy air quality, but that's going to start to change because high pressure is going to move away. there's a series of storms moving in our direction. this area of high pressure scoots off to the east allows the jet stream to head right into california and then we get an increase in clouds and then we get an increase in rain. how much rain? well, tomorrow night, the raindrops for start to fall into thursday. that's light rain. and then we go through the weekend and we end up with almost 3 inches of rain from santa rosa. 2.7, 9 and

towers steven stiller back the blue award recipient. ♪ ♪ >> that's nice. you l love daddy. >> a lot of the world knows johnto ryan and i he was our world. i just want people to know how wonderful he was and how good of a person, how much he always looked out for others and see him through the eyes that ryan and i see them through. i always knew that the nypd would be a good fit for him, i knew high would find purpose there. >> he was a great cop, he was keyinger to go to the job, do can the right thing, no matter where you are, you asked for him help he will go, he had a thing he just would tell everyone on the team that he loves them, a great person. he was taken too soon. >> somber day in new york city new yorkers fl mourn the loss of a 31-year-old niep nypd officer, jonathan diller. >> responded to a vehicle illegally stommed at a bus stop, the officers asked those inside to get out they refused, before one of the sandsuspects shot diller, fatally hitting him in the torso beneath his bulletproof vest, the suspected shooter has 21 prior arrests. >> i remember total shock. it at any time feel real until i

tower. and today, millions of people heading home from holiday trips. but winter storms and staffing shortages, well, that could cause some delays. rahel solomon here with omar jimenez, sara, john and kate are out today. this is cnn news central. >> this morning, remembering the life and legacy of the longest living u.s. president, jimmy carter. as the nation now prepares to honor him with a state funeral. now, overnight, president biden declaring january 9th as a national day of mourning. as of this hour, flags at the white house and across the state of georgia are flying at half staff in honor of the peanut farmer who became a president and lived a life of great service and great love. carter died peacefully at the age of 100 yesterday afternoon, surrounded by his family at his home in plains, georgia, as mourners left tributes outside the carter center in atlanta. world leaders in all five living u.s. presidents paid their respects to the man who once said, i have one life and one chance to make it count for something. my faith demands that i do whatever i can, wherever i can, whenever i can, for as long as i can. cnn's ryan young is live in plains, georgia, this morning. go

towers. we still have a lot of questions when it comes to office properties. johna. with more on his story with bloomberg's natalie one. we continue to talk about commercial real estate offices in particular. tell us about 2024, let's look back. john: looking back, it was a story of basically bifurcation. they were the haves and the have losses. midtown new york, there were some really winners like one vanderbilt, which got a new stake sold to a japanese company and valued the building at 4.7 billion dollars. other office buildings around the country were falling in value by 50%. vonnie: i love the way you say haves and have losses. why do people flock to a successful building like successful people? or are they genuinely better buildings? john: it's both, location, location, location is the key thing if you take one vanderbilt. it is right next to grand central. and then it is brand-new too. the ones that are losers if you look at the picture behind me, downtown l.a., it is not a very desirable place in the buildings are 20, 30, 40 years old and those are ones fal

towers. stephen siller back the blue award recipient. all right. >> now 30. oh that's nice. >> you love daddy. >> a lot of the world knows johnofficer diller, but to ryan and i, he was our entire world. i just want people to know how wonderful he was, how good of a person, how much he always looked out for others and see him through the eyes that ryan and i see him through. i always knew that the nypd would be a good fit for him, because i knew he would find purpose there. >> he was a great cop. he was eager to go do the job. like do the right thing. no matter where you are, if you ask for his help, he's going to go. >> he had this thing where he just go around and he tells everybody on the team that he loves them. just a great person, man. but unfortunately it was just taken from us too soon. >> it's a somber day in new york city as new yorkers mourn the loss of a 31 year old nypd officer. his name, jonathan diller. >> diller and his partner responded to a vehicle illegally stopped at a bus stop. the officers asked those inside numerous times to get out, and they refused. before one of the suspects shot diller, fatally hitti