hi, everyone. it s 4:00 in new york. things are getting intense for the ex-president. those viewers of this program know very well about the drip, drip, drip of new clues trump could soon be facing multiple criminal indictments from special counsel jack smith. today is no exception to the pattern of drips. in miami, one of jack smith s most senior prosecutors was back at a federal courthouse where a grand jury is meeting in the classified documents case. we should note that the washington, d.c. federal grand jury that jack smith has been working with in the january 6th investigation is also in session today. new york times reports that the special counsel s office has put trump s legal team on notice that the expresident is a target of the investigation into his handling of classified documents. quote, the notification to trump s team by prosecutors from the office of the special counsel jack smith was the clearest signal yet that the former president is likely to face char
dana: hello, everyone. dana perino along with judge jeanine pirro, jessica tarlov, jesse watters, and greg gutfeld. it is 5:00 in new york city and this is the five. growing fallout over the newly-released just know mike jeffrey epstein documents, shocking high-profile names being revealed from a list hollywood celebrities to titans of industry and even former u.s. presidents. and that is just the start. a second batch could be released at any moment, we ll keep an eye on that. one name that appears 50 times in the document is former president bill clinton. one of epstein s accusers, joanna schonberg, testified that the pedophile told her clinton quote likes them young, referring to young girls. telling jesse the documents raise new questions about the former president. a victim reported being on a helicopter with him and maxwell. and there is another statement that she made that clinton was on the island, which is very different than what we had heard previously. w
threat outcome ron desantis, you small, pathetic man, this isn t martha s vineyard, kidnapping charges? the tweet then linking to a screenshot of a section of the california penal code. florida officials telling fox that they flew the migrants to california but got their verbal and written consent to do so. not so gracious gavin, who once boasted about being a sanctuary state, is also sticking his henchmen on desantis. taking this potshot at florida. we believe the state of florida and governor desantis is behind it, governor desantis has demonstrated his pettiness, his lack of substance, his xenophobia, and his discrimination and racism and his willingness to treat human beings, people, as political pawns. it is wrong, and we are getting to the bottom of it. jesse: while those two governors duke it out over the migrant crisis, the white house is getting mocked or complaining the migrant buses are putting a strain on cities. bussing or flying migrants around the countr
good morning. welcome cnn this morning. merry christmas eve out there. santa is making his rounds. new developments from former president trump s legal team in a filing submitted late last night. the president is urging a federal appeals court to slow out the federal election subversion case against him in washington, d.c. his attorneys driving home the point trump was working in his official capacity as president to make sure the integrity of the election results. in the document they said before any single prosecutor can ask a court to sit in judgment of the president s conduct, congress must have approved of it by impeaching and convicting the president and since that didn t happen, trump has immunity. well the appeals court expedited the process and will hear arguments january 9. the judge for the case paused procedural deadlines. it s up to an appeals court to decide if presidential immunity applies here. he is not the first president to invoke presidential i
you re live in cnn newsroom from washington. two major floor ris in texas. impeachment vote is underway for the texas attorney general. ken paxton is accused of bribery and abuse of power. they say the impeachment is illegal and is being pushed for by corrupt politicians as he calls them. up on capitol hill, kevin mccarthy said progress is being made. in the last hour or so, several members of mccarthy s whip team have been summoned to the speaker s suite. republican leaders are trying to finalize a deal to raise the debt ceiling and stave off what could be an economic disaster. let s begin our coverage of the debt talks. priscilla alvarez is up on the hill. manu raju, what are you learning about the negotiations? are they headed in the right direction? it is unclear. we do know they are close to reaching an agreement. they have been close for some time. there are a number of sticking points. they are having a difficult time resolving including spending to provisions to e