fire. 100 meters. we re trying to make our way out of here. plus, see the intense fight in the forest, showing what ukraine is up against. leading this hour, the latest dysfunction on capitol hill, this time over immigration beginning with a look at how we got here. you ll recall when president biden was sworn in on january 20, 2021, the new administration started ending trump administration immigrations policy arguing they were harsh and inhumane, for instance a policy that forced would be asylum seekers to stay south of the border. last may along party lines house republicans passed hr -2, a bil that would bring back trump policies. president biden vetoed the bill. last october republicans demanded any additional aid for ukraine and israel would need to include legislation to deal with the border crisis. james langford of oklahoma along with kyrsten sinema and chris murphy decided to negotiation for a compromise. in mid december hoping to win passage for the aid for u
bret: good evening, welcome to washington i m bret baier and two big stories featuring big numbers. customs and border protection say within 300,000 people illegal immigrants and countered by border patrol attempting to enter the u.s. illegally across the southern border and just the month of december. we will head to the border to report on the major showdown between texas and the biden administration. but first the other big numbers tonight. we begin in new york, a jury or during former president donald trump to pay more than $83 million in a defamation lawsuit brought by e. jean carroll. a jury found previously sexually assaulted by a trump in the 1990s. the former president vigorously denied the allegations and wondered how he did that is the subject of the defamation case. alexis mcadams outside of the federal courthouse in manhattan with the latest tonight. good evening, alexis. good evening, bret. huge numbers in the courtroom in manhattan. e.g. harrell said dona
of gaza. losing their dignity. the fight for survival as mahmoud describes it. and it is continuing for so many in gaza who are suffering tonight. thank you for joining us. ac 360 starts now. tonight on 360, breaking news. the former president tells the supreme court to keep him on the colorado ballot warning there will be, quote, chaos and bedlam if it doesn t. also breaking, hunter biden now says he ll talk to house republicans who are looking to impeach his dad and he ll do it their way behind closed doors. and later, keeping them honest. what a parent whose child was murdered thinks the justice department released today dealing all the ways authorities in texas failed to do their jobs and tried to evade accountability. thank you for being with us. we begin with the former president s supreme court filing late today in the case that could decide whether colorado can bar him from the ballot under the 14th amendment s insurrection clause. tonight s brief comes th
erin burnett out front starts right now. out front next, the breaking news. trump threatens, quote, chaos and bedlam in a new supreme court ruling the man who told his supporters to fight on january 6th says if he doesn t get his way all hell will break loose. plus our voters out front series tonight. the voters nikki haley is depending onto carry her to victory it is actually not who you think. wait until you see this one. and as prince william visits his wife in the hospital we re learning more about princess kate s health, diet. why is the 42-year-old mother of three side lined for months over a mysterious injury? let s go out front. and good evening, i m erin burnett. out front tonight the breaking news, chaos and bedlam. president trump warning tonight if the supreme court does not get him back on the ballot in colorado there will be and this is from the filing chaos and bed l. that warning from trump comes in a formal legal brief submitted to the supreme court j
yes. thank you, my friend. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour in 1952, in the middle of the korean war, the united steel workers of america threatened to strike. but before they, could president truman shocked the nation with a televised address announcing he was seizing control of the steel plants so as not to interrupt the war effort. within half an hour of that address, lawyers for the steal companies had driven to a district court judges home in washington, d.c., and gotten the judge to set a hearing for the next morning. a hearing as to whether or not a could actually do that. now, the merits of that case a really interesting, but the reason the steele seizure case matters today is the speed at which was heard by the supreme court. the issue was so urgent for the steel workers, the unions, the steel companies, the u.s. military, it was so pressing that the case skipped the appeals process and the supreme court heard oral arguments just a little over a