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President Trump has seated the presidency. Elon must.

No, no.

That's not happening.

The Republican-led Congress rejects a last that's not happening.

The Republican-led Congress rejects a last-minute demand for a debt limit suspension from President-elect Donald Trump and his billionaire advisor Elon Musk, who many are calling

President Musk.

We'll speak with the American prospect editor Robert Cutner. He says Musk outmaneuvered

Trump. Then, merci, Giselle. That was the nationwide response in France to Giselle Pellico,

the 72-year-old French woman whose landmark rape case galvanized France. On Thursday, her husband and 50 other

men were sentenced for raping her for more than a decade. She insisted on dropping her anonymity.

I'm thinking about the victims who aren't recognized and whose stories often remain in the shadows.

I want you to know we share the same struggle.

We'll speak with the French journalist Diane de Vignamont.

She covered the Avignon trial and wrote about finding sisterhood at France's mass rape trial.

Then to Bethlehem and the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

We said last year, Christ is in the rebel.

And this year we say Christ is still in the rabble.

The rabble is his manger. And this year we say, Christ is still in the rubble.

The rubble is his manger.

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