i want to bring in cnn political commentators maria cardona and scott jennings, also tom foreman and phil mudd. you know, guys, i have to tell you, i'm tired of talking about kanye west. i really am. i'm over the conversation, and i wish we could get over it, but the problem is the significance of the platform that he has. >> yeah. >> the fact that we've got hate crimes on the rise. the fact that we've got social media platforms being used as if people conflate that freedom of speech and free speech is synonymous with hate speech. the idea that we're not talking about things like politics and the idea of breaking with the monarchy and being able to not be suppressed by a government. but instead it's an invitation to use the n-word, an invitation to talk about the holocaust as not being real. there's this moment i want to play for you as we're getting into this conversation about what jonathan greenblatt says. he is the ceo of the anti-defamation league talking about why we should care broadly but specifically about someone with a platform like this. >> the truth is he still has a lot

tom foreman mentioned some of this.iss hoefbation is largely explained in his neurotic background and his deep resentment of all authority. he saw a movie on tv about an attempted -- >> you know what's important -- >> it could have sparked him into action. what do you think about that? >> the warren commission never established a motive for as world. it did not see this material belonging in its report. i don't think these post hoc claims about oswald's psychology are as important as the records about cia operations around oswald while jfk was still alive. that is what the cia is still withholding. this is not the place to argue about who was responsible or was there conspiracy or was there not. this is is the cia going to obey the law, going to hold itself accountable as congress intended. yes, this week was. that's why we are in court. that's why we will going to continue to press for full disclosure. >> jefferson, keep us posted on the progress of this. it has been nearly 60 years. the public deserves full disclosure

tom foreman has more. >> allowing cars to drive themselves, composing songs that mimic popular tests.painting that that took the top awarded a colorado art show. this is all the work of artificial intelligence. computers that don't just do what they're told, but in a sense, think, learn and create. and right now, chat gpt is rattling the a. i. world. turning out stunningly humanoid writing, just ask this man, a renowned author and professor of media culture. >> it is writing better than most of my students right at this point. a college freshman. so, i am impressed with that. >> how does it work? chatgpt been filled, in a sense, with a massive amount of information. imagine the biggest library you can, then programed and trained by humans to process and spit it out in conversational phrases. so, ask for 1000 words on the early days of automobiles, and in seconds, it responds in the late 1800s and early 19 hundreds, automobiles were relatively primitive by today's standards. or primarily used by wealthy individuals or businesses. asked to write a song it in the style of jerry seinfeld.

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tom foreman takes a look. >> reporter: allowing cars to drive themselves, composing songs that mimicrtists, and producing this digital painting which took the top award at a colorado art show. this is all the work of artificial intelligence. computers which don't just do what they are told, but in a sense, think, learn, and create. right now, chat gpt is rattling the ai world, turning out stunningly humanoid writing. just ask douglas rushkoff, a renowned professor of media culture. >> it is writing better than most of my students right, at this point. college freshman. so, i am impressed with that. >> reporter: how does it work? chat gpt has been filled, in a sense, with a massive amount of information. imagine the biggest library you can, then programmed and trained by humans to process and spit it out in conversational phrases. so, ask for 1000 words in the early days of automobiles, and in seconds, it responds, in the late 1800s and early 1900s, automobiles were relatively primitive by today's standards and were primarily used by wealthy individuals or businesses. ask it to write

tom foreman, thank you very much. >> you're very welcome. >>> and taking a look at other top stories.a gunman opened fire at a kurdish community center there. investigators have not determined a motive. the suspect is in custody. so far the shooting not yet designated a tear attack. >>> overnight, over seas, north korea launched two short-range ballistic missiles. south korea said the missiles were launched into the water between the korean peninsula and japan. this is the 36th day this year that north korea has conducted a missile launch. >>> and some good news. a christmas miracle for a family in ohio. the five-month-old baby who was kidnapped earlier this week in columbus, there she is, has now been found safe and alive across state lines in indianapolis. on monday, twins casha and care was in a car when the mother went inside a restaurant to pick up an order and when she came out, the car was gone and along with her twin babies. care was found abandoned near the international airport a few hours later. early tuesday morning. but brother cason remained missing until yesterday. fami

tom foreman has more. >> this is a fascinating document when you look at it.and says what did they know leading up to this attack and could that have changed everything that happened in the world since then? out of the confusion following the 9/11 attack came key questions, did then president george w. bush and his team see it coming? and could they have stopped it? >> today our nation saw evil. the very worst of human nature. >> reporter: the recently declassified report from april of 2004 shows him pushing back firmly against that whole idea. no one said there was a problem domes domestically, the threat was overseas. that's what the report says bush told members of the 9/11 commission during an extraordinary question and answer session that lasted more than three hours about his reaction to the attack and his administration's intelligence gathering. the report, which is not an official transcript, summarizes his explanations we were aware that bin laden had sympathizers in the united states prior to the attack but there was no actionable intelligence on suc

tom foreman joins me now and has been looking through that.n here. >> yeah, there is something new i in here. this is a dozen copies of war and peace. that is how much of the latest -- >> come on. >> it is the latest release. it is a huge amount of information but a huge amount of minutia. and you find sort of interesting details. for example, there was one part where they have a psychologist looking at oswald's motivation. and what this psychologist has to say was his motivation is complaining in terms of his neurotic background, his failure to achieve status and his very deep resentment of all authority. oswald saw a movie on tv about fln attempted presidential assassination shortly before his deed which could have sparked him into action. these papers are absolutely filled with this kind of stuff, jim. of course, they're also filled with handwritten notes of meetings and rudimentary computer logs of all sorts of information that they had collected over time. so is there something in there? yes. but if you like to cia experts, they say and k

tom foreman has the details for us. good morning to you. what's in the documents?peace all being dumped at one. what's in it seem to be minutia, details about the endless, endless leads that authorities were looking at at this time. so there's information about how they were wiretapping the soviet embassy down in mexico and how they were following phone calls that came in from nowhere about almost nothing. huge amount. what's striking about this as you read through it is there's no sign -- i say read through it, i'm nowhere near getting through all the pages, it's going to take a long time. there's no sign that there's any really big revelation in here. this is really about filling in all the little gaps because remember, this is the tail end of a huge amount of information that's been released over a long period of time, roughly 5 million pages overall, just did the math a while ago. if you wanted to read all the pages that federal government has on the kennedy assassination, start reading now you'll be done in about nine years. >> this is something that was an ef

tom foreman joins us to explain what's going on. >> the photos that have been mugled out suggests itted to musk himself as a place to say while he goes the around-the-clock work trying to keep twitter relevant and everything since he took over. we don't know how long they've been in place. i'm not entirely sure how they're working it. they say this converted workspaces or conference rooms? i'm not sure what's going on, a normal-sized person, you kind of would have this action going on, so maybe there's truth that they're short staffed. [ laughter ] >> you have to be apparently short to work there, by the look of the beds. culture, morale, wanting to people to sleep at the office, what kind of trouble could musk be in? it sounds like he may be breaking a law or code or something? >> yeah, he could be. it's been reported through twitter, oddly enough, with the city of san francisco, and you can look at the building. there could be zoning concerns, potential building code violations, lease agreement concerns. how much that amounts to, i don't really node. you know, bear in mind, this is

tom foreman, thanks so much. after president biden signed into law the speak out act that prohibits the enforcement of non-disclosure agreements with wh it comes to cases of sexual assault and harassment in the workplace if they were signed before the alleged incident. one of the main proponents behind the bill is gretchen carlson, formerly of fox. she joins us now. gretchen, today the house oversight committee concluded that "bullying and intimidation, sexual harassment and a culture of fear pervaded the washington commanders football organization for many years." this was all under the leadership of commanders owner dan snyder. what's your reaction to the investigation findings? >> i'm not surprised. look, misogyny and harassment are all about power. and many times people in these roles who are misogynistic believe that they're above the law. and you know, he also did not allow anyone to get out of their non-disclosure agreements to be able to testify for this report, which is also not surprising. so it's just

welcome, i'm tom foreman. depending on who you are and where you were, what you believe, this you may have been pretty good or really bad, or somewhere in the murky middle. many of us starting with high hopes, the troubles of recent years are fading oh so slowly. that was clear in all of sorts of huge news events, they rocked our world. >> let's start with the biggest, baddest, were story. runaway inflation. >> things feel very abnormal when it came to what we could buy, what we can afford, where we could go. >> i'm gonna start selling off other things that i own so i can buy milk. >> prices for food, clothing, houses and more jumped sharply. >> i bought a sandwich at one point, not even a fancy shop, it was $22. >> driven by lingering pandemic supply issues, stronger manned, and perhaps some price gouging to. >> it has hit every american at some point, whether is you personally or someone you know. >> worst constant reminder, gas prices. the nationwide average for a gallon climbed over $5 at one point, a new

cnn's tom foreman is at the magic wall with tips on how to stay warm and safe in your home and how bestyourself if you need to leave. >> if you're in one of these areas in severe weather, make sure you wrap or cover exposed pipes and let the pipes trickle. remember the back of your washing machine, under the sink, open them up. if you have a leak, you want to make sure it doesn't come all the way through your house with no way to stop it. keep the heat in. don't open the doors unnecessarily. block drafts. don't let the heat get away that you paid for and you're trying to keep your house warm with. fireplaces and stoves are in effective. fireplaces don't put that much heat into the home. stoves, there's a possible carbon monoxide risk. generat generators, gem them out of the house, out of your garage. space heaters, look out for any kind of fire danger, too close to curtains, things like that. have your food, flash lights, lights, everything ready. if you have to go outside, full tank, full phone, plus emergency supplies ready in your car now. have that so you can get to that easily and

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tom foreman looks at the suspensions of journalists trying to cover twitter's seemingly mercurial ownereryone's going to be treated the same. you're not special because you're a journalist. >> reporter: elon musk's defense over twitter's sudden banning of several high-profile tech journalists including some at the "washington post," "new york times," and cnn. claiming they violated twitter policy by sharing information about an online account tracking his private plane using publicly available information. what he called assassination coordinates. musk says that is the same as doxing, the practice of targeting someone by publicly sharing their address and other private information. >> you dox, you get suspended. >> reporter: for others, musk's actions show something else. >> i think this is really about elon musk having very thin skin. and he does not like when people are aggressively reporting on him or his companies, and he doesn't like when people are very sharp in their criticism of him. if you look at the group of people who were banned, all of them had that had in common. >> repor

welcome, i'm tom foreman. where you were, what you believe, this you may have been pretty good or really bad, or somewhere in the murky middle. many of us starting with high hopes, the troubles of recent years are fading oh so slowly. that was clear in all of sorts of huge news events, they rocked our world. >> let's start with the biggest, baddest, were story. runaway inflation. >> things feel very abnormal when it came to what we could buy, what we can afford, where we could go. >> i'm gonna start selling off other things that i own so i

cnn's tom foreman joins us with more on this milestone.hese documents so far? >> we know first of all, as you noted, there are a lot of them, anderson. this is the equivalent of a dozen copies of war and peace being dumped out there. and yet this is a tiny fraction of the roughly 5 million documents related to the jfk assassination. we also know based on what some jfk assassination historians have said, what the cia has said, what history has shown that what we're not likely to find in this is any kind of giant breakthrough, some really smoking gun explanation here as to how this happened or some secret conspiracy, nothing that will satisfy the conspiracy theorists out there. that said, there are a lot of interesting details here, anderson. >> like what? what have you found so far? >> a lot of it has to do with the process of how the cia goes about things. some of that explains partially why this has been hidden for so long, so it doesn't reveal their methods. how they surveilled people down in mexico, soviet people down there, had secret

i'm tom foreman and my wish for you and yours, how about all of the best and none of the worst in 2023. >>> good evening everyone. this is cnn tonight. we have news tonight on the congressman-elect who keeps getting caught in flagrant lies. he may be in more hot water. you'll recall george santos admitted to lying about key parts of his biography from his wealth to his education to his resume to his family to his religion. now the u.s. attorney's office in the eastern district of new york is looking into some of his dubious finances. the nassau county district attorney has announced she is looking into his, quote, numerous fabrications and inconsistencies. we have new lies he has just been caught in. also, the southwest airlines meltdown continues. the airline is still canceling thousands of flights. passengers are still outraged. we've learned that southwest airlines got a $7 billion bail out during the pandemic. what did they use all that money for? let's begin with george santos and more of his lies getting exposed. the republican congressman-elect just cannot seem to get his own st

tom foreman is out front. >> everyone is going to be treated the same. >> reporter: elon musk is on defense sudden banning over several high profile tech journalists including some of "the washington post," "the new york times," and cnn, claiming they violated twitter policy by sharing information about an online account tracking his private plane using publicly available information, what he calls assassination coordinates. musk says that is the same as doxing, the practice of targing someone by publicly sharing their address and other private information. >> you dox, you get suspended, end of story. >> reporter: but for others musk's actions show something else. >> i think this is about elon musk having very thin skin, and he does not like when people are aggressively reporting on him or his companies, and he doesn't like when people are very sharp in their criticism of his him. and if you look at the group of people who were banned, all of them had that in common. >> reporter: the new twitter boss has posed as a champion of free speech lifting a ban imposed on former president donald tru