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It's Wednesday, December 4th, and for a few hours, their government might as well have been overthrown.

We start here.

South Korea's conservative president declares martial law.

He said he wanted to root out North Korean elements in the country.

This was quickly overruled by his political opponents, but global shockwaves are reverberating this morning.

Two picks of president-elect Trump have already sidelined themselves, could he be the third?

He says he will meet with whoever needs to hear his side of the story.

The pressure grows around Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegsef, and we knew China was trying to spy on the U.S., we didn't know they could do it quite like this.

Telling them who mobile phone users were talking to, when they spoke, and where they were

communicating from. The disturbing report from the feds about Americans' phones. From ABC News,

this is Start Here. I'm Brad Milkey. I don't know about you, but in my brain, I kind of organize democracies around the world in different categories.

Like, there are countries like ours where democracy is orderly but can get messy.

There are countries where it's way messier than ours.

You see coups and overthrows and political violence.

And then there are the countries that seem really stable, buttoned up. Everything is run by adults. That's how you often think of South

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