comcast business. powering possibilities. ♪ ♪ >> bret: a woman testified today she had repeated sexual contact with disgraced financier jeffrey epstein when she was 14 and that ghislaine maxwell was there when it happened. the witness was the first of four alleged victims to testify against maxwell at the start of her trial in new york. she is facing charges she recruited and groomed girls for epstein to sexually abuse. she denies those charges. breaking tonight, the lead investigator in the jussie smollett case is trying to refute the defense notion that police did not adequately look into actor jussie smollett's report of a racial hate crime attack. that was the dominant theme during today's testimony in smollett's trial. matt finn has details. >> good evening, bret. in opening statements, jussie smollett's defense attorney told the jury here that the chicago police department rushed to judgment. well, as you mentioned, the lead chicago police detective in this case is still testifying right now.

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give your business the gift of savings today. comcast business. powering possibilities. >> emily: cnn's credibility crisis just got a whole lot worse, the liberal network allowing chris cuomo on the air last night with despite newly released bombshell text messages showing chris trying to dig up dirt on the women accusing his brother andrew cuomo of sexual harassment. the anchor texting at top aid about one of the accusers saying, i have a lead with the sweating girl. and in another text she writes rumor going around political one or two more people coming out tomorrow. can you check your sources. cuomo responded, no one has heard that yet. the message contradicted what viewers told cuomo back in august. >> i'm not an advisor, i'm her brother. i was there to listen and offer my take. my advice to my brother was simple and consistent. oh, no, what you did. >> liberal network says it's reviewing the documents and seeking additional clarity on what chris did. like they need any more time. meanwhile chris says he calls a criticism not legitimate and b

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comcast business. powering possibilities. >> harris: the waukesha christmas parade suspect is in court today on a previous charge of running over the mother of his child in the same red s.u.v. he allegedly used in the parade massacre. prosecutors have added a sixth homicide charge against him after the death of the youngest victim, 8-year-old jackson sparks. our own greg gutfeld in a new fox news op-ed called out the media for down playing what happened in waukesha as some sort of accident or suggesting that a vehicle, not a person, is the guilty party. and we all know and love greg. he doesn't hold back. here he have is from his monologue last night. >> take last year's riots. the media called it mostly peaceful. nothing says that like a man shot dead protecting his business. that giant lie handicapped the police so they couldn't do a thing to stop the riots without being accused of attacking mostly peaceful protestors. the media protected the mob so the cities burned and people died. this moved beyon

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give your business the gift of savings today. comcast business. powering possibilities. >> laura: when any is up in the biden administration has a ready-made excuse as a recent ap article noted inflation soaring, businesses struggling to hire and president biden's poll numbers have been in freefall. the white house sees a common culprit for all, covid 19. joining meeting is larry kudlow, host of kudlow, we love and former trump white house economic advisor. is covid really all that ails biden at this point? the red states last time i checked are thriving. >> he's got to blame somebody for everything that has gone wrong so he's going to blame you, he's going to blame me, he blames the pandemic, he blames saudi arabia, he blames everybody except his own policies. this idea that the pandemic is responsible for inflation, during the second half of 2020 we had a v-shaped recovery but there was no inflation. that's important point. the inflation didn't begin until the winter/spring of this year after the $2 trillion emergency relief bill was passed by d

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comcast business. powering possibilities. >>> if you watched any non-pandemic related national news over the break, we just had. then you saw the pictures and heard the eyewitness accounts, gangs of thieves some of them violent overwhelming mostly high end stores. and several u.s. cities. not all. in some cases, smashing the place up. as the shoplifting gang swoop in and then steal and scatter. we get our report on this tonight. >> reporter: the chaotic and increasingly dangerous crime sprees are unfolding in more cities. san francisco, los angeles, chicago, and minneapolis. on some of the busiest shopping days of the year. flash mobs with upwards of 80 people armed with hammers and crowbars are smashing and grabbing their way through high ends retailers. as terrified shoppers and employees are threatened with their lives. >> we built this thing with our hands. it's our baby. to see it violated, it's just crazy. >> while well known luxury retailers are often targeted including those here on the rodeo d

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give your business the gift of savings today. comcast business. powering possibilities. . >>> the man accused of driving an suv through a christmas parade is now facing a sixth intentional homicide trial prosecutors in wisconsin added it just today. police say last sunday the man sped through a crowded parade killing six people and hurting more than 60 others. the sixth charge for an 8-year-old boy who died two years after the tragedy. his names jackson sparks, his loved fishing, enjoyed catching frogs, playing with his brother and his dog. jackson's family says the funeral is set for thursday. they are encouraging young kids to wear baseball jerseys in his honor. doctors say seven children are still recovering from a hospital more than a week after that tragedy. they say they did discharge two kids over the weekend. >>> the los angeles kaun sheriff's department says it arrested four people in connection with this robbery at a home depot on black friday it's the latest in string of flash mob robberies in california cops there say eight people walk

give your business the gift of savings today. comcast business. powering possibilities. >>> tonight, a former top department of justice official may soon become the second person to face contempt charges for defying the january-6th committee. jeffrey clark is his name. he refused to cooperate with the committee. he is accused of using doj resources to back former-president trump's baseless claims of voter fraud. according to officials who interacted with clark, he was in touch with trump repeatedly. if clark is held in contempt, he will join steve bannon as the second person to potentially face criminal charges for refusing to provide information to congress. bannon is facing up to two years in prison if found guilty. the january 6th committee is set to vote wednesday on whether to recommend the full house refer clark for charges. thanks so much for being here. i'm kate bolduan. "ac 360" starts now. >>> good evening. we begin tonight with the very la latest and a concern that most people outside the public health community did not have going into

available now for comcast business internet customers with no line-activation fees or term contract required. see if you can save by switching today. comcast business. powering possibilities. shery: we do have the australian current account balance number coming through. bella expectations arrive from $20.5 billion in the previous quarter. this is for the third quarter. net exports of gdp, that reading coming in at one, also as expected and bouncing back from a contraption in their previous quarter as well. when it comes to the broader outlook before it comes ahead of the third quarter gdp numbers coming out on wednesday, that's expected to show the true impact of the latest lockdown. that lockdown likely set the australian -- to the second ever. have seen a climbing on the account of stimulus. we are watching commodities, given the weakness we have seen an iron ore with continued strength across the commodities adding to that we just got. shery: we are looking ahead to china. the latest manufacturing number for november where the bloomberg intelligence team sees manufacturing stabilizing at

give your business the gift of savings today. comcast business. powering possibilities. >>> tonight new evidence of the omicron variant's aggressive spread. it is now the dominant strain of coronavirus in south africa. less than two weeks after it was first detected. and now the u.s. is bracing for the variant to arrive here, despite a new ban on travel from south africa. cnn's david mckenzie has more from johannesburg. >> reporter: wolf, president biden says this travel restriction to southern africa is to buy time for scientists in the u.s. and for people to get booster and vaccination shots to try and stop any threat from this variant. scientists on the ground in south africa say the time has already run out. they say the variant is likely widespread beyond the region. they also say that these punitive measures are punishing their good science. the early indications are that cases are spiking in this region, possibly due to the variant and that omicron is dominating other variants at this stage in southern africa. now the next step will be to u

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available now for comcast business internet customers with no line-activation fees or term contract required. see if you can save by switching today. comcast business. powering possibilities. liz: all right we have this breaking news, president biden is in the middle of a cyber monday meeting at this hour with the ceo's of major u.s. retailers, from walmart to best buy and more, and they are addressing which measures his administration is taking to break supply chain log jams and keep prices down amid rising inflation, ahead of that meeting walmart ceo doug mc millan said the retail giant has seen a 26% increase in shipping containers going through clogged u.s. ports over just the past four weeks. now with the omicron variant now casting a pretty dark shadow over the holiday season how might this unexpected change in pandemic recovery impact consumers? to edward lawrence whose live at the white house, waiting as the drips of the headlines come out of the meeting. reporter: in fact, the president canceled his comments about this meeting because he wanted to spend more time with the ceo 's and

give your business the gift of savings today. comcast business. powering possibilities. >> as we start to learn about this new variant, the question of where all of this began i think becomes even more important now. what happens in wuhan. the question remains. dr. fauci is saying that it's placeable that the virus did originate in china, but not necessarily in the wuhan lab. first, let's bring in david asher that led the state department task force. he's a senior fellow at the hudson institute. david, always good to have you with us. i want to start by playing a sound bite from an interview in august with dr. robert redfield. we were talking to him about how it would change this virus if it had been created in the lab originally. he said it would super charged and it would lead to more variants. >> it's not just that its mutating, this virus is replicating at a high capacity in humans. the risk for evolution is extremely high. sadly i'm going to predict in two, three, four months we'll have another variant and that variant will be more infectious

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give your business the gift of savings today. comcast business. powering possibilities. >>> let's move forward on the breaking news, the house select committee investigating the january 6 insurrection will soon voeft on a criminal contempt of congress refer follow for jeffly clark. >> ryan nobles has the latest. when could this happen, ryan? >> reporter: it is going to move very quickly. in fact, the house select committee investigating the january 6 insurrection is set to meet on wednesday for a business meeting, where they expect to vote out a criminal contempt of congress referral for jeffly clark, the former department of justice official and this will go to the full house for a vote as soon as thursday where the department of justice will decide whether clark should be prosecuted from ignoring the subpoenas. he's an important player. he was a trump loyalist inserted into the department of justice after the november elections and was specifically peddling the big lie within the department of justice. and encouraging the act attorney general an

comcast business. powering possibilities. >>> we're just moments away now from opening statements in the high-profile trial of british socialite ghislaine maxwell. she's the alleged accomplice of convicted pedophile jeffrey epstein. maxwell is accused of sex trafficking and grooming teaching girls for a sex ring that allegedly catered to epstein and a network of some of the most rich, powerful and famous men in the world. epstein died by suicide in prison in 2019 while awaiting his own trial on sex trafficking charges. cameras will not be permitted inside the courtroom for maxwell's trial, but we're staying on top of all of the developments with our reporters who are at the courthouse for us. what are we expecting? >> reporter: well, ana, the judge has just sworn in the jury, 12 jurors and six alternates. now they are at a lunch break, but when we return in half an hour from now prosecutors will begin with their opening statements. they say that they expect it will take 25 minutes to lay out their pres

give your business the gift of savings today. comcast business. powering possibilities. >> sandra: white house press secretary jen psaki, as we just mentioned, is holding a briefing on taking questions on the omicron variant that is spreading right now. and the possible shutdowns the president was just asked about. we will go live to the white house as she takes questions. >> as we see any cases come up, dr. fauci and other medical experts have pointed to the possibility that that will end could happen. we will be transparent with the public and check that closely. let's go back to how that process works. these experts, they are medical experts, and they are primed to do the work around the clock. when you want to test a virus, you need to isolate it and purify it and make sure it is a live virus and the various you intend to study. this takes days. then you need to grow a stock of it to test. once it is grown, you have to sequence it and make sure it has mutated again while it grew. again, days. finally you need to test the virus with antibodies

give your business the gift of savings today. comcast business. powering possibilities. >>> it's a big week in court and at the capital for the january 6th commit. an appeals court will hear former president trump's claim that he can keep the committee from seeing the white house records and the committee itself will turn to the mark meadows question. the chief of staff defied a subpoena citing executive privilege and the committee must decide whether to hold meadows in contempt as they did previously with steve bannon. >> adam kinzinger, one of the two republican members says this about meadows. >> i expect that there is going to be movement, particularly on mark meadows that we'll know about shortly. in the next day, two days or so, a and i think, you know, people will be very pleased with that. bottom line is this committee is going to get to answers. we're going to do what we need to do. >> if i'm translating that's 18 seconds to say we're going to hold him in contempt. >> i don't know that i would take that far of a step. the committee recogn

give your business the gift of savings today. comcast business. powering possibilities. >>> all right. welcome bang i want to call your attention to shares, obviously so sensitive to any sort of virus and variant news the new news today comes by way of jim cramer who says his charitable trust is buying more in disney. you can get it in our investing club if you go to the qr code or go to the website, cnbc.com/investingclub jim cramer said, we will be buying shares of disney. following the trades the trust will own 575 shares of disney, increasing the weighting in the portfolio from 1.8%up to 2.07% jim remains a big believer in disney brenda, you own that stock >> we do we remain big believers as well. you know, just think, especially relative to other companies within the streaming universe, knowing disney has lots of other parts to their business, they have multiple ways to connect to their customer, not only through movies, streaming, the parks and also with licensed content so it is just a great story. it has acted terribly this year. we still

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give your business the gift of savings today. comcast business. powering possibilities. >>> it is 8:00 on today. coming up, high alert after pandemic travel broke records over the thanksgiving holiday, and with many americans still on the move, health officials sounding the alarm over the new omicron variant. >> if you are not yet boosted and certainly if you're not vaccinated yet, you need >>> it is 8:00 on today. coming up, high alert after pandemic travel broke records over the thanksgiving holiday, and with many americans still on the move, health officials sounding the alarm over the new omicron variant. >> if you are not yet boosted and certainly if you're not vaccinated yet, you need to go get the shot there has never been a more urgent time. >> international travel bans now taking effect in an emergency attempt to slow the spread we're live with the very latest. >>> plus, royal rift explosive details revealed in a new book on prince william and harry's falling out and including those controversial comments about race. we'll speak exclusive

comcast business. powering possibilities. >>> gloeshl markets calming a bit, some even up following concerns surrounding the omicron variant. european stocks are up, also keeping an eye on the dow. dow stocks up at the open just about a minute ago. >> that is good news there. christine romans joins us now the latest. markets in the u.s. just opening only about a minute ago but wall street seems to be a bit more calm and better place this morning. >> reporter: you remember on friday, when we were watching the dow tumble, it was a shortened holiday trading session and it was the first moment to react to this news of great uncertainty about this new variant, and so the market was pretty much pricing in the worst case scenario of a march 2020 style defensive crouch, which no one here in the calm of the morning thinks could be in the works. also, so many questions, before you can weigh the risks as an investor, we still have to hear what the science plays out over the next couple of weeks. so weighing risks

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give your business the gift of savings today. comcast business. powering possibilities. >> dana: fox news alert reports twitter a*es co-founder jack dorsey will step down. he is also the ceo of square, pretty big news in the tech world. partners at fox business are reaching out for comment and we'll bring it to you when we have it. >> bill: in chicago the trial of former empire actor jussie smollett begins today with jury selection. remember this? smollett is accused of lying to police when he said he was a victim of racist and homophobic attack in the dead of winter. a look at how we got here. january of 2019 smollett reports the alleged assault. chicago police identify two nigerian brothers as persons of interest. smollett tells "good morning america" he is heartbroken off people who doubted his account. then in february police charged smollett with filing a false police report. here on big fox he was dumped by the tv show. prosecutors dropped charges prompting the city of chicago to sue the actor and recoup the $130,000 it spent on the investig

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comcast business. powering possibilities. ♪♪ ♪♪ >>> hundreds gathered in times square last night to remember composer and lyric writer stephen sondheim who passed away on friday at the age of 1i9 91. ann thompson has more on the tributes to the man who changed lyrical theater. >> reporter: for broadway, the best way to celebrate stephen sondheim was to sing. lin manuel miranda among the voices in new york square. near the theaters he loved and transformed. >> i want to tell stories and make people laugh, cry and have a good time and buy tickets. >> reporter: and they did. >> and a weekend in the country. >> reporter: to a little night music. falling sweeney todd, into the woods, and "sunday in the park with george". actress bern -- sentiments from many actresses. meryl streep and others sang for his 90th birthday. >> reporter: we all feel like or fans. until the end, he was theater's biggest fan, attending revivals of his assassins and company. portrayed on the big screen in "tick tick boom". i

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comcast business. powering possibilities. >>> let me bring you up to date with our top stories this hour. a u.s. ban on most travelers from south africa and nearby countries now in effect as the world races to contain the omicron variant of covid-19 which has been found now in more than a dozen countries as well as territories. president biden will deliver remarks on omicron later today and g7 health ministers are set to hold talks on the variant in the coming hours. we'll have more news on that throughout the hour. >>> taiwan is accusing china of conducting so-called gray zone warfare. beijing sent 27 planes into their protected area. christi lu stout is in hong kong with the latest. christi, what more do we know about the incident? we have been here before? >> reporter: we have been here before and taiwan is in a position where yet again it has had to scramble its jets to warn away china's air force. the incident took place on sunday. some 27 chinese military planes entered taiwan's air defense zone.

give your business the gift of savings today. comcast business. powering possibilities. >>> welcome back. it's been a busy show. we've done abortion, done trump, done covid. i want to go back to abortion, though. this is, hallie, going to be the biggest abortion case, the mississippi case, since roe v. wade. i don't feel there's a debate about whether the mississippi law will be allowed to go forward. the question is does it go forward under roe v. wade, too? >> and the political impact of whatever the decision, which we won't know for months, after the arguments happen on wednesday, what's so interesting is the question that's come up that i hear a lot which is how much of a galvanizing issue is abortion going to be. i don't have to tell you there are typical smaller but very vocal minorities in the parties, activists on both sides who want to make this an issue. what we've seen, especially for voters, in a midterm and presidential, it's not. it's the economy, it's covid. we've seen that in the polling numbers. when you look at texas and what we

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