oren cass wrote that op-ed. he's founder and chief economist at a think tank called american compass and author of a book called "the once and future worker: a vision for the renewal of work in america." tuesday's exit polls shows there was broad unhappiness with the economy, the wayhings were going. two thirds of the voters described the economy as not so good or poor, and 70% of them voted for mr. trump. what do you think they were voting for? what changes do you think they were voting for? oren: well, i think they were voting against what we've done in this country for 20 or 25 years now, except during mr. trump's first term, which is basically just focus on this idea that all people want is cheap stuff. so the more we do globalization and move our jobs to china, the more we have an open border and bring in low-wage migrant workers, the better off we will be and we will see high gdp numbers and the stock market will go up and everything will be great. and the reality is that for most people, that has been a c

oren, welcome.'m so glad to have you, because you really have been in some ways laying the intellectual foundations for kind of trumpism. so let me start by asking you, is the republican party now firmly a kind of working class party? because it does seem to get the majority of working class votes. and yet, you know, the big thing that republicans do wherever they come into office are these massive tax cuts that disproportionately help the rich. when you look at the transition team that trump has appointed, it's $2 billion, one for wlth. they're talking about extending the trump tax cut, $2. 5 trillion over ten years. what's going on? >> well, i think you've captured the tension very well. the republican party, the voters of the republican party at this point are squarely centered on the working class. and you know, it's important to define what we mean by that. i think the best way to understand it is, it's the majority of americans who still don't have a college degree and experience especially th

i will let oren respond. richard is talking about immigration and retaliatory tariffs and lots of things. guest: i would start with a couple of factual points. it is certainly not the case that the deficit went up under trump and down under biden. it went up under both. the problem of too much deficit spending and irresponsible budgeting has been an entirely bipartisan one that we certainly need to address. on the flipside, it is important to say that at this point, the tariffs policy is an entirely bipartisan one. as much as people complained when trump put the tariffs on china into effect, the biden administration cap essentially all of those tariffs. they have put on even more in some cases. this is a place where nobody wants to admit it but president trump has been proven entirely correct. people are, in general, encouraged by him and supportive of what he did there. on the question of what it means on the immigration front, i think it is a really interesting topic. because, as the questioner put it, we h

oren, i want to start with you. walk us through your new reporting about this u.s. aid for ukraine. >> the u.s. has been trying at a steady pace to send as much aid as it can to ukraine, and it has roughly $6.8 billion left in the authority to send weapons, equipment and systems to ukraine but the pace was way off. >> there were only sending a few hundred million a month, right? >> about 750 million over the course of the last few months. and it wasn't apparently going to be able to use all of those billions. it has left. >> now, five u.s. officials with whom cnn has spoken acknowledge the biden administration is unlikely to be able to use all of that before january 20th. >> they will try to increase the amount going over but all of that $6.8 billion unlikely to all of it be used. of course, that's a huge deal for ukraine, which has relied on u.s. and nato weapons to be able to try to fight russia as well as it can across the front lines. ukraine and its military have very much relied on that weaponry. so this could be a significant blow to them, as they were expect

oren lieberman is out front live at the pentagon. oren, what more do we know about these proposals that the trump administration is reviewing? right now? >> well, president elect donald trump is likely to have some sort of ending to the russia-ukraine war, or at least negotiations fairly high on his priority list when he comes in on january 20th. >> he has claimed the war would never have started if he was president, and said at least once on the campaign trail that he could end the war in a day. the question is how? and that's where the specifics, the details have been very short. retired general keith kellogg, who served in the first trump administration is one of those speaking with mike waltz, the incoming national security advisor to lay out at least a potential plan or an idea for how to proceed here. and his idea, according to two sources familiar with the matter, is to essentially hold off on arming ukraine unless they're willing to partake in peace negotiations with russia but that's only one of the options being considered

oren, thank you very much. >> kate, let's talk more about this.oining us right now is cnn chief national security correspondent nick paton walsh and, nick, everyone knows you have spent extensive amount of time reporting from the front lines in ukraine. what do you think in terms of the immediate impact that these new weapons systems can have yeah, i mean, look ultimately this is something that ukraine has wanted for a long time, but now they have that capacity. >> i don't think there are really enough of these atacms longer range missiles to suddenly, overnight change. ukraine's pretty dire fortunes on the front line at the moment. now they are more precise and they could potentially, as you was suggesting, hit north korean troops building up around kursk but remember, to, ukraine has had longer range drones that have hit deeper inside russia than the atacms can indeed go that are way cheaper and potentially more effective. what i think this announcement does do though, particularly after months of president joe biden delaying delaying, essential

cnn's oren liebermann is covering this for us from the pentagon. year we saw senator tommy tuberville block promotions for months over the pentagon's abortion policies. could something similar happen here at least in theory? absolutely it could, brianna. >> and bars. it's a question of is senator markwayne mullin willing to give ground here if the questions he has about lieutenant general christopher donahue are answered, or does he simply refuse to budge until the senate changes over and we see republican majority in the senate? that's one of the key questions. the pentagon said earlier today. their legislative affairs team here is very much willing to work with the senate when it comes to questions like this so what we've learned is that senator markwayne mullin is holding the promotion of lieutenant general chris donahue. donahue was nominated to be the commander. the four star commander of u.s. army europe africa. he currently serves as the lieutenant general in charge of the 18th airborne corps at the time of the afghanistan withdrawal, he was

oren lieberman begins our coverage tonight out front, live at the pentagon. and, oren, the u.s. watching what's happening on the ground at this very hour in ukraine extremely closely. these masses of drones that they say are descending from all directions upon kyiv. what more can you tell us? >> erin, the pentagon tracks very closely what types of weapons weapons russia fires and the quantities of those. and those have been very great indeed. it's not just a drone attack on kyiv and other places. tonight we saw very similar large scale drone attack last night with the devastating iranian shahid drones ukraine said yesterday they intercepted 50 out of 73. that's an impressive number, but we have seen repeatedly how much damage, devastation and frankly, death. 23 drones, drones that get through ukrainians ukraine's defenses can cause. now, russia has kept this barrage up, partially because it's gotten help from iran and north korea in supplying its own military, and that has allowed them, as they push on the ground, to also attack in the air. now, ukraine certainly is not defensel

oren liebermann, appreciate the reporting tonight. thank you. well, this comes as tonight. russia is seeing some momentum on the battlefield against ukraine. fred pleitgen is out front vladimir putin's army advancing on nearly all front lines inside ukraine, but also as they try to expel kyiv's troops from the kursk region in russia we fought for this area for almost three months. >> this russian marine says thanks to the assault groups of the 810th brigade, we knocked out these ukrainian servicemen moscow emboldened, now flat out telling the biden administration face it, you lost now to the west. should hear all this, rethink it, come to their senses and admit they lost. they failed to achieve the goals of containing russia's development. >> they were unable to defeat russia. geopolitically, the speaker of russia's senate says moscow is still fuming after the white house gave kyiv the go ahead to use u.s. supplied longer distance weapons to strike targets deep inside russia the reaction? we understand the reaction of the embittered frustrated washington regime under the le

i will let oren respond.hard is talking about immigration and retaliatory tariffs and lots of things. guest: i would start with a couple of factual points. it is certainly not the case that the deficit went up under trump and down under biden. it went up under both. the problem of too much deficit spending and irresponsible budgeting has been an entirely bipartisan one that we certainly need to address. on the flipside, it is important to say that at this point, the tariffs policy is an entirely bipartisan one. as much as people complained when trump put the tariffs on china into effect, the biden administration cap essentially all of those tariffs. they have put on even more in some cases. this is a place where nobody wants to admit it but president trump has been proven entirely correct. people are, in general, encouraged by him and supportive of what he did there. on the question of what it means on the immigration front, i think it is a really interesting topic. because, as the questioner put it, we have

oren liebermann is at the pentagon with the latest. oren what can you tell us about this attack? >> john, this looks like another large scale attack by iranian made shahed drones, not only in the capital of kyiv, but it looks like air raid sirens going off across the country. we saw a similar large scale attack last night. ukraine says they intercepted 50 out of 73 of these drones. now that's an impressive number, but we have repeatedly seen the damage. the destruction russia is able to cause when even a few of these drones get through. and let's not forget, john, this isn't even the most powerful weapon russia has used recently. not even close. it was just last week that for the first time, russia launched an intermediate range ballistic missile that had multiple warheads against the city of dnipro. so russia still unleashing its full arsenal. not daunted at all by what we've seen ukraine carry out with some of its own advanced weaponry over the course of the past couple of days. >> well let's talk more about that, because the white house confirmed publicly today that ukraine is

so we go through you here what oren's reporting. you've got these drones as we are speaking, descending in this mass attack on kyiv in the context of ukrainian missiles made by the u.s. striking deep inside russia putin, with his saber rattling nuclear resistant bomb shelters germany, telling people where their bomb shelters are if there's anything that kind of harkens people, you know back to world war ii, it would be that germany warning moscow is out producing all of the eu by 4 to 1 on weapons. it's a it's it's a it's a very frightening moment. and right now it appears that the ball is in putin's court. >> let's remember the two things that matter that have changed in the past few months. number one, the russians were losing territory vis a vis the ukrainians they're now gaining territory vis a vis the ukrainians. >> number two, biden president kamala harris, close to a coin flip. being able to win. >> turns out trump's about to be the president everything we are seeing right now is performative from the russians because they un

oren liebermann thank you so much for that report. happening now, round two of testimony for fema she is being grilled on capitol hill about hurricane disaster relief and whether some in her agency may have avoided helping republicans in hard hit areas. >> these hearings come as there are concerns to natural disasters, and this scandal over an employee who was recently fired after being accused of bypassing homes in florida, with trump signs in their yard. here's what that fema worker told cnn what i'd like for the american people to know is, before i even deployed to florida, that this was the work culture there. >> i was on two teams in florida and the first team when i arrived they were implementing avoidance and deescalation, and unfortunately that trend ran with those. trump campaign signs. i don't create policy. fema does. i just implement it in the field here, now is the fema administrator's response just a short time ago. >> there is nothing in and our training that would direct any employee to bypass anybody's home based on t

oren, you're an old mideast hand as well. now at the pentagon. where does the u.s. stand as this situation unfolds for right now, this is a situation the u.s. will be watching very closely. >> anything that affects the syrian regime and the stability of the syrian regime means it also affects russia's presence in syria, for which, for example, there is a deconfliction line with the with the u.s. to make sure the militaries don't clash there. and then it also affects the presence of iranian backed militias in syria. and all of that is key to the u.s.. the u.s. has about 900 troops in syria as part of the ongoing campaign to defeat isis. so that's the mission of those forces. and yet they have with some frequency in recent weeks and months, come under attack from the iranian backed militias. they have carried out counter strikes, including just as recently as this wednesday. so the u.s., very much aware that the war torn country is still not a stable place. and this only adds to that instability. in addition, the u.s. works with kurdish forces in a separate part of th

that is what we not have had and we need to get back to. >> oren cass, a pleasure to have you on.nk you so much. next on gps, world reaction on trump's reelection. >>> the current cover story of the economist discord welcome to transworld. so, what will a second trump term mean for the global economy and for geopolitics? touring the is editor-in-chief of the economist. what do you think -- they say the world reaction. it is a big thing, but what strikes you most about how people outside america are reacting to the selection? >> it depends on what country you're talking about and what leader you are talking about. if you're amongst the autocrats, you probably welcome this. many people around the world were expecting it. there are two people in dread, mexico. i think mexico is in real trouble. but because president-elect donald trump's deportation determination is going to really had mexico and, secondly, mexico will be hit hard by any protections. the other is europe because i think that they are really in trouble. firstly, again, the eu has a huge trade surplus with the united sta

who picks the fruits and vegetables for this country who keeps this prices down -- 1 guest: i'll let oren respond. riched is talking about immigration, retall torrey tariffs, lots of things. host: it's certainly not the case that the deficit went up under trump and down under biden. it wasn't up under both. it's been an entirely bipartisan problem that we certainly need to address and on the flip side it's important to say that at this point the tariff policy is a bipartisan one. as much as people explained requested trump put china tariffs into effect, the biden administration essentially kept all of those and put on even more in some cases. president trump has been proved entirely correct and people are in general very encouraged by and supportive of what he did there. on the question of what it means on the immigration front, i think it's a really interesting topic. as the questioner put it, we have

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oren thanks for your time. thank you jim. coming up, the first transgender person elected to the u.s. house is responding after republican congresswoman nancy mace introduced a resolution to ban her from women's bathrooms up on capitol hill. that's next >> thursday november 28th at 8:00 on. >> okay everyone, our mission is to provide complete, balanced nutrition for strength and energy. >> ensure with 27 vitamins and minerals, nutrients for immune health, and ensure complete with 30g of protein you'll find them in cities, towns and suburbs all across america. >> millions of americans who have medicare and medicaid but may be missing benefits. they could really use extra benefits. they may be eligible to receive at no extra cost. and if you have medicare and medicaid, you may be able to get extra benefits too through a humana medicare advantage. dual eligible special needs plan. call now to see if you qualify with the humana medicare advantage. dual eligible special needs plan. you could have doctor hospital and prescription d

i will let oren respond.rd is talking about immigration and retaliatory tariffs and lots of things. guest: i would start with a couple of factual points. it is certainly not the case that the deficit went up under trump and down under biden. it went up under both. the problem of too much deficit spending and irresponsible budgeting has been an entirely bipartisan one that we certainly need to address. on the flipside, it is important to say that at this point, the tariffs policy is an entirely bipartisan one. as much as people complained when trump put the tariffs on china into effect, the biden administration cap essentially all of those tariffs. they have put on even more in some cases. this is a place where nobody wants to admit it but president trump has been proven entirely correct. people are, in general, encouraged by him and supportive of what he did there. on the question of what it means on the immigration front, i think it is a really interesting topic. because, as the questioner put it, we have th

. >> oren cass, what is your assessment thus far of president-elect trump's picks for his cabinet, as well as what you're hoping to see from vice president-elect jd vance when it comes to economic policy? >> well, i think something really interesting that you notice in that clip from jd vance is that he's -- he's actually pairing together two different issues where the republican party has really shifted. on free trade and economic policy, the republican party and, for that matter, the democratic party, as he noticed with joe biden, was overwhelmingly focused on just embracing free trade and ignore places like ohio that were going to be hurt by it and also, then, on foreign policy, it was sort of a parallel process. you had both democrats and republicans just kind of going around looking for wars to start, and not thinking about the people who were going to have to fight in those wars. and so, what i think what you see with trump and vance and in the picks they've started to make is obviously a different way of thinking about that. so far, the picks have been more on the foreign polic

for more on this, i wasjoined from israel by michael oren, former israeli ambassador the united statesews that qatar is pulling out of its role as a mediator in these hostage negotiations, saying that neither is real about a hostage deal, what do you make of that and where do you now put your hopes, in terms of israel reaching its goal of freeing the hostages? i think first of all. — freeing the hostages? i think first of all, qatar _ freeing the hostages? i think first of all, qatar was - first of all, qatar was responding to an ultimatum given by the ad biden administration that it either was going to pressure hamas to release the hostages or it would have to innovate senior hamas officials from the very luxurious hotels and homes in qatar. it was a pre—emptive move by qatar. in any case, that leaves us in the same place, qatar is not playing a mediator role and it doesn't seem much way forward to release the hostages. as well hoping now that it can knock trade prisoners in israeli jails, terrorists for hostages, but perhaps territory for hostages. israel has been evacuating palestin

oren liebermann, cnn in the pentagon. >> let's get the very latest from our ben wedeman, who's followed the latest developments and joins me now from rome. and ben i'm seeing now that syrian rebels have taken control of most of aleppo city. and i think we've got a video to show they're just coming in to cnn. it's of rebels basically taking control of center square in aleppo. just speak to the the significance ben, of this moment and how quickly this has unfolded yeah, it's hugely significant. >> lisa considering that this rebel offensive began just on wednesday and now we're seeing for instance, as you mentioned video and still photos of rebels in saadallah al-jabiri square, which is in the more modern part of the city and we're also we were watching last night a live stream of feed by rebels at aleppo's ancient citadel, the very heart of the city and this comes just it was just hours before that we were talking about the rebels getting into some of the western outskirts of the city. what we've seen since wednesday is that they've taken dozens and dozens of villages in the western secto

that was jarring to hear about, because for us in the bay area it feels like we've closed the chant oren fire season. >> right. >> they have had a really difficult fire season, though, down in southern california. >> and they haven't had nearly the amount of rain we've had throughout most of the bay area. santa clara valley is going to dry out pretty quickly. we have to keep an eye on things. we always do. the reality of a changing climate. big picture perspective, how things are going to evolve through the rest of thanksgiving weekend. we're going to stay dry through the rest of the holiday weekend. the good news for southern california is there's a storm system over the pacific. that is making its way in. it doesn't have a lot of moisture to work with. these two features battling for supremacy. high pressure, a blocking high, because it's going to block that storm system down to our south. it might get a few light showers in southern california. we're just going to get some high clouds passing through. filtering the sunshine and ofcational patches of value lee fog. all in all, the weat

oren, i want to start with you. walk us through your new reporting about this u.s.. >> the u

that's oren etzioni, founder of truemedia.org — one of at least a dozen deepfake detection tools that colour—coded tags to — in theory — alert users to potentially false information. red — fake, likely to be manipulated. yellow — inconclusive, uncertain. or green — it's likely to be real. and in this election, voters need the help. on social media, often images are compressed, you're looking at them on your phone screen. the bottom line is people often cannot tell. to test the tool out, we made some short deepfakes of our own. today we're going to talk about some things i've been seeing... we have three models saying "fake, fake, fake". we even have 100% confidence. with this deepfake video, however, the tool wasn't as certain. and looks like the models came back and were uncertain about the face. one detected with middling confidence, and one said there was little evidence. etzioni is open about how these models don't catch fake images 100% of the time, but he argues truemedia is still a valuable tool to the average voter trying to tell truth from fiction. others say deepfake detecti

i've been speaking to michael oren, former israeli ambassador to the united states, and asked him howt giving an ultimatum. president biden could say to israel, certainly to the prime minister benjamin netanyahu don't go into iraq and seven gathers strip for that that's he went into rafah for the biden would say don't go into lebanon, don't invade lebanon for the they invaded lebanon. don't bomb beruit, they bombed beirut. i think president trump is not the person to say no to. i think the president and the prime minister understands this. the question is, how do then they end the war for quickly? maybe netanyahu needs the president to say this. just to say donald trump seems more pro—israel thanjoe biden as a president. do you think he would issue that kind of ultimatum? yes, i do. i think there's a lot of misreading of donald trump, in this country there's a lot of exultation on the stream right that trump would allow annexation by israel to the west bank, permit people forget that donald trump prevented part of the west bank annexing for that he signed on a peace plan, i was an adv

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hungary's authoritarian prime minister victor oren.has been eroding democracy for more than a decade now. a former member of parliament, writes in politico, trump's goal this time is to remake the american government to enhance his power. he isn't the first modern right wing populist to attempt this. he is following a playbook pioneered by viktor orban. orban came to power in 2010 and some of his first acts were to take aim at the independence of hungary's judiciary and news media, rewriting the constitution to force senior judges to retire, and setting up a new court system overseeing directly by his government and consolidating control over the media. his government and its allies took control of 90% of the media outlets, elevating orban's propaganda. orban and his party have also tightened his grip over hungary's electoral system. changing laws to rig the system in his favor and keep him in power in perpetuity. like the american right, orban has gone out of his way to stoke division by stoking fear about racial diversity and demoniz

conservative economist oren cass writes real investment in factories has more than doubled since presidenttronics industry, it has nearly quadrupled since the beginning of 2022. by comparison, mr. trump's council of economic advisors tried to show that his 2017 tax cut spurred investment, but it was actually zero. joining us is the social dean at the yale school of management. just looking at the numbers, there's so much that joe biden built into this economy that i ca all at once. reading your article and other pieces, it reminds me of pieces i've forgotten. that's the politics of next year, the challenge of reminding people how we got here. >> can you imagine being joe biden? you and i have very strong feelings about the success of this president's administration. some people have some differences. but this has been one unlucky guy. i stuffed envelopes for him in 1972 when he lost his wife and daughter. and then of course losing his treasured son and going on the debate stage, getting covid that was finally diagnosed when they didn't want to admit, and to the debate, and now this where h

especially when trump takes cues on how to treat the press from dictators like vladimir putin or victor oren.s. ranked ten spots lower in press freedom than 2023. today israel a major u.s. ally receives billions of dollars in american tax paid money sanctioned a newspaper because the government simply did not like its reporting. trump's doubling down on media attacks suing outlets for billions for doing their jobs shows how he is refined his tactics since his last term. his push back on this bill is likely just the beginning. joining me is jody ginsburg, ceo of the committee to protect journalists. great to have you back. trump singled out your interview last week when he demanded republicans kill this bill. how important is this bill for the safety of journalists and how concerning are trump's reactions to all of this? >> it's really important. there is no federal level shield law. 49 states in america have some kind of protection for journalists and their sources to protect those sources so that we have access to information in the public interest. you think about public interest stories l

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. >> my bow i'm oren liebermann at the pentagon and this is cnn all right. >> just days after president-elect donald trump warned america's two biggest trading partners of new across the board tariffs, he met face to face with the leader of one of those countries, canadian prime minister justin trudeau, visited trump at his mar-a-lago resort in florida last night. the two had dinner flanked by some of trump's senior allies and cabinet picks. cnn's alayna treene is in west palm beach near mar-a-lago. elena. good morning to you. so trudeau is the first g7 leader to meet with trump since the election. what more are you learning about their discussion that's right. >> and we did get a glimpse of who was at that dinner and meeting with them. we saw dave mccormick, the incoming pennsylvania senator, recently elected. he was there at the table with his wife, dina powell. but we also saw some of other donald trump's picks for top administrative posts. we saw howard lutnick one of his co transition chairs, as well as donald trump's selection for to lead the commerce department. we also saw mike waltz

. >> i'm oren liebermann at the pentagon, and this is cnn tonight. >> sources tell cnn ukraine is quicklying advantage of a new u.s. biden administration policy allowing the use of longer range u.s. missiles against targets inside inside russia. ukrainian forces hitting a russian weapons arsenal in a major escalation of the war. joining us now, the chair of the senate armed services committee, democratic senator jack reed of rhode island. senator thanks so much for joining us. russia's brutal war against ukraine. as you know, is now in its 1,000th day. how will ukraine's use of these u.s. provided atacms missiles help bring about an end to the war? >> well, they can strike deeper and more critical targets they'll concentrate their efforts i think, against the kursk salient and particularly, i think they'll go after north korean forces again, part of this escalation is on the russian side of bringing in forces from north korea and i think the ukrainians will effectively target a military targets and put pressure on russia in terms of disrupting supply communications and their ability to co

officials are telling our oren liebermann tonight. russia claims the ukrainian attack did not cause damage. the u.s. says that is false, but ukraine also reportedly used british made storm shadow missiles for the first time today. inside russia, as well wolf here them heard them right there in that video you see the background, but you can hear the explosions. the weapons expert telling cnn those are exactly the types of sounds and blasts you would expect to hear from those storm shadow missiles. it producing nuclear resistant, mobile bomb shelters. the shelters can protect against shockwaves and radiation from a nuclear blast, among other threats. while on russian state tv, one popular host suggesting that the world is now on the verge of another world war putin, has repeatedly stressed missile strikes deep inside russian territory will change the nature of the conflict. >> its very essence, and be a radical escalation. after all, the usa, england and france will be directly entering a war with russia with all the ensuing consequence

. >> i'm oren lieberman at the pentagon, and this is cnn next week, the supreme court will hear a potentially explosive case involving transgender care that's even dividing conservatives. >> the case centers on a tennessee law enacted last year that bans puberty blockers and hormone treatments for children. critics say the law injects the state into family medical decisions and overrides parental rights. we're joined now by cnn legal analyst jennifer rogers. she's a former federal prosecutor. jennifer, good to see you. happy holidays. walk us through what the supreme court is about to hear. >> yeah jim. well, they're about to hear a case out of tennessee that, as you said prohibits gender affirming care. so puberty blockers and also bans surgery, all that. that's not very common for minors in the lowest court. the trial court level blocked the law. they said that it was unreasonable. they said that it violated the constitution's equal protection clause. and then it went up on appeal. the sixth circuit reversed. so now we have it up at the supreme court and it's not just tennessee where this m

. >> i'm oren liebermann at the pentagon and this is cnn closed captioning is brought to you by tableau. >> watch. pause and record live tv subscription free. watch live tv for free with tableau. access over 90. free channels, plus record, pause and replay all with zero monthly fees or contracts. order a tableau total system today as vladimir putin continues to send thousands of russian troops to the front lines in ukraine, the mothers of those soldiers rarely heard from throughout the conflict are speaking out to cnn. >> fred pleitgen reports from moscow the three year mark, more and more russians are signing up to fight vladimir putin, saying more than 700,000 are currently stationed in and around ukraine but he got rare access to an event in moscow honoring the mothers of russian soldiers battling in what the kremlin still calls its special military operation. >> mothers whose sons are fighting have been killed or injured oksana medvedeva son yegor, was severely wounded on the battlefield earlier this year the nerves had to be sewn back together, she says. he also had surgery on his

i wouldn't say it if i didn't truly believe it i'm oren liebermann at the pentagon, and this is cnn president-elect donald trump will enter same way or much in the same way. >> he entered his first with a republican controlled congress. but this time around, trump is looking to pad his administration with loyalists committed to making his agenda a reality. and joining us now is pat mccrory. he's the former republican governor of north carolina. governor, great to see you as always. appreciate you coming on. what's your assessment of these cabinet picks? so far? i mean, it has been kind of a rocky rollout. what's your sense of it? >> well, first of all, i'm rooting for for president trump to succeed in fact, one thing that i was always impressed with president trump was that he had never been around or tried illegal drugs or alcohol and it surprises me that he would want to make, as his attorney general someone who allegedly was around while a sitting member of congress parties in which they were potential illegal drugs, and maybe other illegal activity around him, whether he participated or not, is

. >> and colonel, i do just want to emphasize here we're getting in some new reporting from our orensha bertrand, who covered the pentagon that that experimental russian ballistic missile that was fired at the dnipro carried multiple warheads. i tell us if that's significant to you, because we know that this weapon called a emil bove mirv, it's shorthand. it is it's for multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle. the idea being that it's designed to cover or to carry multiple nuclear warheads. here, it appears it carried multiple non-nuclear warheads designed for nuclear warfare. >> it's very expensive to use a weapon like that for a conventional attack. and there's other means to hit those targets. so this clearly rt of the nuclear saber rattling and a message from vladimir putin that i have these weapons and they work. and you know, tread your path carefully in terms of what you want to do to us, because we can respond in kind. yeah. >> a potential first wartime use, a preview of what it could look like without nuclear warheads. colonel peter mansoor, thank you so much for b

. >> i'm oren liebermann at the pentagon and this is cnn today announcing all single sex bathrooms at the u.s. >> capitol are quote, reserved for individuals of that biological sex now that effectively bans transgender people from using them, though johnson does not outline a plan for how he would enforce that kind of rule this all started with republican representative nancy mace, who introduced a bill to prevent her soon to be colleague sarah mcbride from using the women's restrooms when she becomes the first openly trans person in congress next year i'm absolutely a 100% going to stand in the way of any man who wants to be in a women's restroom in our locker rooms, in our changing rooms. >> i will be there fighting you every step of the way mcbride responded to mesa's bill on x writing, every day americans go to work with people who have life journeys different than their own and engage with them respectfully. >> i hope members of congress can muster that same kindness and joining us now is actress and transgender rights advocate laverne cox. laverne, thank you so much for joining

. >> i'm oren liebermann at the pentagon and this is cnn closed captioning brought to you by inventhelp. call one ( 800) 710-0020. >> do you have an invention idea but don't know what to do next call inventhelp. today they can help you get started with your idea. >> call now ( 800) 710-0020. >> late last week, amsterdam experienced what the city's mayor has called a quote, outburst of anti-semitism it happened in the wake of a soccer game between maccabi tel aviv and israeli team, and a dutch one called ajax authorities said. criminals on scooters hunted the city for supporters of the israeli team and committed hit and run attacks. >> free palestine now. >> the attacks left many maccabi supporters injured. earlier, the israeli team supporters were seen slurs and praising israel's attacks in gaza. then, this past thursday in paris, despite tight security, more tensions spilled into violence at another soccer game between france and israel. for more on what all of this means, i want to bring in mikhail kotler. she is israel's special envoy for combating anti-semitism and a former member o

oren liebermann thank you. we will monitor these attacks on kyiv and other ukrainian cities throughout the night. his allies, who are celebrating a victory secured on election day and made official smith dropped both federal cases against the former president. those are the election subversion and the classified documents. cases and a new filing. smith cited long standing justice department policy against prosecuting presidents. quote accordingly, the department's position is that the constitution requires that this case be dismissed before the defendant is inaugurated. smith made clear that this decision had nothing to do with the strength of the cases. three times he mentioned the merits of the prosecution. at one point, speaking about the january 6th case, he wrote the merits of the defendants prosecution has not changed. and again speaking broadly at the very end, he wrote this outcome is not based on the merits or strength of the case against the defendant. this is how we describe the january 6th case, whe

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com i'm oren liebermann at the pentagon and this is cnn just as winter is setting in, russia is now targeting a critical necessity for ukrainians. >> yeah it is a major issue more than a million homes were left in the dark after russia launched a barrage of drones and missiles aimed at ukraine's energy facilities. the assault forced some residents to take shelter in metro stations and injured at least five people. >> the president of russia, vladimir putin, is saying that the attack was a response to ukraine's strikes using american made missiles inside of russia. cnn's chief international security correspondent, nick paton walsh, has this report from ukraine yeah, a million homes without power in ukraine after this significant russian bid to cripple ukraine's energy infrastructure. >> yet again, constantly, moscow's target and regions across the country reporting temporarily or for longer stints of time being without power. q101 missiles fired by russia fast moving, able to get through a lot of ukrainian air defenses and clearly russia pushing hard to do as much damage as it can as we get in