politicsnation. tonight s lead, a christmas blizzard. right now, americans are preparing to celebrate christmas in the midst of a blizzard of legal developments surrounding donald trump. in just the last five days, the supreme has blocked special counsel jack smith s request to expedite a ruling on whether trump has legal immunity over his january 6th conduct. earlier, new recordings published by the detroit news reportedly showed trump pressing republican electors in michigan not to certify joe biden s victory in the state. three years ago. the state supreme court justices in colorado have been reporting death threats all week since they ruled that trump could not run for office in the state. all that plus what to expect when the senate comes back to washington next month. in new york governor kathy hochul joins me shortly as the empire state officially takes up the question of reparations for its black residents. i had a firsthand view this week as head of the national acti
minister and the right wing extremists to make up an important part of his coalition are still in power. david rothkopf, as always, and happy holidays to you and your family. thank you, david. a lot more coming up. you re watching msnbc. our second hour starts right now. [inaudible] > [inaudible hey everybody, good to see you. i m yasmin vossoughian. if you are just joining us, welcome. if you are sticking with us, we are very thankful for that. with the stroke of a pan, the dawn of giving donald trump exactly what he wants refusal to take up an issue that is clearly headed their way. now puts the chances of trying the former president for election interference before the next election in serious jeopardy. meanwhile, trump may face new legal danger from a new tape that have surfaced trying to pressure a group of republican officials in michigan to help him overturn the election. there s lots of speculation about that. obviously the fact that it comes out right after
i think they re doing a good job keeping the lines moving. yeah, the holidays. they re waiting for us. get tsa precheck. i m not sponsored with united but get it. it makes everything easier. kansas city. go to kansas city. kansas city here i come. pretty crazy. we sat in the customed line a long time and missed our connecting flight. here early. it s busy right now. neil: all right. they are off. today shaping up to be the busiest day of the holiday season, maybe the entire year. the tsa expecting 2.5 million flyers to be screened each day through the start of the new year. one industry group is saying that will be chump change. it will be busier than that. whether it s by air or road, get ready for a busy your world. we take off now. see what i did there? we take off now. all on basic cable. welcome. i m neil cavuto. let s go to my buddy outside chicago o hare. garrett tenney with what he s seen of the crowds and the build-up. what s going on, garrett? yeah,
in a california courtroom today, tearful conspiracy laced testimony from the man who brutally attacked nancy pelosi s 83 old husband, paul pelosi. david depape spending over an hour on the stand today, as you can see here from these court sketches, it s the first time that jurors have actually heard directly from the man who broke into the former speaker of the house is home, he says, to interrogate her. they were also shown a video of the attack. i m about to show it to you, but i do want to warn you it s disturbing. you don t even see the most graphic parts here though. the pope testified he was surprised when he encountered her husband, paul pelosi, instead. and then struck paul pelosi in the head with a hammer. police arrived on the scene, i should note, david depape, who is in court today, has pleaded not guilty. he did say today though that he thought he had killed paul pelosi and was disappointed after his original plan to object nancy pelosi had fallen apart. closin
clapton for joining us on cnn. i am michael holmes, appreciate your company as we continue to cover the israel-hamas war. we do begin in gaza. at a horrific scene outside the largest hospital in gaza city. we will show you video obtained by cnn, it is extremely graphic. the israeli military admits that it was behind the airstrike, just outside the hospital, hitting an ambulance, killing at least 15 people. you can see scenes of carnage of chaos. the ambulance was said to be a part of the convoy selecting patients to southern gaza. the idf claims the ambulance was being used by hamas and it had used emergency vehicles to transport fighters and weapons in the past. following developments for us from abu dhabi, she joined me now, good to see you, lainey. the loss of civilian life continues, the strike on or near ambulance is outside, just the latest brings of the day for what we know. clearly, seeing those images of bodies strewn sheer panic, this is the result of an israeli a