whitney wild, thanks so much. >> joining me to discuss elliott williams and white house correspondent the "new york times." elliott, as we look at what we're learning from this 51-page resolution that whitney was just going through, these are communications that mark meadows, right, that are being referenced and mark meadows already gave, already handed over to the committee. what do you read into this information that the committee, right, is now sharing at this point, in terms of how they're looking to set up this narrative. you know, as a former prosecutor, what are you looking in that to connect dots? >> a few things. one, looking at the fact of how empty mark meadows' claim for privilege is here. look, even assuming we conversations with the. the that might have been protected, there's a world of information that he ought to have come in and testified about, starting with number one the 6,000 pages of documents. number two, the statement that whitney just referred to about "i love it" where in another statement he says "i got a team on it." he's talking about building some appara

whitney, what's going to happen?ouse floor. the reality, kate, is this will certainly have a ripple effect. here is why. he will be the second person referred for criminal contempt of court. the first was steve bannon. that's because he never showed for an interview or produced documents. jeffrey clark did show up. this is clarifying what the committee considers cooperating. they're saying you can't go in and say no comment, no comment, no comment. they're pointing to a 90-minute deposition in which clark revealed next to nothing other than his own stamina to say, i'm not saying any more. state lawmakers and senior members of the white house, which brings us to the other big news that cnn broke this week, the mark meadows story. the chief of staff for then president trump is cooperating with the committee. the source tells us he has handed over thousands of emails, but what he eventually tells the committee is still unclear. however, kate, it's very obvious there's a new willingness coming out of mark meadows to work

cnn's whitney wild joins me now.ey, why does the trump team want the justices to read this interview? >> reporter: well, they want the justices to read this interview because they think this shows that this committee is engaged in a law enforcement investigation, not an investigation with a legislative purpose. here's the quote that they think is key to us. this is from the "washington post." thompson added, i can assure you, if a criminal referral would be warranted, there would be no reluctance on the part of the committee to do that. so, trump attorneys read this. here is how they're utilizing that quote for their argument. they say, to the supreme court justices, the committee cannot make a mockery of congress's constitutional mandate that its requests in investigation be supported by a valid legislative purpose. it cannot embark on what is essentially a law enforcement investigation with the excuse that it might legislate based on information it turns up in the course of the exploration. alisyn, i think it's wor

whitney wild joins us live from washington. whitney, what are we expecting a week from today?ll waiting for the exact details. what house speaker nancy pelosi says is this will be a day of reflection. here's what she told her colleagues in a dear colleagues letter. our nation will soon mark one year since the deadly aing ta on the united states capitol. preparations are under way for a full program of events, including a discussion among historians, a narrative of that day and for members to share their experiences and reflections from that day, and a prayerful vigil in the evening. the tone will be one of reflection, it will be somber. but also a chance to mark the heroism of police who defended the capitol. >> this comes as the former president's lawyers are now telling the supreme court that a "washington post" interview with the chairman of the house select committee that of course is investigating the attack shows the committee is trying to establish a criminal complaint against him? >> >> reporter: well, that's right. take a look at this "washington post" interview in wh

whitney, thank you., cnn senior legal analyst elie honig, former assistant district attorney for the city of new york. let's pick up where jim's question left off. it makes you perk up where you learn that one of the documents is a january 5th email about having the national guard on standby. the fact that was put into the letter is done on purpose. >> the question jim just asked, what's behind that communication, what was happening on january 5th. that's exactly what the committee would want to ask mark meadows. all those other revelations that whitney went through show communications about direct and collateral attacks on the election, communications about alternate slates of electors. that's the heart of what this committee is looking at. that shows why mark meadows's testimony is so important and why the committee is taking his failure to appear so seriously. >> we also have dana bash with us. because you've been doing some reporting on meadows emote investigation here, the timing of this is telling.

whi whitney wild is out front. whitney, good evening. the first subpoena of financial records.ecause they are even asking the bank j.p. morgan for these records. where does all this stand tonight? >> poppy, this newest filing shows again as you mentioned the committee is going right to the banks to get the records. getting it directly from the witnesses but going straight to the record holders, themselves. specifically, we learned about the strategy in a challenge to a house select committee's subpoena, again, to j.p. morgan chase for banking records for someone named taylor bud witch. he is former senior adviser for the trump 2020 campaign. he is now former-president donald trump's spokesman. he is arguing that he has already handed over relevant information and that this subpoena from the house select committee to the bank risks releasing private financial information that is not relevant to the investigation. a previously released subpoena highlights why the committee is so interested in him. for example, this -- the subpoena says that budowich reportedly solicited a 501c4 o

my name is whitney. i'm 35 year old.ways saw myself getting married and having kids. this is everything. on my 34th birthday, i came home from work. i had the dream job, had my apartment in new york, and there was nobody to share it with. i'm alone. i literally have no one to share my life with right now. and i cried. now that i'm 35, i feel like that runway to find a partner and to have a family is getting shorter and shorter and shorter and shorter. >> i was in my late 20s, early 30s in the fellowship, and there were people younger than me who were struggling. that was my first wakeup call. the last of communication that we have with our doctors, with our mothers, with our friends just leads to stress and a paucity of information later on that is really difficult to overcome. it's extremely frustrating to see women going through struggles that they may not have had to go through if they had the proper information. so i started talking to my sister about it when she was in college, really encouraging her to take control

and whitney, you have new reporting on documents from the stop the steal leader.ere provided by a man who has testified in front of the house select committee. and what this court filing revealed is what he spoke with committee investigators about. for example, he says he supplied around 1,500 communications, specifically text message and is other records and within those records, there's information to suggest that he had conversations with members of congress prior to the january 6th riot. for example, in this court filing, he says he had a couple of phone conversations with representative paul gosar. he says he exchanged a text message with mo brooks. in the filing it says who he believed. so, again, these are -- this is revelatory in that it is deepening our understanding of the kinds of information that the house select committee is questioning these witnesses about, ali alexander sitting for this deposition. but he is trying to get his phone records directly from his telecommunications provider. we're seeing some of the witnesses provide a wealth of informat

. >> cnn's whitney wild joins us with details.whitney, this is a bombshell revelation about what was already a bombshell revelation. what more can you tell us about this text message? >> reporter: well, this text message was included in documents handed over by mark meadows to the house select committee, a text message presumably he did not think was falling under executive privilege but now one of the many documents that he will not test about if front of the house select committee. again, sources say the committee believes it was texas governor, former energy secretary for former president donald trump rick perry who authored this. here's what it says. here's an aggressive strategy. why can't the states of georgia, north carolina, penn and other state houses declare this bs where conflicts and election not called that night and just accepted it to their own electors to vote and have it go to scotus. even outside washington, they were trying to get mark meadows to continue to peddle this line. it shows the volume of effort from r

the ruling whitney mentioned seems to give prosecutors more momentum as they sort of prepare for theto come. >> exactly. it really does give them some momentum heading into these trials because here, another judge has green lit their use of this obstruction charge. this is the cornerstone of a lot of the prosecutions that they're bringing, some of the most serious cases in this entire portfolio. carries a maximum of 20 years. so the fact that the judge is giving this the green light as they head into these trials which begin in february, this is a big win for the justice department. as you said, it really does give them some momentum heading into these high stakes trials. >> all right, something to watch for sure. >>> all right. a little programming note for your weekend plans. friends, collaborators, legends, carole king and james taylor in an unforgettable concert film. "just call out my name" sunday at 9:00 p.m. only on cnn. ll pre? reduces inflammation? thank the gods. don't thank them too soon. kick pain in the aspercreme. [♪] you no longer need to visit a dermatologist for top

whitney, what more can you tell us about this?ttee has put out that outlines in 51 pages a lot of detail about what they think mark meadows did and why they think it's so important to question him. for example, laura, there's an email in which he according to the house select committee said that the national guard would be on stand by to protect pro-trump people. that email came on january 5th. we know later the national guard was significant time gap between when the national guard was requested and when it actually ended up making its way over to the capitol. so there continue to be a lot of questions about how that -- those decisions were made and specifically about the timeline from request to actually activation. so that's just one thing. as we look at this 51-page resolution, laura, there are other significant moments in here, such as this power point -- this power point that was floating around capitol hill, mark meadow's attorney, this is according to "the new york times," apparently got this power point that outlined ways

when she pulled me aside and said no, whitney, i think you should really think about freezing your eggsoung for that, my whole future is ahead of me. >> it's really difficult to watch my own sister go through egg freezing. i don't want her or anyone else to feel like they're giving up hope when they choose to freeze their eggs. it's really empowering more than anything else, but that's a difficult message to get across to somebody who may feel like they don't want it in their lives in terms of relationship or infertility, so my point of reaching out to her, hope she reaches out to her friends and really start empowering ourselves and taking charge of fertility. >> this is day four of taking medications to freeze my eggs and yeah, let's see how this goes. >> i asked my parents if they thought i should do it and they're both like oh yeah, you should difficult do that. and i was actually very surprised by that reaction. and so, i was like, well, damn, i guess i should just go ahead and do this. >> i'm starting to feel a little bit on the moody side. unsure if that is anything related to th

whitney wild has been following the story. whitney what do we expect to see this morning, particularly if meadows doesn't show up? >> an empty chair at minimum because we know that they are willing to go ahead with this deposition. they expect meadows will skip it. what is likely is that we might see a little movement from the committee. there is some -- it is not exactly clear yet exactly what they're going to do. there has been a suggestion that they're definitely going to move forward with the criminal contempt charge, but the chairman of the committee, bennie thompson, also said they want to keep all of the options on the table. so there are a list of options and that could include immunity. he stressed they want to get information. that's the most important thing. so this is not definite, but it is certainly something -- a tool in their arsenal. meanwhile, as you pointed out, we have the steve bannon case, which is really the road map for how the rest of these criminal contempt cases are going to go. we have basically a t

cnn's whitney wild joins me from washington.hitney, clearly they want to get it out before the midterms. >> reporter: well, exactly. now we have this specific timeline and what this represents is that we're getting into this more public phase of not only the investigative process but also the findings. what we know now is that the house select committee plans to have public hearings sometime next year, sometime first quarter and then a few months after that, they will release this interim report with the final report by the fall. it's difficult to extract the political timeline from the house select committee's timeline, incidental, planned, you know, it's -- people will glean what they want but the reality is the committee now saying that they want to have this -- they want to bring their work more into the public sphere so people can make their own decisions, alisyn. >> a federal judge just issued a ruling allowing a major conspiracy case to move forward against four members of the proud boys. so, how significant is this? >> r

whitney wild is in washington.learn from this new 51-page document that came out overnight? >> reporter: this is giving a lot of color the extent to which the former chief of staff went to utilize and every outlet available to him to try to overturn the election largely because that's what the president wanted. let's go back to the january 5th email, one of the fee kindings. a january 5th email in which mark meadows said this. the national guard would be present to protect pro-trump people and many more would be on stand by. what we know is the national guard did not arrive until hours after the fighting began. and there continue to be questions about who made the decisions, how they were made, and what was -- basic live responsible for the time lag between when the request was made and when the national guard ended up being activated and making their way to the capitol. there are others, mark meadows appointing an alternate slate of electors to nullify their votes which would overturn the election. here is a snipp

cnn's whitney wilde is tracking the story.tney, court documents suggest many of the messages were to and from members of congress and people and then president trump's inner circle. what more are you hearing? >> reporter: well, this all comes in a court filing, allie alexander challenging a list of things about the select committee, namely their effort to try to get his phone records directly from his telecommunications provider. what this filing shows is that he passed along communications that he says are from representative mo brooks. he also says that he testified in front of house select committee investigators last week for several hours in which he discussed phone communications he had with another member of congress, specifically paul gosar. further, pamly, said he had a conversation with kimberly guilfoyle. this shows that the house select committee members have a wealth of information they're getting directly from the source, directly from the people who they subpoenaed who they think were at the central effort of th

and there are still those, like page whitney, that will never let the memory of a gracious, joyous young of my life, whenever i see purple, i will think of her, whenever i hear a story of any type of domestic violence i will think of her and i will never stop telling her story. >> that's all for now. >> i'm craig melvin. >> and i'm natalie morales. >> and this is dateline. >> i couldn't comprehend what was happening. i couldn't sleep. losing my husband. it's an image that is never gonna go away. >> a father out for a walk with his son. >> i heard shots. very loud shots. >> the child survives, the father doesn't. >> all he was asking was, "honey, tell me how's the baby? is the baby okay? " >> it was an execution? >> yes. >> the killers never caught. >> we're waiting for a

how will that story and whitney wake up a mom out cher ah, and away we go with your headlines for the americas. hello, everyone. thanks for joining in that stormy weather is mostly dissipated. much cooler air across the east right now. we're talking low temperatures. the other day d. c was about 20 now here, 5 degrees on tuesday, but still that threat of stormy weather through the avalon. so st. john's looking to see wind gusts of about 90 kilometers per hour here off toward the deep south. still some lingering showers, coastal sections of texas, louisiana, stretching into the florida panhandle. though i think tallahassee will escape this with just a cloudy day on tuesday, got some shower siding down the pacific coast here san francisco, los angeles, look to stay dry. think the best bet of seen some showers will be in san diego. central america right now. we got some rain coming out. shit, nicaragua, costa rica, panama. same goes through belize and guatemala waldo. nothing major. top end of south america. we do have some downpours to be expected here, especially along that east coast

whitney wild, thank you for that report.on white house counsel john dean. let's talk about this text. that suggests the plan to overturn the election may have been happened ahead of time. we were reporting during the time there were discussions at the white house, could electors be tossed our or go rogue? they were obviously plotting all this stuff. where do you place this sex in the significance of what occurred on january 6th, and how significant is that text in and of itself? >> i suppose it could be seen as somebody entering into part of a conspiracy, but if you have a common, improper, illegal goal, and you're undertaking it, a text is a pretty good indication. that certainly happened in a number of criminal cases. what is striking to me, jim, the fact that all of these arguments they were making now this text, they wouldn't pass a first-year law school test of how to deal with these issues. they're pathetic. they're just grasping. so the level is very unsophisticated. >> you worked in the white house many years ago and

this is what we're working with. >> my name is whitney. i'm 35 years old.i always saw myself getting married and having kids. >> this is everything. >> on my 34 nl birthday. i came home from work. i just started my dream job. had my apartment in new york. there was nobody to share it with. i'm alone. i literally have no one to share my life with right now. and i cried. now that i'm 35, and have a family and it is getting shorter and shorter and shorter. i was in my early 30s when i start mid endocrinology fellowship. that's with our doctors and mothers and friends and just leads to stress. and the information they're on. that is really difficult to overcome. it's extremely frustrating. they may not have to go through if they had the proper information. so i started talking to my sister about it. and she was in college. really encouraging her to take control of her fertility. as i was in school. i probably would not have frozen my eggs if i didn't have a sister who is a fertility specialist. it really and truly wasn't until my 30s that my sister started enco

cnn's whitney wild has the details from washington. >> reporter: the house select committee investigatinganuary 6 has paired back its request. the biden administration said in some cases they are just not relevant to the investigation. in other cases the committee is deferring its request after the administration decided they are highly sensitive and originated outside the white house in the executive branch. these are the kinds of developments that show the committee is still working at warp speed to collect and analyze as much information as possible for what now seems to be a likely interim report issued over the summer with a possibility of a full report sometime in the fall. the committee is entering a new more public phase with plans for public hearings sometime in 2022. meanwhile, a conservative judge in d.c. appointed by former president trump has said a conspiracy case against members of the proud boys can move forward. in a 43-page ruling, the judge said the alleged crimes could not be considered protected first amendment speech. in washington, i'm whitney wild. >>> hong kong pr

whitney wild is joining us now.lieve this email was sent january 5, meadows saying that the national guard would be present that day but to, quote, protect trump people. >> pro trump. >> do we know what that means? >> we don't know the context, but it falls into the greater question about what was going on at the white house and department of defense as there were questions about whether or not the national guard would be utilized. and it is especially important because when we look at what happened on january 6, when it became clear more forces were necessary, there was a significant time lag between when that request went out and when members of the national guard within activated. and once they finally got to capitol hill. so when we look at the totality of the meadows information, that sticks out because it is one of the main lingering questions and then ultimately it is one of the reasons that people think that the capitol ended up falling is because there weren't enough bodies there to try to shore it up after

cnn's whitney wild has more on this story. >> reporter: good morning, christine and laura.d a newest subpoena against phil wall drone, a retired colonel who circulated misinformation fraud and details to undermine the 20120 election outcome. this 30-page document was circulated to trump allies and even lawmakers on capitol hill. waldron previously told "the new york times" he did not directly send the document to then white house chief of staff mark meadows, but did say it was possible someone on his team passed it along. separately he told the "washington post" he spoke with meadows maybe eight to ten times, and visited the white house on multiple occasions after the 2020 election. >> we've interviewed over 300 people and i know, you know, things like meadows contempt and bannon contempt get a lot of attention as they should. but there's a lot of people that are giving us a lot of information and this can be a key piece to that. but there was this kind of fever pitch to not accept the fact that a legitimate election had happened. and that's why the committee is so importan

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cnn's whitney wild is live in washington with details on what exactly changed.hearing, whitnwhit? >> reporter: in short meadows is saying they don't believe the committee is being fair. that is their main argument for this about-face. they sent a letter and it lists a series of things. they say in short we now have every indication from the information supplied to us last friday upon which meadows could expect to be questioned that the select committee has no intention of respecting boundaries concerning executive privilege. kate, we know that so many people are hinging their -- what they say is an inn'ability to provide testimony to the committee on the concept of executive privilege. it is a more logical argument for mark meadows to make because he was a very close aide to then president trump. obviously, he was the chief of staff, an employee there at the white house. so a more logical and still debatable concept here because there's been a lot of debate about who can claim executive privilege once the presidency ends. further, he says, we learned over the we

cnn's whitney wild is tracking this story. whitney, who more do we know about meadows' e-mails and the new letters regarding the could be tempt proceedings? >> well, what we know about the email is that he actually supplied it to the committee and this is a key sticking point, ana, because the committee has maintained that meadows has provided a wealth of information and all they want to do is ask them about documents that he himself provided and yet he won't stitt in for a deposition. he argues that he should still have the executive privilege and privilege of confidentiality and that actually mark meadows has no opportunity to testify because there's a risk he would infringe on the former president's right to executive privilege, and he can't sit down for a deposition. that's what this seven-page letter to meadowses, and it list a long list of reasons why meadows believes he cannot testify, again the executive privilege question that they believe is still hanging in the balance. further, they are really urging the committee

. >> whitney wilde joining us now. there was a lot that came out last night. this is not the end of what we'll hear. >> certainly not. this is a snapshot of more than 6,000 documents that meadows turned over to the committee. so last night was extremely revelatory. the committee released urgent employees from those within the capitol and also within trump's inner circle. it shows there was a list of people who really believed that mark meadows was the one who could sway the president, who could get him to condemn the violence. here's a little bit more from this extremely important hearing last night. donald trump jr. texted again and again, urging action by the president. quote, we need an oval office address. he has to lead now. it has gone too far and gotten out of hand. >> even the former president's own son had to go by proxy to get his message to the president. that's the point here. the point is that the committee thinks that mark meadows was the access point around which a lo of this was spinning. they think he knows a lot about the former president's s

whitney. >> reporter: well, this is basic there a road map. the 100 subpoenas or so are giving the house select committee a web of communications leading up to, on the day of, and following the riot. this is going to be significant, brianna, as it drives their investigation. it does not include the content of any messages that went back and forth. it is just the meta data. who was calling whom at what time. that is important as they bring in more people to get this colorful testimony as they try to build their case. there was a significant blow to the house select committee this week. you spoke about it earlier. this about-face from mark meadows. earlier he said basically, or we had reported at least that he had planned to cooperate. however, now his attorney is telling the house select committee they do not plan to cooperate. and they're making a very similar argument to what steve bannon has made, brianna, that they have every intention of working with the committee in this very good-faith effort. but they're concerned that the committee is

. >> whitney wild has been following this. how likely now and how quickly i suppose is the key question here given the timeline that the supreme court takes this up and gives final word? >> well, i think that's going to depend on the argument that the trump team can make, and it is an uphill battle because the appeals court decision makes very clear that these judges just don't think that the trump team made any legitimate arguments and what you have to do it try to get the supreme court to even look at your case is prove that there is a very good chance you'll actually succeed. what this decision does is eviscerate the trump team argument that that's possible. one key argument here that the appeals court made in ruling against the trump team is that they say frankly trump has not articulated an actual harm. he can't even say why it would be problematic to release these records. that was just a list of arguments that they made in their decision, the 68-page decision coming out last night. the timeline here is critical as you p

cnn law enforcement correspondent whitney wild joins us. walk us through what the house select committee is demanding, and how we learned about it. >> this was revealed in a challenge to the committee's subpoena for the banking records of a man named taylor budawich. he is now former president donald trump's spokesman. the challenge suggests that this committee is looking at funding as you mentioned for the january 6th rally sending the subpoena directly to jpmorgan chase who told him if he didn't file a motion to stop the record's release they'd hand over this information. budawich did file a motionuring arguing he's given the committee those records and the risks here are in releasing private financial information that's not relevant to this investigation. not material to anything that the house select committee has jurisdiction over. now previously released subpoena from budawich said he soliced a 501c4 organization to conduct a social media and radio advertising campaign encouraging attendance at the january 6th ellipse rally and advanc

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. >> cnn law enforcement correspondent whitney wild joining us now with more. there was a lot in those moments last night, plenty of reaction since. what else did we learn? >> we learned a lot more about what lawmakers were saying to meadows about really the -- basically the whole day. a lot of these text messages surround this idea there were, you know, lawmakers who were interested as we know in overturning the election and by having in one moment, by having former vice president mike pence basically say that, you know, all of these disputed electoral votes wouldn't count, that was one suggestion that meadows fielded and large ly the theme from the former president's son, donald jr. tork the, to the med personalities shows a single thing, meadow was at the nucleus of the white house as this riot unfolded and he was really one of the key players, possibly the only person that this trump inner circle and wider circle believed actually had the ability to sway the president and try to get him to condemn the violence. he was -- he had the ear of the former preside

whitney wild joins us.ng to me about this argument by the lawyers is the appellate court, the court of appeals, rejected exactly the same argument. >> reporter: as did a judge before that at the district court level. they're saying this is basically a law enforcement investigation pretending to be an investigation toward making a legislative purpose. however, this is actually one of the arguments that in the very first hearing a district court judge really pushed trump attorneys on. she said, so what, you have to have a law drawn up before you start an investigation? that sort of defies logic. the reality is that the committee has never been -- has never been shy about saying, look, if we find criminal activity, we're referring it to doj. so, you know, while that is not the purpose of the investigation, they're certainly not shying away from it. but, poppy the committee has made abundantly clear over and over that the purpose here is for drafting legislation to ensure this never happens again. as you point

let's get to whitney wild, live in washington, with more on the dramatic, new evidence we got last night>> reporter: what the candid text messages show is this growing dismay throughout the course of the riot within trump's inner circle, and it shows that all of these people were basically pleading with the one man they thought could change the president's mind and try to get him to condemn the violence. >> those in favor say aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> those opposed, say no. >> reporter: members of the january 6th committee voting to formally advance a criminal contempt report against mark meadows, the former white house chief of staff. >> this is a near unique moment in history, as we vote on whether to hold a former colleague in contempt of congress. mark meadows has committed a crime, in this case, a premeditated one. >> reporter: before the vote, the committee revealed text messages from then president donald trump's allies in the media, showing them calling for him to act as thousands of pro-trump rioters were pounding the capitol building. attempting to violently disrupt the certifica

. >> whitney houston said children are the future. >> children are the future, berman. >> i can bringtill ahead, new york city's bold new vaccine mandates will have mayor de blasio joining us live on that. >>> first, accusations of sex and lies, dramatic testimony in the jussie smollett trial next. >>> dramatic moments in court as jussie smollett took the stand tryi trying to defend himself. the actor's testimony focused on his relationship with two brothers who prosecutores say smollett paid to attack him. smollett says he did not hire them to carry out a fake attack for publicity, but says he did have a sexual relationship with one of the men. the prosecution also grilled smollett on this video of him in his apartment with a noose around his neck. they say he tampered with that noose to make it look more convincing to police. the prosecution is expected to wrap up its cross examination this morning. joining me now, cnn legal analyst and former new york city prosecutor paul callan and a criminal defense attorney and former prosecutor, bernardia. tell me about what the jury is looking

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. >> of getting a photo with santa so sweet, though, reporter whitney burney takes us through decadesith old saint nick. and they have no plans of stopping. >> with an adjustment here. in a squeeze. their 1, 2, another memory in the books. this one 50 years in the making. a tradition of course, started by someone's mom. there became a time my mom found out that we didn't want to sit on santa's lap any more so than her and my dad joined in the picture. >> over the years. the long family added members. we first had my husband, nick. >> and then we brought on christina. my brother's girlfriend. and then we had our daughter added, who's the only grandchild and then we brought in pelosi who is the only grand dog and then last but not least, is jarrett. who's my brother-in-law. they to the first year mom of year to be in that. i think we really talked about ending the tradition with her. >> and just decided not to do so now i don't think we're ever going in to celebrate making it 50 years. they're paying it forward so families in need. can start a tradition of their own every family to have

the fives, compare to previous waves, but they added it's still too early to draw firm conclusions. whitney casado says from the american academy of pediatrics. she says, coven 19 has a significant effect on children, both physically and mentally. as a pediatrician and as a parent myself, i'm always extremely concerned about new developments with coven 18 getting our kids vaccinated should be our number one priority in the united states and abroad. i think we have found that with this particular disease, it's been so deadly. the number of hospitalizations have been staggering. the social isolation that happens from having co that and having to corn teen for an extended period of time. the fact that if more and more children get cold and it's going to mean the shut down of school systems even further. and we know that this pandemic has not just affected the physical health of children, but also the mental health of children. i mentioned my kids afore my oldest has an anxiety disorder. she is worried every single day that she or her friends well get cove at 19. this is the single most devasta

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after being promised, as a cold war was going to end the nature, whitney expanded all to expand in 700 miles to russia's doorstep. so it ideology is the, is the bone of contention. am i wrong? or i think there is a mature of, of a bunch of factors here on one hand, it is always your, it was all that you really because i think you can see a bunch of examples where the same people or routing for ideological things are pretty fine with dealing and medic cents with other states that are not put in my live democratic. so i think ology is a come up for a greater geo politics and stuff. but he didn't, like i said, i don't really see pretty realistic geopolitical calculations kick in. even if only for one thing that you know, somebody wants to keep brush abusing at its western front and not getting gauge with china. you know, fueling the supreme crisis maybe in the interest. but honestly, i don't think it's in long term interest of the united states. what's been going on their demo in you, and i've talked about what it would take to reorient on russia's relationship with the west and vice vers

icon met chrome principal had been some of the leaders spoke with lebanon's prime minister, nat geo. whitney captain and the world health organization says no debts from the only crime variant of the corona virus have so far been reported. governments around the world are stepping up there. inoculation grease as fallen behind with cove in 1900 vaccinations in a european 1st. the government will start finding those over the age of 60, who refused to get inoculated. don't surplus reports from northern grief on the other initiatives that the country is taking in the fight against coven 19. this is the government's expeditionary force. bobo vaccination squads of founding out to villagers across northern greece, where infections and misinformation run high at the village of man, the las maria cook too, is getting her 1st shot. she works at a local fruit canning factory with $250.00 people, some of whom refused to be vaccinated with another. i guess they didn't want to do it because of what they heard about a micro chip been put inside you that controls you. that was the mean reason. others think