all right. >> karen finney karen finney, i know a lot of democrats who agree with me. karen finney, scott jennings a discussion that i don't think is going away anytime soon. so i appreciate you both being part of it this morning, kate let's turn to this continuous glucose monitors have become a game changer for people living with diabetes helping to better monitor sugar levels in the blood. >> well, now these devices are more and more also being marketed as wellness tools for everyone, even those without the disease. cnn's meg tirrell wanted to find out what that means, how they work, what we can learn more. i have tons of questions. what have you learned, meg well, kate, i wore one of these for about six weeks. >> i applied it to the back of my arm. it has a little wire on it that goes in like a needle, and it constantly gives you feedback on what your glucose levels are. after everything you eat. and the idea is that for people without diabetes, maybe you'll see unique insights about yourself. how do you respond to different foods? how do you respond to exercise, sl

karen finney, clearly, democrats are very demoralized. even the sort of the the posture from her in that speech kind of underscored the reality questions about her political future. who? the standard bearer may be. what do you think it does look like for kamala harris going forward? i mean, our doug stewart reporting that her aides and team divided between whether she should run for president or again or run for governor of california. >> i think some of that is also consultants who would like her to run for california, because they want to get the pay out quicker. so i'm not so sure that that's the right move. i think those are some of her california advisers and also some of those same people are advising gavin newsom. so we'll just put the politics out there. just saying personally, you know, i think she should run for president again if she believes she has the energy to do it because she could win the nomination. i do, but i think you have to recognize i remember, you know, going into the second clinton when he was running for reelec

let's discuss this more now with cnn political commentator karen finney and republican strategist neilhatterjee. good to see you both. karen, let me start with you. this is apparently really outraged people in panama. based on the news coverage we've seen, trump's former white house chief of staff, mick mulvaney, says this is just a negotiating tactic. take a listen this is a negotiation, by the way. >> one of the reasons trump is so good at negotiating is that it's a it's a credible threat. if he says, you know, look, we are going to have problems with panama if they don't lower the rates. i don't envision american troops going in to retake the canal. but you got to think that someone's out there scratching their head going, is donald trump crazy enough to do something like that? and it's that viable threat that sort of gives him negotiating leverage that not a lot of other folks could ever come up with. >> karen, do you buy that, that this is just a viable threat? >> i believe that that is the talking point. and i believe that that is what donald trump is saying. but here's the large

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the nitty gritty of the extremism that we might be looking to expect from the trump years. >> karen finney, kristen soltis anderson, great to have you both out here on our balcony. our new set. up next, there is a new mystery tonight that even the fbi has not been able to crack. who is flying those drones that are as big as cars over new jersey and have been for weeks. confusion has now turned to outrage even here on capitol hill over the matter. >> new year's eve live with anderson and andy. live coverage starts at eight on cnn. >> advil liquid gels are faster and stronger than tylenol rapid release gels, also from advil. advil. targeted relief, the only topical with four powerful pain fighting ingredients that start working on contact and lasts up to eight hours. >> someone need a hug? sing. bah humbug somewhere inside, every lost grown up is the kid they once were. >> it seems to me they need us now more than ever. >> i'm enchanted to work. >> joy to the. wow. >> joy to you and me. think you've been harmed by products containing talc? you may have the right to vote on the plans of reorg

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here is former clinton advisor karen finney on cnn. >> it was very disturbing to learn late in the yearbad help for his health has become. like many i did not realize it had gotten to that point. that being said i think he is still, he showed up for the job, he got the work done. some accomplishments in the middle east and foreign policy will also stand the test of time. >> tom: nothing about joe biden will stand the test of time including standing. [laughter] but then scott jennings hit back with a dose of reality. >> look, i think he will leave office in disgrace. the hunter biden pardon was disgraceful. he will be remembered largely for inflation and for the disaster is afghanistan pull old. but as we continue to learn about the massive cover-up that went on, not about his health, but about his mental acuity, to cover that up and the efforts that were undertaken by the white house staff, by his family, not in the last couple of months, but for all four years. i think it will be a really ugly chapter. a diminished presidency because of it. >> tom: in the end of the past four years wan

and here with me now, scott jennings and karen finney, they're out front with us. so, scott, this is like day three of us talking about this. and i will give you this. he's talked about it before. and so he's he's staying on message. and as the trump adviser is telling elena it's they're trying to curb russia and china's influence. but panama's president said outright there's no chinese in the canal. symbol is that. the ap is reporting experts in both the u.s. and panama are clear that unless donald trump wants to go to war with panama, there is no trump cannot assert control. a negotiating tactic, maybe. yeah, but is it? why is it even close to serious when you can't assert control over the panama canal? well, i tell you what is very serious, and that is pushing back on the encroachment of chinese influence in the western hemisphere. yes, i do this, does that. >> i think donald trump is trying to send a message to the chinese, and he's also trying to send a message to everyone else in the hemisphere that i'm not going to put up with this encroachment. >> now, what

joining us right now to discuss cnn political commentator, democratic strategist karen finney and former white house spokesperson under george w bush. pete, it's good to see you guys. thank you so much for being here. pete, let's start with what we have just learned. and lauren fox and her great reporting, tens of thousands of dollars paid for sex and drugs on at least 20 occasions is what the ethics committee found when it comes to matt gaetz, including paying a 17 year old girl for sex in 2017 and the committee finding that he violated florida state laws. he's no longer in congress. we know this. he is also promising that he's not going away. what impact do you think this report and that i'll call it, the matt gaetz chapter of the republican party means for the party. >> well, this report and what we're hearing is incredibly disturbing. >> the allegations were problematic. and now that the ethics committee has corroborated those allegations and concluded they were at least in part, if not all of them accurate, is is a troubling end to this story, or at least this chapter, as you said.

cnn political commentator and former senior spokesperson for hillary clinton's 2016 campaign, karen finney. glad to have you all here. brian, may i ask you, 38 republicans voting against it even after being threatened to be primaried? is this an indication that trump is not maybe omnipotent in d.c. so far? no. >> listen, listen, i think it's an indication that speaker johnson is failing at his job at delivering some type of cr that republicans get behind, and he's done a poor job of communicating that to president trump. that's what this indicates. i think he you know, i think the buzz is around around mar-a-lago around west palm beach is that he's been less than transparent with president trump with everything that's going on. he told the president that this is likely a good package that is going to pass. it failed miserably. you know, he told president trump, you know, we're going to pick up seats in the november election. we lost. you know, at the end of the day, we lost two seats under his tenureship. i think speaker johnson has a record of failing, and that failure is now starting to