>> well, i think weiss confirms what we already know, liz, that hunter and his family made millions of dollars from foreign sources by monetizing the vice presidency. but the thing, weiss conspicuously omits how he ran this five-yearlong protection racket for the biden's as culminated in the notorious sweet heart deal and only blew up because a federal judge put a stop to it. irs agents and you'll recall blew the whistle on how david weiss ignored larger crimes of influence peddling and statutes expire and tipped off defense attorneys and scuttle raids and he halted any investigation about joe's involvement and incredibly weiss now insists oh, gee, there was no preferential treatment and yet as a report outlines many of the corrupt foreign deals, china, ukraine, list goes on and on and these were obvious crimes but never charged so the weiss coverup continues. this is a whitewash report. liz: gregg, do you think president trump should just release, unlock all the records that national archives and unleash -- unlock everything and you're right, special council weiss at this time he did

special counsel david weiss releasing his report on the hunter biden investigation versus, weiss slammingor what he says is rewriting history after biden said the prosecution of his son was political. weiss writes this, quote, other presidents have pardoned family members but in doing so none have taken the occasion as an opportunity to malign the public servants at the department of justice based solely on false accusations, hunter biden was found guilty of three felony firearm offense ps and pled guiy to federal tax crimes. he was supposed to be sentenced before his dad's presidential pardon. another one i thought was so interesting is weiss quotes the federal judge, maria. i was just reading through the extensive report. and basically also rebuked the president about rewriting history in all of this. so biden really taking a slap against the do j and weiss' calling him out. interesting. maria: todd. >> in addition to that, i love the fact in this report we spell out or weiss spells out exactly what we've all known that hunter biden made a whole heck of a lot of money for doing, quote,

. >>> breaking news from the justice department, special counsel david weiss releasing his final wordn hunter biden with harsh words for president biden. it comes after the release of jack smith's report on donald trump. tonight the arrest involving wnba star caitlin clark, an alleged stalker arrested after traveling from texas to indiana. the player telling police she feared for her life. >>> the concern tonight over respiratory illness across this country. the new warning from the cdc this evening. what they are now seeing in at least 35 states. >>> tonight, the major news involving bob dylan. ♪ ♪ >>> the dylan treasures up for grabs. tonight here, we remember a beloved actress who played her role for nearly 50 years. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> from abc news world headquarters in new york, this is "world news tonight" with david muir. >> david: good evening. we are back from california and it is difficult to put into words the scope of what we saw and tonight now this new warning coming in. our team remains fanned out across the fire zone. authorities now warning of very dangerous santa ana winds aga

and david weiss went after joe biden saying, you know what?e up a bunch of baseless allegations and suggestions about your son. what are you doing? >> peter: yes. and the answer was always that joe biden didn't know anything about his son's overseas business deals but he is about to be retired so it's possible they could have a new venture together. >> steve: good point. father and son. biden and biden. all right, thanks, peter. >> ainsley: thank you peter, doocy and doocy. we are learning more about trump's inauguration which is only six days away. country singer carrie underwood will be performing "america the beautiful." and joined by the armed forces choir and united states naval academy glee club. i'm humbled to answer the calling at a time when we must all come together in the spirit of unity and looking to the future. other performers include the village people. >> steve: nice. >> ainsley: everyone will be dancing. kid rock, billy ray cyrus. jason aldean and rascal flatts. and the maga garbage truck that went viral during the campaign i

weiss fails to clarify why he and his prosecutors pursued wild and debunked conspiracies about huntera russian agent that prolonged this investigation and ultimately cost taxpayers millions of dollars. joining our discussion now is andrew weissman, former fbi general counsel and an msnbc legal analyst. andrew, how do you sort out these dueling statements today? >> well, i think the first and most important thing for people to understand is that the biden administration allowed the special counsel to be appointed to bring a criminal case against the son of the sitting president. you know, this that is if you're sort of thinking about is the department weaponizing against enemies. well, this is a department of justice that brought a case against the son of the sitting president. and there's also no question that the tax offenses and the gun offenses were committed, and that hunter biden is guilty of that. the argument that abbe lowell, his counsel, is making is that it sort of only because he was the son of the sitting president, did special counsel go forward. in other words, he was so

weiss conveniently omits his proposal to resolve this investigation in 2023.nors and a diverted gun charge recommended by career prosecutors. mr. weiss also fails to explain why he reneged on his own agreement, a reversal that came at the 11th hour in court as he and his office faced blistering attacks from republicans and his then filing an unprecedented charges of his then filing unprecedented charges for someone with no aggravating factors, who had paid his taxes in full years before the charges were filed. finally, and most curious, mr. weiss fails to clarify why he and his prosecutors pursued wild and debunked conspiracies about hunter biden by a russian agent that prolonged this investigation and ultimately cost taxpayers millions of dollars. joining our discussion now is andrew weissmann, former fbi general counsel and an msnbc legal analyst. andrew, how do you sort out these dueling statements today? >> well, i think the first and most important thing for people to understand is that the biden administration allowed a special counsel to be appointed to

weiss is feeding into, well -- he is feeding into what weiss concluded as it relates to hunter biden.> weiss was in on the problem until he got religion at the end. the problem here wasn't selective prosecution, it was selective favorable treatment that weiss was the chief person who gave to hunter biden for years in this investigation to the point of sitting on his hands while the statute of limitations ate a lot of his cases. when the sweetheart plea blew up and he was humiliated, then he turned around and prosecuted the president's son but that case should have been brought years before. >> bill: andy, thank you. maybe this wraps up both. we'll see. thank you, nice to see, andy, for your analysis. back to dana. >> dana: l.a. the devastation from the fires ravaging la county is unfolding before our eyes. 24 people killed, more than 40,000 acres have burned and strong winds are threatening to fuel more flames. our next guest is the owner of the historic ran much in altadena. he watched in disbelief as the flames swallowed everything in sight and erased his artist father's life work.

criticizing david weiss.resident-elect donald trump, release just after midnight. smith resigned as special counsel last friday just a few days after semitic the report to attorney general merrick garland. they gave the green light at midnight specifically because of a hole from a trump-appointed federal judge. while he never got to take donald trump to trial, the election interference case in d.c., the alleged election interference case in d.c. whatever resulted in a guilty verdict. smith writing the office assessed that the admissible evidence was sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction at trial. the report was divided two sections. we are only going to see volume one released by this justice department. volume two deals with the classified documents case that also never went to trial but merrick garland, only on the job says a few more days, says he will not release volume two because president-elect trump's two former codefendants are facing active prosecution and they say that would tip the scales

weiss did release the hunter biden stuff.ause essentially he said yeah, hunter biden traded on his name. made a lot of money didn't pay his taxes. we knew that but then he goes after the current president of the united states. joe biden and says essentially he blast joe for the pardon. and making baseless accusations about his inquiry that threatened the integrity of it the justice system as a whole. you can't have a guy who is the president of the united states in charge of the administration of the department of justice saying yeah, those guys down at doj they are screwing with my kid. not true, he said. >> well, that's actually a good point. and certainly i think joe biden's legacy in large part is just the undermining of the justice system. in total. so it works on both sides. using it to target political enemies and then claiming that any legitimate use of it to go after your criminal son is somehow illegitimate. it's an inversion across the board of the prophecy that we should be respecting here as americans and certain

also last night, special counsel david weiss released his report on the hunter biden investigation.en for pardoning his son, suggesting it impugns the impartiality of the justice department. what more did we learn from this report? >> not a lot of new facts, chris. that was the most striking thing, really. the really strident language by the special counsel going after president biden for his justification for the pardon and really, weiss making the case that he did not act inappropriately. there was no miscarriage of justice, as president biden put it here, that actually hunter biden evaded taxes on a massive scale, that he actually bought a gun when he was addicted to drugs. he admitted to this conduct. and so these charges were justified. historians will debate that. but it is absolutely the case that the comments that president biden made, really attacking the justice system did not sit well, not only with david weiss, but across the justice department. chris. >> well, barbara, david weiss wrote that president biden's pardon prohibited him from making any additional charging dec

daniella weiss has lived here for 50 years.'s working through her list of right—wing connections, trying to overturn the ceasefire deal she says is a betrayal. for me, today is a very difficult day. what government, what prime minister, with common sense, will give back the area from where thousands of gaza people attacked us, conquered our — parts of our country? this is treachery. what does all this mean for israel? what does it add up to? the children who are dying. we hope we could help, but we can only pray. a ceasefire, if it could hold, would be a considerable and an overdue achievement. but the sad truth is that it wouldn't end the conflict between palestinians and israelis. everything that has happened since the october 7 attacks has made the conflict about as bitter as it's ever been. just outside nablus is the jewish settlement of kedumim, home to leaders of the settler movement. daniella weiss has lived here for 50 years. now she's working through her list of right—wing connections, trying to overturn the ceasefire

special counsel david weiss released his report of the hunter biden investigation.resident biden for rewriting history after prep hunter biden said the prosecution was political weiss also wrote other presidents have pardoned family members but none have taken the occasion as opportunity to align the public servants with the department of justice. on false accusations. a lot happening here. >> there was a hundred 32 page of a love letter telling everybody across the country that he himself in the wonderful prosecutors that work for him did a fantastic job and if donald j trump wasn't reelected as president he would've convicted them. this is where every prosecutor starts from but jack smith is delusional on this front. it does not surprise me that they released this in the final moments of the biden administration. >> that is unbelievable, good to see you, thank you very much. we will be following all of your work. >> thank you. scott fitzgerald in d.c., more on the wildfires to come 24 people are dead, dozens missing after catastrophic wildfires ravaged california.

former special counsel david weiss dropped his final report on the hunter biden investigations, weissed prespresident biden for what hed was rewriting history after he said the prosecution of his son was political. this has to be somewhat personal for you as well. you did so much work on the hunter biden laptop and you wrote an incredible book, the laptop from hell, which is a must read for anybody, and now you've got joe biden calling all of this political. >> yeah, i mean, it's an irony, isn't it? just tackling the david weiss report, special counsel report on the hunter biden investigation, it's a flimsy 27 pages, very thin gruel after six years of a really tortured and corrupted investigation. we know how corrupted it was because of the very brave whistleblowers from the irs, gary shepply and joe ziegler, they're still being retaliated against, being v victimized by theircowardly bosses at the irs. gary chefly was in charge of the investigation that had this fantastic development with credit suisse ubs and so he is a very talented individual and was just thrown aside because he st

ken starr weiss, or they end up hitting out at the subject of the investigation. what it shows is we don't have a way to investigate and call presidents to account. that's the system right there. >> yeah, we're going to talk about that later on the show. a very interesting point. all right. straight ahead here on cnn this morning. the biggest test yet for pete hegseth confirmation hearings as democrats strategize to try to block his nomination, we're going to discuss the path ahead for some of the president elect's controversial cabinet selections, with senior adviser to donald trump, jason miller, plus los angeles bracing for explosive fire growth as dangerous winds are expected near the fire zones. and in the final stage, negotiators hammering out the finishing touches on an israel-hamas ceasefire and hostage release deal. >> it's really down to the brass tacks, so there's optimism, but it's cautious optimism. casey, again, we've been here before and we know that it's not done until it's all done. >> cnn this morning brought to you by safelite, your auto glass e

weiss strongly disputed that thing he prosecuted hunter biden on gun and tax evasion charges after heail time plea deal and weiss wrote that other presidents have pardoned family members but he said not have taken the occasion as an opportunity to malign the public servants at the department of justice based solely on false accusations and went on to say president biden's words undermine the public's confidence in our criminal justice system, guys? >> thank you. >>> now to today's daily health, the fda wants to make a big change to the labels we see on food and drinks. >> today the fda officily announced the change, the agency wants to require certain nutritional labels on the front of packaging in an effort to help people make healthier choices. dr. john, let's start with the basics, what is the fda saying that these labels would look like and where would they be? >> the important part is where they are putting it. i'm a person who says we need to be readers of the food we eat, look at the packaging label but it's on the back and rather confusing because it gives percentage of daily

. >> reporter: sasha weiss with "the new york times" magazine is one of the few people to see the filmdelman interviewed more than 70 people for it, including girlfriends, band mates and prince's manager. edelman had access to prince's archives with never before seen footage. >> you see his inwardness and shyness and self-consciousness was a contrast with that confidence, that glorious rock soul god. >> reporter: weiss calls the film a monument. but while it was being made, prince's estate changed leadership. the estate demanded changes to the doc and is currently blocked in a legal battle with netflix, blocking its release. >> nobody from the state spoke with me on record, but my sense is they don't like this really complicated, checkered sometimes negative portrayal of prince. >> reporter: one of the owners of prince's estate tweeted in september, would you be okay with a director putting explicit coroner photos of your loved one in a documentary? show some dignity and respect. edelman told me he is not able to discuss his film or the legal dispute over it, but he said he would love

and we could store weiss from all fields off to the we lost everything in the world. my husband said we used to be human, but now we're like dogs. pay it for you. as into this conflict, jones have proven christ. he was never comfortable in washington to be cocked, his body was blown back to georgia and to his home town of plains. and that's where you'll be laid to rest next to his wife russell and his wife of 77 years. oh and for sure, i'll just see that at the national cathedral in washington, serious national museum has officially reopened off. that was close last month and i saw the machine was purple. and my husband has more than this now from damascus. a lot of them on for cd and dyslexia i from the reopening of the nations oldest and largest museum is a welcome relief.

and i'll read you just a part of what david weiss writes here. he defends his prosecution. he says, i prosecuted the two cases against mr. biden because he broke the law, and then he takes a part of his report to essentially respond to joe biden, the president who accused the justice department of selectively prosecuting his son. and he says, no, no, no, no one, no other president has solely has has made these accusations against the justice department for the part of a prosecution such as this one. casey. >> all right. evan perez for us tonight. evan, thanks very much for that. and you can follow me on x and instagram at casey. and of course, the show on x at the lead, cnn. and if you ever miss an episode of the lead, you can always listen to the show wherever you get your podcasts. don't go anywhere right now. the news continues right here on cnn with wolf blitzer in the situation room. >> happening now, breaking news. >> an urgent warning in the l.a. wildfire disaster zone. >> forecasters now say the return of powerful winds could lead to explosive growth of the blazes s

this is the same prosecutor, david weiss, who originally gave hunter biden the sweetheart deal, which got scuttled when the irs whistleblowers came forward and told us there was political interference in the case. so this is not a, you know, a big conservative guy trying to win points on fox news. he's trying to tell the american people, your president, as he's going out the door, lied to the american people by saying his son was a victim of political prosecution. when he was treated like every other subject, he committed a crime. he traded on the family name. these are all conclusions in the report. he made millions trading on that family name. then he didn't pay taxes on it. and then joe biden tried to falsely portray it as something other than what it was a criminal scheme. it's not a very thorough report. it's only 27 pages. yeah. what was the worst part to you? >> what was the worst part? >> well, listen, i report to you, i think the best part for the american people is that in the final statement of the united states government, it is acknowledged that hunter biden committed a c

weiss was not aggressive enough, he claims he saw the inside of a courtroom and got a conviction and would have gotten a second conviction be if not for the presi president's. >> ainsley: thank you for coming on. >> thank you much >> ainsley: hand over to carley, she has headlines for us. >> carley: in middle east, negotiators are putting finishing touches on a gaza ceasefire deal that would bring hostages home. official tells fox news a deal is close, not there yet. we are told hundreds of palestinian prisoners will be exchanged if the deal goes through. they say this is only time since november of 2023 we are negotiating with hamas and they are not playing games in negotiablions. nine suspected tren de aragua gang members charged in connection to violent home invasion at an your aurora complex last month. they kidnapped a couple and left them seriously injured. one was already wanted from video of armed gang members from months earlier. several others are under investigation for last month's kidnapping and robbery. starbucks reopening open door policy, bringing back closed door pol

what are your comments about what david weiss said in response to the president's attack? see it clearly too dear justice is the biden administration has abused the entire time. jack smith who has resigned and we have seen this at the state level where the attorney general's like letitia james and also fani willis across coming out with mr. secret discrete kind of sexual exploitation of nathan wade to. these are all individuals utilized to go after president trump and his family and yet, he said he will not pardon my son. him at that very clear, joe biden data, and the wrongdoing he knew at his own son to make son. great to have you on. thank you so much. straight ahead that left unleashes on elon musk. they want to take him down, but what are they really doing and will it work? next. israel needs you. we desperately need tens of thousands to respond. the war is here. the great storm from the north has come against israel. you've got the scriptures calling each one of us, not only to pray for the peace in jerusalem, but every city throughout israel that's under siege. this

irene weiss, auschwitz survivor, now 94. she's remarkable.an listen to the full interview on my podcast, all there is. wherever you get your podcasts or watch the full video interview on the cnn channel on youtube. the news continues ri

survivors like irene weiss, seen in this photo on the right with her older sister. her only sibling who survived. they were headed to the united states after the war ended. their parents and four other siblings were murdered at auschwitz. irene was just 13 when she and her family arrived. i spoke to her for 60 minutes report last year and shared her story again in my podcast about grief all there is. here's part of our. conversation. >> there's a lot written about auschwitz, and it can never be fully described. somebody labeled it a metropolis of death, and that's what it was. it was a metropolis of death. it worked like an assembly line factory, and it just ground up. people, mainly families, mainly children. >> how do. >> you live with this? >> well, you see, i am 93. there hasn't been a day that i have not lived with it it's very difficult because to reconcile that that man can be so cruel, so like an animal really. changes your way of thinking of mankind and life daily. i know that people can turn on you, can turn on you because of a label. >> the the 13 year ol

what are your comments about why what weiss said in response to the president's attack?tier two tiered justice system. we have seen this at the state level where attorney generals like letitia james and fani willis the prosecutor actually coming out with her mr. secret secret sexual exploitation of nathan wade. these are all individuals utilize trying to go after president trump and his family yet he said i will not pardon my son. he made it very clear joe biden did. he knew the wrongdoing of his own son. >> congressman, as always, great to have you on. thank you so much. and straight ahead, the left unleashes on elon musk. they want to take him down. but what are they really doing and will it work? and will it work? next shared values, and a shared vision for what we can achieve together. stable and secure, when the world around us isn't. you can rely on ontario for energy to power your growing economy and for the critical minerals crucial to new technologies. ontario is your third-largest trading partner and the number one export destination for 17 states. our long-sta

david weiss said that sweetheart deal for hunter biden on the and the court said you cannot do this. forward and tells all the games they play in the course of that investigation. we are going to look at that. now with the ja jack smith the e issue in particular remember when one of the lawyers for jack smith asked one of the lawyers representing a defendant stanley woodward was the council represented definitive in the classified documents case. they're having a meeting in jay and brad is said to's lawyer we did not know you were a trump guy but we thought you were in the judge a position as if this not so veiled threat to a guy is representing being charged by the special counsel but this is how ridiculous and political jack smith whole case was. when you read the letter that jack smith sent to attorney general garland a few days ago, before he released this ridiculous report a four-page letter to the attorney general, jack smith uses i, me, my, 58 times. it's how self-centered he is is about jack smith the country sees through that. we have answers when he pursued. twenty-six good

jessica chen weiss is professor of china studies atjohns hopkins school of advanced international studiesr in the state department on china policy. i asked her what stood out to her most from what trump said at davos. he said if companies come to the united states, contribute, invest, buildjobs, they the united states, contribute, invest, build jobs, they can avoid these tariffs. the real question is whether or not the united states will welcome, you know, chinese investment or licencing of chinese renewable energy technologies, particularly batteries, where chinese companies are far out ahead. so that's a real, i think, area to watch. it may notjust be in that sector but others, not everyone in the trump coalition is quite so keen on, but the president has made it quite plain so it's an area to watch. faysal mentioned, there was this belief the rhetoric of trump's campaign trail way not translate to actual policy. was that naive thinking? fin translate to actual policy. was that naive thinking?— that naive thinking? on the campaign _ that naive thinking? on the campaign trail, _ that naiv

bari weiss is founder and editor of the free press and she joins me now. grey tabby with us on set. this is a story that raises so many of the questions that william addressed and you all speak about in your editorial today. >> no governor or mayor can prevent 100-mile-an-hour winds. no governor or mayor can prevent santa ana winds. l.a. is paradise but built to burn. it is extraordinarily dry and theirs tons of brush and lots of environmental factors we can get into. but the reality, and i have lived in los angeles for the past four years of my life, the reality is anyone there will tell you it does not matter if you identify as a democrat or republican or independent, los angeles is governed by people who have lost sight of the basics of governing. they have lost sight of the idea that we pay you a tax so you take care of basics for us. and nothing could be more basic than preventing the burning down of as you said in your introduction an area twice the size of manhattan. it is hard to conceive of how big this is. i woke up to text messages and almost everyone we know have evacuat

weiss quoted federal judge mark scorsese the judge overseeing the tax case in california.rovides the president with broad authority to grant reproves and pardons against the united states but nowhere does the con distribution give the president the authority to rewrite history we are waiting any time now over the next several hours, volume one of a two volume report into president-elect donald trump. we are told that could come as soon as tomorrow. and that deals with the 2020 election interference case. bret? >> david spunt live at the justice department, david, thanks. >> bret: president-elect trump is entering the final week before he assumes off force a second term. is he already working on both foreign and domestic policy. meanwhile, we could soon learn additional details on the investigation into allegations of election interference from 2020 against the president-elect. the case is not going anywhere but the report could. senior national correspondent aishah hasnie is on capitol hill tonight report on the 2020 election interference case against president-elect trump

he said no have to judge them. >> hongt from jim jordan, bari weiss.the hunter biden story was suppressed. we kept reporting that. no one else would. including social media. so, i think these next four years are so important. i like the fact that they are being called out and now they are making changes. >> brian: mark zuckerberg went to joe rogan and said he got a call from the fbi look out for russian disinformation because they knew rudy giuliani had it and was about to expose it. >> steve: and joel addressed directly how content moderation is going to change. clearly, meta is doing this all because it is 13 days until donald trump becomes the president of the united states. meta does not want donald trump coming after them either online or be, you know, with the power of the federal government to make changes because the last thing these social media companies want is regulation. >> jonathan turley on met taps new censorship policy, next. ♪ (♪) hey what if we move back... hold on let me think. we need a miracle. miracle starting every thursday star

jessica chen weiss is professor of china studies at johns hopkins school of advanced international studiesser in the state department on china policy. i asked her what stood out to her most from what trump said that margravine. —— said at davos. i think here he was quite clear that if countries come to the united states and invest injobs than they can avoid these high punitive tariffs and so, i think the real question is whether or not the united states will welcome, you know, chinese investment or licensing of chinese renewable energy technologies and particularly in batteries, where chinese companies are far out ahead. so that's a real, i think area, to watch — maybe nptjust in that sector but in others. you know, not everybody in the trump coalition, i think, is quite so keen on but the president himself has made that quite clear, so that's an area to watch. yet, as faisal mentioned, there is a belief that the rhetoric of trump's campaign trail may not translate into actual policy. was that naive thinking? the thing is that on the campaign trail, trump said many different things, right?

daniella weiss has lived here for 50 years.he tries to overturn the ceasefire deal she says is treachery. what does all this mean for israel? what does it add up to? in simple words, get. ready for another war. it's cruel. dangerous, with| many casualties. this is what it means today. donald trump, there in the united states, declares that he wants to see the end of wars. _ good for you where you are situated and with us, - giving our flesh and blood for you to have a standing in the middle east, because you care for the united... _ i'm speaking nowj to donald trump. you care for the united states. very noble...declaration. injerusalem, a fake funeral outside the office of prime minister netanyahu, by israelis who want to bury the ceasefire deal. they want the prime minister to keep his promise to destroy hamas and rescue all the hostages, not negotiate a swap for palestinian prisoners they regard as terrorists. police arrested a few of them. many israelis support the ceasefire, but the coffins — intended as a warning of danger

weiss's report says president biden damaged the justice system's credibility. the case became moot after president biden pardoned his son, something he had said he wasn't going to do. there's progress to report in theearch for a ceasefire in israel. negotiators meeting in doha say they're close. here's the secretary of state with more. the first six weeks, the conflict stops. israel pulls back its forces. a lot of hostages come out. some prisoners are released by israel. we surge humanitarian assistance. and we also use that time to try to finalize an agreement on an enduring ceasefire. we've done a lot of work on that. we haven't waited to get to the ceasefire itself. they are very hopeful on this. president biden made his last foreign policy address monday. he talked about the peace deal as well, which may come before he leaves office. i have learned in many years of public service to never, never, never, ever give up. and biden also claimed success with america's support of ukraine, saying america had two goals one rally the world and defend ukraine. two kee

joseph tully of tully and weiss, we'll have to leave it there.ou for your time and expertise this morning. >> thank you. thanks. >> coming up here on the nine this morning, it was quite a shock for some people who woke up to an earthquake in parts of san francisco. how? those who felt it are reacting. [music] >> plus, as president elect trump continues outlining his foreign policy vision, american adversaries and allies are taking note in london. i'm alex hogan. (vo) with wells fargo premier, a team can help you plan for your dreams. so your dream car, and vacation home, may be closer than you think. ready to meet the dream team? you can with wells fargo. (vo) with wells fargo premier, a team can help you plan for your dreams. so your dream car, and vacation home, may be closer than you think. ready to meet the dream team? you can with wells fargo. ♪ ♪ is it possible to be more capable? and more practical? be able to perform here. and here. make a statement while barely making a sound. and command the road, as well as what lies ahead. how we get

joining us now for more insight is ashley bergquist, an attorney with tully and weiss. ashley, welcome. what are the legal issues the president elect's attorneys are arguing to the supreme court. >> thank you so much for having me this morning. so the team has only just filed, as in yesterday, january 7th, a request to the supreme court that has three legal issues. and the legal issues is whether or not he's entitled to an automatic stay of criminal proceedings while he has his interlocutory appeal filed. his appeal itself deals with issues of presidential immunity and the potential of having had improper evidence used in his trial that should have been excluded based on presidential immunity. so it's really the three questions, but currently it's the stay that he is asking to be enforced, meaning that he wants the state case to be paused and for nothing to move forward. despite the sentencing scheduled for friday. >> so this is a state case, as you mentioned, but the federal government or the federal courts don't have much to say unless it's this appeal issue. correct?

bari weiss, welcome. >> thank you so much for having me, howie with.ard: so many media liberals are angry at mark zuckerberg for giving up on fact checking. is he right that this has been a giant failure, and it's time to let the readers do the fact checking? >> look, i think what we're seeing with zuckerberg not just9 with the fact checkers, but with the decision to move if i think it's the trust and safety group, but you'll tell me, to texas, the decision to sort of unwind dei, the decision to put dana white on the board of advisers, what we're seeing is just a -- and i think that 6-minute video he put out is maybe the biggest sign of the so-called vibe shift that we have seen since the election of november 5th. like, one of the things that we have been focused on at the free press over the past since it started, right, two and a half years ago, is on the power of beg tech and the way big tech has censored not just neo-nazis, not just, you know, pornography, the things that no one really wants on any social media platform, but they have censored esse

(upbeat music) (upbeat music continues) (upbeat music continues) (bright music) rabbi eric weiss. nicole zaloumis. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> good morning. and welcome to "mosaic. " i'm ron swisher. it's a real privilege to host "mosaic" on behalf of hugh burrows our producer and co-host. we're fortunate today to have what i call -- i'm not alone in saying this -- one of the icons of oakland. he was once a city -- not city council, but the school board, he was once the editor of the religious "oakland "tribune"" he is the owner of "the post. " when i met him in the late '60s and early '70s he was a community organizer working with the oakland black caucus, you might say he was mr. naacp along with mr. urban fly. always a gadfly when workingworking justice in our community in oakland, grew up in oakland and has been in oakland all of his life. welcome, paul. >> it is a pleasure to be here today. >> great to have you. tell us a little bit about your background. >> i was born in oakland. my parents come from oklahoma and mississippi. >> uh-huh. >> but i was born in oakland. i have attended schools

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and i was out shopping for, you know, other policies that would have satisfied my lender, weiss ratings, a well-respected company that grades and rates insurance companies, says farmers insurance and usaa denied payment on almost half of the claims they received in 2023. >> insurers object, saying the rating company's data overinflates the number of unpaid claims, since some claims are under the deductible, or that the policy does not cover such claims. but the l.a. times quotes the rating company ceo saying it's not fair for me to say all these rejected claims were legitimate, b it's equally unfair for insurance companies to claim they're all illegitimate. consumer watchdog president jamie court says this. >> i think it's really troubling when you have two companies that are paying only 50% of the claims that are submitted. the industry standard is 37%. that's not very good either. but over the course of time, these two companies have consistently paid much less than the other companies 12, 13%. >> and mitchell lost her altadena home, as well as her small jewelry shop. her private insu

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it weiss with the money be brought from a fence to feed us when we have good. oh, that tells you that as the car is turning the corner, it is elia lity. it is a i, i have a clear understanding of what is happening because of the, i know that because which way, defeating the ends of a free that process to buy european zip code because of the africans defending themselves, taking themselves out of the kind of what these colors have done to us, but to some of some of glass even of we don't see was due to an to the put it in my way. is that doing it on the blah blah, blah. know that actually taking the struggle to liberate africa a day and me, i supported, i couldn't tell you unless it is it kind of uh, it could be kind of like the ones before these ones. i said let africa look, update. so simple. you've entice me the with the, your visit to kind of thing that the word discussions that i'm moving towards this idea of africa strengthening itself. do you want to give us a little bit of those discussions and the future plan? no, no, i'm just talking with the discussio

and i'll read you just a part of what david weiss writes here. he defends his prosecution.he says, i prosecuted the two cases against mr. biden because he broke the law, and then he takes a part of his report to essentially respond to joe biden, the president who accused the justice department of selectively prosecuting his son. and he says, no, no, no, no one, no other president has solely has has made these accusations against the justice department for the part of a prosecution such as this one. casey. >> all right. evan perez for us tonight. evan, thanks very much for that. and you can follow me on x and instagram at casey. and of course, the show on x at the lead, cnn. and if you ever miss an episode of the lead, you can always listen to the show wherever you get your podcasts. don't go anywhere right now. the news continues

weiss said that the president's accusations that his son's prosecution was, quote, unfair and tainted by politics were gratuitous and wrong. he defended the probe as fair and impartial. of course, president biden issued a blanket pardon for his son last month. a new close call between a united airlines flight and a delta flight in the skies over phoenix. the faa confirmed the incident is under investigation. data from flight radar shows the two planes were only 425ft apart at their closest point. both planes landed safely. so a man who won a record breaking $2 billion powerball jackpot has lost at least one of his homes in the los angeles wildfires. property records show edward castro bought three houses after california in california after his win in 2023. the one he bought in malibu was destroyed by the pacific palisades fire. >> kate. and that wildfire disaster is still unfolding in southern california. it's also happening just as hollywood's award season was getting underway, the golden globes just happened. the critics choice awards got postponed, and now there is word that both

let's bring in michael weiss, editor of the insider and author of the book i.s.i.s. inside the army of terror. we're also joined by cnn's evan perez, andy scholes and kyung lah kyung. i want to start with you. you have this brand new exclusive video. what's your sense of its role in the investigation that's ongoing? well, you were just talking about ryan and trying to put together that timeline. >> this is critical video because it places the suspect with a time stamp of this ring camera video. what you are looking at here was recorded at approximately 10 p.m. eastern time, a full five hours before. what would happen on bourbon street. this is a ring camera owned by jeff gonzalez. he lives next door to the airbnb that was rented by jabbar, and you can see the bed of the ford f-150 and jabbar removing items and bringing them inside the airbnb. i want you to listen to jeff gonzalez. >> the white truck was parked right in front of our place and what you see in the second video is, is the terrorist unloading boxes into the airbnb. and it just seems like even if anybody h

if you look at the weiss report which was released this week, that was a republican u.s. attorney who was named to his position by william barr and came forward with the stuff about hunter biden and the tax charges and gun charges that took place and nothing about joe biden. it just further underscores that all of that was nonsense and it did come down to the word of alexander smirnov who was a russian intelligence asset who lied about ukrainian payments to joe biden and hunter biden. like that's established now. alexander smirnov was convicted in court of trying to, you know, give these lies to the fbi. so, that should be definitive proof to put it to rest, but in lieu of any real program that uniies their party, much less the country, they want to go to the right wing fishing expeditions. it's outlandish and mad cap. >> this week your counterparts in the committee will hear from pam bondi for two days, what should the democrats be asking her? >> i haven't done a full study of her career and positions, but i know that she and kash patel both bought into the big lie about