The party starts December 31 at 8p ET on CNN and the CNN app. | CNN

CNN anchor Erin Burnett reacted in disbelief to newly released photos from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate — including a disturbing image of novelty Trump condoms Epstein kept among his possessions. “And even as you laugh,” Burnett said, “to think about the fact that this was Jeffrey Epstein’s possession, it’s disgusting.” The photos, released by House Oversight Democrats, also include multiple images of Epstein alongside Donald Trump — reigniting scrutiny Trump tried to brush off as “no big deal.” Lin

CNN anchor Kate Bolduan remarked that PresidentTrump “is not going to like” new polling on his jobs record — just seconds before reporting a new jobs report that Fox Business called “brutal.” | Mediaite

During a discussion with CNN chief international anchor Christiane Amanpour at the Doha Forum in Qatar on Friday, Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa says he “never harmed a civilian” in his twenty years of fighting. Al-Sharaa went on to criticise the basis on which people are labelled as terrorists, pointing out that the Assad regime is not labelled as a terrorist even though it has killed more than one million people and forced more than 14 million people into displacement. “I believe that after