hi, everyone and welcome to cnn this morning. it is saturday, december 23rd. i m amara walker. and i m danny freeman in for victor blackwell. great to have you here. the eve of christmas eve. that is correct. there is more legal chaos involving donald trump heading into 2024. the supreme court rejects a request for justices to quickly hear arguments on whether the former president has immunity from federal prosecution. we ll walk you through what that means for his legal cal tar. plus, authorities at the southern border report a record number of migrant encounters every day. cnn is there. finally a cease-fire passes. we ll speak to an official about the humanitarian crisis in gaza. have yourself a healthy little christmas. it feels like i should be singing. does it feel like everyone you know is sick right now? we ll talk to a doctor about how to steer clear of the respiratory viruses that are out there. we re three weeks away from the iowa caucus and donald
that is a case where the justice department came into court on friday night and filed a couple of different things. first they asked to move the trial date or set the trial date for december for donald trump and his co-defendant walt nauta. right now donald trump say he s not guilty and is expecting to go to trial. walt nauta is expected to show up to court tuesday of next week and also enter a plea of not guilty at this time and get headed to trial this. was a date on the cal tar that was much sooner than december, but the gist it is department is saying in a court filing on friday night, there s actually a lot of business that has to be taken care of in this case, for both sides, especially around the use of classified documents some of they re asking for a december court date. the donald trump legal team does indicate that they might be opposing that, but we re going to have see what happens in the. coming days with that and what the judge ultimately says about
numbers they set for themselves. they have planned exactly 16 total days of work. 16 days of work in two months. the awkward thing about that schedule for the republican leadership is not that they are working too few days. the problem that they have is they don t know what to do with the days they do have to go to work. they are struggling to come up with an agenda to fill the handful of days they are planning to work over the next two months. proposed solutions so far is to give themselves more. you know, nothing to do. in the middle of all of this, in the middle of mulling over whether or not to take time off, they looked at the cal tar, looked at their agenda, made some hard decisions. next year the house will be in session for the desire year for a grand total of 113 days, significantly less than half of the workdays in the year will be