administration and how it's taking shape, let's bring in our panel now, cnn senior political commentator scott jennings and cnn contributor lulu garcia-navarro. it's great to have both of you here. scott, let's start first with you. obviously, pete hegseth has had a lot of controversy swirling around him. is it worth, do you think the political capital it's going to take to expend that on getting him confirmed of course. >> i mean, this is the president's guy. i mean, he wouldn't have picked him if he didn't think it was worth the fight. and i think they knew when they picked a nontraditional choice like this, like pete hegseth, that, you know, they were going to have to work for it. and hegseth is not without responsibility here. he ultimately has to go to the table at his hearing, be sworn in and answer questions, talk about his resume, his experience, his abilities, and answer questions about everything that's come up during the process. so yeah, i do think it's worth it. will he make it? i don't know. it's really on his shoulders, ultimately, to convince these senators that he's the right person fo

scott jennings. great to have you both here. will note, you know, we've been looking at those pictures that people have been posting online of all of the pages that were there. obviously, scott, as you know, the second version that they tried to pass yesterday still had a lot of money that it was going to be adding and trillions of dollars by raising the debt ceiling. but but what is your take, scott, on just the outcome here in terms of elon musk getting what he wanted, but trump did not get what he wanted and what he was demanding just 48 hours ago. >> yeah, well, they'll have to deal with it when they come back. and it's not ideal. but, you know, you don't always get ideal circumstances when you have a congress that's closely divided. and i think we should expect in the future because of how closely divided the congress is going to be, there's going to be some messy times for trump, his agenda for his allies on capitol hill. it's going to be a little messy. there's obviously some republicans in the conference that aren't alway

scott jennings i mean, you've been here for a lot of these fights. we've talked about them, some of these some of these members, men and women, they don't want to support anything at all. >> yeah. the message for johnson that's going to work best is teamwork. and it's the message that's coming out of donald trump. he supports johnson because he trusts johnson and thinks johnson is going to support his agenda. but but more than anything, a path to nowhere here is to just fight amongst yourselves. and when you have a divided conference like this and you have a closely divided chamber, there is only one way to get things done for the american people, and that's for all the republicans to stick together. and we saw some division on this at the end of the year, and the democrats were able to stick together for the most part, republicans have to learn to stop fighting with each other and listen to their coach, in this case, and their coach is donald trump. and he obviously wants to hit the ground running. i know johnson wants to pass legislation between ja

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, sleep, stress? can you see that reflected in your glucose levels and are the are there chan

on his podcast, he's invited scott jennings to join the la times opinion section. this is all part of his effort, he says to what he says is to regain trust in the mainstream news that he believes has become biased. take a listen to what he had to say so somebody could understand as they read it that the source of the article has some level of bias. >> and what we need to do is not have what we call confirmation bias, right and then that story automatically, the reader can press a button and get both sides of that exact same story based on that story and then give comments so first of all, one of the major issues in this is that he's assuming that his own journalist will not be showing all sides of the story in their reporting, which is one of the most basic tenets of basic journalism, that you will get comments and opinions from all sides. >> also, a lot of questions about this aa model. >> what model will it be based off of? >> because keep in mind that even ai models themselves can actually have some biases built in we don't have a lot of details on on any of th

live at the table, jamaal bowman scott jennings, lee mcgowan and scott taylor. americans with different perspectives aren't talking to each other, but here they do good evening. i'm abby phillip in new york. let's get right to what america is talking about. an inconvenient truth. tonight, joe biden says that he's giving it to the american people straight explaining why he went back on his word and pardoned his son. the president saying in a statement that justice, a verdict, by the way, that a jury rendered of hunter biden's guilt wasn't really justice at all for my entire career. joe biden says, i have followed a simple principle just tell the american people the truth. they'll be fair minded. here's the truth i believe the justice system. i believe in the justice system. but i have wrestled with this. i also believe raw politics has infected this process and it led to a miscarriage of justice. now that joe biden sounds very different from this, joe biden let me ask you, will you accept the jury's outcome, their verdict, no matter what it is? >> yes. and have y

2016 presidential campaign, karen finney, and former senior adviser to senator mitch mcconnell, scott jennings. thank you both for being here. scott, let's start with you. gates slamming the report, defending himself in online post. and here's one where he claims, quote, giving funds to someone you are dating that they didn't ask for and that isn't charged for sex is now prostitution. and that he was never charged with a crime. gates has repeatedly framed the justice department's decision not to charge him as an exoneration. we know that that isn't how this works. no prosecutor has actually come out to to clear gates, but he was never charged. what do you make of all of this and the fact that the ethics report is out and it has got some really information in it? >> yeah. i mean, i'll be candid with you. i don't make much of it because most of the details or most of the stories that we heard, we already knew. i mean, a lot of this stuff was already swirling in the public domain anyway. number two, gates is no longer in congress. number three, matt gaetz is no longer under consideration to be in

bush, scott jennings. gentlemen, good to have you both here with us. eard from president-elect trump there talking about pete hegseth and his chances of being confirmed. it does seem like he's got a little more a little more firm footing under him. at least trump is saying so publicly. what do you make of the current situation? >> well, he's better off today than he was a week ago today. >> you know, a week ago, people were wondering if he was going to make it through the week. >> and now he ends the week having had some positive meetings on capitol hill also, having had a number of people from his military service and from his time at fox coming out on the record in their own name and saying, look, i've never heard or seen any kind of behavior like what? >> like what's being described out of pete hegseth. and then he ends the week with donald trump, the president elect, giving him a strong vote of confidence. now, trump was realistic and said, i have confidence in him. i think he's going to make it. i don't have assurances yet, but that speaks to the n

joining me now, cnn senior political commentator scott jennings and former biden white house communications director kate bedingfield. thank you both for coming in this morning or coming to us live. louisville and d.c.. all right, so rfk is headed to capitol hill this week to try and convince senators he should be the head of hhs. he has time and again pushed back against the use of vaccines. and it so happens, as you both know, that one member of the senate, mitch mcconnell, has suffered from polio before it was eradicated by vaccines. scott, do you expect mcconnell to strongly push back on trump on this particular pick well, i certainly expect him to have a lot of hard questions about it because, you know, he lived this, right? >> and millions of americans had their lives saved by the polio vaccine. mcconnell knows just about as much about it as anybody in the in the country right now and in the senate, for sure. so, yeah, i expect him to ask questions about it. if i were rfk, i would go up to the senate and tell the senators, look, i'm not here to do anything other than engage in science

scott jennings, you hear the congresswoman, you know, she's putting the blame for this squarely on elon musk first and foremost and trump after that. and that would be the that would be the timeline of how this played out. what do you say to her? >> well, she let the mask slip right at the end. she said, who's the president right now? i mean, who's the president elect? but she asked the right question first, who is the president right now? joe biden, who we rarely hear from in the wall street journal reported today, has been diminished for the last four years, and we've had unelected people running around running the federal government, apparently. so if that is what they're worried about, if they're worried about people who aren't donald trump, uh, you know, running the government or having influence, i wonder where they've been the last four years. now, this doesn't excuse anybody's behavior on capitol hill tonight, but i think it's pretty rich for democrats to be worried about people who aren't donald trump having influence. when the current president, a democrat, is awol and apparen

bush, scott jennings, former trump white house communications director alyssa griffin, and former seniorser to president obama david axelrod. david, do you see a point where president-elect trump decides to just cut his losses and move on with another choice? i mean you know, when gates finally, you know gates wasn't going to drop out until he dropped out and very quickly pam bondi was waiting in the wings. >> yeah, i don't see the president elect as a sentimental person. i don't think he's going to hang on here if he believes that hegseth has become a liability to him and i think, you know, we haven't heard that much from him. we've heard what hegseth said. he told him. i'm sure he's waiting to see how this story plays out there have been a lot of allegations. there was a devastating story in the new yorker over the weekend. there's another story tonight in the washington post about the drinking issue, and we're talking, anderson, about the most important agency in the federal government and or certainly the largest and their mission is is extraordinarily important. so when you have all

all right, scott jennings, thank you very, very much.oming up, more reaction to the death of jimmy carter. details on his funeral and reflections on his legacy as the white house is now on the brink of a huge transition. >> erin burnett out front tonight at seven on cnn. look out, cause here i come. >> have you always had trouble with your weight? >> saying discover the power of wegovy with wegovy i lost 35 pounds and some lost over 46 pounds. >> and i'm keeping the weight off. >> i'm reducing my risk. >> wegovy is the only weight management medicine proven to reduce risk of major cardiovascular events such as death, heart attack or stroke in adults with known heart disease and obesity. >> don't use wegovy with semaglutide or glp one medicines or in children under 12. don't take if you or your family had mtc men2 or if allergic to it. tell your provider if you plan to have surgery or a procedure, are breastfeeding, pregnant, or plan to be. stop taking and get medical help right away. if you get a lump or swelling in your neck, severe sto

i had plenty of people on the podcast, including scott jennings just recently, with whom i don't agree on a lot of things, but it's a lot different when you sit down and talk to people about who they are, where they came from, what motivates their thinking and their thinking itself than to turn each other into caricatures on social media. and what we need is more humility. we need more of the ability to listen to each other, to treat each other respectfully. i think that's what the democratic party needs. that's what our country needs. and so that was always my goal with this podcast to promote that ethic. >> well, you have done so and you do so in your conversation. i hear it from people all the time. so we're glad you will continue here with us. of course, even though it is a bittersweet moment for the podcast. all right. thank you all so very much. and next inside luigi mangione notebook mangione allegedly writing that the target is insurance because it, quote, checks every box. this comes as he makes his first new york court appearance, and really an unprecedented moment in america

belong at the top of 21st century charts live at the table scott jennings solomon jones, lee macgowan and arthur adalia. americans with different perspectives aren't talking to each other, but here they do good evening. i'm abby phillip in new york. let's get right to what america is talking about. pete pete hegseth, to be specific. he's donald trump's pick to steer the pentagon, and he might be in trouble. tomorrow he's going to return to his old stomping grounds fox news, for an interview that he may need in order to save his would be job. the republican senators that he needs in his corner to green light his nomination. several of them are now skeptical some of these articles are very disturbing. >> he, you know, obviously has a chance to defend himself here. but, you know, some of this stuff is is going to be difficult. you know, time will tell, as i've repeatedly said to you, i believe that we need an fbi background check to evaluate the allegations. we need to have the normal committee process of questionnaires also tonight the trump transition is agreeing to what every modern t

so i'm going to get to scott jennings cy in just a moment.rie, you know what i don't understand about this? caitlin clark never asked to be this avatar of race. right. and basically, that is what she is saying. i didn't ask for this. why are you making me this person? and now people are mad about that? >> yeah. you know, it's really interesting because since she came into the league, we have to talk about the attention that she has received. she's a phenomenal player. i've never seen anybody shoot the ball. the way she shoots the ball in the wnba. i'm just being honest. she, early on in her collegiate career reminded me of steph curry. and that's where all this attention came from. but before she entered a league that started in 1997, there were the lisa leslie's and the don staley's and the sheryl swoopes of it all who really built this league. and they weren't getting the attention because, let's face it, the league was built in a way in which it wasn't mainstream. and all she simply saying is that i want to respect those who come before me

live at the table scott jennings, julie roginsky, jeff duncan, katie frost and michael harriot. americans with different perspectives aren't talking to each other, but here they do good evening. i'm abby phillip in new york. let's get right to what america is talking about. shutdown. we're just over 24 hours away now, and there is no solution in sight. after donald trump and elon musk blew up a bipartisan spending bill. tonight, the new one that was backed by trump just failed and failed badly. the deal needed two thirds majority to pass. so that means speaker johnson needed to get democrats on board. but still, 38 republicans voted against it. one of those republicans is congressman chip roy, who spent the day getting berated by trump on truth social. trump called him weak and ineffective and very unpopular. he said republicans like him need to be done away with, and that he hoped chip roy would get primaried. so what exactly did chip roy do to deserve trump's wrath? well, he espoused a position on the spending bill that was, well, a very republican. position to take this bill

live at the table scott jennings mondaire jones, coleman hughes and madison gesiotto. americans with different perspectives aren't talking to each other, but here they do. good evening. i'm abby phillip in new york. let's get right to what america is talking about. its tech bros versus the maga base. as president elect, trump looks to enact an aggressive immigration agenda, tech billionaires elon musk and vivek ramaswamy are defending h1-b worker visas and in particular, it's ramaswamy's comments about american culture venerating mediocrity. in his words, that is, rallying up the far right and maga base. nick fuentes wrote on x the h-1b push has nothing to do with american culture, but about whether we want 500 million indians to move here. laura loomer writing. stop watching boy meets world and turn on bollywood so you can watch rape culture steal your job culture and someone else calling india a filthy third world hellscape. writing. if it's so exceptional, why doesn't its tech talent want to stay there? notable also that laura loomer and some of the other people mak

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elliott, i want to get to you in just a second, but scott jennings, you know, the senate as well as anybody else when susan collins lays down the law and says, i need to see those background checks and we will be having a hearing, what are you hearing there? and also in the fact that lindsey graham is also there saying that he has concerns. >> well, i think for the most sensitive positions, particularly the ones that are in the national security space it's just not reasonable to expect these people not to go through fbi background checks the normal vetting process, and then to sit at the table and answer hard questions. i mean, no offense to the housing and urban development department, but, you know, defense is not hud, okay? and and neither is secretary of state or neither is these other national security positions so they need to be vetted. they need to go through this process. and the senate is not. obviously, there's a group of them that are not interested in rolling over on the process because on on these vital positions and they should now hegseth i think, has every right to defend h

. >> trace: talk about democrats, here is scott jennings on cnn and charlamagne tha god saying this,an, the whole thing has been watched, people every single day lied to them and when they are lied to again they keep watching. >> it's funny i feel like a charlamagne tha god, is probably one of the biggest reasons that donald trump actually won this election. if you recall, it was him who had that reaction to the utterly insane kamala harris sound bite back in 2019 talking about the taxpayer subsidized, so called affirming care for prisoners. apparently that trump advertisement they ran in response, shifted the national 2024 elect 32.7 points, charlamagne tha god 11 of the heroes, believe it or not, who could've imagined this but just to echo what katie was saying joe biden has been a liar his entire life. i'm a lawyer by background, back when it said all these ludicrous slander, joe biden was one of the meeting... he was a liar back then, robert would... >> trace: and you're going after cash patel, watch. -- andrew going after cash patel, watch. i think he's thinking, he's coming aft

. >> trace: scott jennings said this about the ceo shooting. >> we don't know anything about the person who shot a trump. we don't know... there's a lot of shootings. [simultaneous talking] >> there's a lot of things that are hidden from us and then this guy shoots and we know more in w about all these other people and i wonder why that is. >> trace: we ask the very same question. we don't have any information. i don't know why... >> it's amazing we still don't have information about who the attempt on trump's life or anything like that. the response to this murder has been absolutely insane. suddenly it's a conversation about health care when really just it's of cold-blooded murder. even what we have found out about this suspect, they would not be on this man side because he was allegedly raised with a silver spoon in his mouth. he's a privileged white man who has had some health struggles but suddenly he's their hero and meanwhile they want blood from daniel penny in the same week for something that was an accident and this man shot another man in cold blood from behind and he's their

let me start with scott jennings. scott, matt gaetz is a maga firebrand, as we all know, a close advisor. at least he was of trump's. this report lays out a lot of evidence of him paying women thousands and thousands of dollars for sex, including to a 17 year old girl. is that the maga? brand? >> no, i don't think so. >> certainly not the republican brand. and as you noted in the report, he's not going to be in the president's cabinet. >> he's no longer in congress. >> and so i don't particularly feel the need to be interested in it or defend it, to be candid with you. >> he's got to either deny or deal with whatever the fallout from this is. >> but, you know, i'm somebody who is interested in people in the republican party who are actually in office and actually moving forward to run the country right now. and he's not one of them. >> megan hayes, what concerns does this report raise for you? >> look, i agree with scott here. >> he's no longer in office. he this is really nothing. i think that where the concern comes

i got to give credit to the man, carrying the world, one man is keeping cnn in business, scott jenningsenal, people call me saying, hey,, what you think about him coming? and i said the guys doing a great job. here is the part, what is the arguments, you lost all seven states! i mean, we were -- he may lose iowa, you lose seven states, stephen a. smith yesterday saying joe lied to us about january 6, how we more times to be have to sit there and watch all of these critics that were supposed to -- they were right! people are as sick of it, bill marra sitting there to say how we more times? is a very difficult time to be a democratic, to say oh, my god,, he will pardon this person and that's prison, every one of the clips of the white rachel and it schiff and people saying this in 2020 are becoming highlight reels. today at article coming out on twitter that shows who are the top five presidents that have pardoned the most people ever? ready? at wilson, truman, obama, carter and joe biden. top five. every single criticism they get to policies that is about pro-family, pro security, pro pr

michael cohen is now agreeing with scott jennings on cnn saying yeah, trump is right. . watch. >> i hate to say it because scott and i very rarely agree on anything. he's right about this in the fact that sloppy journalism, sloppy polling, and what they did. i understand what trump is doing in terms of changing the way defamation cases are brought in this country. you may remember the allegations i was in prague, i paid $10 million to compromise and i have a house next to putin. none of this is true. liz: i can't tell you the damage that people like michael cohen, liberal media have done to america and the national conversation. people before the election, jason, were afraid to say they were for trump in liberal bastians like new york city, los angeles, chicago. that's wrong. trump is trying to fix america. media did not do their job in giving both sides of the story. final word. >> yeah, they didn't at all and i think now some folks i guess in the media understand that and they want to at least pretend to course correct. this last election sent a clear message that lef

[laughter] but then scott jennings hit back with a dose of reality. >> look, i think he will leave officee 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 want to be remembered for joe biden or by joe biden for that matter. it will be remembered as that we are time win america's president was not in charge and whoever was running the show, to claim dementia for there and this is stupid mistakes. and getting rid of those people? we will have no regrets about that. [applause] >> hear he is. >> tom: let's welcome tonight's guests! a week later he is still trying to sit on santa's lap -- lap. host of the... guy benson! he does

. >> all right, let's get some reaction from cnn senior political commentator scott jennings and democratic cross. scott, what's your reaction to what i just heard trump basically being confident that pete hegseth can be confirmed. yeah, he was confident. >> so a vote of confidence in his guy, but also realistic. you know, he didn't say he's been assured that he will be confirmed. >> so it tells me that he's got some realism here, that there's still a process that they're going through. hegseth has some work to do but i think early this week a lot of folks were thinking hegseth was going to be gone by today. and i think he's in better shape today than he was when we started this week. the pr offensive to get back on track, i think, is working and having trump come out tonight and strongly say, this is my guy. >> he loves the military. it's a good thing. >> alicia, what do you think? what's your reaction to what we just heard from trump? >> well, i think trump's going to trump. at the end of the day. he's somebody who's never going to accept defeat. >> but there has been a lot of conversatio

watch the pushback also from scott jennings and piers morgan.e of the social media comments, and i try to say away from social media, but it said, some of the comments were thought ands deductibles to the family. one of the comments was, unfortunately, my condolences are out of network. so uh-uh think it really -- isn't that something? i really think it's reflective about how people are feeling about their health care. >> if you're on the american left tonight, here's my chart. the good guys today, daniel penny. the bad guys, rougey mangione knit. it seem to me -- >> why the [bleep] are you laughing all the time? why would you be in a celebratory mood about the execution of another human being? aren't you supposed to be on the caring, sharing left where you believe in the sanctity of life? elizabeth: yeah, where did the caring left go? joining us now, form former congressman jason chaffetz. thank you, jason, for joining us. what do you make of this and what you just heard? >> it's absolutely unbelievable. democrats in general have taken this pos

one man is keeping cnn in business, scott jennings. i'm surprised he's not at fox yet. everybody. oh he's phenomenal. people are calling me telling me, hey, you know, what do you think about him coming to value team? and i said, the guy is doing a great job. but here's the part. what is the argument? you lost all seven states. i mean, we were supposed rumor. oh, he may lose iowa and then you lose seven states. stephen a smith yesterday getting up there saying you lied to us about january 6th. how many more times do we need to sit there and watch all of these critics that were supposed to not like them being right? people are sick of it. bill maher is sitting there saying how many more times? this is a very difficult time to be a democrat. this is a very difficult time to say, oh my god, i bet he's going to pardon this person and pardon that person. every one of the clips of what rachel maddow, of what schiff, of what all these people said in 2020 now are becoming more highlight reels over and over again. today, an article is spreading on twitter, a chart i posted on twitter that s

this is for you, scott jennings. no more backyard chickens. >> i'm sorry. we got a bird flu. >> i'm sorry we got a bird flu coming. >> you were coming after my flock. >> i think we are done. these are my girls chickens. they're spreading disease. >> they're not. they're spreading goodwill and eggs. i don't understand, i love fresh eggs, but i think we have to get the flock out of here. >> you know? it's just not working anymore. >> you guys. >> you guys still have a long way to go to understanding middle america. that's all i'm going to say. we love our chickens. >> we do love our chickens. everyone, thank you very much. and tomorrow night, the boys are back for the continues right now. happy. >> outfront next, new details about the funeral plans for former president jimmy carter. as tributes pour in from both sides of the aisle and around the world, how will he be remembered? his white house chief of staff is my guest, and we're learning about the final moments before this deadly plane crash in south korea that killed 179 people. a bird strike and an abort

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

. >> doctor patrick soon-shiong made this announcement actually on a podcast with cnn's own scott jennings to join the la times editorial board. >> part of this push to add more conservative voices to the l.a. times. >> all we know so far is what he said on this podcast. >> he said. somebody could understand as they read it that the source of the article has some level of bias, and what we need to do is not have what we call confirmation bias, and then that story automatically, the reader can press a button and get both sides of that exact same story based on the story, and then give comments. now first of all, a lot of questions. what he's assuming from the get go from this statement is that the story itself will not be showing multiple sides of a story, which most journalists, when they're doing their level, best to show an entire story. they are showing both sides of the story. they are getting quotes and comments from all sides of the story. there's also a lot of questions about what will this ai be, what metrics will it use, what sort of large language model will it be using? because

he's i think our own scott jennings said. he's kind of unplugged.can do and has a lot more leeway to do and say what he wants. and i think that will be a good counterbalance to some of the extremism. you know, i and other democrats are very concerned about not just rfk jr.. but the whole project 2025 implementation across the trump administration. >> doug, karen, putting her hopes in mitch mcconnell, is that something you ever thought you'd see and b, how much do you think mcconnell will involve himself here? >> yeah. john, earlier karen said, we got to figure out what the heck is going on. that's donald trump rhetoric. and so i'm not surprised by this at all. bye bye karen. i agree with her on this. and there's sort of a parlor game in dc of getting a mitch mcconnell statement and trying to figure out what did he say with one word or two or not say by not including a word or two. it's why his comms team is so skilled at the at at the craft of writing. when they put these statements out, he's making it clear by just a word or two he doesn't have to

live at the table scott jennings, ashley allison gail huff brown, julie roginsky and solomon jones. americans with different perspectives aren't talking to each other, but here they do. good evening. i'm abby phillip in new york. let's get right to what america is talking about. breaking her silence. vice president kamala harris emerging tonight six weeks after her loss to donald trump. and she has a message for liberals, democrats and those who voted for her. >> folks who have said to me that they're not sure whether they have the strength, much less the desire to stay in the fight but let me be very clear no one can walk away. no one can walk away. we must stay in the fight. every one of us that is not the only medicine that is being prescribed to democrats right now. >> former obama chief of staff and the current ambassador to japan, rahm emanuel, is diagnosing what led to trump's win and what the democrats need to do to regain power. in a washington post op ed, he argues that americans see a system that is rigged in favor of the powerful, and trump seized on that. he seized on t

joining us right now, our cnn political commentators, maria cardona and scott jennings.lso gets extra credit points for jumping on so quickly. we see you and we appreciate you. maria scott, i will start with you. he's not only talking about panama, he's also talking once again about buying greenland. here's what was here's this part of the statement on social media. for purposes of national security and freedom throughout the world. the united states of america feels that the ownership and control of greenland is an absolute necessity. do you take him seriously? should panama and greenland take him seriously? >> a couple of things. number one, why don't i get bonus points for being prompt and on time for these things? number two yes, we need greenland. greenland is an amazing thing to have. it's like, do you ever play monopoly? you know, like the first row of properties. like they're cheap. maybe i don't need. you need those. those are vital properties. i am for greenland. i wanted him to do it before. i want him to do it now. and i am personally and on television, apply

this is for you, scott jennings. no more backyard chickens. i'm sorry. we got a bird flu. i'm sorry we got a bird flu coming. >> you were coming after my flock. >> i think we are done. these are my girls chickens. they're spreading disease. >> they're not. they're spreading goodwill and eggs. i don't understand, i love fresh eggs, but i think we have to get the flock out of here. >> you know? it's just not working anymore. >> you guys. you guys still have a long way to go to understanding middle america. that's all i'm going to say. we love our chickens. >> we do love our chickens. everyone, thank you very much. and tomorrow night, the boys are back for the biggest party of the year. anderson cooper and andy cohen will be here for new year's eve. live coverage starts right here. 8 p.m. eastern time on cnn. and thank you very, very much for watching news american history, poised to unfold in front of the entire nation. promis parallels and contrasts and returns and farewells. for starters, three weeks from tonight, the nation's 47th president, who was once the 45th presiden

but then scott jennings hit finney back with a dose of reality. >> look, i think he's going to. i think he's going to leave office in disgrace. the hunter biden pardon was disgraceful. he's going to be remembered largely for inflation and for the disastrous afghanistan pullout. 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, 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's going to be a really ugly chapter. it's a diminished presidency because of it in the end. >> the past four years won't be remembered for joe biden or by joe biden for that matter. it will be remembered as that weird time when america's president wasn't in charge, and whoever was running the show can't blame dementia for their endless stupid mistakes and getting rid of those people. well, we'll have no regrets about that. period. let's welcome tonight's guests. >> a week later, he's still trying to sit on santa's lap. >> host of t

scott jennings i don't want to go into a deep dive of saved by the bell with you. have no doubt you have an encyclopedic knowledge of it. it just seems like something you would have an encyclopedic knowledge of, but i think the bigger picture here, because on the policy, this is a huge issue that has long existed in terms of a division between certain parts of the republican party and then also on the coalition, the political coalition, the president elect won the popular vote, in large part because he was able to put together these two very key components of the coalition how long standing and potentially harmful do you think this fight could get? >> well, let me just start with kelly kapowski, if you're listening, hi. >> number two, uh, number two, look, there's always been a push and pull on this in the republican party. >> and i think there's a way to work this out and solve it. i mean, i think what a lot of people would say is. and elon musk was making this point, if you take, like, the top 1% or the top 0.1% of the most talented engineering people from other

live at the table cari champion, scott jennings, john avlon, madison gesiotto and geraldo rivera. americans with different perspectives aren't talking to each other, but here they do good evening. i'm audie cornish in for abby phillip. we're going to get right to what america is talking about. an american manifesto tonight, luigi mangione fights the state of new york's attempts at extradition. the state wants him to stand trial for allegedly gunning down a ceo in midtown manhattan. but the law and order of this episode is only part of the story. the other part is about american anger gout gout and neely out of touch and insults the intelligence of the american people and experience. that's soon to be defendant, shouting and echoing the same kind of populism that's fueled a revolt in our politics. but is it stoking something else here? meanwhile, the everything store has made sure you cannot buy these merchandise with deny, defend or depose stamped on it. those three words found on the shell casings at the scene of the murder of unitedhealthcare executive brian thompson. meanwhile,

. >> live at the table scott jennings, ashley allison, hal lambert and chuck rocha. americans with different perspectives aren't talking to each other, but here they do good evening. i'm abby phillip in new york. let's get right to what americans are talking about their health. rfk jr.. who is trump's pick to run the nation's health agencies is on capitol hill courting republican senators for their vote. many of those senators are alarmed by kennedy's views on vaccines. in fact, we recently learned that his lawyer petitioned the government to revoke approval of the polio vaccine. after that news, trump tried setting the record straight i think everything should be looked at, but i'm a big believer in the polio vaccine trump's words play into what the wall street journal reports is rfk's game plan. talk about the things the senators want to hear, like healthier foods, and talk less about his stances on vaccines. and kennedy is himself sticking to that plan should the polio vaccine be revoked, you're going to take away their vaccine. >> should. should the polio vaccine

. >> cnn political commentator scott jennings, former congressman mondaire jones, former trump whiteector anthony scaramucci cnn political commentator maria cardona and gop strategist john brabender pete hegseth is now in god knows how many days of this, and he probably at this point does not really have much of a choice. but here is the person who i don't know. she might be one of the most important people to this process. listen to joni ernst it doesn't sound on your answer that you've gotten to a yes. >> if i'm wrong about that, correct me and if that is the case, it sounds to me as if the hearing will be critical for his nomination. am i right about that? i think i think you are right. >> i think for a number of our senators, they want to make sure that any allegations have been cleared. and that's why we have to have a very thorough vetting process she is not scaramucci buying this idea that it's all made up, that it's all anonymous sources. >> she she said specifically, we want to make sure the allegations are cleared. i mean, are they waiting, first of all, biding some time to

live at the table scott jennings, ashley allison, hal lambert and chuck rocha.mericans with different perspectives aren't talking to each other, but here they do good evening. i'm abby phillip in new york. let's get right to what americans are talking about their health. rfk jr.. who is trump's pick to run the nation's health agencies is on capitol hill courting republican senators for their vote. many of those senators are alarmed by kennedy's views on vaccines. in fact, we recently learned that his lawyer petitioned the government to revoke approval of the polio vaccine. after that news, trump tried setting the record straight i think everything should be looked at, but i'm a big believer in the polio vaccine trump's words play into what the wall street journal reports is. rfk's game plan. talk about the things the senators want to hear, like healthier foods, and talk less about his stances on vaccines. and kennedy is himself sticking to that plan should the polio vaccine be revoked, you're going to take away their vaccine. >> should a should the polio vaccine