welcome to a special edition of jesse waters prime time. i m will cain in for jesse. and we start with the fox news alert. a major blow for the democratic party. the supreme court today shut down special counsel jack smith s appeal to fast track trump s january 6 case, handing trump a christmas gift. time jack smith. the overzealous prosecutor with the scraggly beard, tried to leapfrog the lower court of appeals and force a quick decision on the question of whether or not the former president should be granted immunity from his federal charges. why? to make sure donald trump spends the month of march stuck in a courtroom. trump, who s already been out of commission for the last two months over his fraud case in new york will be taken off of the campaign trail again, meaning no rallies, no fundraisers, and will be forced back into the court the day before super tuesday, when trump is supposed to be on the ballot in 16 states. it s been the biden campaign strategy a
stream of threats after ruling former president trump should be taken off the state s primary ballot. we re following breaking news overseas, in prague, authorities say an unspecified number of people are dead after a shooting at prague university. at the border, we re live in eagle pass, texas, where agents are trying to process thousands of migrants at the bridge crossing. plus, why the governor of texas chartered a plane to fly migrants to chicago. breaking overnight, ten americans jailed in venezuela are now back on u.s. soil after the u.s. frees a major maduro ally. we begin this very busyour with the aftermath of the colorado supreme court s bombshell decision to bar former president trump from the state s primy ballot next year. afr the ruling, threats aimed at colorado s justices flooded social media, according to a report nbc news obtained exclusively from a nonprofit organization that conducts public interest research. it says some of the threats came directly
this is cnn. the world s news network. we are continuing following breaking news on multiple fronts. let s start with a major escalation in the middle east right now. the israeli military military officials say dozens of rockets were fired from lebanon into israel today. what you re looking at is what they believe is some of those rockets being intercepted by the iron dome. this marks the largest attack coming from lebanon. since 2006 officials in israel say some of them as i mentioned were were intercepted, but unclear how many lebanon now says that israel is also responding with artillery fire. all of this comes amid tensions over israeli police operations at the alaska mosque in jerusalem. cnn sadhus gold is back with us from jerusalem. tell me very latest that s coming in. we know now that kate to people have been injured as a result of shrapnel from the rockets. that s according to israeli emergency services this coming after what israeli officials say were dozens of roc
official misconduct and officia oppression. there are facing a minimum of 6 years behind bars. four of the five cops were released on bond this morning. here is what police are telling us. under an re seven, ronna mc daniel nichols vehicle was pulled over for reckless driving . the police chief says there was a physical altercation in the cops tried. nichols out of the car. pepper spray was deployed, and nichols took off on foot. there was a foot pursuit, and officers then apprehended him a a different location and anothe confrontation occurred. nichols was arrested. the police chief says the level of aggression from police at that point is unexplainable. this happened a few blocks from nichols home, and he died three days later in the hospital on january 10th. here s what we don t know. the police chief says she is no sure why the cops stopped him i the first place. it s unclear how far nichols ram , how police apprehended him, and how long the confrontation lasted. we are
florida to new york on his own jet lands there this afternoon, then heads to trump tower where he will spend the night and just minutes we expect to see new york s mayor eric adams and the n y b p d commissioner addressed security concerns ahead of tomorrow s arrange arrangement. cnn is covering this from new york and from all rock marlet mar-a-lago. but we ll start in florida with cnn s kristin home, so kristin tell us more about the former president s travel plans. we are waiting for him any moment now i am told by a source who is familiar with his plans that he is running on time . he is expected to pull out of the gates, mar-a-lago and a small motorcade at 12 pm so we ll be watching that closely. he is traveling with a small group of aides and advisers, including his two heads of campaign, suzy wiles and chris la savina. they re going to head over to the airport, which is just about a 10 minute drive. and, as you said, take his private plane to laguardia in new york, wher