this is cnn breaking with news. we are starting this hour with breaking news and out of the supreme court, special counsel jack smith is now responding to donald trump s legal team about the federal elections case. the special council is pushing high court even more now to take this matter up quickly, and we will get over to joan biskupic which have details that are truly just coming in. yes, the donald trump subversion case has just submitted another filing to the supreme court doubling down on the imperative of the supreme court to take this case up now before waiting for another court to handle it. the question is whether former president donald trump is immune from criminal prosecution for election subversion arising from the 2020 election right as we head into the 2024 election. what he is trying to do here, the special counsel jack smith, is to counter what donald trump s lawyer said yesterday. they said, supreme court, no need to take this case up hastily, and
congress meantime out for the holidays, but they left a whole lot behind, including aid for israel and ukraine, funding to keep the government open, and border security. and just in to cnn. harvard s president under scrutiny. what she is doing as congress launches an investigation. this hour of cnn this morning starts right now. we begin with the supreme court facing hugely consequential decisions at the moment that could determine the fate of donald trump and the presidential election. trump using a delay tactic in one those major cases, asking the supreme court to hold off on deciding whether he has immunity from prosecution. perez special counsel jack smith is asking for an answer because trump is about to go on trial. they are urging the court, slow down, stay out of the dispute. they say the supreme court shouldn t be rushed into making one a decision so soon. going straight to the supreme court next week to appeal that historic ruling that kicked him off the bal
week-long stay in space this hour of cnn this morning continues right now. overnight, president biden rushing back to washington from japan for these debt limit negotiations. just hours from now, he is set to meet with house speaker kevin mccarthy again. they ll meet at the white house. as time runs out to reach a deal on preventing basically economic calamity. there are less than ten days to go before the government potentially defaults on its debt. before he left the g-7 summit with world leaders, biden told reporters that many of the demands from house republicans have been, quote, unacceptable. i think there are some maga republicans in the house who know the damage that it would do to the economy and because i am president, and presidents are responsible for everything, biden would take the blame. and that s the one way to make sure biden is not re-elected. arlette saenz is live at the white house. arlette, good morning. kevin mccarthy did talk about the phone ca
time. i will try not to complain. you never complain. but a lot of people do. they get very angry. so what should they be prepared for? we always show up early, too. we re always the ones not me. we never cut it close. i ve only been paged at the gate once. this is going to be a huge weekend for air travel, and it s listen been huge, which is so interesting. the saying that memorial day weekend is the unofficial start of summer travel. but it s really already gotten off to this early start. look at the numbers from tsa. 2.65 million people screened at airports nationwide yesterday. that s a 12% increase over the same day last year. 2.21 million people on saturday. 2.66 million people friday. that is a pandemic-era air travel record, broke the record we set back on the sunday after thanksgiving, when everyone came home all at once. so we ve not seen a number that high since back in 2019. airlines insist that they are
that better? the living standard of all americans nap is the question. my objection is the conversation is not dealing with the that s coming up tonight. that subject is expected to come up foent. that will be a wonderful thing. but as it stands now, paul ryan will be the speaker of the house. i believe. without too much doubt. mrs. clinton s a favorite at the moment. things could always change. in the senate, a jump ball. we are going to have, again, gridlock. of a sort. that means that the executive branch is going to control all of the agencies that we know by initials, the irs, nlrb, et cetera. 465 agencies withes 2.65 million civilian employees. law has been made lately, hundreds of regulations let me ask you this.